I can't remember the last time I used a floppy. Can you?
Yesterday. I'm sorry you don't like floppy disks, but for me they're indispensable, why should I have to spend $99 on a zip drive, and $14 on each disk when all I need to store on them is under 1mb of data? Sure there are situations where I think zip disks or CD-RWs are better, but for me, all I've ever needed is a floppy drive and around 25 floppies (total cost $30) -Ted
My friend lives up in the mountains, the ground up there isn't very conductive. I know people who have amateur radio setups, I've heard about the grounding requirements. -Ted
3-4 feet isn't enough in a lot of areas, I have a friend who just put a new ground rod in, and code required something like an 18' rod in his area, he had one heck of a time getting that all the way down. -Ted
What I believe the author of the previous post ment is that RMS is opposed to the idea of having a file on his computer which others can not read, i.e. the file with his private key in it. Not that RMS is aginst mail encryption, he may well be. I personaly think that freedom and privacy come hand in hand, but then again I don't always agree with RMS. -Ted
I'm in more or less the same boat jobwise, and I'd just like to say that the Fluke meters, while they're quite good at what they do, aren't the most accurate devices for the job either, my company makes a product that does power monitoring, mainly for power quality and predictave matinence type situations, It's not really in are I'd imagine, it's more used by utilities and LARGE power consumers who either don't trust the utility or want to be able to trouble shoot problems. None of that *.707 to get RMS either, does cycle by cycle RMS calculations by actually Root Mean Squaring things.
Back to the topic, I think the CF experiments are pumping DC into a vat of water, in which case RMS doesn't apply (unless you're in marketing and need another techie term to put in the brochure). If I'm right about that, they shouldn't have much trouble measuring the power accuratly.
-Ted
Note, none of what I've said here, or anywhere, is endorced by my company. Nor am I an expert, just someone who's been around this stuff forever and has some stupid ideas of his own.
My only problem with this is that it's not diffacult to measure change in current flow through a wire in real-time. I do it every day using comercial products. When you wrap a coil of wire around another wire, any change in the current going through the wrapped wire will cause a change in it's magnetic field, causing lines of force to cut through the coil, inducing a voltage in the coil, that voltage isn't hard to measure. I believe these experiments are using DC based upon the explinations I've heard, which means that calculations of the energy in the wire are as straight forward as voltage * current (as someone already pointed out). I'm not an EE, but from my (albiet limited) knowledge on this field, I see no reason they wouldn't be able to measure the energy going in. Think about it, the company that provides your electricty measures how many kWh you use, kWh is a measure of energy. They do it with about $50 worth of equipment, of course a scientific experiment would require more exact (and expensive) equipment, but measuring the energy in a circut is not hard to do. Although there will probably be energy drains that aren't part of the experiment, but if this is producing the amount of energy some people have been saying it does, all they need is a reasonable upper bound. Maybe they need to talk to their electric company... or learn to read bubble meters.
As a prefix to all of this, I live in Santa Cruz California, My office is located in Los Gatos California. For those who don't know, about 30 miles, and a small mountain range separate the two.
About January of this year I was poking around the PacBell web site and I came across some information on their DSL plan. They had an aggressive roll out plan (100% coverage by the end of the year) and reasonable prices ($200 install, $50/month), unfortunately at the time I was not within the (still small) coverage area. Then about a month ago, my father, who lives near by, told me he'd been poking around there and had used their automated phone number tester to see if he could get DSL. He was not in a coverage zone (but since then that's changed, and he now has his work order in to get DSL). Out of curiosity he checked on my number. He found that my CO did have DSL hookups. Since it is only about half a block away, I knew I was within the required distance (which, as a side note, is approximately the same as the distance PacBell can supply ISDN in Ca). I called and got a work order in to have a DSL line installed at my home. I was told I would be contacted within 48 hours by a technician who would arrange for my install, I missed the call, but the appointment time they picked out for me was easy enough for me to make. About one week later (at the scheduled time) the technician came by and worked for about a half hour setting up a splitter on my line and wiring a second jack in the room I wanted it in. I plugged in the modem, plugged it into my NIC card (I never own a computer without one, they're just too handy) and set up the TCP/IP settings. It's worked from the first moment I had it set up properly, and aside from one brief service outage I've had no problems with it. I'm nothing but pleased with it, and I am not (as the author implied) the kind of person who orders things and forgets about them. My service was quick.
Our attempts to get DSL installed at work have been completely different. My home service is through PacBell, who is my ISP, DSL provider and Phone provider. They even run a pretty good ISP, I've even made tech support calls into them and been impressed with the responsiveness. My company's office is under GTE's service area. GTE does not provide DSL the way PacBell does. Nor do they supply ISDN like PacBell does, apparently they're convinced that the B channels are supposed to be 56k instead of 64k, I know it's been explained to me why in the past, but I didn't care enough to listen. So far our network admin has had an experience close to the one the author describes. We were sold a product that does not now exist. We've been put onto a wait list and we have no idea when our zone might get lit up. Unlike the author's experience, there is (to the best of my knowledge) only one DSL provider with plans to work into our area, and it's not going anywhere near quickly.
It seems to me that DSL problems all stem from the division between phone company, DSL provider and ISP. The three don't talk to each other unless they happen to be one entity, as in my home experience. Also the quality of service can vary tremendously in short distances.
Your definition of the Casimir Effect is ok, but the average energy density both between and outside of the plates is equal to zero, because cirtual particles are created in pairs which cancel out, it's just that there are fewer virtual particles between the plates. Also, the Casimir Effect exists between any two objects regardless of their distance, it only becomes noticable as the distance becomes very small and more wavelengths are excluded. On the page you linked to they give an equation for the Casimir Effect's force, and you'll notice that it produces very small numbers when a (the distance between the plates) is of a reasonable scale. -Ted
I especaily like this, Rob put that comment in there because last time he posted about 2.3 he got flamed by quite a few people who think that dev kernals shouldn't be on/. that too many newbies who don't know what's up will trash their systems with a dev kernal. So he does the logical thing and tells people not to use the dev kernal in his post, and still he gets flamed for it. I just find this amusing. -Ted
Also, what has the fact of the smoothness of the OpenLinux 2.2 install much to do with KDE or any desktop.?
The installer for OpenLinux 2.2 is graphical, and based upon (drumroll) QT and KDE. OpenLinux 2.2 also boots into a KDE desktop, somewhat like Windows NT does. My understanding is that the KDE guys helped Caldera out with the LIZARD installer. Hope I could clarify that some for you. -Ted
either I misread this post your you did. "80 hours every 2 weeks" is not the same as "80 hours a week." if the former is the correct number, I have no problem with that, being required to work over 40 hours a week to recieve overtime makes sence to me, I also think that the 12 hour shift number is reasonable, I know quite a few people who's regular work shift is 12 hours, if their company was required to pay them overtime every time they worked I don't think they would have a job for very long. If indeed the article you were referring to said 80 hours per week, I think that's not only rediculous, but more than likely a violation of federal labor laws. -Ted
One one side, one could say that to be art something must be intended to be art. When a painter paints a painting, even if it's done under commision, the only goal is to produce art.
On the other side, one could say that to be art something must simply be seen as artistic by a segment of the population. This definiton would include code, because I know when I look at a preticularly elegent piece of code I regard it as being as artistic as anything else I've seen. I'm a segment of the population.
Both definitons have their problems.
Definition one excludes what I'm writing right now, because while someone may view it as artistic, it is in no way intended to be so (There are probably better examples, but it's late and I'm tired)
Definition two is too inclusive. You could argue that there will be people in the world who will find anything artistic, there is probably some lunatic somewhere who would consider a murder art. That lunatic is a segment of society.
We have to draw lines somewhere, the question is where. I honestly don't know, although in my opinion code can be art, but isn't by definition. I also believe that code can be other forms of speach. For example, in the suit which brought this whole editorial about, the code was (in my opinion) as much a form of speach as the lectures the prof. gave to his class. I can see that there are cases in which posting that information on a world wide information service would be government regulatable (under the current laws, which I've yet to decide if I support or not, I'm not well informed enough to make a decision on the topic). So while I think the code was a form of speach, I think the government was right (under the laws still) to restrict his speach. The safety of the state has always been reason enough to regulate speach.
The above are my thoughts at nearly 2am, they might not even resemble the ramblings of a sane man, I hope they make sence to other people. -Ted
I think it's because the refresh of the monitor makes your eyes want to unfocus, so to read off of a monitor you have to constantly focus your eyes. that or you can learn to read fuzzy letters and give up the fight, I also think that's the reason why monitors cause eye strain.
Besides, do we really want to call it Unrecognized/Linux?
I still fail to see what is wrong with just calling it "Linux". No other Operating Systems (or pieces of software) are named based upon who's contributed to it. The presedent for this isn't very similar, ie. we do call "windows" "microsoft windows" fairly frequently (atleast people I know do) but in our case, what company name do we have to tack onto Linux, attaching GNU to it isn't quite the same. I do believe the GNU project does deserve reccognition. I appriate all they've done for the software world. I don't believe "GNU/Linux" is the correct way to give that reccognition.
futuristic huh? dump the floppy. seriously, does anyone use them for anything but installs anymore?
If they're going for radical designs, how about a clear plastic case...
gosh, why don't they just sell the iMac case? I think it's pretty nifty, it even has a handle built into the top! ooo or that new G3 case, that one is soooo cool.
My highschool chemistry teacher celibrated mole day, it was frightening how excited he got over it after 42 something years of teaching chemistry to kids who couldn't care less.
From what I understand, the problem isn't a home system, or a computer... it's an imbedded system, of some kind, in many spots a USD100 component is far too costly, ie. if the price point for the entire machiene is under $300, typical markup is 50% in situations like this. Another reason it may not work is size problems, this may be a device that is required to be transportable easaily, or needs to fit into a small compartment somewhere. In either situation a UPS is far too expensive or large to be used.
It was first announced on the front page of Dallas Morning News back on Monday
I read that they were going to release GNOME 1.0 on Wednesday through the San Jose Mercury News's Silicon Valley Life section on Sunday. Probably still have the article.
The way I intrepeted what I read is that the NDA disappeared when the chip was released and the code would be released. As long as they aren't distrobuting the binaries for the Merced linux while under the NDA they aren't violating the GPL. Intel has a good reason to do this, VA is going to have complete specs for the merced. Any company in Intel's spot wouldn't want those specs going out un moderated. Once the chip is out, anyone who cares to can reverse engineer it (not saying it's easy, but that it's possible). You should try to understand situations better before you propse legal action upon anyone. A one sentince second or third hand report about something is not a good source when you're considering legal action.
For the screen to work as a lens the thickness of the material would have to change over the curvature. The speaker would not cause that affect. Also, consider the rigidity of glass, any rippling would have to be very minute, more minute than the human eye could detect. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Last I saw (I work with some MSDN members) was beta 3 RC 1. I'm wondering if it's Release Candidate for beta 4 or the real release.
-Ted
I can't remember the last time I used a floppy. Can you?
Yesterday. I'm sorry you don't like floppy disks, but for me they're indispensable, why should I have to spend $99 on a zip drive, and $14 on each disk when all I need to store on them is under 1mb of data? Sure there are situations where I think zip disks or CD-RWs are better, but for me, all I've ever needed is a floppy drive and around 25 floppies (total cost $30)
-Ted
My friend lives up in the mountains, the ground up there isn't very conductive. I know people who have amateur radio setups, I've heard about the grounding requirements.
-Ted
3-4 feet isn't enough in a lot of areas, I have a friend who just put a new ground rod in, and code required something like an 18' rod in his area, he had one heck of a time getting that all the way down.
-Ted
What I believe the author of the previous post ment is that RMS is opposed to the idea of having a file on his computer which others can not read, i.e. the file with his private key in it. Not that RMS is aginst mail encryption, he may well be. I personaly think that freedom and privacy come hand in hand, but then again I don't always agree with RMS.
-Ted
I'm in more or less the same boat jobwise, and I'd just like to say that the Fluke meters, while they're quite good at what they do, aren't the most accurate devices for the job either, my company makes a product that does power monitoring, mainly for power quality and predictave matinence type situations, It's not really in are I'd imagine, it's more used by utilities and LARGE power consumers who either don't trust the utility or want to be able to trouble shoot problems. None of that *.707 to get RMS either, does cycle by cycle RMS calculations by actually Root Mean Squaring things.
Back to the topic, I think the CF experiments are pumping DC into a vat of water, in which case RMS doesn't apply (unless you're in marketing and need another techie term to put in the brochure). If I'm right about that, they shouldn't have much trouble measuring the power accuratly.
-Ted
Note, none of what I've said here, or anywhere, is endorced by my company. Nor am I an expert, just someone who's been around this stuff forever and has some stupid ideas of his own.
My only problem with this is that it's not diffacult to measure change in current flow through a wire in real-time. I do it every day using comercial products. When you wrap a coil of wire around another wire, any change in the current going through the wrapped wire will cause a change in it's magnetic field, causing lines of force to cut through the coil, inducing a voltage in the coil, that voltage isn't hard to measure. I believe these experiments are using DC based upon the explinations I've heard, which means that calculations of the energy in the wire are as straight forward as voltage * current (as someone already pointed out). I'm not an EE, but from my (albiet limited) knowledge on this field, I see no reason they wouldn't be able to measure the energy going in. Think about it, the company that provides your electricty measures how many kWh you use, kWh is a measure of energy. They do it with about $50 worth of equipment, of course a scientific experiment would require more exact (and expensive) equipment, but measuring the energy in a circut is not hard to do. Although there will probably be energy drains that aren't part of the experiment, but if this is producing the amount of energy some people have been saying it does, all they need is a reasonable upper bound. Maybe they need to talk to their electric company... or learn to read bubble meters.
-Ted
As a prefix to all of this, I live in Santa Cruz California, My office is located in Los Gatos California. For those who don't know, about 30 miles, and a small mountain range separate the two.
About January of this year I was poking around the PacBell web site and I came across some information on their DSL plan. They had an aggressive roll out plan (100% coverage by the end of the year) and reasonable prices ($200 install, $50/month), unfortunately at the time I was not within the (still small) coverage area. Then about a month ago, my father, who lives near by, told me he'd been poking around there and had used their automated phone number tester to see if he could get DSL. He was not in a coverage zone (but since then that's changed, and he now has his work order in to get DSL). Out of curiosity he checked on my number. He found that my CO did have DSL hookups. Since it is only about half a block away, I knew I was within the required distance (which, as a side note, is approximately the same as the distance PacBell can supply ISDN in Ca). I called and got a work order in to have a DSL line installed at my home. I was told I would be contacted within 48 hours by a technician who would arrange for my install, I missed the call, but the appointment time they picked out for me was easy enough for me to make. About one week later (at the scheduled time) the technician came by and worked for about a half hour setting up a splitter on my line and wiring a second jack in the room I wanted it in. I plugged in the modem, plugged it into my NIC card (I never own a computer without one, they're just too handy) and set up the TCP/IP settings. It's worked from the first moment I had it set up properly, and aside from one brief service outage I've had no problems with it. I'm nothing but pleased with it, and I am not (as the author implied) the kind of person who orders things and forgets about them. My service was quick.
Our attempts to get DSL installed at work have been completely different. My home service is through PacBell, who is my ISP, DSL provider and Phone provider. They even run a pretty good ISP, I've even made tech support calls into them and been impressed with the responsiveness. My company's office is under GTE's service area. GTE does not provide DSL the way PacBell does. Nor do they supply ISDN like PacBell does, apparently they're convinced that the B channels are supposed to be 56k instead of 64k, I know it's been explained to me why in the past, but I didn't care enough to listen. So far our network admin has had an experience close to the one the author describes. We were sold a product that does not now exist. We've been put onto a wait list and we have no idea when our zone might get lit up. Unlike the author's experience, there is (to the best of my knowledge) only one DSL provider with plans to work into our area, and it's not going anywhere near quickly.
It seems to me that DSL problems all stem from the division between phone company, DSL provider and ISP. The three don't talk to each other unless they happen to be one entity, as in my home experience. Also the quality of service can vary tremendously in short distances.
-Ted
Your definition of the Casimir Effect is ok, but the average energy density both between and outside of the plates is equal to zero, because cirtual particles are created in pairs which cancel out, it's just that there are fewer virtual particles between the plates. Also, the Casimir Effect exists between any two objects regardless of their distance, it only becomes noticable as the distance becomes very small and more wavelengths are excluded. On the page you linked to they give an equation for the Casimir Effect's force, and you'll notice that it produces very small numbers when a (the distance between the plates) is of a reasonable scale.
-Ted
I especaily like this, Rob put that comment in there because last time he posted about 2.3 he got flamed by quite a few people who think that dev kernals shouldn't be on /. that too many newbies who don't know what's up will trash their systems with a dev kernal. So he does the logical thing and tells people not to use the dev kernal in his post, and still he gets flamed for it. I just find this amusing.
-Ted
either I misread this post your you did.
"80 hours every 2 weeks" is not the same as "80 hours a week." if the former is the correct number, I have no problem with that, being required to work over 40 hours a week to recieve overtime makes sence to me, I also think that the 12 hour shift number is reasonable, I know quite a few people who's regular work shift is 12 hours, if their company was required to pay them overtime every time they worked I don't think they would have a job for very long. If indeed the article you were referring to said 80 hours per week, I think that's not only rediculous, but more than likely a violation of federal labor laws.
-Ted
I can see two relitively distinct points in this.
One one side, one could say that to be art something must be intended to be art. When a painter paints a painting, even if it's done under commision, the only goal is to produce art.
On the other side, one could say that to be art something must simply be seen as artistic by a segment of the population. This definiton would include code, because I know when I look at a preticularly elegent piece of code I regard it as being as artistic as anything else I've seen. I'm a segment of the population.
Both definitons have their problems.
Definition one excludes what I'm writing right now, because while someone may view it as artistic, it is in no way intended to be so (There are probably better examples, but it's late and I'm tired)
Definition two is too inclusive. You could argue that there will be people in the world who will find anything artistic, there is probably some lunatic somewhere who would consider a murder art. That lunatic is a segment of society.
We have to draw lines somewhere, the question is where. I honestly don't know, although in my opinion code can be art, but isn't by definition. I also believe that code can be other forms of speach. For example, in the suit which brought this whole editorial about, the code was (in my opinion) as much a form of speach as the lectures the prof. gave to his class. I can see that there are cases in which posting that information on a world wide information service would be government regulatable (under the current laws, which I've yet to decide if I support or not, I'm not well informed enough to make a decision on the topic). So while I think the code was a form of speach, I think the government was right (under the laws still) to restrict his speach. The safety of the state has always been reason enough to regulate speach.
The above are my thoughts at nearly 2am, they might not even resemble the ramblings of a sane man, I hope they make sence to other people.
-Ted
I think it's because the refresh of the monitor makes your eyes want to unfocus, so to read off of a monitor you have to constantly focus your eyes. that or you can learn to read fuzzy letters and give up the fight, I also think that's the reason why monitors cause eye strain.
Besides, do we really want to call it Unrecognized/Linux?
I still fail to see what is wrong with just calling it "Linux". No other Operating Systems (or pieces of software) are named based upon who's contributed to it. The presedent for this isn't very similar, ie. we do call "windows" "microsoft windows" fairly frequently (atleast people I know do) but in our case, what company name do we have to tack onto Linux, attaching GNU to it isn't quite the same. I do believe the GNU project does deserve reccognition. I appriate all they've done for the software world. I don't believe "GNU/Linux" is the correct way to give that reccognition.
futuristic huh? dump the floppy. seriously, does anyone use them for anything but installs anymore?
If they're going for radical designs, how about a clear plastic case...
gosh, why don't they just sell the iMac case? I think it's pretty nifty, it even has a handle built into the top! ooo or that new G3 case, that one is soooo cool.
That happened to me too, I figured I was just too incompatent to use it or something.
My highschool chemistry teacher celibrated mole day, it was frightening how excited he got over it after 42 something years of teaching chemistry to kids who couldn't care less.
The first edition was published years ago, I remember seeing it atleast 2 years back, this review was of the second edition, which is (I assume) new.
From what I understand, the problem isn't a home system, or a computer... it's an imbedded system, of some kind, in many spots a USD100 component is far too costly, ie. if the price point for the entire machiene is under $300, typical markup is 50% in situations like this. Another reason it may not work is size problems, this may be a device that is required to be transportable easaily, or needs to fit into a small compartment somewhere. In either situation a UPS is far too expensive or large to be used.
It was first announced on the front page of Dallas Morning News back on Monday
I read that they were going to release GNOME 1.0 on Wednesday through the San Jose Mercury News's Silicon Valley Life section on Sunday. Probably still have the article.
The way I intrepeted what I read is that the NDA disappeared when the chip was released and the code would be released. As long as they aren't distrobuting the binaries for the Merced linux while under the NDA they aren't violating the GPL. Intel has a good reason to do this, VA is going to have complete specs for the merced. Any company in Intel's spot wouldn't want those specs going out un moderated. Once the chip is out, anyone who cares to can reverse engineer it (not saying it's easy, but that it's possible). You should try to understand situations better before you propse legal action upon anyone. A one sentince second or third hand report about something is not a good source when you're considering legal action.
There is a more technical discussion off of the company's home page:
http://www.nxt.co.uk/
For the screen to work as a lens the thickness of the material would have to change over the curvature. The speaker would not cause that affect. Also, consider the rigidity of glass, any rippling would have to be very minute, more minute than the human eye could detect. Maybe I'm wrong.
St Paul. I attended Hamline University for a full simester before I had to leave, for quite a few reasons.