Except that when it's patented , the details are published......
So, someone makes a change to an existing OSS filter, MS can say, "Hey! You used the details of our patent to further your work, pay up or we'll....(insert crushing legal threat here)"
Which means it's going to be much,much harder to get an OSS filter for the next version(s) of MS Office, as you'll have to be pretty strict with the reverse-engineering to ensure you don't wind up in the courts defending your work against a bunch of attack lawyers from a billion-dollar company.
That I've got a catalogue today with a fuel cell kit.
It's from an australian company, and it costs AUD299 so it's probably not much help - but it does look like some sort of generic kit. No specs on the cell though:-(
yeah, only orkut and about a million other companies have that standard boilerplate legal text. Jeez, even googling for the exact phrase "worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable" gives you about 100 results.
If you're keeping some big trade secret, don't post it there - otherwise honestly, who's going to give a fuck about your chatter?
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Is MythTV network capable? yes, the front (display) and back (recording / storage) can be separate.
Can I have a monster recording server and then playback clients on my LAN? Oh yes:-)
Can I rip a DVD/CD at the client and store it on the server? Yes, I do this a lot... personally I rip to mpeg4/xVid at 1000kbps and have no real hassles with quality. This is built into the mythDVD section.
What about DVD burning. Hmmm... not too sure about this one, but it would be relatively easy for a hacker to code a small hook to an external burning program with mythtv. For me: I've had MythTv running on a board with an integrated nvidia chipset with tv-out and have had no real issues with stability. The Myth box I have next to the TV runs for a week or two at a time with no trouble - generally I turn it off if I go away for a few days. It shares it's video and audio storage directories to the LAN via samba, so I can keep everything in one place, and drop new music/downloaded vids 'into' the TV with no hassles.
I get guide info from a screen scraper program, which is very handy seeing that a Tivo etc would be pretty useless to me as I live in australia. The mythtv interface is well thought out and easily driven via a standard remote, picture quality is great (I capture at 704x576 PAL at about 3Mbps using mpeg4) and after the intial setup, it works fine and is wife and kid friendly. The extra modules (mythmusic, mythDVD, mythWeather) turn it pretty much into an all-in-one for me. If you've got some time and are moderately linux-savvy, get MythTv.
Hell , I went the whole hog and got Gentoo *and* Mythtv.... I can just *feel* all that geek brotherhood respect already;-)
try: opening a slow website in IE. go to another window (eg notepad) - type away. When page loads / fails to load - boink! IE takes the focus and comes to the foreground, helpfully informing you that the page has loaded / failed to load.
Surely you can get decent noise cancellation hardware inside your (standard) case for less than 1400 bucks?
Especially since the constant drone/tone of fans and drives would seemingly be easy to cancel. Even if you just ducted your main inlet fan and put some noise cancellation on that.
Well, they don't actually *bounce* as such, in the initial smtp transaction the originating server says "SIZE xxxxxxxxx" and the receiving server can terminate it at that point with a 5xx error if they wish. The sending server then has the option of reporting back to the user that the message has failed. (normally with the text of the 5xx error message, which in my case says "5M limit on incoming messages - contact xxx@yyy for info"
One of the venera probes had a "spike" type soil density tester on an arm, which was basically under spring tension and was supposed to flip out from the lander and spear into the soil, to get an idea of how hard the ground was.
So, lens cap pops off, a few photos are taken, spike gets deployed, a few more photos taken to determine the depth the spike penetrated to....
except the spike manages to land in the exact same spot the lens cap is sitting. A rather solid lens cap, by the way.
Apparently there was a lot of cursing in russian at that point:-)
set to 5M. Bounce email if larger. Problem solved.
I had to do this to a server at a company I used to work at, as people are clueless about file sizes, and we had a 33.6k link to the rest of the internet. Otherwise I'd get: Boss: "Hey my very-important-email to very-important-client hasn't made it! I sent it an hour ago! It was only a 40k spreadsheet, where is it!?" Me: "I'll just check the mail queue...." (Me discovers a 5M junk video file , cc'd to 6 people in the queue, which has been busy transferring for 4 hours. This is promptly removed.) Me: "Your email will be there in 5 minutes" Boss: "I thought email was supposed to be fast?"
Atmospheric pressure on Mars is too low - below a certain pressure (where the boiling point of a liquid reaches the freezing point) water sublimes directly from ice to vapor like CO2 does.
So even if you do have 1 deg C temperatures, the pressure is such that you're already above the boiling point of water and hence no liquid water.
What a crock of shit. Nobody needs to use vi / pico / sed / awk if they don't want to.
And frankly, if my secretary needed a silly paper clip to figure out how to print something, they'd be fired, because they sure as hell don't meet my definition of a secretary.
OpenOffice and Microsoft (hell, the whole "GUI Paradigm" ) all function with the same basic concepts. For most kind of work ( basic spreadsheets / memo's) retraining consists of saying, "The menu's are a little different, but everything's in there, have a bit of a look, knock yourself out."
For the advanced stuff, it turns out that people who actually do the advanced stuff can normally be retrained fairly easily as well.
Don't forget a big-ass emergency stop switch in a very obvious position, that does the *whole* bench.
This way when (not if!!) things smoke you only have to slam that button down to switch it all off, rather than the find-the-right-powerboard-that-feeds-the-burning-i tem approach.
Oh, and a good residual current device (earth leakage) can save your life as well, so don't forget that.
Why not run a small heatpipe through the board and radiate some in the cool air underneath?
Its a problem when you've got 500 connections to a CPU going through a 5 layer circuit board to all parts of your motherboard - there's no physical (or electrical!) way to clear some space for a heat pipe under the cpu. yet.:-)
You'll need to run the NVIDIA installer with the --extract-only argument to untar it, then cd usr/src/nv and patch -p1 the diff file and then cp Makefile.nvidia Makefile. Then just run make install in the top-level directory of the nvidia installer and it'll build and install a 2.6.1-compatible module.
Don't forget to wave the sacrificial rubber chicken in an anti-clockwise direction over your processor while it compiles. If you wave the chicken clockwise you'll get a *lot* of segfaults and kernel panics.
Oh, and the compiled code will run 20% faster if you build it on a full moon or winter solstice, so plan ahead!
it's alse one reason that sodium-vapor streetlights are used - they emit light at one particular wavelength (yellowy/orange) and give you sharp vision / high contrast lighting.
They're also cheap to run and have more apparent light output for energy input, as opposed to lights that have a wide spectrum (and hence give off light at wavelengths that your eyes are not very good at seeing).
well.... if you imaged the same spot twice on two different orbits and the pixels in question were still there, you could then argue that they are surface features.
They're talking about the direct rover->to-earth link, as opposed to the rover->orbiter->earth link.
15 watts over a mars-earth link from a (presumably) omnidirectional antenna doesn't leave much for data transfer. 15 watts to a craft in orbit a few hundred k's up is plenty. Especially as the one in orbit has a high-gain dish to earth.
In your link it said the $6 billion expected for shuttle replacement has mushroomed to $35 billion. I don't suppose you have that kind of cash lying around to keep funding this program?
35 billion? That's only half of that 'war fund' that your prez rammed through congress. Cash seems easy enough to get your hands on, if you can work a WMD or terrorist threat into it.
NASA (to congress): "We have reason to believe that Osama Bin Laden is cunningly hiding in space, possibly on the Moon or Mars. We'll need some cash to go design and build a ship to pick him up."
Congress: "Hmmmm...."
NASA (thinking quickly) : "Oh , er, it looks like he might have a, er, WMD or two with him as well..."
Congress: "Here's 35 Billion dollars. Go."
NASA (collectively steepling fingers): "Exxxcellent."
After a while you *do* start to get wear in the gates from all the electrons you force through it - the supercooled and massively overclocked PC's that hit 2GHz (OH MY GOD!!) with refrigerative cooling apparently wore out quicker.
Whether quicker was 2 years compared to 6 years or 2 months compared to 6 years, I don't know.
The worst case is that your radio shorts out spectacularily and blows a fuse
Please, take care when you install radios....
The fun starts if your radio installer is looking for an earth. As an auto electrician, I've seen this all too often....
(Installer probes with test light on original stereo wiring) "Here's a wire that's earthed, I'll use that!"
Oops. The earth was in fact a wire for the dash lights (to light the light in your factory stereo). Now you blow fuses every time you turn your park lights on, because the radio often gets an earth from the frame or the antenna as well. Or, if you're unlucky, you blow the ($100)dimmer module for your dash lights because the designers didn't think they'd *ever* get a short circuit there.
Now imagine that wire that appears to be earthed is going into your engine or body computer for some mundane function (eg. stereo's on, ok, I'll raise the antenna) and you've got expensive problems.
Here's the drill... Why does this remind me of the Simpsons?
Marge: How was your day at work, dear? Homer: Oh, the usual. Stand in front of this, open that, pull down this, bend over, spread apart that, turn your head that way, cough...
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a dx4-100 and winplay3 could handle a stereo 128kbit mp3... just not much else.
Except that when it's patented , the details are published......
So, someone makes a change to an existing OSS filter, MS can say, "Hey! You used the details of our patent to further your work, pay up or we'll....(insert crushing legal threat here)"
Which means it's going to be much,much harder to get an OSS filter for the next version(s) of MS Office, as you'll have to be pretty strict with the reverse-engineering to ensure you don't wind up in the courts defending your work against a bunch of attack lawyers from a billion-dollar company.
Didn't we have this article before ?
ok, so it was last week, but still, jeez.
That I've got a catalogue today with a fuel cell kit.
:-(
It's from an australian company, and it costs AUD299 so it's probably not much help - but it does look like some sort of generic kit. No specs on the cell though
yeah, only orkut and about a million other companies have that standard boilerplate legal text. Jeez, even googling for the exact phrase "worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable" gives you about 100 results.
If you're keeping some big trade secret, don't post it there - otherwise honestly, who's going to give a fuck about your chatter?
Is MythTV network capable?
:-)
:
;-)
yes, the front (display) and back (recording / storage) can be separate.
Can I have a monster recording server and then playback clients on my LAN?
Oh yes
Can I rip a DVD/CD at the client and store it on the server?
Yes, I do this a lot... personally I rip to mpeg4/xVid at 1000kbps and have no real hassles with quality. This is built into the mythDVD section.
What about DVD burning.
Hmmm... not too sure about this one, but it would be relatively easy for a hacker to code a small hook to an external burning program with mythtv.
For me
I've had MythTv running on a board with an integrated nvidia chipset with tv-out and have had no real issues with stability. The Myth box I have next to the TV runs for a week or two at a time with no trouble - generally I turn it off if I go away for a few days. It shares it's video and audio storage directories to the LAN via samba, so I can keep everything in one place, and drop new music/downloaded vids 'into' the TV with no hassles.
I get guide info from a screen scraper program, which is very handy seeing that a Tivo etc would be pretty useless to me as I live in australia. The mythtv interface is well thought out and easily driven via a standard remote, picture quality is great (I capture at 704x576 PAL at about 3Mbps using mpeg4) and after the intial setup, it works fine and is wife and kid friendly. The extra modules (mythmusic, mythDVD, mythWeather) turn it pretty much into an all-in-one for me. If you've got some time and are moderately linux-savvy, get MythTv.
Hell , I went the whole hog and got Gentoo *and* Mythtv.... I can just *feel* all that geek brotherhood respect already
try :
opening a slow website in IE.
go to another window (eg notepad) - type away.
When page loads / fails to load - boink! IE takes the focus and comes to the foreground, helpfully informing you that the page has loaded / failed to load.
Most Irritating Design Feature EVER.
Surely you can get decent noise cancellation hardware inside your (standard) case for less than 1400 bucks?
/tone of fans and drives would seemingly be easy to cancel. Even if you just ducted your main inlet fan and put some noise cancellation on that.
Especially since the constant drone
Well, they don't actually *bounce* as such, in the initial smtp transaction the originating server says "SIZE xxxxxxxxx" and the receiving server can terminate it at that point with a 5xx error if they wish. The sending server then has the option of reporting back to the user that the message has failed. (normally with the text of the 5xx error message, which in my case says "5M limit on incoming messages - contact xxx@yyy for info"
;-)
Generally speaking, anyway
One of the venera probes had a "spike" type soil density tester on an arm, which was basically under spring tension and was supposed to flip out from the lander and spear into the soil, to get an idea of how hard the ground was.
:-)
So, lens cap pops off, a few photos are taken, spike gets deployed, a few more photos taken to determine the depth the spike penetrated to....
except the spike manages to land in the exact same spot the lens cap is sitting. A rather solid lens cap, by the way.
Apparently there was a lot of cursing in russian at that point
set to 5M. Bounce email if larger. Problem solved.
:
I had to do this to a server at a company I used to work at, as people are clueless about file sizes, and we had a 33.6k link to the rest of the internet. Otherwise I'd get
Boss: "Hey my very-important-email to very-important-client hasn't made it! I sent it an hour ago! It was only a 40k spreadsheet, where is it!?"
Me: "I'll just check the mail queue...."
(Me discovers a 5M junk video file , cc'd to 6 people in the queue, which has been busy transferring for 4 hours. This is promptly removed.)
Me: "Your email will be there in 5 minutes"
Boss: "I thought email was supposed to be fast?"
Atmospheric pressure on Mars is too low - below a certain pressure (where the boiling point of a liquid reaches the freezing point) water sublimes directly from ice to vapor like CO2 does.
So even if you do have 1 deg C temperatures, the pressure is such that you're already above the boiling point of water and hence no liquid water.
is g.nu registered?
What a crock of shit. Nobody needs to use vi / pico / sed / awk if they don't want to.
And frankly, if my secretary needed a silly paper clip to figure out how to print something, they'd be fired, because they sure as hell don't meet my definition of a secretary.
OpenOffice and Microsoft (hell, the whole "GUI Paradigm" ) all function with the same basic concepts. For most kind of work ( basic spreadsheets / memo's) retraining consists of saying, "The menu's are a little different, but everything's in there, have a bit of a look, knock yourself out."
For the advanced stuff, it turns out that people who actually do the advanced stuff can normally be retrained fairly easily as well.
Don't forget a big-ass emergency stop switch in a very obvious position, that does the *whole* bench.
i tem approach.
This way when (not if!!) things smoke you only have to slam that button down to switch it all off, rather than the find-the-right-powerboard-that-feeds-the-burning-
Oh, and a good residual current device (earth leakage) can save your life as well, so don't forget that.
Why not run a small heatpipe through the board and radiate some in the cool air underneath?
:-)
Its a problem when you've got 500 connections to a CPU going through a 5 layer circuit board to all parts of your motherboard - there's no physical (or electrical!) way to clear some space for a heat pipe under the cpu. yet.
You'll need to run the NVIDIA installer with the --extract-only argument to untar it, then cd usr/src/nv and patch -p1 the diff file and then cp Makefile.nvidia Makefile. Then just run make install in the top-level directory of the nvidia installer and it'll build and install a 2.6.1-compatible module.
Don't forget to wave the sacrificial rubber chicken in an anti-clockwise direction over your processor while it compiles. If you wave the chicken clockwise you'll get a *lot* of segfaults and kernel panics.
Oh, and the compiled code will run 20% faster if you build it on a full moon or winter solstice, so plan ahead!
it's alse one reason that sodium-vapor streetlights are used - they emit light at one particular wavelength (yellowy/orange) and give you sharp vision / high contrast lighting.
They're also cheap to run and have more apparent light output for energy input, as opposed to lights that have a wide spectrum (and hence give off light at wavelengths that your eyes are not very good at seeing).
well.... if you imaged the same spot twice on two different orbits and the pixels in question were still there, you could then argue that they are surface features.
They're talking about the direct rover->to-earth link, as opposed to the rover->orbiter->earth link.
15 watts over a mars-earth link from a (presumably) omnidirectional antenna doesn't leave much for data transfer. 15 watts to a craft in orbit a few hundred k's up is plenty. Especially as the one in orbit has a high-gain dish to earth.
Tell that to somebody whose relatives live in an area where nobody offers high-speed Internet access, full stop.
Oh look! a 9600bps satellite modem! What fun!
Not.
In your link it said the $6 billion expected for shuttle replacement has mushroomed to $35 billion. I don't suppose you have that kind of cash lying around to keep funding this program?
35 billion? That's only half of that 'war fund' that your prez rammed through congress. Cash seems easy enough to get your hands on, if you can work a WMD or terrorist threat into it.
NASA (to congress): "We have reason to believe that Osama Bin Laden is cunningly hiding in space, possibly on the Moon or Mars. We'll need some cash to go design and build a ship to pick him up."
Congress: "Hmmmm...."
NASA (thinking quickly) : "Oh , er, it looks like he might have a, er, WMD or two with him as well..."
Congress: "Here's 35 Billion dollars. Go."
NASA (collectively steepling fingers): "Exxxcellent."
After a while you *do* start to get wear in the gates from all the electrons you force through it - the supercooled and massively overclocked PC's that hit 2GHz (OH MY GOD!!) with refrigerative cooling apparently wore out quicker.
Whether quicker was 2 years compared to 6 years or 2 months compared to 6 years, I don't know.
The worst case is that your radio shorts out spectacularily and blows a fuse
Please, take care when you install radios....
The fun starts if your radio installer is looking for an earth. As an auto electrician, I've seen this all too often....
(Installer probes with test light on original stereo wiring)
"Here's a wire that's earthed, I'll use that!"
Oops. The earth was in fact a wire for the dash lights (to light the light in your factory stereo). Now you blow fuses every time you turn your park lights on, because the radio often gets an earth from the frame or the antenna as well. Or, if you're unlucky, you blow the ($100)dimmer module for your dash lights because the designers didn't think they'd *ever* get a short circuit there.
Now imagine that wire that appears to be earthed is going into your engine or body computer for some mundane function (eg. stereo's on, ok, I'll raise the antenna) and you've got expensive problems.
Here's the drill...
Why does this remind me of the Simpsons?
Marge: How was your day at work, dear?
Homer: Oh, the usual. Stand in front of this, open that, pull down this, bend over, spread apart that, turn your head that way, cough...