the purpose is to stop the enemy either moving quickly or sneaking arround unnoticed. If a few of them get killed/maimed too thats a bonus but probablly not a significant effect.
killing and maiming civilians after the war is over is a (very sad) side effect and is the main reason for efforts to ban them. Unfortunately banning treaties are not going to stop them being used by poor desperate forces who are the ones most likely to leave minefields behind with no records and no deactivation timers.
don't the USA already use landmines that expire after a given time and/or keep records of laying locations to avoid/reduce cleanup issues with thier minefields?
afaict the real problem (which theese new landmines aren't going to solve) is poor and desperate forces that lay down cheapest landmines to stop the enemy and presumablly do minimal recording (if any at all) of thier location. Problems in decades to come are going to seem pretty irrelevent when you could be wiped out in the next week or so.
in western socities disabled people generally get certain special treatment legislated because thats how most western societies have decided to deal with the problem of disabled people.
getting rid of them is not acceptable from most peoples moral position (mine included) and treating them as patiants who could never usefully contribute to society would probablly cost us even more (this still has to be done with the worst cases of course).
Like many relatively expensive proprietary applications, the success of Windows is based largely on the fact that it can be pirated. Making it impossible or even reasonably difficult to do so will result in people looking at alternatives. yes MS has a difficult balancing act on thier hands.
The only way to grow thier income from the OS and office divisions (and lets face it thier newer divisions have not been wildly sucessfull) is to clamp down on pirates and raise the prices for legitimate users. The stock market hates companies that don't grow especially ones that used to grow fast. BUT theese methods of growing income while effective in the short term risk driving people away in the longer term.
I think in the long term MS will end up where IBM is now, still a HUGE company but not a dominant player by any means.
Once that's gone, you're up shits creek unless another maintainer is found, which is usually (but not always) the case.
with commercialware (software where you have to buy copies or licenses) if the maintainer decides to drop the product (or takes it in a direction you don't like with a new release though downgrade rights can mitigate this to some degree) you are really up shit creak. You can't legally install any extra copies as your buisness grows and you can't modify the software to keep it working on new hardware or to fix cripling bugs.
when a free software (using the FSF definition of free software) maintainer loses interest and doesn't perform a clean handover to a new maintainer or does something else undesirable you can
1: wait for a new maintainer to take over and collect the team back together (under a new name if nessacery, see XFree86 for example). 2: organise the above yourself (if you can find a willing community of other users) 3: make changes inhouse which can either be kept in house or fed back upstream if and when the upstream development reforms.
and during all this time you can legally continue to use the software and deploy it to as many machines as you like, closed source freeware also offers this but offers no freedom to develop the software further.
watch out for the likes of trolltech and mysql. They only GPL thier code to get it into linux distros and rely on the fact that what they provide comes as libraries to sell commercial licenses. Consider that if you get into a situation that requires purchase of commercial licenses you may end up as far in the lurch as someone who uses propietry software.
we need to distinguish between lattice defects and chemical impurities.
the former is a problem the latter is essential. Unfotunately the most controlled processes for adding impurities also give a lot of lattice defects needing an annealing step to repair the lattice. Annealing however has problems of its own (lots of heat needed and it tends to cause diffusion between regions).
Seriously, though, if that's your worry, why even have hard and CD-ROM drives and USB slots? because some people (probablly less than there used to be though) have thier own computers but don't have thier own internet links (either because of cost or because they aren't staying long and don't want to pay the cost of getting a connection for only a few months or because the landlord won't allow it or whatever). For somewhere that requires payment for computer use (cyber cafe) this would be a good way to drive custom to your competitors, for somewhere that doesn't (library, university etc) it will likely encourage people to spend more time on the public computers and less on thier own.
i don't see the need for premisis ejections though just make sure the machines can't CD boot in the first place without using the bios password.
just how close is enterprise to the shuttles that are actually spaceworthy? would it be much of a saving to start from enterprise over building a shuttle from scratch?
why risk valuable ground facilities (plus, of course, people) by risking to crash an already seriously damaged shuttle on them?
risk to ground facilities will probablly be minimal, if it makes it through the upper atnosphere in one peice then it will probablly land successfully
NASA is running out of shuttles (only 3 left) and it would be exceedingly difficult to produce more (because they stopped buliding them for so long unlike say soyuz). Thats one of the big downsides of a reusable space fleet so if they wan't to complete thier commitment to ISS then they have to minimise further losses.
Rare and expensive? You spent more money on the crack you're smoking than a basic USR Sportster would have cost you changing the search to a uk one gave 0 results but even assuming i was prepared to order from the USA your listing was afaict ISA and external modems. The former is useless with modern PCs. The latter is usable i suppose but serial ports are fast dissapearing and its yet another box to have on the desk.
the second search appears to be a mixture of external again and PCI softmodems.
Grossly untrue. There is a Market for Power Distribution. Just because as a single home owning consumer you never see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. there is no market for final distribution (except possiblly in the case of extremely massive customers), whereever your electricity actually comes from (and in supplier choice markets whoever you pay for it) its reliablity is determined mainly by the actions of a local monopoly and its government regulators.
worse most countries that have implemented supplier choice have implemented it without making normal customers rapidly disconnectable for the actions of thier supplier. So customers are pushed to go to the cheapest supplier rather than the one that helps ensure reliability.
Then there are the transformer rooms (since you can't just hang them from a pole) here in britan its not unheared of to have a pole (or pair of poles if its a bigger transformer) serving simply as a transformer mounting with all cables running underground;)
I don't know what kind of weird hardware you have hooked, up, but My linux box supports all the hardware I throw at it. tell me a decent 3D graphics card that works properly with current linux distros without having to mess round at the command line then?
last i checked sofware modems were also a pain to make work (if they could be made to work at all) and hardware modems were rare and expensive. For machines that live permanently on a lan this is not an issue but many don't!
well the unreal engine is multi platform but all too often even when the engine is multiplatform many of the games based on it are not (i think epics charging model may also influence this).
But if MS pulled out of the EU, the EU couldnt put MS software in the public domain. At least that's the way I understood the EULA's for every microsoft product I've read. If the EU did that, they'd have to face the legal wrath of MS. it would probablly require a directive forcing changes to the laws of member states but there is no reason the EU couldn't do it.
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code. That is the clause under which most linux distributions operate at least for thier free download services (and debian don't sell copies on physical media themselves).
that only applies to written offers to supply the source code at cost in physical form.
most distros operate under the "offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code" provision which makes no such allowences for redistributors.
and you have to be 18 to be able to get your license. small query (i'm a brit btw)
what are the rules regarding driving licenses in the EU? can a 17 year old with a valid full british driving license drive in germany? if so can a kid from germany travel here to britan to get thier license at 17?
Your purchase, insurance & maintenance costs are sunk, so your marginal costs (basically fuel) are what public transport have to compete against theres a few possible ways to reduce this effect
1: make train travel way faster than car travel (an example of this is traveling to london from manchester in the uk) so people have a powerfull non financial incentive to use it. 2: tax road fuel (petrol and deisel) heavilly 3: make insurance a marginal cost rather than a sunk cost (that is make it charged per mile) 4: subsiise mass transit 5: make parking expensive arround workplaces 6: charge people extra for driving into high density areas (e.g. londons "congestion charging")
as is linked in TFA the wrt54g actually has a JTAG port which can be used to reprogram it (you have to solder the header on though) and according to said article so do many other devices that use those chips.
and there are (or were apparently the site dissapeared recently) instructions for flashing the DS using wires soldered onto the flash chip. I belive with the PSP they hit the problem of a BGA chip.
In general if the chips in a device are indentifiable as standard parts and in sane packages (no BGA or glop-top) and a firmware image is availible (afaict this can be the hardest part sometimes as some chips have code protection features) then unbricking should be possible but may require very fine soldering skills (soldering wires to a TQFP or TSSOP chip isn't going to be fun and test clips are i belive insanely expensive). Afaict most boards are built to work with in circuit programming for development and production (afiact pre-programming a device is far more expensive than just hitting the board with some extra test points) reasons.
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your confusing purpose with side effect.
the purpose is to stop the enemy either moving quickly or sneaking arround unnoticed. If a few of them get killed/maimed too thats a bonus but probablly not a significant effect.
killing and maiming civilians after the war is over is a (very sad) side effect and is the main reason for efforts to ban them. Unfortunately banning treaties are not going to stop them being used by poor desperate forces who are the ones most likely to leave minefields behind with no records and no deactivation timers.
don't the USA already use landmines that expire after a given time and/or keep records of laying locations to avoid/reduce cleanup issues with thier minefields?
afaict the real problem (which theese new landmines aren't going to solve) is poor and desperate forces that lay down cheapest landmines to stop the enemy and presumablly do minimal recording (if any at all) of thier location. Problems in decades to come are going to seem pretty irrelevent when you could be wiped out in the next week or so.
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I'll use capitalisation and punctuation where the complexity of the task requires it but NOT for quick comments on a tech discussion site.
in western socities disabled people generally get certain special treatment legislated because thats how most western societies have decided to deal with the problem of disabled people.
getting rid of them is not acceptable from most peoples moral position (mine included) and treating them as patiants who could never usefully contribute to society would probablly cost us even more (this still has to be done with the worst cases of course).
Like many relatively expensive proprietary applications, the success of Windows is based largely on the fact that it can be pirated. Making it impossible or even reasonably difficult to do so will result in people looking at alternatives.
yes MS has a difficult balancing act on thier hands.
The only way to grow thier income from the OS and office divisions (and lets face it thier newer divisions have not been wildly sucessfull) is to clamp down on pirates and raise the prices for legitimate users. The stock market hates companies that don't grow especially ones that used to grow fast. BUT theese methods of growing income while effective in the short term risk driving people away in the longer term.
I think in the long term MS will end up where IBM is now, still a HUGE company but not a dominant player by any means.
Once that's gone, you're up shits creek unless another maintainer is found, which is usually (but not always) the case.
with commercialware (software where you have to buy copies or licenses) if the maintainer decides to drop the product (or takes it in a direction you don't like with a new release though downgrade rights can mitigate this to some degree) you are really up shit creak. You can't legally install any extra copies as your buisness grows and you can't modify the software to keep it working on new hardware or to fix cripling bugs.
when a free software (using the FSF definition of free software) maintainer loses interest and doesn't perform a clean handover to a new maintainer or does something else undesirable you can
1: wait for a new maintainer to take over and collect the team back together (under a new name if nessacery, see XFree86 for example).
2: organise the above yourself (if you can find a willing community of other users)
3: make changes inhouse which can either be kept in house or fed back upstream if and when the upstream development reforms.
and during all this time you can legally continue to use the software and deploy it to as many machines as you like, closed source freeware also offers this but offers no freedom to develop the software further.
watch out for the likes of trolltech and mysql. They only GPL thier code to get it into linux distros and rely on the fact that what they provide comes as libraries to sell commercial licenses. Consider that if you get into a situation that requires purchase of commercial licenses you may end up as far in the lurch as someone who uses propietry software.
we need to distinguish between lattice defects and chemical impurities.
the former is a problem the latter is essential. Unfotunately the most controlled processes for adding impurities also give a lot of lattice defects needing an annealing step to repair the lattice. Annealing however has problems of its own (lots of heat needed and it tends to cause diffusion between regions).
Seriously, though, if that's your worry, why even have hard and CD-ROM drives and USB slots?
because some people (probablly less than there used to be though) have thier own computers but don't have thier own internet links (either because of cost or because they aren't staying long and don't want to pay the cost of getting a connection for only a few months or because the landlord won't allow it or whatever). For somewhere that requires payment for computer use (cyber cafe) this would be a good way to drive custom to your competitors, for somewhere that doesn't (library, university etc) it will likely encourage people to spend more time on the public computers and less on thier own.
i don't see the need for premisis ejections though just make sure the machines can't CD boot in the first place without using the bios password.
just how close is enterprise to the shuttles that are actually spaceworthy? would it be much of a saving to start from enterprise over building a shuttle from scratch?
why risk valuable ground facilities (plus, of course, people) by risking to crash an already seriously damaged shuttle on them?
risk to ground facilities will probablly be minimal, if it makes it through the upper atnosphere in one peice then it will probablly land successfully
NASA is running out of shuttles (only 3 left) and it would be exceedingly difficult to produce more (because they stopped buliding them for so long unlike say soyuz). Thats one of the big downsides of a reusable space fleet so if they wan't to complete thier commitment to ISS then they have to minimise further losses.
Rare and expensive? You spent more money on the crack you're smoking than a basic USR Sportster would have cost you
changing the search to a uk one gave 0 results but even assuming i was prepared to order from the USA your listing was afaict ISA and external modems. The former is useless with modern PCs. The latter is usable i suppose but serial ports are fast dissapearing and its yet another box to have on the desk.
the second search appears to be a mixture of external again and PCI softmodems.
Grossly untrue. There is a Market for Power Distribution. Just because as a single home owning consumer you never see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
there is no market for final distribution (except possiblly in the case of extremely massive customers), whereever your electricity actually comes from (and in supplier choice markets whoever you pay for it) its reliablity is determined mainly by the actions of a local monopoly and its government regulators.
worse most countries that have implemented supplier choice have implemented it without making normal customers rapidly disconnectable for the actions of thier supplier. So customers are pushed to go to the cheapest supplier rather than the one that helps ensure reliability.
Then there are the transformer rooms (since you can't just hang them from a pole) ;)
here in britan its not unheared of to have a pole (or pair of poles if its a bigger transformer) serving simply as a transformer mounting with all cables running underground
I don't know what kind of weird hardware you have hooked, up, but My linux box supports all the hardware I throw at it.
tell me a decent 3D graphics card that works properly with current linux distros without having to mess round at the command line then?
last i checked sofware modems were also a pain to make work (if they could be made to work at all) and hardware modems were rare and expensive. For machines that live permanently on a lan this is not an issue but many don't!
don't you think if MS thought they could make more money by selling windows/office at a higher price point they would be doing so already?
well the unreal engine is multi platform but all too often even when the engine is multiplatform many of the games based on it are not (i think epics charging model may also influence this).
But if MS pulled out of the EU, the EU couldnt put MS software in the public domain. At least that's the way I understood the EULA's for every microsoft product I've read. If the EU did that, they'd have to face the legal wrath of MS.
it would probablly require a directive forcing changes to the laws of member states but there is no reason the EU couldn't do it.
continue reading after the section you quoted
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
That is the clause under which most linux distributions operate at least for thier free download services (and debian don't sell copies on physical media themselves).
that only applies to written offers to supply the source code at cost in physical form.
most distros operate under the "offering equivalent
access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
distribution of the source code" provision which makes no such allowences for redistributors.
its a low power (both in electrical and computing terms) arm chip, even a pretty large cluster of theese would be less powerfull than a single PC.
that getting a seperate router to work with DSL was a major pain in the arse if the DSL was pppoa based (as much european stuff is)
a friend of mine is using a linksys nslu2 with a USB DSL modem sucessfully though, maybe thats the way to go.
a crossover cable won't get arround the difference between lan and wan ports.
you could possiblly do one armed router with everything on the lan side but you may well get into issues with dhcp.
changing a port to a wan port would require reconfiguring the vlan support in the switch module (which i belive is possible but not easy)
and you have to be 18 to be able to get your license.
small query (i'm a brit btw)
what are the rules regarding driving licenses in the EU? can a 17 year old with a valid full british driving license drive in germany? if so can a kid from germany travel here to britan to get thier license at 17?
Your purchase, insurance & maintenance costs are sunk, so your marginal costs (basically fuel) are what public transport have to compete against
theres a few possible ways to reduce this effect
1: make train travel way faster than car travel (an example of this is traveling to london from manchester in the uk) so people have a powerfull non financial incentive to use it.
2: tax road fuel (petrol and deisel) heavilly
3: make insurance a marginal cost rather than a sunk cost (that is make it charged per mile)
4: subsiise mass transit
5: make parking expensive arround workplaces
6: charge people extra for driving into high density areas (e.g. londons "congestion charging")
as is linked in TFA the wrt54g actually has a JTAG port which can be used to reprogram it (you have to solder the header on though) and according to said article so do many other devices that use those chips.
and there are (or were apparently the site dissapeared recently) instructions for flashing the DS using wires soldered onto the flash chip. I belive with the PSP they hit the problem of a BGA chip.
In general if the chips in a device are indentifiable as standard parts and in sane packages (no BGA or glop-top) and a firmware image is availible (afaict this can be the hardest part sometimes as some chips have code protection features) then unbricking should be possible but may require very fine soldering skills (soldering wires to a TQFP or TSSOP chip isn't going to be fun and test clips are i belive insanely expensive). Afaict most boards are built to work with in circuit programming for development and production (afiact pre-programming a device is far more expensive than just hitting the board with some extra test points) reasons.