Yeah, but that argument doesn't hold water at all. Video is generally watched once or twice (with some exceptions) where music is listened to repeatedly. I want to rent video (because it's so much cheaper per viewing) and buy music (because I keep it and listen to it over and over, for years).
No that idea doesn't appeal to you. Just because you are not the type of person to have a subscription service, does not mean the idea is far fetched. All it means is that you are different.
I can play MP3s in my living room (HTPC), bedroom (PC), truck (MP3 player/CD player), car (iPod + tape deck), motorcycle (cell phone + earbud) at work (thumb drive in my PC + speakers or iPod + speakers/earbuds) and on and on... I just don't have that flexibility with rental music. I'm also not interested in the "band of the week". I tend to listen to music for years, so renting doesn't do it for me. I guess if I was 15 again and listened to whatever the radio told me to, I'd rent.
So what? I can play subscription WMA in my living room (PC), daughter's room (PC), my car (Creative Zen), my wife's car (Sansa View), and my daughter has her own player (Creative Nano) all using ONE subscription account. So what's the big deal?
I also love how you equate the subscription service user to a mindless 15 year old. Just because you were a mindless 15 year old, doesn't necessarily we were all mindless when we were 15 years old.;)
My music collection is about 1,000 albums, and I've been buying CDs for 20 years (records for a few years before that).
Why should I care about the size of your music collection? What does that prove? I own music too. I just supplement my music with subscription music.
If renting works for you, that's great. But the music/video comparison doesn't really work.
You haven't proved that the music/video comparison is a bad one. In fact, the only thing that you have stated is:
1. You prefer to buy music because you seem to like variety in movies but tend to listen repeatedly to the same song.
2. You listen to the same songs over-and-over again, while in your living room, bedroom, truck, car, motorcycle, and at work.
3. You eventually get tired of listening the same songs, and so you buy new albums and now you have 1000 albums laying around.
4. You had this habit for 20 years, and you do not like change.
5. Because you had this habit for 20 years, you think that this is the best way and you still don't see what all the fuss is about...
Oh, how little you know. The "1's and 0's which are represented as two distinct physical states" you reference as "existing in the real world" are marks on the media, and were never taken. Instead, somebody arranged another set of states on a separate piece of media to imitate those bits.
Oh I know..;)
Just like when you xerox a page from a book. your not taking ink away from that book, instead you are arranging toner on a seperate piece of media to imitate the ink impressions. Or when you copy a "widget", your not taking material from that "widget" instead you are arranging another material to imitate the size, shape, and physical properties of that widget.
So now that we all know what duplication means, how does this make MP3's less protected by copyright than say a printed book? It's called COPYright, and the idea that the original entity isn't harmed is just bullshit (plain and simple). Who cares if the original item was changed, if the duplicated item can be sold or given away and it affects the sale of the original item? This is why we have copyright.
Now what Pirate Bay was to facilitate piracy. They are a general purpose search engine or forum. They flaunt the fact that they are facilitators of piracy. Hell they even named themselves Pirate Bay!
But the rest of us continue to pay taxes (and will probably pay more to make up for the lost in tax revenue)? It's constantly amazing how many people can actually argue with a straight face that the poor corporations should pay less taxes "because it's easier to make a profit" and that they, generously, will pass those profits onto you the employee. As if a corporation running business is actually more important than having employees working and consumers spending. Trickle-down economics is a load of crap our rent-a-legislators and their buddy rich folks use to convince the masses that, somehow, taxing the rich less than the middle class is actually beneficial.
Amen. Unfortunately, we need to bribe these companies to stay inside the US and employ us. Outsourcing jobs over seas mean no taxes and no spending. Hell we have states tripping over themselves bribing foreign companies into moving into their state. This is a case of principle not aligning with reality, or more accurately the ones with the gold make all the rules (aka the golden rule).
Middle class spending (i.e. not being taxed to death) is what drives business and the economy.
It takes a job to be middle class. Lower number of jobs equates to a smaller middle class. A smaller middle class means we need to raise taxes to offset government spending.
I will agree that taxing a corporate entity may not be the best solution as really, you should be taxing the shareholders. If this discourages all the traders on Wall Street they can go find other jobs just like everyone else and still pay taxes. Hell, it might leave only the prudent investors who aren't just looking to make a quick buck overnight but actually invest in businesses in the long haul behind. Then maybe we won't have this volatile gotta-raise-the-bottom-line mentality that corporate CEO's use to gain short-term profits but sacrifice any long-term business growth.
First of all, short term investors pay a higher capital gains tax than the long term investors. Also, it's the sale of stocks that generate capital that a business needs to expand. No investors equate to no capital. No capital equate to no jobs.
I am far (far far) from being an economist, but even I can see that there are no easy solutions. I too (being middle class) would like the rich to pay their share of the taxes. Being middle class, I can't afford the economy to downturn from the lack of investment.
I say that works of thought should be recognized as essentially uncontrollable, and that rather than trying to fight the tide the law should treat them as fundamentally belonging to the public, which is the clear intent of Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. This ends the strange divergence of ownership and possession that characterizes imaginary property, something that the RIAA and MPAA are desperately avoiding.
What make music, movies, ebooks, and software imaginary property? They exist in the physical world. They exists as 1's and 0's which are represented as two distinct physical states (high charge/low charge, fully reflective/not-so reflective, etc.) not to mention entertaining versus silence. For example, let's say we have music in a MP3 file named SONG. You either have SONG or you don't. You didn't manually play the SONG into your computer, you downloaded it. You went from not having SONG, to having a perfect copy of the SONG. Duplication is not unique to SONG, objects in the physical can be copied without destroying the original. It's just much easier and cheaper to copy digital entities than physical entities. So other than not being able to touch the 1's and 0's, what makes SONG imaginary? Is print in a book imaginary property? Is a book (or SONG) more imaginary than a car? Both were a result of someone thinking hey I can create this...
Now the knowledge to read, compose and play music, fishing technique, and math can be thought as imaginary property. You can use math to describe a physical entity, but that doesn't make math physical in itself. General knowledge can't be controlled.
I can boil down your argument into "Easy Duplication = No Property Rights". This is a ridiculous metric and why we have copyright. Copyright is suppose to protect creators' work from easy duplication. After all, if it was impossible to duplicate it wouldn't need copyright protection. Just like the constitution protects unpopular speech, since popular opinion doesn't really need protection.
You on the other hand are effectively arguing that IP should be treated differently because possession of physical property involves certain rights over it; rights like transference (and dictating the terms thereof) and unlimited use, as well as responsibility for any subsequent changes in value. Just as an example, you probably don't think I should be able to remix and resell 'your' song, but repainting and reselling 'my' Ford is probably ok.
Well let's look at your Ford. Ford made money off the manufacture of that vehicle, since I assume someone purchased that Ford for you. Also, you have only one Ford and when you resell that Ford you transferred ownership of that Ford. I think you should be able to remix and resell 'my' song, but you should only sell the one copy and destroy the original after you make the sell. I'm sure if you were able to cheaply mass produce that Ford and sell it as your own... Maybe Ford will object. In fact, I think they recently issued a cease and decease order to a Mustang enthusiast group making a calendar with pictures of vintage mustangs.
I think that's just a nice line of BS. I think that in the rush to buy senators, certain groups have overlooked the long-standing protections granted to the consumer in Constitutional and common law, and honestly, I think its a fool's game to pretend that its the file sharers who are somehow trying to renegotiate the deal. Bottom line is, everybody's trying to change the terms
Funny I think the file sharers have a flimsy line of BS. I also think it's funny that when someone disagree with a law it's because a senator was bribed. Maybe, just maybe, they represent the views of their constituents. Of course, newspapers that you disagree with are biased, and posters you disagree with are astroturfers. I applaud you for not falling into the later trap, since I am just a poster who happens to disagree.. Personally I think disagreement is great, since it's though disagreement that new ideas and opinions are formed.
I don't agree that you have a right to the profits of the past based on a concept of property that no longer applies.
Yep that's the issue. You believe that the concept of property no longer applies to digital works, but your beliefs are yet to be founded. Just because you believe in something, doesn't make it true...
Despite your (and some other vocal file sharers) beliefs, the current law is not on your side. Just because the internet gives you the ability to do something, that ability does not come with inherent rights.
There is no right to profit from your work. There is a right to try to profit from your work. The difference is subtle but very important; and frankly, I'm starting to get more than a bit sick of the copyright creeps demanding that all society and technology bend over backwards to help them profit.
Well actually by your argument, the music industry has the right to sue Pirate Bay and its owners into oblivion because they are using the court system to try to profit from their work.
Your absolutely right. The owner of any copyright has no right to force you to abide by the copyright - the judge does...
While I applaud your publishing under a creative commons agreement, it doesn't prove anything. You chose to allow your work to be copied.
Pirate Bay are neither visionaries nor heroes. The only cause they stand for is greed. If you want something and it's not free, circumventing the current system just means that you refused to pay for it and stole it.
Setting the copyright infringement is stealing argument aside, wouldn't a better show of solidarity against the current publication model be to completely ignore the copyrighted works and deal only in creative commons and GPL works? When the artists can't make any money from concerts due to the lack of publicity (or public interest) then they will be compelled to use a distribution model that you agree with.
Using the "information should be free" mantra to justify your unauthorized copying of songs (or whatever) is a bogus attempt to justify your selfish habit.
If I work one day as a cop for you and you pay me 100$ and then you work the same day singing a song and ask for 1,000,000$ rest assured I'll try to find a way of not paying you what you don't deserve.
Well if you had agreed to pay him to sing in the first place, then you deserve to be forced to pay him. I mean I assume the reason he owes you $100 for being a cop is because there was an agreement beforehand.
And when I find that way, when you start whining that your predecessors were able to take much more money from mine than you do from me, I won't care.
WTF? Well don't worry when you get yours for not living up to your part of the agreement, we won't care much about you either;).
Obviously a country that can send robots instead of soldiers to fight is way more likely to become 'war happy' - so I'm not sure this robot thing is a good idea at all.
Don't worry there is still the nuclear option.
Seriously, I think the same ethics behind nuclear warfare applies to robotic warfare. Both kill people from a distance, just one of them is slower at it than the other.
As for becoming 'war happy', this is where the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) apply. A country would not want to attack another country with robots (or anything else) for fear of retribution from the target or its allies using similar methods.
Hell I'm worried about the prospects of a nuclear war, so the thought of adding killer robots to the mix doesn't add much more to my anxiety levels (other than robots being cheaper).
My question is, what does this do to battery life? It takes energy to power up the CZT crystal, and all the necessary electronics (multichannel analyzer, preamplifier, HV supply, etc.). That's a cost most consumers aren't willing to put up with.
My question is how they will get this in the phone...
I usually start by installing a plugin to my IM client that creates a secure encrypted tunnel over whatever IM protocol I'm using.
Nevermind the fact, that it may get your employer in trouble and most likely get you fired.
Jeez, if you are doing something that may get you or your employer in trouble then stop doing it (or better yet don't do it in the first place). Having an ethical workplace does not mean doing a better job of hiding your bad deeds. If you are concerned about privacy then wait until you get home.
They're using e-mail as something it isn't designed for because they don't have anything better.
Seems to me they are using email to communicate in text. Nothing in the summary said anything about people all being online at the same time or having the discussion in "real time".
This is what email is designed for, and just because it may not fit your particular taste doesn't mean that email is being misused.
I have emails that say "Please find attached the engineering requirements for X" and I'll reply "Requirements are satisfactory" or some other useful information. Sometimes, this is among multiple parties and we get a lot of one-line responses that make sure we are all on the same page. Having the responses immediately is not as important as getting the responses.
Of course it violated code. Grounding has been required by code since 1962.
I am not a lawyer!
I don't know about California, but in most places older structures are "Grandfathered", so they don't have to be remodeled to comply with local codes. However, any new improvements (or even repairs) must follow the current local building codes. It *should* (and may) be required that any dwelling being rented out to the public meet current codes, but again this is up to your local government to decide.
Doxygen I thought did java-doc like parsing for C++? I was thinking he should look for something able to build a UML diagram based on the code... I hate UML, but if there isn't any documentation telling you the structures of the code it might be a place to look.
Doxygen is more than a javadoc replacement.
I like Doxygen + Graphviz. Just set Doxygen to document all (instead of just the code with tags) and set it to generate class diagrams, call trees, and dependency graphs and allow it to generate a cross reference document that you can read using your web browser. Set the html generator to frame based, and your browsing of code will be easier. I would also set Doxygen to inline the code within the documentation.
I've use Doxygen to reverse engineer very large programs and had good luck with it. I will say Doxygen is not going to do all your work for you, but it will make your job easier. Especially if you add comments to the code as you figure each section out.
Now if you like to see the logical flow of each method then try JGrasp (jgrasp.org). It has a neat feature called CSD that allow you to follow the logic of the code a little better. It's a java based IDE so that may be a turn off for you. I do whole heartedly recommend the Doxygen (w/ Graphviz).
I'm pretty "whatever" on the subject of airplanes, but the US *really* needs a reliable way to prove who you are. A friend of mine has an online payday loan business, and the level of fraud is *insane*...
Good! If he goes out of business, then it's one less filthy loan shark feeding off the desperation of the unfortunate.
It has to do with air emissions. Marine vessel traffic has been facing closer scrutiny over their exhaust and their effect on the coastal communities and possibly the globe (remember the press' affinity for hyperbole), so in response some ocean carriers have announced that they will eventually only use the cleaner burning MDO.
I've been away from the biz for 5 years, but that was the direction the wind was blowing...
A long time ago when steam turbines were the deal, they used Bunker C. Nowadays, they use big diesel engines running on diesel fuel.
Most of the general cargo ships I dealt with still used Bunker Fuel Oil (IFO380 / IFO180) for moving from port to port and Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) while in shipping channels and port. This is due to costs since fuel is purchased and tracked by the metric ton. Today, I seen IFO380 at $475/MT, IFO180 at $504.5/MT and MDO at $804/MT.
One of the lines I used to represent has announced that they will gradually move to exclusive use of MDO.
Anyway, just wanted to point out that there is still a market for bunker...
Except that they appear to be researching their locations pretty carefully. San Francisco does not have hurricanes or tropical storms as the water around it is too shallow to hold all the energy. Besides, the Bay is just that: A bay. I don't know if you've ever been to SF, but pier 50 is way south well inside the bay. It is very safe.
'm going to reply to your post, because you made some salient points. It would do us well to remember that the US Navy has a lot of floating data centers. If anyone here thinks that those Naval war vessels are not brimming with electronics, I urge you to think again. In a barge type setup, you can create climate controlled spaces with little difficulty.
The Navy is not exactly hurting for money, and they justify the expense since the electronics are located near its users. This venture is needlessly placing the data center on water, when the data users are mostly land based.
As for redundancy, I think you are unsure of how vulnerable land based data centers are currently. Even if you bring in large circuits from competing companies, the chances that the local municipality has organized that they both run main fibers along the same railway is high. Power redundancy? Are you serious? Battery backup and generator backed UPS is all you have anyway.
You will have more options on land. First of all, why place the containers on a ship when a container yard will do? Need to move the data centers to another location... Hire a truck!
With a barge setup, your redundancy plan can be to move the whole data center to another area with fiber connections waiting to fire up. In fact, in case of a hurricane, I'd assume that would be the plan anyway. Sure, that means a 24hr downtime, unless you have redundant barges in your plan, in which case it's all a mute argument. If you think 24hr downtime is a long time, try figuring out what Californians just suffered when so many parts of a normally dry network infrastructure were sitting under 3+ feet of water. My company just suffered from that storm last weekend, so don't tell me that land based data centers are less vulnerable.
You are looking at least a 48 to 72 hour downtime (if you are lucky). Being on a large container vessel (TFA is talking about decommissioned container ships), you will need to sail far enough away from the hurricane. Keep in mind the current state of hurricane predictions, the time it takes to disconnect from shore, scheduling a bar pilot, tow, bunkering, and sailing to destination. Once you reach the destination, waiting for bar pilot to board, tow, mooring, and making data connections to shore...
If you think 24hr downtime is a long time, try figuring out what Californians just suffered when so many parts of a normally dry network infrastructure were sitting under 3+ feet of water. My company just suffered from that storm last weekend, so don't tell me that land based data centers are less vulnerable.
You could have co-located your data center in another region and switched to them during your emergency... Save the expense of vessel movement and the additional risks involved in ocean transportation. Better yet, use a container and truck your data center to another location further inland...
Container based data centers are a neat idea, Container shipped based data center is an idea that went too far.
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No that idea doesn't appeal to you. Just because you are not the type of person to have a subscription service, does not mean the idea is far fetched. All it means is that you are different.
So what? I can play subscription WMA in my living room (PC), daughter's room (PC), my car (Creative Zen), my wife's car (Sansa View), and my daughter has her own player (Creative Nano) all using ONE subscription account. So what's the big deal?
I also love how you equate the subscription service user to a mindless 15 year old. Just because you were a mindless 15 year old, doesn't necessarily we were all mindless when we were 15 years old. ;)
Why should I care about the size of your music collection? What does that prove? I own music too. I just supplement my music with subscription music.
You haven't proved that the music/video comparison is a bad one. In fact, the only thing that you have stated is:
1. You prefer to buy music because you seem to like variety in movies but tend to listen repeatedly to the same song.
2. You listen to the same songs over-and-over again, while in your living room, bedroom, truck, car, motorcycle, and at work.
3. You eventually get tired of listening the same songs, and so you buy new albums and now you have 1000 albums laying around.
4. You had this habit for 20 years, and you do not like change.
5. Because you had this habit for 20 years, you think that this is the best way and you still don't see what all the fuss is about...
Did I miss anything?
The last paragraph should read:
... they are not general purpose search engine or forum ...
Oh I know.. ;)
Just like when you xerox a page from a book. your not taking ink away from that book, instead you are arranging toner on a seperate piece of media to imitate the ink impressions. Or when you copy a "widget", your not taking material from that "widget" instead you are arranging another material to imitate the size, shape, and physical properties of that widget.
So now that we all know what duplication means, how does this make MP3's less protected by copyright than say a printed book? It's called COPYright, and the idea that the original entity isn't harmed is just bullshit (plain and simple). Who cares if the original item was changed, if the duplicated item can be sold or given away and it affects the sale of the original item? This is why we have copyright.
Now what Pirate Bay was to facilitate piracy. They are a general purpose search engine or forum. They flaunt the fact that they are facilitators of piracy. Hell they even named themselves Pirate Bay!
Amen. Unfortunately, we need to bribe these companies to stay inside the US and employ us. Outsourcing jobs over seas mean no taxes and no spending. Hell we have states tripping over themselves bribing foreign companies into moving into their state. This is a case of principle not aligning with reality, or more accurately the ones with the gold make all the rules (aka the golden rule).
It takes a job to be middle class. Lower number of jobs equates to a smaller middle class. A smaller middle class means we need to raise taxes to offset government spending.
First of all, short term investors pay a higher capital gains tax than the long term investors. Also, it's the sale of stocks that generate capital that a business needs to expand. No investors equate to no capital. No capital equate to no jobs.
I am far (far far) from being an economist, but even I can see that there are no easy solutions. I too (being middle class) would like the rich to pay their share of the taxes. Being middle class, I can't afford the economy to downturn from the lack of investment.
What make music, movies, ebooks, and software imaginary property? They exist in the physical world. They exists as 1's and 0's which are represented as two distinct physical states (high charge/low charge, fully reflective/not-so reflective, etc.) not to mention entertaining versus silence. For example, let's say we have music in a MP3 file named SONG. You either have SONG or you don't. You didn't manually play the SONG into your computer, you downloaded it. You went from not having SONG, to having a perfect copy of the SONG. Duplication is not unique to SONG, objects in the physical can be copied without destroying the original. It's just much easier and cheaper to copy digital entities than physical entities. So other than not being able to touch the 1's and 0's, what makes SONG imaginary? Is print in a book imaginary property? Is a book (or SONG) more imaginary than a car? Both were a result of someone thinking hey I can create this...
Now the knowledge to read, compose and play music, fishing technique, and math can be thought as imaginary property. You can use math to describe a physical entity, but that doesn't make math physical in itself. General knowledge can't be controlled.
I can boil down your argument into "Easy Duplication = No Property Rights". This is a ridiculous metric and why we have copyright. Copyright is suppose to protect creators' work from easy duplication. After all, if it was impossible to duplicate it wouldn't need copyright protection. Just like the constitution protects unpopular speech, since popular opinion doesn't really need protection.
Well let's look at your Ford. Ford made money off the manufacture of that vehicle, since I assume someone purchased that Ford for you. Also, you have only one Ford and when you resell that Ford you transferred ownership of that Ford. I think you should be able to remix and resell 'my' song, but you should only sell the one copy and destroy the original after you make the sell. I'm sure if you were able to cheaply mass produce that Ford and sell it as your own... Maybe Ford will object. In fact, I think they recently issued a cease and decease order to a Mustang enthusiast group making a calendar with pictures of vintage mustangs.
Funny I think the file sharers have a flimsy line of BS. I also think it's funny that when someone disagree with a law it's because a senator was bribed. Maybe, just maybe, they represent the views of their constituents. Of course, newspapers that you disagree with are biased, and posters you disagree with are astroturfers. I applaud you for not falling into the later trap, since I am just a poster who happens to disagree.. Personally I think disagreement is great, since it's though disagreement that new ideas and opinions are formed.
Who said I was going to court?
Yep that's the issue. You believe that the concept of property no longer applies to digital works, but your beliefs are yet to be founded. Just because you believe in something, doesn't make it true...
Despite your (and some other vocal file sharers) beliefs, the current law is not on your side. Just because the internet gives you the ability to do something, that ability does not come with inherent rights.
Well actually by your argument, the music industry has the right to sue Pirate Bay and its owners into oblivion because they are using the court system to try to profit from their work.
Your absolutely right. The owner of any copyright has no right to force you to abide by the copyright - the judge does...
While I applaud your publishing under a creative commons agreement, it doesn't prove anything. You chose to allow your work to be copied.
Pirate Bay are neither visionaries nor heroes. The only cause they stand for is greed. If you want something and it's not free, circumventing the current system just means that you refused to pay for it and stole it.
Setting the copyright infringement is stealing argument aside, wouldn't a better show of solidarity against the current publication model be to completely ignore the copyrighted works and deal only in creative commons and GPL works? When the artists can't make any money from concerts due to the lack of publicity (or public interest) then they will be compelled to use a distribution model that you agree with.
Using the "information should be free" mantra to justify your unauthorized copying of songs (or whatever) is a bogus attempt to justify your selfish habit.
You're letting the facts get in the way of the prevailing rhetoric.
Well if you had agreed to pay him to sing in the first place, then you deserve to be forced to pay him. I mean I assume the reason he owes you $100 for being a cop is because there was an agreement beforehand.
WTF? Well don't worry when you get yours for not living up to your part of the agreement, we won't care much about you either ;).
Too bad the FCC has relaxed some competitive requirements, and SBC buys AT&T, then Bellsouth, then ...
So eventually we will go back to the old style Ma'Bell
Don't worry there is still the nuclear option.
Seriously, I think the same ethics behind nuclear warfare applies to robotic warfare. Both kill people from a distance, just one of them is slower at it than the other.
As for becoming 'war happy', this is where the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) apply. A country would not want to attack another country with robots (or anything else) for fear of retribution from the target or its allies using similar methods.
Hell I'm worried about the prospects of a nuclear war, so the thought of adding killer robots to the mix doesn't add much more to my anxiety levels (other than robots being cheaper).
My question is how they will get this in the phone...
Nevermind the fact, that it may get your employer in trouble and most likely get you fired.
Jeez, if you are doing something that may get you or your employer in trouble then stop doing it (or better yet don't do it in the first place). Having an ethical workplace does not mean doing a better job of hiding your bad deeds. If you are concerned about privacy then wait until you get home.
Seems to me they are using email to communicate in text. Nothing in the summary said anything about people all being online at the same time or having the discussion in "real time".
This is what email is designed for, and just because it may not fit your particular taste doesn't mean that email is being misused.
I have emails that say "Please find attached the engineering requirements for X" and I'll reply "Requirements are satisfactory" or some other useful information. Sometimes, this is among multiple parties and we get a lot of one-line responses that make sure we are all on the same page. Having the responses immediately is not as important as getting the responses.
I agree.
I am not a lawyer!
I don't know about California, but in most places older structures are "Grandfathered", so they don't have to be remodeled to comply with local codes. However, any new improvements (or even repairs) must follow the current local building codes. It *should* (and may) be required that any dwelling being rented out to the public meet current codes, but again this is up to your local government to decide.
Doxygen is more than a javadoc replacement.
I like Doxygen + Graphviz. Just set Doxygen to document all (instead of just the code with tags) and set it to generate class diagrams, call trees, and dependency graphs and allow it to generate a cross reference document that you can read using your web browser. Set the html generator to frame based, and your browsing of code will be easier. I would also set Doxygen to inline the code within the documentation.
I've use Doxygen to reverse engineer very large programs and had good luck with it. I will say Doxygen is not going to do all your work for you, but it will make your job easier. Especially if you add comments to the code as you figure each section out.
Now if you like to see the logical flow of each method then try JGrasp (jgrasp.org). It has a neat feature called CSD that allow you to follow the logic of the code a little better. It's a java based IDE so that may be a turn off for you. I do whole heartedly recommend the Doxygen (w/ Graphviz).
Good luck.
Good! Then the rest of us can finally get some decent bandwidth... hehe
Good! If he goes out of business, then it's one less filthy loan shark feeding off the desperation of the unfortunate.
It has to do with air emissions. Marine vessel traffic has been facing closer scrutiny over their exhaust and their effect on the coastal communities and possibly the globe (remember the press' affinity for hyperbole), so in response some ocean carriers have announced that they will eventually only use the cleaner burning MDO.
I've been away from the biz for 5 years, but that was the direction the wind was blowing...
Most of the general cargo ships I dealt with still used Bunker Fuel Oil (IFO380 / IFO180) for moving from port to port and Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) while in shipping channels and port. This is due to costs since fuel is purchased and tracked by the metric ton. Today, I seen IFO380 at $475/MT, IFO180 at $504.5/MT and MDO at $804/MT.
One of the lines I used to represent has announced that they will gradually move to exclusive use of MDO.
Anyway, just wanted to point out that there is still a market for bunker...
Yea, don't think that boating accident that happened last november http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/08/MNUKT85I3.DTL will affect the local opinion on decommissioned container ships being parked in their bay...
Negroponte would do well to put the Intel relationship behind him. This is turning into a "he said v. they said" argument.
Of course, Negroponte could use these tactics to generate more buzz for OLPC at Intel's expense (regardless if it is actually true).
I'm not saying which side is right. I am saying Negroponte needs to move on... Jesus, how many more of these OLPC v Intel stories do there need to be?
The Navy is not exactly hurting for money, and they justify the expense since the electronics are located near its users. This venture is needlessly placing the data center on water, when the data users are mostly land based.
You will have more options on land. First of all, why place the containers on a ship when a container yard will do? Need to move the data centers to another location... Hire a truck!
You are looking at least a 48 to 72 hour downtime (if you are lucky). Being on a large container vessel (TFA is talking about decommissioned container ships), you will need to sail far enough away from the hurricane. Keep in mind the current state of hurricane predictions, the time it takes to disconnect from shore, scheduling a bar pilot, tow, bunkering, and sailing to destination. Once you reach the destination, waiting for bar pilot to board, tow, mooring, and making data connections to shore...
You could have co-located your data center in another region and switched to them during your emergency... Save the expense of vessel movement and the additional risks involved in ocean transportation. Better yet, use a container and truck your data center to another location further inland... Container based data centers are a neat idea, Container shipped based data center is an idea that went too far.