I seem to have the opposite problem, very poor wifi speeds!
My new iPhone 3G works great with 3G. No problems there so far, although I've not traveled around too much with it.
What seems to be a problem is the iPhone connecting to wifi spots... in that the attained speeds are so arrevatingly slow that I turn it off! This of course is fine since at the momen since I've not exceeded the monthly ball and chain set by the money sucking service provider.
However, it's supposed to work with Wifi modems. I have a linksys N wifi modem that my mac book pro is connected to so there are no speed problems with my internet connection. That's just fine. It's the wifi connection.
Apple seems to have trouble with their iPhone and Mac Books connecting to Wifi modems by other manufacturers. At one point I had to shut off the burst mode on my linksys because it was crashing my mac book pro with OSX 10.5 no less!!!
Now I don't even bother with wifi at home with my Apple products. Sigh.
Generally you might want your name on a patent so that you can put it on your resume. See if you can negotiate extra compensation for the patented ideas.
Establish existing prior art by searching for it and reporting this to the various people in the company and with their lawyers.
Establish your prior art if applicable. If YOU used the idea before you may have extra rights for the negotiation for extra compensation, especially if you developed these ideas BEFORE you were enslaved, oh, pardon me, employed or contracted to the company in question that has dreams of global domination.
PUBLISH the ideas that you are working on at work in peer reviewed computer science journals and web sites and blogs to explicitly put the ideas and techniques into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Do this as a matter of course in your career. This is of course a necessary and required activity to assist in the development of the ideas to move them forward at the company with the assistence of other professionals who provide you their consulting expertise at ZERO COST to the company!
The benefit of "open idea exchange" to your company is huge if you communicate ideas of substance and interest to others. You can actually estimate the benefits of others contributions to your company and present these to your bosses (slave masters and evil overlords to some).
Whenever you sign your life away working as an indentured servant to a corporation as an employee ALWAYS exclude your PRIOR ARTS AND WORKS from control of the contractual agreement and the laws regarding your property becoming the companies. This usually means appropriate verbiage within the contract (employment, consulting, contracting, slave, indentured servant, etc...) body itself PLUS an EXTENSIVE AND DETAILED YET NOT LIMITED LIST OF ALL YOUR WORKS SINCE YOU TOUCHED A COMPUTER KEYBOARD or wii controller (as that could be the next way to program a computer). I've done this for decades now and no one seems to have any problem with it as long as their business interests and mine don't overlap 100%. It won't always save you but it's important protection for yourself especially if you are an employee who they own, brain, balls, and all. Exclude your private activities from their grasp!
Give them their fantasy patents. It could be good for your career.
Or not. Don't give it to them on principle but consider the impact of not having a job and how to spin it with your next slave master. You do want a house, or to keep your existing house? What are your goals in life?
Research everything possible about the area. Give them the patent but tie them into knots so that you're benefiting somehow. Even if they never get the patent you'll be their go to guy for patent applications from a technical point of view.
Read other patents. Warning that will get you into trouble as the awards are up to three times when you've read competitors patents! Read as many patents as you can and inform them of the ones you've read. Print them out and leave then on your desk at work. Send related patents to the lawyers. Publish articles about the patents that you think are related and get intertwined in the process.
If all else fails bend over and kiss your ass good bye from that company of scum bags.
Remember that they can fire you for almost any reason but you can sue them for almost any reason as well.
This is not advice. Certainly following these ideas could get you into a world of legal troubles and cause your life to implode with lawsuits, divorce from your significant other, and could be a career endder. Or it could make you rich beyond the dreams of averace as Bones would say. The risks and rewards if any are all up to you.
Remember you're sucking on their corporate teet (or cock or whatever) and need to be nourished too. You want your CUT! It's the American Way! Remember they are there to give you what YOU want! If you don't look after yourself who will?
While you can choose freely and after consideration to "make a decision" you can also choose freely and after consideration with no decisions involved.
Unfortunately you are always in only the known universe regardless of any hypothetical unproven magical multi-verses that are out there. Even if there eventually is evidence to support the multi-verse hypothesis it won't impact your FREE WILL TO CHOOSE FREELY AND AFTER CONSIDERATION!
It seems to me that YOU've take the blue pill. Open your eyes and take the red pill! Choose freely and after consideration.
Choosing freely and after consideration isn't choosing for any reason, it is simply choosing and after considering the options, non-options, etc. This is a crucial ontological distinction that makes all the difference - even when there is only one choice!
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose?
Chocolate!
Why did you choose what you choose?
I choose chocolate because once you have tried chocolate you never go back!
That's not a choice, that's a deterministic decision. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not a choice made freely since you had a reason, logical or illogical, you had a reason.
Chocolate or Vanilla?
Chocolate!
Why did you choose Chocolate?
I choose chocolate because I choose chocolate!
Excellent choice!
Thank you. I considered the choices, and I choose freely!
Ok, not only is the green background messed up but the comment box is way too tiny for any sorta intelligent rant back at you for your green background! Get your css or html or brain fixed!
Well they did also say that too. Heck it's a just a tv science show so they have to add some drama otherwise they loose the nut job belief driven faith freak demographic (Al Gore et. al.). Humans love drama.
You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore you microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader. [I love that part].
Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. [Yeah, so then how will I place it *on* the Earth. Lousy instructions.] The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.
Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.
Source: "The Dark Side Of The Sun," by Terry Pratchett. It is true that the microscopic black hole idea is an age-old science fiction mainstay which predates Pratchett by a long time, he was my original source for the idea, so that's what I'm putting.
"Our old friend Nostradamus' words ring from the grave with this grim prediction:
Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:
Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you, Saturn will be converted from gold to iron, "Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him, Before the coming the sky will show signs.
Did Nostradamus predict the Large Hadron Collider?
Ok. Sept 10 plus one day to warm up. Sheeze couldn't they have picked another date for the end of the world?
Ok, in the Naked Science episode which featured the Large Hadron gizmo they said that some people are concerned that "the micro black holes they create could consume an *entire* city..." then they paused for a short while and added "... and the entire earth!". Love that pause.
"Many miles inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found elusive vents of scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor at temperatures that are more than twice the boiling point of water."
"The cluster of five hydrothermal vents, also called black smokers, were discovered farther north than any others previously identified. The vents, one of which towers four stories high, are located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, more than 120 miles farther north than other known vents."
Hot Vents Melt ICE? Noooooooo! It couldn't be!
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Could it be that Hot Vents Under the Ice could melt the ice? Well from a basic test you can do in your kitchen - put ice in hot water - proves that it could be the case that the hot vents could melt the ice cap!
Maybe it's not ALL man after all! Maybe mother nature is just doing her thing not caring one bit about us which is the NORMAL course of events in objective reality.
Also, it couldn't be that the sun hitting the earth warms the planet. Nope that's not a factor either even though the sun's gotten a bit hotter over the last four centuries that it's been monitored by humans.
When the Apple ][ was waning I bought a "Zip Chip" for it that ran at 10 mhz!!! WOW! What a difference!!! It still works too. Zip Chip 10Mhz 6502 Apple ][ Accelerators.
The 6502 is limited by those darn 8 bit registers and 16 bit address space though... sigh, if only someone made a 64 bit version of the 6502! Maybe it could be done open source! Get to it.
Ok, someone made a 32 bit version but come on, 64 bits rock! 32 bit 6502
Maybe it'll be a kid in the third world using one of these reconditioned Apple ]['s that invents Skynet for afterall: "In the science fiction movie The Terminator (1984), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the audience at one point is treated to a view through the T-800 Model-101 robot character's eye/camera display with some 6502 assembly/machine code program fragments scrolling down the screen. The program was listing the Apple ][ Disk Operating System (DOS) 3.3 decompiled program listing." I almost fell out of my seat during the first screening of Terminator when I saw the 6502 listing for I could read the darn stuff! It's nice when they make a multimillion dollar action-scifi movie just for you!
Then of course one day I was in a used computer store where they had a sign attached to a pile of Apple ][s that said "Apple's by the pound"... literally... I think it was $1 a pound or something like that... worked out to maybe 10 bucks each.
Scotty was almost always saved people from transporter failures... with a few exceptions... icky messes... best not to think about it when using a transporter... anyway... Scotty finally met his final end in a wee bit of an icky mess himself with the second attempt to get to orbit... transporter failure gets scotty!
Have no fear there are many more factual errors in the actual Codex itself than in the summary!!! The Codex while historically important is a silly mythology from superstitious ancestors and has very little to do with Objective Reality where we find our selves existing under the Laws of Mother Nature!!!
It would be a real WASTE to bury the existing perfectly good fuel in the ground where it could hurt future generations for up to ~100,000 years.
It makes more sense to BURN it as FUEL in Fast Neutron Reactors for energy production and in the process of fission reduce the life span of the danger from ~100,000 to ~300 to ~500 years.
>Freedom for the users is more important to the rest of us than your freedom to screw them over.
So for you Users-Freedom is more important?
I'm a user so my freedom is more important therefore I can do what I want and that is to take a package and develop it further and publish it and make money off the effor of MY labor and value that I added. OH but wait, which package did I choose?
A GPL package requires that I GIVE ALL *MY* work back to the *COMMUNE-TY" so that EVERYONE can have it FOR FREE AS IN FREE BEER! Typical HIPPY COMMUNE-ISTIC values.
A BSD package requires that I have freedom to choose what, when how much, and if I contribute to the community. I as a user and a developer user are TRUELY FREE TO CHOOSE which it will be. Yea for freedom.
So the BSD style of licence provides FREEDOM for users which after all is what you said is more important to you.
I don't see how it's "screwing them over" to take, say Apache, and modify my own version and then sell it. The license provides for that as intended. If I don't share the code for my version then I'll get no feed back from other developer users that they found a bug and fixed it for me, or any other benefits of sharing code.
What "screws me over" all the time is the GPL since it PREVENTS me from making use of it in my own projects. Sure I use code under the GPL strickly as a "USER" never a developer altering it other than a minor mod here or there to fix or adapt it, but never for distribution due to it's restrictions of sharing BY FORCE.
GCC is needed since it is what it is. When LLVM+clang is complete and sufficiently GCC compatible it will be great to hold a GOOD BYE GCC PARTY! I'm sure many people will attend to welcome in the era of LLVM+clang.
Why is it FORCE THAT THE GPL USES? Well that's a good question; it's force since if I want to use a GPL code package I'm forced to live with RESTRICTIONS on my options of what I can do with the code. Not really much different from a private commercial package.
If I modify and sell my version of Apache you don't have to buy it. You can always go to their web site and grab your own copy.
The GPL foreces developers who want to use a package, modify it and distribute it to give up their intellectual property copyrights in that work, and have it absorbed by the COMMUNE-ITY.
Last week CNN reported that the USA has sent insurgents/agents into Iran to spy on and disrupt the Iranians.
You could easily say that WWIII or WWIV (Iraq is WWIII in some peoples minds) has started when the one super power (no not China, that's in two years) invades an adversary next to a country that the USA DID IN FACT INVADE. Of course the Iranains are likely guilty of invading Iraq as well...
thus the cycle of violence and power grabbing continues... duck and cover
I'm a somebody and I DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO GPL anymore. I did, I think once with a tiny program that is also BSD licensed plus another almost BSD license to conform.
Had the GPL not existed on projects that I like I'd have contributed.
BSD: Yes, some downstream of a BSD developer won't see the source code. That is fine. They can always get the version that the upstream developer used!!! They are still free.
GPL: Why is it that you GPLers feel you have the right to override the personal human freedom of any developer? You'd rather force people to submit to the collectives viral communistic than to let them choose on their own accord FREELY. Joining the GPL club is a one way decision IF you add code to it. That code will forever be locked into the maws of the GPL. Good luck with that. (In my naive days before seeing the TRUE PERSONAL FREEDOM of the BSD LIGHT I did release code under the GPL by the way).
GPL: In the GPL case downstream developers have NO CHOICE but to release the code if they want to distribute it. Yes, they can see the code but if they want to use it they have to COMMIT TO THE COMMUNISTIC COLLECTIVE UPFRONT AND TO THE RULES OF THE GREAT LEADER RICHARD STALLMAN. HEIL STALLMAN.
BSD: There is no leader. Just people who share an interest in sharing code WITHOUT IMPOSING LOCKDOWN ON PERSONAL FREEDOM RIGHTS.
GPL: NO SO MUCH. LOCK IT DOWN WITH PAGES OF INDECIPHERABLE RULES WRITTEN BY A LAWYER AND NOT COMPREHENSIBLE BY ANYONE OTHER THAN A LAWYER. COMMUNISTIC HURD RULES THE WASTELAND OF OPENSOURCE.
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I seem to have the opposite problem, very poor wifi speeds!
My new iPhone 3G works great with 3G. No problems there so far, although I've not traveled around too much with it.
What seems to be a problem is the iPhone connecting to wifi spots... in that the attained speeds are so arrevatingly slow that I turn it off! This of course is fine since at the momen since I've not exceeded the monthly ball and chain set by the money sucking service provider.
However, it's supposed to work with Wifi modems. I have a linksys N wifi modem that my mac book pro is connected to so there are no speed problems with my internet connection. That's just fine. It's the wifi connection.
Apple seems to have trouble with their iPhone and Mac Books connecting to Wifi modems by other manufacturers. At one point I had to shut off the burst mode on my linksys because it was crashing my mac book pro with OSX 10.5 no less!!!
Now I don't even bother with wifi at home with my Apple products. Sigh.
Generally you might want your name on a patent so that you can put it on your resume. See if you can negotiate extra compensation for the patented ideas.
Establish existing prior art by searching for it and reporting this to the various people in the company and with their lawyers.
Establish your prior art if applicable. If YOU used the idea before you may have extra rights for the negotiation for extra compensation, especially if you developed these ideas BEFORE you were enslaved, oh, pardon me, employed or contracted to the company in question that has dreams of global domination.
PUBLISH the ideas that you are working on at work in peer reviewed computer science journals and web sites and blogs to explicitly put the ideas and techniques into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Do this as a matter of course in your career. This is of course a necessary and required activity to assist in the development of the ideas to move them forward at the company with the assistence of other professionals who provide you their consulting expertise at ZERO COST to the company!
The benefit of "open idea exchange" to your company is huge if you communicate ideas of substance and interest to others. You can actually estimate the benefits of others contributions to your company and present these to your bosses (slave masters and evil overlords to some).
Whenever you sign your life away working as an indentured servant to a corporation as an employee ALWAYS exclude your PRIOR ARTS AND WORKS from control of the contractual agreement and the laws regarding your property becoming the companies. This usually means appropriate verbiage within the contract (employment, consulting, contracting, slave, indentured servant, etc...) body itself PLUS an EXTENSIVE AND DETAILED YET NOT LIMITED LIST OF ALL YOUR WORKS SINCE YOU TOUCHED A COMPUTER KEYBOARD or wii controller (as that could be the next way to program a computer). I've done this for decades now and no one seems to have any problem with it as long as their business interests and mine don't overlap 100%. It won't always save you but it's important protection for yourself especially if you are an employee who they own, brain, balls, and all. Exclude your private activities from their grasp!
Give them their fantasy patents. It could be good for your career.
Or not. Don't give it to them on principle but consider the impact of not having a job and how to spin it with your next slave master. You do want a house, or to keep your existing house? What are your goals in life?
Research everything possible about the area. Give them the patent but tie them into knots so that you're benefiting somehow. Even if they never get the patent you'll be their go to guy for patent applications from a technical point of view.
Read other patents. Warning that will get you into trouble as the awards are up to three times when you've read competitors patents! Read as many patents as you can and inform them of the ones you've read. Print them out and leave then on your desk at work. Send related patents to the lawyers. Publish articles about the patents that you think are related and get intertwined in the process.
If all else fails bend over and kiss your ass good bye from that company of scum bags.
Remember that they can fire you for almost any reason but you can sue them for almost any reason as well.
This is not advice. Certainly following these ideas could get you into a world of legal troubles and cause your life to implode with lawsuits, divorce from your significant other, and could be a career endder. Or it could make you rich beyond the dreams of averace as Bones would say. The risks and rewards if any are all up to you.
Remember you're sucking on their corporate teet (or cock or whatever) and need to be nourished too. You want your CUT! It's the American Way! Remember they are there to give you what YOU want! If you don't look after yourself who will?
While you can choose freely and after consideration to "make a decision" you can also choose freely and after consideration with no decisions involved.
Unfortunately you are always in only the known universe regardless of any hypothetical unproven magical multi-verses that are out there. Even if there eventually is evidence to support the multi-verse hypothesis it won't impact your FREE WILL TO CHOOSE FREELY AND AFTER CONSIDERATION!
It seems to me that YOU've take the blue pill. Open your eyes and take the red pill! Choose freely and after consideration.
Choosing freely and after consideration isn't choosing for any reason, it is simply choosing and after considering the options, non-options, etc. This is a crucial ontological distinction that makes all the difference - even when there is only one choice!
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose?
Chocolate!
Why did you choose what you choose?
I choose chocolate because once you have tried chocolate you never go back!
That's not a choice, that's a deterministic decision. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not a choice made freely since you had a reason, logical or illogical, you had a reason.
Chocolate or Vanilla?
Chocolate!
Why did you choose Chocolate?
I choose chocolate because I choose chocolate!
Excellent choice!
Thank you. I considered the choices, and I choose freely!
Yes you did. We live in the house of language.
Ok, not only is the green background messed up but the comment box is way too tiny for any sorta intelligent rant back at you for your green background! Get your css or html or brain fixed!
Well they did also say that too. Heck it's a just a tv science show so they have to add some drama otherwise they loose the nut job belief driven faith freak demographic (Al Gore et. al.). Humans love drama.
http://largehardoncollider.com/nyt_lhc.html
Darn the LHC is only number eight on the list. http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp-1.html
Sucked into a microscopic black hole
You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore you microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader. [I love that part].
Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. [Yeah, so then how will I place it *on* the Earth. Lousy instructions.] The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.
Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.
Source: "The Dark Side Of The Sun," by Terry Pratchett. It is true that the microscopic black hole idea is an age-old science fiction mainstay which predates Pratchett by a long time, he was my original source for the idea, so that's what I'm putting.
Did Nostradamus predict the LHC will create a Black Hole?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ozjq80IF9dg
Ah yes, the nut jobs come forth...
Underground search for 'God particle'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4229545.stm
Hunting for the God Particle
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9OnMjhp8RwM
THE LUCIFER PROJECT
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3-baLC03wUU
Spooky people who take this shit seriously. Yikes.
Oh and any physicist who uses the word "god" needs to be place in front of their own particle accelerators and vaporized.
"Our old friend Nostradamus' words ring from the grave with this grim prediction:
Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:
Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.
Did Nostradamus predict the Large Hadron Collider?
Will the Earth disappear into a black hole of its own making?"
http://www.virginmedia.com/digital/science/endoftheworld.php?vmsrc=vmhpld
Stay tuned for next weeks exciting adventures of Earth Sucking Black Holes!!!
Ok. Sept 10 plus one day to warm up. Sheeze couldn't they have picked another date for the end of the world?
Ok, in the Naked Science episode which featured the Large Hadron gizmo they said that some people are concerned that "the micro black holes they create could consume an *entire* city..." then they paused for a short while and added "... and the entire earth!". Love that pause.
Other than that I got nothing.
Any competent technologist can write a destructive program but how many can write something that really changes the world?
Vent and Seep Communities on the Arctic Seafloor
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_vogt.html
Boiling Hot Water Found in Frigid Arctic Sea
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080724-black-smokers.html
"Many miles inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found elusive vents of scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor at temperatures that are more than twice the boiling point of water."
"The cluster of five hydrothermal vents, also called black smokers, were discovered farther north than any others previously identified. The vents, one of which towers four stories high, are located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, more than 120 miles farther north than other known vents."
Could it be that Hot Vents Under the Ice could melt the ice? Well from a basic test you can do in your kitchen - put ice in hot water - proves that it could be the case that the hot vents could melt the ice cap!
Maybe it's not ALL man after all! Maybe mother nature is just doing her thing not caring one bit about us which is the NORMAL course of events in objective reality.
Also, it couldn't be that the sun hitting the earth warms the planet. Nope that's not a factor either even though the sun's gotten a bit hotter over the last four centuries that it's been monitored by humans.
It all must be man. Evil vile man.
When the Apple ][ was waning I bought a "Zip Chip" for it that ran at 10 mhz!!! WOW! What a difference!!! It still works too.
Zip Chip 10Mhz 6502
Apple ][ Accelerators.
The 6502 is limited by those darn 8 bit registers and 16 bit address space though... sigh, if only someone made a 64 bit version of the 6502! Maybe it could be done open source! Get to it.
Ok, someone made a 32 bit version but come on, 64 bits rock!
32 bit 6502
Maybe it'll be a kid in the third world using one of these reconditioned Apple ]['s that invents Skynet for afterall: "In the science fiction movie The Terminator (1984), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the audience at one point is treated to a view through the T-800 Model-101 robot character's eye/camera display with some 6502 assembly/machine code program fragments scrolling down the screen. The program was listing the Apple ][ Disk Operating System (DOS) 3.3 decompiled program listing." I almost fell out of my seat during the first screening of Terminator when I saw the 6502 listing for I could read the darn stuff! It's nice when they make a multimillion dollar action-scifi movie just for you!
Then of course one day I was in a used computer store where they had a sign attached to a pile of Apple ][s that said "Apple's by the pound"... literally... I think it was $1 a pound or something like that... worked out to maybe 10 bucks each.
Go get'em MIT!!!
The more exclamation marks used the closer to objective reality!!!!!!!!! ... n!
Scotty was almost always saved people from transporter failures... with a few exceptions... icky messes... best not to think about it when using a transporter... anyway... Scotty finally met his final end in a wee bit of an icky mess himself with the second attempt to get to orbit... transporter failure gets scotty!
Have no fear there are many more factual errors in the actual Codex itself than in the summary!!! The Codex while historically important is a silly mythology from superstitious ancestors and has very little to do with Objective Reality where we find our selves existing under the Laws of Mother Nature!!!
It is stupid to bury nuclear waste when it's STILL FUEL!!!
Process the existing waste and burn it as FUEL in Fast Neutron Reactors.
Scientific American has an excellent article about it that was published in 2005! Learn some HOT science!
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NuclearFastReactorsSA1205.pdf
It would be a real WASTE to bury the existing perfectly good fuel in the ground where it could hurt future generations for up to ~100,000 years.
It makes more sense to BURN it as FUEL in Fast Neutron Reactors for energy production and in the process of fission reduce the life span of the danger from ~100,000 to ~300 to ~500 years.
Makes sense. Read the PDF. LEARN.
Hi Welcome to The Great White North otherwise known as Canada.
It's cold up here even in the summer.
Well have a special igloo (http://tinyurl.com/6kd7y3) built with wheel chair access for you Steven.
As for your black holes, hmmmm... we've got lots of empty space to keep them in.
Well Steve, you'd be welcomed!
All the best,
brrrrr
That's not likely in C.
C plane fly.
C * pointer to freed structure.
C plane drop nukes.
C plane crash.
C plane die.
C pilots die.
C nuke detonate.
C city die.
C retaliation strike fly.
C missiles fly.
C missiles detonate.
C human species - not so wise - die.
C earth reborn anew without humans.
C rise of dolphins.
C rise of dolphin archeologists.
C dolphins discover C.
C repeat above, pick next species...
>Freedom for the users is more important to the rest of us than your freedom to screw them over.
So for you Users-Freedom is more important?
I'm a user so my freedom is more important therefore I can do what I want and that is to take a package and develop it further and publish it and make money off the effor of MY labor and value that I added. OH but wait, which package did I choose?
A GPL package requires that I GIVE ALL *MY* work back to the *COMMUNE-TY" so that EVERYONE can have it FOR FREE AS IN FREE BEER! Typical HIPPY COMMUNE-ISTIC values.
A BSD package requires that I have freedom to choose what, when how much, and if I contribute to the community. I as a user and a developer user are TRUELY FREE TO CHOOSE which it will be. Yea for freedom.
So the BSD style of licence provides FREEDOM for users which after all is what you said is more important to you.
I don't see how it's "screwing them over" to take, say Apache, and modify my own version and then sell it. The license provides for that as intended. If I don't share the code for my version then I'll get no feed back from other developer users that they found a bug and fixed it for me, or any other benefits of sharing code.
What "screws me over" all the time is the GPL since it PREVENTS me from making use of it in my own projects. Sure I use code under the GPL strickly as a "USER" never a developer altering it other than a minor mod here or there to fix or adapt it, but never for distribution due to it's restrictions of sharing BY FORCE.
GCC is needed since it is what it is. When LLVM+clang is complete and sufficiently GCC compatible it will be great to hold a GOOD BYE GCC PARTY! I'm sure many people will attend to welcome in the era of LLVM+clang.
Why is it FORCE THAT THE GPL USES? Well that's a good question; it's force since if I want to use a GPL code package I'm forced to live with RESTRICTIONS on my options of what I can do with the code. Not really much different from a private commercial package.
If I modify and sell my version of Apache you don't have to buy it. You can always go to their web site and grab your own copy.
The GPL foreces developers who want to use a package, modify it and distribute it to give up their intellectual property copyrights in that work, and have it absorbed by the COMMUNE-ITY.
GPL=BORG
Last week CNN reported that the USA has sent insurgents/agents into Iran to spy on and disrupt the Iranians.
You could easily say that WWIII or WWIV (Iraq is WWIII in some peoples minds) has started when the one super power (no not China, that's in two years) invades an adversary next to a country that the USA DID IN FACT INVADE. Of course the Iranains are likely guilty of invading Iraq as well...
thus the cycle of violence and power grabbing continues... duck and cover
I'm a somebody and I DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO GPL anymore. I did, I think once with a tiny program that is also BSD licensed plus another almost BSD license to conform.
Had the GPL not existed on projects that I like I'd have contributed.
GPL = DO NOT CONTRIBUTE.
As am I in my response.
BSD: Yes, some downstream of a BSD developer won't see the source code. That is fine. They can always get the version that the upstream developer used!!! They are still free.
GPL: Why is it that you GPLers feel you have the right to override the personal human freedom of any developer? You'd rather force people to submit to the collectives viral communistic than to let them choose on their own accord FREELY. Joining the GPL club is a one way decision IF you add code to it. That code will forever be locked into the maws of the GPL. Good luck with that. (In my naive days before seeing the TRUE PERSONAL FREEDOM of the BSD LIGHT I did release code under the GPL by the way).
GPL: In the GPL case downstream developers have NO CHOICE but to release the code if they want to distribute it. Yes, they can see the code but if they want to use it they have to COMMIT TO THE COMMUNISTIC COLLECTIVE UPFRONT AND TO THE RULES OF THE GREAT LEADER RICHARD STALLMAN. HEIL STALLMAN.
BSD: There is no leader. Just people who share an interest in sharing code WITHOUT IMPOSING LOCKDOWN ON PERSONAL FREEDOM RIGHTS.
GPL: NO SO MUCH. LOCK IT DOWN WITH PAGES OF INDECIPHERABLE RULES WRITTEN BY A LAWYER AND NOT COMPREHENSIBLE BY ANYONE OTHER THAN A LAWYER. COMMUNISTIC HURD RULES THE WASTELAND OF OPENSOURCE.