My brother is out of the country. He prefers skype but his internet connection sucks. Rarely were we able to have a complete conversation and when we were, we constantly had to stop, start, and restate what was just said before the packet loss storm hit. I finally got him to try mumble. Despite using twice the bandwidth, providing vastly superior voice quality, thanks to the ability to force TCP and tweak additional network settings, we're now always able to have a complete conversation without any interruptions. And even though its using TCP, very rarely do we suffer the Max Headroom effect.
While mumble doesn't allow for video, skype isn't even competitive with mumble for voice services. And if we really needed to, we could easily use less bandwidth than skype for comparable voice quality. The fact mumble provides for so many network and audio tweaks makes it all the better.
Seriously, aside from PBX interchange, who gives a shit about skype in the first place. Its not like there are not tons of other solutions - almost all of which are superior.
Hell, last time I shopped phone minutes, google talk's rates were HALF that of skype's. Seriously, fuck skype!
3 - Proliferation - Ya, we're clearly stopping openly-hostile, fundamentalist Iran from building nuclear power plants. That's totally happening. If you call Stuxnet on this, you're crazier than Ahmadinejad.
Not entirely true. We don't have a problem with them having nuclear plants. We have a problem with them refining nuclear fuel. There is a huge difference. The US, Russia, and France, have all offered extremely cost effective fuel delivery and disposal solutions to Iran. They don't want it because it means they can't refine nuclear weapon grade fuels.
Nuclear power isn't a problem. Nuclear fuel is. It just so happens, the details of Iran's fuel refine is also the best path for nuclear weapons grade fuel. This is why everyone is sure, contrary to Iran's objections, they absolutely intend to develop nuclear weapons....if they are not already doing so.
That gives us only 20 years more to hold out until we solve the fusion break-even problem.
The problem with fusion, we are hundreds of years from having a viable solution, short of many, massive breakthroughs. Breakeven is one of five or six required breakthroughs of even technological significance. It is pure fantasy to say we are anywhere near twenty years from fusion power. And likely, its fantasy to say we are twenty years from breakeven.
If we have fusion power in less than two hundred years, several technological miracles have occurred. That's reality. Anyone who says otherwise is looking for a grant or hoping to sell you a bridge.
5 - Solar and wind production in the US - At the APPA conference in Nashville this spring, one of the foremost investors in "renewable" energy in the country outright stated that they would have put absolutely nothing into solar/wind/geothermal if they didn't receive federal grants for it. It'd've simply've been a waste of time and money. Federal support is the only reason we have anything like this project.
That's not surprising at all considering the US tax payers have been paying for infrastructure support and maintenance and have received little to none of what has already been paid for. The seem companies are now waiting in line for a second handout, in the neighborhood of a hundreds of billions of dollars, to fix everything they've already been paid for.
There are literally cities in the US who have less power quality than many second world countries. Power reliability and general availability has been on a steady decline since the early 80's with *every* indication things will continue to decline. The power companies are literally, at tax payer and utility payer expense, paid to destroy power infrastructure while concurrently paid to do the exact opposite.
If the government does not hold these companies accountable, literally, in the next forty to sixty years, the US will become a second world country. Or more likely, the US tax payer will be charged a second time to bail out these companies, for perform the work we've all already paid for.
I honestly don't know much about the specifics of this project, but what you're describing is actually extremely common. Accordingly, you need to prove how what you're describing is so abnormal, to justify such a position.
Thus far, it sounds like a sparsely funded project which seems to be steadily moving forward on the merits of the design and the technical advancements which are required to justify progression of the project.
Realistically, sudden advancement of the project knowing full well the engines represent a massive technological hurdle, would flag a money sink. As is, unless you can indicate other reasons, it sounds like its progressing at the speed of dependent technology - which sounds like the exact opposite of a money sink.
From what I learned in physics class, the cheapest way to get through the thick atmosphere is to go straight up.
That's only true for conventional rockets. The longer you remain in the lower atmosphere, you more rocket fuel you must carry. The more fuel you must carry, the larger the rocket you require. The larger the rocket you require, the larger the engine. The larger the engine, the more fuel you must carry. This is a nasty spiral simply because you obtain 100% of your lift from thrust.
With the skylon design, you are obtain a lot of your lift - from lift. Its only after you're passed through the lower atmosphere, where you don't get much lift and where you now need an oxydizer for your fuel, that you need to start a rocket engine. Thusly, they've side step a massive problem with traditional rockets.
Furthermore, its the first stage on traditional rockets which requires the most fuel to obtain orbital velocities. By using a plane's features, a massive weight burden (and associated size) is removed from the design.
Certainly nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism but what you're offering as a negative is actually a resounding positive. Basically you're saying, a well researched and investigated design is a really, really bad idea. That's ignorant. You seem to be under the impression that design engineering and review is free. That's ignorant too.
More power to them if they can build it though. The real first test will come when they're supposed to actually build a test engine this summer. Deliver something to me in the real world that actually works, and you'll get my attention.
This has been under active research and development for some time now. They are far from alone in understanding current limitations or in their desire to address it by creating a hybrid engine design.
Again, skepticism is good and all, but contrary to the tone of your post, you've resoundingly confirmed they are working hard and following a good path.
"Cisco does not operate networks in China or elsewhere, nor does Cisco customize our products in any way that would facilitate censorship or repression," the representative said in a statement, adding that the company sells the same equipment in China that it sells in other nations in compliance with U.S. government regulations."
Providing consulting services which basically implement and possibly operate is not the same thing as officially "operating a network." I suspect they did exactly that as consulting services are big bucks for Cisco. For Cisco, their line item and contract probably says, "Consulting", but that likely included operation oversight, training, configuration, and assistance in tracking. This would be the standard expectations of many consulting gigs. I don't know why China would be any different.
See, that's the problem. You're a selfish, self entitled idiot. That's the only problem here in this discussion.
You're argument boils down to, everyone else's experience must suffer and frequently become unusable so you can download something a second or two faster. That's stupid. That's selfish. That's idiotic. And the simple fact is, its non-discriminatory. When you require interactive services, you get the same quality of service.
Nobody besides the government denies the existence of Area 51.
That's a myth. It used to be true but hasn't been for a very long time now. Their comments these days are typically, "no comment." The simple fact is, the government has officially acknowledged and admitted area 51 exists. The fact is even part of official court records.
Far too many confuse redaction policy with official status. Officially, area 51 exists. Policy, on the other hand, requires all references be redacted.
Exactly. You can always tell when you've discovered a moron, and idiot, and a downright knuckle-dragger, because they immediately equate all traffic shaping as bad. In fact, traffic shaping is in wide use and is generally a good thing.
Traffic shaping frequently means your SSH session stays fast and responsive despite massive FTP downloads elsewhere. It means your games remain responsive and fun despite your neighbor stealing movies over the next several weeks. It means your HTML is delivered quickly, allowing you to start reading the article while the images, and worse, ads, are still downloaded. It means VOIP with your family in another country remains a high quality experience despite your douche bag neighbor stealing ten movies via bit torrent and complaining about you having the nerve to communicate with family while he's stealing shit.
I don't understand why so many people, when given good content for free, moan that it is not in the format they prefer. Is it too much to ask that they pony up for the print version, or make a modicum of effort to convert the content if they so desire?
Of course it is too much to ask. Far too many on slashdot truly believe they are entitled to anything they want, for free, and if you fail to provide exactly what they demand, for free, you're a piece of crap.
Far too many suffer from self delusion and a massive sense of self entitlement.
I'm sure this post will be troll moderated, but it doesn't change the fact its true.
Says who? You think cellular networks predicted people streaming Netflix on cell phones?
You mean like what has been advertised on television since 3G services were turned on around the world? Naw...there's no way they could have known people would use the exact service they claimed to be offering.
It is in the real world. You see, when you purchase a good in one state and it travels to another state for delivery, the real world calls that an "interstate transaction." Period. Here's a hint, if the transaction originates in a state different than the point of sale, its an interstate transaction. Its the presence part which states have used to side step interstate regulation, not the other way around.
And Amazon is arguing that it can't be required to collect the tax, there's no argument about the taxes being owed.
Actually there is. The states say its owed. The Constitution says its not. The only point of conflict is finding a court that has both read and can comprehend the US Constitution. Literally, finding a judge who seems to have both read and understood the US Constitution has been proving to be almost impossible these days. Hell, most states have extremely unconstitutional anti-second amendment laws and court after court go out of their way to misread the US Constitution.
The simple fact is, the US Constitution was very specifically written in plain, simple to read English. They tried hard to avoid legalese. And despite the fact most of it can literally be read and understood by a ten year old, far too many judges and citizens completely fuck up reading what is literally the most simplistic and most powerful legal document in US history. This isn't hyperbole. The simple fact is, most judges and law makers constantly prove they have no fucking clue there is this wonderful document known as the US Constitution.
Using you're logic, that's something they would be forced to do every time there is admin turnover. That's uninformed to say the least. He was not charged for compromising the network. He simply refused to hand over passwords, to which he was lawfully empowered, because his contract had very specific stipulations. The problem came in that the city attempted (non-legally binding which still kept him liable) to wave those stipulations and he became a dick attempting to hold them to it.
He was convicted and seemingly, rightfully so. His handling of the situation was stupid and purposely inflammatory. It appears to be a valid prosecution. The $1.5 million, by far, seems very excessive, especially if he has to do any jail time.
Ext4 is stable now, and was an easy upgrade from ext3, both in terms of development and in terms of converting your existing filesystems -- one command, and then just remount as ext4, no time-consuming and dangerous conversion needed.
There is a trade off most people don't realize. Ext4 allows for a safe, simple migration from ext3, but in doing so, you do not receive all of the ext4 benefits. Ext4 on disk format differs from ext3. When ext4 mounts an ext3 partition, it is limited to the constraints available of an ext3 on disk format. Otherwise, there would be no need for ext4 to have its own format. To obtain all of the ext4 performance, tweaks, and reliability benefits, you MUST perform an ext4 format.
Yes, I'm such an idiot, stores and other private ventures commonly do what you claim is illegal and that's ignoring that technically, bitcoin is not actually creating coinage.
You're right, there is something missing. The missing part is, the gp poster is completely wrong. You are correct, contrary to moderation ignorance. Honey is an effective antibiotic specifically because it contains an antibiotic produced by the honey bee's own immune system. The fact its coupled with a source of sugar, apparently makes it all the more effective.
I have no idea why so many people keep pushing the factually incorrect crap surrounding honey, as the AC did, as this has been well known for a fairly long time now.
So in short, the reason why sugar, in of itself and contrary to the anonymous coward's post to which you responded, by itself is not helpful is because sugar is not an antibiotic. Sugar is helpful when used in combination with an antibiotic, which is present in honey, having been supplied by the honey bee's own immune system.
So hardly surprising, nature one upped us once again.
...the reason why we currently think honey works is not because of sugar, but because of enzymes in it which produce hydrogen peroxide.
Wrong. Honey is a natural antibiotic because it contains an antibiotic which is produced by the honey bee's own immune system. In fact, its one of the primary factors of a honey bee's immune system. The fact sugar empowers antibiotic effectiveness is likely why honey is such a decent antibiotic for external wounds; having commonly been used on livestock for ages.
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hmm, maybe thats why the google applications are actually compiled into javascript instead of being written in it
No idea why this was posted anonymously.
+1 Profoundly Fucking Insightful
Check out mumble. It shouldn't be a problem. The only down side of using mumble is its not as user friendly as skype and is more technie in nature.
My brother is out of the country. He prefers skype but his internet connection sucks. Rarely were we able to have a complete conversation and when we were, we constantly had to stop, start, and restate what was just said before the packet loss storm hit. I finally got him to try mumble. Despite using twice the bandwidth, providing vastly superior voice quality, thanks to the ability to force TCP and tweak additional network settings, we're now always able to have a complete conversation without any interruptions. And even though its using TCP, very rarely do we suffer the Max Headroom effect.
While mumble doesn't allow for video, skype isn't even competitive with mumble for voice services. And if we really needed to, we could easily use less bandwidth than skype for comparable voice quality. The fact mumble provides for so many network and audio tweaks makes it all the better.
Seriously, aside from PBX interchange, who gives a shit about skype in the first place. Its not like there are not tons of other solutions - almost all of which are superior.
Hell, last time I shopped phone minutes, google talk's rates were HALF that of skype's. Seriously, fuck skype!
Literally, you are an idiot.
3 - Proliferation - Ya, we're clearly stopping openly-hostile, fundamentalist Iran from building nuclear power plants. That's totally happening. If you call Stuxnet on this, you're crazier than Ahmadinejad.
Not entirely true. We don't have a problem with them having nuclear plants. We have a problem with them refining nuclear fuel. There is a huge difference. The US, Russia, and France, have all offered extremely cost effective fuel delivery and disposal solutions to Iran. They don't want it because it means they can't refine nuclear weapon grade fuels.
Nuclear power isn't a problem. Nuclear fuel is. It just so happens, the details of Iran's fuel refine is also the best path for nuclear weapons grade fuel. This is why everyone is sure, contrary to Iran's objections, they absolutely intend to develop nuclear weapons....if they are not already doing so.
That gives us only 20 years more to hold out until we solve the fusion break-even problem.
The problem with fusion, we are hundreds of years from having a viable solution, short of many, massive breakthroughs. Breakeven is one of five or six required breakthroughs of even technological significance. It is pure fantasy to say we are anywhere near twenty years from fusion power. And likely, its fantasy to say we are twenty years from breakeven.
If we have fusion power in less than two hundred years, several technological miracles have occurred. That's reality. Anyone who says otherwise is looking for a grant or hoping to sell you a bridge.
5 - Solar and wind production in the US - At the APPA conference in Nashville this spring, one of the foremost investors in "renewable" energy in the country outright stated that they would have put absolutely nothing into solar/wind/geothermal if they didn't receive federal grants for it. It'd've simply've been a waste of time and money. Federal support is the only reason we have anything like this project.
That's not surprising at all considering the US tax payers have been paying for infrastructure support and maintenance and have received little to none of what has already been paid for. The seem companies are now waiting in line for a second handout, in the neighborhood of a hundreds of billions of dollars, to fix everything they've already been paid for.
There are literally cities in the US who have less power quality than many second world countries. Power reliability and general availability has been on a steady decline since the early 80's with *every* indication things will continue to decline. The power companies are literally, at tax payer and utility payer expense, paid to destroy power infrastructure while concurrently paid to do the exact opposite.
If the government does not hold these companies accountable, literally, in the next forty to sixty years, the US will become a second world country. Or more likely, the US tax payer will be charged a second time to bail out these companies, for perform the work we've all already paid for.
I honestly don't know much about the specifics of this project, but what you're describing is actually extremely common. Accordingly, you need to prove how what you're describing is so abnormal, to justify such a position.
Thus far, it sounds like a sparsely funded project which seems to be steadily moving forward on the merits of the design and the technical advancements which are required to justify progression of the project.
Realistically, sudden advancement of the project knowing full well the engines represent a massive technological hurdle, would flag a money sink. As is, unless you can indicate other reasons, it sounds like its progressing at the speed of dependent technology - which sounds like the exact opposite of a money sink.
From what I learned in physics class, the cheapest way to get through the thick atmosphere is to go straight up.
That's only true for conventional rockets. The longer you remain in the lower atmosphere, you more rocket fuel you must carry. The more fuel you must carry, the larger the rocket you require. The larger the rocket you require, the larger the engine. The larger the engine, the more fuel you must carry. This is a nasty spiral simply because you obtain 100% of your lift from thrust.
With the skylon design, you are obtain a lot of your lift - from lift. Its only after you're passed through the lower atmosphere, where you don't get much lift and where you now need an oxydizer for your fuel, that you need to start a rocket engine. Thusly, they've side step a massive problem with traditional rockets.
Furthermore, its the first stage on traditional rockets which requires the most fuel to obtain orbital velocities. By using a plane's features, a massive weight burden (and associated size) is removed from the design.
Or are just making shit up as they go. It's kind of hard to tell.
Then you didn't watch the show. Very clearly, they made shit up as they went.
And BTW, +1 funny!
Certainly nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism but what you're offering as a negative is actually a resounding positive. Basically you're saying, a well researched and investigated design is a really, really bad idea. That's ignorant. You seem to be under the impression that design engineering and review is free. That's ignorant too.
More power to them if they can build it though. The real first test will come when they're supposed to actually build a test engine this summer. Deliver something to me in the real world that actually works, and you'll get my attention.
This has been under active research and development for some time now. They are far from alone in understanding current limitations or in their desire to address it by creating a hybrid engine design.
Again, skepticism is good and all, but contrary to the tone of your post, you've resoundingly confirmed they are working hard and following a good path.
When I read posts like this, I frequently wonder if they mean to troll or are just so stupid they honestly just don't realize they are being stupid.
"Cisco does not operate networks in China or elsewhere, nor does Cisco customize our products in any way that would facilitate censorship or repression," the representative said in a statement, adding that the company sells the same equipment in China that it sells in other nations in compliance with U.S. government regulations."
Providing consulting services which basically implement and possibly operate is not the same thing as officially "operating a network." I suspect they did exactly that as consulting services are big bucks for Cisco. For Cisco, their line item and contract probably says, "Consulting", but that likely included operation oversight, training, configuration, and assistance in tracking. This would be the standard expectations of many consulting gigs. I don't know why China would be any different.
See, that's the problem. You're a selfish, self entitled idiot. That's the only problem here in this discussion.
You're argument boils down to, everyone else's experience must suffer and frequently become unusable so you can download something a second or two faster. That's stupid. That's selfish. That's idiotic. And the simple fact is, its non-discriminatory. When you require interactive services, you get the same quality of service.
Nobody besides the government denies the existence of Area 51.
That's a myth. It used to be true but hasn't been for a very long time now. Their comments these days are typically, "no comment." The simple fact is, the government has officially acknowledged and admitted area 51 exists. The fact is even part of official court records.
Far too many confuse redaction policy with official status. Officially, area 51 exists. Policy, on the other hand, requires all references be redacted.
Exactly. You can always tell when you've discovered a moron, and idiot, and a downright knuckle-dragger, because they immediately equate all traffic shaping as bad. In fact, traffic shaping is in wide use and is generally a good thing.
Traffic shaping frequently means your SSH session stays fast and responsive despite massive FTP downloads elsewhere. It means your games remain responsive and fun despite your neighbor stealing movies over the next several weeks. It means your HTML is delivered quickly, allowing you to start reading the article while the images, and worse, ads, are still downloaded. It means VOIP with your family in another country remains a high quality experience despite your douche bag neighbor stealing ten movies via bit torrent and complaining about you having the nerve to communicate with family while he's stealing shit.
I don't understand why so many people, when given good content for free, moan that it is not in the format they prefer. Is it too much to ask that they pony up for the print version, or make a modicum of effort to convert the content if they so desire?
Of course it is too much to ask. Far too many on slashdot truly believe they are entitled to anything they want, for free, and if you fail to provide exactly what they demand, for free, you're a piece of crap.
Far too many suffer from self delusion and a massive sense of self entitlement.
I'm sure this post will be troll moderated, but it doesn't change the fact its true.
Says who? You think cellular networks predicted people streaming Netflix on cell phones?
You mean like what has been advertised on television since 3G services were turned on around the world? Naw...there's no way they could have known people would use the exact service they claimed to be offering.
Linux is very well supported on ARM. In fact, many embedded systems run on Linux/ARM.
I honestly don't know which is scarier; your non-rational, self deluding thought or the fact someone moderated your post up.
Holy shit - slashdot has fallen.
Been drinking a lot of koolaid lately - huh...
Yes, but this isn't an interstate transaction
It is in the real world. You see, when you purchase a good in one state and it travels to another state for delivery, the real world calls that an "interstate transaction." Period. Here's a hint, if the transaction originates in a state different than the point of sale, its an interstate transaction. Its the presence part which states have used to side step interstate regulation, not the other way around.
And Amazon is arguing that it can't be required to collect the tax, there's no argument about the taxes being owed.
Actually there is. The states say its owed. The Constitution says its not. The only point of conflict is finding a court that has both read and can comprehend the US Constitution. Literally, finding a judge who seems to have both read and understood the US Constitution has been proving to be almost impossible these days. Hell, most states have extremely unconstitutional anti-second amendment laws and court after court go out of their way to misread the US Constitution.
The simple fact is, the US Constitution was very specifically written in plain, simple to read English. They tried hard to avoid legalese. And despite the fact most of it can literally be read and understood by a ten year old, far too many judges and citizens completely fuck up reading what is literally the most simplistic and most powerful legal document in US history. This isn't hyperbole. The simple fact is, most judges and law makers constantly prove they have no fucking clue there is this wonderful document known as the US Constitution.
Using you're logic, that's something they would be forced to do every time there is admin turnover. That's uninformed to say the least. He was not charged for compromising the network. He simply refused to hand over passwords, to which he was lawfully empowered, because his contract had very specific stipulations. The problem came in that the city attempted (non-legally binding which still kept him liable) to wave those stipulations and he became a dick attempting to hold them to it.
He was convicted and seemingly, rightfully so. His handling of the situation was stupid and purposely inflammatory. It appears to be a valid prosecution. The $1.5 million, by far, seems very excessive, especially if he has to do any jail time.
My understanding from reading the LKML in the past is that you "conversion" is still insufficient and falls short of an actual reformatting.
Ext4 is stable now, and was an easy upgrade from ext3, both in terms of development and in terms of converting your existing filesystems -- one command, and then just remount as ext4, no time-consuming and dangerous conversion needed.
There is a trade off most people don't realize. Ext4 allows for a safe, simple migration from ext3, but in doing so, you do not receive all of the ext4 benefits. Ext4 on disk format differs from ext3. When ext4 mounts an ext3 partition, it is limited to the constraints available of an ext3 on disk format. Otherwise, there would be no need for ext4 to have its own format. To obtain all of the ext4 performance, tweaks, and reliability benefits, you MUST perform an ext4 format.
Yes, I'm such an idiot, stores and other private ventures commonly do what you claim is illegal and that's ignoring that technically, bitcoin is not actually creating coinage.
Holy shit slashdot has gone down hill.
You're right, there is something missing. The missing part is, the gp poster is completely wrong. You are correct, contrary to moderation ignorance. Honey is an effective antibiotic specifically because it contains an antibiotic produced by the honey bee's own immune system. The fact its coupled with a source of sugar, apparently makes it all the more effective.
I have no idea why so many people keep pushing the factually incorrect crap surrounding honey, as the AC did, as this has been well known for a fairly long time now.
So in short, the reason why sugar, in of itself and contrary to the anonymous coward's post to which you responded, by itself is not helpful is because sugar is not an antibiotic. Sugar is helpful when used in combination with an antibiotic, which is present in honey, having been supplied by the honey bee's own immune system.
So hardly surprising, nature one upped us once again.
...the reason why we currently think honey works is not because of sugar, but because of enzymes in it which produce hydrogen peroxide.
Wrong. Honey is a natural antibiotic because it contains an antibiotic which is produced by the honey bee's own immune system. In fact, its one of the primary factors of a honey bee's immune system. The fact sugar empowers antibiotic effectiveness is likely why honey is such a decent antibiotic for external wounds; having commonly been used on livestock for ages.