You just stated the definition of a differential gear. It is not new in any way, and describes exactly how a planetary gear works and is normally used. For a real world example take a look at the Hybrid Synergy Drive used in Toyota Prius.
I don't think it is the same as that. In the HSD the electric motor is contributing a large part of the output power, whereas TFA seems to be saying that the control power is significantly less that the power being transmitted, and hopefully will be less than the energy wasted in a friction based CVT.
Gallium arsenide is a carcinogen, and arsenic is released when the crystal is exposed to water (after the LED light is thrown out and ends up in a landfill.) Manufacturing of semiconductors is producing poisonous waste, and it requires large amounts of energy.
The new ones will use Gallium Nitride I've seen a 4W Gallium Nitride LED lamp (on someone's kitchen ceiling, next to 11W CFL equivalents) and it's very effective. In that case it's an advantage that the LED is directional - the original incandescents for which they substitute would have been reflector bulbs. The light is yellower and more like an incandescent than the CFLs next to it.
As for energy cost of manufacturing, the original article claims to have factored that in to the total lifetime cost.
I can't see WHY the Judge is erring so far on the side of caution here- there won't be any appealing a 7 conversion at this point as SCO's clearly not restructuring to be profitable again. They're still hoping for the **BIG** litigation score- which will never happen as they didn't have a case in that regard to begin with.
Possibly this: Either way the company will run into the ground and the judge knows that. If the judge ordered Chap. 7 Darl would spend the rest of his life telling everyone how he was cheated out of his litigation fortune and chance to save the company, and it would all be the judge's fault. By letting them carry on, the case will be lost or more likely SCO will run out of money (surely a matter of weeks now). Same result, but this way he can't complain that the court didn't let SCO give it their best shot.
Why is this only getting attention now when it's been a problem for years?
As per original article, it's been getting much worse recently. On my own email, which is now pretty well spam filtered (and I kill a lot of spam because my email address has been all over the net for about 12 years) I've been getting dozens of backscatter messages a day in the last two weeks, when I used to get maybe one a month. Others (though not everybody) are seeing the same. That's newsworthy. It's helped that I found out how to get spamassassin to mark mailbounces correctly, but it doesn't spot them all and I may have to make some custom rules for some of the less usual mail agents that have different bounce message detection signatures.
are you sure?
China (if we're talking about the government) has plenty of money.
Filtering the gateway content is a perfect job for a room full of racks of cheap PC-based computers that were made in, um.. China!
GIMP vs. Photoshop is irrelevant - this is about file formats, not user interfaces or software capabilities.
What's interesting about this is that Microsoft could easily and quickly support ODF if they wanted to - it's not as if they didn't have the development manpower or the ODF specification documents to work from. They might argue that future (or current) MS Office products have features that can't be exported to ODF - but nobody said they had to support ODF exclusively - just as one of the many import and export formats, in the same way they support RTF and earlier versions of Office.
Why make such a fuss? They could just add the import/export fuctionality and be done.
The real reason, of course, is that it takes away their lock-in leverage if Open Office and other products can freely read and write the file formats that have been mandated as standards. It's the fear of competing on a level playing field. Suddenly their products have to stand on their own merits (just like Photoshop vs. GIMP).
"Rinsema fears that the current proposal could lead to discrimination against Microsoft products ranging from Office 12 to.Net, even though they offer a proper solution at a cost that is comparable to competing products."
And just how does using Microsoft products and document formats not "discriminate against" all other vendors?
The arrogance is breathtaking, if not entirely surprising.
Knowledge is power.
Power corrupts.
Your "unscrupulous government officials" now could become the whole government in the future, taking improper advantage of such a system once in place.
One reason why an old tape may sound better than a new CD is that modern recordings get ridiculously heavily compressed at the mastering stage because the bands/producers/record company etc. want their album to be louder than everyone else's. Result: no dynamic range, no music, just loud loud loud.
Things were a little more civilised musically back in the days when tape cassette was a popular release format.
There is a self selection process here. 100% of his customers are people who have direct experience of something going wrong on Windows, badly enough that they can't fix it. They're going to be much better disposed to trying an alternative (especially a free one) than others whose Windows installations are working just fine, thank you very much.
So not heavy pressure, just careful selection of potential users.
That was the PRS (Performing Rights Society) but there was so much uproar and publicity about how stupid it was that they backed down. Music shops do not have to pay a license fee to the PRS after all.
Yes, but the ideas in your list are mostly dishonest. The people and businesses that bought space on the million dollar page knew exactly what they were getting and are presumably happy with what they paid for.
It's not in the synopsis as you suggest, but at least the information is there in TFA:
Mozilla's browser now has a global market share of 11.5 percent, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since April. Some of this growth is at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has declined by 1.2 percentage points since April
If you looked at the "Get Perpendicular" flash movie linked somewhere above, you'd see that the poles of the magnetic head make a U-shaped field in the magnetic media. The trailing edge of the U is the part that's left on the disk.
So the recording method doesn't need access to both sides of the platter and it should still be possible to record separately on both sides.
HOW they do that remains a mystery (to me)
From the security point of view, it doesn't matter whether a cable modem is NAT'ing or not. What's more important is whether it does any firewalling: primarily detecting and filtering incoming TCP connection attempts, but maybe also blocking certain UDP tricks and other kinds of attack.
Once DRM becomes mandated on all PC hardware..
If that happens, maybe Linux users will switch to other platforms like the new Apple x86 based hardware, or some of the 10 other platforms you can currenly run Linux on.
(maybe)
We probably don't need any more general purpose distributions, but the value in a kit for making a new distribution is for specialised applications. There are various router/firewall projects and a couple of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) packages that come in to this category, for example. There's lots of potential for whole applications that boot from a CDROM like Knoppix and can be temporarily used on an PC without touching what was installed on the HD.
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You mean... someone's found a bug in it?
You just stated the definition of a differential gear. It is not new in any way, and describes exactly how a planetary gear works and is normally used. For a real world example take a look at the Hybrid Synergy Drive used in Toyota Prius.
I don't think it is the same as that. In the HSD the electric motor is contributing a large part of the output power, whereas TFA seems to be saying that the control power is significantly less that the power being transmitted, and hopefully will be less than the energy wasted in a friction based CVT.
LEDs [...] no toxic materials
Gallium arsenide is a carcinogen, and arsenic is released when the crystal is exposed to water (after the LED light is thrown out and ends up in a landfill.) Manufacturing of semiconductors is producing poisonous waste, and it requires large amounts of energy.
The new ones will use Gallium Nitride
I've seen a 4W Gallium Nitride LED lamp (on someone's kitchen ceiling, next to 11W CFL equivalents) and it's very effective. In that case it's an advantage that the LED is directional - the original incandescents for which they substitute would have been reflector bulbs. The light is yellower and more like an incandescent than the CFLs next to it.
As for energy cost of manufacturing, the original article claims to have factored that in to the total lifetime cost.
it won't look at what's on the clipboard, and use those dimensions when I go to file->new.
Particularly strange, because I'm sure it used to do that in earlier versions.
I can't see WHY the Judge is erring so far on the side of caution here- there won't be any appealing a 7 conversion at this point as SCO's clearly not restructuring to be profitable again. They're still hoping for the **BIG** litigation score- which will never happen as they didn't have a case in that regard to begin with.
Possibly this: Either way the company will run into the ground and the judge knows that. If the judge ordered Chap. 7 Darl would spend the rest of his life telling everyone how he was cheated out of his litigation fortune and chance to save the company, and it would all be the judge's fault. By letting them carry on, the case will be lost or more likely SCO will run out of money (surely a matter of weeks now). Same result, but this way he can't complain that the court didn't let SCO give it their best shot.
As per original article, it's been getting much worse recently. On my own email, which is now pretty well spam filtered (and I kill a lot of spam because my email address has been all over the net for about 12 years) I've been getting dozens of backscatter messages a day in the last two weeks, when I used to get maybe one a month. Others (though not everybody) are seeing the same. That's newsworthy. It's helped that I found out how to get spamassassin to mark mailbounces correctly, but it doesn't spot them all and I may have to make some custom rules for some of the less usual mail agents that have different bounce message detection signatures.
China (if we're talking about the government) has plenty of money.
Filtering the gateway content is a perfect job for a room full of racks of cheap PC-based computers that were made in, um.. China!
What's interesting about this is that Microsoft could easily and quickly support ODF if they wanted to - it's not as if they didn't have the development manpower or the ODF specification documents to work from. They might argue that future (or current) MS Office products have features that can't be exported to ODF - but nobody said they had to support ODF exclusively - just as one of the many import and export formats, in the same way they support RTF and earlier versions of Office.
Why make such a fuss? They could just add the import/export fuctionality and be done.
The real reason, of course, is that it takes away their lock-in leverage if Open Office and other products can freely read and write the file formats that have been mandated as standards. It's the fear of competing on a level playing field. Suddenly their products have to stand on their own merits (just like Photoshop vs. GIMP).
And just how does using Microsoft products and document formats not "discriminate against" all other vendors?
The arrogance is breathtaking, if not entirely surprising.
As Kittel and Kroemer put it, "The probability of Hamlet is therefore zero in any operational sense of an event...",>
But... on the timescales you are looking at, they may have forgotten to take into account the probability of the monkeys evolving into Shakespeare.
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Your "unscrupulous government officials" now could become the whole government in the future, taking improper advantage of such a system once in place.
One reason why an old tape may sound better than a new CD is that modern recordings get ridiculously heavily compressed at the mastering stage because the bands/producers/record company etc. want their album to be louder than everyone else's. Result: no dynamic range, no music, just loud loud loud.
Things were a little more civilised musically back in the days when tape cassette was a popular release format.
What was that about 80% positive feedback, then?
So not heavy pressure, just careful selection of potential users.
That was the PRS (Performing Rights Society) but there was so much uproar and publicity about how stupid it was that they backed down. Music shops do not have to pay a license fee to the PRS after all.
Yes, but the ideas in your list are mostly dishonest. The people and businesses that bought space on the million dollar page knew exactly what they were getting and are presumably happy with what they paid for.
Mozilla's browser now has a global market share of 11.5 percent, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since April. Some of this growth is at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has declined by 1.2 percentage points since April
If you looked at the "Get Perpendicular" flash movie linked somewhere above, you'd see that the poles of the magnetic head make a U-shaped field in the magnetic media. The trailing edge of the U is the part that's left on the disk. So the recording method doesn't need access to both sides of the platter and it should still be possible to record separately on both sides. HOW they do that remains a mystery (to me)
From the security point of view, it doesn't matter whether a cable modem is NAT'ing or not. What's more important is whether it does any firewalling: primarily detecting and filtering incoming TCP connection attempts, but maybe also blocking certain UDP tricks and other kinds of attack.
Once DRM becomes mandated on all PC hardware..
If that happens, maybe Linux users will switch to other platforms like the new Apple x86 based hardware, or some of the 10 other platforms you can currenly run Linux on.
(maybe)
We probably don't need any more general purpose distributions, but the value in a kit for making a new distribution is for specialised applications. There are various router/firewall projects and a couple of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) packages that come in to this category, for example. There's lots of potential for whole applications that boot from a CDROM like Knoppix and can be temporarily used on an PC without touching what was installed on the HD.