The reusable launch vehicle that whose prototype was 85% assembled with 96% of the parts and the launch facility 100%? Only to be cancelled in 2001? Yeah, me neither. Oh, and it's all still there and Lockheed is still working on similar airframe prototypes, even going as far as successfuly testing 1/5th scale updated models?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-33
Why are we spending all of this money on Ares when it is riddled with problems like...say...shaking the astronauts to death on launch? Ares is a joke. If anything, we should just dig-up the Saturn V plans, take the best from it, and then build a craft that has 2009 technologies in it instead of reinventing the wheel.
The whole idea of saving money by using the Shuttle SRBs has been completely negated by the fact that the ship built on that concept is a complete clusterfuck and is costing more than if we had just started over from scratch.
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
But really. The Internet isn't a damn packet radio network. Transmission errors are largely a thing that has been taken care of via providers putting infrastructure in place to make retransmits unnecessary. In fact, BitTorrent over UDP shuld sould like a good thing to Service Providers....unless they are over-subscribed kinda like this whole subprime thing. Wait. Comcast...node...saturation....no wonder they're spreading fire-and-brimstone FUD. They HATE spending money.
On the other-hand, we have hashing. So if the connection is adequate, then ISPs shuld praise this sort of thing for lowering their network overhead.
Excellent findings, CrazyKen. I think RFC1166 is still valid, but is superseded by ARIN's authority over delegation of Internet Numbers. RFC1166 basically defines subnetting, but has obsolete information in the list of delegated subnets. There is a newer RFC that handles the definition of Internet protocols and addressing, but doesn't officially oobsolete RFC1166, only builds on and references it. I think this company may be in for Federal charges on theft, impersonation, mail fraud, wire fraud, and a myriad of other federal offenses. They better have damn good evidence of a transaction between them and NASA Ames research center in purchasing a/16 network or otherwise proof of someone else obtaining this block and reselling it to them. Any way they look at it, ARIN DOES have authority over IP address space, whether it was allocated before its inception or not.
A little more digging around reveals that NASA reserved this space for use of testing and implementing TCP/IP links over AX.25 (packet radio). This was later part of the NASA Science Internet; which eventually just became part of the Internet. The company name SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC looks to be a bogus company name to make it look to ARIN that it is the original owner of the address space, reserved and documented in RFC 1166 in 1990. Most accurately known as identity theft. It is most likely that NASA Ames and subsequently the US Government still owns the 134.17.0.0/16 address space. I wonder if someone could get in touch Mr. Medin, who is now the founder and CTO of M2Z Networks, Inc of Menlo Park, CA and ask him if he knows much more about this. It is possible that this space has actually been hijacked from NASA Ames Research Center.
The very first evidence I can find of the 134.17.0.0 being reserved is referenced in RFC 1166 to BAY-PR-NET with a contact of a Mr. Milo Medin of NASA Science Internet Program Office (MEDIN@NSIPO.NASA.GOV), who This RFC is obviously outdated (July 1990), but government agencies usually don't give up their IP space. Initial impression is that NASA was/is involved in providing connectivity to the Pacific Rim; in some ways with AX.25. If this is still the case, then the US Government should have a little talk with whoever gave/sold one of their/16 nets to some lady in Colorado who is the CIO for one of the most notorious spammers in the world.
Exactly, but ME was more of s Stop-gap measure to buy Microsoft some time to transition to the NT base. It was essentially 98 with some features of XP. I ran it for some time, but it just sucked. Badly. Vista was originally supposed to be what 95 was to 3.1, but they had so many problems developing some features (which worked better than they do today in alpha builds of LH) that they decided to do a reset and start over again and basically do a ME, just better. We all know how well that went over. They should have toughed out the original LH issues and taken a bit longer, that way we wouldn't be in the debacle that Vista is today. But, of course, as it always is in Microsoft, politics were involved. Although Vista was built on a new code base unlike ME, it was dumbed down and hurried to be pushed out the door on schedule.
Wasn't this what Vista was supposed to do in the first place? It was supposed to be a dramatic departure from previous versions, but too much politics pressured developers into making backwards compatability a little too over-bearing on the system. This is clearly what they were trying to accomplish with Vista, but higher-ups were too afraid to do it, so they told them to half-ass everything to make it all work. After seeing what a disaster Vista has become, both on the development and user experience side of things, the Higher-ups have no choice but to listen to what their devs wanted in the first place; kill legacy. Not build it in and make it limp along half-working and hard to develop for, but just start with a clean slate and build a kickass base OS and worry about compatability with older applications and frameworks later.
Basically, they tore a page out of OS X's plan of action.
The one company that has the guff and will to push 64-bit exclusive apps that many people rely on has yet to release a 64-bit build for Linux (Flash). Why?
On my flights from Minneapolis to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Memphis the in-seat entertainment on the A330-300 screens ran RedHat. They booted it and like others on here have already mentioned, it showed the familiar penguin on the boot loader. And something that got a bit of a laugh out of me was that Garden State was showing on them and they cut out the beginning scene of the movie where the plane is going down. Anything to keep passengers from thinking of a crash.
And they already do this via microwave and radio. More specifically, they monitor a lot of their substations and large important objects via a telecom link and have RF or microwave transmitters as a backup. I worked for the department that monitored the transmission and distribution of power and I got to see exactly how their entire monitoring system for their entire grid works. Every point in their grid that can cause havoc is monitored in real-time (4 second interval). I don't exactly see what this article is getting at. In fact, this kind of monitoring is a FERC requirement. While not on a scale of what this article is saying, they can already pinpoint outages to the closest substation or transformer.
For those of you who say that a glabal standard isn't possible because Sprint controls the spectrum, think again. Like someone else said, the technology can run on a multitude of different frequencies. "So what? Sprint will lock you into using their service by making you use their hardware that runs on theirs ond only their network," you may say. "Nothing will change from how it is today." Well, if you didn't know, Intel will be integrating WiMAX into Centrino. Now it is highly doubtful Intel would be so foolish as to lock themselves into a single market that isn't accessible in all areas. This means that WiMAX will be "unlockable" kind of like how GSM phones are today. Which is also why GSM is the global standard. And WiMAX is already being deployed in many countries around the world, not just the US.
I wouldn't be surprised to see WiMAX/CDMA/GSM triband phones/cards popping up in the not so distant future.
Yes, the current Joomla is based largely on Mambo, that's because they recently split. But from what I understand, Joomla 1.1 (I'm hearing it will actually be called 1.5) will have a new underlying structure that makes everything more uniform and easier to use, as well as making less problems for third parties and their components/modules.
What I also like about Joomla over Mambo is that Mambo releases patches maybe once every four months and just for a security issue. Joomla releases patches to fix minor bugs and security issues more on a monthly basis, which, in my eyes, is good because it shows they're listening and are constantly galvanizing their product, not just letting it stagnate.
I don't see in what way this can be good for the consumer. Less competition = less push for innovation, higher prices, and every reason Bell was broken up in the first place. I see some pretty strong resistance from regulators on this one, although the article says it will be approved with little restriction.
Actually, they can put a breathalyzer in your car. A friend of mine's next door neighbor had one in her car that would not allow the car to start if she had alcohol in her system. Yes, it was court mandated.
I'd agree with the latter. They seem to make great products, but somehow finds a way to screw it up with bad software. Case in point: Sonicstage. They have great MP3 players, but what good are they if you can't put the music on them?
Sprint has offered music as ringtones for their phones for a looong time now. But, if you've got Sprint and you want music, then you want Vision. And if you have Vision, you have a $5 monthly credit towards anything you purchase through the phone from sprint, mainly being games, web apps, and ringtones. So Think of it as two free songs per month. You may say that it's a $5 discount, but if you don't spend it, you don't get it back as a discount on your monthly bill.
I've played against him before, he co-founded a LAN party I helped organize in my city (Lee's Summit, MO). It's amazing how good he is at the games he plays. About the income, think about it. The first year he won the CPL, he won 50,000 dollars, a contract with the original Razor mouse company, and then went on to make money in other various tournaments around the world. Hell, he drives a Ford Focus around town that he won by being the best. Now he's got the (arguably) most gamer-oriented hardware company in the world (Abit) with his name on their premier line of products.
It's not any wonder.
I'm sure with Google's buying power they can afford most of those parts at well below wholesale prices. I'd bet the power supplies, motherboards, and other things are probably custom fabricated for these boxes.
As for the heat, well that is an issue. But what about liquid cooling? That woudn't be that difficult to implement.
Here's my main concern over everything else, though. What if the driver put in charge of driving these ooutrageously expensive boxes across the country hits a deer, jacknifes the truck, and rolls your brand new datacenter on wheels? Ouch.
And of course, how many FPS can it do in Q3?
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The reusable launch vehicle that whose prototype was 85% assembled with 96% of the parts and the launch facility 100%? Only to be cancelled in 2001? Yeah, me neither. Oh, and it's all still there and Lockheed is still working on similar airframe prototypes, even going as far as successfuly testing 1/5th scale updated models? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-33 Why are we spending all of this money on Ares when it is riddled with problems like...say...shaking the astronauts to death on launch? Ares is a joke. If anything, we should just dig-up the Saturn V plans, take the best from it, and then build a craft that has 2009 technologies in it instead of reinventing the wheel. The whole idea of saving money by using the Shuttle SRBs has been completely negated by the fact that the ship built on that concept is a complete clusterfuck and is costing more than if we had just started over from scratch.
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"? Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly. Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave! Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! But really. The Internet isn't a damn packet radio network. Transmission errors are largely a thing that has been taken care of via providers putting infrastructure in place to make retransmits unnecessary. In fact, BitTorrent over UDP shuld sould like a good thing to Service Providers....unless they are over-subscribed kinda like this whole subprime thing. Wait. Comcast...node...saturation....no wonder they're spreading fire-and-brimstone FUD. They HATE spending money. On the other-hand, we have hashing. So if the connection is adequate, then ISPs shuld praise this sort of thing for lowering their network overhead.
Excellent findings, CrazyKen. I think RFC1166 is still valid, but is superseded by ARIN's authority over delegation of Internet Numbers. RFC1166 basically defines subnetting, but has obsolete information in the list of delegated subnets. There is a newer RFC that handles the definition of Internet protocols and addressing, but doesn't officially oobsolete RFC1166, only builds on and references it. I think this company may be in for Federal charges on theft, impersonation, mail fraud, wire fraud, and a myriad of other federal offenses. They better have damn good evidence of a transaction between them and NASA Ames research center in purchasing a /16 network or otherwise proof of someone else obtaining this block and reselling it to them. Any way they look at it, ARIN DOES have authority over IP address space, whether it was allocated before its inception or not.
A little more digging around reveals that NASA reserved this space for use of testing and implementing TCP/IP links over AX.25 (packet radio). This was later part of the NASA Science Internet; which eventually just became part of the Internet. The company name SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC looks to be a bogus company name to make it look to ARIN that it is the original owner of the address space, reserved and documented in RFC 1166 in 1990. Most accurately known as identity theft. It is most likely that NASA Ames and subsequently the US Government still owns the 134.17.0.0/16 address space. I wonder if someone could get in touch Mr. Medin, who is now the founder and CTO of M2Z Networks, Inc of Menlo Park, CA and ask him if he knows much more about this. It is possible that this space has actually been hijacked from NASA Ames Research Center.
The very first evidence I can find of the 134.17.0.0 being reserved is referenced in RFC 1166 to BAY-PR-NET with a contact of a Mr. Milo Medin of NASA Science Internet Program Office (MEDIN@NSIPO.NASA.GOV), who This RFC is obviously outdated (July 1990), but government agencies usually don't give up their IP space. Initial impression is that NASA was/is involved in providing connectivity to the Pacific Rim; in some ways with AX.25. If this is still the case, then the US Government should have a little talk with whoever gave/sold one of their /16 nets to some lady in Colorado who is the CIO for one of the most notorious spammers in the world.
Exactly, but ME was more of s Stop-gap measure to buy Microsoft some time to transition to the NT base. It was essentially 98 with some features of XP. I ran it for some time, but it just sucked. Badly. Vista was originally supposed to be what 95 was to 3.1, but they had so many problems developing some features (which worked better than they do today in alpha builds of LH) that they decided to do a reset and start over again and basically do a ME, just better. We all know how well that went over. They should have toughed out the original LH issues and taken a bit longer, that way we wouldn't be in the debacle that Vista is today. But, of course, as it always is in Microsoft, politics were involved. Although Vista was built on a new code base unlike ME, it was dumbed down and hurried to be pushed out the door on schedule.
Wasn't this what Vista was supposed to do in the first place? It was supposed to be a dramatic departure from previous versions, but too much politics pressured developers into making backwards compatability a little too over-bearing on the system. This is clearly what they were trying to accomplish with Vista, but higher-ups were too afraid to do it, so they told them to half-ass everything to make it all work. After seeing what a disaster Vista has become, both on the development and user experience side of things, the Higher-ups have no choice but to listen to what their devs wanted in the first place; kill legacy. Not build it in and make it limp along half-working and hard to develop for, but just start with a clean slate and build a kickass base OS and worry about compatability with older applications and frameworks later. Basically, they tore a page out of OS X's plan of action.
The one company that has the guff and will to push 64-bit exclusive apps that many people rely on has yet to release a 64-bit build for Linux (Flash). Why?
On my flights from Minneapolis to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Memphis the in-seat entertainment on the A330-300 screens ran RedHat. They booted it and like others on here have already mentioned, it showed the familiar penguin on the boot loader. And something that got a bit of a laugh out of me was that Garden State was showing on them and they cut out the beginning scene of the movie where the plane is going down. Anything to keep passengers from thinking of a crash.
did Suzuki start making spacecraft?
And they already do this via microwave and radio. More specifically, they monitor a lot of their substations and large important objects via a telecom link and have RF or microwave transmitters as a backup. I worked for the department that monitored the transmission and distribution of power and I got to see exactly how their entire monitoring system for their entire grid works. Every point in their grid that can cause havoc is monitored in real-time (4 second interval). I don't exactly see what this article is getting at. In fact, this kind of monitoring is a FERC requirement. While not on a scale of what this article is saying, they can already pinpoint outages to the closest substation or transformer.
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
For those of you who say that a glabal standard isn't possible because Sprint controls the spectrum, think again. Like someone else said, the technology can run on a multitude of different frequencies. "So what? Sprint will lock you into using their service by making you use their hardware that runs on theirs ond only their network," you may say. "Nothing will change from how it is today." Well, if you didn't know, Intel will be integrating WiMAX into Centrino. Now it is highly doubtful Intel would be so foolish as to lock themselves into a single market that isn't accessible in all areas. This means that WiMAX will be "unlockable" kind of like how GSM phones are today. Which is also why GSM is the global standard. And WiMAX is already being deployed in many countries around the world, not just the US.
I wouldn't be surprised to see WiMAX/CDMA/GSM triband phones/cards popping up in the not so distant future.
Yes, the current Joomla is based largely on Mambo, that's because they recently split. But from what I understand, Joomla 1.1 (I'm hearing it will actually be called 1.5) will have a new underlying structure that makes everything more uniform and easier to use, as well as making less problems for third parties and their components/modules. What I also like about Joomla over Mambo is that Mambo releases patches maybe once every four months and just for a security issue. Joomla releases patches to fix minor bugs and security issues more on a monthly basis, which, in my eyes, is good because it shows they're listening and are constantly galvanizing their product, not just letting it stagnate.
I don't see in what way this can be good for the consumer. Less competition = less push for innovation, higher prices, and every reason Bell was broken up in the first place. I see some pretty strong resistance from regulators on this one, although the article says it will be approved with little restriction.
Your comment is pure troll bait. You know that, right? Becasue that's why you made it.
Intel is still behind AMD in the 64-bit x86 arena. By the likes of nearly TWO YEARS.
He was still censored by the government nonetheless.
Actually, they can put a breathalyzer in your car. A friend of mine's next door neighbor had one in her car that would not allow the car to start if she had alcohol in her system. Yes, it was court mandated.
I'd agree with the latter. They seem to make great products, but somehow finds a way to screw it up with bad software. Case in point: Sonicstage. They have great MP3 players, but what good are they if you can't put the music on them?
I highly agree with the list, but I agree, Ender's Game should be on the list. Oh, and nice Ahnold parody quote. :)
Sprint has offered music as ringtones for their phones for a looong time now. But, if you've got Sprint and you want music, then you want Vision. And if you have Vision, you have a $5 monthly credit towards anything you purchase through the phone from sprint, mainly being games, web apps, and ringtones. So Think of it as two free songs per month. You may say that it's a $5 discount, but if you don't spend it, you don't get it back as a discount on your monthly bill.
I've played against him before, he co-founded a LAN party I helped organize in my city (Lee's Summit, MO). It's amazing how good he is at the games he plays. About the income, think about it. The first year he won the CPL, he won 50,000 dollars, a contract with the original Razor mouse company, and then went on to make money in other various tournaments around the world. Hell, he drives a Ford Focus around town that he won by being the best. Now he's got the (arguably) most gamer-oriented hardware company in the world (Abit) with his name on their premier line of products. It's not any wonder.
True. I'm willing to be he doesn't know about the exact cost. He also mentioned two industrial designers. Anyone know who they are?
I'm sure with Google's buying power they can afford most of those parts at well below wholesale prices. I'd bet the power supplies, motherboards, and other things are probably custom fabricated for these boxes. As for the heat, well that is an issue. But what about liquid cooling? That woudn't be that difficult to implement. Here's my main concern over everything else, though. What if the driver put in charge of driving these ooutrageously expensive boxes across the country hits a deer, jacknifes the truck, and rolls your brand new datacenter on wheels? Ouch. And of course, how many FPS can it do in Q3?