Anyone can buy, install, and stock their own machine. It's just that the damn things are so expensive that joe shopowner usually can not afford to amortize the thing in any reasonable ammount of time. -nB
Imagine the electrical feeder line that will be needed going into the station. You mean that single 20 ga wire?
The size of conductor is relative (via inverse square law) only to the current passed through the wire, not the total power.
This simply means that the car will have a step down converter immediately prior to the cap (likely integrated in the motor controller). Likewise the power pump station will have a mini substation getting transmission voltage and stepping it down to something around the distribution voltage range (maybe even lower).
-nB
Yes I know the 20Ga is a bit silly, immagine the size of the insulator you would need if it was carring useful ammounts of power:-)
No decent PTC has "resources to burn". If the company is doing right by its shareholders then there should be a nominal float of staff to cover 80% load (or 100% average run rate). Then when a peak comes in you are slightly understaffed and either slip or hire temps (if possible). Only the government is always fully staffed. -nB
I think in most cases they do care, but just have no idea what to care about. The machie is dog slow? They don't realise it's a bot, they just assume that the machine is old. -nB
Actually I think you are right (and I think the OSDL is doing the right thing), problem is there is no other way. If there was a way seperate from what the OSDL is doing then great. I don't think there is. I don't think that the establishment will allow change as massive as abolishing SW patents. Next best thing is a Db that demonstrates that everything is enough a deritive of prior art as to not be patentable.
Because it's a matter of intent of the law not matching the letter of the law. We all know that the spirit of copyright law would include a US citizen using a service like AllOfMP3.com, but since the letter does not cover it, it is legal. -nB
Actually due to the horribly convoluted legal system in the US, the coping is happening there, you are downloading the copy, electronic datastreams (media-less) are not considered imports in the US. The loophole is there, and it si real (for the time being). If you used their service and burned a CD or saved to a HDD and crossed into the us then it would be importation and you'd be in violation. -nB
AllOfMP3 plays for sure (as long as the site is up). supernova &&|| all it's vairents tend to play for sure as long as the torrent isn't comprimised.
While the legality of the former is questionable and the latter is, well, known for sure, these are still legitimite competitors to the DRM media.
-nB
To clarify legitimate competitor != legal competitor. The media companies need to understnad that if they break their own rules then they are opening the gates to others ignoring the rules a bit wider every time. -nB
Damn botched close itallics tag. shoulda used priview:)
Anyway, the concrete/rebar thing actually works quite well up to a couple hundred MHz. Think of the old 900MHz cell phones and how much trouble they were inside buildings (esp. parking structures).
The true parinoid, have a double insulated enclosure with both a floating faraday and a grounded faraday. Each of these faradays are in a sealed enclosure, the foating faraday has Brown/Pink/White (IIRC order of preferance) noise coupled to it while the outer cage, like I said is ground. The enclosures are thus also filled with a distorting gas (SF6 or He) and pumped with acoustic noise as well.
Finally any windows you have should be red/purple type metallic tint (uses gold) and subsequently grounded. -nB
You need a solid conductor on the walls/ceiling/floor for a proper cage./i? no you do not. You need a conductor of a mesh size smaller that the minimum (smallest) wavelength you want to block. Mesh of 1" squares is more than adequate up to the low GHz range. Screen door mesh (assuming metal and not plastic) is good for the mid to high tens of GHz.
You will also gain a ton more by having two 1" square meshes offset and at less than one wavelength apart (for the target of ~2.5GHz and lower) than you would for a single solid copper foil.
Right, so they don't like the word open? How about we call it "highly available source"? They like high availability don't they? I'm actually more serious than kidding...
That's basically true. Less code requires less storage space. Since I doubt these use HDDs every die of Flash you don't have to use is a few grams removed from the payload weight. (sorry to spoil your joke).
Also, It's not so much that linux is robot friendly, it's that in this case windows would be so un-friendly as to make the choice more obvious *(yes I realise that they likely were contemplating someting like linux Vs VxWorks, not linux Vs Windows). -nB
What ISP? I know of several companies with say about 100 outward facing IPs that are registered to the company and connect directly to a peering point (or 10). In effect these companies are their own ISPs. If they get accidently black listed they are phucked. Then what? -nB
Well the way I deal with tailgaters may be considered a bit extreem: 1) Notice tailgater (and by tailgater I mean, I can't see their hood, much less lights, sometimes not even the dash). 2) Follow algorithm below
{Tap brakes lightly with left foot, not decelerating at all.;}
if (driverFailsToBackOff==1) {no brake, just off the gas;}
if (driverHonks==1 || driverFailsToBackOff==1) {open sunroof; look for ammo; confirm (lack of) finger print carrying capacity of ammo; toss out sunroof;}
Best ever, I was coming home from a paintball game, so I tossed some of the paint out the window. All their wipers did was make it impossible to see through the windshield and they had to pull over and stop:-) -nB
I grow facial hair because I am a lazy basterd who can't be bothered to shave in the morning (I'm busy finding coffee). So I shave every few days once it gets annoying enough.
So there.
nevermind my manic/sociopathic disdain for the (frightfully) average driver who seems to think that driving in the median and sidewalk is acceptable. (you all now know my pet peeve, that and tailgating, but a sunroof and various objects fixes the latter quickly). -nB
Not to go too far down this path but I think the _average_/.er is more miffed with the process the RIAA is using rather than that they are suing. The flood of Jon Doe suits are absurd. They should have to file one suit at a time based upon better evedence than they currently have been using.
Then again AFAIK no suit has gone all the way to trial, another beef the/. crowd has about this. -nB
Firefox, with no-script, no-ads(filterset.G; download, do not display), fasterfox, and a couple others. Even then I bet if I said "clear history" I would find crumbs to follow. Like a lower poster I have an encrypted volume where such stuff goes, and no swap file (I'm on windows, sorry).
Paranoia is only bad if they are not out to get you. (but you can never be too sure;-).
"Loss of big money" is second only to "Execution"? I'd personally rank it below "Divorce", [...] I really think it should be ranked below "Prison time", especially with prisons being as they are in the United States [yes](which I assume is the country we are talking about, what with "big money" being valued so highly and all[wrong assumption see below])[...]
The placement of money was actually hard for me. I ultimately figured anything that cost big money would likely also end a marrage and possibly result in jail time, hence the placement. I value my freedom, kids, and marrive all over money, I just figured that whatever cost me "millions" would likely also have a lot of collateral damage as well. -nB
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Anyone can buy, install, and stock their own machine. It's just that the damn things are so expensive that joe shopowner usually can not afford to amortize the thing in any reasonable ammount of time.
-nB
Imagine the electrical feeder line that will be needed going into the station.
:-)
You mean that single 20 ga wire?
The size of conductor is relative (via inverse square law) only to the current passed through the wire, not the total power.
This simply means that the car will have a step down converter immediately prior to the cap (likely integrated in the motor controller).
Likewise the power pump station will have a mini substation getting transmission voltage and stepping it down to something around the distribution voltage range (maybe even lower).
-nB
Yes I know the 20Ga is a bit silly, immagine the size of the insulator you would need if it was carring useful ammounts of power
Even second rate dealers know that once a junkey, more $$ does in fact alway almost == more profit ;-)
Now whether junkies outnumber casual users by enough of a margin to make up for the drop in casual users is another issue.
-nB
No decent PTC has "resources to burn". If the company is doing right by its shareholders then there should be a nominal float of staff to cover 80% load (or 100% average run rate). Then when a peak comes in you are slightly understaffed and either slip or hire temps (if possible). Only the government is always fully staffed.
-nB
Nice troll, :-)
Got me
That or I'm blind....
-nB
On the bright side I'l make a fortune.
Any PTC that does this will find a short sell by me the moment they do.
-nB
That is unless the game is sold at cost (~$5.00)
Then I'd be allright with this model.
-nB
I think in most cases they do care, but just have no idea what to care about.
The machie is dog slow? They don't realise it's a bot, they just assume that the machine is old.
-nB
But this is *different*
Actually I think you are right (and I think the OSDL is doing the right thing), problem is there is no other way. If there was a way seperate from what the OSDL is doing then great. I don't think there is. I don't think that the establishment will allow change as massive as abolishing SW patents. Next best thing is a Db that demonstrates that everything is enough a deritive of prior art as to not be patentable.
-nB
Because it's a matter of intent of the law not matching the letter of the law.
We all know that the spirit of copyright law would include a US citizen using a service like AllOfMP3.com, but since the letter does not cover it, it is legal.
-nB
Oh how I wish I still had points ...
Actually due to the horribly convoluted legal system in the US, the coping is happening there, you are downloading the copy, electronic datastreams (media-less) are not considered imports in the US.
The loophole is there, and it si real (for the time being). If you used their service and burned a CD or saved to a HDD and crossed into the us then it would be importation and you'd be in violation.
-nB
Oh, I don't know about that.
AllOfMP3 plays for sure (as long as the site is up).
supernova &&|| all it's vairents tend to play for sure as long as the torrent isn't comprimised.
While the legality of the former is questionable and the latter is, well, known for sure, these are still legitimite competitors to the DRM media.
-nB
To clarify legitimate competitor != legal competitor. The media companies need to understnad that if they break their own rules then they are opening the gates to others ignoring the rules a bit wider every time.
-nB
Damn botched close itallics tag. shoulda used priview :)
Anyway, the concrete/rebar thing actually works quite well up to a couple hundred MHz. Think of the old 900MHz cell phones and how much trouble they were inside buildings (esp. parking structures).
The true parinoid, have a double insulated enclosure with both a floating faraday and a grounded faraday. Each of these faradays are in a sealed enclosure, the foating faraday has Brown/Pink/White (IIRC order of preferance) noise coupled to it while the outer cage, like I said is ground. The enclosures are thus also filled with a distorting gas (SF6 or He) and pumped with acoustic noise as well.
Finally any windows you have should be red/purple type metallic tint (uses gold) and subsequently grounded.
-nB
You need a solid conductor on the walls/ceiling/floor for a proper cage./i?
;-)
no you do not.
You need a conductor of a mesh size smaller that the minimum (smallest) wavelength you want to block. Mesh of 1" squares is more than adequate up to the low GHz range. Screen door mesh (assuming metal and not plastic) is good for the mid to high tens of GHz.
You will also gain a ton more by having two 1" square meshes offset and at less than one wavelength apart (for the target of ~2.5GHz and lower) than you would for a single solid copper foil.
natch
-nB
Right, so they don't like the word open?
How about we call it "highly available source"? They like high availability don't they?
I'm actually more serious than kidding...
That's basically true.
Less code requires less storage space.
Since I doubt these use HDDs every die of Flash you don't have to use is a few grams removed from the payload weight. (sorry to spoil your joke).
Also, It's not so much that linux is robot friendly, it's that in this case windows would be so un-friendly as to make the choice more obvious *(yes I realise that they likely were contemplating someting like linux Vs VxWorks, not linux Vs Windows).
-nB
Hopefully :-)
This is why I love flame wars right here:
"of course you get better performance- just like you can get better performance from a wheel-less Yugo if you slide it down a luge track."
-nB
What ISP?
I know of several companies with say about 100 outward facing IPs that are registered to the company and connect directly to a peering point (or 10). In effect these companies are their own ISPs. If they get accidently black listed they are phucked. Then what?
-nB
Well the way I deal with tailgaters may be considered a bit extreem:
:-)
1) Notice tailgater (and by tailgater I mean, I can't see their hood, much less lights, sometimes not even the dash).
2) Follow algorithm below
{Tap brakes lightly with left foot, not decelerating at all.;}
if (driverFailsToBackOff==1) {no brake, just off the gas;}
if (driverHonks==1 || driverFailsToBackOff==1) {open sunroof; look for ammo; confirm (lack of) finger print carrying capacity of ammo; toss out sunroof;}
Best ever, I was coming home from a paintball game, so I tossed some of the paint out the window. All their wipers did was make it impossible to see through the windshield and they had to pull over and stop
-nB
Bullshit on both counts.
I grow facial hair because I am a lazy basterd who can't be bothered to shave in the morning (I'm busy finding coffee). So I shave every few days once it gets annoying enough.
So there.
nevermind my manic/sociopathic disdain for the (frightfully) average driver who seems to think that driving in the median and sidewalk is acceptable. (you all now know my pet peeve, that and tailgating, but a sunroof and various objects fixes the latter quickly).
-nB
Not to go too far down this path but I think the _average_ /.er is more miffed with the process the RIAA is using rather than that they are suing. The flood of Jon Doe suits are absurd. They should have to file one suit at a time based upon better evedence than they currently have been using.
/. crowd has about this.
Then again AFAIK no suit has gone all the way to trial, another beef the
-nB
Firefox, with no-script, no-ads(filterset.G; download, do not display), fasterfox, and a couple others.
;-).
Even then I bet if I said "clear history" I would find crumbs to follow. Like a lower poster I have an encrypted volume where such stuff goes, and no swap file (I'm on windows, sorry).
Paranoia is only bad if they are not out to get you. (but you can never be too sure
-nB
"Loss of big money" is second only to "Execution"? I'd personally rank it below "Divorce", [...] I really think it should be ranked below "Prison time", especially with prisons being as they are in the United States [yes](which I assume is the country we are talking about, what with "big money" being valued so highly and all[wrong assumption see below])[...]
The placement of money was actually hard for me. I ultimately figured anything that cost big money would likely also end a marrage and possibly result in jail time, hence the placement. I value my freedom, kids, and marrive all over money, I just figured that whatever cost me "millions" would likely also have a lot of collateral damage as well.
-nB