I agree that fightbox is pretty lame, however the same BBC shows Time Commanders, which is basically a RTS based on actual ancient battles, and it does make good viewing, altough I'm not sure this program is targeted at gamers.
What other company can sell things made by people that don't get paid for making them?
I believe they are called SCO. (At least they think they can.) And if you're talking about physical goods, most clothing brands do (Nike for instance), but their workers live in the Philliphines, so they don't seem to count.
I can. apt-get is great for us geeks, but for normal users you need a nice gui replacement for dselect.
furthermore, I recently installed a new printer on a dual boot system. On windows it was a question of connecting the thing and popping in a cd. On linux it required a trawl accross the net for a driver (and this is a HP printer) followed by setting up CUPS and a make install session.
Again, easy for your average geek and a huge improvement over the days of RedHat 5.2 (my first linux install) but I don't see your average salesman who wants to play half-life in his spare time doing things like that.
why do you think you have the god given right to circumvent the copyright protection somebody places on their work?
I'm sorry, but why do I need the permission of the Superme Being (if there even is such a thing, which I seriously doubt) to foil a silly protectionist measure like DVD region encoding? If there is a god, I think it has something better to do than worry about the number of zeroes in a bank account in a very tiny corner of the universe.
You think so? It looks to me that by charging money for copyrighted material they do not own, that they will be profiting directly from piracy. That throws out all fair-use claims and any common-carrier status.
Its a bit ackward to read on the screen but at least its free.
You should use a good reader program like ETR
Set the font big and white on black and use a TFT not a CRT, prefarably on a laptop. You can read for hours that way.
the reader automatically bookmarks your location in the file when you close it, and on the next run it opens the file in the place where you stopped reading, and it has an integrated browser for the Project Gutenberg etexts.
The biggest problems with most e-book readers and pdf files is that they try to emulate paper books.Reading on screen is something different, and it can be quite comfortable if done correctly.
So true. However, I suspect that reading tabloids is linked to stupidity. Is there a study to confirm my suspicions? And if not, why not? Must be a government plot...
You sir, are an uninformed troll. Please read up on history before making baseless claims. You're basically accusing the inventor of the wheel of holding back science because they did not invent the inflatable tyre.
some names to google: Democritus Aristotle Heron Ptolemy
And even you should be familiar with Archimedes and Pythagoras.
First an article about a DIY mortar, now a motorised surfboard, it must be International kill-yourself-spectacularly-day here on slashdot. Oh well, if I hurry I may finally get my Darwin award...
No. The only real gift, is something you spent some time and thought on. Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic, but something like:
"Oooh baby, I love you so much I spent nearly 5 minutes online to get you this piece of crap, absentmindedly wrapped by some anonymous repeat-offender in a dull warehouse", somehow doesn't seem worth the bother to begin with.
And I may also be a hypocrite, because when I buy gifts online, I wrap them myself, to at least give the impression that I have put some thought into it.
Well, I don't know what thr33z are (and neither does google:-) but you can find some very useful e-texts on P2P networks. Just search around for pdf files. (Sadly, most are pirated textbooks, but very informative and accurate nonetheless.)
you're right. I should not have used c as example.
But if you read the whole thread, the process proposed is this:
1. measure the speed of light from the interferencepattern. for this you need the exact frequency of the source.
2. calculate the frequency using the interference pattern and the value of the speed of light.
3. calculate the speed of light from the frequency derived in step 2.
This is the circularity an earlier poster pointed out, since the speed of light is the thing that we're trying to measure.
As for measuring c directly, Roemer did it in 1676 using timing of ecipses of the moons of jupiter, and Fizeau and Michelson, among others did it in the 19th century using light pulses bounced off distant mirrors, with greater accuracy than you can get by measuring molten chocolate.
Since,as you point out, the meter was more recently defined in terms of c, (more accurately,both the meter and the the second are defined in terms of c, since the meter is defined as a fixed number of wavelengths of a particular spectral line, and the second depends on the associated frequency of the light)this whole discussion is getting a bit silly.
Of course, the whole point of the chocolate experiment is not the result, but showing the method involved.
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I think the grandparent is using internet time.
I wonder how much it is in dog-years...
you mean college students actually BUY games? this must be some weird fantasy world you speak of.
You can make up any word you want, and use it in any context.
:)
Well, only a complete pinkeltonker would say that
I agree that fightbox is pretty lame, however the same BBC shows Time Commanders, which is basically a RTS based on actual ancient battles, and it does make good viewing, altough I'm not sure this program is targeted at gamers.
What other company can sell things made by people that don't get paid for making them?
I believe they are called SCO. (At least they think they can.) And if you're talking about physical goods, most clothing brands do (Nike for instance), but their workers live in the Philliphines, so they don't seem to count.
I think it's nice to see slashdot rising above simple good guy bad guy dualism. Now if we could only shoot the trolls, this would be a great place.
I can. apt-get is great for us geeks, but for normal users you need a nice gui replacement for dselect.
furthermore, I recently installed a new printer on a dual boot system. On windows it was a question of connecting the thing and popping in a cd. On linux it required a trawl accross the net for a driver (and this is a HP printer) followed by setting up CUPS and a make install session.
Again, easy for your average geek and a huge improvement over the days of RedHat 5.2 (my first linux install) but I don't see your average salesman who wants to play half-life in his spare time doing things like that.
Well, what did you expect? if Amazon can patent "One Click Shopping", expect people to get prosecuted for "One Key Cracking"
And every AC troll claims to have a valid argument.
why do you think you have the god given right to circumvent the copyright protection somebody places on their work?
I'm sorry, but why do I need the permission of the Superme Being (if there even is such a thing, which I seriously doubt) to foil a silly protectionist measure like DVD region encoding? If there is a god, I think it has something better to do than worry about the number of zeroes in a bank account in a very tiny corner of the universe.
You think so? It looks to me that by charging money for copyrighted material they do not own, that they will be profiting directly from piracy. That throws out all fair-use claims and any common-carrier status.
the reader automatically bookmarks your location in the file when you close it, and on the next run it opens the file in the place where you stopped reading, and it has an integrated browser for the Project Gutenberg etexts.
The biggest problems with most e-book readers and pdf files is that they try to emulate paper books.Reading on screen is something different, and it can be quite comfortable if done correctly.
or especially LiON cells that have been damaged can be VERY dangerous.
Well duh, if the cell is damaged then the lions can escape. Any zookeeper can tell you that's dangerous.
So true. However, I suspect that reading tabloids is linked to stupidity. Is there a study to confirm my suspicions? And if not, why not? Must be a government plot...
Ok you asked for it.
(warning: my latin is a bit rusty, and I welcome grammatical corrections)
Ego per unum, saluto nostris novem imperatores extra terrestris.
A Psion running CE, that really is a fate worse than death.
You sir, are an uninformed troll. Please read up on history before making baseless claims. You're basically accusing the inventor of the wheel of holding back science because they did not invent the inflatable tyre.
some names to google:
Democritus Aristotle Heron Ptolemy
And even you should be familiar with Archimedes and Pythagoras.
We all know what's going to happen now:
Yes, Longhorn will be renamed "Windows Extreme"
First an article about a DIY mortar, now a motorised surfboard, it must be International kill-yourself-spectacularly-day here on slashdot. Oh well, if I hurry I may finally get my Darwin award...
Well... look at the precedents:
Apple -> Open Firmware; boots alternate OSes flawlessly.
Microsoft -> XBOX encrypted BIOS; needs a modchip to restore basic PC functionality.
True, the XBOX is a console, but the whole Palladium thing should make you uneasy about this move.
Actually, as a linux and OOo user I have to say that the AC is right, it's really annoying.
No. The only real gift, is something you spent some time and thought on. Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic, but something like:
"Oooh baby, I love you so much I spent nearly 5 minutes online to get you this piece of crap, absentmindedly wrapped by some anonymous repeat-offender in a dull warehouse", somehow doesn't seem worth the bother to begin with.
And I may also be a hypocrite, because when I buy gifts online, I wrap them myself, to at least give the impression that I have put some thought into it.
Well, I don't know what thr33z are (and neither does google :-) but you can find some very useful e-texts on P2P networks. Just search around for pdf files. (Sadly, most are pirated textbooks, but very informative and accurate nonetheless.)
you're right. I should not have used c as example.
But if you read the whole thread, the process proposed is this:
1. measure the speed of light from the interferencepattern. for this you need the exact frequency of the source.
2. calculate the frequency using the interference pattern and the value of the speed of light.
3. calculate the speed of light from the frequency derived in step 2.
This is the circularity an earlier poster pointed out, since the speed of light is the thing that we're trying to measure.
As for measuring c directly, Roemer did it in 1676 using timing of ecipses of the moons of jupiter, and Fizeau and Michelson, among others did it in the 19th century using light pulses bounced off distant mirrors, with greater accuracy than you can get by measuring molten chocolate.
Since,as you point out, the meter was more recently defined in terms of c, (more accurately,both the meter and the the second are defined in terms of c, since the meter is defined as a fixed number of wavelengths of a particular spectral line, and the second depends on the associated frequency of the light)this whole discussion is getting a bit silly.
Of course, the whole point of the chocolate experiment is not the result, but showing the method involved.