I've always thought it would be cool to have a racing game based on real physics, where you have a variety of track types (Autocross, drag, road, "streetrace", etc), and you get to build your own car based on real parts, not Just the stage 1, stage 2, etc nonsense.
It'd be fun to race a $4000 striped Datsun 510 with a Carburated/MSD/headworked/camed/headered KA24E, aluminum flywheel and brake disks, and tight suspension against a $50000 turboed Corvette. You could PWN them at simulated autocross, then get your butt handed to you on the dragstrip (but oh, those first two seconds...)(then immediately replace your brake disks).
There's a lot more to a real automotive simulation (and real driving) than just "engine power". There's a lot of factors that effect the flow of fuel, air, and exhaust through an engine at various RPMs, and thus torque at various RPM. Then there's factors like the drivetrain component moment of inertia, non-driven wheel moment of inertia, overall mass, cooling capacity, local cooling, thermal mass, overall vehicle mass, vehicle moment of inertia WRT cornering, moment of inertia WRT pitch, gyroscopic effect of the flywheel and brake rotors, aerodynamics,...
I wouldn't use postscript files from random sources in a local viewer (but I would on a printer). PostScript is a turing-complete language with filesystem and network access.
Gzipped PDF? They do know about the Gzip compression option in the PDF standard, right? Use the PDF compression and you can open it directly in Acrobat, XPDF, kghostview, Preview, or whathaveyou.
It's legal to copy music in canada, but not legal to make it available to copy, or to give someone else a copy. Thus I can lend someone a CD (without knowledge that they're going to copy it (...looking other way and whistling...)), but not give them a copy or put the MP3s on a ftp server.
Oh yes, and it's perfectly legal to walk into a library with a laptop and snarf their entire collection into mp3s. If they have any music worth snarfing.
That's nice. I DO use CDs, because often I have less than 600MB of photos (that I own the copyright to under Canadian Law) that I want to give to someone else, but it's too much data to email (80MB tiffs).
Just because YOU don't use something does not mean that EVERYONE does not need it.
Sorry for piggybacking on a non-related post, but I'm posting late and I want people to actually read this post.
The issue here is not that kiddie porn is bad; that is known. The issue is not that some people look at it; that is also known.
The issue is whether the DoJ has the right to compel a someone to disclose information without probable cause, nor related to an investigation, but for political reasons.
Why not just phone them and ask if they're OK? If they're not OK, all you know is where their phone is... Lying where they dropped it when they were abducted (oh good, he's at the park), In the car at the accident scene (oh, good, she's just leaving the mall now), In their pocket while they get drunk (oh good, he's at jimmy's).
The judge is getting annoyed that she made a court order in October that all discovery must be done by febuary, but SCO is asking for an extension because they (probablly intentionally) screwed up.
Asside from the fact that judges work on several cases at the same time, so they have to schedule things, there are HUGE amounts of documents involved in a case like this.
Just like North America, Africa is a big place. Unlike North America, it is characterized by many small countries often do not work with eachother well. Some parts of Africa have food, water, and jobs. Large areas of Africa do not.
While many people in Africa may simply need jobs, many more have more immediate needs, like todays's meal, water, personal security, basic health care and education.
Remember, farming is a job. It may not bring in much foriegn currency, but given good soil, good techniques, good tools, and good water, it may keep you and your neighbours from starving to death, money or no money.
You may care very much about the expansion slots in a server if you need a lot of telephony cards (and this seems to be an application where the Niagra design would excel).
Which is more secure - a long password that only makes sense to me stored in my head and a safe or a key on an easily stolen and hacked into laptop?
Neither are good. You need a key with a good passphrase. If you are sick or injured, they can still get the password and log in on the console to add another Authorized_Key.
A sysadmin who expects to keep his job would have already disabled keyless (password, challenge-response) SSH on the server, so he'd need his SSH2 key as well.
The first user is in the admin group by default because you have to have someone in the admin group (or you can never install software, create other users, change system-wide settings, etc). Admin group users still have to authenticate before doing anything via sudo, so system-wide bad things don't happen automatically without user intervention.
Once you've made a second user, you can switch them if you want.
Not just a pretty GUI on BSD...
Mac OS has a few nifty non-eye-candy features not in most Linux distributions:
No root user, but admin group in sudoers (easy to do on Linux, but not done by default by most distros)
Home directory encryption available at the flip of a switch
Automatic detection and configuration of monitors
Most things just work, out of the box.
All of these (possibly excepting detection of monitors) could be done by a Linux desktop/laptop vendor with their own distro, but as far as I know aren't.
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No, it doesn't apply only to Canadian citizens, but US customs might not look too kindly on your collection when you return.
I've always thought it would be cool to have a racing game based on real physics, where you have a variety of track types (Autocross, drag, road, "streetrace", etc), and you get to build your own car based on real parts, not Just the stage 1, stage 2, etc nonsense.
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It'd be fun to race a $4000 striped Datsun 510 with a Carburated/MSD/headworked/camed/headered KA24E, aluminum flywheel and brake disks, and tight suspension against a $50000 turboed Corvette. You could PWN them at simulated autocross, then get your butt handed to you on the dragstrip (but oh, those first two seconds...)(then immediately replace your brake disks).
There's a lot more to a real automotive simulation (and real driving) than just "engine power". There's a lot of factors that effect the flow of fuel, air, and exhaust through an engine at various RPMs, and thus torque at various RPM. Then there's factors like the drivetrain component moment of inertia, non-driven wheel moment of inertia, overall mass, cooling capacity, local cooling, thermal mass, overall vehicle mass, vehicle moment of inertia WRT cornering, moment of inertia WRT pitch, gyroscopic effect of the flywheel and brake rotors, aerodynamics,
Then just read the first paragraph. It's all you need to know (somewhere around 3/10).
I wouldn't use postscript files from random sources in a local viewer (but I would on a printer). PostScript is a turing-complete language with filesystem and network access.
Gzipped PDF? They do know about the Gzip compression option in the PDF standard, right? Use the PDF compression and you can open it directly in Acrobat, XPDF, kghostview, Preview, or whathaveyou.
Which is Legal in Canada.
It's legal to copy music in canada, but not legal to make it available to copy, or to give someone else a copy. Thus I can lend someone a CD (without knowledge that they're going to copy it (...looking other way and whistling...)), but not give them a copy or put the MP3s on a ftp server.
Oh yes, and it's perfectly legal to walk into a library with a laptop and snarf their entire collection into mp3s. If they have any music worth snarfing.
That's nice. I DO use CDs, because often I have less than 600MB of photos (that I own the copyright to under Canadian Law) that I want to give to someone else, but it's too much data to email (80MB tiffs).
Just because YOU don't use something does not mean that EVERYONE does not need it.
Sorry for piggybacking on a non-related post, but I'm posting late and I want people to actually read this post.
The issue here is not that kiddie porn is bad; that is known. The issue is not that some people look at it; that is also known.
The issue is whether the DoJ has the right to compel a someone to disclose information without probable cause, nor related to an investigation, but for political reasons.
Why not just phone them and ask if they're OK? If they're not OK, all you know is where their phone is ... Lying where they dropped it when they were abducted (oh good, he's at the park), In the car at the accident scene (oh, good, she's just leaving the mall now), In their pocket while they get drunk (oh good, he's at jimmy's).
Where I am it's still sunday morning.
The judge is getting annoyed that she made a court order in October that all discovery must be done by febuary, but SCO is asking for an extension because they (probablly intentionally) screwed up.
It's sort of like the inverse of the closing dialogue of "Seven Samurai".
Asside from the fact that judges work on several cases at the same time, so they have to schedule things, there are HUGE amounts of documents involved in a case like this.
This article may shed a little more light on the subject. I suspect it has more to do with TIA's monitoring of commerce.
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Just like North America, Africa is a big place. Unlike North America, it is characterized by many small countries often do not work with eachother well. Some parts of Africa have food, water, and jobs. Large areas of Africa do not.
While many people in Africa may simply need jobs, many more have more immediate needs, like todays's meal, water, personal security, basic health care and education.
Remember, farming is a job. It may not bring in much foriegn currency, but given good soil, good techniques, good tools, and good water, it may keep you and your neighbours from starving to death, money or no money.
You may care very much about the expansion slots in a server if you need a lot of telephony cards (and this seems to be an application where the Niagra design would excel).
Neither are good. You need a key with a good passphrase. If you are sick or injured, they can still get the password and log in on the console to add another Authorized_Key .
A sysadmin who expects to keep his job would have already disabled keyless (password, challenge-response) SSH on the server, so he'd need his SSH2 key as well.
o.O
At that resolution, you have to set it or you can't read the text. (I use this monitor for editing scans of Large Format film)
Well, for one thing, it's a heck of a lot easier to get your lander and all it's fuel to the earth than the moon.
In case anyone actually wants to comment.
Because I didn't know about ddc when my company asked me to research the possibility of producing Linux Desktops & Laptops two years ago.
The first user is in the admin group by default because you have to have someone in the admin group (or you can never install software, create other users, change system-wide settings, etc). Admin group users still have to authenticate before doing anything via sudo, so system-wide bad things don't happen automatically without user intervention.
Once you've made a second user, you can switch them if you want.
Which is exactly why I said a Linux desktop/laptop vendor, not a distribution vendor.
Not just a pretty GUI on BSD...
Mac OS has a few nifty non-eye-candy features not in most Linux distributions:
No root user, but admin group in sudoers (easy to do on Linux, but not done by default by most distros)
Home directory encryption available at the flip of a switch
Automatic detection and configuration of monitors
Most things just work, out of the box.
All of these (possibly excepting detection of monitors) could be done by a Linux desktop/laptop vendor with their own distro, but as far as I know aren't.