But for other carriers I would say no. Simple reason is that they have been granted access to public facilities. AKA. right of way. They have also taken public money in the form of taxes that where then paid to them to improve access "Universal Access". A wireless carrier on the other hand if they have paid for all their own tower space might have some wiggle room but then they are using the public airwaves which is also in a sense public resources. They do pay for those but they probably also agree to public regulation of them so over all I would say no. But I am not a lawyer and my limited understand is based on logic and common sense which often do not seem to apply to matters of the law.
I find it odd that people don't want the game frame rate capped. Why go past 60 FPS? Okay maybe 120 if you nuts? What do you gain? I would rather not put out the heat and eat up the power. Of course the only game I really play is FSX and I would love to see 60 FPS with all the eye candy turned on.
Actually it was probably worse than the H Bomb tests. I have not done the math but I would bet the mass of radio-isotopes is much greater than that released by the H Bomb tests. But you are probably right that looking at Bikini Atoll is probably a good choice as far as habitability.
Civil disobedience is the act of breaking unfair civil laws. Like sitting in a whites only section of a bus. Or drinking from a whites only water fountain. It is not violating the rights of others to control the product of their labor. That is simply being a jerk. You can pretend it is some great act but it is in the end being just a jerk wad.
If you really wanted to act in the cause of Free software you would learn to code if you didn't already and write a better game and release it as FOSS. Other wise back to being a jerk and actually hurting the cause of Free Software. End of Story.
"Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains)."
No you are wrong. You are super wrong. You are full of it. If you are talking about GNU/FSF/RMS meaning of the free software.
It goes against the purpose and concept of free software to us free software. As betterunixthanunix points out GNU has no problem with charging for software at all.
So yes you can pay for free software all you want. To follow the purpose and concept of free software you would disagree with and refrain from using any software that you where not free to distribute and that did not give you the source or at least an offer of the source!
Not liking DRM is also okay. But just taking the software is just being a rotten cheapskate that refuses to pay the developer what the developer thinks his product is worth. And you are violating his rights to license his software how he sees fit. In other words your being a jerk when you pirate some $ 1.99 game for you cell phone and being anti free software at the same time.
But the chip sets that Atom uses tend to be power hungry. Also you will get better GPU performance. And Atom can struggle just with Flash Video. With the Athlon it will be no problem. It just depends on what you want. I would go with the Athlon II X2 as the best compromise. unless you really want a to use a small form factor for cheap. Also the Atom will work better for a Hackintosh if that is what you want.
I guess I don't see it that way. Yes their was some differences in engineering spaces. I would put that down to improvements during production. If you read the book you referenced you will see that Navy hoped to develop of family of reactors that scaled up and down so that navel architects would have a menu of power plants to pick from much like they did for steam plants during WWII. The scaling didn't work so well since you can not scale the shielding mass. In other words it is a lot easier to scale a reactor up then down. Which really was the pits because it ended up being not all that easy to scale them up. In the end the Navy ended up with deciding to use that one reactor for a number of classes to gain the benefits of a standard reactor. And that reactor really did seem to work well. heck when the cost of 688 class seemed to be getting too high the Navy even thought of going back to that reactor! Yes and I am one of the fan boys that thinks they should have put the Narwal into series production.
"So S5W was retained not because of any conscious decision to standardize, but to hold engineering effort and costs so as not to jeopardize construction and maintenance schedules." Sounds like a great reason to standardize to me. The Thresher may have started out as an improved Skipjack but it really didn't end up that way. The Thresher had a totally different hull shape, it was much quieter because it used rafting, it had totally different bow Thresher and Permit used a spherical sonar array and had torpedo tubs mounted amidships. While Skipjack used a conventional array and bow mounted tubes. So I would put them as two very different classes. But what in effect you are saying is that the Navy Standardized reactors to save time and money. Which is the best reason to standardize anything. The Lipscomb, as well as the Tullibee and Narwal are all considered one offs. For some reason the Jack is not.
Oh I have a list of things that tick me off in Windows and Linux as well. The thing is that I find OS/X just as annoying. Maybe if I only ever used OS/X I would feel different but OS/X just doesn't seem that much if any better than Windows to me. Of course I started on the Commodore 64, went to CP/M and DOS, then AmigaOS, then back to DOS(work), then Windows, then more Windows, then Linux plus Windows, then Linux plus Windows plus OS/X. So maybe it does something in an easy way that I don't find hard to do under Windows or Linux. Because compared to DOS most things are pretty easy to do in Linux and Windows these days.
I thought that it might as does Gtalk. But the XMPP servers are separated and are not inter connected. The idea was that XMPP/jabber would be the IM protocol and everyone would use it. It really is a good protocol and very flexible. Thing is that we still have AIM, MSN messenger, and Yahoo messenger.
The problem really isn't that nobody can replace facebook. The problem is that if and or when it happens it will be another walled garden. Distributed open standards? You mean like for IM? Jabber has been around for how long? And so far only Google seems to really use it. It is a shame because it is a very powerful and useful system. Had it been around from the start every ISP could have run a jabber server like they do email. Jabber servers can talk to each other and wham you have an open standards based IM.... So why does MSN, AIM, YahooIM and goodness knows how many other IM standards still exist?
I don't hate OS/X even though it may sound like it. I was expecting the ultimate UI experience and frankly just isn't that great. Not terrible but not great. The thing about the menus is that I see no benefit to having the menus at the top of the screen vs the top of the window and a big down side.
I do agree that a good part of it is getting used to it but that is not the same as intuitive and just works now is it?
As to Emacs I have not used that since microemacs on the Amiga. For my light editing on Linux I use JOE because it is fast, light, and works well over ssh. On the PC I use Notepad++ or HTMLToolkit depending. They are both really good tools. On the Mac I installed TextWrangler which is a nice little editor. On Windows for Development I use Netbeans because I tend to do java work on Windows. On Linux Eclipse with C++ extensions for c and C++ work. On OS/X I use XCode.
One day I may settle on one set of tools for all of them but I have yet to have that luxury. Maybe I will take the time to relearn Emacs but not today.
A lesson that the Navy learned early. They standardized a reactor called the S5W it was used for the Skipjack class of subs, the George Washington Class, The Ethan Allen Class, the Permit class,the Sturgeon class, The Lafayette class, and the Ben Franklin class. It may well be the most produced type of reactor in history "Don't know about Russia I know they built one reactor type for the Hotel, Echo, and November class but I am not sure of the numbers. This article is fud but the headline will cause people to believe it without question.
And we so need to get it through peoples heads. If you bring up Chernobyl when talking about modern western reactors you are spreading FUD.
But until you learn all the keyboard commands it can take a lot of mouse moving. That and I find I really miss MDI All those windows everywhere are just pain. I know that spaces is supposed be the solution but it just isn't as easy for me. Macs have quirks. They are note all fairy farts and unicorn poop. But I will say that I find the quality of the applications available to be very high. It may be that the best part of the OS is the API
How about this. I want an UI that isn't totally different from Windows, Gnome, and OS/X?
Frankly I am begining to feel that OSs are getting to much eye candy at the expense of usability. What I want from an OS is really simple. Fast Reliable Launches applications Manages files Handles IO.
Wall paper is nice and attractive icons are also nice. Clean readable fonts is a must.
Oh and use the CTRL and ALT keys and not some stupid Windows or Apple key to do stuff. If you start using a stinking TUX key for commands like copy and paste I may have to hurt people!
Okay I have been using a Mac for development for a bit now. As to it "just working" honestly not anymore than my PC just works. Getting my cell phone and another device to work over bluetooth? Have not got it working yet.
Networking and printers are working just fine.
But the UI really makes me nuts. Why must I grab the bottom right corner to resize a window? Under Windows I can do it from any part of the frame, And why the stinking apple key! isn't alt and control good enough. I keep hiting ctrl c to copy ! And the Menus always at the top. What a waste of time. I have to click on the window and then move my mouse to the top of the screen to pick a menu item! Grrrrr... Yes it works but so does XP and Ubuntu. It is pretty. I will give you that. Better looking than Windows and Gnome. But usability is making me nuts. I think the open apple key is the single worst thing about it. I HATE IT. And I am sure I can map the keyboard if I really want to but where? Oh and don't hand me the "ctrl and alt are only better because that is what you are used too" crap Yep but it is also what Linux and Windows both use! If Microsoft put a function like copy and paste on their "Windows keys" I would want to hurt them as well!
As if the system wasn't already being abused? Credit card companies shouldn't allow their services to be used for scamming. Once a company has been accused of fraud like this the credit card companies should investigate. In the end this kind of scamming will cost them a lot of money. Of course me wanting to see it doesn't mean that it must be a law or regulation. Just a good idea. If you make it hard to make money doing this you remove the incentive.
Actually some claimed that tried but got the run around. What I would like to see is the CC companies pro actively shut down these people. After one person makes a claim on them it should be easy to check and see who else did and then start reversing charges.
So today hard drives are the way for you to go for storing large amounts of RAW digital pictures. Eventually Flash may be good enough. You see that is the thing. Both flash and Hard drives will keep going up in size. Eventually flash will be good enough for more and more situations.
Maybe but this problem has already been solved. The aerospace industry has been flying code that can kill for decades. They have a procedures to develop and test mission critical code for everything from navigation to flight control systems. Is it prefect? No but the system does seem to work well. Just base the certification process for medical software on the certification process for aerospace software and you have a good working solution.
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But for other carriers I would say no.
Simple reason is that they have been granted access to public facilities. AKA. right of way. They have also taken public money in the form of taxes that where then paid to them to improve access "Universal Access".
A wireless carrier on the other hand if they have paid for all their own tower space might have some wiggle room but then they are using the public airwaves which is also in a sense public resources.
They do pay for those but they probably also agree to public regulation of them so over all I would say no.
But I am not a lawyer and my limited understand is based on logic and common sense which often do not seem to apply to matters of the law.
I find it odd that people don't want the game frame rate capped.
Why go past 60 FPS? Okay maybe 120 if you nuts?
What do you gain? I would rather not put out the heat and eat up the power.
Of course the only game I really play is FSX and I would love to see 60 FPS with all the eye candy turned on.
Actually it was probably worse than the H Bomb tests. I have not done the math but I would bet the mass of radio-isotopes is much greater than that released by the H Bomb tests. But you are probably right that looking at Bikini Atoll is probably a good choice as far as habitability.
Civil disobedience is the act of breaking unfair civil laws.
Like sitting in a whites only section of a bus.
Or drinking from a whites only water fountain.
It is not violating the rights of others to control the product of their labor.
That is simply being a jerk. You can pretend it is some great act but it is in the end being just a jerk wad.
If you really wanted to act in the cause of Free software you would learn to code if you didn't already and write a better game and release it as FOSS.
Other wise back to being a jerk and actually hurting the cause of Free Software.
End of Story.
As a FOSS developer I do understand this. But until there are FOSS solutions for every problem their is a place for closes source software.
Okay.
How about this.
Solidworks.
Autocad.
Pro/E
Sony Vegas
Adobe Premier
AND DRM DOES NOT STOP THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOSS EQUIVALENT!
Unless you intend to just take others code without permission.
There is no FOSS cad system as good as those listed or equivalent.
"Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains)."
No you are wrong. You are super wrong. You are full of it.
If you are talking about GNU/FSF/RMS meaning of the free software.
It goes against the purpose and concept of free software to us free software.
As betterunixthanunix points out GNU has no problem with charging for software at all.
So yes you can pay for free software all you want. To follow the purpose and concept of free software you would disagree with and refrain from using any software that you where not free to distribute and that did not give you the source or at least an offer of the source!
Not liking DRM is also okay.
But just taking the software is just being a rotten cheapskate that refuses to pay the developer what the developer thinks his product is worth. And you are violating his rights to license his software how he sees fit.
In other words your being a jerk when you pirate some $ 1.99 game for you cell phone and being anti free software at the same time.
I thought the same thing. The Coast Guard stole some one's website?
But the chip sets that Atom uses tend to be power hungry. Also you will get better GPU performance.
And Atom can struggle just with Flash Video. With the Athlon it will be no problem.
It just depends on what you want. I would go with the Athlon II X2 as the best compromise. unless you really want a to use a small form factor for cheap.
Also the Atom will work better for a Hackintosh if that is what you want.
I guess I don't see it that way. Yes their was some differences in engineering spaces. I would put that down to improvements during production. If you read the book you referenced you will see that Navy hoped to develop of family of reactors that scaled up and down so that navel architects would have a menu of power plants to pick from much like they did for steam plants during WWII. The scaling didn't work so well since you can not scale the shielding mass. In other words it is a lot easier to scale a reactor up then down. Which really was the pits because it ended up being not all that easy to scale them up.
In the end the Navy ended up with deciding to use that one reactor for a number of classes to gain the benefits of a standard reactor. And that reactor really did seem to work well. heck when the cost of 688 class seemed to be getting too high the Navy even thought of going back to that reactor!
Yes and I am one of the fan boys that thinks they should have put the Narwal into series production.
"So S5W was retained not because of any conscious decision to standardize, but to hold engineering effort and costs so as not to jeopardize construction and maintenance schedules."
Sounds like a great reason to standardize to me.
The Thresher may have started out as an improved Skipjack but it really didn't end up that way.
The Thresher had a totally different hull shape, it was much quieter because it used rafting, it had totally different bow Thresher and Permit used a spherical sonar array and had torpedo tubs mounted amidships. While Skipjack used a conventional array and bow mounted tubes.
So I would put them as two very different classes.
But what in effect you are saying is that the Navy Standardized reactors to save time and money. Which is the best reason to standardize anything.
The Lipscomb, as well as the Tullibee and Narwal are all considered one offs. For some reason the Jack is not.
Oh I have a list of things that tick me off in Windows and Linux as well.
The thing is that I find OS/X just as annoying. Maybe if I only ever used OS/X I would feel different but OS/X just doesn't seem that much if any better than Windows to me.
Of course I started on the Commodore 64, went to CP/M and DOS, then AmigaOS, then back to DOS(work), then Windows, then more Windows, then Linux plus Windows, then Linux plus Windows plus OS/X.
So maybe it does something in an easy way that I don't find hard to do under Windows or Linux.
Because compared to DOS most things are pretty easy to do in Linux and Windows these days.
I thought that it might as does Gtalk. But the XMPP servers are separated and are not inter connected.
The idea was that XMPP/jabber would be the IM protocol and everyone would use it.
It really is a good protocol and very flexible.
Thing is that we still have AIM, MSN messenger, and Yahoo messenger.
The problem really isn't that nobody can replace facebook.
The problem is that if and or when it happens it will be another walled garden.
Distributed open standards? You mean like for IM?
Jabber has been around for how long? And so far only Google seems to really use it.
It is a shame because it is a very powerful and useful system.
Had it been around from the start every ISP could have run a jabber server like they do email.
Jabber servers can talk to each other and wham you have an open standards based IM....
So why does MSN, AIM, YahooIM and goodness knows how many other IM standards still exist?
I don't hate OS/X even though it may sound like it. I was expecting the ultimate UI experience and frankly just isn't that great. Not terrible but not great.
The thing about the menus is that I see no benefit to having the menus at the top of the screen vs the top of the window and a big down side.
I do agree that a good part of it is getting used to it but that is not the same as intuitive and just works now is it?
As to Emacs I have not used that since microemacs on the Amiga.
For my light editing on Linux I use JOE because it is fast, light, and works well over ssh.
On the PC I use Notepad++ or HTMLToolkit depending. They are both really good tools.
On the Mac I installed TextWrangler which is a nice little editor.
On Windows for Development I use Netbeans because I tend to do java work on Windows.
On Linux Eclipse with C++ extensions for c and C++ work.
On OS/X I use XCode.
One day I may settle on one set of tools for all of them but I have yet to have that luxury.
Maybe I will take the time to relearn Emacs but not today.
A lesson that the Navy learned early. ,the Sturgeon class, The Lafayette class, and the Ben Franklin class. It may well be the most produced type of reactor in history "Don't know about Russia I know they built one reactor type for the Hotel, Echo, and November class but I am not sure of the numbers. This article is fud but the headline will cause people to believe it without question.
They standardized a reactor called the S5W it was used for the Skipjack class of subs, the George Washington Class, The Ethan Allen Class, the Permit class
And we so need to get it through peoples heads. If you bring up Chernobyl when talking about modern western reactors you are spreading FUD.
But until you learn all the keyboard commands it can take a lot of mouse moving.
That and I find I really miss MDI All those windows everywhere are just pain. I know that spaces is supposed be the solution but it just isn't as easy for me. Macs have quirks. They are note all fairy farts and unicorn poop.
But I will say that I find the quality of the applications available to be very high. It may be that the best part of the OS is the API
Thanks I will try that
How about this.
I want an UI that isn't totally different from Windows, Gnome, and OS/X?
Frankly I am begining to feel that OSs are getting to much eye candy at the expense of usability.
What I want from an OS is really simple.
Fast
Reliable
Launches applications
Manages files
Handles IO.
Wall paper is nice and attractive icons are also nice.
Clean readable fonts is a must.
Oh and use the CTRL and ALT keys and not some stupid Windows or Apple key to do stuff. If you start using a stinking TUX key for commands like copy and paste I may have to hurt people!
Okay I have been using a Mac for development for a bit now.
As to it "just working" honestly not anymore than my PC just works.
Getting my cell phone and another device to work over bluetooth? Have not got it working yet.
Networking and printers are working just fine.
But the UI really makes me nuts.
Why must I grab the bottom right corner to resize a window? Under Windows I can do it from any part of the frame,
And why the stinking apple key! isn't alt and control good enough. I keep hiting ctrl c to copy !
And the Menus always at the top. What a waste of time.
I have to click on the window and then move my mouse to the top of the screen to pick a menu item!
Grrrrr...
Yes it works but so does XP and Ubuntu. It is pretty. I will give you that. Better looking than Windows and Gnome.
But usability is making me nuts.
I think the open apple key is the single worst thing about it. I HATE IT. And I am sure I can map the keyboard if I really want to but where?
Oh and don't hand me the "ctrl and alt are only better because that is what you are used too" crap
Yep but it is also what Linux and Windows both use! If Microsoft put a function like copy and paste on their "Windows keys" I would want to hurt them as well!
As if the system wasn't already being abused?
Credit card companies shouldn't allow their services to be used for scamming. Once a company has been accused of fraud like this the credit card companies should investigate. In the end this kind of scamming will cost them a lot of money.
Of course me wanting to see it doesn't mean that it must be a law or regulation. Just a good idea. If you make it hard to make money doing this you remove the incentive.
Actually No they are not.
The charges have been reversed by many of the users.
Actually some claimed that tried but got the run around.
What I would like to see is the CC companies pro actively shut down these people. After one person makes a claim on them it should be easy to check and see who else did and then start reversing charges.
So today hard drives are the way for you to go for storing large amounts of RAW digital pictures.
Eventually Flash may be good enough.
You see that is the thing. Both flash and Hard drives will keep going up in size. Eventually flash will be good enough for more and more situations.
Maybe but this problem has already been solved.
The aerospace industry has been flying code that can kill for decades. They have a procedures to develop and test mission critical code for everything from navigation to flight control systems.
Is it prefect? No but the system does seem to work well. Just base the certification process for medical software on the certification process for aerospace software and you have a good working solution.