96,000 ft! I wonder how much that thing weighed. Anyone have a link somewhere to specifications on the Helios?
Appropriate name too.
Anyhoo, it's sad to see such a technological marvel crash into the pacific ocean like it did. Maybe NASA will scoop up the wreckage, figure out what went wrong, and then build another one. It would be great to see what we can learn from Helios in general, and not just on an aviation or RF use either. I mean in the field of solar electric generation, and how even in the Aerospace industry it has it's benefits and drawbacks. I personally would love to be using solar electricity instead of having to pay the electric company, but alas, we can't always get what we want...
True. I think they could save more like a billion dollars per transaction though. And I think that the army made a big mistake using windows on all their computers. It's not like they can't use something else to play their America's Army video game on. Like Linux, for instance (don't they have a version of it for Linux. I know they do for Mac OS X 10.1 and up, but Linux, I don't remember reading about it yet.)
If while they were at it, commit to Linux and save the taxpayers X amount of money by not paying Microsoft licensing fees.
But that's just my two cents.
Good that the DoD is still support projects that came about from their original idea, ARPANET, or as we so lovingly call the contemporary version- the internet.
who needs java or asp/.net, VB or anything that is proprietary. I have C, PHP, Python, Perl/CGI, MySQL and Linux to use instead. Who cares about market share when you have open source products to use instead. Microsoft is going to eventually go the way of the Conestoga wagon. It's just taking time is all.
Kevin "KevX45" Myrick
Wondering why people don't wake up and use Linux since 2001.
Wait, but on this same argument, the former Bell Labs coders could come out of the woodwork, tell everyone to bite them, and take everything that is Unix related anyhow, because it is derivative of their original code that they came up with. Even though AT&T owned Bell Labs, that doesn't necessarily give them the right to the original intellectual property of the coders (ie- the first first beta. They sold them a finished product, not the beta. And the beta is the foundation... sooo everything technically is derivative of that.)
Secondly, SCO is going downhill anyhow in the Linux world since they tried to sell Linux Enterprise server licenses for 1000 bucks a pop, did United Linux (what happened with that?)
Finally, I don't think this article broke any of the agreements he signed in the NDA. He didn't specifically leak any information that people already knew, nothing about code, anything that would be used in litigation, or anything that the company keeps "confidential".
Yeah, RedHat, where are you? Please buy SCO and kill the tight grip on Unix. Or maybe everyone should get together, contribute 20 bucks, and the license to Unix can be owned by the world. BROHAHAHA!
Well, for one, I go to music stores to buy music. Mainly for the reason I don't fully trust hard drives or portable ROM based MP3 Devices as a medium, and P2P services as a service that gains much of what I would call trust.
I've had bad experiences with services like KaZaA, so yeah, I'm none too happier about the fact that viruses and plagues spread like wildfire. Plus, the versions are sometimes crap, and I'm not going to spend my free time looking for the best version of one thing or another. I'd rather go to the store and buy just one copy of a good version, keep the music artist reasonably within their lifestyles they have suddenly become accustomed to, and have them make more music so you schumcks (spelling?) can go out, rip their work onto MP3 and freely distribute it to someone. I just like my backups.
Plus, I don't trust the RAM and Hard Drive units mainly because a) things have a tendancy not to be durable on concrete from a 2-3 foot drop from my pants pocket b) I know that I am capable of just "accidentally" erasing everything and not having a backup, because, why would I need to back it up. It isn't going anywhere and c) because I know how hard it is to maintain reasonable sanity with those little buttons. And for some reason, CD player buttons just feel, I dunno, better. Maybe if I could actually afford a iPod or something I would feel differently. But since I can't, then I'll just stick to 13.99 per cd. Besides, you have the obscure songs to go with the ones they play on the radio a BILLION TIMES.
Kevin "Kev" Myrick
ultimatealchemy dotcom!
and War Eagle! to those Auburn peoples out there.
Counting Hamburgers now? Who cares. AMD is the way to go with PC's, and with Mac, the PowerPC 970 looks nice. (To the tune of Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" opening) I want my Mac-in-Tosh!
Right on Intel, keep counting. I'll just crack on you every time I boot up my computer running AMD and Linux.
This may sound repetitive, but security is a must. And GET SOME Walkie talkies. They are a must. Not cheap kiddie ones, but the nice Motorola one's that operate on seperate channels.
Have rotating door staff.
Have badges if you can.
Make sure all the staff that are important (like the network guy, which is a must, and the head security guy, and the guy in charge of making decisions (probably you) and the person in charge of making announcements have a walkie talkie. They will need it. And it's better than running around looking for the person.
Make sure you don't break any codes. The easiest way for you to get shut down is to break some code of some sort. IE- Power. If you have a bunch of extension cords and Surge Protectors going around a room, you run the risk of a fire... and that could be bad. Also find out the maximum you can have in a room, and subtract twenty from that number. Have a few fire extinguishers handy, just in case.
Probably would be a good idea to have a packet at each table for helping people setup everything, to know the rules, and to have a general feel of how to get out of a room.
Make sure to get help from whoever is in charge of the room when it comes to code, etc on things like food, power, and bathrooms.
As a middle schooler at Lady's Island Middle School in Beaufort, SC, we were given the opportunity in 1996 to become part of a pilot program introducing the use of laptops in the classroom. It went very well, until...
High School in 1999. While most of the students from the middle school still used the laptops that they had been leasing or purchased, the technology was seriously dated on the machines. Not even the early wireless would work on these machines. So it's not necessarily a private school matter. It's more of a test to see what students will actually do with the laptops they receive. What did I do?
Collectively over the 7 years I had the laptop (I just recently gave it to a friend who now uses it for word processing. I have to find the modem) I must have had at LEAST 20-30 different games on there at any given time. I think the one that stuck with the hard drive until it was given to my parents to use 2 years ago was Duke Nukem 3D. I remember playing the game religiously in class. I was all about those strippers.
So the other question is this: Will the laptops lead to the downfall of morales at the shcool because the kids will stick all sorts of games on there. And if they are using new laptops (with wireless, etc) what is to stop them from conducting in IMing, File Swapping/Sharing, and WLAN Games of Quake III during Geometry?
Another question: because everyone at the school suddenly has a laptop, will it be easier for Linux/BSD Unix or other OS's to suddenly find their way onto the hard drives of these machines, replacing the Windows that is stuck on the hard drive now?
but have you considered using PHP? I have used a web based Project management system known as phpprojekt. You can find it on hotscripts.
I also wanted to know if anyone knew what language iCalendar was written in. I was planning on writing a set of modules specifically designed for my website for macintosh users so that they could sync their calendars on the site with their iCal and other software (such as the instant messenger, etc.) It least that is the plan once I get an iBook (the new 900MHz. As soon as I can afford one!)
I know that the "ISP" for my dorm this year cares about my bandwith use. They won't let us run anything. No FTP, no webservers, no mail servers, no filesharing. Nothing. So basically, all we can do is check our email and look at porn according to our contract that they made us sign and notarize. Peachy.
Anyhoo, I think ISP's care if it is going to cost them money, and that seems to be the point. Always. Like an old scribe once told me: Money makes the world go 'round, not gravity you idiot. Now get back to work.
Kev
Slashdot Mirror
KevX45
Appropriate name too.
Anyhoo, it's sad to see such a technological marvel crash into the pacific ocean like it did. Maybe NASA will scoop up the wreckage, figure out what went wrong, and then build another one. It would be great to see what we can learn from Helios in general, and not just on an aviation or RF use either. I mean in the field of solar electric generation, and how even in the Aerospace industry it has it's benefits and drawbacks. I personally would love to be using solar electricity instead of having to pay the electric company, but alas, we can't always get what we want...
KevX45
No, the car swallows you alive and you become the hostess cake, forever stuck in the car of perpetual motion. Well, at least until you starve.
That's all I got to say about that.
That's my question.
Kevin "KevX45" Myrick
Taxpayers don't care though, they just want their returns.
but either way, good that the DoD did it.
But that's just my two cents.
Good that the DoD is still support projects that came about from their original idea, ARPANET, or as we so lovingly call the contemporary version- the internet.
Kevin "KevX45" Myrick
Wondering why people don't wake up and use Linux since 2001.
Wait, but on this same argument, the former Bell Labs coders could come out of the woodwork, tell everyone to bite them, and take everything that is Unix related anyhow, because it is derivative of their original code that they came up with. Even though AT&T owned Bell Labs, that doesn't necessarily give them the right to the original intellectual property of the coders (ie- the first first beta. They sold them a finished product, not the beta. And the beta is the foundation... sooo everything technically is derivative of that.) Secondly, SCO is going downhill anyhow in the Linux world since they tried to sell Linux Enterprise server licenses for 1000 bucks a pop, did United Linux (what happened with that?) Finally, I don't think this article broke any of the agreements he signed in the NDA. He didn't specifically leak any information that people already knew, nothing about code, anything that would be used in litigation, or anything that the company keeps "confidential". Yeah, RedHat, where are you? Please buy SCO and kill the tight grip on Unix. Or maybe everyone should get together, contribute 20 bucks, and the license to Unix can be owned by the world. BROHAHAHA!
Well, for one, I go to music stores to buy music. Mainly for the reason I don't fully trust hard drives or portable ROM based MP3 Devices as a medium, and P2P services as a service that gains much of what I would call trust. I've had bad experiences with services like KaZaA, so yeah, I'm none too happier about the fact that viruses and plagues spread like wildfire. Plus, the versions are sometimes crap, and I'm not going to spend my free time looking for the best version of one thing or another. I'd rather go to the store and buy just one copy of a good version, keep the music artist reasonably within their lifestyles they have suddenly become accustomed to, and have them make more music so you schumcks (spelling?) can go out, rip their work onto MP3 and freely distribute it to someone. I just like my backups. Plus, I don't trust the RAM and Hard Drive units mainly because a) things have a tendancy not to be durable on concrete from a 2-3 foot drop from my pants pocket b) I know that I am capable of just "accidentally" erasing everything and not having a backup, because, why would I need to back it up. It isn't going anywhere and c) because I know how hard it is to maintain reasonable sanity with those little buttons. And for some reason, CD player buttons just feel, I dunno, better. Maybe if I could actually afford a iPod or something I would feel differently. But since I can't, then I'll just stick to 13.99 per cd. Besides, you have the obscure songs to go with the ones they play on the radio a BILLION TIMES. Kevin "Kev" Myrick ultimatealchemy dotcom! and War Eagle! to those Auburn peoples out there.
Counting Hamburgers now? Who cares. AMD is the way to go with PC's, and with Mac, the PowerPC 970 looks nice. (To the tune of Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" opening) I want my Mac-in-Tosh! Right on Intel, keep counting. I'll just crack on you every time I boot up my computer running AMD and Linux.
This may sound repetitive, but security is a must. And GET SOME Walkie talkies. They are a must. Not cheap kiddie ones, but the nice Motorola one's that operate on seperate channels. Have rotating door staff. Have badges if you can. Make sure all the staff that are important (like the network guy, which is a must, and the head security guy, and the guy in charge of making decisions (probably you) and the person in charge of making announcements have a walkie talkie. They will need it. And it's better than running around looking for the person. Make sure you don't break any codes. The easiest way for you to get shut down is to break some code of some sort. IE- Power. If you have a bunch of extension cords and Surge Protectors going around a room, you run the risk of a fire... and that could be bad. Also find out the maximum you can have in a room, and subtract twenty from that number. Have a few fire extinguishers handy, just in case. Probably would be a good idea to have a packet at each table for helping people setup everything, to know the rules, and to have a general feel of how to get out of a room. Make sure to get help from whoever is in charge of the room when it comes to code, etc on things like food, power, and bathrooms.
I found it very captivating as well... so I emailed Dr. Taylor. I'll let everyone know what I get back. Kev
See, here is your problem though.
/BSD Unix or other OS's to suddenly find their way onto the hard drives of these machines, replacing the Windows that is stuck on the hard drive now?
As a middle schooler at Lady's Island Middle School in Beaufort, SC, we were given the opportunity in 1996 to become part of a pilot program introducing the use of laptops in the classroom. It went very well, until...
High School in 1999. While most of the students from the middle school still used the laptops that they had been leasing or purchased, the technology was seriously dated on the machines. Not even the early wireless would work on these machines. So it's not necessarily a private school matter. It's more of a test to see what students will actually do with the laptops they receive. What did I do?
Collectively over the 7 years I had the laptop (I just recently gave it to a friend who now uses it for word processing. I have to find the modem) I must have had at LEAST 20-30 different games on there at any given time. I think the one that stuck with the hard drive until it was given to my parents to use 2 years ago was Duke Nukem 3D. I remember playing the game religiously in class. I was all about those strippers.
So the other question is this: Will the laptops lead to the downfall of morales at the shcool because the kids will stick all sorts of games on there. And if they are using new laptops (with wireless, etc) what is to stop them from conducting in IMing, File Swapping/Sharing, and WLAN Games of Quake III during Geometry?
Another question: because everyone at the school suddenly has a laptop, will it be easier for Linux
but have you considered using PHP? I have used a web based Project management system known as phpprojekt. You can find it on hotscripts.
I also wanted to know if anyone knew what language iCalendar was written in. I was planning on writing a set of modules specifically designed for my website for macintosh users so that they could sync their calendars on the site with their iCal and other software (such as the instant messenger, etc.) It least that is the plan once I get an iBook (the new 900MHz. As soon as I can afford one!)
Kev
I know that the "ISP" for my dorm this year cares about my bandwith use. They won't let us run anything. No FTP, no webservers, no mail servers, no filesharing. Nothing. So basically, all we can do is check our email and look at porn according to our contract that they made us sign and notarize. Peachy. Anyhoo, I think ISP's care if it is going to cost them money, and that seems to be the point. Always. Like an old scribe once told me: Money makes the world go 'round, not gravity you idiot. Now get back to work. Kev