The family pack is an ordinary single client edition of OSX, combined with a slip of paper that amends the license.
It doesn't come with a "network license daemon," or a activation scheme, serial codes, or even a set of five dongles. Just pop in the DVD and install.
If you take licenses seriously, it's a substantive difference. If you don't, it's just a $70 slip of paper. On the other hand, perhaps most of the license fetishists have already migrated over to Linux (or BSD).
Sony VCRs used to quite distinctive. They had (perhaps they still do) a big jog dial that one could use to quickly find a video frame-- turn it slightly to the right, and it steps through the video frame by frame. Turn it farther to the right, and it fast forwards the tape, with speed dependent on how far one had turned it.
It looks really quite similar to the ipod wheel.
But it looks as though sony changed the design for its laptops.
Re:Sounds like a bad deal to me
on
Textbooks With EULAs
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I finished schooling somewhat more recently, so I've had the unfortunate experience of buying $125 textbooks. In the real world, $125 implies a certain attention to bookbinding. In university, it doesn't. One semester of heavy use can reveal week spines, covers made of the cheapest possible cardboard, and decidedly non-archival grade paper. Perhaps these compromises are made in a cynical attempt to deprive the used market of usable texts.
Some "Post landing Reports" are available for the shuttle, however the available reports seem to be relatively recent (STS-98 through STS-113), and some sleuthing is required to pair the orbiters with their external tanks. The "Flight Readiness Reports" contain this type of information, but not all of these are available online. Luckily, they can be requested through foia
Yes, indeed. However, Feynman's larger point was that the shuttle was flawed from the start-- the reusable aspect only makes sense if you launch on a very frequent basis. Launching with the required frequency will compromise safety, and so on.
The shuttle was sold politically as a satellite launching platform. Unfortunately, it's not a very economical choice.
The foam that destroyed Columbia was BX-250, which used CFC-11 as a blowing agent. Columbia used Lightweight External Tank 93, an older model.
On tanks constructed after ET-93, NASA replaced BX-250 with BX-265, which used HCFC 141b as a blowing agent. BX-265 is not without its problems, however, and NASA is working on replacement formulae.
The computer system is very elaborate, having over 250,000 lines of code. It is responsible, among many other things, for the automatic control of the entire ascent to orbit, and for the descent until well into the atmosphere (below Mach 1) once one button is pushed deciding the landing site desired. It would be possible to make the entire landing automatically (except that the landing gear lowering signal is expressly left out of computer control, and must be provided by the pilot, ostensibly for safety reasons) but such an entirely automatic landing is probably not as safe as a pilot controlled landing. During orbital flight it is used in the control of payloads, in displaying information to the astronauts, and the exchange of information to the ground. It is evident that the safety of flight requires guaranteed accuracy of this elaborate system of computer hardware and software.
The Landing gear extension is placed under manual control because an accidental deployment of the gears could strand the shuttle in orbit, as no mechanism for retraction is provided.
Why does the shuttle need landing gear in the first place?
As has been pointed out already, your source supplies no additional evidence, no additional links to studies, no additional quotes from engineers.
More importantly, it's wrong.
The foam that ultimately contributed to Columbia's loss was BX-250, which used CFC-11 as a blowing agent. In later tank designs, this foam was changed to BX-265, which used HCFC-141b as a blowing agent.
You don't have to pay to cite them, and they don't effect the claims.
But they do. They do. If you don't cite some prior art (with the aim of demonstrating how your invention differs from and extends upon previous inventions) the patent office might just reject your application for incompleteness. Hence, to give your application some effect, you must cite.
On the other hand, one cannot simply patent an already existing invention. If the claims are not sufficiently distinct from what exists in the prior art, the patent may be rejected. The existence of prior art thus negatively affects what can be patented..
Generally, solar power refers to power derived from our sun (which is named Sol). From a NASA press release on the planet orbiting HD 28185, a star 128.5 light years from Earth:
Extrasolar moons of HD 28185 b and iota Hor b, if they exist, would have the additional advantage of getting enough solar radiation to support Earth-like temperatures. This would help keep water liquid, although it may not be necessary for life to appear.
The boiling point of water for instance could easily be lowered or raised if we all, as a collective, just believed it to be possible for water to boil at, say... 90 degrees F.
We'd have to get rid of a bit of excess atmosphere. It's doable, but we'd have to be careful, otherwise we might have to deal with the messy effects of explosive decompression
MS isn't a monopoly any more. In order to claim them so, judges had to use a very restricted field like "operating systems for 80x86-compatible processors". Guess who just entered that arena?
Much of the claptrap that Intelligent Designers advocate assumes a particular role for the deity-- the masterful creator. Other religions may postulate other roles for the creator. Perhaps he is clumsy. Perhaps her work is being subverted by other gods. Perhaps there are rival creators, battling it out to see who can create dominant species. And so on.
Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani Generis asserts that Evolution, as long as it is not used to uphold atheism, is not in conflict with the teachings of the church.
For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God. However, this must be done in such a way that the reasons for both opinions, that is, those favorable and those unfavorable to evolution, be weighed and judged with the necessary seriousness, moderation and measure, and provided that all are prepared to submit to the judgment of the Church, to whom Christ has given the mission of interpreting authentically the Sacred Scriptures and of defending the dogmas of faith.[11] Some however, rashly transgress this liberty of discussion, when they act as if the origin of the human body from pre-existing and living matter were already completely certain and proved by the facts which have been discovered up to now and by reasoning on those facts, and as if there were nothing in the sources of divine revelation which demands the greatest moderation and caution in this question.
Both Steves worked at Atari. Jobs sounds like a bit of a wanker, though.
"I was on a plane going to a user group club in Fort Lauderdale to promote the Mac.... Andy Hertzfeld [another Apple developer] had just read 'Zap!,' a book about Atari which said that Steve Jobs designed 'Breakout.' I explained to him that we both worked on it and got paid $700. Andy corrected me, 'No, it says here it was $5,000.' When I read in the book how Nolan Bushnell had actually paid Steve $5,000, I just cried." -Steve Wozniak
However, it should be noted that the Apple II joystick interface supported two buttons, one for each paddle.
Slashdot Mirror
A "tinny sounding headset", eh? Perhaps such things will suffice for cell phones, but for listening to music?
What's the bitrate of this device? If it's less than 1536 kbs, is the audio compressed? Is this compression lossy?
The family pack is an ordinary single client edition of OSX, combined with a slip of paper that amends the license.
It doesn't come with a "network license daemon," or a activation scheme, serial codes, or even a set of five dongles. Just pop in the DVD and install.
If you take licenses seriously, it's a substantive difference. If you don't, it's just a $70 slip of paper. On the other hand, perhaps most of the license fetishists have already migrated over to Linux (or BSD).
Sony still makes VCRs with the jog dial. However, Sony's quality has suffered in recent years.
It hasn't made its way into DVD players as including it would require a relatively thick chassis.
Sony VCRs used to quite distinctive. They had (perhaps they still do) a big jog dial that one could use to quickly find a video frame-- turn it slightly to the right, and it steps through the video frame by frame. Turn it farther to the right, and it fast forwards the tape, with speed dependent on how far one had turned it.
It looks really quite similar to the ipod wheel.
But it looks as though sony changed the design for its laptops.
The jog dial is now a cylinder, with an access of rotation parallel (rather than perpendicular) to the front panel.
I finished schooling somewhat more recently, so I've had the unfortunate experience of buying $125 textbooks. In the real world, $125 implies a certain attention to bookbinding. In university, it doesn't. One semester of heavy use can reveal week spines, covers made of the cheapest possible cardboard, and decidedly non-archival grade paper. Perhaps these compromises are made in a cynical attempt to deprive the used market of usable texts.
Some "Post landing Reports" are available for the shuttle, however the available reports seem to be relatively recent (STS-98 through STS-113), and some sleuthing is required to pair the orbiters with their external tanks. The "Flight Readiness Reports" contain this type of information, but not all of these are available online. Luckily, they can be requested through foia
Yes, indeed. However, Feynman's larger point was that the shuttle was flawed from the start-- the reusable aspect only makes sense if you launch on a very frequent basis. Launching with the required frequency will compromise safety, and so on.
The shuttle was sold politically as a satellite launching platform. Unfortunately, it's not a very economical choice.
Perhaps you might have included this new link in your original posting, instead of a dubious blog entry.
what's wrong with splashing down in the ocean?
The foam that destroyed Columbia was BX-250, which used CFC-11 as a blowing agent. Columbia used Lightweight External Tank 93, an older model.
On tanks constructed after ET-93, NASA replaced BX-250 with BX-265, which used HCFC 141b as a blowing agent. BX-265 is not without its problems, however, and NASA is working on replacement formulae.
source
So, let me get this straight.
The Landing gear extension is placed under manual control because an accidental deployment of the gears could strand the shuttle in orbit, as no mechanism for retraction is provided.
Why does the shuttle need landing gear in the first place?
As has been pointed out already, your source supplies no additional evidence, no additional links to studies, no additional quotes from engineers.
More importantly, it's wrong.
The foam that ultimately contributed to Columbia's loss was BX-250, which used CFC-11 as a blowing agent. In later tank designs, this foam was changed to BX-265, which used HCFC-141b as a blowing agent.
You don't have to pay to cite them, and they don't effect the claims.
But they do. They do. If you don't cite some prior art (with the aim of demonstrating how your invention differs from and extends upon previous inventions) the patent office might just reject your application for incompleteness. Hence, to give your application some effect, you must cite.
On the other hand, one cannot simply patent an already existing invention. If the claims are not sufficiently distinct from what exists in the prior art, the patent may be rejected. The existence of prior art thus negatively affects what can be patented..
This could actually be a boon for manufacturers of big iron. If one big machine does all the work, there's no need for "offloading."
Assuming Earth survived the "red giant" phase, yes...
From a NASA press release on the planet orbiting HD 28185, a star 128.5 light years from Earth:
source
The boiling point of water for instance could easily be lowered or raised if we all, as a collective, just believed it to be possible for water to boil at, say... 90 degrees F.
We'd have to get rid of a bit of excess atmosphere. It's doable, but we'd have to be careful, otherwise we might have to deal with the messy effects of explosive decompression
And where do you think those radionucleotides came from?
That's right. They were created when some distant star went supernova. It's all due to solar power...
Shouldn't have locked yourself into the platform, eh? Perhaps you should have used Java.
If Microsoft Windows is banned in the EU, those companies providing European Income Tax software will write for other platforms instead.
MS isn't a monopoly any more. In order to claim them so, judges had to use a very restricted field like "operating systems for 80x86-compatible processors". Guess who just entered that arena?
BeOS?
Much of the claptrap that Intelligent Designers advocate assumes a particular role for the deity-- the masterful creator. Other religions may postulate other roles for the creator. Perhaps he is clumsy. Perhaps her work is being subverted by other gods. Perhaps there are rival creators, battling it out to see who can create dominant species. And so on.
And they did.
Both Steves worked at Atari. Jobs sounds like a bit of a wanker, though.
However, it should be noted that the Apple II joystick interface supported two buttons, one for each paddle.