Can someone explain the second provision of this to me?
I've NEVER understood why a device should have to "accept interference received that causes undesired operation." This means the device cannot be shielded against interference? What on Earth for? Is this a way to let the gubmint cheat?
I really don't understand why the/. crowd should dislike this proposal.
If I had my 'druthers, I'd scrap the Shuttle operations budget entirely, put all of them into museums, and spend the operations budget entirely on serious R&D for purpose-built reusable spacecraft.
We need: 1) A reusable, unmanned heavy lifter like Venturestar (possibly with an option to load a cargo module that would essentially be a cockpit/life support system, for getting people into orbits higher than LEO).
2) A passenger ferry to get us to the ISS. This needs to be neither large nor capable of carrying much cargo, just people.
3) A craft built in orbit that would be able to get us to Mars. We could ferry parts up there with the aforementioned heavy lifter, and ferry people there with the passenger ferry.
... the worse-off the open source community will become. We. Need. Standards. Especially when it comes to something as important to adoption as package management. It's fine to have lots of little experimental systems flying around that you can pick and choose from, but something that works, and works WELL, must become dominant. I hate to tell you, but your attitude is selfish and ultimately detrimental to the goal of spreading Open Source Software.
But it seems to me that whatever Mike & co. can do to reduce the deficit would be a good idea.
This is like saying "don't bother putting out that grease fire in the kitchen, the house down the street is going up." when you have about 20 people ready to put them out.
You're assuming here that every customer is maxing out his/her bandwith all the time, as if every customer had a P2P client running all the time and enough active downloads that more data is available than he/she can suck down. However, this is not the reality, hence this is not how ISPs calculate their fees. If they did calculate their fees that way, their service would be much more expensive. Just compare with enterprise-level ISPs that sell 24/7 _guaranteed_ bandwidth. So, ISPs are saving costs because their users don't use all that bandwidth -- and this is even true if they charge for the MegaByte instead of a flatt fee! More users means making more use of the available bandwith, means more costs.
Then the issue is one of abusing your service so that you're using the bandwidth available to you all the time, right? Why not simply be concerned with that rather than how many machines are connected to the IP address?
Terms of Service that limit how many hosts you can connect to the machine *make no sense*. It isn't as if you are receiving MORE of a service from the ISP if you use NAT to connect multiple machines in your house. You're getting the same amount of bandwidth and, in essence, "splitting" it. If there were some way to use NAT to get more than your fair share of bandwidth, I'd be right there with the ISPs decrying its use, but that's simply not the case.
TOSes like these are simply a tool to milk their customers. If my ISP bitches about me because of this, sayonara ISP. And I REALLY hope I'm not alone.
Incorrect. Impulse engines use the exhaust from a fusion reactor to move the ship; they are a Newtonian drive like any other.
Warp engines, on the other hand, use asymmetric peristaltic continuum distortion - they essentially "squeeze" the ship through a bubble of distorted spacetime. No local motion takes place, but with respect to the rest of the universe, the bubble of spacetime that encapsulates the ship is moving.
I find it wonderful (and hilarious) that you bring your Zaurus and iBook to high school with you.
Do you get shit because of it? I can't say I'd mind if I had stuff like that with me - the Zaurus (especially on OZ3.2 is just a fantastic little tool/toy. What else do you do with it other than playing on the campus WLAN?
The Ambicom card you probably got from Best Buy like me did *not* work with the Sharp ROM OOtB, and as soon as I can get my hands on a 64MB CF card I'm flashing to OZ3.2.
Incidentally, I really don't feel the included PIM apps are bad, especially the Hancom apps which you can transfer from your own Sharp image to the OZ one after installation.
If you want an organizer and nothing else, go Palm. If you want an incredibly flexible, capable handheld computer with a builtin keyboard and tons of software, go OpenZaurus.:)
You know what I meant, in the context of the article. Gimme a break, I was at work and exhausted.:p
Fine, we create v1.0 of something, but every single time, Japan grabs the idea, pumps it full of steroids, and we are stuck with generation 1 technology for years.
Cell phones? PDAs? Laptops? With anything small and electronic, Japan beats the crap out of us in implementation.
... which is that -nothing- ever starts in the USA. All the cool stuff always gets started in Japan first and then maybe, if we're lucky, they'll give us a dumbed-down version of it later for much more money.
This is the reason why places like Dynamism (http://www.dynamism.com/) exist.
The question is, why? Am I stupid for thinking that if you release something tremendously cool for a decent price in the US that lots of people will buy it?
No. You would not have a gold mine. You would have an excellent design that would never, ever, ever sell. All of this change you are proposing would require engineering. Engineering is expensive, and so this workstation would be expensive. $500+ is FAR too expensive for what you are proposing here, and that's the expected price point for this device. Why would a corporation pay $500 for something which has specs that can be exceeded by a commodity PC WITH a monitor?
Sad, but true. While the design you're talking about would be superior in technology to what's available now, no one would ever buy it.
If Sun can push the price even further down, then you might have something there... but barring that, I'm afraid this is destined to be another Java OS.
What about the 5-MP digital camera I use to take snapshots of the Swiss Alps?
The Sony Picturebook that I download and store the pictures with? And use to write about the experience while I'm there?
The Zaurus I play NetHack with on the plane?
The point is that for many Slashdot readers, "using technology" != "working". Sure, you're not supposed to be *working* on a vacation, but you sure are supposed to be enjoying yourself, and if bringing your gadgets along assists in that, then what's the big deal? Any way you slice it, you're spending your time the way *you* want to spend it.
The wonders of the world are too great to ignore in favor of the ringing of a cell phone... but that doesn't mean I won't bring it along while I experience them.
I should finally get around to joining that. Now that I've purchased one of these (should be arriving sometime next week), I can take it with me and have a ball beaming packages back and forth with all the other members:)
Anyone have any experience with OpenZaurus? I'd jump on it as soon as I found it, but it doesn't seem to include a decent PIM suite like the Hancom one that comes with the Sharp ROM image.
If it's anything like the distro for the iPaq, I might think twice, as that's seemed to be a mite crashy every since I installed it.
Guess I did a fabulous job NOT backing up my WinCE contacts and notepad files first.:-/
Will you let me know what happens with this order? I'm extremely curious about whether or not they honor it - and I'd be willing to buy one off you for an appropriate price:D
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Can someone explain the second provision of this to me?
I've NEVER understood why a device should have to "accept interference received that causes undesired operation." This means the device cannot be shielded against interference? What on Earth for? Is this a way to let the gubmint cheat?
I really don't understand why the /. crowd should dislike this proposal.
If I had my 'druthers, I'd scrap the Shuttle operations budget entirely, put all of them into museums, and spend the operations budget entirely on serious R&D for purpose-built reusable spacecraft.
We need:
1) A reusable, unmanned heavy lifter like Venturestar (possibly with an option to load a cargo module that would essentially be a cockpit/life support system, for getting people into orbits higher than LEO).
2) A passenger ferry to get us to the ISS. This needs to be neither large nor capable of carrying much cargo, just people.
3) A craft built in orbit that would be able to get us to Mars. We could ferry parts up there with the aforementioned heavy lifter, and ferry people there with the passenger ferry.
Does this not make sense?
That reeks of corporatespeak. Is WordNet an actual compilation of REAL dictionary entries?
"disambiguation" is a perfectly cromulent word.
... the worse-off the open source community will become. We. Need. Standards. Especially when it comes to something as important to adoption as package management. It's fine to have lots of little experimental systems flying around that you can pick and choose from, but something that works, and works WELL, must become dominant. I hate to tell you, but your attitude is selfish and ultimately detrimental to the goal of spreading Open Source Software.
But it seems to me that whatever Mike & co. can do to reduce the deficit would be a good idea.
This is like saying "don't bother putting out that grease fire in the kitchen, the house down the street is going up." when you have about 20 people ready to put them out.
We can do more than one thing at once, kids.
"People who are uncompromising with what they believe"
I should point out that this description also fits Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Stalin.
Your wordage essentially means "people who are unreceptive to dialogue." I don't think that's very awesome.
Then the issue is one of abusing your service so that you're using the bandwidth available to you all the time, right? Why not simply be concerned with that rather than how many machines are connected to the IP address?
Here's the thing.
Terms of Service that limit how many hosts you can connect to the machine *make no sense*. It isn't as if you are receiving MORE of a service from the ISP if you use NAT to connect multiple machines in your house. You're getting the same amount of bandwidth and, in essence, "splitting" it. If there were some way to use NAT to get more than your fair share of bandwidth, I'd be right there with the ISPs decrying its use, but that's simply not the case.
TOSes like these are simply a tool to milk their customers. If my ISP bitches about me because of this, sayonara ISP. And I REALLY hope I'm not alone.
You're right. How could I forget this? This was prominently featured in an episode of DS9 where they moved the station.
... how is this a troll?
Incorrect. Impulse engines use the exhaust from a fusion reactor to move the ship; they are a Newtonian drive like any other.
Warp engines, on the other hand, use asymmetric peristaltic continuum distortion - they essentially "squeeze" the ship through a bubble of distorted spacetime. No local motion takes place, but with respect to the rest of the universe, the bubble of spacetime that encapsulates the ship is moving.
ph34r my n3rd1n355.
How is this flamebait? I didn't even know about this beforehand and it's something people should know.
I find it wonderful (and hilarious) that you bring your Zaurus and iBook to high school with you.
Do you get shit because of it? I can't say I'd mind if I had stuff like that with me - the Zaurus (especially on OZ3.2 is just a fantastic little tool/toy. What else do you do with it other than playing on the campus WLAN?
My Ambicom wireless card did not work in the Sharp ROM, but is supported by OZ.
That's a good start.
The Ambicom card you probably got from Best Buy like me did *not* work with the Sharp ROM OOtB, and as soon as I can get my hands on a 64MB CF card I'm flashing to OZ3.2.
:)
Incidentally, I really don't feel the included PIM apps are bad, especially the Hancom apps which you can transfer from your own Sharp image to the OZ one after installation.
If you want an organizer and nothing else, go Palm. If you want an incredibly flexible, capable handheld computer with a builtin keyboard and tons of software, go OpenZaurus.
You know what I meant, in the context of the article. Gimme a break, I was at work and exhausted. :p
Fine, we create v1.0 of something, but every single time, Japan grabs the idea, pumps it full of steroids, and we are stuck with generation 1 technology for years.
Cell phones? PDAs? Laptops? With anything small and electronic, Japan beats the crap out of us in implementation.
... which is that -nothing- ever starts in the USA. All the cool stuff always gets started in Japan first and then maybe, if we're lucky, they'll give us a dumbed-down version of it later for much more money.
This is the reason why places like Dynamism (http://www.dynamism.com/) exist.
The question is, why? Am I stupid for thinking that if you release something tremendously cool for a decent price in the US that lots of people will buy it?
Can you support this statement that fusion power is nearly at the self-sustaining point?
If this was true, would it not be much, much bigger news, given the current state of world affairs?
No. You would not have a gold mine. You would have an excellent design that would never, ever, ever sell. All of this change you are proposing would require engineering. Engineering is expensive, and so this workstation would be expensive. $500+ is FAR too expensive for what you are proposing here, and that's the expected price point for this device. Why would a corporation pay $500 for something which has specs that can be exceeded by a commodity PC WITH a monitor?
Sad, but true. While the design you're talking about would be superior in technology to what's available now, no one would ever buy it.
If Sun can push the price even further down, then you might have something there... but barring that, I'm afraid this is destined to be another Java OS.
... about spaceborne solar.
:)
You know, that whole thing with collecting energy in space and blasting it to Earth in the form of tight-beam microwaves?
Thankfully, this sort of system does not require one to depend on roofs.
... why is this an either-or proposition?
What about the 5-MP digital camera I use to take snapshots of the Swiss Alps?
The Sony Picturebook that I download and store the pictures with? And use to write about the experience while I'm there?
The Zaurus I play NetHack with on the plane?
The point is that for many Slashdot readers, "using technology" != "working". Sure, you're not supposed to be *working* on a vacation, but you sure are supposed to be enjoying yourself, and if bringing your gadgets along assists in that, then what's the big deal? Any way you slice it, you're spending your time the way *you* want to spend it.
The wonders of the world are too great to ignore in favor of the ringing of a cell phone... but that doesn't mean I won't bring it along while I experience them.
I should finally get around to joining that. Now that I've purchased one of these (should be arriving sometime next week), I can take it with me and have a ball beaming packages back and forth with all the other members :)
:-/
Anyone have any experience with OpenZaurus? I'd jump on it as soon as I found it, but it doesn't seem to include a decent PIM suite like the Hancom one that comes with the Sharp ROM image.
If it's anything like the distro for the iPaq, I might think twice, as that's seemed to be a mite crashy every since I installed it.
Guess I did a fabulous job NOT backing up my WinCE contacts and notepad files first.
Intimidating some random Sebacian on a Peacekeeper colony:
::stammers::
::rumbles:: I'M YOUR DADDY.
<John> You DON'T lie to your daddy, boy! Now WHO'S your daddy? WHO'S your daddy?!?!
<Sebacian>
<John> D'argo, tell him who his daddy is!
<D'argo>
GOLD.
Will you let me know what happens with this order? I'm extremely curious about whether or not they honor it - and I'd be willing to buy one off you for an appropriate price :D