...for last 2 months or so, like for a salvation. I want to make that auth system using iButtons and.13 is the first to include full, useful system. (1-wire protocol was present in the kernels before, and in userspace even earlier, but only with.13 it's mature enough to be usable.)
Google calc fun: ((G * (4 / 3) * pi * ((250 km)^3) * ((1 metric ton) / (m^3))) / ((250 km)^2)) / gravity on earth = 0.00712572516
For these less scientifically inclined, assuming Enceladus is like Holland, you go there and buy 3 grams (a tiny box) of ganja, then smuggle back to country.
(gravity on earth / ((G * (4 / 3) * pi * ((250 km)^3) * ((1 metric ton) / (m^3))) / ((250 km)^2))) * (3g of ganja) = 0.928167691 pounds of ganja That's almost a pound of ganja on Earth surface. In other news, if you accidentially knock a pizza off the table on Enceladus, you have about 5s to catch it before it falls to the floor.
Well, retention periods aren't a major headache. Just produce given file on request and opening it should be a worry of whoever ordered it. Not changing the file format guarantees no original information is lost along the way. But if you -need- these files internally, just keep one-two boxen with all the legacy software you'd ever need.
But it leaves a tiny layer of water on the surface - the condensation is just the same, only instead of billions tiny droplets, it forms one flat layer. This thing claims to keep your mirror dry.
I wonder if it can be applied to motherboard, if you plan using liquid nitrogen, dry ice or such for cooling:) Air humidity condensation on nearby elements is one of the worst problems with high-efficiency CPU cooling.
Sure. I agree 100% with all you said here. It's just that there are sites that use it nevertheless, be it due to stupid management decisions, or clueless admins, or whatever the reason. And still some of them DO contain important/interesting info. Sure I prefer to receive email in plaintext than.doc attachment, but if the guy is paying me for doing what is described in the attachment, who am I to argue?
You're an ignorant wretch and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it... and let me prove that to you! Look! I install an antivirus here. I start it. See? None! I say... what? A virus? Must be a mista...nother? And yet another?
Been there. Sorry to burst your bubble. NAT, secure browsing habits, never using Explorer, email through webmail only, etc. And keeping only most essential programs running. After a year -something- crashed, something I didn't remember installing, ever. So just to be sure, I installed an antivirus. I had three. One - Java virus, exploiting some vulnerablity in Java plugin, one that installed itself through a hole in eMule, and one I really didn't know where from... Now, once-twice a month, complete antivirus sweep, and turning the realtime monitor on, when surfing "suspicious" webpages.
heh. Because you don't have the plugin, it means you miss out quite a bit of content. "If I knew it was there, I'd go, see that." There are people who claim they don't miss the ability to read at all. And they never faced a situation that would convince them to learn reading...
Audio books, unlike great most of electronic media, suffer very little quality loss from analog ripping. Just grab the audio stream and re-encode it as MP3. Sure you lose some audio quality, but unlike in music, in case of books it doesn't matter all that much at all - the voice may sound different, there may be a little more noise, but the content will be still just as understandable.
In this environment IP and Copyright is an outdated system blocking innovation. I heard they have something up their sleeve against it. I think it was called IPv6?
"Want to use a sample? Go ahead and use it. With a nudge and a wink, you'll probably get away with it. If you reach number one with that sample, expect to hear from the original artist."
No. Expect to hear from the labels' lawyer. And prepare to pay thrice what you got from that piece, even if that was just one sample in a big original work. If there's a chance for money to be had from someone who did something vaguely like what someone else did, be sure someone will come to claim them. By copyrigt fees, by settlements or by lawsuits, not necessarily in that order.
"Beethoven doesn't need to be re-mixed - he needs a good orchestra." So that means, that if I do remix Beethoven nevertheless, his grand-grand-grandchildren are entitled to sue me, because it was their grandpa's heritage, so I owe them money? If something according to someone, isn't needed (and to someone else, is), should it be forbidden by law?
"Defenders of the licensing approach say it simply adds to the range of choices an artist has available to them" More importantly, it removes from the pool an artist is forbidden to use. Nowadays it's getting harder to find an original, uncharted, untouched territory. More and more often you stumble upon repetitions, intentional or not.
"And why the reluctance to think about social agreements that reward the gifted people who give us such pleasure?" It's reluctance to reward people who create crap AND stop really creative people from giving us such pleasure. Talent should be rewarded. Not just "being somewhere around there first".
"Why the recourse to mechanism - the need to have every T crossed, every i dotted, and a license for every possible occasion?" Because if you don't, someone else will, and then they have all the legal system behind them to screw you as they only desire.
"Finding a way to reward creators, which the project doesn't even attempt to address, remains more urgent as ever." Yes, it does. Now, when problem of protecting the creators from unjustly punishment has been solved by CC.
Better communications have all but removed some hideous inequities. It's no longer the case, for example, that Northern Soul artists were dying in poverty ignorant of the fact that thousands of people were celebrating their music on the other side of the Atlantic at all night parties.
Well, nowadays orthern Soul artists were dying in poverty absolutely aware of the fact that thousands of people are celebrating their music on the other side of the Atlantic at all night parties. Communication transfers information. Not legal rights associated with it. And money follow the legaleese transfer channels, not data transfer channels.
Tell you what? The crappier the author, the more they cry "Copying forbidden! All rights reserved! All characters, ideas, design, everything (c) ME, now and forever!" People most likely to release at least some of their works freely are usually quality artists.
On the other hand, Missouri law doesn't intend to ban all motor boats when it says any motor device at least partially immersed in water should be removed from water as fast as possible. Which doesn't mean you can't be fined by overzealous Police officer for leaving your boat floating. Simply, too general law, by accident embraces areas it didn't intend to.
(I would consider anything with a battery and weighing less than 20 pounds to be mobile realistically) If it can provide its own power, it's a mobile device. A 15 ton mainframe when hauled on an 18-wheeler and with its own power supply provided by two 12-cyllinder diesels (mounted on the same platform) is still a mobile device. On the other hand, a laptop with dead battery isn't.
i'm one of the first people to say you should never install flash on a computer if at all possible.
If the computer is not intended for websurfing, by all means, don't! But it's rather essential in opposite case...
flash is a horrible horrible proprietary piece of junk. Actually, the specs are open, it's just that all free flashes suck even worse.
it's main uses are to bypass the adblocking and cookie-deleting people. It can be adblocked just the same. The flash cookies counterpart can be deleted all the same.
Design a better mousetrap and the Nature will design a better mouse. it by default sets up your microphone and webcam to spy on you. Plain wrong.
it sucks resources like there's no tomorrow Less than Java applets. Animation in Flash is less of CPU hog than same thing in Javascript. It offers better compression than GIF anim (though there's the constant player overhead, so use only in case of big animations).
and without a 3rd party plugin, you cannot refuse to allow certain instances to run. You can't allow ANY instance to run without a 3rd party plugin (THE flash player). If you install one extension or two, what's the difference?
believe me, there's virtually no reason for an end user to install it. I won't. There are sites where ALL the navigation is done in Flash. Sure, they suck, but they often contain essential info you need, so you're forced to use Flash against your will. I've seen sites where the "enter" button is made in Flash. Sites with non-skippable flash intro. Sure, they suck. But you can't just shun all the info they contain because of method of presentation. You DO need flash. Off by default.
if you want to view animations, just download them and view with an external standalone player (search for one). Except the ones that require to be run from a webpage because they are too big and load in parts, except the ones protected against copying, except the ones that provide website navigation, except the ones that just break in standalone player etc, etc. And the standalone player comes bundled with web plugin.
and websites that require flash, i never visit. no matter how urgently i need to view something, i go without. So, you got that new laptop, and you need the video adapter drivers. So you will remain in 640x480x8bpp@60Hz, because the drivers are accessible only through a flash page? uh... That's rather fanatical.
i would like the svg standard to replace flash sometime soon... what's the current progress, anyone know? As for scriptable SVG, no development kit like one for Flash on the horizon. And Inkscape is far from really usable yet.
Taste is secondary. Marketing is primary. Original coke changed hands twice or thrice before it started gaining acceptance with HUGE marketing effort. I know quite a few "cola derivatives" that taste better, and cost way less, but they don't have the marketing power behind them. Same with software. What about MSIE vs Netscape? Which was better? But IE was bundled with the expensive but essential (don't buy the shit that IE is free. It's just included in price of Windows), so people stopped using (free) Netscape because they didn't have the option to pay just for Windows and not IE.
Same as with GIMP vs Photoshop. It's a decent substitute. Given choice: Have a raise and use free OOo or have MS Office purchased for your workplace, what would you choose? In my work position an office package is not essential. Write a request to another dept, report something to the boss, open a.doc file sent in by a clueless customer. It's all good for it, and fulfills its task perfectly. Maybe there are tasks where OOo is not sufficient and you need MS Office - I didn't find them yet. OTOH, the customer support dept uses MS Office exclusively. In most cases they get emails from the customers as common emails. Sometimes some dumbass customer sends the content of the email as attachment with Word.doc file. But once in 1000 emails, attachment of OpenOffice happens (usually from high-paying international customers, so can't be neglected). And then they come to me to have the file opened and printed with OOo, because they can't open it. Open Office's support for.doc files may be poor and buggy, but sorry, MS Office's support for.sxw is nonexistent. So, to whoever claiming you HAVE TO have MS Office instead of OOo if you don't want to lose your customers, you're wrong. You need BOTH.
No. It was Numerical Methods. Most of used functions would be primitives - loops, addition, multiplication, conditionals. You rarely used matrices or lists, but more often as simple storage than as some kind of data structure exploiting the calculator's capablities.
Look up DIY GraphLink. No, it's not going to hurt the serial port, but don't hope any of serial port comm software is going to work - they try to transmit data over not-connected RX/TX pins and either neglect the DTR/RTS or use them only as helper for sync, error correction etc. You need custom software to communicate with a TI calc. (there IS support for this kind of connection in Linux kernel, and there are userspace libraries that allow for writing software easier than normal, but all the userspace software I know is centered around standard "upload/download software/gfx/EEPROM" and I haven't seen any to have a TI calc networked.
They complain not that Google indexes and displays their site. They complain that people copy pics off their site, then display them on their own sites, and google indexes these sites. IMHO bullshit. Google is not a police to check whether images they index infringe on someone's copyright. All they host are thumbnails which can be easily proven to be "fair use" for informative purposes. Then they LINK to pages that infringe on the site's copyright - and from then on, admins should send out C&D, sue and do all kinds of nasty things to admins of these sites. Once they remove the infringing content, Google will make its own indexes expire automatically, with next update. Of course assholes think it's easier to make Google remove the links, removing all traffic to the competing sites at once, instead of hunting each of them separately, but it seems all they can get is waste a lot on lawyers and have the case thrown out of court. If I make a photo of a pile of CDs, with purpose to put it in a newspaper, I don't copy them, and in no way I'm responsible about finding out whether they are pirated or original. Same with thumbnails of images found on various sites. Google states the fact: "This site has these images". Determining legal status of that site having these images is completely offtopic.
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...for last 2 months or so, like for a salvation. I want to make that auth system using iButtons and .13 is the first to include full, useful system. (1-wire protocol was present in the kernels before, and in userspace even earlier, but only with .13 it's mature enough to be usable.)
Google calc fun:
((G * (4 / 3) * pi * ((250 km)^3) * ((1 metric ton) / (m^3))) / ((250 km)^2)) / gravity on earth = 0.00712572516
For these less scientifically inclined, assuming Enceladus is like Holland, you go there and buy 3 grams (a tiny box) of ganja, then smuggle back to country.
(gravity on earth / ((G * (4 / 3) * pi * ((250 km)^3) * ((1 metric ton) / (m^3))) / ((250 km)^2))) * (3g of ganja) = 0.928167691 pounds of ganja
That's almost a pound of ganja on Earth surface.
In other news, if you accidentially knock a pizza off the table on Enceladus, you have about 5s to catch it before it falls to the floor.
Well, retention periods aren't a major headache. Just produce given file on request and opening it should be a worry of whoever ordered it. Not changing the file format guarantees no original information is lost along the way.
But if you -need- these files internally, just keep one-two boxen with all the legacy software you'd ever need.
Wow, that's almost half a mile of mercury!
But it leaves a tiny layer of water on the surface - the condensation is just the same, only instead of billions tiny droplets, it forms one flat layer. This thing claims to keep your mirror dry.
I wonder if it can be applied to motherboard, if you plan using liquid nitrogen, dry ice or such for cooling :) Air humidity condensation on nearby elements is one of the worst problems with high-efficiency CPU cooling.
Sure. I agree 100% with all you said here. It's just that there are sites that use it nevertheless, be it due to stupid management decisions, or clueless admins, or whatever the reason. And still some of them DO contain important/interesting info. Sure I prefer to receive email in plaintext than .doc attachment, but if the guy is paying me for doing what is described in the attachment, who am I to argue?
You're an ignorant wretch and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it... and let me prove that to you! Look! I install an antivirus here. I start it. See? None! I say... what? A virus? Must be a mista...nother? And yet another?
Been there. Sorry to burst your bubble. NAT, secure browsing habits, never using Explorer, email through webmail only, etc. And keeping only most essential programs running. After a year -something- crashed, something I didn't remember installing, ever. So just to be sure, I installed an antivirus. I had three. One - Java virus, exploiting some vulnerablity in Java plugin, one that installed itself through a hole in eMule, and one I really didn't know where from... Now, once-twice a month, complete antivirus sweep, and turning the realtime monitor on, when surfing "suspicious" webpages.
heh. Because you don't have the plugin, it means you miss out quite a bit of content. "If I knew it was there, I'd go, see that."
There are people who claim they don't miss the ability to read at all. And they never faced a situation that would convince them to learn reading...
Audio books, unlike great most of electronic media, suffer very little quality loss from analog ripping. Just grab the audio stream and re-encode it as MP3. Sure you lose some audio quality, but unlike in music, in case of books it doesn't matter all that much at all - the voice may sound different, there may be a little more noise, but the content will be still just as understandable.
In this environment IP and Copyright is an outdated system blocking innovation.
I heard they have something up their sleeve against it. I think it was called IPv6?
"Want to use a sample? Go ahead and use it. With a nudge and a wink, you'll probably get away with it. If you reach number one with that sample, expect to hear from the original artist."
No. Expect to hear from the labels' lawyer. And prepare to pay thrice what you got from that piece, even if that was just one sample in a big original work. If there's a chance for money to be had from someone who did something vaguely like what someone else did, be sure someone will come to claim them. By copyrigt fees, by settlements or by lawsuits, not necessarily in that order.
"Beethoven doesn't need to be re-mixed - he needs a good orchestra."
So that means, that if I do remix Beethoven nevertheless, his grand-grand-grandchildren are entitled to sue me, because it was their grandpa's heritage, so I owe them money? If something according to someone, isn't needed (and to someone else, is), should it be forbidden by law?
"Defenders of the licensing approach say it simply adds to the range of choices an artist has available to them"
More importantly, it removes from the pool an artist is forbidden to use. Nowadays it's getting harder to find an original, uncharted, untouched territory. More and more often you stumble upon repetitions, intentional or not.
"And why the reluctance to think about social agreements that reward the gifted people who give us such pleasure?"
It's reluctance to reward people who create crap AND stop really creative people from giving us such pleasure. Talent should be rewarded. Not just "being somewhere around there first".
"Why the recourse to mechanism - the need to have every T crossed, every i dotted, and a license for every possible occasion?"
Because if you don't, someone else will, and then they have all the legal system behind them to screw you as they only desire.
"Finding a way to reward creators, which the project doesn't even attempt to address, remains more urgent as ever."
Yes, it does. Now, when problem of protecting the creators from unjustly punishment has been solved by CC.
Better communications have all but removed some hideous inequities. It's no longer the case, for example, that Northern Soul artists were dying in poverty ignorant of the fact that thousands of people were celebrating their music on the other side of the Atlantic at all night parties.
Well, nowadays orthern Soul artists were dying in poverty absolutely aware of the fact that thousands of people are celebrating their music on the other side of the Atlantic at all night parties. Communication transfers information. Not legal rights associated with it. And money follow the legaleese transfer channels, not data transfer channels.
Tell you what? The crappier the author, the more they cry "Copying forbidden! All rights reserved! All characters, ideas, design, everything (c) ME, now and forever!"
People most likely to release at least some of their works freely are usually quality artists.
On the other hand, Missouri law doesn't intend to ban all motor boats when it says any motor device at least partially immersed in water should be removed from water as fast as possible. Which doesn't mean you can't be fined by overzealous Police officer for leaving your boat floating. Simply, too general law, by accident embraces areas it didn't intend to.
(I would consider anything with a battery and weighing less than 20 pounds to be mobile realistically)
If it can provide its own power, it's a mobile device. A 15 ton mainframe when hauled on an 18-wheeler and with its own power supply provided by two 12-cyllinder diesels (mounted on the same platform) is still a mobile device. On the other hand, a laptop with dead battery isn't.
i'm one of the first people to say you should never install flash on a computer if at all possible.
If the computer is not intended for websurfing, by all means, don't! But it's rather essential in opposite case...
flash is a horrible horrible proprietary piece of junk.
Actually, the specs are open, it's just that all free flashes suck even worse.
it's main uses are to bypass the adblocking and cookie-deleting people.
It can be adblocked just the same. The flash cookies counterpart can be deleted all the same.
Design a better mousetrap and the Nature will design a better mouse.
it by default sets up your microphone and webcam to spy on you.
Plain wrong.
it sucks resources like there's no tomorrow
Less than Java applets. Animation in Flash is less of CPU hog than same thing in Javascript. It offers better compression than GIF anim (though there's the constant player overhead, so use only in case of big animations).
and without a 3rd party plugin, you cannot refuse to allow certain instances to run.
You can't allow ANY instance to run without a 3rd party plugin (THE flash player). If you install one extension or two, what's the difference?
believe me, there's virtually no reason for an end user to install it.
I won't. There are sites where ALL the navigation is done in Flash. Sure, they suck, but they often contain essential info you need, so you're forced to use Flash against your will. I've seen sites where the "enter" button is made in Flash. Sites with non-skippable flash intro. Sure, they suck. But you can't just shun all the info they contain because of method of presentation. You DO need flash. Off by default.
if you want to view animations, just download them and view with an external standalone player (search for one).
Except the ones that require to be run from a webpage because they are too big and load in parts, except the ones protected against copying, except the ones that provide website navigation, except the ones that just break in standalone player etc, etc. And the standalone player comes bundled with web plugin.
and websites that require flash, i never visit. no matter how urgently i need to view something, i go without.
So, you got that new laptop, and you need the video adapter drivers. So you will remain in 640x480x8bpp@60Hz, because the drivers are accessible only through a flash page? uh... That's rather fanatical.
i would like the svg standard to replace flash sometime soon... what's the current progress, anyone know?
As for scriptable SVG, no development kit like one for Flash on the horizon. And Inkscape is far from really usable yet.
Taste is secondary. Marketing is primary. Original coke changed hands twice or thrice before it started gaining acceptance with HUGE marketing effort. I know quite a few "cola derivatives" that taste better, and cost way less, but they don't have the marketing power behind them. Same with software. What about MSIE vs Netscape? Which was better? But IE was bundled with the expensive but essential (don't buy the shit that IE is free. It's just included in price of Windows), so people stopped using (free) Netscape because they didn't have the option to pay just for Windows and not IE.
Same as with GIMP vs Photoshop. It's a decent substitute. Given choice: Have a raise and use free OOo or have MS Office purchased for your workplace, what would you choose? In my work position an office package is not essential. Write a request to another dept, report something to the boss, open a .doc file sent in by a clueless customer. It's all good for it, and fulfills its task perfectly. Maybe there are tasks where OOo is not sufficient and you need MS Office - I didn't find them yet. .doc file. But once in 1000 emails, attachment of OpenOffice happens (usually from high-paying international customers, so can't be neglected). And then they come to me to have the file opened and printed with OOo, because they can't open it. Open Office's support for .doc files may be poor and buggy, but sorry, MS Office's support for .sxw is nonexistent. So, to whoever claiming you HAVE TO have MS Office instead of OOo if you don't want to lose your customers, you're wrong. You need BOTH.
OTOH, the customer support dept uses MS Office exclusively. In most cases they get emails from the customers as common emails. Sometimes some dumbass customer sends the content of the email as attachment with Word
Start a global thermonuclear war. Resulting post-nuclear winter is granted to lower the world's temperature.
No. It was Numerical Methods. Most of used functions would be primitives - loops, addition, multiplication, conditionals. You rarely used matrices or lists, but more often as simple storage than as some kind of data structure exploiting the calculator's capablities.
Look up DIY GraphLink. No, it's not going to hurt the serial port, but don't hope any of serial port comm software is going to work - they try to transmit data over not-connected RX/TX pins and either neglect the DTR/RTS or use them only as helper for sync, error correction etc. You need custom software to communicate with a TI calc. (there IS support for this kind of connection in Linux kernel, and there are userspace libraries that allow for writing software easier than normal, but all the userspace software I know is centered around standard "upload/download software/gfx/EEPROM" and I haven't seen any to have a TI calc networked.
They complain not that Google indexes and displays their site. They complain that people copy pics off their site, then display them on their own sites, and google indexes these sites.
IMHO bullshit. Google is not a police to check whether images they index infringe on someone's copyright. All they host are thumbnails which can be easily proven to be "fair use" for informative purposes. Then they LINK to pages that infringe on the site's copyright - and from then on, admins should send out C&D, sue and do all kinds of nasty things to admins of these sites. Once they remove the infringing content, Google will make its own indexes expire automatically, with next update. Of course assholes think it's easier to make Google remove the links, removing all traffic to the competing sites at once, instead of hunting each of them separately, but it seems all they can get is waste a lot on lawyers and have the case thrown out of court.
If I make a photo of a pile of CDs, with purpose to put it in a newspaper, I don't copy them, and in no way I'm responsible about finding out whether they are pirated or original. Same with thumbnails of images found on various sites. Google states the fact: "This site has these images". Determining legal status of that site having these images is completely offtopic.
When the ETHERNET PROTOCOL fails, there's really nothing better to do. Either that, or hide in your nuclear shelter. Or both.
Palantir network was way faster and more efficient. Unfortunately its security sucked.