it is not possible for anything to be in geosynchronous orbit over the US.
That's such a great point, I had to go looking for a loop hole.
It wouldn't be perfectly geostationary, but from what I understand, geostat orbits are usually small figure 8's straddling the equator. I think they could set one up so that the northern loop of the 8 passed just south of Baker Island and stayed within the US' contiguous zone.
Baker Island is 13 minutes (lattitude, not time) north of the equator. That's just under 15 miles and the contiguous zone extends 24 miles, or 9 miles south of the equator. We setup our figure 8 so that it goes 8 miles north and south of the equator and assuming the figure 8 can be kept narrow enough, we're always over US territory.
He might have been referring to the onboard instrumentation which stores your driving history. Not the instrumentation that displays info to you, but more like an airplane's flight recorder.
Can be used by service stations to tune for your driving habits. Police and insurance companies would like access to these for investigations.
For example http://www.expertlaw.com/library/accidents/auto_bl ack_boxes.html
Narrowing the sample population for editors to "acknowledged experts" seems like a great way to wind up getting more subtley biased articles. I expect the bias would come from the experts themselves and the bias of the selector.
I guess a free encyclopedia is a nice thing, but Brittanica is only $36 / yr at this point. Nothing like the crippling $1000+ that the tree version costs.
Does he honestly believe that commercial software has more missing features than open source software (in general?) I installed Ubuntu recently, and out of about 4-5 packages I tried to use, I got exactly zero working correctly. . . .
(*) Go ahead, call me a moron for not being able to get it to work. I know you want to.
it doesn't make you a moron, but your small set of anecdotal evidence doesn't lay much of a foundation for your broad claim, either.
A friend of mine studying journalism at Google's alma mater . . .
Here's a list of people pissed off that Stanford is now Google's. For starters, if Google is big for its Internet historics, how about Vint Cerf? And didn't Yahoo do what Google did before there was a Google?
For the impatient, the Google guys are on Stanford's list. They're listed last in the "Business Leaders" category, the only ones out of alphabetic order. Guess which Slashdot anger magnet's CEO comes first alphabetically?
They were running a promo, so there was a 39% discount from the list price on all hardware.
. . .
I can tell you not to go with Nortel, their solution was over 1.5x that of the Cisco solution.
Add the 39% discount back in and those prices are a lot closer.
It could just be I'm dense on this topic, but I thought changing the license of something only affects future releases and doesn't, retroactively, affect prior releases. Couldn't MySQL still fork InnoDB and continue to release their branch dually under open-source and non-open-source licenses?
Grrrr.... I wish I could force them to include SPEC benchmark
numbers in the processor names. Put the lowest number first,
then a "-", and then the highest number. Slimy bastards always
hide from the light.
They'd do it if it mattered to enough people. Or if you bought enough processors:) Yay market forces.
Feel free to flick through this new Halloween document: it's a legislative draft proposed by the MPAA for a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, on the topic "Content Protection in the Digital Age: The Broadcast Flag, High-Definition Radio, and the Analog Hole," on November 3rd.
I can't believe that ANYBODY thinks a government beaurocracy is the most efficient way to administer a resource like the Internet?
I don't think efficiency is the best criteria to choose administration of utilities society deems should be available to everyone. For example, would efficiency dictate that the internet not be available in unprofitable areas? Would it make sacrifices to reliability?
A true American, one who actually believes in the ideals of freedom and liberty expressed by the Founding Fathers, would be horrified and disgusted by this development.
true American patriots were on the side of freedom everywhere in the world - at least from a moral support point of view.
I thought "true Americans" BELIEVE whatever they damn well please so long and they don't DO anything that violates another's rights.
Autoversioning is a feature whereby generic WebDAV clients can write to a DeltaV server (like mod_dav_svn), and the server performs commits silently in the background. This means that if you use Apache httpd as your Subversion server, then most modern operating systems can mount the repository as a network share, and non-technical users get "transparent" versioning for free. (Of course, technical users can still use Subversion clients to examine repository history.)
Forget the coder bias for a minute here, and think about what the implications of this could be from the perspective of ease-of-use...and then think about what a battle we'd have converting people to Linux if we still don't have it when Microsoft does.
If you're target is to incent users to convert away from Linux, I think you need some proactive features that are better than Windows instead of reactively trying to keep pace. Or do you think it's enough to be reactive and free?
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Baker Island is 13 minutes (lattitude, not time) north of the equator. That's just under 15 miles and the contiguous zone extends 24 miles, or 9 miles south of the equator. We setup our figure 8 so that it goes 8 miles north and south of the equator and assuming the figure 8 can be kept narrow enough, we're always over US territory.
He might have been referring to the onboard instrumentation which stores your driving history. Not the instrumentation that displays info to you, but more like an airplane's flight recorder. Can be used by service stations to tune for your driving habits. Police and insurance companies would like access to these for investigations. For example http://www.expertlaw.com/library/accidents/auto_bl ack_boxes.html
Narrowing the sample population for editors to "acknowledged experts" seems like a great way to wind up getting more subtley biased articles. I expect the bias would come from the experts themselves and the bias of the selector. I guess a free encyclopedia is a nice thing, but Brittanica is only $36 / yr at this point. Nothing like the crippling $1000+ that the tree version costs.
As Disco Stu once said: "If these trends continue . . . "
Crimson Editor is nice and free, but not FSF free.
For the impatient, the Google guys are on Stanford's list. They're listed last in the "Business Leaders" category, the only ones out of alphabetic order. Guess which Slashdot anger magnet's CEO comes first alphabetically?
It could just be I'm dense on this topic, but I thought changing the license of something only affects future releases and doesn't, retroactively, affect prior releases. Couldn't MySQL still fork InnoDB and continue to release their branch dually under open-source and non-open-source licenses?
What's up with the links to acm.org? The registration is certainly more annoying that the often defamed, yet easy to complete NY Times process.
Maybe he accidentally ran his credit card through the reader? :)