This is probably because they could never get convictions against Whites for killing blacks in the Old South.
The "solution" to that problem was Federal "Violating Their Civil Rights" charges to avoid both double jeapordy (by trying them for a different offense) and jury nullification (by trying them in a different venue).
So that explains it. The brain stores, copies, and deletes lots of files and it's got a lot of space in it. The file system becomes inefficient after a while. Ever try to defrag a brain-sized hard-drive?
And if the lake is small, and the ice is thin, it makes some interesting noises. I usually look forward to doing this once or twice a winter on Lake Accotink, which is actually a former reservoir. The noises are kindof like a cross between the guy-wire hitting sound used to make Star Wars laser noises and the "plip" from those old coffee commercials. YMMV.
And to further elaborate on this, a space-plane based on this technique was in the early planning stages in the 60s. Based on what they learned from the X-15 and other projects, it was designed to achieve suborbital flight by skipping off the atmosphere. Google for the unfortunately named "dynasoar" and/or "dynamic soaring". AFAIK, the only relic that survives is a small model in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in downtown DC. The Dynasoar program was canceled because expendable boosters were the best way to beat the Russians...
...sigh... probably the most expensive and long-term cost intensive "quick hack to make a deadline" ever. Instead of building up a knowledge base associated with reusable vehicles, we played around with expendable, then went back to reusable in "one big step" instead of the incremental changes that should have occured. Disaster both ways. No manned US expendable program, and a US reusable program that tried to do too much all at once.
For most users, giving them the freedom to see the source is like giving a blind man the right to drive.
Given that most users don't benefit directly from OS/FS, the question then becomes whether or not they benefit indirectly and the answer is a resounding "sometimes".
Network infrastructure tools that are OS/FS such as the ubiquitous LAMP servers have obviously provided idirect benfit to users by making more content afordable and readily available on line.
OTOH, without Windows and MacOS, most users would be in desktop hell.
Surely it must have occured to somebody that this thing is just a fanciful work of art. For example, REM is one of my favorite bands, and I defy anyone to decipher all the lyrics by ear. Perhaps this is just a printed analog of what REM does.
If you are trying to "deciper" art, of course you'll fail. Maybe these cryptographers should just read between the lines.
Perhaps the artist and his patrons are laughing from somewhere in the great beyond.
...because it would be a great way to get people into experimenting with EV/Hybrid if they could "bolt on" wheel motors to the non-driving wheels of their vehicles.
The big problems with such bolt-ons? First, you'd either have to re-work the axle or lock the rotor and let the bolt-on wheels run free. The former is expensive. The latter is dangerous because most (all?) modern vehicles have 4-wheel braking. So, you'd be cutting your braking power in half.
Of course you could incorporate braking into the wheel-motors, which they almost certainly did for their bus. That adds to the expense. Also, you can't run traditional hydraulic brakes to the wheel motors unless you go with the modified axle. So, you'd have to use electric braking of some kind; but unlike hydraulics, electrics don't work if the power goes out.
In all my years of driving I've had many electric failures, but the only time I ever had a hydraulic brake fail was on a car that had 30-year old OEM brake lines and a lot of rust. Hydraulics usually give you some warning before failing too--mushiness etc. With the normal hydraulics gone, I brought that car safely home with the emergency brake (which IIRC was cable operated).
A good answer to this problem? I think the wheels should use some kind of a centrifugal device that applies braking power in *inverse* proportion to vehicle speed. When the wheels are powered, the centrifual device is not deployed. If you lose power, the device deploys. Obviously you don't want full braking at full speed. The inverse relationship takes care of that. Lose power at highway speed and you begin to slow, but you don't lock up and burn rubber. You just come to an orderly crawl at say... 5 mph where you can deploy a mechanical emergency brake, or hit a guard rail if the emergency brake doesn't work.
Of course, if just *one* wheel loses power that's a problem--you're burning up that one wheel with the other 3.
So, a serious design would have to put a hydraulic brake rotor on a modified axle. Why not the traditional axle? Because traditionally the wheel and the brake rotor are locked together, and the caliper is on a stator. If the wheel is a motor, that means the stator is in the wheel! Alternatively, the rotor could be built into the wheel, which would make for some wierd looking tires. To change a tire, you'd have to somehow get your brake caliper out of the way, and then pull off a rather heavy motor-rotor-tire combo. That sounds a lot more akward than chaning a regular tire... and then... where do you keep a spare.
OK, so then put the motor inboard of a traditional rotor/wheel combo. But by then, you've got two motors on the axle close to the centerline of the vehicle--you might as well just use on motor.
Nevermind of course, that multiple E-motors are expensive! I think that's part of the reason why you only see this system on large vehicles. Trains and ore trucks cost millions each. Mechanical transmissions on such vehicles would be heavy, and would represent a single point of failure. In those businesses, time is money. For the average car, such a redundant system isn't worth the likely added expense. Even if it's more efficient; you still have to get the consumer to buy 4 times the drivetrain components up front.
Oh yeah? Well just watch me whip out my machine gun and blow apart your house, make love to your wife while she bares her breasts for all the world to see, and then drive off in your car at 100+ while the police chase me through a market crowded with live chickens and street vendors who conform to comical racial stereotypes. Not only will nobody get hurt, but I'll, like... totally prove you wrong. Or something.
Isn't that what we all want? Better operating systems?
Nope. The true Free Software idealogues only want conformity to their idealized vision of how they think the world should work. Cost, usability, stability and other criteria that most people use to evaluate software are irrelevant to them.
The most famous of these is RMS, but there are others. Read your history, and figure out for yourself how history tends to judge those who place "ideals" too far above practial real world results.
The best outcome is usually that some moderated form of the vision ends up prevailing. The worst outcome (when idealists achieve power, and maintaining the power becomes a surrogate for the ideal) is death on a grand scale.
Real geniuses they are, too. Why, I've flown to Houston, Seattle, and a number of other places and they actually managed to convince me it was real! Mt Rainier and the Space Needle from a simulated altitude of 10,000 ft were just breathtaking. I wonder what kind of video card they use on the other side of that "window".
Industry standard company ditching their flagship product; consumer demand for said product remains strong; product still selling.
I'll use my contacts, call some venture capitalists, and get the ball rolling.
OK. Not really. But you get the idea. Whenever something like this happens, too many people pessimisticly assume that nothing can be done about it. They remind me of C3PO--"we're all doomed.".
No. You're not doomed. Crisis. Opportunity. Mmmmm... Crisitunity.
Did I read that right? They expect to save/. $3650/yr?
OK, that's great if some volunteers want to fork over the code for nothing. Then it's free money, since Slashdot has upgrade cycles anyway, you'd just roll it into the next cycle.
OTOH, if they had developed it in-house they could have easily spent considerably more than that in developer salaray, so I can see why it wasn't done.
$100,000 revenue/employee sounds kinda thin. Even if your profit margin is 10%, everybody including the CEO is going to be living on ramen. Oh... wait... this is a Linux business you're talking about.:)
But when I tried to file a complaint the interface was down, then I got really busy and spent a lot less time at home (I suspect the calls still come, they just probably ring out on the answering machine now).
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This is probably because they could never get convictions against Whites for killing blacks in the Old South.
The "solution" to that problem was Federal "Violating Their Civil Rights" charges to avoid both double jeapordy (by trying them for a different offense) and jury nullification (by trying them in a different venue).
So that explains it. The brain stores, copies, and deletes lots of files and it's got a lot of space in it. The file system becomes inefficient after a while. Ever try to defrag a brain-sized hard-drive?
And if the lake is small, and the ice is thin, it makes some interesting noises. I usually look forward to doing this once or twice a winter on Lake Accotink, which is actually a former reservoir. The noises are kindof like a cross between the guy-wire hitting sound used to make Star Wars laser noises and the "plip" from those old coffee commercials. YMMV.
And to further elaborate on this, a space-plane based on this technique was in the early planning stages in the 60s. Based on what they learned from the X-15 and other projects, it was designed to achieve suborbital flight by skipping off the atmosphere. Google for the unfortunately named "dynasoar" and/or "dynamic soaring". AFAIK, the only relic that survives is a small model in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in downtown DC. The Dynasoar program was canceled because expendable boosters were the best way to beat the Russians...
...sigh... probably the most expensive and long-term cost intensive "quick hack to make a deadline" ever. Instead of building up a knowledge base associated with reusable vehicles, we played around with expendable, then went back to reusable in "one big step" instead of the incremental changes that should have occured. Disaster both ways. No manned US expendable program, and a US reusable program that tried to do too much all at once.
look harder. It's actually the Crusoe logo. The transmeta logo itself is just "Transmeta" written in a funky font.
For most users, giving them the freedom to see the source is like giving a blind man the right to drive.
Given that most users don't benefit directly from OS/FS, the question then becomes whether or not they benefit indirectly and the answer is a resounding "sometimes".
Network infrastructure tools that are OS/FS such as the ubiquitous LAMP servers have obviously provided idirect benfit to users by making more content afordable and readily available on line.
OTOH, without Windows and MacOS, most users would be in desktop hell.
Surely it must have occured to somebody that this thing is just a fanciful work of art. For example, REM is one of my favorite bands, and I defy anyone to decipher all the lyrics by ear. Perhaps this is just a printed analog of what REM does.
If you are trying to "deciper" art, of course you'll fail. Maybe these cryptographers should just read between the lines.
Perhaps the artist and his patrons are laughing from somewhere in the great beyond.
In Soviet Russia... ummm... nevermind.
...because it would be a great way to get people into experimenting with EV/Hybrid if they could "bolt on" wheel motors to the non-driving wheels of their vehicles.
The big problems with such bolt-ons? First, you'd either have to re-work the axle or lock the rotor and let the bolt-on wheels run free. The former is expensive. The latter is dangerous because most (all?) modern vehicles have 4-wheel braking. So, you'd be cutting your braking power in half.
Of course you could incorporate braking into the wheel-motors, which they almost certainly did for their bus. That adds to the expense. Also, you can't run traditional hydraulic brakes to the wheel motors unless you go with the modified axle. So, you'd have to use electric braking of some kind; but unlike hydraulics, electrics don't work if the power goes out.
In all my years of driving I've had many electric failures, but the only time I ever had a hydraulic brake fail was on a car that had 30-year old OEM brake lines and a lot of rust. Hydraulics usually give you some warning before failing too--mushiness etc. With the normal hydraulics gone, I brought that car safely home with the emergency brake (which IIRC was cable operated).
A good answer to this problem? I think the wheels should use some kind of a centrifugal device that applies braking power in *inverse* proportion to vehicle speed. When the wheels are powered, the centrifual device is not deployed. If you lose power, the device deploys. Obviously you don't want full braking at full speed. The inverse relationship takes care of that. Lose power at highway speed and you begin to slow, but you don't lock up and burn rubber. You just come to an orderly crawl at say... 5 mph where you can deploy a mechanical emergency brake, or hit a guard rail if the emergency brake doesn't work.
Of course, if just *one* wheel loses power that's a problem--you're burning up that one wheel with the other 3.
So, a serious design would have to put a hydraulic brake rotor on a modified axle. Why not the traditional axle? Because traditionally the wheel and the brake rotor are locked together, and the caliper is on a stator. If the wheel is a motor, that means the stator is in the wheel! Alternatively, the rotor could be built into the wheel, which would make for some wierd looking tires. To change a tire, you'd have to somehow get your brake caliper out of the way, and then pull off a rather heavy motor-rotor-tire combo. That sounds a lot more akward than chaning a regular tire... and then... where do you keep a spare.
OK, so then put the motor inboard of a traditional rotor/wheel combo. But by then, you've got two motors on the axle close to the centerline of the vehicle--you might as well just use on motor.
Nevermind of course, that multiple E-motors are expensive! I think that's part of the reason why you only see this system on large vehicles. Trains and ore trucks cost millions each. Mechanical transmissions on such vehicles would be heavy, and would represent a single point of failure. In those businesses, time is money. For the average car, such a redundant system isn't worth the likely added expense. Even if it's more efficient; you still have to get the consumer to buy 4 times the drivetrain components up front.
Oh yeah? Well just watch me whip out my machine gun and blow apart your house, make love to your wife while she bares her breasts for all the world to see, and then drive off in your car at 100+ while the police chase me through a market crowded with live chickens and street vendors who conform to comical racial stereotypes. Not only will nobody get hurt, but I'll, like... totally prove you wrong. Or something.
Isn't that what we all want? Better operating systems?
Nope. The true Free Software idealogues only want conformity to their idealized vision of how they think the world should work. Cost, usability, stability and other criteria that most people use to evaluate software are irrelevant to them.
The most famous of these is RMS, but there are others. Read your history, and figure out for yourself how history tends to judge those who place "ideals" too far above practial real world results.
The best outcome is usually that some moderated form of the vision ends up prevailing. The worst outcome (when idealists achieve power, and maintaining the power becomes a surrogate for the ideal) is death on a grand scale.
Real geniuses they are, too. Why, I've flown to Houston, Seattle, and a number of other places and they actually managed to convince me it was real! Mt Rainier and the Space Needle from a simulated altitude of 10,000 ft were just breathtaking. I wonder what kind of video card they use on the other side of that "window".
somwhere in a smoke-filled room at Slashdot headquarters... Eclipse is buying banners... let's be sure to mention Eclipse in some stories.
1. Code for Vogon poetic traits.
2. Write code that iterates over the Vogon poetic output, increasing the Vogonity of the poems with each iteration.
3. Link with Outlook worm.
4. Mail to patent holder(s).
Industry standard company ditching their flagship product; consumer demand for said product remains strong; product still selling.
I'll use my contacts, call some venture capitalists, and get the ball rolling.
OK. Not really. But you get the idea. Whenever something like this happens, too many people pessimisticly assume that nothing can be done about it. They remind me of C3PO--"we're all doomed.".
No. You're not doomed. Crisis. Opportunity. Mmmmm... Crisitunity.
Did I read that right? They expect to save /. $3650/yr?
OK, that's great if some volunteers want to fork over the code for nothing. Then it's free money, since Slashdot has upgrade cycles anyway, you'd just roll it into the next cycle.
OTOH, if they had developed it in-house they could have easily spent considerably more than that in developer salaray, so I can see why it wasn't done.
Jury nullification.
After Bill Gates "bought out" Compuhyperglobalmeganet, he sold the IP off in pieces.
es$100,000 revenue/employee sounds kinda thin. Even if your profit margin is 10%, everybody including the CEO is going to be living on ramen. Oh... wait... this is a Linux business you're talking about. :)
The sleek new box, which actually contains 5 CPUs...
I guess then the result will be the death of broadcast TV
Broadcast TV is still alive?
But when I tried to file a complaint the interface was down, then I got really busy and spent a lot less time at home (I suspect the calls still come, they just probably ring out on the answering machine now).
Has anybody actually bought SCO's product? Maybe somebody from Slashdot ought to buy one just to make sure.
...the lucky soda bottle. Can it do that?
The scene, any bar along the Asian Pacific coast.
Man: Hey baby, I'm a yuhangyuan--man gets slapped
Man: But baby, I'm going up tomorrow--man gets drink thrown in face
Woman: I don't care how hung you are, or what you hang on it. NOT IF YOU WERE THE LAST MAN ON EARTH!
Man: No, you don't understand. I'm going to be the first man off Earth.