I knew someone in college who built it himself using a light bulb and the high voltage supply from an old TV set. Actually he built it in high school and brought it to college. It was dimmer than the store bought ones, but it worked.
One place to start would be the CIA World Fact Book. Scroll down to Economy. Some of the relevant stats are the GDP-Composition by Sector and Labor Force by Occupation.
Just for example here's three countries:
United States: GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2% industry: 18% services: 80% (2002)
Labor force - by occupation: managerial and professional 31%, technical, sales and administrative support 28.9%, services 13.6%, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and crafts 24.1%, farming, forestry, and fishing 2.4% note: figures exclude the unemployed (2001)
Japan: GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.4% industry: 30.9% services: 67.7% (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: services 70%, industry 25%, agriculture 5% (2002 est.)
Malaysia: GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12% industry: 40% services: 48% (2001)
Labor force - by occupation: local trade and tourism 28%, manufacturing 27%, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 16%, services 10%, government 10%, construction 9% (2000 est.)
"The only problem I have is expendable had better not mean leave in space which would be bad. And, recoverable for recycling would be nice, why waste all that metal."
The last thing they'd worry about is recycling the metal. The heaviest part is the first stage that falls into the ocean. What do you think is the scrap value of 50,000lbs of aluminum and titanium compared to running the salvage ship that goes pick it up? The shuttle's SRBs are recovered by parachute and reused, but they need extensive rebuilding. They save a little money that way, but I can't imagine it's a whole lot.
It's not an EULA on hardware! It's a click-thru screen that says press any key to indicate that you have read and agreed to all the software license agreements packed in your laptop box (oops! did we not pack the EULAs?). The BIOS won't boot any disk before you agree to that screen.
A PocketPC and a 1GB CF card might be close. Most have at least a 320x240 screen just like this thing. Processor power is a little marginal for higher res MPEG4 files, but if you recode to 320x240 (yes, that's a big IF) it'll play smooth and you should be able to fit at least 2 hrs of video into 1GB.
Another possiblity is that Macrovision copy protection is enabled or diabled in the driver (maybe even by flipping one bit). Macrovision is the analog copy protection mandated by the DMCA. So can't let the open source community break their one bit encryption.
I believe this
is the TV encoder chip used by the EPIA-M and the VT1622M is the one that supports Macrovision.
If SPEWS and Osirusoft were the only spam lists being DDoS'ed, you'd might think it was innocent victims who they pissed off and not spammers doing this, but then WHY are the other lists under attack too? Spamhaus, SORBS, and monkeys.com are all under attack, and they're not nearly as hated by non-spammers as SPEWS/Osirusoft.
"Indeed, conventional rocket design is pretty brute-force. Big engine, hunking mechanical control systems with minimal intelligence."
It's true that with their long design cycles, rockets are saddled with ancient technology by computer standards, but computers don't change the fact that chemical fuels only give so much thrust per unit weight of fuel. Liquid fuel rockets since the 40s have use liquid oxygen + liquid hydrogen or kerosene. More exotic fuels have been used, but their energy density is in the same ballpark. Fuel + engines + structure costs weight and you're left with only a tiny fraction of the vehicle weight for payload.
Patents are only supposed to be issued for inventions NOT OBVIOUS to a skilled practitioner in the arts. When this principle is as widely abused as it is today, patents become a disincentive for creating new intellectual property. The obvious building blocks of invention become a minefield of patents.
Those are all public utilities that have lines running through public rights of way. You don't get taxed on your inside telephone wiring or the gas line between the wall and your stove or your circuit breaker box.
Yeah, if it's a good movie, they'd cash in by making 4 different special editions. For the crappy movies, they'd just license some TV or comic francise or make another sequel and advertise the hell out of it and pray for good box office the first week before word of mouth spreads too much.
Natural gas == methane. Methane itself is odorless, but gas from garbage, sewage and other organic decomposition smells because of other by-products. Gas from your home gas line smells because they put in tiny trace amounts of a very strong smelling chemical (supposedly one of the stinkiest chemicals in existance) so people can smell gas leaks.
"The only problem is that the artists don't get any money either when you buy used cd's."
That's because they've already been paid once. If the CD was worth keeping, then maybe the original owner wouldn't have sold it. That's the way used sales work.
It's close to your scenario, but SCO might also argue that since the GPL is invalid and samba.org is giving the software away, then Samba is public domain. They've made that argument before to explain away why they distributed Linux while not accepting the GPL.
This is where it could get complicated. Does acceptance of the GPL depend on the company's statements or actions? SCO has made public statements that they do not accept the GPL. That could terminate their rights, but if they distribute source for Samba or point users to samba.org to download source, would that keep them legal under the GPL?
1Mhz 6502 (I think the C64 was also 1Mhz) 280x192 with 6 colors 1 copy protected floppy with no backup (you ran the original and if it failed, TS)
Graphics were simple, but playable. A few years later they made another flightsim called Jet! with an F16, but framerates were a joke on the Apple II (barely 1 fps).
We live in wood frame houses. We have natural gas appliances, propane barbecue grills, and cars with 20 gallon gasoline fuel tanks. I don't think a compressed hydrogen tank would be any more dangerous.
If you get hit before the virus definitions catch it, you're screwed. Blocking executable attachments at the mail server gives another layer of protection. The SoBig attachment is a PIF file.
Jewel made a comment about this on Loveline a few months ago. She didn't complain about downloading, but did say that since it cuts in to album sales, her fans shouldn't begrudge her for finding other ways to make money like licensing songs for commercials. Now talk about mixed feelings, I've seen plenty of songs ruined forever by annoying commercials, but IMHO doing an anti-filesharing public service announcement makes you an even bigger sellout than doing commercials.
When Redhat goes up a major version it breaks binary compatibility. If his servers only use software that came with the distro, AND his configurations are preserved with an upgrade install, that might be an option. Wouldn't hurt to try it on a test server. It's pretty obvious that Redhat went to short EOL cycles on their consumer distros to push businesses to RH Enterprise and Advanced with their longer EOL cycles.
If you want my 2cents for a good RPM based server distro, try Trustix. Simple, stable, no bloat, and none of this 12 month end-of-life/end-of-support.
Saving Word to HTML gets rid of the hidden text, but it does still save Author information. I got this HTML spam where he saved a Word file to HTML and sent that as the message. Sure enough, the dumbass's real name was in the source as the author.
There's not much secret about radio. Most HAMs could probably rig up a big dumb 800Mhz or 1900Mhz transmitter that'll kill cellular service for a big area. Then again we get shitty signal anyway, most people wouldn't think anything was wrong. They'd just drive another mile down the road until it worked.
That'll work. White noise from analog amps is a well accepted source of randomness. The Via C3 and Intel 815 chipset have built-in hardware random number generators that use this.
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I knew someone in college who built it himself using a light bulb and the high voltage supply from an old TV set. Actually he built it in high school and brought it to college. It was dimmer than the store bought ones, but it worked.
One place to start would be the CIA World Fact Book. Scroll down to Economy. Some of the relevant stats are the GDP-Composition by Sector and Labor Force by Occupation.
Just for example here's three countries:
United States:
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 2%
industry: 18%
services: 80% (2002)
Labor force - by occupation:
managerial and professional 31%, technical, sales and administrative support 28.9%, services 13.6%, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and crafts 24.1%, farming, forestry, and fishing 2.4%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2001)
Japan:
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 30.9%
services: 67.7% (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 70%, industry 25%, agriculture 5% (2002 est.)
Malaysia:
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 12%
industry: 40%
services: 48% (2001)
Labor force - by occupation:
local trade and tourism 28%, manufacturing 27%, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 16%, services 10%, government 10%, construction 9% (2000 est.)
"The only problem I have is expendable had better not mean leave in space which would be bad. And, recoverable for recycling would be nice, why waste all that metal."
The last thing they'd worry about is recycling the metal. The heaviest part is the first stage that falls into the ocean. What do you think is the scrap value of 50,000lbs of aluminum and titanium compared to running the salvage ship that goes pick it up? The shuttle's SRBs are recovered by parachute and reused, but they need extensive rebuilding. They save a little money that way, but I can't imagine it's a whole lot.
It's not an EULA on hardware! It's a click-thru screen that says press any key to indicate that you have read and agreed to all the software license agreements packed in your laptop box (oops! did we not pack the EULAs?). The BIOS won't boot any disk before you agree to that screen.
A PocketPC and a 1GB CF card might be close. Most have at least a 320x240 screen just like this thing. Processor power is a little marginal for higher res MPEG4 files, but if you recode to 320x240 (yes, that's a big IF) it'll play smooth and you should be able to fit at least 2 hrs of video into 1GB.
I believe this is the TV encoder chip used by the EPIA-M and the VT1622M is the one that supports Macrovision.
If SPEWS and Osirusoft were the only spam lists being DDoS'ed, you'd might think it was innocent victims who they pissed off and not spammers doing this, but then WHY are the other lists under attack too? Spamhaus, SORBS, and monkeys.com are all under attack, and they're not nearly as hated by non-spammers as SPEWS/Osirusoft.
"Indeed, conventional rocket design is pretty brute-force. Big engine, hunking mechanical control systems with minimal intelligence."
It's true that with their long design cycles, rockets are saddled with ancient technology by computer standards, but computers don't change the fact that chemical fuels only give so much thrust per unit weight of fuel. Liquid fuel rockets since the 40s have use liquid oxygen + liquid hydrogen or kerosene. More exotic fuels have been used, but their energy density is in the same ballpark. Fuel + engines + structure costs weight and you're left with only a tiny fraction of the vehicle weight for payload.
Patents are only supposed to be issued for inventions NOT OBVIOUS to a skilled practitioner in the arts. When this principle is as widely abused as it is today, patents become a disincentive for creating new intellectual property. The obvious building blocks of invention become a minefield of patents.
Those are all public utilities that have lines running through public rights of way. You don't get taxed on your inside telephone wiring or the gas line between the wall and your stove or your circuit breaker box.
Yeah, if it's a good movie, they'd cash in by making 4 different special editions. For the crappy movies, they'd just license some TV or comic francise or make another sequel and advertise the hell out of it and pray for good box office the first week before word of mouth spreads too much.
Natural gas == methane. Methane itself is odorless, but gas from garbage, sewage and other organic decomposition smells because of other by-products. Gas from your home gas line smells because they put in tiny trace amounts of a very strong smelling chemical (supposedly one of the stinkiest chemicals in existance) so people can smell gas leaks.
"The only problem is that the artists don't get any money either when you buy used cd's."
That's because they've already been paid once. If the CD was worth keeping, then maybe the original owner wouldn't have sold it. That's the way used sales work.
It's close to your scenario, but SCO might also argue that since the GPL is invalid and samba.org is giving the software away, then Samba is public domain. They've made that argument before to explain away why they distributed Linux while not accepting the GPL.
This is where it could get complicated. Does acceptance of the GPL depend on the company's statements or actions? SCO has made public statements that they do not accept the GPL. That could terminate their rights, but if they distribute source for Samba or point users to samba.org to download source, would that keep them legal under the GPL?
Sublogic Flight Simulator for the Apple II:
1Mhz 6502 (I think the C64 was also 1Mhz)
280x192 with 6 colors
1 copy protected floppy with no backup (you ran the original and if it failed, TS)
Graphics were simple, but playable. A few years later they made another flightsim called Jet! with an F16, but framerates were a joke on the Apple II (barely 1 fps).
We live in wood frame houses. We have natural gas appliances, propane barbecue grills, and cars with 20 gallon gasoline fuel tanks. I don't think a compressed hydrogen tank would be any more dangerous.
If you get hit before the virus definitions catch it, you're screwed. Blocking executable attachments at the mail server gives another layer of protection. The SoBig attachment is a PIF file.
Also remember that resolution of film depends on the film speed. So say, ASA100 film has smaller grains and more resolution than ASA400 film.
Jewel made a comment about this on Loveline a few months ago. She didn't complain about downloading, but did say that since it cuts in to album sales, her fans shouldn't begrudge her for finding other ways to make money like licensing songs for commercials. Now talk about mixed feelings, I've seen plenty of songs ruined forever by annoying commercials, but IMHO doing an anti-filesharing public service announcement makes you an even bigger sellout than doing commercials.
When Redhat goes up a major version it breaks binary compatibility. If his servers only use software that came with the distro, AND his configurations are preserved with an upgrade install, that might be an option. Wouldn't hurt to try it on a test server. It's pretty obvious that Redhat went to short EOL cycles on their consumer distros to push businesses to RH Enterprise and Advanced with their longer EOL cycles.
If you want my 2cents for a good RPM based server distro, try Trustix. Simple, stable, no bloat, and none of this 12 month end-of-life/end-of-support.
The Shuttle flies the whole mission except for final approach on autopilot.
Saving Word to HTML gets rid of the hidden text, but it does still save Author information. I got this HTML spam where he saved a Word file to HTML and sent that as the message. Sure enough, the dumbass's real name was in the source as the author.
There's not much secret about radio. Most HAMs could probably rig up a big dumb 800Mhz or 1900Mhz transmitter that'll kill cellular service for a big area. Then again we get shitty signal anyway, most people wouldn't think anything was wrong. They'd just drive another mile down the road until it worked.
That'll work. White noise from analog amps is a well accepted source of randomness. The Via C3 and Intel 815 chipset have built-in hardware random number generators that use this.