Re:Reminds me of those MAD thinnest books...
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an Anonymous Coward mentioned
Great Jewish Athletes
Linux Users Who Have Had Sex Without Paying for It
Confusing
the two and remembering that William Shatner (Kirk) was Jewish...
He had sex from lots of women -- but they were allmost all illegall aliens.. (probably just wanted their 'green' cards) --
Re:Please lose the icon before you get in trouble
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The image on a can of spam is probably copyright as well as trademarked. It would be easy enough to come up with a stylized 'spam' image that doesn't breach copyright/trademark.
If, on the other hand, you could convince them that having that image there is actually good advertising (reminding those people who like spam that it's time to eat it, and making people who have never tried it curious), they may not mind that much.
This is actually quite different than the trademark problems that Scott Oaper (kleenex), Xerox (copiers) et. al. have had to deal with where their trademark has become a generic name in it's original field. Given that Hormel (hopefully!) doesn't distribute spam or spam software, the use of the spam name isn't a trademark legal problem -- only an image peoblem. (Do they like their name being associated with one of the scourges of the net?) Although I doubt that they can control the use of the spam name for email, I'd guess that they probably have the right to control the use of the logo that they produced.
If somebody could contribute an image of canned meat splayed on a plate, I think we could come up with our own Slashdot-sourced "spam" logo that doesn't have copyright problems associated with it. --
The US didn't get involved in the War in Europe until Japan wailed on their ass in pearl harbour. Once the US began fighting Japan, Germany became an implicit enemy because Japan was an AXIS ally. Helping Europe was simply a pleasant side-effect of the US defending it's own precious butt.
Many Americans of the time really liked hitler. It is said that he was finananced, in part by US industrialists.
Business needs stability to grow. Dictatorships provide us with that stability.
Shell Oil Executive (paraphrase)
Don't forget to thank all of those US companies that supported the Germans at the beginning of the war -- thereby lessening the load on all the European slave laborers. --
if this had been an official policy, it would have been nicely executed
OH... I guess you've been using Linux for so long that you haven't had to deal with the excellent Microsoft engineering in products like
Windows-98. --
Note that your wife simply has to be employed. It doesn't have to be anything particularly high-tech, or high stress. Find her a job, and then you can "follow" her.
(This seems far better than the NAFTA rules, where a spouse can 'follow' a high-tech/management worker but is essentially stranded at home once they get there. I've heard some horror stories about that rule). --
(oops -- sorry. that should have been the first 4Gz processor for under $50.
Out of curiosity, I hunted down a copy of the dhrystone benchmarks, and did some comparisons.
megahertz to dhrystone rations go from a low of.02 for an apple 2e on drhystone 1 to a high of 2.35 for my P3/450). (Other than my own benchmarks, the latest results on the table are a couple of years old.)
In any case, the point is that dhrystone to MZ ratings vary by a factor of aabout 100 when you go across CPU families (and compilers). Even for relatively recent CPUs the ratio is still 3-1. I think that this supports my contention that clock times are a really bad way of gauging CPU performance. --
We have to remember, though, that P4 @2GZ is not the same as an Althalon at 2GZ -- or even a P3 at that speed. An early reminder of how clock speeds differ across processor boundaries were the Intelish Z80/808{0,5,8} processors which took 4 clocks to do a memory fetch, as opposed to a single cycle for processors like the 6502 and the 680{0,9} which took only one. This meant that the 6000 series processors could do about as much in 1MmegaHertz as an 8000 series processor could do in 4MegaHertz.
The situation is a bit more convoluted with the P4, but a 1.7Gz P4 is certainly not the same as a similar speed on a P3. We really should be dropping back to something like the Whetstone/Dhrystone benchmarks. Although they're flawed, at least they're slightly less misleading than the clock speed wars.
On the other hand, I could just take my 2MZ 6809, wrap it in a divide by 2048 clock package and proclaim the first 2Gigaherz processor at under $50. (The Marketing department would love me!).
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I think that there's a stron g feeling that something like that would be possible. You should note that there's propoganda and contact information for people who might be interested in commercial (non-military) uses for the technology.
I know that I, for one, would be very interested in being able to power my laptop for a couple of days on a small generator, and being able to carry a week's worth of fuel in a small canteen.
For people worried about being allowed to carry such a generator on commercial flights: rules currently allow for the carrying of small ammounts of fuel for personal use (e.g. lighters) This should cover a day's power for a laptop. the extra fuel capacity, however, would proabably not be allowed -- you'e probably be forced to empty your spare bladder and get refills at your destination.
I note that the biggest explosion problems for fuel containers tend to be empty or near-empty containers.That's because the airspace in an (almost) empty container is more likely to contain the oxygen/fuel mix that's needed for an explosion.If extra-fuel bladders became commonplace, airlines would probably have to come up with rules for purging the fumes from an empty blader.(probably with nitrogen, or CO).
It's a relatively common tactic for large corporations to win in court by overwhelming force. I mean, are you willing to spend two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to defend johndoe.com against johndoe corp. Just because your name happens to john doe?
It's gotten bad enough that there are companies out there that are willing to provide 'insurance' for court cases. It works like this:
If you have a case that you've won at a certain level, and it's a reasonably large settlement, but it appears that the company you're up against is going to appeal/litigate you into the ground, you can sell your case at -- say -- 45 on the dollar to someone who has deep enough pockets to survive to the ene of the litigation. They provide the money for the litigation and take a huge chunk of the winnings in return (further diluting what the actuall litigant gets in the end).
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When IBM faced the US government over antitrust complaints back in the '70s the prosecutors faced down an interesting case of psychological warfare when IBM bought the block accross the street from their offices and put up a whole building to house their lawers.
I'm sure that other people can come up with their own descriptions of how companies use their massive resources to keep themselves 'above the law'. --
The Blackbird, code-named Oxcart during its development, flies on a tremendous 65,000 lbs. of thrust at an altitude of 100,000+
feet at Mach 3.5, and has a range of four thousand miles.That is not only four times faster than the U-2 but seven miles higher -
and the U-2 was then the current high-altitude champion. For a long time the Air Force claimed a maximum speed of Mach 3.2
and an operational ceiling of 85,000 feet, but we now know that the SR-71 can soar above 100,000 feet. Some military pilots claim
altitudes in excess of 125,000 feet but this is probably stretching it a bit. [....]
Another site also has references to "mach 3+". Apparently the 'official' claims of mach 3.1 were for security reasons. That speed record was smashed (as I remember it) during one of the SR-71 decomissioning flights (they were decomissioned in the '80s, then recomissioned in the '90s.)
Above Mach 2.8 the engines would overheat and burn up. The Americans had clocked a Mig-25 over
Israel at Mach 3.2 in 1973. Upon landing in Egypt, the engines were totally destroyed. We did not
understand that the engine destruction was inevitable.
So a Mig-25 was able to get close to an SR-71's cruising speed -- if you were willing to destroy the engine... (this was especially dangerous, since the Mig-25 apparently had no ejection seat).
This 'couple of hundred extra MPH' is almost a full MACH (if you compare the cruising speeds of the MIG-25 and the SR-71). Remember, as well, that e=v^2 -- so the 1.25 speed difference is about 1.56 times the heat produced.Over a 1 or 2 hour flight (the endurance record is somethint like 10 hours), that can be a lot of heat to dissapate -- and anything like a radiator is going to mess with your aerodynamics (they apparently painted them black because it helped to radiate heat back out, allowing them to fly about 70 degrees cooler).
If you want an analogy for your derision, consider asking your average olympic athlete to run "a measly 10MPH" faster..... Prepare to get laughed out of the room (or kicked in the teeth, if he's been doing too many steroids).
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That actually makes some sense. Supercomputers are known for their ability to throw around huge stacks of data without breathing hard. It would make complete sense to use a system like that to do backups once it's processing power was less than your average new desktop box.
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All of this reminds me of the story, from the early '80s when Apple bought a Cray to help with their next processor design -- And Cray bought a Mac to help with their next processor design. --
Their explanation of the name, at the time was Advanced Interactive eXecutive.It ran on a RISC box other than (prior to) the Power PC (Sorry -- don't remember the name), and it was badly broken at the time.
They pretty much tried to rewrite UNIX from scratch with a bunch of mainframe stuff tacked on. Their intent was to create the best of both worlds (IBM-Mainframe/UNIX). I think that the initial version was more like the worst of both worlds. (I pronounced it "aches").
The more recent idea of running Linux under VM is probably far closer to the ideal. I'd love to get hold of a box where I could play with it. --
I don't think that it was a troll. It was one of the real questions underlying the post.
This is my understanding of the GPL:
You can do whatever you want with the source code. -- fold, spindle, mutilate or improve.
You can distribute copies -- either source or object, as long as the people you distribute the copies to get (or have free access to) the source code -- and all configuration files, etc. needed to (re)generate the binaries you distribute.
You can charge anything you want for the copies (or nothing).
Anybody who gets a copy can do the same thing.
So, As I understand it, what they're doing is legal, as long as the $15 includes access to the full sources, and people have the rights to redistribute. --
It really doesn't look that bad. It's not working now, but that doesn't mean it'll never work. This sort of interop party is one of the few ways to figure out just what need to be done to get things working.
Because it's to the various companies' advantage to be able to interoperate with each others' equipment, I'm expecting that we'll ultimately see these things working together.
From the sounds of the article, the problem seems to be mostly in the software, not the hardware. For units with upgradable software (eeproms, etc), this can be handled with a simpls software upgrade. For items like the pen, it's going to mean you're throwing the thing out unless the manufacturer is able to make their software dual mode (old protocol + new protocol).
Although I'm not going to buy a bluetooth system tomorrow, I'm definitely not going to write it off, yet.
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The original argument about 'market forces' presumed many small, local companies. Our current situation of large mega-companies was cited by Adam Smith as being little different than government intervention.
A long time ago, I concluded that the biggest difference between a communist-style centralized economy and an end-game capitalistic economy is how obvious it is who's pulling the strings. I've come across precious little that would cause me to change my mind. --
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Damn. and me without my mod points (yes, I DID read 1984).
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The universe just sucks.
(sorry)
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- an Anonymous Coward mentioned
- Great Jewish Athletes
- Linux Users Who Have Had Sex Without Paying for It
Confusing the two and remembering that William Shatner (Kirk) was Jewish...He had sex from lots of women -- but they were allmost all illegall aliens.. (probably just wanted their 'green' cards)
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If, on the other hand, you could convince them that having that image there is actually good advertising (reminding those people who like spam that it's time to eat it, and making people who have never tried it curious), they may not mind that much.
This is actually quite different than the trademark problems that Scott Oaper (kleenex), Xerox (copiers) et. al. have had to deal with where their trademark has become a generic name in it's original field. Given that Hormel (hopefully!) doesn't distribute spam or spam software, the use of the spam name isn't a trademark legal problem -- only an image peoblem. (Do they like their name being associated with one of the scourges of the net?) Although I doubt that they can control the use of the spam name for email, I'd guess that they probably have the right to control the use of the logo that they produced.
If somebody could contribute an image of canned meat splayed on a plate, I think we could come up with our own Slashdot-sourced "spam" logo that doesn't have copyright problems associated with it.
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Many Americans of the time really liked hitler. It is said that he was finananced, in part by US industrialists.
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Don't forget to thank all of those US companies that supported the Germans at the beginning of the war -- thereby lessening the load on all the European slave laborers.
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OH... I guess you've been using Linux for so long that you haven't had to deal with the excellent Microsoft engineering in products like Windows-98.
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(This seems far better than the NAFTA rules, where a spouse can 'follow' a high-tech/management worker but is essentially stranded at home once they get there. I've heard some horror stories about that rule).
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Out of curiosity, I hunted down a copy of the dhrystone benchmarks, and did some comparisons. megahertz to dhrystone rations go from a low of .02 for an apple 2e on drhystone 1 to a high of 2.35 for my P3/450). (Other than my own benchmarks, the latest results on the table are a couple of years old.)
In any case, the point is that dhrystone to MZ ratings vary by a factor of aabout 100 when you go across CPU families (and compilers). Even for relatively recent CPUs the ratio is still 3-1. I think that this supports my contention that clock times are a really bad way of gauging CPU performance.
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The situation is a bit more convoluted with the P4, but a 1.7Gz P4 is certainly not the same as a similar speed on a P3. We really should be dropping back to something like the Whetstone/Dhrystone benchmarks. Although they're flawed, at least they're slightly less misleading than the clock speed wars.
On the other hand, I could just take my 2MZ 6809, wrap it in a divide by 2048 clock package and proclaim the first 2Gigaherz processor at under $50. (The Marketing department would love me!).
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I know that I, for one, would be very interested in being able to power my laptop for a couple of days on a small generator, and being able to carry a week's worth of fuel in a small canteen. For people worried about being allowed to carry such a generator on commercial flights: rules currently allow for the carrying of small ammounts of fuel for personal use (e.g. lighters) This should cover a day's power for a laptop. the extra fuel capacity, however, would proabably not be allowed -- you'e probably be forced to empty your spare bladder and get refills at your destination.
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And yes, there are lawyers who will, from time to time, take on cases "pro bono" (free). They are, however, rare and they choose such cases carefully.
The character that Travolta played essentially ended up running much of the case on a 'pro bono' with or without his partners' agrement.
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You have: 5422809.3watts/yard^2
You want: watts/in^2
* 4184.2664
In other words, your original calculations were pretty good. (my mistake).
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It's gotten bad enough that there are companies out there that are willing to provide 'insurance' for court cases. It works like this:
-----When IBM faced the US government over antitrust complaints back in the '70s the prosecutors faced down an interesting case of psychological warfare when IBM bought the block accross the street from their offices and put up a whole building to house their lawers.
I'm sure that other people can come up with their own descriptions of how companies use their massive resources to keep themselves 'above the law'.
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well, how about replacing it with this one
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One SR71 page claims that:
Another site also has references to "mach 3+". Apparently the 'official' claims of mach 3.1 were for security reasons. That speed record was smashed (as I remember it) during one of the SR-71 decomissioning flights (they were decomissioned in the '80s, then recomissioned in the '90s.)Hmm... and a page on the Mig-25 vs the SR-71 notes that (for the Russian MIG-25):
So a Mig-25 was able to get close to an SR-71's cruising speed -- if you were willing to destroy the engine... (this was especially dangerous, since the Mig-25 apparently had no ejection seat).This 'couple of hundred extra MPH' is almost a full MACH (if you compare the cruising speeds of the MIG-25 and the SR-71). Remember, as well, that e=v^2 -- so the 1.25 speed difference is about 1.56 times the heat produced.Over a 1 or 2 hour flight (the endurance record is somethint like 10 hours), that can be a lot of heat to dissapate -- and anything like a radiator is going to mess with your aerodynamics (they apparently painted them black because it helped to radiate heat back out, allowing them to fly about 70 degrees cooler).
If you want an analogy for your derision, consider asking your average olympic athlete to run "a measly 10MPH" faster..... Prepare to get laughed out of the room (or kicked in the teeth, if he's been doing too many steroids).
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That actually makes some sense. Supercomputers are known for their ability to throw around huge stacks of data without breathing hard. It would make complete sense to use a system like that to do backups once it's processing power was less than your average new desktop box.
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All of this reminds me of the story, from the early '80s when Apple bought a Cray to help with their next processor design -- And Cray bought a Mac to help with their next processor design.
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UNIX - AIX
Their explanation of the name, at the time was Advanced Interactive eXecutive.It ran on a RISC box other than (prior to) the Power PC (Sorry -- don't remember the name), and it was badly broken at the time.They pretty much tried to rewrite UNIX from scratch with a bunch of mainframe stuff tacked on. Their intent was to create the best of both worlds (IBM-Mainframe/UNIX). I think that the initial version was more like the worst of both worlds. (I pronounced it "aches").
The more recent idea of running Linux under VM is probably far closer to the ideal. I'd love to get hold of a box where I could play with it.
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This is my understanding of the GPL:
- You can do whatever you want with the source code. -- fold, spindle, mutilate or improve.
- You can distribute copies -- either source or object, as long as the people you distribute the copies to get (or have free access to) the source code -- and all configuration files, etc. needed to (re)generate the binaries you distribute.
- You can charge anything you want for the copies (or nothing).
- Anybody who gets a copy can do the same thing.
So, As I understand it, what they're doing is legal, as long as the $15 includes access to the full sources, and people have the rights to redistribute.--
Because it's to the various companies' advantage to be able to interoperate with each others' equipment, I'm expecting that we'll ultimately see these things working together.
From the sounds of the article, the problem seems to be mostly in the software, not the hardware. For units with upgradable software (eeproms, etc), this can be handled with a simpls software upgrade. For items like the pen, it's going to mean you're throwing the thing out unless the manufacturer is able to make their software dual mode (old protocol + new protocol).
Although I'm not going to buy a bluetooth system tomorrow, I'm definitely not going to write it off, yet.
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But how do you calculate the long distance charges?
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A long time ago, I concluded that the biggest difference between a communist-style centralized economy and an end-game capitalistic economy is how obvious it is who's pulling the strings. I've come across precious little that would cause me to change my mind.
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It would be nice if the lameness filter didn't block out out perfectly normal posts. (while allowing things like the goatsex ascii art).
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