People are trying to get laws passed that say that government documents must be saved in an open, documented format. If OOXML gets forked into the ISO version and the MS version, then MS loses there since they don't save in a documented format.
One option for MS is to have a very hidden "save in ISO OOXML" switch that is hard to toggle, or only available in more expensive versions of office, with a converter between the MS and ISO versions of OOXML.
If MS uses the ISO version of OOXML, then as you say, anyone could make an office suite that used that format, and MS would have to compete on something more than "everybody uses office".
If it wasn't for those laws that people are trying to get passed, you would be completely correct.
I don't think the argument "there is nobody to sue" is a very valid reason. How many successfully sued Microsoft over the WGA validation failures? How about Sony and the rootkit? What about when you fail to apply a patch?
Just because there is a big company behind a product doesn't mean that you can sue them when it fails to work.
Except that each router already has a unique MAC address in it, which is already used by the system. Actually there are usually three of them: LAN interface, WAN interface, and wireless interface.
It would be trivial to use the LAN MAC address as the default password.
Yeah, I for one welcome our new 28.8K modem overlords. (I can't argue with your math, and since they did say "bandwidth", that is the best interpretation of what they said)
Yes, and you will note that I never mentioned Kibibytes/second, only Mb/sec and Kb/sec, but I did use gibibytes for the total transfer.
Kibi means 1024, and Kilo means 1000, and anything else is just silly, as that just leads to confusion. (Saying that Mega means "1,048,576" for computers doesn't cut it either, with megaHertz, megaflops, and such meaning 1,000,000 of something)
Even going with the horrible misdefinition of "bandwidth" to mean "throughput", that isn't what this article is talking about. All high-speed connections have a throughput limit, and that certainly isn't measured in gigabytes (yet, for almost all people). It is more often in the megabits/second range, or kilobits/second for the unlucky.
This article is talking about a transfer cap, or a limit on the number of bits that can be sent in a month. 15GiB a month doesn't have anything to do with the throughput. For example a 28.8Kbits/second modem sending for a solid month can send over 5 Gibibytes of data.
If a 10 degree increase halves the life of the device, does decreasing the temperature by 10 degrees double it? How about to -10 Celsius? Thus, is my frozen computer going to last forever?
(I think that a 10 degree variation from the optimal internal temperature is what should be avoided, but I am not a hardware engineer)
Actually the way I read it is the problem is in the gas inside the solid booster having turbulence that leads to vibrations. Thus it isn't dependent on the structure of the booster, but on the way the fuel inside it is shaped, at ignition and during the burn.
I said that if you didn't have to open the case, it wasn't bricked. I didn't say that if you opened the case, it was bricked.
I would say that your problem is much more "bricked" than many of the recent articles on/. about "bricking", since you did have to open the case and mess with the hardware to get it functional again.
If you can recover a device to a full operational state without opening its case or attaching a jTag cable, it wasn't bricked.
Flashed with a messed up firmware, or a bad flash, sure, but not bricked.
If you have to use a boot wait feature to load a new firmware over a network, it isn't bricked either because it was able to access a network and run a tftp server.
Not everyone uses a laptop in an office all day. Some of us actually use a laptop outside, where "little rocks or metal" sometimes appear.
The design of a slot loading drive rubs the disc across the door wipes as it loads, while a tray loading design doesn't rub the disc on the tray, and instead just picks it up and then sets it down. Yes, some tray loading drives don't make sure the disc is stopped before dropping it, but that is a separate problem, and can lead to they disc flying out when it is opened.
Yeah, and what about little rocks or metal that get caught in the wipes that cover the opening of the drive?
Just because it starts out without any thing that can scratch the disc doesn't mean that it will never be able to scratch a disc.
On a tray loading drive, the disc doesn't rotate in the tray, and nothing should touch the data surfaces of the disc, unless you are using a Xbox 360, and stuff gets misaligned.
Copyright black hole is an illusion. That is because black holes distort light... ~ (interesting punctuation idea...)
One problem with "if the company is gone, you can copy it" is if someone else buys the company from the original owners. Thus, even though there is nobody to sue you now, doesn't mean that there will never be anybody that could sue you. (My business law knowledge is almost nil, so it should be easy to correct me here)
Certainly, once a company is gone, their works should be in public domain.
I found the laptop my parents had bought before I was born, and wanted to play a game with it. My parents gave me a book of source code for applications that could be put on the Model 100. I looked for a short one, and started typing it in. (It was a space invaders type game)
Most of the microstock companies that sell Royalty-free images already do that, in the form of tagging and descriptions provided by the photographer.
For example, my picture of a burning tire has a bunch of tags and a full description so that anyone searching for tires, fire, burning, smoke, etc. can find that picture.
Now, when the media people buy the images, they just need to keep track of those descriptions and tags, but that is a much smaller problem.
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People are trying to get laws passed that say that government documents must be saved in an open, documented format. If OOXML gets forked into the ISO version and the MS version, then MS loses there since they don't save in a documented format.
One option for MS is to have a very hidden "save in ISO OOXML" switch that is hard to toggle, or only available in more expensive versions of office, with a converter between the MS and ISO versions of OOXML.
If MS uses the ISO version of OOXML, then as you say, anyone could make an office suite that used that format, and MS would have to compete on something more than "everybody uses office".
If it wasn't for those laws that people are trying to get passed, you would be completely correct.
I don't think the argument "there is nobody to sue" is a very valid reason. How many successfully sued Microsoft over the WGA validation failures? How about Sony and the rootkit? What about when you fail to apply a patch?
Just because there is a big company behind a product doesn't mean that you can sue them when it fails to work.
Except that each router already has a unique MAC address in it, which is already used by the system. Actually there are usually three of them: LAN interface, WAN interface, and wireless interface.
It would be trivial to use the LAN MAC address as the default password.
Yeah, I for one welcome our new 28.8K modem overlords.
(I can't argue with your math, and since they did say "bandwidth", that is the best interpretation of what they said)
Yes, and you will note that I never mentioned Kibibytes/second, only Mb/sec and Kb/sec, but I did use gibibytes for the total transfer.
Kibi means 1024, and Kilo means 1000, and anything else is just silly, as that just leads to confusion. (Saying that Mega means "1,048,576" for computers doesn't cut it either, with megaHertz, megaflops, and such meaning 1,000,000 of something)
Even going with the horrible misdefinition of "bandwidth" to mean "throughput", that isn't what this article is talking about. All high-speed connections have a throughput limit, and that certainly isn't measured in gigabytes (yet, for almost all people). It is more often in the megabits/second range, or kilobits/second for the unlucky.
This article is talking about a transfer cap, or a limit on the number of bits that can be sent in a month. 15GiB a month doesn't have anything to do with the throughput. For example a 28.8Kbits/second modem sending for a solid month can send over 5 Gibibytes of data.
If a 10 degree increase halves the life of the device, does decreasing the temperature by 10 degrees double it?
How about to -10 Celsius?
Thus, is my frozen computer going to last forever?
(I think that a 10 degree variation from the optimal internal temperature is what should be avoided, but I am not a hardware engineer)
Well, even NASA has problems with missions around this planet, during manned missions that should be held to a much higher standard.
(Not to mention problems with a mission that was just doing training on the ground)
But, the Mars Rovers, Apollo 11, and this mission are examples where NASA gets stuff very right.
(I hope I am not just putting gasoline and a lit fusee on the fire, like my dad is doing to that car there)
Actually the way I read it is the problem is in the gas inside the solid booster having turbulence that leads to vibrations. Thus it isn't dependent on the structure of the booster, but on the way the fuel inside it is shaped, at ignition and during the burn.
But, I am not a rocket scientist.
Not necessarily.
/. about "bricking", since you did have to open the case and mess with the hardware to get it functional again.
I said that if you didn't have to open the case, it wasn't bricked.
I didn't say that if you opened the case, it was bricked.
I would say that your problem is much more "bricked" than many of the recent articles on
If you can recover a device to a full operational state without opening its case or attaching a jTag cable, it wasn't bricked.
Flashed with a messed up firmware, or a bad flash, sure, but not bricked.
If you have to use a boot wait feature to load a new firmware over a network, it isn't bricked either because it was able to access a network and run a tftp server.
Nope, they are fully-automatic, and manufactured after 1986, so there is no way for a US Citizen to own one legally.
And yet I can't buy a Glock 18.
That is an Armament, but I am not allowed to bear it, why?
Not everyone uses a laptop in an office all day. Some of us actually use a laptop outside, where "little rocks or metal" sometimes appear.
The design of a slot loading drive rubs the disc across the door wipes as it loads, while a tray loading design doesn't rub the disc on the tray, and instead just picks it up and then sets it down. Yes, some tray loading drives don't make sure the disc is stopped before dropping it, but that is a separate problem, and can lead to they disc flying out when it is opened.
The second app would be projecting a nude body onto everyone, or onto selected genders, with options for body type and when to do it.....
Yeah, and what about little rocks or metal that get caught in the wipes that cover the opening of the drive?
Just because it starts out without any thing that can scratch the disc doesn't mean that it will never be able to scratch a disc.
On a tray loading drive, the disc doesn't rotate in the tray, and nothing should touch the data surfaces of the disc, unless you are using a Xbox 360, and stuff gets misaligned.
If you want some-what illegal vigilante justice, just use some loops and wget:
/dev/null
/dev/null
wget -r http://minicity.com -O
or a loop:
while [1]; do
wget http://http://slashdotcity.myminicity.com/ -O
done
and get many people to do that.
Copyright black hole is an illusion. That is because black holes distort light... ~
(interesting punctuation idea...)
One problem with "if the company is gone, you can copy it" is if someone else buys the company from the original owners. Thus, even though there is nobody to sue you now, doesn't mean that there will never be anybody that could sue you.
(My business law knowledge is almost nil, so it should be easy to correct me here)
Certainly, once a company is gone, their works should be in public domain.
yeah, Y2K.
Although that should be: Y2Ki.
And, wouldn't 50 years or longer loan terms have shown this before now?
Hah, that isn't a bad habit for simple loops.
I sometimes look for ways to slip a "goto" into code, and people think that is just evil... (Ok, most people. What is wrong with a goto?)
I found the laptop my parents had bought before I was born, and wanted to play a game with it. My parents gave me a book of source code for applications that could be put on the Model 100. I looked for a short one, and started typing it in. (It was a space invaders type game)
Also my first experience with programming.
Most of the microstock companies that sell Royalty-free images already do that, in the form of tagging and descriptions provided by the photographer.
For example, my picture of a burning tire has a bunch of tags and a full description so that anyone searching for tires, fire, burning, smoke, etc. can find that picture.
Now, when the media people buy the images, they just need to keep track of those descriptions and tags, but that is a much smaller problem.
Google already made that "photo tagging" game, Google Image Labeler
Not turning any surface into a speaker.
For that you need something like these speakers from Thinkgeek, which stick on to any surface and make that surface the speaker.
You mean a cable that is like a null modem cable?