Can you emagine if it went off while doing 90 on the M25?
Can you imagine what would happen if the airbag went off in your car in the same situation? Same problem, same solution: incredible amounts of paranoia when designing the thing.
On the other hand I would also suggest investing in technology to prevent accidents from happening as well as in damage reducing gear. We can build the electronics to accomplish this in planes, why not in cars&bikes?
Like, for instance, hundreds of hours of intensive full time operator training?
I have to say, I can't imagine getting on my bike without a helmet, despite (touch wood) never having an accident... Do Merkins really have that much problems with the idea?
(Conversely, I've once worn a helmet on my pushbike and would never think of it, so I suppose it's just what you're used to...)
Also, last time I looked at a BBC Master or BBC-B mobo the thing was littered with nothing but the above and standard components (resistors, capacators, diodes.. etc)
Look more closely, then - the 3 custom ULAs were called Fred, Jim and Sheila, I believe.
The UK seem to have a perfectly good online economy without having a tax discount on online sales - everyone pays VAT on purchases regardless of whether they're shop based or electronic, and most online sites still manage to be cheaper.
If you don't want sales tax, then vote against sales tax. If you want to be taxed on sales, then tax everyone on sales. But don't assume that taxing more people means that more of your money goes to the government - the rate of tax should come down, because all political parties know that tax cuts win votes, and will do it if they have room to manoeuvre. Taxing some things and not others is just a form of subsidy.
Admittedly, it might want a backlight for this, but why have a boring text-only built-in computer display when you could just dismantle this and mount it in your case? Bit of custom software on it and Bob's your uncle... At $99 (plus some tinkering) for a much more capable display than the standard cell-based LCD ones, this seems like quite a reasonable option.
Would this work in a country much larger than Switzerland? AFAIK no one is complaining about lack of effective democracy in Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxenberg anyway.
Er, Austria, in the news just last week for someone having forced a parliamentary debate about the Eurofighter by petition? Admittedly, it's only a debate, but the "public action" method is much the same and the country is a bit larger. Considerably bigger than any of the devolved areas of the UK, for instance.
Directives are also legally binding -- states do not choose what to implement (but they can of course be creative about the interpretation of the directive, assuming the directive is vague enough).
Indeed, it's often been said that the unpopularity of Europe in the UK is due to the rigour with which we implement directives. And you'll note the mention in tyhe story that we're throwing away the already weak fair use provisions of this directive...
Can someone explain to me how having laws agreed between some minister I elected in only the most indirect of senses and ministers from 14 other countries is in any way democratic? (Cue anti-EU rant here, not that I'm personally anti...)
Boddingtons is (unless you're very lucky and live near Manchester) fizzy nitrokeg shite. Americans should look at www.camra.org.uk and see what you're missing;-)
My idea of Free Software is to give something to other people, should I so choose, safe in the knowledge that they can't (legally) bury it in their code and make a profit out of it. I don't care whether it makes other software Free, and I'm not stopping other people writing what they like and selling it for money. My motive is to make sure that what I give, no-one else can take away.
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I must admit, crap or not, I'm tempted to buy one for playing with. It's got better hardware specs than my Palm IIIx, and is likely to be a lot easier to program for, since I'd rather not get into Palm programming if I can avoid it.
And I presume it's actually got an MMU, which I'd be pleased to see - people can go on about how marvellous PalmOS and ucLinux are, but I don't like the idea of any app being able to turn my PDA's stored data into random bits, or, for that matter, go rifling through any stored files on there.
Anyone managed to boot it with an NFS-root? There's no particular reason why you can't test it that way, afaics. (And develop on it, for that matter - I did my CompSci course on DEC 3100s, and if this is twice the machine and doesn't need to run X for network-based use, it should be relatively nippy.)
I should also point out that at $179 (developer price) it's a bit of a bargain, certainly compared to UK prices. (Palm m105: 110 quid tax included; Agenda VR3: 125 quid plus shipping/tax/whatever, for something potentially 4x as fast.)
If I remember correctly, the first ones were simply pages with Meta Refresh statements in them
Firstly, I'm not sure that meta tags had been invented then, and secondly, you originally used to view the coffee pot using the 'xcoffee' application which used the video grabbing and streaming stuff that Cambridge Uni and Olivetti Research were playing about with at the time.
From reading the story, the one reference that could be turned into to a space propulsion drive (in the facts, rather than the lead-in) is the passing reference to a NASA presentation. As for the rest of it, the force is presumably between the magnet and the metal in the field - which is an action on the magnet and a reaction on the metal, presumably - so there's nothing 'reactionless' about it. And they don't mention anything about forces which may arise when the superconductor stops conducting, which is presumably where the 'magnet vibrating' bit comes from.
bango.net has been around for a while now. That said, it's based in Cambridge, UK and the only way I've heard it advertised so far is on the local radio...
I've seen this system used in every university student union election I've taken part in - it's
- easy to understand for the voter: simply rank your preferences for candidate in order (ideally, including the option to re-open nominations
- fair, whether electing a for one post or many posts of equal standing: your vote is evenutally counted towards the highest option you chose that hasn't been disqualified
- a complete git to count, but voters don't have to worry about that;-)
The thing that puzzles me is that in a modern country like America, votes are not simply added up across the population, but there's the electoral college level stuck between them and the important vote count...
Mind you, as a UK citizen, we don't directly elect the PM or the monarch, and the current government, which holds a huge majority in parliament, was elected by a minority of those who voted. But this is 'good for us' because our government is 'strong' and 'stable' and you don't get any of this namby-pamby coalition crap, apparently.
It's nice to see an article on wireless networking, but this one's a bit too trivialised. It misses information and there are a few errors:
1. Lucent cards are 11MB
2. Lucent cards have Linux support, both directly from Lucent (binary module) and as 3rd party (pcmcia-cs).
3. Samsung's Linux support is 3rd party.
They also don't mention a number of other cards (3Com have a Linux-compatible one, Compaq have a Samsung-compatible one, Elsa do one, there's the cheapo non-interoperable 2Mbit ones I've forgotten the name of, and of course there's the Apple stuff), so don't take this as a complete list by any means. Nor do they mention that the linux-wlan project is only interested in a limited number of cards. Finally, they say nothing about 802.11b base stations, which (in my experience) cause the most confusion to people when they're buying wireless stuff.
Finally, mobile IP isn't really related to wireless networks - it's a means of allowing your machine to move around a network topology, rather than a building. It's not necessary to understand or to have a mobile IP system to use wireless network cards.
Unless you set up a chain of electric-device providing service stations, this won't really take off....besides, who is going to pay for the EE students to sit there and consult/fix probs that occur?
You get your car serviced by a chemical engineer, then?
Back in the old days (around 1994) one had the choice between minix, xiafs, ext and ext2 as filesystems for ones linux box. ext2 stayed.
To be fair, there's a development path here. minix was a base filesystem, from which xiafs and ext appeared. ext2 was developed to address the shortcomings of ext, and was developed after the other two and taking advantage of what they'd discovered. So it was never a straight choice between four filesystems - they didn't start off on an equal footing.
With what we're talking of here - reiserfs, ext3, xfs and jfs - it would seem that only reiserfs is taking advantage of past experience and showing innovation. xfs and jfs are ports, and ext3 is intended as a simple upgrade path using time-tested code. That said, some of the innovation in reiserfs would seem to be directed towards odd and specific things - indexing of files, directories of objects and other strangeness - which most people don't want out of their Unix filesystem, and is as likely to find a niche as become a winner in the fight to be the single general-purpose filesystem.
No.
ext3 is a journalling filesystem based on ext2, with (almost) the same format on disk and which is backwards-compatible.
tux2 is a phase-tree filesystem based on ext2, which has a different method of keeping the disk as sane as possible, and which isn't trivially backwards compatible.
They share more code between them than either do with the other filesystems, because they're both based on ext2. They're still different, though.
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Can you emagine if it went off while doing 90 on the M25?
Can you imagine what would happen if the airbag went off in your car in the same situation? Same problem, same solution: incredible amounts of paranoia when designing the thing.
On the other hand I would also suggest investing in technology to prevent accidents from happening as well as in damage reducing gear. We can build the electronics to accomplish this in planes, why not in cars&bikes?
Like, for instance, hundreds of hours of intensive full time operator training?
Here in Michigan we have helmet laws (Bleah)
I have to say, I can't imagine getting on my bike without a helmet, despite (touch wood) never having an accident... Do Merkins really have that much problems with the idea?
(Conversely, I've once worn a helmet on my pushbike and would never think of it, so I suppose it's just what you're used to...)
Deceleration of 10g *precedes* a collision? My motorbike's brakes are good, but not *that* good...
Also, last time I looked at a BBC Master or BBC-B mobo the thing was littered with nothing but the above and standard components (resistors, capacators, diodes.. etc)
Look more closely, then - the 3 custom ULAs were called Fred, Jim and Sheila, I believe.
The UK seem to have a perfectly good online economy without having a tax discount on online sales - everyone pays VAT on purchases regardless of whether they're shop based or electronic, and most online sites still manage to be cheaper.
If you don't want sales tax, then vote against sales tax. If you want to be taxed on sales, then tax everyone on sales. But don't assume that taxing more people means that more of your money goes to the government - the rate of tax should come down, because all political parties know that tax cuts win votes, and will do it if they have room to manoeuvre. Taxing some things and not others is just a form of subsidy.
Admittedly, it might want a backlight for this, but why have a boring text-only built-in computer display when you could just dismantle this and mount it in your case? Bit of custom software on it and Bob's your uncle... At $99 (plus some tinkering) for a much more capable display than the standard cell-based LCD ones, this seems like quite a reasonable option.
Would this work in a country much larger than Switzerland? AFAIK no one is complaining about lack of effective democracy in Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxenberg anyway.
Er, Austria, in the news just last week for someone having forced a parliamentary debate about the Eurofighter by petition? Admittedly, it's only a debate, but the "public action" method is much the same and the country is a bit larger. Considerably bigger than any of the devolved areas of the UK, for instance.
Indeed, it's often been said that the unpopularity of Europe in the UK is due to the rigour with which we implement directives. And you'll note the mention in tyhe story that we're throwing away the already weak fair use provisions of this directive...
Can someone explain to me how having laws agreed between some minister I elected in only the most indirect of senses and ministers from 14 other countries is in any way democratic? (Cue anti-EU rant here, not that I'm personally anti...)
Boddingtons is (unless you're very lucky and live near Manchester) fizzy nitrokeg shite. Americans should look at www.camra.org.uk and see what you're missing ;-)
My idea of Free Software is to give something to other people, should I so choose, safe in the knowledge that they can't (legally) bury it in their code and make a profit out of it. I don't care whether it makes other software Free, and I'm not stopping other people writing what they like and selling it for money. My motive is to make sure that what I give, no-one else can take away.
I must admit, crap or not, I'm tempted to buy one for playing with. It's got better hardware specs than my Palm IIIx, and is likely to be a lot easier to program for, since I'd rather not get into Palm programming if I can avoid it.
And I presume it's actually got an MMU, which I'd be pleased to see - people can go on about how marvellous PalmOS and ucLinux are, but I don't like the idea of any app being able to turn my PDA's stored data into random bits, or, for that matter, go rifling through any stored files on there.
Anyone managed to boot it with an NFS-root? There's no particular reason why you can't test it that way, afaics. (And develop on it, for that matter - I did my CompSci course on DEC 3100s, and if this is twice the machine and doesn't need to run X for network-based use, it should be relatively nippy.)
I should also point out that at $179 (developer price) it's a bit of a bargain, certainly compared to UK prices. (Palm m105: 110 quid tax included; Agenda VR3: 125 quid plus shipping/tax/whatever, for something potentially 4x as fast.)
'95? Pah, youngster.
Firstly, I'm not sure that meta tags had been invented then, and secondly, you originally used to view the coffee pot using the 'xcoffee' application which used the video grabbing and streaming stuff that Cambridge Uni and Olivetti Research were playing about with at the time.
Ah, those were the days... ;-)
The Clangers!
From reading the story, the one reference that could be turned into to a space propulsion drive (in the facts, rather than the lead-in) is the passing reference to a NASA presentation. As for the rest of it, the force is presumably between the magnet and the metal in the field - which is an action on the magnet and a reaction on the metal, presumably - so there's nothing 'reactionless' about it. And they don't mention anything about forces which may arise when the superconductor stops conducting, which is presumably where the 'magnet vibrating' bit comes from.
bango.net has been around for a while now. That said, it's based in Cambridge, UK and the only way I've heard it advertised so far is on the local radio...
It'd give you something else to pick out of the burger apart from the gherkins...
I've seen this system used in every university student union election I've taken part in - it's ;-)
- easy to understand for the voter: simply rank your preferences for candidate in order (ideally, including the option to re-open nominations
- fair, whether electing a for one post or many posts of equal standing: your vote is evenutally counted towards the highest option you chose that hasn't been disqualified
- a complete git to count, but voters don't have to worry about that
The thing that puzzles me is that in a modern country like America, votes are not simply added up across the population, but there's the electoral college level stuck between them and the important vote count...
Mind you, as a UK citizen, we don't directly elect the PM or the monarch, and the current government, which holds a huge majority in parliament, was elected by a minority of those who voted. But this is 'good for us' because our government is 'strong' and 'stable' and you don't get any of this namby-pamby coalition crap, apparently.
It's nice to see an article on wireless networking, but this one's a bit too trivialised. It misses information and there are a few errors:
1. Lucent cards are 11MB
2. Lucent cards have Linux support, both directly from Lucent (binary module) and as 3rd party (pcmcia-cs).
3. Samsung's Linux support is 3rd party.
They also don't mention a number of other cards (3Com have a Linux-compatible one, Compaq have a Samsung-compatible one, Elsa do one, there's the cheapo non-interoperable 2Mbit ones I've forgotten the name of, and of course there's the Apple stuff), so don't take this as a complete list by any means. Nor do they mention that the linux-wlan project is only interested in a limited number of cards. Finally, they say nothing about 802.11b base stations, which (in my experience) cause the most confusion to people when they're buying wireless stuff.
Finally, mobile IP isn't really related to wireless networks - it's a means of allowing your machine to move around a network topology, rather than a building. It's not necessary to understand or to have a mobile IP system to use wireless network cards.
You get your car serviced by a chemical engineer, then?
Mind you, they're very good at it.
To be fair, there's a development path here. minix was a base filesystem, from which xiafs and ext appeared. ext2 was developed to address the shortcomings of ext, and was developed after the other two and taking advantage of what they'd discovered. So it was never a straight choice between four filesystems - they didn't start off on an equal footing.
With what we're talking of here - reiserfs, ext3, xfs and jfs - it would seem that only reiserfs is taking advantage of past experience and showing innovation. xfs and jfs are ports, and ext3 is intended as a simple upgrade path using time-tested code. That said, some of the innovation in reiserfs would seem to be directed towards odd and specific things - indexing of files, directories of objects and other strangeness - which most people don't want out of their Unix filesystem, and is as likely to find a niche as become a winner in the fight to be the single general-purpose filesystem.
No.
ext3 is a journalling filesystem based on ext2, with (almost) the same format on disk and which is backwards-compatible.
tux2 is a phase-tree filesystem based on ext2, which has a different method of keeping the disk as sane as possible, and which isn't trivially backwards compatible.
They share more code between them than either do with the other filesystems, because they're both based on ext2. They're still different, though.
I said WHO WANTS TO TOUCH ME, DAMMIT!