the blogosphere cannot become complacent about intrusions like this
Gotta love that 'blogsphere' comment. One almost gets the impression that its an important, or even meaningful, thing. It's amazing how bloggers get so full of themselves they end up with the impression that blogs are the single most important thing on this planet.
If you wanna be a reporter, got get a job as a reporter. Those who can, will, those who cant, blog...
Give it a couple of years, environmentalists will do a study and prove conclusively that the immunities have been killed by hunters/pollution/global warming/loggers/suv's/airplanes/noise, take your pick.
Well that was silly, you downloaded the mac version. You probably need the pc version, or at a minimum, load it thru a mac emulator.
You have 2 options at this point, spend the next few hours googling to find the pc version on the net, or, just put your digicam behind the monitor, take a shot, and download a version customized for your computer, directly from your digicam.
The point of releasing a 'distribution' is to solve shortcomings, and create solutions, not to sit back, wait for others to do the work, then rebadge it with your own name, then try take credit for thier work.
If you really want UL to be 'something' and 'out there', why not just do the required work, and 'get it out'. If you have to wait for a debian update, where is the value add in the UL?
Well, i'm sure the bloggers are happy. the poker sites wont be bothering the petty little blogs anymore, they've created a much bigger target out there. The poker sites want the number one position, and Wikipedia is there. they will be much more interested in hijacking the wiki page than trying to outspam the bloggers.
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Problem:- the bloggers leave pages open to the public, that anybody can modify, and they get spammed by the poker places.
Solution:- Spam google, so that the highest ranked page on the net for 'online poker' is, you guessed it, a user modifiable page, hosted somewhere else. They have made the wikipedia page the most valuable real-estate on the net regarding the given search term, so, now it's wikipdeia's problem, that page is going to be target of constant spam/attack/redirect attempts.
I would have thought the blog types would understand, and target a static page, where this is not a problem. No, they gotta take the problem from thier insignificant little nothing sites, and turn it into a major problem for one of the most significant sites on the internet. Way to go assholes, what a wonderful way to cause a huge amount of problems for a very valuable net resource, that's done nothing to cause problems for your precious 'blog community'.
There is a reason that most folks find the rantings in blogspace a total waste of otherwise useful bandwidth, this is yet another good example. Only the selfish shortsighted stupidity of the blog community would come up with the idea of solving thier problem, by making a wikipedia problem instead.
That's about as smart as an anvil folks, and it's this kind of stupidity that causes most of the world to view blogspace as wasted space. Whoever came up with the idea of google-bombing the term 'online poker' with a wikipedia page, should be taken out back and strung up. Didn't a single one of the bloggers in question have enough intelligence to figure out how big of a problem this is going to create? Now that wikipedia is in the top page, every poker spammer in the world is going to be trying to hijack that page. Are bloggers in general really this dumb ?
I'm curious. I'm assuming, with a launch schedule of 2006, you already have flight hardware built. If the mission is so important, why doesn't your company buy a launcher and send it on it's way? Or is it possible, that, your real business is grabbing government handouts, and you dont have the means to do this without them? If you do have the means, why not just go out and do it?
Kinda hard to give any credibility to an opinion that says 'cancel those other programs so that mine can have more money'. Bottom line is, those others have hardware, in space, doing something. You guys have a plan, and, maybe someday that plan will actually turn into a mission, but not until you have actually lobbed your equipment off this planet. Till then, it's just another money pit burning up money, with zero return on investment.
hehe, and here I thought I was the only one that considered carmacks endeavors more a joke than anything else. gotta give him credit tho, he's built a hell of a loyal following on/. , and he's built quite a little business on the web, selling blown up rocket parts to folks that think it's cool. for the purposes of/. we will ignore the fact that there are other amateur rocket groups that have actually achieved the 'launch to space', and are now pondering how to build on that success, and achieve an orbit.
ISS's orbit was optimized for revinue (passing over as many countries as possible so as to get funding) and is about 51.6 degrees.
This is just hogwash.
ISS orbit was carefully selected to maximize the number of launch windows available for a shuttle from florida, and for soyuz/progress from Balkinour. In the end, this little bit of foresight turned out to be a DAMN good thing, cuz shuttles dont seem to show up on the promised schedule. the high inclination opens a lot more windows for progress from Baikonur.
Launch trajectories that optimize payload delivered to the station happen when the ISS is on what is effectively an 'overhead pass' of the launch site. Baikonour has restrictions on azimuth for the launch, the optimum due east trajectory is not available, because lower stage boosters will fall in china. When you grind all the numbers, and maximize for payload+availability of launch windows across both sites with all available hardware, the current inclination of the ISS is at/near the maximum. Once that was all figured out, somebody came after that fact and said 'hey, look at how many countries we pass over, we can promote that as a planned item', when in fact, it's incidental to the real reasons.
If the ISS was in a trajectory optimized for shuttle capacity out of the cape, it would now be abandoned space junk. On that inclination the progress would not be able to deliver enough mass to keep the station resupplied.
ok, i'm at a loss on this one, help me out folks. We learned yesterday that we are supposed to consider it evil if a municipality wants to deploy wifi over an entire village/town/city. Is deploying it over a railroad system supposed to be good, or evil?
Pathfinder also carried an APXS, but the data was largely worthless because the Germans who made the instrument didn't bother calibrating it at all.
The germans who built it, didn't calibrate it, because the americans who ordered it, didn't include calibration in the requirements.
Faster, better, cheaper, pick two. for pathfinder, they chose faster and cheaper, and it worked well. they could have opted for calibration, but, that would have meant 'better' at the expense of 'faster and cheaper'.
You are very right, this is NOT a little 'oopsie'. We dont like the results, but, we found if we add this fudge factor to the experimental readings, the results are more like those we wanted to get. In this case, the fudge factor is to swap the calibration files.
Makes you wonder what happened to scientific methods, where the results drive the conclusions. I thought the case of fudging the measured data to fit the desired conclusions was limited to 'fixing' high school labs gone awry. I didn't realize it continues all the way up the food chain to researchers gathering raw data from sensors on mars.
With examples like this, as a high school teacher, you will likely have to adjust how you teach/mark the class. With a prestigious outfit like nasa blessing the idea of fudging the data to fit the desired results, you surely cant mark down students for that concept anymore...
It wouldn't be a case of 'upload correct configuration', it would be a case of 'run over to mars and swap the instruments'. In this case, it's MUCH easier to just change the documentation, and swap the calibration files around. In the original documentation, Spirit was intended to have instrument X and Opportunity was intended to have instrument Y. Now that they are on mars, better to change the documentation to reflect reality, than try worry about swapping the instruments around. Then again, Nasa is a government beaurocracy, i would not be at all surprised if they propose a mission to correct the martian rover assembly errors....
If the telecoms can do it more efficiently, let them. That's not a good reason to prevent anybody else from doing it. There's plenty of market for everybody, let them duke it out in the free market, and may the best service win.
If the telecoms are really scared of a muni wifi deployment, it's because they wont be offering a service of any appreciably better value. If they were, they wouldn't be worried about the muni wifi hurting thier business.
The fact that the telecoms are trying to prevent it, is essentially proof that the telecoms are not planning to implement anything signficantly better.
A community can mean a lot of things, but in this case, it happens to mean a group of like minded people, that choose to live within the same jurasdiction for the purposes of property taxation. They do normally expect to recieve some level of services in return for that property tax. In some areas, it consists mainly of water and sewer service. In other areas, it may also include police services. If that group of people choose to include wifi within the service set they deploy, who are you to say they cant?
The real question i have regarding this, what ever happened to the 'free country' in all the propoganda ? Aren't folks free to make thier own choices about such things in the usa, or is that all just cheap talk for the propoganda machines ?
The fcc should have only one comment to this whole issue. 802.11 is unlicensed. As long as the equipment in use falls within the emissioins requirements of unlicensed, what part of the word 'unlicensed' do the rest of the levels of government not understand. They also need to remind the rest of the various levels of government, wifi is a service based on radio transmissions. FCC rulings trump all other levels of government in this area.
Gonna be lotsa windows bashing in this thread, that's for sure, but, the reality is, cluster computing is for the most part operating system agnostic. What matters, is the application being hosted on the cluster.
If you take a look at the worlds largest supercomputing project, it uses a distributed computing system, and it's for the most part os agnostic, but, the target software has not been compiled for _all_ availble platforms. For reference, check out seti@home. Granted, this project is of a scale that it deserved a customized message architecture, so it's quite unique overall.
Clusters in general are utilized to solve problems in a distributed manner. In the scientific community, MPI is used, and in the web hosting world, clusters are used for load balancing and high availability. The reality is, both of these tasks can be very application specific, and operating system agnostic. In theory, there is no reason a properly written MPI application cannot be deployed on a cluster consisting of half linux, and half windows machines. In reality, such applications tend to rely on artifacts of having identical nodes, and it would be a lot of extra work maintaining a code base such that it can be arbitrarily launched on both platforms. Its far more efficient to tune it up for a single platform, and just use the same platform across the entire cluster.
In the load balancing world, same issues will surface. There is really no reason you cant use a mix of windows and linux based apache systems to back a load balancing cluster. Again, it would be a LOT of extra work managing the mixed configuration, and ultimately, that gets kind of pointless.
Out in the real world, clustering did focus in on linux rather early in the game, because it's open source, hence the folks doing clustering had the option to actually make changes to accomodate thier clusters. There are numerous models to choose from, ranging from a really simple MPI implementation where each machine is virtually independant, and simply passing messages via some high level api, all the way down to the OpenMosix implementation where each machine in the cluster just has the appearance of 'yet another processor' on the overall host. In the former case, applications need to be custom written for the cluster, in the latter case, no modifications are required to applications. Two vastly different architectures, that both fall within the buzzword 'cluster', but are so far removed from each other, there is no similarity other than the fact both use a lot of computers.
A move by microsoft to produce a 'cluster centric' variation of windows actually validates the linux cluster more than anything else can in the marketplace. It demonstrates clearly that the cluster buzzword is gaining enough traction in the management mindset that microsoft needs a presence in that area.
It'll be interesting to see what the final form of the product really is. If it's just a set of gui configurators to manage an MPI system, it's really nothing that couldn't have been done as a third party add-on, and an admission that no third parties were interested in tackling this high end portion of the marketplace on the windows platform.
If the clustering system turns out to be a full process/thread level migration system, akin to the mosix implementation, it'll have a lot of potential, simply because applications do not need to be re-written in order to take advantage of the cluster, assuming ofc, the application already has enough smarts to distribute it's workload amongst multiple processors. the last time I checked (and it's been quite a while), excel is not smart enought to distribute it's calcs amongst multiple processors, something to do with the single threaded nature of serial calculation.
The final proof of technical issues will come over the next few years, and it's going to be an interesting thing to watch. There is going to be a significant amount of support business generated in migrating clusters from one platform to the
It should ultimately end up in general revenue for the federal government. I wonder if they can conjure up 80 billion worth of fines thru various of thier departments, would go a long way to balancing the budget (and breaking almost every business in the country).
well, it turns out, gf is actually using jp-4 (I found this online after writing the initial comment). For practical purposes, jp-4 is effectively a 50/50 mix of gas and diesel.
The global flyer is a real prototype, in flight. The galactic is a figment of the imagination of some marketing dudes, and pretty soon, there's gonna be some engineering dudes tasked with making something that actually lives up to the hype the marketing dudes have created. At this point in time, it's nothing but marketing fluff, and I'll give 10:1 odds it never gets past marketing fluff in the next 5 years, even tho they are taking bookings for 3 years out.
FAI has bastardized the rules for 'official' aviation attempts, mostly due to politcs. They say it's got to be a flight that crosses every line of longitude, has a specific length it must be, and has to be maintained between specific lines of lattitude.
The proper definition is slightly different, and is what most other bodies recognize (specifically those certifying records for sailors). The trip must cross over 2 points on the globe that are diametrically opposed, and it must cross every meridian (longitude line). It must end at or beyond the point of departure, so in the case of an aircraft, it's normal to overfly the departing airport prior to landing, just to void any possibility of someone showing that you landed on the runway at a point prior to the point of liftoff, so you didn't really go 'all the way around'.
To be technically correct, your quick circle of the north pole will qualify, if the same flight includes a pass over the south pole, and lands back at, or beyond the point of departure.
For the purposes of this trip, FAI has bastardized the rules, but, i suspect they actually do have diametrically points on the globe in the flight plan, so that the record can be recognized by other sanctioning bodies.
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Gotta love that 'blogsphere' comment. One almost gets the impression that its an important, or even meaningful, thing. It's amazing how bloggers get so full of themselves they end up with the impression that blogs are the single most important thing on this planet.
If you wanna be a reporter, got get a job as a reporter. Those who can, will, those who cant, blog...
Not many, the majority of them are gone already...
Give it a couple of years, environmentalists will do a study and prove conclusively that the immunities have been killed by hunters/pollution/global warming/loggers/suv's/airplanes/noise, take your pick.
You have 2 options at this point, spend the next few hours googling to find the pc version on the net, or, just put your digicam behind the monitor, take a shot, and download a version customized for your computer, directly from your digicam.
If you really want UL to be 'something' and 'out there', why not just do the required work, and 'get it out'. If you have to wait for a debian update, where is the value add in the UL?
Well, i'm sure the bloggers are happy. the poker sites wont be bothering the petty little blogs anymore, they've created a much bigger target out there. The poker sites want the number one position, and Wikipedia is there. they will be much more interested in hijacking the wiki page than trying to outspam the bloggers.
Problem:- the bloggers leave pages open to the public, that anybody can modify, and they get spammed by the poker places.
Solution:- Spam google, so that the highest ranked page on the net for 'online poker' is, you guessed it, a user modifiable page, hosted somewhere else. They have made the wikipedia page the most valuable real-estate on the net regarding the given search term, so, now it's wikipdeia's problem, that page is going to be target of constant spam/attack/redirect attempts.
I would have thought the blog types would understand, and target a static page, where this is not a problem. No, they gotta take the problem from thier insignificant little nothing sites, and turn it into a major problem for one of the most significant sites on the internet. Way to go assholes, what a wonderful way to cause a huge amount of problems for a very valuable net resource, that's done nothing to cause problems for your precious 'blog community'.
There is a reason that most folks find the rantings in blogspace a total waste of otherwise useful bandwidth, this is yet another good example. Only the selfish shortsighted stupidity of the blog community would come up with the idea of solving thier problem, by making a wikipedia problem instead.
That's about as smart as an anvil folks, and it's this kind of stupidity that causes most of the world to view blogspace as wasted space. Whoever came up with the idea of google-bombing the term 'online poker' with a wikipedia page, should be taken out back and strung up. Didn't a single one of the bloggers in question have enough intelligence to figure out how big of a problem this is going to create? Now that wikipedia is in the top page, every poker spammer in the world is going to be trying to hijack that page. Are bloggers in general really this dumb ?
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They actually need a mod option 'clueless'. It would apply a LOT here.
Kinda hard to give any credibility to an opinion that says 'cancel those other programs so that mine can have more money'. Bottom line is, those others have hardware, in space, doing something. You guys have a plan, and, maybe someday that plan will actually turn into a mission, but not until you have actually lobbed your equipment off this planet. Till then, it's just another money pit burning up money, with zero return on investment.
hehe, and here I thought I was the only one that considered carmacks endeavors more a joke than anything else. gotta give him credit tho, he's built a hell of a loyal following on /. , and he's built quite a little business on the web, selling blown up rocket parts to folks that think it's cool. for the purposes of /. we will ignore the fact that there are other amateur rocket groups that have actually achieved the 'launch to space', and are now pondering how to build on that success, and achieve an orbit.
Observation 1) Wifi=evil if provided at taxpayer expense (friday).
Observation 2) Wifi=evil if provided by corp, ie not taxpayer expense (saturday).
Conclusion: wifi=evil.
Ahh well, it'll be monday soon. I'm sure wifi != evil on monday.
This is just hogwash.
ISS orbit was carefully selected to maximize the number of launch windows available for a shuttle from florida, and for soyuz/progress from Balkinour. In the end, this little bit of foresight turned out to be a DAMN good thing, cuz shuttles dont seem to show up on the promised schedule. the high inclination opens a lot more windows for progress from Baikonur.
Launch trajectories that optimize payload delivered to the station happen when the ISS is on what is effectively an 'overhead pass' of the launch site. Baikonour has restrictions on azimuth for the launch, the optimum due east trajectory is not available, because lower stage boosters will fall in china. When you grind all the numbers, and maximize for payload+availability of launch windows across both sites with all available hardware, the current inclination of the ISS is at/near the maximum. Once that was all figured out, somebody came after that fact and said 'hey, look at how many countries we pass over, we can promote that as a planned item', when in fact, it's incidental to the real reasons.
If the ISS was in a trajectory optimized for shuttle capacity out of the cape, it would now be abandoned space junk. On that inclination the progress would not be able to deliver enough mass to keep the station resupplied.
ok, i'm at a loss on this one, help me out folks. We learned yesterday that we are supposed to consider it evil if a municipality wants to deploy wifi over an entire village/town/city. Is deploying it over a railroad system supposed to be good, or evil?
The germans who built it, didn't calibrate it, because the americans who ordered it, didn't include calibration in the requirements.
Faster, better, cheaper, pick two. for pathfinder, they chose faster and cheaper, and it worked well. they could have opted for calibration, but, that would have meant 'better' at the expense of 'faster and cheaper'.
Makes you wonder what happened to scientific methods, where the results drive the conclusions. I thought the case of fudging the measured data to fit the desired conclusions was limited to 'fixing' high school labs gone awry. I didn't realize it continues all the way up the food chain to researchers gathering raw data from sensors on mars.
With examples like this, as a high school teacher, you will likely have to adjust how you teach/mark the class. With a prestigious outfit like nasa blessing the idea of fudging the data to fit the desired results, you surely cant mark down students for that concept anymore...
It wouldn't be a case of 'upload correct configuration', it would be a case of 'run over to mars and swap the instruments'. In this case, it's MUCH easier to just change the documentation, and swap the calibration files around. In the original documentation, Spirit was intended to have instrument X and Opportunity was intended to have instrument Y. Now that they are on mars, better to change the documentation to reflect reality, than try worry about swapping the instruments around. Then again, Nasa is a government beaurocracy, i would not be at all surprised if they propose a mission to correct the martian rover assembly errors....
If the telecoms are really scared of a muni wifi deployment, it's because they wont be offering a service of any appreciably better value. If they were, they wouldn't be worried about the muni wifi hurting thier business.
The fact that the telecoms are trying to prevent it, is essentially proof that the telecoms are not planning to implement anything signficantly better.
The real question i have regarding this, what ever happened to the 'free country' in all the propoganda ? Aren't folks free to make thier own choices about such things in the usa, or is that all just cheap talk for the propoganda machines ?
The fcc should have only one comment to this whole issue. 802.11 is unlicensed. As long as the equipment in use falls within the emissioins requirements of unlicensed, what part of the word 'unlicensed' do the rest of the levels of government not understand. They also need to remind the rest of the various levels of government, wifi is a service based on radio transmissions. FCC rulings trump all other levels of government in this area.
If you take a look at the worlds largest supercomputing project, it uses a distributed computing system, and it's for the most part os agnostic, but, the target software has not been compiled for _all_ availble platforms. For reference, check out seti@home. Granted, this project is of a scale that it deserved a customized message architecture, so it's quite unique overall.
Clusters in general are utilized to solve problems in a distributed manner. In the scientific community, MPI is used, and in the web hosting world, clusters are used for load balancing and high availability. The reality is, both of these tasks can be very application specific, and operating system agnostic. In theory, there is no reason a properly written MPI application cannot be deployed on a cluster consisting of half linux, and half windows machines. In reality, such applications tend to rely on artifacts of having identical nodes, and it would be a lot of extra work maintaining a code base such that it can be arbitrarily launched on both platforms. Its far more efficient to tune it up for a single platform, and just use the same platform across the entire cluster.
In the load balancing world, same issues will surface. There is really no reason you cant use a mix of windows and linux based apache systems to back a load balancing cluster. Again, it would be a LOT of extra work managing the mixed configuration, and ultimately, that gets kind of pointless.
Out in the real world, clustering did focus in on linux rather early in the game, because it's open source, hence the folks doing clustering had the option to actually make changes to accomodate thier clusters. There are numerous models to choose from, ranging from a really simple MPI implementation where each machine is virtually independant, and simply passing messages via some high level api, all the way down to the OpenMosix implementation where each machine in the cluster just has the appearance of 'yet another processor' on the overall host. In the former case, applications need to be custom written for the cluster, in the latter case, no modifications are required to applications. Two vastly different architectures, that both fall within the buzzword 'cluster', but are so far removed from each other, there is no similarity other than the fact both use a lot of computers.
A move by microsoft to produce a 'cluster centric' variation of windows actually validates the linux cluster more than anything else can in the marketplace. It demonstrates clearly that the cluster buzzword is gaining enough traction in the management mindset that microsoft needs a presence in that area.
It'll be interesting to see what the final form of the product really is. If it's just a set of gui configurators to manage an MPI system, it's really nothing that couldn't have been done as a third party add-on, and an admission that no third parties were interested in tackling this high end portion of the marketplace on the windows platform.
If the clustering system turns out to be a full process/thread level migration system, akin to the mosix implementation, it'll have a lot of potential, simply because applications do not need to be re-written in order to take advantage of the cluster, assuming ofc, the application already has enough smarts to distribute it's workload amongst multiple processors. the last time I checked (and it's been quite a while), excel is not smart enought to distribute it's calcs amongst multiple processors, something to do with the single threaded nature of serial calculation.
The final proof of technical issues will come over the next few years, and it's going to be an interesting thing to watch. There is going to be a significant amount of support business generated in migrating clusters from one platform to the
It should ultimately end up in general revenue for the federal government. I wonder if they can conjure up 80 billion worth of fines thru various of thier departments, would go a long way to balancing the budget (and breaking almost every business in the country).
well, it turns out, gf is actually using jp-4 (I found this online after writing the initial comment). For practical purposes, jp-4 is effectively a 50/50 mix of gas and diesel.
The global flyer is a real prototype, in flight. The galactic is a figment of the imagination of some marketing dudes, and pretty soon, there's gonna be some engineering dudes tasked with making something that actually lives up to the hype the marketing dudes have created. At this point in time, it's nothing but marketing fluff, and I'll give 10:1 odds it never gets past marketing fluff in the next 5 years, even tho they are taking bookings for 3 years out.
If you put Jet-A into your SUV, it's probably quite dead by now, likely needs an engine overhaul at minimum, or a replacement.
The proper definition is slightly different, and is what most other bodies recognize (specifically those certifying records for sailors). The trip must cross over 2 points on the globe that are diametrically opposed, and it must cross every meridian (longitude line). It must end at or beyond the point of departure, so in the case of an aircraft, it's normal to overfly the departing airport prior to landing, just to void any possibility of someone showing that you landed on the runway at a point prior to the point of liftoff, so you didn't really go 'all the way around'.
To be technically correct, your quick circle of the north pole will qualify, if the same flight includes a pass over the south pole, and lands back at, or beyond the point of departure.
For the purposes of this trip, FAI has bastardized the rules, but, i suspect they actually do have diametrically points on the globe in the flight plan, so that the record can be recognized by other sanctioning bodies.