Some LiPos are pretty sketchy - we've had a few in prototypes "pillow" (fill with gas), but no explosions yet. Definitely a no-no in medical devices, particularly implantables!
Some LiPo batteries have a special pillow deflating mechanism called LiPoSuction.
NiMH used to have problems with high self discharge rates, i.e. my spare set of AA batteries in the fridge would discharge faster than the ones I was using.
But the new low self discharge ones don't seem to suffer from that. Mind you, I don't really have much that uses AA batteries anymore, everyone seems to have moved to embedded LiIon.
At 0.001% of Nanos affected, it's probably more likely that your plane's engine bursts into flame than a Nano brought onto the flight.
What would happen if terrorists filled a large trunk with thousands of Nanos? Then the risk to passengers of one DETONATING, setting off the rest causing a fire in the luggage compartment and BRINGING DOWN the plane would be quite high.
Imagine a scale of how much you care. At the top end you care a lot and at the bottom end you care a little or not at all. You're trying to tell someone that you don't care. It makes sense to say "I couldn't care less", i.e. your care level is at the bottom of the scale, there are no 'care levels' beneath the one you have.
The one that makes me cringe is "I could care less" instead of the more logical "I couldn't care less".
Though it's so common in American English, maybe it's now counted as being correct. I've heard people in Sweden say (in English) "I could give a shit" because they have picked up on it.
I'm running Vista MCE... And please... no platform bashing. They all have their issues (I have a lot of h.264 encoded files... hardware/GPU acceleration on Linux is very, very limited at the moment)
Twitter waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were crazies on the internets. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Linus Torvalds were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. Twitter was a space cadet for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the flamewars on alt.fan.stallman and he said to dad "I want to be on the internets daddy." Dad said "No! You will BE TROLL" There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in his parents basement he knew there were trolls. "This is Torvalds" the radio crackered. "You must fight the trolls!" So Twitter gotted his Iceweazel and posted "M$M$M$". "HE GOING TO DISCREDIT US" said the paid shills. "I will shoot at him" said Ballmer and he fired the cost of ownership surveys. Twitter flaemed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the downmods fell and they were hidden and not able to kill. "No! I must kill the trolls" he shouted The radio said "No, Twitter. You are the trolls" And then Twitter was a troll.
It's a parody of this awful and unintentionally funny Doom fan fiction
It's not a straw man. Companies pay programmers to produce something which they own and can rent out. That's the reason for software patents.
And the objection to software patents seems to be that open source projects won't be able to come along and offer the same functionality as something that is patented.
But that's the point - shareholders pay people to produce something. They want to own that thing, not have it made available by someone else. If the inventions you make are going to end up in the public domain, why pay you to invent? You don't produce anything which they can generate an income from if as soon as they do someone else can clone it and give it away for less or for free.
Actually this is the reason why I said his boss won't know that the hell he is talking about. What he's doing is effectively the same as telling someone who's job it is to build houses for some property developer that he's opposed to the property developer having any controls on who can live in those houses. Which, to the property developer makes them worthless. What he's saying completely undermines the business model of investing to create something which you have a monopoly on and then charging people to use it.
Come to think of it, if I were his boss, I think I'd suggest he work for some company which sells GPL software like RedHat. I'd write him a reference saying he was very idealistic but I'd fire him. Because the bottom line is that his principles are incompatible with the business model the owners of the company have chosen.
Look, here's the way the world works. People put money into companies because they want to generate an investment that brings in money they can live off. So if a company pays you to code they want to have control of what you produce. This is in the contract - if you produce something at work the company that paid you owns the intellectual property rights, including copyright and patents. They want this IP because it gives them a monopoly on what they invented. That means they own it and rent it out to people. This rent pays for the cost of the development and then makes them a profit they can live off.
I don't object to this, in fact if I was funding some developer I would expect the same.
As it happens I could probably make lots of money working in country whose dictatorial government I despise. Actually I make a bit less and work in a democracy because of principles. I probably sacrfice some money to do that, but I'm happy to do so.
If your principle is that the entire basis of capitalism is wrong and property should be communal, which is the subtext of this anti patent/anti closed source idea, then maybe you'll have to sacrifice even more. Like not work for a commercial company.
Have you seen the recovery console? Or setup in Windows XP? That's pretty much the kernel, filesystems and a text mode UI. Actually NTLDR itself is an interesting beast - it's a stripped down single tasking kernel+read only filesystem that loads the real kernel off NTFS. It even supports normal SCSI miniport drivers. In fact in a hint of NT's Risc origins it's actually protected mode Bios extender underneath OSLOADER.EXE. On Risc, OSLOADER.EXE is used without the code to switch to protected mode and back to v86 mode to use the Bios, i.e. the x86 cruft.
Microsoft haven't productised a kernel+text mode UI, but logically it must exist because it's necessary to bootstrap a full GUI Windows machine and internally they must have got something like this to work before they started to port the GDI and shell. In fact they demoed MinWin publically once.
Because vendors like Foxconn locking us out and killing any OS other than windows is our problem?
Matthew Garrett is the kernel ACPI guru
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94998.html Summary: Almost all problems caused by bugs in Linux, one problem caused by BIOS vendors interpreting the ACPI specification differently to the Linux implementation and trivially worked around. No sabotage.
Later on he got mailbombed by Ryan Farmer, the guy that originally screamed Foxconn conspiracy
Websites that claim you'll never be able to get them taken down are quite easy to get taken down Legal threats are an excellent way of obtaining information The IP address used to subscribe me (and several others) to a vast number of mailing lists was 68.57.223.4. Which seems to belong to Ryan Farmer. "Fucking hero", my arse.
As far as I can tell, Microsoft have acted in remarkably good faith in terms of Silverlight. They know that their draconian tactics of old aren't going to work anymore.
It's like IBM with PCs. In the American market IBM fought tooth and nail to stop clones being sold because they were the dominant player. They lost and most PCs ended up using clean room reverse engineered versions of their Bios. In Japan, where Nec was dominant they tried to promote PC clones running DOS/V from Microsoft as an alternative to Nec's very closed PC 98.
If you gaze at the hex bytes in the swf file for long enough you can more or less see what's going on. I no longer see the hex I see moles that need to be whacked to win an ipod, Matrix style.
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Some LiPos are pretty sketchy - we've had a few in prototypes "pillow" (fill with gas), but no explosions yet. Definitely a no-no in medical devices, particularly implantables!
Some LiPo batteries have a special pillow deflating mechanism called LiPoSuction.
NiMH used to have problems with high self discharge rates, i.e. my spare set of AA batteries in the fridge would discharge faster than the ones I was using.
But the new low self discharge ones don't seem to suffer from that. Mind you, I don't really have much that uses AA batteries anymore, everyone seems to have moved to embedded LiIon.
At 0.001% of Nanos affected, it's probably more likely that your plane's engine bursts into flame than a Nano brought onto the flight.
What would happen if terrorists filled a large trunk with thousands of Nanos? Then the risk to passengers of one DETONATING, setting off the rest causing a fire in the luggage compartment and BRINGING DOWN the plane would be quite high.
Imagine a scale of how much you care. At the top end you care a lot and at the bottom end you care a little or not at all. You're trying to tell someone that you don't care. It makes sense to say "I couldn't care less", i.e. your care level is at the bottom of the scale, there are no 'care levels' beneath the one you have.
The one that makes me cringe is "I could care less" instead of the more logical "I couldn't care less".
Though it's so common in American English, maybe it's now counted as being correct. I've heard people in Sweden say (in English) "I could give a shit" because they have picked up on it.
For the win.
You're going to get such an e wedgie from the moderators about this comment.
It was totally Girl Scout camp man!
Eh?
Fucking in tents!
The recovery console is an interactive shell. And they're not that hard to write.
I'm running Vista MCE ... And please... no platform bashing. They all have their issues (I have a lot of h.264 encoded files... hardware/GPU acceleration on Linux is very, very limited at the moment)
Muahahaha
Be careful how you address him, or he'll add you to his little list.
Oh look, I'm on this list for this comment, which must have annoyed him
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=637183&cid=24496085
Twitter waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were crazies on the internets. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Linus Torvalds were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
Twitter was a space cadet for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the flamewars on alt.fan.stallman and he said to dad "I want to be on the internets daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE TROLL"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in his parents basement he knew there were trolls.
"This is Torvalds" the radio crackered. "You must fight the trolls!"
So Twitter gotted his Iceweazel and posted "M$M$M$".
"HE GOING TO DISCREDIT US" said the paid shills.
"I will shoot at him" said Ballmer and he fired the cost of ownership surveys. Twitter flaemed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the downmods fell and they were hidden and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the trolls" he shouted
The radio said "No, Twitter. You are the trolls"
And then Twitter was a troll.
It's a parody of this awful and unintentionally funny Doom fan fiction
http://amirhafizi.blogspot.com/2008/07/doom-repercussions-of-evil.html
It's not a straw man. Companies pay programmers to produce something which they own and can rent out. That's the reason for software patents.
And the objection to software patents seems to be that open source projects won't be able to come along and offer the same functionality as something that is patented.
But that's the point - shareholders pay people to produce something. They want to own that thing, not have it made available by someone else. If the inventions you make are going to end up in the public domain, why pay you to invent? You don't produce anything which they can generate an income from if as soon as they do someone else can clone it and give it away for less or for free.
Actually this is the reason why I said his boss won't know that the hell he is talking about. What he's doing is effectively the same as telling someone who's job it is to build houses for some property developer that he's opposed to the property developer having any controls on who can live in those houses. Which, to the property developer makes them worthless. What he's saying completely undermines the business model of investing to create something which you have a monopoly on and then charging people to use it.
Come to think of it, if I were his boss, I think I'd suggest he work for some company which sells GPL software like RedHat. I'd write him a reference saying he was very idealistic but I'd fire him. Because the bottom line is that his principles are incompatible with the business model the owners of the company have chosen.
Look, here's the way the world works. People put money into companies because they want to generate an investment that brings in money they can live off. So if a company pays you to code they want to have control of what you produce. This is in the contract - if you produce something at work the company that paid you owns the intellectual property rights, including copyright and patents. They want this IP because it gives them a monopoly on what they invented. That means they own it and rent it out to people. This rent pays for the cost of the development and then makes them a profit they can live off.
I don't object to this, in fact if I was funding some developer I would expect the same.
As it happens I could probably make lots of money working in country whose dictatorial government I despise. Actually I make a bit less and work in a democracy because of principles. I probably sacrfice some money to do that, but I'm happy to do so.
If your principle is that the entire basis of capitalism is wrong and property should be communal, which is the subtext of this anti patent/anti closed source idea, then maybe you'll have to sacrifice even more. Like not work for a commercial company.
I don't really object to patents, so it's not a question of principles.
Have you seen the recovery console? Or setup in Windows XP? That's pretty much the kernel, filesystems and a text mode UI. Actually NTLDR itself is an interesting beast - it's a stripped down single tasking kernel+read only filesystem that loads the real kernel off NTFS. It even supports normal SCSI miniport drivers. In fact in a hint of NT's Risc origins it's actually protected mode Bios extender underneath OSLOADER.EXE. On Risc, OSLOADER.EXE is used without the code to switch to protected mode and back to v86 mode to use the Bios, i.e. the x86 cruft.
Microsoft haven't productised a kernel+text mode UI, but logically it must exist because it's necessary to bootstrap a full GUI Windows machine and internally they must have got something like this to work before they started to port the GDI and shell. In fact they demoed MinWin publically once.
If Microsoft were adding features to Windows, like when they added an internet browser and media player, would you be happier?
Why do you need a 64 bit Firefox anyway?
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-browser-needs-16-exabytes.html
When a scientist tells you he has all the answers in his field, he's a liar.
And if he tells you 'more work is required' he's just after more grant money?
All first person shooters must have zombies, it's a legal requirment.
Rimshot used to mean something else back when slashdot was a forum for 'slash' porn.
iffy ACPI support on a number of systems,
Because vendors like Foxconn locking us out and killing any OS other than windows is our problem?
Matthew Garrett is the kernel ACPI guru
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94998.html
Summary: Almost all problems caused by bugs in Linux, one problem caused by BIOS vendors interpreting the ACPI specification differently to the Linux implementation and trivially worked around. No sabotage.
Later on he got mailbombed by Ryan Farmer, the guy that originally screamed Foxconn conspiracy
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/97151.html
Things I have learned in the past 24 hours
Websites that claim you'll never be able to get them taken down are quite easy to get taken down
Legal threats are an excellent way of obtaining information
The IP address used to subscribe me (and several others) to a vast number of mailing lists was 68.57.223.4. Which seems to belong to Ryan Farmer. "Fucking hero", my arse.
If a restaurant won't sell pepperoni pizza, why they hell would buy stuff from them?
The internet isn't thriving, it is festering.
Yes, but it would fester better with open sores.
As far as I can tell, Microsoft have acted in remarkably good faith in terms of Silverlight. They know that their draconian tactics of old aren't going to work anymore.
It's like IBM with PCs. In the American market IBM fought tooth and nail to stop clones being sold because they were the dominant player. They lost and most PCs ended up using clean room reverse engineered versions of their Bios. In Japan, where Nec was dominant they tried to promote PC clones running DOS/V from Microsoft as an alternative to Nec's very closed PC 98.
If you gaze at the hex bytes in the swf file for long enough you can more or less see what's going on. I no longer see the hex I see moles that need to be whacked to win an ipod, Matrix style.