Actually, that's a phenomenally good point. Isn't apple now so damn big it counts as a monopoly? I lack any hard stats on this subject, but my gut tells me that as a result of the gajillion-zillon-trillion ipods Apple has sold, there are plausible grounds for an investigation into this.
GP said "Specifically killing interop with other products is verging on illegal behaviou[r]" -- I'd tend to agree here. iTunes and the iPod are really separate products -- Apple are shooting themselves in the foot by preventing third-party devices from synching with iTunes?!
As previous-sibling stated, a judge is the one who needs to decide if this is the case. Surely Palm should, if they have any budget for this, pursue an anti-apple-monopoly case? Most likely they'll get steamrollered by Apple's cash pile, but it's worth a look?
You miss the point of my message entirely. There are very very few pieces of equipment which actually need an AC source. If you supply your PC with DC power, it will work perfectly fine without any modifications. This is because the DC is chopped up into a very high frequency AC within the power supply.
Yes, standard transformers require an AC input -- however these are few and far between these days. Switched mode PSUs use a much smaller transformer, with a synthetic AC input, and the first stage of a switched mode PSU will accept DC just as happily as AC.
The only other equipment class which actually requires AC is synchronous motors, such as you would find in a hairdryer or electric drill.
In reality, you don't need to run most modern electronics equipment from AC.
The first stage of ANY modern PC power supply (switched mode supply) is DC rectification - the incoming AC is passed through a diode rectifier, then smoothed with a big capacitor. So you don't need to worry too much about the speed of the motor. I've heard of people who have rewired their entire houses to use 200V DC. Yes, it's much more dangerous than AC, but what it does mean is that you can connect your incoming AC through a monster rectifier directly into a fat bank of series-connected batteries. When your mains goes down, you wouldn't even notice -- and there's no need for expensive inverters to turn your DC back into AC.
Whatever happened to ZModem? It's an amazingly resilient protocol that was used to great effect to transfer files over virtually any phone line, no matter how noisy. It accomplished this by an adaptive algorithm, whereby the block transfer size was either doubled or halved after every few blocks, depending on whether the previous blocks got through the line ok. Where's the equivalent in the modern internet world?? There are millions of people with dodgy or unreliable internet connections -- they would benefit from clients / servers that implemented a modern equivalent.
Wish that i could 'bum' around all day -- but i guess i'd end up looking like an 'ass', because i'd be the 'butt' of so many jokes.
It's a bum job, but someone has to do it. Guess he's doing it for 'posterior'ity.
I'm a C# [doze] developer, but I'm with the Linux/GNU crowd when it comes to FOSS ideologies. Installing mono by default on all Linuxes I think is a great idea, because it gives me the opportunity to port my apps painlessly to the widest possible audience! This includes mac.
My grandmother wrote a book, and self published it. There are very few copies in existence.
I recently approached Google about getting it published. They told me to send it in for scanning and OCR. And I'm inclined to do that, but haven't yet.
My question to Slashdot readers, is: is there a better way for me to get this book online?
I'm not fussed about rights, cash for rights, or copyright. Clearly the book was copyrighted in the original, 50+ years back, but my drive right now is to get this thing online free and gratis. I know about the Gutenberg project; however they don't have the resources to scan + publish the thing. Honestly I just want it online, free for all, and in some kind of meaningful index.
For those who are interested, the book talks about my grandmother's surprising experiences in the early days of South Africa, including war, depredations of wolves, interaction with indigenous people, mores of the time, the way people lived back then, and the consequences of political decisions. I want to get this online, as it is insightful and historically relevant.
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Actually, that's a phenomenally good point. Isn't apple now so damn big it counts as a monopoly? I lack any hard stats on this subject, but my gut tells me that as a result of the gajillion-zillon-trillion ipods Apple has sold, there are plausible grounds for an investigation into this. GP said "Specifically killing interop with other products is verging on illegal behaviou[r]" -- I'd tend to agree here. iTunes and the iPod are really separate products -- Apple are shooting themselves in the foot by preventing third-party devices from synching with iTunes?! As previous-sibling stated, a judge is the one who needs to decide if this is the case. Surely Palm should, if they have any budget for this, pursue an anti-apple-monopoly case? Most likely they'll get steamrollered by Apple's cash pile, but it's worth a look?
You miss the point of my message entirely. There are very very few pieces of equipment which actually need an AC source. If you supply your PC with DC power, it will work perfectly fine without any modifications. This is because the DC is chopped up into a very high frequency AC within the power supply. Yes, standard transformers require an AC input -- however these are few and far between these days. Switched mode PSUs use a much smaller transformer, with a synthetic AC input, and the first stage of a switched mode PSU will accept DC just as happily as AC. The only other equipment class which actually requires AC is synchronous motors, such as you would find in a hairdryer or electric drill.
In reality, you don't need to run most modern electronics equipment from AC. The first stage of ANY modern PC power supply (switched mode supply) is DC rectification - the incoming AC is passed through a diode rectifier, then smoothed with a big capacitor. So you don't need to worry too much about the speed of the motor. I've heard of people who have rewired their entire houses to use 200V DC. Yes, it's much more dangerous than AC, but what it does mean is that you can connect your incoming AC through a monster rectifier directly into a fat bank of series-connected batteries. When your mains goes down, you wouldn't even notice -- and there's no need for expensive inverters to turn your DC back into AC.
Whatever happened to ZModem? It's an amazingly resilient protocol that was used to great effect to transfer files over virtually any phone line, no matter how noisy. It accomplished this by an adaptive algorithm, whereby the block transfer size was either doubled or halved after every few blocks, depending on whether the previous blocks got through the line ok. Where's the equivalent in the modern internet world?? There are millions of people with dodgy or unreliable internet connections -- they would benefit from clients / servers that implemented a modern equivalent.
Wish that i could 'bum' around all day -- but i guess i'd end up looking like an 'ass', because i'd be the 'butt' of so many jokes. It's a bum job, but someone has to do it. Guess he's doing it for 'posterior'ity.
Nope, not part of the OO team. Doesn't make sense to me that OO should be dependent on mono!
Try removing GCC from linux ... that would effectively cripple things ya?
I'm a C# [doze] developer, but I'm with the Linux/GNU crowd when it comes to FOSS ideologies. Installing mono by default on all Linuxes I think is a great idea, because it gives me the opportunity to port my apps painlessly to the widest possible audience! This includes mac.
My grandmother wrote a book, and self published it. There are very few copies in existence. I recently approached Google about getting it published. They told me to send it in for scanning and OCR. And I'm inclined to do that, but haven't yet. My question to Slashdot readers, is: is there a better way for me to get this book online? I'm not fussed about rights, cash for rights, or copyright. Clearly the book was copyrighted in the original, 50+ years back, but my drive right now is to get this thing online free and gratis. I know about the Gutenberg project; however they don't have the resources to scan + publish the thing. Honestly I just want it online, free for all, and in some kind of meaningful index. For those who are interested, the book talks about my grandmother's surprising experiences in the early days of South Africa, including war, depredations of wolves, interaction with indigenous people, mores of the time, the way people lived back then, and the consequences of political decisions. I want to get this online, as it is insightful and historically relevant.