I would consider fan filtration usefull only if you maintain a positive pressure. If you have more fans pushing air out, then your filters will be the cd drives and USB ports. Filtered Positive Pressure is certainly the best way to go, although it is less efficiant. I have not yet implemented it. Oh, and you need far more fans blowing in, as your filters will slowly clog.
Another thing that should be there in patents: A software patent should include the source code. A Real-ware patent has technical drawings illustrating the invention patented. These diagrams are usually sufficient for anyone to create the item in questions. A software patent should be no different: and that means CODE.
That would see a nice lessening of the number of software patents. Oh, and a lessening in the profitability of the USPTO. Drat.
Unfortunately, you've got the Hindenburg Effect, which kind of makes Joe Public a little wary of flying with too much hydrogen. Yes, it's not a valid concern, as H can be stored a lot safer than high-ocataine jet fuel, but doesn't make it any more popular.
where would linux be if SCO had managed to come up with solid evidence?,
One thing to remember: The main reason why SCO will continue to fail is the results of that court case, which stripped novel of practically all copyright in UNIX source code.
It really is a pitty that legal action scared people away from *BSD, which left linux spending 10 years reinventing the wheel. Could you imagine where we'd be if all that brain work had been done on top of ancient UNIX? Wow and goosebumps time, for me.
AS epangalf noted, they have corrected their artcle since he pointed out this omission. `Aproximatley' indicates that, having forgotten to measure this on the day, they have stated the average setting of their air conditioning system.
This makes the figures even better - a ~11C rise as stock, dropping to a ~4C underclocked: roughly 1/3. An aproximately linear relationship between performance and heat output is indicated!
True: I just made that point, slightly tongue-in-cheek, to another post.
What really matters is the relative difference between the sink and the air outside.
20% drop in temperature.
But it isn't, is it? 33C to 26C is 306K to 180K. That's like 3% drop.
Of course, they should have compared it to the ambient temperature. Then the drop is a usefull 50%!
They listed the drop in temperature from 33.5 to 26.9 as a 20% drop. However, they didn't mention the ambient temperature. If you take 20 degrees, then this drop is more like 50%. That would also mean that it was consuming well under half the power. (I'm assuming watts->degrees is exponential.)
As a secondary matter, the person who got me interested in BSD, as a rule, made his servers with whatever was the cheapest AMD-K6, underclocked to 350MHZ. Bulletproof boxes with long lifetimes. I'm sure there are still some churning out the bits around this town.
So we are left with the Happy hackers' method: dd(1) the bits, chop it up into songs, strip of the headers. Then you've got.raw files to play with, and can burn them to anything you want. 'Casual' users on windows are driven crazy, the rest of us mightn't even notice. Of course, the probability of the music on these disk being something anyone would want to hear is infinitesmal.
Forests are _not_ carbon sinks.`
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A mature forrest (One where the oldest trees are beginning to die), all of the CO2 absorbed by the trees is replaced by the CO2 being emitted by the organisims breaking down the leaf litter. Indeed, during droughts, forests have been measured as _emmitting_ CO2.
The only CO2 sinks on this planet are the oceans, where, interestingly, algae consume CO2, and their dead bodies sink to the ocean floor, where, the standard theory goes, they are compressed and heated and form - Oil!!
Just what is a "Web Browser"? It is a program that retrieves information from multiple untrusted servers, and executes it. Sure, HTML is seemingly innocuous, but that is what it does. Then we add in randoms writing extensions that add capabilities to be offered to these untrusted servers, including fully-featured programming languages like javascript.
My point is that, as a class, a Browser is an insecure application. _Exactly_ the reason why it must be used as the core of an OS.
My next aim: to run my browser with no write permissions to anything but it's internal cache.
Yes, this sounds nice as a concept, but how exactly would it work on a code level? Or on the metal? That is where a program runs, and where flaws exist and are exploited.
Because, when I break it down, I see little difference between them. The program can still make whatever calls it likes, whether you advertise them or not, and it's the OSes job to handle them in an appropriate manner.
"I was reading a report, and I had some questions about the data it contained, so I cut out a little sample of the bookmark material, stuck it in on the page where the data was, drew an arrow toward the data, and wrote my question," he said. "Then I gave it to my supervisor."
So, nothing interesting or with any relevance outside it's context. Which was the point of the article, think on.
Pitty, the "Come here, Fry, I need you" suggestion would have been nice.
Then May I present my soon-to-be-patented bulk post-it notes remover! Just a sort of plastic-paint-scraper with a receptical, it allows you, with one foul scrape, to remove all the notes and transfer them painlessly to the nearest appropriate receptacle. (Trash can or toilet - it just depends on your mood!) More advanced models, containing, say, a shredder or some kind of incendiary device will also be covered.
I recall once possessing a similar device, but that was for removing ice from the inside on a freezer. Nothing like mine at all.
Reverse the situation and Adobe would do the same thing to some other company.
Yes, they might. And I would be praising the other company for standing up to them.
If all goes right for Adobe, the world in general will have a RFC (or similar) of Nikon's format, and we will all have the right to use the info.
We need more companies to refuse to comply with this kind of information hiding. That way, it can be cracked
Oh, by the way, if Adobe complied, they would get the SDK from Nikon gratis. They could then use it to provide support. Adobe doesn't think they should have to do it that way, so are saying no. Good on them, IMHO
Here's a question: What happens if a patent like this is discovered to be bogus? Surely all those companies who have shelled out $bignum to licence it would have the right to sue, for hasn't that money been extorted under false pretenses? While this issue is not all that clear cut, how about the many cases where the patent holder is obvioulsy aware that their patent is bad?
Just to add: You can do lossy PNGs. Officially, it's by prefiltering to create an image that compresses well, but many programs do this in their save routines, making it a one-step process.
There would be no question that Adobe is a "bona fide software developer", and would be able to get their hands on the SDK. The good news is that they are refusing to sign up for it - They are determined to get the information out in the public domain, legaly. For this, they should be praised. IMHO.
Here's a fact: That report was heavily low grade. It had no real information. If a grading system had been used, the writer would have used a low number. It really reads like a list of current musings, possibles to improbables. The last line seemed to be included against the writer's better judgement: As we read it, it is heavily qualified. He certainly would not have emphasised it.
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I would consider fan filtration usefull only if you maintain a positive pressure. If you have more fans pushing air out, then your filters will be the cd drives and USB ports.
Filtered Positive Pressure is certainly the best way to go, although it is less efficiant. I have not yet implemented it. Oh, and you need far more fans blowing in, as your filters will slowly clog.
Another thing that should be there in patents: A software patent should include the source code.
A Real-ware patent has technical drawings illustrating the invention patented. These diagrams are usually sufficient for anyone to create the item in questions. A software patent should be no different: and that means CODE.
That would see a nice lessening of the number of software patents. Oh, and a lessening in the profitability of the USPTO. Drat.
Unfortunately, you've got the Hindenburg Effect, which kind of makes Joe Public a little wary of flying with too much hydrogen. Yes, it's not a valid concern, as H can be stored a lot safer than high-ocataine jet fuel, but doesn't make it any more popular.
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One thing to remember: The main reason why SCO will continue to fail is the results of that court case, which stripped novel of practically all copyright in UNIX source code.
It really is a pitty that legal action scared people away from *BSD, which left linux spending 10 years reinventing the wheel. Could you imagine where we'd be if all that brain work had been done on top of ancient UNIX? Wow and goosebumps time, for me.
Microsoft probably wouldn't exist any more.
...to gain access to your phone book?
Of course, to be sure, a Latin professor would have to tell us how to pronounce caesius, (light blue), as that's the origin of the name.
Lastly, the spelling cesium is reluctanly accepted as a US spelling.
AS epangalf noted, they have corrected their artcle since he pointed out this omission. `Aproximatley' indicates that, having forgotten to measure this on the day, they have stated the average setting of their air conditioning system.
This makes the figures even better - a ~11C rise as stock, dropping to a ~4C underclocked: roughly 1/3. An aproximately linear relationship between performance and heat output is indicated!
Ooh, um, Yeah, right. (digs hole, jumps in.)
..and, indeed, thought that the importance of ambient temperature was the whole point of his post....
One clock cycle every 3+1/3 minutes: I think it's going to take some time.
True: I just made that point, slightly tongue-in-cheek, to another post. What really matters is the relative difference between the sink and the air outside.
20% drop in temperature. But it isn't, is it? 33C to 26C is 306K to 180K. That's like 3% drop. Of course, they should have compared it to the ambient temperature. Then the drop is a usefull 50%!
They listed the drop in temperature from 33.5 to 26.9 as a 20% drop. However, they didn't mention the ambient temperature. If you take 20 degrees, then this drop is more like 50%. That would also mean that it was consuming well under half the power. (I'm assuming watts->degrees is exponential.)
As a secondary matter, the person who got me interested in BSD, as a rule, made his servers with whatever was the cheapest AMD-K6, underclocked to 350MHZ. Bulletproof boxes with long lifetimes. I'm sure there are still some churning out the bits around this town.
So we are left with the Happy hackers' method: dd(1) the bits, chop it up into songs, strip of the headers. Then you've got .raw files to play with, and can burn them to anything you want. 'Casual' users on windows are driven crazy, the rest of us mightn't even notice.
Of course, the probability of the music on these disk being something anyone would want to hear is infinitesmal.
A mature forrest (One where the oldest trees are beginning to die), all of the CO2 absorbed by the trees is replaced by the CO2 being emitted by the organisims breaking down the leaf litter. Indeed, during droughts, forests have been measured as _emmitting_ CO2.
The only CO2 sinks on this planet are the oceans, where, interestingly, algae consume CO2, and their dead bodies sink to the ocean floor, where, the standard theory goes, they are compressed and heated and form - Oil!!
There is indeed nothing new under the sun.
Just what is a "Web Browser"? It is a program that retrieves information from multiple untrusted servers, and executes it. Sure, HTML is seemingly innocuous, but that is what it does.
Then we add in randoms writing extensions that add capabilities to be offered to these untrusted servers, including fully-featured programming languages like javascript.
My point is that, as a class, a Browser is an insecure application. _Exactly_ the reason why it must be used as the core of an OS.
My next aim: to run my browser with no write permissions to anything but it's internal cache.
Yes, this sounds nice as a concept, but how exactly would it work on a code level? Or on the metal? That is where a program runs, and where flaws exist and are exploited.
Because, when I break it down, I see little difference between them. The program can still make whatever calls it likes, whether you advertise them or not, and it's the OSes job to handle them in an appropriate manner.
FYI, from the article:
So, nothing interesting or with any relevance outside it's context. Which was the point of the article, think on.
Pitty, the "Come here, Fry, I need you" suggestion would have been nice.
Then May I present my soon-to-be-patented bulk post-it notes remover!
Just a sort of plastic-paint-scraper with a receptical, it allows you, with one foul scrape, to remove all the notes and transfer them painlessly to the nearest appropriate receptacle. (Trash can or toilet - it just depends on your mood!)
More advanced models, containing, say, a shredder or some kind of incendiary device will also be covered.
I recall once possessing a similar device, but that was for removing ice from the inside on a freezer. Nothing like mine at all.
Yes, they might. And I would be praising the other company for standing up to them.
If all goes right for Adobe, the world in general will have a RFC (or similar) of Nikon's format, and we will all have the right to use the info.
We need more companies to refuse to comply with this kind of information hiding. That way, it can be cracked
Oh, by the way, if Adobe complied, they would get the SDK from Nikon gratis. They could then use it to provide support. Adobe doesn't think they should have to do it that way, so are saying no. Good on them, IMHO
Here's a question: What happens if a patent like this is discovered to be bogus?
Surely all those companies who have shelled out $bignum to licence it would have the right to sue, for hasn't that money been extorted under false pretenses?
While this issue is not all that clear cut, how about the many cases where the patent holder is obvioulsy aware that their patent is bad?
Just to add: You can do lossy PNGs. Officially, it's by prefiltering to create an image that compresses well, but many programs do this in their save routines, making it a one-step process.
There would be no question that Adobe is a "bona fide software developer", and would be able to get their hands on the SDK. The good news is that they are refusing to sign up for it - They are determined to get the information out in the public domain, legaly.
For this, they should be praised. IMHO.
Here's a fact: That report was heavily low grade. It had no real information.
If a grading system had been used, the writer would have used a low number. It really reads like a list of current musings, possibles to improbables.
The last line seemed to be included against the writer's better judgement: As we read it, it is heavily qualified. He certainly would not have emphasised it.