On the other hand, I haven't personally known anyone who had problems, but I do personally know a handful of people who are very happy with their Lasik experiences. YEMV
What point are you trying to make? Ozymandias is known to be Rameses II, one of the greatest pharoahs of Egypt. Today many monuments to him are known and even Shelley's poem has made his name known. So if you are trying to imply that great works decay and those who created them become unknown, Ozymandias/Rameses is a bad example:-)
The point of having a native port is so that you don''t have to download a vast quantity of extras just to run one daemon. Not everyone has broadband...
But the original post is to Ask Slashdot. If he can read/. he is probably not afraid of a few extra Mb bandwidth for extras.
Subversion does not support decentralized development.
Check out svk. That project uses svn as the base filesystem for a distributed version control system, a la bitkeeper. I really know nothing about it, but it may be (sort of) what you are looking for.
By the way, why is lack of support for decentralized development a "major limitation"? The only (open source) project I've heard of that needs it is the kernel. Most commercial software also appears to be centralized.
...It is ok until it gets corrupted, and then you are hosed. Keeping everything in readable files CVS-style is a BIG plus point once you've been in that situation... ...I am also wary of database-based products which are tied to one particular database...
Subversion has a utility that might assuage your fears:
svnadmin dump
The dump command can do a (full or incremental) dump of your repository such that you can completely recreate its history. If you use this command for backup, you will be assured that you don't lose any data.
As a bonus, the dump file is human readable, so there should be no fear of losing data to an inscrutable binary file.
So you are the "Dr Wes Boudville" that posted the same review on bn.com and amazon.com? You reviewed an awful lot of books on Amazon...how are you able to afford $600 for an out-of-date semiconductor book (Defect Control in Semiconductors) or $1155 for Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia? Amazing....
I see what you're saying, and it is partially persuasive. However, I think the airline ticket example is an interesting one. To wit: if you purchase an airline ticket, the airline probably does not care what you do to the ticket--i.e., tear it up, burn it, etc.
However, the airline is willing to exchange that ticket for a flight on a plane, in which case they impose further conditions (on your behavior for example). So you can do whatever you want with the ticket itself, but they will only honor it for a flight if you agree to further restrictions.
Contrast this with a software sale. You have exchanged money for a box with some papers (one of which is an EULA) and a shiny plastic disk. You would be well within your rights to burn the disk, tear the papers, etc. But how is "using the CD in the computer" equivalent to "exchanging an airline ticket for a flight"? I don't really understand the court's reasoning here...
Marathon (now known as Aleph One) was a fantastic multi-player FPS from the time of Doom. This was a Mac-only game that we played in a lab with typically 4-6 people at the same time, and it was a blast. Mostly just straightforward fragging fun (before "frag" was a word). It ran very well on the first Powermacs (66MHz machines), so it should just squeak by with the P4/1.7GHz.
And just to complete the thought... ...so they made it skinnier as well (lowering the area) to lower the capacitance.
Lower capacitance is faster because that capacitor must be charged up, which takes time.
(The base resistance is also important because higher base resistance makes it harder to charge--again slower.) So a heavily doped (low resistance for easy electron transport) base layer, that is thin (for small distances for the electrons to travel) and small area (so the capacitance, and hence charging time are low) will make a fast transistor. There are also tricks one can play using different materials for different parts of the transistor that also speed it up. The UIUC group almost certainly did some of that as well.
...anyone care to remind me why GaAs is not as common as silicon today?
GaAs does not have a robust oxide. The entire silicon industry expanded because silicon is easy to oxidize and provides an excellent dielectric. If this were not the case, we would probably still be using germanium, because it is easier to purify (and/or GaAs, because it is faster, higher temperature, and direct band-gap).
Furthermore, it should be understood that digital data is short-lived. If you want your data to last a long time, use something analog.
Don't believe it?
Some of the original photographs (from the mid-1800s) are still available to view. How about your digital camera pictures from 2 years ago?
There are texts and paintings preserved for thousands of years. They are readable and viewable with a standard pair of eyeballs. Is there anything available to read the data off those 8" floppies from 15 years ago?
There are wax cylinders from Thomas Edison's day with preserved recordings of early music and speech. Can you play the computer music made for the old Vic-20s?
Of course, one could probably find examples of working 8" floppy drives or somebody's archive of Vic-20 music with included emulators, but for the most part, digitally stored data is lost after less than a decade. In fact, it would probably create much more realistic expectations if people would think of using digital for short-term storage and analog/hardcopy for long-term. Time will tell:-)
I have a question regarding caseload that is probably best split in 3 parts:
a) Since IP covers several somewhat related areas (e.g., copyrights, patents and trademarks), how are your enforcement efforts split between these areas (i.e., how often do you track down trademark violations versus file sharing, etc.).
b) How many cases do you pursue in a year and what kind of categories do they fall under (e.g., individual file sharing, corporate patent infringement, etc.).
c) What percentage of those cases end up at trial?
...but it's not worth the.00005% decrease in my lifespan...
Assuming you live to the ripe old age of 80, that would be a decrease of 21 minutes. I think you may have lost that much time reading and responding to this thread!
If the beam size is 1/2 as small, it will take 4x as long to pattern the same area.* So the 10x increase in rasterization is really 10/4 or approximately 2x increase in wafer throughput. Even with this, a full wafer (especially the new 12 inch Si wafers) will take hours/days maybe weeks to pattern. It will be good for research (especially the smaller beam width), but not for production.
*Of course, if you can scale all the circuits by 2x then you don't need as much area, but device and transmission line scaling doesn't work that way...
Now, if the author had organized a class-action lawsuit... so that one court win could cost $50 * (# of people in suit) that might get their attention. As it is, if it only cost them $75 plus a lawyer's time, I imagine they figure they'd be making money anyhow, if the e-mail spurred some new business....
Actually, if it became a class action lawsuit, the lawyers would walk away with $5million (US legal tender) and the class participants would each get $10 (Kozmo bucks)!
So true! And the defendant is hardly affected financially, but they are protected from any* future lawsuits from class members. Class action lawsuits are bunk!
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I was never able to get ami working, but I found nabi and that works similar to Windows IME and is quite easy to use for Korean.
Sands of the sahara (PDF)
Dry eyes
Bad experiences: Lasikdisaster.com
On the other hand, I haven't personally known anyone who had problems, but I do personally know a handful of people who are very happy with their Lasik experiences. YEMV
What point are you trying to make? Ozymandias is known to be Rameses II, one of the greatest pharoahs of Egypt. Today many monuments to him are known and even Shelley's poem has made his name known. So if you are trying to imply that great works decay and those who created them become unknown, Ozymandias/Rameses is a bad example :-)
The point of having a native port is so that you don''t have to download a vast quantity of extras just to run one daemon. Not everyone has broadband...
/. he is probably not afraid of a few extra Mb bandwidth for extras.
But the original post is to Ask Slashdot. If he can read
Subversion does not support decentralized development.
Check out svk. That project uses svn as the base filesystem for a distributed version control system, a la bitkeeper. I really know nothing about it, but it may be (sort of) what you are looking for.
By the way, why is lack of support for decentralized development a "major limitation"? The only (open source) project I've heard of that needs it is the kernel. Most commercial software also appears to be centralized.
...I am also wary of database-based products which are tied to one particular database...
Subversion has a utility that might assuage your fears: The dump command can do a (full or incremental) dump of your repository such that you can completely recreate its history. If you use this command for backup, you will be assured that you don't lose any data.
As a bonus, the dump file is human readable, so there should be no fear of losing data to an inscrutable binary file.
Hmmm...upon re-reading my post, it sounds like I am being sarcastic, but actually I'm not. I'm genuinely interested.
So you are the "Dr Wes Boudville" that posted the same review on bn.com and amazon.com? You reviewed an awful lot of books on Amazon...how are you able to afford $600 for an out-of-date semiconductor book (Defect Control in Semiconductors) or $1155 for Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia? Amazing....
Furthermore, digital is only really good for short term storage. Film is good for long term.
(There are still original negatives available with good quality from the 1800s. Can anyone even find the bits from digital documents 15 years old?)
I see what you're saying, and it is partially persuasive. However, I think the airline ticket example is an interesting one. To wit: if you purchase an airline ticket, the airline probably does not care what you do to the ticket--i.e., tear it up, burn it, etc.
However, the airline is willing to exchange that ticket for a flight on a plane, in which case they impose further conditions (on your behavior for example). So you can do whatever you want with the ticket itself, but they will only honor it for a flight if you agree to further restrictions.
Contrast this with a software sale. You have exchanged money for a box with some papers (one of which is an EULA) and a shiny plastic disk. You would be well within your rights to burn the disk, tear the papers, etc. But how is "using the CD in the computer" equivalent to "exchanging an airline ticket for a flight"? I don't really understand the court's reasoning here...
Marathon (now known as Aleph One) was a fantastic multi-player FPS from the time of Doom. This was a Mac-only game that we played in a lab with typically 4-6 people at the same time, and it was a blast. Mostly just straightforward fragging fun (before "frag" was a word). It ran very well on the first Powermacs (66MHz machines), so it should just squeak by with the P4/1.7GHz.
Lower capacitance is faster because that capacitor must be charged up, which takes time.
(The base resistance is also important because higher base resistance makes it harder to charge--again slower.) So a heavily doped (low resistance for easy electron transport) base layer, that is thin (for small distances for the electrons to travel) and small area (so the capacitance, and hence charging time are low) will make a fast transistor. There are also tricks one can play using different materials for different parts of the transistor that also speed it up. The UIUC group almost certainly did some of that as well.
...anyone care to remind me why GaAs is not as common as silicon today?
GaAs does not have a robust oxide. The entire silicon industry expanded because silicon is easy to oxidize and provides an excellent dielectric. If this were not the case, we would probably still be using germanium, because it is easier to purify (and/or GaAs, because it is faster, higher temperature, and direct band-gap).
Don't believe it?
Some of the original photographs (from the mid-1800s) are still available to view. How about your digital camera pictures from 2 years ago?
There are texts and paintings preserved for thousands of years. They are readable and viewable with a standard pair of eyeballs. Is there anything available to read the data off those 8" floppies from 15 years ago?
There are wax cylinders from Thomas Edison's day with preserved recordings of early music and speech. Can you play the computer music made for the old Vic-20s?
:-)
Of course, one could probably find examples of working 8" floppy drives or somebody's archive of Vic-20 music with included emulators, but for the most part, digitally stored data is lost after less than a decade. In fact, it would probably create much more realistic expectations if people would think of using digital for short-term storage and analog/hardcopy for long-term. Time will tell
I have a question regarding caseload that is probably best split in 3 parts:
a) Since IP covers several somewhat related areas (e.g., copyrights, patents and trademarks), how are your enforcement efforts split between these areas (i.e., how often do you track down trademark violations versus file sharing, etc.).
b) How many cases do you pursue in a year and what kind of categories do they fall under (e.g., individual file sharing, corporate patent infringement, etc.).
c) What percentage of those cases end up at trial?
Really?! Is this a U.S. law or is this RIAA rules? Why would the US pass a law regulating whether you announce your playlist in advance???
No, not Erin Gray. I forget her name, but she always said "beedeebeedee...What's up, Buck?" And she didn't really look so hot.
Heh. My system uses adiabatic demagnetization to get to microKelvin range.
Assuming you live to the ripe old age of 80, that would be a decrease of 21 minutes. I think you may have lost that much time reading and responding to this thread!
slashdotted faster than the speed of light
So what, theoretically, would limit yield to 80%?
I searched for "digital copyright" on fatbrain and came up with Litman's book, but the 2nd book that came up was Peter Wayner's book "Digital Copyright Protection: Techniques to Ward off Electronic Copyright Abuse". Ouch.
p.s. my humble apologies for blatantly attaching to a high mod post...
*Of course, if you can scale all the circuits by 2x then you don't need as much area, but device and transmission line scaling doesn't work that way...
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Actually, if it became a class action lawsuit, the lawyers would walk away with $5million (US legal tender) and the class participants would each get $10 (Kozmo bucks)!
So true! And the defendant is hardly affected financially, but they are protected from any* future lawsuits from class members. Class action lawsuits are bunk!
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*Any lawsuits on the same topic.
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