Well, you will not walk around Mars without a suit any time soon, but then, we knew that before. Especially as the solar winds do more than strip atmosphere; they play roulette with your genes, as well. Mars does not have a magnetic shield to speak of and we will have to live with that; pun intended.
But if we manage to get to a similar CO_2 -> C + O_2 conversion rate as on Earth (in the looong) term, we are looking at 0.01 bar of oxygen as compared to 0.21 over here. Sucking in that much air (21 times the rate of the people breathing inside of whatever we build there) sounds trivial, even accounting for the lower pressure.
I would be more worried about heat differences and the fact that the lack of fluid water means that weather will remain extreme.
> This lawsuit was ridiculous in that the guy was bound to lose since Sony did nothing wrong legally.
Bullshit. If I sell you a device that can make juice and funny noises and advertise it as such, you expect to make juice & hear funny noises. When I remove the funny noises, part of the initial advertisements which made you and many others buy my device, on purpose I am willfully reducing the functionality of the product I sold to you. As I am forcing you to upgrade the device to be compatible with new fruit, I am twisting your arm, and hard.
The fact that the big players get away with stuff like this all the time does not mean the practice is legal. Neither does it matter how many people used the feature.
I am interested in how the people around OpenBTS got licences for 26c3 in Berlin and Fosdem 2010 in Brussels (the licence for Brussels came too late, they could not actually _use_ it. They will in 2011, though).
It's possible to get licences in the middle of civilization.
Because you are not using the text-only version. Though to be fair, they are breaking it more and more every month and slobbering on features that break in Konqueror that I don't use, anyway.
First of all: Thanks. You seem to know what you are talking about and the info is useful.
Still, making it "hard" to connect two things that should not be connected is worse than making it "impossible unless using duct tape". Simply code them with notches or something. And create a _global_ standard before you run off doing things locally.
Still, every single connector on a PC is designed in a way that you can't do any harm unless you truly intend to. Why should that not be the case for life-support measures?
This self-regulation which is supposed to change things that you speak of failed to achieve anything in the last few years for this specific problem. I am interested in why the failure of private industries to act makes them better for the job than the public sector, which failed in exactly the same way.
Easy to maintain? Just wait for GP's kin to come around, cussing all the time about your code while morphing it back into a monster. Relational integrity in databases be damned!
Designing things to be shitty is bad style, anti-social and a heap of other things. I just hope you will get job after job fixing the crap other people like you pulled off. Again under high stress. Hopefully you people just keep on fixing each other's crap and stay out of the way of the rest of us.
The professionals amongst us strive to make things easier for ourselves and each other.
The childish, spine-less power-trippers act like you did.
It's easy to calculate this. The people I know who built/renovated houses did calculate it. It comes out as a net gain, both for the environment and the wallet. Yay for science.
I decided I wanted to play Bioshock. Yes, it's a few years old, but so what.
Living in Germany, I can only buy a censored version. I am over 18 and want to play the game as it was intended to be played. Steam not an option, then. Looking for physical media, I realized that SecuROM is still used with the DVD variant. I refuse to install any such thing on any machine I own or maintain.
I contacted Steam support, looked around the web, etc. I tried _really_ hard to play by the rules.
Long story short? I bought a DVD and installed Bioshock from an age-old torrent that has been alive for a few years now. To add more irony to irony, the torrent download was faster than the typical Steam download and apart from a single.reg, I did not even install Bioshock. I runs happily from where I extracted it.
People... DO NOT MAKE IT HARD FOR ME TO GIVE YOU MONEY! You would think that should be obvious...
In countries where the electricity grid Just Works, it is the result of careful planning and anticipation of future demand, over-provisioning and, sorry Ayn Rand, government oversight.
The same things that can ensure that the Internet Just Works.
Yes, and if internet data worked like apples, you could make juice out of it.
I work in the backbone management of an ISP; your arguments are bollocks.
If I sell unlimited, I provide unlimited. If I sell 95/5, I provide 95/5. If I sell X GB at 1 Gbits/s and cap at 100 Mbit/s after that, I provide X GB at 1 Gbits/s and cap at 100 Mbit/s after that.
Also, while you can certainly produce more load, it is technically impossible to deplete bandwidth. In the next second, you will have just the same bandwidth. And again, and again.
The argument "we sold X cause it sounds nice, but in truth, we did not sell X, we sold Y" is illegal. Breaking contracts usually is. And even with legal boilerplate it's still scum tactics & cheating. How you can defend that is beyond me.
So because TFA makes the same mistake it's OK to just spew the same crap in the summary's title? There is exactly _one_ disclaimer in the six examples that can be interpreted (liberally) to mean "don't copy this".
Each and every single one of those six disclaimers concerns itself with copying. Nothing else.
You will install speed traps on streets that are not your property, fine people who are not your slaves and presumably enforce the fines with the help of a local mob? At least you will share your profits with some politicians who are corrupt enough to let this happen, though.
I agree that you obviously have a problem in your city and things should be improved, but your approach is horribly, horribly, horribly wrong. There are way too many reasons why, but it seems the other posters have done a decent job listing them, already. I will limit myself to listing one:
If you can simply do what you want, what stops anyone else from stealing your speed traps, damaging them, charging protection money for their well-being or just killing you and using your skulls as bowling balls?
When the millenium was still young, ATI had the better Linux drivers.
But yah, times long past. It's a pity that I just bought a new PC with a Nvidia card. From how things look now, the next upgrade will be an ATI. Tough that is at least two years in the future, so yah... Pity...
The point he was making is that a lot of hackers are not crackers. If there is no challenge to running Linux on something, why bother running it? If there _is_ a challenge, more people will be interested. Many of those with engineering backgrounds.
PS: I run Linux on my systems. The "why bother" refers to the fact that there is no "gain" by simply booting Linux on something that supports it, anyway.
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Well, you will not walk around Mars without a suit any time soon, but then, we knew that before. Especially as the solar winds do more than strip atmosphere; they play roulette with your genes, as well. Mars does not have a magnetic shield to speak of and we will have to live with that; pun intended.
But if we manage to get to a similar CO_2 -> C + O_2 conversion rate as on Earth (in the looong) term, we are looking at 0.01 bar of oxygen as compared to 0.21 over here. Sucking in that much air (21 times the rate of the people breathing inside of whatever we build there) sounds trivial, even accounting for the lower pressure.
I would be more worried about heat differences and the fact that the lack of fluid water means that weather will remain extreme.
If the someone is Sony alone and at a whim, not the government plus the whole industry at once, yes.
> This lawsuit was ridiculous in that the guy was bound to lose since Sony did nothing wrong legally.
Bullshit. If I sell you a device that can make juice and funny noises and advertise it as such, you expect to make juice & hear funny noises. When I remove the funny noises, part of the initial advertisements which made you and many others buy my device, on purpose I am willfully reducing the functionality of the product I sold to you. As I am forcing you to upgrade the device to be compatible with new fruit, I am twisting your arm, and hard.
The fact that the big players get away with stuff like this all the time does not mean the practice is legal. Neither does it matter how many people used the feature.
PS: No car in my analogy!
I am interested in how the people around OpenBTS got licences for 26c3 in Berlin and Fosdem 2010 in Brussels (the licence for Brussels came too late, they could not actually _use_ it. They will in 2011, though).
It's possible to get licences in the middle of civilization.
Because you are not using the text-only version. Though to be fair, they are breaking it more and more every month and slobbering on features that break in Konqueror that I don't use, anyway.
I suggest the Aitken basin. That, or your mom.
Why?
First of all: Thanks. You seem to know what you are talking about and the info is useful.
Still, making it "hard" to connect two things that should not be connected is worse than making it "impossible unless using duct tape". Simply code them with notches or something. And create a _global_ standard before you run off doing things locally.
Yes, you are right. They should take care.
Still, every single connector on a PC is designed in a way that you can't do any harm unless you truly intend to. Why should that not be the case for life-support measures?
This self-regulation which is supposed to change things that you speak of failed to achieve anything in the last few years for this specific problem. I am interested in why the failure of private industries to act makes them better for the job than the public sector, which failed in exactly the same way.
Your sig fits the topic at hand and your comment wonderfully.
Easy to maintain? Just wait for GP's kin to come around, cussing all the time about your code while morphing it back into a monster. Relational integrity in databases be damned!
Poor you, really.
Designing things to be shitty is bad style, anti-social and a heap of other things. I just hope you will get job after job fixing the crap other people like you pulled off. Again under high stress. Hopefully you people just keep on fixing each other's crap and stay out of the way of the rest of us.
The professionals amongst us strive to make things easier for ourselves and each other.
The childish, spine-less power-trippers act like you did.
With books, you get nice cover art. Once you open them, they are filled with black and white crap and no pictures at all! How dare they?!
Also, I seem to remember that most box art for games does not show actual screenshots on the front. Even today. Shock and awe!
The real story? That crap like this makes /. ;)
No. I can legally buy the Austrian, the UK, the US, the AU, whatever version I want. But only on DVD, not via steam. And with SecuROM.
> Denmark vs Burma.
Knowing several Danes, I would have to say Burma ;)
It's easy to calculate this. The people I know who built/renovated houses did calculate it. It comes out as a net gain, both for the environment and the wallet. Yay for science.
First-person shooters work on Linux. And that is what most geeks, including me, seem to love.
But then, Alien Swarm, a Source-based (note the capital S) free (note the small f) TPS is not available for Mac. But Half Life 2 is. Go figure.
> and installed Bioshock
> not even install Bioshock
Yah, yah. You know what I mean :)
I decided I wanted to play Bioshock. Yes, it's a few years old, but so what.
Living in Germany, I can only buy a censored version. I am over 18 and want to play the game as it was intended to be played. Steam not an option, then.
Looking for physical media, I realized that SecuROM is still used with the DVD variant. I refuse to install any such thing on any machine I own or maintain.
I contacted Steam support, looked around the web, etc. I tried _really_ hard to play by the rules.
Long story short? I bought a DVD and installed Bioshock from an age-old torrent that has been alive for a few years now. To add more irony to irony, the torrent download was faster than the typical Steam download and apart from a single .reg, I did not even install Bioshock. I runs happily from where I extracted it.
People... DO NOT MAKE IT HARD FOR ME TO GIVE YOU MONEY! You would think that should be obvious...
In countries where the electricity grid Just Works, it is the result of careful planning and anticipation of future demand, over-provisioning and, sorry Ayn Rand, government oversight.
The same things that can ensure that the Internet Just Works.
Yes, and if internet data worked like apples, you could make juice out of it.
I work in the backbone management of an ISP; your arguments are bollocks.
If I sell unlimited, I provide unlimited.
If I sell 95/5, I provide 95/5.
If I sell X GB at 1 Gbits/s and cap at 100 Mbit/s after that, I provide X GB at 1 Gbits/s and cap at 100 Mbit/s after that.
Also, while you can certainly produce more load, it is technically impossible to deplete bandwidth. In the next second, you will have just the same bandwidth. And again, and again.
The argument "we sold X cause it sounds nice, but in truth, we did not sell X, we sold Y" is illegal. Breaking contracts usually is. And even with legal boilerplate it's still scum tactics & cheating. How you can defend that is beyond me.
So because TFA makes the same mistake it's OK to just spew the same crap in the summary's title? There is exactly _one_ disclaimer in the six examples that can be interpreted (liberally) to mean "don't copy this".
Each and every single one of those six disclaimers concerns itself with copying. Nothing else.
Maybe I am misunderstanding things, but...
You will install speed traps on streets that are not your property, fine people who are not your slaves and presumably enforce the fines with the help of a local mob? At least you will share your profits with some politicians who are corrupt enough to let this happen, though.
I agree that you obviously have a problem in your city and things should be improved, but your approach is horribly, horribly, horribly wrong. There are way too many reasons why, but it seems the other posters have done a decent job listing them, already. I will limit myself to listing one:
If you can simply do what you want, what stops anyone else from stealing your speed traps, damaging them, charging protection money for their well-being or just killing you and using your skulls as bowling balls?
When the millenium was still young, ATI had the better Linux drivers.
But yah, times long past. It's a pity that I just bought a new PC with a Nvidia card. From how things look now, the next upgrade will be an ATI. Tough that is at least two years in the future, so yah... Pity...
The point he was making is that a lot of hackers are not crackers. If there is no challenge to running Linux on something, why bother running it? If there _is_ a challenge, more people will be interested. Many of those with engineering backgrounds.
PS: I run Linux on my systems. The "why bother" refers to the fact that there is no "gain" by simply booting Linux on something that supports it, anyway.