Yeah that last line is a stinker. They just offer up an i686 binary. What bullshit, ANYONE can make Flash work on AMD64 in Linux, download and run the i686 Firefox. Hell, I run both version simultaneously.
Granted, if you wait until the asteriod is close enough to Earth we're in trouble by any account. My argument is that the mass is already in orbit, and to affect ant real change you would need to accelerate that mass and exert a greater force on the asteroid. It would be much cheaper to move an orbital mass then to attempt to increase the force by ither means.
force = mass * acceleration
The easiest way to increase the force exerted is to increase the mass. Smarter people than I have used the same math to determine a possible defense. Space.com has an on a mission to study this exact defense.
Put simply, if we're going to move a rock by throwing rocks at it, we should use the biggest rocks we have. Deorbiting the HST shortsightedly takes that rock away.
Setting aside for the moment the foolishness of decommissioning the Hubble, we've paid a lot to get that mass into orbit. One of the easiest ways to affect the orbit of a near earth object (read killer asteroid) is to throw a large mass at it. The HST may not be very large but it is an orbital mass that could be used in an emergency. Mir was a larger mass but we dropped that one too.
The only downside to keeping the HST up is the continued littering of our orbit by debris that damages other birds. My solution to that is to push the HST into a much higher orbit, outside the debris belt.
If we drop the HST the next large mass we could use to alter the trajectory of a NEO is the ISS.
According to their calculator, I could spend $28K and replace my $500 Geo and save a whopping $42 a year!
"Not bad."
At that rate, the Hybrid Escape pays for itself in 655 years. But the batter won't last that long, and that assumes I pay cash for the thing up front.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that Ford is finally doing this, and I believe that hybrids are the "right" answer but the technology is still wet behind the ears.
...it's jusr Darl and his uther bruther Darl talking out their asses. No sense getting in a tizzy over this until it is submitted to the court as evidence as to why discovery should continue.
the smoking gun is probably: a++;/* increment counter a */
...has shown me that most of the commercial tools available are of extremely limited use. If you're working in any cutting edge environment or pushing existing technology to its limits the tools will not be able tohelp you.
Home grown test suites built to suit the job at hand have always turned out to be the bets testing solution. Automation is the only way to keep up with the test effort required for a large project. Especially when QA is seen as an afterthough or a barrier to release. Automation will kepp the code from regressing and serves as a great check for problems duing large merges of patches.
Load test tools are invaluable for verifying the stability of a system. The quality of these tools vary greatly, but things like Apache Flood and httpload have done wonders for stressing web services.
One of the wonders of closed and proprietary code is that you have the freedom to change certain things with impunity. All of the code that they release will be essentially frozed with all of the bugs in place. One of the very things that has kept MS afloat all this time is the painful process of maintinaing (mostly) adequate backwards compatibility. This has lead to much of the bloat and kruft that is within windows today. It takes much longer to make a breaking change to code that others may be depending on. When you make that code visible, you can almost guarantee that there will be dependencies created.
Bill had these installed in his house years ago. He finds it amazing that it can be done for under 10 grand. Especially coonsidering the cost of the software...
If their product runs on UNIX, they're code belongs to SCO. They obviously did a terrible job of prtecting SCO's IP when they allowed Orkut to leave the company with his memory intact. Expect Darl to sue AEI in the next week and Google the next. Just for kicks I'll bet the sue Friendster for "Incitement to commit IP theft"
It would be nice if, finally, the Flash plugin doesn't take my entire Mozilla session with it everytime it dies
Oh boy would it ever... It really is ridiculous that Macromedia is so far behind the curve on this. They drank the ActiveX Kool-Aid and have never really gotten the foul taste from their mouth.
It also woulkd be nice if the could make the player less crash prone...
As for the real issue at hand, Macromedia hasn't added the extra features for their plugins to any browser that didn't use ActiveX. Somebody gonna just snap their fingers and get them on track?
Nintendo is the only console make that can get away with building a new box that is not compatible with the last generation games. But yet they maintained compatibility whith CBG when they released GBA.
I didn't and won't buy a new platform that requires me to lose my investment in the title's I've already purchased. Count me in the 10% Though I never bought a PSOne it is very important to me and my kids to be able to play the cheaper and older titles on the PSTwo.
I didn't invite the Nintedo64 into my house, but since it's here, it serves to remind me why I don't have a Nintendo GameCube. Not only does that box leave out the DVD player (a requirement I would think for any console today) but there was no potential for playing N64 games.
That's the patch cycle now right? once a month? Either the IIS plugin or some "bugfix" will contain a flaw that exposes the private key to anyone with a.net passport.
By that logic we should all just give up now. Heck we should have given up in 1998 because there's nobody willing to put any marketing into an OS and kernel that you can't own. Who the fuck cares about Java anyway? More people use VB than will ever think about Java. Who the fuck cares about Mozilla anyway? More people use IE than will ever think about Mozilla. Who the fuck cares about Linux anyway? More people use Windows than will ever think about Linux.
Yo're right, everyone with a new idea or approach should just roll over and die now. It just ai't worth it.
The new era of web-enabled applications is available now and to date is not powered by Microsoft. Using technologies like Laszlo Systems' LPS you can hook a web-deployed desktop app up to any number of XML based web services. This is the whole point of Longhorn and XAML. M$ was scared of Netscape because it made Windows irrelevant, then frightened by Java for the same reason, now they're trying to grab this new space before it matures. Thankfully they're doing too little too late and this genie is out of the bottle. SVG and XUL are cool but won't be good enough in time to stop the juggernaut. Laszlo has it working now, and the apps run in 98% of the computers and devices hooked to the internet today. All IBM needs to do is add the final piece of the software stack together with DB/2, WebSphere, Linux and the client (Laszlo) then both.Net and Longhorn become totally irrelevant.
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Yeah that last line is a stinker. They just offer up an i686 binary. What bullshit, ANYONE can make Flash work on AMD64 in Linux, download and run the i686 Firefox. Hell, I run both version simultaneously.
Granted, if you wait until the asteriod is close enough to Earth we're in trouble by any account. My argument is that the mass is already in orbit, and to affect ant real change you would need to accelerate that mass and exert a greater force on the asteroid. It would be much cheaper to move an orbital mass then to attempt to increase the force by ither means.
force = mass * acceleration
The easiest way to increase the force exerted is to increase the mass. Smarter people than I have used the same math to determine a possible defense. Space.com has an on a mission to study this exact defense.
Put simply, if we're going to move a rock by throwing rocks at it, we should use the biggest rocks we have. Deorbiting the HST shortsightedly takes that rock away.
Setting aside for the moment the foolishness of decommissioning the Hubble, we've paid a lot to get that mass into orbit. One of the easiest ways to affect the orbit of a near earth object (read killer asteroid) is to throw a large mass at it. The HST may not be very large but it is an orbital mass that could be used in an emergency. Mir was a larger mass but we dropped that one too.
The only downside to keeping the HST up is the continued littering of our orbit by debris that damages other birds. My solution to that is to push the HST into a much higher orbit, outside the debris belt.
If we drop the HST the next large mass we could use to alter the trajectory of a NEO is the ISS.
Gecko only makes XUL a nonstarter.
Sad but true.
I like your XUL based Amazon demo BTW. Laszlo has one kinda like that here.
98% of all web browsing computers have the Flash plogin installed. For 98% of users it is a zero install.
According to their calculator, I could spend $28K and replace my $500 Geo and save a whopping $42 a year!
"Not bad."
At that rate, the Hybrid Escape pays for itself in 655 years. But the batter won't last that long, and that assumes I pay cash for the thing up front.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that Ford is finally doing this, and I believe that hybrids are the "right" answer but the technology is still wet behind the ears.
...it's jusr Darl and his uther bruther Darl talking out their asses. No sense getting in a tizzy over this until it is submitted to the court as evidence as to why discovery should continue.
/* increment counter a */
the smoking gun is probably:
a++;
...has shown me that most of the commercial tools available are of extremely limited use. If you're working in any cutting edge environment or pushing existing technology to its limits the tools will not be able tohelp you.
Home grown test suites built to suit the job at hand have always turned out to be the bets testing solution. Automation is the only way to keep up with the test effort required for a large project. Especially when QA is seen as an afterthough or a barrier to release. Automation will kepp the code from regressing and serves as a great check for problems duing large merges of patches.
Load test tools are invaluable for verifying the stability of a system. The quality of these tools vary greatly, but things like Apache Flood and httpload have done wonders for stressing web services.
FWIW YMMV
I need to get one of these and use it as a prequalifier for clients. If you can't pass this test I won't work on your computer.
Well maybe I will, I'll just adjust my hourly rates accordingly.
... Microsoft buys Sony?
How do you want to be controlled today?
One of the wonders of closed and proprietary code is that you have the freedom to change certain things with impunity. All of the code that they release will be essentially frozed with all of the bugs in place. One of the very things that has kept MS afloat all this time is the painful process of maintinaing (mostly) adequate backwards compatibility. This has lead to much of the bloat and kruft that is within windows today. It takes much longer to make a breaking change to code that others may be depending on. When you make that code visible, you can almost guarantee that there will be dependencies created.
There were screeners made for Cannes that could be ripped. If anyone finds that copy, digital darwinism will kill off the CAM version.
whoops. Thanks for the catch. one of those thought track midstream directional change things.
... unless the interface is documented so that you can plug in a Rio or a HardDiskMan
Can you say 8-track? I knew you could...
Bill had these installed in his house years ago. He finds it amazing that it can be done for under 10 grand. Especially coonsidering the cost of the software...
without .Net you'll never get the Goatse guy downloading new pics for you.
If their product runs on UNIX, they're code belongs to SCO. They obviously did a terrible job of prtecting SCO's IP when they allowed Orkut to leave the company with his memory intact. Expect Darl to sue AEI in the next week and Google the next. Just for kicks I'll bet the sue Friendster for "Incitement to commit IP theft"
It would be nice if, finally, the Flash plugin doesn't take my entire Mozilla session with it everytime it dies
Oh boy would it ever... It really is ridiculous that Macromedia is so far behind the curve on this. They drank the ActiveX Kool-Aid and have never really gotten the foul taste from their mouth.
It also woulkd be nice if the could make the player less crash prone...
As for the real issue at hand, Macromedia hasn't added the extra features for their plugins to any browser that didn't use ActiveX. Somebody gonna just snap their fingers and get them on track?
... will be affected too. I guess that would probably mean the death of MailMan
Nintendo is the only console make that can get away with building a new box that is not compatible with the last generation games. But yet they maintained compatibility whith CBG when they released GBA.
I didn't and won't buy a new platform that requires me to lose my investment in the title's I've already purchased. Count me in the 10% Though I never bought a PSOne it is very important to me and my kids to be able to play the cheaper and older titles on the PSTwo.
I didn't invite the Nintedo64 into my house, but since it's here, it serves to remind me why I don't have a Nintendo GameCube. Not only does that box leave out the DVD player (a requirement I would think for any console today) but there was no potential for playing N64 games.
So the gamnecube still comes not into my house.
That's the patch cycle now right? once a month? Either the IIS plugin or some "bugfix" will contain a flaw that exposes the private key to anyone with a .net passport.
By that logic we should all just give up now. Heck we should have given up in 1998 because there's nobody willing to put any marketing into an OS and kernel that you can't own.
Who the fuck cares about Java anyway? More people use VB than will ever think about Java.
Who the fuck cares about Mozilla anyway? More people use IE than will ever think about Mozilla.
Who the fuck cares about Linux anyway? More people use Windows than will ever think about Linux.
Yo're right, everyone with a new idea or approach should just roll over and die now. It just ai't worth it.
The new era of web-enabled applications is available now and to date is not powered by Microsoft. Using technologies like Laszlo Systems' LPS you can hook a web-deployed desktop app up to any number of XML based web services. This is the whole point of Longhorn and XAML. M$ was scared of Netscape because it made Windows irrelevant, then frightened by Java for the same reason, now they're trying to grab this new space before it matures. Thankfully they're doing too little too late and this genie is out of the bottle. SVG and XUL are cool but won't be good enough in time to stop the juggernaut. .Net and Longhorn become totally irrelevant.
Laszlo has it working now, and the apps run in 98% of the computers and devices hooked to the internet today. All IBM needs to do is add the final piece of the software stack together with DB/2, WebSphere, Linux and the client (Laszlo) then both
NetBSD was ported to the GB, GBC and GBA as far back as 1992.So it's news when OpenBSD Catches up?
Happy New Year!
Gave her 3 boys and a Suburban.
:)
The Blazer wasn't big enough for her.
My wife likes it big, and I need not worry about my manhood or comparative sizes.... since you asked