They make it sound like the rover is undergoing a massive risk, and doing something utterly untoward, by entering the crater - this is nothing new in science - the majority of space probes are designed for limited function, and not to survive their missions, witness voyager and the like.
These will most likely be primarily used by academic institutions, such as CERN, NASA, and universities who are lucky enough to own particle accelerators. CERN has several petabytes of storage currently, which are housed in silos full of tapes, with rather funky robots which fly around at speed. An average particle collision (single experiment!) will give at least 1GB of data, which will take a considerable amount of time to process into something more managable, and therefore needs storing. All in all, I think they'll have a few interested clients, but at the same time, most places where they have minds capable of building machines of the magnitude used for these experiments, they tend to be more than capable of building solutions similar to this.
If you leave your computer unpatched, with access available externally, with nothing informing any potential user of your computer not to use it, the person entering your computer has every right to do so. That, unfortunately, is the way it is. Also, if microsoft wish to take credit for the security of their software, and take credit for their software, they should also be inherently responsible for its flaws.
N.B. IAAL
How, exactly, is he any more liable than the millions who run insecure, unpatched machines? It is the end user's responsibility to keep their machines secure. If you leave the doors to your house open, and a large neon sign over the threshold saying 'WELCOME', you'll be *damned* lucky if your insurer would pay up. If he hadn't exploited it, someone else would have, and the result would have been the same. The reponsibility lies with microsoft, for creating shite software, with inherent vulnerabilities, and with the users, for not bothering to have any kind of protection.
I've been using 7 AlphaStation 255s as a renderfarm for the last few years - works rather nicely, just using standard linux job distribution/allocation, and rendering all sods and sorts. Also, they're dirt cheap!
Another fairly major issue which everyone thus far seems to have missed is that a lake this far beneath ice will have a tremendous amount of pressure upon it. Upon breaching the ice near the lake, there is a significant risk of rapid depressurisation, in which gases dissolved in the water (possibly caused by biological processes) would rapidly come out of solution, much akin to opening a shaken bottle of soda.
Earth is a sealed ecosystem, in that all that comes in is solar energy - this is energy, not matter... although you could argue the two are the same thing, but then i'd have to hit you.
Control the landing of a comet.... If you can come up with a method of making several billion tonnes of rock, ice, and organic chemicals, reaching over several hundred million kilometers, land with a soft thud, please come to the nobel convention immediately.
I'm sorry, but i fail to see how this is a viable server solution, for anyone! I have over 5.5TB of storage on my fileserver (read pr0nserver), at home, at a total cost of under 2000. I've used cheap Siimage chipset based raid cards, and a variety of 250GB ide hdds, all purchased from eBay. The mobo is a generic via board, with 6pci slots, and no agp (why the hell would I need agp on a fileserver?!), with a slighlty overclocked 600MHz P3. I've got 100mb ethernet through the house, and, accordingly, a 100mb NIC in the machine. Other than that, that's it. It's got no graphics card, no peripherals, and the case is just a full tower server case, with a bumch of 5" fans hardwired into the PSU. I use 3 x 350W power supplies, each of which isn't used fully.
The machine runs gentoo, and automagically emerges the latest whatever every 24 hours. I run samba-tng for the windows shares, and apache, for a media management system i'm working on.
Anyway, enough of me showing off;)
They've gone bust, and gone opensource. Since this, their site and product has probably received more interest than it ever has. This is an excellent business move... Expect these guys to produce The Next Big Thing(tm).
The game ain't finished until it's over. The devel cycle for most mmorpgs is the lifetime of the game, from the moment devel starts until the final server shuts down.
I've been doing sweep oar rowing and sculling for years... It's something that anyone can do, but few can master. The blade (the oar) moves in a roughly ellpitical track in the water, over a very small range, as the boat is propelled forwards. The range of motion is dependant upon the skill of the oarsman, and how he/she appiles pressure to the stroke. Too much too soon, and you 'rip', causing turbulence, and allowing the blade to move excessively through the water... Too little, and the blade won't lock onto the water, and will just float through the water... Of course, this is neglecting balance etc., which is no mean feat in a boat some 5 inches wide at the waterline!
My point is that they said she did agree... There is a subtle difference between agreeing with something, and having someone say that you might agree with something... If you can't see that difference, you'll make a fantastic lawyer!
"P2P is unstoppable," Hemming said. It's a statement Rosen would likely agree with.
Sorry, but where I come from, that's mere hypothesis... Rosen probably would agree, but she actually hasn't...
Also, KaZaA (or whatever silliness they do with their capital letters) is known to be one of the most prolific distributors of spyware on the internet, so do we support them, or the technophobic legalistic RIAA?
Oh well, each to their own. Use freenet! (They kennae catch you that way;) )
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They make it sound like the rover is undergoing a massive risk, and doing something utterly untoward, by entering the crater - this is nothing new in science - the majority of space probes are designed for limited function, and not to survive their missions, witness voyager and the like.
Get yourself a pair of monumental speakers, turn them up to full volume, and liberally distribute earplugs among your co-workers.
a beowulf cluster of these....
These will most likely be primarily used by academic institutions, such as CERN, NASA, and universities who are lucky enough to own particle accelerators. CERN has several petabytes of storage currently, which are housed in silos full of tapes, with rather funky robots which fly around at speed. An average particle collision (single experiment!) will give at least 1GB of data, which will take a considerable amount of time to process into something more managable, and therefore needs storing.
All in all, I think they'll have a few interested clients, but at the same time, most places where they have minds capable of building machines of the magnitude used for these experiments, they tend to be more than capable of building solutions similar to this.
Take a look at this!
If you leave your computer unpatched, with access available externally, with nothing informing any potential user of your computer not to use it, the person entering your computer has every right to do so. That, unfortunately, is the way it is. Also, if microsoft wish to take credit for the security of their software, and take credit for their software, they should also be inherently responsible for its flaws. N.B. IAAL
Unless, of course, you just type something along the lines of 'doscan -A 50 -b 512 -c 100 -i -p 5554 -P tcp -r "200 OK$" -v 217.43.0.0/16'
How, exactly, is he any more liable than the millions who run insecure, unpatched machines? It is the end user's responsibility to keep their machines secure. If you leave the doors to your house open, and a large neon sign over the threshold saying 'WELCOME', you'll be *damned* lucky if your insurer would pay up. If he hadn't exploited it, someone else would have, and the result would have been the same.
The reponsibility lies with microsoft, for creating shite software, with inherent vulnerabilities, and with the users, for not bothering to have any kind of protection.
Imagine a beowulf clu.... oh.
I've been using 7 AlphaStation 255s as a renderfarm for the last few years - works rather nicely, just using standard linux job distribution/allocation, and rendering all sods and sorts. Also, they're dirt cheap!
Another fairly major issue which everyone thus far seems to have missed is that a lake this far beneath ice will have a tremendous amount of pressure upon it. Upon breaching the ice near the lake, there is a significant risk of rapid depressurisation, in which gases dissolved in the water (possibly caused by biological processes) would rapidly come out of solution, much akin to opening a shaken bottle of soda.
Here's an interesting one... try searching for 'Linux' on msn. 300 odd hits, right? Now try searching for 'Linux sucks'... Whoa....!
Earth is a sealed ecosystem, in that all that comes in is solar energy - this is energy, not matter... although you could argue the two are the same thing, but then i'd have to hit you.
Control the landing of a comet.... If you can come up with a method of making several billion tonnes of rock, ice, and organic chemicals, reaching over several hundred million kilometers, land with a soft thud, please come to the nobel convention immediately.
I'm sorry, but i fail to see how this is a viable server solution, for anyone! I have over 5.5TB of storage on my fileserver (read pr0nserver), at home, at a total cost of under 2000. I've used cheap Siimage chipset based raid cards, and a variety of 250GB ide hdds, all purchased from eBay. The mobo is a generic via board, with 6pci slots, and no agp (why the hell would I need agp on a fileserver?!), with a slighlty overclocked 600MHz P3. I've got 100mb ethernet through the house, and, accordingly, a 100mb NIC in the machine. Other than that, that's it. It's got no graphics card, no peripherals, and the case is just a full tower server case, with a bumch of 5" fans hardwired into the PSU. I use 3 x 350W power supplies, each of which isn't used fully. The machine runs gentoo, and automagically emerges the latest whatever every 24 hours. I run samba-tng for the windows shares, and apache, for a media management system i'm working on. Anyway, enough of me showing off ;)
Ah well, doom3 will be better, and it's better to release a software product late, rather than early, and badly.
They've gone bust, and gone opensource. Since this, their site and product has probably received more interest than it ever has. This is an excellent business move... Expect these guys to produce The Next Big Thing(tm).
The game ain't finished until it's over. The devel cycle for most mmorpgs is the lifetime of the game, from the moment devel starts until the final server shuts down.
not a gif :)
I've been doing sweep oar rowing and sculling for years... It's something that anyone can do, but few can master. The blade (the oar) moves in a roughly ellpitical track in the water, over a very small range, as the boat is propelled forwards. The range of motion is dependant upon the skill of the oarsman, and how he/she appiles pressure to the stroke. Too much too soon, and you 'rip', causing turbulence, and allowing the blade to move excessively through the water... Too little, and the blade won't lock onto the water, and will just float through the water... Of course, this is neglecting balance etc., which is no mean feat in a boat some 5 inches wide at the waterline!
Very good article on this in scientific american, if anyone is interested!
Yes, I know probably = likely, but they said rosen *did* agree, in the title.
/me slaps sholden about with a truffle.
My point is that they said she did agree... There is a subtle difference between agreeing with something, and having someone say that you might agree with something... If you can't see that difference, you'll make a fantastic lawyer!
Norton antilaw 2003, scans for laywers and eliminates them automagically.
'host of questions about the challenges she faces running such a controversial company'.
Or did they change personal pronouns again while I was away?
Sorry, but where I come from, that's mere hypothesis... Rosen probably would agree, but she actually hasn't...
Also, KaZaA (or whatever silliness they do with their capital letters) is known to be one of the most prolific distributors of spyware on the internet, so do we support them, or the technophobic legalistic RIAA?
Oh well, each to their own. Use freenet! (They kennae catch you that way