Really guys - it is about intimidating smaller or similar sized business peers. When things go south everyone worries about the NDA they signed - although most are not worth the paper they are written on; it could cost a lot to get the agreement overturned in court.
I have been asked to sign NDAs that would have given all my design work in a broad field to their company forever. I used to cross out most of the agreement and later send them one of my own as an alternative, but now I just tell them to get lost if they need a NDA. Turns out, that the folks that want NDA's spend so much on legal fees they never get profitable anyway.
Actually the truth is China is becoming more open to competition and we are getting more open to socialism.
Strange that there is more competition in open source than in the commercial world until you realize that the US government consumes 60% of the software M$ ships.
In the Linux world there is competition for the honor and prestige of providing the best software.
NO, competition is great! The lack of competition is exactly why M$ products fail to get better.
If you don't like competition, you might consider living in China or some other socialist place (or just wait a while, even the Repubs are now headed that way, ).
In the end GPL/Linux WILL be the dominant operating system and the more forks, the more likely better ways of doing things will be found.
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Great tip - I just put a symbolic link to the file in/etc/sysconfig
It was really a boneheaded move on the part of SCO's lawyers.
Wrong. They have no intention of winning; they are creating FUD as an agent of M$. This filing, extends the time the issue is in the news - thus they are getting just what they want.
A careful analysis of the SCO debacle can only lead one to the conclusion that they have no expectation of winning any lawsuit; for that is not their objective. They have been paid by M$ to create FUD (via a phony license deal).
Related to this is the patent suit that M$ has supposedly lost. Again, the idea is to create FUD for GPL software as the end user could be sued for using patented software. M$ could have won this suit. They will now say, "because of this laws suit, we have to make changes to IE incorporating priority protocols making it even less compliant with open standards.
In the mean time, our 'bureau of standards' has not come out with a standard for a federal file format for text documents (or spread sheets) that lets M$ keep their monopoly in place.
I appreciate the wishful thinking of the hydrogen folks, but ask any hazardous material team about how dangerous hydrogen is - it has an invisible flame front - is explosive over a huge range of air/H2 concentrations, rots it's metal containment system. Besides, having a volume energy density that is about 1/4th that of gasoline.
Seems the data rates could be pushed - Probably requires an extention of the ATX standard. The only reason to moun the drives to the Chasis is for the bit of heatsink it provides.
Make it a two way street. Who wants to work for a higherups that include dead beats? See if they are under a mountain of debt, or have crimanal judgments against them.
Why do I have to point this out? Have we become a nation of chemophobes? What in the world do they teach in school theses days? (Chemicals are bad - don't ever try to do anything with them )
Asbestoses is NOT caused by skin contact.. Asbestoses is caused by air-borne asbestos that is inhaled in enclosed poorly ventilated air spaces (like mines). The very health conscious might want to wet it down a bit with a hose, wait for a day with a bit of a breeze, or wear a respirator (I wouldn't bother). There is no reason to wear a body suit except that it enhances the perception that it is dangerous (spelled: expensive) work to remove when it is no such thing.
/.ers will be glad to know you hold them in disdain and are monitoring them for having bowls of water sitting on thier computers. We really have way too much government.
My best memory of the EPA is seeing them in total body bunny suits to remove the asbestos from a locomotive in a park here, when all it takes is a simple wetting with a garden hose to keep any dust from going air born (besides its the cronic exposure that froms the risk). Later studies have shown that asbestos dust may not be much worse than fiberglass dust, but it did provide the livelihood of a generation of EPA lawyers.
Let's pump it and two read the following standards. The oil has to be thin to cool transformers.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (D 4059) Regulations prohibiting the commercial distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) mandate that insulating oils be examined for PCB contamination levels to assure that new products do not contain detectable amounts.
Viscosity (D 445) Viscosity is the resistance of oil to flow under specified conditions. The viscosity of oil used as a coolant influences heat transfer rates and consequently the temperature rise of an apparatus. The viscosity of an oil also influences the speed of moving parts in tap changers and circuit breakers. High viscosity oils are less desirable, especially in cold climates. Standard viscosity curves can be generated using Method D 341 by measuring two or three data points and plotting the data on special chart paper. The resulting curve can be used to interpolate or extrapolate values at temperatures where the viscosity is not measured directly.
I don't think the specific heat of trnsformer oil is as high as water. But it may only mean that there needs to be a bit more flow? I'm sure it has much higher specific heat than air.
I'm not interested in this for over clocking, but for noise reduction - which would include cooling the powerspply - which would be unwise to cool with water.
Trasformer oil is insulating and would not short-out anything. It could also cool the powersupply at the same time, without the inherint saftey risk water subjects us to.
I think IP blocking at the Boarder router level is the way to go. ISPs blocking or greatly slowed traffic from the ISPs that are clogging everything up with spam, or charged a peering fee based on the amount of SPAM the problem will go away.
I am one of the lucky guys who learned programming in machine code first - I actually hand assembled an interrupt driven program that would put the time on a memory mapped display back in 1979.
The schools mistakenly start out with a high level language. They for some reason think no one needs to get good at assembly language -(I would not advise learning Intel assembly first (It is a very poor design for humans to use - one of the reasons it took the intel world 10 years to catch up to the Amiga's OS) but alas Intel is the standard).
I also moved on to high-level programming - and wrote programs in both assembler and C - compiled them and counted machine cycles. Once you see where the compilers fail to produce good code, you can compensate where necessary.
A weird trend has happened where I find it most effective to write in the highest or lowest level and avoid anything in between.
I'm disappointed so many here are not up on their physics enough to see this as what it really is: a dead end.
Batteries would not just have to get better- they would have to get two orders of magnitude better to compete with the old ICE.
Calculate energy density of Gasoline verses batteries (in either volume or mass) and you will see that it just isn't going to happen.
I happen to be an environmentalist, but I also know what is real. Battery powered vehicles use MORE energy.
Safety is also a factor - no matter how you store energy it poses a risk. Some of the far out battery technologies are really superfund sites of the future. I always like it when someone brings up flywheel storage - Imagine a vehicle with enough energy stored in a spinning fly wheel to drive 100 miles. How close would you want to be if this flywheel fails? In an accident, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the thing.
There seems to be one difference that is left out between in his story. GMS works better in terms of latency at least in my experience.
If I take a sprint phone and dial my home phone on speaker phone I can get an echo (by snapping my fingers) that is much longer than my Voicestream GSM phone.
This might at first seem like a minor point, but research that goes back to Germany in WWII with wire recorders showed that if you delay the conversation between the two parties they will find themselves interrupting each other and start to argue. I don't think it is good to incite arguments with my customers.
I don't know the specific cause of the delay in the Sprint system, but it is variable and at times quite annoying.
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I have been asked to sign NDAs that would have given all my design work in a broad field to their company forever. I used to cross out most of the agreement and later send them one of my own as an alternative, but now I just tell them to get lost if they need a NDA. Turns out, that the folks that want NDA's spend so much on legal fees they never get profitable anyway.
Or should it say that sometimes Linux is used with out management knowing - and when they find out they switch back.
Strange that there is more competition in open source than in the commercial world until you realize that the US government consumes 60% of the software M$ ships.
In the Linux world there is competition for the honor and prestige of providing the best software.
If you don't like competition, you might consider living in China or some other socialist place (or just wait a while, even the Repubs are now headed that way, ).
In the end GPL/Linux WILL be the dominant operating system and the more forks, the more likely better ways of doing things will be found.
Great tip - I just put a symbolic link to the file in /etc/sysconfig
Wrong. They have no intention of winning; they are creating FUD as an agent of M$. This filing, extends the time the issue is in the news - thus they are getting just what they want.
A careful analysis of the SCO debacle can only lead one to the conclusion that they have no expectation of winning any lawsuit; for that is not their objective. They have been paid by M$ to create FUD (via a phony license deal).
Related to this is the patent suit that M$ has supposedly lost. Again, the idea is to create FUD for GPL software as the end user could be sued for using patented software. M$ could have won this suit. They will now say, "because of this laws suit, we have to make changes to IE incorporating priority protocols making it even less compliant with open standards.
In the mean time, our 'bureau of standards' has not come out with a standard for a federal file format for text documents (or spread sheets) that lets M$ keep their monopoly in place.
I appreciate the wishful thinking of the hydrogen folks, but ask any hazardous material team about how dangerous hydrogen is - it has an invisible flame front - is explosive over a huge range of air/H2 concentrations, rots it's metal containment system. Besides, having a volume energy density that is about 1/4th that of gasoline.
Gasoline 9000 Wh/l
LNG 7216 Wh/l
Propane 6600 Wh/l
Ethanol 6100 WH/l
Liquid H2 2600 Wh/l
Lithium 250 Wh/l
Flywheel 210 Wh/l
Liquid N2 65 Wh/l
Lead Acid 40 Wh/l
Compr Air 17 Wh/l
Hydrogen 2.7 Wh/l
Seems the data rates could be pushed - Probably requires an extention of the ATX standard. The only reason to moun the drives to the Chasis is for the bit of heatsink it provides.
Make it a two way street. Who wants to work for a higherups that include dead beats? See if they are under a mountain of debt, or have crimanal judgments against them.
If they say no, why should you say yes?
Why do I have to point this out? Have we become a nation of chemophobes? What in the world do they teach in school theses days? (Chemicals are bad - don't ever try to do anything with them )
Asbestoses is NOT caused by skin contact..
Asbestoses is caused by air-borne asbestos that is inhaled in enclosed poorly ventilated air spaces (like mines). The very health conscious might want to wet it down a bit with a hose, wait for a day with a bit of a breeze, or wear a respirator (I wouldn't bother). There is no reason to wear a body suit except that it enhances the perception that it is dangerous (spelled: expensive) work to remove when it is no such thing.
"He's from the Government and here to help"
My best memory of the EPA is seeing them in total body bunny suits to remove the asbestos from a locomotive in a park here, when all it takes is a simple wetting with a garden hose to keep any dust from going air born (besides its the cronic exposure that froms the risk). Later studies have shown that asbestos dust may not be much worse than fiberglass dust, but it did provide the livelihood of a generation of EPA lawyers.
Let's pump it and two read the following standards. The oil has to be thin to cool transformers.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (D 4059) Regulations prohibiting the commercial distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) mandate that insulating oils be examined for PCB contamination levels to assure that new products do not contain detectable amounts.
Viscosity (D 445) Viscosity is the resistance of oil to flow under specified conditions. The viscosity of oil used as a coolant influences heat transfer rates and consequently the temperature rise of an apparatus. The viscosity of an oil also influences the speed of moving parts in tap changers and circuit breakers. High viscosity oils are less desirable, especially in cold climates. Standard viscosity curves can be generated using Method D 341 by measuring two or three data points and plotting the data on special chart paper. The resulting curve can be used to interpolate or extrapolate values at temperatures where the viscosity is not measured directly.
First, I don't think "most /.ers" would use old oil. (Is this flame bait?) I happen to think most /.ers are more responsible than average.
Second, I think you should check your facts about transformer oil. What is used today is no more dangerous than the oil in a car.
I checked with a friend who tests transformer oil for a living. The oil in use is not an enantiomer nor is it toxic.
I didn't think they have used PCB's in transformer oil for a decade or two.
He may have a point?
I don't think the specific heat of trnsformer oil is as high as water. But it may only mean that there needs to be a bit more flow? I'm sure it has much higher specific heat than air.
I'm not interested in this for over clocking, but for noise reduction - which would include cooling the powerspply - which would be unwise to cool with water.
Trasformer oil is insulating and would not short-out anything. It could also cool the powersupply at the same time, without the inherint saftey risk water subjects us to.
I want to make an oil cooled system - One would need to be sure to have compatible plastic plumbing. Much safer for man and machine.
Just find bogofilter. It works and no, spammers won't find a way past this one.
I have seen temperture winding clocks from back in the 1960 - 1970 time frame. This has prior art.
Beware of hyper threading - it is a mixed bag that can cause cache thrashing making things run even slower.
I think IP blocking at the Boarder router level is the way to go. ISPs blocking or greatly slowed traffic from the ISPs that are clogging everything up with spam, or charged a peering fee based on the amount of SPAM the problem will go away.
I am one of the lucky guys who learned programming in machine code first - I actually hand assembled an interrupt driven program that would put the time on a memory mapped display back in 1979.
The schools mistakenly start out with a high level language. They for some reason think no one needs to get good at assembly language -(I would not advise learning Intel assembly first (It is a very poor design for humans to use - one of the reasons it took the intel world 10 years to catch up to the Amiga's OS) but alas Intel is the standard).
I also moved on to high-level programming - and wrote programs in both assembler and C - compiled them and counted machine cycles. Once you see where the compilers fail to produce good code, you can compensate where necessary.
A weird trend has happened where I find it most effective to write in the highest or lowest level and avoid anything in between.
I'm disappointed so many here are not up on their physics enough to see this as what it really is: a dead end.
Batteries would not just have to get better- they would have to get two orders of magnitude better to compete with the old ICE.
Calculate energy density of Gasoline verses batteries (in either volume or mass) and you will see that it just isn't going to happen.
I happen to be an environmentalist, but I also know what is real. Battery powered vehicles use MORE energy.
Safety is also a factor - no matter how you store energy it poses a risk. Some of the far out battery technologies are really superfund sites of the future. I always like it when someone brings up flywheel storage - Imagine a vehicle with enough energy stored in a spinning fly wheel to drive 100 miles. How close would you want to be if this flywheel fails? In an accident, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the thing.
There seems to be one difference that is left out between in his story. GMS works better in terms of latency at least in my experience.
If I take a sprint phone and dial my home phone on speaker phone I can get an echo (by snapping my fingers) that is much longer than my Voicestream GSM phone.
This might at first seem like a minor point, but research that goes back to Germany in WWII with wire recorders showed that if you delay the conversation between the two parties they will find themselves interrupting each other and start to argue. I don't think it is good to incite arguments with my customers.
I don't know the specific cause of the delay in the Sprint system, but it is variable and at times quite annoying.