>Supporting free software doesn't mean that >you need to support the harassment of those >that use commercial software
This is correct, but one of the most popular arguments between free/not free software is the Total Cost of Ownership. How much do you spend buying, maintaining, upgrading, re-installing, tech-supporting, bug fixing, etc. Now add to that list the cost of hassles by the BSA.
Also, when one is caught breaking the law as his competitor was, one does not get to consider handcuffs as "harrassment". It is just like operating in any market(above board, grey, or free/black), part of the cost of doing business. IN this case, the cost was too high.
>In many cases, they may have no choice but to >use commercial software.
Indeed, and they should be well informed of the actual costs of that software and certainly should expect to pay in full rather than cheat.
1 large weight for the base
piezeoelectric device
1 foot by 1 foot flapper of suitable material
LED
some silicone goop
case of some sort
Build the flapper with one corner attached to a short arm and the arm to the piezo device. Wire PD to the LED. Fit circuitry, everything except flapper and half of the arm into the case. Anchor non-flapper-arm side of PD to case. Fill with goop. Take a dive and anchor the device on the bottom with the flapper aligned to wave surge and you're done.
LED will pulse when wave surge pushes flapper. 2 LEDs will allow for pulses both in and out.
Hope, Prosper, Frost, Italy, Paris, Gunbarrel, etc.
I think that you've got it, they're dead.
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Abusing the GPL?
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The fact that they mod the code AFTER their own hacks are finished with it indicates in a rather matter of fact manner that the released code is not the "preferred form", nor is it easily reconstructible as in 'tar -xzf foo.tgz'.
In order to get away with this, they'd have to demonstrate that the released code is what their own grunts have actually been using while making their mods, at least. If not, it is obviously not the "preferred form".
That is what it is all about. Physics is really "applied math". Amazing how the math can actually model the universe. There's some really subtle stuff floating around, things like e, pi, etc. how they relate to each other and reality is sometimes awe inspiring.
While I've never been emnployed as a physicist or "scientist", I have worked in the field of semiconductor design which, if you include the physics and chemistry, is once again mostly "applied math".
IIRC this was proposed to explain 2 things. One was the discovery of "wandering", lone yet apparently young(aged by spin) NSs that are found without a surrounding nebulous SN remnant. The asymmetry of the primary(NS producing) or the secondary(after eating a neighbor) explosion would have propelled the NS away from the site of the explosion.
The other thing to be explained was the discovery of SN remnants that have no detectable NS at or near the center.
Obviously, both could be covered by the propelled version, but no one knows, AFAIK. Perhaps it was proposed simply as an attempt to cover all bases. If the NS is not there, it must have moved or been destroyed. OTOH, if the NS is here, and there is no nebulous remnant nearby, and there is no idea of how to destroy the remnant, then the NS must have moved.
If there has been more data gathered, better theories produced or simply better analysis of existing data and theory that has ruled out one of these options, that's fine by me. It has been a while since I studied or paid attention to this stuff.
Both say that the material will pile up on the surface until it reaches fusion temperatures and then start to burn.
One says that the burn will be fast and explosive, blowing all the rest of the new, degenerate and normal matter off of the surface. An extension of this idea suggests that the explosion, since it is very unlikely to be symmetrical and simultaneous all over the surface of the neutron star, will disrupt and break up the neutron star itself. We are talking about a big, nova or supernova class explosion here.
The other says that the fusion burn will be slow, intermittent or periodic, something more like a continuous series of neutron star sized burps and blow stuff off here and there and simply heat things up. The heat and radiation from the explosions slows the infall of matter, a form of negative feedback, so that the process is self throttling. Somewhere along the way, it might accumulate enough to collapse, otherwise the process just continues until the donor star "runs out of gas" and then everything calms down.
There are nuances to both depending on the rate of deposition, spin, size of the original neutron star, etc.
Mostly there's just not enough data to tell, perhaps both happen depending on the situation.
I still have an old 100MB IDE drive that houses a 20MB swap partition and an 80MB bootable ext2. It was originally built to be just an X server AKA graphics terminal so that I could still surf/work while my kid was hogging the better box for her own entertainment. The base distro was Slackware. There are no compilers, no source, no dev-libs, no mozilla, no jvm/rte, no emacs, etc. Worked like a charm.
It ran on a 386sx40 with 16MB of RAM(4 30 pin SIMMs remember those?). I still have all of the parts except for the case and power supply. Perhaps I'll put it back together, load a web server and/or telnet along with a published user/password and put it out there for all to see.;-) Hmm, perhaps I should just publish the disk image?
Including functional front panels, paper tape and thoughts like "Wow, that 1200bps cassette tape is fast!"
Used to do punch cards in PL/1 at school at least until I discovered the lab with vt-100s in it, and made friends with an operator who showed me how to make the machine punch the cards based on the source file that I had entered at the terminal.;-) Hello David, are you still out there?
Disk drive manufacturers are catching on. Noise emission means wasted energy, greater power consumption and heat. A while back, the only drives I'd buy were Fujitsu and IBM just because they were quiet and stayed cool.
Check out "flash crowds", "flash riots", transport booths, etc. They are a "real world" version of "slashdotting". Or, I guess you could say that since these stories were written before/. that slashdotting is a virtual version of a flash crowd. It is the first that I ever heard of, that is where large numbers of people decide to "go somewhere" in a short period of time because of something that they had seen somewhere else.
>Everything that sustains human life on this
>planet is in those first three feet.
Sorry, but this is simply incorrect.
Fish come from near the surface, all the way to the bottom of the sea. We only harvest from the upper "few hundred feet" of the sea.
Oil and coal come from thousands of feet below the surface and believe it or not, energy sources are very important to our survival.
In the context of the thread, even if the top 3 feet of the Earth were removed, along with the resident ecologies, this planet would still be far more habitable to humans than any other in the solar system.
The principle is so simple that it is amazing that it is so often misunderstood.
Your freedom of speech does not obligate anyone else to listen.
Your freedom of speech does not obligate anyone else to finance the distribution of your speech.
You are free to write all the emails you want, just don't expect me to spend my time and money receiving/storing/reading/deleting them.
If the guy wants to sell penis pills so bad, then let him buy a web site, a web writer, e-commerce software and some banner ads to advertise it.
He certainly cannot expect me to give him storage space and bandwidth any more than you can expect the local radio station or newspaper to give you space or airtime.
Slashdot Mirror
that's all.
>Supporting free software doesn't mean that
>you need to support the harassment of those
>that use commercial software
This is correct, but one of the most popular arguments between free/not free software is the Total Cost of Ownership. How much do you spend buying, maintaining, upgrading, re-installing, tech-supporting, bug fixing, etc. Now add to that list the cost of hassles by the BSA.
Also, when one is caught breaking the law as his competitor was, one does not get to consider handcuffs as "harrassment". It is just like operating in any market(above board, grey, or free/black), part of the cost of doing business. IN this case, the cost was too high.
>In many cases, they may have no choice but to
>use commercial software.
Indeed, and they should be well informed of the actual costs of that software and certainly should expect to pay in full rather than cheat.
An even cheaper option is to take the old audio box that is sitting in the closet at the moment, and rip it up. ;-)
"I hope for the sake of my life they won't
extract nanotubes from beer."
Is that sah-kee in your beer, or just rice wine?
If nanotubes are a no-go, how about buckyballs in your beer?
Requires:
1 large weight for the base
piezeoelectric device
1 foot by 1 foot flapper of suitable material
LED
some silicone goop
case of some sort
Build the flapper with one corner attached to a short arm and the arm to the piezo device. Wire PD to the LED. Fit circuitry, everything except flapper and half of the arm into the case. Anchor non-flapper-arm side of PD to case. Fill with goop. Take a dive and anchor the device on the bottom with the flapper aligned to wave surge and you're done.
LED will pulse when wave surge pushes flapper. 2 LEDs will allow for pulses both in and out.
I just wanted to see if this got modded up.
That was great!
Still works.
Hope, Prosper, Frost, Italy, Paris, Gunbarrel, etc.
The fact that they mod the code AFTER their own hacks are finished with it indicates in a rather matter of fact manner that the released code is not the "preferred form", nor is it easily reconstructible as in 'tar -xzf foo.tgz'.
In order to get away with this, they'd have to demonstrate that the released code is what their own grunts have actually been using while making their mods, at least. If not, it is obviously not the "preferred form".
That is what it is all about. Physics is really "applied math". Amazing how the math can actually model the universe. There's some really subtle stuff floating around, things like e, pi, etc. how they relate to each other and reality is sometimes awe inspiring.
While I've never been emnployed as a physicist or "scientist", I have worked in the field of semiconductor design which, if you include the physics and chemistry, is once again mostly "applied math".
Obviously.
IIRC this was proposed to explain 2 things. One was the discovery of "wandering", lone yet apparently young(aged by spin) NSs that are found without a surrounding nebulous SN remnant. The asymmetry of the primary(NS producing) or the secondary(after eating a neighbor) explosion would have propelled the NS away from the site of the explosion.
The other thing to be explained was the discovery of SN remnants that have no detectable NS at or near the center.
Obviously, both could be covered by the propelled version, but no one knows, AFAIK. Perhaps it was proposed simply as an attempt to cover all bases. If the NS is not there, it must have moved or been destroyed. OTOH, if the NS is here, and there is no nebulous remnant nearby, and there is no idea of how to destroy the remnant, then the NS must have moved.
If there has been more data gathered, better theories produced or simply better analysis of existing data and theory that has ruled out one of these options, that's fine by me. It has been a while since I studied or paid attention to this stuff.
I'm not really up-to-date, but...
Both say that the material will pile up on the surface until it reaches fusion temperatures and then start to burn.
One says that the burn will be fast and explosive, blowing all the rest of the new, degenerate and normal matter off of the surface. An extension of this idea suggests that the explosion, since it is very unlikely to be symmetrical and simultaneous all over the surface of the neutron star, will disrupt and break up the neutron star itself. We are talking about a big, nova or supernova class explosion here.
The other says that the fusion burn will be slow, intermittent or periodic, something more like a continuous series of neutron star sized burps and blow stuff off here and there and simply heat things up. The heat and radiation from the explosions slows the infall of matter, a form of negative feedback, so that the process is self throttling. Somewhere along the way, it might accumulate enough to collapse, otherwise the process just continues until the donor star "runs out of gas" and then everything calms down.
There are nuances to both depending on the rate of deposition, spin, size of the original neutron star, etc.
Mostly there's just not enough data to tell, perhaps both happen depending on the situation.
I still have an old 100MB IDE drive that houses a 20MB swap partition and an 80MB bootable ext2. It was originally built to be just an X server AKA graphics terminal so that I could still surf/work while my kid was hogging the better box for her own entertainment. The base distro was Slackware. There are no compilers, no source, no dev-libs, no mozilla, no jvm/rte, no emacs, etc. Worked like a charm.
;-) Hmm, perhaps I should just publish the disk image?
It ran on a 386sx40 with 16MB of RAM(4 30 pin SIMMs remember those?). I still have all of the parts except for the case and power supply. Perhaps I'll put it back together, load a web server and/or telnet along with a published user/password and put it out there for all to see.
It fits.
Including functional front panels, paper tape and thoughts like "Wow, that 1200bps cassette tape is fast!"
;-) Hello David, are you still out there?
Used to do punch cards in PL/1 at school at least until I discovered the lab with vt-100s in it, and made friends with an operator who showed me how to make the machine punch the cards based on the source file that I had entered at the terminal.
Disk drive manufacturers are catching on. Noise emission means wasted energy, greater power consumption and heat. A while back, the only drives I'd buy were Fujitsu and IBM just because they were quiet and stayed cool.
Do the math $734 x 200,000,000 does not equal the NASA budget. Nor does the NASA budget even come close to the military or farm subsidies.
As far as getting the same results with radio telescopes, well I guess you should take some science courses, and perhaps an elective in photography.
Check out "flash crowds", "flash riots", transport booths, etc. They are a "real world" version of "slashdotting". Or, I guess you could say that since these stories were written before /. that slashdotting is a virtual version of a flash crowd. It is the first that I ever heard of, that is where large numbers of people decide to "go somewhere" in a short period of time because of something that they had seen somewhere else.
Stir up a bit of unrest and tension *within* the class to give them a touch of reality.
I did. I tried to get one of their dev kits last summer(June). Two months later(September) and with no delivery in sight, I cancelled.
>Everything that sustains human life on this
>planet is in those first three feet.
Sorry, but this is simply incorrect.
Fish come from near the surface, all the way to the bottom of the sea. We only harvest from the upper "few hundred feet" of the sea.
Oil and coal come from thousands of feet below the surface and believe it or not, energy sources are very important to our survival.
In the context of the thread, even if the top 3 feet of the Earth were removed, along with the resident ecologies, this planet would still be far more habitable to humans than any other in the solar system.
The principle is so simple that it is amazing that it is so often misunderstood.
Your freedom of speech does not obligate anyone else to listen.
Your freedom of speech does not obligate anyone else to finance the distribution of your speech.
You are free to write all the emails you want, just don't expect me to spend my time and money receiving/storing/reading/deleting them.
If the guy wants to sell penis pills so bad, then let him buy a web site, a web writer, e-commerce software and some banner ads to advertise it.
He certainly cannot expect me to give him storage space and bandwidth any more than you can expect the local radio station or newspaper to give you space or airtime.
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