What would the US's founding fathers and the Original olimpians think? Probably that the exclusivity given to NBC is out rageous.
My money (either collected from me by sponsors or the government) is used to sponsor the olympics. I own it just as much as the next guy.
The Olympic Spirit is one of humanity and peace not one of capitalism and greed.
The IOC should be ashamed of themselves for sensuring the best athletes in the world, in any respect.
Vote with your dollars. Don't go don't buy tickets. Make the IOC despertate so that they let anyone and everyone cover the Olympics freely as anyone should be able to.
In Roman times, admittance to the colesieum was free if you were a Roman citizen. The Olymics belong to us, not NBC or commite, though we do thank them for their hard work. But no one has the exclusive right to cover what should belong to the people of the world.
No, MS is making it look more like us. Not until XP (or WinBlinds) have you ever be able to change the decorations. Sure you could do size and color, but it was across them all and they'd never be more different than size and color. (Leaving out shape and behavior)
We should thank Microsoft for bringing 96% of the market to us.
My house built in 1954, is plaster. I have a 802.11 AP and can get signal 3 houses down on each side of me and to the street behind.
Where does this metal come from and what is it for?
Your linksys has 2 antennas. Perhaps you can run one with coax to a new location and end up with a better line-of sight. Like move an antenna to another room, so they have different visibility?
It's a hack, and I don't know if the router can handle it, but it could work.
Oddly enough, they carry the best primers. They have a series of books called "Basic Electronics" "Communication Electronics" and "Digital Electronics"
All are an easy read, and very clear with good pictures. They make it really easy to understand.
They are ~8x11 and are thin paperbacks. Absolutely great. I think even kids can understand (assuming they can handle the terminology)
Why is ti so hard to make artificial plants, and not the plastic kind?
A plant consumes CO2, produces O2 and converts sunlight to energy. Why can't we do all that, but change the chemical to eletrical energy?
That way the moer enery we make, the more we clean out the greenhouse gasses. And I'm sure we could scale it down to household size and let the general public both supplement their power usage and help clean the atmosphere at the same time.
I think the only people that have issues with this are eitehr criminals or your run-of-the-mill speeder. I fall into the latter catagory.
However I have been in numerous accicents, all but one of which were not my fault. However two of those incedents the insuance companies settled with a mutual fault decision.
I think having the data logger would very clearly show what exactly happened, and in those two cases, save my insurance rates.
Now, big brother can watch you, or they can watch your back for you. Unless these black boxes have unique identifies and wireles signals, I'm venturing it'll be watching your back for you technology. As long as someone has to get into my car (get physical access from the box) and plug a reader in, the only time I'm going to allow that is under court order or if I am innocent. If police start black-box checking at road blocks for speeders liek the do drunks, then I would not be for this. However I do think it is an impractical scenario.
Now as moore's law applies eventually they wil be able to store 100,000 miles worth of data. Not only that but an on board accelerometer can establish your every lane change and turn. You can then coalesce the data and come up with every place you've driven to.
The easy way to fix this is just to limit it to the last 5 minutes or 5 miles, which is done easily enough.
Now on the subject of speeders. Every speeder has to admit that if speed was a factor it should be known. After all we know we do speed. However if speed is not a factor because of a larger violation (failure to stop, etc) then I doubt any court will see your minor speed infraction as relavant. But if it is a major speed infraction, then you can have unclean hands, because mostly likely you would not have caused the accident.
If you are so concerned about speed, then get off your butts and change the laws. And I think that is the reasonable and right way to address your concerns. If we all speed, then that is civil disobediance on a wide scale and the laws need reform.
Remember only criminals are afraid of the truth (in an accident).
each [sheilded] wire as its own infinante bandwidth. With shared band width (no wires) you run into channel allocation problems which implies bandwidth size problems.
So while you maight not have 32 wires for a 32 bit bus, you'll have wire, and all the frequencies in between.
I don't know how they say wireless will be less power consumptive. Even if you bypass the need for a transmitter and reciver, inductance power decreases exponentially with range...
You mitigate that by putting a shielded wire back in.
The cable company did this years ago. It's called cable. What Sun is promissing is satalite. And we all know satalite is more expensive in hardware costs.
We all know that 10% of Windows 3.1 was 32 bit (with Win32s installed) Windows 95 make it 50%, so where does that leave NT-XP? I'm sure these things have 16 bit code still in them. It maybe down to 1%, but it isn't all gone is it?
(We don't have to count code for 16 bit compatibility)
Linux and OS2 were the only entirely 32-bit maintstream PC OS from the start.
Well, you have a low UID, so I can't dismiss you right off the bat.;-) But I've tried the following: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, BASIC (and variant) Fortran, Pascal, and ASM. I've red about LISP, but have yet to actually write in it; though I think its right up my alley.
I've been around the block enough to not care about the low-level implementation issues. The older you get the less you care about re-inventing the wheel, and you just want to get things to work and get on to the next thing. That's why Linux is turning me off. I just want to install it and get the damned thing working, so I can get working. No etitinf fstab or my Xfree86 config file. No recompiling the kernel, etc. I come back to it periodically and I have to say It's made great strides, so I'm more interested than ever. Programming is very much like that. The more times you've been around the block, the more times you've been down that road, the faster you just want to get where you're going to get your task done. If I'm writing s/w for the space shuttle, I don't want to have to be insmoding drivers, unless I an writing them myself.
So when I said PHP and JS are nice, it is because they (like most scriping langs) don't bother me with low level implementation issues (unless I want to be bothered by them).
The other great observation I've made in my many years, is that it's not about the code, it's about the data. C is really bad at allocating memory and designing data structures. PHP and JS make that trivially easy.
I am a firmware devloper. I work in C 99% of the time. When I'm writing support software for the C code, I do it in some scripting language because it takes 20 times less to develop and I have no performance constraints. For the stuff I'm doing now, I have my scripts generate C files. I also generare SQL files from PHP structures.
JS and PHP may have thier quirks but such annoyances are [usually] inconsequntial. Dealing with a quirk or too is more time-saving than doing it in a strict, clean language like C.
What this is all getting to is that PHP and JS are great languages to me and my job. Or, IOW, YMMV.
With the new class features, Qt and PHP would go well together.
PHP is the nicest language I know, aside from Javascript. With both I can just think about the data and it arranges it that way. I don't have to deal with the low level issues.
Qt does the same for windowing.
It'd be a match made in heaven. For those that want Qt+Javascript, look at KJSEmbed. It's a stnadard part of KDE Bindings.
To a database you are two people, but I don't think there is a function out there that will equate Charles to Chaz, Charlie, and Buddy. Robert to Bobby, Tim to Timothy.
They need propername matching. In theory it's simple - specify the first n characgers to match, and that generally work, except for Rob->Bob.
Using the distributed DNS system, or a system like DNS, we can push RSS content down to local servers. You still have go to to the site for the actual content, but the headlines are distributed.
This woul dbe an ideal solution, since most RSS feeds are a few K. There's room for a lot of RSS in 1 megabyte.
Of course, a caching proxy server would do the same thing.
If a car were toget this kind of milage, we'd be complaining about oil usage. We'd be able to traverse the contry 4 times on 1 tank of gas, but have to get oil changed at each cozst.
Not only that, but having such efficient vehicles would effect the world in ways that we'd ever guess. Shipping somethign would be incredibly cheap, almost free. We'd apprach a true globalization and not just on the net.
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Riiiiiiiight....
We have to baby sit our vehicles and constantly check the hazard cameras.
We can't even get a car to drive 10 miles on GPS alone for a $1M bounty, but you expect us to do it on another planet?
Until we have vehicles on our own planet that can drive around and not run into barriers, this is a waste of money.
Give it 10 years or so.
Besides you can get a 3 point triangulation system to do the same for a LOT less.
I mean my php script ends in.php but sends svg code along with correct but now non-matching headers.( The php extension to the svg MIME headers - they won't match)
So looks like any script that generates a file oher than text/html and variants like an image from a php file, svg doc or etc, will no longer work?
Until there are more Starbucks...
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on mars, I really don't see the need for knowing where I am on the red planet to 3 meter (or even 1 kilometer) accuracy.
Without people or autonomous units on the planet, why spend the money now? It'll be cheaper later. (Space elevator, privatized space missions, etc.)
We don't even have vehicles that we can lose! They all move too slow to just wake up and be off the map.
Does your Web site contain files with file extensions that do not match their Content-Type?
If your site serves files that are handled by mime-handlers, the file extensions on those files should correspond to the same ProgID as the mime-handler. If the Content-type ProgID for a given file does not match the file extension ProgID, Internet Explorer in XP SP2 may take the following actions: 1) the user may be prompted to download the file and 2) the file will not be executed in the extension-handler if it fails to execute in the mime-handler.
You can correct these mismatches by changing the content-type to match the file extension. Be sure this is true for your Web pages as well.
Exception: This change does not affect cases where a "content-disposition=attachment" header is sent. In those cases, the file name or extension suggested by the server is considered final and is not changed based on Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) sniffing.
So my ohp script that generates svg, that won't work anymore?
Well that's what being polite gets you. You just tell the clerk, you're a pawn in all this, and it's not personal.
You then go through the CDs... When management comes and get security (though if you a re polite it is doubltful that that'll happen. He'll probably give you your money back and have you be on your way.) you can explain to security that you were sold a defective CD, and per store policy, you are limited to finding one of the same work that works.
Just remain calm, and be polite. These people will help you in your cruisade as long as you realize they are innocent themselves. You beef isn't with the clerk, the manager, or security. Its with the record company making the discs.
Everything is on the legal side of things, and provided that you don't make a scene, they have nothing to hold against you.
Hell if that were me, I'd sit there with an old player going through the entire CD inventory for that CD and demonstrate that that particular CD was corrupt, as the mamager or sales staff watched.
And it's completely leagal, and actually encouraged. All stores that I know of will only exhange for the same if it is opened. So you just keep going through their entire collection until there are no more incompatible CDs. They'd end up with a lot of opened CDs that they have to return. In the mean time, they are out of stock of the hottest titles, which pushes people else where.
Will this store then carry copy protected CDs? If the answer is still yes, then they have to ammend their policy to let you exnahge it for a different album, hopefully, you pick one without copy protection. If you don't, just wash, rinse, repeat. If you do, then keep the copy of the original, and enjoy what is their effecively 2-for-1 sale.
Iniertia will hold the top in place until it is acted on by your exertion of force. You can imagine the pole forming a catenary curve, sort of like a parabola. The amount if bend depends on the spring constant of the material. Steel is very elastic and springy (car springs) where as aluminum is not (it just bends).
To see aht it would look like, use a ink tube from a pen trap the top and bottom, and push on it in the center. Over that large distance in your example, all materials that I know of will do the same as the ink tube.
Assuming you got something that was not springy at all, yes the top would move instantly.
The other way to attack it is that you could increase the speed of energy transmittance so that the bowing was instantly fast. Then we are talking about a light beam. The thing is it still won't be stright. Imagine a slinky, stretch it out and put a broom handle in it. then move it to the left. As you move feed more handle into the slinky. The top will stay in place the bottom strightness will increase until the whole slinky is updated to the new angle by the broom handle.
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Liberals come from cities, Conservatives come from rural areas.
I think it is the lifestyle of where you live that governs the formation of the brain.
Look at this county map. Here is a equally hi correlation to rurality=convervativeness.
Maybe conservatives are inbred, not born? (Laugh, it's a joke, not a troll.)
What would the US's founding fathers and the Original olimpians think? Probably that the exclusivity given to NBC is out rageous.
My money (either collected from me by sponsors or the government) is used to sponsor the olympics. I own it just as much as the next guy.
The Olympic Spirit is one of humanity and peace not one of capitalism and greed.
The IOC should be ashamed of themselves for sensuring the best athletes in the world, in any respect.
Vote with your dollars. Don't go don't buy tickets. Make the IOC despertate so that they let anyone and everyone cover the Olympics freely as anyone should be able to.
In Roman times, admittance to the colesieum was free if you were a Roman citizen. The Olymics belong to us, not NBC or commite, though we do thank them for their hard work. But no one has the exclusive right to cover what should belong to the people of the world.
No, MS is making it look more like us. Not until XP (or WinBlinds) have you ever be able to change the decorations. Sure you could do size and color, but it was across them all and they'd never be more different than size and color. (Leaving out shape and behavior)
We should thank Microsoft for bringing 96% of the market to us.
How is the GNU mascot supposed to compete with the aptly selected weasel? A weasel is much more fun to play with.
I guess we have to lauch a counter movement, and tellthem to share and share alike. We'll then see which culture benefits better and improves faster.
My house built in 1954, is plaster. I have a 802.11 AP and can get signal 3 houses down on each side of me and to the street behind.
Where does this metal come from and what is it for?
Your linksys has 2 antennas. Perhaps you can run one with coax to a new location and end up with a better line-of sight. Like move an antenna to another room, so they have different visibility?
It's a hack, and I don't know if the router can handle it, but it could work.
all three
Oddly enough, they carry the best primers. They have a series of books called "Basic Electronics" "Communication Electronics" and "Digital Electronics"
All are an easy read, and very clear with good pictures. They make it really easy to understand.
They are ~8x11 and are thin paperbacks. Absolutely great. I think even kids can understand (assuming they can handle the terminology)
I completely agree with you.
Why is ti so hard to make artificial plants, and not the plastic kind?
A plant consumes CO2, produces O2 and converts sunlight to energy. Why can't we do all that, but change the chemical to eletrical energy?
That way the moer enery we make, the more we clean out the greenhouse gasses. And I'm sure we could scale it down to household size and let the general public both supplement their power usage and help clean the atmosphere at the same time.
Seems like a win-win to me.
I think the only people that have issues with this are eitehr criminals or your run-of-the-mill speeder. I fall into the latter catagory.
However I have been in numerous accicents, all but one of which were not my fault. However two of those incedents the insuance companies settled with a mutual fault decision.
I think having the data logger would very clearly show what exactly happened, and in those two cases, save my insurance rates.
Now, big brother can watch you, or they can watch your back for you. Unless these black boxes have unique identifies and wireles signals, I'm venturing it'll be watching your back for you technology. As long as someone has to get into my car (get physical access from the box) and plug a reader in, the only time I'm going to allow that is under court order or if I am innocent. If police start black-box checking at road blocks for speeders liek the do drunks, then I would not be for this. However I do think it is an impractical scenario.
Now as moore's law applies eventually they wil be able to store 100,000 miles worth of data. Not only that but an on board accelerometer can establish your every lane change and turn. You can then coalesce the data and come up with every place you've driven to.
The easy way to fix this is just to limit it to the last 5 minutes or 5 miles, which is done easily enough.
Now on the subject of speeders. Every speeder has to admit that if speed was a factor it should be known. After all we know we do speed. However if speed is not a factor because of a larger violation (failure to stop, etc) then I doubt any court will see your minor speed infraction as relavant. But if it is a major speed infraction, then you can have unclean hands, because mostly likely you would not have caused the accident.
If you are so concerned about speed, then get off your butts and change the laws. And I think that is the reasonable and right way to address your concerns. If we all speed, then that is civil disobediance on a wide scale and the laws need reform.
Remember only criminals are afraid of the truth (in an accident).
"And in the year 2000 we'll all have flying cars."
"Experts" of often wrong. Look at how he was quoted in the article. They acknowlege that they don't have a clue if it'll work or not.
each [sheilded] wire as its own infinante bandwidth. With shared band width (no wires) you run into channel allocation problems which implies bandwidth size problems.
So while you maight not have 32 wires for a 32 bit bus, you'll have wire, and all the frequencies in between.
I don't know how they say wireless will be less power consumptive. Even if you bypass the need for a transmitter and reciver, inductance power decreases exponentially with range...
You mitigate that by putting a shielded wire back in.
The cable company did this years ago. It's called cable. What Sun is promissing is satalite. And we all know satalite is more expensive in hardware costs.
You mitigate that
Lawyers have been working without a pulse for years!
We all know that 10% of Windows 3.1 was 32 bit (with Win32s installed) Windows 95 make it 50%, so where does that leave NT-XP? I'm sure these things have 16 bit code still in them. It maybe down to 1%, but it isn't all gone is it?
(We don't have to count code for 16 bit compatibility)
Linux and OS2 were the only entirely 32-bit maintstream PC OS from the start.
LOL. Even I laughed.
;-) But I've tried the following:
Well, you have a low UID, so I can't dismiss you right off the bat.
C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, BASIC (and variant) Fortran, Pascal, and ASM. I've red about LISP, but have yet to actually write in it; though I think its right up my alley.
I've been around the block enough to not care about the low-level implementation issues. The older you get the less you care about re-inventing the wheel, and you just want to get things to work and get on to the next thing. That's why Linux is turning me off. I just want to install it and get the damned thing working, so I can get working. No etitinf fstab or my Xfree86 config file. No recompiling the kernel, etc. I come back to it periodically and I have to say It's made great strides, so I'm more interested than ever. Programming is very much like that. The more times you've been around the block, the more times you've been down that road, the faster you just want to get where you're going to get your task done. If I'm writing s/w for the space shuttle, I don't want to have to be insmoding drivers, unless I an writing them myself.
So when I said PHP and JS are nice, it is because they (like most scriping langs) don't bother me with low level implementation issues (unless I want to be bothered by them).
The other great observation I've made in my many years, is that it's not about the code, it's about the data. C is really bad at allocating memory and designing data structures. PHP and JS make that trivially easy.
I am a firmware devloper. I work in C 99% of the time. When I'm writing support software for the C code, I do it in some scripting language because it takes 20 times less to develop and I have no performance constraints. For the stuff I'm doing now, I have my scripts generate C files. I also generare SQL files from PHP structures.
JS and PHP may have thier quirks but such annoyances are [usually] inconsequntial. Dealing with a quirk or too is more time-saving than doing it in a strict, clean language like C.
What this is all getting to is that PHP and JS are great languages to me and my job. Or, IOW, YMMV.
With the new class features, Qt and PHP would go well together.
PHP is the nicest language I know, aside from Javascript. With both I can just think about the data and it arranges it that way. I don't have to deal with the low level issues.
Qt does the same for windowing.
It'd be a match made in heaven. For those that want Qt+Javascript, look at KJSEmbed. It's a stnadard part of KDE Bindings.
To a database you are two people, but I don't think there is a function out there that will equate Charles to Chaz, Charlie, and Buddy.
Robert to Bobby, Tim to Timothy.
They need propername matching. In theory it's simple - specify the first n characgers to match, and that generally work, except for Rob->Bob.
Using the distributed DNS system, or a system like DNS, we can push RSS content down to local servers. You still have go to to the site for the actual content, but the headlines are distributed.
This woul dbe an ideal solution, since most RSS feeds are a few K. There's room for a lot of RSS in 1 megabyte.
Of course, a caching proxy server would do the same thing.
My tank is 12 gallons from F to E.
If a car were toget this kind of milage, we'd be complaining about oil usage. We'd be able to traverse the contry 4 times on 1 tank of gas, but have to get oil changed at each cozst.
Not only that, but having such efficient vehicles would effect the world in ways that we'd ever guess. Shipping somethign would be incredibly cheap, almost free. We'd apprach a true globalization and not just on the net.
Riiiiiiiight....
We have to baby sit our vehicles and constantly check the hazard cameras.
We can't even get a car to drive 10 miles on GPS alone for a $1M bounty, but you expect us to do it on another planet?
Until we have vehicles on our own planet that can drive around and not run into barriers, this is a waste of money.
Give it 10 years or so.
Besides you can get a 3 point triangulation system to do the same for a LOT less.
I mean my php script ends in .php but sends svg code along with correct but now non-matching headers.( The php extension to the svg MIME headers - they won't match)
So looks like any script that generates a file oher than text/html and variants like an image from a php file, svg doc or etc, will no longer work?
on mars, I really don't see the need for knowing where I am on the red planet to 3 meter (or even 1 kilometer) accuracy.
Without people or autonomous units on the planet, why spend the money now? It'll be cheaper later. (Space elevator, privatized space missions, etc.)
We don't even have vehicles that we can lose! They all move too slow to just wake up and be off the map.
Does your Web site contain files with file extensions that do not match their Content-Type?
If your site serves files that are handled by mime-handlers, the file extensions on those files should correspond to the same ProgID as the mime-handler. If the Content-type ProgID for a given file does not match the file extension ProgID, Internet Explorer in XP SP2 may take the following actions: 1) the user may be prompted to download the file and 2) the file will not be executed in the extension-handler if it fails to execute in the mime-handler.
You can correct these mismatches by changing the content-type to match the file extension. Be sure this is true for your Web pages as well.
Exception: This change does not affect cases where a "content-disposition=attachment" header is sent. In those cases, the file name or extension suggested by the server is considered final and is not changed based on Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) sniffing.
So my ohp script that generates svg, that won't work anymore?
Well that's what being polite gets you. You just tell the clerk, you're a pawn in all this, and it's not personal.
You then go through the CDs... When management comes and get security (though if you a re polite it is doubltful that that'll happen. He'll probably give you your money back and have you be on your way.) you can explain to security that you were sold a defective CD, and per store policy, you are limited to finding one of the same work that works.
Just remain calm, and be polite. These people will help you in your cruisade as long as you realize they are innocent themselves. You beef isn't with the clerk, the manager, or security. Its with the record company making the discs.
Everything is on the legal side of things, and provided that you don't make a scene, they have nothing to hold against you.
Hell if that were me, I'd sit there with an old player going through the entire CD inventory for that CD and demonstrate that that particular CD was corrupt, as the mamager or sales staff watched.
And it's completely leagal, and actually encouraged. All stores that I know of will only exhange for the same if it is opened. So you just keep going through their entire collection until there are no more incompatible CDs. They'd end up with a lot of opened CDs that they have to return. In the mean time, they are out of stock of the hottest titles, which pushes people else where.
Will this store then carry copy protected CDs?
If the answer is still yes, then they have to ammend their policy to let you exnahge it for a different album, hopefully, you pick one without copy protection. If you don't, just wash, rinse, repeat. If you do, then keep the copy of the original, and enjoy what is their effecively 2-for-1 sale.
Iniertia will hold the top in place until it is acted on by your exertion of force. You can imagine the pole forming a catenary curve, sort of like a parabola. The amount if bend depends on the spring constant of the material. Steel is very elastic and springy (car springs) where as aluminum is not (it just bends).
To see aht it would look like, use a ink tube from a pen trap the top and bottom, and push on it in the center. Over that large distance in your example, all materials that I know of will do the same as the ink tube.
Assuming you got something that was not springy at all, yes the top would move instantly.
The other way to attack it is that you could increase the speed of energy transmittance so that the bowing was instantly fast. Then we are talking about a light beam. The thing is it still won't be stright. Imagine a slinky, stretch it out and put a broom handle in it. then move it to the left. As you move feed more handle into the slinky. The top will stay in place the bottom strightness will increase until the whole slinky is updated to the new angle by the broom handle.