Additionally, a subscriber can create a "free link", which is a personal link which can be sent to others to allow them to read an article for free, even if it's still within the one-week paywall period. I think theirs is an elegant approach for funding their company while still being good community members. I've been a subscriber for most of their 20 years of existence.
FTFA: "In their article, Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates whether you self-censored, not what you typed. The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn’t collecting the text of self-censored posts."
Try ZFSOnLinux. It's not merged into the kernel mainline for licensing reasons, but it is easy enough to install, is well tested, and has all the features you need (and more).
Four years ago, it wasn't just in power supplies either - we had to return 70 machines to Hewlett-Packard under warranty after the capacitors on the motherboard began failing after 3 months of use.
Sounds like you got some motherboards fitted with capacitors filled with faulty electrolyte manufactured by a company that stole the recipe (but got it wrong) in a case of bungled corporate espionage in 2003.
"According to the source, a scientist stole the formula for an electrolyte from his employer in Japan and began using it himself at the Chinese branch of a Taiwanese electrolyte manufacturer. He or his colleagues then sold the formula to an electrolyte maker in Taiwan, which began producing it for Taiwanese and possibly other capacitor firms. Unfortunately, the formula as sold was incomplete."
Unless I'm completely mistaken, this plane being constructed with so much carbon fiber, wouldn't it have a very small (perhaps non-existent) radar signature?
I think you might be completely mistaken.;)
"Dielectric composites are relatively transparent to radar, whereas electrically conductive materials such as metals and carbon fibers reflect electromagnetic energy incident on the material's surface."
Look, this is pretty much what duct tape was invented for. Duct tape the damned flashlight to your gun. This is precisely the kind of thing soldiers did all the time in Vietnam. Now all we need is a game that has duct tape as the most valuable item in your inventory;)
Oh, and to venture OT here for a second: I have a friend who is a draftsman involved in the design of office spaces. If the airconditoning that they install isn't noisy enough, they have to install speakers that just pump out white noise. He said that this is to promote "privacy" in open-plan offices. If the noise level is too low then everyone can hear everything that everyone else says, whether they're right next to each other or on opposite sides of the office. This is highly distracting, not to mention making people scared to say anything too "interesting":)
This all depends on the ambient noise in the room. At work there is quite a lot of noise in the environment that you just tune out. Air conditioners, other computers, people, etc.
Having the same small amount of noise in a bedroom when you're trying to sleep will quickly become annoying because the background noise level is virtually zero.
Incidentally, I find it's the same with LEDs. Having heaps of flashy lights on things is fun while the lights are on but quickly become annoying when the lights are off. Just ask my (ex)girlfriend!;)
The Antec Phantom is US$150 at newegg. That compares very well with the Silverstone ST30NF from the review: the Phantom is 500W vs the ST30NF which is 300W.
It makes perfect sense to have a fan that spins up when under high load. It'll increase the longevity of the PSU, and the small amount of noise when under load will easily be covered up by the sound from your game, or won't matter too much because you're acutually working on the computer. When it's time to sleep, the fan will spin down.
The best of both worlds (so long as you're not running SETI at home!:)
The point here is that it takes a tiny amount of energy to climb a cable compared with the amount of energy it takes to launch something on a rocket.
For example, if you are reasonably strong, I would imagine that you could climb a rope say, 10 metres long. I'd imagine that you couldn't do the same thing by flapping a piece of stiff cardboard or something at the ground!
Except that once you have/one/ space elevator, it becomes much easier and cheaper to build/many/ elevators (by using the first elevator to raise the materials for subsequent ones).
That's why the firefox icon in Ubuntu and Debian are missing the fox. You just get a blue world without the red fox curled around it.
IIRC the reason they do this is to maintain the value of their brand. So you can't get some dolt (or someone intentionally malicious) taking the firefox source, farking it up, and then marketing it as the real firefox.
Except on most previous occasions their "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions" have prevented implementations in free software. Completely coincidental, I'm sure.
Er, what's wrong with ALT-click? Here are some of the other click modifiers that I use all the time. I think they originally came from FVWM2, the WM I cut my teeth on at uni.
ALT-leftclick: raise the window by alt-clicking anywhere inside it ALT-leftclick and drag: move the window without having to grab the title bar ALT-middleclick and drag: resize the window without having to grab the corner ALT-rightclick: bring up the window menu (equivalent to clicking on the top left corner of the window).
This is just another example of the poor analogy that is "intellectual property". Really, software is licensed. So the question is, have they complied with the license's terms? If they have, fine.
The idea that you can "steal" free software might seem ridiculous because you already have it, and are allowed to copy it for no money. But violating the license terms is still a copyright violation.
Theft of intellectualy property is just a disingenuous idea.
Oops. I guess there are disadvantages to going to university and getting a Software Engineering degree. Other than missing the dot-com boom and retiring on fat savings I mean.
Just another example of theory being good, practice being better.
Hrm, well, for noise cancellation, they'd have to be four rusty barbed wires twisted in two pairs. But hey, that might work. So long as they didn't short.
Ethernet and TCP/IP are both protocols. They're just at different levels of the OSI network stack:
Application Layer: Applications that use the data transferred
Presentation Layer: Data formats like GIF, ASCII
Session Layer: SQL, NFS, HTTP etc. are here
Transport Layer: Flow control, error recovery (TCP, UDP are here)
Network Layer: Logical addressing, end to end delivery of packets (IP is here)
Data Link Layer: Transcodes data into frames and adds CRC (Ethernet is here)
Physical Layer: Encodes and transmits data bits
If ONE developer would include ogg support, then it would become even more popular and accepted.
I've had an iRiver H340 for what seems like ages... a year maybe? It plays OGGs. In fact OGG compatibility was the reason I bought one in the first place as that's what I'd encoded all of my CDs to.
Only problem is that I started encoding my CDs to OGG before it reached 1.0, so some of my older CDs have playback problems (sound quite distorted). I still haven't got around to re-ripping them... who can be bothered sifting through CDs these days!?;)
Are we interested in the means or the end here? You can go straight to PDF with the proprietary Acrobat Distiller, but I find that the resulting PDF is often larger and/or looks worse anyway.
We're really talking about Word->PDF->HTML here anyway.
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Additionally, a subscriber can create a "free link", which is a personal link which can be sent to others to allow them to read an article for free, even if it's still within the one-week paywall period. I think theirs is an elegant approach for funding their company while still being good community members. I've been a subscriber for most of their 20 years of existence.
I wonder if the trade mark that Ubuntu presumably has could come into legal dispute? https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
FTFA: "In their article, Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates whether you self-censored, not what you typed. The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn’t collecting the text of self-censored posts."
Try ZFSOnLinux. It's not merged into the kernel mainline for licensing reasons, but it is easy enough to install, is well tested, and has all the features you need (and more).
Four years ago, it wasn't just in power supplies either - we had to return 70 machines to Hewlett-Packard under warranty after the capacitors on the motherboard began failing after 3 months of use.
Sounds like you got some motherboards fitted with capacitors filled with faulty electrolyte manufactured by a company that stole the recipe (but got it wrong) in a case of bungled corporate espionage in 2003.
"According to the source, a scientist stole the formula for an electrolyte from his employer in Japan and began using it himself at the Chinese branch of a Taiwanese electrolyte manufacturer. He or his colleagues then sold the formula to an electrolyte maker in Taiwan, which began producing it for Taiwanese and possibly other capacitor firms. Unfortunately, the formula as sold was incomplete."
http://www.boingboing.net/2003/05/27/bungled-espionage-bl.html
Unless I'm completely mistaken, this plane being constructed with so much carbon fiber, wouldn't it have a very small (perhaps non-existent) radar signature?
I think you might be completely mistaken. ;)
"Dielectric composites are relatively transparent to radar, whereas electrically conductive materials such as metals and carbon fibers reflect electromagnetic energy incident on the material's surface."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology
Is available, and has been for quite some time. You just need to click on the "releases" link on the http://www.getfirebug.com/ site. Or just go directly to the extension page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Look, this is pretty much what duct tape was invented for. Duct tape the damned flashlight to your gun. This is precisely the kind of thing soldiers did all the time in Vietnam. Now all we need is a game that has duct tape as the most valuable item in your inventory ;)
The joy of software patents. MP3 is a patented format. Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora Core respect this. Slackware and Arch evidently do not.
Oh, and to venture OT here for a second: I have a friend who is a draftsman involved in the design of office spaces. If the airconditoning that they install isn't noisy enough, they have to install speakers that just pump out white noise. He said that this is to promote "privacy" in open-plan offices. If the noise level is too low then everyone can hear everything that everyone else says, whether they're right next to each other or on opposite sides of the office. This is highly distracting, not to mention making people scared to say anything too "interesting" :)
Having the same small amount of noise in a bedroom when you're trying to sleep will quickly become annoying because the background noise level is virtually zero.
Incidentally, I find it's the same with LEDs. Having heaps of flashy lights on things is fun while the lights are on but quickly become annoying when the lights are off. Just ask my (ex)girlfriend! ;)
The Antec Phantom is US$150 at newegg. That compares very well with the Silverstone ST30NF from the review: the Phantom is 500W vs the ST30NF which is 300W.
It makes perfect sense to have a fan that spins up when under high load. It'll increase the longevity of the PSU, and the small amount of noise when under load will easily be covered up by the sound from your game, or won't matter too much because you're acutually working on the computer. When it's time to sleep, the fan will spin down.
The best of both worlds (so long as you're not running SETI at home! :)
The point here is that it takes a tiny amount of energy to climb a cable compared with the amount of energy it takes to launch something on a rocket.
For example, if you are reasonably strong, I would imagine that you could climb a rope say, 10 metres long. I'd imagine that you couldn't do the same thing by flapping a piece of stiff cardboard or something at the ground!
Except that once you have /one/ space elevator, it becomes much easier and cheaper to build /many/ elevators (by using the first elevator to raise the materials for subsequent ones).
A little redundancy goes a long way.
IIRC the reason they do this is to maintain the value of their brand. So you can't get some dolt (or someone intentionally malicious) taking the firefox source, farking it up, and then marketing it as the real firefox.
Except on most previous occasions their "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions" have prevented implementations in free software. Completely coincidental, I'm sure.
What about that all-time classic Star Wars in 30 seconds?
Er, what's wrong with ALT-click? Here are some of the other click modifiers that I use all the time. I think they originally came from FVWM2, the WM I cut my teeth on at uni.
:)
ALT-leftclick: raise the window by alt-clicking anywhere inside it
ALT-leftclick and drag: move the window without having to grab the title bar
ALT-middleclick and drag: resize the window without having to grab the corner
ALT-rightclick: bring up the window menu (equivalent to clicking on the top left corner of the window).
Hope that helps!
This is just another example of the poor analogy that is "intellectual property". Really, software is licensed. So the question is, have they complied with the license's terms? If they have, fine.
The idea that you can "steal" free software might seem ridiculous because you already have it, and are allowed to copy it for no money. But violating the license terms is still a copyright violation.
Theft of intellectualy property is just a disingenuous idea.
Oops. I guess there are disadvantages to going to university and getting a Software Engineering degree. Other than missing the dot-com boom and retiring on fat savings I mean.
Just another example of theory being good, practice being better.
Hrm, well, for noise cancellation, they'd have to be four rusty barbed wires twisted in two pairs. But hey, that might work. So long as they didn't short.
Ethernet and TCP/IP are both protocols. They're just at different levels of the OSI network stack:
Application Layer: Applications that use the data transferred
Presentation Layer: Data formats like GIF, ASCII
Session Layer: SQL, NFS, HTTP etc. are here
Transport Layer: Flow control, error recovery (TCP, UDP are here)
Network Layer: Logical addressing, end to end delivery of packets (IP is here)
Data Link Layer: Transcodes data into frames and adds CRC (Ethernet is here)
Physical Layer: Encodes and transmits data bits
From OSI stack description.
I've had an iRiver H340 for what seems like ages... a year maybe? It plays OGGs. In fact OGG compatibility was the reason I bought one in the first place as that's what I'd encoded all of my CDs to.
Only problem is that I started encoding my CDs to OGG before it reached 1.0, so some of my older CDs have playback problems (sound quite distorted). I still haven't got around to re-ripping them... who can be bothered sifting through CDs these days!? ;)
Are we interested in the means or the end here? You can go straight to PDF with the proprietary Acrobat Distiller, but I find that the resulting PDF is often larger and/or looks worse anyway.
We're really talking about Word->PDF->HTML here anyway.