If you read the book (A New Hope - George Lucas), you will see that the 'wings' are mounting points for the stabilisers and/or engines. The wing configuration changes on the X wing to give a more manouverable configuration (due to large moment arms in all directrions). The 'wings' have no relation to what we know of as wings, serving no aerodynamic function, and are formally referred to as "attack foils" (I think... too long since I read the book).
IANAL (fortunately), but, is it not possible to turn the MPA's reasoning against them? Since there is no central body for controlling copyright to lyrics, and it would be impractical to contact each copyright holder individually, would it not suffice to place the following disclaimer on each lyric:
"The following lyric may be subject to copyright. If you are (or represent) the copyright holder of this work, and you do not want it made publically available on this web site, please let us know, and we will remove it immediately."
Surely this disclaimer would be legally sufficient if it is not practical to contact each author individually?
OK - I think the ZDnet editor should get him/herself a dictionary of computer and networking terms:
Normally LANs are used by a single organization at best true, but for a good reason. LANs that span multiple buildings are technically refferred to as WANs, regardless of the underlying technology.
And the 2.5k$ gigabit router? Not. A commodity PC cannot even reach maximum throughput on a single gigabit NIC, nevermind routing between them. The only way to do this would be to use a decent server-class M/B with 64bit/66MHz PCI bus - which would take the total system cost above 2.5k$. A more moderate PC could indeed be used for residential/small business gateways, but you would not get gigabit throughput.
1) Although DivX;-) was a bit slow about it, they do now maintain an official Linux binary release of the codec (and it really rocks!).
2) Apple has always been very good about maintaining standards, and keeping their specifications open - the Sorenson codec definitely seems to be the exception to the rule.
3) I don't think that Apple will release a non-standard MPEG-4 codec - I assume that they will simply release an MPEG-4 codec for quicktime.
I may be completely off the mark here, but I would guess that one of NASAs primary goals at the time was to _spend_ money. Any time a government can get a legitimate reason (that the general populace will actually support) to shove a huge amount of money into the economy, they will do it. This way they get to build both technical superiority, and a stronger econony at the same time.
This is all well and good. But I'm pretty sure you can't buy radiation hardened components off the shelf. The satellite will probably function perfectly well until the first decent solar flare. , after that, all bets are off.
A large proportion of the cost of space borne systems is taken up by the radiation hardening. Both the microchips themselves, and the support circuitry, need to be hardened against the random bit changes, and the long term physical degradation caused by radiation.
This is not actually the primary battery of the phone. Instead, it is a (semi)independant power source for recharging the primary cell.
Sure, it may be illegal (or impractical) to use it in certain situations, but then you can just disconnect it, and carry on on the standard rechargable cell.
Think of it as the nifty little portable power pack Luke Skywalker used to recharge R2D2 on Degoba (spelling?), just smaller, and (hopefully) without the disconcerting glow.;-)
I also think this is a good idea - in fact it is great for overclocking. Overclock the CPU for all its worth, and let it handle as much load as it can, but use thermal throttling to limmit temperature. This is especially good for servers, which usually deal with spikes of heavy CPU usage, but are otherwise pretty much idle.
This system is also dead easy to implement in software. I did it for Linux once - simply write a kernel module to halt the CPU for a specified time and a userspace daemon to monitor the temperature, and feed halt periods to the kernel module.
Obviously this isn't any good for CPUs doing heavy simulations/gaming, but for many other apps it is a great solution.
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If you read the book (A New Hope - George Lucas), you will see that the 'wings' are mounting points for the stabilisers and/or engines. The wing configuration changes on the X wing to give a more manouverable configuration (due to large moment arms in all directrions). The 'wings' have no relation to what we know of as wings, serving no aerodynamic function, and are formally referred to as "attack foils" (I think... too long since I read the book).
IANAL (fortunately), but, is it not possible to turn the MPA's reasoning against them? Since there is no central body for controlling copyright to lyrics, and it would be impractical to contact each copyright holder individually, would it not suffice to place the following disclaimer on each lyric:
"The following lyric may be subject to copyright. If you are (or represent) the copyright holder of this work, and you do not want it made publically available on this web site, please let us know, and we will remove it immediately."
Surely this disclaimer would be legally sufficient if it is not practical to contact each author individually?
OK - I think the ZDnet editor should get him/herself a dictionary of computer and networking terms:
Normally LANs are used by a single organization at best true, but for a good reason. LANs that span multiple buildings are technically refferred to as WANs, regardless of the underlying technology.
And the 2.5k$ gigabit router? Not. A commodity PC cannot even reach maximum throughput on a single gigabit NIC, nevermind routing between them. The only way to do this would be to use a decent server-class M/B with 64bit/66MHz PCI bus - which would take the total system cost above 2.5k$. A more moderate PC could indeed be used for residential/small business gateways, but you would not get gigabit throughput.
Just my 2c worth...
-justin
1) Although DivX;-) was a bit slow about it, they do now maintain an official Linux binary release of the codec (and it really rocks!).
2) Apple has always been very good about maintaining standards, and keeping their specifications open - the Sorenson codec definitely seems to be the exception to the rule.
3) I don't think that Apple will release a non-standard MPEG-4 codec - I assume that they will simply release an MPEG-4 codec for quicktime.
-justin
I may be completely off the mark here, but I would guess that one of NASAs primary goals at the time was to _spend_ money. Any time a government can get a legitimate reason (that the general populace will actually support) to shove a huge amount of money into the economy, they will do it. This way they get to build both technical superiority, and a stronger econony at the same time.
This is all well and good. But I'm pretty sure you can't buy radiation hardened components off the shelf. The satellite will probably function perfectly well until the first decent solar flare. , after that, all bets are off.
A large proportion of the cost of space borne systems is taken up by the radiation hardening. Both the microchips themselves, and the support circuitry, need to be hardened against the random bit changes, and the long term physical degradation caused by radiation.
This is not actually the primary battery of the phone. Instead, it is a (semi)independant power source for recharging the primary cell.
;-)
Sure, it may be illegal (or impractical) to use it in certain situations, but then you can just disconnect it, and carry on on the standard rechargable cell.
Think of it as the nifty little portable power pack Luke Skywalker used to recharge R2D2 on Degoba (spelling?), just smaller, and (hopefully) without the disconcerting glow.
Finally, a compelling reason to become a vegetarian - I will never have to charge my phone again...
Yeah, it's lame, but hey.
I also think this is a good idea - in fact it is great for overclocking. Overclock the CPU for all its worth, and let it handle as much load as it can, but use thermal throttling to limmit temperature. This is especially good for servers, which usually deal with spikes of heavy CPU usage, but are otherwise pretty much idle.
This system is also dead easy to implement in software. I did it for Linux once - simply write a kernel module to halt the CPU for a specified time and a userspace daemon to monitor the temperature, and feed halt periods to the kernel module.
Obviously this isn't any good for CPUs doing heavy simulations/gaming, but for many other apps it is a great solution.