AFAIK, none of the linux driver use the SD specific features, i.e. more than the 4 serial lines. The only problem seems to be that the initialisation of the SD card is a little bit different from the MMC card and the HP people don't want to put that into open source. So the best case scenario would be that we can take the open source MMC driver and add the SD initialisation taken from one of the closed source ones. This should at least give us the ability to use SD memory cards. This is under the assumption that there is an open source version of the ipaq MMC drivers, which I am pretty sure there is, but which I haven't used (no MMC ipaq) or looked at. The sharp SD driver module is not stripped in any way and all the names of the subroutines are pretty intuitive. There was a long discussion about the whole subject a couple of months ago on the ipaq mailing list. You could try looking for it in the archives at handhelds.org
There cannot be an open source sd card driver written by the compaq/hp people because they have an official license and cannot violate that. On the other hand, there shouldn't be any problem to reverse engineer the sharp, hp or any other closed sourced linux driver and write your own. Although, in the US you may have some trouble with the DMCA.
The mere fact that the term intellectual property was never used in the US constitution and AFAIK was invented in the 70s should be enough to make it clear that copyright has NOTHING to do with PROPERTY. You can't own thoughts. You may put some claim to the expression of an idea, but never the idea itself. Knowledge can't be taken away and giving it away won't diminish your own. As soon as you publish your ideas, they are in the public domain. Copyright just gives you the opportunity to benefit from their creation, so that you will keep creating. Your own thoughts and ideas don't come from thin air, but from other people's ideas. You can't treat them as property.
There won't be any tablet PC with a P4. The fastest Intel tablets will have a PIII 800 MHz which is speed stepped down during battery use. Here is a comparison of tablet PCs. The Compaq/HP tablet is by far my favorit.Unfortunately they removed the specs.
You should be able to set limits for longrun to determine at what levels the CPU is supposed to operate. There is a tool for Linux. Don't know about Windows.
No it's not. Look at this comparison And consider that Intel and AMD can't produce a chip that will stay as cool at the same clock rate. They have at least 4 times the transistor count. You will never see an Oqo style PC with AMD or Intel. Because at top speed you can't switch of your transistors or lower your voltage, if you want to keep up performance.
I don't think performance sucks as much as Intel may want you to believe. Take a look at this for some benchmarks. And you have to consider that all tablet with Pentium III will run at a lower speed when they are on battery.
ROTFLMAO Leave it to a translation software to translate the English word brother used in a German text as bread ago. It makes sense. They probably thought it was Brot her. Which could be translated as bread (=Brot) ago (=her), but just as well as gimmi (=her) bread.
that investigates the occurance of said genes in the BC population. It could be funded by the health services. Patents cannot prevent research use.
They could also provide the patients with an opportunity to do the tests themselves. Although that is less feasible. Patents cannot restrict private use.
So the radius is directly proportional to the mass and since the "density" goes with 1/r^3, the "density" will decrease with 1/r^2. This is of course only valid for euclidean space, which we don't have in the vicinity of a black hole.
It is not called stealing and has nothing to do with stealing. Copyright is a right granted to creators of works of art to encourage and enable them to create more. Now here come all those big companies, which don't really create anything and demand that they get even more rights, just based on the fact that they have been granted some privileges before. It's not like they are going bankrupt, even in a time of economic recession. These bills are not about justice, they are about power.
Anytime someone gets another program running under xbox linux you get a new article on/.. What is so surprising? Once you got the kernel with drivers for framebuffer, sound and usb running you could run almost any program that runs under ix86 linux. The next big news would be that 3d acceleration is running, so that you can run all those 3d games with reasonable speed. Anybody try the Xbox as a UT server yet? NWN server anyone? Ok, it's not easy to get Win2000 running with just 64MB.
I have had a tiBook for 1.5 years now and I have tried using OSX from time to time. I can't say that I find it very appealing, but I am probably to used to Linux (I use KDE, Gnome and simpler WMs on several computers). I just couldn't get OSX to feel right. Every configuration (other than those meant to be done by "normal" users) is a pain (well NIS, NFS and automount is).E.g. I could not convice the network setup that my domain has no.xxx at the end and WiFi didn't work at first, either. Even with the rootless X11 it's not much better and switching to X11 only doesn't make sense. In my view the only advantage over Linux is the DVD player, which is not Linux fault. As nice as OSX may be for Mac users and newbies as a long time Linux user I have to say it is just to proprietary and constricting for me to use.
Ok, I didn't know the English term for it. But in German it is called "Erschleichen von Dienstleistungen" which would be trasnlated as "to obtain a service by fraud". This shows how inprecise language is and that some people aim to use this to invoke certain feelings in the public. E.g. what does piracy or theft have to do with copyright infringement or patent violations.
Mooching bandwidth cannot be called theft, maybe fraud. As long as you don't take something physically away it can't be called theft. People just want you to think of it as theft, because of the natural (or better learned) aversion to such an act.
Again, if you copy software without a license it is called copyright infringement. It has nothing to do with theft. You are not physically taking anything away. Both acts are illegal, but have completely different legal implications. In the beginning of US history British authors could not copyright their work in the US, so that in your interpretation most Americans were thieves, those that could read anyway.
Just to get some things straight: Although it is possible to define and even measure speeds faster than the speed of light in vacuum, you cannot transmit signals with a speed faster than light. You can have electrons faster than the speed of light in a certain medium, that's when you get Cherenkov radiation. You may think tunneling can give you speeds faster than light, but that's only possible for a part of the particles that tunnel and on average you won't be faster. Since you don't know which particle is going to be faster, no increase in signal speed. You may even see that the peak of a signal arrives faster, but that is only because the whole shape of your signal is changed and amplitude of your signal is reduced, so that the peak moves forward during the tunneling process. There is no way that the signal front is faster than light. The experiment is interesting in so far that it gets you closer to the speed of light which is your limit.
For beginners I think the Feynman Lectures are quite helpful. Feynman had a unique way of explaining physics in an easy to understand way without oversimplifying or omitting things. Here is a link at amazon without endorsing this online bookstore.
I must say that Gaiman's book was fun to read, although I wouldn't call it Sci Fi. In that catagory I would have picked the Chronoliths, just ahead of Cosmonaut's Keep.
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Isn't peer to peer multicast kind of an oxymoron.
AFAIK, none of the linux driver use the SD specific features, i.e. more than the 4 serial lines. The only problem seems to be that the initialisation of the SD card is a little bit different from the MMC card and the HP people don't want to put that into open source.
So the best case scenario would be that we can take the open source MMC driver and add the SD initialisation taken from one of the closed source ones. This should at least give us the ability to use SD memory cards.
This is under the assumption that there is an open source version of the ipaq MMC drivers, which I am pretty sure there is, but which I haven't used (no MMC ipaq) or looked at.
The sharp SD driver module is not stripped in any way and all the names of the subroutines are pretty intuitive.
There was a long discussion about the whole subject a couple of months ago on the ipaq mailing list. You could try looking for it in the archives at handhelds.org
There cannot be an open source sd card driver written by the compaq/hp people because they have an official license and cannot violate that.
On the other hand, there shouldn't be any problem to reverse engineer the sharp, hp or any other closed sourced linux driver and write your own. Although, in the US you may have some trouble with the DMCA.
This is not an "interessting post. It is a Troll.
Everything that is stated is untrue. Are the moderators asleep?
The mere fact that the term intellectual property was never used in the US constitution and AFAIK was invented in the 70s should be enough to make it clear that copyright has NOTHING to do with PROPERTY. You can't own thoughts. You may put some claim to the expression of an idea, but never the idea itself. Knowledge can't be taken away and giving it away won't diminish your own. As soon as you publish your ideas, they are in the public domain. Copyright just gives you the opportunity to benefit from their creation, so that you will keep creating.
Your own thoughts and ideas don't come from thin air, but from other people's ideas. You can't treat them as property.
There won't be any tablet PC with a P4. The fastest Intel tablets will have a PIII 800 MHz which is speed stepped down during battery use. Here is a comparison of tablet PCs. The Compaq/HP tablet is by far my favorit.Unfortunately they removed the specs.
You should be able to set limits for longrun to determine at what levels the CPU is supposed to operate. There is a tool for Linux. Don't know about Windows.
No it's not. Look at this comparison
And consider that Intel and AMD can't produce a chip that will stay as cool at the same clock rate. They have at least 4 times the transistor count. You will never see an Oqo style PC with AMD or Intel. Because at top speed you can't switch of your transistors or lower your voltage, if you want to keep up performance.
I don't think performance sucks as much as Intel may want you to believe. Take a look at this for some benchmarks.
And you have to consider that all tablet with Pentium III will run at a lower speed when they are on battery.
ROTFLMAO
Leave it to a translation software to translate the English word brother used in a German text as bread ago.
It makes sense. They probably thought it was Brot her. Which could be translated as bread (=Brot) ago (=her), but just as well as gimmi (=her) bread.
that investigates the occurance of said genes in the
BC population. It could be funded by the health services.
Patents cannot prevent research use.
They could also provide the patients with an opportunity to do the tests themselves. Although that is less feasible.
Patents cannot restrict private use.
So the radius is directly proportional to the mass and since the "density" goes with 1/r^3, the "density" will decrease with 1/r^2. This is of course only valid for euclidean space, which we don't have in the vicinity of a black hole.
Sorry to hear you died today. Maybe your heirs can profit from this fine piece of literature
It is not called stealing and has nothing to do with stealing. Copyright is a right granted to creators of works of art to encourage and enable them to create more.
Now here come all those big companies, which don't really create anything and demand that they get even more rights, just based on the fact that they have been granted some privileges before. It's not like they are going bankrupt, even in a time of economic recession.
These bills are not about justice, they are about power.
Anytime someone gets another program running under /..
xbox linux you get a new article on
What is so surprising? Once you got the kernel with drivers for framebuffer, sound and usb running you could run almost any program that runs under ix86 linux.
The next big news would be that 3d acceleration is running, so that you can run all those 3d games with reasonable speed.
Anybody try the Xbox as a UT server yet? NWN server anyone?
Ok, it's not easy to get Win2000 running with just 64MB.
I have had a tiBook for 1.5 years now and I have tried using OSX from time to time. I can't say that I find it very appealing, but I am probably to used to Linux (I use KDE, Gnome and simpler WMs on several computers). I just couldn't get OSX to feel right. Every configuration (other than those meant to be done by "normal" users) is a pain (well NIS, NFS and automount is).E.g. I could not convice the network setup that my domain has no .xxx at the end and WiFi didn't work at first, either.
Even with the rootless X11 it's not much better and switching to X11 only doesn't make sense. In my view the only advantage over Linux is the DVD player, which is not Linux fault.
As nice as OSX may be for Mac users and newbies as a long time Linux user I have to say it is just to proprietary and constricting for me to use.
You mean Hercules in Space. Poor Gene.
Ok, I didn't know the English term for it. But in German it is called "Erschleichen von Dienstleistungen" which would be trasnlated as "to obtain a service by fraud". This shows how inprecise language is and that some people aim to use this to invoke certain feelings in the public.
E.g. what does piracy or theft have to do with copyright infringement or patent violations.
Mooching bandwidth cannot be called theft, maybe fraud. As long as you don't take something physically away it can't be called theft.
People just want you to think of it as theft, because of the natural (or better learned) aversion to such an act.
Again, if you copy software without a license it is called copyright infringement. It has nothing to do with theft. You are not physically taking anything away.
Both acts are illegal, but have completely different
legal implications. In the beginning of US history British authors could not copyright their work in the US, so that in your interpretation most Americans were thieves, those that could read anyway.
Just to get some things straight:
Although it is possible to define and even measure speeds faster than the speed of light in vacuum, you cannot transmit signals with a speed faster than light.
You can have electrons faster than the speed of light in a certain medium, that's when you get Cherenkov radiation.
You may think tunneling can give you speeds faster than light, but that's only possible for a part of the particles that tunnel and on average you won't be faster. Since you don't know which particle is going to be faster, no increase in signal speed.
You may even see that the peak of a signal arrives faster, but that is only because the whole shape of your signal is changed and amplitude of your signal is reduced, so that the peak moves forward during the tunneling process. There is no way that
the signal front is faster than light.
The experiment is interesting in so far that it gets you closer to the speed of light which is your limit.
For beginners I think the Feynman Lectures are quite
helpful. Feynman had a unique way of explaining physics in an easy to understand way without oversimplifying or omitting things. Here is a link
at amazon without endorsing this online bookstore.
Hey, great link. B5 season 1 coming out on DVD in November.
I must say that Gaiman's book was fun to read, although I wouldn't call it Sci Fi. In that catagory
I would have picked the Chronoliths, just ahead of Cosmonaut's Keep.
You'll have to wait until they make their own version of OJ and modify it so that it will be incompatible to yours and violate your license.