Now, this was a 6atm almost instantaneous decompression. Jumping into space would be at most a 1atm differential, so nothing like this is likely to happen. IMO the problem is not the differential pressure drop (6atm or 1atm), but the relative one. A gas at 7 atm that is suddenly exposed to an environment of 1 atm will expand it's volume 7 times. On the other hand a gas at 1 atm suddenly exposed to 0.001 atm will expand 1000 times.
what about protecting our privacy by preventing companies like ChoicePoint or LexisNexis" from collecting and selling our data?
"ChoicePoint aggregates personal data for sale to the government and the private sector. The firm maintains more than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sells to more than half of America's top 1,000 companies... ChoicePoint database of personal information contains names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit reports, and other sensitive data. In 2005, this database contained 250 terabytes of data on 220 million people.... The CLUE database includes identification information on properties such as homes and automobiles, policy records (name, date of birth, policy number), and records of claims (date and type of loss, amounts paid)"
(source: Wikipedia)
a recommendable book on this subject: No place to hide, by Robert O'Harrow, Jr
my experience with Borlands C++ Builder is similar. i'm forced to use it at work, and it's the crapiest comercial software i've used ever. the editor ends up deleting parts of your code for whatever reason, the gui editor is everything less intuitive, access violations every now and then. most of my co-workers share my opinion that using C++ Builder was the worst decision managment took in the project. if at least it were FOSS we'd have the possibility to fix the most crappy stuff, but as it isn't we can only desesperate or hope to change to an other environment (maybe qt?) in the future
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The Openmoko platform could be an option: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
what about protecting our privacy by preventing companies like ChoicePoint or LexisNexis" from collecting and selling our data?
... ChoicePoint database of personal information contains names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit reports, and other sensitive data. In 2005, this database contained 250 terabytes of data on 220 million people. ... The CLUE database includes identification information on properties such as homes and automobiles, policy records (name, date of birth, policy number), and records of claims (date and type of loss, amounts paid)"
"ChoicePoint aggregates personal data for sale to the government and the private sector. The firm maintains more than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sells to more than half of America's top 1,000 companies
(source: Wikipedia)
a recommendable book on this subject: No place to hide, by Robert O'Harrow, Jr
The LiMo Foundation
OpenMoko
The GreenPhone
Oh God I'm so depressed
given that it runs linux and has a colour display it should be usable as pda with opie or kindof
doesn't look so much like reinventing the wheel, as you can read in TFA contributers of Kaffe, GCJ and Classpath are interested in participation
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147131&cid= 12325137
my experience with Borlands C++ Builder is similar. i'm forced to use it at work, and it's the crapiest comercial software i've used ever. the editor ends up deleting parts of your code for whatever reason, the gui editor is everything less intuitive, access violations every now and then. most of my co-workers share my opinion that using C++ Builder was the worst decision managment took in the project. if at least it were FOSS we'd have the possibility to fix the most crappy stuff, but as it isn't we can only desesperate or hope to change to an other environment (maybe qt?) in the future
sounds like good old marvin ;)
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