I'm immediately skeptical because he says no hydrogen is consumed in the process. Is the hydrogen a catalyst only? And if he found a way to produce fusion with no secondary radiation production, this would be all over the news all over the world.
The equation must balance and this just doesn't seem plausible.
Winforms has a nice API, but there are a lot of drawbacks to it. Essentially it is a wrapper for WIN32 GDI and that brings in a lot of limitations. Microsoft made a poor decision in choosing to not reimplement controls in Winforms because they would have very quickly been able to add a lot of flexibility and features that are missing from other frameworks like Qt.
You'll quickly run into huge problems depending on which controls you try to subclass.
Try subclassing a rich text control to add syntax highlighting without using WPF. It can be done, but it is a HUGE pain in the ass. You'll need anger management therapy when you're done.
Winforms, for all its API sanity and OO goodness, is still just a fancy wrapper for WIN32 GDI - including all the gotchas. If they want me to take it seriously, they need to reimplement these "problem controls" either in the standard GDI library or reimplement them in Winforms.
That's a good point here in that Qt isn't just a GUI. It's a complete application framework, including threading, super easy mutexes, thread pool automation, multimedia, scripting, etc.
I called 911 on a drunk driver a couple months ago. He was drifting over the centerline a few feet and would always over-correct.
Certainly it could have been a distracted driver, drunk, tired, high, heart attack, whatever. Doesn't really matter why because he shouldn't have been on the road, no matter what the cause was. I saw in the newspaper later that he did in fact get charged with DWI instead of DUI but no BAC was listed, so it likely was just medication or something. Regardless, head on collisions at 55+ MPH are no joke. There's a reason crash test ratings are done at 40 MPH. Faster and it's anybodies guess what happens.
Investors wanted their money back. If Sun dumped all their copyrighted works onto torrent networks with a GPL license and folded up shop, their stock price would have instantly tanked and investors lost every penny.
Such a leadership decision would have been so negligent with regards to fiduciary responsibility that the board likely would have faced personal criminal liability. Not to mention, anyone working at Sun who actually wanted to stay at the company would have lost their jobs.
It's easy to see the repercussions of the Sun sale affecting us all for years to come, but I don't think there was any other choice. Oracle was the last company I wanted to see get Sun's assets; but it is what is is.
Oracle isn't going anywhere. This lawsuit isn't going to be anything at all like SCO/IBM or SCO/Novell because Oracle is many times larger than SCO is and is at least 2 orders of magnitude more relevant.
Java is everywhere. Schools teach it. Companies use it.
If Google really copied things from the Java source like actual source code or documentation, they might be screwed. It sounds like from the summary that the bulk of this 'copying' was the API, which I don't think is even eligible for copyright(not artistic).
I bought a new monitor for better contrast and energy savings. I think the viewsonic used like 300 watts or something and weighed 70 pounds. It got so warm my cat would sleep on it in the winter.
I miss the high resolution, but the LCD has excellent contrast and is very compact in comparison.
HD isn't "High Definition", it's "Higher Definition". That is to say that it is higher definition than the really abysmal NTSC specification called out.
On another note, I just got rid of my old 21" Viewsonic CRT. I think it was close to 18 years old and still had higher resolution than my new widescreen LCD monitor.
The kernel and libc are the hardest parts. They could write a purpose-built set of userland tools and applications on top of the existing kernel and use glibc.
I'd say by and large, security vulnerabilities in "linux" really occur in userland server processes. Linux has had its share of local privilege escalations but remote non-DOS type exploits haven't been nearly as common.
With the weight of a billion strong country, I'm sure they could work something out.
Or they could just start with Linux and the GNU tools and make their own variant. The code is all theirs. The GPL only requires source code be provided when the software is transferred. Merely providing the software for use doesn't entitle each person sitting behind the keyboard to a copy of the source. If it's all under control of the DRDO at all times, they are not required to provide the source code to anyone.
Also, the GPL is only effective due to strong copyright laws. If they wanted to add a copyright waiver to their laws for national security reasons(which may or may not already be there), that would work too.
All I'm saying is if they wanted to use Linux, they could. And they don't need to share the source with anyone.
I actually bought it because it was down to $30 and was really surprised by how much they wanted for the extra maps. If it was $5 or $10 for all the maps, that would have been ok. But to pay $30 at the store, and another $25 when I get home is just ridiculous.
I'd feel even more robbed if I bought it for $60 and still had to pay more when I get home.
To be fair, I think DLC can be a good way to help raise revenue on used game sales. The DLC gets tied to the account that downloaded it, so even if I sell it used, the original publisher might get some money from the next "licensee". Not saying its right, but I think I know why publishers like DLC.
As the summary points out more nicely, the article is half-assed at best.
Downloadable content can be very expensive. For example, Call Of Duty: World At War was something like $55 new, but immediately after buying it you had to spend another $25 on DLC if you wanted to play multiplayer without having to queue over and over.
Although I just got my PS3 yesterday, I suspect many games are like this now. This leads me to believe that we are, in fact, paying much more than we did in the past for video games.
Lead is bad. It's toxic even as a pure element. Have you read anything about groundwater contamination from firing ranges?
Lead can be dangerous, even without alloying or being bound in a fat or water soluble molecule. You're right about choking hazards, but unless we outlaw all small paperclips, there isn't much way of avoiding that.
Why do people resist safety even when it costs so little? If these companies decided to voluntarily test their products, you would likely applaud them for being proactive.
All I garnered from your long story was that you had a good time. The bar of lead? I did that too. Yeah it wasn't too smart, but I didn't know any better. Had I known then what I know now about lead, I would have at least washed my hands.
Lead exposure can have a significant and deleterious long term neurological impact on children. This of course depends quite a lot on the exposure method. Holding a lead bar in your hands is quite a bit different than licking a bar of lead.
And for your information, I don't advocate the prohibition of drugs. I'm a long time supporter of legalization because the most dangerous aspects of drugs are due to prohibition, not the drugs themselves. If it were legal, we could regulate it and provide users safe places to buy their drugs. Drug laws are racist too.
I think kids need to experience the world and have fun, but it's important that we do what we can to make it safe too.
I'll never forget my first attempt at electrolysis. I blew a breaker and ended up figuring out how to fill a trash bag with hydrogen.
In which case they can simply use the certificate of conformity from the original manufacturer. The original manufacturer keeps the COC's and metallurgical sample testing results on file from the original heat lot. Safety doesn't have to cost much. All of this could be done at very little cost to anyone, but the companies resist because they would rather not have to reject anything which could cost them money.
Chemistry kits have been using extremely low concentrations of chemicals for many many years. It's got nothing to do with the CPSC and more to do with product liability, and surprise surprise, cost.
If you want your kids to have USEFUL chemistry sets, by the chemicals, beakers, burners, etc. yourselves. Don't go buying a $49.99 chemistry set off the internet and get pissed when it doesn't have a huge vial of potassium chlorate for your kids to play with(an exciting but dangerous chemical).
You just made that up. That's not a rule, maybe it's YOUR rule.
If you legislate it, there is a guaranteed level playing field because all companies are required to meet the same standard. Most product safety certifications in the US are voluntary, but companies do it anyway because people want safer products and retailers demand that manufacturers do 3rd party safety testing. The market pays for it because the market finds value in that.
The same is true here. Schools, or students could bear a very slightly higher cost for safer kits because that safety has value. If sales go down because less kits are sold overall, then that is the cost of safety. I'd rather some anonymous ruler manufacturer in China suffer a marginal loss of sales than a bunch of school kids get lead poisoning; don't you?
As an aside, my sig was written with respect to personal freedoms and politicians who think they can legislate morality. I think it's very unamerican for any law to restrict what people do when there is no harm done. For instance, gay marriage harms no one but offends the religious(who've successfully destroyed the sanctity of marriage themselves), prohibition of liquor sales on sundays, laws against certain sexual acts(which are still on the books in some places), etc.
From a purely religious viewpoint, it's illogical. Religious fundamentalists seem certain that bad people are going to hell. And yet they deem fit to render their own judgment on people, as if when Jesus said it is gods right alone to judge people that he meant "except for these other people". Do they have so little faith in gods ability to judge that they feel they must step in to be the executioner themselves? Fuckin religious people. Can't even follow their own manual.
Anyway, if your head didn't fully asplode, that's where my sig came from.
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No it isn't. Class D power supplies are like 70-95% efficient.
I guess if you want a wave form other than square or sine wave it gets expensive - but what else would you really need in a car?
I'm immediately skeptical because he says no hydrogen is consumed in the process. Is the hydrogen a catalyst only? And if he found a way to produce fusion with no secondary radiation production, this would be all over the news all over the world.
The equation must balance and this just doesn't seem plausible.
I liked the concept of SGU but they fucked it all up on execution. Good actors acting out bad scripts with a plot going nowhere.
Now that I think about it... it is a lot like Battlestar Galactica but without the awesomeness.
It sounds like you don't know any better lol.
Winforms has a nice API, but there are a lot of drawbacks to it. Essentially it is a wrapper for WIN32 GDI and that brings in a lot of limitations. Microsoft made a poor decision in choosing to not reimplement controls in Winforms because they would have very quickly been able to add a lot of flexibility and features that are missing from other frameworks like Qt.
You'll quickly run into huge problems depending on which controls you try to subclass.
Try subclassing a rich text control to add syntax highlighting without using WPF. It can be done, but it is a HUGE pain in the ass. You'll need anger management therapy when you're done.
Winforms, for all its API sanity and OO goodness, is still just a fancy wrapper for WIN32 GDI - including all the gotchas. If they want me to take it seriously, they need to reimplement these "problem controls" either in the standard GDI library or reimplement them in Winforms.
That's a good point here in that Qt isn't just a GUI. It's a complete application framework, including threading, super easy mutexes, thread pool automation, multimedia, scripting, etc.
The GUI is only a small part of the Qt library.
I've been using Qt for a few years. The API is really nice, with just a couple of bad exceptions.
It's buggy though and bugs don't always get fixed quickly.
I have had problems with Mono. It's not production ready yet IMO.
I called 911 on a drunk driver a couple months ago. He was drifting over the centerline a few feet and would always over-correct.
Certainly it could have been a distracted driver, drunk, tired, high, heart attack, whatever. Doesn't really matter why because he shouldn't have been on the road, no matter what the cause was. I saw in the newspaper later that he did in fact get charged with DWI instead of DUI but no BAC was listed, so it likely was just medication or something. Regardless, head on collisions at 55+ MPH are no joke. There's a reason crash test ratings are done at 40 MPH. Faster and it's anybodies guess what happens.
He's also a doctor(but not an MD).
Linguistics funnies aside, he is absolutely the best guy for the job. Which is why I'm so shocked he got the job.
Investors wanted their money back. If Sun dumped all their copyrighted works onto torrent networks with a GPL license and folded up shop, their stock price would have instantly tanked and investors lost every penny.
Such a leadership decision would have been so negligent with regards to fiduciary responsibility that the board likely would have faced personal criminal liability. Not to mention, anyone working at Sun who actually wanted to stay at the company would have lost their jobs.
It's easy to see the repercussions of the Sun sale affecting us all for years to come, but I don't think there was any other choice. Oracle was the last company I wanted to see get Sun's assets; but it is what is is.
Oracle isn't going anywhere. This lawsuit isn't going to be anything at all like SCO/IBM or SCO/Novell because Oracle is many times larger than SCO is and is at least 2 orders of magnitude more relevant.
Java is everywhere. Schools teach it. Companies use it.
If Google really copied things from the Java source like actual source code or documentation, they might be screwed. It sounds like from the summary that the bulk of this 'copying' was the API, which I don't think is even eligible for copyright(not artistic).
I bought a new monitor for better contrast and energy savings. I think the viewsonic used like 300 watts or something and weighed 70 pounds. It got so warm my cat would sleep on it in the winter.
I miss the high resolution, but the LCD has excellent contrast and is very compact in comparison.
You've got it all wrong.
HD isn't "High Definition", it's "Higher Definition". That is to say that it is higher definition than the really abysmal NTSC specification called out.
On another note, I just got rid of my old 21" Viewsonic CRT. I think it was close to 18 years old and still had higher resolution than my new widescreen LCD monitor.
Hah! Worlds largest etch a sketch. Draw on the FBI's maps today!
Hell yes. I wouldn't give it back either.
I would disassemble it and post it on youtube. Or try to hack it and see if I can come up with a neat use for it.
Why give it back? If they put it on your car, do they still own it? I'd like to think not.
I once stole cable from a neighbor.
1500 homes? That's pretty ambitious. This guy must have nuts of steel, or a rock for a brain.
The kernel and libc are the hardest parts. They could write a purpose-built set of userland tools and applications on top of the existing kernel and use glibc.
I'd say by and large, security vulnerabilities in "linux" really occur in userland server processes. Linux has had its share of local privilege escalations but remote non-DOS type exploits haven't been nearly as common.
With the weight of a billion strong country, I'm sure they could work something out.
They can have it. They could use BSD as a base.
Or they could just start with Linux and the GNU tools and make their own variant. The code is all theirs. The GPL only requires source code be provided when the software is transferred. Merely providing the software for use doesn't entitle each person sitting behind the keyboard to a copy of the source. If it's all under control of the DRDO at all times, they are not required to provide the source code to anyone.
Also, the GPL is only effective due to strong copyright laws. If they wanted to add a copyright waiver to their laws for national security reasons(which may or may not already be there), that would work too.
All I'm saying is if they wanted to use Linux, they could. And they don't need to share the source with anyone.
I actually bought it because it was down to $30 and was really surprised by how much they wanted for the extra maps. If it was $5 or $10 for all the maps, that would have been ok. But to pay $30 at the store, and another $25 when I get home is just ridiculous.
I'd feel even more robbed if I bought it for $60 and still had to pay more when I get home.
To be fair, I think DLC can be a good way to help raise revenue on used game sales. The DLC gets tied to the account that downloaded it, so even if I sell it used, the original publisher might get some money from the next "licensee". Not saying its right, but I think I know why publishers like DLC.
As the summary points out more nicely, the article is half-assed at best.
Downloadable content can be very expensive. For example, Call Of Duty: World At War was something like $55 new, but immediately after buying it you had to spend another $25 on DLC if you wanted to play multiplayer without having to queue over and over.
Although I just got my PS3 yesterday, I suspect many games are like this now. This leads me to believe that we are, in fact, paying much more than we did in the past for video games.
Lead is bad. It's toxic even as a pure element. Have you read anything about groundwater contamination from firing ranges?
Lead can be dangerous, even without alloying or being bound in a fat or water soluble molecule. You're right about choking hazards, but unless we outlaw all small paperclips, there isn't much way of avoiding that.
Why do people resist safety even when it costs so little? If these companies decided to voluntarily test their products, you would likely applaud them for being proactive.
All I garnered from your long story was that you had a good time. The bar of lead? I did that too. Yeah it wasn't too smart, but I didn't know any better. Had I known then what I know now about lead, I would have at least washed my hands.
Lead exposure can have a significant and deleterious long term neurological impact on children. This of course depends quite a lot on the exposure method. Holding a lead bar in your hands is quite a bit different than licking a bar of lead.
And for your information, I don't advocate the prohibition of drugs. I'm a long time supporter of legalization because the most dangerous aspects of drugs are due to prohibition, not the drugs themselves. If it were legal, we could regulate it and provide users safe places to buy their drugs. Drug laws are racist too.
I think kids need to experience the world and have fun, but it's important that we do what we can to make it safe too.
I'll never forget my first attempt at electrolysis. I blew a breaker and ended up figuring out how to fill a trash bag with hydrogen.
In which case they can simply use the certificate of conformity from the original manufacturer. The original manufacturer keeps the COC's and metallurgical sample testing results on file from the original heat lot. Safety doesn't have to cost much. All of this could be done at very little cost to anyone, but the companies resist because they would rather not have to reject anything which could cost them money.
Chemistry kits have been using extremely low concentrations of chemicals for many many years. It's got nothing to do with the CPSC and more to do with product liability, and surprise surprise, cost.
If you want your kids to have USEFUL chemistry sets, by the chemicals, beakers, burners, etc. yourselves. Don't go buying a $49.99 chemistry set off the internet and get pissed when it doesn't have a huge vial of potassium chlorate for your kids to play with(an exciting but dangerous chemical).
You just made that up. That's not a rule, maybe it's YOUR rule.
If you legislate it, there is a guaranteed level playing field because all companies are required to meet the same standard. Most product safety certifications in the US are voluntary, but companies do it anyway because people want safer products and retailers demand that manufacturers do 3rd party safety testing. The market pays for it because the market finds value in that.
The same is true here. Schools, or students could bear a very slightly higher cost for safer kits because that safety has value. If sales go down because less kits are sold overall, then that is the cost of safety. I'd rather some anonymous ruler manufacturer in China suffer a marginal loss of sales than a bunch of school kids get lead poisoning; don't you?
As an aside, my sig was written with respect to personal freedoms and politicians who think they can legislate morality. I think it's very unamerican for any law to restrict what people do when there is no harm done. For instance, gay marriage harms no one but offends the religious(who've successfully destroyed the sanctity of marriage themselves), prohibition of liquor sales on sundays, laws against certain sexual acts(which are still on the books in some places), etc.
From a purely religious viewpoint, it's illogical. Religious fundamentalists seem certain that bad people are going to hell. And yet they deem fit to render their own judgment on people, as if when Jesus said it is gods right alone to judge people that he meant "except for these other people". Do they have so little faith in gods ability to judge that they feel they must step in to be the executioner themselves? Fuckin religious people. Can't even follow their own manual.
Anyway, if your head didn't fully asplode, that's where my sig came from.