They have just started a service in Australia and probably view Australian customers of US netflix as competition they don't want. So they have started to clamp down on VPNs

The only locks in git are within single repositories. The locks which control distributed merging are controlled by the hashes which identify change sets. They tell a repo about the origin of the data being merged in. So rather than thinking about a static blob of data which changes sometimes and needs to be preserved while other nodes are working on it, you think of a graph which extends into the future, each node identified by its hash. By working this way it is easier to find places to reintegrate the results of processing which takes place remotely.

My point is that git knows how to merge. It knows when a merge is required, when it is not, and when it can be done automatically. If you design your data structures properly, the same behaviour can be used in massively parallel systems.

...a tool which he may have heard off. It does connectionless, distributed data management, totally without locks.

How can it be secure if it runs in a VM and OS provided by an unknown agency?

Any more of this shit and you will stop eating entirely.

The same article over at boing boing suggested that a sacked ex employee had released the files.

I thought it was their project.

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Thats nice but Ridley Scott didn't make Aliens.

Java has a great runtime environment. It is miles ahead of python, which is too dynamic to be optimised, even at run time.

You best work is behind you. Trashing your successes in this way only makes you look bad. At least do something original, rather than Alien 1.1, etc.

Older systems did that by hand but newer systems have algorithms which guide the trajectories of aircraft on approach so they finish up in a nice sequence. Thats what it sounds like in the summary.

Nah the monitors had individual co-ax connectors for RGB. It was a simple interface if you had the computing muscle to drive it. Not so easy in the early 1990s. The monitors had a serial interface which was proprietary to sony. It was there to shut down the HMI if the monitor stopped working. You could use the monitor without it if you wanted to.

The 2k2k monitors were from Sony. I don't know if finding them was an issue. The unit price was high (~$50k) and sony must have had other markets. Later LCD monitors were from NTT. Barco are in the market as well making monitors for environments with high ambient light.