Am I wrong in assuming that both items are intended to kill SOMETHING?
Only if you're anthropomorphizing vehicles. Stopping armor coming your way requires more than a.22 rifle.
Here's the thing: It's becoming increasing clear with each passing day that the NRA is spot-on with their interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
It's clear to me now that the framers (or at least Jefferson) wanted to ensure that if the citizens found the need to take up arms against an unjust government, there would be arms to take up. After all, they'd just done it.
Most of my friends would count me as a liberal, though once the current crop of neocons burn themselves out, I'll go back to my usual conservative-libertarian self.
It doesn't take a lot of power to establish useful communications.
However, (you knew this was coming)...
This is why BPL is a bad idea. Folks in the affected area are going to be running low-power, portable equipment with small or damaged antennas. This means that the signals will be weak. No problem hearing them from most of the country, but if BPL has trashed HF...all bets are off.
Even if the lines (and thus BPL) are down in the affected area, BPL at the receiving end will impair the ability of emergency services (Hams or not) to use HF communications with the disaster area.
Say what you like about their "beer", Anheuser-Busch has a long history of switching their closest functional production line to canning water, and delivering it *right now*.
After the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Red Cross barely had the shelters opened when trucks from A-B started showing up.
And those smart guys are what DNNA/D&M Holdings sold to Sigmatel.
The team is still (mostly) together, n acquisitions later. Expect to see the same quality of software on SigmaTel-based players from... well, everybody but Apple.;)
The firmware's crap. It drops the wireless connection every fifteen minutes or so, and it seems to fall off the net at least twice that often, even through the wired side.
Finding this article literally saved mine from the bin...I replaced it with a WRT54G after a week.
It is true that there is re-encoding required if you cut a GOP. The loss of quality is small, and only happens when you go to a final render. MPEG2 encoders have come a long way, so it's difficult-to-impossible to detect the loss.
This isn't some esoteric thing, either. Even iMovie does it:
It's been ruled as implicit in the US Constitution (the basis of Roe v. Wade) and is explicit in the California Constitution. This, by virtue of the 10th Amendment, should trump the Feds. I say "should", because like much of the rest of the document, the Supremes seem to be unable to read or comprehend the 10th amendment.
2.4GHz is also an amateur band, and it is quite legal to use homebuilt antennas for amateur use. Possesion of a cantenna is *certainly* legal. Transmitting through it may or may not be depending on a number of factors.
The HP Press release does a good job of explaining what's new, and why it matters.
Forbes reads this release, and decides that the defining feature is that the printhead isn't replaceable. "Below the fold", they finally get to the point, but not before going screaming by it.
Morons.
Of course, this being/., nobody even RTFA's much less the source material, and is now bashing HP for claiming to have invented the wheel, when what they're actually doing is rolling out a new process for making tires.
When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute MySQL software, you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL product.
(emphasis mine)
Sheesh. I expect better from someone with a 5-digit UID.
Not a copy of Windows that's on the shelf today, no.
It's pretty easy to build a x86 Mac that is sufficiently different from the PC ISA that OSX as released won't run on PC ISA hardware.
To say that the converse will always be true is nonsense. I don't think there's anything that they can do (other than a contract) to keep Microsoft from modifying Windows to run on an x86 Mac. Remember that NT existed for PPC and Alpha. This would be instruction-set compatible...a much easier problem.
Technologically, they can no more keep Windows off the box than they could keep Linux off. And I've been quite happy with a PowerMac G5 running Debian. (worked better than OSX for disknetwork I/0...Darwin's kernel-locking sucks.)
So, my prediction is that, unless they've cut a deal with MS, it will take about 20 minutes before Windows for the the Mac is available from Redmond. If they have cut a deal...then WINE will get ported pretty quickly.
I'm hoping for a Mac that will run OSX, Windows, and Linux under VMware.
And if all of that is available in the form factor of the 17" PowerBook, I will be a *very* happy guy.
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Am I wrong in assuming that both items are intended to kill SOMETHING?
.22 rifle.
Only if you're anthropomorphizing vehicles. Stopping armor coming your way requires more than a
Here's the thing: It's becoming increasing clear with each passing day that the NRA is spot-on with their interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
It's clear to me now that the framers (or at least Jefferson) wanted to ensure that if the citizens found the need to take up arms against an unjust government, there would be arms to take up. After all, they'd just done it.
Most of my friends would count me as a liberal, though once the current crop of neocons burn themselves out, I'll go back to my usual conservative-libertarian self.
-Z
I just did the math, and it's kind of interesting. (These numbers are based my memory of the last utility bill)
You're saying you're getting 180 miles on a fill, but let's take Honda at their word, and use 240 miles. (30mpg, 8gge capacity)
It takes 12hrs to fill the tank with a Phill. Fine, no problem. Just plug it in every night and forget about it.
The Phill takes 800W!
So, 800W x 12hrs = 9.6kWh. Since that's quite likely to kick you into over-baseline usage, let's use 17cents/kWh.
That means a fill up costs $1.63 just for the electricity, plus the natural gas.
That gas is 8GGE (Honda specs), or about 10 therms. Again, you're going to be over-baseline, so we're talking about $1.20/therm.
So.. $13.63 for 240 miles = 5.7 cents/mile.
Compare that to a Civic Hybrid:
$3/gal, 48mpg = 6.25 cents/mile.
Pretty interesting numbers.
Yeah, and did I not say if I was looking for something, I'd go look?
And did you not also say:
Ads - targeted or otherwise - are a waste of bandwidth, at best.
Yellow pages are the ultimate targeted ads.
For many years I found everything I needed in the yellow pages, without ever once opening any junk mail.
Guess what. Those are ads. All of them. Every last line in the whole yellow section of the book is a paid advertisement.
Yes, they're conveniently arranged so you can find the ad you need.
It's not a bug, it's just not finished yet.
If you look at the SVG status page linked earlier in this thread, it's very clear that most of the text tags aren't implemented yet.
Which is fine, actually. I just don't think something that incomplete can really be called "working well".
You have a very strange definition of 'working well'.
Text is almost entirely unsupported, which makes the excellent diagrams my colleagues prepare in SVG totally useless.
They work fine with the Adobe plugin under IE. But hey, standards are good, right?
Sigh.
That's assuming the HAM has a power source.
Sure, AA batteries work fine.
It doesn't take a lot of power to establish useful communications.
However, (you knew this was coming)...
This is why BPL is a bad idea. Folks in the affected area are going to be running low-power, portable equipment with small or damaged antennas. This means that the signals will be weak. No problem hearing them from most of the country, but if BPL has trashed HF...all bets are off.
Even if the lines (and thus BPL) are down in the affected area, BPL at the receiving end will impair the ability of emergency services (Hams or not) to use HF communications with the disaster area.
Anheuser-Busch: $250K cash + 875K cans of water
Say what you like about their "beer", Anheuser-Busch has a long history of switching their closest functional production line to canning water, and delivering it *right now*.
After the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Red Cross barely had the shelters opened when trucks from A-B started showing up.
-Z
Leaving aside whether this patent is non-obvious...
Creative was FIRST. Look at the dates.
Wrong.
empeg was first, going back to early '99.
So there's clearly prior art.
-Z
It's not over yet.
It wasn't just the IP that DNNA sold to SigmaTel, it's the whole engineering team. Which, give or take a few folks, is the old empeg team.
And those smart guys are what DNNA/D&M Holdings sold to Sigmatel.
;)
The team is still (mostly) together, n acquisitions later. Expect to see the same quality of software on SigmaTel-based players from... well, everybody but Apple.
What's wrong with them the way they are?
The firmware's crap. It drops the wireless connection every fifteen minutes or so, and it seems to fall off the net at least twice that often, even through the wired side.
Finding this article literally saved mine from the bin...I replaced it with a WRT54G after a week.
Amazing use of buzzwords for so little clue.
It is true that there is re-encoding required if you cut a GOP. The loss of quality is small, and only happens when you go to a final render. MPEG2 encoders have come a long way, so it's difficult-to-impossible to detect the loss.
This isn't some esoteric thing, either. Even iMovie does it:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
It's been ruled as implicit in the US Constitution (the basis of Roe v. Wade) and is explicit in the California Constitution. This, by virtue of the 10th Amendment, should trump the Feds. I say "should", because like much of the rest of the document, the Supremes seem to be unable to read or comprehend the 10th amendment.
2.4GHz is also an amateur band, and it is quite legal to use homebuilt antennas for amateur use. Possesion of a cantenna is *certainly* legal. Transmitting through it may or may not be depending on a number of factors.
If *all* you want is a WiFi SSH client, hack a ZipIt. (mine's still on the way)
-Z
...it's functionally identical to the first 802.11b access point most of us ever saw: The original Apple Airport.
Nothing for you to see here.
Of course, they were all smoking crack - you could spot the difference between a native app and an emulated app a mile away.
On the first generation, yes. But by the time PPCs were running at 100MHz, emulated 040 benchmarks were running faster than any 040 ever built.
-Z
The HP Press release does a good job of explaining what's new, and why it matters.
/., nobody even RTFA's much less the source material, and is now bashing HP for claiming to have invented the wheel, when what they're actually doing is rolling out a new process for making tires.
Forbes reads this release, and decides that the defining feature is that the printhead isn't replaceable. "Below the fold", they finally get to the point, but not before going screaming by it.
Morons.
Of course, this being
Morons.
So, is radiotelephony a deceptive term, too? It's been around for the better part of a century, and sure doesn't refer to cell phones.
You did notice that the assembler with the directions was female, right?
'nuff said.
Here's an employee who's signed an agreement not to disclose trade secrets, and he's threatened to disclose the source code.
Where in that letter did you see a threat to disclose source? There was notification that he was considering contacting the authorities, nothing more.
Or is there something outside TFA to which you are referring?
-Z
Did you even read your own link?
The second paragraph reads:
When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute MySQL software, you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL product.
(emphasis mine)
Sheesh. I expect better from someone with a 5-digit UID.
so you'd best straighten up and don't even think about being in a situation that isn't straight up in the eyes of the law.
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Or just sheeple?
Apple-branded MacPentium will NOT boot Windows.
Not a copy of Windows that's on the shelf today, no.
It's pretty easy to build a x86 Mac that is sufficiently different from the PC ISA that OSX as released won't run on PC ISA hardware.
To say that the converse will always be true is nonsense. I don't think there's anything that they can do (other than a contract) to keep Microsoft from modifying Windows to run on an x86 Mac. Remember that NT existed for PPC and Alpha. This would be instruction-set compatible...a much easier problem.
Technologically, they can no more keep Windows off the box than they could keep Linux off. And I've been quite happy with a PowerMac G5 running Debian. (worked better than OSX for disknetwork I/0...Darwin's kernel-locking sucks.)
So, my prediction is that, unless they've cut a deal with MS, it will take about 20 minutes before Windows for the the Mac is available from Redmond. If they have cut a deal...then WINE will get ported pretty quickly.
I'm hoping for a Mac that will run OSX, Windows, and Linux under VMware.
And if all of that is available in the form factor of the 17" PowerBook, I will be a *very* happy guy.