"Your honor, the defendant has a musical password which was not authorized by us! By using it on more than one computer, he has distributed it illegally. We demand $700,000 in damages."
It's been.. what nearly 35 years since we've been to the moon? About time someone (and not the US since the Iraq war has sucked up all our money) went there.
Interestingly, from TFA it sounds like they will NOT use the separate landing craft approach of Apollo.
That's IT? What a fucking loser.
He should have done world a favor and killed himself in jail. Saved taxpayers money on a manhunt and left his family alone.
So if I understand, this would make the optional block size of Linux ext3 fs perform better on SSD, but still be somewhat limited by the largest possible write on ATA/SATA?
-b block-size
Specify the size of blocks in bytes. Valid block size vales are 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per block. If omitted, mke2fs block-size is heuristically determined by the file system size and the expected usage of the filesystem (see the -T option). If block-size is negative, then mke2fs will use heuristics to determine the appropriate block size, with the constraint that the block size will be at least block-size bytes. This is useful for certain hardware devices which require that the blocksize be a multiple of 2k.
If the magnets are superconducting, why would they need a good thermal conductor? It's not as if superconductors generate any heat in operation.
That's an excellent question.
I'm guessing they are not using HTC superconductors, which can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, due to the potential for current-induced superconductivity breakdown.
Here's a little background on the effect (Thank you Wikipedia...)
This equation, which is known as the London equation, predicts that the magnetic field in a superconductor decays exponentially from whatever value it possesses at the surface.
The Meissner effect breaks down when the applied magnetic field is too large. Superconductors can be divided into two classes according to how this breakdown occurs. In Type I superconductors, superconductivity is abruptly destroyed when the strength of the applied field rises above a critical value Hc. Depending on the geometry of the sample, one may obtain an intermediate state consisting of regions of normal material carrying a magnetic field mixed with regions of superconducting material containing no field. In Type II superconductors, raising the applied field past a critical value Hc1 leads to a mixed state in which an increasing amount of magnetic flux penetrates the material, but there remains no resistance to the flow of electrical current as long as the current is not too large. At a second critical field strength Hc2, superconductivity is destroyed. The mixed state is actually caused by vortices in the electronic superfluid, sometimes called fluxons because the flux carried by these vortices is quantized. Most pure elemental superconductors, except niobium, technetium, vanadium and carbon nanotubes, are Type I, while almost all impure and compound superconductors are Type II.
This is in-vitro fertilizization: i.e. "test tube babies. This doesn't have anything to do with telling a woman what to do with her body. This selection is all outside her body.
Realistically, the "problem" is that there is no billion dollar industry bent on expanding control in the name of profit that wants to lobby and shell out insane amounts of $$ in "campaign contributions" to give long jail terms to rapists, killers, and other violent offenders.
If you have 10000 physics objects and 15 AIs, keeping both threads CPU-hungry, then the OS will give 1/3 CPU to the physics engine; 1/3 CPU to the AI; and 1/3 CPU to the render thread. This means your physics engine starves, and your physics start getting slow and choppy well before you reach the physical limits of the hardware. The game breaks down.
Well, what about multicore systems?
Quad core: 1 core to the AI, one core to the physics, and 1 core to the render thread. No starvation?
Seems to me that with the progress of multicore CPU this is going to become irrelevant fast.
# A paying customer who cares about the future of the software and is active in its development
# A manager who understands the full software development life cycle
So you are saying that open source software that isn't written for a paying customer is not good?
I think there's a lot of stuff on sourceforge that would contradict that.
The manager thing, I can go with, if you broaden the definition of manager to include things like what Linus does with the Linux kernel.
There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised business models.
Why should we accept DRM? The real reason for it is to give copyright owners more control over content than copyright law allows. You asking us to accept DRM means you are asking us to yield the rights we are not denied under copyright law.
IPR... for @#$% sake stop using "Intellectual Property." I do respect Patents (although software patents are broken and the US patent system is in severe need of reform). I respect copyrights, the GPL doesn't work without it. I think trademarks are swell and I understand all about trade secrets.
SIM locks... meaning I should accept that I can buy something and not do with it what I want? No thank you. I want to own the physical goods that I buy.
Subsidized business models I tend to have deep scorn for, because it's all about screwing the customer in the end.
If "spreading" a program that breaks CSS is illegal, than people in finland who use Bittorrent to download a linux distro will be breaking the law.
Seriously, this is all messed up. It's "picket fence" security. A fence only twenty centimeters high can be stepped over, but the government makes it illegal. In which case, why bother with CSS anyway.
From the film's title, "gaslighting" acquired the meaning of ruthlessly manipulating an individual, for nefarious reasons, into believing something other than the truth.
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"Your honor, the defendant has a musical password which was not authorized by us! By using it on more than one computer, he has distributed it illegally. We demand $700,000 in damages."
1)We have global warming which is from the greenhouse effect.
2)You have a shitload of sooty pollution it keeps the sun out from the ground level so it feels cooler.
3) The sun comes out after you clean up your disgusting air and you start to notice the global warming.
4) Global warming was always there.
Yes, but it's only a TV show. :)
The logic was like this: All the crewmembers are fully qualified astronauts; they are all academy graduates, they are all officers.
Sorry I can't be more specific than that. I read it along time ago and donated my star trek books to the library a while ago.
Interestingly, from TFA it sounds like they will NOT use the separate landing craft approach of Apollo.
That's IT? What a fucking loser. He should have done world a favor and killed himself in jail. Saved taxpayers money on a manhunt and left his family alone.
So if I understand, this would make the optional block size of Linux ext3 fs perform better on SSD, but still be somewhat limited by the largest possible write on ATA/SATA?
The Fiero had no back seat.
Actually, they can't.
Unless they synchronize the destruction with a space tourism trip.
...
Everybody! Start checking for suspicious space flights!
I heard every single one of the bastards has a towel and an electronic thumb all prepared.
If the magnets are superconducting, why would they need a good thermal conductor? It's not as if superconductors generate any heat in operation.
That's an excellent question. I'm guessing they are not using HTC superconductors, which can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, due to the potential for current-induced superconductivity breakdown.
Here's a little background on the effect (Thank you Wikipedia...)
This equation, which is known as the London equation, predicts that the magnetic field in a superconductor decays exponentially from whatever value it possesses at the surface. The Meissner effect breaks down when the applied magnetic field is too large. Superconductors can be divided into two classes according to how this breakdown occurs. In Type I superconductors, superconductivity is abruptly destroyed when the strength of the applied field rises above a critical value Hc. Depending on the geometry of the sample, one may obtain an intermediate state consisting of regions of normal material carrying a magnetic field mixed with regions of superconducting material containing no field. In Type II superconductors, raising the applied field past a critical value Hc1 leads to a mixed state in which an increasing amount of magnetic flux penetrates the material, but there remains no resistance to the flow of electrical current as long as the current is not too large. At a second critical field strength Hc2, superconductivity is destroyed. The mixed state is actually caused by vortices in the electronic superfluid, sometimes called fluxons because the flux carried by these vortices is quantized. Most pure elemental superconductors, except niobium, technetium, vanadium and carbon nanotubes, are Type I, while almost all impure and compound superconductors are Type II.
When they create a black hole and destroy the earth, they can say "but it was such a cool experiment..."
How about welding a bunk to the wall for a fraction of the cost?
The big music companies are always complaining about "stealing" music.
The purpose of copyright was to give a limited monopoly to the creator for a certain time, after which the work was to become public domain.
So by paying the politicians to extend copyright lengths over and over, aren't they using the legal system to steal the public domain music from us?
"Disenchanted with Vista? Why not stop being Microsoft's bitch and move to Linux, *BSD, or Mac?
There, fixed that for you.
Which, for some fucking reason they DIDN'T use during the September 11 attacks. Funny that.
This is in-vitro fertilizization: i.e. "test tube babies. This doesn't have anything to do with telling a woman what to do with her body. This selection is all outside her body.
Agreed. So why is it?
Realistically, the "problem" is that there is no billion dollar industry bent on expanding control in the name of profit that wants to lobby and shell out insane amounts of $$ in "campaign contributions" to give long jail terms to rapists, killers, and other violent offenders.
Quad core: 1 core to the AI, one core to the physics, and 1 core to the render thread. No starvation?
Seems to me that with the progress of multicore CPU this is going to become irrelevant fast.
He can DoS ISP's with only a set of golf clubs!
So you are saying that open source software that isn't written for a paying customer is not good?
I think there's a lot of stuff on sourceforge that would contradict that.
The manager thing, I can go with, if you broaden the definition of manager to include things like what Linus does with the Linux kernel.
Why should we accept DRM? The real reason for it is to give copyright owners more control over content than copyright law allows. You asking us to accept DRM means you are asking us to yield the rights we are not denied under copyright law.
IPR... for @#$% sake stop using "Intellectual Property." I do respect Patents (although software patents are broken and the US patent system is in severe need of reform). I respect copyrights, the GPL doesn't work without it. I think trademarks are swell and I understand all about trade secrets.
SIM locks... meaning I should accept that I can buy something and not do with it what I want? No thank you. I want to own the physical goods that I buy.
Subsidized business models I tend to have deep scorn for, because it's all about screwing the customer in the end.
If "spreading" a program that breaks CSS is illegal, than people in finland who use Bittorrent to download a linux distro will be breaking the law. Seriously, this is all messed up. It's "picket fence" security. A fence only twenty centimeters high can be stepped over, but the government makes it illegal. In which case, why bother with CSS anyway.
Gee Bill, you CAN charge for GPL software. If you are the copyright holder, you can release it under multiple licences (like trolltech does).
The difference is that your customers won't have vendor lock in with GPL software.
What kind of "drugs" were you talking about? The kind that fix allergies or things like methamphetamines?
OK so we use these new captchas on pr0n sites only.