IE doesn't cost you anything and Microsoft in theory could make the source code for it public domain. (the won't, work with me) Does the fact that it still requires Windows (non-free) to run affect it's "free" status? Some people think it does, others think it does not.
Contrib software (free itself, but requiring non-free software to function) does seem to me to be software that forces contamination to use.
I don't see that as a negative for that software, but I don't think that as a result it should be included in the same catagory, or even distribution as the rest of the software.
At the same time, I don't have any problem with anyone who wants to use it doing so. Likewise I don't have any problem with someone using open source software on Windows.
Something that contributed to this was the fact that most of the people who missed the beginning did so for the same reason that advertisers try (at times) to make their comercials entertaining.
This night of the week was popular on the radio for a couple of shows on competing networks. People would listen to the begining of the program, which was nearly always entertaining, decide the next part was dull, and retune to another station.
If you have not listened to the radio drama, there are a few segments where there is some so-so ballroom dance music being played, that apparently was just good enough that people decided to listen. This got interupted with what sounded at the time like a very reasonable public service anouncement that got them.
Personally I think this would be the equivalent of tuning in to the latest episode on Survivor, deciding watching the first segment, deciding to see what else is on, see that a couple of well known stars are being interviewed, and seeing the interview be pre-empted by what appears to be a news story about the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, and the George Washington Bridge's all being hit by simultaneous terrorist strikes. If your first move isn't to check CNN, or HNN to see if they are covering these stories, you might be forgiven for believing that you were seeing real events.
Trying to make this simple. The philosophy that some of us consider when thinking of Debian is of Free software.
The Contrib portion of Debian is not Free software.
It is the contention that non-free software should not be included in "Debian".
This is not to prevent you from choosing to install contrib or other non-free software. This is to state that that software is not _part of Debian_.
It may not matter to many people that these non-free software packages are, or are not included. To call them part of Debian seems to be a misnomer however.
As part of the group of people contributing software to Debian, he wants to know that the standards defining Debian are consistent, and this is (at least in his opinion) an inconsistancy.
That would be my interpretation. I don't think that anyone in the user community is going to miss anything by the changes being proposed. At least not anything that they are already not missing. (Like updates to stable with software that is less than two years old.)
The "noon meridian" is the meridian approximately on the line between the poll line through the earth, and the Sun. As of the time that image was created, approximately two hours ago now, the arrow was pointing approximately at the sun.
If you notice the pattern around the magnetic poll, you will see that the least activity appears at approximately the same general location. I suspect this is more because of the fact that the sun is in that direction, and the sky is therefor lit to the point that Aurora are harder to detect.
Make a joke, someone calls it insightful, another critiques the logic, and yet another tells me to move to france. Apparently no one even noticed the last paragraph much less my sig.
This just might be because network and cable news sources are all trying to figure out if this will affect them, how, and whether if they let the story slip under the radar, they might be able to get the Supreme Court to recinde the order...
... these rocket things just tend to all blow up on the launch pad after all. We really need to realize that Space is a really dangerous place. I mean we have to take up all of our own atmosphere, and if even one thing leaks, we start loosing people.
And with the level of technology we have today, I mean really. Just this last summer, my inflatable raft was punctured by my cat walking on it. This is a really serious demostration of how poor our level of technology is.
If my cat can puncture an inflatable raft, there is no way I can believe that there is anything like safe space travle. And if we can't make travel in space safe, then we really shouldn't go.
Of course I have gotten to the point where the potential risk in my life is such that I don't even bother to get out of bed in the morning. You probably shouldn't either.
My commute in the morning is approximately one hour, from leaving my door to sitting at my desk. It doesn't have to be, but that is a nice round figure.
My commute in the evening is another hour.
In both directions I drive my car, ride a bus, and walk.
I have computers at home and work.
In the morning I would love to download a 64 or 32 meg audio file in mp3 format that contains the current news as of my downloading it. If I could capture an hour of CNN "Radio" in the morning, that would be sufficient. This would nicely fit on my
For the evening commute, I would rather listen to a fairly random selection of the music I happen to have on CD, but without having to carrying the CDs around. Again, grabbing a random 64 or 128M of them onto flash in MP3 format that I can listen to as I choose would suite me just fine.
Granted I would also like to be able to use Festival or other text to voice software to create lead in and exit tracks for the various pieces, so that I wouldn't have to try to figure out what was the previous bit, but that's just me.
That pretty much covers my desire for the trip to work and home. For longer trips my Jukebox is fine.
Having fun trying to figure out how to capture the news at this time. May have to get my BeBoxen back into the fray and just use that to get the job done.
The lead in and exit bits should be easy enough with a script to grab the title, artist and album information out of the mp3 tags.
If you are in your car, or otherwise listening to NPR, are you going to call in, or would you be just as happy to have a pre-recorded copy you could listen to, even if you are stuck in a tunnel some place?
The only reason I can see for listening to the radio in real-time these days is traffic reports. Even then, by the time the report gets around to where I am headed, I'm beyond the point of taking a different route anyway.
Then again, it is job security for all of us, isn't it?
Did your company hire you to be a patch monkey, or are you goint to talk to your boss about the new job description?
In all likelyhood you were hired because they perceived you to have skills that will save the company you work for money over the long run. I strongly dobut that being a patch monkey was the perceived skill they selected you for.
You might want to document the activities you have performed over the last month or two that have prevented you from performing the job that they hired you for, and suggest that they either change your job description, or take one of several (documented) steps to change the situation so that you can perform the jobs that they hired you for.
No, but it is your choice to make use (or not) of these technological tools. It is not forced upon you by your boss, or your spouse, or your local social services representative.
You are also free as you let yourself be to decide that the 9am project meetings, and 3pm conference calls job, with 15 ongoing projects is, or is not the right track for you to take in your life. Either it is a part of your goals and plans, or they are working at odds to your goals and plans.
From the sounds of things, you are comfortable with these leashes, because you are at both ends of the lead. If you discover that this is no longer the case, I suspect that you will no longer be comfortable with these leashes, and you will have to decide when, and how you are going to break them.
Bringing this back to the RFID tags, and kids. These tags are being imposed on the kids. Additionally, they are being imposed on the parents of these kids.
There will be some set of parents who will view the decision to use RFID tags as a violation of their own sense of responsibility for their kids as well as their interest in instilling a sense of responsibility into their kids. This may be a small minority, but the group will exist. When these parents are presented with the situation that the school insists upon using one of these systems, and they do not have the desire to relocate, or the opportunity to homeschool, you can expect that at some point in time they are going to see the matter as a violation of privacy and will sue the school system. Regardless of whether the courts decide for or against the parent, the school will have to pay legal fees. Those legal fees will come out of the operating budget, which is part of the taxes you pay. Additionally the systems that track the RFID tags wherever the student goes will cause the cost of operations for the school to go up as well. It is possible that this will help the school do planning for improvements, with better success at designing good traffic flow, but I hardly consider that to be a reasonable excuse for requiring students to carry rfid tags.
Make a typeo, you'll find out about it. A little bit late of course, but that's beside the point.
-Rusty
p.s. of cours your post will have to rise to the point that someone who is more anal retentive about responding to mistakes in typing than the supposed content of the writing will decide your post deserves his comentary on your spelling.
Every platter has two heads already, as they have two surfaces, each being used.
IBM had a line of hard drives with two sets of actuator arms. I don't know if they still make them. All this does though is improve access time. Theoretically it could double the bandwidth, but for that you would have to syncronize quite a bit more, and the read/write actions would have to be to different tracks, which could make data recovery interesting.
For the most part IBM was selling these for their AS400 and higher computer lines. I don't know if they ever considered it for servers and pc's. I think it should be ruled out for laptops. Twice as many actuator parts to potentially fail (very unlikely I know) and double the mass for the actuators to carry around as well.
Well, he could mill or add fins to them to reduce heat further I suppose. It would take up more space, but would provide better long run cooling. At the same time with the drive under constant use for over two hours, and it doesn't come up to the average temp without the slabs of aluminum, I personally think his solution isn't bad.
2.2 Ghz processor with IDE drive outperformed by 750 Mhz processor w/ 3 year old SCSI drive of similar specifications (same size, spindal speed, smaller buffer) by a 7 times margine.
Note also that the IDE drive was used exclusively for this test at the time of the test, and the SCSI drive was in a server which was active doing other things as well.
I would think that the 50,000 message folder would be of a wide variety of file sizes. Though it would be really easy to create such a folder of all one file size, simply by running a script that creates that many simple message files with the word "hello" in the subject and the body. As a developer for "Linux from scratch" I would suspect however that this is his message archive, which is likely to contain anything from a "this package sux" message on up to messages carrying a significant portion of the source code to Linux.
As to your comparison of a.22 and an RPG, I would think that a more appropriate comparison would be a.44 automag to a.22 revolver. The.22 is less likely to bother the neighbors. The.44 automag is more likely to stop the rampaging bull. Which is more appropriate for use will depend upon the use.
For my own needs an IDE drive works well. Then again I don't build and install a new Linux kernel every couple of days either.
...Well, how much would it be worth to you to be able to call your friends and family for free...
Which variety of Free are we talking about? Free as in unlegislated, or free as in no cost whatsoever. All the various VoIP solutions out there, from Vonage through Skype rely upon you paying an aditional cost to a broadband provider to make use of them. I don't think that there is anything wrong with that, but it is a non-free requirement.
Likewise you are in all likelyhood someone, possibly even you, are going to have to talk with your legislators to prevent regulations that may make use of your broadband connection in this way illegal. Again there is an underlying cost that has to be considered.
Free as in I download the tool and don't have to pay the tool maker for my use of the tool is a shallow view of free. Though I grant you that is probably the most common use of the phrase these days.
My boss was complaining the other day about how everyone was using his machine, and he couldn't get any work done. So I Linuxed his machine, and now no one but me will use the machine. My boss still isn't happy that he can't use his machine, but now it's just my carrer on the line.
As noted elsewhere, most of the problems that the PDA has are also held by the SmartPhone. Namely they have a limited utility compared to a PC, and about half the things that they actually do, no-one will ever use.
I agree that the personal server idea isn't all that great either.
Using a cell phone display for anything other than text pager level information seems to me to be an exercise in futility. I suppose with a flip open display along the lines of the ngage, or some of the other phones it might work ok, but then you are getting back to taking up too much space.
For the near future, I suspect that the cell phone will continue to get enhancements until someone realizes that they are not worth the extra cash, and arn't selling.
Longer term I suspect that the cell phone will become a personal terminal. You will enter cryptograhic keys, it will create a link to your home and work systems using those cryptographic keys to tunnel through whatever wireless network is available (Digital cell, analog cell, wi-fi, Magnetic field, something else) and pull your contact list off of your Outlook or Evolution client at work and or home, and allow you to browse that.
Even longer term, you will have a computer at home or at work that will be always on, and you will build one tunnel to that where you will use something like VoIP to talk to your server and ask it verbally to connect you to the appropriate meeting, or person, and your system at work will set up that call, negotiating with various carriers to get the best rate, and transparently shifting you from one system to another as better rates show up.
You want to play games? A list of games available on your server, or on other systems becomes available. Play head to head with they guy next to you, or against someone arround the world. Or jump into an arbitrary mmug.
You want to go off line, Tell your server not to bother you unless the Cubs win the World Series, or you ask to be back in the world.
Then again, who knows. With NanoTech building, we could all end up having the technological equivalent of telepathy, where we communicate without any obvious external interfaces.
Who knows.
For the time being I don't see laptops or desktops going away either.
Not sure how common these are outside of the Minneapolis area, but most of the Cub and Rainbow stores in Minneapolis have an invisible fence already, (not really invisable, they have painted a yellow or white line around the parking lot) If you try to take a car across the radio sensor one of the front wheels locks up (or a cap rolls around it providing a similar feature.)
Ah you say, I'll just tip the cart backwards on the rear wheels and go on anyway. Hopefully you don't mind holding the cart with the front wheels an inch off the ground, because much beyond that and the metel shell around the back wheels starts grinding into the pavement or concrete.
Of course with a cart that tracks who was shoping with it, we can look forward to carts deciding not to let you use them in the first place. You walk up to the row of carts, and find that they have all locked themselves together.
... but aren't the only studios that will follow the requirement to not send screeners to the Accademy going to be the large studios who can get their movies shown in thousands of theaters nation wide?
While the MPAA talks a good game when it comes down to it, the independent studios are going to be making their own decisions, and realizing that the Academy people are only going to be able to use their recollection of movies in theaters from the begining of the year, or in the now playing catagory, will send screeners in anyway as the potential for loss of revenue for them is less important than the potential for an award for work well done building up the market interest.
It looks to me as if the Independent studios are going to look at this as MPAA studios shooting themselves in the foot.
Disipation of excess heat via copper clad water cooling through food preparation areas, and they implement it as a kernel flag for improved overclocking processor utilization, can we start to say "Yes, Linux does include the Kitchen Sink"?
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Was this where they detonated a bomb in Charlston SC?
IE doesn't cost you anything and Microsoft in theory could make the source code for it public domain. (the won't, work with me) Does the fact that it still requires Windows (non-free) to run affect it's "free" status? Some people think it does, others think it does not.
Contrib software (free itself, but requiring non-free software to function) does seem to me to be software that forces contamination to use.
I don't see that as a negative for that software, but I don't think that as a result it should be included in the same catagory, or even distribution as the rest of the software.
At the same time, I don't have any problem with anyone who wants to use it doing so. Likewise I don't have any problem with someone using open source software on Windows.
Something that contributed to this was the fact that most of the people who missed the beginning did so for the same reason that advertisers try (at times) to make their comercials entertaining.
This night of the week was popular on the radio for a couple of shows on competing networks. People would listen to the begining of the program, which was nearly always entertaining, decide the next part was dull, and retune to another station.
If you have not listened to the radio drama, there are a few segments where there is some so-so ballroom dance music being played, that apparently was just good enough that people decided to listen. This got interupted with what sounded at the time like a very reasonable public service anouncement that got them.
Personally I think this would be the equivalent of tuning in to the latest episode on Survivor, deciding watching the first segment, deciding to see what else is on, see that a couple of well known stars are being interviewed, and seeing the interview be pre-empted by what appears to be a news story about the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, and the George Washington Bridge's all being hit by simultaneous terrorist strikes. If your first move isn't to check CNN, or HNN to see if they are covering these stories, you might be forgiven for believing that you were seeing real events.
-Rusty
Trying to make this simple. The philosophy that some of us consider when thinking of Debian is of Free software.
The Contrib portion of Debian is not Free software.
It is the contention that non-free software should not be included in "Debian".
This is not to prevent you from choosing to install contrib or other non-free software. This is to state that that software is not _part of Debian_.
It may not matter to many people that these non-free software packages are, or are not included. To call them part of Debian seems to be a misnomer however.
As part of the group of people contributing software to Debian, he wants to know that the standards defining Debian are consistent, and this is (at least in his opinion) an inconsistancy.
That would be my interpretation. I don't think that anyone in the user community is going to miss anything by the changes being proposed. At least not anything that they are already not missing. (Like updates to stable with software that is less than two years old.)
-Rusty
The "noon meridian" is the meridian approximately on the line between the poll line through the earth, and the Sun. As of the time that image was created, approximately two hours ago now, the arrow was pointing approximately at the sun.
If you notice the pattern around the magnetic poll, you will see that the least activity appears at approximately the same general location. I suspect this is more because of the fact that the sun is in that direction, and the sky is therefor lit to the point that Aurora are harder to detect.
-Rusty
Make a joke, someone calls it insightful, another critiques the logic, and yet another tells me to move to france. Apparently no one even noticed the last paragraph much less my sig.
This just might be because network and cable news sources are all trying to figure out if this will affect them, how, and whether if they let the story slip under the radar, they might be able to get the Supreme Court to recinde the order...
... these rocket things just tend to all blow up on the launch pad after all. We really need to realize that Space is a really dangerous place. I mean we have to take up all of our own atmosphere, and if even one thing leaks, we start loosing people.
And with the level of technology we have today, I mean really. Just this last summer, my inflatable raft was punctured by my cat walking on it. This is a really serious demostration of how poor our level of technology is.
If my cat can puncture an inflatable raft, there is no way I can believe that there is anything like safe space travle. And if we can't make travel in space safe, then we really shouldn't go.
Of course I have gotten to the point where the potential risk in my life is such that I don't even bother to get out of bed in the morning. You probably shouldn't either.
-Rusty
My commute in the morning is approximately one hour, from leaving my door to sitting at my desk. It doesn't have to be, but that is a nice round figure.
My commute in the evening is another hour.
In both directions I drive my car, ride a bus, and walk.
I have computers at home and work.
In the morning I would love to download a 64 or 32 meg audio file in mp3 format that contains the current news as of my downloading it. If I could capture an hour of CNN "Radio" in the morning, that would be sufficient. This would nicely fit on my
For the evening commute, I would rather listen to a fairly random selection of the music I happen to have on CD, but without having to carrying the CDs around. Again, grabbing a random 64 or 128M of them onto flash in MP3 format that I can listen to as I choose would suite me just fine.
Granted I would also like to be able to use Festival or other text to voice software to create lead in and exit tracks for the various pieces, so that I wouldn't have to try to figure out what was the previous bit, but that's just me.
That pretty much covers my desire for the trip to work and home. For longer trips my Jukebox is fine.
Having fun trying to figure out how to capture the news at this time. May have to get my BeBoxen back into the fray and just use that to get the job done.
The lead in and exit bits should be easy enough with a script to grab the title, artist and album information out of the mp3 tags.
If you are in your car, or otherwise listening to NPR, are you going to call in, or would you be just as happy to have a pre-recorded copy you could listen to, even if you are stuck in a tunnel some place?
The only reason I can see for listening to the radio in real-time these days is traffic reports. Even then, by the time the report gets around to where I am headed, I'm beyond the point of taking a different route anyway.
Just my opinion, feel free to state your own.
-Rusty
Then again, it is job security for all of us, isn't it?
Did your company hire you to be a patch monkey, or are you goint to talk to your boss about the new job description?
In all likelyhood you were hired because they perceived you to have skills that will save the company you work for money over the long run. I strongly dobut that being a patch monkey was the perceived skill they selected you for.
You might want to document the activities you have performed over the last month or two that have prevented you from performing the job that they hired you for, and suggest that they either change your job description, or take one of several (documented) steps to change the situation so that you can perform the jobs that they hired you for.
-Rusty
No, but it is your choice to make use (or not) of these technological tools. It is not forced upon you by your boss, or your spouse, or your local social services representative.
You are also free as you let yourself be to decide that the 9am project meetings, and 3pm conference calls job, with 15 ongoing projects is, or is not the right track for you to take in your life. Either it is a part of your goals and plans, or they are working at odds to your goals and plans.
From the sounds of things, you are comfortable with these leashes, because you are at both ends of the lead. If you discover that this is no longer the case, I suspect that you will no longer be comfortable with these leashes, and you will have to decide when, and how you are going to break them.
Bringing this back to the RFID tags, and kids. These tags are being imposed on the kids. Additionally, they are being imposed on the parents of these kids.
There will be some set of parents who will view the decision to use RFID tags as a violation of their own sense of responsibility for their kids as well as their interest in instilling a sense of responsibility into their kids. This may be a small minority, but the group will exist. When these parents are presented with the situation that the school insists upon using one of these systems, and they do not have the desire to relocate, or the opportunity to homeschool, you can expect that at some point in time they are going to see the matter as a violation of privacy and will sue the school system. Regardless of whether the courts decide for or against the parent, the school will have to pay legal fees. Those legal fees will come out of the operating budget, which is part of the taxes you pay. Additionally the systems that track the RFID tags wherever the student goes will cause the cost of operations for the school to go up as well. It is possible that this will help the school do planning for improvements, with better success at designing good traffic flow, but I hardly consider that to be a reasonable excuse for requiring students to carry rfid tags.
-Rusty
Make a typeo, you'll find out about it. A little bit late of course, but that's beside the point.
-Rusty
p.s. of cours your post will have to rise to the point that someone who is more anal retentive about responding to mistakes in typing than the supposed content of the writing will decide your post deserves his comentary on your spelling.
Honestly, I think I would rather have the spacewars game that was included in the Personal Netware package. But that may just be me.
-Rusty
Reminde her nicely that you didn't name it Type-1
in his mouth. of course.
-rusty
Every platter has two heads already, as they have two surfaces, each being used.
IBM had a line of hard drives with two sets of actuator arms. I don't know if they still make them. All this does though is improve access time. Theoretically it could double the bandwidth, but for that you would have to syncronize quite a bit more, and the read/write actions would have to be to different tracks, which could make data recovery interesting.
For the most part IBM was selling these for their AS400 and higher computer lines. I don't know if they ever considered it for servers and pc's. I think it should be ruled out for laptops. Twice as many actuator parts to potentially fail (very unlikely I know) and double the mass for the actuators to carry around as well.
Well, he could mill or add fins to them to reduce heat further I suppose. It would take up more space, but would provide better long run cooling. At the same time with the drive under constant use for over two hours, and it doesn't come up to the average temp without the slabs of aluminum, I personally think his solution isn't bad.
-Rusty
My mistake, scsi drive was smaller, and had double the buffer memory.
2.2 Ghz processor with IDE drive outperformed by 750 Mhz processor w/ 3 year old SCSI drive of similar specifications (same size, spindal speed, smaller buffer) by a 7 times margine.
.22 and an RPG, I would think that a more appropriate comparison would be a .44 automag to a .22 revolver. The .22 is less likely to bother the neighbors. The .44 automag is more likely to stop the rampaging bull. Which is more appropriate for use will depend upon the use.
Note also that the IDE drive was used exclusively for this test at the time of the test, and the SCSI drive was in a server which was active doing other things as well.
I would think that the 50,000 message folder would be of a wide variety of file sizes. Though it would be really easy to create such a folder of all one file size, simply by running a script that creates that many simple message files with the word "hello" in the subject and the body. As a developer for "Linux from scratch" I would suspect however that this is his message archive, which is likely to contain anything from a "this package sux" message on up to messages carrying a significant portion of the source code to Linux.
As to your comparison of a
For my own needs an IDE drive works well. Then again I don't build and install a new Linux kernel every couple of days either.
Obviously your milage may vary.
-Rusty
...Well, how much would it be worth to you to be able to call your friends and family for free...
Which variety of Free are we talking about? Free as in unlegislated, or free as in no cost whatsoever. All the various VoIP solutions out there, from Vonage through Skype rely upon you paying an aditional cost to a broadband provider to make use of them. I don't think that there is anything wrong with that, but it is a non-free requirement.
Likewise you are in all likelyhood someone, possibly even you, are going to have to talk with your legislators to prevent regulations that may make use of your broadband connection in this way illegal. Again there is an underlying cost that has to be considered.
Free as in I download the tool and don't have to pay the tool maker for my use of the tool is a shallow view of free. Though I grant you that is probably the most common use of the phrase these days.
-Rusty
My boss was complaining the other day about how everyone was using his machine, and he couldn't get any work done. So I Linuxed his machine, and now no one but me will use the machine. My boss still isn't happy that he can't use his machine, but now it's just my carrer on the line.
As noted elsewhere, most of the problems that the PDA has are also held by the SmartPhone. Namely they have a limited utility compared to a PC, and about half the things that they actually do, no-one will ever use.
I agree that the personal server idea isn't all that great either.
Using a cell phone display for anything other than text pager level information seems to me to be an exercise in futility. I suppose with a flip open display along the lines of the ngage, or some of the other phones it might work ok, but then you are getting back to taking up too much space.
For the near future, I suspect that the cell phone will continue to get enhancements until someone realizes that they are not worth the extra cash, and arn't selling.
Longer term I suspect that the cell phone will become a personal terminal. You will enter cryptograhic keys, it will create a link to your home and work systems using those cryptographic keys to tunnel through whatever wireless network is available (Digital cell, analog cell, wi-fi, Magnetic field, something else) and pull your contact list off of your Outlook or Evolution client at work and or home, and allow you to browse that.
Even longer term, you will have a computer at home or at work that will be always on, and you will build one tunnel to that where you will use something like VoIP to talk to your server and ask it verbally to connect you to the appropriate meeting, or person, and your system at work will set up that call, negotiating with various carriers to get the best rate, and transparently shifting you from one system to another as better rates show up.
You want to play games? A list of games available on your server, or on other systems becomes available. Play head to head with they guy next to you, or against someone arround the world. Or jump into an arbitrary mmug.
You want to go off line, Tell your server not to bother you unless the Cubs win the World Series, or you ask to be back in the world.
Then again, who knows. With NanoTech building, we could all end up having the technological equivalent of telepathy, where we communicate without any obvious external interfaces.
Who knows.
For the time being I don't see laptops or desktops going away either.
But I could be wrong.
-Rusty
Not sure how common these are outside of the Minneapolis area, but most of the Cub and Rainbow stores in Minneapolis have an invisible fence already, (not really invisable, they have painted a yellow or white line around the parking lot) If you try to take a car across the radio sensor one of the front wheels locks up (or a cap rolls around it providing a similar feature.)
Ah you say, I'll just tip the cart backwards on the rear wheels and go on anyway. Hopefully you don't mind holding the cart with the front wheels an inch off the ground, because much beyond that and the metel shell around the back wheels starts grinding into the pavement or concrete.
Of course with a cart that tracks who was shoping with it, we can look forward to carts deciding not to let you use them in the first place. You walk up to the row of carts, and find that they have all locked themselves together.
Fun.
-Rusty
... but aren't the only studios that will follow the requirement to not send screeners to the Accademy going to be the large studios who can get their movies shown in thousands of theaters nation wide?
While the MPAA talks a good game when it comes down to it, the independent studios are going to be making their own decisions, and realizing that the Academy people are only going to be able to use their recollection of movies in theaters from the begining of the year, or in the now playing catagory, will send screeners in anyway as the potential for loss of revenue for them is less important than the potential for an award for work well done building up the market interest.
It looks to me as if the Independent studios are going to look at this as MPAA studios shooting themselves in the foot.
Then again, I could be wrong.
-Rusty
Disipation of excess heat via copper clad water cooling through food preparation areas, and they implement it as a kernel flag for improved overclocking processor utilization, can we start to say "Yes, Linux does include the Kitchen Sink"?