But just like many companies who don't let you drink beer, Borland won't let you (legally) use the free Jbuilder for comercial development.
Part of the EULA for the free version of JBuilder is no comercial development. I'm not sure if you are permitted to use it for in-house developement either.
Expanding on reason one gives you reason three, they can't for the time being. From the article, it seemed like they can't get out of their current "exclusive" contracts until 2008. When the current contracts were signed, the net wasn't what it is today. It wasn't possible/practical for the majority of those on the internet.
Of course even when they are renegotiated, it won't make a bit of difference.
Yes, but that is why I tossed in the comment about 1/3 market share. My numbers were off though. I misread the Blockbuster figures as 1700/hour and that should have been 1700/minute. The gallons per tape figure drops down to about.62 gallons per tape. Still very high considering most people don't make dedicated trips just to get/return movies and they also get multiple movies per trip.
Doh....It is here and you actually are right...that should have been 1700 per minute. I guess the figures are slightly skewed.:)
So that should be 2.68 billion rentals per year. But that is of total rentals (VHS, DVD, etc). I would guess that they do less then 30% in DVD. So the number comes down to 804. 10% being 80.4 million. So that comes out to about.62 gallons per rental, maybe more depending on the percentage of DVD rentals. So my numbers are a lot smaller and make more sense, but I think that they are still very high. And it was 10 minutes from a store, not 10 miles.
According to the Blockbuster web site, the rent on average 1700 videos an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They also have about 1/3 of their market. So, so total market size for video rentals is around 44.6 million videos a year.
This figure is for total number of rentals, and might also include video games and non-video rental items but just for the sake of showing how off these figures are, let's just assume that this is only DVD rentals.
So 10% of this figure would be about 4.4 million DVD rentals. That means that people use over 10 gallons of gas per video rental and 25 kg of carbon emissions! I think that 10 gals/video is quite funny since Blockbuster claims that there is a store within 10 miles of almost every metropolitan house.
Ok, teach me to respond when I'm tired.:) The everything2 node that I originally refered to was basically a definition of an OC-1 that you are suppose to multiply by 3. Didn't see that part.
Since I have no expericene working with ATM or traffice shaping, I might be talking out my ass (wouldn't be the first time:) ), but traffic shaping doesn't increase the available bandwithd, just makes a more fair use of it. Correct? So instead of a small porportion of the network sucking most of the available bandwidth, many people have equal amounts of bandwidth, but with quite reduced speeds.
Either way, the bottleneck is still there somewhere between the wall jack and the internet. It's finite and can/will reach capacity at some point in time.
When I said a couple, I didn't mean 2 or 3 people total. I should have said more approprately a small percentage of the DSL subscribers. The CO serving my house has a single OC-3 connection (at least as reported by DSLreports.com). Since an OC-3 is approximately 51.84 megabits/sec, it would take 69 people running at 768up/128down to completely saturate the line. This particular CO serves the NE corner of my city, approximately 10,000 holmes maybe and numerous business that probably would bring down the number of people further.
The phone company hopes that there will not be a large number of people sucking 768 kbs consistantly for very long periods of time, just as a cable company bets that not everyone in a neighborhood gets online all at once. But my original point is still valid. There is a limited total capacity of either system's pipes. There is still a bottle neck somewhere between the "Internet" the wall jack. The bottle neck just moves from the neighborhood to the CO.
It's all shared bandwidth if you look at the larger picture. With DSL, each person has a dedicated line to there house....but only from the CO. Once the line gets to the CO, then it is combined with many other subscribers and passed on to the fatter pipes. Several DSL subscribers can still suck most of the bandwidth. So what if you are guaranteed a 768/128 or whatever to the CO...it's beyond the CO that matters.
Cable does share the bandwith among the neighborhood, but it usually (or at least is suppose to be) partitioned off into smaller neighborhoods once one gets beyond the capacity.
See here for more of an explanation and other DSL/Cable myths. Yes it is from Cox cable, and yes the do have a vested interest in trying to get you to subscribe to cable service, so take it with a grain of salt. But for the most part it is true.
if (code.Sumbitted())
code.licenseTo(Google);
code.licenseTo(WhoEverElseWantsIt);
It's a "non-exclusive license to them to make, sell, or use the technology". What is to stop you from marketing it to other people? You can still retain the copyright, just you are granting them free use of it.
I don't have a clue what the reference has to do with the article, but the quote is from the movie A Christmas Story. Ralphie gets his secret decoder ring and decodeds a message (IIRC) from Little Orphan Annie that says "Be sure to drink your ovaltine".
Actually, that is the AUP...there TOS is here. And depending on how you define it, it kinda prohibits it.
6vii....FOR ANY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, OR AS AN END-POINT ON A NON-COMCAST LOCAL AREA NETWORK OR WIDE AREA NETWORK, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) OR A VPN TUNNELING PROTOCOL...
Assuming that you have multiple computers in your residence, I would think that your NAT/Router/Whatever box would fit the strict definition of an "end-point on a non-comcast local area network". Don't get me wrong, I think the policy is bunk between that and the whole VPN prohibiting thing...Let me use my account how I want as long as I don't abuse it.
Let them cancel my account...there is always DSL in my area.
My first year of CS classes was actually at WMU... I would have to agree at least with my two semester of experice there with what you said. IIRC, I had Prof. Boales or something like that for lecture and two TAs from India that I couldn't understand what the heck they were talking about. The class was taught in C++ and the instructors were horrorible, almost everyone cheated of the few people that actually wanted to understand the subject (myself in the latter group.) I remember having to do almost the entire group projects because no one else cared/could.
Indiana University-Purdue Univesity Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Here are the requirements for the different degrees: BS in CSBA in CS (all though I think I have only heard of 3 people ever getting the Bachelor of Arts degree) BS in IS (They don't have a CIS degree...but I guess the IS degree is the same thing.) I don't think that they offer a MIS degree on this campus. You would need to go to the main IU campus in Bloomington for that. For what it's worth, all CS classes are apart of Purdue and my actual degree says Purdue, even though it is a joint campus between the two universities.
When people ask me what the differences are, I tell them it kind of like a sliding scale. At one end, it is business only. At the other end, it is computer only.
MIS - This is more towards the business end then the computer end. Basically, a business degree that taught visual basic also.
CIS - Kind of in the middle. More computers then business, but doesn't have the harder math/science requirements if at all. At my university, this is what most people who couldn't hack the math requirements switched to.
CS - More on the computer end then the business end. Programming, theory, and math. I think that this is the most desireable degree of the three, but it all depends on what you want to do I guess.
I don't think that if I have a e-commerce site in Flordia that you access from California is considered conducting buisness in this state. Same thing I think would apply if I spammed you from Flordia while you were in California. I think that "conducting business in this state" means an actual physical presence somewhere in the state. Otherwise, it falls under interstate commerce, something that the states have limited powers. Besides, even if it included people anywhere trying to sell stuff across state lines into California, whouldn't they be a little bit out of their jursidiction for prosecution?
Also not trying to flame here, but I think that you and your parent post are talking about two diferent types of toe in/out. You are talking about changing the alignment of the wheel in ways that it was suppose to be changed and withing the manufacturers design (or maybe by stretching it a little). He is talking about when someone pimps out there beat up 83 junker and pushes out the wheels 6 or 8 inches to look "cool". The bearings were not designed to handle the extra force the wheels exert since they are pushed out so much further then normal, destroying them much quicker over time. This force appears to actually bend the axle and displays a noticeable slant to the wheel. My guess is that this does absolutely nothing to increate the performance/braking/acceleration/etc. The only things that I would imagine that it increses is the size of part shops pocketbook and the laughters of bystanders who have a clue.
Also, I think that you are confusing a wing with a spoiler. A functioning spoiler is designed to limit the amout of turbulance between the air flowing over the car and the air flowing under. As a result, a spoiler WILL add some drag. They try to limit the amout of lift, but really don't add any downward forces. Most spoilers on cars are purely a cosmetic thing and do very little for performance, especially at normal road speeds.
A wing however, such as on Indy Cars, do act as an "upside down airplain wing" producing the downforce you described. Here is a link that goes into a little bit more of detail.
Finally, I do not believe that adding a supercharger/turbocharger will increase the amount of torque an engine will produce. Isn't that a function (byproduct?) of the transmission? I don't know for sure. But enough car talk for now.
-If I don't make any sense or you think that I am wrong, it probably is because I am.:)
So let me get this straight. I should add to the pro/con of a box the possible feature of something that is not currently available. Isn't that kinda like saying that one box is better then the other because someday it could outperform the others if the software is written. If you want to sell me a console, sell me on what it can do, not on what is may never do. I do admit that it probably added a trivial to the over all costs in the long run. Do you have any links that tell more about this?
Is there a "HTML-Bible" out there somewhere that says "Thou shalt not create a web page with more then two paragraphs of content on it." Many of the tech-review web pages have the incredibly useless format of having to go through 20 pages of fluff just to get to any type of meat in the article. Give me one page that has the entire article.
My guess is that we only need to worry if people start to fly around in a big bright red vehicle with a red-nosed reindeer leading the way. And in such case, I want NORAD tracking all those nut-cases.
This is nothing....follow link for a real display.
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Go here to see what a real light display can look like. I visited this one year a while back. Rumor had it that his neighbors put complained enough about him putting up 1 million lights on his property that he bought the houses on each side of him and put 1 million lights on each of those properties. After the supreme court wouldn't hear his case, he was forced to shut down his display. Disney ended up getting in contact with him and now he does the Specticle of Lights down at MGM Studios (I think).
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Java, with Borland Jbuilder is free(beer)
But just like many companies who don't let you drink beer, Borland won't let you (legally) use the free Jbuilder for comercial development.
Part of the EULA for the free version of JBuilder is no comercial development. I'm not sure if you are permitted to use it for in-house developement either.
Do you have any links or pointers for more information on the "activation"? I haven't seen anything mentioned anywhere.
Expanding on reason one gives you reason three, they can't for the time being. From the article, it seemed like they can't get out of their current "exclusive" contracts until 2008. When the current contracts were signed, the net wasn't what it is today. It wasn't possible/practical for the majority of those on the internet.
Of course even when they are renegotiated, it won't make a bit of difference.
Yes, but that is why I tossed in the comment about 1/3 market share. My numbers were off though. I misread the Blockbuster figures as 1700/hour and that should have been 1700/minute. The gallons per tape figure drops down to about .62 gallons per tape. Still very high considering most people don't make dedicated trips just to get/return movies and they also get multiple movies per trip.
Doh....It is here and you actually are right...that should have been 1700 per minute. I guess the figures are slightly skewed. :)
.62 gallons per rental, maybe more depending on the percentage of DVD rentals. So my numbers are a lot smaller and make more sense, but I think that they are still very high. And it was 10 minutes from a store, not 10 miles.
So that should be 2.68 billion rentals per year. But that is of total rentals (VHS, DVD, etc). I would guess that they do less then 30% in DVD. So the number comes down to 804. 10% being 80.4 million. So that comes out to about
According to the Blockbuster web site, the rent on average 1700 videos an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They also have about 1/3 of their market. So, so total market size for video rentals is around 44.6 million videos a year.
This figure is for total number of rentals, and might also include video games and non-video rental items but just for the sake of showing how off these figures are, let's just assume that this is only DVD rentals.
So 10% of this figure would be about 4.4 million DVD rentals. That means that people use over 10 gallons of gas per video rental and 25 kg of carbon emissions! I think that 10 gals/video is quite funny since Blockbuster claims that there is a store within 10 miles of almost every metropolitan house.
Ok, teach me to respond when I'm tired. :) The everything2 node that I originally refered to was basically a definition of an OC-1 that you are suppose to multiply by 3. Didn't see that part.
:) ), but traffic shaping doesn't increase the available bandwithd, just makes a more fair use of it. Correct? So instead of a small porportion of the network sucking most of the available bandwidth, many people have equal amounts of bandwidth, but with quite reduced speeds.
Since I have no expericene working with ATM or traffice shaping, I might be talking out my ass (wouldn't be the first time
Either way, the bottleneck is still there somewhere between the wall jack and the internet. It's finite and can/will reach capacity at some point in time.
When I said a couple, I didn't mean 2 or 3 people total. I should have said more approprately a small percentage of the DSL subscribers. The CO serving my house has a single OC-3 connection (at least as reported by DSLreports.com). Since an OC-3 is approximately 51.84 megabits/sec, it would take 69 people running at 768up/128down to completely saturate the line. This particular CO serves the NE corner of my city, approximately 10,000 holmes maybe and numerous business that probably would bring down the number of people further.
The phone company hopes that there will not be a large number of people sucking 768 kbs consistantly for very long periods of time, just as a cable company bets that not everyone in a neighborhood gets online all at once. But my original point is still valid. There is a limited total capacity of either system's pipes. There is still a bottle neck somewhere between the "Internet" the wall jack. The bottle neck just moves from the neighborhood to the CO.
It's all shared bandwidth if you look at the larger picture. With DSL, each person has a dedicated line to there house....but only from the CO. Once the line gets to the CO, then it is combined with many other subscribers and passed on to the fatter pipes. Several DSL subscribers can still suck most of the bandwidth. So what if you are guaranteed a 768/128 or whatever to the CO...it's beyond the CO that matters.
Cable does share the bandwith among the neighborhood, but it usually (or at least is suppose to be) partitioned off into smaller neighborhoods once one gets beyond the capacity.
See here for more of an explanation and other DSL/Cable myths. Yes it is from Cox cable, and yes the do have a vested interest in trying to get you to subscribe to cable service, so take it with a grain of salt. But for the most part it is true.
But you forgot the rest of the code:
if (code.Sumbitted())
code.licenseTo(Google);
code.licenseTo(WhoEverElseWantsIt);
It's a "non-exclusive license to them to make, sell, or use the technology". What is to stop you from marketing it to other people? You can still retain the copyright, just you are granting them free use of it.
I don't have a clue what the reference has to do with the article, but the quote is from the movie A Christmas Story. Ralphie gets his secret decoder ring and decodeds a message (IIRC) from Little Orphan Annie that says "Be sure to drink your ovaltine".
Actually, that is the AUP...there TOS is here. And depending on how you define it, it kinda prohibits it.
6vii....FOR ANY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, OR AS AN END-POINT ON A NON-COMCAST LOCAL AREA NETWORK OR WIDE AREA NETWORK, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) OR A VPN TUNNELING PROTOCOL...
Assuming that you have multiple computers in your residence, I would think that your NAT/Router/Whatever box would fit the strict definition of an "end-point on a non-comcast local area network". Don't get me wrong, I think the policy is bunk between that and the whole VPN prohibiting thing...Let me use my account how I want as long as I don't abuse it.
Let them cancel my account...there is always DSL in my area.
My first year of CS classes was actually at WMU... I would have to agree at least with my two semester of experice there with what you said. IIRC, I had Prof. Boales or something like that for lecture and two TAs from India that I couldn't understand what the heck they were talking about. The class was taught in C++ and the instructors were horrorible, almost everyone cheated of the few people that actually wanted to understand the subject (myself in the latter group.) I remember having to do almost the entire group projects because no one else cared/could.
Either that or he couldn't hack the CS or CIS degree requirements.
Indiana University-Purdue Univesity Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Here are the requirements for the different degrees: BS in CS BA in CS (all though I think I have only heard of 3 people ever getting the Bachelor of Arts degree) BS in IS (They don't have a CIS degree...but I guess the IS degree is the same thing.) I don't think that they offer a MIS degree on this campus. You would need to go to the main IU campus in Bloomington for that. For what it's worth, all CS classes are apart of Purdue and my actual degree says Purdue, even though it is a joint campus between the two universities.
When people ask me what the differences are, I tell them it kind of like a sliding scale. At one end, it is business only. At the other end, it is computer only.
MIS - This is more towards the business end then the computer end. Basically, a business degree that taught visual basic also.
CIS - Kind of in the middle. More computers then business, but doesn't have the harder math/science requirements if at all. At my university, this is what most people who couldn't hack the math requirements switched to.
CS - More on the computer end then the business end. Programming, theory, and math. I think that this is the most desireable degree of the three, but it all depends on what you want to do I guess.
I don't think that if I have a e-commerce site in Flordia that you access from California is considered conducting buisness in this state. Same thing I think would apply if I spammed you from Flordia while you were in California. I think that "conducting business in this state" means an actual physical presence somewhere in the state. Otherwise, it falls under interstate commerce, something that the states have limited powers. Besides, even if it included people anywhere trying to sell stuff across state lines into California, whouldn't they be a little bit out of their jursidiction for prosecution?
And the firefighters union is fighting it saying it infringes on their right to beg for money.
Also not trying to flame here, but I think that you and your parent post are talking about two diferent types of toe in/out. You are talking about changing the alignment of the wheel in ways that it was suppose to be changed and withing the manufacturers design (or maybe by stretching it a little). He is talking about when someone pimps out there beat up 83 junker and pushes out the wheels 6 or 8 inches to look "cool". The bearings were not designed to handle the extra force the wheels exert since they are pushed out so much further then normal, destroying them much quicker over time. This force appears to actually bend the axle and displays a noticeable slant to the wheel. My guess is that this does absolutely nothing to increate the performance/braking/acceleration/etc. The only things that I would imagine that it increses is the size of part shops pocketbook and the laughters of bystanders who have a clue.
:)
Also, I think that you are confusing a wing with a spoiler. A functioning spoiler is designed to limit the amout of turbulance between the air flowing over the car and the air flowing under. As a result, a spoiler WILL add some drag. They try to limit the amout of lift, but really don't add any downward forces. Most spoilers on cars are purely a cosmetic thing and do very little for performance, especially at normal road speeds.
A wing however, such as on Indy Cars, do act as an "upside down airplain wing" producing the downforce you described. Here is a link that goes into a little bit more of detail.
Finally, I do not believe that adding a supercharger/turbocharger will increase the amount of torque an engine will produce. Isn't that a function (byproduct?) of the transmission? I don't know for sure. But enough car talk for now.
-If I don't make any sense or you think that I am wrong, it probably is because I am.
So let me get this straight. I should add to the pro/con of a box the possible feature of something that is not currently available. Isn't that kinda like saying that one box is better then the other because someday it could outperform the others if the software is written. If you want to sell me a console, sell me on what it can do, not on what is may never do. I do admit that it probably added a trivial to the over all costs in the long run. Do you have any links that tell more about this?
Is there a "HTML-Bible" out there somewhere that says "Thou shalt not create a web page with more then two paragraphs of content on it." Many of the tech-review web pages have the incredibly useless format of having to go through 20 pages of fluff just to get to any type of meat in the article. Give me one page that has the entire article.
My guess is that we only need to worry if people start to fly around in a big bright red vehicle with a red-nosed reindeer leading the way. And in such case, I want NORAD tracking all those nut-cases.
Go here to see what a real light display can look like. I visited this one year a while back. Rumor had it that his neighbors put complained enough about him putting up 1 million lights on his property that he bought the houses on each side of him and put 1 million lights on each of those properties. After the supreme court wouldn't hear his case, he was forced to shut down his display. Disney ended up getting in contact with him and now he does the Specticle of Lights down at MGM Studios (I think).
You would also be assuming the poster was not using the metric system. 30 degrees C is about 86 degrees F.