I suppose that's why they call it the "first approximation". You see that in electronics, too. Normally, we use the second approximation. (transistor acts like a switch minus.7V, etc.)
When you say "liquid (whatever)", you're usually referring to it at the temperature just below its boiling point, which means it'll quickly boil anyway.
I suppose the biggest disadvantage to liquid helium is it's difficult to cool it much farther, anyway. liquid N2 can at least be cooled to far below its boiling point.
That's gotta hurt. At terminal velocity, the air exerting enough force on you for it to feel like 1G. And all that on the top of your head...Better hold it straight, or you'll break your neck.
If you read the claims in the patent, simple multi-session CDs are covered as well. The patent was filed April 7, 1995. I'm fairly certain multisession technology was implemented on CD-ROMS before then.
Also, the patent only applies to "CDROM"s. It does not apply to DVD-based media.
I also think the patent is invalid because they had to limit their patent to applying to CDROMs. Meaning it was already in use for other types of media (other filesystems, whatever.). Meaning it is one of the "logical next steps" the patent office isn't supposed to approve.
I'm not sure you'd be able to exactly partition a hard disk in to CD or DVD-ROM-sized chunks. The partition table just isn't that fine-grained.
However, you could easily set up the loopback device to look at an image as a device. But then, why not write the image files directly, anyway?
Probably the best solution would be a Debian-based installation DVD-ROM with GNOME or KDE. Possibly Konqueror in kiosk mode working with a web interface on the network loopback.
OpenOffice.org KNOPPIX Mandrake LiveCD Debian installation CD Fedora The for-Windows
Can anyone think of any more? Mandrake and RedHat aren't likely to want people selling copies of their software, they'd probably want you to buy it from them, instead.
I'd try to leave donation requests on the CDs. Like in the autorun section, or in the xsessionrc on KNOPPIX or Mandrake LiveCDs.
Putting a "please donate" sign up seems too much like conventional advertising, and would stir opposition from the libraries, and from businesses who would try to get similar kiosks installed, but would not be allowed to.
Good idea. Provide a Linux-based machine with CD copying disabled, but with the ability to burn any of a number of on-disk ISO images. Stuff like KNOPPIX and Debian and the Gutenburg project. And anything else organizations feel like providing.
You'd have to disable copying because the music and video industry wouldn't stand for it. They'll still send C&D letters even without copying enabled, but it would be easy to prove their worries groundless.
Privacy issues aside, I'd hate to see ads related to the content I listen to. When I'm not listening to the news, I listen to rock. And believe me, I in no way like or subscribe to the culture that seems to go along with it.
Asimov focused more on hard science fiction, while Card focused on social issues. I loved the Foundation series, the series starting with Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, but I still feel Heinlein's my favorite author. He falls somewhere between Asimov's and Card's respective focii.
In Time enough for love, Lazarus Long goes to great lengths to teach his children the dangers of incest. To the point of inbreeded many generations of guinea pigs and photographing the deformed and stillborn pups.
In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Maureen works hard to keep two of her children from being involved with each other. The book may be considered as an epic from the lessons Maureen learns as a parent along the way.
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I suppose that's why they call it the "first approximation". You see that in electronics, too. Normally, we use the second approximation. (transistor acts like a switch minus .7V, etc.)
That's because the stuff immediately vaporizes around your finger, creating a nice insulating layer of gas.
When you say "liquid (whatever)", you're usually referring to it at the temperature just below its boiling point, which means it'll quickly boil anyway.
I suppose the biggest disadvantage to liquid helium is it's difficult to cool it much farther, anyway. liquid N2 can at least be cooled to far below its boiling point.
The advantage is that all you need to do is put the plutonium in a compact position...it'll melt itself. :)
That's gotta hurt. At terminal velocity, the air exerting enough force on you for it to feel like 1G. And all that on the top of your head...Better hold it straight, or you'll break your neck.
Until you send them a "DeCSS" pigeon. (read: mate)
If you read the claims in the patent, simple multi-session CDs are covered as well. The patent was filed April 7, 1995. I'm fairly certain multisession technology was implemented on CD-ROMS before then.
Also, the patent only applies to "CDROM"s. It does not apply to DVD-based media.
I also think the patent is invalid because they had to limit their patent to applying to CDROMs. Meaning it was already in use for other types of media (other filesystems, whatever.). Meaning it is one of the "logical next steps" the patent office isn't supposed to approve.
I'm not sure you'd be able to exactly partition a hard disk in to CD or DVD-ROM-sized chunks. The partition table just isn't that fine-grained.
However, you could easily set up the loopback device to look at an image as a device. But then, why not write the image files directly, anyway?
Probably the best solution would be a Debian-based installation DVD-ROM with GNOME or KDE. Possibly Konqueror in kiosk mode working with a web interface on the network loopback.
I don't even want to think about differential equations. I probably just flunked my calc 2 exam.
You insensitive clod.
I thought they included non-free software in their distribution, precluding free distribution.
Doh. I sould have read it more carefully. It may not be Free, but it's still freely distributable. (At least, I think it is.)
whoops...that last should be
The for-Windows Open Source Software CD
OpenOffice.org
KNOPPIX
Mandrake LiveCD
Debian installation CD
Fedora
The for-Windows
Can anyone think of any more? Mandrake and RedHat aren't likely to want people selling copies of their software, they'd probably want you to buy it from them, instead.
I'd try to leave donation requests on the CDs. Like in the autorun section, or in the xsessionrc on KNOPPIX or Mandrake LiveCDs.
Putting a "please donate" sign up seems too much like conventional advertising, and would stir opposition from the libraries, and from businesses who would try to get similar kiosks installed, but would not be allowed to.
Good idea. Provide a Linux-based machine with CD copying disabled, but with the ability to burn any of a number of on-disk ISO images. Stuff like KNOPPIX and Debian and the Gutenburg project. And anything else organizations feel like providing.
You'd have to disable copying because the music and video industry wouldn't stand for it. They'll still send C&D letters even without copying enabled, but it would be easy to prove their worries groundless.
Privacy issues aside, I'd hate to see ads related to the content I listen to. When I'm not listening to the news, I listen to rock. And believe me, I in no way like or subscribe to the culture that seems to go along with it.
It's always one week. With little breaks for the news.
And the announcers getting hysterical trynig to meet their quotas each hour.
I still like Tunnel in the Sky, and I'm 20. Wait, I guess that still classifies me as YA, to some slashdot readers.
I've heard Grumbles from the Grave described as proving that later on, Heinlein merely wrote what his fans wanted to read.
Asimov focused more on hard science fiction, while Card focused on social issues. I loved the Foundation series, the series starting with Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, but I still feel Heinlein's my favorite author. He falls somewhere between Asimov's and Card's respective focii.
Wasn't Heinlen the person who originally gave the waldo its name?
I thought the title was kind of ironic, since Grumbles from the Grave was published posthumously.
My first was The Green Hills of Earth ... I even came up with my own tune to the poem by that name. And that was when I was in 4th grade.
In Time enough for love, Lazarus Long goes to great lengths to teach his children the dangers of incest. To the point of inbreeded many generations of guinea pigs and photographing the deformed and stillborn pups.
In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Maureen works hard to keep two of her children from being involved with each other. The book may be considered as an epic from the lessons Maureen learns as a parent along the way.
We'd better get some sort of web-based clickable keyboard out there, before it's patented.