Do not confuse rights with law. Rights are those things which are yours because you are a human being.
Although "fair use" is an exception to copyright law, copyright law is an exception to property rights. Copyrights are designed to promote commerce and creation, trading off that against the purchaser's right to do what he likes with his own property. "Fair use" returns to the purchaser a part of his rights removed by copyright law.
It doesn't take much to write the software that accepts a bitmap stream. Use ghostscript on the computer and you save the expense of Postscript hardware and licensing on the printer. Use the money saved to lower price and sell more printers. The customer can use the money saved for a dinner at a nice restaurant. Everyone wins.
Modern processors already have multiple execution units: 2 or 3 integer units, a logic unit, a branch unit, a floating point unit, and a vector processor capable of doing 8 or more simultaneous adds. Why not charge per execution unit?
Good point. I recall reading about a robotic duck used to entertain people at the court of the last of the French kings. Essentially a complex windup toy.
This reminds me very much of an interview with a violent gang member, about 6 years ago. He claimed gang members had to have guns, to defend themselves against the police.
For MOSFET-based processors, speed is roughly inversely proportional to absolute temperature. If you could cool your 90degC chip down to 30degC, you could run it 15% faster.
Mineral oils are generally non-conductive. Some oils have been used as insulators is transformers, although tars (very high viscosity oils) are more common. My understanding is that oils tend to be non-conductive because the molecules are non-polar.
Your point is valid so long as you need to maintain speed. If you use full static CMOS throughout (P4 and Athlon don't, for performance reasons) and allow speed to fall as you drop voltage, voltages can get very low. 4000-series standard 15 volt CMOS can run at 1 volt, although no manufacturer will guarantee it. Similarly, CMOS designed to run at 1.5 V could run well below 0.5 volt... just not at anywhere near full speed.
Data comes off the disk a great deal more slowly than it goes down the SCSI or SATA pipe. Bits per second equals bits per track times rotations per second. Bits per track times tracks per inch (of radius) is data density.
We already know that we need to populate Mars, the sooner the better, as protection against a meteor strike wiping out humanity. There are plenty of other places to do research.
Magnetic tapes are flexed whenever they're used. Flaking off of the magnetic medium (oxide) is always a problem, unless the oxide is covered with a protective layer (as is done with some language lab tapes). Such a protective layer moves the oxide away from the head, which reduces data density.
Kodachrome uses dyes, they are incorporated in the processing instead of being part of the film as manufactured. Although Kodachrome's dyes are stable with temperature and reasonable humidity, they are not stable with exposure to light, and in fact are poorer than most other chromes in that regard.
HDDs can also die when bearing lubricants harden, or for some other reason the spindle freezes. In some cases, this is more likely to happen when sitting on the shelf than when running.
The downtown merchants in Hillsborough, New Hampshire are enthusiastic about the WalMart that will soon be built about 2 miles away. They figure their products won't be available at WalMart, and WalMart will draw in people who would otherwise never drive to Hillsborough.
No-one is required to support an inferior organization.
For a constant subtended angle, area varies with the inverse square of distance. For something that is not attenuated (or enhanced) with distance, inverse square becomes the default assumption.
Although I have a lot of respect for Knuth, I have to agree with your point. Knuth covers a lot of material thoroughly and well, but if I want to learn something absolutely new to me, I find I'm better off reading another book that covers the same subject. For me, Knuth is not easy to learn from.
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Although "fair use" is an exception to copyright law, copyright law is an exception to property rights. Copyrights are designed to promote commerce and creation, trading off that against the purchaser's right to do what he likes with his own property. "Fair use" returns to the purchaser a part of his rights removed by copyright law.
It doesn't take much to write the software that accepts a bitmap stream. Use ghostscript on the computer and you save the expense of Postscript hardware and licensing on the printer. Use the money saved to lower price and sell more printers. The customer can use the money saved for a dinner at a nice restaurant. Everyone wins.
Compared to his predecessor, a draft-dodging rapist and accessory to murder, he is moral.
Are you certain of this?
Modern processors already have multiple execution units: 2 or 3 integer units, a logic unit, a branch unit, a floating point unit, and a vector processor capable of doing 8 or more simultaneous adds. Why not charge per execution unit?
Good point. I recall reading about a robotic duck used to entertain people at the court of the last of the French kings. Essentially a complex windup toy.
Radar was a fairly obvious development. Airplanes disrupt TV and radio reception to this day.
Jet engines -- more generally, turbines -- are a logical development tracing back to Hero, more that 1900 years ago.
Yes, WWII hurried along many developments, but your claims are too broad.
Don't kill that rabid dog! It doesn't belong to you!
This reminds me very much of an interview with a violent gang member, about 6 years ago. He claimed gang members had to have guns, to defend themselves against the police.
Leakage is not available as a power source. Leakage is turned into heat in that exact location where the leakage occurs.
For MOSFET-based processors, speed is roughly inversely proportional to absolute temperature. If you could cool your 90degC chip down to 30degC, you could run it 15% faster.
Mineral oils are generally non-conductive. Some oils have been used as insulators is transformers, although tars (very high viscosity oils) are more common. My understanding is that oils tend to be non-conductive because the molecules are non-polar.
Your point is valid so long as you need to maintain speed. If you use full static CMOS throughout (P4 and Athlon don't, for performance reasons) and allow speed to fall as you drop voltage, voltages can get very low. 4000-series standard 15 volt CMOS can run at 1 volt, although no manufacturer will guarantee it. Similarly, CMOS designed to run at 1.5 V could run well below 0.5 volt ... just not at anywhere near full speed.
But if I put my hands down, they freeze to the railroad tracks.
There has been a lot of study, both in humans and lower animals, to find out what nerve impulses are created by visual stimulation.
Data comes off the disk a great deal more slowly than it goes down the SCSI or SATA pipe. Bits per second equals bits per track times rotations per second. Bits per track times tracks per inch (of radius) is data density.
We already know that we need to populate Mars, the sooner the better, as protection against a meteor strike wiping out humanity. There are plenty of other places to do research.
Magnetic tapes are flexed whenever they're used. Flaking off of the magnetic medium (oxide) is always a problem, unless the oxide is covered with a protective layer (as is done with some language lab tapes). Such a protective layer moves the oxide away from the head, which reduces data density.
There's no reason that film can't be used as the digital medium.
Kodachrome uses dyes, they are incorporated in the processing instead of being part of the film as manufactured. Although Kodachrome's dyes are stable with temperature and reasonable humidity, they are not stable with exposure to light, and in fact are poorer than most other chromes in that regard.
HDDs can also die when bearing lubricants harden, or for some other reason the spindle freezes. In some cases, this is more likely to happen when sitting on the shelf than when running.
No-one is required to support an inferior organization.
This is my property! I'll walk on that molten lava if I want to!
For a constant subtended angle, area varies with the inverse square of distance. For something that is not attenuated (or enhanced) with distance, inverse square becomes the default assumption.
Although I have a lot of respect for Knuth, I have to agree with your point. Knuth covers a lot of material thoroughly and well, but if I want to learn something absolutely new to me, I find I'm better off reading another book that covers the same subject. For me, Knuth is not easy to learn from.