Okay, general rule, one that the Soviet's learned the hard way. Making rockets is easy. Making GOOD rockets is a little ->. harder. Making rockets that can hurl a thousand pounds to a pin-point target 1000 miles away is damn near impossible without a huge, developed and modern industrial base. And if you have that, odds are your populace is happy living like fat cats, you've got money coming out your asses, and you're not stupid enough to bomb a country with more nuclear weapons than God.
So there's really no reason to keep rocketry secret, because making rockets -> ISN'T HARD. And GPS pretty much screwed the pooch for everyone. Keep your rocket under 600 mph, and you can use nearly any off-the-shelf receiver to guide your rocket-bomb within 10m of it's target.
Then again, it just occurred to me what Kim Jong Il would do with Atlas V plans... so maybe I am a pie in the sky idiot...
I disagree. Developers HAVE been trying to do it - Olivetti Research Labs (of VNC fame) used it and smart tags to track people around their building and when they sat down at a random computer to log in, it gave them "their" desktop. The gap is the hardware.
You obviously don't do a lot of work from work at home - I do. I also do a lot of home computing at work. I try to keep them separate, it's why I have two laptops, a treo, a USB key, and a home server I can access from anywhere via SSH. I don't WANT that, however. I want one device, a Treo++, with storage, that I can plug into various places to gain extra processing power when I need it, when I want it, and still have decent mobile computing when I'm sitting sipping a latte @ starbux.
My favorite was the ECS K7S5A Pro that caught fire when I plugged it in and turned it on for the first time. Then began the battle between Me, PC-USA, and ECS and Chase Manhattan to return it. Guess who won.:-)
So why not this... five years from now, core quads are small and efficient enough to fit in the Ipod form factor. Or a core duo, or a multi-core atom. Through the power of virtualization, the ipod shuffles processing off to the desktop when it's docked, which has another four or eight core engine behind it. When you go mobile, it suspends, or resumes in Mobile mode on the ipod/iphone/treo+++.
Processing power isn't an issue. At this point the issue is software support for this use case. As far as I can tell no one is even going close.
Look into maybe getting a touchscreen adapter, or an older tabletPC, and simply mounting it undercabinet. I'm thinking of doing something similar myself, sort of the "Audrey on steroids".
Okay, but take that iPhone-like device, and take it to work. Put it in a docking station. That dock has an RSA security code that partitions a part of your iPhone disk to store work data. That data can only be kept on that device, it can never be put somewhere else. You work for hours. You suspend your work by disconnecting and going to the cafe. You read email, read documents, surf the web, then go home.
You put that device into your home doc, which is also keyed to protect your secure documents (tax returns, receipts, medical records). Your device starts right back up where you left it, and lets you access the work session that was suspended when you started for home.
The next day you go to work, and get laid off - boom, they send your device the self-destruct code for their files (ala blackberry).
This is the world I want, a portable device that is 20% of what my desktop is, more painful to use, but still usable (my Treo is almost there), but that reduces the numbers of USB keys and external storage and laptops that I need to move around with. That's what I want, and I think the guy who invents that can make a shit-ton of money.
With WSUS and group policy and taking away administrator access, you can still use auto-update, and prevent IE7 from being installed on any of your computers.
I had to do something similar at a past job. It was the taking away administrator access that ruined my plans...:(
I'd like to see you prove that. In my experience if a process/file is open and locked, the ONLY thing you can do is delete it, but you'll not be able to create a new file named the same until after all open handles are gone.
I cry bullshit. MANAGEMENT and the AMERICA CARBUYING public are solely responsible for the devastation in the America automobile market. If the big SUVs hadn't been Detroits sole focus for the past 10 years, they wouldn't be in this mess. If they had better international penetration, they wouldn't be in this mess.
Short term thinking destroyed Detroit, just like it destroyed your 401K this year, and will eventually destroy any competitive advantage the USA has in the world.
All of which can be turned off, leaving more CPU and memory for shifting packets, and doing crazy stuff like iSCSI.
I've looked at all the NAS devices on the market, and for the quantities of data our 1.5TB drives offer, they're all horrid. Better off spending a few more dollars on a general purpose PC and a small case, and put a version of FreeNAS or Openfiler on it.
A) better software support B) open technologies C) faster, better, not necessarily cheaper D) as many drives as you can fit in whatever case you buy.
No, I know it's a collaboration tool, and it's more than just document repository, but dammit, when I tell it I want to version control something, I expect it to do so.:-)
Which is ultimately, a kludge. SELinux has made inroads into being able to create these sandboxes. Windows needs something similar. With all it's ACL yumminess, it hasn't extended that to a default-deny style system of running executables. Just as our firewalls need to be set up with a default deny rule, so should our applications. They should be able to have their allowed resources managed. Some of this is going to be magic to end-users, so applications can come with intelligently designed lists - lists that can be managed by the system, and can be mined for possible security risks.
Just as chmod +s on random executables is a bad idea, so is giving applications free reign over your computer. In 2008 this shouldn't be necessary.
Sharepoint's a piece of garbage. Horribly implemented, poorly laid out, a pain in the ass to navigate, and slower than shit. You'd be better off with TortoiseSVN installed, and a truckload of Apache-based SVN repositories. And you'd get better functionality.
Delete a document in Sharepoint? With Versioning enabled? Gone. Kaput. No recovery, except from backup.
It's a piss-poor implementation, and places that depend upon it, crazy, IMHO.
You do have a point... the weakness comes from the black market in guns. There are a lot of shady dealers who flaunt the ATF requirements on waiting periods, background checks and the like. I remember reading on a crackdown of dealers here in Massachusetts a few years ago (maybe 10, not sure). Gun violence dropped by a measurable amount. But knife violence went up. I don't recall if the murder rate dropped... I wish I could find a source...
Except police are not obligated to keep you safe. Like any resource, they are constrained, and oversubscribed, particularly in the urban environment.
Only you are responsible for your own safety.
I'm not trying to disagree that guns do horrible damage in urban environments... guns take what might just be brutal beatings and near fatal stabbings into horrible tragedies. Banning guns isn't the answer - removing the impetus to use the guns is. Some people will always be sociopaths, and find shooting guns at people to be delirious entertainment. Others do it out of a perceived need for survival. And others do it simply because you have what they want or feel you slighted them. They'd just as soon stab you as shoot you.
I did some of the same. Moving from 32bit to 64bit on the Alpha's of the day cost Pro/Engineer 10% of it's performance. Took a lot of work and some great engineering on both Parametric's and DEC's part to get all that back. DEC busted a lot of hump to get ProE running on their platform. We had two dedicated engineers onsite, and a small army that came through on a routine basis.
Sure. libc get's loaded once in 32 bit mode, and once in 64 bit mode, and code pages shared amongst ALL running processes. I suppose if you had to load a 32bit Gnome AND a 64bit Gnome then you'd have some good argument...
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Okay, general rule, one that the Soviet's learned the hard way. Making rockets is easy. Making GOOD rockets is a little ->. harder. Making rockets that can hurl a thousand pounds to a pin-point target 1000 miles away is damn near impossible without a huge, developed and modern industrial base. And if you have that, odds are your populace is happy living like fat cats, you've got money coming out your asses, and you're not stupid enough to bomb a country with more nuclear weapons than God.
So there's really no reason to keep rocketry secret, because making rockets -> ISN'T HARD. And GPS pretty much screwed the pooch for everyone. Keep your rocket under 600 mph, and you can use nearly any off-the-shelf receiver to guide your rocket-bomb within 10m of it's target.
Then again, it just occurred to me what Kim Jong Il would do with Atlas V plans... so maybe I am a pie in the sky idiot...
FWIW, Windows NT, 3.5 I think, had a huge problem with process migration that killed performance.
I disagree. Developers HAVE been trying to do it - Olivetti Research Labs (of VNC fame) used it and smart tags to track people around their building and when they sat down at a random computer to log in, it gave them
"their" desktop. The gap is the hardware.
You obviously don't do a lot of work from work at home - I do. I also do a lot of home computing at work. I try to keep them separate, it's why I have two laptops, a treo, a USB key, and a home server I can access from anywhere via SSH. I don't WANT that, however. I want one device, a Treo++, with storage, that I can plug into various places to gain extra processing power when I need it, when I want it, and still have decent mobile computing when I'm sitting sipping a latte @ starbux.
My favorite was the ECS K7S5A Pro that caught fire when I plugged it in and turned it on for the first time. Then began the battle between Me, PC-USA, and ECS and Chase Manhattan to return it. Guess who won. :-)
I have a Tyan 2895. Audio died after a year. Coincidentally just after the warranty expired. Grrrr.
Ummm.... Isn't Windows defrag just "Technology under license from Diskkeeper?"
So why not this... five years from now, core quads are small and efficient enough to fit in the Ipod form factor. Or a core duo, or a multi-core atom. Through the power of virtualization, the ipod shuffles processing off to the desktop when it's docked, which has another four or eight core engine behind it. When you go mobile, it suspends, or resumes in Mobile mode on the ipod/iphone/treo+++.
Processing power isn't an issue. At this point the issue is software support for this use case. As far as I can tell no one is even going close.
get one of the HTPC computer cases. Some are fairly cheap, $99-150, and look really smart next to the rest of your AV gear.
Look into maybe getting a touchscreen adapter, or an older tabletPC, and simply mounting it undercabinet. I'm thinking of doing something similar myself, sort of the "Audrey on steroids".
Okay, but take that iPhone-like device, and take it to work. Put it in a docking station. That dock has an RSA security code that partitions a part of your iPhone disk to store work data. That data can only be kept on that device, it can never be put somewhere else. You work for hours. You suspend your work by disconnecting and going to the cafe. You read email, read documents, surf the web, then go home.
You put that device into your home doc, which is also keyed to protect your secure documents (tax returns, receipts, medical records). Your device starts right back up where you left it, and lets you access the work session that was suspended when you started for home.
The next day you go to work, and get laid off - boom, they send your device the self-destruct code for their files (ala blackberry).
This is the world I want, a portable device that is 20% of what my desktop is, more painful to use, but still usable (my Treo is almost there), but that reduces the numbers of USB keys and external storage and laptops that I need to move around with. That's what I want, and I think the guy who invents that can make a shit-ton of money.
With WSUS and group policy and taking away administrator access, you can still use auto-update, and prevent IE7 from being installed on any of your computers.
:(
I had to do something similar at a past job. It was the taking away administrator access that ruined my plans...
I'd like to see you prove that. In my experience if a process/file is open and locked, the ONLY thing you can do is delete it, but you'll not be able to create a new file named the same until after all open handles are gone.
Since the Ares craft are going to be nearly new vehicles anyway, why not start with vehicles with a known success rate, the EELV (Atlas, Delta).
yah, but at least you could pause an accidental missile launch with Ctrl-Z.
A 24 million expenditure for a savings of 22 million? How's that work?
I cry bullshit. MANAGEMENT and the AMERICA CARBUYING public are solely responsible for the devastation in the America automobile market. If the big SUVs hadn't been Detroits sole focus for the past 10 years, they wouldn't be in this mess. If they had better international penetration, they wouldn't be in this mess.
Short term thinking destroyed Detroit, just like it destroyed your 401K this year, and will eventually destroy any competitive advantage the USA has in the world.
All of which can be turned off, leaving more CPU and memory for shifting packets, and doing crazy stuff like iSCSI.
I've looked at all the NAS devices on the market, and for the quantities of data our 1.5TB drives offer, they're all horrid. Better off spending a few more dollars on a general purpose PC and a small case, and put a version of FreeNAS or Openfiler on it.
A) better software support
B) open technologies
C) faster, better, not necessarily cheaper
D) as many drives as you can fit in whatever case you buy.
No, I know it's a collaboration tool, and it's more than just document repository, but dammit, when I tell it I want to version control something, I expect it to do so. :-)
Which is ultimately, a kludge. SELinux has made inroads into being able to create these sandboxes. Windows needs something similar. With all it's ACL yumminess, it hasn't extended that to a default-deny style system of running executables. Just as our firewalls need to be set up with a default deny rule, so should our applications. They should be able to have their allowed resources managed. Some of this is going to be magic to end-users, so applications can come with intelligently designed lists - lists that can be managed by the system, and can be mined for possible security risks.
Just as chmod +s on random executables is a bad idea, so is giving applications free reign over your computer. In 2008 this shouldn't be necessary.
Sharepoint's a piece of garbage. Horribly implemented, poorly laid out, a pain in the ass to navigate, and slower than shit. You'd be better off with TortoiseSVN installed, and a truckload of Apache-based SVN repositories. And you'd get better functionality.
Delete a document in Sharepoint? With Versioning enabled? Gone. Kaput. No recovery, except from backup.
It's a piss-poor implementation, and places that depend upon it, crazy, IMHO.
You do have a point... the weakness comes from the black market in guns. There are a lot of shady dealers who flaunt the ATF requirements on waiting periods, background checks and the like. I remember reading on a crackdown of dealers here in Massachusetts a few years ago (maybe 10, not sure). Gun violence dropped by a measurable amount. But knife violence went up. I don't recall if the murder rate dropped... I wish I could find a source...
Except police are not obligated to keep you safe. Like any resource, they are constrained, and oversubscribed, particularly in the urban environment.
Only you are responsible for your own safety.
I'm not trying to disagree that guns do horrible damage in urban environments... guns take what might just be brutal beatings and near fatal stabbings into horrible tragedies. Banning guns isn't the answer - removing the impetus to use the guns is. Some people will always be sociopaths, and find shooting guns at people to be delirious entertainment. Others do it out of a perceived need for survival. And others do it simply because you have what they want or feel you slighted them. They'd just as soon stab you as shoot you.
I did some of the same. Moving from 32bit to 64bit on the Alpha's of the day cost Pro/Engineer 10% of it's performance. Took a lot of work and some great engineering on both Parametric's and DEC's part to get all that back. DEC busted a lot of hump to get ProE running on their platform. We had two dedicated engineers onsite, and a small army that came through on a routine basis.
Orders of magnitude difference... Not even comparable.
64K to 4GB is a difference of 6.5536 x 10^4
64bit to 128 bit is a difference of 1.84467441 × 10^19 - nearly 15 orders of magnitude difference.
Not comparable.
Sure. libc get's loaded once in 32 bit mode, and once in 64 bit mode, and code pages shared amongst ALL running processes. I suppose if you had to load a 32bit Gnome AND a 64bit Gnome then you'd have some good argument...