How are they providing barriers to entry? They provide all of the source to AS on there ftp site. In fact they provide it in SRPM fasion so you can recompile the entire distro if you like. Your complaining because they don't make available the Binary ISO? What requires them to do this? And why would they want to when it just costs them money?
Actually to make decent coffee you wouldn't just plug in a coffee machine and go.
You would buy whole beans. You would grind them just before you were to brew. Use a rotating blade for drip coffee and and a proper grinder for espresso. I prefer non burnt beans myself. and of course you would use a caraffe (sp?) not a heated coffee pot.
So for a decent cup of coffee its not simply plug and play. If you want to drink crap then yes.. Windows XP will work fine.;-)
Cheaper until you actually want to make it work! You need Gigabit Ethernet and you will also need network cards with TOE (TCP Offload Engine) which makes the network cards just as expensive as Fibre Channel HBA's.
My wife and kids are going to England tomorrow. She wants to bring some of the DVD videos but because of the Region encoding she can't play them there. So I turned off the macrovision in our Apex player so she can record the DVD's to tape and play them in there VCR which will play NTSC video.
Quite amazing that we have to jump through such hoops to be able to play a video for the kids!
I don't know if its just a western States event but My nephew participated in www.botball.com. He ended up competing nationally in Austin, Texas this year.
Everyone is giving the same kits but they are built out of legos with the Mindstorm modules for programming. I was really impressed at that amount of detail that has to go into these robots! You compete against another team on a playing field thats about the size of a ping pong table. You have a raised field in the center where you and your opponents ping pong balls are located. There is also a tray at the center of the table. When the light goes on one of your two robots trys to capture the tray and your second robot has to position itself to grab all of its ping pong balls from the raised playing field. (your robots had to fit in a virtual box before starting so usually to get the balls you have to riase the robot). Then you need to get your robot on the tray that hopefully your other robot captured.
I don't think the cost of entry is anywhere near 15K either.. I will ask my brother if any costs came out of the students pockets, but I don't think so.
I personally don't see any problem with this. I think they have every right to protect their name. Especially when there are so many distributions based off of RedHat(TM). It allows them to distinct themselves from everybody else.
I have a raid 5 system built with 4 scsi drives. This system is a dual P150 and is my mp3 player for my house.. Problem is is that when booted with an SMP kernel it pops once in a while and logs a DMA/IRQ possible conflict. If I boot with an UP kernel it never has a problem.
So.. I tried upgrading to the newest kernel 2.2.10 but then I lost my raid device. So two questions here..
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How are they providing barriers to entry? They provide all of the source to AS on there ftp site. In fact they provide it in SRPM fasion so you can recompile the entire distro if you like. Your complaining because they don't make available the Binary ISO? What requires them to do this? And why would they want to when it just costs them money?
Actually to make decent coffee you wouldn't just plug in a coffee machine and go.
You would buy whole beans. You would grind them just before you were to brew. Use a rotating blade for drip coffee and and a proper grinder for espresso. I prefer non burnt beans myself. and of course you would use a caraffe (sp?) not a heated coffee pot.
So for a decent cup of coffee its not simply plug and play. If you want to drink crap then yes.. Windows XP will work fine.
Bad eyesight will kill you if you walk into busy traffic!
If the gene itself is patented then isn't the act of producing offspring violating it? That just doesn't make sense!
Cheaper until you actually want to make it work! You need Gigabit Ethernet and you will also need network cards with TOE (TCP Offload Engine) which makes the network cards just as expensive as Fibre Channel HBA's.
Are you kidding? When was the last time you used Fibre Channel? Its mostly optical now. All the new HBA's come with optical GBIC's.
A lot less convient.. and I don't know if the Apex does PAL video out. The VCR's over there convert the video to PAL so its not the TV doing the work.
My wife and kids are going to England tomorrow. She wants to bring some of the DVD videos but because of the Region encoding she can't play them there. So I turned off the macrovision in our Apex player so she can record the DVD's to tape and play them in there VCR which will play NTSC video.
Quite amazing that we have to jump through such hoops to be able to play a video for the kids!
You could also just setup a Squid Proxy server. You wouldn't be using NAT.
I don't know if its just a western States event but My nephew participated in www.botball.com. He ended up competing nationally in Austin, Texas this year.
Everyone is giving the same kits but they are built out of legos with the Mindstorm modules for programming. I was really impressed at that amount of detail that has to go into these robots! You compete against another team on a playing field thats about the size of a ping pong table. You have a raised field in the center where you and your opponents ping pong balls are located. There is also a tray at the center of the table. When the light goes on one of your two robots trys to capture the tray and your second robot has to position itself to grab all of its ping pong balls from the raised playing field. (your robots had to fit in a virtual box before starting so usually to get the balls you have to riase the robot). Then you need to get your robot on the tray that hopefully your other robot captured.
I don't think the cost of entry is anywhere near 15K either.. I will ask my brother if any costs came out of the students pockets, but I don't think so.
Are you an idiot? You can portscan your own machine.
I personally don't see any problem with this. I think they have every right to protect their name. Especially when there are so many distributions based off of RedHat(TM). It allows them to distinct themselves from everybody else.
So.. I tried upgrading to the newest kernel 2.2.10 but then I lost my raid device. So two questions here..
Because you made a blanket statement..