The US has bases all over the world that could do the switching.... And maybe...just maybe... those satelites have a little clock on board and a microcontroller that can be programmed....
Just the mere fact that you sign a document that proves you wrote part of the Linux code, makes you liable for litigation. If any company thinks its rights are violated by a Linux component they can easily sue the contributors of this (and more) components personally. Given the track record of US litigation, I would never sign it.
Signing a document aknowledging that you wrote it doesn't make you more liable... Wheter you sign or not doesn't change the fact that you wrote it. If you are liable after signing you were liable before. The signing just makes it a little bit easier for the other party to find you. Unless you posted all your patches to linux-kernel as anonymous coward this doesn't change anything at all.
Unless and until a company has in place a development process that conforms to independent and internationally recognized standards such as ISO-9000 and has been certified as such you have no guarantee that what they are doing conforms to good engineering practices.
Conforming to the ISO standards is no guarantee at all that a company isn't producing crap... The only thing you know is that they have followed a documented procedure to make crap.
I don't thing Michael Moore has been behind the actions of the Bush administration so setting it up is a bit far fetched....
Both only show you what they wanted you to see, one wanted you to see a beautifull ocean and a story about great explorers on a great ship... the other wanted you to see a bad Bush & co.
Not with real numbers... But it is not uncommon to create a superset of the real number set and add infinity and -infinity to it. The downside of this set is that a lot of calculations are not allowed with infinity since it would be dependant what x was. Its a sort of one way system...
An easier way to handle this kind of things is limits. x/y where y reaches zero from above will have an result that reaches infinity. (Not sure I said the last thing right in english)
I do use a x86 system (atleast the one I use for mplayer) but I don't have any windows codecs on it... So it seams they don it nativly. (Might still be x86 specific though)
Why do some many open source developers limit their program to just the linux world?
Most programs are more limited to the posix world than to the linux world and will run (maybe with some minor tweaking) on anything that resembles unix.
For a lot of open source developpers its a hobby... Why should I care about windows? It is such a pain it is just no fun.... I am not a big corporation wanting as many customers as possible, I don't car about windows users.... I like programming and if someone finds my stuff usefull than great, but it wasn't the reason for writting it. But the source is available, if someone wants a windows version its possible (just don't wait for me doing it for you).
The input is totally different if you are doing climate predictions than for weather..... For predicting the climate in 50 years it is not necessarry to known for each day if it rained in your back yard.
There are a lot of things right now where the cpu is the bottleneck. In making a system better it is wise to start with the weakest link and than with the second weakest, etc... Also you don't have to refresh static ram, its more expensive but might pay off in terms of energy.
A lower core clock can save you a lot... bot financial and in energy. Raising the clock rate on a chip will increase its energy usage exponentially. If the problems you want to solve are parallel enough why not?
Protection against who? Because of the actions of our current registration (kissing Bush and Blairs' ass) the only people we have to fear is the muslim group the US is going to piss (off/on) next.
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The government itself is made up of common people (you could argue 'lowest common denominator' :) so why can they handle it but 'the public' can't?
Never let a government act without checking!
People do terrible things when they know they won't be held accountable.
Jeroen
Simple... I'm not in the US.
Thinking isn't outlawed here yet....
Jeroen
Why should any government decide what I am allowed to know?
Jeroen
The design of a prime focus dish doesn't change much for different frequencies...
You might need to have a finer mesh though...
Jeroen
The US has bases all over the world that could do the switching....
And maybe...just maybe... those satelites have a little clock on board and a microcontroller that can be programmed....
Jeroen
nitpick: GSM is TDMA... its TDMA vs CDMA.
Jeroen
Just the mere fact that you sign a document that proves you wrote part of the Linux code, makes you liable for litigation. If any company thinks its rights are violated by a Linux component they can easily sue the contributors of this (and more) components personally. Given the track record of US litigation, I would never sign it.
Signing a document aknowledging that you wrote it doesn't make you more liable...
Wheter you sign or not doesn't change the fact that you wrote it.
If you are liable after signing you were liable before. The signing just makes it a little bit easier for the other party to find you.
Unless you posted all your patches to linux-kernel as anonymous coward this doesn't change anything at all.
Jeroen
Yes ..a rational person would laugh, but highly paid attorneys versus dumb judges and jury.
Luckely most of SCO's legal papers seem to be written by an child, the judges don't seem to like them that much and there isn't a jury yet....
If Linux hadn't changed a thing they would have found a reason why it was bad aswell....
Jeroen
Unless and until a company has in place a development process that conforms to independent and internationally recognized standards such as ISO-9000 and has been certified as such you have no guarantee that what they are doing conforms to good engineering practices.
Conforming to the ISO standards is no guarantee at all that a company isn't producing crap... The only thing you know is that they have followed a documented procedure to make crap.
Jeroen
I don't thing Michael Moore has been behind the actions of the Bush administration so setting it up is a bit far fetched....
Both only show you what they wanted you to see, one wanted you to see a beautifull ocean and a story about great explorers on a great ship... the other wanted you to see a bad Bush & co.
Jeroen
That doesn't make it any less the first documentary to get the award.
Jeroen
Its the second documentary to get it...
Jaques Coustau got one to.
It uses libavcodec (from ffmpeg which is free software) for real 1 and 2.
For version 3 and 4 it uses the libraries....
So its a bit of both...
Jeroen
Not with real numbers... But it is not uncommon to create a superset of the real number set and add infinity and -infinity to it.
The downside of this set is that a lot of calculations are not allowed with infinity since it would be dependant what x was.
Its a sort of one way system...
An easier way to handle this kind of things is limits. x/y where y reaches zero from above will have an result that reaches infinity. (Not sure I said the last thing right in english)
Jeroen
Since it atleast supports it partly against not at all for the helix crap it can't be anything less than infinitly better.
Jeroen
You don't need the win32 codecs for real support.
Neither for rtsp support. (You do need the live.com library for it though)
Jeroen
I do use a x86 system (atleast the one I use for mplayer) but I don't have any windows codecs on it... So it seams they don it nativly. (Might still be x86 specific though)
Jeroen
Why do some many open source developers limit their program to just the linux world?
Most programs are more limited to the posix world than to the linux world and will run (maybe with some minor tweaking) on anything that resembles unix.
For a lot of open source developpers its a hobby... Why should I care about windows? It is such a pain it is just no fun....
I am not a big corporation wanting as many customers as possible, I don't car about windows users.... I like programming and if someone finds my stuff usefull than great, but it wasn't the reason for writting it.
But the source is available, if someone wants a windows version its possible (just don't wait for me doing it for you).
Jeroen
Reread my post, thats were the infinite came from...
Jeroen
You don't have to miss out on real content... mplayer plays it just fine. Infact it plays it infinitly better than real's own open source player...
Jeroen
The input is totally different if you are doing climate predictions than for weather.....
For predicting the climate in 50 years it is not necessarry to known for each day if it rained in your back yard.
Jeroen
Not all problems are solved easier by throwing more bits at it.... With more bits the number of instructions you can execute is still the same.
Jeroen
There are a lot of things right now where the cpu is the bottleneck. In making a system better it is wise to start with the weakest link and than with the second weakest, etc...
Also you don't have to refresh static ram, its more expensive but might pay off in terms of energy.
Jeroen
A lower core clock can save you a lot... bot financial and in energy. Raising the clock rate on a chip will increase its energy usage exponentially.
If the problems you want to solve are parallel enough why not?
Jeroen
Protection against who?
Because of the actions of our current registration (kissing Bush and Blairs' ass) the only people we have to fear is the muslim group the US is going to piss (off/on) next.
Jeroen