Solution: Use a roundabout instead of a 4-way stop.
Roundabouts take up more space. Also, the only real difference is that the person to the left has the right-of-way instead.
These rules you describe, they all revolve around you assuming that I'm going to behave in a particular fashion...
So do your rules. In particular, they depend on the assumption that the person approaching the roundabout or in the merge lane will yield to the person already in the roundabout.
It also actually makes sense if you use a period when you want to end your sentence. ; )
Also -- and this is just a stylistic suggestion, not an error -- if you really want him to say it, you should put quotation marks around "intents and purposes."
The advantage to having faster RPMs isn't as much throughput as it is seek times.
If you have two sets of heads, on two separate arms, then you halve the seek time on average because each set is only responsible for half the radius of the disk.
If you used individual transistors, you'd barely be able to fit a single ALU in the space occupied by the entire case of a modern mini-tower PC. Your "computer" would fill up a large room, consume megawatts of electricity, cost millions of dollars, have a clock frequency measured in the tens or hundreds of hertz, and have the same capabilities as that same four-function calculator that I mentioned before.
This just shows the hypocrisy of saying free software should be used, even if it less functional or advanced - and then making excuses when it comes to the hardware side of things, because what the community can build is less functional than what's available off-the-shelf.
On the contrary, that's not hypocritical at all. The difference is that it is possible to make Free software equally functional as proprietary stuff, while it is not possible to make even slightly comparable hardware without spending millions of dollars.
In other words, they advocate "dog-fooding" somewhat less capable Free software because they're working to improve it. For hardware, that would be entirely futile.
Where does it say they were at home? It doesn't. It just says 'raids', which could be a home, a warehouse, or a just a specific location outside somewhere.
They took a board game. People are not likely to take a board game to a warehouse or outside or anywhere else but home (or a "home-like" place such as a friend's home or an RV or whatever).
Also, what's infeasible about totally Free hardware?
What are you, stupid? Do you not understand that chip fabs are slightly less accessible to normal individuals than compilers are?
but you could make something more limited.
Yeah, more limited like an abacus! Even a fucking four-function calculator requires millions of dollars worth of equipment to manufacture the integrated circuits, LCD screen, etc.
Slashdot is generally pretty right-libertarian leaning.
No it's not, it's left-libertarian. To the extent "left" and "right" make any sense anyway, which isn't a heck of a lot. I would say that Slashdot is strongly liberal on social issues, moderately conservative on economic issues, and very libertarian (which is orthogonal to the left-right axis).
The difference with phones, is that consumers have a multitude of choices when it comes to phones. You want a Panasonic, get a Panasonic. You want a Vtech, get a Vtech.
There are no choices with cable boxes. Cause the companies that make the boxes are under contract with the service providers to only distribute their boxes to those companies.
What are you, stupid? You have all those choices with phones because there was a lawsuit that forced AT&T to allow them! If there were a similar lawsuit regarding cable -- such as, say, this one -- then suddenly a whole bunch more companies will start making devices to hook up to cable!
It's great on analog cable. Unfortunately HD cable requires you to have a HD cable decoder which only the cable companies supply.
Solution: use analog cable. It even has the added benefit of bending over for the cable company as little as possible (short of foregoing non-broadcast TV entirely).
Not to mention that Theora and Vorbis are only used by a very tiny sliver of the population.
Actually, Vorbis is used for a lot of game audio. So it's out there; it's just not very visible. And that's not just Free Software games made by "zealots," either: that list includes lots of A-list titles like the Unreal Tournament series, Rock Band, World of Warcraft, GTA: San Andreas, etc.
The reason Vorbis hasn't taken off for music is the same as for every other format: it's not MP3. Even AAC and WMA have only achieved a modicum of success, and that's only because Apple and Microsoft have been pushing them hard as vehicles for their DRM, forcing them to be the only formats you can legally download stuff in, etc.
To be honest, I was hoping it'd turn out a lot better than it did. I wanted there to be a nice diagonal line for the rest of the standards, with OOXML way off it. Unfortunately, the line was more vertical than diagonal, and it needs more data points. : (
So if you're standing next to a chain link fence at a business which is closed with a pair of bolt cutters at 2 a.m...
...then that's entirely different from having bolt cutters at home! Now tell me, where in the article does it say anything about the stuff being confiscated in suspicious circumstances like that? Answer: it doesn't. In fact, it talks about the entire board game being confiscated, and I highly doubt they'd take the whole damn thing along while they commit a crime. Therefore, it's much more likely that the confiscation happened at their home, which renders the existence of the bolt cutters non-suspicious.
I'm really struggling to understand whether there is any use for this outside of the learning context.
In terms of platform, Symbian is on its way to being open-sourced, and Android is supposed to be F/OSS as well. I don't think LiMo is going anywhere, but it has the same virtues of openness.
The answer is that OpenMoko predates all those things.
Last I checked, the dialer and address book applications weren't done yet. While it's great that it can do shit like compiling code and whatnot, it's not gonna do me -- as a person who, although a fan of Free Software, doesn't plan on doing OpenMoko development -- any good until it can make phone calls!
Also, you if you think the police have to show up just because you dial 911, well...
No, I'm not saying anything of the sort. I'm saying that they will show up -- eventually -- if you call 911 and it's not medical- or fire-related. Even if it's just to fill out a report. And that, if nothing else, you still could need the police in a situation where you're not "in immediate and unavoidable danger of losing my life or being severely injured" for that purpose.
You claimed you would only ever need police in a situation where you were in danger (and that, incidentally, you think your gun would do a better job of protecting you -- a claim that was never in dispute). All I'm doing is proving that particular statement false.
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How do you physically prevent someone from driving the wrong way down it?
Roundabouts take up more space. Also, the only real difference is that the person to the left has the right-of-way instead.
So do your rules. In particular, they depend on the assumption that the person approaching the roundabout or in the merge lane will yield to the person already in the roundabout.
I agree. In fact, I'm glad you did point that out because I would have felt compelled to otherwise.
It also actually makes sense if you use a period when you want to end your sentence. ; )
Also -- and this is just a stylistic suggestion, not an error -- if you really want him to say it, you should put quotation marks around "intents and purposes."
You have to do that as part of the patent application process anyway!
Yes, and I'm eagerly awaiting that day so that I can finally buy the damn thing.
If you have two sets of heads, on two separate arms, then you halve the seek time on average because each set is only responsible for half the radius of the disk.
If you used individual transistors, you'd barely be able to fit a single ALU in the space occupied by the entire case of a modern mini-tower PC. Your "computer" would fill up a large room, consume megawatts of electricity, cost millions of dollars, have a clock frequency measured in the tens or hundreds of hertz, and have the same capabilities as that same four-function calculator that I mentioned before.
On the contrary, that's not hypocritical at all. The difference is that it is possible to make Free software equally functional as proprietary stuff, while it is not possible to make even slightly comparable hardware without spending millions of dollars.
In other words, they advocate "dog-fooding" somewhat less capable Free software because they're working to improve it. For hardware, that would be entirely futile.
They took a board game. People are not likely to take a board game to a warehouse or outside or anywhere else but home (or a "home-like" place such as a friend's home or an RV or whatever).
What are you, stupid? Do you not understand that chip fabs are slightly less accessible to normal individuals than compilers are?
Yeah, more limited like an abacus! Even a fucking four-function calculator requires millions of dollars worth of equipment to manufacture the integrated circuits, LCD screen, etc.
It's not real until normal people can buy it.
(Besides, it's T-Mobile -- Android's not gonna do me any good until I can get one for AT&T.)
Thanks.
No it's not, it's left-libertarian. To the extent "left" and "right" make any sense anyway, which isn't a heck of a lot. I would say that Slashdot is strongly liberal on social issues, moderately conservative on economic issues, and very libertarian (which is orthogonal to the left-right axis).
What are you, stupid? You have all those choices with phones because there was a lawsuit that forced AT&T to allow them! If there were a similar lawsuit regarding cable -- such as, say, this one -- then suddenly a whole bunch more companies will start making devices to hook up to cable!
Solution: use analog cable. It even has the added benefit of bending over for the cable company as little as possible (short of foregoing non-broadcast TV entirely).
Hopefully this, or some other lawsuit, will change that.
O RLY?
Is Blizzard a "major company?" How about Id? Or Rockstar? Or Ubisoft? Or EA? Or the U.S. Army?
Actually, Vorbis is used for a lot of game audio. So it's out there; it's just not very visible. And that's not just Free Software games made by "zealots," either: that list includes lots of A-list titles like the Unreal Tournament series, Rock Band, World of Warcraft, GTA: San Andreas, etc.
The reason Vorbis hasn't taken off for music is the same as for every other format: it's not MP3. Even AAC and WMA have only achieved a modicum of success, and that's only because Apple and Microsoft have been pushing them hard as vehicles for their DRM, forcing them to be the only formats you can legally download stuff in, etc.
I meant that OpenMoko predates the freeing of Symbian.
Devices that run Android don't even exist yet. How can you possibly claim it will be usable out of the box?
To be honest, I was hoping it'd turn out a lot better than it did. I wanted there to be a nice diagonal line for the rest of the standards, with OOXML way off it. Unfortunately, the line was more vertical than diagonal, and it needs more data points. : (
...then that's entirely different from having bolt cutters at home! Now tell me, where in the article does it say anything about the stuff being confiscated in suspicious circumstances like that? Answer: it doesn't. In fact, it talks about the entire board game being confiscated, and I highly doubt they'd take the whole damn thing along while they commit a crime. Therefore, it's much more likely that the confiscation happened at their home, which renders the existence of the bolt cutters non-suspicious.
The answer is that OpenMoko predates all those things.
Last I checked, the dialer and address book applications weren't done yet. While it's great that it can do shit like compiling code and whatnot, it's not gonna do me -- as a person who, although a fan of Free Software, doesn't plan on doing OpenMoko development -- any good until it can make phone calls!
No, I'm not saying anything of the sort. I'm saying that they will show up -- eventually -- if you call 911 and it's not medical- or fire-related. Even if it's just to fill out a report. And that, if nothing else, you still could need the police in a situation where you're not "in immediate and unavoidable danger of losing my life or being severely injured" for that purpose.
You claimed you would only ever need police in a situation where you were in danger (and that, incidentally, you think your gun would do a better job of protecting you -- a claim that was never in dispute). All I'm doing is proving that particular statement false.