I think you'll find that, strictly speaking, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be......so we can afford to sell half of it to the media companies for their own evil ends.
In the article it said that Hilton were thinking of installing a voice activated shower...
For all of you thinking this might be a neat idea go and grab dilbert_102_the_competition.avi and change your mind. Especially if you own a dog as devious as Dogbert.
So what happens when the USG contributes to GPL code? How does the requirement to relicense under the GPL work with the non-copyright status of the contributed code? Do you have to mark sections you add as non-copyright so that other entities (like, for example, Microsoft) can use those sections free of charge without having to adhere to the GPL?
These things have been out in the UK for so long that version 2 is being released!
Granted, this is because version 1 was so poor that no one brought one - less than 100k units were shipped (which considering that there are about 10m sales/yr of high end phones in the UK is terrible). And that number was _after_ they started giving them away for free with a £25/mnth contract.
Microsoft fucked up by making a bad phone - not really a surprise - and the only people who brought them were the XBox-modder wannabe-techie types who wouldn't know the different between C and Cobol.
The most amusing part is that the only reason these phones sold _at all_ was because the DRM functions (you can only run executables signed by Orange and Microsoft) were broken by hackers very quickly - in fact for the French version it only required a reboot to execute. Now thats great security!
Annoying never fixed bugs include numbers stored in a different way from Outlook/OE so that when you sync your phonebook you can't dial the numbers it downloaded, text messaging that randomly doesn't work, out-of-memory errors, and a phone so large and butt ugly it belongs in 1980.
Another stunning victory then - Nokia must be quaking in their boots.
Basically your someone who actually wants to learn everything about how your particular distro works.
Be thankful, if there werent people like this you wouldn't have heating, lighting, medical science or anything else more advanced than charred meat and possibly the wheel.
The future of computing is thankfully not having to worry about compiling kernels and screwing with drivers.
Why not, for the people that want it? Personally I wouldn't trust it if I didn't have at least a basic understanding of how it works. (Yeah, I'm an engineer.) At the very least you should insist that a competent friend with your interests at heart understands it.
Like I said I have nothing against Gentoo
Sure you do, or you wouldn't have posted this.
When OS's are mature enough enough to be [...] moron proof
ask them to pick a 1/2 watt carbon resistor of a given value out of a bin, and they can't recognize it
I have worked at a company where each junior engineer is paired with a technician or two - the engineer keeps the design on track and manages the project, and the technicians stop the poor graddie from electrocuting himself.
Seems to work pretty well, means the EE grad can get on with what he is paid to do (thinking) and the prototype actually has neat enough soldering that no one has to spend 6 months fixing dry joints.
Multicasting to a large extent means that the BBC can feed a large ammount of the American market at the cost of feeding one listener.
In any event the BBC gets funding and has commercial support for the BBC world service, I don't see why some of this money shouldn't be diverted to R1-7 distribution overseas. At least this way some Americans might start to acquire a decent sense of humour and the ability to pronounce left-tenant and al-u-min-i-um properly;o)
Couldn't companies start to use distributed storage? Think how many people have most of an unused 40gb or bigger disk in their workstation, especially at companies with a strict no-3rd-party-apps or even -user-data on the local drives policy.
Deploying something like the freenet system locally would help them out lots in this area - content is decentralised onto many workstations, but as long as a significant percentage (90%+) is up then nothing should just vanish from the network. Even hard disk failures won't loose data, especially if everything is FEC encoded on insertion into the network. (Also means you are more likley to always be able to retrieve files.)
Content is also self cleaning, anything not being used is just deleted automatically. The whole thing would be fast because there would be many upload points for one file. You can't retreive data without the right key, so it's reasonably private. (You could even mandate or automate encryption.)
Some mechanism would need to be added so that unpopular files would get backed up to cold storage before being 'forgotten', but that problem probably isn't insurmountable - hell, you could even send everything being inserted into the network to tape and then use a local freenet just for live data/retrieval, plus shared server side storage arrays for secure/confidental data.
This is a direct result of intellecual property and patents (oh yes, please mod me flamebait and troll!) - smart media was a reasonable attempt, as was compact flash. However, neither was a really good thing for small devices, and so SD/MMC was born. However, this format was (naturally) patented by a consortium - so along came xD in short order by the flash memory makers left out of the SD/MMC crowd. (Sony of course went off and did their own thing before SD/MMC was born, like normal - see 'minidisc' for an example.)
And with the exception of MMC, neither of these new consortiums (SD or xD) have produced free Linux drivers or opened the API, making life hard for Open Source developers. Ho hum, life as normal then.
There have been numerous stories in the UK as well of BT turning down ADSL customers on lines until they tried to connect with the BT ISP. One chap was even told that his line was unsuitable for ADSL when he tried to migrate to another ISP after a year of working* connection to BT Openwoe, who collected the email that told him that his line couldn't handle ADSL via his ADSL connection...
*For a given value of working, this is BT we are talking about.
I ordered the book on Exim version 3 from Amazone, and by the time it turned up (2 months later) Exim 4 was released:o(
If only they upgraded books in a similar fashion to programs - some kind of discount from the previous version would probably encourage more people to keep their library up to date. (Although in this instance the migration from 3 to 4 was pretty painless.)
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Designed especially for the American Law Enforcement user
providing the operator with sixty rounds of available firepower right on the weapon.
So American cops reguarly need to shoot 60 people without the inceonvenient delay of a reload? Blimey, it must be like living in a war zone over there.
Perhaps it would be more pertinant to have them purchase politicans instead of properties? Park Lane would become the president and Old Kent Road would become the junior congressman from Idaho:o)
If SCO has to give 95% of UNIX royalties to Novel, and SCO wins a suit (right after a bunch of pigs fly overhead) based on that IP, doesn't that mean that SCO would have to give 95% of the winnings to Novel?
This is exactly why British aircraft carriers are completely ineffective. By going for a smaller (and cheaper) aircraft carrier, they have reduced the number of aircraft from around 90 to around 40. <br><br> Oh, indeed - small carriers was a mistake (unless you believe that defense spending in itself is a waste of money). This isn't a problem with the ramp though, on a large carrier with a jump wide enough for two aircraft you could quite happily carry _lots_ or harriers and launch one every 15 seconds or so with a decent payload.
First thing you need to remember about cats is that you loose significant useful weight with an undercarrage that can take the jerk (really, its the technical term for delta A, and relates to the rate of change of force). This is no problem for a conventional landing a/c (like the hornet) which already has a beefy undercarriage to survive a carrier landing.
However, if you want to shave off all this weight (say you have a vertical landing* a/c for example, so you have no problems at that end) a steam catapult would require huge weight gains that just do not justify the extra speed you can get up to. At this point, especially with an a/c that has vectored thrust, a ramp launch will actually give you more usable payload than a cat launch.
Couple this with the ability of a ramp to let you launch in a fast stream (you can go as close as 30 secs apart if you have pilots with a slack attituide to saftey) compared to the delay required to recock and reload each cat and it becommes pretty attractive.
The harrier may well be ending its useful life, but it still carries a fair number of weapons - and JSF will carry even more as well as flying faster and further. It wouldn't shock me to see that a lot of organisations (RN, USMC - USN will probably go Cats because they still need to launcy legacy a/c) look at cats vs ramps and decide that takeoff ramps are the way to go for their JSF carriers.
*Note that most VTOL a/c don't normally take off vertically, not because they can't but because even a small airflow over the wings massivly increases their useful payload.
Thankfully new UK carriers don't have catapults, we switched to the ski jump style a while back which is much friendlier for the airframe and allows a greater take off weight, especially when coupled with BAE Harriers (or indeed a JSF).
Of course at one point we were even thinking of doing away with flight decks on carriers - there was an experimental sky hook system to catch a flying Harrier on a smaller ship. Thankfully abandoned due to sanity returning and the drugs wearing off:o)
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I think you'll find that, strictly speaking, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be... ...so we can afford to sell half of it to the media companies for their own evil ends.
Depends on the pressure - it's possible to get water in liquid form to over 500 degrees C without too much effort.
In the article it said that Hilton were thinking of installing a voice activated shower...
For all of you thinking this might be a neat idea go and grab dilbert_102_the_competition.avi and change your mind. Especially if you own a dog as devious as Dogbert.
Actually MS took their stuff and gave it to HTC _before_ they went under.
;o)
However, given how bad the SPV was, they can't have stolen any good trade secrets
So what happens when the USG contributes to GPL code? How does the requirement to relicense under the GPL work with the non-copyright status of the contributed code? Do you have to mark sections you add as non-copyright so that other entities (like, for example, Microsoft) can use those sections free of charge without having to adhere to the GPL?
I dread next year's Olympics...:( ...because it means that the Simpsons will be cancelled for 2 weeks.
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These things have been out in the UK for so long that version 2 is being released!
Granted, this is because version 1 was so poor that no one brought one - less than 100k units were shipped (which considering that there are about 10m sales/yr of high end phones in the UK is terrible). And that number was _after_ they started giving them away for free with a £25/mnth contract.
Microsoft fucked up by making a bad phone - not really a surprise - and the only people who brought them were the XBox-modder wannabe-techie types who wouldn't know the different between C and Cobol.
The most amusing part is that the only reason these phones sold _at all_ was because the DRM functions (you can only run executables signed by Orange and Microsoft) were broken by hackers very quickly - in fact for the French version it only required a reboot to execute. Now thats great security!
Annoying never fixed bugs include numbers stored in a different way from Outlook/OE so that when you sync your phonebook you can't dial the numbers it downloaded, text messaging that randomly doesn't work, out-of-memory errors, and a phone so large and butt ugly it belongs in 1980.
Another stunning victory then - Nokia must be quaking in their boots.
Basically your someone who actually wants to learn everything about how your particular distro works.
Be thankful, if there werent people like this you wouldn't have heating, lighting, medical science or anything else more advanced than charred meat and possibly the wheel.
The future of computing is thankfully not having to worry about compiling kernels and screwing with drivers.
Why not, for the people that want it? Personally I wouldn't trust it if I didn't have at least a basic understanding of how it works. (Yeah, I'm an engineer.) At the very least you should insist that a competent friend with your interests at heart understands it.
Like I said I have nothing against Gentoo
Sure you do, or you wouldn't have posted this.
When OS's are mature enough enough to be [...] moron proof
I'll be sure to give you a call.
ask them to pick a 1/2 watt carbon resistor of a given value out of a bin, and they can't recognize it
I have worked at a company where each junior engineer is paired with a technician or two - the engineer keeps the design on track and manages the project, and the technicians stop the poor graddie from electrocuting himself.
Seems to work pretty well, means the EE grad can get on with what he is paid to do (thinking) and the prototype actually has neat enough soldering that no one has to spend 6 months fixing dry joints.
Multicasting to a large extent means that the BBC can feed a large ammount of the American market at the cost of feeding one listener.
;o)
In any event the BBC gets funding and has commercial support for the BBC world service, I don't see why some of this money shouldn't be diverted to R1-7 distribution overseas. At least this way some Americans might start to acquire a decent sense of humour and the ability to pronounce left-tenant and al-u-min-i-um properly
Any international book sales are an exception to this policy.
:o( Thanks anyway.
Damn
Couldn't companies start to use distributed storage? Think how many people have most of an unused 40gb or bigger disk in their workstation, especially at companies with a strict no-3rd-party-apps or even -user-data on the local drives policy.
Deploying something like the freenet system locally would help them out lots in this area - content is decentralised onto many workstations, but as long as a significant percentage (90%+) is up then nothing should just vanish from the network. Even hard disk failures won't loose data, especially if everything is FEC encoded on insertion into the network. (Also means you are more likley to always be able to retrieve files.)
Content is also self cleaning, anything not being used is just deleted automatically. The whole thing would be fast because there would be many upload points for one file. You can't retreive data without the right key, so it's reasonably private. (You could even mandate or automate encryption.)
Some mechanism would need to be added so that unpopular files would get backed up to cold storage before being 'forgotten', but that problem probably isn't insurmountable - hell, you could even send everything being inserted into the network to tape and then use a local freenet just for live data/retrieval, plus shared server side storage arrays for secure/confidental data.
Depends, can I install Linux on it and return the WinXP license?
If not, I'll never buy one, no matter how cheap they are, as they are completley useless for me.
This is a direct result of intellecual property and patents (oh yes, please mod me flamebait and troll!) - smart media was a reasonable attempt, as was compact flash. However, neither was a really good thing for small devices, and so SD/MMC was born. However, this format was (naturally) patented by a consortium - so along came xD in short order by the flash memory makers left out of the SD/MMC crowd. (Sony of course went off and did their own thing before SD/MMC was born, like normal - see 'minidisc' for an example.)
And with the exception of MMC, neither of these new consortiums (SD or xD) have produced free Linux drivers or opened the API, making life hard for Open Source developers. Ho hum, life as normal then.
...complete and utter bastards.
There have been numerous stories in the UK as well of BT turning down ADSL customers on lines until they tried to connect with the BT ISP. One chap was even told that his line was unsuitable for ADSL when he tried to migrate to another ISP after a year of working* connection to BT Openwoe, who collected the email that told him that his line couldn't handle ADSL via his ADSL connection...
*For a given value of working, this is BT we are talking about.
I ordered the book on Exim version 3 from Amazone, and by the time it turned up (2 months later) Exim 4 was released :o(
If only they upgraded books in a similar fashion to programs - some kind of discount from the previous version would probably encourage more people to keep their library up to date. (Although in this instance the migration from 3 to 4 was pretty painless.)
Designed especially for the American Law Enforcement user
providing the operator with sixty rounds of available firepower right on the weapon.
So American cops reguarly need to shoot 60 people without the inceonvenient delay of a reload? Blimey, it must be like living in a war zone over there.
Perhaps it would be more pertinant to have them purchase politicans instead of properties? Park Lane would become the president and Old Kent Road would become the junior congressman from Idaho :o)
If SCO has to give 95% of UNIX royalties to Novel, and SCO wins a suit (right after a bunch of pigs fly overhead) based on that IP, doesn't that mean that SCO would have to give 95% of the winnings to Novel?
AFAIK the JSF, F22 and Eurofighter are not mach 2 capable - M1.4ish for the F22, 1.unspecified for the EFA, 1.2ish for the JSF.
Modern combat planes are slower than the last generation, as 'one shot' interceptors like the old BAE Lightning ate fuel too fast to be useful.
This is exactly why British aircraft carriers are completely ineffective. By going for a smaller (and cheaper) aircraft carrier, they have reduced the number of aircraft from around 90 to around 40.
<br><br>
Oh, indeed - small carriers was a mistake (unless you believe that defense spending in itself is a waste of money). This isn't a problem with the ramp though, on a large carrier with a jump wide enough for two aircraft you could quite happily carry _lots_ or harriers and launch one every 15 seconds or so with a decent payload.
First thing you need to remember about cats is that you loose significant useful weight with an undercarrage that can take the jerk (really, its the technical term for delta A, and relates to the rate of change of force). This is no problem for a conventional landing a/c (like the hornet) which already has a beefy undercarriage to survive a carrier landing.
However, if you want to shave off all this weight (say you have a vertical landing* a/c for example, so you have no problems at that end) a steam catapult would require huge weight gains that just do not justify the extra speed you can get up to. At this point, especially with an a/c that has vectored thrust, a ramp launch will actually give you more usable payload than a cat launch.
Couple this with the ability of a ramp to let you launch in a fast stream (you can go as close as 30 secs apart if you have pilots with a slack attituide to saftey) compared to the delay required to recock and reload each cat and it becommes pretty attractive.
The harrier may well be ending its useful life, but it still carries a fair number of weapons - and JSF will carry even more as well as flying faster and further. It wouldn't shock me to see that a lot of organisations (RN, USMC - USN will probably go Cats because they still need to launcy legacy a/c) look at cats vs ramps and decide that takeoff ramps are the way to go for their JSF carriers.
*Note that most VTOL a/c don't normally take off vertically, not because they can't but because even a small airflow over the wings massivly increases their useful payload.
My money is on a consortium of the RIAA, the MPAA and Microsoft to purcahase this...
Pirates ahoy! All hands to battle stations!
Thankfully new UK carriers don't have catapults, we switched to the ski jump style a while back which is much friendlier for the airframe and allows a greater take off weight, especially when coupled with BAE Harriers (or indeed a JSF).
:o)
Of course at one point we were even thinking of doing away with flight decks on carriers - there was an experimental sky hook system to catch a flying Harrier on a smaller ship. Thankfully abandoned due to sanity returning and the drugs wearing off
Does this mean that Slashdot will be deleting the big blue e graphic from the gif folder?