For most of the mid 80s to mid 90s, every year you could count on some major prediction that next year would be the year of the network. Never happened, without any explosive growth networks ended up anywhere.
Right. Though don't assume the big company will keep the changes proprietary. Some will, but many are using BSD because they need some OS, and they don't want to deal with sending source to every slashdot fool who insists they want their exact version, nevermind it is just like what you can download elsewhere.
We use FreeBSD here, but our changes get back into the main kernel. We are not a company in the business of selling OSes, we include the OS with our product because we need one. If we need an OS change it is because of bugs, and it is easier for us to upgrade latter if those bugs are fixed in the next version.
There is an order to who gets paid when companies go bankrupt. Court ordered fines are high on the list (IIRC only the lawyers are higher). You can (should) look up the exact order yourself, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft get paid everything, and the banks who loaned this guy money get screwed. Come to think of it, I hope the banks/investors get screwed, might teach them a lessions.
Okay, so the banks and investors won't learn. I'd see rather see Microsoft with the money than someone dumb enough to lend money to a spammer.
Putting paper into a landfill puts carbon back in the ground. Then more trees are cut, and their carbon put back into the ground. Offsets oil and coal production a little.
Don't forget the forests need renewal from time to time. We can cut them, or we can start a fire, doesn't matter to the forest, so long as we clear all the underbrush. (some trees need fire to release the seeds though, which is why I'm against fighting all those fires in California, but most trees are not so selective) Smokey the Bear is wrong you should be starting a forest fire. In many areas you should start it yearly. Logging companies accomplish much the same result, but without hurting 'bambi' (who would have been just fine in the fire, but it makes a bad movie).
Partially that they don't care because they are going to build a new design based on data they get from this the test anyway, and partially because testing to destruction tells you a lot more than non-destructive testing.
High temperature ceramics are difficult to work with. If something bad happens to high temperature metal it tends to bend a lot, which is bad, but can be recovered from. Ceramics tend to shatter. In addition ceramics tend to shatter when heated unevenly or suddenly. Metal can be melted down to form a different shape if what you have didn't work, while I know of no way to change the shape of ceramics once fired.
For lab test, metal is best to test with until you have something (either theory or a design) that seems like it will work. Even then, if you cannot get ceramics that work for some reason, you might be stuck with metal. (or if you expect something solid to hit your nozzle in flight)
More like a few thousand tries. Edison never spend enough time thinking, be he had enough money that he could afford to perspire to a solution. (Mind several tries may have been needed anyway, but most of his 1000 tries were repeating the same thing with minor variations, without fixking the problem)
Now I don't know if Carmack is learning from the failures, and making changes to fix the problems, or just making random changes in hope that something will resist the problem.
I don't understand why someone would join such a group, but many people like them. Enough that such neighborhoods are becoming more popular. Most people would prefer to live where every house is exactly the same ugly gray, than in an area where one neighbor has a car up on blocks in the front yard. Of course many houses are now using no homeowners association as a selling point, so they are not universally popular.
The authority is when you buy the house you must sign a contract that you will join it, and you cannot sell to anyone who doesn't join. these neighborhoods do follow the US constitution - they have a republic form of government, so it is the people in the area that are voting in the restrictions. However most people don't want to go into politics, except the most controlling people. Most residents would rather their over-controlling neighbor make the rules than run themselves.
Solar cells are expensive, Sure they will pay for themselves in 4 years (in south California), but you have to come up with $10,000 just for the cells, and that is hard. (which is just under $100/month, many people use more than double that amount)
Solar cells are not common. People will avoid buying a house with a cell on the roof because they rarely see them, and know nothing about them, and thus think a maintenance headache. Many people shouldn't own a hammer (that is hire someone to hang a picture on the wall), they cannot understand what is involved and want to avoid it. Therefore those who might want to move can't buy them.
Some towns have laws against solar cells on your roof! Live in one of those areas and it doesn't matter how the numbers work out. Related to this is most building codes don't cover cells (and some buildings don't have the roof strength to mount cells because of wind load), an inspector who doesn't know anything may cover by making permits hard to get, and forcing far more infrastructure than needed, which discourages cells.
This analysis is based on the latest technology (manufacturing more than cell technology, your best payoff is cheap inefficient cells, not expensive efficient cells). Just 5 years ago the payoff was much worse. People who ran the numbers a few years ago may not be keeping up.
In addition, the cells are not the whole story. Paying for the cells doesn't pay for the inverters, batteries, and all the other stuff that you need to pay for as well. This is also paid for in the long run, but it is hard to think that long term.
Solar is becoming popular in southern states where there is a lot of sun. If you own a house in the southern US you should looking close at the numbers. It might not make sense if you have a lot of clouds, but in other states you can't afford to not install a system. (It helps that California offers great rebates!)
I live in the northern US, may pay-off is more than the 8 years quoted, so it doesn't make as much sense to me.
In my experience, the small shops the gave good service had no problem with Wal-Mart in town. It was the shops that sold junk at high prices that went out when Wal-Mart came, selling more of the same junk for less. Wal-Mart gave better service too. Which is a sad commentry on the type of store complaining about Wal-Mart.
solar cells almost take as much energy to produce as they will ever use over their lifetime (last I read, about half)
If instead of reading something you would think a little you would realize that this cannot be true.
Solar cells take from 4-8 years to pay for their cost of production. (Depending on where you install them, deserts being the low end. Alaska is likely much worse than above) Assuming that the ENTIRE cost of the cells is because of energy needs, (that is labor, rent, raw materials, and so on, is free), and a 20 year cell life (20 year warentees exist, 50 year lifetimes are reasonable if you take care of your cell), you can already see that the energy is paid back several times of the life of a cell.
In the US a home owner's association is a semi-government within a city. Generally townhomes and snobby neighborhoods have them.
They tend to be extremely controlling about what you can and cannot do with your house. You cannot have a garden other than a few plants around the house. You cannot fly a flag. You can only use some color of paint on your house. No parking in the driveway overnight. Some restrictions are reasonable though strange until you know the reason (Lake associations prohibit fertilizing your lawn which makes the lake much cleaner, though the lawn is ugly), but many are unreasonable. One common restriction is no satellite dishes.
They are not full governments like a city is, but they have some legal power.
P.S. Townhomes are where the house you own shares a wall with your neighbor's house. They are cheaper because there a less exterior walls to insulate, but because the siding on "your" house extends onto the neighbor's you cannot paint your house without also doing the neighbor's too. (At least not without weird effects) They are not much different from apartments in function, but they look more like (and are built like) a house. So the association teams up like a government to paint houses.
Good question. I'm not sure, but I think that they can so long as it is not for profit. Since this network is disconnected from the internet amazon.com and such won't be there, and therefore this clause would be met.
I would consider getting a ham license if I had to. I'd like one anyway, but right now the internet supplies what I need so I wouldn't use it if I had it.
IANAL, so check with one if you need to know exactly how the law applies.
The FCC has rules that trump contracts. Your Home Owners Association cannot prevent you from putting up a direct TV type dish. They can put in a contract that you sign that you cannot have a dish, but if you install it there is nothing they can legally do because that part of the contract is illegal.
I suspect the FCC will say the same here: You can put anything into the contract you want, it will have no legal force though. Airline can do whatever they want so long as they stay within part15. Make sure you stay within part 15.
One other point: if this service causes problems, it is a safety risk even if the airline was forced to shutdown their WiFi. Most laptops look for access points, and many will even try to form ad-hock networks. This will cause the same thing, and no amount of FCC effort will shut this class up.
As an American I feel the same. Well I will give them one service other than the above consumables.
Fortunately, if you take care of American cars (change the oil and all that) most of them will make it to 200,000 or more before major maintenance is required. People have long memories, back in the 1970's getting 100,000 miles on a car was reason to celebrate with all your friends - you stood around the car in the blue smoke from the tail pipe and toasted your ability to make a car last that long. The Japanese figured out how to make a car go 300,000 miles before it got that bad first, and get all the credit. In the mean time the American cars have become just as good, but everyone still thinks 70,000 miles is all you can get on them.
There are bad models in American cars, but every company/country has them. German cars were the worst 5 years ago, rumor is they have improved, but I won't know. Things change, a lot faster then memories.
Like I said, I will create my own network if I must. I still got a working 386 with a 14.4 modem in the basement. (or working last year anyway, when I upgraded my firewall) Or even drop off the internet completely.
Great idea, but it doesn't get data from me to across the pond to geeks in, say England. For that matter I like to live in isolated areas, it is hard to get a reliable high speed link to geeks when you live miles away.
I thought the Catholics had some concept called "original sin". Doesn't that mean that there are NO innocents on earth, until born, indoctrinated, and dunked?
I think they do, but I really don't pay attention to Catholic theology. I have already rejected it as having nothing to do with Christianity other than the name they use. So please don't equate my views as a christian with some other group that is claiming to be christian, but which I am not a part of because I disagree with their beliefs.
This is whole flamefest is already getting too far away from news for nerds, so I'm going to refrain from repeating the arguments against catholicism. You can find plenty if you search for them. (Many from people who know more on the subject than I do)
I discovered that I am totally alright with abortion, but against the death penalty
I was not born back when it was considered normal to bypass a great black guy (much less a girl) for a much worse white guy. In my day we look at ability. So why should I pay for the mistakes of my forefathers?
Actually calling them my forefathers is incorrect. My fore-fathers never discriminated against blacks. (there were essentially no blacks in the area, as slavery was never legal here, and genetically blacks don't do as well in out cold climate)
There are plenty of wrongs throughout history. We need to correct them, but going just as far the other direction does not make it right. Making things right means we allow them the same opportunities that everyone else has.
In my area affirmative action actually hurts the cause. People that would otherwise be treated equal are seen as job stealer's because someone more competent did not get the job.
I discovered that I am totally alright with abortion, but against the death penalty
This doesn't make sense. I can see being against the death penalty, but how is a known criminal's life (assuming the courts were correct, which isn't always a given) worth more than a unborn baby's? (Assuming no mother's health issues, which is the majority of abortions)
Those pro death penalty, against abortion, use the innocent argument. That clearly cannot apply. Yet you are not against abortion, so you can't claim you consider life sacarid. (and there are a lot of people against both abortion and the death penalty). Those for both abortion and the death penalty are consistant. I do not understand what your position is, please enlighten me.
If true (and someone claiming to be you has said it isn't) you should sue. They can edit your words for grammar/spelling. They can edit it to make it shorter. However editing to make it mean something other than what you intended is illegal. Your lawyer will have a fun time deciding which laws to apply. (forgery, copyright, slander, and more could apply depending on how the courts in your area work)
If I cannot run a completely open source OS on your network, I won't be your customer. I always wanted to run a BBS as a kid, but could never afford a phone line. By the time I could afford a phone line the internet had taken off and there was no need. (That and I grew up enough to know running a BBS would be work for little gain)
My network may be kludge of 802.11b with antennas to other geeks, and long distance phone via 14.4k modem, but it won't be DRM. It may take a week to send an email across the country, but at least it will get there.
That is not correct. Good Carpenters CAN build good furniture, while bad carpenters cannot. However that does not mean a good carpenter will build good furniture.
I have quit buying books by several authors because they no long write good books. They can write good books, and I have worn out copies of some of their early works where they did. Today they are just putting words, on a page, and the publishers go along with it because they know people like me think "She wrote that one great book, I'll try this one".
Just leave a bug in
Opera so that sites that don't work right constantly refresh, even when you go onto other sites. Opera has enough users to take down all sites hostile to their browser in short time, which will get the message across.
The hard part is figuring out how to do the above without doing anything illegal.
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For most of the mid 80s to mid 90s, every year you could count on some major prediction that next year would be the year of the network. Never happened, without any explosive growth networks ended up anywhere.
Right. Though don't assume the big company will keep the changes proprietary. Some will, but many are using BSD because they need some OS, and they don't want to deal with sending source to every slashdot fool who insists they want their exact version, nevermind it is just like what you can download elsewhere.
We use FreeBSD here, but our changes get back into the main kernel. We are not a company in the business of selling OSes, we include the OS with our product because we need one. If we need an OS change it is because of bugs, and it is easier for us to upgrade latter if those bugs are fixed in the next version.
There is an order to who gets paid when companies go bankrupt. Court ordered fines are high on the list (IIRC only the lawyers are higher). You can (should) look up the exact order yourself, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft get paid everything, and the banks who loaned this guy money get screwed. Come to think of it, I hope the banks/investors get screwed, might teach them a lessions.
Okay, so the banks and investors won't learn. I'd see rather see Microsoft with the money than someone dumb enough to lend money to a spammer.
Putting paper into a landfill puts carbon back in the ground. Then more trees are cut, and their carbon put back into the ground. Offsets oil and coal production a little.
Don't forget the forests need renewal from time to time. We can cut them, or we can start a fire, doesn't matter to the forest, so long as we clear all the underbrush. (some trees need fire to release the seeds though, which is why I'm against fighting all those fires in California, but most trees are not so selective) Smokey the Bear is wrong you should be starting a forest fire. In many areas you should start it yearly. Logging companies accomplish much the same result, but without hurting 'bambi' (who would have been just fine in the fire, but it makes a bad movie).
Partially that they don't care because they are going to build a new design based on data they get from this the test anyway, and partially because testing to destruction tells you a lot more than non-destructive testing.
High temperature ceramics are difficult to work with. If something bad happens to high temperature metal it tends to bend a lot, which is bad, but can be recovered from. Ceramics tend to shatter. In addition ceramics tend to shatter when heated unevenly or suddenly. Metal can be melted down to form a different shape if what you have didn't work, while I know of no way to change the shape of ceramics once fired.
For lab test, metal is best to test with until you have something (either theory or a design) that seems like it will work. Even then, if you cannot get ceramics that work for some reason, you might be stuck with metal. (or if you expect something solid to hit your nozzle in flight)
More like a few thousand tries. Edison never spend enough time thinking, be he had enough money that he could afford to perspire to a solution. (Mind several tries may have been needed anyway, but most of his 1000 tries were repeating the same thing with minor variations, without fixking the problem)
Now I don't know if Carmack is learning from the failures, and making changes to fix the problems, or just making random changes in hope that something will resist the problem.
I don't understand why someone would join such a group, but many people like them. Enough that such neighborhoods are becoming more popular. Most people would prefer to live where every house is exactly the same ugly gray, than in an area where one neighbor has a car up on blocks in the front yard. Of course many houses are now using no homeowners association as a selling point, so they are not universally popular.
The authority is when you buy the house you must sign a contract that you will join it, and you cannot sell to anyone who doesn't join. these neighborhoods do follow the US constitution - they have a republic form of government, so it is the people in the area that are voting in the restrictions. However most people don't want to go into politics, except the most controlling people. Most residents would rather their over-controlling neighbor make the rules than run themselves.
Solar cells are expensive, Sure they will pay for themselves in 4 years (in south California), but you have to come up with $10,000 just for the cells, and that is hard. (which is just under $100/month, many people use more than double that amount)
Solar cells are not common. People will avoid buying a house with a cell on the roof because they rarely see them, and know nothing about them, and thus think a maintenance headache. Many people shouldn't own a hammer (that is hire someone to hang a picture on the wall), they cannot understand what is involved and want to avoid it. Therefore those who might want to move can't buy them.
Some towns have laws against solar cells on your roof! Live in one of those areas and it doesn't matter how the numbers work out. Related to this is most building codes don't cover cells (and some buildings don't have the roof strength to mount cells because of wind load), an inspector who doesn't know anything may cover by making permits hard to get, and forcing far more infrastructure than needed, which discourages cells.
This analysis is based on the latest technology (manufacturing more than cell technology, your best payoff is cheap inefficient cells, not expensive efficient cells). Just 5 years ago the payoff was much worse. People who ran the numbers a few years ago may not be keeping up.
In addition, the cells are not the whole story. Paying for the cells doesn't pay for the inverters, batteries, and all the other stuff that you need to pay for as well. This is also paid for in the long run, but it is hard to think that long term.
Solar is becoming popular in southern states where there is a lot of sun. If you own a house in the southern US you should looking close at the numbers. It might not make sense if you have a lot of clouds, but in other states you can't afford to not install a system. (It helps that California offers great rebates!)
I live in the northern US, may pay-off is more than the 8 years quoted, so it doesn't make as much sense to me.
In my experience, the small shops the gave good service had no problem with Wal-Mart in town. It was the shops that sold junk at high prices that went out when Wal-Mart came, selling more of the same junk for less. Wal-Mart gave better service too. Which is a sad commentry on the type of store complaining about Wal-Mart.
solar cells almost take as much energy to produce as they will ever use over their lifetime (last I read, about half)
If instead of reading something you would think a little you would realize that this cannot be true.
Solar cells take from 4-8 years to pay for their cost of production. (Depending on where you install them, deserts being the low end. Alaska is likely much worse than above) Assuming that the ENTIRE cost of the cells is because of energy needs, (that is labor, rent, raw materials, and so on, is free), and a 20 year cell life (20 year warentees exist, 50 year lifetimes are reasonable if you take care of your cell), you can already see that the energy is paid back several times of the life of a cell.
In the US a home owner's association is a semi-government within a city. Generally townhomes and snobby neighborhoods have them.
They tend to be extremely controlling about what you can and cannot do with your house. You cannot have a garden other than a few plants around the house. You cannot fly a flag. You can only use some color of paint on your house. No parking in the driveway overnight. Some restrictions are reasonable though strange until you know the reason (Lake associations prohibit fertilizing your lawn which makes the lake much cleaner, though the lawn is ugly), but many are unreasonable. One common restriction is no satellite dishes.
They are not full governments like a city is, but they have some legal power.
P.S. Townhomes are where the house you own shares a wall with your neighbor's house. They are cheaper because there a less exterior walls to insulate, but because the siding on "your" house extends onto the neighbor's you cannot paint your house without also doing the neighbor's too. (At least not without weird effects) They are not much different from apartments in function, but they look more like (and are built like) a house. So the association teams up like a government to paint houses.
Good question. I'm not sure, but I think that they can so long as it is not for profit. Since this network is disconnected from the internet amazon.com and such won't be there, and therefore this clause would be met.
I would consider getting a ham license if I had to. I'd like one anyway, but right now the internet supplies what I need so I wouldn't use it if I had it.
IANAL, so check with one if you need to know exactly how the law applies.
The FCC has rules that trump contracts. Your Home Owners Association cannot prevent you from putting up a direct TV type dish. They can put in a contract that you sign that you cannot have a dish, but if you install it there is nothing they can legally do because that part of the contract is illegal.
I suspect the FCC will say the same here: You can put anything into the contract you want, it will have no legal force though. Airline can do whatever they want so long as they stay within part15. Make sure you stay within part 15.
One other point: if this service causes problems, it is a safety risk even if the airline was forced to shutdown their WiFi. Most laptops look for access points, and many will even try to form ad-hock networks. This will cause the same thing, and no amount of FCC effort will shut this class up.
As an American I feel the same. Well I will give them one service other than the above consumables.
Fortunately, if you take care of American cars (change the oil and all that) most of them will make it to 200,000 or more before major maintenance is required. People have long memories, back in the 1970's getting 100,000 miles on a car was reason to celebrate with all your friends - you stood around the car in the blue smoke from the tail pipe and toasted your ability to make a car last that long. The Japanese figured out how to make a car go 300,000 miles before it got that bad first, and get all the credit. In the mean time the American cars have become just as good, but everyone still thinks 70,000 miles is all you can get on them.
There are bad models in American cars, but every company/country has them. German cars were the worst 5 years ago, rumor is they have improved, but I won't know. Things change, a lot faster then memories.
Like I said, I will create my own network if I must. I still got a working 386 with a 14.4 modem in the basement. (or working last year anyway, when I upgraded my firewall) Or even drop off the internet completely.
Great idea, but it doesn't get data from me to across the pond to geeks in, say England. For that matter I like to live in isolated areas, it is hard to get a reliable high speed link to geeks when you live miles away.
I thought the Catholics had some concept called "original sin". Doesn't that mean that there are NO innocents on earth, until born, indoctrinated, and dunked?
I think they do, but I really don't pay attention to Catholic theology. I have already rejected it as having nothing to do with Christianity other than the name they use. So please don't equate my views as a christian with some other group that is claiming to be christian, but which I am not a part of because I disagree with their beliefs.
This is whole flamefest is already getting too far away from news for nerds, so I'm going to refrain from repeating the arguments against catholicism. You can find plenty if you search for them. (Many from people who know more on the subject than I do)
I discovered that I am totally alright with abortion, but against the death penalty
I was not born back when it was considered normal to bypass a great black guy (much less a girl) for a much worse white guy. In my day we look at ability. So why should I pay for the mistakes of my forefathers?
Actually calling them my forefathers is incorrect. My fore-fathers never discriminated against blacks. (there were essentially no blacks in the area, as slavery was never legal here, and genetically blacks don't do as well in out cold climate)
There are plenty of wrongs throughout history. We need to correct them, but going just as far the other direction does not make it right. Making things right means we allow them the same opportunities that everyone else has.
In my area affirmative action actually hurts the cause. People that would otherwise be treated equal are seen as job stealer's because someone more competent did not get the job.
I discovered that I am totally alright with abortion, but against the death penalty
This doesn't make sense. I can see being against the death penalty, but how is a known criminal's life (assuming the courts were correct, which isn't always a given) worth more than a unborn baby's? (Assuming no mother's health issues, which is the majority of abortions)
Those pro death penalty, against abortion, use the innocent argument. That clearly cannot apply. Yet you are not against abortion, so you can't claim you consider life sacarid. (and there are a lot of people against both abortion and the death penalty). Those for both abortion and the death penalty are consistant. I do not understand what your position is, please enlighten me.
That is why I make it a habit to meta-moderate. It is a very rare day that I don't find at least on bad moderation.
It isn't much, but it is all we can do.
If true (and someone claiming to be you has said it isn't) you should sue. They can edit your words for grammar/spelling. They can edit it to make it shorter. However editing to make it mean something other than what you intended is illegal. Your lawyer will have a fun time deciding which laws to apply. (forgery, copyright, slander, and more could apply depending on how the courts in your area work)
If I cannot run a completely open source OS on your network, I won't be your customer. I always wanted to run a BBS as a kid, but could never afford a phone line. By the time I could afford a phone line the internet had taken off and there was no need. (That and I grew up enough to know running a BBS would be work for little gain)
My network may be kludge of 802.11b with antennas to other geeks, and long distance phone via 14.4k modem, but it won't be DRM. It may take a week to send an email across the country, but at least it will get there.
That is not correct. Good Carpenters CAN build good furniture, while bad carpenters cannot. However that does not mean a good carpenter will build good furniture.
I have quit buying books by several authors because they no long write good books. They can write good books, and I have worn out copies of some of their early works where they did. Today they are just putting words, on a page, and the publishers go along with it because they know people like me think "She wrote that one great book, I'll try this one".
Frank Loyd Wright was well known for leaky roofs.
Yeah, there are tellers. There is also one president. Big banks have a few Cxx titles. For the most part though, it is teller or Vice president.
Just leave a bug in Opera so that sites that don't work right constantly refresh, even when you go onto other sites. Opera has enough users to take down all sites hostile to their browser in short time, which will get the message across.
The hard part is figuring out how to do the above without doing anything illegal.