Most countries laws explicitly declare statutes, law acts, treaties, law projects, government-issued documents and all kinds of the like (the lists vary from country to country but are usually quite long) as public domain and no subject of copyright law. They are protected by other laws (e.g. copies that differ from the official version must be clearly marked as such), but never copyrighted.
The protection from publication and redistribution may come as a separate secret/confidential clause in national defense statutes, and too exact copies may fall under counterfeit clauses (for limited run certificates and the like, a copy or a sample must be clearly marked as such) but never is financial profit from redistribution by the author of the document a reason to limit its distribution.
Similarly, government logos, anthems, national emblems and the like are untrademarkable and protected from abuse by separate laws.
it seems so, but the ordering was always: physical, partition, filesystem, compression (sometimes fs integrating compression) and compression applied to relatively small chunks (blocks).
Now you have compression layer above partition layer, which means two identical files on two different partitions will occupy space of one physically. So, say, your LAMP server takes up 4GB generic system plus 1GB custom data. One 1TB of storage could fit 200 partition-files of such server. Now you'll fit 995 of them and it will work faster as the commonly used parts of the FS will be read and buffered once for all instances.
Microphone port pumps some current into whatever is connected to it (to power the microphone up) Line In doesn't provide any power, it only analyses incoming signal from external source, and will be often separated through transoptors or the like to protect the hardware from overcurrent from difference of potential between the devices.
0.0001 AU? Because while theoretically out of US jurisdiction, you can still be sentenced in the US, brought in through extradiction procedures and imprisoned in US for crimes which were not crimes where you committed them.
One detail: a saw table with this feature will cost about 70% more to manufacture than one without. A saw table is an extremely simple tool. A saw, a table, a motor, two bearings, one belt, one switch. I've seen countless ones home-made. This system at least doubles the complexity.
What if I prefer to save the money? If I want to choose a table without this simply because it will be vastly cheaper?
Or if I know I will be using it only with conductive materials, and so the feature is useless for me?
It can improve safety of driving in poor weather conditions immensely comparing to current situation. But I'm afraid it will have a reverse effect in reality: increasing driver's confidence ("the HUD displays the road far ahead, so there is no danger") will result in increasing the speed in these conditions, and result in more serious accidents because the system can't foresee everything - obstacles on the road, slippery surface, other cars that don't have it and drive blindly - the kind of accidents slow and cautious driving would help against, or at least minimize impact.
I faced fog that really obscured anything further than on your lane. No road signs, no turns, no edges of the road. You could still drive safely at a snail's speed, but finding the way was a real challenge. An "augmented reality" GPS display that shows where the actual road goes would be immensely helpful.
This still requires the other side to have a clue. They will happily blame you not giving them your money on everything except themselves. The first thing they will claim when you refuse is that you are a thief.
1) instead of LEDs, make it an LCD matrix, obscuring daylight instead of generating light. Way easier to do and allows for exquisite resolutions. Also, it's a lens, for goodness sake, it can collimate the light if it needs to.
2) It can't do any "augmented reality" without a camera anyway. So the camera could observe movements of the eye too. So, yes, the projection follows the "world outside", not the eye - if you look at a page of text, you can turn your eye towards the upper-left corner and it will display in the middle of your iris, while the bottom-right is removed from the display. That would also solve the problem of adjusting the lens on top of the eye precisely.
My network goes down. I want to play offline. I click the "offline mode". "Steam can't go offline at this time. See http://support.steam.com/ for more information..."
That's correct when all you're doing is -using- CHDK. Developers need to use some quite advanced tricks to get the firmware dump and hook it all up. Of course there's no risk if they make no mistakes, but who writes software 100% bug-free at first attempt?
Are you absolutely sure Perl is the right language for a car alarm remote, which has 4KB of Flash, 128 bytes of RAM and a 1MHz clock, and uses that for bit-banging a bidirectional radio, encryption, authentication, and power management by reducing the system clock to 4Hz when idle?
Because they are SLRs. Their firmware can do almost all CHDK can do. A lot of work and little gain, plus risk of bricking an expensive camera. The main focus of CHDK is cheapest idiotekameras, because the difference it makes is really huge.
Mine doesn't have any "detection" built in, but original CHDK has edge detection, "Zebra" (marking saturated or entirely black areas), several different options of histogram, and quite a bit more. Yeah, this hack doesn't do all that much comparing to what CHDK does... comparing what a Canon camera without CHDK does - it's impressive.
As for the other options you mentioned - they would be quite doable with the CHDK software. That wouldn't help much though, because all you'd get is the image with these features highlighted. The problem with these cameras is lack of any GPIO. The USB interface haven't been reverse-engineered, so there's no way to use the camera hacks with it either (the original Canon software pretty much gives all the control over the camera over USB... - as much as their proprietary app allows, which isn't anything beyond what the standard camera firmware allows...) So yes, you could detect all kind of stuff but the most you could do with the result is displaying it on the LCD or blinking a couple of LEDs on the camera.
Yes... almost all colors, vs very few colors. The continuous emission is enough to keep all colors but at extremely weak saturation. The peaks make certain (not especially visually pleasing) colors definitely stand out.
1. Ignoring my other posts in this thread, where I explain in detail -how- jet engines work 2. Disagreeing without providing any arguments other than "because I say so" 3. Assuming that because one variable matches the reality ("engine at 3 Mach exists") and my claim about why your claim is wrong ("engine works just by ejecting fuel") by showing how unrealistic your claim is ("the fuel usage would be excessive"), it's -my proof- that is wrong, and not -your argument-.
So, explaining like for an idiot: My argument made an essential assumption: gas ejection speed is lower than the engine speed, so the engine works strictly on rocket principles instead of using exhaust gas compression characteristic to jet engine. With this assumption, the engine can't work without ridiculous fuel usage.
If you increase the exhaust gas speed to 3.5 Mach though (which means the actual air instead of getting propelled by 1 Mach -with- the engine gets propelled by 0.5 mach -against- it) the numbers turn around and there's completely no reason why this couldn't work, because the ejected air -reduces- fuel usage (adds actual thrust) instead of -increasing- it (serving only as oxidizer for fuel and creating drag).
And that's how jet engines work - by displacing air through them at speed (relatively) higher than their movement speed, not by ejecting vehicle mass while using air as oxidizer to propel this mass.
Nope, both spectra are continuous, at least in the visible range. Of course they aren't flat or even linear in the whole range, but they are continuous, smooth lines, not a series of spikes with almost nothing in between. Meaning every color will quite visible, while fluorescent will make some colors disappear completely.
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Most countries laws explicitly declare statutes, law acts, treaties, law projects, government-issued documents and all kinds of the like (the lists vary from country to country but are usually quite long) as public domain and no subject of copyright law. They are protected by other laws (e.g. copies that differ from the official version must be clearly marked as such), but never copyrighted.
The protection from publication and redistribution may come as a separate secret/confidential clause in national defense statutes, and too exact copies may fall under counterfeit clauses (for limited run certificates and the like, a copy or a sample must be clearly marked as such) but never is financial profit from redistribution by the author of the document a reason to limit its distribution.
Similarly, government logos, anthems, national emblems and the like are untrademarkable and protected from abuse by separate laws.
it seems so, but the ordering was always: physical, partition, filesystem, compression (sometimes fs integrating compression) and compression applied to relatively small chunks (blocks).
Now you have compression layer above partition layer, which means two identical files on two different partitions will occupy space of one physically.
So, say, your LAMP server takes up 4GB generic system plus 1GB custom data. One 1TB of storage could fit 200 partition-files of such server. Now you'll fit 995 of them and it will work faster as the commonly used parts of the FS will be read and buffered once for all instances.
why not go the old way all the way and equip the consoles with a coin slot?
Microphone port pumps some current into whatever is connected to it (to power the microphone up)
Line In doesn't provide any power, it only analyses incoming signal from external source, and will be often separated through transoptors or the like to protect the hardware from overcurrent from difference of potential between the devices.
0.0001 AU?
Because while theoretically out of US jurisdiction, you can still be sentenced in the US, brought in through extradiction procedures and imprisoned in US for crimes which were not crimes where you committed them.
(...ask any pedo who came back from Thailand...)
no, they will spill and bring the stupidity all over the net.
One detail: a saw table with this feature will cost about 70% more to manufacture than one without.
A saw table is an extremely simple tool. A saw, a table, a motor, two bearings, one belt, one switch. I've seen countless ones home-made. This system at least doubles the complexity.
What if I prefer to save the money? If I want to choose a table without this simply because it will be vastly cheaper?
Or if I know I will be using it only with conductive materials, and so the feature is useless for me?
Next, following http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0137220/Gun-With-Wireless-Arming-Signal-Goes-On-Sale-Soon?art_pos=1 entering PIN code will become mandatory to shoot any gun.
Chaos Theory Suggests Otherwise(tm)
ultrasound radar?
It can improve safety of driving in poor weather conditions immensely comparing to current situation. But I'm afraid it will have a reverse effect in reality: increasing driver's confidence ("the HUD displays the road far ahead, so there is no danger") will result in increasing the speed in these conditions, and result in more serious accidents because the system can't foresee everything - obstacles on the road, slippery surface, other cars that don't have it and drive blindly - the kind of accidents slow and cautious driving would help against, or at least minimize impact.
Depends what fog.
I faced fog that really obscured anything further than on your lane. No road signs, no turns, no edges of the road. You could still drive safely at a snail's speed, but finding the way was a real challenge. An "augmented reality" GPS display that shows where the actual road goes would be immensely helpful.
Well, we don't need employees who have bad luck...
...against boredom of grinding.
This still requires the other side to have a clue.
They will happily blame you not giving them your money on everything except themselves. The first thing they will claim when you refuse is that you are a thief.
Possibly it could replace a display of a smartphone, which would be more than sufficient to support it.
1) instead of LEDs, make it an LCD matrix, obscuring daylight instead of generating light. Way easier to do and allows for exquisite resolutions. Also, it's a lens, for goodness sake, it can collimate the light if it needs to.
2) It can't do any "augmented reality" without a camera anyway. So the camera could observe movements of the eye too. So, yes, the projection follows the "world outside", not the eye - if you look at a page of text, you can turn your eye towards the upper-left corner and it will display in the middle of your iris, while the bottom-right is removed from the display. That would also solve the problem of adjusting the lens on top of the eye precisely.
My network goes down. I want to play offline. I click the "offline mode".
"Steam can't go offline at this time. See http://support.steam.com/ for more information..."
assholes.
That's correct when all you're doing is -using- CHDK.
Developers need to use some quite advanced tricks to get the firmware dump and hook it all up. Of course there's no risk if they make no mistakes, but who writes software 100% bug-free at first attempt?
Are you absolutely sure Perl is the right language for a car alarm remote, which has 4KB of Flash, 128 bytes of RAM and a 1MHz clock, and uses that for bit-banging a bidirectional radio, encryption, authentication, and power management by reducing the system clock to 4Hz when idle?
Yes... but you surely realize that embedded C for microcontroller is significantly different from most "high level" languages?
Imagine a seasoned Enterprise Java developer switching to the required mindset...
Because they are SLRs. Their firmware can do almost all CHDK can do. A lot of work and little gain, plus risk of bricking an expensive camera. The main focus of CHDK is cheapest idiotekameras, because the difference it makes is really huge.
Mine doesn't have any "detection" built in, but original CHDK has edge detection, "Zebra" (marking saturated or entirely black areas), several different options of histogram, and quite a bit more. Yeah, this hack doesn't do all that much comparing to what CHDK does... comparing what a Canon camera without CHDK does - it's impressive.
As for the other options you mentioned - they would be quite doable with the CHDK software. That wouldn't help much though, because all you'd get is the image with these features highlighted. The problem with these cameras is lack of any GPIO. The USB interface haven't been reverse-engineered, so there's no way to use the camera hacks with it either (the original Canon software pretty much gives all the control over the camera over USB... - as much as their proprietary app allows, which isn't anything beyond what the standard camera firmware allows...) So yes, you could detect all kind of stuff but the most you could do with the result is displaying it on the LCD or blinking a couple of LEDs on the camera.
Yes... almost all colors, vs very few colors. The continuous emission is enough to keep all colors but at extremely weak saturation. The peaks make certain (not especially visually pleasing) colors definitely stand out.
1. Ignoring my other posts in this thread, where I explain in detail -how- jet engines work
2. Disagreeing without providing any arguments other than "because I say so"
3. Assuming that because one variable matches the reality ("engine at 3 Mach exists") and my claim about why your claim is wrong ("engine works just by ejecting fuel") by showing how unrealistic your claim is ("the fuel usage would be excessive"), it's -my proof- that is wrong, and not -your argument-.
So, explaining like for an idiot: My argument made an essential assumption: gas ejection speed is lower than the engine speed, so the engine works strictly on rocket principles instead of using exhaust gas compression characteristic to jet engine. With this assumption, the engine can't work without ridiculous fuel usage.
If you increase the exhaust gas speed to 3.5 Mach though (which means the actual air instead of getting propelled by 1 Mach -with- the engine gets propelled by 0.5 mach -against- it) the numbers turn around and there's completely no reason why this couldn't work, because the ejected air -reduces- fuel usage (adds actual thrust) instead of -increasing- it (serving only as oxidizer for fuel and creating drag).
And that's how jet engines work - by displacing air through them at speed (relatively) higher than their movement speed, not by ejecting vehicle mass while using air as oxidizer to propel this mass.
Nope, both spectra are continuous, at least in the visible range. Of course they aren't flat or even linear in the whole range, but they are continuous, smooth lines, not a series of spikes with almost nothing in between. Meaning every color will quite visible, while fluorescent will make some colors disappear completely.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5116/lightsourcesfigure3em3.jpg