The only real thing stopping me from using Mozilla as a primary browser is its lack of support for secure connections. It simply won't connect to some bank and credit card sites.
Yes you can access banks. Mozilla does 128 bit encryption, SSL, the whole 9 yards, and it even does it properly. (or at least as properly as any other browser...) I'm fairly confident reason you are having trouble with the banks is not because of the browser. It is because of the banks. I have been using Mozilla nearly 100% of the time for close to 5 months now on both a Windows 2000 box and an SGI Octane. (and a lesser percentage of the time since M16) Yes I've run into problems with some of my banks but since version 0.9 the problems were because of the bank. They didn't parse forms correctly, or they programmed circles around the Netscape 4.x oddities but never updated it when Mozilla/Netscape6 started doing it right or other issues.
Now granted I'm just one person but I have yet to be able to trace any problem with secure connections I've had to Mozilla since version 0.9. It has always been bad coding on the other end. YMMV obviously but it does work and works pretty well if the folks who designed the website have a clue.
Forget it being in the registry, this one floated around usenet a while back
Convert each character in the name William Gates 3 to it's ascii equivilent number and add them up. The result comes out to 666.
Yes I tested this a while back, and yes it really does come out to 666. I forget if you need his middle name too so that might be necessary but I don't think so. The 3 is neccessary because Billy boy's name is Bill Gates III (the third).
Are you serious ? When SmartSuite was ported to OS/2, everybody hoped that it would make a difference to OS/2's fortune. This at a time (circa 1996 if I recall ?) when MS Office's hegemony was not what it is now (WordPerfect and WordPro were still viable options to Word, for instance). SmartSuite did nothing for OS/2 and in fact whimpered away shortly thereafter, seeming to exist now only as a fringe office suite given away with pre-configured computers.
Smartsuite made little imact true, though it should be pointed out that a significant reason for this was due to the fact that it was the buggiest, most poorly coded piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using. Smartsuite on OS/2 was big, bloated, crashed constantly, was lacking features found in the windows version available at the time, and was essentially 1-3 years out of date when it was released. Instead of releasing a superior product for the OS/2 platform, they released a quarter-baked, feature-lacking, constantly-crashing, badly-done-windows-port pile of junk that no sane user would subject themselves to for any length of time. And the user's stayed away in droves.
To make matters worse, it took years before the full office suite was available. For a time, only AmiPro (now WordPro) was the only part of the suite available. And what arrived later on simply wasn't good enough. Smartsuite needed to be at least as good as the windows version, if not better, but it wasn't. Smartsuite's failure on OS/2 probably had more to do with the quality of the software than anything else. Not to say there weren't other factors but getting a crappy word processor is not a good motivator to people to switch operating systems...
If linux is going to get folks to switch desktops, the tools will have to be at least as good if not better than what Windows has. And no, there is no office suite available right now for linux that is as good overall as MSoffice is right now. (Yes, that ticks me off too) Would I pay for a top notch office suite? Yeah, but only if it is better than anything else out there. If it isn't, sorry, not interested. Not that I think it matters since I think office productivity software is going to get commoditized (read free) anyway...
Honestly, how hard is it to support? Just add a few boards into the telco switch and volia, you have support.
Actually it is no where near that simple. There are a lot of problems with rolling DSL service out, and most of them are a function of lack of resources. Ameritech in particular lacks the manpower and cable availability to properly support a rollout of DSL.
Let me see if I can explain why a little bit. Back in the day (~15 years ago and earlier) the local telco would provision for basically 2 lines per household. At some point, shortly before the explosion in popularity of modems, cell phones and all the other toys we love to use, it was decided that this was wasteful and that fewer lines would be provisioned. This meant that that new subdevelopment would have only a minimal number of extra lines available to it. This also meant that once folks started using extra lines for modems, working at home, and the like, that upgrading them was no longer simply a matter of adding a few switches. Now they had to go and dig up that line and add more lines.
But it gets worse. DSL only works when the customer is close to the central office and when they have an uninterrupted connection to it. If they don't the line has to be "conditioned" to make it work. Have a bit of fiber cable between you and the office? Chances are you'll never get DSL any time soon. Conditioning the line is expensive and time consuming. Since the phone company isn't going to eat the cost of doing it so they can take a loss by billing you for $40/month which is much less than the several thousand dollar cost of doing the line.
Even if you are all set up from a technical point of view, there still are the issues with getting the equipment on the user's computer to work. The phone companies are simply not experienced in or set up for supporting end users with complicated copmuter equipment. Phones are easy, computers aren't. Remember, the local telco is still esentially a monopoly and has the same bureacracy and mentality of one even 20 years since AT&T split. I've seen it first hand. Anyone who thinks that these companies became nimble and customer responsive just because AT&T was broken up has zero knowledge of how they work on the inside. They are still not set up to hand customer service on the scale DSL requires.
There's a lot more to it than this but I'm tired of typing. Point is, there are a lot of issues we as customers don't generally see. General DSL rollout is going to take a LONG time. Learn to live with it.
Our company (big automotive) budgets for 40 hours per person per year. Training has to be something relevant to your current job or future career path. They also will reimburse (fully in most cases) tuition for higher education classes taken outside the company and have an internal company "university" that actually is accredited.
Of course our company has a strict promote from within policy so if we don't train our people, we would quickly become irrelevant. Personally I think it is a very reasonable amount for the company to budget for. Any company that doesn't pay for relevant training for it's people is deeply foolish. No one is hired into a job knowing everything they need to know. And what you need to know changes over time. If the company doesn't provide you the opportunity to update your skillset, they are simply going to slowly suffocate because their employees will slowly become second rate. Doesn't matter what industry you are in, and it doesn't matter what job you do. Everyone needs training after they are hired. It's a simple fact.
Want to do business in a country? Guess what, you'll have to comply with the local laws. If the local laws are such that a company cannot abide them they have only a few choices. Alter their business plan to comply with the local regulation, get the local regulation changed, or simply cease doing business in that county. Sounds like Yahoo is running into a situation where the third is the only viable option.
While I firmly believe that this French court Doesn't Get It (TM) and they are being stupid, it also doesn't really matter even if what I think it is true. If they want to be stupid that is their right. It will simply hurt the French economy and maybe Ebay's profits. Their choice, their funeral. If they think it is a good idea to treat their citizens as if they are idiots, there isn't much Ebay, as an American company, is going to do to change that. Should Ebay try? Sure. And I'd expect the US government to support them to some extent. But if a country wants to be that stupid, so be it. The world is a big place and France is only a very small part of it.
Fact 2: Drilling holes in apartment walls is a good way to get yourself a big bill from the landlord.
Fact 3: All closets in said apartment are filled with clothes, not all of which are mine.
Fact 4: My SO would be unhappy if I tried to move her clothes aside to put a computer in the closets.
Taking these facts into account, I submit to you that putting my home computer in a closet is unfeasible for the near future. Buying a bigger place is an optional but highly costly strategy to get a quiet computer.
...some of us live in apartments or don't have a convenient spare room. Sure that's great solution if you can do it but it isn't very practical for most of us. Plus I doubt my employer is going to let me start drilling holes in the wall even if I could find a place to move the darn thing.
In my case (no pun intended) I simply don't have much room (again, no pun intended) so I have to put the computer right next to me. Only solution then is to make the machine itself quiet.
The problem as I see it is partly fan noise and partly case design. Most machines these days have several fans for cooling, most of which seem to create around 30db of noise. Not deafening to be sure but if you have fairly sensitive ears (like I do) it is enough to wear you out after a while. The other part of the problem is reverberation (for lack of a better word) from the case. The case seems to act like a drum for all the fan noise. Really though, the noise due to the case is really just a function of the fan noise. Eliminate the fans, and you eliminate the noise.
Unfortunately it seems there hasn't been much effort put into keeping systems quiet because it requires more engineering time and effort. It's cheaper to just slap a fan in the power supply and another on the chip than it is to design the systems to not produce much heat or duct it efficiently. With commodity motherboards and assembly from components, it is very tough to design a system that will be flexible enough and still keep costs in line.
If there are any entrepreneurs out there, design a quite case and power supply and I will buy it. I would love to have a system that is silent or very close to it.
There are some good reasons to go public, but sustainable businesses usually wait as long as possible before doing so. There is an obsession with taking a company public early on these days. A few companies have been successful with that strategy but most of the biggest ones were successful concerns long before they sold stock on the public markets.
Selling shares of the company can be a great way to raise cash, but it also introduces a whole different set of constraints on management style. Public companies have to be much more concerned about short term finanical numbers instead of the big picture. The management has to please investors which often forces them into actions that aren't always the most prudent in order to keep the balance sheet in order. This can be a huge distraction for a young company.
Now I'm not saying Mandrake going public is necessarily a bad thing, but I do wonder if it is being done for the good of the company or if it is being done simply to make money for some venture capitalists.
The Fourth Amendment limits the power of government and only government.
It does not restrict companies, private citizens, or any other non-governmental group in any way. Unless there are specific laws created by the US government (and in many cases there are) limiting the activities of these groups, they are largely free to collect whatever information they want about you and use it for whatever purpose they like. This being the case, we have a hodge-podge of various laws limiting certain types of behaviour by certain types of groups and companies. But there is no particular rhyme or reason to them since they have been created to deal with individual problems as they arose. The problems that are getting attention here on/. are simply new problems that haven't been dealt with by US law yet either through legislation or judicial review.
Putting it another way, there is no Constitutionally assured right to privacy in the US except with regard to the government itself. Whether that is a good thing or not, is a separate issue.
how SGI is planning to stop all the red ink? Don't get me wrong, I love SGI's stuff. In fact I'm typing this from an Octane. But I just can't figure out what this company's strategy is.
Used to be that the unix workstation market was far enough ahead and different enough that they could command large prices and have very slow product update cycles. They established a focus on graphics and everything related to it. But commodity hardware has since caught up to all but their fastest machines and their value added proposition is pretty weak. Now I can't think of a single reason to purchase a new SGI machine unless it is for a very particular piece of software or if you are already an all SGI shop.
I'm not asking this to bash SGI, I truly wish them well, but does anyone know where the heck this company is headed?
Could it be that AOL never really intended to actually use Netscape/Mozilla? Perhaps they simply are developing it as a big stick to prod Microsoft into giving them a better deal. After all, 20+ million users switching browsers takes a huge chunk of the browser marketshare away from Microsoft. If Microsoft crosses them then voila, the switch browsers in AOL 7.0. If not, they just use the threat of it to get concessions from Microsoft.
It makes a certain amount of sense. (to me at least) It even makes sense that AOL will keep funding development it to keep Microsoft honest.
Of course this does make it a little tough to figure out who the good guy is here...
And last I checked, parodies differ greatly from the content they parody. Name a parody that is an exact duplicate of the original, and I will withdraw this argument.
Airlines have been doing this for years. They have a product with a limited lifespan. A seat on a plane isn't valuable after the trip is done. So they adjust the price based on a number of factors (popularity of destination, time until trip, accomodations desired, etc) so that they maximize profit. Selling computer equipment which becomes obsolete in a matter of months is not really so different.
We tend to have a knee jerk reaction that this is a bad thing but it can work out pretty ok in the end for thoughtful consumers. Sometimes you can't get something for a good price, sometimes you'll get a fabulous deal. Just depends on what you want and when you want it. Try to get the same thing everyone else wants at the same time, expect to pay a premium.
In the end, the question is whether their terms will be favorable to consumers or simply a price gouge. Probably will be some of both. Don't like the approach, you always have the option to vote with your money about the approach you like.
Raw speed, measured in MHz or any other way, of the Crusoe processor is NOT the interesting thing about. Low power consumption isn't terribly interesting either actually, though it is a nice side benefit.
The interesting thing about Crusoe processors is that the raw hardware is abstracted from the instruction set.
Why is this important? Instruction sets are really an abstraction themselves. They are what allow us to not have to program in binary. Problem is that until Crusoe, they were always hardware. Wanted some features the instruction set didn't provide? Build a new chip at a cost of billions of dollars. Want to port your software to a different architecture? Better be careful whate instruction set features you depend on. Or instead you can buy a Crusoe processor and it's simply a software update.
But it gets better. With a Crusoe chip, any CPU can be emulated. Want your machine to be a MIPS today and an UltraSparc tomarrow and a Pentium the day after? It's possible, if perhaps not incredibly practical. (though it would be great for testing software on multiple systems without having to buy multiple systems)
Additionally the underlying hardware can be optimized for the real tasks being undertaken without requiring a redesign of the software application or operating system. Transmeta could create a server chip that is highly optimized for I/O or even possibly have several chips work together while the operating system is none the wiser.
Just because the chip doesn't perform the same at the same Mhz is basically irrelevant to the value of the Crusoe chip. Unfortunately Transmeta is doing a really bad job of promoting this. I can't understand why the heat/power thing is the centerpiece of their marketing.
The answer to whether we here in the US have a privacy act is... sorta. We do have a wide array of legislation that sort of ad-hoc defines the bounds of what we consider our privacy rights. However there is no overarching privacy act. The closest thing we have is the ammendments to the Constitution that bar unwarrented search and seizure by the government but that does not apply to private companies. IANAL but I'm not aware of any laws that make what MS is doing illegal. (please correct me if anyone is aware of any) Whether it's moral or not is of course an excercise for the reader.
I've always found it interesting that we assume we have a "right" to privacy here in the US when there really is no such right defined in our Consitution. Perhaps that isn't really appriate (I'm not a Constitutional scholar or anything) but it's always struck me as odd.
Oh, and IANAL so grab salt and start doing whatever you want to do with it.
Greetings from one of your alliance partners and co-national champs, team 279 Techfusion. As one of the engineers from our team, I hope you had a wonderful time and thanks for being our partner.
For anyone not involved with FIRST, what are you waiting for? It's a ton of work but it is a seriously good cause and a lot of fun besides. FIRST nationals is a truly fun experience. If you ever get the chance to go, do it.
You think getting approval from you (or any other/.er) is why I posted? Man are you full of yourself.
No I am not lying. That hologram, which contains a unique license code, is what we were told constitutes proof that we hold a valid license. No sticker with a code, no legal license as far as M$ is concerned. Since most systems we buy come with a copy of Windows, in theory, each one should have a sticker. Other people may have been told different things, but that is what MS told us, right or wrong. The actual situation is more complicated than that but basically that is what they were looking for from us. I posted this information in the hopes that it might help someone else so that they might learn from our experiences.
And of course the "license" is not the same thing as "proof-of-ownership-of-legal-license". Did you really need me to spell that out for you or were the mental gymnastics to figure out what I meant too tough for you?
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Yes you can access banks. Mozilla does 128 bit encryption, SSL, the whole 9 yards, and it even does it properly. (or at least as properly as any other browser...) I'm fairly confident reason you are having trouble with the banks is not because of the browser. It is because of the banks. I have been using Mozilla nearly 100% of the time for close to 5 months now on both a Windows 2000 box and an SGI Octane. (and a lesser percentage of the time since M16) Yes I've run into problems with some of my banks but since version 0.9 the problems were because of the bank. They didn't parse forms correctly, or they programmed circles around the Netscape 4.x oddities but never updated it when Mozilla/Netscape6 started doing it right or other issues.
Now granted I'm just one person but I have yet to be able to trace any problem with secure connections I've had to Mozilla since version 0.9. It has always been bad coding on the other end. YMMV obviously but it does work and works pretty well if the folks who designed the website have a clue.
http://www.bold.net.au/~dschell/microshaft.html#66 6
Convert each character in the name William Gates 3 to it's ascii equivilent number and add them up. The result comes out to 666.
Yes I tested this a while back, and yes it really does come out to 666. I forget if you need his middle name too so that might be necessary but I don't think so. The 3 is neccessary because Billy boy's name is Bill Gates III (the third).
Of course they are listening. First rule of warfare is to "know thy enemy".
There is a big difference between listening with an open mind and intelligence gathering. I don't know which one they are doing. Do you?
Smartsuite made little imact true, though it should be pointed out that a significant reason for this was due to the fact that it was the buggiest, most poorly coded piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using. Smartsuite on OS/2 was big, bloated, crashed constantly, was lacking features found in the windows version available at the time, and was essentially 1-3 years out of date when it was released. Instead of releasing a superior product for the OS/2 platform, they released a quarter-baked, feature-lacking, constantly-crashing, badly-done-windows-port pile of junk that no sane user would subject themselves to for any length of time. And the user's stayed away in droves.
To make matters worse, it took years before the full office suite was available. For a time, only AmiPro (now WordPro) was the only part of the suite available. And what arrived later on simply wasn't good enough. Smartsuite needed to be at least as good as the windows version, if not better, but it wasn't. Smartsuite's failure on OS/2 probably had more to do with the quality of the software than anything else. Not to say there weren't other factors but getting a crappy word processor is not a good motivator to people to switch operating systems...
If linux is going to get folks to switch desktops, the tools will have to be at least as good if not better than what Windows has. And no, there is no office suite available right now for linux that is as good overall as MSoffice is right now. (Yes, that ticks me off too) Would I pay for a top notch office suite? Yeah, but only if it is better than anything else out there. If it isn't, sorry, not interested. Not that I think it matters since I think office productivity software is going to get commoditized (read free) anyway...
Actually it is no where near that simple. There are a lot of problems with rolling DSL service out, and most of them are a function of lack of resources. Ameritech in particular lacks the manpower and cable availability to properly support a rollout of DSL.
Let me see if I can explain why a little bit. Back in the day (~15 years ago and earlier) the local telco would provision for basically 2 lines per household. At some point, shortly before the explosion in popularity of modems, cell phones and all the other toys we love to use, it was decided that this was wasteful and that fewer lines would be provisioned. This meant that that new subdevelopment would have only a minimal number of extra lines available to it. This also meant that once folks started using extra lines for modems, working at home, and the like, that upgrading them was no longer simply a matter of adding a few switches. Now they had to go and dig up that line and add more lines.
But it gets worse. DSL only works when the customer is close to the central office and when they have an uninterrupted connection to it. If they don't the line has to be "conditioned" to make it work. Have a bit of fiber cable between you and the office? Chances are you'll never get DSL any time soon. Conditioning the line is expensive and time consuming. Since the phone company isn't going to eat the cost of doing it so they can take a loss by billing you for $40/month which is much less than the several thousand dollar cost of doing the line.
Even if you are all set up from a technical point of view, there still are the issues with getting the equipment on the user's computer to work. The phone companies are simply not experienced in or set up for supporting end users with complicated copmuter equipment. Phones are easy, computers aren't. Remember, the local telco is still esentially a monopoly and has the same bureacracy and mentality of one even 20 years since AT&T split. I've seen it first hand. Anyone who thinks that these companies became nimble and customer responsive just because AT&T was broken up has zero knowledge of how they work on the inside. They are still not set up to hand customer service on the scale DSL requires.
There's a lot more to it than this but I'm tired of typing. Point is, there are a lot of issues we as customers don't generally see. General DSL rollout is going to take a LONG time. Learn to live with it.
Of course our company has a strict promote from within policy so if we don't train our people, we would quickly become irrelevant. Personally I think it is a very reasonable amount for the company to budget for. Any company that doesn't pay for relevant training for it's people is deeply foolish. No one is hired into a job knowing everything they need to know. And what you need to know changes over time. If the company doesn't provide you the opportunity to update your skillset, they are simply going to slowly suffocate because their employees will slowly become second rate. Doesn't matter what industry you are in, and it doesn't matter what job you do. Everyone needs training after they are hired. It's a simple fact.
While I firmly believe that this French court Doesn't Get It (TM) and they are being stupid, it also doesn't really matter even if what I think it is true. If they want to be stupid that is their right. It will simply hurt the French economy and maybe Ebay's profits. Their choice, their funeral. If they think it is a good idea to treat their citizens as if they are idiots, there isn't much Ebay, as an American company, is going to do to change that. Should Ebay try? Sure. And I'd expect the US government to support them to some extent. But if a country wants to be that stupid, so be it. The world is a big place and France is only a very small part of it.
Fact 2: Drilling holes in apartment walls is a good way to get yourself a big bill from the landlord.
Fact 3: All closets in said apartment are filled with clothes, not all of which are mine.
Fact 4: My SO would be unhappy if I tried to move her clothes aside to put a computer in the closets.
Taking these facts into account, I submit to you that putting my home computer in a closet is unfeasible for the near future. Buying a bigger place is an optional but highly costly strategy to get a quiet computer.
In my case (no pun intended) I simply don't have much room (again, no pun intended) so I have to put the computer right next to me. Only solution then is to make the machine itself quiet.
I've tried PC Power and Cooling's Silencer power supply. Quieter than most (20db) but definitely not silent.
The problem as I see it is partly fan noise and partly case design. Most machines these days have several fans for cooling, most of which seem to create around 30db of noise. Not deafening to be sure but if you have fairly sensitive ears (like I do) it is enough to wear you out after a while. The other part of the problem is reverberation (for lack of a better word) from the case. The case seems to act like a drum for all the fan noise. Really though, the noise due to the case is really just a function of the fan noise. Eliminate the fans, and you eliminate the noise.
Unfortunately it seems there hasn't been much effort put into keeping systems quiet because it requires more engineering time and effort. It's cheaper to just slap a fan in the power supply and another on the chip than it is to design the systems to not produce much heat or duct it efficiently. With commodity motherboards and assembly from components, it is very tough to design a system that will be flexible enough and still keep costs in line.
If there are any entrepreneurs out there, design a quite case and power supply and I will buy it. I would love to have a system that is silent or very close to it.
Selling shares of the company can be a great way to raise cash, but it also introduces a whole different set of constraints on management style. Public companies have to be much more concerned about short term finanical numbers instead of the big picture. The management has to please investors which often forces them into actions that aren't always the most prudent in order to keep the balance sheet in order. This can be a huge distraction for a young company.
Now I'm not saying Mandrake going public is necessarily a bad thing, but I do wonder if it is being done for the good of the company or if it is being done simply to make money for some venture capitalists.
Ever see one in stores? And besides, do you really want to relearn how to type so you can be 3wpm faster in theory?
It does not restrict companies, private citizens, or any other non-governmental group in any way. Unless there are specific laws created by the US government (and in many cases there are) limiting the activities of these groups, they are largely free to collect whatever information they want about you and use it for whatever purpose they like. This being the case, we have a hodge-podge of various laws limiting certain types of behaviour by certain types of groups and companies. But there is no particular rhyme or reason to them since they have been created to deal with individual problems as they arose. The problems that are getting attention here on /. are simply new problems that haven't been dealt with by US law yet either through legislation or judicial review.
Putting it another way, there is no Constitutionally assured right to privacy in the US except with regard to the government itself. Whether that is a good thing or not, is a separate issue.
Used to be that the unix workstation market was far enough ahead and different enough that they could command large prices and have very slow product update cycles. They established a focus on graphics and everything related to it. But commodity hardware has since caught up to all but their fastest machines and their value added proposition is pretty weak. Now I can't think of a single reason to purchase a new SGI machine unless it is for a very particular piece of software or if you are already an all SGI shop.
I'm not asking this to bash SGI, I truly wish them well, but does anyone know where the heck this company is headed?
It makes a certain amount of sense. (to me at least) It even makes sense that AOL will keep funding development it to keep Microsoft honest.
Of course this does make it a little tough to figure out who the good guy is here...
The Backstreet Boys. QED.
We tend to have a knee jerk reaction that this is a bad thing but it can work out pretty ok in the end for thoughtful consumers. Sometimes you can't get something for a good price, sometimes you'll get a fabulous deal. Just depends on what you want and when you want it. Try to get the same thing everyone else wants at the same time, expect to pay a premium.
In the end, the question is whether their terms will be favorable to consumers or simply a price gouge. Probably will be some of both. Don't like the approach, you always have the option to vote with your money about the approach you like.
The interesting thing about Crusoe processors is that the raw hardware is abstracted from the instruction set.
Why is this important? Instruction sets are really an abstraction themselves. They are what allow us to not have to program in binary. Problem is that until Crusoe, they were always hardware. Wanted some features the instruction set didn't provide? Build a new chip at a cost of billions of dollars. Want to port your software to a different architecture? Better be careful whate instruction set features you depend on. Or instead you can buy a Crusoe processor and it's simply a software update.
But it gets better. With a Crusoe chip, any CPU can be emulated. Want your machine to be a MIPS today and an UltraSparc tomarrow and a Pentium the day after? It's possible, if perhaps not incredibly practical. (though it would be great for testing software on multiple systems without having to buy multiple systems)
Additionally the underlying hardware can be optimized for the real tasks being undertaken without requiring a redesign of the software application or operating system. Transmeta could create a server chip that is highly optimized for I/O or even possibly have several chips work together while the operating system is none the wiser.
Just because the chip doesn't perform the same at the same Mhz is basically irrelevant to the value of the Crusoe chip. Unfortunately Transmeta is doing a really bad job of promoting this. I can't understand why the heat/power thing is the centerpiece of their marketing.
The equations for Force (F=MA), Momentum (P=MV) or Kinetic Energy (KE=(1/2)MV^2) would be appropriate. (geeky but appropriate)
Never could understand why some folks think a little quiet "just ain't right".
I've always found it interesting that we assume we have a "right" to privacy here in the US when there really is no such right defined in our Consitution. Perhaps that isn't really appriate (I'm not a Constitutional scholar or anything) but it's always struck me as odd.
Oh, and IANAL so grab salt and start doing whatever you want to do with it.
Hey just use a bit of transparent aluminum. It worked for Scotty.
For anyone not involved with FIRST, what are you waiting for? It's a ton of work but it is a seriously good cause and a lot of fun besides. FIRST nationals is a truly fun experience. If you ever get the chance to go, do it.
No I am not lying. That hologram, which contains a unique license code, is what we were told constitutes proof that we hold a valid license. No sticker with a code, no legal license as far as M$ is concerned. Since most systems we buy come with a copy of Windows, in theory, each one should have a sticker. Other people may have been told different things, but that is what MS told us, right or wrong. The actual situation is more complicated than that but basically that is what they were looking for from us. I posted this information in the hopes that it might help someone else so that they might learn from our experiences.
And of course the "license" is not the same thing as "proof-of-ownership-of-legal-license". Did you really need me to spell that out for you or were the mental gymnastics to figure out what I meant too tough for you?