See, the thing is, many ISPs offer a free anti-virus package just for being their customer. It wouldn't be hard to re-direct them to a page about the virus they may be infected with, and limit access to the internet to just a few AV websites (including a free solution). They just need to add something to that extent as a clause in the TOS that no one reads anyway.
He wasn't talking about the DMCA, he was talking about the fact that companies are against importing ( example: Sony Vs. Lik-Sang ). There are a number of companies that don't really care, but some do, and they leave a really bad taste in your mouth.
I'm not very knowing of the gpl, but I would assume by adding any MS code to the linux base, it would be GPL'd, BUT they could easilly license it to themselves under whatever license they chose. The problems come in here if they wanted to integrate any changes that someone else contributed to the code they released back into MS. In that case, they would have big issues. (so I would think)
Entry number: 182 - Can we use the Open Source Edition while developing our non-opensource application and then purchase commercial licenses when we start to sell it?
Answer:
No. Our commercial license agreements only apply to software that was developed with Qt under the commercial license agreement. They do not apply to code that was developed with the Qt Open Source Edition prior to the agreement. Any software developed with Qt without a commercial license agreement must be released as Open Source software.
I read this and the first thing I thought about was computing as well, but I thought about precaching and branch prediction, you are going to do the calculation anyway, but if you get it a cycle or two early you can set the processor up for the work quicker. (quicker is not the right word, pre-emptively maybe?) Though I think this would be too pricey to set up in a processor.
now, on the counter to that, why not just have an email address like requestsdot.at@net.org.xxx (trying not to have the fake be something that resolves)
yeah, it may be a bit unprofessional, but it may really confuse the crawling bots
To be completely fair, making a USB device and making a certified USB device are two different beasts. Anyone can make a USB device for no cost to get it certified, all the docs are available for free online. To use the USB logo though, you need to pay all the said fees, and go through all that certification.
There are some low cost USB chips out there if you are interested, check out microchip's offerings and getting in is pretty low cost (the chips are a few bucks, a programmer costs under $50, for basic USB I/O prototyping, you don't even need to have a PCB made up, just keep the lines short.
Personally, I could see this, if done right, being useful for space applications, you have a device that requires lets say... one processor, and has 79 backups. Although I think their smart FPGA setups are cooler on an engineering scale, with their ability to find the bad spots anre reconfigure to not use them on the fly; these 80 cores could find some uses in a redundancy setup (imagine any other environment where processors can/will get damaged and place these in there)
Although I agree with you, and think FPGAs are hot, they are also REALLY expensive for the models that game developers would use (they tend to write big software from my experience, so your cheap FPGA wont have enough gates, and scaling for different users would be a bitch)
BUT, if you had a processor that had a memory of some sort, and regognised series of tasks that it did, it could program an FPGA to offload things that it recognises... which gets back to the need for at least a little AI to determine said tasks. I think it would be better fit for sitting next to the processor, instead of off to the side.
The funny thing is that ebay's lawyers can most likely argue that google payment is a beta and not production ready, which I think would clear them in all honesty.
It's really hard to take the creators seriously, their price range itself is quite a laugh, from $250 to $1000.
I have built my own pads, and as has been mentioned, movement is a very bad thing for actually playing DDR, and the most expensive I have gotten one of my pads to cost was about 150, with LEDs, a polycarbonate surface instead of the acrylic. I had tested an acrylic setup by making a steel square (what I was using to hold up each arrow) and having friends jump on it, which is a little more realistic than "stacking a 55 pound anvil on top of a ballpin hammer and hitting it with a 20 Lb Sledge hammer." at 150lb, with a hard jump, I broke it. My 300lb friend didn't even get a chance to try.
I really think if this kid was trying to be serious about selling them to a school, he would have designed his own control box, it's not hard to make a HID device, and costs much much less.
For more information, check out this thread on making DDR pads: http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=592 54
here are some side by side comparisons between all the consoles, some fun info there is the size of the PS3 is BIGGER than the XBOX that was made fun of by tons of sony fanboys when it came out... http://byonabi.haru.gs/ma2/html/uppp37602.html
the Wii is about the size of a double-wide DVD case
there is no nomad, but well, its a pretty good size comparison to the recent ones.
Enjoy.
The big problem with fuel cells is that the real big reason to have a mobile laptop is travel, and there is no way airlines are going to let people get on a plane with fuel, something about explosives...
I don't know if the laptop companies are thinking about this, but I tend to travel alot by plane with my laptop, and the fuel cells are probably quite dangerous in the wrong hands.
As much as I am for what has happened, the right to a speedy public trial is just that, a right, the defendant can attempt to waive part of that right with no problems, and seeing that AT&T is the defendant in this case, it was really their call...
MY understanding of the issue, I am not a law professional.
How I have explained it to non-technical people seems to work as well for me, I ask them if they would enjoy getting charged for an incoming call from the originators telco, or because they want to call a family member not on their service the service may be crappy if it even gets through. This pretty much sells them on the idea that tiered internet is dumb. For the pseudo-technical people, I just threaten their favorite site and explain that everyone is already paying for service, the major companies just want more money.
I've just been reading down the page, could have replied above, but the idea really struck me from your post, what about a phone, with a switch to say what mode you are in, and a touchscreen to do funcionallity, so depending on the switch, you have a different interface. when you are in phone mode, the buttons, mp3 mode, play, pause, next etc. and when you are in camera, the standard camera buttons. I don't want this multi-device, but I think this would be a step in the right direction.
I just think this device would always need the ability to pick up an incoming call, like a popup on the screen.
I myself would like a simple phone that can talk to my computer so I can upload my calendar for alerts, sync my contacts and maybe download voice recordings, to make easy notes to myself.
" the electric cow fences run at a moderatly low voltage, but the current strenth in it so large that if you touch it with bare hand, you'll remember it for the rest of your life (i remember it pretty well:s). if currents inside the computer continue the rise, we have to find methods to make the connections safer."
if the current was high, you'd be dead, its a high voltage line, with current limiting circuits to not kill things. yeah, you could do it the other way by having it a high current with limiting voltages, but well, 100mA will kill someone if applied right.
if high voltages killed people, shag carpets would be illegal due to the static buildup.
As for the rest of your post, some processors nowadays do step down their speeds when they aren't in use to save power. Also, a 1KW PSU will not always draw the max wattage, it depends on the load inside (like starting up a drive)
While I was working at a engineering lab tech center at my school (give students EE parts to play with) chips were easilly destroyed, the pins are the first thing to go, and if they go, well, its a little useless of a chip.
to put on a second, surface-mounted backup bios takes very little space, and you can power it with a jumper, if its in one position, chip enable is on for the backup, and the backup can control the other one (for instance)
I know a number of software engineers who have been doing OSS projects, they didn't go to school just to do that, but they found their passion, and went with it.
As for what jobs would be ok, if an engineer wanted to do it for money so be it, I said nothing against that. I actually just mentioned a counterpoint that some people (like me) do things for other reasons. Everything in my post except the OSS statement was a personal account, yeah, I see there are people who do it for money, but there are also people who do it because it is their passion, and couldn't care less about the money.
My statement was just a counterpoint to your statement which looked like it was a blanket statement, if mine seemed like a blanket statement, sorry for the confusion.
I don't know about most people, but I didn't go to school just so I could pay off my student loans, I went to school because I wanted to be an engineer, I was/am looking at work in an education field right now, and you know what they pay? I don't care, because it is what I want to do.
If I was in it for the money, I would have jumped into some high paying field with low entry costs, but I'm not, and I am up to my ears in debt, and contemplating starting work for an open source group in the electrical field, either http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ or http://www.opencores.org/
There are alot of OSS people who would consider your statement of money really silly.
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See, the thing is, many ISPs offer a free anti-virus package just for being their customer. It wouldn't be hard to re-direct them to a page about the virus they may be infected with, and limit access to the internet to just a few AV websites (including a free solution). They just need to add something to that extent as a clause in the TOS that no one reads anyway.
He wasn't talking about the DMCA, he was talking about the fact that companies are against importing ( example: Sony Vs. Lik-Sang ). There are a number of companies that don't really care, but some do, and they leave a really bad taste in your mouth.
I'm not very knowing of the gpl, but I would assume by adding any MS code to the linux base, it would be GPL'd, BUT they could easilly license it to themselves under whatever license they chose. The problems come in here if they wanted to integrate any changes that someone else contributed to the code they released back into MS. In that case, they would have big issues. (so I would think)
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From the Trolltech FAQ: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/
Entry number: 182 - Can we use the Open Source Edition while developing our non-opensource application and then purchase commercial licenses when we start to sell it?
Answer: No. Our commercial license agreements only apply to software that was developed with Qt under the commercial license agreement. They do not apply to code that was developed with the Qt Open Source Edition prior to the agreement. Any software developed with Qt without a commercial license agreement must be released as Open Source software.
I read this and the first thing I thought about was computing as well, but I thought about precaching and branch prediction, you are going to do the calculation anyway, but if you get it a cycle or two early you can set the processor up for the work quicker. (quicker is not the right word, pre-emptively maybe?) Though I think this would be too pricey to set up in a processor.
now, on the counter to that, why not just have an email address like requestsdot.at@net.org.xxx (trying not to have the fake be something that resolves)
yeah, it may be a bit unprofessional, but it may really confuse the crawling bots
yes!
http://www.ps3grill.com/
To be completely fair, making a USB device and making a certified USB device are two different beasts. Anyone can make a USB device for no cost to get it certified, all the docs are available for free online. To use the USB logo though, you need to pay all the said fees, and go through all that certification.
There are some low cost USB chips out there if you are interested, check out microchip's offerings and getting in is pretty low cost (the chips are a few bucks, a programmer costs under $50, for basic USB I/O prototyping, you don't even need to have a PCB made up, just keep the lines short.
Personally, I could see this, if done right, being useful for space applications, you have a device that requires lets say... one processor, and has 79 backups. Although I think their smart FPGA setups are cooler on an engineering scale, with their ability to find the bad spots anre reconfigure to not use them on the fly; these 80 cores could find some uses in a redundancy setup (imagine any other environment where processors can/will get damaged and place these in there)
Although I agree with you, and think FPGAs are hot, they are also REALLY expensive for the models that game developers would use (they tend to write big software from my experience, so your cheap FPGA wont have enough gates, and scaling for different users would be a bitch) BUT, if you had a processor that had a memory of some sort, and regognised series of tasks that it did, it could program an FPGA to offload things that it recognises... which gets back to the need for at least a little AI to determine said tasks. I think it would be better fit for sitting next to the processor, instead of off to the side.
Second life allows it, and even supplies an exchange rate on their site (based off what people are willing to buy from what I can tell)
The funny thing is that ebay's lawyers can most likely argue that google payment is a beta and not production ready, which I think would clear them in all honesty.
It's really hard to take the creators seriously, their price range itself is quite a laugh, from $250 to $1000.
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I have built my own pads, and as has been mentioned, movement is a very bad thing for actually playing DDR, and the most expensive I have gotten one of my pads to cost was about 150, with LEDs, a polycarbonate surface instead of the acrylic. I had tested an acrylic setup by making a steel square (what I was using to hold up each arrow) and having friends jump on it, which is a little more realistic than "stacking a 55 pound anvil on top of a ballpin hammer and hitting it with a 20 Lb Sledge hammer." at 150lb, with a hard jump, I broke it. My 300lb friend didn't even get a chance to try.
I really think if this kid was trying to be serious about selling them to a school, he would have designed his own control box, it's not hard to make a HID device, and costs much much less.
For more information, check out this thread on making DDR pads: http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59
here are some side by side comparisons between all the consoles, some fun info there is the size of the PS3 is BIGGER than the XBOX that was made fun of by tons of sony fanboys when it came out...
http://byonabi.haru.gs/ma2/html/uppp37602.html
the Wii is about the size of a double-wide DVD case
there is no nomad, but well, its a pretty good size comparison to the recent ones.
Enjoy.
The big problem with fuel cells is that the real big reason to have a mobile laptop is travel, and there is no way airlines are going to let people get on a plane with fuel, something about explosives...
I don't know if the laptop companies are thinking about this, but I tend to travel alot by plane with my laptop, and the fuel cells are probably quite dangerous in the wrong hands.
As much as I am for what has happened, the right to a speedy public trial is just that, a right, the defendant can attempt to waive part of that right with no problems, and seeing that AT&T is the defendant in this case, it was really their call...
MY understanding of the issue, I am not a law professional.
How I have explained it to non-technical people seems to work as well for me, I ask them if they would enjoy getting charged for an incoming call from the originators telco, or because they want to call a family member not on their service the service may be crappy if it even gets through. This pretty much sells them on the idea that tiered internet is dumb. For the pseudo-technical people, I just threaten their favorite site and explain that everyone is already paying for service, the major companies just want more money.
I've just been reading down the page, could have replied above, but the idea really struck me from your post, what about a phone, with a switch to say what mode you are in, and a touchscreen to do funcionallity, so depending on the switch, you have a different interface. when you are in phone mode, the buttons, mp3 mode, play, pause, next etc. and when you are in camera, the standard camera buttons. I don't want this multi-device, but I think this would be a step in the right direction.
I just think this device would always need the ability to pick up an incoming call, like a popup on the screen.
I myself would like a simple phone that can talk to my computer so I can upload my calendar for alerts, sync my contacts and maybe download voice recordings, to make easy notes to myself.
yeah, they are, but it's a commission job...
If student's can not take in the information she is delivering, it does interfere with her teaching.
" the electric cow fences run at a moderatly low voltage, but the current strenth in it so large that if you touch it with bare hand, you'll remember it for the rest of your life (i remember it pretty well :s). if currents inside the computer continue the rise, we have to find methods to make the connections safer."
if the current was high, you'd be dead, its a high voltage line, with current limiting circuits to not kill things. yeah, you could do it the other way by having it a high current with limiting voltages, but well, 100mA will kill someone if applied right.
if high voltages killed people, shag carpets would be illegal due to the static buildup.
As for the rest of your post, some processors nowadays do step down their speeds when they aren't in use to save power. Also, a 1KW PSU will not always draw the max wattage, it depends on the load inside (like starting up a drive)
While I was working at a engineering lab tech center at my school (give students EE parts to play with) chips were easilly destroyed, the pins are the first thing to go, and if they go, well, its a little useless of a chip.
to put on a second, surface-mounted backup bios takes very little space, and you can power it with a jumper, if its in one position, chip enable is on for the backup, and the backup can control the other one (for instance)
It's not christian! It's so Darksided!
n g-Spouses -- Psychics and Christians.
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I know a number of software engineers who have been doing OSS projects, they didn't go to school just to do that, but they found their passion, and went with it.
As for what jobs would be ok, if an engineer wanted to do it for money so be it, I said nothing against that. I actually just mentioned a counterpoint that some people (like me) do things for other reasons. Everything in my post except the OSS statement was a personal account, yeah, I see there are people who do it for money, but there are also people who do it because it is their passion, and couldn't care less about the money.
My statement was just a counterpoint to your statement which looked like it was a blanket statement, if mine seemed like a blanket statement, sorry for the confusion.
I don't know about most people, but I didn't go to school just so I could pay off my student loans, I went to school because I wanted to be an engineer, I was/am looking at work in an education field right now, and you know what they pay? I don't care, because it is what I want to do.
If I was in it for the money, I would have jumped into some high paying field with low entry costs, but I'm not, and I am up to my ears in debt, and contemplating starting work for an open source group in the electrical field, either http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ or http://www.opencores.org/
There are alot of OSS people who would consider your statement of money really silly.