This is different than driving a ten minutes to work. It was an extremely dangerous deal and the "contingency" is an airstrip that isn't open to the general public?
Then there's the expectation that because one person risked their life for a stupid sport, that other people must risk their lives and risk running dangerously low of their own reserves to haul their asses back out?
AMETEURS SHOULD NOT BE FLYING OVER ANTARTICA FOR THEIR OWN AMUSEMENT.
I imagine that even if you are settled up on your taxes, the tax collecting agency could drop your tax ID in the audit pool and try to nitpick through the last seven year's returns or whatever the statute of limitations is for NZ.
On Windows systems, at 60$ a year, I think it would generally be worth upgrading, unless it is a server that is doing perfectly fine as those licences are very expensive.
Really, it didn't even need to be so advanced as to include a GPS (I think the project did though), I think just gyro reading for heading and an altimeter would have been simple enough if you are trying to havoc a metropolis with a few dozen of them. Even if half of them fail, half of them worked and the people launching the buggers would have been long gone.
Given that nuclear activists have effectively ended the prospect of building nuclear power plants, I highly doubt that a nuclear heated rocket engine would be allowed to fly, regardless of how safe it is.
Hollywood has been remaking movies for a long time. Even Hitchcock remade his movies, but at least he was the one that did those, not some by-the-numbers director that never met him or anyone on the crew.
I suppose I can't think of any game remakes, most games seem to have an even shorter lifetime than movies, so people forget about the old ones quicker to the point that the name often doesn't matter any more. Nintendo has been rereleasing a lot of its N8 and N16 games to GBA now.
It would depend on how things are interpreted. I think there would still be copyrights to deal with as well. There aren't a whole lot of countries that haven't signed the Berne Convention, but then, there are a lot of companies that make knock-off parts in the USA, Japan and elsewhere, so I don't know how that is handled, and if such a concept can scale up to a full car.
And for every two kids that asks for an iPod, there will be at least one that complains because their parents bought an MP3 player, much like in decades past when kids asked for a cassette player when the got an 8-track.:)
I too think it is questionable but there probably is some slippery way around that. "on sale" meaning "for sale / available for purchase" or whatever. Most people use "on sale" to mean at a lower price but there appear to be three different meanings to that praise.
You are right on the chances of problems being nil, but I wonder why they would have to take such precautions to protect airplanes and birds if the beam really was 40W spread around a basketball hoop sized cross section? Daylight is more powerful than this.
First you have to define software engineering. To my knowledge, most states and countries don't even accredit or regulate it unlike civil, mechanical or electrical engineering. I don't think there are many accredited software engineering degrees either.
The issue is more complex than you and a lot of other people make it out to be.
First of all, SSC didn't start Linux Gazette. The first LG issue was released July 1995, run entirely by volunteers. It was in issue 8 where LG was given the support of SSC, by hosting and editing support. I really can't tell if SSC was given the right to do with LJ or the name as they please or not.
Some people said that ALL of the orininal LG volunteers have left the SCC pub, after some others were forced out and there are claims of re-editing of old articles without the original author's permissions.
Compare this to CPU design, however - Microsoft doesn't dictate to Intel what extensions to add onto x86. Or do they? (puts on tinfoil hat)
CPUs are fairly general-purpose. Graphics chips are anything but. As far as instruction sets go, there are so many instructions available to make a task efficient that it looks like the best they can do is just make the registers wider with new "enhanced" instructions to process more data bits per instruction.
For the first year it was a completely independent web periodical. That changed in 1996.
I don't like SCC's dirty tactics but the Welcome section in issue 8 may be why they think they own the name:
"News Flash!
Linux Gazette coming under New Management! Yup, it's true! As of the next LG issue the Linux Gazette will officially come under the auspices of the Linux Journal . The 'ol Linux Gazette has grown over the past year -- this is actually its First Birthday this month -- and it is probably fitting that after a year it's ready to come under the watch care of the folks at Linux Journal. Phil Hughes has very graciously offered to take over the day-to-day management of the Linux Gazette while continuing its tradition as a free and freely available WWW publication.
For details of the transition, please head on down to the "Welcome" section below and read all about it.:-) "
http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue01to08/lg_issue8.htm l
Scroll down to the Welcome section. I can easily see how SCC can think they own LG.
I would personally like to see an itemized list of the accusations against SCC, people claim editing and altering past articles, and gradually forcing out the original staff. I'd like to see what known changes are and the chronology of when non-SCC volunteers were forced out, if that happened. If the emails used in forging a deal between LG and SCC are still available, I'd like to read them.
You are right though, people are such goons with automobiles. I can only imagine that they'd just kill themselves within 30 days for not doing proper pre-flight checks and not paying attention
These projects AREN'T going to happen, I doubt anyone would be able to actually be able to legally use one in any developed country. IMO, Moeller is at best a fraudster, I think he has been just blowing hot air about his aircraft projects for longer than most slashdotters have been alive.
The FAA is basically on to him, he can't demonstrate the stability of the Skycar so it cannot be operated without a tether. If you want an airplane, just get an airplane, if you want a car, get one, if you want both, just rent a car at the airport wherever you land.
I think all you need is chicken wire mesh. I've read someone mention that it was used in old houses to hold up and reinforce plaster, I think it might help to ground it too. This made it impossible to get a wireless signal into the next room.
The problem is that intentional passive jamming might be something up to the courts.
If you wait for what's next, and it comes around, then you'll hear people saying to wait for what's next. There will always be newer and better but if one just waits then you'll also be putting off using the thing.
The '+' format seems to do well enough although I've preferred to keep the dash format available too because it is in the "real" DVD standard. The '+' format is kind of a bastard offshoot and only served to pad Sony & HP's profits at the expense of market confusion.
I don't know much about the issue but I don't understand why he has to cater to Canadians on this issue because Canada is well outside his jurisdiction. I don't see the point in thinking every state or province should do its own diplomacy, not even the largest ones.
BTW: RIAA isn't about movies. Perhaps you are thinking MPAA?
I think it suffers for not being available retail box at a $30-$80 price, depending on version. They used to include some nifty commercial apps not available in the downloads. I suppose it is no matter, I think SuSE 9 is better for that market anyway.
IBM has _one_ Opteron system, despite Opteron being available for over a year. I checked yesterday. I was highly disappointed, as it was only a 1U server, not a workstation.
Also, the Opteron 8xx chips are the only ones that can go more than 2P. In that pricing announcement, an 8x8 was priced at $3k per chip, up by a factor of 5x over the same speed 2x8 chip. Sorry, I don't remember what the middle digit was, it might be a '4'. Anyhow, at that much per chip, that is clearly in line with Itanium2 pricing, and I2 is at least a little faster at a lot of tasks than Opteron.
I can't imagine Mac OSX, Linux, etc. not being able to format them. Even if they managed to ban those free programs in countries where the patents that are held, they'll just be hosted in countries without the patents.
That still brings up the chance that MS will try to ban linking to "infringing" sites as infringement but they'll have to play whack-a-mole like everyone else.
Or I can just keep one legacy licenced Windows machine and format it when I need to. Either way, I can see this as being another pressure point to make it worth jumping to a different file format. Maybe ISO and UDF? I don't know if those are fixed sizes or what encumberments they might have.
I think it could be employee laziness. The products are so desirable and expensive that they have to be locked up.
I really don't know what the markups are, so I can't compare.
Last I checked, CompUSA had all their MP3 models out the boxes for display, attached to antitheft tethers. Of course, maybe CompUSA gets better margins for being on better terms with Apple, I think Best Buy was an official outlet for Apple computers twice and lost it twice.
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This is different than driving a ten minutes to work. It was an extremely dangerous deal and the "contingency" is an airstrip that isn't open to the general public?
Then there's the expectation that because one person risked their life for a stupid sport, that other people must risk their lives and risk running dangerously low of their own reserves to haul their asses back out?
AMETEURS SHOULD NOT BE FLYING OVER ANTARTICA FOR THEIR OWN AMUSEMENT.
Exactly how old are the HPs? That page says all the expansion are in the form if EISA slots rather than PCI or some HP proprietary bus slots.
I imagine that even if you are settled up on your taxes, the tax collecting agency could drop your tax ID in the audit pool and try to nitpick through the last seven year's returns or whatever the statute of limitations is for NZ.
On Windows systems, at 60$ a year, I think it would generally be worth upgrading, unless it is a server that is doing perfectly fine as those licences are very expensive.
Really, it didn't even need to be so advanced as to include a GPS (I think the project did though), I think just gyro reading for heading and an altimeter would have been simple enough if you are trying to havoc a metropolis with a few dozen of them. Even if half of them fail, half of them worked and the people launching the buggers would have been long gone.
Given that nuclear activists have effectively ended the prospect of building nuclear power plants, I highly doubt that a nuclear heated rocket engine would be allowed to fly, regardless of how safe it is.
I suppose you would rather that Jobs be wearing the shortest shorts, form fitting, with the characters "G5" on the tusch?
OK, yes, it is the other extreme, but I imagine there was a mistake on the caption.
Hollywood has been remaking movies for a long time. Even Hitchcock remade his movies, but at least he was the one that did those, not some by-the-numbers director that never met him or anyone on the crew.
I suppose I can't think of any game remakes, most games seem to have an even shorter lifetime than movies, so people forget about the old ones quicker to the point that the name often doesn't matter any more. Nintendo has been rereleasing a lot of its N8 and N16 games to GBA now.
It would depend on how things are interpreted. I think there would still be copyrights to deal with as well. There aren't a whole lot of countries that haven't signed the Berne Convention, but then, there are a lot of companies that make knock-off parts in the USA, Japan and elsewhere, so I don't know how that is handled, and if such a concept can scale up to a full car.
Nifty idea though.
And for every two kids that asks for an iPod, there will be at least one that complains because their parents bought an MP3 player, much like in decades past when kids asked for a cassette player when the got an 8-track. :)
I too think it is questionable but there probably is some slippery way around that. "on sale" meaning "for sale / available for purchase" or whatever. Most people use "on sale" to mean at a lower price but there appear to be three different meanings to that praise.
You are right on the chances of problems being nil, but I wonder why they would have to take such precautions to protect airplanes and birds if the beam really was 40W spread around a basketball hoop sized cross section? Daylight is more powerful than this.
First you have to define software engineering. To my knowledge, most states and countries don't even accredit or regulate it unlike civil, mechanical or electrical engineering. I don't think there are many accredited software engineering degrees either.
The issue is more complex than you and a lot of other people make it out to be.
First of all, SSC didn't start Linux Gazette. The first LG issue was released July 1995, run entirely by volunteers. It was in issue 8 where LG was given the support of SSC, by hosting and editing support. I really can't tell if SSC was given the right to do with LJ or the name as they please or not.
Some people said that ALL of the orininal LG volunteers have left the SCC pub, after some others were forced out and there are claims of re-editing of old articles without the original author's permissions.
Compare this to CPU design, however - Microsoft doesn't dictate to Intel what extensions to add onto x86. Or do they? (puts on tinfoil hat)
CPUs are fairly general-purpose. Graphics chips are anything but. As far as instruction sets go, there are so many instructions available to make a task efficient that it looks like the best they can do is just make the registers wider with new "enhanced" instructions to process more data bits per instruction.
For the first year it was a completely independent web periodical. That changed in 1996.
:-) "
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I don't like SCC's dirty tactics but the Welcome section in issue 8 may be why they think they own the name:
"News Flash!
Linux Gazette coming under New Management!
Yup, it's true! As of the next LG issue the Linux Gazette will officially come under the auspices of the Linux Journal . The 'ol Linux Gazette has grown over the past year -- this is actually its First Birthday this month -- and it is probably fitting that after a year it's ready to come under the watch care of the folks at Linux Journal. Phil Hughes has very graciously offered to take over the day-to-day management of the Linux Gazette while continuing its tradition as a free and freely available WWW publication.
For details of the transition, please head on down to the "Welcome" section below and read all about it.
http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue01to08/lg_issue8.ht
Scroll down to the Welcome section. I can easily see how SCC can think they own LG.
I would personally like to see an itemized list of the accusations against SCC, people claim editing and altering past articles, and gradually forcing out the original staff. I'd like to see what known changes are and the chronology of when non-SCC volunteers were forced out, if that happened. If the emails used in forging a deal between LG and SCC are still available, I'd like to read them.
You are right though, people are such goons with automobiles. I can only imagine that they'd just kill themselves within 30 days for not doing proper pre-flight checks and not paying attention
These projects AREN'T going to happen, I doubt anyone would be able to actually be able to legally use one in any developed country. IMO, Moeller is at best a fraudster, I think he has been just blowing hot air about his aircraft projects for longer than most slashdotters have been alive.
The FAA is basically on to him, he can't demonstrate the stability of the Skycar so it cannot be operated without a tether. If you want an airplane, just get an airplane, if you want a car, get one, if you want both, just rent a car at the airport wherever you land.
I think all you need is chicken wire mesh. I've read someone mention that it was used in old houses to hold up and reinforce plaster, I think it might help to ground it too. This made it impossible to get a wireless signal into the next room.
The problem is that intentional passive jamming might be something up to the courts.
I'd only play the waiting game for so long.
If you wait for what's next, and it comes around, then you'll hear people saying to wait for what's next. There will always be newer and better but if one just waits then you'll also be putting off using the thing.
The '+' format seems to do well enough although I've preferred to keep the dash format available too because it is in the "real" DVD standard. The '+' format is kind of a bastard offshoot and only served to pad Sony & HP's profits at the expense of market confusion.
I've been buying my Imation spindles at $5 for 50, so make that a dime.
I will say that I prefer DVD simply because it is a lot fewer discs to handle and I don't have to prune less necessary files so often.
I don't know much about the issue but I don't understand why he has to cater to Canadians on this issue because Canada is well outside his jurisdiction. I don't see the point in thinking every state or province should do its own diplomacy, not even the largest ones.
BTW: RIAA isn't about movies. Perhaps you are thinking MPAA?
I think it suffers for not being available retail box at a $30-$80 price, depending on version. They used to include some nifty commercial apps not available in the downloads. I suppose it is no matter, I think SuSE 9 is better for that market anyway.
IBM has _one_ Opteron system, despite Opteron being available for over a year. I checked yesterday. I was highly disappointed, as it was only a 1U server, not a workstation.
Also, the Opteron 8xx chips are the only ones that can go more than 2P. In that pricing announcement, an 8x8 was priced at $3k per chip, up by a factor of 5x over the same speed 2x8 chip. Sorry, I don't remember what the middle digit was, it might be a '4'. Anyhow, at that much per chip, that is clearly in line with Itanium2 pricing, and I2 is at least a little faster at a lot of tasks than Opteron.
I can't imagine Mac OSX, Linux, etc. not being able to format them. Even if they managed to ban those free programs in countries where the patents that are held, they'll just be hosted in countries without the patents.
That still brings up the chance that MS will try to ban linking to "infringing" sites as infringement but they'll have to play whack-a-mole like everyone else.
Or I can just keep one legacy licenced Windows machine and format it when I need to. Either way, I can see this as being another pressure point to make it worth jumping to a different file format. Maybe ISO and UDF? I don't know if those are fixed sizes or what encumberments they might have.
It is like that at my local Best Buys too.
I think it could be employee laziness. The products are so desirable and expensive that they have to be locked up.
I really don't know what the markups are, so I can't compare.
Last I checked, CompUSA had all their MP3 models out the boxes for display, attached to antitheft tethers. Of course, maybe CompUSA gets better margins for being on better terms with Apple, I think Best Buy was an official outlet for Apple computers twice and lost it twice.