And Jalopnik is basically blog post versions of threads on The Car Lounge. (And there's always Autoblog for car news, if you want to stay in the Weblogs Inc family.)
Here in the US, you can refuse service (as a business) to a customer for almost any reason, including no reason, excluding things like race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
(Of course, that means that if someone wants to refuse service to blacks, they can say that "I just don't like that guy," and it's legal. Such is life.)
Speaking of the second amendment... technically, that's the intent of that particular amendment, to make the government ultimately have to answer to the people if they become too far corrupt to save through more democratic means.
And the Linux ones that are available tend to have crap hardware configurations?
I know in the US, the Linux ones pretty much disappeared with the move to hard drives. And, 8.9" Aspire Ones with hard drives used a different bottom chassis than the SSD ones.
Because "ARM" only describes a CPU, "x86" describes a platform with at least an ISA bus with memory mapped in a certain way, and now PCI and ATA buses, again with that memory mapped in a certain way.
ARM devices have no such standardization.
Compare the Apple II, the Commodore PET, the TRS-80, and the Atari 8-bit machines. They all run 6502 software, but are wildly incompatible with each other. Or, the Sinclair QL, the Apple Macintosh, the Atari ST, and the Commodore Amiga. Same thing, they're all 68000 (or 68008 in the case of the QL) machines, but can't run software without being ported between them.
You'll have to compile a kernel specifically for your SoC, and compile a bootloader specifically for your SoC and surrounding hardware.
Now, realize that most of these Chinese netbooks have almost no publicly available documentation on their SoCs. There's usually four different SoCs that they use - an SoC made by Anyka that has no Linux support whatsoever, a WonderMedia SoC that, IIRC, doesn't have much Linux support, a Marvell XScale SoC that will likely have decent Linux support, and a Samsung SoC that has good Linux support.
Obviously, the Samsung would be the best bet of those.
Now you have to get your image onto the device. Can you get your own firmware on there? If so, how? How is it laid out? How much flash do you have for the OS? So on, so on.
If you can't get your own firmware on, can you get your own files, including a WinCE executable on? You can run HaRET from within WinCE to boot Linux, although you'll have to build HaRET for that specific device.
Except in Ohio, the cop can say you're speeding, and you're speeding. Even if you're going half the speed limit. Even if you're going 0 MPH, for that matter. I think the only way you could get out of it is by proving you weren't even in the car at that time.
So use a recording device that is either sufficiently small that the cop won't find it, or that has a 3G cellular radio built in, and transmits everything it sees to another location, where you can upload it later.
Except it didn't. It just passed it on to a plugin for Windows Media Player, or QuickTime Player, or RealPlayer - exactly like it does for Flash. It's just that Flash was more cross-platform.
The browser handling it (preferably using shared codecs) is what's best, really, because then you don't have to rely on a closed plugin to play the video. Better yet, you can actually run videos on ANY platform that you can run an HTML5-compatible browser and has enough resources to run the codecs.
Myself, I feel that the law should be simple enough to not need lawyers.
And, what about companies? Have the entire list of employees available to the courts. An employee is selected at random from that list (so you can't have a CEO that's a lawyer in disguise, unless you require that every employee of your company, all the way down to the janitorial staff, is a lawyer in disguise.)
That method has the potential to be less fair on the individual case level, but more fair overall.
10 FOR I = 1 TO 2 STEP 0 20 PRINT "FUCK" 30 NEXT I
It's too early for me to think of a way to do it with GOSUBs, and I'm not good with coding, the problem is, when you RETURN from a GOSUB, it continues execution after the point of the GOSUB. Nested GOSUBs won't work for this (10 PRINT "FUCK" 20 GOSUB 10,) as Microsoft (at least 6502, I assume 8080 is the same way) BASIC only allows 24 nested GOSUBs, IIRC. (It DOES fill the screen on an Apple II, but it crashes out immediately after doing so, with an out of memory error.)
IIRC, the "Structured Applesoft" stuff uses GOTOs, but only sparingly, when there's no other suitable construct.
What would be more fun is this, though.
from goto import comefrom, label
comefrom.loop print "fuck" label.loop
(Uses a fully functional goto Python script written for April Fool's that also includes comefrom.)
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And my guess is, there will be many tourism and fishing companies that will be put out of business by BP's actions.
For every person that was killed, and for every business that was forced under by this, BP should get a manslaughter charge.
Then, BP should get sentenced as a person. To serve the sentence, all BP funds are frozen, and the company is forced to cease doing business for the duration of the sentence. All employees would be paid what they would if the state was paying them unemployment, but from BP's funds.
Because most OSes have very poor window management, and Alt-Tab gets REALLY ANNOYING when you've got 50 windows open, 30 of them browser windows. Tabs at least give you Ctrl-Tab as an option for navigating the browser windows.
(Alternately, there is always the Mac route, where Cmd-Tab switches programs, and Cmd-` switches windows within a program.)
Patents last a maximum of 21 years after initial publication (1 year to file, and then either 20 years after filing or 17 years after acceptance, whichever comes first.)
However, submarine patents mean that it's not safe until 20 years after 1995 is also reached - at that point, any submarine patents that were forced out into the open in 1995 will have expired as well.
So, MPEG-1 will be freed in 2015 (it's old enough that any patents on the original implementation will be gone circa 2012, IIRC, except for submarine patents.)
Or the fact that for an equivalent size blast, you'd displace a rather large portion of the water with the rather large physical volume of the C4 (and you'd need a whole crapload of C4,) versus the rather small physical volume of the nuke, I suspect.
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I have bifocals on top of 20/20 vision in my left eye (long story, involving lazy eye and farsightedness in the right eye.) Bring 400 ppi screens on.
And Jalopnik is basically blog post versions of threads on The Car Lounge. (And there's always Autoblog for car news, if you want to stay in the Weblogs Inc family.)
Here in the US, you can refuse service (as a business) to a customer for almost any reason, including no reason, excluding things like race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
(Of course, that means that if someone wants to refuse service to blacks, they can say that "I just don't like that guy," and it's legal. Such is life.)
Speaking of the second amendment... technically, that's the intent of that particular amendment, to make the government ultimately have to answer to the people if they become too far corrupt to save through more democratic means.
Because the Linux ones are much less available?
And the Linux ones that are available tend to have crap hardware configurations?
I know in the US, the Linux ones pretty much disappeared with the move to hard drives. And, 8.9" Aspire Ones with hard drives used a different bottom chassis than the SSD ones.
Because "ARM" only describes a CPU, "x86" describes a platform with at least an ISA bus with memory mapped in a certain way, and now PCI and ATA buses, again with that memory mapped in a certain way.
ARM devices have no such standardization.
Compare the Apple II, the Commodore PET, the TRS-80, and the Atari 8-bit machines. They all run 6502 software, but are wildly incompatible with each other. Or, the Sinclair QL, the Apple Macintosh, the Atari ST, and the Commodore Amiga. Same thing, they're all 68000 (or 68008 in the case of the QL) machines, but can't run software without being ported between them.
You'll have to compile a kernel specifically for your SoC, and compile a bootloader specifically for your SoC and surrounding hardware.
Now, realize that most of these Chinese netbooks have almost no publicly available documentation on their SoCs. There's usually four different SoCs that they use - an SoC made by Anyka that has no Linux support whatsoever, a WonderMedia SoC that, IIRC, doesn't have much Linux support, a Marvell XScale SoC that will likely have decent Linux support, and a Samsung SoC that has good Linux support.
Obviously, the Samsung would be the best bet of those.
Now you have to get your image onto the device. Can you get your own firmware on there? If so, how? How is it laid out? How much flash do you have for the OS? So on, so on.
If you can't get your own firmware on, can you get your own files, including a WinCE executable on? You can run HaRET from within WinCE to boot Linux, although you'll have to build HaRET for that specific device.
And if you get arrested, make a huge stink about it.
I'd actually like to see a protest, where on one day, people just live stream what their local cops do for a few hours that day.
Except in Ohio, the cop can say you're speeding, and you're speeding. Even if you're going half the speed limit. Even if you're going 0 MPH, for that matter. I think the only way you could get out of it is by proving you weren't even in the car at that time.
And Pennsylvania still requires that method. (And, actually, Ohio uses that method, too, for freeways - they just do it from a Cessna.)
So use a recording device that is either sufficiently small that the cop won't find it, or that has a 3G cellular radio built in, and transmits everything it sees to another location, where you can upload it later.
Except it didn't. It just passed it on to a plugin for Windows Media Player, or QuickTime Player, or RealPlayer - exactly like it does for Flash. It's just that Flash was more cross-platform.
The browser handling it (preferably using shared codecs) is what's best, really, because then you don't have to rely on a closed plugin to play the video. Better yet, you can actually run videos on ANY platform that you can run an HTML5-compatible browser and has enough resources to run the codecs.
What about the whole, all of a sudden, all of the carriers quickly redefined "unlimited data" as 5 gigs, unless you got "truly unlimited data"?
What about the whole, "oh, text messages aren't $0.10/msg any more, they're $0.20 or $0.25. But you can pay $15/mo for unlimited texts!" thing?
I know there are dial-up wired routers, and then you could hang a WRT54G off of that for wireless.
Alternately, use a PC, and share the connection to a wifi card.
I'm saying in general, not just small claims.
And, the point is that there would no longer be a bar exam, or registration to practice law.
Except oil is a fungible commodity, so BP oil being more expensive will affect the entire market.
Myself, I feel that the law should be simple enough to not need lawyers.
And, what about companies? Have the entire list of employees available to the courts. An employee is selected at random from that list (so you can't have a CEO that's a lawyer in disguise, unless you require that every employee of your company, all the way down to the janitorial staff, is a lawyer in disguise.)
That method has the potential to be less fair on the individual case level, but more fair overall.
This was BASIC, though.
It's too early for me to think of a way to do it with GOSUBs, and I'm not good with coding, the problem is, when you RETURN from a GOSUB, it continues execution after the point of the GOSUB. Nested GOSUBs won't work for this (10 PRINT "FUCK" 20 GOSUB 10,) as Microsoft (at least 6502, I assume 8080 is the same way) BASIC only allows 24 nested GOSUBs, IIRC. (It DOES fill the screen on an Apple II, but it crashes out immediately after doing so, with an out of memory error.)
IIRC, the "Structured Applesoft" stuff uses GOTOs, but only sparingly, when there's no other suitable construct.
What would be more fun is this, though.
(Uses a fully functional goto Python script written for April Fool's that also includes comefrom.)
And my guess is, there will be many tourism and fishing companies that will be put out of business by BP's actions.
For every person that was killed, and for every business that was forced under by this, BP should get a manslaughter charge.
Then, BP should get sentenced as a person. To serve the sentence, all BP funds are frozen, and the company is forced to cease doing business for the duration of the sentence. All employees would be paid what they would if the state was paying them unemployment, but from BP's funds.
Because most OSes have very poor window management, and Alt-Tab gets REALLY ANNOYING when you've got 50 windows open, 30 of them browser windows. Tabs at least give you Ctrl-Tab as an option for navigating the browser windows.
(Alternately, there is always the Mac route, where Cmd-Tab switches programs, and Cmd-` switches windows within a program.)
Xiph isn't participating in any patent pool, MPEG-LA is assembling a patent pool to use to sue those distributing Theora.
Patents last a maximum of 21 years after initial publication (1 year to file, and then either 20 years after filing or 17 years after acceptance, whichever comes first.)
However, submarine patents mean that it's not safe until 20 years after 1995 is also reached - at that point, any submarine patents that were forced out into the open in 1995 will have expired as well.
So, MPEG-1 will be freed in 2015 (it's old enough that any patents on the original implementation will be gone circa 2012, IIRC, except for submarine patents.)
Did you read his post?
His company decided they didn't like the GPL, so they went and used something different.
And, he claims that they contribute back to the projects that they use, anyway.
Not only that, but where did it say that GPL code has to appease everyone? Pretty sure he said that it DIDN'T, so he didn't use it.
I had a Pre for about a week.
Best mobile OS I've ever used.
Worst smartphone hardware I've ever used.
It wasn't just the marketing, it was the crap excuse for hardware that Palm spewed out.
Or the fact that for an equivalent size blast, you'd displace a rather large portion of the water with the rather large physical volume of the C4 (and you'd need a whole crapload of C4,) versus the rather small physical volume of the nuke, I suspect.
Yes, but the more people that are willing to waste their vote, the less that it actually is wasting a vote.
And voting against, rather than for, someone, IMO, is worse than wasting a vote.