From what I can see in the market right now, 1. Everyone says they need more storage, so the market for it should be huge 2. SAN or NAS configurations are always more expensive than people think (even though they are radically more cheap than they were two-three years ago). 3. Because of the sticker-shock, a lot of people actually spend their first swipe at the problem cleaning out the cruft and streamlining their business processes and data management rather than drop coinage on storage kit 4. Storage companies are having a very hard time here in Japan, probably from the influx of vendors (see #1 above).
For people living in and around Tokyo, a car itself is a luxury-- just as it would be for someone in Manhattan. You cannot buy a car without proof of parking space (usually $200-400/month).
With that market, expensive add-ons to pimp out your ride are very appealing. Those who go to the trouble to own a car (when you really don't need one in the city) are obviously very into that car as a status symbol. Combined with the absolute need for mapping systems (the grid is purposefully convoluted), and Sony should see some good sales.
No one here uses CD players in cars-- they all use MD players, but are quickly moving to HDDs that interface with their iPODs. DVDs are a nice way to spend the time while waiting in traffic or waiting for friends to arrive (I usually wait 30 minutes somewhere when meeting friends).
Okay-- you`re right. But that merely shifts the venue to a federal court US vs. Tresspasser, on the grounds of violating federal law (the treaty). It would still be much better than the lobby-fest that happens now iwth the FCC (IMHO).
A fine way for the United States (of which I am a citizen) to find yet another way to piss off the rest of the world would be to ignore the enforcement of these treaties by disbanding the FCC
I`m sorry, but I do not see how the two issues are linked. If the FCC were disbanded (sooner the better), then why would that interfere or break international treaties? Private owners of spectrum slices would have to comply with international treaties or face legal suits or repercussions, just as a private oil tanker that tresspasses in Spanish waters faces suit/impoundment by the Spaniards. Tresspassing is tresspassing, as the article rightly points out-- and t he courts/judiciary are well equiped to handle.
...make a well funded ($400M or more) startup that would develop something like ReactOS-- specifically, a win2k compatible (driver, application, UI, filesystem, everything) OS. You could base it on a lot of open source code, but make a commercial product....And do it all in 2 or 3 years.
Riiiight. Commercial product off of OSS. Well, Red Hat has been trying that for 8 years now, and, while succesful, the desktop still gives them the willies. At that, RH is the only realy company to make OSS fly, and even that required "subscription" licence voodoo dealing with the GPL.
Don't get me wrong-- I loved WinAmp back in the day. But making a W2K replacement just for the sake of it will never work financially-- what OEM would preload that? Which IHV would really REALLY risk pissing off MS just to save the few bucks they pay in royalties to MS?
Too bad your post won't get a fair hearing here in Slashdot land-- as you have calmly and logically defanged every outlandish point in the parent diatribe.
If only slashdotters were as smart with their politics as they are trashing Microsoft...
round up *ALL* the fissionable material (including that in the US) and to place it under international (UN) oversight.
The UN?!?!? Please no!
These are the same assholes that grafted billions in the Oil-for-food programme, and put Syria on the Human Rights Commission. What a joke organization. I wouldn't trust them with anything more lethal than a police baton and a water cannon.
Equivalancy among nation-states is an illusion. Not all states have equal power, resources, nor equitable governments. As such, defaulting to the UN is rarely a solution.
Why would such a simple "case mod" make the Slashdot front page? It isn't even a "case mod", it's a "case decal".
I might as well dig out some shag carpet from my parent's house basement, glue it to the sides of my desktop machine, and post some pics. Results would be the same: something that looks cool for a couple weeks, then becomes tacky, then downright ugly and embarrassing in a few months.
Yeah right, like any terrorists would use unencrypted email
Hey, these are the same dipshits that confused AM/PM on their bomb in Spain, and blew themselves up in Gaza because they didn't account for daylight savings time.
I am sure that some of them try to use encryption, but: 1. I would guess a mojroity of the traffic is in the clear, "security through nonchalance and obfuscation"
2. What makes you think that the encryption systems available to the general public aren't easily cracked by the boys in Virginia and Maryland?
All of that technology, to serve what end? Killing people.
Fucking A. killing very very bad people. People who are out to destroy me and my family. People who kill at random, using the most terrifying methods as possible.
I cannot believe you are trying to write off the benefit to the world brought by the whole American experiment because of its military-- the same military that defeated the Nazis, the Communists, a whole peanut gallery of pirates, dictators, and terrorists, BTW.
I would have to agree with this assessment, and add that JPY 68,000 is a lot to pay for something like this, especially when compared to the Sharp Zaurus C-760 PDA, which also "runs Linux", has 640x480, is Flash upgradable to a full open OS, and retails for JPY 45,000 (~$420).
The only thing this has going for it is the 8-inch screen, which is not so much of an advantage if it cannot fit in your pocket, and therefore must be treated like a full notebook PC.
By then, Nuclear war will have happened, and humans will be back to the stone age, or at least some quasi-magick age like in Thundarr The Barbarian. When this thing lands, an evil wizard will use its powers to "make lightning" come out of a stick or something.
When I was walking into NEC a couple months ago with my ggod friend at Red Hat, I asked him why he worked at a Linux company. He told me, "Because it will be the last OS". It took me a while for that to really sink in-- but I think it has a stong chance at becoming true. Any major advances in security, compartmentability, portability, etc. will wind up in Linux. Even if they are developed in some subbranch or separate OS (QNX, Embedded, BSD), the features and code concepts could (and most likely will) find their way into Linux.
The only thing that would prevent such "Borgification" would be a superior kernel structure with a fundamentally different architecture. Sure, there will be one eventually, but the temptation to graft that into Linux will be too great, and "Linux" will most likely adapt, rather than get killed.
Since it would take light 50 years to travel to the planet
I never get this, do Americans say 'it would take 10 miles to drive to the shops'?
Well,
1. You would be better off to not try and generalize a population of 300 million people. Some are more smart than you, others probably not as much.
2. Read the sentence again. Do you understand what a light-year is? It is the distance it takes light to travel in one year. Since the planet is 50 light-years away, it would take light 50 years to get there (the sentence is correct).
I think that, in your rush to sound smug and superior to those "dumb" Americans, you`ve tripped up on your own arrogance.
We're developing our own balloon trajectory control system that hasn't been publicised yet, and it will be what flies on mars and earth, not this pile of garbage from GAC. I beleive the model they showed us was flawed in many ways, so we decided we could design it better in-house. Not really sure why there's an article on this, but you might as well not worry about any advancements on this particular project, as it will never materialize
Hrmmmm... I am not sure which is worse:
1. the inferred arrogance of this post (and assumingly in that office and NASA in general) 2. the theiving of intellectual property (you will most likely use some of their ideas somewhere) 3. the declatory statements that your office has a monopoly on things.
Aren`t any ofthe rants getting through to you guys at NASA? When will you simply focus on supporting destinations and building simple platforms, through which the rest of us can then launch/explore/build what we want? (yes, we will pay you the fees...)
Dont get me wrong I am not anti-NASA, I am just anti-mars right now. We could use that money for more important things.
Like what? The ISS? Shuttle?
You`ve hit the common misperception with this plan-- it does not increase the NASA budget drastically. Rather, it reassigns funds within the current budget, adding around 10% to the total.
This plan is good if only for the fact that it gives some focus and a destination for NASA. The ISS will be built and then funding will end; the shuttle will be retired.
Personally, I like the broad outlines, as it forces the bureaucratic nightmare that NASA has become to get some shit done-- which will eventually push them to privatizing (or at least allowing privatization) of many parts in the chain if only to accomplish what they need to do to reach their big goals.
Before everyone starts jumping up and down claiming that "productization" of politics is a bad thing-- please realize it`s been happening since the inception of the US republic: the tracts coming out of Boston (Common Sense, Federalist Papers) were all "productization" of one form or another-- the idea that you must package a message in palpable and swallowable formats for the masses to recieve and understand that message.
Poets, Priests and Politicians use words for your submission. The Internet thrives on disseminating text. It's just taken a while for the campaigns to figure out the most effective ways of doing that. Looking back, it makes sense that this would only happen _after_ the hypsters of the dot-com era faded away. Now that all the Flash intros, goofy graphics and image maps have all evaporated, the Internet is (hopefully) getting back to what it does best: disseminate text and solicit commentary. Wikipedia, Slashdot, Fark, and Google all understand this.
It is true that such comments never do contain a rational conclusion,
I _do_ understand that Godwins Law is a descriptive one. My proposed supplement is also descriptive. I don`t mean to "disqualify" any poster who mentions the current administration, I am only trying to describe what you also say is "true": anyone who posts such a message weakens their post so much, that any rational conclusion, present or not, is rendered impotent.
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From what I can see in the market right now,
1. Everyone says they need more storage, so the market for it should be huge
2. SAN or NAS configurations are always more expensive than people think (even though they are radically more cheap than they were two-three years ago).
3. Because of the sticker-shock, a lot of people actually spend their first swipe at the problem cleaning out the cruft and streamlining their business processes and data management rather than drop coinage on storage kit
4. Storage companies are having a very hard time here in Japan, probably from the influx of vendors (see #1 above).
For people living in and around Tokyo, a car itself is a luxury-- just as it would be for someone in Manhattan. You cannot buy a car without proof of parking space (usually $200-400/month).
With that market, expensive add-ons to pimp out your ride are very appealing. Those who go to the trouble to own a car (when you really don't need one in the city) are obviously very into that car as a status symbol. Combined with the absolute need for mapping systems (the grid is purposefully convoluted), and Sony should see some good sales.
No one here uses CD players in cars-- they all use MD players, but are quickly moving to HDDs that interface with their iPODs. DVDs are a nice way to spend the time while waiting in traffic or waiting for friends to arrive (I usually wait 30 minutes somewhere when meeting friends).
Okay-- you`re right. But that merely shifts the venue to a federal court US vs. Tresspasser, on the grounds of violating federal law (the treaty). It would still be much better than the lobby-fest that happens now iwth the FCC (IMHO).
A fine way for the United States (of which I am a citizen) to find yet another way to piss off the rest of the world would be to ignore the enforcement of these treaties by disbanding the FCC
I`m sorry, but I do not see how the two issues are linked. If the FCC were disbanded (sooner the better), then why would that interfere or break international treaties? Private owners of spectrum slices would have to comply with international treaties or face legal suits or repercussions, just as a private oil tanker that tresspasses in Spanish waters faces suit/impoundment by the Spaniards. Tresspassing is tresspassing, as the article rightly points out-- and t he courts/judiciary are well equiped to handle.
Why is the lady in that picture purple?
She`s an Oompa-Loompa (the movie only showed the men... this is what their wives look like).
...make a well funded ($400M or more) startup that would develop something like ReactOS-- specifically, a win2k compatible (driver, application, UI, filesystem, everything) OS. You could base it on a lot of open source code, but make a commercial product....And do it all in 2 or 3 years.
Riiiight. Commercial product off of OSS.
Well, Red Hat has been trying that for 8 years now, and, while succesful, the desktop still gives them the willies. At that, RH is the only realy company to make OSS fly, and even that required "subscription" licence voodoo dealing with the GPL.
Don't get me wrong-- I loved WinAmp back in the day. But making a W2K replacement just for the sake of it will never work financially-- what OEM would preload that? Which IHV would really REALLY risk pissing off MS just to save the few bucks they pay in royalties to MS?
Mod Parent UP!!!!
Too bad your post won't get a fair hearing here in Slashdot land-- as you have calmly and logically defanged every outlandish point in the parent diatribe.
If only slashdotters were as smart with their politics as they are trashing Microsoft...
round up *ALL* the fissionable material (including that in the US) and to place it under international (UN) oversight.
The UN?!?!? Please no!
These are the same assholes that grafted billions in the Oil-for-food programme, and put Syria on the Human Rights Commission. What a joke organization. I wouldn't trust them with anything more lethal than a police baton and a water cannon.
Equivalancy among nation-states is an illusion. Not all states have equal power, resources, nor equitable governments. As such, defaulting to the UN is rarely a solution.
Well, it seems safer than the rocket jump we've all pulled a thousand times in order to get up to those sweet camping spots...
Why would such a simple "case mod" make the Slashdot front page? It isn't even a "case mod", it's a "case decal".
I might as well dig out some shag carpet from my parent's house basement, glue it to the sides of my desktop machine, and post some pics. Results would be the same: something that looks cool for a couple weeks, then becomes tacky, then downright ugly and embarrassing in a few months.
Yeah right, like any terrorists would use unencrypted email
Hey, these are the same dipshits that confused AM/PM on their bomb in Spain, and blew themselves up in Gaza because they didn't account for daylight savings time.
I am sure that some of them try to use encryption, but:
1. I would guess a mojroity of the traffic is in the clear, "security through nonchalance and obfuscation"
2. What makes you think that the encryption systems available to the general public aren't easily cracked by the boys in Virginia and Maryland?
All of that technology, to serve what end? Killing people.
Fucking A. killing very very bad people. People who are out to destroy me and my family. People who kill at random, using the most terrifying methods as possible.
I cannot believe you are trying to write off the benefit to the world brought by the whole American experiment because of its military-- the same military that defeated the Nazis, the Communists, a whole peanut gallery of pirates, dictators, and terrorists, BTW.
they have HAL, Robot, and Mr. Roboto, but where, where the heck is Johnny Five!?
Nevermind that, where is the Pimpbot 5000?
I would have to agree with this assessment, and add that JPY 68,000 is a lot to pay for something like this, especially when compared to the Sharp Zaurus C-760 PDA, which also "runs Linux", has 640x480, is Flash upgradable to a full open OS, and retails for JPY 45,000 (~$420).
The only thing this has going for it is the 8-inch screen, which is not so much of an advantage if it cannot fit in your pocket, and therefore must be treated like a full notebook PC.
By then, Nuclear war will have happened, and humans will be back to the stone age, or at least some quasi-magick age like in Thundarr The Barbarian. When this thing lands, an evil wizard will use its powers to "make lightning" come out of a stick or something.
That will be cool.
When I was walking into NEC a couple months ago with my ggod friend at Red Hat, I asked him why he worked at a Linux company. He told me, "Because it will be the last OS". It took me a while for that to really sink in-- but I think it has a stong chance at becoming true. Any major advances in security, compartmentability, portability, etc. will wind up in Linux. Even if they are developed in some subbranch or separate OS (QNX, Embedded, BSD), the features and code concepts could (and most likely will) find their way into Linux.
The only thing that would prevent such "Borgification" would be a superior kernel structure with a fundamentally different architecture. Sure, there will be one eventually, but the temptation to graft that into Linux will be too great, and "Linux" will most likely adapt, rather than get killed.
Let`s just get these out of the way now...
"I for one welcome our new Singular overlords!"
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Netwerk!"
and wait for it...
"All your network are belong belong to us!"
Since it would take light 50 years to travel to the planet
I never get this, do Americans say 'it would take 10 miles to drive to the shops'?
Well,
1. You would be better off to not try and generalize a population of 300 million people. Some are more smart than you, others probably not as much.
2. Read the sentence again. Do you understand what a light-year is? It is the distance it takes light to travel in one year. Since the planet is 50 light-years away, it would take light 50 years to get there (the sentence is correct).
I think that, in your rush to sound smug and superior to those "dumb" Americans, you`ve tripped up on your own arrogance.
Kinda Ironical, eh Ren?
If your firm is really that large, then you are already using Linux throughout your system. I know for sure that all of your competitors are.
I work for a Linux company, and we have most of Wall Street using our software all over the place.
Will there be any shark-jumping?
Okay-- fair enough.
We're developing our own balloon trajectory control system that hasn't been publicised yet, and it will be what flies on mars and earth, not this pile of garbage from GAC. I beleive the model they showed us was flawed in many ways, so we decided we could design it better in-house. Not really sure why there's an article on this, but you might as well not worry about any advancements on this particular project, as it will never materialize
Hrmmmm... I am not sure which is worse:
1. the inferred arrogance of this post (and assumingly in that office and NASA in general)
2. the theiving of intellectual property (you will most likely use some of their ideas somewhere)
3. the declatory statements that your office has a monopoly on things.
Aren`t any ofthe rants getting through to you guys at NASA? When will you simply focus on supporting destinations and building simple platforms, through which the rest of us can then launch/explore/build what we want? (yes, we will pay you the fees...)
Dont get me wrong I am not anti-NASA, I am just anti-mars right now. We could use that money for more important things.
Like what? The ISS? Shuttle?
You`ve hit the common misperception with this plan-- it does not increase the NASA budget drastically. Rather, it reassigns funds within the current budget, adding around 10% to the total.
This plan is good if only for the fact that it gives some focus and a destination for NASA. The ISS will be built and then funding will end; the shuttle will be retired.
Personally, I like the broad outlines, as it forces the bureaucratic nightmare that NASA has become to get some shit done-- which will eventually push them to privatizing (or at least allowing privatization) of many parts in the chain if only to accomplish what they need to do to reach their big goals.
Before everyone starts jumping up and down claiming that "productization" of politics is a bad thing-- please realize it`s been happening since the inception of the US republic: the tracts coming out of Boston (Common Sense, Federalist Papers) were all "productization" of one form or another-- the idea that you must package a message in palpable and swallowable formats for the masses to recieve and understand that message.
Poets, Priests and Politicians use words for your submission. The Internet thrives on disseminating text. It's just taken a while for the campaigns to figure out the most effective ways of doing that. Looking back, it makes sense that this would only happen _after_ the hypsters of the dot-com era faded away. Now that all the Flash intros, goofy graphics and image maps have all evaporated, the Internet is (hopefully) getting back to what it does best: disseminate text and solicit commentary. Wikipedia, Slashdot, Fark, and Google all understand this.
It is true that such comments never do contain a rational conclusion,
I _do_ understand that Godwins Law is a descriptive one. My proposed supplement is also descriptive. I don`t mean to "disqualify" any poster who mentions the current administration, I am only trying to describe what you also say is "true": anyone who posts such a message weakens their post so much, that any rational conclusion, present or not, is rendered impotent.