But, they're not the future! If everyone said "Heck, let's use these old things, it works", we would have no technological progress at all. They WILL be as cheap as regular tracks, when the technology is given a few years to evolve.
Besides, maglev is proven technology. There's no secret that magnetic forces make things float. The same magnetic "push-and-pull" technique is used on many things that are considered safe - for instance rollercoasters.
Given the pollution of an airplane and that maglev trains are potentially as fast, there's no excuse for not considering maglev.
I believe that the world should not sit and watch Maglev train projects in China get scrapped. Personally, I think maglev trains could change the way we travel today. They are quiet, stable, and they run on electricity.
Of course, other things (like... trains) run on electricity, but with the potential speed of an airplane, I don't see why maglev trains shouldn't be a great victory for the environment.
This said, electricity isn't always environmentally safe. But the future holds many other ways of creating electrical energy from recyclable and healthy sources - wind, water, waves - and when they get more publicly accessibly, fuel cells (hydrogen). As of now, these cells are too expensive and pollutive to create in a large scale.
The progress that maglev trains or vacuum tunnel trains (also magnetic, I believe) create for the ways we transport ourselves today, is worth a lot, in my opinion. Therefor, my view is that the world should finance China in creating this. Not as a good deed, but as scientific collaboration in making maglev trains publicly accessible and, in the future, cheaper.
This might sound unreasonable, but what better place to start this is there than China - where they REALLY need to transport their masses quickly and reliably more than anywhere (except, possibly, India). Given time, this will gain us all.
All this is a bit unclear, but feel free to comment with your opinions.
Well, Maglev trains are potentially reaching the speed of an airplane. I'll take that as progress. And, it's quiet, and doesn't shake. Ever tried ordering coffee from a train kiosk? Yes, you get a full cup.
As an offtopic comment to that, Slashdot's "The Fine Print" note above the comments is completely invisible in Windows' (curse schools) antialiased fonts on this machine.
They cannot validate these mails with today's email system. It's just not possible, because whenever someone puts a yahoo address in the "From:" field, they do not nescessarily SEND through yahoo. It's just a nice message that tells you where to reply.
You cannot reuse a signed message. When using f.i. OpenPGP, a message will be signed using a key, a password, and the message itself. Change the message, and the signature is invalid.
There might be a chance to end up with the same signature, but the chance to end up with an advertising message that has the same signature as the previous legit one is... zero.
It goes a little something like this... Huh!
(insert stuff about mars sung by Zach de la Rocha or equivalent, though he is not a hip hop artist)
Uhm. I should stop being tired and get going.
Great fun, allows you to prepare for the day Earth goes under and we all move to Mars, and you can start taking 1$ a pop for every person who wants to know what time it is!
Hmm, would normal Earthling solar watches still work? Might set one out of business.
Being a Norwegian, I just read the interview. What he also says is, that "...there's no point in hunting us, because we're supporting Linux use and the Open Source community by that."
That is what I vaguely remember, but anyway, that is just nauseating to read. There's no excuse to break the GPL just because you like Linux.
What they also say, is that they will not open up their software. This because "their" player is what makes them unique.
If they get sued, and they loose, isn't the GPL stating that GPL code that is given out must be given out in the same medium as the binary? Like, you buy a CD, you get a source CD. You download, you get to download source code. Do they need to do firmware upgrades for every DVD player?;)
I think mplayer should stay in contact with various organisations like GNU and FSF and follow this case to the courtroom. Mplayer has their evidences clear, and an independant jury would probably take mplayers argument if Kiss deny to show source code to the court.
As it is based on the last stable version of Mandrake, 9.2, it is not. The next version that is now in development is alredy using 2.6, and that means that both the next Mandrake and MandrakeMove release will be 2.6.
I doubt there is any intention to use MandrakeMove as a server of any kind.
Yes, RedHat focuses on Linux for servers. But Mandrake has released both firewalls, server distros and cluster distros - rumour is that they are good. Browse Mandrake's main site for more.
NTFS is generally kernel stuff. Writing is, at least in 2.4, NOT recommended. The Linux-NTFS people say that the risk of failure is.. big.
But for 2.6 kernels, there's another world. The "new" NTFS drivers are better, and reads perfectly well. Quoting the Linux-NTFS website: The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
All in all, NTFS isn't reliable except for reading in 2.6 kernels. These NTFS drivers are in the kernel tree.
Mandrake has, during some version cycles, binned a lot of the bugs infesting Mandrake's semi-good releases from about 7.2 (when I started to get to know Mandrake) until 9.0. I am now running Mandrake 9.2, and, except for some rarities with the installation choosing the correct CDs, cannot say that there are any very remarkable bugs. The control center works great (to the extent that I am using it, which is little), and I think it's very understandable. Even my mom uses it out of the box.
In addition, if you sign up for MandrakeClub, you get a bunch of extra RPMs and commercial software. And, if you buy the boxed stuff, you get a lot of nice features like digital camera automounting (which pops up a desktop icon).
There is a QA, and it covers bug testing through Cooker (Mandrake development version). I've also noticed that they update the release ISOs when there are extra annoying bugs that might slip through.
All in all, Mandrake has matured while still keeping the user friendliness that they focus so much on. The releases, in my opinion, mostly look great. Configuration utilities ease with time, and I presume that in one or two major Mandrake releases (now for 10, might get to 11) we'll see a wonderful system that works for anyone.
As of the fonts, Mandrake is good at keeping this up to date. The fonts in Gnome and KDE are antialiased, and OpenOffice look good if you're using the "replacement" fonts for Windows fonts. If you have a windows install, Mandrake autogets these fonts and installs them.
Okokrim does not suffer from low to non existant computer skills. They used to do that, but several years ago they have reformed a lot of their ways of investigating and dealing with economical crime related to computers. The DVD-Jon case is not computer crime in this case, it is economical crime related to computers.
As the prosecutor in the case, its their duty to do their best to see Jon L. Johansen sentenced. They did, and had very good statements in the case. They lost, but did their job.
After all, government units does not have to be stupid just because. They were well prepared already before the DVD-Jon case was to be brought up.
Seems like the time to get a new pair of really small tweezers.
But wee, seriously, yes, this is cool. This is a great project for "young" people and such - I'll propose this to my group in the Norwegian Council for Young Scientists right away!
Great that someone really makes a framework for others like this, by giving people help to help themselves. Hopefully, we'll be seeing more stuff like this in the future.
I miss the LEGOish manual though.
This sounds very familiar. I run a mailserver that is marking stuff as spam, but not deleting it because there would be no trace of a false positive. This server is sending out mail for a bunch of mailing lists which unfortunately have been hunted down by spammers, so there's quite a load there.
Luckily for us, this is very generic spam, so spamassassin alone kills about 99.5% - but suddenly I found out that big blacklists that were used by corporate mailservers we might email through figured that WE were spamming, because we were sending out mail tagged as spam which some reporting mailserver tagged as spam as well, thereby enlisting my IP address to several blacklists.
Removing it? Doesn't work. I think I've tried to contact four, five, six different blacklist managers, and no positive answer. I guess AOL works the same way.
Not to mention the quality loss. I havent checked what quality they deliver at, but I cant possibly imagine that it isnt noticeable with a pair of quality headphones.
It takes me just as long to go get the real CD as it would take me to download and burn. Ive never believed in DRM music.
Anyway, I cant see how these suppliers dont see that the protection will fail to work pretty quickly. In the end, with a good digital interface on a soundcard, you can export a protected mp3 to whatever you want with a cable and no more hassle. As an artist myself, I would hate to see my music used as this.
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But, they're not the future! If everyone said "Heck, let's use these old things, it works", we would have no technological progress at all. They WILL be as cheap as regular tracks, when the technology is given a few years to evolve.
Besides, maglev is proven technology. There's no secret that magnetic forces make things float. The same magnetic "push-and-pull" technique is used on many things that are considered safe - for instance rollercoasters.
Given the pollution of an airplane and that maglev trains are potentially as fast, there's no excuse for not considering maglev.
I believe that the world should not sit and watch Maglev train projects in China get scrapped. Personally, I think maglev trains could change the way we travel today. They are quiet, stable, and they run on electricity.
Of course, other things (like... trains) run on electricity, but with the potential speed of an airplane, I don't see why maglev trains shouldn't be a great victory for the environment.
This said, electricity isn't always environmentally safe. But the future holds many other ways of creating electrical energy from recyclable and healthy sources - wind, water, waves - and when they get more publicly accessibly, fuel cells (hydrogen). As of now, these cells are too expensive and pollutive to create in a large scale.
The progress that maglev trains or vacuum tunnel trains (also magnetic, I believe) create for the ways we transport ourselves today, is worth a lot, in my opinion. Therefor, my view is that the world should finance China in creating this. Not as a good deed, but as scientific collaboration in making maglev trains publicly accessible and, in the future, cheaper.
This might sound unreasonable, but what better place to start this is there than China - where they REALLY need to transport their masses quickly and reliably more than anywhere (except, possibly, India). Given time, this will gain us all.
All this is a bit unclear, but feel free to comment with your opinions.
Well, Maglev trains are potentially reaching the speed of an airplane. I'll take that as progress. And, it's quiet, and doesn't shake. Ever tried ordering coffee from a train kiosk? Yes, you get a full cup.
I'm sorry, but YOU just made sure that the homepage of Star Trek Enterprises was slashdotted. And I've patented slashdotting!
As an offtopic comment to that, Slashdot's "The Fine Print" note above the comments is completely invisible in Windows' (curse schools) antialiased fonts on this machine.
They cannot validate these mails with today's email system. It's just not possible, because whenever someone puts a yahoo address in the "From:" field, they do not nescessarily SEND through yahoo. It's just a nice message that tells you where to reply.
You cannot reuse a signed message. When using f.i. OpenPGP, a message will be signed using a key, a password, and the message itself. Change the message, and the signature is invalid.
There might be a chance to end up with the same signature, but the chance to end up with an advertising message that has the same signature as the previous legit one is... zero.
Yeah. As the author says himself, "A trilogy of five books". At least the one I read :-)
It goes a little something like this... Huh! (insert stuff about mars sung by Zach de la Rocha or equivalent, though he is not a hip hop artist) Uhm. I should stop being tired and get going.
That's a ThinkGeek thing :D
Great fun, allows you to prepare for the day Earth goes under and we all move to Mars, and you can start taking 1$ a pop for every person who wants to know what time it is!
Hmm, would normal Earthling solar watches still work? Might set one out of business.
Being a Norwegian, I just read the interview. What he also says is, that "...there's no point in hunting us, because we're supporting Linux use and the Open Source community by that."
;)
That is what I vaguely remember, but anyway, that is just nauseating to read. There's no excuse to break the GPL just because you like Linux.
What they also say, is that they will not open up their software. This because "their" player is what makes them unique.
If they get sued, and they loose, isn't the GPL stating that GPL code that is given out must be given out in the same medium as the binary? Like, you buy a CD, you get a source CD. You download, you get to download source code. Do they need to do firmware upgrades for every DVD player?
I think mplayer should stay in contact with various organisations like GNU and FSF and follow this case to the courtroom. Mplayer has their evidences clear, and an independant jury would probably take mplayers argument if Kiss deny to show source code to the court.
Tell SCO! Tell SCO!
It should be easy to convince SCO that their code is in mplayer, too. Imagine, what a wonderful world, offenders suing offenders!
As it is based on the last stable version of Mandrake, 9.2, it is not. The next version that is now in development is alredy using 2.6, and that means that both the next Mandrake and MandrakeMove release will be 2.6.
I doubt there is any intention to use MandrakeMove as a server of any kind.
Yes, RedHat focuses on Linux for servers. But Mandrake has released both firewalls, server distros and cluster distros - rumour is that they are good. Browse Mandrake's main site for more.
NTFS is generally kernel stuff. Writing is, at least in 2.4, NOT recommended. The Linux-NTFS people say that the risk of failure is.. big.
But for 2.6 kernels, there's another world. The "new" NTFS drivers are better, and reads perfectly well. Quoting the Linux-NTFS website: The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
All in all, NTFS isn't reliable except for reading in 2.6 kernels. These NTFS drivers are in the kernel tree.
A good FAQ is at this place
FAT sucks, but works brilliantly for almost nothing. Like temp files.
If you're lucky, the Mandrake folks gave you the availability to write temp files to the USB key (boxed Mandrake Move). I don't know, though.
Sure, they've gotten better.
Mandrake has, during some version cycles, binned a lot of the bugs infesting Mandrake's semi-good releases from about 7.2 (when I started to get to know Mandrake) until 9.0. I am now running Mandrake 9.2, and, except for some rarities with the installation choosing the correct CDs, cannot say that there are any very remarkable bugs. The control center works great (to the extent that I am using it, which is little), and I think it's very understandable. Even my mom uses it out of the box.
In addition, if you sign up for MandrakeClub, you get a bunch of extra RPMs and commercial software. And, if you buy the boxed stuff, you get a lot of nice features like digital camera automounting (which pops up a desktop icon).
There is a QA, and it covers bug testing through Cooker (Mandrake development version). I've also noticed that they update the release ISOs when there are extra annoying bugs that might slip through.
All in all, Mandrake has matured while still keeping the user friendliness that they focus so much on. The releases, in my opinion, mostly look great. Configuration utilities ease with time, and I presume that in one or two major Mandrake releases (now for 10, might get to 11) we'll see a wonderful system that works for anyone.
As of the fonts, Mandrake is good at keeping this up to date. The fonts in Gnome and KDE are antialiased, and OpenOffice look good if you're using the "replacement" fonts for Windows fonts. If you have a windows install, Mandrake autogets these fonts and installs them.
Okokrim does not suffer from low to non existant computer skills. They used to do that, but several years ago they have reformed a lot of their ways of investigating and dealing with economical crime related to computers. The DVD-Jon case is not computer crime in this case, it is economical crime related to computers.
As the prosecutor in the case, its their duty to do their best to see Jon L. Johansen sentenced. They did, and had very good statements in the case. They lost, but did their job.
After all, government units does not have to be stupid just because. They were well prepared already before the DVD-Jon case was to be brought up.
Bug them for a diagram giving instructions on making ISA slots out of dilapidated copper and Scotch tape, then.
Seems like the time to get a new pair of really small tweezers. But wee, seriously, yes, this is cool. This is a great project for "young" people and such - I'll propose this to my group in the Norwegian Council for Young Scientists right away! Great that someone really makes a framework for others like this, by giving people help to help themselves. Hopefully, we'll be seeing more stuff like this in the future. I miss the LEGOish manual though.
This sounds very familiar. I run a mailserver that is marking stuff as spam, but not deleting it because there would be no trace of a false positive. This server is sending out mail for a bunch of mailing lists which unfortunately have been hunted down by spammers, so there's quite a load there. Luckily for us, this is very generic spam, so spamassassin alone kills about 99.5% - but suddenly I found out that big blacklists that were used by corporate mailservers we might email through figured that WE were spamming, because we were sending out mail tagged as spam which some reporting mailserver tagged as spam as well, thereby enlisting my IP address to several blacklists. Removing it? Doesn't work. I think I've tried to contact four, five, six different blacklist managers, and no positive answer. I guess AOL works the same way.
Not to mention the quality loss. I havent checked what quality they deliver at, but I cant possibly imagine that it isnt noticeable with a pair of quality headphones.
It takes me just as long to go get the real CD as it would take me to download and burn. Ive never believed in DRM music.
Anyway, I cant see how these suppliers dont see that the protection will fail to work pretty quickly. In the end, with a good digital interface on a soundcard, you can export a protected mp3 to whatever you want with a cable and no more hassle. As an artist myself, I would hate to see my music used as this.