It does have hope. It has a great business plan. You can bet its protected by a large army of patents. The internet as we enjoy it does not have such restrictions. They want a new landscape where everything is owned in such a way where the new generation 20 years from now could be covered in patents too. Technology can always evolve and be forever be covered in new blankets of patents.
Several months ago I bought a cheap laptop from Walmart. I found out from Acer's website they had a Linux cd distribution that I could download. What did this mean to me? Everything worked together, including wireless, sound, and accelerated video. Trying a different distribution, like Ubuntu worked without any hassles. Since then, I bought several other laptops from Walmart knowing they took time to make sure their laptops supported a free operating system. They have been the most trouble free units I have had the pleasure of giving my family. Its a shame Dell doesn't latch onto this idea.
NASA developed this chip on their first Apollo mission to the moon. I saw it myself on television as they recorded one of their monitors and they took many pictures to prove it was real.
and rolled your own with all the packages available, why bother choosing a distribution? Your computer is already built, so why reinstall aka Windows style?
Actually, that's *exactly the same* as linear voltage regulators (what do you think a linear regulator does?)
No. Take another basic electronics class or start playing with power supplies. Most linear regulators, such as the 7805 DO NOT short unused power to ground. They meter the output transistor to regulate voltage. You just don't put zener diodes across large power supply busses and expect to clamp them down. You are going to start a fire!
I believe you mean "power factor" and not phase. Its the clipping at the peak of the waveform, rather than the whole, that causes excessive transmission line losses. Motors often take a bite off the lagging part of the waveform while computers take a chunk off the leading edge of the power factor. This makes your transformer outside less efficient and transfer less power.
The only problem is polonium 210 is like pop-rocks candy, but you don't need water for it to fizzle. The decaying alpha particles will break nano particles off into the air. It fizzles all the time until its all broken down.
I used to fix VCR's for the tune of half their value (hey, its business!) and quickly discovered the design is a time bomb. The rubber parts rot, the heads clog, and has a loading mechanism that's a magnet for kids to store stuff in there. Its a matter of time before the population of VCR's drop to zero. It will happen faster than the life of a lithium battery or the charges on an EPROM die out.
10 years from now, 90% of all VCR's will be out of commission. Transfer your tapes to other storage now!
True, but when they hit the robo-deer, they will still have to account for how they managed to veer off open road.
That's easy. When you see a deer, there's always at least one more. Its always the other one that will get you.
"That's why I swerved off the road. And hit another one. And I had to shoot it. It was not my day!"
This is why remote motion sensing cameras are VERY popular. They sell them at hunting stores, not only for hunting, but to protect property from other hunters.
Who would they sue? I believe everyone they could. IBM used to covertly sue everyone trying to manufacture a competing Personal Computer. They would quietly visit the company with their lawyers and ask them for royalties on several patents. If they balked, they informed them there were several thousand patents they could litigate with. Of course a deal was made and it was all NDA. Most of the companies slowly bled to death. These things rarely make the news.
Slashdot Mirror
waiting for christmas?
Here's Steve Ballmer (monkey boy) toasting the success of Google's new achievements:
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http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=ETc7g96ZHZk
SCO already had its last breath. Novell is now on the attack.
It does have hope. It has a great business plan. You can bet its protected by a large army of patents. The internet as we enjoy it does not have such restrictions. They want a new landscape where everything is owned in such a way where the new generation 20 years from now could be covered in patents too. Technology can always evolve and be forever be covered in new blankets of patents.
Well, it is a crime to pirate software, so let's start calling the police. Most people call 911 when a crime is committed, right?
"911, what is your emergency?"
"My neighbor just pirated Microsoft Office."
"what?"
"My neighbor is pirating software!"
*click*
Pirate away!
But most people don't like the settlements and license compliance audits that eventually catch up to them.
The first pulldown box under system software, "Linux Software" is listed before "Windows Software" :)
http://global.acer.com/support/download.htm
Several months ago I bought a cheap laptop from Walmart. I found out from Acer's website they had a Linux cd distribution that I could download. What did this mean to me? Everything worked together, including wireless, sound, and accelerated video. Trying a different distribution, like Ubuntu worked without any hassles. Since then, I bought several other laptops from Walmart knowing they took time to make sure their laptops supported a free operating system. They have been the most trouble free units I have had the pleasure of giving my family. Its a shame Dell doesn't latch onto this idea.
NASA developed this chip on their first Apollo mission to the moon. I saw it myself on television as they recorded one of their monitors and they took many pictures to prove it was real.
Executive Summary:
nothing to see here, move along...
If I were in a position of authority over a University network, would I outsource the email? Absolutely.
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Better idea: load up a small Linux box in a closet and drywall it:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S001
and rolled your own with all the packages available, why bother choosing a distribution? Your computer is already built, so why reinstall aka Windows style?
Actually, that's *exactly the same* as linear voltage regulators (what do you think a linear regulator does?)
No. Take another basic electronics class or start playing with power supplies. Most linear regulators, such as the 7805 DO NOT short unused power to ground. They meter the output transistor to regulate voltage. You just don't put zener diodes across large power supply busses and expect to clamp them down. You are going to start a fire!
I believe you mean "power factor" and not phase. Its the clipping at the peak of the waveform, rather than the whole, that causes excessive transmission line losses. Motors often take a bite off the lagging part of the waveform while computers take a chunk off the leading edge of the power factor. This makes your transformer outside less efficient and transfer less power.
just use zener diodes to get the voltage down to whatever it is that the device requires?
Using shunt regulation? Bleeding off what you don't use in the form of heat? That's worse than linear voltage regulators!
The only problem is polonium 210 is like pop-rocks candy, but you don't need water for it to fizzle. The decaying alpha particles will break nano particles off into the air. It fizzles all the time until its all broken down.
It would be nice if GNUCash could link just to ncurses for a minimalistic, resource friendly, terminal application.
How about watermarking the captcha with the site's address and a short message?
http://www.dattaway.org/jesus_christ_taco_bell_cle an_that_mess_up.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car
"the staff of the Darwin Awards decided it was such a funny story to "grandfather" it in and let it keep its award."
cultdeadcow link at the bottom has the most amazing recent version.
I used to fix VCR's for the tune of half their value (hey, its business!) and quickly discovered the design is a time bomb. The rubber parts rot, the heads clog, and has a loading mechanism that's a magnet for kids to store stuff in there. Its a matter of time before the population of VCR's drop to zero. It will happen faster than the life of a lithium battery or the charges on an EPROM die out.
10 years from now, 90% of all VCR's will be out of commission. Transfer your tapes to other storage now!
True, but when they hit the robo-deer, they will still have to account for how they managed to veer off open road.
That's easy. When you see a deer, there's always at least one more. Its always the other one that will get you.
"That's why I swerved off the road. And hit another one. And I had to shoot it. It was not my day!"
This is why remote motion sensing cameras are VERY popular. They sell them at hunting stores, not only for hunting, but to protect property from other hunters.
Who would they sue? I believe everyone they could. IBM used to covertly sue everyone trying to manufacture a competing Personal Computer. They would quietly visit the company with their lawyers and ask them for royalties on several patents. If they balked, they informed them there were several thousand patents they could litigate with. Of course a deal was made and it was all NDA. Most of the companies slowly bled to death. These things rarely make the news.
after we get human rights figured out.
Not to worry. The robots will correct our problem with human rights. The robots have a much more efficient answer.
I'm guessing there are very few or no patents covering this, explaining why competition is very fierce. Customers win big.