"Tossing code into the wild and hoping that somebody, somewhere, might make your customers happy is a very fast way to not be in business anymore."
In that logic, if a company doesn't toss code in the wild OR support binary drivers means it's FOR SURE NEVER to make a customer on that platform happy. In your logic, that also means it must be a lightspeed way to not be in business anymore.
Yet everyone's still in business? There goes that theory!
" I'm not concerned about the RIAA making money. Screw them. I'm thinking about all the other people involved in making that music/movie. Cameramen, makeup artists, sound engineers, editors.
Who pays them, if no one pays for the product?"
I don't know. Perhaps if the movie producers would choose to break FREE of the RIAA/MPAA and have Universal/MGM/whoever be the only ones who they deal with -- they'd have more money overall without having to pay the **AA's cut.
" The latter was advertised incessantly on niche cable channels like Comedy Central and Sci-Fi channel. Outside of there I don't recall seeing much in the way of advertising.
The advertising and marketing really did suck all the way around."
They said they spent 15 million on marketing alone. I wonder where the money went.
"I don't see why editing your bio, espcially to correct errors, would be such a terrible crime worthy of news"
Perhaps because Whales was in the hardcore porno industry before his work with Wikipedia, and the article referended his past in the industry with the facts. Whales didn't seem to like the bio including his work in the porno industry and so he deleted those portion(s).
He owned several very big porno websites and was a porn cameraman for several years.
He doesn't want this information to be let out of the bag, so he's deleting and censoring it.
"Paul also had reservations regarding 'the fragmentation seen in the open source world, such as the number of different Linux distributions and end user support nightmare entailed from that situation.'""
Beets having NO user support when the company goes belly up.
"imagine if your house was broken into and a large amount of valuables stolen, but the police wouldn't come out to look at it because you didn't donate enough to the last election or you weren't in a high enough tax bracket."
Seems like over here. Every weekend somebody is coming along breaking out windows/windshields in cars on our street. It's been happening for months, and the cops still have yet to do anything. I can bet you if they were doing it in Lucas's neighborhood those crooks would be caught likity quick.
"The general consensus was that he was afraid discounted tickets would affect the opening record he desperately wanted to set. Greedy bastard. We ponied up the cash to see that piece of trash at the regular price, though."
SO, why'd you support his greed by continuing to see it?
" Does anyone know if the automated rovers/spacecraft use a commercial or OSS OS? Or does NASA roll their own? -j3rry"
The mars global surveyor (the oldest one launched) is running a modified version of WIN95 from what I've been told in the past.
The newer rovers use an operating system called VXWORKS made by windriver. VXWORKS is kind of like a single-user based UNIX real time operating system (however, it's closed source and proprietary)
"In Australia we have the right to reverse engineer for interoperability, regardless of whether or not we have entered into a contract that says we won't."
That's because Austrailia is a lot different from Corporate America. Where do you think the term "Corporate America" came from?
Austrailia's government isn't in the coat pocket of the countries corporations [yet].
"For the journey, build the spacecraft out of very, very thick material? Not some exotic material, just a thick layer of rock would suffice, yes?"
It's not thick that matters here... it's density. You need a very very dense substance to slow radiation particles down enough to stop them within your "shielding".
Lead and Gold are the two most dense objects we have available to us on Earth.
Rocks, and other materials are somewhat porous on the inside (aka not very dense) especially lava rock. Diamond is somewhat dense, I think, but it ranks up there with Gold, due to its materialistic value.
If somebody could create an element that wasn't radioactive, yet was denser than lead or gold -- yet light like titanium -- we'd be getting somewhere.
"Getting rid of megawatts of waste heat in space is much more difficult. You can't conduct it away, so it needs to be radiated, which is much less efficient."
How do they do it on submarines?
Space is very cold, shut off the heaters and you'll freeze to death after all the heat gets radiated out of the living quarters.
If you put the "heatsink" somewhere outside of the part of the spaceship that is heated, then you would have your heat that can be "conducted away"
Actually, that would only stop the weaker radiation particles. Alpha and beta particles would be blocked, however some gamma particles could get through.
Here's a lead vest around somebodys body:
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If Gamma particles get through that first lead plate and are slowed down enough while they travel to the back part of the vest then it would be a game of pingpong. Wherever our peice of radiation decided to stop would end up in our body. That's a bad idea.
I think they'd also have to go through the Van Allen radiation belts which could also be a concern. Conspiracy theorists have argued that space travel to the moon was impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. In practice, even at the peak of the belts, one could live for several months without receiving a lethal dose.
Apollo had timed things however to make it accross while radiation was at a minimum. However, if they'd be on such a long trip -- timing will have to be a lot more precise.
Short of hauling up lead plates, I don't know what they'll do.
It's called horrible web design. Couldn't have taken 2 seconds to run it through the W3C checker? What type of idiot uses character entity codes without a semicolon after it anyways? (e.g. )
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
-- Benjamin Franklin
Seems like they knew what they were talking about. Politicians just don't say things like that now days.
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After reading the article it says that it'll be like the old rockets we used in the 60's to go to the moon -- basically disposable shuttles where nothing but a pyramid tip thing comes back home.
I hereby quote the article: " Rather than gliding back to Earth, they would deploy parachutes and land on the ground in the Western United States."
Seems like a huge waste of money if 90% of the craft can't be used again.
I agree with you 100% vandan. America NEEDS to get its priorities straight.
If NASA could even have months worth of the money going to the war, then they'd probably be able to redesign the entire shuttle as a luxury line shuttle.
I'd mod you up, but I had to reply to say thats a great idea, both of them.
I've always suggested that they put some hard plastic around the foam. Just some hard plastic. Plastic won't "snap" off if it is reinforced and made with high enough quality control.
As for the protection for the heat tiles, they could use something like heavy fiberglass which would protect them from falling debris, and then melt during re-entry and the heat tiles would take over. (There would be boiling residue from the fiberglass, but it would work!)
Any problems with this idea? Honestly, where's the creativity?
"This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher, and will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera"
Well, if a webmaster doesn't know about other browsers -- then they are really not a very good webmaster are they?
I think you're right. If kids didn't see that material eventually then they'd end up getting pregnant.
Let's not educate our kids about what the sexual body parts are, or tell them if they're going to have sex wear a condom. Lets let them learn this all on our own, and let some 12 year old boy come to our house and do it with out 11 year old girl who knows nothing about sex, let alone condoms. Then we have these insanely young girls getting pregnant. That is the problem when kids aren't sexually educated.
" was more powerful than most minicomputers of the day. The researchers at PARC had since become leery of outsiders, and stopped giving tours. Steve Jobs, convinced that the technology at PARC could help Apple usher in the eighties, offered Xerox a killer deal. Apple, which was still privately owned at the time, would allow Xerox to invest $1 million, which was sure to soar in value when the company went public in 1981 for two guided tours of PARC's technology. Xerox happily accepted, and gave Steve and a team of engineers from the Lisa project a tour of the technologies at PARC.
Steve Jobs (who took only Bill Atkinson along on his first visit), who had a rather limited understanding of technology, was most impressed by the graphical interface he saw running on the Alto. The interface was nothing like today's desktop based interfaces, but was a huge jump forward from the command line interfaces used everywhere else. When the engineers returned they had a vision of what they wanted in the Lisa project. The Apple chairman was so impressed that he interrupted a demo given by Larry Tesler asking him why nothing was being done with the technology. For the second visit, Jobs brought along several members of the Lisa project, and was given a much more technical demonstration. The other engineers who went on the second visit, who were briefed by Jef Raskin before their visit, were equally impressed.
The Apple engineers were not the only ones to be impressed by the visit, the researchers at Xerox, long discouraged by Xerox's inability to release a product based on the technology developed at PARC, were impressed by Apple's seeming willingness to implement advanced technologies in their products.
The Lisa project changed dramatically. No longer was it to be a mere hardware upgrade to the Apple II line, the new focus of the Lisa project was software. The team wanted to implement all of the innovations they saw at PARC."
It's not really stealing, but rather just "implimenting" someone elses innovations.
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"Tossing code into the wild and hoping that somebody, somewhere, might make your customers happy is a very fast way to not be in business anymore."
In that logic, if a company doesn't toss code in the wild OR support binary drivers means it's FOR SURE NEVER to make a customer on that platform happy. In your logic, that also means it must be a lightspeed way to not be in business anymore.
Yet everyone's still in business? There goes that theory!
"
I'm not concerned about the RIAA making money. Screw them. I'm thinking about all the other people involved in making that music/movie. Cameramen, makeup artists, sound engineers, editors.
Who pays them, if no one pays for the product?"
I don't know. Perhaps if the movie producers would choose to break FREE of the RIAA/MPAA and have Universal/MGM/whoever be the only ones who they deal with -- they'd have more money overall without having to pay the **AA's cut.
"
The latter was advertised incessantly on niche cable channels like Comedy Central and Sci-Fi channel. Outside of there I don't recall seeing much in the way of advertising.
The advertising and marketing really did suck all the way around."
They said they spent 15 million on marketing alone. I wonder where the money went.
"I don't see why editing your bio, espcially to correct errors, would be such a terrible crime worthy of news"
Perhaps because Whales was in the hardcore porno industry before his work with Wikipedia, and the article referended his past in the industry with the facts. Whales didn't seem to like the bio including his work in the porno industry and so he deleted those portion(s).
He owned several very big porno websites and was a porn cameraman for several years.
He doesn't want this information to be let out of the bag, so he's deleting and censoring it.
"Paul also had reservations regarding 'the fragmentation seen in the open source world, such as the number of different Linux distributions and end user support nightmare entailed from that situation.'""
Beets having NO user support when the company goes belly up.
" Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many?"
Magazines shouldn't have any. If a magazine costs 20 bucks a month, why should they have to use ads?
"imagine if your house was broken into and a large amount of valuables stolen, but the police wouldn't come out to look at it because you didn't donate enough to the last election or you weren't in a high enough tax bracket."
Seems like over here. Every weekend somebody is coming along breaking out windows/windshields in cars on our street. It's been happening for months, and the cops still have yet to do anything. I can bet you if they were doing it in Lucas's neighborhood those crooks would be caught likity quick.
"The general consensus was that he was afraid discounted tickets would affect the opening record he desperately wanted to set. Greedy bastard. We ponied up the cash to see that piece of trash at the regular price, though."
SO, why'd you support his greed by continuing to see it?
No, he meant for Windows. ;]
Haha, guess he's stuck with WINvnc
" Does anyone know if the automated rovers/spacecraft use a commercial or OSS OS? Or does NASA roll their own? -j3rry"
g ies/os/vxworks5/
The mars global surveyor (the oldest one launched) is running a modified version of WIN95 from what I've been told in the past.
The newer rovers use an operating system called VXWORKS made by windriver. VXWORKS is kind of like a single-user based UNIX real time operating system (however, it's closed source and proprietary)
Here's the page for VXWORKS:
http://www.windriver.com/products/device_technolo
"In Australia we have the right to reverse engineer for interoperability, regardless of whether or not we have entered into a contract that says we won't."
That's because Austrailia is a lot different from Corporate America. Where do you think the term "Corporate America" came from?
Austrailia's government isn't in the coat pocket of the countries corporations [yet].
" out of interest what exactly was the peice of safety equipment?"
It part of the seatbelt. He only buckled one strap, and the other strap (that cris-crosses the first one) he refused to latch.
I never really paid for it, I donated him 20 bucks for it. I thought it'd be nice to give back what the author gave me.
"For the journey, build the spacecraft out of very, very thick material? Not some exotic material, just a thick layer of rock would suffice, yes?"
It's not thick that matters here... it's density. You need a very very dense substance to slow radiation particles down enough to stop them within your "shielding".
Lead and Gold are the two most dense objects we have available to us on Earth.
Rocks, and other materials are somewhat porous on the inside (aka not very dense) especially lava rock. Diamond is somewhat dense, I think, but it ranks up there with Gold, due to its materialistic value.
If somebody could create an element that wasn't radioactive, yet was denser than lead or gold -- yet light like titanium -- we'd be getting somewhere.
"Getting rid of megawatts of waste heat in space is much more difficult. You can't conduct it away, so it needs to be radiated, which is much less efficient."
How do they do it on submarines?
Space is very cold, shut off the heaters and you'll freeze to death after all the heat gets radiated out of the living quarters.
If you put the "heatsink" somewhere outside of the part of the spaceship that is heated, then you would have your heat that can be "conducted away"
Actually, that would only stop the weaker radiation particles. Alpha and beta particles would be blocked, however some gamma particles could get through.
Here's a lead vest around somebodys body:
| |
| |
| |
If Gamma particles get through that first lead plate and are slowed down enough while they travel to the back part of the vest then it would be a game of pingpong. Wherever our peice of radiation decided to stop would end up in our body. That's a bad idea.
We've known this for quite a while.
I think they'd also have to go through the Van Allen radiation belts which could also be a concern. Conspiracy theorists have argued that space travel to the moon was impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. In practice, even at the peak of the belts, one could live for several months without receiving a lethal dose.
Apollo had timed things however to make it accross while radiation was at a minimum. However, if they'd be on such a long trip -- timing will have to be a lot more precise.
Short of hauling up lead plates, I don't know what they'll do.
It's called horrible web design. Couldn't have taken 2 seconds to run it through the W3C checker? What type of idiot uses character entity codes without a semicolon after it anyways? (e.g. )
Man, we learned that in high school.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
-- Benjamin Franklin
Seems like they knew what they were talking about. Politicians just don't say things like that now days.
After reading the article it says that it'll be like the old rockets we used in the 60's to go to the moon -- basically disposable shuttles where nothing but a pyramid tip thing comes back home.
I hereby quote the article: " Rather than gliding back to Earth, they would deploy parachutes and land on the ground in the Western United States."
Seems like a huge waste of money if 90% of the craft can't be used again.
I agree with you 100% vandan. America NEEDS to get its priorities straight.
If NASA could even have months worth of the money going to the war, then they'd probably be able to redesign the entire shuttle as a luxury line shuttle.
I'd mod you up, but I had to reply to say thats a great idea, both of them.
I've always suggested that they put some hard plastic around the foam. Just some hard plastic. Plastic won't "snap" off if it is reinforced and made with high enough quality control.
As for the protection for the heat tiles, they could use something like heavy fiberglass which would protect them from falling debris, and then melt during re-entry and the heat tiles would take over. (There would be boiling residue from the fiberglass, but it would work!)
Any problems with this idea? Honestly, where's the creativity?
"This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher, and will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera"
Well, if a webmaster doesn't know about other browsers -- then they are really not a very good webmaster are they?
I think you're right. If kids didn't see that material eventually then they'd end up getting pregnant.
Let's not educate our kids about what the sexual body parts are, or tell them if they're going to have sex wear a condom. Lets let them learn this all on our own, and let some 12 year old boy come to our house and do it with out 11 year old girl who knows nothing about sex, let alone condoms. Then we have these insanely young girls getting pregnant. That is the problem when kids aren't sexually educated.
" was more powerful than most minicomputers of the day. The researchers at PARC had since become leery of outsiders, and stopped giving tours. Steve Jobs, convinced that the technology at PARC could help Apple usher in the eighties, offered Xerox a killer deal. Apple, which was still privately owned at the time, would allow Xerox to invest $1 million, which was sure to soar in value when the company went public in 1981 for two guided tours of PARC's technology. Xerox happily accepted, and gave Steve and a team of engineers from the Lisa project a tour of the technologies at PARC.
Steve Jobs (who took only Bill Atkinson along on his first visit), who had a rather limited understanding of technology, was most impressed by the graphical interface he saw running on the Alto. The interface was nothing like today's desktop based interfaces, but was a huge jump forward from the command line interfaces used everywhere else. When the engineers returned they had a vision of what they wanted in the Lisa project. The Apple chairman was so impressed that he interrupted a demo given by Larry Tesler asking him why nothing was being done with the technology. For the second visit, Jobs brought along several members of the Lisa project, and was given a much more technical demonstration. The other engineers who went on the second visit, who were briefed by Jef Raskin before their visit, were equally impressed.
The Apple engineers were not the only ones to be impressed by the visit, the researchers at Xerox, long discouraged by Xerox's inability to release a product based on the technology developed at PARC, were impressed by Apple's seeming willingness to implement advanced technologies in their products.
The Lisa project changed dramatically. No longer was it to be a mere hardware upgrade to the Apple II line, the new focus of the Lisa project was software. The team wanted to implement all of the innovations they saw at PARC."
It's not really stealing, but rather just "implimenting" someone elses innovations.