The children's toys operate with another effect than the proposed one.
The children's toys, known as Crooke radiometers, contain a vacuum of 0.05 mBar. In this environment, the effect shows as follows:
Photons hit black side of paddle -> paddle gets warmer -> molecules near the paddle have a higher impulse -> push paddle away with higher impulse
Photons hit reflecting side of paddle -> paddle doesn't get much warmer -> low impulse -> paddle gets pushed less. Interestingly, Maxwell proposed a different effect, using the difference in density of the gas near the colder/warmer side. This was shown to be wrong: due to the free path being extremely long (because of the low pressure), there is no interaction between the gas molecules, and therefore no pressure density.
So, Crooke's radiometer doesn't show the effect. What does, you ask?
In 1901 Piotr Lebedev was able to show (with the by then much better vacuum) that the effect does indeed exist. However, you need a much much better vacuum, and you have to glass-coat your paddles to prevent paddle molecules gasing out, "dirtying" your vacuum.
Then, of course, your paddles turn in the opposite direction, because they have twice the impulse on the reflecting side).
Not that I'd heard a lecture on exactly this topic this week or something:-).
While I normally hate the German dubbed versions of movies, at this one point I like our version better:
Agent: "Only a human"
Trinity: "Only an agent" *bang*
Interestingly, the German subtitles translate it just right, with something like "Weich mal aus". How lame...
This is, of course, right. Everything you buy has the 16 % VAT on it, and for computers you'll have to add 13/$ GEMA-Gebühr. It still sucks, though. This also would still hurt the small shops, because I remember that they wanted to have seperate "Gebühren" for the _parts_ of the computer, i.e. 50 cent per ten GB hard disk, 4 for a CD-R drive or whatever.
This is software targeted at average users, meaning that it is easily possible that some of them still use hard drives which store additional enablers in the MBR to overcome all those silly BIOS limits (512 mb ought to be enough for everyone. No wait. Shit. Well, then let's extend this to 2 GB. Oh, damn. 8 GB. Oh, there goes another. 32 GB. Oh no, wrong again. 128 GB. To be continued...). I don't think I have to mention what overwriting those drivers means to the users data; plus, you aren't even likely to be able to restore those drivers.
Nope. The build environment has to be a system with the correct cross-compile toolchain installed (oh wonder!). The only version of the cross-tools on the site is for x86-Linux, but noone's keeping you from building them yourselve under OS X (or any other nice and shiny real OS).
Maybe you should just read the Gnome User Interface Guidelines (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/) , which could easily win an award for the most blatantly obvious copy of someone else's original work (i.e. they are almost identical to the Apple HIG). At least they exchanged the graphics; having Aqua windows in there probably would have been _too_ obvious.
I'm really glad that those guidelines are actually being implemented, because that makes Gnome really easy to use (as opposed to KDE, which seems to try and imitate MS. I hate those "Yes, No, Cancel" dialogues).
While I don't completely understand what Atari Lynx and Sega Jaguar have to do with the BSDs, "Jaguar" (Mac OS X.2) is indeed on Netcraft's radar:-p
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off& mode_w=on&site=www.apple.com
Hosting your website on mid-90s consoles OTOH probably wouldn't quite survive a decent slashdotting...
For all those guys who are going to doubt that license plate readers are feasible: in Bavaria, employing automatic scanners at the czech-german border is currently being discussed. ( http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,224854,0 0.html if you speak german). Employing the scanners for traffic and speed control is also planned.
With binary compatibility in the applications objects, it should be trivial to build plug-in replacements for Apple's frameworks. GNUstep and Cocoa both use Objective C, which does not care about an objects structure, only about exported methods (contrary to C++). That means that it could indeed be possible to run Cocoa applications natively on NetBSD using GNUstep: after all, the Cocoa applications are completely isolated from the implementation of their window/GUI server.
KDE3.1 + Aqua WD (I forget the exact name, I don't use it) + Mosfest's Liquid Widgets + CodeWeaver's Crossover + the dirt cheap prices of x86 hardware == Hell
- No self contained applications. Installation process is _not_ "grab the app and drag it to your favourite place"
- No intelligent framework system. Try to use a KDE 1.0 app with your KDE 3.1 libraries. It breaks, because the goddamned _size_ of the _classes_ in fucking _C++_ has changed. Even if it were _source_compatible_ it wouldn't work, because of C++'s stupit ABI. (Note: Objective C doesn't have this problem:-)
- No Project Builder. Use it, then you'll understand.
Those are only a few, but I'll stop here. It's indeed a Mac I'm looking for, and that's because it's thought out. It's not because I like the _look_ of the GUI. In fact, if you choose your tools by their looks, you probably have a larger problem than not having a Mac...
Which is possible: I have Windows NT 4.0 PPC and DevStudio 5.0 can compile with NT PPC as target. Of course, porting to BSD would probably be easier than using WinePPC (is there such a thing?).
BTW, some old Mac programs are ported so badly that you could almost call them "windows binaries", too. E.g. C&C 1 uses DirectX, and I've still got a MFC 4.0 OLE library in my extension folder:-(
It's the fucking Operating System. You know, the one that actually operates. You can do work with it. Actually. Work. I'd wish I had something similar for my Athlon.
There currently is no moder, viable platform.
Windows? Every thought of the architecture makes me throw up. I hate having thousands of obfuscated files in my system folder. I hate having to access my drives with letters, which are randomly garbled everytime I add or remove some drive, install a new SCSI driver, or whatever.
Linux/FreeBSD? Thanks, see above about messy filesystems. I want order. In the sense of human-readable names, and in the sense of not having seventeen overkill-like server-optimized directory structures with relics like/usr from the time when you booted your system from tape or whatever.
Mac OS X? That's what I'm currently using, but I actually do like to go to the shop next door and buy a cheap 2 GHz+ CPU, instead of hanging at Apples mercy to buy an all-new, slow system. And don't give me bull about how PPCs are so much faster at the same MHz; they aren't thrice as fast.
So why not keep the system I have, which works, and works fast, and still is "innovative" (database-based file system anyone)? I'll surely do.
While I agree that this kind of precision is rather useless, it is not true that pi can be described by a fraction. If that were so, pi would be a rational number, rather than a real one. Pi is also transcendent (proven 1882 by Lindemann), i.e. it can't be written as the solution of a polynom with integral coefficients. BTW, under http://pi314.at/math/irrational.html is proof that pi isn't a rational number.
Bzzt, wrong. Since the "New world" architecture has been introduced (some years ago), Mac OS comes with an "HD rom". 16MB ROMs had simply gotten too expensive, I think. Nowadays, the classic Mac OSs simply have a "Mac OS ROM" file in the System Folder, Mac OS X doesn't even have that. Of course, to run System 9 under MOL, you'd have to have the ROM.
Another thing to ponder is that the underlying OS of OS X runs on x86, but I certainly have no Apple ROM in my Athlon:-)
I'd guess the main difference between those boards and the current PowerMacs' boards is the northbridge and the firmware.
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So what they try now is to kill all advantages of social engineering: perhaps you "hack" the user, but because he himself has no control over his computer anymore, you still have gotten nothing:-)
One good book, it seems: Practical file system design with the BE file system, Dominic Giampaolo. Having just had a look at both AFS and BFS, I must say, they almost look the same. Almost all that is different are the magic numbers:-).
> Unreal 2k3 stutters on a 2GHZ with 512MB and a GeForce3 card.
This is simply not true. UT2003 works on my 1,5 GHz with 256MB RAM and a freakin' Riva TNT. In medium detail. With 20 fps. I've seen it working on a 1,4 GHz with 384MB and a GeForce2 MX, and it was smooth as hell. BTW, Athlon XP 1700 are by far not the fastest processors on the market. So the point still stands.
Erm, Windows 2000 may not have a defrag.exe, but it sure as hell has a defrag utility in the management console. Of course, the first I'll do on a new setup is replace that one with a trusted one; the original defrag tool comes from a scientology-controlled firm.
Yes, he has a legal leg to stand on. The point is that theft is already defined; a short search on google for "definition theft" reveals that. Because I rather don't trust some random web pages, I looked the definition up in my political dictionary. Theft is there defined as "unlawfully taking away a movable object to take possession of it". Another definition (this time from http://www.umkc.edu/police/info/STEALING.htm) is "The unlawful taking, carrying, leading or riding away of property from the possession of another person". Note the use of "away" in both definitions: to be subject of theft, an object must be physical, and it must be physically removed from the possession of its owner. So, it may be immoral to copy a CD. It may be, depending on where you live, illegal to copy a CD (it certainly isn't in Germany, where e.g. giving a copy to your gf is considered fair use). But even if it is illegal, the crime commited is never "theft".
Every material is copyrighted. The point in question is if someone transmitted material which he had the rights to distribute. And yes, I did, and repeatedly. For example, I got myself the UT2003 demo via Gnucleus; although the demo is copyrighted, it is also freely redistributable. Okay, it would have been possible to walk over to my neighbour and simply burn it, but I was lazy:-)
computers - Zuse, Europe
microchip - Kilby, America
movies - Lumière Brothers, Europe
mpeg is an iso standard - international
networking - couldn't find any
p2p networks - that napster guy, America
IP networking - I believe you there
the blessed 'net - well, we had that with ip networking. the www was invented at cern.ch, so europe.
That's america 3, europe 3. Pretty okay. Finding some inventors from asia or whereever is left as an excercise for the reader.
Of course, the only one of the points where any "fighting" is going on is P2P networks; all other just give us the infrastructure.
May I add that all this "I'm proud of my patria" leads to exactly nothing?
The folder's contents (i.e. the files) are stored on disk in compressed format. This is completely transparent to the user (and his programs), which means that when you mail a file from the folder, it is mailed uncompressed.
So, the only thing that changes for the user is that the files take less space on the disk, which is useful for zip disks.
The technology for this has been around since at least NT 4; back then it made sense to transparently compress on disk (see DriveSpace, which implements the sucky win16 equivalent); plus, I believe, it is a neat technology demo. BTW, the encryption features of XP work the same way, with encryption and compression mutually exclusive.
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The children's toys operate with another effect than the proposed one.
:-).
The children's toys, known as Crooke radiometers, contain a vacuum of 0.05 mBar. In this environment, the effect shows as follows:
Photons hit black side of paddle -> paddle gets warmer -> molecules near the paddle have a higher impulse -> push paddle away with higher impulse
Photons hit reflecting side of paddle -> paddle doesn't get much warmer -> low impulse -> paddle gets pushed less.
Interestingly, Maxwell proposed a different effect, using the difference in density of the gas near the colder/warmer side. This was shown to be wrong: due to the free path being extremely long (because of the low pressure), there is no interaction between the gas molecules, and therefore no pressure density.
So, Crooke's radiometer doesn't show the effect. What does, you ask?
In 1901 Piotr Lebedev was able to show (with the by then much better vacuum) that the effect does indeed exist. However, you need a much much better vacuum, and you have to glass-coat your paddles to prevent paddle molecules gasing out, "dirtying" your vacuum.
Then, of course, your paddles turn in the opposite direction, because they have twice the impulse on the reflecting side).
Not that I'd heard a lecture on exactly this topic this week or something
I bought mine in December, and it still has the Rage. They didn't change that until late March 2002.
While I normally hate the German dubbed versions of movies, at this one point I like our version better:
Agent: "Only a human"
Trinity: "Only an agent" *bang*
Interestingly, the German subtitles translate it just right, with something like "Weich mal aus". How lame...
This is, of course, right. Everything you buy has the 16 % VAT on it, and for computers you'll have to add 13 /$ GEMA-Gebühr. It still sucks, though. This also would still hurt the small shops, because I remember that they wanted to have seperate "Gebühren" for the _parts_ of the computer, i.e. 50 cent per ten GB hard disk, 4 for a CD-R drive or whatever.
This is software targeted at average users, meaning that it is easily possible that some of them still use hard drives which store additional enablers in the MBR to overcome all those silly BIOS limits (512 mb ought to be enough for everyone. No wait. Shit. Well, then let's extend this to 2 GB. Oh, damn. 8 GB. Oh, there goes another. 32 GB. Oh no, wrong again. 128 GB. To be continued...).
I don't think I have to mention what overwriting those drivers means to the users data; plus, you aren't even likely to be able to restore those drivers.
Nope. The build environment has to be a system with the correct cross-compile toolchain installed (oh wonder!). The only version of the cross-tools on the site is for x86-Linux, but noone's keeping you from building them yourselve under OS X (or any other nice and shiny real OS).
Maybe you should just read the Gnome User Interface Guidelines (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/) , which could easily win an award for the most blatantly obvious copy of someone else's original work (i.e. they are almost identical to the Apple HIG). At least they exchanged the graphics; having Aqua windows in there probably would have been _too_ obvious.
i ndows.html#alerts-confirmation
I'm really glad that those guidelines are actually being implemented, because that makes Gnome really easy to use (as opposed to KDE, which seems to try and imitate MS. I hate those "Yes, No, Cancel" dialogues).
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/w
While I don't completely understand what Atari Lynx and Sega Jaguar have to do with the BSDs, "Jaguar" (Mac OS X.2) is indeed on Netcraft's radar :-p
& mode_w=on&site=www.apple.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off
Hosting your website on mid-90s consoles OTOH probably wouldn't quite survive a decent slashdotting...
For all those guys who are going to doubt that license plate readers are feasible: in Bavaria, employing automatic scanners at the czech-german border is currently being discussed. ( http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,224854,0 0.html if you speak german). Employing the scanners for traffic and speed control is also planned.
It's the driver. I have the same issue with my TNT1. Which, by the way, runs UT2003 good enough for me(TM).
With binary compatibility in the applications objects, it should be trivial to build plug-in replacements for Apple's frameworks. GNUstep and Cocoa both use Objective C, which does not care about an objects structure, only about exported methods (contrary to C++). That means that it could indeed be possible to run Cocoa applications natively on NetBSD using GNUstep: after all, the Cocoa applications are completely isolated from the implementation of their window/GUI server.
KDE3.1 + Aqua WD (I forget the exact name, I don't use it) + Mosfest's Liquid Widgets + CodeWeaver's Crossover + the dirt cheap prices of x86 hardware == Hell
:-)
- No self contained applications. Installation process is _not_ "grab the app and drag it to your favourite place"
- No intelligent framework system. Try to use a KDE 1.0 app with your KDE 3.1 libraries. It breaks, because the goddamned _size_ of the _classes_ in fucking _C++_ has changed. Even if it were _source_compatible_ it wouldn't work, because of C++'s stupit ABI. (Note: Objective C doesn't have this problem
- No Project Builder. Use it, then you'll understand.
Those are only a few, but I'll stop here. It's indeed a Mac I'm looking for, and that's because it's thought out. It's not because I like the _look_ of the GUI. In fact, if you choose your tools by their looks, you probably have a larger problem than not having a Mac...
Which is possible: I have Windows NT 4.0 PPC and DevStudio 5.0 can compile with NT PPC as target. Of course, porting to BSD would probably be easier than using WinePPC (is there such a thing?). BTW, some old Mac programs are ported so badly that you could almost call them "windows binaries", too. E.g. C&C 1 uses DirectX, and I've still got a MFC 4.0 OLE library in my extension folder :-(
It's the fucking Operating System. You know, the one that actually operates.
You can do work with it.
Actually. Work.
I'd wish I had something similar for my Athlon.
There currently is no moder, viable platform. /usr from the time when you booted your system from tape or whatever.
Windows? Every thought of the architecture makes me throw up. I hate having thousands of obfuscated files in my system folder. I hate having to access my drives with letters, which are randomly garbled everytime I add or remove some drive, install a new SCSI driver, or whatever.
Linux/FreeBSD? Thanks, see above about messy filesystems. I want order. In the sense of human-readable names, and in the sense of not having seventeen overkill-like server-optimized directory structures with relics like
Mac OS X? That's what I'm currently using, but I actually do like to go to the shop next door and buy a cheap 2 GHz+ CPU, instead of hanging at Apples mercy to buy an all-new, slow system. And don't give me bull about how PPCs are so much faster at the same MHz; they aren't thrice as fast.
So why not keep the system I have, which works, and works fast, and still is "innovative" (database-based file system anyone)? I'll surely do.
While I agree that this kind of precision is rather useless, it is not true that pi can be described by a fraction. If that were so, pi would be a rational number, rather than a real one. Pi is also transcendent (proven 1882 by Lindemann), i.e. it can't be written as the solution of a polynom with integral coefficients.
BTW, under http://pi314.at/math/irrational.html is proof that pi isn't a rational number.
Bzzt, wrong. Since the "New world" architecture has been introduced (some years ago), Mac OS comes with an "HD rom". 16MB ROMs had simply gotten too expensive, I think. Nowadays, the classic Mac OSs simply have a "Mac OS ROM" file in the System Folder, Mac OS X doesn't even have that. Of course, to run System 9 under MOL, you'd have to have the ROM. :-)
Another thing to ponder is that the underlying OS of OS X runs on x86, but I certainly have no Apple ROM in my Athlon
I'd guess the main difference between those boards and the current PowerMacs' boards is the northbridge and the firmware.
So what they try now is to kill all advantages of social engineering: perhaps you "hack" the user, but because he himself has no control over his computer anymore, you still have gotten nothing :-)
One good book, it seems: Practical file system design with the BE file system, Dominic Giampaolo. Having just had a look at both AFS and BFS, I must say, they almost look the same. Almost all that is different are the magic numbers :-).
> Unreal 2k3 stutters on a 2GHZ with 512MB and a GeForce3 card.
This is simply not true. UT2003 works on my 1,5 GHz with 256MB RAM and a freakin' Riva TNT. In medium detail. With 20 fps. I've seen it working on a 1,4 GHz with 384MB and a GeForce2 MX, and it was smooth as hell.
BTW, Athlon XP 1700 are by far not the fastest processors on the market. So the point still stands.
Erm, Windows 2000 may not have a defrag.exe, but it sure as hell has a defrag utility in the management console. Of course, the first I'll do on a new setup is replace that one with a trusted one; the original defrag tool comes from a scientology-controlled firm.
Yes, he has a legal leg to stand on. The point is that theft is already defined; a short search on google for "definition theft" reveals that. Because I rather don't trust some random web pages, I looked the definition up in my political dictionary. Theft is there defined as "unlawfully taking away a movable object to take possession of it". Another definition (this time from http://www.umkc.edu/police/info/STEALING.htm) is "The unlawful taking, carrying, leading or riding away of property from the possession of another person". Note the use of "away" in both definitions: to be subject of theft, an object must be physical, and it must be physically removed from the possession of its owner.
So, it may be immoral to copy a CD. It may be, depending on where you live, illegal to copy a CD (it certainly isn't in Germany, where e.g. giving a copy to your gf is considered fair use). But even if it is illegal, the crime commited is never "theft".
Every material is copyrighted. The point in question is if someone transmitted material which he had the rights to distribute. And yes, I did, and repeatedly. For example, I got myself the UT2003 demo via Gnucleus; although the demo is copyrighted, it is also freely redistributable. Okay, it would have been possible to walk over to my neighbour and simply burn it, but I was lazy :-)
computers - Zuse, Europe
microchip - Kilby, America
movies - Lumière Brothers, Europe
mpeg is an iso standard - international
networking - couldn't find any
p2p networks - that napster guy, America
IP networking - I believe you there
the blessed 'net - well, we had that with ip networking. the www was invented at cern.ch, so europe.
That's america 3, europe 3. Pretty okay. Finding some inventors from asia or whereever is left as an excercise for the reader.
Of course, the only one of the points where any "fighting" is going on is P2P networks; all other just give us the infrastructure.
May I add that all this "I'm proud of my patria" leads to exactly nothing?
The folder's contents (i.e. the files) are stored on disk in compressed format. This is completely transparent to the user (and his programs), which means that when you mail a file from the folder, it is mailed uncompressed.
So, the only thing that changes for the user is that the files take less space on the disk, which is useful for zip disks.
The technology for this has been around since at least NT 4; back then it made sense to transparently compress on disk (see DriveSpace, which implements the sucky win16 equivalent); plus, I believe, it is a neat technology demo. BTW, the encryption features of XP work the same way, with encryption and compression mutually exclusive.