You know.. I've read through the threads on the Ubuntu forums. I've followed your posts here...
I just find it highly ironic that you spew what you do about people not reading what you are typing, have the signature you have, and just can't seem to read their responses all the way through for content before you lash back out.
Stick with windows. The world will be a happier place.
I can't help but smile a bit that MSN weather in this test turns out to be the absolutely worst when it comes to accuracy in almost all categories. That's because MSN is trying to control the weather, not predict it. Trends are for sissies.
You mention rocket propulsion in your post. Scientists that worked on the Orion Project "way back when" had abandoned that as potential propulsion for long distances due to efficiency.
From the wiki article:
The Orion nuclear pulse rocket design has extremely high performance. Orion nuclear pulse rockets using nuclear fission type pulse units were originally intended for use on interplanetary space flights. Orion rockets using nuclear fusion pulse units were intended for use on interstellar space flights.
The top cruise velocity that can be achieved by a thermonuclear Orion starship is about 8% to 10% of the speed of light (0.08-0.1c). An atomic (fission) Orion can achieve perhaps 3%-5% of the speed of light. A nuclear pulse drive starship powered by matter-antimatter pulse units would be theoretically capable of obtaining a velocity between 50% to 80% of the speed of light.
Missions that were designed for an Orion vehicle in the original project included single stage (i.e., directly from Earth's surface) to Mars and back, and a trip to one of the moons of Saturn.
Nuclear fission pulse unit powered Orions could provide a fast, economical interplanetary transportation with useful human crewed payloads of gargantuan mass.
Orion's technology is also one of very few interstellar space drives that could be constructed with known technology. Orion is the ideal method of propelling a multi-generational starship such as an interstellar ark to the stars at velocities of up to 10% of the velocity of light.
Even at 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships will require a flight time of 44 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star. An Orion starship would require 100 years to travel 10 light years, or 500 years to travel 50 light years. The late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that this would be an excellent use for current stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
From Linus' standpoint, I can see where it's not a big deal. He doesn't write the ripping, office, productivity, or gaming software, he just works with the core of the system.
If someone wants to add that to the system after they've released the core to the various folks that are going to do their own compilations, that's no big deal.
He doesn't care if, for example, Ubuntu does a full DRM support implimentation, and RedHat says no. There will be enough distro's out there that you will still be able to get one that is closest to your belief on how one should run that it makes no difference. His level is above the level that such decisions need to be made, and his stance is absoltely correct in this case.
I use CPTP, because pigeons are cheap and plentiful where I live. Granted, a page takes forever to load, but I have this rack of old hollowed out ACER monitor shells that I use as roosts for the birds.
And then... Patrolling sharks with lasers and cameras on their heads, dressed like constables, or maybe austin powers himself....
To an extent, the cameras are a great tool, possibly not for preventing crime, but for finding the perpetrators later on. Nothing like recorded evidence. The hard part will be to keep the sharks from eating the witnesses on the stand.
Sure, elect him as prez, so our foreign policy can be finally flushed down the toilet. 'W' put it there, let BG finish it off. The EU folks just love him already...
"The lack of "buzz" around Vista and apathy towards upgrading - despite its myriad improvements - are a tacit acknowledgement of just how good Windows 2000 and XP were(/are)..."
This sounds like a troll, but I'll answer it from an IT person's perspective anyway... (your milage may vary)
When MS recently rolled out IE7, about 1/3 of our employees ignored all the emails we sent out telling them to "not install it until all web-based applications have been tested, and are either certified to work with IE7, or fixed to work with it."
Now they are pushing an operating system at us that will create more work for us, no doubt. I love the earlier post where it was mentioned as having all these good points.. but wasn't stable when they tested it.
I like 2000 and XP because we as a corporation have figured out how to make all our software work on it, and business is good. Once you have a stable environment, you want to test anything new, to make sure that all remains good. A core change like an OS is not a good thing right off the bat. Even with compatibility mode, when we switched to XP, and got the last people in the company off 98 machines, we had issues.
Just because they have shiny new bling, doesn't mean I want it. Rule of thumb around here... do -NOT- be an early adopter of any new technology until at least service pack 1. Let everyone else be the beta testers. And I don't care what any manufacturer says. If it is new, it's still beta. (Not just bashing MS here.)
Go ahead.. be an early adopter. I'll wait and see. 2000 and XP were not that great when they first came out. If you are comparing them to Win95/98, or even 3.1... please...
I remember text based MUDs that you could log into the world over. There were several means you could take to becoming an admin (god) on that realm, but what it really let you do was program your own series of encounters or quests in an area set aside for you.
Granted, a graphical MMO is in an entirely different class, but I think that having a core continent or two for the core developers, and outlying areas / dungeons / instances for people that want to sign on and develop would be a great idea.
Problems : - You are pretty much throwing your storyline out the window, as add-on areas will reflect the individual programmers interpretation of the main storyline. This could be overcome with a manifesto being made for add-on content, and a review process before it would be allowed live. (much like the linux kernal, I'm guessing.) - Continuity, related level of difficulty, rewards, etc..etc.. In these seperate areas, the core devs would need to control the drop tables, and ensure that it relates well to the core areas. Possibly having a dictionary of mobs that satellite developers could use / modify for use in their areas. Lots of ways you could work with this. - Compatibility. There is a lot more work to be done in this regard than most think. If you have flying mounts or characters, there is a whole additional pane of the area that has to be textured, made solid, etc. Model sizing. (nuff said)
In short, it's a lot harder to make something like this work with a large group of unrelated programmers than with straight code, IMHO.
Give me a medium ranged sniper rifle with silencer. For about 20$ worth of ammo (match grade), I'll take a couple million dollars worth of robots offline. This isn't a solution, it's a toy. Whoever runs out of money first loses. Keep setting them up, and pass the ammo.
For it to be effective, you need area denial (mines), and human supervision. Ideally, you'll seperate the sensors from the gun, so that the gun can be protected until needed. Also, hide the sensors. If they're not necessarily near the gun, you don't draw attention to it until it's ready to fire. If you really want to mess with someone, have another system on relay that can launch tear gas if it detects a large group of people coming. Add in wire to slow them down and channel them, and you're starting to have a defense. Have humans there with the real defense.
This is a great augmentation to a defense, but if it replaces it, you're going to be overrun soon.
Combine this with the shirt that has the equalizer bars on it, so you can show people you are rocking out.
Personally, after seeing the pics / videos of both shirts, I believe the equalizer shirt exists. The air guitar shirt I see too many erros in the video. Playing notes that an elbow sensor couldn't pick up, and playing notes on its own to name 2.
Basically, they're like the old Danish Vikings. To quote Kipling "That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane." Once people started paying them off, they'd leave for a while, then come back. Historians have found more Anglo-Saxon pence of this period in Denmark than in England.
This is just the modern day version, and they're not the only company doing it. We've just traded in swords and shields for lawyers with pens.
Personally, I think we'd be a lot better off if we just gave the lawyers and litigants swords.
They're already using these in Washington DC. Suddenly, 10 minutes after flipping the switch, there is a HUGE energy surplus. Scientists are mystified.
I remember talking to a vendor 20 years ago. His company had a way of identifying people by their typing habits. Time between keys, spelling, etc. So you've added the mouse to it, and are tying it in to surfing habits.. big deal. Why did it take 20 years?
It'll be tied to cookies, bluetooth, and that proximity chip in your head pretty soon. This isn't really news, it's the logical progression of technology. Tech works best when you know who it's aimed at, especially advertising and remote controlled guns. (Same effect, really. )
Novell / SuSe's SLED 10 does that already. It holds multiple desktops, and lets you flip through them quickly also. I've looked at both, and while some things uniquely windows won't run on SLED10, I find it much more stable and secure. Granted, Vista is still in development, and SLED10 is in production, but still. I have no plans to go Vista. I'm sticking with SLED10, as it's the first real *nix I could put on my laptop and still do all my work on. I work in an environment with a Novell backbone (100+ servers), Citrix/App Center (600+ servers), and mixed Unix environment (100+ server). I have to support apps on all 3, and this fit the gap nicely for me.
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You know.. I've read through the threads on the Ubuntu forums. I've followed your posts here...
I just find it highly ironic that you spew what you do about people not reading what you are typing, have the signature you have, and just can't seem to read their responses all the way through for content before you lash back out.
Stick with windows. The world will be a happier place.
You mention rocket propulsion in your post. Scientists that worked on the Orion Project "way back when" had abandoned that as potential propulsion for long distances due to efficiency.
From the wiki article
The top cruise velocity that can be achieved by a thermonuclear Orion starship is about 8% to 10% of the speed of light (0.08-0.1c). An atomic (fission) Orion can achieve perhaps 3%-5% of the speed of light. A nuclear pulse drive starship powered by matter-antimatter pulse units would be theoretically capable of obtaining a velocity between 50% to 80% of the speed of light.
Missions that were designed for an Orion vehicle in the original project included single stage (i.e., directly from Earth's surface) to Mars and back, and a trip to one of the moons of Saturn.
Nuclear fission pulse unit powered Orions could provide a fast, economical interplanetary transportation with useful human crewed payloads of gargantuan mass.
Orion's technology is also one of very few interstellar space drives that could be constructed with known technology. Orion is the ideal method of propelling a multi-generational starship such as an interstellar ark to the stars at velocities of up to 10% of the velocity of light.
Even at 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships will require a flight time of 44 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star. An Orion starship would require 100 years to travel 10 light years, or 500 years to travel 50 light years. The late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that this would be an excellent use for current stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
From Linus' standpoint, I can see where it's not a big deal. He doesn't write the ripping, office, productivity, or gaming software, he just works with the core of the system.
If someone wants to add that to the system after they've released the core to the various folks that are going to do their own compilations, that's no big deal.
He doesn't care if, for example, Ubuntu does a full DRM support implimentation, and RedHat says no. There will be enough distro's out there that you will still be able to get one that is closest to your belief on how one should run that it makes no difference. His level is above the level that such decisions need to be made, and his stance is absoltely correct in this case.
I use CPTP, because pigeons are cheap and plentiful where I live. Granted, a page takes forever to load, but I have this rack of old hollowed out ACER monitor shells that I use as roosts for the birds.
A win all around.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
And then... Patrolling sharks with lasers and cameras on their heads, dressed like constables, or maybe austin powers himself....
To an extent, the cameras are a great tool, possibly not for preventing crime, but for finding the perpetrators later on. Nothing like recorded evidence. The hard part will be to keep the sharks from eating the witnesses on the stand.
Earliest known fossil of a 2-faced politician found.
Unfortunately, no-one believed it then either, so it died out.
Go for the gusto..
http://plutohome.com/
Sure, elect him as prez, so our foreign policy can be finally flushed down the toilet. 'W' put it there, let BG finish it off. The EU folks just love him already...
"The lack of "buzz" around Vista and apathy towards upgrading - despite its myriad improvements - are a tacit acknowledgement of just how good Windows 2000 and XP were(/are)..."
This sounds like a troll, but I'll answer it from an IT person's perspective anyway... (your milage may vary)
When MS recently rolled out IE7, about 1/3 of our employees ignored all the emails we sent out telling them to "not install it until all web-based applications have been tested, and are either certified to work with IE7, or fixed to work with it."
Now they are pushing an operating system at us that will create more work for us, no doubt. I love the earlier post where it was mentioned as having all these good points.. but wasn't stable when they tested it.
I like 2000 and XP because we as a corporation have figured out how to make all our software work on it, and business is good. Once you have a stable environment, you want to test anything new, to make sure that all remains good. A core change like an OS is not a good thing right off the bat. Even with compatibility mode, when we switched to XP, and got the last people in the company off 98 machines, we had issues.
Just because they have shiny new bling, doesn't mean I want it. Rule of thumb around here... do -NOT- be an early adopter of any new technology until at least service pack 1. Let everyone else be the beta testers. And I don't care what any manufacturer says. If it is new, it's still beta. (Not just bashing MS here.)
Go ahead.. be an early adopter. I'll wait and see. 2000 and XP were not that great when they first came out. If you are comparing them to Win95/98, or even 3.1... please...
I thought it was :
Give a man a fish, and he'll be well fed.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll spend all day in a cheap boat with his buddies, drunk off his ass.
Or is that just me?
Six Sigma is a process that allows middle managers to generate enough work and paperwork to justify their existance.
I remember text based MUDs that you could log into the world over. There were several means you could take to becoming an admin (god) on that realm, but what it really let you do was program your own series of encounters or quests in an area set aside for you.
Granted, a graphical MMO is in an entirely different class, but I think that having a core continent or two for the core developers, and outlying areas / dungeons / instances for people that want to sign on and develop would be a great idea.
Problems :
- You are pretty much throwing your storyline out the window, as add-on areas will reflect the individual programmers interpretation of the main storyline. This could be overcome with a manifesto being made for add-on content, and a review process before it would be allowed live. (much like the linux kernal, I'm guessing.)
- Continuity, related level of difficulty, rewards, etc..etc.. In these seperate areas, the core devs would need to control the drop tables, and ensure that it relates well to the core areas. Possibly having a dictionary of mobs that satellite developers could use / modify for use in their areas. Lots of ways you could work with this.
- Compatibility. There is a lot more work to be done in this regard than most think. If you have flying mounts or characters, there is a whole additional pane of the area that has to be textured, made solid, etc. Model sizing. (nuff said)
In short, it's a lot harder to make something like this work with a large group of unrelated programmers than with straight code, IMHO.
I'd love to see it done, though.
Give me a medium ranged sniper rifle with silencer. For about 20$ worth of ammo (match grade), I'll take a couple million dollars worth of robots offline. This isn't a solution, it's a toy. Whoever runs out of money first loses. Keep setting them up, and pass the ammo.
For it to be effective, you need area denial (mines), and human supervision. Ideally, you'll seperate the sensors from the gun, so that the gun can be protected until needed. Also, hide the sensors. If they're not necessarily near the gun, you don't draw attention to it until it's ready to fire. If you really want to mess with someone, have another system on relay that can launch tear gas if it detects a large group of people coming. Add in wire to slow them down and channel them, and you're starting to have a defense. Have humans there with the real defense.
This is a great augmentation to a defense, but if it replaces it, you're going to be overrun soon.
Combine this with the shirt that has the equalizer bars on it, so you can show people you are rocking out. Personally, after seeing the pics / videos of both shirts, I believe the equalizer shirt exists. The air guitar shirt I see too many erros in the video. Playing notes that an elbow sensor couldn't pick up, and playing notes on its own to name 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld
Basically, they're like the old Danish Vikings. To quote Kipling "That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane." Once people started paying them off, they'd leave for a while, then come back. Historians have found more Anglo-Saxon pence of this period in Denmark than in England.
This is just the modern day version, and they're not the only company doing it. We've just traded in swords and shields for lawyers with pens.
Personally, I think we'd be a lot better off if we just gave the lawyers and litigants swords.
.. by opening it to contributors, you know any alien that gets it is going to be flooded by popup ads.
They'll rush right over here and exterminate us soooooo fast.....
There will be a whole new industry formed..
A tactile mouse shaped like.. you guessed it.. a breast.
So if I don't buy a license, I can restrict the kids in my house to 1hr Internet usage a day?
I don't see the problem here.
They're already using these in Washington DC.
Suddenly, 10 minutes after flipping the switch, there is a HUGE energy surplus.
Scientists are mystified.
"Enormous cyclones I think are just a side-effect of gas"
Fixed your statement.
I remember talking to a vendor 20 years ago. His company had a way of identifying people by their typing habits. Time between keys, spelling, etc. So you've added the mouse to it, and are tying it in to surfing habits.. big deal. Why did it take 20 years?
It'll be tied to cookies, bluetooth, and that proximity chip in your head pretty soon. This isn't really news, it's the logical progression of technology. Tech works best when you know who it's aimed at, especially advertising and remote controlled guns. (Same effect, really. )
Won't cost Microsoft much to rename everything MSBBC either. *tongue in cheek*
Novell / SuSe's SLED 10 does that already. It holds multiple desktops, and lets you flip through them quickly also.
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I've looked at both, and while some things uniquely windows won't run on SLED10, I find it much more stable and secure. Granted, Vista is still in development, and SLED10 is in production, but still. I have no plans to go Vista. I'm sticking with SLED10, as it's the first real *nix I could put on my laptop and still do all my work on. I work in an environment with a Novell backbone (100+ servers), Citrix/App Center (600+ servers), and mixed Unix environment (100+ server). I have to support apps on all 3, and this fit the gap nicely for me.
Installation info : http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/SLED10:_Installa
Novell Main site : http://www.novell.com/linux/
The problem wasn't in building a laser that could reach orbit. The problem was in teaching the sharks to look up.