Its too simple. You guys don't know what you are talking about. Doing it all with one computer and an SMS modem? You can't future proof it that way. I want to see some mention of CORBA and SOAP. How can you have a system without middleware? I keep searching for contractors using your keywords and nobody is coming up.
Can you use dot NET? Everybody uses that these days. And what if I want to use it when I am already on the phone. Can't it have a WAP interface as well? Listen, I don't give a shit that the thing works. I want to sell a thousand copies of this thing and nobody is going to pay a million bucks for something which doesn't use a single cutting edge technology.
And don't get me started on your engineering practices. Last month this POS stopped working and you attached it to a different power circuit and a came right up. You can't make any money off maintenance that way. You need to network at least three computers with 12 daemons which have to start in a specific order, and have it crash from running out of memory at least once a week. Fault calls are where the real money is made. Lets see some forward thinking thanks.
At the moment ubuntu.com is very slow, so close to the release time. I wish I could get a link to the right torrent for the release (not the beta). Maybe Mr Dell has a link?
If they needed to completely drop all internet access, it shows how poorly organised their internet services were.
The IT guys at my work do that to, but all they really need to do is strip off everything except text/plain. At least that way we could keep working. They probably think emailing word documents to each other is normal and can't imagine not having it.
Besides, you don't really have to worry about water pressure until you go to evacuate the water out of the tunnel and fill it with air.
Now theres a thought. How about building something like a submarine cable car. Load up water tight cars on the surface and pull them along the bottom (under the ice) with a continous cable. It sounds heavy on maintenance but a tunnel won't be cheap to operate either.
aren't they saying that a tunnel that is twice as long as the Channel Tunnel will actually cost less to build?
Not only that but the Bering strait is not exactly shallow. The english channel is pretty shallow so the pressure at the bottom is not great. I wonder about having all that water pushing down on your tunnel with 1 ATM of air inside. It might have to be built out of steel, and thats not going to last long.
This sounds amazingly like the premise of a Heinlein novel, The Number of the Beast, which supposes that there are three dimensions of time as well as three dimensions of space, and that travel is possible on the two axes we normally do not recognize. This allows visiting realities that can be subtly or vastly different from our own, weighted by probability.
And all I need to do is attach actuators to a gyroscope and start pushing it around.
I am not from Sydney but I do wonder how well Jones would go if getting from A to B in Sydney didn't involve sitting in stationary cars for hours at a time, litening to the radio and slowly brewing up hatred for all those around you.
And yes, if Howard had the guts he would treat Jones's statements as hate crime.
That would be the Australian Federal Police. The were originally going to be called the Federal Law Enforcement Agency but some people thought that would be a bad idea.
Google is not an OSS company. Little of what they do has been released as free software. How much have they changed linux to optimise their operations? Who would benefit from the same patches? Nobody knows.
Doubleclick was worth more to google because they could multiply it against the adsense data they already own. Microsoft didn't have as much to gain.
Search is the new DNS. Anybody who owned and controlled all of DNS would control the internet. Most of the search market is controlled by google.
Google is only limited in size by the fact that they are an internet company, and the internet is finite. But if they wind up owning much of the internet its not going to be good for the rest of us.
I would love to be able to look forward 10 years and see exactly where this is heading. The don't be evil bit may just be ironic by then.
Presumably if we could work out exactly what EMR does to bees navigation capabilities then we could exploit this "feature" to send the bees exactly where we want them.
OTH can people who react strongly to bee stings now carry a device to ward them off?
By building an integrated circuit version of the PDP and running the unmodified software on it!
Sounds like a card we were plugging into DOS boxes in the 1990's to replace a PDP/11. The application in our case was SCATS, which does all the coordination between the signal controllers.
...used to sum up my job. We used to get spare PDP/11 parts from people like the those in the article. The DEC maintenance guys at the time told me about a factory they knew about which relied absolutely on a PDP/8. Service calls there were a challenge, to say the least.
Towards the end of my stint at Vic Roads the foam padding stuck to the top of the slide out boxes on the 11/84's had turned to dust and collected around the base of all the mux cards where they go into the backplane. Swap out a card and spend the next couple of hours vacuming out the backplane to get it working again. Installing a SCSI card was a challenge. You slide out the CPU box and get yourself organised by lying flat on your back underneath it. Like taking the transmission out of a car. The you identify the wire wrap cable for the slot which is going to take the card and repatch the appropriate interrupt line. On some of them you were lucky, there would be little shorting patches which you could pull off, like on the back of an IDE disk. Don't muck up the backplane in the process because people need traffic lights, you know.
I've got an ohio scientific superboard 2 in my spare parts cabinet. As long as I can still find a TV which listens to an RF modulator I am free to run up the micro assembler and hack away. My son is 5 now. In 7 years he will be the same age as me when my dad built that machine up.
Microsoft is scared of virtualization. All of a sudden, there is no longer a requirement to have Microsoft software driving your real hardware. Especially with Parrallels able to run Windows Apps on your desktop without even looking at a Virtual Machine window, MS, I'm sure, can feel it all slipping away.
Why? You are still going to have to pay for a windows license for each VM you run.
labels have been losing sales not due to competition/substitution from downloads, but from a lack of new, fresh product to sell
No kidding:
This is despite big-selling albums from Australian Idol winner Damien Leith
If their argument is going to be that nobody is buying our stuff despite Australian idol being on TV then they are truely stuffed. To be honest I don't know of anybody who bothers with P2P. Its easier to buy the CD and rip.
Hmmm. When they went looking for it the MGS wasn't where they expected it to be. Hard to see how the failure mode they describe would have made it change its trajectory by a significant degree.
So, if the procedures were better, this wouldn't have happened. If the fault protection system was better, this wouldn't have happened. If the designers had predicted this exact problem might occur this wouldn't have happened.
TFA:
over the years budgets and staff had been cut "in an effort to operate the mission as economically as possible."
MGS was well into bonus time in the sense that the original goals had been reached. The project was running on a reduced budget and this made a mistake inevitable. I can't help thinking that at a higher level this was considered to be a good thing. When you have new missions to run and a fixed budget to run them on you want your old missions to stop so that you can draw a line under it and go on to the next thing.
The last thing management want is to have to decide to shut the spacecraft down because they don't have the budget for operations on the ground. Reducing the budget is a way of inducing the shutdown.
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Its too simple. You guys don't know what you are talking about. Doing it all with one computer and an SMS modem? You can't future proof it that way. I want to see some mention of CORBA and SOAP. How can you have a system without middleware? I keep searching for contractors using your keywords and nobody is coming up.
Can you use dot NET? Everybody uses that these days. And what if I want to use it when I am already on the phone. Can't it have a WAP interface as well? Listen, I don't give a shit that the thing works. I want to sell a thousand copies of this thing and nobody is going to pay a million bucks for something which doesn't use a single cutting edge technology.
And don't get me started on your engineering practices. Last month this POS stopped working and you attached it to a different power circuit and a came right up. You can't make any money off maintenance that way. You need to network at least three computers with 12 daemons which have to start in a specific order, and have it crash from running out of memory at least once a week. Fault calls are where the real money is made. Lets see some forward thinking thanks.
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Indeed. Thanks a million.
At the moment ubuntu.com is very slow, so close to the release time. I wish I could get a link to the right torrent for the release (not the beta). Maybe Mr Dell has a link?
The IT guys at my work do that to, but all they really need to do is strip off everything except text/plain. At least that way we could keep working. They probably think emailing word documents to each other is normal and can't imagine not having it.
Now that is a thing of beauty
Now theres a thought. How about building something like a submarine cable car. Load up water tight cars on the surface and pull them along the bottom (under the ice) with a continous cable. It sounds heavy on maintenance but a tunnel won't be cheap to operate either.
Not only that but the Bering strait is not exactly shallow. The english channel is pretty shallow so the pressure at the bottom is not great. I wonder about having all that water pushing down on your tunnel with 1 ATM of air inside. It might have to be built out of steel, and thats not going to last long.
Actually I am Michael Rohan Smith, but the man from mars was (IIRC) Valentine Michael Smith.
I was once a member of the Michael Smith web ring, believe it or not.
And all I need to do is attach actuators to a gyroscope and start pushing it around.
And a universe for every slashdot meme.
In the book it was interpreted at 6^6^6
Yes and one light airplane armed with a sidewinder could have ended 911 right at the beginning.
I am not from Sydney but I do wonder how well Jones would go if getting from A to B in Sydney didn't involve sitting in stationary cars for hours at a time, litening to the radio and slowly brewing up hatred for all those around you.
And yes, if Howard had the guts he would treat Jones's statements as hate crime.
That would be the Australian Federal Police. The were originally going to be called the Federal Law Enforcement Agency but some people thought that would be a bad idea.
Google is not an OSS company. Little of what they do has been released as free software. How much have they changed linux to optimise their operations? Who would benefit from the same patches? Nobody knows.
Doubleclick was worth more to google because they could multiply it against the adsense data they already own. Microsoft didn't have as much to gain.
Search is the new DNS. Anybody who owned and controlled all of DNS would control the internet. Most of the search market is controlled by google.
Google is only limited in size by the fact that they are an internet company, and the internet is finite. But if they wind up owning much of the internet its not going to be good for the rest of us.
I would love to be able to look forward 10 years and see exactly where this is heading. The don't be evil bit may just be ironic by then.
Presumably if we could work out exactly what EMR does to bees navigation capabilities then we could exploit this "feature" to send the bees exactly where we want them.
OTH can people who react strongly to bee stings now carry a device to ward them off?
Sounds like a card we were plugging into DOS boxes in the 1990's to replace a PDP/11. The application in our case was SCATS, which does all the coordination between the signal controllers.
Just run it in the winter, unless you live in the tropics :)
Do I know you?
...used to sum up my job. We used to get spare PDP/11 parts from people like the those in the article. The DEC maintenance guys at the time told me about a factory they knew about which relied absolutely on a PDP/8. Service calls there were a challenge, to say the least.
Towards the end of my stint at Vic Roads the foam padding stuck to the top of the slide out boxes on the 11/84's had turned to dust and collected around the base of all the mux cards where they go into the backplane. Swap out a card and spend the next couple of hours vacuming out the backplane to get it working again. Installing a SCSI card was a challenge. You slide out the CPU box and get yourself organised by lying flat on your back underneath it. Like taking the transmission out of a car. The you identify the wire wrap cable for the slot which is going to take the card and repatch the appropriate interrupt line. On some of them you were lucky, there would be little shorting patches which you could pull off, like on the back of an IDE disk. Don't muck up the backplane in the process because people need traffic lights, you know.
I've got an ohio scientific superboard 2 in my spare parts cabinet. As long as I can still find a TV which listens to an RF modulator I am free to run up the micro assembler and hack away. My son is 5 now. In 7 years he will be the same age as me when my dad built that machine up.
Why? You are still going to have to pay for a windows license for each VM you run.
No kidding:
If their argument is going to be that nobody is buying our stuff despite Australian idol being on TV then they are truely stuffed. To be honest I don't know of anybody who bothers with P2P. Its easier to buy the CD and rip.
Hmmm. When they went looking for it the MGS wasn't where they expected it to be. Hard to see how the failure mode they describe would have made it change its trajectory by a significant degree.
TFA:
MGS was well into bonus time in the sense that the original goals had been reached. The project was running on a reduced budget and this made a mistake inevitable. I can't help thinking that at a higher level this was considered to be a good thing. When you have new missions to run and a fixed budget to run them on you want your old missions to stop so that you can draw a line under it and go on to the next thing.
The last thing management want is to have to decide to shut the spacecraft down because they don't have the budget for operations on the ground. Reducing the budget is a way of inducing the shutdown.