"The difference between the GPL and BSD is that the GPL ensures that any improvements to the code will be given back to the community." GPL and BSD code are totally free to use.
BSD is free to redistribute, no problems (well, you should have a copyright notice) - Microsoft used in Windows 2000 a network stack (TCP/IP) derived from the BSD stack.
GPL is not free to redistribute - unlike BSD, anything containing even a small part of GPL code MUST be redistributed with its full source code, both the GPL part and the modified code.
Assuming Google uses the Linux kernel - Google can change anything in the kernel, and keep the code secret AS LONG AS it doesn't give the updated kernel to anyone. If it would, it would need to ship full source code (or at least the place to get the standard code, and all its modifications to it)
I wonder how far the efficiency of a millimeter-sized turbine would be from the efficiency of the real thing. Based on my insight, while they will certainly surpass conventional small batteries, their efficiency would be low enough that a unit a million times its power would be cheaper and more efficient than a million of those. Also, I have troubles imagining they will survive long enough in operation
By the way, this might be similar with the oil tanker situation - using a one 300,000 ton tanker is more efficient than using 1,000 300-tons oil tankers (or, God forbid, a million 100-gallons tankers)
A machine gun is much more accurate than a SMG - as long as you are not shooting point blank.
Machine guns (light machine guns at that, 7.62 or more mm caliber) have wind adjustments on sights, can shoot cover fire at 600m, have iron sights for up to 1000m, and can fire rather precisely (antisquad automatic fire) at 300m. Machine guns (7.62mm - not squad automatic weapons) can fire to 1500m.
SMGs and pistols are only usable when you see the white of the enemies' eyes.
The even sadder thing is that, when the gov't will be out of money for paying pensions, it will take money from somewhere else - your private pension fund might be taxed even more, in order to support the gov't pension funds
The idea was (probably) to find a strange way to evaluate a market. Considering the record, it seems to have been a success much greater than what the original inventor hoped.
For me, it seems Brasil tends to be self-sufficient. As such, taxing imports is a good way to help local economy.
However, here are other things to take into account: -gold is used or usable to evaluate the strength of a currency - but "gold is forever", and the market for gold is open to transactions in both ways. -oil is considered the blood of the current civilisation. As such, oil is an absolutely needed item, and every buyer works on an open market -iPods are a trend, at which some people adhere. They are not forever, there is no open market for them, and they certainly are not important for surviving (unlike oil)
So, taking the price of the iPods to evaluate a currency is wrong on many levels (but might give an insight). It is just considering that US Dollar is more valuable than Euro starting from the premise that gasoline is cheaper over the pond than in the First World
You are at least somewhat wrong with that.
There are side effects of some medication: "it can lead to weight gain". Ask your doctor sometime. There are maladies that produce this (hormones imbalance, and others). While I eat five times as much as my mother, and probably don't exercise more, I am slimmer than her.
You gain weight when you eat more than you consume. However, the energy consumption varies greatly from one person to the other, and there are persons that can eat their heart out without getting fat, and others that gain weight at half that calorie intake, while doing the same things.
Some people will still gain weight on half the calorie intake of someone who is thin, and not even trying
5 kilometers (on flat land) using a bicycle would be a leisure trip. However, bicycles come with other issues.
Anyway, the fact that the USPS office in your town is at 5 and a half miles doesn't mean necessarily there are no postal boxes in your vicinity (but even if there would be some, you might have to do a 3 miles roundtrip)
Yes, but this would increase the spamming lists (right now, each email address is having a single IP it is bound to - having to increase that list 254 times would put a dent in the spammers capabilities)
The pebble-bed reactor is a certain way of constructing it - shortly, it encapsulate the nuclear material into spheres of strong material, and its reactor cycle will slow down all by itself if the cooling system fails (just a few percent of pebble's mass is nuclear fisionable material). Disadvantage: the great size and weight of the system.
The other type of reactors uses rods of enriched (or non enriched) uranium, cooled by water, and is slowed down/stopped by lowering graphite rods between the uranium rods. The steam (contaminated steam) is kept in a high pressure circuit, and it then heats the secondary circuit which contains the working steam (the steam going to turbines). Advantage: compact, low total mass (a great proportion of the rods' mass in nuclear material). The great disadvantage - when it looses the water in the primary circuit, it goes faster and faster (until the graphite rods are inserted). Usually the insertion of the graphite rods is made with a forced insertion system, which "shoots" them much faster than they would fall (reaction time in tens of milliseconds).
Pebble bed reactors still produce radioactive "byproducts" - just that their radioactivity is lower (but in higher quantity)
Because the total heat contained in the natural gas is used - some is generated as electricity, and the rest remains as residual heat in the greenhouses. 100% efficiency during winter
Then why not Firefox? Firefox has a market share in the public eyes (what Joe Sixpack would use) much greater than Linux (with all its variants like Lindows, Gentoo, Knoppix and so on) compared to Windows 98, Me and XP.
Why not the Firefox foundation? Or the OpenOffice.org foundation?
Free Software is represented by much more than Linux. In the operating systems area (well, Linux is just the kernel but let's not detail this too much) there is the BSD (having the same general market niche), there are several research operating systems, some real time, some very small, and so on.
On the application side, there are plenty of implementations for integrated development editor (Eclipse), tens or hundreds of languages/compilers, plenty of Office clones or wannabe, graphic manipulation programs, and so on - in a list longer than a day of fasting.
And all of this takes the name of "The Linux Foundation"?:(
I'm not sure Google buys any kind of software - they have moved everything "in house" (they even are optimizing the kernels for the kind of heavy lifting their computers do).
As for the rest, hard drives and microprocessors will certainly be needed - but as the cost of microprocessors is just a small part of the cost of the computers, and Intel is having vast production capacities, the added microprocessors are just a drop in a ocean. More so for hard drives, and I suppose just the same for whatever IBM sells
Hopefully an update to the game will solve the multiplayer issues.
Anyway, this isn't the first of the last game to come to market with issues, not enough tested, not polished. Too bad this happens, and PS3 wouldn't have been a real danger to XBox360 market share even without Halo2
And by the way, the movement of the heads (assuming 10 ms first-to-last sector, for a 1.5 inch) would mean some 4m/s or 14 km/h in average speed. Double that for a maximum of 30 km/h.
Even if totally off topic, I feel you earn an answer - and I will try my best.
Old military technology (Phalanx CIWS) is able to aim a light automatic cannon (firing 100 20mm rounds per second) against an attacking airplane (simpler, but less probable) or a cruise missile. While US cruise missiles attack at a snail-pace of 800 or so km/h, russian missiles attack at 3000 km/h (terminal phase trajectory).
The accuracy needed to aim this system (a 1980-system) is better than what a sniper rifle would need, and such a system would train the rifle to the identified point in a second or so (adding the time for the gunshot to be heard, and processing time, we are talking about a 5 seconds delay from the gunshot, for a sniper at a kilometer).
What I doubt is the capability of a artificial vision system to identify a sniper hiding in that area, sniper that might have escaped detection from foot patrols (I am only taking into account a sniper with a training similar to the US snipers, not a civilian with a scope on its weapon).
I'm not sure about that. Snipers usually hide themselves so perfectly that they aren't visible by a human from mere meters away. Little chance would be for an artificial vision device to identify a sniper.
And I doubt the robot is so perfect as to determine the location of a distant shot (500m or so) with enough certitude as to have the sniper in the crosshairs in a couple of seconds
It was a printer in a Windows network - and the network was inside a trash truck, street cleaning company. And when the computers with the virus were taken off network, the printing stopped
Taking a snapshot of everything that is printed, and mail it to an interesting party? Altering what is printed? Change amounts on printed spreadsheets, change destination for item transfers, and other "creative uses"
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an OS in 96 bytes of RAM? Bring it on!
"The difference between the GPL and BSD is that the GPL ensures that any improvements to the code will be given back to the community."
GPL and BSD code are totally free to use.
BSD is free to redistribute, no problems (well, you should have a copyright notice) - Microsoft used in Windows 2000 a network stack (TCP/IP) derived from the BSD stack.
GPL is not free to redistribute - unlike BSD, anything containing even a small part of GPL code MUST be redistributed with its full source code, both the GPL part and the modified code.
Assuming Google uses the Linux kernel - Google can change anything in the kernel, and keep the code secret AS LONG AS it doesn't give the updated kernel to anyone. If it would, it would need to ship full source code (or at least the place to get the standard code, and all its modifications to it)
I wonder how far the efficiency of a millimeter-sized turbine would be from the efficiency of the real thing. Based on my insight, while they will certainly surpass conventional small batteries, their efficiency would be low enough that a unit a million times its power would be cheaper and more efficient than a million of those. Also, I have troubles imagining they will survive long enough in operation
By the way, this might be similar with the oil tanker situation - using a one 300,000 ton tanker is more efficient than using 1,000 300-tons oil tankers (or, God forbid, a million 100-gallons tankers)
I think Microsoft rewrote the network stack for Vista - so this it might be or it might be not BSD code
A machine gun is much more accurate than a SMG - as long as you are not shooting point blank.
Machine guns (light machine guns at that, 7.62 or more mm caliber) have wind adjustments on sights, can shoot cover fire at 600m, have iron sights for up to 1000m, and can fire rather precisely (antisquad automatic fire) at 300m. Machine guns (7.62mm - not squad automatic weapons) can fire to 1500m.
SMGs and pistols are only usable when you see the white of the enemies' eyes.
The even sadder thing is that, when the gov't will be out of money for paying pensions, it will take money from somewhere else - your private pension fund might be taxed even more, in order to support the gov't pension funds
The idea was (probably) to find a strange way to evaluate a market. Considering the record, it seems to have been a success much greater than what the original inventor hoped.
For me, it seems Brasil tends to be self-sufficient. As such, taxing imports is a good way to help local economy.
However, here are other things to take into account:
-gold is used or usable to evaluate the strength of a currency - but "gold is forever", and the market for gold is open to transactions in both ways.
-oil is considered the blood of the current civilisation. As such, oil is an absolutely needed item, and every buyer works on an open market
-iPods are a trend, at which some people adhere. They are not forever, there is no open market for them, and they certainly are not important for surviving (unlike oil)
So, taking the price of the iPods to evaluate a currency is wrong on many levels (but might give an insight). It is just considering that US Dollar is more valuable than Euro starting from the premise that gasoline is cheaper over the pond than in the First World
You are at least somewhat wrong with that.
There are side effects of some medication: "it can lead to weight gain". Ask your doctor sometime. There are maladies that produce this (hormones imbalance, and others). While I eat five times as much as my mother, and probably don't exercise more, I am slimmer than her.
You gain weight when you eat more than you consume. However, the energy consumption varies greatly from one person to the other, and there are persons that can eat their heart out without getting fat, and others that gain weight at half that calorie intake, while doing the same things.
Some people will still gain weight on half the calorie intake of someone who is thin, and not even trying
5 kilometers (on flat land) using a bicycle would be a leisure trip. However, bicycles come with other issues.
Anyway, the fact that the USPS office in your town is at 5 and a half miles doesn't mean necessarily there are no postal boxes in your vicinity (but even if there would be some, you might have to do a 3 miles roundtrip)
Yes, but this would increase the spamming lists (right now, each email address is having a single IP it is bound to - having to increase that list 254 times would put a dent in the spammers capabilities)
The pebble-bed reactor is a certain way of constructing it - shortly, it encapsulate the nuclear material into spheres of strong material, and its reactor cycle will slow down all by itself if the cooling system fails (just a few percent of pebble's mass is nuclear fisionable material). Disadvantage: the great size and weight of the system.
The other type of reactors uses rods of enriched (or non enriched) uranium, cooled by water, and is slowed down/stopped by lowering graphite rods between the uranium rods. The steam (contaminated steam) is kept in a high pressure circuit, and it then heats the secondary circuit which contains the working steam (the steam going to turbines). Advantage: compact, low total mass (a great proportion of the rods' mass in nuclear material). The great disadvantage - when it looses the water in the primary circuit, it goes faster and faster (until the graphite rods are inserted). Usually the insertion of the graphite rods is made with a forced insertion system, which "shoots" them much faster than they would fall (reaction time in tens of milliseconds).
Pebble bed reactors still produce radioactive "byproducts" - just that their radioactivity is lower (but in higher quantity)
Old equipment (stainless steel in the primary circuit) becomes radioactive, and is one of the nuclear hazards at the closure of a nuclear plant.
That is, assuming you really have those 254 IP addresses ready. And if you have a C-class just for yourself, you are filthy rich :)
Because the total heat contained in the natural gas is used - some is generated as electricity, and the rest remains as residual heat in the greenhouses. 100% efficiency during winter
Then why not Firefox? Firefox has a market share in the public eyes (what Joe Sixpack would use) much greater than Linux (with all its variants like Lindows, Gentoo, Knoppix and so on) compared to Windows 98, Me and XP.
Why not the Firefox foundation? Or the OpenOffice.org foundation?
:(
Free Software is represented by much more than Linux. In the operating systems area (well, Linux is just the kernel but let's not detail this too much) there is the BSD (having the same general market niche), there are several research operating systems, some real time, some very small, and so on.
On the application side, there are plenty of implementations for integrated development editor (Eclipse), tens or hundreds of languages/compilers, plenty of Office clones or wannabe, graphic manipulation programs, and so on - in a list longer than a day of fasting.
And all of this takes the name of "The Linux Foundation"?
I'm not sure Google buys any kind of software - they have moved everything "in house" (they even are optimizing the kernels for the kind of heavy lifting their computers do).
As for the rest, hard drives and microprocessors will certainly be needed - but as the cost of microprocessors is just a small part of the cost of the computers, and Intel is having vast production capacities, the added microprocessors are just a drop in a ocean. More so for hard drives, and I suppose just the same for whatever IBM sells
Hopefully an update to the game will solve the multiplayer issues.
Anyway, this isn't the first of the last game to come to market with issues, not enough tested, not polished. Too bad this happens, and PS3 wouldn't have been a real danger to XBox360 market share even without Halo2
And by the way, the movement of the heads (assuming 10 ms first-to-last sector, for a 1.5 inch) would mean some 4m/s or 14 km/h in average speed. Double that for a maximum of 30 km/h.
Even if totally off topic, I feel you earn an answer - and I will try my best.
Old military technology (Phalanx CIWS) is able to aim a light automatic cannon (firing 100 20mm rounds per second) against an attacking airplane (simpler, but less probable) or a cruise missile. While US cruise missiles attack at a snail-pace of 800 or so km/h, russian missiles attack at 3000 km/h (terminal phase trajectory).
The accuracy needed to aim this system (a 1980-system) is better than what a sniper rifle would need, and such a system would train the rifle to the identified point in a second or so (adding the time for the gunshot to be heard, and processing time, we are talking about a 5 seconds delay from the gunshot, for a sniper at a kilometer).
What I doubt is the capability of a artificial vision system to identify a sniper hiding in that area, sniper that might have escaped detection from foot patrols (I am only taking into account a sniper with a training similar to the US snipers, not a civilian with a scope on its weapon).
I'm not sure about that. Snipers usually hide themselves so perfectly that they aren't visible by a human from mere meters away. Little chance would be for an artificial vision device to identify a sniper.
And I doubt the robot is so perfect as to determine the location of a distant shot (500m or so) with enough certitude as to have the sniper in the crosshairs in a couple of seconds
Faster CPU, more RAM and a hard drive (in big devices).
The possibilities seem infinite
It was a printer in a Windows network - and the network was inside a trash truck, street cleaning company. And when the computers with the virus were taken off network, the printing stopped
Taking a snapshot of everything that is printed, and mail it to an interesting party?
Altering what is printed? Change amounts on printed spreadsheets, change destination for item transfers, and other "creative uses"