Dude, the kool-aid's gone sour. They were saying the same thing about computers. Unfortunately, they got co-opted into the system, changing it, but not defeating it.
I'm certain, however, that there will be a big bruhaha over the illegal filesharing of industrial designs.
As an ex electrical engineer, I can say there are two things you remember about capacitors when designing a circuit:
1) If signal consistency is important to you, never use an RC oscillator 2) If you need it to last at least as long as you work there, always use a cap with a voltage of ceil((inputSignal.average+inputSignal.stddev*3)*1. 25)
These ifs are usually rhetorical; you always want signal consistency, and you always want it to last as long as you can be held responsible for it. Period.
Funny. 'cos I thought it meant 'anthroform built out of dried plant matter'
Still, this is how colloquial terms come to be. For example, 'troll' means 'small ugly hominid', but more often than not these days means 'the guy I'm replying to'
"Now if they were talking about electrohydrodynamics using water, that's a little different. Basically, you can use electrohydrodynamics to pump water in a liquid cooling system without needing any moving parts."
I believe someone makes a product what does something similar using a low-temperature fusable metal, like Galinstan. Except that it uses basic electromagnetics rather than electrostatic.
The liquid metal is in an aluminum tube with a thin plastic layer on the inside, and has a small current run through it. At two points in the system, a magnetic field is applied. The result is essentially an inside-out motor in liquid form (hows that for a marketing description?).
Because the metal is heavier and has better conductivity than water, it can carry the same amount of heat away with a lower flow rate than water cooling. The main concern, of course, is that galinstan is rediculously aggressive (hence the plastic lining), so the electrodes will eventually degrade, leaking conductive material where it shouldn't be.
Hey, maybe he's trying to say Perl coders write bad code.
(Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!)
No, seriously. Your point's correct - but the reason perl is often hard to maintain (not always) is that often times, a perlscript is written as either a hack to an existing system (such as in this article), or as a quick-and-dirty script to get something to happen.
I usually think of Perl as system bailing wire, and Bash as computer bondo. You can build great, workable things with both, but there are tools with better attributes (on a computer the speed of C/C++, and the stability of having better coders write it).
Which leads me to question: Why didn't the government look into a challenge-reponse solution to these passports? Doing an SHA-1 in hardware doesn't take up THAT much juice, does it?
"They just had to face the prospect of ending up dead or in jail, or having their rights severely curtailed."
I'm sorry, since when was that even a concern here?
"You lost your right to say that Americans are free when you didn't butcher Dubya and string up the supreme court for imposing their own opinions on a set of election results that were not even remotely clear, and refusing to even hear the appeals of the tens of thousands of disenfranchised voters that were barred from voting just for being poor and having names that were too similar to those of a convicted criminals in other states."
Unfortunately, most US citizens are getting more and more fed up with politics. As a result, more and more of us follow only the laws we fell like following, and fewer of us (proportionately) end up in jail as a result; the failed laws end up in the same place as 'blue laws' (the extreme puritan laws passed at the turn of the century. Technically, I can't snog my girl in public. Doesn't mean I don't do it.)
Were it true that the USAn's were under tyrrany, I'd not be able to speak out against my government, nor the corporations who presently have our freedom in a stranglehold.
But I can. And I do. And so does Mr. Stiglitz.
And Joe Stiglitz is a brilliant man. I set up for a talk of his at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania - he was railing aginst the present design of the insurance infrastructure in the US. Meanwhile, where most intellectuals are fine with identifying problems with a system, he talked out an all-out solution.
Case one illustrates the difference between crime and infringement, as far as consequences go. You can't win a case on intent, or even posession alone, if the case is civil.
I don't know what case two illustrates. I assume the 'I' in it is the RIAA, the 'you' is the consumer, and the 'car' is music, but I'm not sure where the bank robbery or theft comes in. I'm thinking this just goes into the 'bad vehicular metaphor' category.
"Soliciting to a crime or attempt to commit a crime is 'sometimes' punishable"
Hence one of the many and varied differences between a crime and a civil infringement. 'Intent to infringe' isn't actionable, nor is solicitation to infringe or incitement to infringe. (this includes all civil infractions, like, say I incite you to break my arm, and drop charges on battery. You could not then win a suit against me for inciting you to break my arm)
Not exactly. Adobe software assumes the screen DPI is 72, so when using Photoshop you are correct.
Meanwhile, Windows is ubiquitously set to 96. As a result, a 10pt x 10pt rectangle on your screen measures 13.3 pixels square.
A properly configured X system, on the other hand, can usually tell your screen's resolution in Real World Units, from the DPMS info. On a linux box, one point is one point, regardless of how high your resolution is. Still, things measured in pixels (non svg icons, the thickness of your taskbar) cause problems. I'd like to see an xfce patch to measure all things in points, and to autoscale icons some day.
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Dude, the kool-aid's gone sour. They were saying the same thing about computers. Unfortunately, they got co-opted into the system, changing it, but not defeating it.
I'm certain, however, that there will be a big bruhaha over the illegal filesharing of industrial designs.
Hey, does this thing do hard acrylics?
Hmmm... that does sound like it's worth the price of admission...
Though, I bet they charge $50 at the door to 'cover seating costs'.
... in a well management devel farm. This is SCO we're talking about. I'll bet about 75% of that R&D has gone to the CEO's R&R.
But would it run Linux?
Doesn't matter. itsatrap. or fud. or notfud. or whatever.
Yes, but I've only invested a buck, and have a near zero chance of getting infinite cash. It's like the lotto. No chance of an extremely high payoff.
As an ex electrical engineer, I can say there are two things you remember about capacitors when designing a circuit:
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1) If signal consistency is important to you, never use an RC oscillator
2) If you need it to last at least as long as you work there, always use a cap with a voltage of ceil((inputSignal.average+inputSignal.stddev*3)*1
These ifs are usually rhetorical; you always want signal consistency, and you always want it to last as long as you can be held responsible for it. Period.
Funny. 'cos I thought it meant 'anthroform built out of dried plant matter'
Still, this is how colloquial terms come to be. For example, 'troll' means 'small ugly hominid', but more often than not these days means 'the guy I'm replying to'
"Now if they were talking about electrohydrodynamics using water, that's a little different. Basically, you can use electrohydrodynamics to pump water in a liquid cooling system without needing any moving parts."
I believe someone makes a product what does something similar using a low-temperature fusable metal, like Galinstan. Except that it uses basic electromagnetics rather than electrostatic.
The liquid metal is in an aluminum tube with a thin plastic layer on the inside, and has a small current run through it. At two points in the system, a magnetic field is applied. The result is essentially an inside-out motor in liquid form (hows that for a marketing description?).
Because the metal is heavier and has better conductivity than water, it can carry the same amount of heat away with a lower flow rate than water cooling. The main concern, of course, is that galinstan is rediculously aggressive (hence the plastic lining), so the electrodes will eventually degrade, leaking conductive material where it shouldn't be.
Mouse-powering mouspad
Also, you'd only need to place the power-catching end of this tech on the battery itself. Nifty.
Ok. I recall using them in DOS and on Unix terminals. And hating vi and emacs (have to poke fun at the masochists).
Ctrl-backspace is still valid on Slashdot.
Sell? I suppose it might be, though I have no idea> <a href="http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/">why</a>.
Meanwhile, the site you linked me to just says that stuff isn't allowed in your carry-on. It can be in your checked luggage, no problem. That's too inconvenient for you?
Hey, maybe he's trying to say Perl coders write bad code.
(Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!)
No, seriously. Your point's correct - but the reason perl is often hard to maintain (not always) is that often times, a perlscript is written as either a hack to an existing system (such as in this article), or as a quick-and-dirty script to get something to happen.
I usually think of Perl as system bailing wire, and Bash as computer bondo. You can build great, workable things with both, but there are tools with better attributes (on a computer the speed of C/C++, and the stability of having better coders write it).
Which leads me to question:
Why didn't the government look into a challenge-reponse solution to these passports? Doing an SHA-1 in hardware doesn't take up THAT much juice, does it?
"They just had to face the prospect of ending up dead or in jail, or having their rights severely curtailed."
I'm sorry, since when was that even a concern here?
"You lost your right to say that Americans are free when you didn't butcher Dubya and string up the supreme court for imposing their own opinions on a set of election results that were not even remotely clear, and refusing to even hear the appeals of the tens of thousands of disenfranchised voters that were barred from voting just for being poor and having names that were too similar to those of a convicted criminals in other states."
Unfortunately, most US citizens are getting more and more fed up with politics. As a result, more and more of us follow only the laws we fell like following, and fewer of us (proportionately) end up in jail as a result; the failed laws end up in the same place as 'blue laws' (the extreme puritan laws passed at the turn of the century. Technically, I can't snog my girl in public. Doesn't mean I don't do it.)
Uh, they dropped the liquid thing, and you've been able to legally rip DVDs for years. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Wordstar? I'm sorry, the 1980's called. They want their word processor back.
Now, I have to deal with this call from the 1990's. It seems their a bit irritated about my theft of their joke.
Were it true that the USAn's were under tyrrany, I'd not be able to speak out against my government, nor the corporations who presently have our freedom in a stranglehold.
But I can. And I do. And so does Mr. Stiglitz.
And Joe Stiglitz is a brilliant man. I set up for a talk of his at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania - he was railing aginst the present design of the insurance infrastructure in the US. Meanwhile, where most intellectuals are fine with identifying problems with a system, he talked out an all-out solution.
Mathew? Mark? Luke?
Don't tell me, I know this...
John? Paul? George? Ringo?
Feh, I can't rememeber...
Case one illustrates the difference between crime and infringement, as far as consequences go. You can't win a case on intent, or even posession alone, if the case is civil.
I don't know what case two illustrates. I assume the 'I' in it is the RIAA, the 'you' is the consumer, and the 'car' is music, but I'm not sure where the bank robbery or theft comes in. I'm thinking this just goes into the 'bad vehicular metaphor' category.
"Soliciting to a crime or attempt to commit a crime is 'sometimes' punishable"
Hence one of the many and varied differences between a crime and a civil infringement. 'Intent to infringe' isn't actionable, nor is solicitation to infringe or incitement to infringe. (this includes all civil infractions, like, say I incite you to break my arm, and drop charges on battery. You could not then win a suit against me for inciting you to break my arm)
Administrative shares are illegal then? How about a passworded FTP server? Those both can be considered 'shared' media.
In your case, I think ^W would be perfect; it would close the window you're trying to comment in. *smirk*
... extort^^Hsettle
I believe ^^H (ctrl-backspace) would work best, like so:
Reminds me of an old axim:
"Real programmers aren't afraid of math."
Not exactly. Adobe software assumes the screen DPI is 72, so when using Photoshop you are correct.
Meanwhile, Windows is ubiquitously set to 96. As a result, a 10pt x 10pt rectangle on your screen measures 13.3 pixels square.
A properly configured X system, on the other hand, can usually tell your screen's resolution in Real World Units, from the DPMS info. On a linux box, one point is one point, regardless of how high your resolution is. Still, things measured in pixels (non svg icons, the thickness of your taskbar) cause problems. I'd like to see an xfce patch to measure all things in points, and to autoscale icons some day.
Hm. Apparently you can't smell the sarcasm. Oh well.