This sounds to be "technically correct" to me. By putting satellites into orbit, we are effectively increasing the radius of the Earth around its axis of rotation, and the rotation should slow down in the same way that figure skaters spin slower by extending their arms. Mind you, this effect is probably on the order of 1e-30 percent.
In reality, it has done more to estabish Microsoft as a standard than it has to reduce revenue. Why the change?
Or, even stranger, to how much of a degree will reducing home-user piracy hurt Microsoft? I think that if all home users actually had to spend $200 for an OS and $500 for Office, he or she would start thinking very seriously about less-expensive alternatives.
Guys.. There have been laptops on just about every shuttle flight so far, for use in various tasks. The laptops have usually been IBM thinkpads and the OS has usually been NT. The fact that someone is using Linux is nice, but it doesn't prove shit
The crucial difference is that they are planning to use Linux to control the space craft rather than to observe the mating habits of ants in zero-G. I don't think any sane person would trust Windows to control the ship.
"But... but... then the Man would know what I bought!" He already does. Database A (books sold to CC#) JOIN to Database B (CC# to customer information), SELECT as needed.
The Man may know what you bought, but he doesn't know that it was you if you pay cash. People who use a card to buy everything deserve the loss of privacy that they get.
Even if the patents aren't proven to be illegitimate, a sufficient punishment for Rambus would be merely to make things right: to grant a perpetually paid-up license to JEDEC members to use Rambus's disputed patents for free. And this would have the bonus punitive effect of turning their US$46-stock into a penny stock.
Why not box# (box-sharp). "Sharp" seems to be Microsoft's new marketing 'innovation'. Besides, the X-everything is getting a little old and confusing (X (Windows), Mac OS X, DirectX, ActiveX, etc.).
Something that's always confused me about the GPL is that since anything that links with GPLed code must be GPLed, then all applications that run on Linux must be GPLed. Drawing distinctions between.so run-time linking and kernel service-calls seems rather arbitrary.
Is the United States still the best choice of a place to live for safety, freedom, and quality of life?
*Still* the best choice?? God, no! I wasn't aware that America has ever been a good choice for safety or quality of life. Maybe freedom in the most abstract sense and certainly as a good place to be extremely wealthy.
It sounds like you want to be moving north of the border. Unbeknownst to most Americans or Canadians, the lower 4/5 of Canadians have a higher standard of living than lower 4/5 of Americans. America is a great place to live if you're a millionaire.
Violent crime is quite rare up here. You might have to check you beloved guns at the border, though.
As for freedom, Americans have more freedom in theory, at least when not talking in the context of Americans being 0wn3d by corporations. There's less corporate dominance in Canada. But I am concerned about Intellectual Property laws spilling across the border under Bush.
Of course, we do pay more in direct and indirect taxes (though not as much more as most people would think) and the weather is colder (okay, a lot colder here in Ottawa).
In other news, Microsoft's share price closed today at US$59.12, which is less than 50% of their peak of US$119.93. In other words, the Empire has been cut in half. Employee Option holders should be a little upset about this.
Since the shift registers only store the data, a start bit and stop bit have to be separately slipped into the communication stream. The stop bit can be sent by clocking in an extra 0 from the shift register. The start bit will most likely be handle by the PAL and perhaps a one-shot, however, this aspect of the design has not been completed yet.
This can be implemented very easily. You can use the first bit of the data transmitted from the shift register as the start bit simply by insuring that it is a '0'. Then, you have seven bits to encode whatever you want to encode (remembering that it will be shifted by one bit when it is received), and then just let the line remain high (idle) for two bit times after the transmission stops.
These extra bit times can be handled in the same way that the clock signal is divided down between the D flip-flop and the shift-register clock. Obviously, there needs to be a 10+ divider in there somewhere to give enough time to transmit the sample.
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I predict a growth industry in coming years for selling disposable identities for online surfing & commerce.
RedHat has broke even ... so I'm seeing Linux companies out of the red!
So Red Hat should really change their name to Black Hat.
This sounds to be "technically correct" to me. By putting satellites into orbit, we are effectively increasing the radius of the Earth around its axis of rotation, and the rotation should slow down in the same way that figure skaters spin slower by extending their arms. Mind you, this effect is probably on the order of 1e-30 percent.
"Duelbooting" may be an unintended spelling error, but it's kind of funny.
There may be some other prior art on escape sequences in general.\n
In reality, it has done more to estabish Microsoft as a standard than it has to reduce revenue. Why the change?
Or, even stranger, to how much of a degree will reducing home-user piracy hurt Microsoft? I think that if all home users actually had to spend $200 for an OS and $500 for Office, he or she would start thinking very seriously about less-expensive alternatives.
What about .Net is different in this regard, over the long haul?
.Net will be any different?
And why should anyone believe that
The patent application could have been shortened to a single sentence: Voting... but on the web!
Guys.. There have been laptops on just about every shuttle flight so far, for use in various tasks. The laptops have usually been IBM thinkpads and the OS has usually been NT. The fact that someone is using Linux is nice, but it doesn't prove shit
The crucial difference is that they are planning to use Linux to control the space craft rather than to observe the mating habits of ants in zero-G. I don't think any sane person would trust Windows to control the ship.
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Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who Meta-Meta-Moderates the Meta-Moderators?
We do! We do!
-- The Stone Cutters
"But... but... then the Man would know what I bought!" He already does. Database A (books sold to CC#) JOIN to Database B (CC# to customer information), SELECT as needed.
The Man may know what you bought, but he doesn't know that it was you if you pay cash. People who use a card to buy everything deserve the loss of privacy that they get.
Even if the patents aren't proven to be illegitimate, a sufficient punishment for Rambus would be merely to make things right: to grant a perpetually paid-up license to JEDEC members to use Rambus's disputed patents for free. And this would have the bonus punitive effect of turning their US$46-stock into a penny stock.
Why not box# (box-sharp). "Sharp" seems to be Microsoft's new marketing 'innovation'. Besides, the X-everything is getting a little old and confusing (X (Windows), Mac OS X, DirectX, ActiveX, etc.).
Something that's always confused me about the GPL is that since anything that links with GPLed code must be GPLed, then all applications that run on Linux must be GPLed. Drawing distinctions between .so run-time linking and kernel service-calls seems rather arbitrary.
(And speculate on names: TurboCare?)
No, LinuxLinux. Or at least a company with a name like that would have had an awesome IPO a year ago.
I predict a 102.9% Republican landslide in the next US election.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, there's nudity on broadcast television late in the evening! ;-)
Is the United States still the best choice of a place to live for safety, freedom, and quality of life?
*Still* the best choice?? God, no! I wasn't aware that America has ever been a good choice for safety or quality of life. Maybe freedom in the most abstract sense and certainly as a good place to be extremely wealthy.
It sounds like you want to be moving north of the border. Unbeknownst to most Americans or Canadians, the lower 4/5 of Canadians have a higher standard of living than lower 4/5 of Americans. America is a great place to live if you're a millionaire.
Violent crime is quite rare up here. You might have to check you beloved guns at the border, though.
As for freedom, Americans have more freedom in theory, at least when not talking in the context of Americans being 0wn3d by corporations. There's less corporate dominance in Canada. But I am concerned about Intellectual Property laws spilling across the border under Bush.
Of course, we do pay more in direct and indirect taxes (though not as much more as most people would think) and the weather is colder (okay, a lot colder here in Ottawa).
After the design change, they kept the name instead of changing it to Dysprosium...
Perhaps that should be "Dispose-ium"...
So, will we be seeing this kind of coverage of the Canadian federal election to be held ton November 13? Probably not.
My Very Easy Mother Justifies Sex, Unless Not Pre-Paid?
on the other hand, how far away are we from people having enough processing power to not want/need to upgrade anymore?
We've been right on the cusp of that for 20 years.
In other news, Microsoft's share price closed today at US$59.12, which is less than 50% of their peak of US$119.93. In other words, the Empire has been cut in half. Employee Option holders should be a little upset about this.
I think he accidentally typed a 'c' instead of an 'h'.
Regarding the electrical-engineering project, where it says:
Since the shift registers only store the data, a start bit and stop bit have to be separately slipped into the communication stream. The stop bit can be sent by clocking in an extra 0 from the shift register. The start bit will most likely be handle by the PAL and perhaps a one-shot, however, this aspect of the design has not been completed yet.
This can be implemented very easily. You can use the first bit of the data transmitted from the shift register as the start bit simply by insuring that it is a '0'. Then, you have seven bits to encode whatever you want to encode (remembering that it will be shifted by one bit when it is received), and then just let the line remain high (idle) for two bit times after the transmission stops.
These extra bit times can be handled in the same way that the clock signal is divided down between the D flip-flop and the shift-register clock. Obviously, there needs to be a 10+ divider in there somewhere to give enough time to transmit the sample.