In which case water is even more addictive than even food (the mean number of person-days water is taken is bound to be higher than the mean number of person-days food is taken). Better still, food is not only addictive, it is the most overdosed on substance in the world with food pusher's selling as much as multiple daily overdoses to anyone who can afford a fix.

I suspect the major reason for the Windows behavior is that the driver gets polled for the version it was intended for at install or load time and Windows says no to further operation if it is less than some value. As a result, modifying the driver to do no more than say it is for a higher version is enough for it to suddenly work with what is really unmodified code. Perhaps with minor changes but we're not talking about the way it can be in linux where the whole interface to the class of hardware is changed enough that the driver has to have some re-write (not a massive amount usually). But then, which one is the friendlier OS behavior? Saying no to a perhaps working driver in order to promote development claiming to support your shiny new OS version or saying to driver vendors that the OS has changed and modified drivers are needed to support these named changes? Which you are welcome to grep the kernel for all instances of and fix yourself if you please. It might be promoted as a problem on linux but I think I agree, the linux behavior is much friendlier to developers and users.

As someone who works on linux bug fixing for, among others, the hardware partners of a linux distro vendor I sense that changing day by day. Some never will publish but as a result those they compete with will generally have a lower per-developer cost of development leading to a higher rate of bug fixes alone for the vendors who do publish. Not publishing made sense when the PC was the only platform that mattered but I'm impressed by the number of x86/x86-64 build bugs I see for things being called point of sale systems. They are probably PC based but they are built in a way that means they'll never run Windows and there will be more of them in the end so the hardware with published source is probably a better choice for those manufacturers. I'm sure one of Intel's plans is to support them as hard as it can afford to. Those that follow the lead will probably do quite well. It's ironic that standardization of hardware was intended to make things cheap to mass-produce then we have mass-produced standard hardware interfaces that make incorporating a large variety of unique devices relatively easy and the cheapness comes from mass-produced software where standard libraries make the effort to handle each unique device very low cost and with just one third party developer interested in contributing to the final effort part of the cost for the hardware vendor is off-loaded. They only have to maintain control over what's accepted as code intended for their hardware.

Way to miss the point. No-one said the patches fix bugs discovered yesterday or anything about the fix duration. What they said was that the Fedora patches are released when ready, not when a scheduled event is available to include them in. IOW, if an identical bug is discovered the same day in both platforms and both R&D groups work on a fix and coincidentally both complete their fix the same day and it is two weeks to the Windows patch Tuesday the Fedora users will get the patch two weeks before the Windows users.

The bunch of equations that are thrown at the students are essay questions. Just because it says solve for X doesn't mean you are expected to give no more than the value of X. It usually means you are expected to show how X is obtained via your working (i.e. your essay in mathematical syntax). When I did math exams just giving the numerical value of the final answer to a question was usually marked incorrect since there was no evidence it was any different from a lucky guess.

If they only made those catalogs soft, absorbent and with dye that doesn't run then at least it would be possible to save money on toilet paper.

Hi Chris, thanks for the response! It's maird rather than marid BTW but AD7GH or David works too ;-) I have the parts for a pair of 125MHz NE-602 mixers en-route from Mouser as I write and they should be here on Monday. The ultimate goal is to extend a RTL2832 USB receiver that should get here in early February. So hoping for a nice little project for fun and some spare parts in case I blow it. I might just build it before the USB device gets here and test it on one of my other receivers. I watched the show Chris and I'm attracted to the project. I appreciate the explanation why HF isn't in the initial plan and the mixer in QST won't cope with a transmitter on the same antenna lead without more work anyway. Anyway, my main point is that I write software for a daily living at an open source maintainer, perhaps I can contribute...

Then if the future of 2m, 70cm is narrower channel bandwidth than is currently used (how could it not be given the public service channel bandwidth now used) the nice thing here is that you only have to install the ROM image with the new modulation, keeping the old bandwidth as a feature anyway. Leading to more space for local groups in the long term from free software. I'd bet the lack of 6m comes from one of the chips at the RF end being limited to 100MHz. It's quite easy to fill-in the 0-100MHz block for receive with a cheap mixer (see the article in this month's QST, pg 30 I think).

There's the proof it's Windows 8 at least.

How many dates did it take place on and how many other things did you take pictures of on the same date(s)? The date of the wedding should be at least enough to get a search result with a high density of what you're looking for.

There is a pretty big "seam" between clicking on a pdf link to it being usable as a document in Firefox (IE too I imagine). It wouldn't require conversion of the pdf to html to close that, just render it in-place, in-process using native pdf rendering code as is being described. Presumably it will also allow for tidy nested references to pdf documents in html where the pdf is rendered in-place. Heck, if google have form input support in their pdf code and provide some access to the field names and contents from the hosting html document's scripts then it might help with reproducible printed output in web apps without leaving the app, a topic that came up in a previous story today. To preserve the intent of pdf I suppose it would still have to be framed in those scenarios though.

It's a no win situation for everyone. I wouldn't like to be arrested for an angry rant I _published_ but it would be my own fault if I was. I also wouldn't like for someone saying in public the kind of things that precipitated this to be ignored only because the people that noticed them aren't those with a direct relationship to the one saying them. I assume the kid (and his issues) would have been dealt with using the school's discipline system if it was school staff that had picked up a threat posted on Facebook. Since schools tend not to have the resources to monitor all of Facebook then what was the FBI to do...wait to see if there was a shooting and shrug their shoulders. I assume the kid's school will now use it's discipline system with him. If it's unpublished comments that provoke the response then there is definitely an issue of capable organizations doing the monitoring. Especially for US Citizens (see at least the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments) but I guess you could say, don't do/say something that provocative or at least explain yourself if you don't mean it literally.

If I understood the article, what you saw at high school isn't all the motion that took place. So you couldn't use what you saw to measure the velocity of a particle. What you saw was limited by the speed of light and there are changes in direction and speed that happen between the instants you observe. That's as far as I can follow it though. I don't see, for example, why it isn't frequency that's relevant to measuring it. After all, you can sample other events occurring every 100ns at only a 20MHz frequency.

Yes, a letter i in your subject.