I have used Safari at the beginning of projects, during the "ramp up" phase where I may be consulting 5 or 10 books for insights and introductions to technologies, not reading each book, just going for the most applicable chapters. This has been immensely helpful.
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lights, heart monitors etc draw relatively low current, whereas autoclaves, lasers etc. draw much higher current.a small photovoltaic system could drive the low-power stuff.
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right, I wasn't going to bring it up, but the whole "parallel rays" thing kinda bites the dust as soon as they are concentrated by a concave mirror, and on the other side of the argument, a point source of light like a lightbuls can also be directed, and focused by cunning parabolic mirrors, witness those big-assed search lights.
IANAL. GPL does not address patents, just copyright, as was pointed out above. However, this suggests an interesting gambit, place a clause in the GPL saying that if you bring any lawsuit against GNU, Apache, Linus, etc. you permanently revoke any rights to GPL'd Apached, etc code. Probably completely unenforcable, but who knows. If SGI wanted to sue, sure, go ahead, but first they have to stop distributing their Samba clone, or be liable. Unfortunately this doesn't jive very well with the concept of Free Software... it would be "Free as long as you are not doing things that I don't like" and I doubt RS for one would go for that at all.
I believe that Linux distributers like RedHat, Mandrake are the ones really threatened by this, and unfortunately this whole issue of patent liability is bound to hurt, and perhaps destroy some of them, but will that be the end of the world, no. Will it be the end of Open Source, no. IBM will be fine, they hold so many patents they can play countersuit all day long. Linus and the kernel hackers will be fine, there is not enough to be gained from suing them.
More and more it seems that there is a new digital devide, M$ and the borg vs IBM, GNU, FSF etc. My money is on the Free Software camp.
I was going to mod this up, but instead I want to say that this is truly one of the only really insightful things I've read in the last few discussions. Way to go. Lets have an interview with one of these poor(?) girls. Lets find out how they feel about this. I would even suggest a potential candidate: Girlie
because using Tomcat to serve static html and images is like using a an suv to deliver 2x4 and drywall to your construction site. Sure, they fit in the vehicle, but its not exactly optimal, not by a long shot.
Running out of phone numbers, bar-codes, melodies, and trademarks. I suddenly feel like the work has become a whole lot smaller, Thank godzilla we'll never run out of bugs!
Mozilla allows deleting of CA's in the security preferences.If you decide not to trust verisign, just delete it from your list of trusted CA's.
I would like to see an extension to ssl whereby a third party can be consulted for a security audit of the cert chain. eg. as it works today, I type https://www.amazon.com, and my browser is presented with a certificate chain that is ultimately signed by CA x. Based on this the cert is verified, and my browser trusts that it really is talking to ssl.buymorepr0n.com, that no-one else can decrypt our conversation, and no-one can insert themself into the middle of the conversation.
I percieve this to be a problem because I have no choice in how much I want to trust CA x, and my browser. I get to either trust them both completely, or not at all.
I want to be able to send the cert that I recieve from amazon to a third party server that reviews the chain for any discrepancies, and checks its own crl list before giving me a thumbs up.
The thing that I find truly amazing is that visa and the banks all complain about how bad online fraud is, and how much it costs every year, yet they don't do anything to really dent the problem. Not even a decent customer education program!
your "switching" power supply for your laptop will sat nice and warm if no laptop is plugged into it. same as any power supply that is still operating without a device connected and drawing power. Power supplies for home/consumer use are so horribly designed that the efficiency saved by using a true switching supply is lost in crappy design and crappy components. your typical switching supply in your computer or for your laptop is only 5-10% more efficient than the transformer+bridge+regulator setup from the 70's-80's. Hell, most computers still have Linear regulators on the motherboard to dissapate 10-30 watts in heat for no real reason other than cheapness.
On my floor I have three little black boxes. One is a wall-wart for my hub, rated 5v 2.5A, and two dell laptop bricks, rated 12v at 3.5A, one of which has been powering my laptop all day, the other has been sitting idle, but plugged in (it is there for any visitors that happen to drop by my cube.)
please tell me why I can detect almost no warmth from the idle switched ps? and far less heat from the active ps than from the wall wart?
Sorry, based on empirical investigation, and contrary to your post: switched power supplies are more efficient than transformer+bridge+regulator, and swiched power supplies with no load do not consume a lot of power.
Suggested format: I just did a google / freshmeat / sourceforge search for whizzbang-mousetraps, and turned up superProjectX... I installed it and... Has anyone else used this? Anyone got any other suggestions?
Actually, I usually scan these posts, they often spin out some very interesting viewpoints and experiences, especially when the topic is a development or testing tool, I probably encountered ant on/. I would also think that the amount of interest generated for the projects mentioned, which are usually Open is not insignificant.
My theory is that these are usually people who have not been trolling sourceforge or building linux boxes fgor years, are in fact probably coming out from the dark side. Have some compassion for them!
Actually, having developed applications with installers, the rationale behind executing the reboot script is part FUD, part CYA. 99% of the time no reboot=fine. Try this sometime, tell your business guys that well we will only be pissing off 1% of our customers...
Newer Windoze have become a lot better in this regard, but think on this: with linux I can install a new mozilla, new desktop manager, OpenOffice, and a few other goodies, and it doesn't even cross my mind to reboot.
Last point, when I worked extensively with windows ce.me.nt I rebooted regularly just to "purge the demons" and reclaim lost resources.
I was just thinking exactly the opposite thing... as a developer who works with Java, VB, XML, HTML, JavaScript, SQL and the occasional bash script, I think the problem is that the version control systems know nothing about the languages. I think the main issue is that version control is it is viewed as a control system, not a development tool, something to help deliver the highest quality code.
Especially with Java and cvs I am always frustrated that CVS does not know the difference between a.properties file, a jar,.java etc, and more to the point, CVS make refactoring across packages a very laborious and time consuming task. Visual SourceSafe and VB are better suited to each other, but still no great match.
Think for a moment what you GET when you put the power-plants in the wheel. no driveshafts, differentials, axles = less weight and more efficiency. Lower center of mass. Simple torque control systems for better traction.
Also, this is not a new idea, some of the monster dirt movers in the mining industry use electric motors in the wheel hubs.
More important even than speed, at least for me, is road feel and cornering. I currently drive a 16 yo porsche 944, and believe me I could afford a lot of faster cars, but I just love slammimg it around corners too much to give it up. The things that makes it so fun are the excellent front - rear weight distribution, and low center of mass.
I bet that with four motors in the cornors, and batteries to spread around as they please the GM engineers could push.9+ gs on the skid pad without even trying.
I personally wouldn't give a damn if it won't do 120mph, as long as it feels good on the twisties.
My wife is running Linux, and all her previous experiences were windoze based. A few months ago she asked for a computer at home, I explained that she could have a logon on mine... No thanks, your computer is too complicated for me
Anyway, I set up a logon for her, and introduced her to tux, and the lizard, and took a while to make her comfortable, but she hardly ever used it. Whenever I asked her how it was going she always said great, but how do I do *?"
The thing that took me a while to figure out was that she was not ALWAYS comfortable asking me for help, and probably never will be, no matter how hard I try. This happens whenever she thinks something should be easy but she just can't figure it out... and yes, I'll take blame on that one, but it is also just a natural phenomenon. She wants to be able to ask her friends / co-workers, basically people on her own level for help whenever she had a problem, and then escalate the problem up to me. This way she felt comfortable she's not looking stoopid. Now that she was no longer on a normal[sic] OS she felt like the only person she could ask for help was me, and she was sure I'd get sick of it.
To make a long story short, what I took away from this was that until a lot of our moms / wives / fathers etc. are using linux, and I mean actually using it, most of them are not going to be comfortable being the odd one out.
I added one to a project we did for Morgan Stanley / Solomon Smith Barney online muni trading site:click a certain "empty" section of the screen, and the credits roll. funny thing was that my project manager saw it over my shoulder as I was testing it, waited to make sure his name was in it, then gave it his (quiet) blessing. the url is behind a log in tho.
Slashdot Mirror
I have used Safari at the beginning of projects, during the "ramp up" phase where I may be consulting 5 or 10 books for insights and introductions to technologies, not reading each book, just going for the most applicable chapters. This has been immensely helpful.
lights, heart monitors etc draw relatively low current, whereas autoclaves, lasers etc. draw much higher current.a small photovoltaic system could drive the low-power stuff.
filter before concentrator.
right, I wasn't going to bring it up, but the whole "parallel rays" thing kinda bites the dust as soon as they are concentrated by a concave mirror, and on the other side of the argument, a point source of light like a lightbuls can also be directed, and focused by cunning parabolic mirrors, witness those big-assed search lights.
IANAL.
GPL does not address patents, just copyright, as was pointed out above. However, this suggests an interesting gambit, place a clause in the GPL saying that if you bring any lawsuit against GNU, Apache, Linus, etc. you permanently revoke any rights to GPL'd Apached, etc code. Probably completely unenforcable, but who knows. If SGI wanted to sue, sure, go ahead, but first they have to stop distributing their Samba clone, or be liable. Unfortunately this doesn't jive very well with the concept of Free Software... it would be "Free as long as you are not doing things that I don't like" and I doubt RS for one would go for that at all.
I believe that Linux distributers like RedHat, Mandrake are the ones really threatened by this, and unfortunately this whole issue of patent liability is bound to hurt, and perhaps destroy some of them, but will that be the end of the world, no. Will it be the end of Open Source, no. IBM will be fine, they hold so many patents they can play countersuit all day long. Linus and the kernel hackers will be fine, there is not enough to be gained from suing them.
More and more it seems that there is a new digital devide, M$ and the borg vs IBM, GNU, FSF etc. My money is on the Free Software camp.
We wouldn't know unless we saw the code
I was going to mod this up, but instead I want to say that this is truly one of the only really insightful things I've read in the last few discussions. Way to go. Lets have an interview with one of these poor(?) girls. Lets find out how they feel about this. I would even suggest a potential candidate: Girlie
Have you done this in production? (not flaming, curious)
because using Tomcat to serve static html and images is like using a an suv to deliver 2x4 and drywall to your construction site. Sure, they fit in the vehicle, but its not exactly optimal, not by a long shot.
As an aside, Microsoft doesn't own the rights to Internet Explorer
Running out of phone numbers, bar-codes, melodies, and trademarks. I suddenly feel like the work has become a whole lot smaller, Thank godzilla we'll never run out of bugs!
how long before we run out of global namespace? Theer was a recent Slashdot on running out of copywritable melodies, but I cant find it...
Mozilla 0.94 was a public beta. IE 5 /5.5 is production code. Thats the difference.
Mozilla allows deleting of CA's in the security preferences.If you decide not to trust verisign, just delete it from your list of trusted CA's.
I would like to see an extension to ssl whereby a third party can be consulted for a security audit of the cert chain. eg. as it works today, I type https://www.amazon.com, and my browser is presented with a certificate chain that is ultimately signed by CA x. Based on this the cert is verified, and my browser trusts that it really is talking to ssl.buymorepr0n.com, that no-one else can decrypt our conversation, and no-one can insert themself into the middle of the conversation.
I percieve this to be a problem because I have no choice in how much I want to trust CA x, and my browser. I get to either trust them both completely, or not at all.
I want to be able to send the cert that I recieve from amazon to a third party server that reviews the chain for any discrepancies, and checks its own crl list before giving me a thumbs up.
The thing that I find truly amazing is that visa and the banks all complain about how bad online fraud is, and how much it costs every year, yet they don't do anything to really dent the problem. Not even a decent customer education program!
your "switching" power supply for your laptop will sat nice and warm if no laptop is plugged into it. same as any power supply that is still operating without a device connected and drawing power. Power supplies for home/consumer use are so horribly designed that the efficiency saved by using a true switching supply is lost in crappy design and crappy components. your typical switching supply in your computer or for your laptop is only 5-10% more efficient than the transformer+bridge+regulator setup from the 70's-80's. Hell, most computers still have Linear regulators on the motherboard to dissapate 10-30 watts in heat for no real reason other than cheapness.
On my floor I have three little black boxes. One is a wall-wart for my hub, rated 5v 2.5A, and two dell laptop bricks, rated 12v at 3.5A, one of which has been powering my laptop all day, the other has been sitting idle, but plugged in (it is there for any visitors that happen to drop by my cube.)
please tell me why I can detect almost no warmth from the idle switched ps? and far less heat from the active ps than from the wall wart?
Sorry, based on empirical investigation, and contrary to your post: switched power supplies are more efficient than transformer+bridge+regulator, and swiched power supplies with no load do not consume a lot of power.
the article implies that the 'sploit works theoretically under citrix, and has been tested under terminal services.
Suggested format: I just did a google / freshmeat / sourceforge search for whizzbang-mousetraps, and turned up superProjectX... I installed it and... Has anyone else used this? Anyone got any other suggestions?
/. I would also think that the amount of interest generated for the projects mentioned, which are usually Open is not insignificant.
Actually, I usually scan these posts, they often spin out some very interesting viewpoints and experiences, especially when the topic is a development or testing tool, I probably encountered ant on
My theory is that these are usually people who have not been trolling sourceforge or building linux boxes fgor years, are in fact probably coming out from the dark side. Have some compassion for them!
I am having visions of minority reports billboards, then again, perhaps not. What a cracker target that would be for defacing.
when are the prices on screens going to drop radicaly? If these are printed wouldn't theey be much cheaper to produce?
Actually, having developed applications with installers, the rationale behind executing the reboot script is part FUD, part CYA. 99% of the time no reboot=fine. Try this sometime, tell your business guys that well we will only be pissing off 1% of our customers...
Newer Windoze have become a lot better in this regard, but think on this: with linux I can install a new mozilla, new desktop manager, OpenOffice, and a few other goodies, and it doesn't even cross my mind to reboot.
Last point, when I worked extensively with windows ce.me.nt I rebooted regularly just to "purge the demons" and reclaim lost resources.
I may have missed it, but where does it mention chips? are there linear motors on a chip? Has forest designed a control chip?
I was just thinking exactly the opposite thing... as a developer who works with Java, VB, XML, HTML, JavaScript, SQL and the occasional bash script, I think the problem is that the version control systems know nothing about the languages. I think the main issue is that version control is it is viewed as a control system, not a development tool, something to help deliver the highest quality code.
.properties file, a jar, .java etc, and more to the point, CVS make refactoring across packages a very laborious and time consuming task. Visual SourceSafe and VB are better suited to each other, but still no great match.
Especially with Java and cvs I am always frustrated that CVS does not know the difference between a
Think for a moment what you GET when you put the power-plants in the wheel. no driveshafts, differentials, axles = less weight and more efficiency. Lower center of mass. Simple torque control systems for better traction.
Also, this is not a new idea, some of the monster dirt movers in the mining industry use electric motors in the wheel hubs.
More important even than speed, at least for me, is road feel and cornering. I currently drive a 16 yo porsche 944, and believe me I could afford a lot of faster cars, but I just love slammimg it around corners too much to give it up. The things that makes it so fun are the excellent front - rear weight distribution, and low center of mass.
.9+ gs on the skid pad without even trying.
I bet that with four motors in the cornors, and batteries to spread around as they please the GM engineers could push
I personally wouldn't give a damn if it won't do 120mph, as long as it feels good on the twisties.
Dunno what I'd do without a clutch though!
My wife is running Linux, and all her previous experiences were windoze based.
A few months ago she asked for a computer at home, I explained that she could have a logon on mine... No thanks, your computer is too complicated for me
Anyway, I set up a logon for her, and introduced her to tux, and the lizard, and took a while to make her comfortable, but she hardly ever used it. Whenever I asked her how it was going she always said great, but how do I do *?"
The thing that took me a while to figure out was that she was not ALWAYS comfortable asking me for help, and probably never will be, no matter how hard I try. This happens whenever she thinks something should be easy but she just can't figure it out... and yes, I'll take blame on that one, but it is also just a natural phenomenon. She wants to be able to ask her friends / co-workers, basically people on her own level for help whenever she had a problem, and then escalate the problem up to me. This way she felt comfortable she's not looking stoopid. Now that she was no longer on a normal[sic] OS she felt like the only person she could ask for help was me, and she was sure I'd get sick of it.
To make a long story short, what I took away from this was that until a lot of our moms / wives / fathers etc. are using linux, and I mean actually using it, most of them are not going to be comfortable being the odd one out.
I added one to a project we did for Morgan Stanley / Solomon Smith Barney online muni trading site:click a certain "empty" section of the screen, and the credits roll. funny thing was that my project manager saw it over my shoulder as I was testing it, waited to make sure his name was in it, then gave it his (quiet) blessing. the url is behind a log in tho.