They also weigh you and your luggage for helicopter flights to oil rigs.. not that big a deal.

That would be superheated steam as opposed to saturated steam. Supercritical steam would be steam that is at pressure higher than water can exist as a vapor and temperature higher than water can exist as a liquid. For water this is above 3200 psia and above 705F.

Unfettered capitalism has not concept of patents, copyright or even corporation.

Oracle's Lawyer stated: "They copied 11,500 lines of code," Oracle attorney Peter Bicks said during closing arguments. "It's undisputed. They took the code, they copied it, and put it right into Android." My understanding is that google used the api's but wrote their own implementation, what does he base that accusation on?

Renderman is not open source. It would probably be released under a modified Apache license as per their first major piece of open source OpenSubDiv: http://graphics.pixar.com/open...

That is incorrect. Starters have two wires, the big fat one that goes directly to the batter and is live and the small one connected to the solenoid.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. -- Andrew Grove

Agreed. I was not saying that we should not have copyrights or patents or trademarks. I was pointing out that they are not property. They are government granted subsidies with specific reasons to exist. In the case of copyright and patents, it is to foster development of new creations. In the case of trademark, it is to protect the consumer. Like taxes for a government service, they are fine as long as their benefits outweigh their costs. The problem is that people have developed the belief that they are actual property.

My thoughts exactly. The only IP that I could really defend as natural and not a government created subsidy would be trade secrets and those only as long as they were undisclosed (ie the guy who broke his contract could be prosecuted but not anyone who used the divulged information) .

Except that we don't believe that a government has a right to create corporations and grant them legal personhood. Companies should all be created by private contract with no state recognition other than as a collection of idividuals.

JACK is designed for music production and very low latencies. It was not designed to keep batteries running on a portable device. It was not designed to "Just Work". I do not know all the pro's and cons to be honest. Typically only software for audio production interfaces with jack. It is possible to have PA as a Jack client. Therefore you can run jack and have PA as inputs so you can keep JACK going all the time and disconnect PA when you want to record. I was not able to get this stable on my system. i filed bug reports but was not able to meet the dev's report requests (running PA under gdb kills jack before you get interesting output). I have seen reports that it is working much better now. Matt

PA is not designed for being used when you are recording and need low latency. Lennart will tell you (and has told me) to use JACK for recording situations where you can set the system for ridiculously low latencies. I do not want to be seen as defending PA (I think it was released to the masses long before it was close to the level of functionality of its predecessor) , but the devs have been working recently to make PA play nicely with JACK. When I start JACK, PA releases those devices and I do my recording, When I finish, I stop JACK and PA takes them over again. Its not perfect yet, but its working for me. I have my Zoom H4 usb microphone as audio input, usb midi for keyboard input and the ALC888 as the audio output and it works fine with no discernible lag for me. Still need to compile a reatime kernel, but thats next week. Matt

Why work? Lay around on a street corner and let welfare take care of the kids..

If thats the case, the work is no longer orphaned.

I wrote some software in Delphi and was excited when Borland (Inprise) announced Kylix. In the end I purchased all the versions of Kylix that they released and none were up to production quality standards. They all had longstanding, known bugs that were never addressed. Eventually, I found the Lazarus project ( http://lazarus.freepascal.org/ ). While the debugging is not up to what I had with delphi, I am able to code in Linux on a project that other developers are developing in Windows. While we have found bugs and limitations, the developers are quick to fix problems that we find and/or suggest better ways to do things. Matt Henley