also, it's a damn sight more than 4.7 tons of TNT. Assuming a bathtub size chunk of Cu is 2m^2, the release of energy is about 40kilotons, based on 1kg of TNT releasing 4Gjoule (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/859204 043.Ph.r.html).
Come on guys and gals, lets get pedantic here!
Come on, we're all geeks here, lets be geeky. It doesn't hit with the force of anything. When it impacts, it releases energy equivalent to x tons of explosive detonating.
Who needs to prove prior art? Obviousness is also an impediment to a patent. Even if the existing prior art cited here doesn't quite match, the reaction of everyone on this page is that there must be some that does: a fairly good indication that practitioners versed in the art regard the idea as obvious.
They tried to provide themselves with a fig-leaf for this eventuality early on in the proceedings by arguing that the GPL was invalid and therefore GPL'd code had entered the public domain. Expect to see heavy trolling/shilling on this point in an effort to prop up their share price.
When I worked as a repair tech, when a customer sent in something for repair that wasn't faulty (often the case) we couldn't charge. So invariably we rplaced U3 or R57.
>Without that set point of reference, there's no way to make the kind of judgements you're attempting.
Yes there is, and I do. How arrogant of you to suppose that anyone who doesn't share your belifs must lack a moral compass.
You chose what to believe, and then offload responsibility for the consequences of your actions on a god. I choose how to act each and every day, and take personal responsibility for the consequences.
Very hifalutin'. I'm agnostic. I don't know that there can never be a proof of the existance or non-existance of god: that would require as big an leap of faith as being an atheist or religious. I don't even ask the question 'is there a god?' because I'm not in the least interested in the answer. I'm concerned to live a decent and honorable life according to my own lights, and if there is a god, I'm not interested in his/her/it's opinion.
The big questions in my life revolve around _how_ to live my life, so that the world my young son inherits is a little better for my efforts than the one I came into, not who to live it for.
> the political implications are troubling, indicating a widening rift within the Western world.
I don't find it troubling at all. Individually, I'm more likely to like an American than I am to like someone of my own nationality. As a nation.. well, I wish the Atlantic was wider.
It may be comprehensive, but I find it pretty slow, and generally download from continental Europe or even Australasia. I ahve to say I regard this as not much of a loss.
All that comes to mind is 'get a life'. You live in one of the world's great cities, and all you can find to do is simulate an old arcade game? Is there really nothing more constructive, that perhaps engages in the world about you, that you can find to do? I'm sick to death of being associated in the minds of the non-nerd public with self indulgent, overgrown kids who see no reason to use their talents and energy to contribute to, or even participate, in the society they live in.
Please take the website down, masturbation is better done in private.
Most countries have some sort of legally enforceable quarantine and notifiable disease regulations relating to human health. Nations need to give serious thought to instituting corresponding legally binding provisions on externally linked computer systems.
If companies and individuals were taken offline and/or fined for infecting others, we could expect that more trouble would be taken to put in place appropriate precautions.
Everyone knows that there is a problem, so no-one can claim innocence. Letting your system become infected and infect others is to be complicit with the virus writers, and you deserve to be treated as a criminal not a victim.
It's not looking goodwhen the first statement they make is deceptive. Apperently the new WP Office is up to 63% cheaper than MS Office....
...then, in the small print, we see they are comparing their upgrade price with a full MS Office pricetag. If they are aiming to increase market share, which means they are targetting people who can't upgrade, this is an attempt to deceive. If they are merely trying to hold on to existing customers, it's sad, unambitious, and they deserve to fail.
Apple have already tried to sue somone over the 'look and feel' of a product, and it was a Microsoft Win. Basicly, no-one is goind to spend money going after someone for cloning software any more: it's too easy to change how it looks.
Excellant boiling point: it boils off the processor and condenses elsewhere, _very_ efficient cooling, processor never exceeds boiling point while there is liquid (remember latent heat from school physics lessons?). Gimme!
While this security stuff is transparently FUD, Green Hills do make a point on their website that I believe to be valid: Real-Time performance cannnot be retrofitted.
There is widespread confusion between the concept of an embedded OS and an RTOS, and before I go further, I should clear this up.
An embedded OS is any OS that you can configure to run an embedded application. This definition has recently been extended to include multi application devices, like PDA's and Phones, that are in effect very low resourced personal computers, with non-standard interfaces, rather than embedded devices.
An RTOS guarantees that 1) an interrupt will be handled within a fixed number of clock cycles and 2) that this number is small enough that the response will appear instantaneous in comparison with the time constants of the sytem in which it is used. For example, Humans can't generally see things faster than 0.1 secs, so an OS guaranteeing 10ms response on a given platform would be real-time for a UI application. For hi speed motor control, we might well be talking about acceptable latencies of 10us or less.
As a proud owner of a Sharp Zaurus, which is a fairly well specified hardware platform (extrordinarily so in embedded terms), I know that the embedded Linux running on it is not realtime for a UI. Even if Linux is improved for embedded apps, and platforms get faster, RTOS's will also be improved, and they will run on lighter platforms.
There is therefore no way that Linux will be running as an RTOS in low-latency applications ever: it will always be cheaper to use a designed-for-realtime OS on a lighter weight platform.
Currently all (AFIK) RTOS's are proprietary. The challenge for the FOSS community is not to insist that Linux is appropriate everywhere, but to design a truly open source RTOS from the ground up, so that we have the same comfort in a lift or with our car's ABS as we do in the robustness of our IT running on Linux.
If I see a lift or a car running Linux, I'll take the stairs and public transport thanks very much,
but I'll continue to mostly run Linux at home.
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Also BIG input fans: maintain positive pressure inside so that all the air inside is clean.
Alternatively/also, take the back off once a month and vacuum inside.
Assuming they've dropped :-)
also, it's a damn sight more than 4.7 tons of TNT. Assuming a bathtub size chunk of Cu is 2m^2, the release of energy is about 40kilotons, based on 1kg of TNT releasing 4Gjoule (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/859204 043.Ph.r.html).
Come on guys and gals, lets get pedantic here!
Come on, we're all geeks here, lets be geeky. It doesn't hit with the force of anything. When it impacts, it releases energy equivalent to x tons of explosive detonating.
All your stuff is going to be stolen and/or broken. Just deal with it.
Who needs to prove prior art? Obviousness is also an impediment to a patent. Even if the existing prior art cited here doesn't quite match, the reaction of everyone on this page is that there must be some that does: a fairly good indication that practitioners versed in the art regard the idea as obvious.
They tried to provide themselves with a fig-leaf for this eventuality early on in the proceedings by arguing that the GPL was invalid and therefore GPL'd code had entered the public domain. Expect to see heavy trolling/shilling on this point in an effort to prop up their share price.
Or it could just turn black when you try to run SP2 on it.
I'll have a Big Tux to go!
It's convienient when you're typing with a mug of coffee in one hand and you've got a capitalised string to enter.
When I worked as a repair tech, when a customer sent in something for repair that wasn't faulty (often the case) we couldn't charge. So invariably we rplaced U3 or R57.
You had a problem connecting to your ISP, and their tech guy automatically assumed that it was an M$ application causing the problem.
In what way is this unreasonable?
>Without that set point of reference, there's no way to make the kind of judgements you're attempting. Yes there is, and I do. How arrogant of you to suppose that anyone who doesn't share your belifs must lack a moral compass. You chose what to believe, and then offload responsibility for the consequences of your actions on a god. I choose how to act each and every day, and take personal responsibility for the consequences.
Very hifalutin'. I'm agnostic. I don't know that there can never be a proof of the existance or non-existance of god: that would require as big an leap of faith as being an atheist or religious. I don't even ask the question 'is there a god?' because I'm not in the least interested in the answer. I'm concerned to live a decent and honorable life according to my own lights, and if there is a god, I'm not interested in his/her/it's opinion. The big questions in my life revolve around _how_ to live my life, so that the world my young son inherits is a little better for my efforts than the one I came into, not who to live it for.
> the political implications are troubling, indicating a widening rift within the Western world. I don't find it troubling at all. Individually, I'm more likely to like an American than I am to like someone of my own nationality. As a nation.. well, I wish the Atlantic was wider.
It may be comprehensive, but I find it pretty slow, and generally download from continental Europe or even Australasia. I ahve to say I regard this as not much of a loss.
All that comes to mind is 'get a life'. You live in one of the world's great cities, and all you can find to do is simulate an old arcade game? Is there really nothing more constructive, that perhaps engages in the world about you, that you can find to do? I'm sick to death of being associated in the minds of the non-nerd public with self indulgent, overgrown kids who see no reason to use their talents and energy to contribute to, or even participate, in the society they live in. Please take the website down, masturbation is better done in private.
Most countries have some sort of legally enforceable quarantine and notifiable disease regulations relating to human health. Nations need to give serious thought to instituting corresponding legally binding provisions on externally linked computer systems.
If companies and individuals were taken offline and/or fined for infecting others, we could expect that more trouble would be taken to put in place appropriate precautions.
Everyone knows that there is a problem, so no-one can claim innocence. Letting your system become infected and infect others is to be complicit with the virus writers, and you deserve to be treated as a criminal not a victim.
Oh! My bad. Moderator: does humility improve my karma?
It's not looking goodwhen the first statement they make is deceptive. Apperently the new WP Office is up to 63% cheaper than MS Office....
WinZipC VS
Firefox
Thunderbird
FileZilla
Tortoise
WinMerge
Dev-C++
CDex
Syn
MP3BookHelper
I intend to install a life once I find one that doesn't crash every time I try to use it.
Apple have already tried to sue somone over the 'look and feel' of a product, and it was a Microsoft Win.
Basicly, no-one is goind to spend money going after someone for cloning software any more: it's too easy to change how it looks.
Yeah, conservatives are still trying to impress the adults by acting all grown up until well into their eighties.
Excellant boiling point: it boils off the processor and condenses elsewhere, _very_ efficient cooling, processor never exceeds boiling point while there is liquid (remember latent heat from school physics lessons?).
Gimme!
While this security stuff is transparently FUD, Green Hills do make a point on their website that I believe to be valid: Real-Time performance cannnot be retrofitted.
There is widespread confusion between the concept of an embedded OS and an RTOS, and before I go further, I should clear this up.
An embedded OS is any OS that you can configure to run an embedded application. This definition has recently been extended to include multi application devices, like PDA's and Phones, that are in effect very low resourced personal computers, with non-standard interfaces, rather than embedded devices.
An RTOS guarantees that 1) an interrupt will be handled within a fixed number of clock cycles and 2) that this number is small enough that the response will appear instantaneous in comparison with the time constants of the sytem in which it is used. For example, Humans can't generally see things faster than 0.1 secs, so an OS guaranteeing 10ms response on a given platform would be real-time for a UI application. For hi speed motor control, we might well be talking about acceptable latencies of 10us or less.
As a proud owner of a Sharp Zaurus, which is a fairly well specified hardware platform (extrordinarily so in embedded terms), I know that the embedded Linux running on it is not realtime for a UI. Even if Linux is improved for embedded apps, and platforms get faster, RTOS's will also be improved, and they will run on lighter platforms.
There is therefore no way that Linux will be running as an RTOS in low-latency applications ever: it will always be cheaper to use a designed-for-realtime OS on a lighter weight platform.
Currently all (AFIK) RTOS's are proprietary. The challenge for the FOSS community is not to insist that Linux is appropriate everywhere, but to design a truly open source RTOS from the ground up, so that we have the same comfort in a lift or with our car's ABS as we do in the robustness of our IT running on Linux.
If I see a lift or a car running Linux, I'll take the stairs and public transport thanks very much, but I'll continue to mostly run Linux at home.