These guys were just really lucky to find what they need. It is surely a great accomplishement, however, considering the real overall cost of the accelerator and the experiments that can be done with it, a linear Van der Graff accelerator, about 2 meters long will be much cheaper and would enable undergrads to do about the same experiments.
How can we make sure a suspected company is not following the GPL rules before accusing them and taking some form of legal action against them?
He may be right in accusing them, but he may be wrong. Many concluded without proofs he is wrong, that's not better than him concluding this company is violating GPL rules without disclosed proofs.
Well, I don't see much interest and big challenge doing so, since it's about the same box as the Xbox, for about the same price if you include the mod-chip. This maybe an interesting MythTV client, why putting a TV tuner to turn it into a MythTV server. Run the MythTV backend on a server with enough CPU power to transcode, record and feed live TV to your client box. Anyway, that's more or less what they offer with the 10$/month subscription plus the pay-per-view shows,without live TV, just already recorded content.
I wonder how much it would cost to build the same box from parts, if availables. A Celeron at 733 MHz, 64MB RAM and a 80GB 5200 RPM HD should not be very expensive.
"The US is by far the highest emissions per capita, and its worse in that the US doesn't even do much of its own manufacturing....(imports far exceed exports)"
Sorry to tell you, but you are wrong. Canada is bigger than the US on this chapter. This can be easily understood since they need to heat all their homes during the winter and cool them during the summer and they have a living level about the same as the US, which imply about the same level of industries per capita and about the same level of travel per capita.
They don't block access to information. You can still search using competitor's engines. They just don't allow searches using their engine. The information is still available somewhere on the net and other engines can be used to find it.
Also, Google is not an information provider. It's an ads provider and search engine provider. Not quite the same thing.
is doing on-line purchases, on-line transactions or even cash withdraws at ATM with confidence? I all cases, the big corporation (the bank) is as well the owner, developer, maintainer of the code you are using to manage your money. After, shouldn't they arrange to have a greedy mode?
As far as the code is open, the machines audited, monitored and managed by a third party (the neutral vote commissionee, I don't know who it is and what is his title in USA, I am Canadian), I don't see what is the problem using a machine instead of pieces of papers which can also be tampered, rejected, etc.
If there is some evidence for an actual fraud, please, expose the facts. Otherwise, it looks more than a lack of fair-play from the losers.
Same-sex marriage is not yet legalized a bill is still waiting to be wrote and voted. In the mean time court trials opened the road to this. But government may still forbid it.
There is no such plan like rendering marijuana legal in Canada. Instead, there is a proposal to decriminalize it. Instead of being thrown in jail after a costly, long and complex trial, policemen will be fully entitled to just give you a ticket for possession of small quantities of marijuana for you own consumption. Traffic, growing and related activities will still be criminal.
And a feature to feature comparison will be required before concluding only the size matters, we are not talking sex, after all (anyway, saying: "Mine is smaller than yours!" doesn't make sense either in that field...)
I'm afraid you were not born yourself when the kilo, mega, giga and others prefixes came to life to designate things like: kilograms, kilovolts, kilometers, kilokelvins and the likes.
That doesn't mean because you insist to use then wrongly that make it legitimate to redefined them accordingly.
Standards is about making things clear for everyone, not just a click of initiated peoples thinking it's pretty cool to wrongly name a chair a horse.
That's just plain stupid. The prefixes are used in many other fields than computer science and to designate many other things than bits and bytes. So, redefining the kilo in a particular field because the scientists in that field are too lazy to learn the appropriate way to name things will just add to the confusion.
Not actually, almost language abuse to name 1024 bytes a kilobyte. Look at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for definition of international units. 1024 bytes is a kibibyte rather than a kilobyte. Kilo really mean 1000.
this is very unfortunate this is just a toy. My own lawn mower broke three times this summer and twice parts were in backorder. There is too much bumps and roots under the soil surface and the wheels tends to break after a year or two. I am looking for a solution and, no, I cannot asphalt 2 acres of land. And, anyway, I am just renting this property.
And the lawn mower is not a toy thing for 6000 sqft properties.
I don't know either what is the whole point having a cellphone combined with a 5 megapixel camera. I can't imagine someone really in the rush to send a 5 megapixels picture over cellphone connection showing himself frying some ants with a magnifier?
Except photo-journalists, I just don't see what is the point. And even photo-journalists may prefer specialized cameras instead of a all-in-one or one-size-fits-none clunky thing.
Have we reach the point where we just don't know what to do with all this bandwidth? Spam is not enough?
If you end up needing to use VNC, there is something badly designed in your environment, I mean, you got some Windows servers and/or desktops. Otherwise, you never ever need that stuff. After all, why do you need to run graphics apps on a server to administer it?
Ok, ok, I admit, I am not fair, there is probably a case where VNC may be useful while doing some end-user support with Linux desktops and you need to access the same graphical interface as the user to show him/her something. I said probably, because I don't know if VNC fits the bill for this task. I have never ever used VNC before, I planned to do once, but found another way to do my task.
Anyone can tell us if VNC is appropriate to do end-user support and taking over control of his/her graphical desktop while enabling him/her to watch what you are doing remotely?
It does exactly the same thing as the product from Microsoft which turns the Xbox into a front-end to the Windows Media Center PC box.
In the case of MythTV, there will be no proprietary stuff, including encoded shows, while the Microsoft product will use its own closed codecs.
Plus, MythTV is having a plug-in architecture which can provide some other services not yet seen with the MS products.
And for those still wandering what's the point with this, simply use a server PC to serve the TV shows anywhere in your house. Obviously, if you live alone there is not much interest in this product, unless you PC is not located somewhere you will go to watch the recorded shows (or the TV cannot be plugged into the PC).
Pretty much amazing how to mother turns against McDo (court gambling?) rather than take her responsabilities and teach her values to her kid rather than trying to cut him out from the reality. Is it to say this kid when no longer surprotected will start gambling because it's not completely forbidden?
How do you teach self-control if there is nothing attractive?
In the original post, the commenter is talking about an hypothetical computer, not about the experiment. So, how much ceasium will there be in this hypothetical computer? And, these days 1 Terabyte is nothing more than 1/1000th petabytes.
Caesium 133 is a stable isotope of caesium, there is no need to wear a lead apron. However, caesium is explosive in cold water and toxic. So, you rather than not install your motherboard in a plexiglas or plastic case or spilling your lemonade on your laptop.
E = mc^2 is the main well-known derivative of the theory of relativity. Since then, this little equation has opened the doors to nuclear energy and all particle experiments that paved the way to some useless things like TEP (or I think PET in english for Positron-Electron Tomograph) heavily used in medicine to save many lifes on a daily basis.
For sure, the relativity was much more useless than the explanation for the photoelectric effect which granted the Nobel prize the Albert Einstein.
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He may be right in accusing them, but he may be wrong. Many concluded without proofs he is wrong, that's not better than him concluding this company is violating GPL rules without disclosed proofs.
I wonder how much it would cost to build the same box from parts, if availables. A Celeron at 733 MHz, 64MB RAM and a 80GB 5200 RPM HD should not be very expensive.
Sorry to tell you, but you are wrong. Canada is bigger than the US on this chapter. This can be easily understood since they need to heat all their homes during the winter and cool them during the summer and they have a living level about the same as the US, which imply about the same level of industries per capita and about the same level of travel per capita.
Also, Google is not an information provider. It's an ads provider and search engine provider. Not quite the same thing.
As far as the code is open, the machines audited, monitored and managed by a third party (the neutral vote commissionee, I don't know who it is and what is his title in USA, I am Canadian), I don't see what is the problem using a machine instead of pieces of papers which can also be tampered, rejected, etc.
If there is some evidence for an actual fraud, please, expose the facts. Otherwise, it looks more than a lack of fair-play from the losers.
For the picky ones: "A free (open) encoding algorithm."
Usually, they don't know what is an algorithm, what is encoding, so, you end up saying: "Download Winamp and shut up!"
That doesn't mean because you insist to use then wrongly that make it legitimate to redefined them accordingly.
Standards is about making things clear for everyone, not just a click of initiated peoples thinking it's pretty cool to wrongly name a chair a horse.
Why don't we call a chair a horse?
So, 2^64 = 1.84467e19 bytes = 1.84467e16 KB = 1.84467e13 MB = 1.84467e10 GB = 18.4467e09 GB = 18 billion GB
And the lawn mower is not a toy thing for 6000 sqft properties.
Except photo-journalists, I just don't see what is the point. And even photo-journalists may prefer specialized cameras instead of a all-in-one or one-size-fits-none clunky thing.
Have we reach the point where we just don't know what to do with all this bandwidth? Spam is not enough?
Audiovox Tri-Band GSM/GPRS CF Card
There is also a slightly cheaper model for data-only.
Ok, ok, I admit, I am not fair, there is probably a case where VNC may be useful while doing some end-user support with Linux desktops and you need to access the same graphical interface as the user to show him/her something. I said probably, because I don't know if VNC fits the bill for this task. I have never ever used VNC before, I planned to do once, but found another way to do my task.
Anyone can tell us if VNC is appropriate to do end-user support and taking over control of his/her graphical desktop while enabling him/her to watch what you are doing remotely?
In the case of MythTV, there will be no proprietary stuff, including encoded shows, while the Microsoft product will use its own closed codecs.
Plus, MythTV is having a plug-in architecture which can provide some other services not yet seen with the MS products.
And for those still wandering what's the point with this, simply use a server PC to serve the TV shows anywhere in your house. Obviously, if you live alone there is not much interest in this product, unless you PC is not located somewhere you will go to watch the recorded shows (or the TV cannot be plugged into the PC).
How do you teach self-control if there is nothing attractive?
Caesium 133 is a stable isotope of caesium, there is no need to wear a lead apron. However, caesium is explosive in cold water and toxic. So, you rather than not install your motherboard in a plexiglas or plastic case or spilling your lemonade on your laptop.
Let us put a bit on in a box where it can be on or off after waiting a day, would it be on or off?
For sure, the relativity was much more useless than the explanation for the photoelectric effect which granted the Nobel prize the Albert Einstein.
You may laugh if you want, they are planning to spread them on pea soups.
And Firefox is the Italian Cheese of software, it sticks.