One summer the council decides to put Linux on donated school computers and put the saved money in the reserve instead of buying Windows. The next summer the crops are poor and the money from the reserve buy food to save lives. So yes, in some cases Linux can cure hunger.
Nope, wasn't him. "640K ought to be enough for everyone" is attributed to him but likely an urban legend. But "Internet is just a passing fancy" was him.
it would work in ultra-macro mode only - such camera would ned serious lens twisting to be able to make normal photos too. A photo of a landscape or a car, or your ass can be made with about the same lens as an "ID photo" of your face. A photo of your iris - can't. There's less difference in focus settings between 1m and infinity than between 1cm and 3cm.
'cause it's a Talk page, not an Article page. People are free to make mess off it to keep the article clean. Dubious ideas, NPOV, personal biases, requests, all that kind of junk gets stored there. Once something important emerges and becomes clear, it makes its way to the main article. It's not something that's wrong with Wikipedia. It's what's wrong with the general state of knowledge.
Yep. 3GHz would suffice for noise cancellation. Not much more though. Someone walks in, and your game framerate drops by half. You start up Firefox and suddenly noise levels in the room rise as noise cancellation stops working...
I mean, imagine you're a candy manufacturer. A big mall network buys the candy from you. They put ads for these candies on TV and give away free samples. And then you want the TV and people who distribute the free samples to pay you extra because they use your candies in their ad campaign which is about promoting sales of your candies.
Not necessarily. The text itself may be covered by copyright. In this case you can't go around, change arbitrary things and call it "johnny's license". You may (or may not) be required to credit the original author, or do some other stuff to make [publishing] your version legal. That's a very valid question. Don't shoo it like this.
I thought the times of crank-powered computers ended in the first half of the past century:) Ok, I don't like the crank idea, but the rest seems very cool. CPU: More than really needed. Display: Finally! 1GB of RAM: Whoa! No moving parts (except the crank;) - Cool! And the price: I WANT ONE!
You're using the software to upload LEGAL (if obsolete) software WRITTEN BY SONY to SONY hardware designated specifically for this very software. They may argue that you don't own license to the old versions of the firmware, but that's a weak point. In this point a skilled lawyer can twist the lawsuit in such a way that SONY will have to pay fines because it's THEIR software (the old firmware) that allows for circumventing the protection:) By DMCA you don't violate law by action of downgrading the firmware: You use 3rd party software, yes, to circumvent protection, but only with intent to install software that is perfectly legal for this specific version of hardware. The downgrader performs a legal action of changing one legal version of firmware with other... uh... semi-legal version of software. Now the DMCA tries to strike and opens a can of worms. Because you install the old firmware with strict intent to bypass copyright protection on OTHER software - say, Nintendo games. So, well, by extension you -COULD- say that downgrader is a software with intent of copyright violation but ONLY if you prove beyond all doubt that old SONY firmware is such as well. And the downgrader is only a small helper, the main guilty is the old firmware. By using the old firmware to play unlicensed/pirated games you doubtlessly violate DMCA, but on that basis, you're a small, single user. The Big Fish criminal is SONY, who's responsible for writing and distributing the DMCA-violating piece of software. So no matter which way you approach this case, always SONY is more guilty than any other involved party. So either they say it's legal to downgrade to legal firmware, or say it's illegal because the firmware they wrote is illegal... Nice.
Good programmers write easy-to-understand, supportable code. Great programmers write code good programmers can't write. Some problems simply aren't easy to understand, no matter if expressed as code or as speech or equations. And no amount of experience, good programming habits or language expertise is going to replace great mind that can understand and solve the problem.
Sure stuff like VNC or X11-Remote works in many cases. Static stuff like webpages, text etc, even with a little bit of animation, works okay. Thin clients are possible and quite viable option for that (though whether there's a market for them outside of some 10,000 slashdot nerds is another matter). But that's still pretty far from stuff like "wireless monitor" - try playing a FPS game or watching a movie on it and it sucks. Using "wireless monitor" anywhere in the product description would have competition and press maul it to death for "how bad a monitor it is". So - I agree on the issue, but watch your wording.
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: The mother of all hurricanes is about to come down on us.
Naval Dolphin Trainer 2: So?
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: You think we should remove the full racks of poison dart guns from the dolphins right about now?
Naval Dolphin Trainer 2: Hey dude! Got this on paper? 'Cause I have here the schedule for training this morning and the old guy said even if the world was about to end training must start on schedule. Want to get him angry? Go on, remove these racks, he will be after your ass, not mine.
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: I'll call him.
Phone: Beeep Beeep Beeep
General 'old guy' Important: [hauling his ass away from the disaster area and ignoring everything else]
...or that the site has been written conforming to the standards, so any standard-compilant browser (like Firefox, which the author recommends) will display it correctly. The author couldn't be bothered to write workarounds to Microsoft bugs though.
HL2: They are easy. Tip over, grab some cover, throw a grenade... you can usually spot it before you enter its fire range. Sure they are great as support weapon (when you don't have time to fight the sentry gun, being too busy fighting enemies near it), and they work nicely as a "surprise" in hidden places, but only idiots like combine have trouble with them (running straight upstream the fire), for the player they are just too easy. Unless of course the authors of the game make them exceptionally durable to damage.
Real story. Poland. Students' hostel, 10th floor, party. Everybody drunk like the hell. They decide to send a mission to mars. They load a volunteer in a cardboard box, write "Mission to Mars" on it, and throw it out the window. Party goes on, people on the street spot broken box, smashed corpse in pool of blood. They call the police. The police arrives, starts investigation, they go to the 10th floor, party goes on, they enter and see the students loading another volunteer in another cardboard box with "rescue mission" sign.
"my main fear is that so much energy is going into agreeing with one another that (this sounds Marxist, I know) the energy required to engage the government in a revolutionary sense may never build up! Will the anger and dissapointment ever reach critical mass when we're so busy applauding eachother's homogenous opinions? After all, in the case of environmentalism, how many oil tycoons are reading 'open letters to the industry? Probably not a whole hulluva lot."
Probably you're wrong. Sure there are these groups of like-minded people. But they tend to build alliances and hostilities with other such groups, and more often than not each group has at least one "sworn enemy" group which they watch closely and battle actively. Take our Open Source movement. Articles about Microsoft, criticism of open source, attacks against the ideas cause much bigger stir than praises or news on developments. Be sure oil tycoons watch what the opponents hold up their sleeve and pay close attention to react to the "open letters" in a timely manner if they could prove dangerous. And political activity? Well, online activity isn't so important as such, but it does transfer into real life. You get more arguments to support your beliefs, you may convince someone else IRL. You learn facts you wouldn't otherwise, you may get stirred up enough to start some kind of revolution. And certainly you'll have an easier time to coordinate the efforts, reach more like-minded people to support your case and act together when the time comes.
Thing about such groups is that what keeps them together are common values - things they prize, they have faith in, they love. These things are pretty arbitrary and hard to change, because they are primary and original, like instincts. Set of values, freedom, comfort, fun, privacy, ownership, safety, control, beauty, justice, "God" and a range of others, plus their "hate counterparts". One group values safety more, other values privacy and freedom more, and since these are pretty much in conflict, the groups will argue, each presenting strong arguments supporting how damaging given thing is to -their- values, while keeping the values of opposed group in low regard. This leads nowhere, but other method of argument - how the groups activities support or damage values that are common to both, leads to improvement, constructive criticism, repairing own mistakes... or pointing out fallacies in opponent's arguments. This works. Really. Just both sides have to be -somewhat- open-minded...
I wonder what kind of weird creatures would it breed when applied to a woman after some 5000 years of being exposed to space radiation. Actually, I wonder what kind of weird creatures would it breed when applied to a woman now and here, without being launched into orbit...
Would you buy gasoline knowing it comes from oil rigs built by slaves of the Saddam's regime? Think this way: Now they are free, but poor. They get a less-than-fair (but always, some) share of the cash in form of pensions, social support etc. Now in the name of shunning the relics of the regime you can let them starve and let all their hard work go to waste, or get the sats to fly, give these people some well-deserved money and understand, the tech as such is not evil nor guilty, and now as the regime is gone, there's no real reason not to use it.
"The Attitude Control and Determination System controls the attitude of the spacecraft using a pair of magnetorquers and a passive magnet and determines the attitude of the spacecraft using a magnetometer and a pair of sun-sensors"
So the craft doesn't become too PO, SOB or MF, and remains determined to achieve its goals? That's certainly kind of automotive technology...:)
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One summer the council decides to put Linux on donated school computers and put the saved money in the reserve instead of buying Windows. The next summer the crops are poor and the money from the reserve buy food to save lives.
So yes, in some cases Linux can cure hunger.
Nope, wasn't him.
"640K ought to be enough for everyone" is attributed to him but likely an urban legend.
But "Internet is just a passing fancy" was him.
it would work in ultra-macro mode only - such camera would ned serious lens twisting to be able to make normal photos too. A photo of a landscape or a car, or your ass can be made with about the same lens as an "ID photo" of your face. A photo of your iris - can't. There's less difference in focus settings between 1m and infinity than between 1cm and 3cm.
Who's that lovely company who dared to stand up against the evil giant? Give us the name and address so we could send them our love!
'cause it's a Talk page, not an Article page. People are free to make mess off it to keep the article clean. Dubious ideas, NPOV, personal biases, requests, all that kind of junk gets stored there. Once something important emerges and becomes clear, it makes its way to the main article. It's not something that's wrong with Wikipedia. It's what's wrong with the general state of knowledge.
That was a friggin shark...
Yep. 3GHz would suffice for noise cancellation. Not much more though. Someone walks in, and your game framerate drops by half. You start up Firefox and suddenly noise levels in the room rise as noise cancellation stops working...
Enough alcohol would suffice. Not good for your driving skills, but works decently as noise cancellation. At least until the next morning.
I mean, imagine you're a candy manufacturer. A big mall network buys the candy from you. They put ads for these candies on TV and give away free samples. And then you want the TV and people who distribute the free samples to pay you extra because they use your candies in their ad campaign which is about promoting sales of your candies.
Not necessarily. The text itself may be covered by copyright. In this case you can't go around, change arbitrary things and call it "johnny's license". You may (or may not) be required to credit the original author, or do some other stuff to make [publishing] your version legal.
That's a very valid question. Don't shoo it like this.
I thought the times of crank-powered computers ended in the first half of the past century :) ;) - Cool! And the price: I WANT ONE!
Ok, I don't like the crank idea, but the rest seems very cool. CPU: More than really needed. Display: Finally! 1GB of RAM: Whoa! No moving parts (except the crank
You're using the software to upload LEGAL (if obsolete) software WRITTEN BY SONY to SONY hardware designated specifically for this very software. They may argue that you don't own license to the old versions of the firmware, but that's a weak point. In this point a skilled lawyer can twist the lawsuit in such a way that SONY will have to pay fines because it's THEIR software (the old firmware) that allows for circumventing the protection :)
By DMCA you don't violate law by action of downgrading the firmware: You use 3rd party software, yes, to circumvent protection, but only with intent to install software that is perfectly legal for this specific version of hardware. The downgrader performs a legal action of changing one legal version of firmware with other... uh... semi-legal version of software.
Now the DMCA tries to strike and opens a can of worms. Because you install the old firmware with strict intent to bypass copyright protection on OTHER software - say, Nintendo games. So, well, by extension you -COULD- say that downgrader is a software with intent of copyright violation but ONLY if you prove beyond all doubt that old SONY firmware is such as well. And the downgrader is only a small helper, the main guilty is the old firmware. By using the old firmware to play unlicensed/pirated games you doubtlessly violate DMCA, but on that basis, you're a small, single user. The Big Fish criminal is SONY, who's responsible for writing and distributing the DMCA-violating piece of software. So no matter which way you approach this case, always SONY is more guilty than any other involved party. So either they say it's legal to downgrade to legal firmware, or say it's illegal because the firmware they wrote is illegal...
Nice.
Good programmers write easy-to-understand, supportable code. Great programmers write code good programmers can't write. Some problems simply aren't easy to understand, no matter if expressed as code or as speech or equations. And no amount of experience, good programming habits or language expertise is going to replace great mind that can understand and solve the problem.
Sure stuff like VNC or X11-Remote works in many cases. Static stuff like webpages, text etc, even with a little bit of animation, works okay. Thin clients are possible and quite viable option for that (though whether there's a market for them outside of some 10,000 slashdot nerds is another matter). But that's still pretty far from stuff like "wireless monitor" - try playing a FPS game or watching a movie on it and it sucks. Using "wireless monitor" anywhere in the product description would have competition and press maul it to death for "how bad a monitor it is". So - I agree on the issue, but watch your wording.
Informative? Mods have been smoking tuna again...
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: Hey, dude?
Naval Dolphin Trainer 2: Yeah?
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: The mother of all hurricanes is about to come down on us.
Naval Dolphin Trainer 2: So?
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: You think we should remove the full racks of poison dart guns from the dolphins right about now?
Naval Dolphin Trainer 2: Hey dude! Got this on paper? 'Cause I have here the schedule for training this morning and the old guy said even if the world was about to end training must start on schedule. Want to get him angry? Go on, remove these racks, he will be after your ass, not mine.
Naval Dolphin Trainer 1: I'll call him.
Phone: Beeep Beeep Beeep
General 'old guy' Important: [hauling his ass away from the disaster area and ignoring everything else]
1024x760x24bpp@75Hz: 169MBps
800x600x16bpp@60Hz: 55Mbps
WiFi:
Transfer Rate (theoretical): 1, 2, 5.5, 11Mbps
Transfer Rate (throughput): 4Mbps (average)
So over WiFi you can get 640x480 in 256 colors at 14FPS.
Sucks?
...or that the site has been written conforming to the standards, so any standard-compilant browser (like Firefox, which the author recommends) will display it correctly. The author couldn't be bothered to write workarounds to Microsoft bugs though.
HL2: They are easy. Tip over, grab some cover, throw a grenade... you can usually spot it before you enter its fire range. Sure they are great as support weapon (when you don't have time to fight the sentry gun, being too busy fighting enemies near it), and they work nicely as a "surprise" in hidden places, but only idiots like combine have trouble with them (running straight upstream the fire), for the player they are just too easy. Unless of course the authors of the game make them exceptionally durable to damage.
Real story.
Poland.
Students' hostel, 10th floor, party. Everybody drunk like the hell. They decide to send a mission to mars. They load a volunteer in a cardboard box, write "Mission to Mars" on it, and throw it out the window.
Party goes on, people on the street spot broken box, smashed corpse in pool of blood. They call the police. The police arrives, starts investigation, they go to the 10th floor, party goes on, they enter and see the students loading another volunteer in another cardboard box with "rescue mission" sign.
"my main fear is that so much energy is going into agreeing with one another that (this sounds Marxist, I know) the energy required to engage the government in a revolutionary sense may never build up! Will the anger and dissapointment ever reach critical mass when we're so busy applauding eachother's homogenous opinions? After all, in the case of environmentalism, how many oil tycoons are reading 'open letters to the industry? Probably not a whole hulluva lot."
Probably you're wrong. Sure there are these groups of like-minded people. But they tend to build alliances and hostilities with other such groups, and more often than not each group has at least one "sworn enemy" group which they watch closely and battle actively. Take our Open Source movement. Articles about Microsoft, criticism of open source, attacks against the ideas cause much bigger stir than praises or news on developments. Be sure oil tycoons watch what the opponents hold up their sleeve and pay close attention to react to the "open letters" in a timely manner if they could prove dangerous. And political activity? Well, online activity isn't so important as such, but it does transfer into real life. You get more arguments to support your beliefs, you may convince someone else IRL. You learn facts you wouldn't otherwise, you may get stirred up enough to start some kind of revolution. And certainly you'll have an easier time to coordinate the efforts, reach more like-minded people to support your case and act together when the time comes.
Thing about such groups is that what keeps them together are common values - things they prize, they have faith in, they love. These things are pretty arbitrary and hard to change, because they are primary and original, like instincts. Set of values, freedom, comfort, fun, privacy, ownership, safety, control, beauty, justice, "God" and a range of others, plus their "hate counterparts". One group values safety more, other values privacy and freedom more, and since these are pretty much in conflict, the groups will argue, each presenting strong arguments supporting how damaging given thing is to -their- values, while keeping the values of opposed group in low regard. This leads nowhere, but other method of argument - how the groups activities support or damage values that are common to both, leads to improvement, constructive criticism, repairing own mistakes... or pointing out fallacies in opponent's arguments. This works. Really. Just both sides have to be -somewhat- open-minded...
I wonder what kind of weird creatures would it breed when applied to a woman after some 5000 years of being exposed to space radiation.
Actually, I wonder what kind of weird creatures would it breed when applied to a woman now and here, without being launched into orbit...
Would you buy gasoline knowing it comes from oil rigs built by slaves of the Saddam's regime?
Think this way: Now they are free, but poor. They get a less-than-fair (but always, some) share of the cash in form of pensions, social support etc. Now in the name of shunning the relics of the regime you can let them starve and let all their hard work go to waste, or get the sats to fly, give these people some well-deserved money and understand, the tech as such is not evil nor guilty, and now as the regime is gone, there's no real reason not to use it.
"The Attitude Control and Determination System controls the attitude of the spacecraft using a pair of magnetorquers and a passive magnet and determines the attitude of the spacecraft using a magnetometer and a pair of sun-sensors"
:)
So the craft doesn't become too PO, SOB or MF, and remains determined to achieve its goals? That's certainly kind of automotive technology...
Better, drop the cure into inventories of more powerful monsters. Kinda fun quest to be the savior of the MMO universe :)