He didn't say he would be writing them, he was predicting that they would be written. I think he is probably correct. SCO hasn't really been anything more than an amusing nuisance to most people, but I seem to recall a worm targetted at them. I think if microsoft did go off the deep end they wuld get clobbered by a lot more talented programmers than are are currently writing malware.
Some people blame diminishing CD sales on unauthorized CD copying; others blame it on technological obsolescence (people buy DVD's instead of CD's now); still others say it's because poor artistic decisions by record labels result in releasing uninteresting music that people don't want to buy.
CD sales aren't down, they are up. What's down is the number of CDs being shipped by the big companies, because of the closure of many small stores and the reduction of inventory by large stores that use just-in-time stocking.
Patents have a fairly limited ife - 17 years. Maybe allowing patents on everything in sight is not such a bad idea. In 20 years or so they all expire and
pretty much anything is free to copy. Sort of long term GPL for patents.
Lock-in is the reluctance to stop using a better product, because you have become reliant upon its quality?
No. Lock-in is the reluctance to stop using an inferior product because of the expense or difficulty of changing over to the superior product. It is usually due to other products or systems that are dependent on the inferior product, rather than the cost of the new product itself.
We talk about humvees being the all terrain vehicle, but in the end - the ability to "port" the vehicle (carry by hand) is what makes a vehicle truly All terrain.
Much more important than the coriolis effect would be the gyroscopic effect of turning the rotating engine to the left or right. One way would make the car nose heavy, the other tail heavy.
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He didn't say he would be writing them, he was predicting that they would be written. I think he is probably correct. SCO hasn't really been anything more than an amusing nuisance to most people, but I seem to recall a worm targetted at them. I think if microsoft did go off the deep end they wuld get clobbered by a lot more talented programmers than are are currently writing malware.
never heard about the sword thing except on slashdot, so dunno where that came from. guns are very tightly regulated though. thankfully.
Victoria banned swords.
....I'd have the courage to give them the finger and say see you in court.
...and get the obvious answer "no. See you in Guantanamo Bay"
By the same token, SDI was not created in a vacuum..
I thought the whole idea of SDI was for lasers to be created in a vacuum.
Sometimes the messenger deserves to get shot. Even with wanton abandon.
Some people blame diminishing CD sales on unauthorized CD copying; others blame it on technological obsolescence (people buy DVD's instead of CD's now); still others say it's because poor artistic decisions by record labels result in releasing uninteresting music that people don't want to buy.
CD sales aren't down, they are up.
What's down is the number of CDs being shipped by the big companies, because of the closure of many small stores and the reduction of inventory by large stores that use just-in-time stocking.
I'm using a Windows machine at the moment because I'm not near my own computer, and I can't exactly put Linux on someone else's computer.
Knoppix.
Strangely enough, body armour and bulletproof vests actually are illegal in Australia, with some exceptions, ie police and armed forces.
It killed one man when he was lifted into space.
He was showing some girl the block of ice and didn't know they had changed the lifting schedule.
Patents have a fairly limited ife - 17 years. Maybe allowing patents on everything in sight is not such a bad idea. In 20 years or so they all expire and pretty much anything is free to copy. Sort of long term GPL for patents.
Well, for 17 years anyway.
The bombadier beetle. (steam jet actually)
Lock-in is the reluctance to stop using a better product, because you have become reliant upon its quality?
No. Lock-in is the reluctance to stop using an inferior product because of the expense or difficulty of changing over to the superior product.
It is usually due to other products or systems that are dependent on the inferior product, rather than the cost of the new product itself.
We talk about humvees being the all terrain vehicle, but in the end - the ability to "port" the vehicle (carry by hand) is what makes a vehicle truly All terrain.
450 pound counterweight, 65 pound gyro, + engine + frame + payload = maybe upto 1000 pounds?
That's not that easy to port by hand.
He talks about this more in some other books - eg 'The Extended Phenotype'.
The canonical example is of course the peacock's tail.
hah, we didn't have none of them fancy high-falutin' particles, we had to get by on quark soup!
I tried to post a list, but the lameness filter didn't like it - too many junk characters. Check my journal.
Much more important than the coriolis effect would be the gyroscopic effect of turning the rotating engine to the left or right. One way would make the car nose heavy, the other tail heavy.
Bullets have so little energy that a person shot in the chest is as likely to fall forward as backwards.
It's momentum they have little of. They have enough energy to do significant damage, mostly through hydrostatic shock.
It takes a bit of work, but it's not that expensive.
See these guys, or google around.
http://sxm4.uni-muenster.de/stm-en/
Oh wow, I still have Amos basic on the shelf!
I even bought the compiler.
Amos was flaky, but very fast.
No you wouldn't get a diamond.
The force is directed radially inwards along a cylinder.
To make diamonds you would need a spherically uniform force.(And probably a lot more megapascals.)
However you would probably get a really neat pancil!
-deimtee