All that's going to happen is the manufacturers will provide a facility for you to return the device so they can remove the battery. I don't think the bill says batteries have to be user-removable, just removable.
This could potentially affect things like real-time clock chips, though. You'd either have to make the whole chip removable, or use an external battery. "Suicide batteries" in arcade game cartridges could also come under this.
As for banning cadmium - how will cordless power tools go? NiCd still performs better than NiMH or LiIon for high-current applications.
Not all the information entered into e-tax is submitted back to the server. Some of it is simply stored locally for reference purposes. If it was done online, everyone would kick up a fuss about privacy. Also, round-trip time would slow you down if it was web based. You don't want that. And you'd lose the ability to give a copy to a friend without 'net access so they can use the software to help them do a paper return. A web-based solution wouldn't include all the functionality we get now.
The final version of Disinfectant was 3.7.1 and it didn't detect Word macro viruses. The whole reason Disinfectant was discontinued was because John Norstad didn't have the resources to keep up with the flood of new macro viruses.
NetCraft (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/) is pretty useful. You can get an instant site report for any page you visit, as well as information on the geographic location, IP block owner and phishing risk rating. Before you laugh about the phishing risk rating, one of my co-workers, who used to work for an ISP and thinks he's l33t, got saved by it once.
So use a graphics tablet which is pressure-sensitive and/or angle-sensitive (Wacom Graphire is pressure-sensitive, Wacom Intuos is pressure- and angle-sensitive). If you want to do serious graphics, you need the right tools for the job. Proper painting software should use the pressure, speed and angle information to simulate the brush as accurately as possible.
You're a troll, it's an article about Intel chips, but I'll bite. Power, SPARC, etc. don't usually drop into a socket directly. You get a daughtercard with the CPU on it that drops into a socket on your motherboard. The daughtercards are different for every system (so a daughtercard for a Sun Blade 2500 won't work in a Sun Blade 2000, etc.).
The trouble with a debit card is that you don't get fraud insurance. With my Visa credit card, I'm only liable for $50 if someone conducts a fraudulent transaction. I'd be liable for the whole lot with a Visa debit card.
I don't mind not having a government grant. I can get commercial funding. What I do object to is the govenment pumping money into the CSIRO when all they can produce for their efforts is a 2x2 static MIMO demo when we can produce a fully working 4x4 MIMO transmitter and receiver, and then going on about how brilliant their research is.
You see, the problem is, the CSIRO is fat on government grants, so they don't have to work hard to survive. The rest of us have to fight for commercial funding by doing great research and making stuff that works and is truly ready for commercialisation.
My previous post was a bit of a troll. The CSIRO does do some great work, it's just that most of it isn't in my area.
The thing about stealing ideas is a bit personal. Their wideband channel sounder is pretty much a carbon copy of something they saw on a tour of our institution. We were talking about our ideas, and they were saying that their approach was so much better, then next month they've got something that's a copy of ours.
I'm an Australian, and a researcher and an advocate of implementation patents, but I say screw the CSIRO. The CSIRO exists for the sole purpose of scamming government funding. They steal other researchers' ideas. They build inferior technologies. But they get all the attention and money. I hope they lose this court case.
Also, if they lose this case, maybe more people will succeed in overturning pthese stupid conceptual patents.
Intel picked up the rights to the Alpha technology. How do you think they got the massive clock speeds on the Pentium 4? Deep pipelines, trace cache, etc. It was all the leftovers from the Alpha.
The Alpha was an interesting experiment, but nothing more. It used too much power, had a big branch penalty, and various other problems. It would have had to be re-born to have survived.
Also completely unscientific, but I did roughly the same thing in a 2003 Echo with a 1.3L engine. Driving aggressively, I use 6.5L/100km; driving normally, I use 6.2L/100km; driving "smoothly", I use 5.8L/100km. Definitely noticeable.
No, because you're only allowed to reproduce a "reasonable proportion" of a work for study. For textbooks, that's up to 50% (I know that from teaching at a university). I don't know what it would be for songs.
This will be great for researchers with CPU-hungry simulations to run. A small box with a lot of grunt is exactly what you want when you're simulating the PHY layer for your 802.11n proposal.
Valid point. Jesus, on two occasions, was recorded as driving people out of the temple for selling animals for sacrifice. Maybe this is inappropriate use of church buildings.
And I agree, it'd be nice if they could make all their towers unobtrusive. Not those weird-arse disguised towers as shown on the NYT article. Just try to blend them into the buildings.
In Australia, they've started renting space in church steeples. They make the antennae very unobtrusive, and their RF and SONET gear doesn't take up much space. Pumps quite a bit of money into churches that can be used for community projects, aid, missions, etc.
I thought I read somewhere that because of the pitch of the GlobalStar satellites' orbits (they aren't quite polar), you get poor coverage near the poles. Or is this ski trip far enough from the pole to get good coverage.
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All that's going to happen is the manufacturers will provide a facility for you to return the device so they can remove the battery. I don't think the bill says batteries have to be user-removable, just removable.
This could potentially affect things like real-time clock chips, though. You'd either have to make the whole chip removable, or use an external battery. "Suicide batteries" in arcade game cartridges could also come under this.
As for banning cadmium - how will cordless power tools go? NiCd still performs better than NiMH or LiIon for high-current applications.
Solar power isn't renewable. The sun will run out of power eventually. It'll take a few billion years, but it will happen.
Not all the information entered into e-tax is submitted back to the server. Some of it is simply stored locally for reference purposes. If it was done online, everyone would kick up a fuss about privacy. Also, round-trip time would slow you down if it was web based. You don't want that. And you'd lose the ability to give a copy to a friend without 'net access so they can use the software to help them do a paper return. A web-based solution wouldn't include all the functionality we get now.
The final version of Disinfectant was 3.7.1 and it didn't detect Word macro viruses. The whole reason Disinfectant was discontinued was because John Norstad didn't have the resources to keep up with the flood of new macro viruses.
NetCraft (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/) is pretty useful. You can get an instant site report for any page you visit, as well as information on the geographic location, IP block owner and phishing risk rating. Before you laugh about the phishing risk rating, one of my co-workers, who used to work for an ISP and thinks he's l33t, got saved by it once.
I actually do use Painter. I was responding to his complaint about using speed to simulate pressure.
So use a graphics tablet which is pressure-sensitive and/or angle-sensitive (Wacom Graphire is pressure-sensitive, Wacom Intuos is pressure- and angle-sensitive). If you want to do serious graphics, you need the right tools for the job. Proper painting software should use the pressure, speed and angle information to simulate the brush as accurately as possible.
You see, that's *why* it's not in stable. In BSD, something has to work properly before it moves from current to stable.
OTOH, Linux pushes things in as soon as possible, without extensive testing. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a different attitude.
You're a troll, it's an article about Intel chips, but I'll bite. Power, SPARC, etc. don't usually drop into a socket directly. You get a daughtercard with the CPU on it that drops into a socket on your motherboard. The daughtercards are different for every system (so a daughtercard for a Sun Blade 2500 won't work in a Sun Blade 2000, etc.).
The trouble with a debit card is that you don't get fraud insurance. With my Visa credit card, I'm only liable for $50 if someone conducts a fraudulent transaction. I'd be liable for the whole lot with a Visa debit card.
Do 20% of Internet trolls believe there is life outside of Slashdot?
I don't mind not having a government grant. I can get commercial funding. What I do object to is the govenment pumping money into the CSIRO when all they can produce for their efforts is a 2x2 static MIMO demo when we can produce a fully working 4x4 MIMO transmitter and receiver, and then going on about how brilliant their research is.
You see, the problem is, the CSIRO is fat on government grants, so they don't have to work hard to survive. The rest of us have to fight for commercial funding by doing great research and making stuff that works and is truly ready for commercialisation.
My previous post was a bit of a troll. The CSIRO does do some great work, it's just that most of it isn't in my area.
The thing about stealing ideas is a bit personal. Their wideband channel sounder is pretty much a carbon copy of something they saw on a tour of our institution. We were talking about our ideas, and they were saying that their approach was so much better, then next month they've got something that's a copy of ours.
I'm an Australian, and a researcher and an advocate of implementation patents, but I say screw the CSIRO. The CSIRO exists for the sole purpose of scamming government funding. They steal other researchers' ideas. They build inferior technologies. But they get all the attention and money. I hope they lose this court case.
Also, if they lose this case, maybe more people will succeed in overturning pthese stupid conceptual patents.
Intel picked up the rights to the Alpha technology. How do you think they got the massive clock speeds on the Pentium 4? Deep pipelines, trace cache, etc. It was all the leftovers from the Alpha.
The Alpha was an interesting experiment, but nothing more. It used too much power, had a big branch penalty, and various other problems. It would have had to be re-born to have survived.
Feel free to do the conversion for me. I think there are about four litres in a gallon and about 1.6km in a mile.
Also completely unscientific, but I did roughly the same thing in a 2003 Echo with a 1.3L engine. Driving aggressively, I use 6.5L/100km; driving normally, I use 6.2L/100km; driving "smoothly", I use 5.8L/100km. Definitely noticeable.
It wouldn't have mattered because the opposition's package didn't differ on IPR laws, anyway.
No, because you're only allowed to reproduce a "reasonable proportion" of a work for study. For textbooks, that's up to 50% (I know that from teaching at a university). I don't know what it would be for songs.
If we want a free trade agreement, we have to have some harmonisation between laws. It's only fair.
I'm no fan of the DMCA, and I would have preferred if the US moved closer to AUstralian IP laws, but that's never going to happen.
This is in _desktop_ linux usage. Not server, workstation, render farm, etc.
MATLAB is also memory-intensive, too. I've seen it die from lack of RAM too many times.
This will be great for researchers with CPU-hungry simulations to run. A small box with a lot of grunt is exactly what you want when you're simulating the PHY layer for your 802.11n proposal.
Valid point. Jesus, on two occasions, was recorded as driving people out of the temple for selling animals for sacrifice. Maybe this is inappropriate use of church buildings.
And I agree, it'd be nice if they could make all their towers unobtrusive. Not those weird-arse disguised towers as shown on the NYT article. Just try to blend them into the buildings.
In Australia, they've started renting space in church steeples. They make the antennae very unobtrusive, and their RF and SONET gear doesn't take up much space. Pumps quite a bit of money into churches that can be used for community projects, aid, missions, etc.
I thought I read somewhere that because of the pitch of the GlobalStar satellites' orbits (they aren't quite polar), you get poor coverage near the poles. Or is this ski trip far enough from the pole to get good coverage.