Perhaps. We don't know because Voyager, like most other spacecraft, is 3-axis stabilised. That means it keeps pointed the right way using only its thrusters. Pioneer is spin stabilised, like a rifle bullet in flight, so requires much smaller pointing corrections using thrusters. The anomaly is a very slight one, so slight that it is lost in the uncertainty caused by the level of thruster activity on 3-axis stabilised craft.
Yes, it's copyrighted, and yes, fair use applies. You're not the first to critcize this sentence, so I obviously should have been clearer.
I understood you perfectly the first time around. There seem to be an awful lot of people on/. who, like Dvorak, seem utterly incapable of understanding this stuff. It smells of a fundamental misunderstanding.
I'm wondering if it's becuase people equate copyright with physical property ('copyright violation is theft') and can't understand how you can keep something, give it away and sell it all at the same time.
The CC obviously has nothing to do with copyright.
The CC is a selection of licenses you can apply to work for which you hold the copyright. Without copyright there would be nothing to license. Literally, CC licenses tell you what rights you have to copy the work. CC has everything to do with copyright.
Most program today *should* be written in C/C++. Those programs simply work better, run faster, and consume less resources.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but computers are getting faster and C/C++ developers aren't.
For many applications (particularly those where you both write the app and buy the boxes to run it on) it's cheaper overall to have the computer work harder so the developers can work faster. The set of applications for which this is true can only expand as computers get faster.
Your app may be able to serve 7000 concurrent users from a 386, but my app has been running on room full of Sun boxes for the past year, during which time I've taken all your customers.
4. The emails which I want unsubscribed are the virtually infinite combinations that end in @widget.com. (They may not yet be subscribed but surely a preventative request is allowable)
At this point the judge would see straight through your bullshit and recognise your scheme for the intentional DOS attack it quite clearly is.
My Robostix arrived yesterday (actually, I got two!). They came with the pin headers already soldered on. I seem to recall Gordon mentioned something about the first batch coming with headers installed on the Gumstix mailing list.
I've not fired it up yet, hopefully I'll have this new chassis rolling by the end of the day and we'll see what Robostix can do. It does look cool with all the headers and a Gumstix installed, just one small, solid mass of computing power and I/O connectors.
RAID alone is not a backup solution. But a RAID array at a remote site (buried in the garden is fine, it'll be safe from thieves and fire) is pretty good.
Stick a Linux box with a RAID 5 array (less disk wastage than RAID 1) under the lawn or in a neighbour's house and use permissions to guard against accidental deletion. Your really important stuff goes onto DVD, GMail and the 10GB of space your friend gives you on his FTP server.
Proper backup may be a $3000 tape drive, a whole bunch of tapes and a whole bunch of locations, but that's impractical for home users. Hard drives are the only practical backup solution for large volumes of media that doesn't cost the earth.
On-line backup also lets you regularly check your backups for integrity and take action before it's too late.
I though it may not be BS. People did do stuff kind of, almost, like that 15+ years ago. But then I saw the little twerp's web page. He's 16. So they must have been using a proper OS, not a BBC Micro with a 5MB hard drive. Hmm, writing your own device drivers when you're 13, 'new to programming' and can't spot an infinite loop? Bullshit.
You should check out the bullshitter's web page, make sure you follow the link to his 'myspace' to see just how cool he is. If you're too lazy here are some choice quotes:
I'm a ninja with 1337 skills. I hate hippies and liberals, except for the liberals I don't hate. Even though things like this (MySpace) are for moderately faggy people, I was persuaded to create one despite my lack of faggy-ness.
You can RAID partitions as well as drives. Of course it would be entirely pointless to partition two drives then RAID 5 the partitions, but not impossible.
It's their job to look into the future by looking at the positions of the stars and the planets.
They look at the positions of the stars and planets, but they don't actually look at the stars and planets themselves. Why bother when the motions are so highly predicatable? I don't think I've even seen mention of actual observation as part of astrology.
Astronomers are the ones who observe the stars and planets; astrologers wear brightly coloured clothes, have poor taste in home furnishings and exploit the weak of mind to make a living.
Being Queen of one place doesn't exclude being Queen of somewhere else at the same time, so neither of you are wrong. HM The Queen is officially styled as: "Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Defender of the Faith, Head of the Commonwealth."
It's a dog. I use it regularly, purely because it's cross-platform (I have 2k, OS X and GNU/Linux boxen at home), but performance is pretty poor without fast machines and a fast network. You can't use it for anything but occasional admin tasks over a DSL line and it's seriously painful over dialup or GPRS.
Basically, VNC shoves bitmaps down the line. Excellent for cross-platform-ness, but crappy for performance. It's way more efficient to send "make text box with content X in font Y" or "move window A to position X,Y" than it is to send a new bitmap of the changed display. Recent VNC implementations do some clever stuff to minimise bandwidth and system load, but at heart it's still having to send bitmaps and is thus at a severe disadvantage when compared to remote desktop tools (like MS's, or X) which work at the API level.
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Perhaps. We don't know because Voyager, like most other spacecraft, is 3-axis stabilised. That means it keeps pointed the right way using only its thrusters. Pioneer is spin stabilised, like a rifle bullet in flight, so requires much smaller pointing corrections using thrusters. The anomaly is a very slight one, so slight that it is lost in the uncertainty caused by the level of thruster activity on 3-axis stabilised craft.
Yeah, it's a pity you can't efficiently rectify AC into DC. Oh, wait...
I understood you perfectly the first time around. There seem to be an awful lot of people on /. who, like Dvorak, seem utterly incapable of understanding this stuff. It smells of a fundamental misunderstanding.
I'm wondering if it's becuase people equate copyright with physical property ('copyright violation is theft') and can't understand how you can keep something, give it away and sell it all at the same time.
The CC is a selection of licenses you can apply to work for which you hold the copyright. Without copyright there would be nothing to license. Literally, CC licenses tell you what rights you have to copy the work. CC has everything to do with copyright.
Anonymous Coward, obviously.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but computers are getting faster and C/C++ developers aren't.
For many applications (particularly those where you both write the app and buy the boxes to run it on) it's cheaper overall to have the computer work harder so the developers can work faster. The set of applications for which this is true can only expand as computers get faster.
Your app may be able to serve 7000 concurrent users from a 386, but my app has been running on room full of Sun boxes for the past year, during which time I've taken all your customers.
Wikipedia isn't even a credible reference, let alone an authoritative one.
Jesus Christ, somebody gets +5 Informative for repeating something that's in the summary. Not even TFA, the fucking summary!
It all makes sense now, Homer must be Spanish!
At this point the judge would see straight through your bullshit and recognise your scheme for the intentional DOS attack it quite clearly is.
All good here on Win2k w. Firefox & Flash7.
I've not fired it up yet, hopefully I'll have this new chassis rolling by the end of the day and we'll see what Robostix can do. It does look cool with all the headers and a Gumstix installed, just one small, solid mass of computing power and I/O connectors.
That's fewer, you cock-sucking whore.
It's not an exclusion to the rule, you're just applying the wrong rule.
My rule.
Your rule.
Their rule.
His rule.
Her rule.
Its rule.
Stick a Linux box with a RAID 5 array (less disk wastage than RAID 1) under the lawn or in a neighbour's house and use permissions to guard against accidental deletion. Your really important stuff goes onto DVD, GMail and the 10GB of space your friend gives you on his FTP server.
Proper backup may be a $3000 tape drive, a whole bunch of tapes and a whole bunch of locations, but that's impractical for home users. Hard drives are the only practical backup solution for large volumes of media that doesn't cost the earth.
On-line backup also lets you regularly check your backups for integrity and take action before it's too late.
You should check out the bullshitter's web page, make sure you follow the link to his 'myspace' to see just how cool he is. If you're too lazy here are some choice quotes:
Ah well, I guess he's still got time...
You've got to read the kernel from somewhere before you load it, so you need your bootloader to support your array too.
Absolutely, because heating your home with electricity is by far the cheapest way. Or not.
You can RAID partitions as well as drives. Of course it would be entirely pointless to partition two drives then RAID 5 the partitions, but not impossible.
They look at the positions of the stars and planets, but they don't actually look at the stars and planets themselves. Why bother when the motions are so highly predicatable? I don't think I've even seen mention of actual observation as part of astrology.
Astronomers are the ones who observe the stars and planets; astrologers wear brightly coloured clothes, have poor taste in home furnishings and exploit the weak of mind to make a living.
Could you show me something which gets bigger when it's folded?
Being Queen of one place doesn't exclude being Queen of somewhere else at the same time, so neither of you are wrong. HM The Queen is officially styled as: "Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Defender of the Faith, Head of the Commonwealth."
Her name is Elizabeth, surnames are for commoners.
The private space industry is alive and well. Did you really think the government was providing the satellites you use to receive The Cartoon Network?
It's a dog. I use it regularly, purely because it's cross-platform (I have 2k, OS X and GNU/Linux boxen at home), but performance is pretty poor without fast machines and a fast network. You can't use it for anything but occasional admin tasks over a DSL line and it's seriously painful over dialup or GPRS.
Basically, VNC shoves bitmaps down the line. Excellent for cross-platform-ness, but crappy for performance. It's way more efficient to send "make text box with content X in font Y" or "move window A to position X,Y" than it is to send a new bitmap of the changed display. Recent VNC implementations do some clever stuff to minimise bandwidth and system load, but at heart it's still having to send bitmaps and is thus at a severe disadvantage when compared to remote desktop tools (like MS's, or X) which work at the API level.