Your statement that there are 1000$ worth of "pirated" pieces of music on their computer is correct. But assume that 1000 people (illegally!) download 100 of those songs each. What is the theoretical damage to the music industry?
1000x100x1$ = 100000$, so we are theoretically not talking about petty crimes here.
If you've got the time and nerve to install Gentoo Linux on your iBook, you'll be rewarded with a nice, fast and slim system, that IMHO runs much smoother than OS X. Plus you'll get the most recent versions of your favourite apps...
IMHO Redhat is a very cruddy distro: -propriety C compilers with bugs (I know this has been fixed, but why did they do this in the first place -no Package depandency system. Installing new software is pure hell, because the system is unable to meet the dependencies automatically (unlike even Mandrake or SuSE), thus forcing you to install all 20 required libraries by hand. "apt-get install " in Debian or "emerge " in Gentoo just beat the hell out of any Mandrake system. Btw.: Ever tried an online update? -directory structure sometimes doesn't conform to posix standars (e.g./usr/bin vs./usr/local/bin etc..) -propriety "patched" kernels
So, to put it in a nutshell: If you have a decent internet connection you are better off with Debian or Gentoo, and, to put the icing on the cake, these distributions are completely free.
IMHO Redhat is a very cruddy distro:
-propriety C compilers with bugs (I know this has been fixed, but why did they do this in the first place
-no Package depandency system. Installing new software is pure hell, because the system is unable to meet the dependencies automatically (unlike even Mandrake or SuSE), thus forcing you to install all 20 required libraries by hand. "apt-get install " in Debian or "emerge " in Gentoo just beat the hell out of any Mandrake system. Btw.: Ever tried an online update?
-directory structure sometimes doesn't conform to posix standars (e.g./usr/bin vs./usr/local/bin etc..)
-propriety "patched" kernels
So, to put it in a nutshell: If you have a decent internet connection you are better off with Debian or Gentoo, and, to put the icing on the cake, these distributions are completely free.
Cheers,
Prot
Let me get something straight. There are no more socialist countries in Europe. Those countries involved in the ESA, who designed and are running the Ariane rockets (e.g. France, Switzerland, Italy...) have never been socialist countries anyway. They all have free-market capitalist economies similar to america. They may have a "social" system sponsored by the government, but this doesn't make them socialist where the economy is run by the state.
As to flaming European tech:
when has the US last developed a new launch vehicle? All they have is the Atlas(~40yrs old) and the Delta (>30yrs old) and the Space Shuttle (>20yrs old), which is a commercial failure. I'm not saying US space technology is bad, but it is old (which on the other hand makes it very reliable), thus making similar to russian Space tech, which is hardly bleeding-edge either. Maybe the Americans should try developing a booster that can get >10 Tons into geostationary orbit.
New technologies are prone to failures. But maybe the Europeans could stop being so stupid as to torching 500 Million Euros worth of sattelites on every first launch of a new rocket. Guys, there's a thing called "testing", which is quite usefull in finding potentially catastrophic errors!
In fact lead-acid Batteries operate in a Voltage range of 12-13 Volts. That is 13V when they're fully charged and 12V when they're nearly empty.
The 12 Volts are easily maintained by an empty battery if there is no current (amperes). The question is: how does this guy maintain the battery voltage when he is drawing current from it to power the car. In a normal situation the voltage on the battery should drop significantly (0 volts in case of a short circuit). As every electrical engineer should know: it's impossible to build an ideal voltage supply, as this would mean having access to infinite energy because it would be possible to draw an infinite ammount of current out of the ideal voltage supply.
My Mother lives in Perth an I must agree it is always painful to leave this beatiful city! The Photos they took were a nice reminder of my last visit...
BTW, I live in Germany which is quite a contrast as you can imagine.
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And for those of us who want to use Safari on the PC, just start Konqueror. It uses the same rendering enging, KHTML...
I agree the argument is flawed.
Your statement that there are 1000$ worth of "pirated" pieces of music on their computer is correct. But assume that 1000 people (illegally!) download 100 of those songs each. What is the theoretical damage to the music industry?
1000x100x1$ = 100000$, so we are theoretically not talking about petty crimes here.
If you've got the time and nerve to install Gentoo Linux on your iBook, you'll be rewarded with a nice, fast and slim system, that IMHO runs much smoother than OS X. Plus you'll get the most recent versions of your favourite apps...
I would recommend Xemacs. The all-in-one solution for your editing needs.
IMHO Redhat is a very cruddy distro: /usr/bin vs. /usr/local/bin etc..)
-propriety C compilers with bugs (I know this has been fixed, but why did they do this in the first place
-no Package depandency system. Installing new software is pure hell, because the system is unable to meet the dependencies automatically (unlike even Mandrake or SuSE), thus forcing you to install all 20 required libraries by hand. "apt-get install " in Debian or "emerge " in Gentoo just beat the hell out of any Mandrake system. Btw.: Ever tried an online update?
-directory structure sometimes doesn't conform to posix standars (e.g.
-propriety "patched" kernels
So, to put it in a nutshell: If you have a decent internet connection you are better off with Debian or Gentoo, and, to put the icing on the cake, these distributions are completely free.
Cheers,
Prot
IMHO Redhat is a very cruddy distro: -propriety C compilers with bugs (I know this has been fixed, but why did they do this in the first place -no Package depandency system. Installing new software is pure hell, because the system is unable to meet the dependencies automatically (unlike even Mandrake or SuSE), thus forcing you to install all 20 required libraries by hand. "apt-get install " in Debian or "emerge " in Gentoo just beat the hell out of any Mandrake system. Btw.: Ever tried an online update? -directory structure sometimes doesn't conform to posix standars (e.g. /usr/bin vs. /usr/local/bin etc..)
-propriety "patched" kernels
So, to put it in a nutshell: If you have a decent internet connection you are better off with Debian or Gentoo, and, to put the icing on the cake, these distributions are completely free.
Cheers,
Prot
Let me get something straight. There are no more socialist countries in Europe. Those countries involved in the ESA, who designed and are running the Ariane rockets (e.g. France, Switzerland, Italy...) have never been socialist countries anyway. They all have free-market capitalist economies similar to america. They may have a "social" system sponsored by the government, but this doesn't make them socialist where the economy is run by the state.
As to flaming European tech:
when has the US last developed a new launch vehicle? All they have is the Atlas(~40yrs old) and the Delta (>30yrs old) and the Space Shuttle (>20yrs old), which is a commercial failure. I'm not saying US space technology is bad, but it is old (which on the other hand makes it very reliable), thus making similar to russian Space tech, which is hardly bleeding-edge either. Maybe the Americans should try developing a booster that can get >10 Tons into geostationary orbit.
New technologies are prone to failures. But maybe the Europeans could stop being so stupid as to torching 500 Million Euros worth of sattelites on every first launch of a new rocket. Guys, there's a thing called "testing", which is quite usefull in finding potentially catastrophic errors!
>constant voltage at any current setting, even if
>the current is almost zero.
In fact lead-acid Batteries operate in a Voltage range of 12-13 Volts. That is 13V when they're fully charged and 12V when they're nearly empty.
The 12 Volts are easily maintained by an empty battery if there is no current (amperes). The question is: how does this guy maintain the battery voltage when he is drawing current from it to power the car. In a normal situation the voltage on the battery should drop significantly (0 volts in case of a short circuit). As every electrical engineer should know: it's impossible to build an ideal voltage supply, as this would mean having access to infinite energy because it would be possible to draw an infinite ammount of current out of the ideal voltage supply.
My Mother lives in Perth an I must agree it is always painful to leave this beatiful city! The Photos they took were a nice reminder of my last visit...
BTW, I live in Germany which is quite a contrast as you can imagine.
I had no problems getting mplayer to play DVDs, after installing libcss and two other libraries... BTW, I'm using Mandrake 8.2.
Here in Germany Comp. Sci. students are ENCOURAGED to discuss and solve their exercises in groups!