As long as they're considered any form of authority (which many do when it comes to OSS, for what I hope are obvious reasons), they can certainly rule on it. It doesn't mean that what they say is *legally binding*, but it does mean the people are likely to respect what they decide.
Right, it's like religious experts can issue fatwas in Islam.
It's true that there are USB drivers available for DOS -- but which ones can be obtained legally? DUSE and USBASPI are not freely distributable as far as I know -- USBASPI seems to have been written by Panasonic and distributed with their own hardware. A number of posters on www.computering.net seemed to imply that they are quite scarce as well (which would figure).
As I said, non-free (as in freedom, and as in beer), and hard-to-find. Can any of these drivers be obtained and used legally?
Probably. These dongles pretty much all pretend to be serial modems and you just need to do some mucking around with AT commands and run pppd.
Some of them need some hackery (eg. the one I have needs a kick to switch from storage mode to serial mode) but you won't be the first to try it so there will be a HOWTO somewhere.
Not necessarily. I've worked on one of these dongles and on Windows it's mostly used as an NDIS device. Now the one I worked on uses the USB CDC Ethernet class and USB CDC Serial Ports - either it could act like a modem using the serial port or it could connect as an Ethernet device. The ethernet mode is preferred because you don't have the overhead of PPP headers, but it would still work as a dialup device using just the serial port. Now on Linux it will work by default in dialup mode, and with a bit of fiddling around with AT commands it will work in ethernet mode too - there's an AT command that makes the Ethernet device connect and support for the CDC Ethernet class is built into modern kernels.
However that means it needs quite complex Windows drivers, since Windows does not ship with drivers for CDC Ethernet. If I were making a Windows native device I'd uses make it an RNDIS device. That way you could skip the Windows driver, which is something that most companies screw up. But that means that it won't work with Linux. That said, there's a RNDIS driver for Linux now too
Yup, maybe me laugh when I saw it because I was writing 6502 assembly at the time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#6502_in_popular_culture In the science fiction movie The Terminator (1984), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the audience at one point is treated to a view through the T-800 Model-101 robot character's eye/camera display with some 6502 assembly/machine code program fragments scrolling down the screen. The program was listing the Apple ][ Disk Operating System (DOS) 3.3 disassembled program listing. Also shown is the output from a run of an Apple ][ checksum program called KEY PERFECT 4.0, published in Nibble magazine.
One man suitably motivated by nationalism or religion, and willing to risk/sacrifice his life to take out his target, can take out millions of dollars worth of high-tech gadgetry, as we've seen in Iraq and Vietnam.
Which is why it makes me angry when people in free societies tell everyone that those societies are to blame for all that is wrong with the world and all war is wrong.
I like the way PC gamer sites label each graph LOWER SCORES ARE BETTER or HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER.
It reminds me of a priceless ad in a UK computer magazine for DRAM. "All our SIMMs are high quality, not cheap low quality modules with low capacitance and slow refresh cycles!"
AMD also formed a strategic partnership with IBM, under which AMD gained silicon on insulator (SOI) manufacturing technology, and detailed advice on 90 nm implementation, the partnership was announced by AMD to be extended to 2011 for 32 nm and 22 nm fabrication related technologies. Partnerships
Yeah, I know. But the problem with the writeup is it compares IBM's basic research with Intel's production technology. Of course basic research will be about more advanced fabs than the ones currently in production use.
The Sky Bow I (TK-1) (Tien Kung I) is a surface-to-air missile system developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan ROC. The system itself is a derivative of the U.S. Patriot missile system and was built with technological input from Raytheon.
This means if China decides to attack with its Scud derived DF-15 missiles, Taiwan has a fair chance of shooting them down.
This is important because the US won't sell Taiwan enough PAC3 Patriots to be much use against China's thousand or so DF15s.
Screw that. India is a parliamentary democracy and a long term rival of China. This ain't Star Trek. Let's talk to the Aussies and get them to ship that uranium. Maybe we can negotiate a military alliance.
Oops, I mean namaste. Congratulations on your mostly peaceful use of rockets and nuclear technology
Pedantry on slashdot is a bit like collateral damage in war or lying in politics. It's not exactly regarded as being ok but everything is forgotten so long as you win.
The writeup is misleading. 45nm is in production now, and 32nm is due in 2009. The work at IBM is basic research which will be used by both Intel and IBM to make 22nm chips later on.
At least I think that's how it works. I guess Intel and IBM license patents from each other to allow them all to use the same level of technology. It certainly seems unlikely that IBM will be ahead of Intel in introducing smaller feature sizes since Intel is usually at the head of the pack.
$comment="I could get a great look an MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com word for it\n"; print $comment; $comment =~ s/k\s(an.*com)/k\sat\s\1's/; print $comment;
gives
I could get a great look an MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com word for it I could get a great looksatsan MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com's word for it
How about we just make everyone collect signatures, including the top two parties?
That would disenfranchise the voters, who can't sign their name. There are ought to be more of them, than of those, who simply get confused by the ballots...
It would also disenfranchise Deceased Americans in Chicago.
If America were interested in civilization, we'd be a Commonwealth State and not the United States (with Virginia and Connecticut being Commonwealths in and of themselves).
You could join the Commonwealth if you wanted. Find some English expat, have him swear and Oath of Fealty to HRH Queen Elizabeth II and then you can all sign an Oath of Fealty to him. All land will be collective and as serfs you will be expected to work for the collective six days per week.
I'd be willing to come over and act as Lord, once we can get details like droit de seigneur sorted out.
Though young, Linus is unusually smart, and he acts as the strip's philosopher and theologian, often quoting the Gospels. He also invented his own quasi-religious being, who (like Santa Claus) mysteriously appears every year, bringing presents. The Great Pumpkin, however, appears on Halloween and only at the most sincere pumpkin patch, which Linus invariably believes is his own. Linus is the only one who believes in the Great Pumpkin. Though he occasionally convinces other characters the Great Pumpkin is real, they always lose faith, while Linus keeps his.Contents [hide]
Security blanket
Perhaps paradoxically, given his advanced intellect, Linus is almost never without his blue blanket (or one of several), which he holds over his shoulder while sucking his thumb. It was in fact he who coined the term "security blanket."
Maybe Linus is a satirical name for Linux, like M$ is for Microsoft
Can you do more? Sure, but you need to look at the whole power cycle, from the mains in to the building to the use in the individual computers. About 1/3 of the power that comes in the door ends up doing work, you have many AC -> AC, AC -> DC and DC -> AC transitions, each losing a bit here and there. Those bits end up byting you in the nibble, puns intended.
Intel then brought up one of the older single rail 90% efficient PSU and pointed it out that it was obsolete. Instead of all the transitions, you go to a direct high voltage DC power system. The savings went from 3800 or so watts to power a rack to about 3300W, or about a 15% power savings with that one change. I think someone took a trip to Rackable and noticed what they were doing.
They demo'd a high voltage DC server rack at Comdex.
WOW! (the word not the game) them EverQuest 2 players must be downright geriatric. All of the WoW (the game not the word) players I know are over 30.
Games like Wow and EQ2 have more allure once you've passed your breeding years. It's like salmon going somewhere quiet to die after they've spawned. That would explain the depression and substance abuse.
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Reminds me of this article about releasing Maniac Mansion for the NES
http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html
As long as they're considered any form of authority (which many do when it comes to OSS, for what I hope are obvious reasons), they can certainly rule on it. It doesn't mean that what they say is *legally binding*, but it does mean the people are likely to respect what they decide.
Right, it's like religious experts can issue fatwas in Islam.
It's true that there are USB drivers available for DOS -- but which ones can be obtained legally? DUSE and USBASPI are not freely distributable as far as I know -- USBASPI seems to have been written by Panasonic and distributed with their own hardware. A number of posters on www.computering.net seemed to imply that they are quite scarce as well (which would figure).
As I said, non-free (as in freedom, and as in beer), and hard-to-find. Can any of these drivers be obtained and used legally?
You could write one in assembler in a few weeks.
Probably. These dongles pretty much all pretend to be serial modems and you just need to do some mucking around with AT commands and run pppd.
Some of them need some hackery (eg. the one I have needs a kick to switch from storage mode to serial mode) but you won't be the first to try it so there will be a HOWTO somewhere.
Not necessarily. I've worked on one of these dongles and on Windows it's mostly used as an NDIS device. Now the one I worked on uses the USB CDC Ethernet class and USB CDC Serial Ports - either it could act like a modem using the serial port or it could connect as an Ethernet device. The ethernet mode is preferred because you don't have the overhead of PPP headers, but it would still work as a dialup device using just the serial port. Now on Linux it will work by default in dialup mode, and with a bit of fiddling around with AT commands it will work in ethernet mode too - there's an AT command that makes the Ethernet device connect and support for the CDC Ethernet class is built into modern kernels.
However that means it needs quite complex Windows drivers, since Windows does not ship with drivers for CDC Ethernet. If I were making a Windows native device I'd uses make it an RNDIS device. That way you could skip the Windows driver, which is something that most companies screw up. But that means that it won't work with Linux. That said, there's a RNDIS driver for Linux now too
http://www.jooz.net/rndis/
Yup, maybe me laugh when I saw it because I was writing 6502 assembly at the time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#6502_in_popular_culture
In the science fiction movie The Terminator (1984), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the audience at one point is treated to a view through the T-800 Model-101 robot character's eye/camera display with some 6502 assembly/machine code program fragments scrolling down the screen. The program was listing the Apple ][ Disk Operating System (DOS) 3.3 disassembled program listing. Also shown is the output from a run of an Apple ][ checksum program called KEY PERFECT 4.0, published in Nibble magazine.
One man suitably motivated by nationalism or religion, and willing to risk/sacrifice his life to take out his target, can take out millions of dollars worth of high-tech gadgetry, as we've seen in Iraq and Vietnam.
Which is why it makes me angry when people in free societies tell everyone that those societies are to blame for all that is wrong with the world and all war is wrong.
Yes, but the axis label mentions execution time.
Isn't less more?
Or is more the new less?
Or Les the Nessman?
This junction is PN complete.
I like the way PC gamer sites label each graph LOWER SCORES ARE BETTER or HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER.
It reminds me of a priceless ad in a UK computer magazine for DRAM. "All our SIMMs are high quality, not cheap low quality modules with low capacitance and slow refresh cycles!"
AMD also formed a strategic partnership with IBM, under which AMD gained silicon on insulator (SOI) manufacturing technology, and detailed advice on 90 nm implementation, the partnership was announced by AMD to be extended to 2011 for 32 nm and 22 nm fabrication related technologies. Partnerships
Yeah, I know. But the problem with the writeup is it compares IBM's basic research with Intel's production technology. Of course basic research will be about more advanced fabs than the ones currently in production use.
Raytheon rock. They collaborated with Taiwan to build Patriot derived Tien Kung surface to air missiles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Bow_I#Sky_Bow_I
The Sky Bow I (TK-1) (Tien Kung I) is a surface-to-air missile system developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan ROC. The system itself is a derivative of the U.S. Patriot missile system and was built with technological input from Raytheon.
This means if China decides to attack with its Scud derived DF-15 missiles, Taiwan has a fair chance of shooting them down.
This is important because the US won't sell Taiwan enough PAC3 Patriots to be much use against China's thousand or so DF15s.
Dawkings is the Readers Digest name for a mix for Hawking and Dawkins.
Screw that. India is a parliamentary democracy and a long term rival of China. This ain't Star Trek. Let's talk to the Aussies and get them to ship that uranium. Maybe we can negotiate a military alliance.
Oops, I mean namaste. Congratulations on your mostly peaceful use of rockets and nuclear technology
Touché
Pedantry on slashdot is a bit like collateral damage in war or lying in politics. It's not exactly regarded as being ok but everything is forgotten so long as you win.
The writeup is misleading. 45nm is in production now, and 32nm is due in 2009. The work at IBM is basic research which will be used by both Intel and IBM to make 22nm chips later on.
At least I think that's how it works. I guess Intel and IBM license patents from each other to allow them all to use the same level of technology. It certainly seems unlikely that IBM will be ahead of Intel in introducing smaller feature sizes since Intel is usually at the head of the pack.
$comment =~ s/k\s(an.*com)/k\sat\s\1's/
$comment="I could get a great look an MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com word for it\n";
print $comment;
$comment =~ s/k\s(an.*com)/k\sat\s\1's/;
print $comment;
gives
I could get a great look an MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com word for it
I could get a great looksatsan MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com's word for it
Great idea, I just picked up Baghdad2018. I'm going to be rich when hell freezes over and they get the Winter Olympics.
I'm sure people laughed at the guys that registered Berlin1936 and Beijing2008 too.
What about the rapper Mc Anus? Surely he could sue McCain, unless McCain operated a parody site that poked fun at Mc Anus.
Mod abuse!
Mod Parent down. -1 Troublemaker.
This is quite different than someone like MikeRoweSoft.com; a domain registered with the guy's actual name to perform his own business.
What did he sell, softs?
That would disenfranchise the voters, who can't sign their name. There are ought to be more of them, than of those, who simply get confused by the ballots...
It would also disenfranchise Deceased Americans in Chicago.
If America were interested in civilization, we'd be a Commonwealth State and not the United States (with Virginia and Connecticut being Commonwealths in and of themselves).
You could join the Commonwealth if you wanted. Find some English expat, have him swear and Oath of Fealty to HRH Queen Elizabeth II and then you can all sign an Oath of Fealty to him. All land will be collective and as serfs you will be expected to work for the collective six days per week.
I'd be willing to come over and act as Lord, once we can get details like droit de seigneur sorted out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_van_Pelt
Though young, Linus is unusually smart, and he acts as the strip's philosopher and theologian, often quoting the Gospels. He also invented his own quasi-religious being, who (like Santa Claus) mysteriously appears every year, bringing presents. The Great Pumpkin, however, appears on Halloween and only at the most sincere pumpkin patch, which Linus invariably believes is his own. Linus is the only one who believes in the Great Pumpkin. Though he occasionally convinces other characters the Great Pumpkin is real, they always lose faith, while Linus keeps his.Contents [hide]
Security blanket
Perhaps paradoxically, given his advanced intellect, Linus is almost never without his blue blanket (or one of several), which he holds over his shoulder while sucking his thumb. It was in fact he who coined the term "security blanket."
Maybe Linus is a satirical name for Linux, like M$ is for Microsoft
How about reducing the need for AC POWER as well by cutting down on the number of AC TO DC PSU's.
Intel are backing that idea
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2006/09/26/intels-rattner-hails-you-tube-as-the-future
Can you do more? Sure, but you need to look at the whole power cycle, from the mains in to the building to the use in the individual computers. About 1/3 of the power that comes in the door ends up doing work, you have many AC -> AC, AC -> DC and DC -> AC transitions, each losing a bit here and there. Those bits end up byting you in the nibble, puns intended.
Intel then brought up one of the older single rail 90% efficient PSU and pointed it out that it was obsolete. Instead of all the transitions, you go to a direct high voltage DC power system. The savings went from 3800 or so watts to power a rack to about 3300W, or about a 15% power savings with that one change. I think someone took a trip to Rackable and noticed what they were doing.
They demo'd a high voltage DC server rack at Comdex.
Maybe Man U can get Uncle Sam to assign an Apache gunship to defend their goal during matches. God knows they need it.
WOW! (the word not the game) them EverQuest 2 players must be downright geriatric. All of the WoW (the game not the word) players I know are over 30.
Games like Wow and EQ2 have more allure once you've passed your breeding years. It's like salmon going somewhere quiet to die after they've spawned. That would explain the depression and substance abuse.