Exactly - it looks like the US already has laws about the manufacture of illegal weapons and weapon components. Whether you make it with a 3D printer or high-tech CNC mill, or if you make it with a Dremel and hand files, it's still an illegal part.
There are plenty of things in the world that are technically easy, but still illegal. It's incredibly easy for me to jump in my van and go for a blast up the high street at 90mph, but it's still illegal to do so.
we are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms so we can defend ourselves against the government
Let me know how well that works out for you. I reckon you'll be on the receiving end of something way bigger than you're allowed to own, pretty damn smartish.
See, I don't think I get a lot of exercise, although I try to get out for a few miles on my bike a couple of times a week (to the pub and back). Then I realised that quite a lot of my job involves carrying 10m scaff poles up 24-storey buildings, and other such bits of steelwork. Even the radio gear I work with is heavy, and tends to need carried up many flights of stairs.
It would probably make a bodybuilder explode from the sheer blood pressure rise, if their hearts were up to it.
When even the cheapest 100-quid-in-Tesco LCD TVs have a couple of HDMI ports and USB mice and keyboards cost less than a fiver each, it's not really an issue. That's sort of the whole point.
If you haven't got a TV, don't go to the pub this weekend and buy a TV instead for your Raspberry Pi.
The difficulty being, of course, that there's really nothing to see. One thing that I've discovered over time is that it's generally best to avoid doing illegal things out in public where people can see you.
Use something like find to generate a rough "map" of where duplications are and then pull out duplicates from that. You can then work your way back up, merging as you go.
I've found that deja-dup works pretty well for this, but since it takes an md5sum of each file it can be slow on extremely large directory trees.
And if I follow you 24/7 and record everything you do, is that fine too?
You can if you want. You're not getting inside my house, though. I suspect you'd get bored of it pretty quickly. I can give you some GPS co-ordinates to start you off, if you're *that* interested.
If you're in a private space - like your house, for example - then you have an expectation of privacy.
If you're standing outside in the street, out in public, you do not have an expectation of privacy.
It's really a pretty simple concept to grasp. I know right-wing Americans do have trouble with reading comprehension, but I don't know how I can make it any plainer.
Well, what else are you going to use? You could buy Windows, but then you'd have to buy all the expensive training courses, too. Not everyone has the time or inclination to do a course and get all the MCSE certificates and stuff just so they can use a computer.
The patents likely refer to solving various problems in integrating an ultracap with a DIMM.
That's probably down to refreshing the memory. Dynamic RAM is much more power-hungry than static RAM. Static RAM is just a bunch of flip-flops that latch either into 1 or 0 - make them with tiny CMOS gates and they can hold their state as long as power is applied and draw hardly any current, but you need a lot of gates so the die is large, density is low and the part is expensive.
Dynamic RAM contains thousands - or these days, more like millions - of tiny capacitors that need to be kept charged. Over time the voltage across the capacitor leaks away and the memory is corrupted, and worse than that if you read a bit it discharges instantly! So, the circuits on the DRAM chip refresh the memory every time it is read. Now, on old 1980s home computers this was often tied into drawing the video output, so that all the memory would be "read" but with the output disconnected so it didn't interfere with other things the CPU was doing. These days DRAM is controlled by a chip on the motherboard, but the refresh still happens and still takes a lot of power.
It's a buyer's market for anything 3 litres and up, because nobody wants to put petrol in them. A couple of years back a friend of mine bought a BMW 735i for £100, and about a week before I'd bought a Citroen XM V6-24 (slightly shorter, slightly slower but still capable of twice the national speed limit, 5mpg better on fuel) for £150. What a way to go broke!
If you want to run Photoshop, buy a Mac like every other graphics professional.
I notice a lot of people drivelling on about Linux being "insignificant" as a desktop OS. Is there a reason why I should care about that? What do I win if one day there are more desktop Linux installs than desktop Windows installs (that's already the case for servers)?
I use Linux because it has the tools to let me do the things I need to do. I don't use Windows, because it doesn't do the things I want to do. In some cases, I use Mac OSX because it does stuff that neither Linux nor Windows do well, like editing video.
but how many current dictatorships have seen a full fifth of their population starve to death while the ruling class gets fat in the last 20 years?
Sounds a bit like the US. Have you seen what proportion of people are living in genuine poverty there? And these are people who call themselves "middle class" but work eighty hour weeks as a routine, just to keep food on the table.
You clearly *don't* get it, otherwise you wouldn't constantly be moaning about how restrictive the GPL is and how it keeps you from selling your software for Linux.
If you want to keep all your code proprietary, write it all yourself. Go and write your own OS kernel, your own libc and your own GUI toolkit, and see how far you get - Microsoft did, and it's pretty good (but it's not quite ready for normal desktop use yet). Apple didn't, and they have to play by the rules like everyone else.
No. You just ignore Linux and sell to people who use Windows
I don't see the problem with that. Don't let the door hit you as you leave.
Something that commercial software companies just don't appear to get is that the Linux ecosystem just isn't prepared to let them sell a big binary blob and never update it for ten years. We're not here to give them an easy time and help them make money.
If you want to make money from your software, you have to earn it.
It seems to be an issue with common-rail diesels. The Bosch pumps fitted to old VWs and PSA XUD engines aren't bothered in the least, but XUDs with Lucas pumps won't last the pace. Anything with a common-rail system has big warnings in the manual not to use it with biodiesel, which seems like a step backwards.
It annoys me slightly that the heavy, lumbering, clattery 2.5 litre 200bhp turbodiesel getting 40mpg in my old CX is cleaner than the 50mpg 1600cc engine in my van...
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So, you can make any sort of weapon you like? Cool, I'm going to have a crack at some surface-to-air missiles!
Try reading what I posted carefully.
Exactly - it looks like the US already has laws about the manufacture of illegal weapons and weapon components. Whether you make it with a 3D printer or high-tech CNC mill, or if you make it with a Dremel and hand files, it's still an illegal part.
There are plenty of things in the world that are technically easy, but still illegal. It's incredibly easy for me to jump in my van and go for a blast up the high street at 90mph, but it's still illegal to do so.
we are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms so we can defend ourselves against the government
Let me know how well that works out for you. I reckon you'll be on the receiving end of something way bigger than you're allowed to own, pretty damn smartish.
See, I don't think I get a lot of exercise, although I try to get out for a few miles on my bike a couple of times a week (to the pub and back). Then I realised that quite a lot of my job involves carrying 10m scaff poles up 24-storey buildings, and other such bits of steelwork. Even the radio gear I work with is heavy, and tends to need carried up many flights of stairs.
It would probably make a bodybuilder explode from the sheer blood pressure rise, if their hearts were up to it.
When even the cheapest 100-quid-in-Tesco LCD TVs have a couple of HDMI ports and USB mice and keyboards cost less than a fiver each, it's not really an issue. That's sort of the whole point.
If you haven't got a TV, don't go to the pub this weekend and buy a TV instead for your Raspberry Pi.
The difficulty being, of course, that there's really nothing to see. One thing that I've discovered over time is that it's generally best to avoid doing illegal things out in public where people can see you.
There must be some sort of greasy goop that is vacuum-rated, though.
I've been using Linux on the desktop for 18 years or so. What I want to know is this:
When is Windows going to be ready for the desktop? I can't wait to try it out!
What, like the engineer's ghee you lubricate the tap and die with before cutting?
I suggest you seek professional help.
Could you then use something clever in ZFS to identify files that reference shared data?
Use something like find to generate a rough "map" of where duplications are and then pull out duplicates from that. You can then work your way back up, merging as you go.
I've found that deja-dup works pretty well for this, but since it takes an md5sum of each file it can be slow on extremely large directory trees.
And if I follow you 24/7 and record everything you do, is that fine too?
You can if you want. You're not getting inside my house, though. I suspect you'd get bored of it pretty quickly. I can give you some GPS co-ordinates to start you off, if you're *that* interested.
If you're in a private space - like your house, for example - then you have an expectation of privacy.
If you're standing outside in the street, out in public, you do not have an expectation of privacy.
It's really a pretty simple concept to grasp. I know right-wing Americans do have trouble with reading comprehension, but I don't know how I can make it any plainer.
It's none of your damn business. If you happened to be there to see me, then fine.
... you'd better not go outside. Somebody might see you! Better to stay in with the curtains drawn, and keep away from the windows just in case.
Well, what else are you going to use? You could buy Windows, but then you'd have to buy all the expensive training courses, too. Not everyone has the time or inclination to do a course and get all the MCSE certificates and stuff just so they can use a computer.
The patents likely refer to solving various problems in integrating an ultracap with a DIMM.
That's probably down to refreshing the memory. Dynamic RAM is much more power-hungry than static RAM. Static RAM is just a bunch of flip-flops that latch either into 1 or 0 - make them with tiny CMOS gates and they can hold their state as long as power is applied and draw hardly any current, but you need a lot of gates so the die is large, density is low and the part is expensive.
Dynamic RAM contains thousands - or these days, more like millions - of tiny capacitors that need to be kept charged. Over time the voltage across the capacitor leaks away and the memory is corrupted, and worse than that if you read a bit it discharges instantly! So, the circuits on the DRAM chip refresh the memory every time it is read. Now, on old 1980s home computers this was often tied into drawing the video output, so that all the memory would be "read" but with the output disconnected so it didn't interfere with other things the CPU was doing. These days DRAM is controlled by a chip on the motherboard, but the refresh still happens and still takes a lot of power.
It's a buyer's market for anything 3 litres and up, because nobody wants to put petrol in them. A couple of years back a friend of mine bought a BMW 735i for £100, and about a week before I'd bought a Citroen XM V6-24 (slightly shorter, slightly slower but still capable of twice the national speed limit, 5mpg better on fuel) for £150.
What a way to go broke!
If you want to run Photoshop, buy a Mac like every other graphics professional.
I notice a lot of people drivelling on about Linux being "insignificant" as a desktop OS. Is there a reason why I should care about that? What do I win if one day there are more desktop Linux installs than desktop Windows installs (that's already the case for servers)?
I use Linux because it has the tools to let me do the things I need to do. I don't use Windows, because it doesn't do the things I want to do. In some cases, I use Mac OSX because it does stuff that neither Linux nor Windows do well, like editing video.
but how many current dictatorships have seen a full fifth of their population starve to death while the ruling class gets fat in the last 20 years?
Sounds a bit like the US. Have you seen what proportion of people are living in genuine poverty there? And these are people who call themselves "middle class" but work eighty hour weeks as a routine, just to keep food on the table.
You clearly *don't* get it, otherwise you wouldn't constantly be moaning about how restrictive the GPL is and how it keeps you from selling your software for Linux.
If you want to keep all your code proprietary, write it all yourself. Go and write your own OS kernel, your own libc and your own GUI toolkit, and see how far you get - Microsoft did, and it's pretty good (but it's not quite ready for normal desktop use yet). Apple didn't, and they have to play by the rules like everyone else.
No. You just ignore Linux and sell to people who use Windows
I don't see the problem with that. Don't let the door hit you as you leave.
Something that commercial software companies just don't appear to get is that the Linux ecosystem just isn't prepared to let them sell a big binary blob and never update it for ten years. We're not here to give them an easy time and help them make money.
If you want to make money from your software, you have to earn it.
It seems to be an issue with common-rail diesels. The Bosch pumps fitted to old VWs and PSA XUD engines aren't bothered in the least, but XUDs with Lucas pumps won't last the pace. Anything with a common-rail system has big warnings in the manual not to use it with biodiesel, which seems like a step backwards.
It annoys me slightly that the heavy, lumbering, clattery 2.5 litre 200bhp turbodiesel getting 40mpg in my old CX is cleaner than the 50mpg 1600cc engine in my van...
Wouldn't it be terrible if someone published the details of the proxy connections, and it started getting hammered by thousands of slashdotters?