Does everyone remember all the congresscritters out on the steps singing God Bless America? That had an audience of over a billion but did they pay the royalties to the Boy & Girl Scouts? I bet they didn't even check out the copyright before they decided it was a good idea. But it means they all broke copyright law.
If anyone gets to talk to a Senator, this is a very good thing to bring up. According to standard copyright rates, they all owe more in royalties than most of them will ever see and some of these guys play with the national debt.
At least/. people may know about half life calculations. Most med students I know just never got the idea and I'm sure some of them are now pumping kids full of Ritalin.
Lets say you take a pill for pain like Asprin that has a half life of about a half hour. That means if you take 10x what you need to make the pain go away, in a half hour you only have 1/2 that amount (5x) and in an hour you have 2.5x and in 1.5 hours you have 1.25x and in two hours.75x and the pain comes back.
You start with numbers that are 10x the minium needed and then in 2 hours its too low. Those numbers aren't too hard to figure out since its mostly linear over a the hours and most drugs work that way. However drugs that go into the brain have a much longer half life and that exponential curve makes a big difference.
Some of the common drugs they give to college students for depression or other mental ills tend to have a half life of weeks or months. These drugs also have much different thresholds to turn on and turn off. That means if they say take the magic pill every day for a week, but its got a 4 week 1/2 life. So after a week it might trigger some bit the brain that drives you nuts. If the turn off level is 1/4 of the turn on level, your going to be nuts for a months. The interesting part of this is that because the 1st drug won't work, they tend to give you a second magic pill and its typical to take you off the 1st drug for a week or maybe two. If the two drugs have interactions, there can be very nasty problems.
If your on any of this junk and you have problems, you should ask your doctor if they flunked calculus.
Almost all geeks have these problems. Its because the bit of brain that talks between the sections has fewer connections that what is "normal". It results in some skills beeing better than average and others being worse. Drugs are not going to increase the connectivity between the hemispheres.
The old record store would have a poster with about a hudred different types of cartidges and none of them would match then one you just broke. If you did find the one you were looking for, they never had it in stock and you would have to go on a hunt. The result was the record store didn't sell you any more records till you got a new needle for your turntable.
You would think the RIAA would understand that. It was one of the reasons they liked the idea of CDs.
Will it be about $1 when IBM starts pulling out that very large patent portfolio? Since most of Unix was a simpler time share system, you would expect others to have documented their research and IBM did patent anything that they could mostly as a defense aginst some small company going after them for IP issues. Now does SCO count as a small company or just a bug thats about to get squashed?
Also is anyone playing with stock options with this? Its sort of like playing the lottery with better odds and it could swing either way and the payoff will change every day up till the time when the options are worth as much as 99+% of lottery tickets.
The digital computer thats on the other side of the road does have some base 10 parts and I'm not sure what base its mercury delay line memory is. But CSIRAC was decommissioned 39 years ago.
Most of the tri-state logic isn't real base 3. It has a high, low and not connected state. I had a EE professor that didn't understand that and tried to get us to design stuff using off the shelf tri-state devices. Good thing we never needed to build any of it the lab. I did see a small fraction of an ALU that was built with op amps. The thing could almost add and ran at like 1/2 hz.
Plan on getting robbed every 6 months while backing packing depending on where in the world you are. In poorer more desprate parts of the world, plan on even more often. The devices and media will get stolen. Many places with "low crime" may have a high rate of theft with little risk of bodily injury.
Most internet cafes can do run machines with USB and you should be able to transfer pictures back to a server but it will be slow. Many net cafes are a few dialups in parallel and you may get lucky and find a high speed dsl link but figure on upload speeds of about 1/2 modem speeds. Most one hour film devlopment places can put photos on cd and many of them can read most camera smart cards. It may be much cheaper to pay them to copy the data to a CD and mail the CD back home. You will need to keep track of what got mailed because you may find packages may not make it back.
You may want to consider a fiber reinforced security bags but in some parts of the world such gimmicks will annoy the thieves and that can result in being stabed.
I've got several friends that have been all over the world and some of them have been backpacking for years. Don't lower your guard, cause thats when stuff goes missing. Always keep photocopies of your passport and keep your other ID and money in two different places.
Is there anyway we could get a good speaker that is sort of local to go talk to some of the more undecided politicians? Maybe Rusty or Tridge? These two bring money into Australia and some of that can be directly tracked to South Australia.
This law will get passed if the local goverment understands that supporting open souce does being in people all over the world through things like linux.conf.au.
If you pull the plug out and then plug it back in hours latter, the connection may just pick up where it was and keep going. TCP timeouts are much longer than a typical application layer timeout and real TCP doesn't drop the connection just because the link light goes out (windows style).
They figured out the code segments in DNA. Now they need to figure out the data segments and maybe in time they can figure out how datasegments in DNA manage to make their way into a creatures memory. Thats a few levels of indirctions that have to be figure out.
DNA decoding is starting to pick up on some of the debugging concepts that have been in the digial world for 50 years. There are ways to iterating over code so it looks like the single steping is going places. Its just hard to pull off on a multithreaded cluster and understand whats going on.
Of course what they are having a real problem is with the DRM stuff thats making it hard to build replacement brains out of stem cells.
The airlines don't look at empty seats that way. They see one empty seat as a $2000 ticket that didn't show up on time. For an hour flight, that costs them $10 to $20 and they are willing to risk that for the $2000 they might have got.
Fuel costs aren't that major. A typical 737 burns about 2.5 tons of fuel for an hour flight and the inital climb is a large part of that. The fuel cost is only about $10 to $20 per flight for the short hops. Changes in their catering can have a larger effect on the cost the flight than the fuel. What is odd is that profit per area used for 1st class is now lower than cattle class. Makes me wonder why I'm subsidizing 1st class.
In places the answer is no. I drove 1200 km around bits of the South Island in Feb and there were plenty of places where you couldn't see a power line or any road but the one you were on.
The plasic is a certificate of license. A license is a privliage granted by the state and has no physical form. The plastic bit being called a license isn't right and the "fear of driving without a license" scares lots of people in to having it all the time which can help when the police need to ID you (like for example after an accident). In most areas the "driving without a license" (never too the test, or it was revoked) is different than "driving without proof of license" (you have a license but not on you) which tends to have enough of a fine to teach you not to do that again.
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Right now nearly every add on in a car (radio, cell charger, that sort of thing) uses a version of the 7805 or 7812 regulator. These devices can cope with voltages up to 40V and thats considered reasonable based on surges on a 12 v system. With a 42V system, that already exceeds the input voltage of most low cost voltage regualtors and when you figure in for surges at 3x, its outside of all the low cost DC regulators. The resut is a part that is now a single 5 volt regulator may need a swtiching power supply until someone comes up with a 7812 style device that can cope with the much higher voltages.
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In 1986 my new VW Jetta had a 2 year unlimited milage warranty. That was 17 years ago. That car had a 10 year life span and the amount of stuff that started falling apart just over 10 yesrs was quite astonishing consifering how well it held up till that time.
Coke (the drink) is a bad example. When was the last time its price went up in the US? Its been solid over over a decade. A 24oz (600ml) bottle in Australia now costs AU$2.50. In New Zealand, NZ$2.20. In Egypt 50p. In Australia the prices have gone up from about $1.80 to $2.50 in the last two years. If milk prices go up in Australia, Coke prices will also go up. Same when orange juice supplies ran low, the price went up and so did Cokes. In the US Coke competes the Pepsi. In Australia they compete with nature, and nature hasn't been nice to the orange plantations.
An F15 will run out of fuel in less than 5 minutes at the rate that will get it as high as fast as it can go (which is 105,000ft in 4:35 if my memory is right). Thats a fast climb, a amost level flight upto speed at 60k+ ft and then up again. That leaves enough fuel to restart the engines, run them at idle and land. Remember the 15 glides almost as well as the shuttle.
The f15 has shot down a sat, all the shuttle has done is grabbed the low ones.
The B52 doesn't have any replacments. Its very simple and its easy to make parts for (mostly because the drawings weren't destroyed, they were just locked in safes with a sign saying "top secret - no commies")
There are no new planes that work like that. Thats one reason why F4's are used for research in favor of F16's. You can take a part off, take it to a machine shop and say I want one of these but add one of these research bits. Put it back on the plane and it will still fly just about as well is it ever did.
Remember the b52 1st flew in 1952. In 2040, it will be a 90 yr old design. Some how I don't expect the B2 will still be flying then.
We are a sun shop. We won't run Java -- ever. We did a full eval of it and its not going to happen here. Now why can't sun try to sell us gear without mentioning Java? Its not tied to the server or should I say the server isn't tied to Java. Not one bit of the core OS needs Java and I suspect never will. I don't buy sun gear to run Java, I buy it because its sold and it works (two things I won't say about Java)
CPUs are so fast the businesses aren't buying the high speed ones anymore. Go to frys and look at the specs on the high end servers then go look at the game machines. The gamers machines take advanatge of R&D money that was spent to get the server business but thats nearly gone and Intel will be feeling it in the near future. I don't think there are enough gamers willing to buy $1000 CPUs to keep the Intel R&D active and the margins on the low end stuff just won't allow the massive R&D spending.
If Sun can survive all the used gear on the market, then their R&D on the multi-cpus may blow away Intel's work in a few years. Remember Sun's R&D progress has been very linear over time while Intel's hasn't been.
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If you work for an evil company, your evil. Thats all there is to it. I don't care if its your job, you chose to work there.
Does everyone remember all the congresscritters out on the steps singing God Bless America? That had an audience of over a billion but did they pay the royalties to the Boy & Girl Scouts? I bet they didn't even check out the copyright before they decided it was a good idea. But it means they all broke copyright law.
If anyone gets to talk to a Senator, this is a very good thing to bring up. According to standard copyright rates, they all owe more in royalties than most of them will ever see and some of these guys play with the national debt.
At least /. people may know about half life calculations. Most med students I know just never got the idea and I'm sure some of them are now pumping kids full of Ritalin.
.75x and the pain comes back.
Lets say you take a pill for pain like Asprin that has a half life of about a half hour. That means if you take 10x what you need to make the pain go away, in a half hour you only have 1/2 that amount (5x) and in an hour you have 2.5x and in 1.5 hours you have 1.25x and in two hours
You start with numbers that are 10x the minium needed and then in 2 hours its too low. Those numbers aren't too hard to figure out since its mostly linear over a the hours and most drugs work that way. However drugs that go into the brain have a much longer half life and that exponential curve makes a big difference.
Some of the common drugs they give to college students for depression or other mental ills tend to have a half life of weeks or months. These drugs also have much different thresholds to turn on and turn off. That means if they say take the magic pill every day for a week, but its got a 4 week 1/2 life. So after a week it might trigger some bit the brain that drives you nuts. If the turn off level is 1/4 of the turn on level, your going to be nuts for a months. The interesting part of this is that because the 1st drug won't work, they tend to give you a second magic pill and its typical to take you off the 1st drug for a week or maybe two. If the two drugs have interactions, there can be very nasty problems.
If your on any of this junk and you have problems, you should ask your doctor if they flunked calculus.
Almost all geeks have these problems. Its because the bit of brain that talks between the sections has fewer connections that what is "normal". It results in some skills beeing better than average and others being worse. Drugs are not going to increase the connectivity between the hemispheres.
The old record store would have a poster with about a hudred different types of cartidges and none of them would match then one you just broke. If you did find the one you were looking for, they never had it in stock and you would have to go on a hunt. The result was the record store didn't sell you any more records till you got a new needle for your turntable.
You would think the RIAA would understand that. It was one of the reasons they liked the idea of CDs.
The maddness has just started.
According to Fossil, there will be a MSN Direct one in just a few months.
They have a flash demo of the palm os one if you just can't wait to play with one.
Will it be about $1 when IBM starts pulling out that very large patent portfolio? Since most of Unix was a simpler time share system, you would expect others to have documented their research and IBM did patent anything that they could mostly as a defense aginst some small company going after them for IP issues. Now does SCO count as a small company or just a bug thats about to get squashed?
Also is anyone playing with stock options with this? Its sort of like playing the lottery with better odds and it could swing either way and the payoff will change every day up till the time when the options are worth as much as 99+% of lottery tickets.
The digital computer thats on the other side of the road does have some base 10 parts and I'm not sure what base its mercury delay line memory is. But CSIRAC was decommissioned 39 years ago.
Most of the tri-state logic isn't real base 3. It has a high, low and not connected state. I had a EE professor that didn't understand that and tried to get us to design stuff using off the shelf tri-state devices. Good thing we never needed to build any of it the lab. I did see a small fraction of an ALU that was built with op amps. The thing could almost add and ran at like 1/2 hz.
Plan on getting robbed every 6 months while backing packing depending on where in the world you are. In poorer more desprate parts of the world, plan on even more often. The devices and media will get stolen. Many places with "low crime" may have a high rate of theft with little risk of bodily injury.
Most internet cafes can do run machines with USB and you should be able to transfer pictures back to a server but it will be slow. Many net cafes are a few dialups in parallel and you may get lucky and find a high speed dsl link but figure on upload speeds of about 1/2 modem speeds. Most one hour film devlopment places can put photos on cd and many of them can read most camera smart cards. It may be much cheaper to pay them to copy the data to a CD and mail the CD back home. You will need to keep track of what got mailed because you may find packages may not make it back.
You may want to consider a fiber reinforced security bags but in some parts of the world such gimmicks will annoy the thieves and that can result in being stabed.
I've got several friends that have been all over the world and some of them have been backpacking for years. Don't lower your guard, cause thats when stuff goes missing. Always keep photocopies of your passport and keep your other ID and money in two different places.
Anyone know how to do our lobbying?
Is there anyway we could get a good speaker that is sort of local to go talk to some of the more undecided politicians? Maybe Rusty or Tridge? These two bring money into Australia and some of that can be directly tracked to South Australia.
LinuxSA has a bit more on the propsed law.
This law will get passed if the local goverment understands that supporting open souce does being in people all over the world through things like linux.conf.au.
I hope you were being funny.
If you pull the plug out and then plug it back in hours latter, the connection may just pick up where it was and keep going. TCP timeouts are much longer than a typical application layer timeout and real TCP doesn't drop the connection just because the link light goes out (windows style).
They figured out the code segments in DNA. Now they need to figure out the data segments and maybe in time they can figure out how datasegments in DNA manage to make their way into a creatures memory. Thats a few levels of indirctions that have to be figure out.
DNA decoding is starting to pick up on some of the debugging concepts that have been in the digial world for 50 years. There are ways to iterating over code so it looks like the single steping is going places. Its just hard to pull off on a multithreaded cluster and understand whats going on.
Of course what they are having a real problem is with the DRM stuff thats making it hard to build replacement brains out of stem cells.
The airlines don't look at empty seats that way. They see one empty seat as a $2000 ticket that didn't show up on time. For an hour flight, that costs them $10 to $20 and they are willing to risk that for the $2000 they might have got.
Fuel costs aren't that major. A typical 737 burns about 2.5 tons of fuel for an hour flight and the inital climb is a large part of that. The fuel cost is only about $10 to $20 per flight for the short hops. Changes in their catering can have a larger effect on the cost the flight than the fuel. What is odd is that profit per area used for 1st class is now lower than cattle class. Makes me wonder why I'm subsidizing 1st class.
There is more to it than that. Remember those o2 masks? They have to be respaced as do the overhead lights and air vents.
In places the answer is no. I drove 1200 km around bits of the South Island in Feb and there were plenty of places where you couldn't see a power line or any road but the one you were on.
No, after finish the movie, the new version of Doom will be out and this machine will about the right size to run it.
The plasic is a certificate of license. A license is a privliage granted by the state and has no physical form. The plastic bit being called a license isn't right and the "fear of driving without a license" scares lots of people in to having it all the time which can help when the police need to ID you (like for example after an accident). In most areas the "driving without a license" (never too the test, or it was revoked) is different than "driving without proof of license" (you have a license but not on you) which tends to have enough of a fine to teach you not to do that again.
Right now nearly every add on in a car (radio, cell charger, that sort of thing) uses a version of the 7805 or 7812 regulator. These devices can cope with voltages up to 40V and thats considered reasonable based on surges on a 12 v system. With a 42V system, that already exceeds the input voltage of most low cost voltage regualtors and when you figure in for surges at 3x, its outside of all the low cost DC regulators. The resut is a part that is now a single 5 volt regulator may need a swtiching power supply until someone comes up with a 7812 style device that can cope with the much higher voltages.
In 1986 my new VW Jetta had a 2 year unlimited milage warranty. That was 17 years ago. That car had a 10 year life span and the amount of stuff that started falling apart just over 10 yesrs was quite astonishing consifering how well it held up till that time.
Coke (the drink) is a bad example. When was the last time its price went up in the US? Its been solid over over a decade. A 24oz (600ml) bottle in Australia now costs AU$2.50. In New Zealand, NZ$2.20. In Egypt 50p. In Australia the prices have gone up from about $1.80 to $2.50 in the last two years. If milk prices go up in Australia, Coke prices will also go up. Same when orange juice supplies ran low, the price went up and so did Cokes. In the US Coke competes the Pepsi. In Australia they compete with nature, and nature hasn't been nice to the orange plantations.
An F15 will run out of fuel in less than 5 minutes at the rate that will get it as high as fast as it can go (which is 105,000ft in 4:35 if my memory is right). Thats a fast climb, a amost level flight upto speed at 60k+ ft and then up again. That leaves enough fuel to restart the engines, run them at idle and land. Remember the 15 glides almost as well as the shuttle.
The f15 has shot down a sat, all the shuttle has done is grabbed the low ones.
The B52 doesn't have any replacments. Its very simple and its easy to make parts for (mostly because the drawings weren't destroyed, they were just locked in safes with a sign saying "top secret - no commies")
There are no new planes that work like that. Thats one reason why F4's are used for research in favor of F16's. You can take a part off, take it to a machine shop and say I want one of these but add one of these research bits. Put it back on the plane and it will still fly just about as well is it ever did.
Remember the b52 1st flew in 1952. In 2040, it will be a 90 yr old design. Some how I don't expect the B2 will still be flying then.
Sun needs to learn when to ignore Java.
We are a sun shop. We won't run Java -- ever. We did a full eval of it and its not going to happen here. Now why can't sun try to sell us gear without mentioning Java? Its not tied to the server or should I say the server isn't tied to Java. Not one bit of the core OS needs Java and I suspect never will. I don't buy sun gear to run Java, I buy it because its sold and it works (two things I won't say about Java)
Too bad SUN hasn't figured out about SMART drive monitoring on IDE disks yet.
CPUs are so fast the businesses aren't buying the high speed ones anymore. Go to frys and look at the specs on the high end servers then go look at the game machines. The gamers machines take advanatge of R&D money that was spent to get the server business but thats nearly gone and Intel will be feeling it in the near future. I don't think there are enough gamers willing to buy $1000 CPUs to keep the Intel R&D active and the margins on the low end stuff just won't allow the massive R&D spending.
If Sun can survive all the used gear on the market, then their R&D on the multi-cpus may blow away Intel's work in a few years. Remember Sun's R&D progress has been very linear over time while Intel's hasn't been.