SCO: None shall pass. IBM: What? SCO: None shall pass. IBM: I have no quarrel with you, good SCO, but I must cross this bridge. SCO: Then you shall die. IBM: I command you as King of the Mainframes to stand aside! SCO: I move for no man. IBM: So be it! *IBM cuts off SCO's left arm.* IBM: Now stand aside, worthy adversary. SCO: 'Tis but a scratch. IBM: A scratch? Your arm's off! SCO: No, it isn't. IBM: Well, what's that then? SCO: I've had worse. IBM: You liar! SCO: Come on you pansy! *IBM cuts off SCO's right arm.* IBM: Victory is mine! We thank thee Linux, that in thy mercy... SCO: Come on then. IBM: What? SCO: Have at you! IBM: You are indeed brave, SCO, but the fight is mine. SCO: Oh, had enough, eh? IBM: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left. SCO: Yes I have. IBM: Look! SCO: Just a flesh wound. IBM: Look, stop that. SCO: Chicken! Chicken! IBM: Look, I'll have your leg. Right! *IBM cuts off SCO's leg.* SCO: Right, I'll do you for that! IBM: You'll what? SCO: Come 'ere! IBM: What are you going to do, bleed on me? SCO: I'm invincible! IBM: You're a loony. SCO: SCO always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then. *IBM cuts off SCO's other leg.* SCO: All right; we'll call it a draw. IBM: (prepares to leave the scene) Come, Novell. SCO: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Yes, there is *some* lift generated by air pushed down due to the airfoils angle of attack to the airflow, but it's minimal compared to where the bulk of the lift comes from.
Airfoils work by creating a lower pressure area on top of the wing, by the fact that the curve of the airfoil "stretches" the air travelling over the top of it, (as it has to travel further) lowering its pressure compared to the air below the airfoil. The "normal" air pressure on the bottom of the airfoil pushes it up, generating lift.
There's already a "tainted" identifier for modules - it's purpose is to tell you when your kernel's been tainted from an Impure Source(tm) - lsmod will tell you if your kernel's been corrupted by a non-GPL type module. Oops's from a tainted kernel a simply not accepted by the kernel maintainers as they can't bugtrace with them.
The thing is , if you *want* binary third-party carbage in your kernel, well now *you cannot do it at all* If you don't want third-party binary carbage in your kernel, well, you don't load the module that contains it.
People want their stuff to work. If they need to load a binary module to get their stuff to work, then they'll generally do that, zealots be damned.
I'd prefer a "soft" lockout, with sauna-and-artic like temperatures restricted.
Or could it have enough smarts to do something like: Calculate the average energy use in the building in a one week window. Set each tenants available thermostat range depending on where they fall with regards to the rest of the tenants -
If they are above the average, restrict their available range of deviation from ambient outside, depending upon how much above the average they are.
Likewise, expand their available range if they drop below the average use.
This way, people who have the highest usages get throttled back, and people who only use it when they really need it get rewarded with higher available deviations from ambient.
Your demonstration would be more about the resonant capabilities of a block of aluminium.
The advantage of a solid block of metal for noise dampening is that sound doesn't transition through abrupt density changes very well. In effect, you have a pressure wave that's pretty much energy stored in air. Now you try and transfer that energy to something that's 500 times more dense - you'll get a pretty solid reflection off that surface, with only a miniscule amount of energy transferred into it.
But when you construct a box and strike it with a hammer, a large amount of energy is transferred from the hammer to the box, which resonates until all the energy is dissipated, either as heat in the metal or pressure waves in the surrounding air. And you striking the box with a hammer is many orders of magnitude more energy than when you're simply trying to stop ambient noise.
Some time ago is right, it was in the early 1930's.
I'd say that biologists have improved their environmental impact studies a fair bit since then.
It's interesting to note that common crows in australia have learned to flip the toad onto its back before eating from the underside, to avoid the poisonous sacs on its back.
But.... but... they used the "EXTREME" adjective! That should've moved a million units , right there!
Sales reap: "Hey buddy, wanna buy a (takes deep breath) Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging ?"
Customer : "Er, no"
Sales Rep: "Hmm, the fact that it's the EXTREME EDITION does nothing for you?"
Customer : "Oh, its the EXTREME EDITION?!? I simply must take things to the (strains voice) EXTREME!! I'll take six!"
Sales Rep: "Really?"
Customer : "No, you idiot. Now show me your Athlon stock before I lose my patience and go buy my stuff online."
Have a browse through the forums at whirlpool... they're a pretty reliable indicator of ISP goodnes. I've pulled 30GB or so on internode's flatrate plan before... and I've heard of people getting 60GB on it without too much hassle.
But yeah, ISO's can sure suck up the old bandwidth a bit. Beat's the hell out of my first ISP experience with a 2400 baud modem and AUSPAC:-)
Check around the ISP's, sounds like your pricing's stuck a few years behind. Might I suggest whirlpool , if you haven't already seen it? Anywhere that Tel$tra's got a DSLAM, you can also get any other ISP in australia that sells ADSL.
I'm in Mount Isa, and I get 512/128 from Internode at $59/mo. That's with 12GB download (capped at 40kb/s after that), a pile of quota-exempt mirrors (mmmm... gentoo rsync:-), a heap of free radio relays.. etc. If you don't like caps, you can get a "flat-rate" plan that does some prioritisation depending on your current download totals compared to everyone else currently using flatrate. But anyhoo, that's enough Internode fanboyism from me:-)
Pity about the person who routinely takes their car to the drag strip, or the race track, or the dyno.
Or the other person (such as me:-) who happens to live near an area (the Northen Territory, AU) which has about 2000km of highway with *NO* posted speed limits, other than a general "not driving in a fashion that would endanger others" rule that law enforcement can use to catch true idiots.
Sounds like an excellent market for a mod that feeds the box a hard (or slightly varying) upper speed limit, to be faithfully recorded for posterity.
IIRC , the nintendo logo is matched , bit-for-bit , against an area in the cartridge ROM.
The nintendo-scrolling down thing was just something that they could do for extra effect - they've got the bitmap from the cart there, and it's trivial for them to move it around the screen. So, once the logo's fully centred on the screen, that's when the pattern-matching takes place, and if there's no match, the code in the cart is deemed to be some sort of "non-approved code" and it isn't executed.
So, if there's no cart, there's just a blank chunk getting moved about.
Perhaps we need a player designed by Satan. I bet it'd be way cooler than God's one and you might get sex just for owning one (though not from any mac lovers). Get a sony one - you'll get sex all right, you'll get fucked in the ass by their ATRAC3 format, daily.
Your BIOS normally checks SMART values on boot.... if your system doesn't have an active SMART monitor, the only time you'll see the SMART errors is on boot.
Something like this might eliminate the idiocy of pulling up to a light at an empty road, stopping, waiting for the sensor to register your presence, wait for the light to actually change, and finally proceeding. Hmmm.
Most lights have a "default" setting that sits on green until a car pulls up at the crossroad - if the planners get it wrong with the default, it can get tedious. I've seen lights that simply blink amber in all directions once traffic flow drops to a certain level. Maybe your region could program that behaviour into theirs:-)
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Just dim your desktop to simulate moonlight. :-)
Good for those late-night hacks
Some smart aleck will tie it to the lunar cycle, so they can use the excuse, "Nah, I can't code that tonight, it's a new moon"
Seeing as it's in LEO, I'd say a 10 millisecond round trip, tops.
Why does SCO remind me of the Black Knight?
Pythonised legal summary:
SCO: None shall pass.
IBM: What?
SCO: None shall pass.
IBM: I have no quarrel with you, good SCO, but I must cross this bridge.
SCO: Then you shall die.
IBM: I command you as King of the Mainframes to stand aside!
SCO: I move for no man.
IBM: So be it!
*IBM cuts off SCO's left arm.*
IBM: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
SCO: 'Tis but a scratch.
IBM: A scratch? Your arm's off!
SCO: No, it isn't.
IBM: Well, what's that then?
SCO: I've had worse.
IBM: You liar!
SCO: Come on you pansy!
*IBM cuts off SCO's right arm.*
IBM: Victory is mine! We thank thee Linux, that in thy mercy...
SCO: Come on then.
IBM: What?
SCO: Have at you!
IBM: You are indeed brave, SCO, but the fight is mine.
SCO: Oh, had enough, eh?
IBM: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
SCO: Yes I have.
IBM: Look!
SCO: Just a flesh wound.
IBM: Look, stop that.
SCO: Chicken! Chicken!
IBM: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
*IBM cuts off SCO's leg.*
SCO: Right, I'll do you for that!
IBM: You'll what?
SCO: Come 'ere!
IBM: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
SCO: I'm invincible!
IBM: You're a loony.
SCO: SCO always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then.
*IBM cuts off SCO's other leg.*
SCO: All right; we'll call it a draw.
IBM: (prepares to leave the scene) Come, Novell.
SCO: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Well, how about
Cash Register And Pc?
A little contrived, perhaps.
Wrong, wrong wrong :-)
Yes, there is *some* lift generated by air pushed down due to the airfoils angle of attack to the airflow, but it's minimal compared to where the bulk of the lift comes from.
Airfoils work by creating a lower pressure area on top of the wing, by the fact that the curve of the airfoil "stretches" the air travelling over the top of it, (as it has to travel further) lowering its pressure compared to the air below the airfoil. The "normal" air pressure on the bottom of the airfoil pushes it up, generating lift.
There's already a "tainted" identifier for modules - it's purpose is to tell you when your kernel's been tainted from an Impure Source(tm) - lsmod will tell you if your kernel's been corrupted by a non-GPL type module. Oops's from a tainted kernel a simply not accepted by the kernel maintainers as they can't bugtrace with them.
See What does it mean for a module to be tainted?
So why the hell can't they all just agree to mark it as tainted and be done with the whole hoo-ha?
The thing is , if you *want* binary third-party carbage in your kernel, well now *you cannot do it at all*
If you don't want third-party binary carbage in your kernel, well, you don't load the module that contains it.
People want their stuff to work. If they need to load a binary module to get their stuff to work, then they'll generally do that, zealots be damned.
But a commercial solar plant would use fusion :-)
Place your bets now!
Perhaps they deliberately slowed it down for all the tons of user-written programs out there.
But a "turbo" key would have been handy.
I'd prefer a "soft" lockout, with sauna-and-artic like temperatures restricted.
:
Or could it have enough smarts to do something like
Calculate the average energy use in the building in a one week window.
Set each tenants available thermostat range depending on where they fall with regards to the rest of the tenants -
If they are above the average, restrict their available range of deviation from ambient outside, depending upon how much above the average they are.
Likewise, expand their available range if they drop below the average use.
This way, people who have the highest usages get throttled back, and people who only use it when they really need it get rewarded with higher available deviations from ambient.
Actually , *I* have three solutions to it, I just can't decide which one to use :-)
Your demonstration would be more about the resonant capabilities of a block of aluminium.
The advantage of a solid block of metal for noise dampening is that sound doesn't transition through abrupt density changes very well. In effect, you have a pressure wave that's pretty much energy stored in air. Now you try and transfer that energy to something that's 500 times more dense - you'll get a pretty solid reflection off that surface, with only a miniscule amount of energy transferred into it.
But when you construct a box and strike it with a hammer, a large amount of energy is transferred from the hammer to the box, which resonates until all the energy is dissipated, either as heat in the metal or pressure waves in the surrounding air. And you striking the box with a hammer is many orders of magnitude more energy than when you're simply trying to stop ambient noise.
Some time ago is right, it was in the early 1930's.
I'd say that biologists have improved their environmental impact studies a fair bit since then.
It's interesting to note that common crows in australia have learned to flip the toad onto its back before eating from the underside, to avoid the poisonous sacs on its back.
But.... but... they used the "EXTREME" adjective!
That should've moved a million units , right there!
Sales reap: "Hey buddy, wanna buy a (takes deep breath) Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging ?"
Customer : "Er, no"
Sales Rep: "Hmm, the fact that it's the EXTREME EDITION does nothing for you?"
Customer : "Oh, its the EXTREME EDITION?!? I simply must take things to the (strains voice) EXTREME!! I'll take six!"
Sales Rep: "Really?"
Customer : "No, you idiot. Now show me your Athlon stock before I lose my patience and go buy my stuff online."
Dodo? Hang your head in shame! :-)
:-)
Have a browse through the forums at whirlpool... they're a pretty reliable indicator of ISP goodnes. I've pulled 30GB or so on internode's flatrate plan before... and I've heard of people getting 60GB on it without too much hassle.
But yeah, ISO's can sure suck up the old bandwidth a bit. Beat's the hell out of my first ISP experience with a 2400 baud modem and AUSPAC
For hubble , that ratio is pretty much one to one - apparently to get time on hubble requires a pretty rigourous review of merit.
Hmmm... perhaps an idyllic south pacific island would be a nice change.
,er, "research" on it and get right back to you :-)
Plenty of small island nations out there with lots of potential. And we'd be worshipped as techno-GODS by lots of nubile young ladies.
Tell you what, I'll gladly go over and do a bit of
Hmmm... where are you?
:-), a heap of free radio relays.. etc. If you don't like caps, you can get a "flat-rate" plan that does some prioritisation depending on your current download totals compared to everyone else currently using flatrate. But anyhoo, that's enough Internode fanboyism from me :-)
Check around the ISP's, sounds like your pricing's stuck a few years behind. Might I suggest whirlpool , if you haven't already seen it? Anywhere that Tel$tra's got a DSLAM, you can also get any other ISP in australia that sells ADSL.
I'm in Mount Isa, and I get 512/128 from Internode at $59/mo. That's with 12GB download (capped at 40kb/s after that), a pile of quota-exempt mirrors (mmmm... gentoo rsync
Pity about the person who routinely takes their car to the drag strip, or the race track, or the dyno.
:-) who happens to live near an area (the Northen Territory, AU) which has about 2000km of highway with *NO* posted speed limits, other than a general "not driving in a fashion that would endanger others" rule that law enforcement can use to catch true idiots.
Or the other person (such as me
Sounds like an excellent market for a mod that feeds the box a hard (or slightly varying) upper speed limit, to be faithfully recorded for posterity.
as mentioned somewhere above - weird al gets permission from the copyright holders before doing a "remake" of the song.
IIRC , the nintendo logo is matched , bit-for-bit , against an area in the cartridge ROM.
The nintendo-scrolling down thing was just something that they could do for extra effect - they've got the bitmap from the cart there, and it's trivial for them to move it around the screen. So, once the logo's fully centred on the screen, that's when the pattern-matching takes place, and if there's no match, the code in the cart is deemed to be some sort of "non-approved code" and it isn't executed.
So, if there's no cart, there's just a blank chunk getting moved about.
Perhaps we need a player designed by Satan. I bet it'd be way cooler than God's one and you might get sex just for owning one (though not from any mac lovers).
Get a sony one - you'll get sex all right, you'll get fucked in the ass by their ATRAC3 format, daily.
Your BIOS normally checks SMART values on boot.... if your system doesn't have an active SMART monitor, the only time you'll see the SMART errors is on boot.
Something like this might eliminate the idiocy of pulling up to a light at an empty road, stopping, waiting for the sensor to register your presence, wait for the light to actually change, and finally proceeding. :-)
Hmmm.
Most lights have a "default" setting that sits on green until a car pulls up at the crossroad - if the planners get it wrong with the default, it can get tedious. I've seen lights that simply blink amber in all directions once traffic flow drops to a certain level. Maybe your region could program that behaviour into theirs
Somebody once told me that a petrol engine with a correct air-fuel ratio will exhaust a litre of water for every litre of petrol used.