According to this comment from slashdot user guantamanera, it is possible to strip off the cci flag when using the HDHomerun Prime you own with a modified VDR-SC. HDHomerun Prime is one of the three cable card tuners available for pc's. The other two are the Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 and the Ceton InfiniTV 4. I have no idea if it is possible with the other two. According to an AC who commented in that thread
VDR-SC is one of the many cardsharing and softcam emulators out there. I preffer SASC-NG. These tools were meant for DVB Satellite(dishnetwork) but they're easily modifiable to be used in NA cable providers. In cardsharing mode, just like the name suggest the card can be shared with multiple devices or people, and it can leave you with a clear stream no flags.
A softcam is a software conditional access module. Softcam's make cardsharing possible allowing multiple receivers to share a single smart card to decrypt a satellite DVB stream. After reading that thread and looking into it, I can find no documentation anywhere on how to get any softcam to operate with a cable card tuner at all much less strip out the copy control information. It would make sense that is possible though, the cable card standard is somewhat related to DVB standards. If anyone knows how please reply. Good luck AlphaWolf_HK if you attempt to go down this road. I'd like to know if you manage to get this working.
I think you mean Tropical Storm Allison. Man that thing flooded the hell out of Houston. Then went on to travel over land all the way to the mid-Atlantic States flooding pretty much everywhere it went. Following this the name Allison was retired from the Hurricane name list. It remains the only name to be retired from the list for a named storm that never reached Hurricane strength.
A judge should check whether someone acts within the limits set by the law. A judge shouldn't be publicly trying to change the laws, just like a politician should not try to get involved in a court case to get someone convicted.
Normally, I'd agree with this sentiment, but I think it's important to remember that software patents were more or less created by the judiciary not the legislature. They are not found in statute. The patent office only started granting them because they lost too many court cases telling them they had to. Algorithms are math and math is not suppose to be patentable.
Like the other poster said it's a bit of a catch 22. You can't do a nandroid backup without a custom recovery image. Can't do a custom recovery image without unlocking the bootloader. Can't unlock the bootloader without wiping the phone.
I had this same problem on the nexus one. The trick is to root the phone without unlocking the bootloader and then using a backup utility that requires root (Titanium Backup or whatever, I actually preferred MyBackup Root). This can be done by using a local root exploit. I think it took me two days to find one that worked on my phone at the time. I think you can even get a clockwork mod installed and install a new bootloader without wiping, backup the whole phone, and then install cyanogen mod that way. I say think because I didn't know at the time but sometimes clockwork mod just plain fails to install a new bootloader and you have to try multiple times. Having already backed everything up I just unlocked the bootloader at that point. The Titanium Backup/MyBackup Root don't create a backup image of the whole phone if I remember right, but instead backup all the data/individual applications. I think they failed to restore one or two of the things on my phone, but they were things synced with my google account anyway so it didn't matter.
Finding a premade local root exploit is surprisingly difficult. Most rooting guides use the unlock bootloader method and many of those give you no warning it will wipe the phone. All of this information is surprisingly hard to come by and the documentation leaves much to be desired. Everyone says rooting and installing cyanogen is easy on the nexus's, but it turns out that is only true if you don't care at all about the current content of your phone something you'll only discover when you actually try to do it. For that matter you would think backing up your phones contents would be something that would be easy to do. I mean that seams like the sort of thing normal people would want to do, ya know?
Easy answer. WinCE and administering devices through the finicky unholy abortion that is ActiveSync.
WinCE is almost as fragmented as linux is, not as fragmented as linux's arm tree, which is a total mess, but still. Then there's ActiveSync. What I wouldn't do to avoid that. Will it see the handheld today? Will it see any handheld today? Will it remember this handheld? Will it think this handheld is some other handheld and totally confuse their settings? It really is almost enough to inspire one to cross their fingers and hope they don't run into linux power management issues on an arm device.
Seriously, when you business relies on a machine that must work or you are losing money, everyone wants someone to turn to when it doesn't work. That someone isn't a man page or IRC channel or mailing list or whatever support for $foo GPL program here.
Was he not asking if anyone knew a vendor who supported this sort of thing? Perhaps I got the wrong impression of the question.
When you want a computer you control, you run linux, when you want a computer that grandma can use, you give her a Mac and when you want retail system that checks people out, you run whatever OS that your POS maker asks you to.
Or, if you are currently in the market for a POS, you define your requirements or desired features to include the OS you want, with the kind of support you want, and you look to see if anyone is offering anything you want anywhere near your price range. It's not like desiring an OS you can strip down to almost no running processes you're not actually using on what is basically a thin client that runs on batteries is that crazy a thing to desire.
It uses the Freescale i.MX515 soc. The gpu is some sort of Imageon. I think Freescale licensed the gpu design before AMD sold it to Qualcomm who renamed it Adreno. The i.MX515 uses an Open Source kernel shim for the gpu and a closed source user space library for doing OpenGL. At least this was the situation last December. The library is entirely in user space, which means it should be easier to reverse engineer than a driver that is partly in kernel space. Dave Airlie, maintainer of the drm portion of the kernel, has rejected the kernel shim from inclusion in the kernel. He rejects all patches to the kernel that come his way that can not be used by open source code in userspace.
The ATI drivers for Linux were never perfect, but they worked decently. But ATI/AMD would drop support for older chips that were still in use. The open source community never provided a shim to let these older drivers work with newer builds of X.
Does open sourcing the drivers really fix the compatibility problem? To me, not building a shim suggests a general lack of caring about ATI drivers. Do we really need the source to give a future to aging ATI/AMD chips?
A long time ago, documents describing the specifications of graphics cards were generally available under NDA to XFree86 developers. Then Nvidia started releasing binary only drivers. ATI eventually followed suite. The last series with docs available from this era is ATI's R200. The R300 released in 2002 did not have docs released for it. Following the lack of docs, driver development stagnates.
April 6, 2004 XFree86/X.org fork.
After Keith Packard was kicked out of the XFree86 core group and XFree86 switched to non-gpl compatible license a fork ensues. Project Leadership of XFree86 had been basically hostile to developers and had retarded increases in the developer base and improvements in the graphics stack for literally years. Following the fork a renaissance in X Server development begins.
July 24, 2006 AMD acquires ATI.
Speculation about open drivers begin.
May 10, 2007 Red Hat Summit
AMD's Henri Richard says something about improving the open source drivers. Speculation becomes flood of rumors.
September 06, 2007
ATI/AMD's New Open-Source Strategy Explained
AMD announces plans to contribute specification documents and code to the open source drivers. By this time successive X.org releases have seen:
September 11, 2007
XDS2007 Program
The "softpipe" talk by Keith Whitwell of Tungsten Graphics is the earliest reference I can find to Gallium3D. References to Gallium3D show up on Tungsten Graphics website at approximately the same time according to internet archive. Apparently Tungsten Graphics released a softpipe driver (gallium driver for cpu) at this time, along with a "proof of concept" i915 driver.
January 04, 2008
AMD Releases Additional R600 GPU Programming Documentation
M76 and RS690 register guide weighing in at 458 and 422 pages respectavly. Contains LVTMA and i2c information not found in previous docs. LVTMA is the second digital output block on the ATI R500/
So why should they build, test and support new roms for every different Android device out there?
Better question, why can a bunch of amateurs working only in their spare time support Android 2.2 on every phone they have ever released a ROM for, including the first Android phone that was released to the market, while giant multinational cell phone manufactures can't? They don't even come close. They don't manage to support it on all the phones they are selling right now. Amateurs are providing, for free, better support than the manufactures people actually paid money to manufacture and support their phones. The support is so much better that the research you should do when shopping for a phone is to make sure 3rd parties, which happen to always be unpaid amateurs, can support the phone you are buying because the amateurs can be trusted to support the product in the long term and to produce a better software stack in the short term much more than the multi-billion dollar companies that actually built them. This is ridiculous. These companies should be ashamed of themselves. Instead, some of them are not only not ashamed, but are actively thwarting 3rd party support by locking down the bootloader necessitating the aforementioned research.
I realize you and the parent comment you were replying to were talking about google providing android, but really the manufactures are doing an unbelievably bad job. You should be able to expect your manufacture to rebuild the os when google releases a new version of android. You can't, they are slow when they do, and some of them prevent 3rd parties from doing it for them. Some manufactures are deliberately ruining their own products. I would understand if they also sold an unruined product and made you paid more for it, but as it is there is no apparent business reason for them to ruin their own product. This is pretty messed up.
some people purport that it an idealogical struggle so by releasing software they are fighting against a future owned by corporations that create for profit software.
Exactly. The problem is that Canonical / Ubuntu are just the kind of corporation I was trying to fight. If Open Source / Free Software won't fight them, I need something else that will.
I sincerely do not understand. What sort of things has Canonical done wrong? I use to use debian starting in 2000 and now use Ubuntu, mainly due to the 6 month release cycle. I prefer things to break once every six months rather than whenever with unstable or taking forever for things to be released with stable. Should I not use Ubuntu? Is there something really wrong with it? I respect you, the work you've done, the way you represent open source software in a professional manner, and your opinion a great deal. I do not understand why you seem to consider Canonical the enemy or what's wrong with them. Is it because they distribute non-free software? So does debian. (I try to avoid non-free especially drivers.) I really don't understand and I really want to.
The space shuttles engine is reusable 0 times without a complete and total dis-assembly and rebuild.
This hasn't been true in a long time. It was true for the first major version of the Space Shuttle Main Engine, but they are on at least the fifth major version of the SSME now. They are taken off the orbiter for inspection every two flights now and taken off for rebuild every four flights. An SSME costs about 75 million to build. A delta IV rocket engine, which is made by the same company and is roughly comparable to an SSME, costs about 25 million. I've never been able to figure out the maintenance cost on an SSME. The SSME has a very excellent safety record. One of the reasons for this is because being reusable they can test the hell out of it. It is one of the best rocket engines ever. The shuttle taken as a whole may not be very good, but most of the parts are fantastic, and the SSME is definately a fantastic part and an example of one of the things they got right with a reusable vehicle. The shuttle is the first and only reusable launch vehicle ever built and we have learned many things on how not to design a reusable launch vehicle. The shuttle is a sample size of one and should not be taken to mean reusable launch vehicles are inherently bad, expensive, or impossible to build.
Will an article from phoronix.com do? They quote an irc conversation with Luc Verhaegen who started the Unichrome Project, and also quote what Xavier Bachelot, an Openchrome developer, told them in a message. They don't say what kind of message (email, irc, whatever). The article gives a very good overview of why people doubt what Via says until they have code and/or documentation in hand. Part of Xavier's quote is particularly relavent, "I certainly wouldn't want them to claim that they support Linux and FOSS, like they did several times in the past, and don't put their money where their mouth is." I don't know if this most recent release contains any unknown useful material and will reserve judgement until X dev's speak. Please note the phoronix article and quotes are from before this release.
I did. There are none. I used a pretty big mile radius too. I was wondering if anyone is manufacturing them. If they are currently being made in small quantities I thought maybe you could buy them online but not really find them in a store.
Does anyone know where I can buy a converter box now? My brother doesn't have cable and the analog reception on several of his channels is crap. I was hoping digital would be better, but I can't find anywhere to purchase a converter box. Are they waiting until the analog transmission is turned off before they start selling these things?
Wow, I didn't know kistler got taken out. Isn't scaled involved in t/space? Weren't they the only company to receive second round funding not to win a contract? Where can I get more info?
maybe you should consider the safety records of Soyuz vs the shuttle, before making such statements... Their safety records are similar. The shuttle has flown 119 times, the initial 4 missions with a crew of 2 all following missions 5-8, only 2 have had 8. The shuttle has had 2 disasters with all hands lost. The soyuz has flown 98 times, has a maximum crew of three and has had 2 disasters with all hands lost. Some people like to point out the last fatal incident for a manned soyuz spacecraft was 1971, but an unmanned soyuz-u launch vehicle did explode as recently as 2002 killing one and injuring seven. Admittedly the soyuz launch vehicle used on manned missions does go through higher quality assurance, but basically the highest success rate your going to get for a launch vehicle is around 98%.
For example, by the time the shuttle engines are on the launch pad, they've been rebuilt pretty much from scratch and retested, which takes up almost 90% of their rated lifetime. Is this still true? I know at the beginning of the shuttle program this was true, but that was about 5 major space shuttle main engine versions ago. Phase II engines first flew September 29, 1988 (STS-26 first post Challenger flight); Block 1 engines first flew July 13, 1995 (STS-70); Block IIa engines first flew January 22, 1998 (STS-89); Block II engines, which yes came after Block IIa engines, first flew July 12 2001 (STS-104) Boeing SSME paper. From 1992 to 2000 Space Shuttle annual operating costs decreased 40% Nasa Fact Sheet in part due to decreased SSME maintenance costs. How much does it costs to rebuild a Block II SSME? I can't find any numbers for that anywhere. It should be noted that a Block II SSME is the most reliable rocket engine ever built in large part because it's reuseability allows extensive static fire testing of each engine. The space shuttle may be crap, but a lot of the parts are awesome and SSME is one of them. It'll be a shame we will no longer use them when we discontinue the space shuttle, but attaching expensive reusable engines to an expendable booster really doesn't make a lot of sense.
reliance on a single launch vehicle for key components (the Shuttle) To be fair, pretty much any satelite is designed for a specific launch vehicle and using a different launch vehicle than the one it was designed for tends to be expensive.
If you want a population density map, go find a population density map. Here is a global population density map from 1994. Obviously things have changed since then, but I'm not gonna waste more then a few minutes looking for good population density maps. It would be better to have current maps by country and a bit of demographic data that these maps really don't show. For instance how do you determine that 45% of all Swedes live in Stockholm, Malmo, and Goteborg looking at that map. You basically can't. So you need hard demographic data about what percentage of the population lives in what persons per a square kilometer range. It's not something you can just eyeball. A population density map is also not going to tell you that the infrastructure in NYC is as old as shit, having been one of the first places in the world where electricity and telephone networks were built or that pretty much all Japanese infrastructure was destroyed in World War II and has since been rebuilt.
Blizzard is probably trying to enforce some EULA deal where the right to copy the software (by installing and/or running it) is only granted if you "agree" not to reverse-engineer it. I find that legally dubious
Unfortunately, in Blizzard v. BNETD the federal district court for the Eastern District of Missouri didn't find it legally dubious. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district courts opinion. EULA's are legally binding contracts in which you can waive your fair-use rights including the right to reverse-engineering. I am not sure whether that case established a need to agree to the EULA to copy the software into ram, but it is binding once you agree to it. Crazy but true.
Stopping will surely break it so you have nothing to loose. Or do they?
The first stage is designed to be recovered and reused. The rolling motion caused the propellent to act like a centrifuge potentially damaging the engine. Considering it was the second stage which was not designed to be recovered damaging the engine is probably not a problem, but the control software was probably designed similarly to the first stage where not damaging the engine may be a higher priority than a successful flight if you can still recover the first stage.
More people die from the use of non-prescription anti-inflammatory drugs such as Aspirin every year in the U.S. than have EVER died from terrorism on U.S. soil.
By this logic the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a threat since more people in the U.S. have died from terrorism than from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This is incorrect. Nasa's budget was highest in then-year and inflation adjusted dollars in 1966, the second year of heavy U.S. involvment in the Vietnam War. Nasa's budget declined for the remainer of the Vietnam War.
I was watching a documentary on the future of energy. British Petroleum doesn't spend any more of its budget (as a percentage) than US companies. It just advertises it more. US companies prefer to use their advertising dollars to claim there is no problem while simultaniously exploring other options with their R&D money.
From the same Supreme Court that in Eldred vs. Ashcroft ruled
It's not the same Supreme Court, Rehnquist and O'Connor, who both joined the majorty opinion, aren't there any more. Not that I'ld expect Alito or Roberts to rule any differently in Eldred, but this case is entirely different from Eldred. Eldred was over the meaning of "limited time" in the Constitution's Copyright Clause. It was a decision about overturning a law Congress had passed, this is a decision on if the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's test for obviousness is a good test or not. According to the article most legal experts expect the Court to modify the standard in some way or possibly even set a new standard.
Barring a few million Muslim people waking up one day and deciding that, yes, religion should definitely take a back-seat to government, the U.S. will never have any "friends" in the Muslim world: it cannot.
There is Indonesia: over 200 million people, world's 4th most populous country behind the United States, and the most populous Muslim country. Indonesia is a democracy with guarantees of freedom of religion for all in their constitution. Of course Indonesia is not part of the Middle East which is what the GP was talking about, but it most certainly is part of the Muslim world.
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According to this comment from slashdot user guantamanera, it is possible to strip off the cci flag when using the HDHomerun Prime you own with a modified VDR-SC. HDHomerun Prime is one of the three cable card tuners available for pc's. The other two are the Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 and the Ceton InfiniTV 4. I have no idea if it is possible with the other two. According to an AC who commented in that thread
A softcam is a software conditional access module. Softcam's make cardsharing possible allowing multiple receivers to share a single smart card to decrypt a satellite DVB stream. After reading that thread and looking into it, I can find no documentation anywhere on how to get any softcam to operate with a cable card tuner at all much less strip out the copy control information. It would make sense that is possible though, the cable card standard is somewhat related to DVB standards. If anyone knows how please reply. Good luck AlphaWolf_HK if you attempt to go down this road. I'd like to know if you manage to get this working.
I think you mean Tropical Storm Allison. Man that thing flooded the hell out of Houston. Then went on to travel over land all the way to the mid-Atlantic States flooding pretty much everywhere it went. Following this the name Allison was retired from the Hurricane name list. It remains the only name to be retired from the list for a named storm that never reached Hurricane strength.
Normally, I'd agree with this sentiment, but I think it's important to remember that software patents were more or less created by the judiciary not the legislature. They are not found in statute. The patent office only started granting them because they lost too many court cases telling them they had to. Algorithms are math and math is not suppose to be patentable.
Like the other poster said it's a bit of a catch 22. You can't do a nandroid backup without a custom recovery image. Can't do a custom recovery image without unlocking the bootloader. Can't unlock the bootloader without wiping the phone.
I had this same problem on the nexus one. The trick is to root the phone without unlocking the bootloader and then using a backup utility that requires root (Titanium Backup or whatever, I actually preferred MyBackup Root). This can be done by using a local root exploit. I think it took me two days to find one that worked on my phone at the time. I think you can even get a clockwork mod installed and install a new bootloader without wiping, backup the whole phone, and then install cyanogen mod that way. I say think because I didn't know at the time but sometimes clockwork mod just plain fails to install a new bootloader and you have to try multiple times. Having already backed everything up I just unlocked the bootloader at that point. The Titanium Backup/MyBackup Root don't create a backup image of the whole phone if I remember right, but instead backup all the data/individual applications. I think they failed to restore one or two of the things on my phone, but they were things synced with my google account anyway so it didn't matter.
Finding a premade local root exploit is surprisingly difficult. Most rooting guides use the unlock bootloader method and many of those give you no warning it will wipe the phone. All of this information is surprisingly hard to come by and the documentation leaves much to be desired. Everyone says rooting and installing cyanogen is easy on the nexus's, but it turns out that is only true if you don't care at all about the current content of your phone something you'll only discover when you actually try to do it. For that matter you would think backing up your phones contents would be something that would be easy to do. I mean that seams like the sort of thing normal people would want to do, ya know?
Good luck
Easy answer. WinCE and administering devices through the finicky unholy abortion that is ActiveSync.
WinCE is almost as fragmented as linux is, not as fragmented as linux's arm tree, which is a total mess, but still. Then there's ActiveSync. What I wouldn't do to avoid that. Will it see the handheld today? Will it see any handheld today? Will it remember this handheld? Will it think this handheld is some other handheld and totally confuse their settings? It really is almost enough to inspire one to cross their fingers and hope they don't run into linux power management issues on an arm device.
Was he not asking if anyone knew a vendor who supported this sort of thing? Perhaps I got the wrong impression of the question.
Or, if you are currently in the market for a POS, you define your requirements or desired features to include the OS you want, with the kind of support you want, and you look to see if anyone is offering anything you want anywhere near your price range. It's not like desiring an OS you can strip down to almost no running processes you're not actually using on what is basically a thin client that runs on batteries is that crazy a thing to desire.
It uses the Freescale i.MX515 soc. The gpu is some sort of Imageon. I think Freescale licensed the gpu design before AMD sold it to Qualcomm who renamed it Adreno. The i.MX515 uses an Open Source kernel shim for the gpu and a closed source user space library for doing OpenGL. At least this was the situation last December. The library is entirely in user space, which means it should be easier to reverse engineer than a driver that is partly in kernel space. Dave Airlie, maintainer of the drm portion of the kernel, has rejected the kernel shim from inclusion in the kernel. He rejects all patches to the kernel that come his way that can not be used by open source code in userspace.
As of January 19 phoronix, puts the average speed of the latest available open-source driver at roughly 70% the speed of the Catalyst driver before the pre-R600 support was discontinued in early 2009. This is using composite results from the ATI Radeon X1800XL, Radeon X1800XT, and X1950PRO graphics cards being benchmarked on Nexuiz, Warsow, OpenArena, World of Padman, and Urban Terror. These cards use the R300g driver. Newer cards using the R600g driver (cards with HD in the name) are not currently anywhere near these results.
A bit of history:
A long time ago, documents describing the specifications of graphics cards were generally available under NDA to XFree86 developers. Then Nvidia started releasing binary only drivers. ATI eventually followed suite. The last series with docs available from this era is ATI's R200. The R300 released in 2002 did not have docs released for it. Following the lack of docs, driver development stagnates.
April 6, 2004 XFree86/X.org fork.
After Keith Packard was kicked out of the XFree86 core group and XFree86 switched to non-gpl compatible license a fork ensues. Project Leadership of XFree86 had been basically hostile to developers and had retarded increases in the developer base and improvements in the graphics stack for literally years. Following the fork a renaissance in X Server development begins.
July 24, 2006 AMD acquires ATI.
Speculation about open drivers begin.
May 10, 2007 Red Hat Summit
AMD's Henri Richard says something about improving the open source drivers. Speculation becomes flood of rumors.
September 06, 2007 ATI/AMD's New Open-Source Strategy Explained
AMD announces plans to contribute specification documents and code to the open source drivers. By this time successive X.org releases have seen:
September 11, 2007 XDS2007 Program
The "softpipe" talk by Keith Whitwell of Tungsten Graphics is the earliest reference I can find to Gallium3D. References to Gallium3D show up on Tungsten Graphics website at approximately the same time according to internet archive. Apparently Tungsten Graphics released a softpipe driver (gallium driver for cpu) at this time, along with a "proof of concept" i915 driver.
September 12, 2007 AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
RV630 Register Reference Guide and M56 Register Reference Guide.
January 04, 2008 AMD Releases Additional R600 GPU Programming Documentation
M76 and RS690 register guide weighing in at 458 and 422 pages respectavly. Contains LVTMA and i2c information not found in previous docs. LVTMA is the second digital output block on the ATI R500/
Better question, why can a bunch of amateurs working only in their spare time support Android 2.2 on every phone they have ever released a ROM for, including the first Android phone that was released to the market, while giant multinational cell phone manufactures can't? They don't even come close. They don't manage to support it on all the phones they are selling right now. Amateurs are providing, for free, better support than the manufactures people actually paid money to manufacture and support their phones. The support is so much better that the research you should do when shopping for a phone is to make sure 3rd parties, which happen to always be unpaid amateurs, can support the phone you are buying because the amateurs can be trusted to support the product in the long term and to produce a better software stack in the short term much more than the multi-billion dollar companies that actually built them. This is ridiculous. These companies should be ashamed of themselves. Instead, some of them are not only not ashamed, but are actively thwarting 3rd party support by locking down the bootloader necessitating the aforementioned research.
I realize you and the parent comment you were replying to were talking about google providing android, but really the manufactures are doing an unbelievably bad job. You should be able to expect your manufacture to rebuild the os when google releases a new version of android. You can't, they are slow when they do, and some of them prevent 3rd parties from doing it for them. Some manufactures are deliberately ruining their own products. I would understand if they also sold an unruined product and made you paid more for it, but as it is there is no apparent business reason for them to ruin their own product. This is pretty messed up.
Long Term Support
Amateurs do
Motorola doesn't
I sincerely do not understand. What sort of things has Canonical done wrong? I use to use debian starting in 2000 and now use Ubuntu, mainly due to the 6 month release cycle. I prefer things to break once every six months rather than whenever with unstable or taking forever for things to be released with stable. Should I not use Ubuntu? Is there something really wrong with it? I respect you, the work you've done, the way you represent open source software in a professional manner, and your opinion a great deal. I do not understand why you seem to consider Canonical the enemy or what's wrong with them. Is it because they distribute non-free software? So does debian. (I try to avoid non-free especially drivers.) I really don't understand and I really want to.
This hasn't been true in a long time. It was true for the first major version of the Space Shuttle Main Engine, but they are on at least the fifth major version of the SSME now. They are taken off the orbiter for inspection every two flights now and taken off for rebuild every four flights. An SSME costs about 75 million to build. A delta IV rocket engine, which is made by the same company and is roughly comparable to an SSME, costs about 25 million. I've never been able to figure out the maintenance cost on an SSME. The SSME has a very excellent safety record. One of the reasons for this is because being reusable they can test the hell out of it. It is one of the best rocket engines ever. The shuttle taken as a whole may not be very good, but most of the parts are fantastic, and the SSME is definately a fantastic part and an example of one of the things they got right with a reusable vehicle. The shuttle is the first and only reusable launch vehicle ever built and we have learned many things on how not to design a reusable launch vehicle. The shuttle is a sample size of one and should not be taken to mean reusable launch vehicles are inherently bad, expensive, or impossible to build.
Will an article from phoronix.com do? They quote an irc conversation with Luc Verhaegen who started the Unichrome Project, and also quote what Xavier Bachelot, an Openchrome developer, told them in a message. They don't say what kind of message (email, irc, whatever). The article gives a very good overview of why people doubt what Via says until they have code and/or documentation in hand. Part of Xavier's quote is particularly relavent, "I certainly wouldn't want them to claim that they support Linux and FOSS, like they did several times in the past, and don't put their money where their mouth is." I don't know if this most recent release contains any unknown useful material and will reserve judgement until X dev's speak. Please note the phoronix article and quotes are from before this release.
I did. There are none. I used a pretty big mile radius too. I was wondering if anyone is manufacturing them. If they are currently being made in small quantities I thought maybe you could buy them online but not really find them in a store.
Does anyone know where I can buy a converter box now? My brother doesn't have cable and the analog reception on several of his channels is crap. I was hoping digital would be better, but I can't find anywhere to purchase a converter box. Are they waiting until the analog transmission is turned off before they start selling these things?
Wow, I didn't know kistler got taken out. Isn't scaled involved in t/space? Weren't they the only company to receive second round funding not to win a contract? Where can I get more info?
If you want a population density map, go find a population density map. Here is a global population density map from 1994. Obviously things have changed since then, but I'm not gonna waste more then a few minutes looking for good population density maps. It would be better to have current maps by country and a bit of demographic data that these maps really don't show. For instance how do you determine that 45% of all Swedes live in Stockholm, Malmo, and Goteborg looking at that map. You basically can't. So you need hard demographic data about what percentage of the population lives in what persons per a square kilometer range. It's not something you can just eyeball. A population density map is also not going to tell you that the infrastructure in NYC is as old as shit, having been one of the first places in the world where electricity and telephone networks were built or that pretty much all Japanese infrastructure was destroyed in World War II and has since been rebuilt.
Unfortunately, in Blizzard v. BNETD the federal district court for the Eastern District of Missouri didn't find it legally dubious. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district courts opinion. EULA's are legally binding contracts in which you can waive your fair-use rights including the right to reverse-engineering. I am not sure whether that case established a need to agree to the EULA to copy the software into ram, but it is binding once you agree to it. Crazy but true.
The first stage is designed to be recovered and reused. The rolling motion caused the propellent to act like a centrifuge potentially damaging the engine. Considering it was the second stage which was not designed to be recovered damaging the engine is probably not a problem, but the control software was probably designed similarly to the first stage where not damaging the engine may be a higher priority than a successful flight if you can still recover the first stage.
By this logic the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a threat since more people in the U.S. have died from terrorism than from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This is incorrect. Nasa's budget was highest in then-year and inflation adjusted dollars in 1966, the second year of heavy U.S. involvment in the Vietnam War. Nasa's budget declined for the remainer of the Vietnam War.
I was watching a documentary on the future of energy. British Petroleum doesn't spend any more of its budget (as a percentage) than US companies. It just advertises it more. US companies prefer to use their advertising dollars to claim there is no problem while simultaniously exploring other options with their R&D money.