That suggests that these things would be OK if the MPAA (or whoever) paid the ISPs. If that were allowed, then that would create a much worse internet than we have now.
We need to ensure that such a business model for ISPs would never be legal. That's what these court cases are about.
My daughter is only just 6yo and she already had an example of this. In a spelling test she was given, one of the words was "Cumulus". The teacher insisted that it was "Cumulous" and she was marked wrong.
On that occasion we let it go because on the whole we respect her teacher and we don't want to be labelled as troublemaking parents. But it was quite hard to do it! We quietly turned it into a lesson for her that teachers can be wrong sometimes, yet insist that their version is right, and yes, it is unfair. We'll save the trouble-making for later when something more important comes up. (I'm not saying you did the wrong thing - I think you did the right thing).
I recall an incident from my own schooldays aged about 13 where I had written a science fiction story for English that I was accused of plagiarising. I hadn't, though looking back it was a fairly derivative piece that probably would seem familiar. I was a poor student in that class with no interest in the subject - mainly because we were going through stuff that was way below my reading age, a classic case of being bored into being a dull student. I was rarely inspired and did little work, so to suddenly find myself inspired by the topic "science fiction" and actually turn in a decent piece of work raised a red flag for the teacher. The ugly confrontation that followed where I was accused of plagiarism taught me a valuable lesson - don't bother to do your best, no matter how inspired you might inadvertently have become, because you'll still end up with a C- (actually I got an A+ after pleading with her, but looking back I should have swallowed my pride, taken the C- and simply gone back the next day and gunned down the class. Only kidding!).
It's neat and nicely implemented, but it's not emulating a CPU at all.
Instead, what he has made is a 4-bit counter with an AND gate to detect the count of '11' which then resets the counter. The minutes are given by the position of the ball bearing in the outer rotating ring, so the timing of the system derives from the rotational speed of this, which presumably is driven by a motor (stepper?).
The wires linking the gates are not a bus, but are equivalent to the wiring between gates. What we have here is a 4-bit counter and AND gate.
There is no stored program and the configuration of the "ALU" cannot be changed and so by any definition, this is not a computing machine.
My grandfather crashed a B-17 in free-at-that-time France
How can that be? France was invaded in 1940, before the US and its B-17s were in the war, and was liberated in 1945 with the rest of Europe. Are you saying he crashed in peace time? Sounds a bit careless.
I was shown how to fold the "Harrier" in 1972 by a kid at my school called Tony. he called it the "Tonybony Special" and so I do to this day. It's my standard 'plane. Once I flew one from a third storey window on a hot summer's day and it caught a thermal and was still in the air over half an hour later, just lazily circling. I have no idea how long it stayed up altogether.
The only bad thing about the design is that, like most paper planes, it doesn't scale up all that well. Folding an A1 sheet to the same design doesn't work, sadly.
There's your problem. How about more thinking and less appealing to a non-existent sky-fairy? I truly look forward to the day when politicians can safely declare some sort of rationalist-based intellect instead of this, but I expect it's a long way off.
It's really great that you can get such a relatively recent census, while people on it are still likely to be around. In the UK, the most recent one was 1911 (only made available after 100 years) which is slightly too long to be able to link it with living people. If you are doing genealogical research censuses are prime sources, but the 100 year rule makes it frustrating to bridge that last gap between the living and the dead.
Makes me wonder how they produced their precious little spawn in the first place. Perhaps in those parts the myth about the stork is true? I dunno, I don't live in the US so much of what goes on there makes no sense at all, but this would explain a lot....
What is this "inch" you keep going on about? Who's thumb is that, yours, mine or some king or others? How about using some sensible measurements for a change? Fractions of a football pitch should do it, or at a pinch, submultiples of "the size of Wales".
While obviously the slashdot crown will cry "Orwell!" and "1984!" before you can even think, there is merit in this idea.
As someone who got clipped by an uninsured driver, with all the aggravation and hassle it caused (and that was just for a minor accident - I hate to think what would happen if it were major or involved injury or death) getting these dickheads off the road should be given some effort.
It is the law that you must be insured when driving a car. Far too many people think that for some reason having insurance is something that doesn't apply to them; it's just a pointless unnecessary expense. Using technology to enforce that long-standing law is a reasonable use of it if you ask me - it's not using technology to create a criminal activity out of something innocuous.
If neutrinos can pass through thousands of miles of solid rock without apparently being affected by it, how are you going to make a receiving antenna of any practical size?
Welcome to 1985, where your stated concerns are both accurate and already solved
They are not my concerns. I was pointing out exactly what you said to the original poster. Why not actually read the thread before wading in in such an impolite and ignorant manner?
You're right but only in theory. You must have a low-pass filter to prevent aliasing - ANY signal beyond that will be aliased (and sound appalling). Thus the filter needs to have a brick-wall characteristic which is impossible. So by sampling at a much higher rate, the filter can be a lot more practical. The 10% "extra" you get with 44.1kHz sampling is insufficient space to implement a decent filter - that sampling rate is something of a historical accident anyway.
Well, maybe they do know their audience, and you are trying to use the tool for something it wasn't designed for. Yes, it could be used to share "standardised" schematics, but perhaps that's not what they intended it to be used for.
However, I agree with your point - it would be nice (and more versatile) if they allowed you to specify a component yourself instead of only giving you potted solutions.
The fractured landscape of programs can be replaced by the fractured landscape of sites where every single page has a different, unrelated, non-standard interface.
This is stupid for motor coils, where you care about resistance at least as much as inductance
So just put the resistance in series. That's fine for simulation, where layout, parasitics, etc, are ignored unless you add them as elements specifically.
This sounds pretty useful. I went to the web page using Safari: "Incompatible web browser detected! CircuitLab may not work as expected in your web browser. Please see our System Requirements."
"While we strive to support all modern standards-compliant web browsers, CircuitLab officially supports Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox."
Isn't Chrome based on the same code as Safari? You know, that browser that is the most standards-compatible out there? That said, on a brief test of some of the example circuits, it seems to work.
Someone wanted to interview me and my colleague using a 3-way G+ video "hangout". Even though we all had Skype. After almost two hours of sign-ups, installs, fiddling, reboots, more fiddling, applying patches, being totally baffled by the interface and more fiddling, we finally agreed it wasn't ever going to work and we should try Skype. Guess what? It just worked.
As my first exposure to G+ it was a big fat zero. Not impressed. If Google want to attract people to the service, not only must it offer compelling features, but they have to work very reliably and be easy to use. None of the above apply right now.
The disaster happened in 1978. That's a long time before Google existed! If they worry about association with it so badly, why not just change the name of the bloody campsite! Job done. Idiots.
You don't say where you were living, or live, but certainly, your experience is similar to mine - in 1975, in the UK. By 1982-ish, that was a thing of the past for locally built cars.
Fuel injection and electronic ignition was becoming very common, and that fixed most starting issues. Mechanical points, poor HT leads and carburettors were the main reason why stuff didn't start in damp conditions. Most electrical faults were due to poorly designed and open-framed connectors and again, in the 80s these got much, much better. I'm talking about your common-or-garden GM and Ford brands, not high-end cars.
It might have taken a while for similar brands in the US to catch up with Japanese standards, but in Europe, by the mid-80s car reliability was way up on what it had been ten years previously.
I fear theyâ(TM)re going gaga over social networking and consumer electronics
Perhaps, but that's certainly where the growth and the money is going to come from.
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That suggests that these things would be OK if the MPAA (or whoever) paid the ISPs. If that were allowed, then that would create a much worse internet than we have now.
We need to ensure that such a business model for ISPs would never be legal. That's what these court cases are about.
My daughter is only just 6yo and she already had an example of this. In a spelling test she was given, one of the words was "Cumulus". The teacher insisted that it was "Cumulous" and she was marked wrong.
On that occasion we let it go because on the whole we respect her teacher and we don't want to be labelled as troublemaking parents. But it was quite hard to do it! We quietly turned it into a lesson for her that teachers can be wrong sometimes, yet insist that their version is right, and yes, it is unfair. We'll save the trouble-making for later when something more important comes up. (I'm not saying you did the wrong thing - I think you did the right thing).
I recall an incident from my own schooldays aged about 13 where I had written a science fiction story for English that I was accused of plagiarising. I hadn't, though looking back it was a fairly derivative piece that probably would seem familiar. I was a poor student in that class with no interest in the subject - mainly because we were going through stuff that was way below my reading age, a classic case of being bored into being a dull student. I was rarely inspired and did little work, so to suddenly find myself inspired by the topic "science fiction" and actually turn in a decent piece of work raised a red flag for the teacher. The ugly confrontation that followed where I was accused of plagiarism taught me a valuable lesson - don't bother to do your best, no matter how inspired you might inadvertently have become, because you'll still end up with a C- (actually I got an A+ after pleading with her, but looking back I should have swallowed my pride, taken the C- and simply gone back the next day and gunned down the class. Only kidding!).
It's neat and nicely implemented, but it's not emulating a CPU at all.
Instead, what he has made is a 4-bit counter with an AND gate to detect the count of '11' which then resets the counter. The minutes are given by the position of the ball bearing in the outer rotating ring, so the timing of the system derives from the rotational speed of this, which presumably is driven by a motor (stepper?).
The wires linking the gates are not a bus, but are equivalent to the wiring between gates. What we have here is a 4-bit counter and AND gate.
There is no stored program and the configuration of the "ALU" cannot be changed and so by any definition, this is not a computing machine.
My grandfather crashed a B-17 in free-at-that-time France
How can that be? France was invaded in 1940, before the US and its B-17s were in the war, and was liberated in 1945 with the rest of Europe. Are you saying he crashed in peace time? Sounds a bit careless.
I was shown how to fold the "Harrier" in 1972 by a kid at my school called Tony. he called it the "Tonybony Special" and so I do to this day. It's my standard 'plane. Once I flew one from a third storey window on a hot summer's day and it caught a thermal and was still in the air over half an hour later, just lazily circling. I have no idea how long it stayed up altogether.
The only bad thing about the design is that, like most paper planes, it doesn't scale up all that well. Folding an A1 sheet to the same design doesn't work, sadly.
"Prayer and thought".
There's your problem. How about more thinking and less appealing to a non-existent sky-fairy? I truly look forward to the day when politicians can safely declare some sort of rationalist-based intellect instead of this, but I expect it's a long way off.
Jimmy Carter. A downhill race ever since.
A downhill race for sure, but it was Nixon that nixed it, not Carter. If you vote for a crook, you reap what you sow.
It's really great that you can get such a relatively recent census, while people on it are still likely to be around. In the UK, the most recent one was 1911 (only made available after 100 years) which is slightly too long to be able to link it with living people. If you are doing genealogical research censuses are prime sources, but the 100 year rule makes it frustrating to bridge that last gap between the living and the dead.
Cue the idiots who will claim it was all faked in 3, 2, 1....
sex negative parents
Makes me wonder how they produced their precious little spawn in the first place. Perhaps in those parts the myth about the stork is true? I dunno, I don't live in the US so much of what goes on there makes no sense at all, but this would explain a lot....
What is this "inch" you keep going on about? Who's thumb is that, yours, mine or some king or others? How about using some sensible measurements for a change? Fractions of a football pitch should do it, or at a pinch, submultiples of "the size of Wales".
While obviously the slashdot crown will cry "Orwell!" and "1984!" before you can even think, there is merit in this idea.
As someone who got clipped by an uninsured driver, with all the aggravation and hassle it caused (and that was just for a minor accident - I hate to think what would happen if it were major or involved injury or death) getting these dickheads off the road should be given some effort.
It is the law that you must be insured when driving a car. Far too many people think that for some reason having insurance is something that doesn't apply to them; it's just a pointless unnecessary expense. Using technology to enforce that long-standing law is a reasonable use of it if you ask me - it's not using technology to create a criminal activity out of something innocuous.
If neutrinos can pass through thousands of miles of solid rock without apparently being affected by it, how are you going to make a receiving antenna of any practical size?
Welcome to 1985, where your stated concerns are both accurate and already solved
They are not my concerns. I was pointing out exactly what you said to the original poster. Why not actually read the thread before wading in in such an impolite and ignorant manner?
You're right but only in theory. You must have a low-pass filter to prevent aliasing - ANY signal beyond that will be aliased (and sound appalling). Thus the filter needs to have a brick-wall characteristic which is impossible. So by sampling at a much higher rate, the filter can be a lot more practical. The 10% "extra" you get with 44.1kHz sampling is insufficient space to implement a decent filter - that sampling rate is something of a historical accident anyway.
Well, maybe they do know their audience, and you are trying to use the tool for something it wasn't designed for. Yes, it could be used to share "standardised" schematics, but perhaps that's not what they intended it to be used for.
However, I agree with your point - it would be nice (and more versatile) if they allowed you to specify a component yourself instead of only giving you potted solutions.
The fractured landscape of programs can be replaced by the fractured landscape of sites where every single page has a different, unrelated, non-standard interface.
This is progress?
This is stupid for motor coils, where you care about resistance at least as much as inductance
So just put the resistance in series. That's fine for simulation, where layout, parasitics, etc, are ignored unless you add them as elements specifically.
This sounds pretty useful. I went to the web page using Safari: "Incompatible web browser detected! CircuitLab may not work as expected in your web browser. Please see our System Requirements."
"While we strive to support all modern standards-compliant web browsers, CircuitLab officially supports Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox."
Isn't Chrome based on the same code as Safari? You know, that browser that is the most standards-compatible out there? That said, on a brief test of some of the example circuits, it seems to work.
Someone wanted to interview me and my colleague using a 3-way G+ video "hangout". Even though we all had Skype. After almost two hours of sign-ups, installs, fiddling, reboots, more fiddling, applying patches, being totally baffled by the interface and more fiddling, we finally agreed it wasn't ever going to work and we should try Skype. Guess what? It just worked.
As my first exposure to G+ it was a big fat zero. Not impressed. If Google want to attract people to the service, not only must it offer compelling features, but they have to work very reliably and be easy to use. None of the above apply right now.
The disaster happened in 1978. That's a long time before Google existed! If they worry about association with it so badly, why not just change the name of the bloody campsite! Job done. Idiots.
1933-1945. The Nazis didn't start WW2 on day one - they'd been in power a while.
You don't say where you were living, or live, but certainly, your experience is similar to mine - in 1975, in the UK. By 1982-ish, that was a thing of the past for locally built cars.
Fuel injection and electronic ignition was becoming very common, and that fixed most starting issues. Mechanical points, poor HT leads and carburettors were the main reason why stuff didn't start in damp conditions. Most electrical faults were due to poorly designed and open-framed connectors and again, in the 80s these got much, much better. I'm talking about your common-or-garden GM and Ford brands, not high-end cars.
It might have taken a while for similar brands in the US to catch up with Japanese standards, but in Europe, by the mid-80s car reliability was way up on what it had been ten years previously.
I fear theyâ(TM)re going gaga over social networking and consumer electronics
Perhaps, but that's certainly where the growth and the money is going to come from.
I just shared your post. Fun, isn't it?