Kevlar isn't stiff, it's strong in tension. Carbon fiber is stiff. On the other hand, with the right weave and resin you can make a strong, stiff cone with kevlar. Carbon would be better though...
Like the other reply said, the product you linked to was USB only. I guess my reply came off harsher than I intended (didn't notice your mention of 'firewire' in your reply either).
The original ask-slashdot was looking for a firewire enclosure, not a USB 2.0 enclosure. He even went so far as to say that it needed to be a 6-pin firewire (by which I assume he meant bus-powered).
Think of it this way. How fast is the part of the bicycle tire that is touching the ground moving relative to the ground? It's not.
If the bike is moving at 10 m/s (all speeds relative to the ground), that's the speed of the frame and the hubs of the wheels. The bottom of the tire where it's contacting the ground is moving at 0 m/s (zero), and the top is moving at 20 m/s.
Now think about the rotor as a bicycle wheel turned sideways. When the helicopter is just hovering, relative to the ground the rotor tips are moving the same speed, but in opposite directions. When the helicopter starts to move forward, the leading tip adds it's velocity to the helicopter's speed, but the retreating tip subtracts.
I talked to my friend at Apple and suggested that they add some software to the iPod and iTunes so that you can require a password whenever you dock the iPod. If you can't supply the password then the iPod locks up and phones home. He thought it was a good idea, but he's sort of a flake, so who knows if it's something they'd ever do.
"If government funds become short, subsidies for fuels will be looked at very carefully," he said. "When they are, there's no way ethanol production can survive."
Right there the article ignores the politics surrounding ethanol. The politics surrounding other energy sources/storage mechanisms don't have the power that ethanol backers do.
Right? Can I now sue my cable company for supplying content to 'little johnny' that I disapprove of? Or because my someone else on comcast sends me porn spam?
the American flag, in its purist and original form, stand for the freedoms of its people
But only an idiot throws out the freedoms in favor of the symbol. The recent actions by the US House of Representatives makes me think they (and you) just don't get it. I'd much rather live in a country where it's legal (if not acceptable) to wipe your ass with the flag _then_ burn it than in a country where it's not. Years ago I wrote to my senator asking that she oppose a flag burning amendment. She wrote back that she couldn't because the flag was too important as a symbol for our country. WTF? The _actual_ freedoms are much more important to me than any _symbol_ of them.
Well, it would reduce the amount of 'bounce spam' coming from my server. If your server publishes SPF records, I can reject the message purporting to be from you (if it's not) at the SMTP transaction time, rather than accepting the message, and generating a TMDA confirmation message to the 'wrong' address.
Well, it's just a USB device, so if the device doesn't have a long enought cable, you can get an extension cable (up to USB's limit). Shouldn't be a problem to get the receiver where the remote can see it. On the other hand, nothing on the keyspan site seems to say how long the cable is.:-( I just sent email to the webmaster listed on their product page saying they should add the cable length to their info.
Are you sure Claris licensed Informix Wingz? Because AppSoft definitely did (I worked on it there) and the code was a nightmare. We joked after AppSoft went under that it was the application that had killed 3 companies.
BTW, Quantrix (lighthouse design's version of Improv) has been rewritten in Java and is available for OS-X.
Lighthouse Design wrote Quantrix, a Lotus Improv clone. After Sun bought Lighthouse and the trademark expired, Pete Murray rewrote it in Java. It's available here: http://www.quantrix.com/
The way I see it, the only way to protect OSX would be to have a chip on the motherboard which would do public key encryption/signing (like an iButton). And the upper layers of the software would have to periodically check for the existence of said chip. And the code that did that would have to be scattered around the system in multiple places and different in each place.
And some geek would still patch it and work around all that work. But Apple wouldn't care because their target market wouldn't run that geek's version.
Bingo. Look, Steve Jobs already tried the software-only route with NeXT. And we can see where that got him.
~$200M richer and in control of Apple? NeXT hardware was great, but it wasn't paying the bills. At the time, it looked like Sun was going to take to heart the fact that they can't do user-friendly software to save their life and NeXT's corporate customers were happy to see that they could deploy on the cheap Intel hardware.
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If my generation hadn't 'invented sex', we'd have time to do more inventing. Of course now that we've got teledildonics, we're done!
Kevlar isn't stiff, it's strong in tension. Carbon fiber is stiff.
On the other hand, with the right weave and resin you can make a strong, stiff cone with kevlar.
Carbon would be better though...
Thanks man. I just wasted an hour of my life reading bash. Gotta route that to 127...
M$ kept their improvements to themselves, legally and according to the BSD license.
^improvements^modifications^
Yeah, like broadcasting USENET feeds. That'll up the signal to noise ratio! :-)
Ha Ha!
Like the other reply said, the product you linked to was USB only. I guess my reply came off harsher than I intended (didn't notice your mention of 'firewire' in your reply either).
Needs '-1 answers wrong question' mod.
The original ask-slashdot was looking for a firewire enclosure, not a USB 2.0 enclosure. He even went so far as to say that it needed to be a 6-pin firewire (by which I assume he meant bus-powered).
Think of it this way. How fast is the part of the bicycle tire that is touching the ground moving relative to the ground? It's not.
If the bike is moving at 10 m/s (all speeds relative to the ground), that's the speed of the frame and the hubs of the wheels. The bottom of the tire where it's contacting the ground is moving at 0 m/s (zero), and the top is moving at 20 m/s.
Now think about the rotor as a bicycle wheel turned sideways. When the helicopter is just hovering, relative to the ground the rotor tips are moving the same speed, but in opposite directions. When the helicopter starts to move forward, the leading tip adds it's velocity to the helicopter's speed, but the retreating tip subtracts.
I talked to my friend at Apple and suggested that they add some software to the iPod and iTunes so that you can require a password whenever you dock the iPod. If you can't supply the password then the iPod locks up and phones home.
He thought it was a good idea, but he's sort of a flake, so who knows if it's something they'd ever do.
"If government funds become short, subsidies for fuels will be looked at very carefully," he said. "When they are, there's no way ethanol production can survive."
Right there the article ignores the politics surrounding ethanol. The politics surrounding other energy sources/storage mechanisms don't have the power that ethanol backers do.
Right? Can I now sue my cable company for supplying content to 'little johnny' that I disapprove of? Or because my someone else on comcast sends me porn spam?
the American flag, in its purist and original form, stand for the freedoms of its people
But only an idiot throws out the freedoms in favor of the symbol. The recent actions by the US House of Representatives makes me think they (and you) just don't get it. I'd much rather live in a country where it's legal (if not acceptable) to wipe your ass with the flag _then_ burn it than in a country where it's not.
Years ago I wrote to my senator asking that she oppose a flag burning amendment. She wrote back that she couldn't because the flag was too important as a symbol for our country. WTF? The _actual_ freedoms are much more important to me than any _symbol_ of them.
Well, it would reduce the amount of 'bounce spam' coming from my server. If your server publishes SPF records, I can reject the message purporting to be from you (if it's not) at the SMTP transaction time, rather than accepting the message, and generating a TMDA confirmation message to the 'wrong' address.
Lawful Evil?
Like hell, every windows box I've ever seen has definitely been Chaotic Evil.
Well, it's just a USB device, so if the device doesn't have a long enought cable, you can get an extension cable (up to USB's limit). Shouldn't be a problem to get the receiver where the remote can see it. On the other hand, nothing on the keyspan site seems to say how long the cable is. :-(
I just sent email to the webmaster listed on their product page saying they should add the cable length to their info.
How many lives are the principles this country were found on worth?
Are you sure Claris licensed Informix Wingz? Because AppSoft definitely did (I worked on it there) and the code was a nightmare. We joked after AppSoft went under that it was the application that had killed 3 companies.
BTW, Quantrix (lighthouse design's version of Improv) has been rewritten in Java and is available for OS-X.
http://www.quantrix.com/ (I think, from memory)
Your regex is broken. It matches
linix
lunix
linux
lunux
You want
{linu,uni}x
I don't think there's a 'better' accurate regex, except maybe {linux,unix} which might match more efficiently.
Man I'm a geek...and it's worse that this is a Saturday night...
Lighthouse Design wrote Quantrix, a Lotus Improv clone. After Sun bought Lighthouse and the trademark expired, Pete Murray rewrote it in Java. It's available here: http://www.quantrix.com/
The way I see it, the only way to protect OSX would be to have a chip on the motherboard which would do public key encryption/signing (like an iButton). And the upper layers of the software would have to periodically check for the existence of said chip. And the code that did that would have to be scattered around the system in multiple places and different in each place.
And some geek would still patch it and work around all that work. But Apple wouldn't care because their target market wouldn't run that geek's version.
Apple uses the same security system on the development boxes that James Bond used on his brown Lotus Esprit (that is, it explodes when you open it :-)
Bingo. Look, Steve Jobs already tried the software-only route with NeXT. And we can see where that got him.
~$200M richer and in control of Apple? NeXT hardware was great, but it wasn't paying the bills. At the time, it looked like Sun was going to take to heart the fact that they can't do user-friendly software to save their life and NeXT's corporate customers were happy to see that they could deploy on the cheap Intel hardware.
and got spanked...
"God, please kill it...."
Have multiple wives!
Yeah, one wife is trouble enough!