Look here, angry old man, your time has come and gone. On the internet, patience isn't a virtue, it's a potentially fatal mistake. The old internet is to be respected, but not to such a religious extent that we still need to live it even now -- do you start your fires from scratch to appreciate human civilization too?
I can just picture the massive amount of DSL vs Cable posts that are gonna hit/. in the next few minutes. Let's not ignore the internet-TV family of services that's going to make AOL users look like internet guru's. So far, the different flavors of internet-TV haven't taken off, and satelite is too damned laggy to pay the big bux for. What I'm concerned about is that the main players in the internet-TV market are Microsoft and AOL, neither of which can be trusted to stick to any form of standards, creating extensions to html, restricting the use of the service to further their own agenda. I hope that if internet-TV based services do hit the net in a big way, that we have the presence of mind to step back and insist on net-wide open standards.
The purpose seems to be for testing that VoIP technology, for which nifty little controls on a windows desktop, to adjust latency, throughput, packet loss, etc are really useful. As it turns out, VoIP requires really good network quality to actually function properly.
So for applications that send large amounts of data, without much cpu overhead and harddrive io overhead, this gizmo is great -- but not for those situations where network load is also accompanied by high cpu load as well as many harddrive accesses. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this thing is completely useless for almost all but the most bandwidth hungry network applications.
According to the first article, this won't be used in "cutting edge" aircraft design for another 20 years yet. If you've learned to spot vapourware, you should be able to spot this -- technology is going to change so much in the next 20 years that we can't begin to imagine what we will and won't be able to do. Musings of morphing planes are just that, they belong in comic books and science fantasy books.
I think they gave them a fancy name, like sea-plane or something like that, but they were essentially "planes" that "flew" across the surface of the water with pontoons submerged. The general application seemed to be for transportation of people, and cargo. The supercavitating technology was to advance this mode of transport further by reducing drag. This would make for very stable flight across the surface of the water, with the pilot being able actually see what's in front of the plane.
As for military applications, I suppose that escaping radar detection might be one motivation. I don't think that a supercavitating vessel is undetectable by sonar though.
It's interesting how this keeps popping up in the media. Supercavitating projectiles and vessels have been in use for over 40 years. Yet the world hasn't really stopped to take note of this technology the way it would seem to merit. Kind of like the turbine engine (like jet engines used on commercial airliners) when it was used on vehicles -- got great results in the indy 500 in the 1950's but never went into production because the engine had no crankshaft, no valves, no pistons, no transmission -- not much need for lubricants.
There's nothing like listening to a horror on the radio. I hope that the way this movie flopped helps make producers think more carefully about something besides pushing the limits of what's technically possible to create on screen. Specifically, originality would have been a good thing on this one.
As for security, the data goes to "secured" websites, meaning we've got some sort of encryption going on, and really, who's going to spy on a pacemaker site to see if grandpa Joe's pacemaker is malfunctioning? (RESIST the urge to make a smartass remark here) The pacemaker passes info on to medical professionals who can determine if there's anything wrong with it. This is not a replacement for visiting your doctor, nor is it being presented as such -- it's something that supplements existing tools and is for certain cases only. The article seems to imply that this might be good for people who constantly worry that their pacemaker is broken. This will free up doctor time, reducing medical care costs as well as increasing quality of service that would not have been possible otherwise.
VNC can share a screen with multiple people (when set up in shared mode) so that everyone sort of shares the same keyboard and mouse. You'd have platform independence that way, and you could either use a sound server on each client's machine or other audio-conferencing tool to supplement the video interface.
I love the retro picture with the long hair and TV screen with space invaders on it. This thing is like a retro movement for something that never existed. Live online gaming just wasn't possible -- turn based online gaming came first, and even that wasn't exactly flourishing until the advent of the BBS. Even still, you're going to be hard pressed to find people to play some of those games with, so may as well search the entire globe:)
Unlike other paralell processing environments, mosix is a solution that can in many cases be put to work with just a few changes in the init scripts and a kernel recompile -- no applications or libs need be changed, and things like web servers can take advantage of it right out of the box.
You'd be darn upset if all of a sudden your name and email address were splattered all over the place if what you really wanted was to be left alone! And what about those psychotic classmates you always wanted to get away from? Hey if you want to "take advantage" of this email service, you've also got to put up them knowing how to get ahold of you. Granted, you can decide to not use the address just like you can decide to not list your phone number in the phone book, but the difference here is that you are denied the use of soemthing that might in some cases make the difference between getting a job or not.
...but not because it's revolutionary, new, or even somehow an impressive technical achievement (or achievement to be). It's important because cDc has the ability to make a statement that will be heard net-wide. It's importance is of a political nature.
doh -- my bad. Real link is here (let that be a lesson to me)
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From What I've read at backend.userland.com RSS 0.92 is completely backwards compatible with the now gone 0.91 as all the new features are optional. I see there's also work being started on 0.93. As for RSS 1.0, there's much emphasis on extensibility and creating custom namespaces so we won't have to worry about peoples modules conflicting with eachother,etc. -- From what I can see, RSS 1.0 will still be able to parse the 0.91 RDF's but there doesn't seem to be any clear guarantee of this. Has anyone found clear direction on this?
Rambus is more of a speculator in the hardware market than it is an actual producer of product. If you thought there wasn't anything worse than a business built on the dot-com hype, think again -- this is gambling that'll put vegas to shame. Add to that a whole bunch of eager day-traders and we've got ourselves gaming-addiction central!
Our governmental systems work in conjunction with businesses, lobbyists, and special interest groups, all of which are not representative of the general population. It's a fundamental flaw in the system. The fact that Red Hat is havnig such a strong voice above the rest of us is not a good thing. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't use that voice to say something useful.
Don't scoff at it too quickly, now -- Those shrink-wrapped licenses stand on the same legal ground as the GPL! After all, neither is written on paper, and they rely on implicit acceptance through the actions of the end user.
It's important to have authors who not only enjoy stretching the limits of the English language but also extending it. Particularly so in the sci-fi genre, where the concepts introduced have a similar effect on our sciences. Were it not for visionary writers such as this one, both our language and our sciences would be in danger of stagnation.
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Look here, angry old man, your time has come and gone. On the internet, patience isn't a virtue, it's a potentially fatal mistake. The old internet is to be respected, but not to such a religious extent that we still need to live it even now -- do you start your fires from scratch to appreciate human civilization too?
I can just picture the massive amount of DSL vs Cable posts that are gonna hit /. in the next few minutes. Let's not ignore the internet-TV family of services that's going to make AOL users look like internet guru's. So far, the different flavors of internet-TV haven't taken off, and satelite is too damned laggy to pay the big bux for. What I'm concerned about is that the main players in the internet-TV market are Microsoft and AOL, neither of which can be trusted to stick to any form of standards, creating extensions to html, restricting the use of the service to further their own agenda. I hope that if internet-TV based services do hit the net in a big way, that we have the presence of mind to step back and insist on net-wide open standards.
So for applications that send large amounts of data, without much cpu overhead and harddrive io overhead, this gizmo is great -- but not for those situations where network load is also accompanied by high cpu load as well as many harddrive accesses. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this thing is completely useless for almost all but the most bandwidth hungry network applications.
You've got a better memory than I do. Guess I should have been taking notes when I was watching the history channel ")
According to the first article, this won't be used in "cutting edge" aircraft design for another 20 years yet. If you've learned to spot vapourware, you should be able to spot this -- technology is going to change so much in the next 20 years that we can't begin to imagine what we will and won't be able to do. Musings of morphing planes are just that, they belong in comic books and science fantasy books.
As for military applications, I suppose that escaping radar detection might be one motivation. I don't think that a supercavitating vessel is undetectable by sonar though.
It's interesting how this keeps popping up in the media. Supercavitating projectiles and vessels have been in use for over 40 years. Yet the world hasn't really stopped to take note of this technology the way it would seem to merit. Kind of like the turbine engine (like jet engines used on commercial airliners) when it was used on vehicles -- got great results in the indy 500 in the 1950's but never went into production because the engine had no crankshaft, no valves, no pistons, no transmission -- not much need for lubricants.
Also, isn't this review kind of late?
Hey, for people who need to be given that electric jolt of life, they can have a built in crash cart!
I sure hope they won't be using cellphones to upload the data to the website.
As for security, the data goes to "secured" websites, meaning we've got some sort of encryption going on, and really, who's going to spy on a pacemaker site to see if grandpa Joe's pacemaker is malfunctioning? (RESIST the urge to make a smartass remark here) The pacemaker passes info on to medical professionals who can determine if there's anything wrong with it. This is not a replacement for visiting your doctor, nor is it being presented as such -- it's something that supplements existing tools and is for certain cases only. The article seems to imply that this might be good for people who constantly worry that their pacemaker is broken. This will free up doctor time, reducing medical care costs as well as increasing quality of service that would not have been possible otherwise.
VNC can share a screen with multiple people (when set up in shared mode) so that everyone sort of shares the same keyboard and mouse. You'd have platform independence that way, and you could either use a sound server on each client's machine or other audio-conferencing tool to supplement the video interface.
I love the retro picture with the long hair and TV screen with space invaders on it. This thing is like a retro movement for something that never existed. Live online gaming just wasn't possible -- turn based online gaming came first, and even that wasn't exactly flourishing until the advent of the BBS. Even still, you're going to be hard pressed to find people to play some of those games with, so may as well search the entire globe :)
Unlike other paralell processing environments, mosix is a solution that can in many cases be put to work with just a few changes in the init scripts and a kernel recompile -- no applications or libs need be changed, and things like web servers can take advantage of it right out of the box.
You'd be darn upset if all of a sudden your name and email address were splattered all over the place if what you really wanted was to be left alone! And what about those psychotic classmates you always wanted to get away from? Hey if you want to "take advantage" of this email service, you've also got to put up them knowing how to get ahold of you. Granted, you can decide to not use the address just like you can decide to not list your phone number in the phone book, but the difference here is that you are denied the use of soemthing that might in some cases make the difference between getting a job or not.
Either that or it'll be that much easier to make people think you went to University :)
...but not because it's revolutionary, new, or even somehow an impressive technical achievement (or achievement to be). It's important because cDc has the ability to make a statement that will be heard net-wide. It's importance is of a political nature.
doh -- my bad. Real link is here (let that be a lesson to me)
From What I've read at backend.userland.com RSS 0.92 is completely backwards compatible with the now gone 0.91 as all the new features are optional. I see there's also work being started on 0.93. As for RSS 1.0, there's much emphasis on extensibility and creating custom namespaces so we won't have to worry about peoples modules conflicting with eachother,etc. -- From what I can see, RSS 1.0 will still be able to parse the 0.91 RDF's but there doesn't seem to be any clear guarantee of this. Has anyone found clear direction on this?
Rambus is more of a speculator in the hardware market than it is an actual producer of product. If you thought there wasn't anything worse than a business built on the dot-com hype, think again -- this is gambling that'll put vegas to shame. Add to that a whole bunch of eager day-traders and we've got ourselves gaming-addiction central!
10 Bit Myths about copyright explained
ALA copyright Education Program Contains info about fair use,and Copyright on the internet
www.metallicaisgreedy.com which is packed full of tons of info that is pro-napster, in particular in regards to lawsuits,media,etc
Have you considered that the UCITA just _might_ be about something besides software licenses?
Also, the analogy falls apart in terms of physical "bike failure" because it may well be a matter of faulty construction rather than faulty plans.
Our governmental systems work in conjunction with businesses, lobbyists, and special interest groups, all of which are not representative of the general population. It's a fundamental flaw in the system. The fact that Red Hat is havnig such a strong voice above the rest of us is not a good thing. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't use that voice to say something useful.
Don't scoff at it too quickly, now -- Those shrink-wrapped licenses stand on the same legal ground as the GPL! After all, neither is written on paper, and they rely on implicit acceptance through the actions of the end user.
It's important to have authors who not only enjoy stretching the limits of the English language but also extending it. Particularly so in the sci-fi genre, where the concepts introduced have a similar effect on our sciences. Were it not for visionary writers such as this one, both our language and our sciences would be in danger of stagnation.