Rimmer:
What's this? Learning drugs? They're illegal, matey! Where did you get them? I'm afraid you're in very serious, grave, deep trouble, Lister. Where did you get them? I want names, I want places, I want dates.
Lister:
Arnold Rimmer, his locker, this morning.
For me, an important reason to use C is GCC. (Also the good documentation of the glibc.) I don't want to spend to much of the development time debugging the compiler or interpreter. (But it's good to know that i could have the source.)
I am not an expert, but i think the point of flight simulators is not only better training, but lower costs of training. If a realistic simulator allows you to replace more flight training with simulator training, it saves a lot of money.
(And it's rather environmental friendly)
Although i think there might be easier grammar than XML for both humans and software, giving the user access to a fileformat in human readable form is generally a great idea. Take a look at SNG. It translates PNG raster images to XML and back. It allows users to tweak every byte of the PNG or just check if some application software put too much personal information into it.
It is one of the reasons why I prefere LaTeX over WYSIWYG-Tools. (Nice for scripting, c&p etc.)
Ultra lights have been an increasingly popular cigarette because of the low amount of nicotine, I suspect this will definitely increase Vectors market share.
"The more diet products you eat, the faster you slim." Clearly, it doesn't work for the consumer, but it works well for the producer. If the pizza is only half size eat two to get stuffed.
In the result you will just spend more money to get what you need. With cigarets it also means, you consume more toxines to get the same amount of nicotine.
If you don't smoke for the nicotine but want to have something to play with, use a straw!
CRT monitors get rather useless in environments with strong magnetic fields. (e.g. offices next to a laboratory with a big superconductive magnet)
Since i saw that, i've accepted that LCD monitors might have their use.
It will be worth 1.1B if you find somebody who will buy it for this price. Just MS trying to sell it for this price doesn't make it worth this price. I think that's the point. Companies often construct funny values by using their retail prices. We had examples in discussions about copyrights.
Reading the key would involve physically opening and tapping into the chip, which is a practical impossibility for you or me. Such an effort might be worthwhile if reading the key would result in breaking the entire Palladium system, but as I said, the system is designed to thwart class breaks.
Isn't it possible to emulate the hardware, if you have the key? As long as you have a computer where you can run your own programs (i.e. not all software has to be trusted), you could use the key to build an emulator that can run a trusted application, get the decrypted code, get other copyrighted decrypted data, which the system was to protect.
Of course we would have a legal trouble similar to the DeCSS related thing. So maybe distributing the key will be illegal. A bigger problem might arise if possesion of hardware which allows you to run your own (self compiled) OS becomes illegal. Never underestimate the foolery of lawmakers, however i think there is still a long way.
I heard this is what is going on with musical scores. It is the editors job to write wrong notes so it may not be copied although the composer died more than 100 years ago. (So if you had the feeling that people where discordant about the tune of some christmas carols, it may be due to variations in scores rather than insufficient skills)
There is an international decleration of human rights. I think that would be an authorative text, but there is no court for it and since free software is rarely related to war crimes, i think the ICC will not help out.
Some readers might not know that there is a successfully working tidal power facility in the Bay of Saint-Michel in France since 1966. Its output is 240MW.
I wonder why nobody talks about this:
If they pull up an elevator cabin on the 100,000km rope, where does the cabin get the rotational momentum from? If it just pulls the rope, the rope will be pulled to the west. Even assume that the cabin makes it's way up and arrives at the top station 100,000km away from earth, it will have reduced the tops rotational momentum.
The top will rotate slower than the base station at earth, which makes it more "light" (in the inverse sense of gravitation). The elevator would be biggest pendulum in the solar system -- unfortunately not in a homogenous field. I don't have enough time now, to make a Legendre-Equation for it.
I prefere a ball-pen, because it cannot be erased so easily.
If you don't use punch card but mark a paper with the writing tool of your choice, it doesn't take much time to count it. Just use enough people to count it. For example, the completely manual counting in Austria usually takes about 4 hours. (Just the voting cards from people who vote from other countries take longer to arrive.)
Besides, some cultures will prefer (e.g.) a circle instead of an X.
It's not a new idea, of course. Since long, many countries require voters to vote in a special place where they are registered and allow a mechanism for people who cannot go there. For example you can request a special voting card some weeks before the election, which enables you to vote from any place of the world. (They even send somebody to fetch the envelope with your vote from your home, if you are not in the physical condition to perform the voting otherwise.)
When there was the first census for the Roman Empire about 2000 years ago, people had to go to their home town. The system was not invented by the USA.
The cool thing about Munday and Robertsons (Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 81, No. 11, 2002) Experiment and prominently before them Haché and Poirier (Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 80, No. 3, 2002) is that they observed group velocities much higher than c and higher than the phase velocity for the resp. negative group velocity. The "signal" (which really isn't a signal) arrives before it's been sent.
The problem is, that the new scientist made a big confusion about it. Most importantly by using the word signal for what is simply a wave group.
I bought it in Japan last month but i think it was available since longer. If you don't have a chance to go there (not via a web site, physically), maybe you have a japanese friend whou can send it to you...
Funny, when an institute with a good reputation and high quality equipment publishes the plausible result of their experiments, someone else adds "maybe it's all not real". However when a bunch of people claim that they proved wrong the theory of special relativity with some cheap coax cables, it is left without an expression of doubt. (Not only on slashdot. Here, at least, the posters express their doubt.)
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You should also compare the image quality. Zip is lossless compression while Jpeg generally is NOT.
Rimmer: What's this? Learning drugs? They're illegal, matey! Where did you get them? I'm afraid you're in very serious, grave, deep trouble, Lister. Where did you get them? I want names, I want places, I want dates. Lister: Arnold Rimmer, his locker, this morning.
Do they want to build their beowolf cluster there for better cooling?
For me, an important reason to use C is GCC. (Also the good documentation of the glibc.) I don't want to spend to much of the development time debugging the compiler or interpreter. (But it's good to know that i could have the source.)
The point is: there is no documented experiment of humans living in partial gravity for an extended period.
I am not an expert, but i think the point of flight simulators is not only better training, but lower costs of training. If a realistic simulator allows you to replace more flight training with simulator training, it saves a lot of money. (And it's rather environmental friendly)
Although i think there might be easier grammar than XML for both humans and software, giving the user access to a fileformat in human readable form is generally a great idea. Take a look at SNG . It translates PNG raster images to XML and back. It allows users to tweak every byte of the PNG or just check if some application software put too much personal information into it.
It is one of the reasons why I prefere LaTeX over WYSIWYG-Tools. (Nice for scripting, c&p etc.)
Heavy (deuterated) water is poison. You should not drink it or put in in your bear.
Ultra lights have been an increasingly popular cigarette because of the low amount of nicotine, I suspect this will definitely increase Vectors market share.
"The more diet products you eat, the faster you slim." Clearly, it doesn't work for the consumer, but it works well for the producer. If the pizza is only half size eat two to get stuffed. In the result you will just spend more money to get what you need. With cigarets it also means, you consume more toxines to get the same amount of nicotine.
If you don't smoke for the nicotine but want to have something to play with, use a straw!
CRT monitors get rather useless in environments with strong magnetic fields. (e.g. offices next to a laboratory with a big superconductive magnet) Since i saw that, i've accepted that LCD monitors might have their use.
It will be worth 1.1B if you find somebody who will buy it for this price. Just MS trying to sell it for this price doesn't make it worth this price. I think that's the point. Companies often construct funny values by using their retail prices. We had examples in discussions about copyrights.
Isn't it possible to emulate the hardware, if you have the key? As long as you have a computer where you can run your own programs (i.e. not all software has to be trusted), you could use the key to build an emulator that can run a trusted application, get the decrypted code, get other copyrighted decrypted data, which the system was to protect.
Of course we would have a legal trouble similar to the DeCSS related thing. So maybe distributing the key will be illegal. A bigger problem might arise if possesion of hardware which allows you to run your own (self compiled) OS becomes illegal. Never underestimate the foolery of lawmakers, however i think there is still a long way.
I heard this is what is going on with musical scores. It is the editors job to write wrong notes so it may not be copied although the composer died more than 100 years ago. (So if you had the feeling that people where discordant about the tune of some christmas carols, it may be due to variations in scores rather than insufficient skills)
IANAL. Can somebody enlighten us about it?
Ok, i might guess what 64bits are for (16bits red, 16bits green, 16bits blue, 16bits alpha?), but what are 128bits used for?
There is an international decleration of human rights. I think that would be an authorative text, but there is no court for it and since free software is rarely related to war crimes, i think the ICC will not help out.
US law can only restrict the US congress, but it cannot restrict the legislative powers of other countries.
What the american people decides to be true is not a universal truth. Each country has the right for it's own laws.
In a democratic country, the law is made by the people. By the people of the country itself, not by other countries people.
Some readers might not know that there is a successfully working tidal power facility in the Bay of Saint-Michel in France since 1966. Its output is 240MW.
I found some pictures on the web.
I would do exactly the same. I'd ask Slashdot!
I wonder why nobody talks about this: If they pull up an elevator cabin on the 100,000km rope, where does the cabin get the rotational momentum from? If it just pulls the rope, the rope will be pulled to the west. Even assume that the cabin makes it's way up and arrives at the top station 100,000km away from earth, it will have reduced the tops rotational momentum.
The top will rotate slower than the base station at earth, which makes it more "light" (in the inverse sense of gravitation). The elevator would be biggest pendulum in the solar system -- unfortunately not in a homogenous field. I don't have enough time now, to make a Legendre-Equation for it.
Is there much difference in principle between refusing business with competitors and demanding an arbitrary higher price from competitors?
I prefere a ball-pen, because it cannot be erased so easily.
If you don't use punch card but mark a paper with the writing tool of your choice, it doesn't take much time to count it. Just use enough people to count it. For example, the completely manual counting in Austria usually takes about 4 hours. (Just the voting cards from people who vote from other countries take longer to arrive.)
Besides, some cultures will prefer (e.g.) a circle instead of an X.
It's not a new idea, of course. Since long, many countries require voters to vote in a special place where they are registered and allow a mechanism for people who cannot go there. For example you can request a special voting card some weeks before the election, which enables you to vote from any place of the world. (They even send somebody to fetch the envelope with your vote from your home, if you are not in the physical condition to perform the voting otherwise.)
When there was the first census for the Roman Empire about 2000 years ago, people had to go to their home town. The system was not invented by the USA.
The cool thing about Munday and Robertsons (Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 81, No. 11, 2002) Experiment and prominently before them Haché and Poirier (Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 80, No. 3, 2002) is that they observed group velocities much higher than c and higher than the phase velocity for the resp. negative group velocity. The "signal" (which really isn't a signal) arrives before it's been sent.
The problem is, that the new scientist made a big confusion about it. Most importantly by using the word signal for what is simply a wave group.
I bought it in Japan last month but i think it was available since longer. If you don't have a chance to go there (not via a web site, physically), maybe you have a japanese friend whou can send it to you...
Funny, when an institute with a good reputation and high quality equipment publishes the plausible result of their experiments, someone else adds "maybe it's all not real". However when a bunch of people claim that they proved wrong the theory of special relativity with some cheap coax cables, it is left without an expression of doubt. (Not only on slashdot. Here, at least, the posters express their doubt.)