I can frequently use a driver from Windows 3.1 on my Windows 98 or ME system.
Not really. In fact not at all. Win 3.1 at a driver level looks very different from Win95 or Win98 which were sort-of compatible.
Many Win blue screens are the result of driver problems. One such problem is the difficulty of maintaining an interface across kernel and GDI versions.
The thing is that the Linux kernel has evolved and is still evolving in the area of I/O services even for basic things like disks. Graphics drivers are much more complicated. If a change to the kernel breaks a driver it can be fixed and recompiled relatively easily.
Of course, the real solution is more advanced I/O services that would allow a 100% source code driver but a userland library to provide the advanced functions.
Note the build for NVidia drivers (which are part source code and part object library) seems a little broken. It should be possible to make a build process that takes a maximum of a few minutes.
I have been swimming in -10C air temperatures in Finland (hole in the ice) and done -30C walking in a windy St. Petersburg one winter. It gets down to -56C in some inhabited places in Russia and that is without windchill. As you say, it depends upon clothes. The top of an Alp can be about -14C already during a relatively calm day (I'll be there
on monday).
I don't particularly want to overwinter in the Antarctic, but I would love to be there during some of the better times, I love light, and this is one of the best places in the world for photography.
The issue is what you (and I) want, to witness a land so untouched by human development is also what the scientists need and this means keeping the visitors and supporting infrastructure to a minimum.
The Qantas flight doesn't land (although an NZ one did on Mt Erebus, nobody got out of that one).
In my understanding the issue is permanent structures (although an Ice-hotel could be a possibility). If you want to fly down there from Puento Arenas or wherever, you are welcome, but you need to be 100% self-contained which means establishing a fuel dump.
However, there is no real way to put the money spent on tourism (that little ski trip costs $30000) back into supporting the research work.
The the Kiwis have an excellent museum, (complete with a large walk-in freezer for simulation) but that is at their provisioning station in Christchurch. The simulator runs at a wimpy -5C and although they use screens to make it look like you are in the Antarctic, a mere photograph can't do it justice.
Subzero temperatures don't seem to be discouraging to that many tourists - have you done any winter sports? I have friends who happily go to Finland or even Russia mid-Winter - for fun! The action taken here is along with the line of discouraging tourism.
There seems to be an attitide that Antartica is reserved for science. It is tax-payer funded science and tourists are not allowed apart from the ocassional cruise ship and the people just step ashore for short periods.
Sorry, that isn't on any more. Controlled access is the answer but that would mess with too many treaties. So-called eco-tourism is working elsewhere and helps to fund the locals, the same could be done for Antartica and the cost of transporting supplies and removing rubbish to and from the bases can be subsidised by tourists.
Regrettably many modern explorers have government connections. They may be indierect, for example the explorer may be ex-military, but it is interesting how much help they can call upon which would not otherwise be available.
You accuse the bank of fraud and report them to the regulatory authorities. The US has high banking standards and the possibility of a fraudulant collusion between the banking officer and the employee should be investigated.
Banks don't like to be accused of fraud, they have only one defence and that is that it was a mistake on their part, in which case they must compensate.
I work in a bank, and I have seen so much compliance BS cross my desk that I cannot understand how it is possible for a company account to be opened without full documentary backup. You can't even open a Bahamas account for a company these days without documents.
In former times, color film and processing was complicated and expensive. Amateurs went for B&W and invested in a darkroom. The tricks that you learned such as 'dodging' (selectively varying the exposure given to parts of a print), cropping and so on, you can do with digital.
Digital gives you the facilities of a darkroom but without the toxic chemicals and the smells. Post-processing is normal and is still a skill worth knowing. Personally, I think a *good* digital with decent metering is quite usable, however they don't come cheap. OTOH, you save a lot on emulsion.
FWIW, I learned with Kodachrome 25 and 64 in Olympus bodies. That is about 1/3 stop lattitude. Sure, the OM4 had a very nice auto exposure system but you were forever tweaking it by averaging between spots or nudging the exposure up or down. When I had a chance I would bracket shots. Expensive.
I'm in a rather social running club that generally sets trails marked with flour. Post 9/11, there was such a panic that many clubs switched to other material (such as sawdust). The sight alone of white powder was enough to trigger panics and some clubs that didn't switch ended up in trouble with the police and not just in the US.
Now the panic has died down, nobody is bothered. Would it be the same if powder came out of an aircraft, I guess so - it could be a duster.
A Tomahawk reputedly costs around $800,000 a pop. I guess the current UAVs aren't much cheaper. They are full of the highest quality technology that can be bought by the US tax payer.
You are now planning on producing a $5K unmanned jet-aircraft which could carry explosives or cameras which is a threat to the companies that sell something for over 100 times as much (and possibly to the retirement benefits of some Pentagon workers). You are going to upset someone big time. Wellington may have laughed this off earlier, but if Uncle Sam wants to have a serious word, they are going to listen.
Perhaps it would have helped if you had marketed the copncept of drones for surveying (same as reconnaisance really) and possibly with a military application for target practice. Makes the whole thing sound safer.
Anyway, I hope you manage to get things sorted. I have followed your projects with interest.
- illegally opened a corporate business account using the company name (but without legal articles of incorporation, since he wasn't an officer)
Bank of America are liable for negligance there (and if this was recent, money laundering regs as well). To open a company bank account takes not just the articles but a board resolution (or equiv) countersigned by company officers.
An example of forking in closed source software are fundemental API changes, not an extra parameter or call but a paradigm shift. Essentially, you are then forced to readapt everything you have done.
This has happened on Win as with other CSS software (API of the month club). The difference is that you are in the hands of the designers and have no option but to follow, even if you don't want the new features. With OSS, you can fork back to what you want, if you are prepared for the support overhead.
Flamebait?, the mods must be on SCO's crack again.
Java as a language encorages class inflation and even where it is fast, there is some slow coding. I don't like the memory handling in the JVM and have seen lockups and general suckage with regards to multiprocessing. OTOH, I'm talking about financial trading apps where the demands are somewhat greater.
I'm no Java fan, but on the whole it is more stable than the equivalent C/C++ implementation and it does not as the administrator claims, crash the system.
Java source is relatively easy to get hold of and if you don't like it, then there are LGPL'ed variants.
We already know that biometrics are far from effective but there is a very real danger because many people assume that they are. An immigration officer may hold my passport up to the light or carry any number of checks. If the computer says you're ok, then you must be, right?
Even worse than that is the fact that much of the process for obtaining a US visa is being outsourced. As with a lot of the post 9/11 measures, there is little real effect other than to reduce overall security and allow some more port to be distributed.
at their computer lab not MIT. It was known just as the Internet Coffeee Pot, a webcam on a filter coffee machine. I believe a German publishing house bought the original pot.
Please remember that the legal system promotes this way of working. Yes there is disclosure but you can bury your opposition (and the court with paper). This is one reasons why legal teams have to be so large, and essentially the one with a huge office behind them (or some well motivated law students) has the resources to process this and possibly win.
The country is immense. If I remember my geography right, it straddles nine timezones. Rail was established during the Czar time and was developed under the Soviets and in post Soviet Russia it is still working well.
Planes can move people but they aren't so economical for many kinds of manufactured goods. Trucks are a non-issue for the distances involved. Planes can only move a limited number of people and currently too many people travel between St. Petersburg and Moscow, so a high-speed rail link has been proposed.
The consumers have no right to avoid being 'informed' of their democratic choices. There is no way that the politicians will allow us to skip over their ads.
In my understanding TV advertising is the biggest ticket item in US political campaigns.
Murderers tend to be one-off criminals. Murder is extremely serious whatever happens. A sex offence can vary from mooning all the way through to raping a child. The former isn't serious, however the latter is. A person who is guilty of the latter is a threat to the community unless they are treated (punishment alone won't work).
I heard about that case in the UK, where the witch hunt against sex offenders was so stirred up that a pediatrician was attacked as a pedophile by some confused idiots.
I'm deeply mistrustful of these "Think of the children" idiots who seem to be behind this kind of thing. It rather takes the heat off a state that was employing sex offenders as children's carers.
The implementation of Linux submitted for evaluation came from RedHat as do the support services. Therefore it is only RH's implementation of Linux plus support that has been accepted.
OTOH, I guess it would not be a major problem for another vendor to go down this same path with Linux, as long as they can demonstrate a similar implementation process.
Picking even smaller nits, XP Home and XP Pro are very simmilar and both based on the 2000 kernel. The 2000 kernel was only really a evolutionary change from the NT. The big jump was going away from the 95/98/ME stuff. To be fair, Windows 2 (almost unusable) to Windows 3 (386 support) was also a pretty big one.
Perhaps my perception of a more continual process with Linux is because the source changes and discussion groups are public.
I belong to a ski club. We *want* to attract new members.
If I googled before for ski club, we would be lucky to be listed on the first page. Most of the respondents were commercial and had *nothing* to do with skiing. Now we are no. 1 in the listing. A looser search for and "Skiing" lists some local resellers of equipment and we are still quite visible (being the largest such club in town) and that is reasonable.
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Many Win blue screens are the result of driver problems. One such problem is the difficulty of maintaining an interface across kernel and GDI versions.
The thing is that the Linux kernel has evolved and is still evolving in the area of I/O services even for basic things like disks. Graphics drivers are much more complicated. If a change to the kernel breaks a driver it can be fixed and recompiled relatively easily.
Of course, the real solution is more advanced I/O services that would allow a 100% source code driver but a userland library to provide the advanced functions.
Note the build for NVidia drivers (which are part source code and part object library) seems a little broken. It should be possible to make a build process that takes a maximum of a few minutes.
I don't particularly want to overwinter in the Antarctic, but I would love to be there during some of the better times, I love light, and this is one of the best places in the world for photography.
The issue is what you (and I) want, to witness a land so untouched by human development is also what the scientists need and this means keeping the visitors and supporting infrastructure to a minimum.
In my understanding the issue is permanent structures (although an Ice-hotel could be a possibility). If you want to fly down there from Puento Arenas or wherever, you are welcome, but you need to be 100% self-contained which means establishing a fuel dump.
However, there is no real way to put the money spent on tourism (that little ski trip costs $30000) back into supporting the research work.
The the Kiwis have an excellent museum, (complete with a large walk-in freezer for simulation) but that is at their provisioning station in Christchurch. The simulator runs at a wimpy -5C and although they use screens to make it look like you are in the Antarctic, a mere photograph can't do it justice.
There seems to be an attitide that Antartica is reserved for science. It is tax-payer funded science and tourists are not allowed apart from the ocassional cruise ship and the people just step ashore for short periods.
Sorry, that isn't on any more. Controlled access is the answer but that would mess with too many treaties. So-called eco-tourism is working elsewhere and helps to fund the locals, the same could be done for Antartica and the cost of transporting supplies and removing rubbish to and from the bases can be subsidised by tourists.
Regrettably many modern explorers have government connections. They may be indierect, for example the explorer may be ex-military, but it is interesting how much help they can call upon which would not otherwise be available.
Banks don't like to be accused of fraud, they have only one defence and that is that it was a mistake on their part, in which case they must compensate.
I work in a bank, and I have seen so much compliance BS cross my desk that I cannot understand how it is possible for a company account to be opened without full documentary backup. You can't even open a Bahamas account for a company these days without documents.
Digital gives you the facilities of a darkroom but without the toxic chemicals and the smells. Post-processing is normal and is still a skill worth knowing. Personally, I think a *good* digital with decent metering is quite usable, however they don't come cheap. OTOH, you save a lot on emulsion.
FWIW, I learned with Kodachrome 25 and 64 in Olympus bodies. That is about 1/3 stop lattitude. Sure, the OM4 had a very nice auto exposure system but you were forever tweaking it by averaging between spots or nudging the exposure up or down. When I had a chance I would bracket shots. Expensive.
Now the panic has died down, nobody is bothered. Would it be the same if powder came out of an aircraft, I guess so - it could be a duster.
You are now planning on producing a $5K unmanned jet-aircraft which could carry explosives or cameras which is a threat to the companies that sell something for over 100 times as much (and possibly to the retirement benefits of some Pentagon workers). You are going to upset someone big time. Wellington may have laughed this off earlier, but if Uncle Sam wants to have a serious word, they are going to listen.
Perhaps it would have helped if you had marketed the copncept of drones for surveying (same as reconnaisance really) and possibly with a military application for target practice. Makes the whole thing sound safer.
Anyway, I hope you manage to get things sorted. I have followed your projects with interest.
This has happened on Win as with other CSS software (API of the month club). The difference is that you are in the hands of the designers and have no option but to follow, even if you don't want the new features. With OSS, you can fork back to what you want, if you are prepared for the support overhead.
Java as a language encorages class inflation and even where it is fast, there is some slow coding. I don't like the memory handling in the JVM and have seen lockups and general suckage with regards to multiprocessing. OTOH, I'm talking about financial trading apps where the demands are somewhat greater.
I'm no Java fan, but on the whole it is more stable than the equivalent C/C++ implementation and it does not as the administrator claims, crash the system.
Java source is relatively easy to get hold of and if you don't like it, then there are LGPL'ed variants.
is exactly what the peguin recommends!!!!
Even worse than that is the fact that much of the process for obtaining a US visa is being outsourced. As with a lot of the post 9/11 measures, there is little real effect other than to reduce overall security and allow some more port to be distributed.
at their computer lab not MIT. It was known just as the Internet Coffeee Pot, a webcam on a filter coffee machine. I believe a German publishing house bought the original pot.
I suppose it could be worse, imagine goatse in braille!
Please remember that the legal system promotes this way of working. Yes there is disclosure but you can bury your opposition (and the court with paper). This is one reasons why legal teams have to be so large, and essentially the one with a huge office behind them (or some well motivated law students) has the resources to process this and possibly win.
Planes can move people but they aren't so economical for many kinds of manufactured goods. Trucks are a non-issue for the distances involved. Planes can only move a limited number of people and currently too many people travel between St. Petersburg and Moscow, so a high-speed rail link has been proposed.
Nah, get Connery to play Smaug!!!
In my understanding TV advertising is the biggest ticket item in US political campaigns.
Murderers tend to be one-off criminals. Murder is extremely serious whatever happens. A sex offence can vary from mooning all the way through to raping a child. The former isn't serious, however the latter is. A person who is guilty of the latter is a threat to the community unless they are treated (punishment alone won't work).
I'm deeply mistrustful of these "Think of the children" idiots who seem to be behind this kind of thing. It rather takes the heat off a state that was employing sex offenders as children's carers.
OTOH, I guess it would not be a major problem for another vendor to go down this same path with Linux, as long as they can demonstrate a similar implementation process.
Perhaps my perception of a more continual process with Linux is because the source changes and discussion groups are public.
If I googled before for ski club, we would be lucky to be listed on the first page. Most of the respondents were commercial and had *nothing* to do with skiing. Now we are no. 1 in the listing. A looser search for and "Skiing" lists some local resellers of equipment and we are still quite visible (being the largest such club in town) and that is reasonable.
Google has just become a lot more useful!