Before I say anything about Intel's new Pentium III at 1.133 GHz I would like to raise one question. Do you need a processor that's faster than 1 GHz right now? Really? Let's be honest, there is indeed hardly any software for the vast majority of users, which would be able to take any sensible advantage of a CPU that fast. Who is supposed to need it?
Yes, "move all files beginning with 'a' to 'foo'" would be preferable to "move a* foo" because the latter is ambiguous, e.g., is that "move a * foo"? The standard Unix semantics are far too ambiguous when it comes to the command line.
DejaNews used to be a great Usenet reference site when you wanted to do a search - I can think of a great number of times when that was where I found the answer to a problem that I had. Then it became Deja.com and forced you to weed through a bunch of junk just to find the search form for Usenet. Fortunately, bookmarking the "advanced search" page (http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml) got you past all that crap, but now they've decided to sabotage themselves further by adding these rediculous hyperlinks. Time to remove that bookmark I guess. What the hell went wrong with DejaNews over the past years that they became such a net whore? Anyone recommend a site that provides a more straightforward Usenet search?
It is illegal to price by region, but only within the United States. I don't see how pricing schemes outside of the US could be controlled by US law (aside from tariffs, etc.)
Although you're jesting, I think you summed the whole situation up perfectly - software bugs are a problem, but when the source is available (and you're allowed to modify / rebuild it), the problem is much different. Should it really require a warranty then?
It doesn't look at the file extension, it looks at the "magic" at the top of the image. Both Netscape and IE will properly display GIF and JPG properly, regardless of the mime header. Why PNG is breaking is unknown.
The Drug industry is another thing entirely - any drug that is making its way to market has its testing strictly controlled by the FDA. Why? To PREVENT BOGUS drugs and to ENSURE the SAFETY of new drugs. Your discussion of penicillin is one instance of where a hastier path to market would have saved lives. I challenge you to look up how many drugs DIDN'T make it to market, because they failed approval, or because they were either too dangerous or just plain ineffective. If you think the rigorous testing is unnecessary, I'll introduce you to my friend Phen-fen where the testing wasn't rigorous enough.
Patenting drugs is completely reasonable, because drugs go through this rigorous testing process. There are no "novel inventions" in the drug arena due to this, and that is what the entire patent debate is trying to prevent.
So if you write a program and I get hold of the object code, I should be able to look at the organization of bytes in the object code and duplicate it?
Repairing or upgrading old satellites is like suggesting to someone that they should upgrade a 486 computer. Anything over 5 years old is essentially obsolete. It'd be a lot cheaper just to put up a new satellite.
This is something that Indrema has taken into consideration, and instead of a fixed GPU, it has an upgradeable one.
Is this very practical? The masses have a hard enough time adding a new hard drive to their computer - could you imagine a bunch of adolescents trying to upgrade something like a GPU?
No mistake. There's nothing new here - this type of display was used as far back as the Apple II's which only had 4 colors. Magenta and green or blue and orange were combined to create white. This white was then used to render the characters on the screen, with the two colors used to antialias the character.
Don't be such a troll, especially when you don't know what you're talking about.
1) How do they manage to transmit back to earth? There's nothing even remotely comparable to an antennae or dish on that thing.
2) How do they handle the altitude adjustments that the Iridium satellites were so dependent on? Similarly, if they expect these things to fly in a cluster (constellation), won't this impose a few difficulties?
Just add some form of high-visibility dot to the "batleth". Curviness doesn't matter much - it can all be calculated if you know the relative orientation of the various marked points on the object.
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Good work - but don't be too quick to admonish the attachment of electrodes to your nipples. It has very interesting therapeutic effects.
Adobe provides tools to encrypt PDFs and then tie them so they will not be viewable on any machine other than that of the key buyer's. Look for "PDF Merchant" on their web site.
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- Before I say anything about Intel's new Pentium III at 1.133 GHz I would like to raise one question. Do you need a processor that's faster than 1 GHz right now? Really? Let's be honest, there is indeed hardly any software for the vast majority of users, which would be able to take any sensible advantage of a CPU that fast. Who is supposed to need it?
All I can say is, ouch!Yes, "move all files beginning with 'a' to 'foo'" would be preferable to "move a* foo" because the latter is ambiguous, e.g., is that "move a * foo"? The standard Unix semantics are far too ambiguous when it comes to the command line.
At the same time, I'm not sure there's a whole lot of value in reading about a book that you shouldn't buy.
That's kinda cute seeing directional arrows on those links.
DejaNews used to be a great Usenet reference site when you wanted to do a search - I can think of a great number of times when that was where I found the answer to a problem that I had. Then it became Deja.com and forced you to weed through a bunch of junk just to find the search form for Usenet. Fortunately, bookmarking the "advanced search" page (http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml) got you past all that crap, but now they've decided to sabotage themselves further by adding these rediculous hyperlinks. Time to remove that bookmark I guess. What the hell went wrong with DejaNews over the past years that they became such a net whore? Anyone recommend a site that provides a more straightforward Usenet search?
It is illegal to price by region, but only within the United States. I don't see how pricing schemes outside of the US could be controlled by US law (aside from tariffs, etc.)
Although you're jesting, I think you summed the whole situation up perfectly - software bugs are a problem, but when the source is available (and you're allowed to modify / rebuild it), the problem is much different. Should it really require a warranty then?
It doesn't look at the file extension, it looks at the "magic" at the top of the image. Both Netscape and IE will properly display GIF and JPG properly, regardless of the mime header. Why PNG is breaking is unknown.
Patenting drugs is completely reasonable, because drugs go through this rigorous testing process. There are no "novel inventions" in the drug arena due to this, and that is what the entire patent debate is trying to prevent.
I don't think so.
All you have to do is look at Doughney's current site (http://mtd.com/tasty) to realize that everything you've said is incorrect.
Repairing or upgrading old satellites is like suggesting to someone that they should upgrade a 486 computer. Anything over 5 years old is essentially obsolete. It'd be a lot cheaper just to put up a new satellite.
Is this very practical? The masses have a hard enough time adding a new hard drive to their computer - could you imagine a bunch of adolescents trying to upgrade something like a GPU?
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Interesting to see Marconi inducted the same year as Tesla :)
Coincidentally, 16-bit support isn't complete in OpenBIOS. Just 32-bit, IIRC.
I wonder if UoSat-12 gets its directories plugged up with files named WS_FTP.LOG.
Don't be such a troll, especially when you don't know what you're talking about.
2) How do they handle the altitude adjustments that the Iridium satellites were so dependent on? Similarly, if they expect these things to fly in a cluster (constellation), won't this impose a few difficulties?
Actually, I think you're the only person that brought up anything about the security of linux.
The government smacked them a while back and forbade them to pre-announce any product.
Just add some form of high-visibility dot to the "batleth". Curviness doesn't matter much - it can all be calculated if you know the relative orientation of the various marked points on the object.
Good work - but don't be too quick to admonish the attachment of electrodes to your nipples. It has very interesting therapeutic effects.
Adobe provides tools to encrypt PDFs and then tie them so they will not be viewable on any machine other than that of the key buyer's. Look for "PDF Merchant" on their web site.
How do you plan on releasing it digitally? Perhaps *gulp* encrypt the content and use the DMCA as protection from decryption?