. You don't have a clue about the facts. The Agencies DO co-operate (as indicated in the way some of the terrorists wannabes and funding sources have been rooted out here in the States), but they don't co-operate as well as they could. Do you really expect to change 25 yrs of Civil Servant attitudes in less than 4 yrs?
The War in Iraq has a LOT to do with terrorism. Saddam and his Baath party provided sanctuary, training camps and funding for Al-Queda. To deny that is to deny FACTS, hard evidence and the statements of terrorists themselves. He would have provided WMDs when he got his programs back together when the UN got tired to looking and went back home.
As long as Gov't agencies use Windoze there will be holes. As long as they employ humans mistakes will be made in either policy or implementation that cause holes. The issue is are they FINDING and closing the holes which I would say they are.
Typical liberal distortion of the facts, thinking no one remembers what the truth is within a few days.
Actually, you have to pick an FPGA "core" that supports an FPU. They are available, but the basic FPGA only supports fixed point math in most cases. And in many cases that is perfectly acceptable.
Pipelined CPUs we developed to avoid the wait states for memory so that work can go on while waiting on Memory. Have a on-chip memory contoller which allows being able to access multiple memory locations at the same time also helps with this problem as well as using Dual-Port memory which can be read from/written to at the same time. It doesn't work quite as well as a Cray but its a way to do thing faster when time counts.
(embedded systems programmer in a former life)
Supply and Demand curves meet at the Market Price. That is the price at which Demand will equal Supply, it has nothing to do with Breakeven. If you raise prices then Demand will fall (assuming wireless isn't an inelastic item such as Gasoline) but does Demand fall enough to make the Venture unprofitable? Who knows. Plus a company MAY be willing to eat some losses for a while to get the first mover advantage and start to lock out others in the market. There are lots of solution to the problem, finding a vendor to take the risk is the key. In my area of TX we have gone from ZERO to TWO wireless providers (the ONLY way to get high speed where I live) in the last year so I submit the market is there and there is pent up demand that WILL pay a high price.
P.S. I have an MBA in Marketing from a Top25 School..I'm not just a Geek;)
That's an easy answer. The taxpayers will demand the Government subsidize it at first to get it "jump started". It happens all the time with Rural Water Districts. Sometimes there is a tax, sometimes not. The trick is to make the venture become profitable by some point in time so they can get rid of the subsidy.
The other option is the Service Provider will set prices high enough that a small number of subscribers makes the venture profitable. There are always those willing to pay a LOT at first to get something new and nifty. It happened with Sattelite TV, which now is being offered for next to nothing when it used to cost $75/month for very few channels.
Thanks!
Only save a week? Interesting. Seems that the route East via the "Big Ditch" would be SOOO much longer and that's only a week of time? I need to look at my globe and see how that works.
Seven weeks is for the Wal-Mart, Home Depot, CompUSA, etc. Mail order houses (Amazon) might have them a bit quicker as they can drop ship from the West Coast warehouse. Just curious as to why your company takes 2 weeks longer to fill the channel? Is it due to less clout with shippers, taking a longer delivery method (such as rail) for lower costs or just being small you are less efficient? The MBA in me wants to know:)
Yep, if they were to be on the shelves at that point in time they better already be on the ship coming over here. The ship takes several weeks to get here, then you got to get them into the supply channel and to the store and on the shelves. I doubt they wold ship these air freight, even though they are small and light it costs a lot to ship via air. My guess is you see them in November right in time for the Christmas "geek toy" buying season.
My credit union offers business accounts but only to small business that are owned by the CU member. The fees they charge are pretty steep compared to the local bank.
Get off the political BS, data/Identity theft has occured for years way back to Clinton and beyond. It's just that some high visibility cases have occured and the press is all over them. There have been chances for CONGRESS to pass data security laws for many years. Just wait to one of the Congress critters gets THEIR identity stolen then you may get some laws.
It's going to take more than a $5000 server to handle all the crap they want to push to the server. And of course there will be a special Server OS from MS that is needed to run the stripped down OS. This is a throwback to the old days of dumb terminals/thin clients communicating to a mainframe over a network. Also think about the HUGE load on the company network from all these service requests and replies from the desktops. It'll be as bad or worse than streaming video. It's also another configuration of Windows for the Admin Team to support which means MS Training which means money to Redmond and $$$ out of pocket to the customer. There are way too many things wrong with this idea. I think MS is just floating it out to see who bites. If you really need Windoze to run on a small footprint then Windows CE would be the choice, it was designed small not hacked down to small. Big difference. I think in TCO Linux and Open Office wins.
"For the most part SSO is only really usefull within a small environment. Very rarely do I see a need to allow people to access more than one application with the same sign on. "
Most IT Security standards require users to use DIFFERENT passwords for each application, of course this is very hard to police. The idea is to prevent loss of the password for one application to give unauthorized access to ALL applications. That problem is inherent in the system described in the article, if a "black hat" steals your ID on the one server he gets your login and its' rights/permissions on ALL servers. I can't see any way to stop this. It makes Identity theft even worse! Within a small corporate environment behind a firewall and with trust relationships among the servers it would be an option, the open source is a plus.
There are "bus" designs for sattelites that are used primarily by the Military and they just hang different packages off them. However, science probes tend to be more specialized with one-of-a-kind instruments that need special treatment and are usually built scientists NOT engineers so conformance to standards (such as data bus, power, processors, etc) tends to not occur which make the idea of a cheap, mass produced "probe" practically impossible. The idea was tried in the 1990's by the then NASA Head Dan Goldin and it didn't work, in fact several of the missions just flat didn't work (google the Contour mission). Scientists put years of thier life into designing the experiments and their reputations on the results, and they don't want the type of vehicles you wish would happen. Ideally there is room for some compromise but with scientists running the development program that is kind of hard. But conversely we don't want the programs run by nothing but accountants either! It's a BIG challenge for NASA and it's going to take some changes in culture (read people) to make it happen.
Cisco likes to test it's equipment within Cisco in real business world scenarios, unfourtunately if it breaks then it's Cisco that has it own stuff stolen which means other Cisco systems could be compromised. It's brilliant in concept but it can be very lacking in execution.
Concrete lasts longer than steel in a marine environment, thats why it is used to build bridges over water instead of steel pilings. Why it does break down it takes longer and it takes more breakdown to affect it's structural integrity. Eventually the entire underwater portion becomes coated with barnacles and the effect of the salt water corrosion slows down. Steel has to be thicker, and it has to be kept painted and any hints of corrision stopped quickly. An example is many bridges over salt water (such as the Golden Gate) are under constant maintenance to keep the steel sound. They paint the bridge from one end to the other and when they reach the other end it's been long enough they have to start over again.
Lockheed Design? I didn't see that one. But if it is the one I think it is, it's only a prototype they have been showing for about the last 5 yrs. They are looking for funding to build it, NASA has no interest as long as they have the bleeping Space Shuttle. I've not heard about Bigelow, the only Bigelow I know about makes fibers and carpet. I suspect the cost of the capsule system will exceed the cost of the booster. Thus they need to sell quite a few boosters (or find a few more billionaires) to have someone build them one. I hope it happens but I'm not holding my breath!
Still to high. We have a full T-3 where I work and they are paying about $4500 a month. They are looking at upgrading to an OC-3 perhaps and that is about $6K or more a month. Pricing on network bandwidth for corporations is very competitive these days. For the home user, not as much so:(
Nowhere does SpaceX claim to be building to Man-rated specs on their Website under the Falcon V info. It's a great design but man-rated is an official NASA qualification process which does involve certain design specs but also has to be extensively tested. I also don't see any capsule system for the Falcon V to hold passengers, that is not a trivial undertaking as no capsule has been built in the USA since Apollo. We have lost a lot of that know how. Not to say they can't get there if they wanted to, but right now Falcon is a low-cost challenge to the current launchers like Delta IV, Arianne, etc. I'm pulling for them to make it work.
After the DoD gets thru with the "safety" modifications and other things to make it conform to the range requirements (things like self-destruct, studies on debris radius, environmental impact, etc.) I'll bet ya the price of each launch doubles. However that is still cheaper than the other alternatives. FYI to the other/.ers who want to ride the beast into orbit, it is a LONG LONG way from a sattelite launcher to a man rated rocket. I am 100% behind the small space companies. have invested in a couple of them which so far hasn't paid me back a dime.
I haven't seem anyone paying 6K/Month for a T-1 in a long time. That's not a far price comparison. I looked into getting one put into my house as I don't have high-speed anything where I live (until recently) and it was around $1500/mo. Just recently I was able to find a Wireless Internet provider at 3Mbps for $59/month + $5 for a fixed IP. I can have as many PCs as I like behind the router. So unless Seattle is a LOT higher priced area than Dallas I think they are going to have a tough sell at that price.
There is some disagreement about that. This issue was raised on/. a while back and I had some exchanges with someone who said the problem is solvable with certain constraints but not in general. I do know there are several software firms doing work with DOD research money in this area. I have asked some friends at NASA IV&V to take a look at this tool and see how good it is or if it's just a prototype. NASA is bad about doing prototypes that just tease you and then never getting the full project done due to lack of funds:(
Years ago (1980s) NASA used to have a repository called COSMIC that contained lots of code. It was mostly FORTRAN code for mathematical modeling or simulation of things like aerodyamics or heat transfer or stresses. A lot of it came from the Apollo program and some from Shuttle. When I did simulations for DOD systems we'd look there for code to reuse before we did our own as we felt if NASA was using it then it was verified and pretty tight in execution time.
NASA never really embraced Ada. A LOT of software at NASA is done in C or special languages. A great deal of Space Station is Ada but it's not 100%. Java in Mission Critical systems is something NASA is thinking about but they move slow. When I was at the IV&V center there was some talk about Java and how NASA didn't really have the skills to evaluate/manage/budget Java development and that was an area for improvement to prepare for the future. IF there ever is a MissionToMars I'd expect a great deal of Java code. I've not looked in depth for Java for hard real-time systems is not something that is commonly done. I see a few tools out there that are first generation so someone is thinking about it but I have no feedback on how good it is compared to C code.
You are misreading my concern. It's a hole, but it's one you can chose NOT to open by clicking NO when it asks to send error data. My worry is about some exploit where it sends the data anyway, to MS and maybe someone else. The virus would be something such that if you clicked no it sends anyway!
"Though the details are being finalized, Windows lead product manager Greg Sullivan said users will be prompted with a message indicating the information to be sent and giving them an option to alter it, such as removing the contents of the e-mail they were writing when the machine crashed."
In MS speak that means we really are floating this out to see who objects and how strongly then we'll think about developing it in Longhorn whenever that is.
So, now when you machine reboots you have to take the time to delete the references to the porn video you were watching?;) How many users are REALLY going to take the time to edit? Or really understand what is being sent, as they are so pissed about the crash in the middle of thier work. Error reporting needs to have context information but that can be gotten without sending out user data. If you are smart, you disable this whole "feature" by removing it from Windows (if possible).
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. You don't have a clue about the facts. The Agencies DO co-operate (as indicated in the way some of the terrorists wannabes and funding sources have been rooted out here in the States), but they don't co-operate as well as they could. Do you really expect to change 25 yrs of Civil Servant attitudes in less than 4 yrs?
The War in Iraq has a LOT to do with terrorism. Saddam and his Baath party provided sanctuary, training camps and funding for Al-Queda. To deny that is to deny FACTS, hard evidence and the statements of terrorists themselves. He would have provided WMDs when he got his programs back together when the UN got tired to looking and went back home.
As long as Gov't agencies use Windoze there will be holes. As long as they employ humans mistakes will be made in either policy or implementation that cause holes. The issue is are they FINDING and closing the holes which I would say they are.
Typical liberal distortion of the facts, thinking no one remembers what the truth is within a few days.
Actually, you have to pick an FPGA "core" that supports an FPU. They are available, but the basic FPGA only supports fixed point math in most cases. And in many cases that is perfectly acceptable. Pipelined CPUs we developed to avoid the wait states for memory so that work can go on while waiting on Memory. Have a on-chip memory contoller which allows being able to access multiple memory locations at the same time also helps with this problem as well as using Dual-Port memory which can be read from/written to at the same time. It doesn't work quite as well as a Cray but its a way to do thing faster when time counts. (embedded systems programmer in a former life)
Supply and Demand curves meet at the Market Price. That is the price at which Demand will equal Supply, it has nothing to do with Breakeven. If you raise prices then Demand will fall (assuming wireless isn't an inelastic item such as Gasoline) but does Demand fall enough to make the Venture unprofitable? Who knows. Plus a company MAY be willing to eat some losses for a while to get the first mover advantage and start to lock out others in the market. There are lots of solution to the problem, finding a vendor to take the risk is the key. In my area of TX we have gone from ZERO to TWO wireless providers (the ONLY way to get high speed where I live) in the last year so I submit the market is there and there is pent up demand that WILL pay a high price. P.S. I have an MBA in Marketing from a Top25 School..I'm not just a Geek ;)
That's an easy answer. The taxpayers will demand the Government subsidize it at first to get it "jump started". It happens all the time with Rural Water Districts. Sometimes there is a tax, sometimes not. The trick is to make the venture become profitable by some point in time so they can get rid of the subsidy. The other option is the Service Provider will set prices high enough that a small number of subscribers makes the venture profitable. There are always those willing to pay a LOT at first to get something new and nifty. It happened with Sattelite TV, which now is being offered for next to nothing when it used to cost $75/month for very few channels.
Thanks! Only save a week? Interesting. Seems that the route East via the "Big Ditch" would be SOOO much longer and that's only a week of time? I need to look at my globe and see how that works.
Seven weeks is for the Wal-Mart, Home Depot, CompUSA, etc. Mail order houses (Amazon) might have them a bit quicker as they can drop ship from the West Coast warehouse. Just curious as to why your company takes 2 weeks longer to fill the channel? Is it due to less clout with shippers, taking a longer delivery method (such as rail) for lower costs or just being small you are less efficient? The MBA in me wants to know :)
Yep, if they were to be on the shelves at that point in time they better already be on the ship coming over here. The ship takes several weeks to get here, then you got to get them into the supply channel and to the store and on the shelves. I doubt they wold ship these air freight, even though they are small and light it costs a lot to ship via air. My guess is you see them in November right in time for the Christmas "geek toy" buying season.
My credit union offers business accounts but only to small business that are owned by the CU member. The fees they charge are pretty steep compared to the local bank.
Get off the political BS, data/Identity theft has occured for years way back to Clinton and beyond. It's just that some high visibility cases have occured and the press is all over them. There have been chances for CONGRESS to pass data security laws for many years. Just wait to one of the Congress critters gets THEIR identity stolen then you may get some laws.
It's going to take more than a $5000 server to handle all the crap they want to push to the server. And of course there will be a special Server OS from MS that is needed to run the stripped down OS. This is a throwback to the old days of dumb terminals/thin clients communicating to a mainframe over a network. Also think about the HUGE load on the company network from all these service requests and replies from the desktops. It'll be as bad or worse than streaming video. It's also another configuration of Windows for the Admin Team to support which means MS Training which means money to Redmond and $$$ out of pocket to the customer. There are way too many things wrong with this idea. I think MS is just floating it out to see who bites. If you really need Windoze to run on a small footprint then Windows CE would be the choice, it was designed small not hacked down to small. Big difference. I think in TCO Linux and Open Office wins.
"For the most part SSO is only really usefull within a small environment. Very rarely do I see a need to allow people to access more than one application with the same sign on. " Most IT Security standards require users to use DIFFERENT passwords for each application, of course this is very hard to police. The idea is to prevent loss of the password for one application to give unauthorized access to ALL applications. That problem is inherent in the system described in the article, if a "black hat" steals your ID on the one server he gets your login and its' rights/permissions on ALL servers. I can't see any way to stop this. It makes Identity theft even worse! Within a small corporate environment behind a firewall and with trust relationships among the servers it would be an option, the open source is a plus.
There are "bus" designs for sattelites that are used primarily by the Military and they just hang different packages off them. However, science probes tend to be more specialized with one-of-a-kind instruments that need special treatment and are usually built scientists NOT engineers so conformance to standards (such as data bus, power, processors, etc) tends to not occur which make the idea of a cheap, mass produced "probe" practically impossible. The idea was tried in the 1990's by the then NASA Head Dan Goldin and it didn't work, in fact several of the missions just flat didn't work (google the Contour mission). Scientists put years of thier life into designing the experiments and their reputations on the results, and they don't want the type of vehicles you wish would happen. Ideally there is room for some compromise but with scientists running the development program that is kind of hard. But conversely we don't want the programs run by nothing but accountants either! It's a BIG challenge for NASA and it's going to take some changes in culture (read people) to make it happen.
Cisco likes to test it's equipment within Cisco in real business world scenarios, unfourtunately if it breaks then it's Cisco that has it own stuff stolen which means other Cisco systems could be compromised. It's brilliant in concept but it can be very lacking in execution.
Concrete lasts longer than steel in a marine environment, thats why it is used to build bridges over water instead of steel pilings. Why it does break down it takes longer and it takes more breakdown to affect it's structural integrity. Eventually the entire underwater portion becomes coated with barnacles and the effect of the salt water corrosion slows down. Steel has to be thicker, and it has to be kept painted and any hints of corrision stopped quickly. An example is many bridges over salt water (such as the Golden Gate) are under constant maintenance to keep the steel sound. They paint the bridge from one end to the other and when they reach the other end it's been long enough they have to start over again.
Lockheed Design? I didn't see that one. But if it is the one I think it is, it's only a prototype they have been showing for about the last 5 yrs. They are looking for funding to build it, NASA has no interest as long as they have the bleeping Space Shuttle. I've not heard about Bigelow, the only Bigelow I know about makes fibers and carpet. I suspect the cost of the capsule system will exceed the cost of the booster. Thus they need to sell quite a few boosters (or find a few more billionaires) to have someone build them one. I hope it happens but I'm not holding my breath!
Still to high. We have a full T-3 where I work and they are paying about $4500 a month. They are looking at upgrading to an OC-3 perhaps and that is about $6K or more a month. Pricing on network bandwidth for corporations is very competitive these days. For the home user, not as much so :(
Nowhere does SpaceX claim to be building to Man-rated specs on their Website under the Falcon V info. It's a great design but man-rated is an official NASA qualification process which does involve certain design specs but also has to be extensively tested. I also don't see any capsule system for the Falcon V to hold passengers, that is not a trivial undertaking as no capsule has been built in the USA since Apollo. We have lost a lot of that know how. Not to say they can't get there if they wanted to, but right now Falcon is a low-cost challenge to the current launchers like Delta IV, Arianne, etc. I'm pulling for them to make it work.
After the DoD gets thru with the "safety" modifications and other things to make it conform to the range requirements (things like self-destruct, studies on debris radius, environmental impact, etc.) I'll bet ya the price of each launch doubles. However that is still cheaper than the other alternatives. FYI to the other /.ers who want to ride the beast into orbit, it is a LONG LONG way from a sattelite launcher to a man rated rocket. I am 100% behind the small space companies. have invested in a couple of them which so far hasn't paid me back a dime.
I haven't seem anyone paying 6K/Month for a T-1 in a long time. That's not a far price comparison. I looked into getting one put into my house as I don't have high-speed anything where I live (until recently) and it was around $1500/mo. Just recently I was able to find a Wireless Internet provider at 3Mbps for $59/month + $5 for a fixed IP. I can have as many PCs as I like behind the router. So unless Seattle is a LOT higher priced area than Dallas I think they are going to have a tough sell at that price.
There is some disagreement about that. This issue was raised on /. a while back and I had some exchanges with someone who said the problem is solvable with certain constraints but not in general. I do know there are several software firms doing work with DOD research money in this area. I have asked some friends at NASA IV&V to take a look at this tool and see how good it is or if it's just a prototype. NASA is bad about doing prototypes that just tease you and then never getting the full project done due to lack of funds :(
Years ago (1980s) NASA used to have a repository called COSMIC that contained lots of code. It was mostly FORTRAN code for mathematical modeling or simulation of things like aerodyamics or heat transfer or stresses. A lot of it came from the Apollo program and some from Shuttle. When I did simulations for DOD systems we'd look there for code to reuse before we did our own as we felt if NASA was using it then it was verified and pretty tight in execution time.
NASA never really embraced Ada. A LOT of software at NASA is done in C or special languages. A great deal of Space Station is Ada but it's not 100%. Java in Mission Critical systems is something NASA is thinking about but they move slow. When I was at the IV&V center there was some talk about Java and how NASA didn't really have the skills to evaluate/manage/budget Java development and that was an area for improvement to prepare for the future. IF there ever is a MissionToMars I'd expect a great deal of Java code. I've not looked in depth for Java for hard real-time systems is not something that is commonly done. I see a few tools out there that are first generation so someone is thinking about it but I have no feedback on how good it is compared to C code.
You are misreading my concern. It's a hole, but it's one you can chose NOT to open by clicking NO when it asks to send error data. My worry is about some exploit where it sends the data anyway, to MS and maybe someone else. The virus would be something such that if you clicked no it sends anyway!
"Though the details are being finalized, Windows lead product manager Greg Sullivan said users will be prompted with a message indicating the information to be sent and giving them an option to alter it, such as removing the contents of the e-mail they were writing when the machine crashed." In MS speak that means we really are floating this out to see who objects and how strongly then we'll think about developing it in Longhorn whenever that is. So, now when you machine reboots you have to take the time to delete the references to the porn video you were watching? ;) How many users are REALLY going to take the time to edit? Or really understand what is being sent, as they are so pissed about the crash in the middle of thier work. Error reporting needs to have context information but that can be gotten without sending out user data. If you are smart, you disable this whole "feature" by removing it from Windows (if possible).
And a lot more fatal to the airplane and it's occupoants! Of course if the airplane had a Windows OS then maybe this "black box" would be applicable.