And the strong "Gatesian" hand you speak of gave us Megacruft Windows. Yet, development driven by geeks who wanted to put in "k00l" features gave us Linux. I think that speaks for itself.
Contracts assigning ownership over ideas that one comes up with even in one's own personal time over to a company are nothing new -- Waelscherts was under a contract like that when he came up with his valve gear design. To escape having to sign the idea over to the railway he worked for, he had a friend patent the idea in the US for him and then signed the patents over to him when left the railway.
There's a lot of value to keeping Mir running at this stage.
The more disasters encountered on Mir the more experience you have dealing with them. Mir's had fires, explosions, air leaks, crashes, failures galore. What that means is that now they know how to deal with those disasters in a real world situation.
Because of Mir the Russians have been able to gain a great of expertise on dealing with space-borne disasters. Who's to say that any one of the disasters Mir has encountered couldn't happen on the ISS? Every single one could very easily happen. The people who designed Mir should be extremely proud of themselves, they've managed to build a space station that has survived more than twice is expected lifetime and it still supporting life.
> so is the toilet.. how'd you like a camera there?
Interestingly, what if a certain disgruntled employee where deliberately clogging said toilet? Or lobbing explosive charges down the thing? Would it be justifyed to mount cameras in the washroom so as to identify said employee?
Here, here! We need something more interesting to consume CPU cycles than cracking RC5.
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They have an awful lot more to be afraid of than we do.
No matter what, inevitably, they're going to be fighting people who are a lot smarter than they are. I have no doubt that no matter the technology they come up with a way to crack it.
It's always a stupid idea to fight people that are smarter than you are.
>I dont give a flying fuck about online music, I >dont give a flying fuck about politics, the >cuecat,
> freshmeat, anime, starwars or lego. >This site blows harder than it ever has.
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Then why do you ever read it? You silly, silly person.
That's like buying a game magazine and complaining about their being so much #$%#$% coverage of games.
A union is most necessary where a company tries to cheat it's workers and give them the minimum necessary. Lest we should forget working conditions at the turn of the last century - you could go to jail for quitting your job.
Safety standards(and especially OSHA) where totally nonexistant, and employers provided no help. Get your hand ripped off in some machinery? Well, if you couldn't afford medial care, tough. The company sure wasn't going to sink any money into it. Unions forced employers to give employees fair treatment. How many large companies would *YOU* be willing to trust to give you fair treatment? There aren't a whole lot.
Some places, of course, don't need a union. If you consider machine shops, they're mostly rather small businesses, and usually are not unionized. The owners of machine shops are also rarely jerks trying to cheat their employees.
In the computer business, we DESERVE paid overtime. Seniority should be valued. Better work hours and better treatment. That's what unions can bring. Now, if the place where you work already provides those things, then you don't really need a union. Not many companies do, however. Those places need unions.
Actually... no. In 2038 the clock rolls over, so the date suddenly changes from 2037 to 1969.
A lot of software doesn't handle that change terribly well, though some can. The EOF is ^D, unfortunately I don't have an ASCII table handy to tell you what the hex for ^D is:( It's deffinitely not 9999.... etc.('twould be a 32-bit int, though, so 32 1's translated into decimal)
To my understanding, the limits are only on the outer edges of the band.
2.4GHz is an ISM band(Industry, Science, Medical), so it gets used by microwaves, X-Ray machines, etc. It's not a licensed band, and is mostly kept open for noise generated by these devices.
Great! Now we can do a mass download of the whole world wide web and determine an official signal to noise ratio for this thing.
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You make a fundamental assumption here, and that is that blood is safe. Blood is not safe, the list of diseases that can be transferred through it is PHENOMINAL!
Neither is there a whole lot of proof that blood transfusions are actually beneficial.
Also, have you ever actually read the Bible? From what you say, it certainly sounds like you haven't. If you haven't, shutup.
> Sounds like a bunch of researchers are in need of > more funding to me, so they try to make promises > of something that probably will never happen.
You have to realize that these technologies take a lot of time and effort to develop, things do come of them but you don't always hear reports that mention the original announcement. Consider the blue laser, I remember reading about the development of the blue laser in Scientific American back in 1994. Wasn't until much later that the technology finally saw it's full use in DVDs.
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And the strong "Gatesian" hand you speak of gave us Megacruft Windows. Yet, development driven by geeks who wanted to put in "k00l" features gave us Linux. I think that speaks for itself.
Contracts assigning ownership over ideas that one comes up with even in one's own personal time over to a company are nothing new -- Waelscherts was under a contract like that when he came up with his valve gear design. To escape having to sign the idea over to the railway he worked for, he had a friend patent the idea in the US for him and then signed the patents over to him when left the railway.
IMHO, I think you can actually prove quite a lot in mathematics.
Seems to call to mind the Freedom Riders in the US(if memory serves).
All they did was write letters, right?
Hum! I wonder if you propel a vehicle using a vote/anti-vote reaction...
If an anti-vote hits a vote, do they both cancel each other out releasing massive amounts of politicians?
About 1910 Henry Ford had a lot of problem from a consortium of car makers.
They had a patent on the arrangement of an engine, wheels and transmission. It was excessively broad, and the idea was nothing new.
It took years and a massive legal battle to finally kill that patent.
It should be named 'Rupert'.
There's a lot of value to keeping Mir running at this stage.
The more disasters encountered on Mir the more experience you have dealing with them. Mir's had fires, explosions, air leaks, crashes, failures galore. What that means is that now they know how to deal with those disasters in a real world situation.
Because of Mir the Russians have been able to gain a great of expertise on dealing with space-borne disasters. Who's to say that any one of the disasters Mir has encountered couldn't happen on the ISS? Every single one could very easily happen. The people who designed Mir should be extremely proud of themselves, they've managed to build a space station that has survived more than twice is expected lifetime and it still supporting life.
> so is the toilet.. how'd you like a camera there?
Interestingly, what if a certain disgruntled employee where deliberately clogging said toilet? Or lobbing explosive charges down the thing? Would it be justifyed to mount cameras in the washroom so as to identify said employee?
Here, here! We need something more interesting to consume CPU cycles than cracking RC5.
They have an awful lot more to be afraid of than we do.
No matter what, inevitably, they're going to be fighting people who are a lot smarter than they are. I have no doubt that no matter the technology they come up with a way to crack it.
It's always a stupid idea to fight people that are smarter than you are.
>I dont give a flying fuck about online music, I >dont give a flying fuck about politics, the >cuecat,
> freshmeat, anime, starwars or lego. >This site blows harder than it ever has.
>
Then why do you ever read it? You silly, silly person.
That's like buying a game magazine and complaining about their being so much #$%#$% coverage of games.
A union is most necessary where a company tries to cheat it's workers and give them the minimum necessary. Lest we should forget working conditions at the turn of the last century - you could go to jail for quitting your job.
Safety standards(and especially OSHA) where totally nonexistant, and employers provided no help. Get your hand ripped off in some machinery? Well, if you couldn't afford medial care, tough. The company sure wasn't going to sink any money into it. Unions forced employers to give employees fair treatment. How many large companies would *YOU* be willing to trust to give you fair treatment? There aren't a whole lot.
Some places, of course, don't need a union. If you consider machine shops, they're mostly rather small businesses, and usually are not unionized. The owners of machine shops are also rarely jerks trying to cheat their employees.
In the computer business, we DESERVE paid overtime. Seniority should be valued. Better work hours and better treatment. That's what unions can bring. Now, if the place where you work already provides those things, then you don't really need a union. Not many companies do, however. Those places need unions.
Hum! I was rather hoping it would be a Cray with it's cabinet open....
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the IT field would be much better off with unionization.
I will take this time to note that are a number of non-Intel architectures out there already that are 64-bit.
Actually... no. In 2038 the clock rolls over, so the date suddenly changes from 2037 to 1969.
:( It's deffinitely not 9999.... etc.('twould be a 32-bit int, though, so 32 1's translated into decimal)
A lot of software doesn't handle that change terribly well, though some can. The EOF is ^D, unfortunately I don't have an ASCII table handy to tell you what the hex for ^D is
To my understanding, the limits are only on the outer edges of the band.
2.4GHz is an ISM band(Industry, Science, Medical), so it gets used by microwaves, X-Ray machines, etc. It's not a licensed band, and is mostly kept open for noise generated by these devices.
At least they're using the term hacker properly....
'Tis a pity, too.
At least a while back their stuff used to be pretty good...
Great! Now we can do a mass download of the whole world wide web and determine an official signal to noise ratio for this thing.
You make a fundamental assumption here, and that is that blood is safe. Blood is not safe, the list of diseases that can be transferred through it is PHENOMINAL!
Neither is there a whole lot of proof that blood transfusions are actually beneficial.
Also, have you ever actually read the Bible? From what you say, it certainly sounds like you haven't. If you haven't, shutup.
This MRAM sounds a LOT like old-fashioned core memory.
It didn't lose the data it carried after powerdown, either.
> Sounds like a bunch of researchers are in need of > more funding to me, so they try to make promises > of something that probably will never happen.
You have to realize that these technologies take a lot of time and effort to develop, things do come of them but you don't always hear reports that mention the original announcement. Consider the blue laser, I remember reading about the development of the blue laser in Scientific American back in 1994. Wasn't until much later that the technology finally saw it's full use in DVDs.