A lot of engine control software (as in ECUs for cars and aircraft, different than avionics, I know, but still an example) not only fits in less than 640KB, but less than 16Kb.
-Jesse, I write assembly for my car to make it faster.
Which brings me around full circle to my main point... Software patents are being used for something other than what they were intended (companies amassing huge libraries of patents, for Mutual Assured Destruction, as you put it, or those less ethical companies that amass patents solely to lord over them, and take money from those who may tread over the boundaries). This forces us to examine the entire patent system. Is it right, fair, morally just to give a monopoly to something/someone for any amount of time, be it a hardware good, or a software program? Patents (from what I understand) originally used to be used in exactly the manner for which they were intended. It gave more benefit to R&D, because your efforts were rewarded with your short-term monopoly on the results of your R&D. It was sort of a "government sponsored" general R&D effort. But nowadays, less-ethical marketers and the suits have figured out that they can heap patent upon vague patent, and make money via the legal system, instead of through actual R&D. In the meantime, the people trying to do it the old way (reward through innovation) are getting trod upon.
I mean... it's a very nice gesture and all, but if this is where we're headed, what's the point of software patents at all? Making exceptions to rules generally nullifies the power a rule has.
I dunno, I think a lot of young folk (of the age who'd read a sci-fi book, say 8 to 16, older being non-young anymore) would have enough builtup morals to be absolutely appalled by the ending, and that's apparently the point. Society had reached a point where one character's death didn't make much more of an impact over another beyond vague guilt. I believe that is the entire point of the book infact.
Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi Cars went through the same kind of name ownership struggle. However, Mitsubishi group (not the car company) won out in that case.
-Jesse
Re:Open mouth, insert paranoid foot
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He definitely sounds like he has some kind of crazy mental problems, and I'm glad that someone of his ilk is hopefully off the streets, and will be locked up to be crazy in isolation.
What about doing something like a generic distributed client? Something just like a generic virtual machine that you can run, and projects requiring large amounts of computing power can "rent" time on your machine?
To accomplish what? Help slide the bikes as they corner? When a bike turns, it has to lean over. The purpose and function of a spoiler is to provide downforce. As the bike leans, the "down" force also leans. Imagine a fairly extreme lean angle of 45 degrees: half of that down force is pushing the bike to the outside of the turn, into a slide.
Spoilers also serve to increase air drag, if that's what you were incorrectly thinking. An F1 car has much more drag than a Ford F-150 truck, but has so much more pounds of downforce (up in the tens of thousands of pounds of downforce for some race cars, whereas most commuter cars generate lift at speed).
I think we can all agree on this: As with everything in life, one should experience/practice/eat/whatever many things in moderation. Some competitive, and possibly violent sport such as paintballing, or sportshooting in MODERATION can be very healthy, and a great learning experience. At the same time, other activities to even-out the violent activities, such as painting or cooking, when also practiced in moderation will yield a very rich learning experience, and probably a well-balanced life/mental health/ability to defend ones self in more ways than one.
There's no need to have more amperage if the resistance decreases. It's called "current control" and it's a well established function of Electrical Engineering.
Let me replace the idea "drinking" with "pirating music", and I think you might get the drift of things:
Come now, the reason for the anti p2p law is because it's often hard to catch someone pirating in the act. But if they have an open p2p network in the computer, what possible reason could that have other than that they've been pirating from it? I don't consider this unreasonable at all.
Now... admittedly drunk driving is a lot worse of an offense than say... sharing a few mp3s... but breaking the law is breaking the law, and you can't just draw arbitrary lines like that.
-Jesse
Re:While we're talking of blimps...
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As I wandered down the street in a semi-drunken stupor, I did happen to notice that very blimp. But then I tripped and skinned my knee. See what good blimps are! I didn't get a good look at it, it was too far from where I'd set out from, and I certainly didn't want to risk another bloody knee to find out.
And that's the perfect solution. In the name of security, your stuff can be looked through. In the name of convenience, we won't look through it every time, and you can still keep it.
A tether would not get any shorter for each thing that climbed up it. The weight at the end of the tether provides a pulling force on the tether, and thus keeps it taught. Grab a gallon of milk, and start spinning. You are now a model of a space elevator. Your body is the earth, the milk is the weight, your arm is the tether. Feel the tension on your arm? Now imagine a small robot climbing its way up your arm. Did your arm get forced back down any that the counter-force from the milk jug wouldn't completely negate? Nope.
You'll be more susceptible to unauthorized broadcasts with satellite than with terrestrial... once people get their hands on them. If this becomes popular, I'm sure they will start being sold.
Why, pray tell, is it easier to make unauthorized broadcasts on satellite radio band than any other band?
Would it be possible to wear an outfit with a large number of IR LEDs implanted into it, with battery power source? It'd be like looking at the sun with those goggles, but nobody else would even know.
Just to mess with them.
It'd be like collecting all of the RFID tags you could, and putting them all in your pocket and walking around RFID enabled stores, hehe.
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( and of course we're to blame for the state they were in to start with ).
Uhh... I think their ridiculous religious belief system is to blame 100% for it.
-Jesse
A lot of engine control software (as in ECUs for cars and aircraft, different than avionics, I know, but still an example) not only fits in less than 640KB, but less than 16Kb.
-Jesse, I write assembly for my car to make it faster.
Which brings me around full circle to my main point... Software patents are being used for something other than what they were intended (companies amassing huge libraries of patents, for Mutual Assured Destruction, as you put it, or those less ethical companies that amass patents solely to lord over them, and take money from those who may tread over the boundaries). This forces us to examine the entire patent system. Is it right, fair, morally just to give a monopoly to something/someone for any amount of time, be it a hardware good, or a software program? Patents (from what I understand) originally used to be used in exactly the manner for which they were intended. It gave more benefit to R&D, because your efforts were rewarded with your short-term monopoly on the results of your R&D. It was sort of a "government sponsored" general R&D effort. But nowadays, less-ethical marketers and the suits have figured out that they can heap patent upon vague patent, and make money via the legal system, instead of through actual R&D. In the meantime, the people trying to do it the old way (reward through innovation) are getting trod upon.
-Jesse
I mean... it's a very nice gesture and all, but if this is where we're headed, what's the point of software patents at all? Making exceptions to rules generally nullifies the power a rule has.
-Jesse
I dunno, I think a lot of young folk (of the age who'd read a sci-fi book, say 8 to 16, older being non-young anymore) would have enough builtup morals to be absolutely appalled by the ending, and that's apparently the point. Society had reached a point where one character's death didn't make much more of an impact over another beyond vague guilt. I believe that is the entire point of the book infact.
-Jesse
Just because it's not a happy ending doesn't mean it's drivel, use your head.
-Jesse
Was that sarcasm, or do you just appear to be strongly religious?
-Jesse
Developers, developers, developers, developers...
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!!!11ONEONE
-Shteeve
Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi Cars went through the same kind of name ownership struggle. However, Mitsubishi group (not the car company) won out in that case.
-Jesse
He definitely sounds like he has some kind of crazy mental problems, and I'm glad that someone of his ilk is hopefully off the streets, and will be locked up to be crazy in isolation.
-Jesse
What about doing something like a generic distributed client? Something just like a generic virtual machine that you can run, and projects requiring large amounts of computing power can "rent" time on your machine?
-Jesse
To accomplish what? Help slide the bikes as they corner? When a bike turns, it has to lean over. The purpose and function of a spoiler is to provide downforce. As the bike leans, the "down" force also leans. Imagine a fairly extreme lean angle of 45 degrees: half of that down force is pushing the bike to the outside of the turn, into a slide.
Spoilers also serve to increase air drag, if that's what you were incorrectly thinking. An F1 car has much more drag than a Ford F-150 truck, but has so much more pounds of downforce (up in the tens of thousands of pounds of downforce for some race cars, whereas most commuter cars generate lift at speed).
-Jesse
I think we can all agree on this: As with everything in life, one should experience/practice/eat/whatever many things in moderation. Some competitive, and possibly violent sport such as paintballing, or sportshooting in MODERATION can be very healthy, and a great learning experience. At the same time, other activities to even-out the violent activities, such as painting or cooking, when also practiced in moderation will yield a very rich learning experience, and probably a well-balanced life/mental health/ability to defend ones self in more ways than one.
-Jesse
There's no need to have more amperage if the resistance decreases. It's called "current control" and it's a well established function of Electrical Engineering.
-Jesse
What is this strange Vee Cee Arr you mutter about? Is that anything like a TiVo or what have you?
-Jesse
Even if eventually MCE became the better product? (god of technology forbid)
-Jesse
Let me replace the idea "drinking" with "pirating music", and I think you might get the drift of things:
Come now, the reason for the anti p2p law is because it's often hard to catch someone pirating in the act. But if they have an open p2p network in the computer, what possible reason could that have other than that they've been pirating from it? I don't consider this unreasonable at all.
Now... admittedly drunk driving is a lot worse of an offense than say... sharing a few mp3s... but breaking the law is breaking the law, and you can't just draw arbitrary lines like that.
-Jesse
As I wandered down the street in a semi-drunken stupor, I did happen to notice that very blimp. But then I tripped and skinned my knee. See what good blimps are! I didn't get a good look at it, it was too far from where I'd set out from, and I certainly didn't want to risk another bloody knee to find out.
-Jesse
Um. Doesn't it?
And that's the perfect solution. In the name of security, your stuff can be looked through. In the name of convenience, we won't look through it every time, and you can still keep it.
-Jesse
A tether would not get any shorter for each thing that climbed up it. The weight at the end of the tether provides a pulling force on the tether, and thus keeps it taught. Grab a gallon of milk, and start spinning. You are now a model of a space elevator. Your body is the earth, the milk is the weight, your arm is the tether. Feel the tension on your arm? Now imagine a small robot climbing its way up your arm. Did your arm get forced back down any that the counter-force from the milk jug wouldn't completely negate? Nope.
-Jesse
You'll be more susceptible to unauthorized broadcasts with satellite than with terrestrial... once people get their hands on them. If this becomes popular, I'm sure they will start being sold.
Why, pray tell, is it easier to make unauthorized broadcasts on satellite radio band than any other band?
-Jesse
Hehe, I read this as "start using the [swearword] symbols!" But... I suppose it's the same meaning either way.
-Jesse
300 mA... 500 LEDs... 150 Watts of IR oughta take care of any Nightvision they have. :D
-Jesse
Would it be possible to wear an outfit with a large number of IR LEDs implanted into it, with battery power source? It'd be like looking at the sun with those goggles, but nobody else would even know.
Just to mess with them.
It'd be like collecting all of the RFID tags you could, and putting them all in your pocket and walking around RFID enabled stores, hehe.
-Jesse