At the same time -there are external apps already available that let you get mpeg files off of your Intenet based replay (Model 4000 and up) and the Replay has the commercial autoskip which is the REAL advantage.
If Replay goes away - what happens to the TV guide provision? Great.....
You aren't talking about what the original poster was considering, i.e. someone who ignorantly put up a wireless network, without knowing how to lock it.
That is distinctly different from someone who puts up a network with full knowledge and intent of providing a free service.
This is a BIG different even though there is no practical differece as far as the user is concerned.
It is morally incorrect to steal things that aren't yours. If someone is giving it away intentionally, that isn't stealing.
If I open my house for people to sleep in,and offer it's contents for the public to take - then that is my choice. If, on the other hand, I forgot to lock the door, and the neighborhood decides to move in and take my stuff - that is stealing. You are trying to make a black and white situation gray - Stealing is wrong - pretty simple isn't it.
Uhm - no. The reduction in radio frequency usage is due to the adoption of compression of the video stream. These are still going to be multi-MegaWatt Xmitters because of the frequency(UHF), and the distance they want to cover. Put two of these on the same frequency, close enough, and you have inteference at the receiver. PERIOD.
A major part of communications theory is issues dealing with bit-error rates, and interference. It is a reality. Now we can move to things like "spread spectrum" but even this is no panacea. Fact - for a given bit errror rate, bandwidth, and communications path conditions - there are a finite number of spread spectrum transmitters than can coexist in the same band before the bit-error rate is exceeded!
How do I know? Well I've been a ham for 25 years giving me practical experience, and I'm a EE as well.
Doh' the thing is in an orbit 100+ miles from the target at 30K or 40K feet. It's shooting upward - is that line-of-site enough for you???
The main problems with this system are dealing with the atmosphere it is passing through, and keeping it on the moving target. Sounds like they have most of that working.
Like Dude, yeah I have a wife and son. Maren is a nice person, and I got to see her every weekend when I was in college on the tube - so there are both High school memories and college memories that are invoked here.
For me it won't be the same because Maren Jensen won't be there as Athena - it wasn't a major role in the series - but I went to high school with her so the series had a different slant for me;-)
It's "Solar System Warming" that is killing off all of the coments. This is where our Global warming is REALLY coming from! And all those silly scientists thought is was man-made materials doing it! Now we have the proof!
Well -your first mistake is using all this GUI nonsense! I use the command line pretty much ALL the time. The ONLY GUI I use for chip design is the waveform viewer, i.e the equivalent of a logic analyzer. That's it!
Who CARES about human interfaces when all you have to do is type "verilog -f files"
Actually, You've spotted the problem with software engineering in general! We've had tools that did the job on DOS (640K limit and all) that were MORE than adequate for better than 10 years. Yet - look at the Windows versions of these things. They cost 3x as much minimum, take 100x more memory to run(I get to count the OS here!).
Why - poor software engineering practice! You can put a fair amount of blame on the bloat directly at MS's feet. Fine. Still, software guys just add layer upon layer upon layer without ever cleaning up after themselves (See OSI model as proof of concept;-)
Nowadays - I use RTL to do chip design. The tools don't advance to much for the simple fact that there is lack of competition and people are afraid of touching a big bulky piece of software that happens to work. The synthesis tool in particular has a repetition that for every feature they add, they broke three, and the new featuer won't REALLY work for two or three releases.
As for software that operates like EE's desiged them. You guys have never seen the HP500 logic analyzer user's interface. Looks like a software guy designed it. I've been griping about that for a decade too!;-)
Further -you're talking about a state that paid 20 billion dollars for what should have cost 4-5 billion all brought to you by that same amazying leader that gave us the the 35 billion dollar deficit.
He has to pay for his mistakes some how -whoops - we have to pay for his mistakes!
Well - someone earlier pointed out that Copyright law is the first part of the law these guys are apparently violating.
I don't quite understand you point about derivative work by the compiler?
In any case - the other interesting point to consider is now that these dudes have nibbled GPL'd code and linked it with their own - assuming the GPL does hold up in all it's angles - their RISCOS is now GPL'd in it's entirety!
Vibration is probably the worst enemy to the drive since it can send the head crashing into the drive surface. Modern drives have a pretty high shock rating, but this is substantialy reduced if they're operating. Even then they are considerably better than they were even 5 years ago.
That being said - head is more an issue for the drive electronics than it would be for the physical drive.
Summary - drives have moving parts - they wear out for lots of reasons. Vibration and heat should be avoided to prolong their service life.
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I find this type of claim more than a bit disingenuous. What she might be complaining about is that her job is harder to do with this administration. Gee - someone who can keep a secret in Washington. What a novel concept!
Now there is no doubt that things have tightened up since 9-11, but they have too! We're technically at war with Al Qaeda (forget Iraq for the moment.) Ever seen the posters in the WWII movies - "Loose lips sink ships?" There IS something to the whole idea.
Further - how does the government have the right to give away MY rights! They don't! I have the right to "fair-use" under the law. The US government doesn't have the right to trade that away to the content providers!
Now - at the same time, I've always thought that Napter and their kind were illegal. The problem is that both sides of the arguement have abused the existing system!
The proposition proposed doesn't wash - it's right there with folks that want to take away the right to own and carry fire arms. Once that happens only criminals have guns. Real bright idea there too!
Gary also wasn't a bad hacker, but CP/M was a rip-off of Dec OS's of the time. So he was a great engineer - but is what he did innovative, i.e. was it the first of it's kind. Nope. Same goes for Tim Patterson who really ripped off CP/M to build Q-DOS.
I'd agree with gates being here - he hacked together a reasonable Basic for uP's before anyone else did. (I lived through the era;-) I can't agree with Woz MOSTLY because he is really a superb Hardware hacker. His software hacking ain't shabby - but his innovations were mostly in the hardware world.
I'm in charge of our Pack's Derby this year, and many of the suggestions I've seen posted would disqualify our cars! Obviously - each Pack is going to have a different set of rules so the customizations you can make are going to be minimized by that.
Our Pack disallows any lubircant except graphite. You are required to use only the car parts that come with the kit, except for the addition of weights and decorations. We also encourage the boys to build the cars (yeah - right..:-)
Now with all that out of the way;-)
The things I've seen that seem to be important are:
1) True up the wheels so they are all touching the ground and the same diameter. To get the same diameter you can put them on a nail into a drill and sand them some till they are all the same diameter. 2) File down the little attachement wings between the body of the nails and the head of the nail. The wheels can bind there. 3) Bring the car up to exactly the competition weight limit. We use a diet food meter to do this, and it served quite well. 4) Lubricate the wheels with graphite. It's cleaner than WD40 anyway.
Just about everything else I've heard or seen doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. The first year we raced, the car that won was a TRUCK! It had a larger face area than ANY of the other cars, yet it consistantly won - oh and it was from my TIGER den!! So I discount the aerodynamic affect at this size.
I'd only add that you might be able to run the audit with something *I can't believe I'm going to suggest*
Why not get the BSA auditing software!?!
At this point you have nothing to lose. If you run an audit of your systems with something the vultures believe to be sufficient, then maybe they'll go circle around some other poor, unsuspecting business.
This sounds like someone just trying to start up another conspiracy theory. SHEESH! A one having been in the electronics industry for over 20 years...GET A LIFE!
This half true, half false. You CAN go to prison if you hack the wrong software, yet US prisons don't allow rape. That isn't to say that rape doesn't happen in US prisons...it just isn't allowed;-)
I don't think this should have been rated "Funny" but rather Insightful!
I have ALOT of problems with Hactivismo's license, not the least of which is it's impracticality. Good example - who defines whether you're violating someone's human rights? Human rights is a HUGE political football. The US claims the Iraqis violate human rights (gassing your own people for instance) and the Iraqis claim we're violating their human rights by insisting on inspections. That is just one example - I could go on for HOURS.
The poster I'm replying to made a very significant statement, along the lines of contribute where you can how you can. That is a reasonable way to live your life - and contributes to observing the golden rule in my mind.
As for how this should apply to Open/Free software, well if you are good enough to code somthing that others will use and donate it to the public good via an OSS or Free license. GREAT! At the same time we need to stay practical and get rid of the stary-eyed nonsense that the Hactivismo concept embodies.
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At the same time -there are external apps already available that let you get mpeg files off of your Intenet based replay (Model 4000 and up) and the Replay has the commercial autoskip which is the REAL advantage.
If Replay goes away - what happens to the TV guide provision? Great.....
You aren't talking about what the original poster was considering, i.e. someone who ignorantly put up a wireless network, without knowing how to lock it.
That is distinctly different from someone who puts up a network with full knowledge and intent of providing a free service.
This is a BIG different even though there is no practical differece as far as the user is concerned.
It is morally incorrect to steal things that aren't yours. If someone is giving it away intentionally, that isn't stealing.
If I open my house for people to sleep in,and offer it's contents for the public to take - then that is my choice. If, on the other hand, I forgot to lock the door, and the neighborhood decides to move in and take my stuff - that is stealing. You are trying to make a black and white situation gray - Stealing is wrong - pretty simple isn't it.
That is a DUMB reply -
If I don't lock my car - are you allowed to steal it?
If I don't lock my house - is that an invitation for you to come help yourself to my belongings?
There is not difference here.
That's just great! So I can kill off germs in my food, but my choresterol will go sky high!!?!
Yeah - their neutral, but they condemn US actions...
Hmmm...
Uhm - no. The reduction in radio frequency usage is due to the adoption of compression of the video stream. These are still going to be multi-MegaWatt Xmitters because of the frequency(UHF), and the distance they want to cover. Put two of these on the same frequency, close enough, and you have inteference at the receiver. PERIOD.
A major part of communications theory is issues dealing with bit-error rates, and interference. It is a reality. Now we can move to things like "spread spectrum" but even this is no panacea. Fact - for a given bit errror rate, bandwidth, and communications path conditions - there are a finite number of spread spectrum transmitters than can coexist in the same band before the bit-error rate is exceeded!
How do I know? Well I've been a ham for 25 years giving me practical experience, and I'm a EE as well.
Doh' the thing is in an orbit 100+ miles from the target at 30K or 40K feet. It's shooting upward - is that line-of-site enough for you???
The main problems with this system are dealing with the atmosphere it is passing through, and keeping it on the moving target. Sounds like they have most of that working.
Like Dude, yeah I have a wife and son. Maren is a nice person, and I got to see her every weekend when I was in college on the tube - so there are both High school memories and college memories that are invoked here.
For me it won't be the same because Maren Jensen won't be there as Athena - it wasn't a major role in the series - but I went to high school with her so the series had a different slant for me ;-)
It's "Solar System Warming" that is killing off all of the coments. This is where our Global warming is REALLY coming from! And all those silly scientists thought is was man-made materials doing it! Now we have the proof!
Well -your first mistake is using all this GUI nonsense! I use the command line pretty much ALL the time. The ONLY GUI I use for chip design is the waveform viewer, i.e the equivalent of a logic analyzer. That's it!
Who CARES about human interfaces when all you have to do is type "verilog -f files"
Actually, You've spotted the problem with software engineering in general! We've had tools that did the job on DOS (640K limit and all) that were MORE than adequate for better than 10 years.
;-)
;-)
Yet - look at the Windows versions of these things. They cost 3x as much minimum, take 100x more memory to run(I get to count the OS here!).
Why - poor software engineering practice! You can put a fair amount of blame on the bloat directly at MS's feet. Fine. Still, software guys just add layer upon layer upon layer without ever cleaning up after themselves (See OSI model as proof of concept
Nowadays - I use RTL to do chip design. The tools don't advance to much for the simple fact that there is lack of competition and people are afraid of touching a big bulky piece of software that happens to work. The synthesis tool in particular has a repetition that for every feature they add, they broke three, and the new featuer won't REALLY work for two or three releases.
As for software that operates like EE's desiged them. You guys have never seen the HP500 logic analyzer user's interface. Looks like a software guy designed it. I've been griping about that for a decade too!
Oh - this is WAY to intelligent a suggestion. What the HECK is it doing on /.???
Hmm - well think about it a second.
Once it's 'lectricity, it's refined!
Further -you're talking about a state that
paid 20 billion dollars for what should have
cost 4-5 billion all brought to you by that same amazying leader that gave us the the 35 billion dollar deficit.
He has to pay for his mistakes some how -whoops - we have to pay for his mistakes!
Well - someone earlier pointed out that Copyright law is the first part of the law these guys are apparently violating.
I don't quite understand you point about derivative work by the compiler?
In any case - the other interesting point to consider is now that these dudes have nibbled GPL'd code and linked it with their own - assuming the GPL does hold up in all it's angles - their RISCOS is now GPL'd in it's entirety!
Ain't viral licensing grand!
Vibration is probably the worst enemy to the drive since it can send the head crashing into the drive surface. Modern drives have a pretty high shock rating, but this is substantialy reduced if they're operating. Even then they are considerably better than they were even 5 years ago.
That being said - head is more an issue for the drive electronics than it would be for the physical drive.
Summary - drives have moving parts - they wear out for lots of reasons. Vibration and heat should be avoided to prolong their service life.
I find this type of claim more than a bit disingenuous. What she might be complaining about is that her job is harder to do with this administration. Gee - someone who can keep a secret in Washington. What a novel concept!
Now there is no doubt that things have tightened up since 9-11, but they have too! We're technically at war with Al Qaeda (forget Iraq for the moment.) Ever seen the posters in the WWII movies - "Loose lips sink ships?" There IS something to the whole idea.
You are SO right here.
Further - how does the government have the right to give away MY rights! They don't! I have the right to "fair-use" under the law. The US government doesn't have the right to trade that away to the content providers!
Now - at the same time, I've always thought that Napter and their kind were illegal. The problem is that both sides of the arguement have abused the existing system!
The proposition proposed doesn't wash - it's right there with folks that want to take away the right to own and carry fire arms. Once that happens only criminals have guns. Real bright idea there too!
Gary also wasn't a bad hacker, but CP/M was a rip-off of Dec OS's of the time. So he was a great engineer - but is what he did innovative, i.e. was it the first of it's kind. Nope.
Same goes for Tim Patterson who really ripped off CP/M to build Q-DOS.
I'd agree with gates being here - he hacked together a reasonable Basic for uP's before anyone else did. (I lived through the era ;-)
I can't agree with Woz MOSTLY because he is really a superb Hardware hacker. His software hacking ain't shabby - but his innovations were mostly in the hardware world.
I'm in charge of our Pack's Derby this year, and many of the suggestions I've seen posted would disqualify our cars! Obviously - each Pack is going to have a different set of rules so the customizations you can make are going to be minimized by that.
:-)
;-)
Our Pack disallows any lubircant except graphite. You are required to use only the car parts that come with the kit, except for the addition of weights and decorations. We also encourage the boys to build the cars (yeah - right..
Now with all that out of the way
The things I've seen that seem to be important are:
1) True up the wheels so they are all touching the ground and the same diameter. To get the same diameter you can put them on a nail into a drill and sand them some till they are all the same diameter.
2) File down the little attachement wings between the body of the nails and the head of the nail. The wheels can bind there.
3) Bring the car up to exactly the competition weight limit. We use a diet food meter to do this, and it served quite well.
4) Lubricate the wheels with graphite. It's cleaner than WD40 anyway.
Just about everything else I've heard or seen doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. The first year we raced, the car that won was a TRUCK! It had a larger face area than ANY of the other cars, yet it consistantly won - oh and it was from my TIGER den!! So I discount the aerodynamic affect at this size.
I think alot of the above is sound advice.
I'd only add that you might be able to run the audit with something *I can't believe I'm going to suggest*
Why not get the BSA auditing software!?!
At this point you have nothing to lose. If you run an audit of your systems with something the vultures believe to be sufficient, then maybe they'll go circle around some other poor, unsuspecting business.
This sounds like someone just trying to start up another conspiracy theory. SHEESH! A one having been in the electronics industry for over 20 years...GET A LIFE!
This half true, half false. You CAN go to prison if you hack the wrong software, yet US prisons don't allow rape. That isn't to say that rape doesn't happen in US prisons...it just isn't allowed ;-)
I don't think this should have been rated "Funny" but rather Insightful!
I have ALOT of problems with Hactivismo's license, not the least of which is it's impracticality. Good example - who defines whether you're violating someone's human rights? Human rights is a HUGE political football. The US claims the Iraqis violate human rights (gassing your own people for instance) and the Iraqis claim we're violating their human rights by insisting on inspections. That is just one example - I could go on for HOURS.
The poster I'm replying to made a very significant statement, along the lines of contribute where you can how you can. That is a reasonable way to live your life - and contributes to observing the golden rule in my mind.
As for how this should apply to Open/Free software, well if you are good enough to code somthing that others will use and donate it to the public good via an OSS or Free license. GREAT! At the same time we need to stay practical and get rid of the stary-eyed nonsense that the Hactivismo concept embodies.