Yes, you're right. It's perfectly feasible to build an embedded asystem with a GPL'd OS and a proprietary and/or differently liscensed application. I was replying more to what I keep seeing as a common misconception about the nature of embedded system producers.
When it comes to embedded systems, most companies dont easily fall into hardware or software, they produce solutions that unify hw and sw. Since most hardware can easily and legally be reverse-engineered and produced in some third world country, the only thing makers of embedded systems have standing between being successful and dying from inability to compete in a commodity market is their software.
It's really very similar to Apple's market position.
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Why is devotion to "the open source - free speech and free beer ideology" necessarily irrational? Honestly, for what I do, just about any recent os would be adequate for me. In my opinion Linux has a moral edge over the rest of what's out there, so Linux is what I use. You make it sound like I must be a frothing zealot for allowing my ideologies to have some factor in my decision.
According to what I can tell, Crumb lost his copyright because he had failed to register it correctly. The laws regarding copyright registration have been revised since Crumb's loss in 1976 and registration is no longer essential to a valid copyright.
802.11a supports the much higher speed, but at a price of greatly reduced range
From what I've read (pdf warning) 802.11a has similar range to 802.11b and for a given range 802.11a will operate at a higher speed than 802.11b. 802.11a does have a shorter range at which it will operate at it's maximum speed, but even when it falls back it is faster than 802.11b.
If they wanted to do a movie with his son, and provide continuity with the rest of the movies, that would mean that it would have to take place in about...1960? I think 1960 is kinda stretching it for providing the same kind of atmosphere that really made the previous movies great, ie late 30's-early 40's. I just can't really see the same kind of swahbuckling romantic style being carried into the 60's.
They aren't worried about piracy, they're worried about their profit margins. If they only make $X in the asian market and it cost only slightly less than $X to produce the asian version of thier product, it doesn't matter to them why $X isn't more, wether it's beacuase of piracy or the phase of the moon. If a market isn't yeilding good returns, it's in their best interest to give it up and focus on better markets.
IIRC, one of the books mentioned that the Emporer had been using the force to coordinate the Imperial forces. When Palpatine died the Imperial defenses fell apart and gave the rebels the advantage they needed.
With "IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME" as a qualifier anything is possible (It's only a matter of time before you fond yourself spontaneously transported to the surface of the moon). Also remember that automotive cooling systems are pressurized, run at 150+ degrees F, have to deal with constant vibration, and still go years without leaking. I'd say that your computer is almost certain to be landfill before it leaks with a really well engineered water cooling system.
Jeez, if you use a soldering gun to put this together you'll end up with modern art long before you'll get a working data link. I wouldn't try it with anything more than a 30W iron.
I've read the complete series about a dozen times and I don't remeber any weirding or wierding modules. As far as I can tell the weirding modules in the original film were completly fabricated by David Lynch. The Weirding Way was the mental and physical discipline, created and used by the Bene Gesserit, and taught to the Fremen by Jessica and Paul.
If you actually read the definition you linked, you will see where the name comes from.
A lot of the destuctive force of explosives has less to do with the energy released than it does with how quickly it is released. Compare the speed of propogation of a shock wave traveling through a hand grenade (6-10,000 Meters per second)to the speed of flame propagation through an ideal hydrogen/oxygen mixture at 1 atmosphere of pressure (~300 Meters per second). A room filled with hydrogen would probably blow out the windows and singe the furniture when it exploded.
Also, in my experience, hydrogen doesn't burn so hot that the resulting steam would even light a match.
As far as I can tell, people are at a greater risk from the explosion from the pilot light on their stove going out.
Liquid hydrogen is cold at 1 atmosphere of pressure. You can make it as hot as you want, if your container can handle the increased pressure.
Gaseous hydrogen isn't really any more explosive than the butane in your lighter or the natural gas piped all over your house.
You prefer children playing with toys powered by batteries that are packed with lithium, mercury, etc?
According to this reading in the dark isn't likley to cause any permanent damage to your eyes. Also, since my PDA is backlit I don't even suffer from any eye strain.
Nobody? I happen to prefer reading ebooks over conventional books. I like being able to read in bed with the lights out and never having to shift my position when I turn a page. I like being able to finish one book in the middle of the night, go to Baen.com of Fictionwise and get another book, without getting dressed and driving to a bookstore. I like being able to carry a couple hundred novels in my pocket without thinking about it. I do not miss "the feel" of a "real" book in the slightest. I do not miss having no room left on my shelves for hundreds of ultra-low-density volumes.
Honestly, sometimes I think all the people who like to bash ebooks have never even tried them.
As long as we're talking about a captive breeding program, I dont see the problem. Just eliminate the offspring that have reinforced bad traits and breed the ones that don't.
Inbreeding is really only a problem when you either can't really do culling (like with people) or breeding isn't controlled and the damaged offspring can continue to breed.
A general lack of diversity can be a problem, but I don't think it's insurmountable.
I agree, but what they'll do is was whatever is most expedient to their goals without arousing the public consiousnes against them (otherwise they'd just form a mercenary army). They are completly without moral scruples.
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Yes, you're right. It's perfectly feasible to build an embedded asystem with a GPL'd OS and a proprietary and/or differently liscensed application. I was replying more to what I keep seeing as a common misconception about the nature of embedded system producers.
When it comes to embedded systems, most companies dont easily fall into hardware or software, they produce solutions that unify hw and sw. Since most hardware can easily and legally be reverse-engineered and produced in some third world country, the only thing makers of embedded systems have standing between being successful and dying from inability to compete in a commodity market is their software.
It's really very similar to Apple's market position.
Why is devotion to "the open source - free speech and free beer ideology" necessarily irrational? Honestly, for what I do, just about any recent os would be adequate for me. In my opinion Linux has a moral edge over the rest of what's out there, so Linux is what I use. You make it sound like I must be a frothing zealot for allowing my ideologies to have some factor in my decision.
Sad to say, you're not the first to use 'spampaign'. A google search got five pages of results for spampaign, including an article from Wired that was about a Georgia candidate doing the same thing in 1998.
According to what I can tell, Crumb lost his copyright because he had failed to register it correctly. The laws regarding copyright registration have been revised since Crumb's loss in 1976 and registration is no longer essential to a valid copyright.
Copyrights cannot be lost by not defending them, only trademarks.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't be able to resell old software,but Microsoft cerainly has.
From what I've read (pdf warning) 802.11a has similar range to 802.11b and for a given range 802.11a will operate at a higher speed than 802.11b. 802.11a does have a shorter range at which it will operate at it's maximum speed, but even when it falls back it is faster than 802.11b.
He wouldn't know what to complain about when his "symptoms" didn't go away. He's found somthing to bitch about and he doesn't want to give it up.
Sweetheart it's the milage.
If they wanted to do a movie with his son, and provide continuity with the rest of the movies, that would mean that it would have to take place in about...1960? I think 1960 is kinda stretching it for providing the same kind of atmosphere that really made the previous movies great, ie late 30's-early 40's. I just can't really see the same kind of swahbuckling romantic style being carried into the 60's.
They aren't worried about piracy, they're worried about their profit margins. If they only make $X in the asian market and it cost only slightly less than $X to produce the asian version of thier product, it doesn't matter to them why $X isn't more, wether it's beacuase of piracy or the phase of the moon. If a market isn't yeilding good returns, it's in their best interest to give it up and focus on better markets.
IIRC, one of the books mentioned that the Emporer had been using the force to coordinate the Imperial forces. When Palpatine died the Imperial defenses fell apart and gave the rebels the advantage they needed.
Geez, I sound like a fanboy.
With "IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME" as a qualifier anything is possible (It's only a matter of time before you fond yourself spontaneously transported to the surface of the moon). Also remember that automotive cooling systems are pressurized, run at 150+ degrees F, have to deal with constant vibration, and still go years without leaking. I'd say that your computer is almost certain to be landfill before it leaks with a really well engineered water cooling system.
If that's the choice that you leave them, most programmers will choose eating over providing you with free software.
Jeez, if you use a soldering gun to put this together you'll end up with modern art long before you'll get a working data link. I wouldn't try it with anything more than a 30W iron.
I don't think this is to replace their RDRAM chipsets, but instead their "bargain" PC133 SDRAM chipsets (which I imagine are seriously choked).
I've read the complete series about a dozen times and I don't remeber any weirding or wierding modules. As far as I can tell the weirding modules in the original film were completly fabricated by David Lynch. The Weirding Way was the mental and physical discipline, created and used by the Bene Gesserit, and taught to the Fremen by Jessica and Paul.
If you actually read the definition you linked, you will see where the name comes from.
Try telling that to the core of Jupiter.
A lot of the destuctive force of explosives has less to do with the energy released than it does with how quickly it is released. Compare the speed of propogation of a shock wave traveling through a hand grenade (6-10,000 Meters per second)to the speed of flame propagation through an ideal hydrogen/oxygen mixture at 1 atmosphere of pressure (~300 Meters per second). A room filled with hydrogen would probably blow out the windows and singe the furniture when it exploded.
Also, in my experience, hydrogen doesn't burn so hot that the resulting steam would even light a match.
As far as I can tell, people are at a greater risk from the explosion from the pilot light on their stove going out.
Liquid hydrogen is cold at 1 atmosphere of pressure. You can make it as hot as you want, if your container can handle the increased pressure.
Gaseous hydrogen isn't really any more explosive than the butane in your lighter or the natural gas piped all over your house.
You prefer children playing with toys powered by batteries that are packed with lithium, mercury, etc?
According to this reading in the dark isn't likley to cause any permanent damage to your eyes. Also, since my PDA is backlit I don't even suffer from any eye strain.
Nobody? I happen to prefer reading ebooks over conventional books. I like being able to read in bed with the lights out and never having to shift my position when I turn a page. I like being able to finish one book in the middle of the night, go to Baen.com of Fictionwise and get another book, without getting dressed and driving to a bookstore. I like being able to carry a couple hundred novels in my pocket without thinking about it. I do not miss "the feel" of a "real" book in the slightest. I do not miss having no room left on my shelves for hundreds of ultra-low-density volumes.
Honestly, sometimes I think all the people who like to bash ebooks have never even tried them.
As long as we're talking about a captive breeding program, I dont see the problem. Just eliminate the offspring that have reinforced bad traits and breed the ones that don't.
Inbreeding is really only a problem when you either can't really do culling (like with people) or breeding isn't controlled and the damaged offspring can continue to breed.
A general lack of diversity can be a problem, but I don't think it's insurmountable.
I agree, but what they'll do is was whatever is most expedient to their goals without arousing the public consiousnes against them (otherwise they'd just form a mercenary army). They are completly without moral scruples.