Yes, you may be right for your situation. I do not happen to have any system available with PCIe slots in it but would love to toy with a bunch of Parallella boards for a CPU-bound thing or two. So for me this is a more interesting option and I've backed their Kickstarter for that reason.
Which is technically completely accurate but nonetheless for all practical intents and purposes the kind of utterly useless solution that is so completely off this world only geeks can come up with. Not to mention that it is not comparable to WordPerfect's split-screen reveal codes functionality at all.
As a freshman in a business school I handed in a linked-list implementation in Turbo Pascal (we're talking 1992 here) for an assignment in our very limited introductory programming course. Ok, I wasn't supposed to use linked lists instead of arrays, that was more stuff for the CS students. I can't believe that CS departments have gone down the drain that far in the meantime.
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The article states "The only theoretical limit is the acceleration, which should be kept within physiologically acceptable limits for a human, that is to 1 g or 9,81 m/s", which is not quite true. Jet fighter pilots have to take up to nine G during dog-fights (more than nine G leads to black outs), which is one of the reasons why on the long run the jet fighter pilot will become obsolete, since UAV's can handle more. The nine G figure is unrealistically high, but there are no reasons to assume you can't have a realitivistic rocket that starts out with six G for a short while and then drops its acceleration off to about two G. Combine this with some form of suspended animation, which we can already do for mice and all of a sudden the relativistic rocket becomes less far out.
Funny though, my bank (ABN-AMRO) has always been using T-FA for its webbanking and it works perfectly fine on both Linux and Mac OS X. It is just a little card-reader that you use in combination with your ATM-card and PIN code to generate the proper response code to a challenge code provided by their site. You have to go through the process again to confirm any transaction you do, which is a bit of an inconvenience, even for a batch of transactions. It nonetheless makes me feel a lot more confident about the safety of their service. But that is the Netherlands for you, the banks here have always tended to err a bit on the paranoid side of things.
I just wonder what Ken's qualifications in the field of law and especially IT-law are. Indemnification is not part of 'intellectual property' practice, it is part and parcel of IT-contracts. Indemnification is put into license agreements because it is a possible tool for users to get litigious third parties off their back. In practice it is an almost useless tool, but any lawyer worth his salt puts it into licence agreements. It has nothing to do with intellectual property law whatsoever though. And yes, I am a professional in the field of IT-related law.
Depends on whether they have included an additional definition of 'program' or not. In all EU jurisdictions there is a legal definition of a 'computer program' that does include README files and such distributed with the code (executable or source). Having a more restrictive definition would open up a whole can of worms in those jurisdictions.
And yes, I do have a law degree and am specialised in IT-law
My brain is perfectly capable of generating high resolution material of the nature you are referring to, thank you. I was more thinking along the lines of being able to look up things on the fly. It would be as if a significant part of our collective knowledge would be available by merely thinking up the right questions.
Actually, I'd love to have a brain implant that would allow me to query Google just by thinking about it. It would probably disqualify me for any TV quiz show, but would otherwise be really nifty.
If you have ever used bullets in complex documents you will have noticed that they tend to become a nuisance and start to have a life of their own. They interfere for unknown reasons with your paragraph headings and formatting, especially if you are using enumerations instead of plain bullets. After six years of Word usage, I still ache for WordPerfect's underwater screen. WordPerfect was far from perfect, but at least you could fix things then they went havoc. Ok, except for that single document where my footnotes all of a sudden started to count from 65535 to -1 and so on.
Ok, let's bite the bait. I have a MSc in BA and vaguely remember that ctrl-print screen did the trick in earlier versions of Windows. To make me more evil and stupid in the eyes of the slashbots: I have a law degree as well.
I am not aware of any jurisdictions where you can exonerate yourself from claims arising from criminal activity. I am an IT legal counsel in the Netherlands and here any clause to such extent would be null and void. But we're talking about extremely outlandisch scenarios here, your typical damages in IT usually arise from incomplete functionality, bugs, missed deadlines and cost overruns.
I disagree vehemently with you on the recourse bit, though. Read up a bit on your typical Microsoft EULA, or a random proprietary software EULA for that matter. You will find out that your legal recourses are virtually non-existent. Microsoft will pay back the licence fee you paid for the broken software, or will replace it and that choice is theirs to make. So you can claim up to $200 for a defective version of Windows, compared to $ 0 for a defective Linux version.
And yes, tend to write IT contracts for a living, so I may be knowing what I am talking about.
Read up on EU privacy directives and how they have been implemented by the various members and you will notice that compiling public information is still covered by that legislation and depending on the circumstances can be unlawful.
I have e-mailed two Dutch MEPs on the issue. One didn't respond, but later on I found on her personal web page that she was not in favour of the proposals (Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, VVD), the other responded within hours of my mail stating his position (Lambert Doorn, CDA). Both seemed to be aware of the issues and appeared to care. My remark about Google was aimed at the original poster who seemed unaware who his or her MEP was. That bit you can find with Google easily and from then on it is a matter of finding party websites.
On this particular issue it was even more easy since some browsing on Eurolinux would have brought you up to date.
Bottom line: don't attribute to a lack of transparancy and/or a democratic deficit that what can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Well, it isn't any harder for the average European to reach his or her MEP than it is to reach a national MP. They tend to have offices in their national capitals as well and happen to be in the phone directory. Laziness is no excuse for the blatant ignorance of the original poster, who even seemed unaware of the fact that the European Parliament is an elected body.
Which only shows that you haven't even bothered to google for it. There is more online information about the members of the European Parliament and its agenda available for several national parliaments. You not knowing who is representing you says a lot more about your intellecutal laziness than about a lack of transparancy of the EP.
You're talking bollocks. GSM uses the A5 encryption algorithm which is a lot stronger than DES. It doesn't matter anyway, because it is only used for the wireless connection. Most wiretapping takes place at the exchange level and that bit isn't encrypted at all.
I am a dick and proud of it. Besides, I find it rather strange that you are mixing up cruise missiles and genuine rockets in your posts while claiming to be a rocket scientist.
Hm, you got your insightful points out of moderator ignorance I suppose. Ever heard of this little launch system called Pegasus? There is actually a commercially viable business around that one. It uses a solid fuel rocket that is launched from a refurbished Lockheed Tristar. Look here.
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Yes, you may be right for your situation. I do not happen to have any system available with PCIe slots in it but would love to toy with a bunch of Parallella boards for a CPU-bound thing or two. So for me this is a more interesting option and I've backed their Kickstarter for that reason.
Which is technically completely accurate but nonetheless for all practical intents and purposes the kind of utterly useless solution that is so completely off this world only geeks can come up with. Not to mention that it is not comparable to WordPerfect's split-screen reveal codes functionality at all.
Which is precisely my experience as well. Not to mention very popular feature requests such as reveal codes.
It appears that they got rid of that (indeed annoying) feature in this version.
As a freshman in a business school I handed in a linked-list implementation in Turbo Pascal (we're talking 1992 here) for an assignment in our very limited introductory programming course. Ok, I wasn't supposed to use linked lists instead of arrays, that was more stuff for the CS students. I can't believe that CS departments have gone down the drain that far in the meantime.
The article states "The only theoretical limit is the acceleration, which should be kept within physiologically acceptable limits for a human, that is to 1 g or 9,81 m/s", which is not quite true. Jet fighter pilots have to take up to nine G during dog-fights (more than nine G leads to black outs), which is one of the reasons why on the long run the jet fighter pilot will become obsolete, since UAV's can handle more. The nine G figure is unrealistically high, but there are no reasons to assume you can't have a realitivistic rocket that starts out with six G for a short while and then drops its acceleration off to about two G. Combine this with some form of suspended animation, which we can already do for mice and all of a sudden the relativistic rocket becomes less far out.
Funny though, my bank (ABN-AMRO) has always been using T-FA for its webbanking and it works perfectly fine on both Linux and Mac OS X. It is just a little card-reader that you use in combination with your ATM-card and PIN code to generate the proper response code to a challenge code provided by their site. You have to go through the process again to confirm any transaction you do, which is a bit of an inconvenience, even for a batch of transactions. It nonetheless makes me feel a lot more confident about the safety of their service. But that is the Netherlands for you, the banks here have always tended to err a bit on the paranoid side of things.
I just wonder what Ken's qualifications in the field of law and especially IT-law are. Indemnification is not part of 'intellectual property' practice, it is part and parcel of IT-contracts. Indemnification is put into license agreements because it is a possible tool for users to get litigious third parties off their back. In practice it is an almost useless tool, but any lawyer worth his salt puts it into licence agreements. It has nothing to do with intellectual property law whatsoever though. And yes, I am a professional in the field of IT-related law.
Depends on whether they have included an additional definition of 'program' or not. In all EU jurisdictions there is a legal definition of a 'computer program' that does include README files and such distributed with the code (executable or source). Having a more restrictive definition would open up a whole can of worms in those jurisdictions.
And yes, I do have a law degree and am specialised in IT-law
There is a certain irony in there since Mazda is the Sumerian goddess of love and sexuality.
My brain is perfectly capable of generating high resolution material of the nature you are referring to, thank you. I was more thinking along the lines of being able to look up things on the fly. It would be as if a significant part of our collective knowledge would be available by merely thinking up the right questions.
Actually, I'd love to have a brain implant that would allow me to query Google just by thinking about it. It would probably disqualify me for any TV quiz show, but would otherwise be really nifty.
If you have ever used bullets in complex documents you will have noticed that they tend to become a nuisance and start to have a life of their own. They interfere for unknown reasons with your paragraph headings and formatting, especially if you are using enumerations instead of plain bullets. After six years of Word usage, I still ache for WordPerfect's underwater screen. WordPerfect was far from perfect, but at least you could fix things then they went havoc. Ok, except for that single document where my footnotes all of a sudden started to count from 65535 to -1 and so on.
Ok, let's bite the bait. I have a MSc in BA and vaguely remember that ctrl-print screen did the trick in earlier versions of Windows. To make me more evil and stupid in the eyes of the slashbots: I have a law degree as well.
I am not aware of any jurisdictions where you can exonerate yourself from claims arising from criminal activity. I am an IT legal counsel in the Netherlands and here any clause to such extent would be null and void. But we're talking about extremely outlandisch scenarios here, your typical damages in IT usually arise from incomplete functionality, bugs, missed deadlines and cost overruns.
I agree with you on the support bit.
I disagree vehemently with you on the recourse bit, though. Read up a bit on your typical Microsoft EULA, or a random proprietary software EULA for that matter. You will find out that your legal recourses are virtually non-existent. Microsoft will pay back the licence fee you paid for the broken software, or will replace it and that choice is theirs to make. So you can claim up to $200 for a defective version of Windows, compared to $ 0 for a defective Linux version.
And yes, tend to write IT contracts for a living, so I may be knowing what I am talking about.
Read all about it here
Read up on EU privacy directives and how they have been implemented by the various members and you will notice that compiling public information is still covered by that legislation and depending on the circumstances can be unlawful.
I have e-mailed two Dutch MEPs on the issue. One didn't respond, but later on I found on her personal web page that she was not in favour of the proposals (Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, VVD), the other responded within hours of my mail stating his position (Lambert Doorn, CDA). Both seemed to be aware of the issues and appeared to care. My remark about Google was aimed at the original poster who seemed unaware who his or her MEP was. That bit you can find with Google easily and from then on it is a matter of finding party websites.
On this particular issue it was even more easy since some browsing on Eurolinux would have brought you up to date.
Bottom line: don't attribute to a lack of transparancy and/or a democratic deficit that what can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Well, it isn't any harder for the average European to reach his or her MEP than it is to reach a national MP. They tend to have offices in their national capitals as well and happen to be in the phone directory. Laziness is no excuse for the blatant ignorance of the original poster, who even seemed unaware of the fact that the European Parliament is an elected body.
Which only shows that you haven't even bothered to google for it. There is more online information about the members of the European Parliament and its agenda available for several national parliaments. You not knowing who is representing you says a lot more about your intellecutal laziness than about a lack of transparancy of the EP.
You're talking bollocks. GSM uses the A5 encryption algorithm which is a lot stronger than DES. It doesn't matter anyway, because it is only used for the wireless connection. Most wiretapping takes place at the exchange level and that bit isn't encrypted at all.
Wow, didn't know that. Thanks.
I am a dick and proud of it. Besides, I find it rather strange that you are mixing up cruise missiles and genuine rockets in your posts while claiming to be a rocket scientist.
Hm, you got your insightful points out of moderator ignorance I suppose. Ever heard of this little launch system called Pegasus? There is actually a commercially viable business around that one. It uses a solid fuel rocket that is launched from a refurbished Lockheed Tristar. Look here.