The difference is that a counterfeiter tries to pass off fake goods as the real thing. From dictionary.com: "Counterfeit: made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine". I sincerely doubt this guy's customers were convinced they were buying official Microsoft products.
Not that I have a huge amount of sympathy for anyone who does for-profit pirating (much less advertises his services in a public venue), but it's a real stretch to call him a counterfeiter.
You realize, of course, that CDs are not magical entities, fanciful vessels which contain the entirety of a musical performance. They lose detail just like every other means of recording sound. If you can create an alternative means of encoding sound that takes less space and sounds equally good (in a double-blind test), then it's a better method for holding music. Granted, having some overhead is good for future editing or re-encoding, but we've come up with much better ways to store MORE useful information in LESS space than CDs use.
No, you get as much solar input as the shadow the building casts. At noon, if the sun was directly overhead, that would be equal to the square footage, but at North American latitudes, especially in the morning and evening, you'll be getting plenty of sun for seven levels of plants.
If you do need more light, you could even put reflectors on nearby rooftops where the sun is being wasted.
From TFA: "Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) said it was believed to be the first time a scramjet had been ignited within the Earth's atmosphere."
For example, those little thingies with the black and white paddles in them that look like light bulbs from middle school science class work on the idea that photons transfer and take momentum from stuff they interact with.
That was disproved a long time ago (but it's still a common misconception). There are a couple theories explaining the movement of a radiometer, both involving differential gas pressure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer/
Apple is encouraging developers to write Ajax apps for the iPhone. Now Windows users can develop and test their webapps in Safari easily. Makes sense to me.
And with the same browser for OSX/Windows/iPhone, I'm sure Apple will be pushing for widgets/apps/whatever that carry over from your desktop to your iPhone.
I'd rather put a sign up on my site that says, "IE Users not welcome, upgrade to a REAL browser" than not support the millions of mobile and home gaming machines out there.
i simply do not understand this statement? is it about reaching the most users or about you having a bug up your ass? the "millions" of mobile and home gaming machine users out there you talk about don't even make up 5% of most web traffic and ie is, what, in the 80-90% range?
The main difference is that users of alternative internet devices generally don't get to choose their browser, whereas most IE6 users are a few clicks away from running Firefox, Opera, or at least IE7.
I agree with the GP; it's better to assist the disabled than the lazy.
Of course, if you're running a commercial site and hits = money, priorities change. But I'd still rather offer IE6 users a reduced-functionality version of the site (with clear instructions on how to update/replace their browser) than waste tons of time and effort on a "No Browser Left Behind" policy.
I can't see anything in that article that would stop that exact same attack working on Linux. I can think of one. I doubt you could convince many Linux users to run, with root privileges, a small binary executable that has no readily available source and no trusted community vouching for the program.
Not even if you called it FREE XXX SLUTZ NOW.JPG.exe.
What you describe is the futuristic equivalent of a Hollywood shotgun (...which sends victims flying back 30 feet yet has no apparent recoil).
Lasers have reflectors too; a laser which can burn through anything would burn right through itself. In other words, just make the armor out of the same reflector that the laser uses.
And as fun as mirrored plate armor sounds, even regular body armor could probably protect you from a handheld laser weapon, at least if you don't sit still while it bores through the armor. If anything, tiny reflective granules in the armor would do the job of disrupting the beam.
But the real advantage of a laser weapon is that it's much easier to aim at unprotected parts of the body. You don't need to spend much time aiming and there's no uncertainty about where it will hit. Boom, headshot.
"Omnivore" and "predator" aren't mutually exclusive.
Dogs have always been omnivores. Some wolves are omnivores. Coyotes are omnivores. Foxes are omnivores.
They're all predators, and they like sweet foods.
Bears are omnivores and predators. And they like sweet foods.
Ferrets, on the other hand, are obligate carnivores and predators. And they like sweet foods too.
Most cats don't taste sugar. But cats have a rather unique metabolism. Claiming "predators don't taste sugar" is a ridiculous and easily disproven generalization.
Predators, like cats, cannot taste sweet because their body receives enough sugars from their food sources that they don't require the need to seek more out.
As I see it, the government of the United States of America is allowing a monopolistic empire on intellectual property to "shoot themselves in the foot".
Seriously, tons of people listen to Internet radio. They don't want to stop listening to music. They don't want to pay major bucks just to leave music streaming all day. They don't want to listen to two minutes of ads between every song. The only other option is to listen to independent artists.
If the RIAA wants to prevent people from hearing their music, who are we to stop them?
No, patients who fail the InfraScanner test could be given priority on the CT scanners for a more thorough examination.
Which is better than the current system of giving priority to those who have good insurance.
Solar panels in space, not in orbit around the Earth. But this has the little problem of getting the power to the Earth. That's easy. Just run cables down alongside the new Internet tubes.
Even if he had created working prototypes, LEDs vary widely from each other. It's taken decades and millions (billions?) of dollars to produce the current spectrum of LEDs out of a wide range of chemicals and substrates. All that research didn't "invent" anything?
It's like saying that you shouldn't be able to patent a jet engine because somebody figured out how to turn fuel into mechanical energy before.
In November 1941 he tried in vain to get a paper based on his discovery that "using semiconductors, a tree-terminal system may be constructed analogous to a [vacuum] triode" out of Leningrad. It didn't make it. Zheludev asks: "Was it a paper on what we now know as a transistor? We shall never know for certain unless his manuscript is found."
Zheludev also points out notes that Henry Round, an assitant to radio pioneer Marconi, was the first to discover that semiconductors could produce light, some hundred years ago. He published only a very short note on the matter and made no further investigations. The piece was never seen by Losev, who must be retrospectively declared the inventor of the LED. It's amazing just how many "modern technologies" were discovered or at least described far earlier than we assume. The technological revolution has been around a lot longer than the past 50 years.
And best of all, I finally have an excuse for electronic computers in my steampunk fantasies.
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The difference is that a counterfeiter tries to pass off fake goods as the real thing. From dictionary.com: "Counterfeit: made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine". I sincerely doubt this guy's customers were convinced they were buying official Microsoft products.
Not that I have a huge amount of sympathy for anyone who does for-profit pirating (much less advertises his services in a public venue), but it's a real stretch to call him a counterfeiter.
You realize, of course, that CDs are not magical entities, fanciful vessels which contain the entirety of a musical performance. They lose detail just like every other means of recording sound. If you can create an alternative means of encoding sound that takes less space and sounds equally good (in a double-blind test), then it's a better method for holding music. Granted, having some overhead is good for future editing or re-encoding, but we've come up with much better ways to store MORE useful information in LESS space than CDs use.
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No, you get as much solar input as the shadow the building casts. At noon, if the sun was directly overhead, that would be equal to the square footage, but at North American latitudes, especially in the morning and evening, you'll be getting plenty of sun for seven levels of plants.
If you do need more light, you could even put reflectors on nearby rooftops where the sun is being wasted.
From TFA: "Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) said it was believed to be the first time a scramjet had been ignited within the Earth's atmosphere."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-X
Is there something I'm just not getting here?
Those ones that roll up and are made of mostly rubber seem like they could get washed with a sponge while still in use
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That was disproved a long time ago (but it's still a common misconception). There are a couple theories explaining the movement of a radiometer, both involving differential gas pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer/
Apple is encouraging developers to write Ajax apps for the iPhone. Now Windows users can develop and test their webapps in Safari easily. Makes sense to me.
And with the same browser for OSX/Windows/iPhone, I'm sure Apple will be pushing for widgets/apps/whatever that carry over from your desktop to your iPhone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_String
The main difference is that users of alternative internet devices generally don't get to choose their browser, whereas most IE6 users are a few clicks away from running Firefox, Opera, or at least IE7.
I agree with the GP; it's better to assist the disabled than the lazy.
Of course, if you're running a commercial site and hits = money, priorities change. But I'd still rather offer IE6 users a reduced-functionality version of the site (with clear instructions on how to update/replace their browser) than waste tons of time and effort on a "No Browser Left Behind" policy.
I propose we all chip in to create broad patents on all manner of annoying things, and then refuse to license them to anyone.
I'm in favor of this law, don't get me wrong, but I thought we'd been practicing "genetic discrimination" since life began.
Not even if you called it FREE XXX SLUTZ NOW.JPG.exe.
What you describe is the futuristic equivalent of a Hollywood shotgun (...which sends victims flying back 30 feet yet has no apparent recoil).
Lasers have reflectors too; a laser which can burn through anything would burn right through itself. In other words, just make the armor out of the same reflector that the laser uses.
And as fun as mirrored plate armor sounds, even regular body armor could probably protect you from a handheld laser weapon, at least if you don't sit still while it bores through the armor. If anything, tiny reflective granules in the armor would do the job of disrupting the beam.
But the real advantage of a laser weapon is that it's much easier to aim at unprotected parts of the body. You don't need to spend much time aiming and there's no uncertainty about where it will hit. Boom, headshot.
If they were able to read a signal from a laptop, they were reading a digital signal. Laptops have always used a digital display interface.
But yeah, encrypted HDMI would make it more difficult.
"Omnivore" and "predator" aren't mutually exclusive. Dogs have always been omnivores. Some wolves are omnivores. Coyotes are omnivores. Foxes are omnivores. They're all predators, and they like sweet foods. Bears are omnivores and predators. And they like sweet foods. Ferrets, on the other hand, are obligate carnivores and predators. And they like sweet foods too. Most cats don't taste sugar. But cats have a rather unique metabolism. Claiming "predators don't taste sugar" is a ridiculous and easily disproven generalization.
Ah, that's why dogs don't like sweet food.
Please don't generalize.
As I see it, the government of the United States of America is allowing a monopolistic empire on intellectual property to "shoot themselves in the foot".
Seriously, tons of people listen to Internet radio. They don't want to stop listening to music. They don't want to pay major bucks just to leave music streaming all day. They don't want to listen to two minutes of ads between every song. The only other option is to listen to independent artists.
If the RIAA wants to prevent people from hearing their music, who are we to stop them?
No, patients who fail the InfraScanner test could be given priority on the CT scanners for a more thorough examination. Which is better than the current system of giving priority to those who have good insurance.
Or read some of Verne's stories, which is where many of those 50's and 60's films got their inspiration.
GTA: Baghdad.
I mean, think about it.
Even if he had created working prototypes, LEDs vary widely from each other. It's taken decades and millions (billions?) of dollars to produce the current spectrum of LEDs out of a wide range of chemicals and substrates. All that research didn't "invent" anything?
It's like saying that you shouldn't be able to patent a jet engine because somebody figured out how to turn fuel into mechanical energy before.
And best of all, I finally have an excuse for electronic computers in my steampunk fantasies.