Even though these are larger than H atoms, the molecules are still tiny enough that they seep through the walls of cast iron tanks (the way acetylene does, but worse). Anything which will seep through cast iron is not suitable for use on a motor vehicle, for what should be obvious safety reasons.
That depends entirely on how much seepage you're talking about. It's like saying that since gas stations emit gas into the air it's obviously unsafe to have cars around them.
This is OT but the company that supplies my propane has it's storage facilities located right next to a welding supply company and despite the obvious danger they've survived for several years now.
The energy to split the hydrogen out of compounds must be coming from somewhere. How do you do it? Primarily with existing electric generation techniques - coal, nuclear, hydroelectric dams... there's no free lunch,
No shit? Anyone whose thought about this for more than about 2 seconds has to have figured this out by now. The usual counter to this is that it's still a lot more effecient to produce the energy in a central facility than in a million mini generators, let alone in a moving vehicle.
think a gasoline tank fire is bad? Never mind the fire itself for a moment: Wait 'til you see a car accident where a 2" diameter hole is put into the 1000PSI fuel tank of a 2500 pound car...
Hopefully no one is planning to store the stuff at that high of a pressure. Personally I'd rather have a fuel that floats up above the accident and singes a few birds than one that spills out all over the ground/people/whatever.
magine if a system were installed nationwide, which detected every crime committed the second it was comitted, and sent a ticket/issued a warrent to the criminal.
Why stop there, what we really need is a system that predicts crimes before they happen and.... oh... never mind.
An analogy is sometimes helpful. I'll try to think of one that won't get nitpicked to oblivion.
Lets say you have a priceless family heirloom. Someone steals it, locks it in a box, and gives it to you to sell at a garage sale. Then he goes to your garage sale, pays the $5 that you asked for, and then, in your presence, unlocks the box to show you your family heirloom, stating that he legitimately owns it now. Is the sale legitimate? I'd certainly sue someone who tried that on me..
The big difference here is that the box wasn't closed and locked, it was left wide open for them to inspect and they obviously didn't bother. Also I find it interesting that in the interview SCO says:
The development process has no one that is ensuring that inappropriate code is not getting into Linux
It seems to me that at worst IBM and other Linux contributors have done as well as SCO has at auditing the code they distribute.
Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand. There is no mechanism in Linux to ensure [the legality of] that intellectual property of the source code being contributed by various people.
So I guess there should be a different litmus test for online ads than for print ones?
The relivent test of course is "are people really are being tricked by these adds." Based on the volume of this crap I have to remove from peoples' computers on a regular basis I'd say the answer is clearly "yes".
Which of the two formats if best supported by Free Software? I'm mostly interested in in Linux but FreeBSD and Win support with Free (as in speech) Software sould be a nice bonus.
Probably because software, unlike monitors and cpus costs nearly nothing for M$ to donate. Also because using M$ software is like smoking in public places, the rest of us end up having to deal with the problems it causes.
You forgot to include losses through theft. Paying a security guard to watch your merchandise doesn't increase it's value either, but if that expense kepps people from walking off with it, you increase your profit. The issue isn't black and white from a profit stand point.
Then again if you piss off your paying customers all you'll be left with are the thieves.
It's your right to do that with your software but I can tell you that I go out of my way to avoid products that use copy protection/activation schemes. Sooner or later these schemes allways end up causing problems for legal users and reduce the value and reputation of your product.
The RIAA makes money by sorting through the crap, picking bands they think people will like, and promoting them. That's their contribution to the music field.
Only in approximately the same sense that McDonalds does this for food. It makes them a safe choice but not necessaraly the best, or even good.
I won't even go into the economics of bands producing music with no chance to earn money from their work.
I tried installing on an Intel Celeron 533MHz/128MB system... I was initially curious to see how well this release would run on a lower end system.(128MB - lower end for installing a distro?)
In plain English: It didn't. This is a trend in computing in general - software, especially operating systems require ever more resources to do exactly the same thing. Windows XP needs the abovestated as a minimum to run.
First, there is no way this install failed BECAUSE of the cpu/ram limitations. More likely he had some sort of compatability problem (maybe the jumper on his hard drive set incorrectly).
Win98SE would run fine on a Pentium 90 with 16mb of ram.
That's complete nonsense. Win98 will work fine on a P90 (as will pretty much any Linux distro) but it's completely useless with only 16MB of ram.
It's easy to restore personal files from a backup if the rest of the system is working, restoring the entire system from backup tends to be a lot more complicated.
Ok so the Feds create an email tax, the states see that it's ok and want to get in on the action, then counties and cities want their cut and since an email may travel over many hundreds of cities/counties/states they all feel justified adding their own tax. The cost of just complying could easily outstrip the actual tax. I know most people just love any tax that they think targets someone else but people just need to say no to internet taxes.
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You make a good point but it's not just DVDs that use compressed video. Digital cable, satellite, digital video cameras, etc. are all pretty common sources for people using these codecs and they're all compressed. Heck, most of the stuff I encode has been through compression/decompression twice allready, once by Directv (mpeg2)and once by my pvr (mjpeg) and when I want to store it long term I use mpeg4.
Recent court decisions have indicated that loading a program into memory creates a copy that is covered by copyright laws.
Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that copies made during the normal course of USING software was not considered a "copy" for the purposes of copyright law. Unfortunately it's 3am so someone else is going to have to provide a relivent link (and please forgive the spelling errors).
Not precisely. The economic value of the song is diminished. That is what was taken away. Even if you wouldn't have purchased it, the economic value is diminised, precisely because a copy was made. So supply is increased, holding demand constant, drops the value. Simple economics.
That's only true if you offer that copy to the market. What if you found a huge diamond supply in your back yard but didn't sell it or tell anyone. Would the price of diamonds on the open market suddenly drop? Only if YOU decided to stop buying diamonds that you otherwise would have purchased.
I'm basically just nit-picking with the above, I agree with the rest of what you said.
This looks like the option to use for a homebrew PVR solution. The only thing missing is a TV card, but you can add that in the PCI slot that is available. It even has an MPEG2 hardware decoder. Would 933 MHz be fast enough for encoding, though?
Unfortunately MHz is NOT a measure of performance. A 900MHz AMD Athlon or P3 might be enough for a PVR but this cpu would probably have problems because it simply doesn't perform as well at any given MHz as other CPUs. FPU performance is even worse compared to the others so you could be in real trouble if you have to encode/decode some format you don't have dedicated hardware for.
If the RIAA died tomorrow, and no one ever paid for music anymore, how would the new system work?
I don't think there is any danger of it going that far. People have allways been willing to pay for music but as competition (both from pirates and artists who simply choose to bypass the major labels) increases, the price the RIAA members can charge is going to come down, probably dramatically. We probably won't have the huge stars of today but I'm not sure that's such a bad thing.
I think that before we all say that the RIAA has to die, we should come up with some viable alternatives so that our favorite artists don't end up broke and in the gutter.
Which is about where they are now anyway. Only a VERY small fraction of musicians actually make a living at it, and even fewer make a living due to CD sales.
So what does that say? Either too many people are either applying the grease too thickly, or people are using heatsinks and OCin' their processors too much.
This may not have anything to do with overheating. It's apparently* pretty easy to crack the core on an Athlon while installing the heatsink and a thermal pad provides far more protection from this than grease does.
* I've probably installed over a hundred Athlons/Durons by now and I've never cracked any of them but I've seen enough reports by others to believe it's possible if you arn't carefull.
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How about a trickle system that uses atmospheric moisture, and draws it as the lawn mower is in operation?
Ok, I'm probably missing the obvious but where are you planning to get the energy to draw the moisture out of the air and seperate the H from it?
Even though these are larger than H atoms, the molecules are still tiny enough that they seep through the walls of cast iron tanks (the way acetylene does, but worse). Anything which will seep through cast iron is not suitable for use on a motor vehicle, for what should be obvious safety reasons.
That depends entirely on how much seepage you're talking about. It's like saying that since gas stations emit gas into the air it's obviously unsafe to have cars around them.
This is OT but the company that supplies my propane has it's storage facilities located right next to a welding supply company and despite the obvious danger they've survived for several years now.
The energy to split the hydrogen out of compounds must be coming from somewhere. How do you do it? Primarily with existing electric generation techniques - coal, nuclear, hydroelectric dams... there's no free lunch,
No shit? Anyone whose thought about this for more than about 2 seconds has to have figured this out by now. The usual counter to this is that it's still a lot more effecient to produce the energy in a central facility than in a million mini generators, let alone in a moving vehicle.
think a gasoline tank fire is bad? Never mind the fire itself for a moment: Wait 'til you see a car accident where a 2" diameter hole is put into the 1000PSI fuel tank of a 2500 pound car...
Hopefully no one is planning to store the stuff at that high of a pressure. Personally I'd rather have a fuel that floats up above the accident and singes a few birds than one that spills out all over the ground/people/whatever.
magine if a system were installed nationwide, which detected every crime committed the second it was comitted, and sent a ticket/issued a warrent to the criminal.
... never mind.
Why stop there, what we really need is a system that predicts crimes before they happen and.... oh
The only thing protected here is copy prevention schemes. Congress specifically got rid of the access prevention protection.
Do you have ANY sort of reference to this?
An analogy is sometimes helpful. I'll try to think of one that won't get nitpicked to oblivion.
Lets say you have a priceless family heirloom. Someone steals it, locks it in a box, and gives it to you to sell at a garage sale. Then he goes to your garage sale, pays the $5 that you asked for, and then, in your presence, unlocks the box to show you your family heirloom, stating that he legitimately owns it now. Is the sale legitimate? I'd certainly sue someone who tried that on me..
The big difference here is that the box wasn't closed and locked, it was left wide open for them to inspect and they obviously didn't bother. Also I find it interesting that in the interview SCO says:
The development process has no one that is ensuring that inappropriate code is not getting into Linux
It seems to me that at worst IBM and other Linux contributors have done as well as SCO has at auditing the code they distribute.
Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand. There is no mechanism in Linux to ensure [the legality of] that intellectual property of the source code being contributed by various people.
pot/kettle/black
So I guess there should be a different litmus test for online ads than for print ones?
The relivent test of course is "are people really are being tricked by these adds." Based on the volume of this crap I have to remove from peoples' computers on a regular basis I'd say the answer is clearly "yes".
What makes you think that the license that SCO purchased from Novel was exclusive?
Which of the two formats if best supported by Free Software? I'm mostly interested in in Linux but FreeBSD and Win support with Free (as in speech) Software sould be a nice bonus.
Probably because software, unlike monitors and cpus costs nearly nothing for M$ to donate. Also because using M$ software is like smoking in public places, the rest of us end up having to deal with the problems it causes.
You forgot to include losses through theft. Paying a security guard to watch your merchandise doesn't increase it's value either, but if that expense kepps people from walking off with it, you increase your profit. The issue isn't black and white from a profit stand point.
Then again if you piss off your paying customers all you'll be left with are the thieves.
It's your right to do that with your software but I can tell you that I go out of my way to avoid products that use copy protection/activation schemes. Sooner or later these schemes allways end up causing problems for legal users and reduce the value and reputation of your product.
Only in approximately the same sense that McDonalds does this for food. It makes them a safe choice but not necessaraly the best, or even good.
The vast majority of bands allready do this.
How's Linux support for audio, video, and TV-OUT?
My impression is that this isn't goint to start at existing rental shops but rather in convienence stores, Wal-Mart etc.
Will video stores have any choice?
First, there is no way this install failed BECAUSE of the cpu/ram limitations. More likely he had some sort of compatability problem (maybe the jumper on his hard drive set incorrectly).
That's complete nonsense. Win98 will work fine on a P90 (as will pretty much any Linux distro) but it's completely useless with only 16MB of ram.
It's easy to restore personal files from a backup if the rest of the system is working, restoring the entire system from backup tends to be a lot more complicated.
Ok so the Feds create an email tax, the states see that it's ok and want to get in on the action, then counties and cities want their cut and since an email may travel over many hundreds of cities/counties/states they all feel justified adding their own tax. The cost of just complying could easily outstrip the actual tax. I know most people just love any tax that they think targets someone else but people just need to say no to internet taxes.
You make a good point but it's not just DVDs that use compressed video. Digital cable, satellite, digital video cameras, etc. are all pretty common sources for people using these codecs and they're all compressed. Heck, most of the stuff I encode has been through compression/decompression twice allready, once by Directv (mpeg2)and once by my pvr (mjpeg) and when I want to store it long term I use mpeg4.
Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that copies made during the normal course of USING software was not considered a "copy" for the purposes of copyright law. Unfortunately it's 3am so someone else is going to have to provide a relivent link (and please forgive the spelling errors).
That's only true if you offer that copy to the market. What if you found a huge diamond supply in your back yard but didn't sell it or tell anyone. Would the price of diamonds on the open market suddenly drop? Only if YOU decided to stop buying diamonds that you otherwise would have purchased.
I'm basically just nit-picking with the above, I agree with the rest of what you said.
Unfortunately MHz is NOT a measure of performance. A 900MHz AMD Athlon or P3 might be enough for a PVR but this cpu would probably have problems because it simply doesn't perform as well at any given MHz as other CPUs. FPU performance is even worse compared to the others so you could be in real trouble if you have to encode/decode some format you don't have dedicated hardware for.
I don't think there is any danger of it going that far. People have allways been willing to pay for music but as competition (both from pirates and artists who simply choose to bypass the major labels) increases, the price the RIAA members can charge is going to come down, probably dramatically. We probably won't have the huge stars of today but I'm not sure that's such a bad thing.
Which is about where they are now anyway. Only a VERY small fraction of musicians actually make a living at it, and even fewer make a living due to CD sales.
This may not have anything to do with overheating. It's apparently* pretty easy to crack the core on an Athlon while installing the heatsink and a thermal pad provides far more protection from this than grease does.
* I've probably installed over a hundred Athlons/Durons by now and I've never cracked any of them but I've seen enough reports by others to believe it's possible if you arn't carefull.