while space travel is just a goverment/military/exploration venture the rules will remain the same as for other ventures to any other areas that aren't served by civilian transport services (an antarctic research base say).
If something breaks you either fix it yourself (yourself here reffers to the unit as a whole not to any one person), junk it or transport it back to civilisation yourself and you plan your equipment loadout in advance with that in mind (e.g. taking spares and/or fabrication equipment with you).
If and when we see normal people living on other planets with native industry then presumablly everything purchased locally will be covered by local warranties serviced by local repairmen with parts held in stock (whether imported from earth or manufactured locally). If you take something with you then it may not be covered (just as lots of stuff isn't today on earth!).
What will happen however (barring a major technological advancement) is that timescales will increase again. Messageing will be availible but it won't be realtime (more like sending a telegram or e-mailing someone on a slow e-mail system) and travel times will be very long.
is a good starting point if you wan't to use multiple DSL lines from a linux box.
another option though it would require some client side configuration is to have several IP subnets, set a static route up to your intranet router and then stick a cheap DSL router box on each subnet for internet.
I don't really care whether they have copy protection on the discs, as long as it does not restrict how I use my legal copy.
the two are opposite sides of the same coin, the only way to prevent copying is to force you to play the media through only thier systems. Thats already restricting how you use your legal copy.
4. Using the -L option to forward ports through SSH would involve having an HTTP proxy to forward to (you can't forward directly to an HTTP 1.1 server without playing DNS tricks). There may not be a proxy available. thats why you use -D rather than -L;)
all the known ones for the basline JPEG2000 format are under some form of free to use (but not nessacerally free software compatibile) license. but the area in general is a patent minefield.
tranditional JPEG is a known quantity, its been arround for years and is currently being hit using ONE probablly invalid and nearly expired patent in a last ditch grab by the patent holder.
math, lots of math. as a second year electronic engineering student having just done a communication principles course that basically assumed perfect (as in impossible/non-causal) filters throughout i'm not sure i'd agree there.
maybe in the third or fourth year if you take the right specialisms you'll be able to comment on real modern digital filters.
canonical is a private company, in other words they exist to do whatever thier owner wants, that may be to make a profit but thier owner is already pretty damn wealthy..........
amd64 sarge wasn't included in the official archive due to mirror issues (they had a major change to the mirroring setup recently that has made it feasible to let it in) but it does have CDs built by the official CD image system, security support from the official security team, entries on the official package search site and virtually everything else that the official release architectures had.
I thought we were about to have a trade war anyway about Boeing / Airbus, what happened to that one?
afaict both sides realised that the other sides claims about them were true and decided pressing the issue was not in thier best interests after all.
realistically both companies get government support, boeing through the milatary contracts system airbus through the (french iirc) goverment covering its loans (if the project fails to produce a commercially viable result, airbus doesn't pay the development costs. I don't believe this has happened with airbus proper but it did happen with a certain anglo-french project that was often regarded as a precursor to airbus).
its a bit like patent lawsuits with big companies. A threatens (and possiblly possiblly sues) B, B does the same back to A and both sides decide that its not in their interest to take it further (and formalise this with a cross license agreement).
as a private company they can do what they wan't without shareholders breathing down thier necks but if and when they sell out to the market...............
the problem with that is because of the way debian does depscanning (and even if they fixed that some general issues with the attitude of library developers) you can't install a debian package unless your versions of libraries are as new as or newer than those on the system the package was built on.
so if you wan't to run anything from etch your going to end up running core libraries from etch or rebuilding.
also mixed stable/testing systems are likely to exibit strange breakage, especilly as stable gets older. (for example is if you install sarges sshd on woody and let it upgrade everything it thinks is needed to do that you won't be able to log in over ssh!)
Perhaps more importantly, they want the timing to be predictable, so they can plan and budget to reduce the indirect costs of upgrades (such as lost productivity during the upgrade or when fixing problems aftwards) well with debian you typically get at least a years window between when a new release is ready and when you loose security support to plan your upgrade in. Is a year not enough to find a quiet period in which to upgrade?
1: can ubuntu really manage 5 years of secuirty support 2: is the 5 years of security support just for main (leaving you backporting yourself for anything you use from universe)?
I'm also going to set up a 32 bit Dapper VM for those few progs that don't compile or run well on the 64 bit platform. you shouldn't need a vm, a chroot should be just fine (amd64 linux kernels have no trouble running i386 linux binaries)
according to wikipedia the limit of human hearing is 20KHZ
anything over 22.2KHZ will mean nasty aliasing when you sample it at 44.4KHZ
so ideally you need a filter that can go from near unity down to near zero (iirc arround -90db if you wan't to be below the sampling noise) in the space of only a 10% frequency change. such a filter is going to have pretty nasty phase distortion.
yeah sure the protection can be cracked but unless the crack can be conviniantly packaged for mass use that doesn't help indie developers sell thier games. The only realistic way to sell software for a console is to go via the manufacturer.
nintendos other trick (at least with the GB and GBC i dunno about the advance) was to require a nintendo trademark to be in a particular place on the cart (and is read and displayed on startup by the systems boot rom) or it simply won't run. Which brings up the nasty possibility of a trademark violation lawsuit.
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while space travel is just a goverment/military/exploration venture the rules will remain the same as for other ventures to any other areas that aren't served by civilian transport services (an antarctic research base say).
If something breaks you either fix it yourself (yourself here reffers to the unit as a whole not to any one person), junk it or transport it back to civilisation yourself and you plan your equipment loadout in advance with that in mind (e.g. taking spares and/or fabrication equipment with you).
If and when we see normal people living on other planets with native industry then presumablly everything purchased locally will be covered by local warranties serviced by local repairmen with parts held in stock (whether imported from earth or manufactured locally). If you take something with you then it may not be covered (just as lots of stuff isn't today on earth!).
What will happen however (barring a major technological advancement) is that timescales will increase again. Messageing will be availible but it won't be realtime (more like sending a telegram or e-mailing someone on a slow e-mail system) and travel times will be very long.
given that the rovers were supposed to only last 90 sols or so
is that what was actually said though
or was it something more like: barring catastophic landing failure theese had BETTER last 90 days minimum.
to get a 99% chance of a lifetime of at least 90 days i'd imagine you would have to push the mean lifetime well above that.
is a good starting point if you wan't to use multiple DSL lines from a linux box.
another option though it would require some client side configuration is to have several IP subnets, set a static route up to your intranet router and then stick a cheap DSL router box on each subnet for internet.
sloppy maths or not its the normal way of saying it in english.
yeah who needs more story than "the time has come to prove you are the best, to crush your enemies, to win the tournament"? ;)
I don't really care whether they have copy protection on the discs, as long as it does not restrict how I use my legal copy.
the two are opposite sides of the same coin, the only way to prevent copying is to force you to play the media through only thier systems. Thats already restricting how you use your legal copy.
4. Using the -L option to forward ports through SSH would involve having an HTTP proxy to forward to (you can't forward directly to an HTTP 1.1 server without playing DNS tricks). There may not be a proxy available. ;)
thats why you use -D rather than -L
all the known ones for the basline JPEG2000 format are under some form of free to use (but not nessacerally free software compatibile) license. but the area in general is a patent minefield.
tranditional JPEG is a known quantity, its been arround for years and is currently being hit using ONE probablly invalid and nearly expired patent in a last ditch grab by the patent holder.
yeah and tiffs most common compressed format uses LZW (as used by gif).......
but in any case lossless compressed formats really aren't suitable for photos on the web etc.
math, lots of math.
as a second year electronic engineering student having just done a communication principles course that basically assumed perfect (as in impossible/non-causal) filters throughout i'm not sure i'd agree there.
maybe in the third or fourth year if you take the right specialisms you'll be able to comment on real modern digital filters.
canonical is a private company, in other words they exist to do whatever thier owner wants, that may be to make a profit but thier owner is already pretty damn wealthy..........
amd64 sarge wasn't included in the official archive due to mirror issues (they had a major change to the mirroring setup recently that has made it feasible to let it in) but it does have CDs built by the official CD image system, security support from the official security team, entries on the official package search site and virtually everything else that the official release architectures had.
I thought we were about to have a trade war anyway about Boeing / Airbus, what happened to that one?
afaict both sides realised that the other sides claims about them were true and decided pressing the issue was not in thier best interests after all.
realistically both companies get government support, boeing through the milatary contracts system airbus through the (french iirc) goverment covering its loans (if the project fails to produce a commercially viable result, airbus doesn't pay the development costs. I don't believe this has happened with airbus proper but it did happen with a certain anglo-french project that was often regarded as a precursor to airbus).
its a bit like patent lawsuits with big companies. A threatens (and possiblly possiblly sues) B, B does the same back to A and both sides decide that its not in their interest to take it further (and formalise this with a cross license agreement).
will they IPO
as a private company they can do what they wan't without shareholders breathing down thier necks but if and when they sell out to the market...............
what happens if the NTFS partitions are too full to correctly resize?
that can run on un-enriched uranium anyway?
the problem with that is because of the way debian does depscanning (and even if they fixed that some general issues with the attitude of library developers) you can't install a debian package unless your versions of libraries are as new as or newer than those on the system the package was built on.
so if you wan't to run anything from etch your going to end up running core libraries from etch or rebuilding.
also mixed stable/testing systems are likely to exibit strange breakage, especilly as stable gets older. (for example is if you install sarges sshd on woody and let it upgrade everything it thinks is needed to do that you won't be able to log in over ssh!)
Perhaps more importantly, they want the timing to be predictable, so they can plan and budget to reduce the indirect costs of upgrades (such as lost productivity during the upgrade or when fixing problems aftwards)
well with debian you typically get at least a years window between when a new release is ready and when you loose security support to plan your upgrade in. Is a year not enough to find a quiet period in which to upgrade?
in what way is ubuntu amd64 different from debian amd64? i thought both were pure 64 bit with only minimal 32 bit libs availible in special packages?
now the fact that amd64 sarge didn't get added to the official archive before sarge release was a fuckup i agree but not a monumental one.
the real questions are
1: can ubuntu really manage 5 years of secuirty support
2: is the 5 years of security support just for main (leaving you backporting yourself for anything you use from universe)?
I'm also going to set up a 32 bit Dapper VM for those few progs that don't compile or run well on the 64 bit platform.
you shouldn't need a vm, a chroot should be just fine (amd64 linux kernels have no trouble running i386 linux binaries)
1: make sure you look at what dist-upgrade is planning to do before you say yes
2: i'm not sure if doing that will upgrade the kernel.
traditionally ubuntu gave security support to main for 18 months but universe for only 6. Whats the plan this time arround?
according to wikipedia the limit of human hearing is 20KHZ
anything over 22.2KHZ will mean nasty aliasing when you sample it at 44.4KHZ
so ideally you need a filter that can go from near unity down to near zero (iirc arround -90db if you wan't to be below the sampling noise) in the space of only a 10% frequency change. such a filter is going to have pretty nasty phase distortion.
yeah sure the protection can be cracked but unless the crack can be conviniantly packaged for mass use that doesn't help indie developers sell thier games. The only realistic way to sell software for a console is to go via the manufacturer.
nintendos other trick (at least with the GB and GBC i dunno about the advance) was to require a nintendo trademark to be in a particular place on the cart (and is read and displayed on startup by the systems boot rom) or it simply won't run. Which brings up the nasty possibility of a trademark violation lawsuit.