I expected the list to be some odd ball shareware or limited dist stuff. Or as MS spun it, P2P apps and the like.
Bzzzzttt!! Wrong.(as usual)
There's some Major stuff there from BIG vendors.
As a semi-trained help desk monkey w/4k users and about 1500 machines, I'd say that if anyone allows this to be rolled out at a site for more than 100 users, they're going to deserve that angry mob at the door.
I know Nat Semiconductor does. They sank ALOT of cash into the concept in the "early" PC era.
It worked. It worked well. Capable of storing data w/no power. It was going to replace disk drives an system memory.
But while it worked, it worked not as well as the SDRAM of the day or the less that 1 gig drives that were common then.
They never got close enough to breaking the price/performance/capacity "wall" that the others did. The ecomony of scale they hoped for never came through.
I'm not sure, but it might have some uses still as NVRAM (or might be renamed flash memory for all I know)
However, this one *seems* to be human error at this point. In x days, it may turn out to be otherwise.
Either way, it sux that the kid died.
All that aside, I remember from the early Trans-Australia or whatever the solar race was, they made sure that the cars showed some chance of surviving being passed by the road-trains. And they were still worried that the air displaced by these semis would cause problems for the tiny solar cars.
As to the wonderful world of hybrid cars, why are they charging 20+k$ for a car that gets worse fuel mileage than a 1980 Volkswagen diesel Rabbit???
Hummers(schoolbus)? I think owning one must be punishment enough. Maint costs on those things are horrific and I can imagine what it costs to insure one here in New Jersey.
I'd rather have my late lamented 1991 Mistubishi pickup than a Hummer(schoolbus) or for *REAL* impractical offroading http://www.unimog.net/
Opps!
They're all out.
Apples and oranges might be a good analogy here.
Altho logic and lawyers do seem to do the Oil and Water trick quite well.
{set cliche mode/OFF}
Re:Atlantis tragedy made economicly possible?...
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Soyuz To The Moon?
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All things considered, look at the accidents/fatality stats per mile traveled and I'd still feel safer in a shuttle than driving to work in New Jersey.
The "Zero Risk World" that many of the "warm and fuzzy" folks insist on is NEVER going to exist and they cannot stand that. As a result, they seem to insist even more fervently making it happen.
To quote Verizon " Verizon Online DSL Is Not Available" when my phone number is plugged in.
Fiber was run down my street 4 years ago and remains as accessable now as it was 5 years ago.
DSL is a vague 80's concept that has had "Great Promise" for all that time with almost no delivery. Anyone remember Popular Electronics?
Comcast took 4 years of "Coming Soon" and I knew it was online before the account reps did.
Comcast's initial success in this area of internet access nearly crushed it and did crush its zombie spawn/mate/??? @Home.
These firms seem to some survive despite thier best efforts not to. Verizon wanted to dump the "small" T1's in this area of NJ (AC-ish) just a few years ago. The co I work for promptly began looking for microwave links as a response.
Long term planning/plans? Don't expect that from any big biz today, they lack the ability to plan 90 days ahead, let alone a few years for a rollout.
On how the author makes the jump from reporting "incidents" and "accidents" (no relation to the strike, no NY union would ever do such things(cough)) to bio-weapons research w/o no real link and then cites works of fiction as reference.
Most of which has nothing to do w/the issue that there may be serious safety concerns due to some goofball's actions. 3x backup systems don't fail w/o a good reason.
Granted that XP's alot more stable than the funk nasty that was the prev versions of Windows, I still prefer the un-bloat that *nix/linux tends to bring to the table.
I'd imagine that's a pretty universal feeling, wanting to save HD space for "important" stuff like games, tunes and the Swedish Volleyball Team.
Floppy, USB and CD's are ALL disabled on some of our "sensitive" machines here.
It a user wants to access them, they have to call us at the helpdesk to send a tech who will enable the device till they're done and then disable it before leaving.
More fun than a Farnsworth fusor w/a fuel feed.
Now the really neat part would be if it can be overdriven. Anyone remember the "oopsies" that may or may not have happened back when cold fusion 1st appeared.
Hey!! Y'all watch this!! Nuke in a jar!
Some rehashing of some older concept weapons. I did get a kick out of the supposed "vulnerability" of space based weapons the writer was going for. I bailed on the article at that point.
Extend "rules" of combat to space, you attack my base/fleet/airplane/cheese store, I attack you.
What a major leap of thought...Or not.
Was that the ver of Knoppix I tried wouldn't play nice w/the multiple network connections I had on my nforce2 based system.
Prob something w/nvidia(MSI)'s onboard network drivers. Worked GREAT on the venerable old P3 450 Gateway box I tried it on tho.
Going against/. traditions, I sometimes read the atricle & then the comments.
Ouch. All I got from the article was a profound sense of "Huh? That makes no sense."
Reading the comments made me feel better (grin)
Slashdot Mirror
And the site is still /.'ed into the ground
Even by MS stardards.
I expected the list to be some odd ball shareware or limited dist stuff. Or as MS spun it, P2P apps and the like.
Bzzzzttt!! Wrong.(as usual)
There's some Major stuff there from BIG vendors.
As a semi-trained help desk monkey w/4k users and about 1500 machines, I'd say that if anyone allows this to be rolled out at a site for more than 100 users, they're going to deserve that angry mob at the door.
Anyone remember magnetic bubble memory?
I know Nat Semiconductor does. They sank ALOT of cash into the concept in the "early" PC era.
It worked. It worked well. Capable of storing data w/no power. It was going to replace disk drives an system memory.
But while it worked, it worked not as well as the SDRAM of the day or the less that 1 gig drives that were common then.
They never got close enough to breaking the price/performance/capacity "wall" that the others did. The ecomony of scale they hoped for never came through.
I'm not sure, but it might have some uses still as NVRAM (or might be renamed flash memory for all I know)
And some are preventable.
However, this one *seems* to be human error at this point. In x days, it may turn out to be otherwise.
Either way, it sux that the kid died.
All that aside, I remember from the early Trans-Australia or whatever the solar race was, they made sure that the cars showed some chance of surviving being passed by the road-trains. And they were still worried that the air displaced by these semis would cause problems for the tiny solar cars.
As to the wonderful world of hybrid cars, why are they charging 20+k$ for a car that gets worse fuel mileage than a 1980 Volkswagen diesel Rabbit???
Hummers(schoolbus)? I think owning one must be punishment enough. Maint costs on those things are horrific and I can imagine what it costs to insure one here in New Jersey.
I'd rather have my late lamented 1991 Mistubishi pickup than a Hummer(schoolbus) or for *REAL* impractical offroading http://www.unimog.net/
From their website:
/. needs $$, they can always stress test servers for a nominal fee)
"Too many users... blah blah blah
Probable cause: http://www.slashdot.org
Try again in a few seconds...
-xian@idsoftware.com"
(if
Considering the way UAV's usually end up with hard points that are occupied with interesting things, I wonder if wireless is enabled.
There's other ways to do it, but you run where the $$ tells you to on projects like this.
Opps! They're all out. Apples and oranges might be a good analogy here. Altho logic and lawyers do seem to do the Oil and Water trick quite well. {set cliche mode /OFF}
All things considered, look at the accidents/fatality stats per mile traveled and I'd still feel safer in a shuttle than driving to work in New Jersey.
The "Zero Risk World" that many of the "warm and fuzzy" folks insist on is NEVER going to exist and they cannot stand that. As a result, they seem to insist even more fervently making it happen.
A few random grouchy points...
To quote Verizon " Verizon Online DSL Is Not Available" when my phone number is plugged in.
Fiber was run down my street 4 years ago and remains as accessable now as it was 5 years ago.
DSL is a vague 80's concept that has had "Great Promise" for all that time with almost no delivery. Anyone remember Popular Electronics?
Comcast took 4 years of "Coming Soon" and I knew it was online before the account reps did.
Comcast's initial success in this area of internet access nearly crushed it and did crush its zombie spawn/mate/??? @Home.
These firms seem to some survive despite thier best efforts not to. Verizon wanted to dump the "small" T1's in this area of NJ (AC-ish) just a few years ago. The co I work for promptly began looking for microwave links as a response.
Long term planning/plans? Don't expect that from any big biz today, they lack the ability to plan 90 days ahead, let alone a few years for a rollout.
Is to /. the site.
Yep, it's refusing connections as of 5 mins ago
Anyone remember James Blish?
It's been a VERY long time since I read his one collection of short stories about the transformed "humans" and such.
A: Lucas also makes refrigerators.
I never knew they partnered w/IBM in the UK
Remember, Every Lucas Switch Has 3 Positions
1. Off
2. Dim
3. Flicker
All Hail Lucas Prince of Darkness!!
(sorry, too much time spent w/a friends Triumph 750)
One of the few /. articles I can honestly say that I gave up on reading.
By the time the 5th or 6th "socially responsible" was dropped, I bailed. Was there a point in there?
I hope they recycled those electrons.
Tnuctipun, now there's a name I'd forgoten.
Discovers of the Slavers and co-losers of the Slaver-Tnuctipun War of a billion years ago.
On how the author makes the jump from reporting "incidents" and "accidents" (no relation to the strike, no NY union would ever do such things(cough)) to bio-weapons research w/o no real link and then cites works of fiction as reference.
Most of which has nothing to do w/the issue that there may be serious safety concerns due to some goofball's actions. 3x backup systems don't fail w/o a good reason.
Rutan and Scaled are prob the Ultimate Gargage Engineers. He's done stuff that "experts" called impossible for years.
/.ed)
The "early" kit planes he designed are still works of "art".
(bad news, the site is
Granted that XP's alot more stable than the funk nasty that was the prev versions of Windows, I still prefer the un-bloat that *nix/linux tends to bring to the table.
I'd imagine that's a pretty universal feeling, wanting to save HD space for "important" stuff like games, tunes and the Swedish Volleyball Team.
I for one welcome our post impact bronze age overlords.
Whatever happened to the time honored ways of skinning and salting? Or at least a nice cheerful severing of a hand.
Floppy, USB and CD's are ALL disabled on some of our "sensitive" machines here. It a user wants to access them, they have to call us at the helpdesk to send a tech who will enable the device till they're done and then disable it before leaving.
More fun than a Farnsworth fusor w/a fuel feed. Now the really neat part would be if it can be overdriven. Anyone remember the "oopsies" that may or may not have happened back when cold fusion 1st appeared. Hey!! Y'all watch this!! Nuke in a jar!
Some rehashing of some older concept weapons. I did get a kick out of the supposed "vulnerability" of space based weapons the writer was going for. I bailed on the article at that point. Extend "rules" of combat to space, you attack my base/fleet/airplane/cheese store, I attack you. What a major leap of thought...Or not.
Was that the ver of Knoppix I tried wouldn't play nice w/the multiple network connections I had on my nforce2 based system. Prob something w/nvidia(MSI)'s onboard network drivers. Worked GREAT on the venerable old P3 450 Gateway box I tried it on tho.
Going against /. traditions, I sometimes read the atricle & then the comments.
Ouch. All I got from the article was a profound sense of "Huh? That makes no sense."
Reading the comments made me feel better (grin)
After several billion (insert currency of choice) have been spent, some nut will finally get a Farnsworth fusor running with a fuel feed.