Strong spin is easy to recognize...they're being sneaky in that they're writing subconsious links between OSS and free-as-in-beer software, and then pointing out that it's unethical for the government to compete with businesses. (Which, if you're duped by the way they word their argument, is exactly what the government seems to be doing.)
By making lawmakers think "free-as-in-beer" instead of what OSS is really intended for, they're drawing attention away from the fact that innovation can occur much more quickly, and omnidirectionally, in OSS than in most for-profit setups.
Not necessarily Linux. Much more likely the "open source" concept. There are sections in law that allow open source projects to export strong encryption outside the United States, for example.
I'm sure the dept of Homeland Security would simply love to wipe that section out, and what better way to do it than use existing, nonconflicting law?
Damnit! That's the second time one of my posts got compressed like that. Try this...it's easier to read.
Besides we allow Butane lighters which have a much more volatile fuel in them aboard and they are intentionally designed to ignite the content...
...in a controlled, well-understood and long-tested manner.
While the science is (mostly...I'm still a little fuzzy on it. Anyone have a link or two on the molecular-level behavior?) solid, there's still nothing like consumer use to work out the bugs.
Besides we allow Butane lighters which have a much more volatile fuel in them aboard and they are intentionally designed to ignite the content......in a controlled, well-understood and long-tested manner. While the science is (mostly...I'm still a little fuzzy on it. Anyone have a link or two on the molecular-level behavior?) solid, there's still nothing like consumer use to work out the bugs.
So it would be most useful in places where it's difficult to get energy, like small islands. Then you'd have the advantage of only dealing with small demand, as well.
Or place a platform within a group of islands, and pipe the power to the islands that need it. If a floor-level underwater cable is too expensive, consider something like a cable hung from floating bouys. That way it's not very susceptible to electrical storms, and ships can still pass across easily.
You mean stuff like vCards and vCalanders? Let's see...Novell's supported them for a long while, then there's Ximian Evolution. I'm sure I'm missing some.
I can't think of anything else specific their software supports, but if it's other features you're thinking about, well, (cough) it's not like anyone can force them to open their technology.
While induction might be a really convenient method to power devices, you'll have to be careful how powerful your magnetic field is. With magnetic devices like hard disks and floppy disks, you'll need to be careful not to corrupt your data.
I think it could make for really nice connectors, though. Especially in extreme environments, where dirt and grime are likely to get in between the contacts. You have something like teflon-coated springs, to serve as air-core inductors. This has the double-benefit of protecting against power surges, since air-core inductors can't really pass much of a large pulse of energy.
Last time I heard of that, the flyback transformer had been cracked. It wasn't a severe issue...it just meant that the crack was vibrating, causing the noise.
Unless it was a cheap monitor, your transformer should have been overspecced. As a result, you should still just be eating into a margin. It may result in a slightly decreased picture quality, though. Try the highest and lowest resolutions on your monitor, to see if you can see the difference. It's up to you whether or not to shell out the money for a new display.
You end up witha greater airflow through the cabin. large planes are pressurized by ramming the air into the cabin. If more air is leaking out, then they increase the volume of air being rammed in.
The caches are usually hidden. Also, sometimes the person who placed the cache couldn't get very good signal, and even if he could, he may not have been able to put the GPS in the exact position of the cache.
Even if the coordinates are exact, there's still the z factor.
I have this nasty tendency to type ":wq" in everything from email (in Moz) to MSVC++ to notepad. And I usually hit:wq instead of:w when I'm coding in Linux. And it's really annoying when I'm typing the entry for the cvs log in vim, and I hit:wq before I'm done.
Air marshalls get onboard incognito. The only sign that you're looking at one is that he got to bypass the metal detectors by flashing his wallet at the security gaurd.
+/- 32ft is the normal disclaimer my GPS gives me...It gets down to 16 ft in a good coverage area. (i.e. not under a bunch of tall trees, or in a concrete building.)
It's not like most people are letting their GPS device drive their vehicles or something.
No, but they let Microsoft Streets do it for them. And it's really annoying when your car symbol jumps from one street to a parallel one.
Anyway, check out Geocaching. It's awesome, but an accurate GPS helps out a lot. You go around finding boxes of prizes with only a GPS coordinate and a couple of clues. It's great for excercise, and it's fun! You hear me, geeks? FUN EXCERCISE!
No, you need a 2KHz carrier frequency. That's not the same thing as bandwidth. Your signal can't change faster than half your carrier's frequency, since it becomes difficult to discern between your signal's affect on your line voltage and your carrier frequencies, since both your carrier and signal frequencies manifest as AC voltage on your antenna.
No. Mr. Fourier tells us that an AM signal consists of a range of frequencies. A single, exact frequency is just a pure sine wave, it carries no information. The bandwidth required for AM is just the bandwidth of the signal to be carried.
I think we're both right...I was referring to the frequency of the carrier wave. The amplitude of the signal (which is also AC) is represented in the number of quanta received per unit time.
The fact that the signal has an AC frequency has no effect on the RF frequency it's being transmitted at.
It has to do with statistics. Theoretically, the more information you have per data point, and the more datapoints you have, the more accurate your results are.
The problem is, if you have too much information per datapoint, you start getting false positives.
Think of it like your Bayesian spam filter(God, I LOVE Moz 1.3!)...the longer you train it (the more spam messages you feed it), the better it will be at recognizing the types of messages you give it.
However, if you, say, start feeding it messages from your ex-spouse, it will start homing in on on other stuff. Possibly personal mail, or maybe legal notifications (depending on your situation.:) ).
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Strong spin is easy to recognize...they're being sneaky in that they're writing subconsious links between OSS and free-as-in-beer software, and then pointing out that it's unethical for the government to compete with businesses. (Which, if you're duped by the way they word their argument, is exactly what the government seems to be doing.)
By making lawmakers think "free-as-in-beer" instead of what OSS is really intended for, they're drawing attention away from the fact that innovation can occur much more quickly, and omnidirectionally, in OSS than in most for-profit setups.
It shows about the same form as Microsoft naming something "MPEG4"
Not necessarily Linux. Much more likely the "open source" concept. There are sections in law that allow open source projects to export strong encryption outside the United States, for example.
I'm sure the dept of Homeland Security would simply love to wipe that section out, and what better way to do it than use existing, nonconflicting law?
Perhapse Intel wants to be able to say, "Your systems are safe, using our patented anti-hacker technology." or some such.
It would definately appeal to the PHBs. They have to be jumping at the business market here...
Damnit! That's the second time one of my posts got compressed like that. Try this...it's easier to read.
...in a controlled, well-understood and long-tested manner.
Besides we allow Butane lighters which have a much more volatile fuel in them aboard and they are intentionally designed to ignite the content...
While the science is (mostly...I'm still a little fuzzy on it. Anyone have a link or two on the molecular-level behavior?) solid, there's still nothing like consumer use to work out the bugs.
Besides we allow Butane lighters which have a much more volatile fuel in them aboard and they are intentionally designed to ignite the content... ...in a controlled, well-understood and long-tested manner. While the science is (mostly...I'm still a little fuzzy on it. Anyone have a link or two on the molecular-level behavior?) solid, there's still nothing like consumer use to work out the bugs.
So it would be most useful in places where it's difficult to get energy, like small islands. Then you'd have the advantage of only dealing with small demand, as well.
Or place a platform within a group of islands, and pipe the power to the islands that need it. If a floor-level underwater cable is too expensive, consider something like a cable hung from floating bouys. That way it's not very susceptible to electrical storms, and ships can still pass across easily.
Have you ever been on the inside of a jet liner? Personally, I know I'm not small enough to fit through the window. Even lengthwise.
I think your friend was trying to scare you.
I haven't taken the five minutes required to understand makefiles. :/
There's a really interesting article over at Ars Technica that discusses performance issues and what AMD does about them in their x86-64 architecture.
You mean stuff like vCards and vCalanders? Let's see...Novell's supported them for a long while, then there's Ximian Evolution. I'm sure I'm missing some.
I can't think of anything else specific their software supports, but if it's other features you're thinking about, well, (cough) it's not like anyone can force them to open their technology.
While induction might be a really convenient method to power devices, you'll have to be careful how powerful your magnetic field is. With magnetic devices like hard disks and floppy disks, you'll need to be careful not to corrupt your data.
I think it could make for really nice connectors, though. Especially in extreme environments, where dirt and grime are likely to get in between the contacts. You have something like teflon-coated springs, to serve as air-core inductors. This has the double-benefit of protecting against power surges, since air-core inductors can't really pass much of a large pulse of energy.
Last time I heard of that, the flyback transformer had been cracked. It wasn't a severe issue...it just meant that the crack was vibrating, causing the noise.
Unless it was a cheap monitor, your transformer should have been overspecced. As a result, you should still just be eating into a margin. It may result in a slightly decreased picture quality, though. Try the highest and lowest resolutions on your monitor, to see if you can see the difference. It's up to you whether or not to shell out the money for a new display.
You end up witha greater airflow through the cabin. large planes are pressurized by ramming the air into the cabin. If more air is leaking out, then they increase the volume of air being rammed in.
The caches are usually hidden. Also, sometimes the person who placed the cache couldn't get very good signal, and even if he could, he may not have been able to put the GPS in the exact position of the cache.
Even if the coordinates are exact, there's still the z factor.
I have this nasty tendency to type ":wq" in everything from email (in Moz) to MSVC++ to notepad. And I usually hit :wq instead of :w when I'm coding in Linux. And it's really annoying when I'm typing the entry for the cvs log in vim, and I hit :wq before I'm done.
idiot me...I only read half the post.
Anyway, people are too paranoid about guns to be comfortable with anyone having a gun onboard, let alone normal passengers.
Unfortunately, not many people carry...Only four people I know, and I live in a highly conservative area.
Right...so they shoot each other?
Air marshalls get onboard incognito. The only sign that you're looking at one is that he got to bypass the metal detectors by flashing his wallet at the security gaurd.
+/- 32ft is the normal disclaimer my GPS gives me...It gets down to 16 ft in a good coverage area. (i.e. not under a bunch of tall trees, or in a concrete building.)
It's not like most people are letting their GPS device drive their vehicles or something.
No, but they let Microsoft Streets do it for them. And it's really annoying when your car symbol jumps from one street to a parallel one.
Anyway, check out Geocaching. It's awesome, but an accurate GPS helps out a lot. You go around finding boxes of prizes with only a GPS coordinate and a couple of clues. It's great for excercise, and it's fun! You hear me, geeks? FUN EXCERCISE!
Geosynchronous satellites have to orbit around the equator...
No, you need a 2KHz carrier frequency. That's not the same thing as bandwidth. Your signal can't change faster than half your carrier's frequency, since it becomes difficult to discern between your signal's affect on your line voltage and your carrier frequencies, since both your carrier and signal frequencies manifest as AC voltage on your antenna.
No. Mr. Fourier tells us that an AM signal consists of a range of frequencies. A single, exact frequency is just a pure sine wave, it carries no information. The bandwidth required for AM is just the bandwidth of the signal to be carried.
I think we're both right...I was referring to the frequency of the carrier wave. The amplitude of the signal (which is also AC) is represented in the number of quanta received per unit time.
The fact that the signal has an AC frequency has no effect on the RF frequency it's being transmitted at.
It has to do with statistics. Theoretically, the more information you have per data point, and the more datapoints you have, the more accurate your results are.
:) ).
The problem is, if you have too much information per datapoint, you start getting false positives.
Think of it like your Bayesian spam filter(God, I LOVE Moz 1.3!)...the longer you train it (the more spam messages you feed it), the better it will be at recognizing the types of messages you give it.
However, if you, say, start feeding it messages from your ex-spouse, it will start homing in on on other stuff. Possibly personal mail, or maybe legal notifications (depending on your situation.