The uploaded patch didn't fix the problem, but will prevent it from occurring in the future.
Reading the article I am not sure how. My reading is that it has working data in something like RAM and a reference copy is built into ROM. If power is reset it copies from ROM to RAM. Radiation can corrupt the RAM. So how can a software change make the RAM less likely to be corrupted? Or have they tweaked a mechanism which triggers a reset to the copy in ROM?
why does Venus (with a massive atmosphere made mostly of CO2) have a far higher (~400 Celsius) surface temperature, even though it actually gets less heat from the Sun?
Why does Mars (with an atmosphere composed of 95% CO2) have a far lower mean temperature (-85C)? The venusian climate is affected by a lot more than CO2...as is the martian climate.
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, about 1% of the density on Earth. By coincidence the density on Venus is roughly 100 times the density on Earth.
But on the other hand commercial services are deserting LF, MF and HF when they go digital so in theory it should be possible to open up new long wave bands for amateurs. How do you feel about running some really long antennas?
current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this time frame, and the conventional terms of "Little Ice Age" and "Medieval Warm Period" appear to have limited utility in describing trends in hemispheric or global mean temperature changes in past centuries... [Viewed] hemispherically, the "Little Ice Age" can only be considered as a modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere during this period of less than 1C relative to late 20th century levels.[6]
As a southerner I am hoping its our turn this time. Temperature hit 40C yesterday.
Good way to frighten old timers: run you chips in a UV eraser.
The article does not mention the frequencies of light which the device uses to generate electricity.
True but I did wonder if it could be used as a radiation detector in various contexts. Maybe a little chip on a bracelet which sounds a warning when your UV exposure has gone beyond a limit.
The red hat servers melt from too much traffic and red hat restricts downloads to their own customers.
if RH did that, then *they* would not be in compliance with the GPL.
If the GPL worked that way any large vendor (IBM or Oracle) could put Red Hat out of business by redistributing RHEL and putting the source distribution requirement back on Red Hat.
My LG Android has a page in the setup application which lists the license of every binary and ends with the offer to provide the source. I would be interested in the contents of the corresponding page on this tablet.
If you have been over it 1000 times, why did you quote the part about object code rather than the part about source code?
Read the bits about providing Corresponding source:
Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
I think there is some confusion because the FSF recommends not referring to another site because they may stop providing your version at some time without your knowledge.
You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these ways:
a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the
Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium
customarily used for software interchange.
b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
prodwuct that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the
written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This
alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and
only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord
with subsection 6b.
d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated
place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the
Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no
further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the
Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to
copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source
may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party)
that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain
clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the
Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the
Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is
available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
e) Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided
you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding
Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no
charge under subsection 6d.
So say windows 8 turns out to be red hat linux with a new label on the box. For source code MSFT points back to red hat. The red hat servers melt from too much traffic and red hat restricts downloads to their own customers.
For MSFT to satisfy the GPL they must have control over the infrastructure which delivers the source code. Otherwise they are not in compliance. They could do this by paying red hat to do it for them. They could do it themselves. Maybe google provides this service for Android. I don't know.
For that to work the company earning profits from Android must contribute to hosting the source code. If that don't do that the version of android used on the tablet might not be available when needed.
they would have to be pretty low power street lights to run self-contained on PV
I am seeing more and more here in Melbourne, Australia. Initially there were smaller lights in parks, but now PV is being used for normal public lighting on the street.
Infrastructure is enormously expensive to maintain. You have to close the roads, possibly working at night. Batteries you can maintain in a factory somewhere.
I noticed that some short bits of the action sequences totally overwhelmed my visual system. For a second or two I literally could not work out what was going on. It seemed to happen when there was a lot of movement and a big stereo effect.
Its funny because years ago MSFT briefed us DEC guys on their brand new WNT OS which had so much DEC technology in it. And I did ask why the disk device names had to follow Windows95 (and DOS). I didn't get a good answer but I suppose the reason was backwards compatibility.
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don't make people who seem sober take any stupid breath tests or blood tests.
How do you define "seems sober"?
Oh no my secret is out. Looks like I am going to have to disappear you.
The uploaded patch didn't fix the problem, but will prevent it from occurring in the future.
Reading the article I am not sure how. My reading is that it has working data in something like RAM and a reference copy is built into ROM. If power is reset it copies from ROM to RAM. Radiation can corrupt the RAM. So how can a software change make the RAM less likely to be corrupted? Or have they tweaked a mechanism which triggers a reset to the copy in ROM?
Weren't they uncredited in the movie Jaws because the robot hardly worked when they wanted it to?
Must have been the inspiration for the Millennium Falcon.
McClune was obviously working as directed. Lynch just wanted naked chicks in his movies and thats out of the jurisdiction of the effects guy.
Because Mars' atmosphere is around 100 times thinner than the one around Venus.
Its 10000 times thinner, but otherwise I agree with you.
why does Venus (with a massive atmosphere made mostly of CO2) have a far higher (~400 Celsius) surface temperature, even though it actually gets less heat from the Sun?
Why does Mars (with an atmosphere composed of 95% CO2) have a far lower mean temperature (-85C)? The venusian climate is affected by a lot more than CO2...as is the martian climate.
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, about 1% of the density on Earth. By coincidence the density on Venus is roughly 100 times the density on Earth.
I don't see how the magnetic pole can influence the amount of heat striking the ground, or the amount of heat retained by the atmosphere.
But on the other hand commercial services are deserting LF, MF and HF when they go digital so in theory it should be possible to open up new long wave bands for amateurs. How do you feel about running some really long antennas?
This bit looks interesting:
current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this time frame, and the conventional terms of "Little Ice Age" and "Medieval Warm Period" appear to have limited utility in describing trends in hemispheric or global mean temperature changes in past centuries... [Viewed] hemispherically, the "Little Ice Age" can only be considered as a modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere during this period of less than 1C relative to late 20th century levels.[6]
As a southerner I am hoping its our turn this time. Temperature hit 40C yesterday.
give up burning oil.
Good way to frighten old timers: run you chips in a UV eraser.
The article does not mention the frequencies of light which the device uses to generate electricity.
True but I did wonder if it could be used as a radiation detector in various contexts. Maybe a little chip on a bracelet which sounds a warning when your UV exposure has gone beyond a limit.
if RH did that, then *they* would not be in compliance with the GPL.
If the GPL worked that way any large vendor (IBM or Oracle) could put Red Hat out of business by redistributing RHEL and putting the source distribution requirement back on Red Hat.
Good way to frighten old timers: run you chips in a UV eraser.
My LG Android has a page in the setup application which lists the license of every binary and ends with the offer to provide the source. I would be interested in the contents of the corresponding page on this tablet.
If you have been over it 1000 times, why did you quote the part about object code rather than the part about source code?
Read the bits about providing Corresponding source:
Regardless of what server hosts the
Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is
available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
I think there is some confusion because the FSF recommends not referring to another site because they may stop providing your version at some time without your knowledge.
Thats not confusing. Its very simple.
6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms
of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the
machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License,
in one of these ways:
a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the
Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium
customarily used for software interchange.
b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
prodwuct that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the
written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This
alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and
only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord
with subsection 6b.
d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated
place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the
Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no
further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the
Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to
copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source
may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party)
that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain
clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the
Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the
Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is
available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
e) Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided
you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding
Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no
charge under subsection 6d.
So say windows 8 turns out to be red hat linux with a new label on the box. For source code MSFT points back to red hat. The red hat servers melt from too much traffic and red hat restricts downloads to their own customers.
For MSFT to satisfy the GPL they must have control over the infrastructure which delivers the source code. Otherwise they are not in compliance. They could do this by paying red hat to do it for them. They could do it themselves. Maybe google provides this service for Android. I don't know.
Come on. We have been over this 1000 times.
It is sufficient if they use stock Android.
For that to work the company earning profits from Android must contribute to hosting the source code. If that don't do that the version of android used on the tablet might not be available when needed.
I think the Android UI is better because it has a physical Menu button. Usually functions like delete are in there.
they would have to be pretty low power street lights to run self-contained on PV
I am seeing more and more here in Melbourne, Australia. Initially there were smaller lights in parks, but now PV is being used for normal public lighting on the street.
Infrastructure is enormously expensive to maintain. You have to close the roads, possibly working at night. Batteries you can maintain in a factory somewhere.
As a bicycle commuter I agree totally.
I noticed that some short bits of the action sequences totally overwhelmed my visual system. For a second or two I literally could not work out what was going on. It seemed to happen when there was a lot of movement and a big stereo effect.
Its funny because years ago MSFT briefed us DEC guys on their brand new WNT OS which had so much DEC technology in it. And I did ask why the disk device names had to follow Windows95 (and DOS). I didn't get a good answer but I suppose the reason was backwards compatibility.