IIRC, the Geneva Convention requires the exclusive use of full metal jacket rounds for anti-personnel weapons. Use of JHP, soft-nose, straight lead slugs, shotguns, etc. (against people) are considered war crimes, so the game should reflect the use of FMJ rounds in its physics.
Comparing bluetooth to 802.11b is like comparing USB to 100bt ethernet. They are not intended to fill the same niche at all. When was the last time that you saw an 802.11b headset, keyboard, or mouse? Now when was the last time you saw a bluetooth gateway for your LAN? Bluetooth is intended to replace cables between small, low-power devices (PDA > cell phone, MP3 player > headphones, etc.)
This probably won't do you a lot of good since you seem to be running windows, but, Extace Waveform Display (came with RedHat 7.2) does have an option for using a logarithmic frequency axis.
The complete sentence that you pulled your excerpt from reads:
Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost-preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge.
The open source definition doesn't say anywhere that the program or it's source needs to be freely distributed to everyone that wants it. It just doesn't let you stop the people that you do give it to from redistributing it (while requiring that if they redistribute they ensure continued access to the source).
How about a heatsink with an integrated stirling cycle engine driving a fan blowing across the cool side? Or a liquid cooling system circulated by a stirling engine? Neither of these would contribute energy directly back to powering the laptop, but they would save the batteries from running an electric fan or pump.
Ceramics can be very strong (not really sure how high strength ceramics conduct heat though), the problem is that their molecular structure doesn't lend it's self to stopping fractures once they begin. This problem has been solved by people (esp. Porsche) developing ceramic brake rotors, by having carbon fibres embedded in the material.
I got my iPaq 3150 for $130USD. It doesn't have a color screen and only has 16MB flash ROM and 16MB RAM but it does still have the 206MHz SA1110 processor and uses all the same expasion packs as other iPaqs.
I think that he's implying that scientologists would buy copies of Dianetics from retailers, then recirculate them back through their publishing house for sale as if they were brand new again, simply to inflate their sales numbers.
I couldn't find anything about any non-windows versions of real player from www.real.com either, but a little googling turned up this.They have builds for GNU/Linux, Irix, AIX, Solaris, HPUX, and Unixware, on i386, Alpha, PowerPC, and MIPS.
That's gotta be about as many platforms as I've seen supported by any commercial free-beer-ware.
When I signed up with my ISP, they explained that the technology they used was originaly intended for delivering cableless digital cable. I certainly can't complain about it's utility as a pipe to the ISP.
Doesn't that depend on whether the extraordinary phenomena (flying and walking on bamboo shoots) are explained by supernatural or technological forces?
What's a "real firewall" that this isn't? I can imagine numerous situations where people connect their NIC directly to an untrusted network where this could be useful - college dorm networks, cable modem users etc.
What in hell are you talking about? This article is talking about geeks being more active in political issues that concern geeks, esp. with regard to raising support against politicians who act contrary to geek interests.
You may want to check your math there. ((3000RPM/60 seconds per minute)*6 cylinders) / 2 revolutions per spark in a 4-stroke engine = 150 sparks per second.
I agree, reading books on a CRT sucks. Reading them on a PDA however, is bliss. The first ebook I read was "Mother of Demons" by Eric Flint, on my visor. Now I've purchased everything he's released on Baen's Webscriptions - and read it all on my visor and my monochrome iPaq. Curling up on a couch or in bed with a PDA is (IMO) vastly superior to dead-tree books. I can use the backlight and read in the dark, I don't have to flip pages, shift my position, or hold open a book. And, unlike my mother, I don't have much sentimental attachment to "the feel of a real book".
Right now I have about 80 ebooks from Baen, Fictionwise, and Project Gutenberg, all on one compact flash card that I take everywhere. Please don't knock ebooks until you've really tried them!
Please, don't forget that those examples are not limitations of speech. They are limitations of acts that may be commited through the mechanism of speech. It would be perfectly legal to yell "Fire" in an ampitheatre being used for a lecture at a firefighters convention. I see naked children on TV regularly, but they're not being sexually exploited - they're in diaper commercials. Libel and slander are just that - libel and slander, not any particular speech.
We make laws against inciting riots, exploitation of children, and spreading malicious untruths about people. We do not directly limit speech. This is an important disinction that too few people recognize.
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IIRC, the Geneva Convention requires the exclusive use of full metal jacket rounds for anti-personnel weapons. Use of JHP, soft-nose, straight lead slugs, shotguns, etc. (against people) are considered war crimes, so the game should reflect the use of FMJ rounds in its physics.
Comparing bluetooth to 802.11b is like comparing USB to 100bt ethernet. They are not intended to fill the same niche at all. When was the last time that you saw an 802.11b headset, keyboard, or mouse? Now when was the last time you saw a bluetooth gateway for your LAN? Bluetooth is intended to replace cables between small, low-power devices (PDA > cell phone, MP3 player > headphones, etc.)
This probably won't do you a lot of good since you seem to be running windows, but, Extace Waveform Display (came with RedHat 7.2) does have an option for using a logarithmic frequency axis.
Whoah, I read "anti-bacterial hand satanizer(tm)" for a moment there. Scary stuff.
The complete sentence that you pulled your excerpt from reads:
The open source definition doesn't say anywhere that the program or it's source needs to be freely distributed to everyone that wants it. It just doesn't let you stop the people that you do give it to from redistributing it (while requiring that if they redistribute they ensure continued access to the source).
How about a heatsink with an integrated stirling cycle engine driving a fan blowing across the cool side? Or a liquid cooling system circulated by a stirling engine? Neither of these would contribute energy directly back to powering the laptop, but they would save the batteries from running an electric fan or pump.
Ceramics can be very strong (not really sure how high strength ceramics conduct heat though), the problem is that their molecular structure doesn't lend it's self to stopping fractures once they begin. This problem has been solved by people (esp. Porsche) developing ceramic brake rotors, by having carbon fibres embedded in the material.
I got my iPaq 3150 for $130USD. It doesn't have a color screen and only has 16MB flash ROM and 16MB RAM but it does still have the 206MHz SA1110 processor and uses all the same expasion packs as other iPaqs.
Obviously ;-) But I'll bet that the Lockmakers Consortium would love to have a law forbidding unauthorized duplication of "their" keys.
Really? What if I wrote and published that commercial software or encrypted that data myself? Gotta watch those overly broad statments...
I think that he's implying that scientologists would buy copies of Dianetics from retailers, then recirculate them back through their publishing house for sale as if they were brand new again, simply to inflate their sales numbers.
I think the differnce is that the PS2 linux kit includes a bunch of hardware (HD, keyboard, etc). Can't really make it available for download...
I couldn't find anything about any non-windows versions of real player from www.real.com either, but a little googling turned up this.They have builds for GNU/Linux, Irix, AIX, Solaris, HPUX, and Unixware, on i386, Alpha, PowerPC, and MIPS.
That's gotta be about as many platforms as I've seen supported by any commercial free-beer-ware.
Actually, Real does.
My ISP has MMDS service for $39.95/mo for 512Kbps, and $59.95/mo for 1Mbps.
When I signed up with my ISP, they explained that the technology they used was originaly intended for delivering cableless digital cable. I certainly can't complain about it's utility as a pipe to the ISP.
Doesn't that depend on whether the extraordinary phenomena (flying and walking on bamboo shoots) are explained by supernatural or technological forces?
But the name would have been so much more appropriate for a launch platform if they had used Delta V subs.
Check out the IPAQ storage brick. It didn't take much hardware hacking though.
What's a "real firewall" that this isn't? I can imagine numerous situations where people connect their NIC directly to an untrusted network where this could be useful - college dorm networks, cable modem users etc.
Ah, that makes more sense now. Thanks.
What in hell are you talking about? This article is talking about geeks being more active in political issues that concern geeks, esp. with regard to raising support against politicians who act contrary to geek interests.
You may want to check your math there. ((3000RPM/60 seconds per minute)*6 cylinders) / 2 revolutions per spark in a 4-stroke engine = 150 sparks per second.
I agree, reading books on a CRT sucks. Reading them on a PDA however, is bliss. The first ebook I read was "Mother of Demons" by Eric Flint, on my visor. Now I've purchased everything he's released on Baen's Webscriptions - and read it all on my visor and my monochrome iPaq. Curling up on a couch or in bed with a PDA is (IMO) vastly superior to dead-tree books. I can use the backlight and read in the dark, I don't have to flip pages, shift my position, or hold open a book. And, unlike my mother, I don't have much sentimental attachment to "the feel of a real book".
Right now I have about 80 ebooks from Baen, Fictionwise, and Project Gutenberg, all on one compact flash card that I take everywhere. Please don't knock ebooks until you've really tried them!
Please, don't forget that those examples are not limitations of speech. They are limitations of acts that may be commited through the mechanism of speech. It would be perfectly legal to yell "Fire" in an ampitheatre being used for a lecture at a firefighters convention. I see naked children on TV regularly, but they're not being sexually exploited - they're in diaper commercials. Libel and slander are just that - libel and slander, not any particular speech.
We make laws against inciting riots, exploitation of children, and spreading malicious untruths about people. We do not directly limit speech. This is an important disinction that too few people recognize.