> Critics of the GPL claim that the license is unconstitutional. > Others take offense at the GPL's reciprocity. And one > plaintiff has even sued the Free Software Foundation, claiming > that the GPL attempts to fix software prices at $0, thus denying > the plaintiff a living as a software developer.
maybe if the post used hard words like GPL vs BSD it would have been more successful.
Anyway, if I wanted to make a gift to mankind, I would use BSD, if I wanted to make a gift to the opensource community I would use GPL, it's as simple as that.
The only problem is that when balancing back to eqilibrium, there are some ripples, and after a period of heating follows a glacial era. If the only thing we are doing is to amplify the oscillation which is part of the normal nature cycle, the picture is not very nice because we are going to reach unprecedented extremes.
First of all, thermal insulation can do wonders. Even if the device is in a garage there is no need that the lost heat is 50%.
Second, did you at least calculate how much time it would take for a 2000W magnetron to heat a liter of water by 20 degrees Celsius? (sorry for those not using the metric system).... gues what, it's a little more than 40 seconds
it's enough to get bored even if you only want to make tea, not to mention take a shower.
Electric water heating is insane for anything else but cooking.
Taking a shower requires about 10KW of power just to heat the water, (even at 100% efficiency, if you want to heat a decent amount of water at a decent temperature). With the 110V AC in US the current passing through the device heating the water would be 90 Amps. Which is A LOT. You'll need some really thick cables to plug this.
Yes, getting an USB drive for the deal is nice, but what will you do after a dozen or so albums like this. Not to mention a 128Mbytes Flash is beyond the dignity of many people here on/.
It's good thing though it will make USB stiks more popular with the masses, assuming they weren't already so.
If you're using neon lights for illumination (old ones, not the new type with oscillator) then you're practically enjoying life at 60 Hz (or 50 if you're in Europe) because of the stroboscopic effect.
Even at lower frequencies (30Hz) you'll maybe get a headache but you're not likely to observe any flickering.
Resolution is only about 100x more than a "Normal" stream that is compressed to about 1Mbps
so an 100Mbps line should be enough for a compressed stream. It's true, you'll then need a very powerfull encoder/decoder, or you could just split the image in sections and compress/decompress them separately.
I don't expect the image to be same as sharp (pixelwise) as a low-res image, which should improve compression, on the other hand Motion Estimation will e a bitch to perform, as even a small camera movement will cause jumps of hundreds of pixels. But maybe that can be overcome too.
Yes, but you forget something, US onlines stores might not be happy losing Rest-of-the-World clients. It's true, they could set-up servers outside US.
On the other hand, you can always use proxies, NAT, or other techniques to access "The Other Side". I'm curious you could use _huge_ NAT tables (Like using a few million addresses in one space to map to the other 2 Billion on the other side - you will have to mantain a certain ratio between the two for port-depletion reasons).
It would just be inconvenient for the end user, at least until the infrastructure is ready to handle it transparently (DNS servers to handle connections to the other side). But this may be good business for some.
For people who are not able to install their own Windows, this shouldn't be a problem. You can call someone to install linux for you just as easy as you call someone to install windows, not to mention a linux fan would probably do it for free.
Is it just me who thinks that users should be able to sue ther ISPs if they refuse to make the connection to some part of the internet. After all they paid for an "internet connection" not "partial internet connection".
Of course, SBC didn't say they would stop their customers from accessing google if google doesn't pay up, but it seems to me they were suggesting it.
It seems to me that they were testing the market to see how it reacts. I hope they fry.
My guess is that they are fighting over the right to allocate IP addresses, which are few while we're still using IPv4. This is a source of revenue for whoever controlls it, and practically you're giving money for "nothing", at least nothing material.
DNS means nothing like control of the internet, as it was pointed earlier, you can have your own set of servers and give whatever names you like to the other computers on the internet.
On the other hand allocating your own IP addresses would split the network. As long as there is a connection between the two parts (even a privately owned one) you can still reach the other side through gateways and tunnels, but it would just make it "less pleasant".
also you could consider storing information in the DNA of some insect or fish. Assuming it won't become extinct you'll only have to catch one in order to get your information back.
The advantage is you don't have to make the backup copies yourself.
that doesn't really work, even when you are in orbit, in order to increase your distance from the Earth you have to spend energy (the gravity still exists and pulls you down).
So getting in orbit is just the first step. Escaping entirely from the earth's gravity is something different. I think this is the distinction between the first and second "cosmic speed". (I am not sure whether the term is correct in English)
I am curious if you could use alternate types of energy to get into orbit. I mean, there are solar powered planes, it's true they only work in the atmosphere, but as you climb, the atmosphere grows thinner and you could increase speed. If the transition between atmosphere and void is really smooth what would stop you from slowly increasing the speed until you switch from gliding to orbiting.
Does anyone care to do the calculations what speed you would need in order to start orbiting at the edge of atmosphere? (My guess is that it probably is too high, but it was just an idea)
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this should at least raise an eyebrow
> Critics of the GPL claim that the license is unconstitutional.
> Others take offense at the GPL's reciprocity. And one
> plaintiff has even sued the Free Software Foundation, claiming
> that the GPL attempts to fix software prices at $0, thus denying
> the plaintiff a living as a software developer.
[quote from tfa]
maybe if the post used hard words like GPL vs BSD it would have been more successful.
Anyway, if I wanted to make a gift to mankind, I would use BSD, if I wanted to make a gift to the opensource community I would use GPL, it's as simple as that.
That would be useless because of "prior art"
The only problem is that when balancing back to eqilibrium, there are some ripples, and after a period of heating follows a glacial era. If the only thing we are doing is to amplify the oscillation which is part of the normal nature cycle, the picture is not very nice because we are going to reach unprecedented extremes.
First of all, thermal insulation can do wonders. Even if the device is in a garage there is no need that the lost heat is 50%.
... gues what, it's a little more than 40 seconds
Second, did you at least calculate how much time it would take for a 2000W magnetron to heat a liter of water by 20 degrees Celsius?
(sorry for those not using the metric system).
it's enough to get bored even if you only want to make tea, not to mention take a shower.
Electric water heating is insane for anything else but cooking.
Taking a shower requires about 10KW of power just to heat the water, (even at 100% efficiency, if you want to heat a decent amount of water at a decent temperature). With the 110V AC in US the current passing through the device heating the water would be 90 Amps. Which is A LOT. You'll need some really thick cables to plug this.
Can anyone check if the "xbox crashing" movie was taken with a Sony camera?
Yes, getting an USB drive for the deal is nice, but what will you do after a dozen or so albums like this. Not to mention a 128Mbytes Flash is beyond the dignity of many people here on /.
It's good thing though it will make USB stiks more popular with the masses, assuming they weren't already so.
If you're using neon lights for illumination (old ones, not the new type with oscillator) then you're practically enjoying life at 60 Hz (or 50 if you're in Europe) because of the stroboscopic effect.
Even at lower frequencies (30Hz) you'll maybe get a headache but you're not likely to observe any flickering.
not really, only for uncompressed streams.
Resolution is only about 100x more than a "Normal" stream that is compressed to about 1Mbps
so an 100Mbps line should be enough for a compressed stream. It's true, you'll then need a very powerfull encoder/decoder, or you could just split the image in sections and compress/decompress them separately.
I don't expect the image to be same as sharp (pixelwise) as a low-res image, which should improve compression, on the other hand Motion Estimation will e a bitch to perform, as even a small camera movement will cause jumps of hundreds of pixels. But maybe that can be overcome too.
If you zoom close enough you'll only see a stream of green, falling letters.
Oh, I guess it's because America is just ... ..."smaller"
Yes, but you forget something, US onlines stores might not be happy losing Rest-of-the-World clients. It's true, they could set-up servers outside US.
On the other hand, you can always use proxies, NAT, or other techniques to access "The Other Side". I'm curious you could use _huge_ NAT tables (Like using a few million addresses in one space to map to the other 2 Billion on the other side - you will have to mantain a certain ratio between the two for port-depletion reasons).
It would just be inconvenient for the end user, at least until the infrastructure is ready to handle it transparently (DNS servers to handle connections to the other side). But this may be good business for some.
I think there's a lot of spyware that asks for your agreement, relying on the fact that most people don't even read the agreement.
I don't think this makes it legal.
For people who are not able to install their own Windows, this shouldn't be a problem. You can call someone to install linux for you just as easy as you call someone to install windows, not to mention a linux fan would probably do it for free.
Is it just me who thinks that users should be able to sue ther ISPs if they refuse to make the connection to some part of the internet. After all they paid for an "internet connection" not "partial internet connection".
Of course, SBC didn't say they would stop their customers from accessing google if google doesn't pay up, but it seems to me they were suggesting it.
It seems to me that they were testing the market to see how it reacts. I hope they fry.
My guess is that they are fighting over the right to allocate IP addresses, which are few while we're still using IPv4. This is a source of revenue for whoever controlls it, and practically you're giving money for "nothing", at least nothing material.
DNS means nothing like control of the internet, as it was pointed earlier, you can have your own set of servers and give whatever names you like to the other computers on the internet.
On the other hand allocating your own IP addresses would split the network. As long as there is a connection between the two parts (even a privately owned one) you can still reach the other side through gateways and tunnels, but it would just make it "less pleasant".
If you have caller Id you can implement spamfilters on telephone set.
Put some nice message on autoanswer for those numbers, just to waste some of their time like they waste yours.
Well, I guess this tells you more about PC World than it does about the stuff they put on the list.
Digipress had some interesting solution for long-term storage called "eon disk".
http://www.mosarca.com/CDINFO/CENTURY.htm
also you could consider storing information in the DNA of some insect or fish. Assuming it won't become extinct you'll only have to catch one in order to get your information back.
The advantage is you don't have to make the backup copies yourself.
Somehow, I forsee a decrease in computer games popularity. But I guess EA didn't think of that.
What will the kids of the future tell you when you ask them about games?
"Games? Oh yeah, I hate them. We have them for homework."
I hope you're just being paranoid, but if this comes to be true, living in the US or even setting foot in the US will really suck.
If I were you I would just move to Soviet Russia.
Romanian.
And what do you call the speed necessary for an object to orbit at ground level?
ah, only 32 Mach, that's not even much for a solar powered airplane
that doesn't really work, even when you are in orbit, in order to increase your distance from the Earth you have to spend energy (the gravity still exists and pulls you down).
So getting in orbit is just the first step. Escaping entirely from the earth's gravity is something different. I think this is the distinction between the first and second "cosmic speed". (I am not sure whether the term is correct in English)
I am curious if you could use alternate types of energy to get into orbit. I mean, there are solar powered planes, it's true they only work in the atmosphere, but as you climb, the atmosphere grows thinner and you could increase speed. If the transition between atmosphere and void is really smooth what would stop you from slowly increasing the speed until you switch from gliding to orbiting.
Does anyone care to do the calculations what speed you would need in order to start orbiting at the edge of atmosphere? (My guess is that it probably is too high, but it was just an idea)