Please explain to me how a rake is going to discriminate between the lighter colored sand the normally lays under the surface and the thin, dark layer that is on top so it can separate them and redistribute them back in layers to cover the damage? Sand trap rakes are used to remove the impressions in the surface of a sand trap that is basically uniform in color, which is NOT the problem caused by the Greenpeace foray into Nazca which disturbed the upper layer exposing the lighter layer underneath...which is pretty much how the lines themselves were created. Given that the lines have not been obscured by natural forces for approximately 1,500 years we can assume that evidence of Greenpeace's ignorance will last at least as long. Like Greenpeace you seem to have proposed a action without first understanding the problems it could cause because a rake would simply cause more damage.
Trenton council rejects expansion of 'ShotSpotter' gunshot detection system
“That body was shot there in the head and it stayed there for five hours with ShotSpotter being only a few blocks away. This product does not work, at least not for Trenton.” http://www.nj.com/mercer/index...
Gunshot detection system in Delaware comes up blank
600 reports of shots fired, 175 actual shootings, shots detected only five or six times, a camera only turned toward the shooting once and it was unable to see anything due to foliage in the way. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Broward sheriff dropping gunshot detection system
"the system was picking up noises such as firecrackers or a backfiring car and registering those sounds as gunfire. The sensors were also triggered by helicopters and the roar of downshifting trucks from nearby Interstate 95...the problems at BSO with the gunshot detection system mirror findings of a 2008 report...called the system useful but took issue with an apparent high rate of false calls." http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...
One would think that the quakes would be on the faults where the fracking sites in Nevada are rather than a completely unrelated set of faults 400 miles away where they aren't.
If you think commerce across state lines is required for the Interstate Commerce Clause to be invoked, you certainly haven't looked at the 1942 Wickard v. Filburn decision by the Supreme Court and similar rulings. Federal limits for production had been put in place to bolster wheat prices during the Great Depression and Farmer Filburn assumed that because he was growing the crops for use on his own farm, which did not have a state line running through it, he was not obligated to abide by interstate commerce controls. The Supreme Court ruled that his overproduction meant he was not buying wheat on the open market to feed his animals and since wheat was sold across state lines his lack of purchasing had an effect on interstate commerce. So, essentially, Filburn was fined for NOT engaging in interstate commerce...
I cranked the numbers for Australia about a year ago. My start point was 1995, before one of their big gun banning sprees. The latest figures that I could find were for 2007. All crime data came from an Australian government web site. I adjusted for population, but the population numbers came from Google. My "crime" figures includes: murder, robbery, assault, and sexual assault. I excluded tiny categories like kidnapping since the numbers were so small. Here is what I found..
In 1995 the murder rate was 17.7. The overall violent crime rate was 7223.5 (once again, per million).
In 2007, the murder rate was 13.3. The overall violent crime rate was 10126.1.
In 1995 the US murder rate was 8.2 with a violent crime rate of 6845, in 2007 it was 5.6 and 4718...all while firearms sales soared to all time highs and evil black rifles became the most popular gun sold.
...or reverse causation. It wouldn't strike me as odd at all if people who have already developed the qualities espoused by a certain type of literature would enjoy reading that sort of literature. In fact, it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the reverse.
What manufacturer would intentionally stop building devices at contract volumes and rates?
A manufacturer that has determined that the volume of manufacturing being requested no longer justifies the base cost of tying up resources in light of opportunities to contract with other clients whose outlook isn't as bleak as RIM's currently is. Also, if they aren't one of the companies that RIM is contracting to produce their last gasp BB10 handsets or they lack confidence in BB10, they are MUCH better off repositioning themselves to work with other companies now rather than riding RIMs decline even farther. If they have ANY opportunity to enter into production for someone else right now I'd imagine they'd jump given RIMs positively slothful response to changes in a market they once dominated.
The numbers that were available BEFORE the IPO made it look like a terrible investment. The market valuation being projected was WAY too high for even the unadjusted income figures...did these people learn nothing from the IPOs of the dotcom bubble? Apparently not.
I not only follow/., I follow a few other tech sites...and Raspberry Pi is one of the most OVER reported stories out there. I'd be extremely happy if I didn't see another mention of it until it's released since the scads of articles out each week simply remind me that I can't have one yet.
Yes, I do. And it's still about triple what the market will be able to bare in 2013.
Really? Is that due to the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan calender or some other supernatural event? And what does it say about the $40,000 Chevy Volt? Although, I will agree that the Volt is easily priced at twice what the market would bear (not bare) to actually make it a consumer item (were it not for.gov agencies being forced to buy these things it would make the Edsel look like a genius move.)
In reality, if you could get the same tax break individuals get for buying the craptastic $40,000 Chevy Volt you'd actually MAKE $500 for buying a StreetScooter. Thanks to the "Cash for Clunkers" debacle 10-year old used vehicles are now running around $5k-$6k making $7k for a NEW vehicle pretty attractive. Even if after bringing it up to US standards the price is in the $10k-$12k region, it still looks like a winner in a market where it's only competition would be the "Smart Car" which gets worse mileage than my brother's 15-year old Honda he paid $3.5k for 5 years ago.
...and thank you for pointing out why the protesters should be in front of the White House, the Capitol, and choking off K Street. The behavior of companies is not the pressing problem, it is the government reinforcing those behaviors and making them viable and repeatable that causes the serious harm.
Don Lancaster did a pretty good job explaining raster-scan-generated-by-cleverness-of-using-main-CPU in the Cheap Video Cookbook. Back in 1978.
So slashdot is about, oh, 33 years late:-).
"Don Lancaster"...wow! There's a name that brings back memories of delving into 6502 machine coding in my high school years...or are they nightmares?
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I'd be the third well armed moron on this thread...and a latecomer because I spent the weekend at a machinegun shoot. All I have to say to the "moron" who bought a bunch of guns right before the ban is that has he sold them earlier this year before it was clear that the ban was going to sunset they would have been an EXCELLENT investment...I made on average about $800-$1000 on each pre-ban weapon I had owned simply because they could be modified in ways that post-ban weapons couldn't. Call me a moron...but i made out better than all the "smart" people who spent the 90's buying tech stocks!
I purchased an 1Ghz 14" iBook G4 immediately when they came out and I have had absolutely NO problems with it. I also never had any problems with my Duo 230, Duo 2300 and PowerBook 5300. I've also had a dozen or so desktops and only had a problem with one (Performa 6320 refurb) which had a bad mic port. I called and had a technician at my door in three days who replaced the motherboard at no cost.
I think the issue is that iCommune extends control of iTunes created databases BEYOND the licensee's hardware. They can effectively argue that the terms of the SDK are violated by allowing the data to be accessed from hardware which is not controlled by the immediate licensee. In that case, it doesn't even matter if both peers involved are licensees of the SDK because individual licensees are not licensed to allow OTHERS access to the materials in question.
Why exactly is "people wanting things to work without fiddling" a "sad commentary on the state of computing?" I'd say that the opposite is true, the fact that things NEED fiddling is a sad commentary on the state of computing!
I should be able to fiddle if I would like to fiddle, which I do quite often, but when I *need* to accomplish something urgent, fiddling becomes a distinct burden.
I think I should get my own name. But that would limit me to two posts per day because of the rampant censorship by Apple zealots here on Slashdot.
Albiet I didn't get to read the deleted posts but having seen just the titles in the subject headers of the replies I've got to ask: do you know what the job of "moderator" is? It is not "censorship" to delete posts which have nothing to do with the subject at hand. The post didn't ask some "1337 |-|@x0r" for his opinion on why linux/windows/dell/whatever was better than a Powerbook running OS X - the post asked if there were any utilities to alter the functions of the trackpad on an laptop running OS X. There is no place in this thread for "Get a Real Laptop" posts, they are off topic and should be removed. That is not "censorship" as you put it, it is called a "moderated discussion."
There are plenty of places for you weenies to whine about the superiority of your particular brand of hardware/software and, frankly, I (and most others here) could really not care less what you think. I'm happy with MY choices, you're happy with you choices - outside of that what is your fucking point? I guess like guys buying huge pickup trucks, this is the geek form of coping with having a small penis?
With all of this suppression of the truth, no wonder we need fine organizations like the BSA, RIAA and MPAA. Keep up the good work, boys!
In case you didn't notice, your logic train derailed somewhere around the point where you clicked "Reply to This." Just thought I'd let you know...
Apple could quite easily use totally off-the-shelf parts to build their own Macs and yet prevent you from doing it too...by adding one small thing: an additional chip (or chips) to the motherboard. Proprietary ones. One's that you couldn't buy anywhere, who's exact specification was unknown outside of Cupertino.
Which could then be reverse engineered just like the PC BIOS was years ago. You can slow down cloning by this process but you could never stop it. Literally, the only thing stopping Mac clones from being made right now is that Cupertino will not license the MacOS to be run on clone hardware. It has nothing to do with hardware, CPU's or ROM issues - all of which can be freely purchased or reverse engineered in ways that circumvent litigation.
The problem a clone manufacturer faces in trying to duplicate a Mac is that since they have such a small market share, unless Apple is playing nice with them - the R&D costs to clone the systems are way too high and since they would not get inside information from Apple, they would ALWAYS be behind the developmental curve. Also, Apple is under NO obligation to assure that future OS releases would run on these platforms meaning that clone systems could become orphans overnight. The possible profits are far outweighed by the risks involved - there is NO other reason why Mac clones are not being made...
Well, considering that this project was almost certainly begun BEFORE the Xserve announcement and that the Xserve isn't shipping as of yet - it would still be vaporware instead of a reality. Just my opinion!
I'd suppose it depends on your needs. I know some people who like to swap the control and caps lock keys to match some older terminal standards - and there is a patch out there for OS X to do that (this being a particularly tough patch due to the caps lock wanting to persist as a toggle between two states.) Beyond that I'm not sure what is available as far as whole keyboard remappers, I'm sure they're not far behind.
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Sudden Jihad Syndrome, it could happen to anyone.
Please explain to me how a rake is going to discriminate between the lighter colored sand the normally lays under the surface and the thin, dark layer that is on top so it can separate them and redistribute them back in layers to cover the damage? Sand trap rakes are used to remove the impressions in the surface of a sand trap that is basically uniform in color, which is NOT the problem caused by the Greenpeace foray into Nazca which disturbed the upper layer exposing the lighter layer underneath...which is pretty much how the lines themselves were created. Given that the lines have not been obscured by natural forces for approximately 1,500 years we can assume that evidence of Greenpeace's ignorance will last at least as long. Like Greenpeace you seem to have proposed a action without first understanding the problems it could cause because a rake would simply cause more damage.
Trenton council rejects expansion of 'ShotSpotter' gunshot detection system
“That body was shot there in the head and it stayed there for five hours with ShotSpotter being only a few blocks away. This product does not work, at least not for Trenton.”
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index...
Shotspotter gun sensor technology halted in Birmingham after failed trial
http://www.birminghammail.co.u...
Gunshot detection system in Delaware comes up blank
600 reports of shots fired, 175 actual shootings, shots detected only five or six times, a camera only turned toward the shooting once and it was unable to see anything due to foliage in the way.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Broward sheriff dropping gunshot detection system
"the system was picking up noises such as firecrackers or a backfiring car and registering those sounds as gunfire. The sensors were also triggered by helicopters and the roar of downshifting trucks from nearby Interstate 95...the problems at BSO with the gunshot detection system mirror findings of a 2008 report...called the system useful but took issue with an apparent high rate of false calls."
http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...
One would think that the quakes would be on the faults where the fracking sites in Nevada are rather than a completely unrelated set of faults 400 miles away where they aren't.
It seems down for me as well.
They probably just forgot to turn the cloaking device off.
If you think commerce across state lines is required for the Interstate Commerce Clause to be invoked, you certainly haven't looked at the 1942 Wickard v. Filburn decision by the Supreme Court and similar rulings. Federal limits for production had been put in place to bolster wheat prices during the Great Depression and Farmer Filburn assumed that because he was growing the crops for use on his own farm, which did not have a state line running through it, he was not obligated to abide by interstate commerce controls. The Supreme Court ruled that his overproduction meant he was not buying wheat on the open market to feed his animals and since wheat was sold across state lines his lack of purchasing had an effect on interstate commerce. So, essentially, Filburn was fined for NOT engaging in interstate commerce...
I cranked the numbers for Australia about a year ago. My start point was 1995, before one of their big gun banning sprees. The latest figures that I could find were for 2007. All crime data came from an Australian government web site. I adjusted for population, but the population numbers came from Google. My "crime" figures includes: murder, robbery, assault, and sexual assault. I excluded tiny categories like kidnapping since the numbers were so small. Here is what I found..
In 1995 the murder rate was 17.7. The overall violent crime rate was 7223.5 (once again, per million).
In 2007, the murder rate was 13.3. The overall violent crime rate was 10126.1.
In 1995 the US murder rate was 8.2 with a violent crime rate of 6845, in 2007 it was 5.6 and 4718...all while firearms sales soared to all time highs and evil black rifles became the most popular gun sold.
...or reverse causation. It wouldn't strike me as odd at all if people who have already developed the qualities espoused by a certain type of literature would enjoy reading that sort of literature. In fact, it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the reverse.
I didn't have hot chick posters on my wall in high school, I had Beagle Bros posters... http://beagle.applearchives.com/the_posters/poster_3.html http://beagle.applearchives.com/the_posters/poster_5.html ...there was plenty of time for girls when I was at the arcade, my bedroom was dedicated to hosting a BBS and coding!
1980s? Heck...the logo Apple adopted in 1976 had two more colors than the new Microsoft logo!
What manufacturer would intentionally stop building devices at contract volumes and rates?
A manufacturer that has determined that the volume of manufacturing being requested no longer justifies the base cost of tying up resources in light of opportunities to contract with other clients whose outlook isn't as bleak as RIM's currently is. Also, if they aren't one of the companies that RIM is contracting to produce their last gasp BB10 handsets or they lack confidence in BB10, they are MUCH better off repositioning themselves to work with other companies now rather than riding RIMs decline even farther. If they have ANY opportunity to enter into production for someone else right now I'd imagine they'd jump given RIMs positively slothful response to changes in a market they once dominated.
The numbers that were available BEFORE the IPO made it look like a terrible investment. The market valuation being projected was WAY too high for even the unadjusted income figures...did these people learn nothing from the IPOs of the dotcom bubble? Apparently not.
Same combination here (10.6.8 and 5.1.2) and no problems at all.
I not only follow /., I follow a few other tech sites...and Raspberry Pi is one of the most OVER reported stories out there. I'd be extremely happy if I didn't see another mention of it until it's released since the scads of articles out each week simply remind me that I can't have one yet.
Yes, I do. And it's still about triple what the market will be able to bare in 2013.
Really? Is that due to the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan calender or some other supernatural event? And what does it say about the $40,000 Chevy Volt? Although, I will agree that the Volt is easily priced at twice what the market would bear (not bare) to actually make it a consumer item (were it not for .gov agencies being forced to buy these things it would make the Edsel look like a genius move.)
In reality, if you could get the same tax break individuals get for buying the craptastic $40,000 Chevy Volt you'd actually MAKE $500 for buying a StreetScooter. Thanks to the "Cash for Clunkers" debacle 10-year old used vehicles are now running around $5k-$6k making $7k for a NEW vehicle pretty attractive. Even if after bringing it up to US standards the price is in the $10k-$12k region, it still looks like a winner in a market where it's only competition would be the "Smart Car" which gets worse mileage than my brother's 15-year old Honda he paid $3.5k for 5 years ago.
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Quis Custodiet, ipsos custodes.
Don Lancaster did a pretty good job explaining raster-scan-generated-by-cleverness-of-using-main-CPU in the Cheap Video Cookbook. Back in 1978.
So slashdot is about, oh, 33 years late :-).
"Don Lancaster"...wow! There's a name that brings back memories of delving into 6502 machine coding in my high school years...or are they nightmares?
I'd be the third well armed moron on this thread...and a latecomer because I spent the weekend at a machinegun shoot. All I have to say to the "moron" who bought a bunch of guns right before the ban is that has he sold them earlier this year before it was clear that the ban was going to sunset they would have been an EXCELLENT investment...I made on average about $800-$1000 on each pre-ban weapon I had owned simply because they could be modified in ways that post-ban weapons couldn't. Call me a moron...but i made out better than all the "smart" people who spent the 90's buying tech stocks!
No complaints from me.
I think the issue is that iCommune extends control of iTunes created databases BEYOND the licensee's hardware. They can effectively argue that the terms of the SDK are violated by allowing the data to be accessed from hardware which is not controlled by the immediate licensee. In that case, it doesn't even matter if both peers involved are licensees of the SDK because individual licensees are not licensed to allow OTHERS access to the materials in question.
I should be able to fiddle if I would like to fiddle, which I do quite often, but when I *need* to accomplish something urgent, fiddling becomes a distinct burden.
Albiet I didn't get to read the deleted posts but having seen just the titles in the subject headers of the replies I've got to ask: do you know what the job of "moderator" is? It is not "censorship" to delete posts which have nothing to do with the subject at hand. The post didn't ask some "1337 |-|@x0r" for his opinion on why linux/windows/dell/whatever was better than a Powerbook running OS X - the post asked if there were any utilities to alter the functions of the trackpad on an laptop running OS X. There is no place in this thread for "Get a Real Laptop" posts, they are off topic and should be removed. That is not "censorship" as you put it, it is called a "moderated discussion."
There are plenty of places for you weenies to whine about the superiority of your particular brand of hardware/software and, frankly, I (and most others here) could really not care less what you think. I'm happy with MY choices, you're happy with you choices - outside of that what is your fucking point? I guess like guys buying huge pickup trucks, this is the geek form of coping with having a small penis?
With all of this suppression of the truth, no wonder we need fine organizations like the BSA, RIAA and MPAA. Keep up the good work, boys!
In case you didn't notice, your logic train derailed somewhere around the point where you clicked "Reply to This." Just thought I'd let you know...
Which could then be reverse engineered just like the PC BIOS was years ago. You can slow down cloning by this process but you could never stop it. Literally, the only thing stopping Mac clones from being made right now is that Cupertino will not license the MacOS to be run on clone hardware. It has nothing to do with hardware, CPU's or ROM issues - all of which can be freely purchased or reverse engineered in ways that circumvent litigation.
The problem a clone manufacturer faces in trying to duplicate a Mac is that since they have such a small market share, unless Apple is playing nice with them - the R&D costs to clone the systems are way too high and since they would not get inside information from Apple, they would ALWAYS be behind the developmental curve. Also, Apple is under NO obligation to assure that future OS releases would run on these platforms meaning that clone systems could become orphans overnight. The possible profits are far outweighed by the risks involved - there is NO other reason why Mac clones are not being made...
Well, considering that this project was almost certainly begun BEFORE the Xserve announcement and that the Xserve isn't shipping as of yet - it would still be vaporware instead of a reality. Just my opinion!
I'd suppose it depends on your needs. I know some people who like to swap the control and caps lock keys to match some older terminal standards - and there is a patch out there for OS X to do that (this being a particularly tough patch due to the caps lock wanting to persist as a toggle between two states.) Beyond that I'm not sure what is available as far as whole keyboard remappers, I'm sure they're not far behind.