Also most houses don't have the coax hardware to do this either. The distribution systems, if they are recent, have bi-directional splitters so that you can do things like buy pay-per-view movies, etc. But as far as I know they don't let the signal go down one cable and back up the other, which is what you need for this. At the least they'd have to install some new hardware where the splitters are currently- and sometimes the splitters aren't in easy-to-reach locations.
Maybe smaller distros can get away with providing it, but that's just because they are flying under the radar. Larger distros would get caught. As far as I know, none of the larger distros include dvd or mp3 by default.
Here's another little secret: Windows could load because it has its own bootloader, similar to GRUB. Except Windows's bootloader doesn't know how to load anything other than linux. If you want linux to run, you need something that can run both, such as GRUB.
They don't include mp3 and dvd stuff because they don't want to get sued. DVD playing stuff with decss is on sketchy legal ground, and mp3 decoders are covered by vaiours patents. They would include them if they could- but they don't have the money to fight a losing court case.
The reseller is Newegg, and I highly doubt they are classified as "gray area" and selling non-legit copies of Windows. I'm not familiar with MS OEM contracts, but they probably are and make sure to stay in the legal clear.
The heavy elements are usually blown away in the supernova explosion. Some of them may end up in an ensuing black hole, but the ones that get blown away are often going a sizable percentage of the speed of light, so they don't fall back in.
anyways, someone care to explain this for me?
Yes- The gas circling the black hole, outside the event horizon, heats up due to friction. It gets hot enough to emit light along with UV, xrays, and often gamma rays. This gas isn't inside the black hole, so light can still get out. Once it falls into the black hole, no more light comes from it, but before then, there is usually a lot of light.
There are actually many ways to program the original Mindstorms RCX. Although initially the only language was the one it came with, it was soon hacked. Languages were developed that took advantage of the default firmware (NQC), but many more were created that completely replaced the existing firmware. You could cross-compile C for it, and there was also a tiny Java VM that ran on it. Neither of these offloaded stuff to the PC.
I think that the author of the article misses the real point. Most people writing OSS run Linux. That's a fact. People writing OSS are much more likely to write for a platform they use frequently, Linux. If you are writing an OSS app for Windows, most of the rest of the OSS community, running Linux, sees little point because they can't use your software.
Few care about the nit-picky definition of "not being open because the whole platform isn't open" The author of the article misrepresents that for the general lack of interest most of us have in Windows-only software- we simply can't use it, and are therefore unable to see why we should care. That being said, many larger OSS projects maintain windows ports (firefox, gaim, etc), but they were Linux programs first for the most part.
While the touchpads on laptops may save space, they can get very hard on your thumb/index finger quite quickly. With the perific mouse, you won't get problems nearly as quickly as you would with the touchpad.
At flight altitudes above flight level 350
Key phrase there- Flight level 350 is 35,000 feet. Planes don't fly that high very often, but a loss of pressure at 30,000 feet would be just as problematic.
I wonder what will replace it?
Probably GPL v2. For many projects, if you don't like the new GPL, just don't use (you do have to remove the "or any future version" clause as the linux kernel and others have already done though).
Part of the problem is that so much is destroyed, and for their own personal safety, I hope all of the hams in the area were able to get out. Sure, you could still do UHF/VHF simplex with a mobile radio, but my guess is that most towers were destroyed- so most HF antennas and repeaters are probably gone. Power probably isn't an issue as many hams have batteries and a generator, but a flooded ham shack doesn't do anyone much good. That being said, hams may be able to help coordinate relief efforts once the storm has
I'd also like to second (or third or fourth) everyone who has said you should go get your license. No-code tech is not that hard, and there may be classes in your area.
Cable internet has a very, very high theoretical speed- if the cable co wants, they can keep opening up channels to give more speed to an area. I don't know if 200mbps is the theoretical limit for BPL to be split among the various subscribers, of it is really a per-subscriber limit.
As far as interference goes, if it causes problems, hams will let them know. BPL operates under part 15, so it can't cause interference to other licensed services (ham, etc). There are several instances of hams filing compliants of BPL interfering with their part of the spectrum- and the FCC always finds in their favor.
If it's a trade secret, you can't patent it. That's part of the point of a patent- have companies give up information they would otherwise hold for themselves in exchange for some protection. If it weren't for patents, many companies would never release any details of what they were doing, and no one else could improve on it.
If power fails, the stations that provide power to the phone systems will eventually fail after prolonged period of time.
No, the phone system's power won't fail. Most phone stations have generators and contracts to get diesel delivered in the event of a prolonged power failure. I know cell phone stations have this too. I don't know if cable tv stations have this, so if you have a modem with a generator or long-lasting ups, you might still be able to get VoIP service.
If this software fails, the ride doesn't crash. The design of the track and its mechanical fail-safes keep the ride on the track. If the software freezes or produces bad output, the worst that would happen is that the ride isn't "optimal". The software is like icing on the cake, it's not really needed to keep the people on the ride from falling out. Standard roller coaster safety, completely independent from this software, keeps the ride safe.
Mars has a negligable magnetic field, so there aren't any atmospheric auroras. The article seems to say that the auroras are created by charged particles passing over magnetized rocks on the surface, so there isn't an atmospheric aurora.
What I do is get a new ISP that doesn't allow spammers.
Your ISP may not allow spammers, but it really can't do a whole lot to stop every zombie before it sends any spam. A zombie from your ISP can send a couple of spams, and that could cause your entire ISP to get blacklisted. Your ISP doens't have to allow spammers for it to get blacklisted.
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Also most houses don't have the coax hardware to do this either. The distribution systems, if they are recent, have bi-directional splitters so that you can do things like buy pay-per-view movies, etc. But as far as I know they don't let the signal go down one cable and back up the other, which is what you need for this. At the least they'd have to install some new hardware where the splitters are currently- and sometimes the splitters aren't in easy-to-reach locations.
Maybe smaller distros can get away with providing it, but that's just because they are flying under the radar. Larger distros would get caught. As far as I know, none of the larger distros include dvd or mp3 by default.
Here's another little secret: Windows could load because it has its own bootloader, similar to GRUB. Except Windows's bootloader doesn't know how to load anything other than linux. If you want linux to run, you need something that can run both, such as GRUB.
how about making it so that you can bypass GRUB
You can't just bypass the bootloader.
They don't include mp3 and dvd stuff because they don't want to get sued. DVD playing stuff with decss is on sketchy legal ground, and mp3 decoders are covered by vaiours patents. They would include them if they could- but they don't have the money to fight a losing court case.
The reseller is Newegg, and I highly doubt they are classified as "gray area" and selling non-legit copies of Windows. I'm not familiar with MS OEM contracts, but they probably are and make sure to stay in the legal clear.
The heavy elements are usually blown away in the supernova explosion. Some of them may end up in an ensuing black hole, but the ones that get blown away are often going a sizable percentage of the speed of light, so they don't fall back in.
anyways, someone care to explain this for me?
Yes- The gas circling the black hole, outside the event horizon, heats up due to friction. It gets hot enough to emit light along with UV, xrays, and often gamma rays. This gas isn't inside the black hole, so light can still get out. Once it falls into the black hole, no more light comes from it, but before then, there is usually a lot of light.
There are actually many ways to program the original Mindstorms RCX. Although initially the only language was the one it came with, it was soon hacked. Languages were developed that took advantage of the default firmware (NQC), but many more were created that completely replaced the existing firmware. You could cross-compile C for it, and there was also a tiny Java VM that ran on it. Neither of these offloaded stuff to the PC.
No, it's not much work to not log IP's, all you do is change the log template, one line in the config file.
Performance? Isn't Java pretty slow?
No
They're drilling through the ocean floor, not from land- so the ocean takes care of a bunch of the crust for them.
I think that the author of the article misses the real point. Most people writing OSS run Linux. That's a fact. People writing OSS are much more likely to write for a platform they use frequently, Linux. If you are writing an OSS app for Windows, most of the rest of the OSS community, running Linux, sees little point because they can't use your software.
Few care about the nit-picky definition of "not being open because the whole platform isn't open" The author of the article misrepresents that for the general lack of interest most of us have in Windows-only software- we simply can't use it, and are therefore unable to see why we should care. That being said, many larger OSS projects maintain windows ports (firefox, gaim, etc), but they were Linux programs first for the most part.
While the touchpads on laptops may save space, they can get very hard on your thumb/index finger quite quickly. With the perific mouse, you won't get problems nearly as quickly as you would with the touchpad.
At flight altitudes above flight level 350
Key phrase there- Flight level 350 is 35,000 feet. Planes don't fly that high very often, but a loss of pressure at 30,000 feet would be just as problematic.
I wonder what will replace it?
Probably GPL v2. For many projects, if you don't like the new GPL, just don't use (you do have to remove the "or any future version" clause as the linux kernel and others have already done though).
Part of the problem is that so much is destroyed, and for their own personal safety, I hope all of the hams in the area were able to get out. Sure, you could still do UHF/VHF simplex with a mobile radio, but my guess is that most towers were destroyed- so most HF antennas and repeaters are probably gone. Power probably isn't an issue as many hams have batteries and a generator, but a flooded ham shack doesn't do anyone much good. That being said, hams may be able to help coordinate relief efforts once the storm has
I'd also like to second (or third or fourth) everyone who has said you should go get your license. No-code tech is not that hard, and there may be classes in your area.
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Cable internet has a very, very high theoretical speed- if the cable co wants, they can keep opening up channels to give more speed to an area. I don't know if 200mbps is the theoretical limit for BPL to be split among the various subscribers, of it is really a per-subscriber limit.
As far as interference goes, if it causes problems, hams will let them know. BPL operates under part 15, so it can't cause interference to other licensed services (ham, etc). There are several instances of hams filing compliants of BPL interfering with their part of the spectrum- and the FCC always finds in their favor.
If it's a trade secret, you can't patent it. That's part of the point of a patent- have companies give up information they would otherwise hold for themselves in exchange for some protection. If it weren't for patents, many companies would never release any details of what they were doing, and no one else could improve on it.
If power fails, the stations that provide power to the phone systems will eventually fail after prolonged period of time.
No, the phone system's power won't fail. Most phone stations have generators and contracts to get diesel delivered in the event of a prolonged power failure. I know cell phone stations have this too. I don't know if cable tv stations have this, so if you have a modem with a generator or long-lasting ups, you might still be able to get VoIP service.
When you get called at 6am when you just woke up, and before your first cup of coffee, it can be hard to say "No thanks" coherently.
Even if you don't have phone service, you can still call 911. Just plug in a phone and go.
If this software fails, the ride doesn't crash. The design of the track and its mechanical fail-safes keep the ride on the track. If the software freezes or produces bad output, the worst that would happen is that the ride isn't "optimal". The software is like icing on the cake, it's not really needed to keep the people on the ride from falling out. Standard roller coaster safety, completely independent from this software, keeps the ride safe.
Mars has a negligable magnetic field, so there aren't any atmospheric auroras. The article seems to say that the auroras are created by charged particles passing over magnetized rocks on the surface, so there isn't an atmospheric aurora.
What I do is get a new ISP that doesn't allow spammers.
Your ISP may not allow spammers, but it really can't do a whole lot to stop every zombie before it sends any spam. A zombie from your ISP can send a couple of spams, and that could cause your entire ISP to get blacklisted. Your ISP doens't have to allow spammers for it to get blacklisted.