I must have missed something in the article. I seem to remember Newtonian mechanics requiring that any force have an equal and opposite force. So, if this beam is going to push a craft, something must push the beam. And, if the satellite is pushing the beam, then something must be pushing the satellite. Now, if the satellite is sitting out in space, what's pushing on it? Isn't the satellite just going to fly backward (at a rate dependent on the ratio of its mass to that of the craft)? What did I miss in the article?
Hey - does anyone know whatever happened to the rumor about Philips twisting arms over the use of the "CD-ROM" logo. I remember hearing that Philips had invented the CD and companies had to pay to put that little icon on the jewel case that says "CD-ROM". Philips was supposed to be looking in to not allowing people to put that logo on their CD if it was copy protected in a certain way, since the CD no longer complied to the spec. Anyone know anything about this?
Wow - this article is right on the money! I've been running an AMD 700Mhz for the last four years, and the only reason I'm not still running it is because it died (actually, I did the math and found that it was on for something like 80+% of it's lifetime, so it's demise was not unexpected, especially given the environment in which it spent those years). That machine did everything I needed it to - I'm even a software developer, and it still compiled with plenty of speed. I'm kind of batting around the idea of trying to find some old used parts just to reassemble the same machine.
This feeling carries over into laptops. The main reason I haven't bought a new machine yet is because I'm thinking of moving to something portable instead. However, it seems my desires are a bit out of line with what Intel/Dell/etc. wants to sell me. I'm really only looking for two things: small size and lots of battery life. The size search does have limits, as I don't want the keyboard to be too cramped, but mainly I really don't want one of these new laptops that has a good 2" on either side of the keyboard. I know battery life is mostly a factor of the screen on a laptop, but you can't tell me that just scaling back the other stuff a bit won't help.
I've actually been expecting for a couple of years now that we'll start seeing machines that are more dedicated to specific purposes again. For a long time we've been talking about how "one commodity piece of hardware can do everything." But, the simple fact is that most users don't need it to do everything. Thin clients are excellent machines for surfing the web. I expect someone will soon come out with a media PC that makes sense. I can't say I'm all that surprised that no one is marketing a word-processing machine any more, but that application is so lightweight that it could execute on any of these other systems.
Alright, I've ranted/rambled enough. Time to stop this post before I really do begin to sound stupid.;P
Best way to keep your stuff safe at college: find a fraternity with brothers you trust and join it. I can't even begin to describe how nice it was not to have to remember to lock my door every time I wanted to step out for a few minutes/days/weeks.
Dammit people, get your nomenclature right. Both air and water are fluids! Air is a gas (well several, but...), and water is a liquid (at room temperature, when it's called "water"...), but both of these are fluids. So, the whole "bubble of fluid inside of air, inside of fluid" doesn't really make sense.
I used to live in a small town on the plains in the Midwest, and whenever the wind blew from a certain direction, the entire town would smell like the hog operation up wind. It was definitely heavy at times. Controlling this would be a good idea.
That being said, I don't know about this whole "health risk" worry. While the smell may drive some people crazy, I have to say that I don't have any physical defects from inhaling pig stink. Some people just need to calm down a bit, I think.
Actually, yes, pair programming does have its place. I'm writing a compiler right now with a couple of teammates for a class, and there are just certain parts where it REALLY helps to have someone looking over your shoulder. I mean, when your writing regexp's for a scanner it's REALLY easy to mess something up, and can be rather difficult to find it. I won't argue that it definitely takes some getting used to. I, like everyone else, am someone who would rather go off and code on my own and then review the code later. I don't like having someone say "hey, you forgot a semicolon there" right after I hit enter. Chances are I realized it too, and will be hitting backspace in the next half second to correct it anyway. But, this is something that a pair has to work out. There is work to be done getting used to both the typer and the watcher positions.
I know the Q&A said that there will basically be know effect to the Link/Open Source community if SCO wins this case. This was based on the idea that the offending code will just be ripped out and replaced. It also says that the case is not specifically against Linux/the GPL/FSF/etc.
However, it seems to me that there COULD be a direct effect on the community. Wouldn't this case set a precedent by which other cases would be judged? If one person can get away with it, won't others be able to do this same by siting this decision?
P.S. IANAL
P.P.S. All I ever see when someone types that is the word "anal" in all caps.:P
IMO, xfig is only a chore to use for about the first project, maybe two that you do with it. After that you have everything figured out, and can do pretty much anything with it.
Dammit - going to be in the air on a plane the entire day on the 16th! Oh well, I guess I'll just celebrate by booting up my Debian box (Woody - my main box:) when I finally get back home. Now...which beer...
What's the nessecity for lack of wire? I mean, when you can buy two Ethernet cards that operate at 100Mbit/sec and 10 ft. of cable, all for $30 or less, why worry about wireless? Are they separated by a wall that you can't make a hole through? Why not just use more wire?
I think part of this may come from spammers being resellers. You never see a spam from Pfizer, but you see plenty of spam selling Viagra. So, you end up back in the same place of trying to find the person who sent the spam, because they are the ones doing the selling. You can't even call up Pfizer and say "stop selling Viagra to spammer@hotmail.com", because they don't even know they're selling Viagra to him.
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I must have missed something in the article. I seem to remember Newtonian mechanics requiring that any force have an equal and opposite force. So, if this beam is going to push a craft, something must push the beam. And, if the satellite is pushing the beam, then something must be pushing the satellite. Now, if the satellite is sitting out in space, what's pushing on it? Isn't the satellite just going to fly backward (at a rate dependent on the ratio of its mass to that of the craft)? What did I miss in the article?
Hey - does anyone know whatever happened to the rumor about Philips twisting arms over the use of the "CD-ROM" logo. I remember hearing that Philips had invented the CD and companies had to pay to put that little icon on the jewel case that says "CD-ROM". Philips was supposed to be looking in to not allowing people to put that logo on their CD if it was copy protected in a certain way, since the CD no longer complied to the spec. Anyone know anything about this?
Wow - this article is right on the money! I've been running an AMD 700Mhz for the last four years, and the only reason I'm not still running it is because it died (actually, I did the math and found that it was on for something like 80+% of it's lifetime, so it's demise was not unexpected, especially given the environment in which it spent those years). That machine did everything I needed it to - I'm even a software developer, and it still compiled with plenty of speed. I'm kind of batting around the idea of trying to find some old used parts just to reassemble the same machine.
This feeling carries over into laptops. The main reason I haven't bought a new machine yet is because I'm thinking of moving to something portable instead. However, it seems my desires are a bit out of line with what Intel/Dell/etc. wants to sell me. I'm really only looking for two things: small size and lots of battery life. The size search does have limits, as I don't want the keyboard to be too cramped, but mainly I really don't want one of these new laptops that has a good 2" on either side of the keyboard. I know battery life is mostly a factor of the screen on a laptop, but you can't tell me that just scaling back the other stuff a bit won't help.
I've actually been expecting for a couple of years now that we'll start seeing machines that are more dedicated to specific purposes again. For a long time we've been talking about how "one commodity piece of hardware can do everything." But, the simple fact is that most users don't need it to do everything. Thin clients are excellent machines for surfing the web. I expect someone will soon come out with a media PC that makes sense. I can't say I'm all that surprised that no one is marketing a word-processing machine any more, but that application is so lightweight that it could execute on any of these other systems.
Alright, I've ranted/rambled enough. Time to stop this post before I really do begin to sound stupid. ;P
Best way to keep your stuff safe at college: find a fraternity with brothers you trust and join it. I can't even begin to describe how nice it was not to have to remember to lock my door every time I wanted to step out for a few minutes/days/weeks.
...not to be confused with the MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery, the REAL hack ;)
In Soviet Russia, font changes YOU!
:P)
(besides, how many fonts can their possibly be for cyrillic?
Huh. I would have expected the team members to congraTulate each other. Crazy CalTech-ers.
;)
P.S. Well done.
Check out The Speech Recognition HOWTO. It covers a variety of speech recognition systems that may be able to do what you want.
Dammit people, get your nomenclature right. Both air and water are fluids! Air is a gas (well several, but...), and water is a liquid (at room temperature, when it's called "water"...), but both of these are fluids. So, the whole "bubble of fluid inside of air, inside of fluid" doesn't really make sense.
Y'all have already read Michael Chrichton's Prey, right?
I used to live in a small town on the plains in the Midwest, and whenever the wind blew from a certain direction, the entire town would smell like the hog operation up wind. It was definitely heavy at times. Controlling this would be a good idea.
That being said, I don't know about this whole "health risk" worry. While the smell may drive some people crazy, I have to say that I don't have any physical defects from inhaling pig stink. Some people just need to calm down a bit, I think.
Actually, yes, pair programming does have its place. I'm writing a compiler right now with a couple of teammates for a class, and there are just certain parts where it REALLY helps to have someone looking over your shoulder. I mean, when your writing regexp's for a scanner it's REALLY easy to mess something up, and can be rather difficult to find it.
I won't argue that it definitely takes some getting used to. I, like everyone else, am someone who would rather go off and code on my own and then review the code later. I don't like having someone say "hey, you forgot a semicolon there" right after I hit enter. Chances are I realized it too, and will be hitting backspace in the next half second to correct it anyway. But, this is something that a pair has to work out. There is work to be done getting used to both the typer and the watcher positions.
I know the Q&A said that there will basically be know effect to the Link/Open Source community if SCO wins this case. This was based on the idea that the offending code will just be ripped out and replaced. It also says that the case is not specifically against Linux/the GPL/FSF/etc.
:P
However, it seems to me that there COULD be a direct effect on the community. Wouldn't this case set a precedent by which other cases would be judged? If one person can get away with it, won't others be able to do this same by siting this decision?
P.S. IANAL
P.P.S. All I ever see when someone types that is the word "anal" in all caps.
IMO, xfig is only a chore to use for about the first project, maybe two that you do with it. After that you have everything figured out, and can do pretty much anything with it.
It apparently also has an fink version. Sorry if this is of no help - I don't actually have a mac [yet], so I can't try it myself.
And, if you don't know what xfig is, a) shame on you, b) here is a link.
Load up your X11 server and run xfig. :)
Better watch out if you live by the sea... Lease the land for your new house for 50-100 years, don't buy it, and you should be fine ;)
Sweet! You remember that ocean-front property in Arizona I was always trying to sell you...?
Um...actually, the article actual says that it will affect the Gulf Stream, it just doesn't attribute it [directly] to salinity. (paragraphs 5 & 6)
Did you mean to link to apt-get.org? Apt-get.com seems like a completely useless site (all links point to index.html, which it says doesn't exist).
Dammit - going to be in the air on a plane the entire day on the 16th! Oh well, I guess I'll just celebrate by booting up my Debian box (Woody - my main box :) when I finally get back home. Now...which beer...
What's the nessecity for lack of wire? I mean, when you can buy two Ethernet cards that operate at 100Mbit/sec and 10 ft. of cable, all for $30 or less, why worry about wireless? Are they separated by a wall that you can't make a hole through? Why not just use more wire?
So, what don't they just put a small trackball on top of the mouse? Then you could scroll up/down/sideways/combo.
Can I ask where you found the "entire net worth of the most successful spammer" statistic?
I think part of this may come from spammers being resellers. You never see a spam from Pfizer, but you see plenty of spam selling Viagra. So, you end up back in the same place of trying to find the person who sent the spam, because they are the ones doing the selling. You can't even call up Pfizer and say "stop selling Viagra to spammer@hotmail.com", because they don't even know they're selling Viagra to him.