Yeah, that's what I want, someone who's taken a wonderful recreational activity and turned into a job. Don't you know the fastest way to turn something fun into drudgery is to make it your job?
My brother who works for the Navy at Port Hueneme as a civilian contractor would answer the phone: "Pork-my-weanie, what can I do you for?" said really quickly. When the person on the other end would say, "What?" He'd repeat slowly, "Port Hueneme, what can I do for you?"
You could do this on the outgoing SMTP server side with something like TMDA. (http://tmda.net) TMDA-OFMIPD pretends to be an SMTP server, does an account lookup based on your SMTP-AUTH, and does header rewriting and forwards the mail to your 'real' outgoing SMTP server. You'd need to use 'stunnel' for SSL though. The IMAP side really isn't involved, it's outgoing only.
Unfortunately, just after issuing the 'startmwave' command your wireless network went to shit and you can't communicate with the microwave (or any other nodes) for the next 60 seconds.
Yeah, OSX-- (OpenStep) was available for non-Steve controlled hardware. The more tightly controlled hardware (Geckos and Suns) weren't too bad to get running, but PCs could be a real problem with the wide range of hardware and lack of drivers. Between two Gateway laptops with the same model number, one would run OpenStep only in VGA (640x480), and the other had no trouble running at the limits of the hardware. Turned out that there was a chipset change with a change of the model number.
but if the satellite just 'let go' of the dart in a zero G environment, wouldn't it just hang there in its original position?
Exactly! Here's a though experiment. Mass starts at rest relative to a particular position on earth. Much energy is expended to give it enough velocity and potential energy to attain orbit. In order to have this mass 'drop' from space onto some point on the earth you need to remove the velocity and leave just the potential energy. Bonus points if you can remove the velocity all at once so the mass just falls and doesn't skip across the atmosphere like the shuttle. Also note that an object dropped from such a height would likely take quite awhile to fall, thereby being less useful against highly mobile targets, or targets which are difficult to continuously track.
These are different problem domains, but separating out the one from the other and re-solving the problem correctly is never easy.
Well, the problem domain in the larger sense is 'information transfer', it's just that with computers and software gaining capabilities it's getting possible to create richer documents with them. That's the hard problem, especially making it easy to do with a computer (usually doing something visual on a computer is harder than directly on paper), especially since 'doing it right' is hard in general (see study of O-Ring failure chart w.r.t. Shuttle explosion).
Screw NeWS. Like we need another windowing system. They bought Lighthouse Design. They've got the rights to some kickass NeXTStep applications. Desktop Apps which were considered 'best of breed'. They should port them to OS-X and release them, or to GnuSTEP or just opensource them. Trouble is, for their lawyers to figure out whether it's ok is going to cost them $1MIL, so it's easier to just do nothing.:-(
I think trying to judge the system by an artist's drawing (even in Apple's own materials) is not going to lead to any definite conclusions. Certainly the hardware engineers understand the issue you raise. Almost as certainly the artist understands that reducing the complexity of the drawing to make it more visually appealing and easier for the 'unwashed masses' to understand is more important than being technically correct.
We should really, really get to work on turning Jupiter into a Dyson Sphere. That would solve the over crowding and make sure we can use _all_ the emissions from the sun...
Well, prior to 9/11 would you have worried excessively about someone's child walking onto a plane with a squirt-gun? Not to mention that a camcorder is hardly a threat of violence.
I think that the laws which cover copyright violations should be enforced against people who make copies of movies with camcorders in movies. I think that laws about possessing a device which may be used to commit a crime is prior-restraint.
If I'm bike-touring and I've got a video camera on the trip with me and I want to see a movie should I leave the ~$1K camera in my tent, or take it into the theater with me?
Because the non-SLR digitals fit a much larger segment of the market, the SLR digitals have been really slow to come down in price. The Nikon D-70 has tempted me, but I think I'm still willing to wait another round, since we're talking $2K once you add in a couple/three lenses. Lenses is where the 'real' investment tends to be in the high-end camera space. I've got a couple of Nikon (type) lenses (both manual focus) which isn't a big investment, but unless you're willing to dump all your gear in a few years to switch, or you don't expect to continue to invest in expanding your camera system, you probably want to decide on Nikon vs. Canon on the basis of all their gear rather than just the price difference of a single camera body.
Well, to be fair, you don't have to learn the syntax to get started, DJB created command line programs to do the 'normal' things like 'add-host' 'add-ns', etc.
I had trouble figuring out BIND's zone-file format when I first installed it. But the main thing I had trouble with was trying to figure out which packets I wanted my DNS server to be sending out.
DJB talks about not using CNAME, but it took me a long time to understand why.
Well, to be pedantic, any nuclear disaster anywhere in the world will affect everyone on the planet. But then so will a butterfly flapping it's wings in Australia...
What OS are you using to run the checksum program? What's to keep the 'voteOS' from returning good checksums, but executing different code, either from ROM, or from hidden files on the disk, or if net-connected, from code loaded from the net?
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Yeah, but maybe the ants are just eating the termite scat, not the termites! :-(
Yeah, that's what I want, someone who's taken a wonderful recreational activity and turned into a job. Don't you know the fastest way to turn something fun into drudgery is to make it your job?
My brother who works for the Navy at Port Hueneme as a civilian contractor would answer the phone: "Pork-my-weanie, what can I do you for?" said really quickly. When the person on the other end would say, "What?" He'd repeat slowly, "Port Hueneme, what can I do for you?"
You could do this on the outgoing SMTP server side with something like TMDA. (http://tmda.net)
TMDA-OFMIPD pretends to be an SMTP server, does an account lookup based on your SMTP-AUTH, and does header rewriting and forwards the mail to your 'real' outgoing SMTP server.
You'd need to use 'stunnel' for SSL though. The IMAP side really isn't involved, it's outgoing only.
Unfortunately, just after issuing the 'startmwave' command your wireless network went to shit and you can't communicate with the microwave (or any other nodes) for the next 60 seconds.
Yeah, OSX-- (OpenStep) was available for non-Steve controlled hardware. The more tightly controlled hardware (Geckos and Suns) weren't too bad to get running, but PCs could be a real problem with the wide range of hardware and lack of drivers. Between two Gateway laptops with the same model number, one would run OpenStep only in VGA (640x480), and the other had no trouble running at the limits of the hardware. Turned out that there was a chipset change with a change of the model number.
but if the satellite just 'let go' of the dart in a zero G environment, wouldn't it just hang there in its original position?
Exactly! Here's a though experiment. Mass starts at rest relative to a particular position on earth. Much energy is expended to give it enough velocity and potential energy to attain orbit.
In order to have this mass 'drop' from space onto some point on the earth you need to remove the velocity and leave just the potential energy. Bonus points if you can remove the velocity all at once so the mass just falls and doesn't skip across the atmosphere like the shuttle.
Also note that an object dropped from such a height would likely take quite awhile to fall, thereby being less useful against highly mobile targets, or targets which are difficult to continuously track.
These are different problem domains, but separating out the one from the other and re-solving the problem correctly is never easy.
Well, the problem domain in the larger sense is 'information transfer', it's just that with computers and software gaining capabilities it's getting possible to create richer documents with them. That's the hard problem, especially making it easy to do with a computer (usually doing something visual on a computer is harder than directly on paper), especially since 'doing it right' is hard in general (see study of O-Ring failure chart w.r.t. Shuttle explosion).
Why not just alias rm to rm -i ? If you're sure you're in the right place, then \rm -rf.
Screw NeWS. Like we need another windowing system. :-(
They bought Lighthouse Design. They've got the rights to some kickass NeXTStep applications. Desktop Apps which were considered 'best of breed'. They should port them to OS-X and release them, or to GnuSTEP or just opensource them. Trouble is, for their lawyers to figure out whether it's ok is going to cost them $1MIL, so it's easier to just do nothing.
I've got a copy of iLife I'll sell you for only $425.
I think trying to judge the system by an artist's drawing (even in Apple's own materials) is not going to lead to any definite conclusions. Certainly the hardware engineers understand the issue you raise. Almost as certainly the artist understands that reducing the complexity of the drawing to make it more visually appealing and easier for the 'unwashed masses' to understand is more important than being technically correct.
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Reminds me of the windows 2000 boot screen.
"With NT Technology"
We should really, really get to work on turning Jupiter into a Dyson Sphere. That would solve the over crowding and make sure we can use _all_ the emissions from the sun...
Well, prior to 9/11 would you have worried excessively about someone's child walking onto a plane with a squirt-gun?
Not to mention that a camcorder is hardly a threat of violence.
I think that the laws which cover copyright violations should be enforced against people who make copies of movies with camcorders in movies. I think that laws about possessing a device which may be used to commit a crime is prior-restraint.
If I'm bike-touring and I've got a video camera on the trip with me and I want to see a movie should I leave the ~$1K camera in my tent, or take it into the theater with me?
make me want to make a fake camcorder out of a block of wood and some paint and see if I can get arrested...
Because the non-SLR digitals fit a much larger segment of the market, the SLR digitals have been really slow to come down in price. The Nikon D-70 has tempted me, but I think I'm still willing to wait another round, since we're talking $2K once you add in a couple/three lenses. Lenses is where the 'real' investment tends to be in the high-end camera space. I've got a couple of Nikon (type) lenses (both manual focus) which isn't a big investment, but unless you're willing to dump all your gear in a few years to switch, or you don't expect to continue to invest in expanding your camera system, you probably want to decide on Nikon vs. Canon on the basis of all their gear rather than just the price difference of a single camera body.
Well, to be fair, you don't have to learn the syntax to get started, DJB created command line programs to do the 'normal' things like 'add-host' 'add-ns', etc.
I had trouble figuring out BIND's zone-file format when I first installed it. But the main thing I had trouble with was trying to figure out which packets I wanted my DNS server to be sending out.
DJB talks about not using CNAME, but it took me a long time to understand why.
Yeah, not sure what's going on. I think the copy I got was corrupted.
Gotta love reproducable bugs.
Given that you're citing Futurama, isn't that prior-art?
:-(
Oh wait, the USPTO doesn't care about that anymore
Well, to be pedantic, any nuclear disaster anywhere in the world will affect everyone on the planet. But then so will a butterfly flapping it's wings in Australia...
What OS are you using to run the checksum program? What's to keep the 'voteOS' from returning good checksums, but executing different code, either from ROM, or from hidden files on the disk, or if net-connected, from code loaded from the net?
The above link is a redirect to a page which hijacks your browser.