It's quite analogous with the GPL: tax payer dollars pay for the software, and the GPL ensures that the software remains there to be enjoyed by everybody.
And with a BSD license, the publicly funded code is still freely available for anyone to use. Do you think it disappears off the face of the earth once someone incorporates it into proprietary software?
Seriously, the average pay for an ump is well over $100k.
You think $100,000 a year is a "KILLING" for a job that requires constant travel from your family, and which only pays well after you've spent many years doing the same thing, with similar travel requirements, for next to nothing?
You said it yourself:
I'm not talking about your little league ump, I'm talking about the "Big Boys", the major league umpires.
They've reached the top tier of their profession, and put up with lousy working conditions and pay to get there. Compaining about umpires making $100,000 a year is absurd when you consider what everyone else on the field is making.
A TV can pickup at most 2-3 signals in a metropolitan area.
Huh? I live the Los Angeles area, without cable or satellite. I get NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, UPN, and WB cleanly. I also get a vast array of UHF channels, consisting mostly of non-English programming and shopping channels.
Because things move: wind, dust, heat distortion, light changing, etc.
Without actually seeing examples of these effects, I'm not convinced that they are a significant problem. Stereographs already mess up the pipeline and "don't feel right" in my experience; most obviously, your eyes only have to focus on the fixed plane of the image, instead of re-focusing as you look at different objects in the scene. It's not clear to me that the effects you mention will have any greater disruptive effect.
Why add a risk-prone mechanical engineering task to the problem? Just to save on the cost of a second lens/CCD? Come on, the fuel to get out there costs a bit more, and the weight of the mechanics to move and sense position is heavier than a second lens/CCD anyway.
Uh, it's a rover. It already knows how to move. Point the camera perpendicular to the direction of motion and tell it to move a few inches. And, the key point: Returning sterographic images is just for fun. Why would you spend money and grams of mass on such an endeavor? It seems clear to me that this is a "do what you can with what you've got" task, not an "incorporate it into the mission profile and engineer a solution" task.
I assume that someone has, at some point. But on earth, if you're shooting stereophotographs with any frequency at all, it's probably worth it to buy a matched pair of cameras and a rigid mount. But when you have to get that mass to Mars, it's a different story.
But if you want to use the moving-camera method on earth, this may come in handy.
No, it does not mean digging up the ground. This is a common misconception that leads to the problems we're discussing here. If you are digging up the ground, please stop.
The rules prohibit buried caches. If it was clear from the supplied description that a cache needed digging, it would not be approved. It it were approved, but the administrators later learned that it was buried, it would be deleted. So, if you're actually finding buried caches, then you should report them to the admins for the benefit of the sport.
If you're just talking about caches hidden under loose cover (twigs, leaves, rocks, etc.), then that is normal, but the finder should be restoring the cover after finding the cache, so that it looks natural. This both preserves the appearance of the park, and camoflages the cache.
Virtually all of the problems that piss off land management people result from violations of the rules. Banning geocaching on account of the few rule-breakers is as stupid as banning hiking on account of rule-breakers--people who litter, cut switchbacks, and so forth.
Gauss's law is always true, but it is not always useful.
-- David J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics" % [A] potato would explode violently if the cancellation [of electrical charge] were imperfect by as little as one part in 10^10.
-- David J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics" % Under the integral sign, then, you can peel a derivative off one factor in a product and slap it onto the other one--it'll cost you a minus sign, and you'll pick up a boundary term.
-- David J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" % [C]anning jars evidently do not obey Laplace's equation.
-- David J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics" % I would be delinquent if I failed to mention the archaic nomenclature for atomic states, because all chemists and most physicists use it (and the people who make up the Graduate Record Exam *love* this kind of thing). For reasons known best to nineteenth-century spectroscopists, l=0 is called "s" (for "sharp"), l=1 is "p" ("principal"), l=2 is "d" (for "diffuse"), and l=3 is "f" ("fundamental"); after that I guess they ran out of imagination, because the list just continues alphabetically.
-- David J. Griffiths, "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" % Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The equivalent of this force law was originally announced by Hooke in 1676 in the form of a Latin cryptogram: CEIIINOSSSTTUV. Hooke later provided a translation: ut tensio sic vis [the stretch is proportional to the force].
-- Marion & Thornton, "Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems" %
(That last one is a slightly off-topic bonus fortune, demonstrating how the nature of scientific publication has changed over the past few centuries.)
I've found FreeBSD coders to be somewhat... elitest.
Your criticisms are off base, because the EDOOFUS error can only arise if a FreeBSD kernel programmer screwed up. (And it's not one FreeBSD committer calling another a doofus; it's a committer calling himself a doofus.)
Self-criticism is not elitist in my book. I suggest you show more restraint before impugning the professionalism of others.
I'm actually the observer, not the operator. (This is fine example of our tendency to see the world through our own perspective; I assumed you were an observer.)
This is the last of my three nights and we haven't opened yet. Hasn't even been close. Tonight looked promising in the afternoon, but the fog has just completely stalled out here. Another two hours or so and it will officially be a completely useless run. Glad you're doing better... send some of that up here.
Dark Matter isn't the only explanation for Fritz Zwicky's 1993 observation.
Zwicky died in 1974, so explaning his 1993 observations will require truly remarkable new theories of time and causality. It will make explaining his 1933 observations look easy.
I'm at the Palomar 200-inch, by the way. But we're in fog for the third night straight, so I have plenty of time for posting to Slashdot.
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Kris Kennaway, ex-FreeBSD Ports Cluster administrator, said : "We need to change those sneakers. Why do you think they're green anyway? Purple is a much superior color".
Huh. I always thought Kris was an Ozzie, but I guess he's actually a Drazi.
At least, this is what happened in Spain. A couple of years ago, new terminals were quite cheap. When portability arrived, prices rocketed.
There are two factors which may mitigate this effect in the US:
The companies, in general, require you to sign a one- to two-year service contract.
The phones here only work with a single company, so if you switch carriers, you'll incur the expense of a new phone (along with the hassle of re-entering your phone numbers, etc.). Even though the phones are subsidized, they do still cost money, and often have "activation fees" and so forth tacked on.
I would like to get an LED flashlight that has both a bright white led and also a red led to keep night vision. Has anyone seen one like that?
Yes. One of the night assistants at Palomar Observatory has one. It looked pretty spiffy to me. Sorry, I don't know where it came from, but you might start with companies that sell to amateur astronomers.
Unfortunately we are talking a minimum of $40k for this type of solution.
In FreeBSD 5.0, you can dump(8) a snapshot. I'm not sure if we're using snapshot in exactly the same way, but the point is that you're backing up a static "picture" of the filesystem, while the real filesystem can still be used read/write.
The best part is the FreeBSD costs considerably less than $40k.
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The oblateness of Altair was measured using the Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) in 1999-2000.
Seriously, the OED has both noun and verb entries for "diagram," with usage examples for the latter dating from 1840.
But if you want to use the moving-camera method on earth, this may come in handy.
I think it would suffice to move the camera a couple of inches between exposures.
The rules prohibit buried caches. If it was clear from the supplied description that a cache needed digging, it would not be approved. It it were approved, but the administrators later learned that it was buried, it would be deleted. So, if you're actually finding buried caches, then you should report them to the admins for the benefit of the sport.
If you're just talking about caches hidden under loose cover (twigs, leaves, rocks, etc.), then that is normal, but the finder should be restoring the cover after finding the cache, so that it looks natural. This both preserves the appearance of the park, and camoflages the cache.
Virtually all of the problems that piss off land management people result from violations of the rules. Banning geocaching on account of the few rule-breakers is as stupid as banning hiking on account of rule-breakers--people who litter, cut switchbacks, and so forth.
That should be EISCREWEDUP. The DOOFUS in question is the kernel programmer who invented EDOOFUS, not the application programmer.
Self-criticism is not elitist in my book. I suggest you show more restraint before impugning the professionalism of others.
This is the last of my three nights and we haven't opened yet. Hasn't even been close. Tonight looked promising in the afternoon, but the fog has just completely stalled out here. Another two hours or so and it will officially be a completely useless run. Glad you're doing better... send some of that up here.
I'm at the Palomar 200-inch, by the way. But we're in fog for the third night straight, so I have plenty of time for posting to Slashdot.
Ask for a refund, whiner.
The best part is the FreeBSD costs considerably less than $40k.
VIAGRA Is A Good Recursive Acronym