Me too, but I also think that virtual things that cost real time to build are as real and theft of it is as punishable as theft of real items.
I mean, when I make a program and someone steals my sourcecode, that's also considered theft. So the "imaginary pixels" part does not have very much to do with it.
Same goes for a character on a MMO I put 100's of hours of my time in. When that is stolen, I'd be very pissed off, and when someone steals it for their benefit, I'd also consider prosecuting.
Face it: Google's useragreement basically says "do as you're told and don't complain" to the user. Whereas a company's useragreemant says "do as you're told and don't complain" to the system administrator.
What a difference that makes. Sure, Google is free, so the price-performance ratio can not be beaten by any corporate solution, but if that is your only concern than you have no business complaining to Google. You use their product on their terms. Live with it.
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
-Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi
But seriuosly. Upload it to the web. It will stay there forever.
Solar cell panels average around 0,012 Watt/cm^2. There is no mention of how big a solar cell she can make, but seeing that it's a pizzaoven and pizzas are generally not less than 20 cm in diameter, you can make a solar cell with a surface of about a hundered pies (sorry, had to make that joke).
A solar cell with that surface can generate 0,012 * 314 = 3,9 Watt (Wp). Where I live, 1 Wp gives you 0,85 kWh each jear, so this solar cell will give 3,3 kWh each year. (YMMV, I live at 51 degrees north)
So that's enough to let a 1000W pizza oven run for 3,3 hours, or about 66 hours over the cell's lifetime
How long does it take to burn a solar cell? A pizza takes 15 minutes.
I'm not surprised we Dutch are trying (and apparently succeeding) to hack public transportation systems facilities if you look at the current pricing of our own system.
I think the most important reason for hacking this system is not so much the want for free travel, it is more the proof that this card is not secure, that you can copy someone else's card and thereby make him pay for your trip.
And a further motivation for this crack is that we Dutch do not at all like the move of our public transport going to this chipcard system. It means that almost all stations will be blocked by gates that you can not pass without having a chipcard. Reasons for this would be the fight against people travelling for free. But the gates are so easy to circumvent that this reason is moot.
Mind you: it will also be impossible to leave a station without a chipcard. And when you travel by train from Belgium of Germany, you do not have, or even have the possibility to buy, a chipcard. So you can not exit the station.
Yet, all official indications are to go ahead with this system. This is all a protest against the mindless politicians that turn onto a road and stay on it, no matter what.
I don't care about open or closed source. I want it to work. If it doesn't work with only open source (or even works more akwardly), I'm not interested.
It's like religion. If it is not what I'm interested in, I'm not (drumroll...) interested.
Well, duh. TASPO cards are apparently only issued to people over 20 years old. So minors will not even go to such a machine, they will take a magazine and go to one of the face-recognition machines.
My first thoughts "Andy Tanenbaum". But apparently his name is Randall Stross. Must be an acronym then... hmm, no "l" in Tanenbaum.
Does Linux not prove that a monolithic kernel may not be so bad after all? I think it's the "Windows" part that makes it so bloated. I still wonder why I can install Linux (Ubunut 7.10 in this case) in less then 1,5 G (that is including X and everything in/bin) and why Windows has to be 2,5 GB.
Nothing wrong with monolithic. Something wrong with the decisions from Microsoft
Who, if they have not already, would install Vista now?"
Okay, lets see some hands here. Who would? Come on, don't be shy! Yes, you sir, in the back, you would...? Oh, like to go to the toilet.
Come on people, it's going cheap now!
To which there is a little dutch joke.
A Dutch guy talks to an English guy:
D: I fok horses!
E: Pardon?
D: Yes, paarden!
Explanation: the term "fok horses" is the above misconjunction of fokken -> to fuck, instead of breed, and pardon, when spoken, can be misconstrued as "paarden" which is dutch for "horses".
Looking at their entire sample studied with HARPS, the astronomers count a total of 45 candidate planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses and an orbital period shorter than 50 days.
Excuse me? Only planets with an orbital period LESS THAN 50 days are considered?
What are these astronomers, avid suntanners?
If not Google, then something is making us stupid.
Last indication of this: on 0,5 l bottles of soda, they write the information: one bottle = 2 glasses of 250 ml.
Now, for people using the Imperial system, this may seem useful information, but my first reaction as a metric person was: "well, Duh!".
Nevertheless, this is continental Europe. Everyone here is metric. Everyone should have some idea that 0,5 l = 500 ml = 2x 250ml, so this information should be known to anyone.
Still, they put it on their bottles.
Where I live, all images of children performing pornography are considered "child pornography". Also computergenerated images.
So yes: you can make very illegal things without harming children.
If merely randomly hitting a satellite will make it impact earth, than a targeted hit by another satellite will make it not impact earth. So if this report is true (which I very much doubt), it in itself provides the answer.
I agree on the part that it is nice that you can hear what the computer is up to. At work I have to use Windows and I have to use MS Access, and Access just makes the harddrive go wild when doing large queries. Then it is nice to know that the computer is actually doing something other than showing CPU activity is virtually 0. On the other hand: I just know these things will be much faster with a SSD drive. So maybe there will come some tool that will generate classic harddrive sounds from your speaker as your SSD HD searches its memory. Simple consecutive memoryreads will sound as the reassuring "trk-trk-trk", knowing that your HD is properly defragmented, full sweeps will give the worrying "rrrrrrk-rrrrrrk-rrrrrrrk-brrr-brrr" sounds when you just know that another hour will be lost because Windows does a horrible job of organizing its filesystem. All the while knowing that if you shut off the speakers, yet another sound is eliminated.
The Marines were always courteous and on the ball.
Even when they throw puppies in a ravine.
I can agree completely with your post except for your last two sentences. Sorry, but they are mere human soldiers and thus will not, ever, guard Heavens scenes. No matter how much they sing about themselves that they will.
My thoughts exactly. Nothing can shatter Trinitron under any weight as it weighs a ton. I once (some 15 years ago) had to deliver a 32" Sony TV. That was huge in those days, well in Europe anyway. The damn thing had a pallet strapped under its cardboard box, for easy shipping. Hell, normally you had a two persons on a deliveryroute because you had to lug washing machines to the third floor, now a simple TV installation was a two person route.
And yes, it is the best CRT technology ever. At work, I'm the only one left with a Trinitron where the rest of the company has TFT's. I was thinking of replacing my Trinitron at home, but in honour of it's weight I think I will hold out another 8 years.
I was really wondering wat vetenarians had to do with missions to Mars. Does NASA plan to send animals along with the ride? Maybe for fresh milk and eggs? Of is it just an experiment to send live-stock up there to see what the influence of zero-gravity has on such animals?
Then it dawned upon me. This is a US site. A vet is something entirely different there.
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Me too, but I also think that virtual things that cost real time to build are as real and theft of it is as punishable as theft of real items.
I mean, when I make a program and someone steals my sourcecode, that's also considered theft. So the "imaginary pixels" part does not have very much to do with it.
Same goes for a character on a MMO I put 100's of hours of my time in. When that is stolen, I'd be very pissed off, and when someone steals it for their benefit, I'd also consider prosecuting.
mud.veda.is 4000
LPMud Albion. In Iceland, yes. I guess it has keeled over now.
Why can't we mod up to 6? Parent deserves it.
Face it: Google's useragreement basically says "do as you're told and don't complain" to the user. Whereas a company's useragreemant says "do as you're told and don't complain" to the system administrator.
What a difference that makes. Sure, Google is free, so the price-performance ratio can not be beaten by any corporate solution, but if that is your only concern than you have no business complaining to Google. You use their product on their terms. Live with it.
Hmm. As it is 7:24 UTC now and seeing no newsreports at all, looks like a dud.
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
-Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi
But seriuosly. Upload it to the web. It will stay there forever.
Solar cell panels average around 0,012 Watt/cm^2. There is no mention of how big a solar cell she can make, but seeing that it's a pizzaoven and pizzas are generally not less than 20 cm in diameter, you can make a solar cell with a surface of about a hundered pies (sorry, had to make that joke).
A solar cell with that surface can generate 0,012 * 314 = 3,9 Watt (Wp). Where I live, 1 Wp gives you 0,85 kWh each jear, so this solar cell will give 3,3 kWh each year. (YMMV, I live at 51 degrees north)
So that's enough to let a 1000W pizza oven run for 3,3 hours, or about 66 hours over the cell's lifetime
How long does it take to burn a solar cell? A pizza takes 15 minutes.
I'm not surprised we Dutch are trying (and apparently succeeding) to hack public transportation systems facilities if you look at the current pricing of our own system.
I think the most important reason for hacking this system is not so much the want for free travel, it is more the proof that this card is not secure, that you can copy someone else's card and thereby make him pay for your trip.
And a further motivation for this crack is that we Dutch do not at all like the move of our public transport going to this chipcard system. It means that almost all stations will be blocked by gates that you can not pass without having a chipcard. Reasons for this would be the fight against people travelling for free. But the gates are so easy to circumvent that this reason is moot.
Mind you: it will also be impossible to leave a station without a chipcard. And when you travel by train from Belgium of Germany, you do not have, or even have the possibility to buy, a chipcard. So you can not exit the station.
Yet, all official indications are to go ahead with this system. This is all a protest against the mindless politicians that turn onto a road and stay on it, no matter what.
You write the audio to an audio CD so that the signal won't detriorate.
I don't care about open or closed source. I want it to work. If it doesn't work with only open source (or even works more akwardly), I'm not interested. It's like religion. If it is not what I'm interested in, I'm not (drumroll...) interested.
Well, duh. TASPO cards are apparently only issued to people over 20 years old. So minors will not even go to such a machine, they will take a magazine and go to one of the face-recognition machines.
Who would have figured that...
My first thoughts "Andy Tanenbaum". But apparently his name is Randall Stross. Must be an acronym then... hmm, no "l" in Tanenbaum.
/bin) and why Windows has to be 2,5 GB.
Does Linux not prove that a monolithic kernel may not be so bad after all? I think it's the "Windows" part that makes it so bloated. I still wonder why I can install Linux (Ubunut 7.10 in this case) in less then 1,5 G (that is including X and everything in
Nothing wrong with monolithic. Something wrong with the decisions from Microsoft
Come on people, it's going cheap now!
To which there is a little dutch joke.
A Dutch guy talks to an English guy:
D: I fok horses!
E: Pardon?
D: Yes, paarden!
Explanation: the term "fok horses" is the above misconjunction of fokken -> to fuck, instead of breed, and pardon, when spoken, can be misconstrued as "paarden" which is dutch for "horses".
Then don't call them earth-like planets. Call them Mercury-like planets, because they won't be anything like earth.
If not Google, then something is making us stupid.
Last indication of this: on 0,5 l bottles of soda, they write the information: one bottle = 2 glasses of 250 ml.
Now, for people using the Imperial system, this may seem useful information, but my first reaction as a metric person was: "well, Duh!".
Nevertheless, this is continental Europe. Everyone here is metric. Everyone should have some idea that 0,5 l = 500 ml = 2x 250ml, so this information should be known to anyone.
Still, they put it on their bottles.
Where I live, all images of children performing pornography are considered "child pornography". Also computergenerated images. So yes: you can make very illegal things without harming children.
If merely randomly hitting a satellite will make it impact earth, than a targeted hit by another satellite will make it not impact earth.
So if this report is true (which I very much doubt), it in itself provides the answer.
Well, I agree and I disagree.
I agree on the part that it is nice that you can hear what the computer is up to. At work I have to use Windows and I have to use MS Access, and Access just makes the harddrive go wild when doing large queries. Then it is nice to know that the computer is actually doing something other than showing CPU activity is virtually 0.
On the other hand: I just know these things will be much faster with a SSD drive. So maybe there will come some tool that will generate classic harddrive sounds from your speaker as your SSD HD searches its memory. Simple consecutive memoryreads will sound as the reassuring "trk-trk-trk", knowing that your HD is properly defragmented, full sweeps will give the worrying "rrrrrrk-rrrrrrk-rrrrrrrk-brrr-brrr" sounds when you just know that another hour will be lost because Windows does a horrible job of organizing its filesystem.
All the while knowing that if you shut off the speakers, yet another sound is eliminated.
Does this also mean that, given time, all the space debris around the earth will clutter in a ring?
Mind you: I do realize that we generate more debris than nature will (if at all) be able to move into a ring.
I don't but America apparently does. When in Rome...
But it is just that arrogance that I'm trying to address.
I can agree completely with your post except for your last two sentences. Sorry, but they are mere human soldiers and thus will not, ever, guard Heavens scenes. No matter how much they sing about themselves that they will.
My thoughts exactly. Nothing can shatter Trinitron under any weight as it weighs a ton.
I once (some 15 years ago) had to deliver a 32" Sony TV. That was huge in those days, well in Europe anyway.
The damn thing had a pallet strapped under its cardboard box, for easy shipping. Hell, normally you had a two persons on a deliveryroute because you had to lug washing machines to the third floor, now a simple TV installation was a two person route.
And yes, it is the best CRT technology ever. At work, I'm the only one left with a Trinitron where the rest of the company has TFT's. I was thinking of replacing my Trinitron at home, but in honour of it's weight I think I will hold out another 8 years.
Or if there maybe is a long year trend of rising energy consumption.
Frankly, without this the study is useless and the professor should be sacked if he doesn't spot that omission.
I was really wondering wat vetenarians had to do with missions to Mars. Does NASA plan to send animals along with the ride? Maybe for fresh milk and eggs? Of is it just an experiment to send live-stock up there to see what the influence of zero-gravity has on such animals?
Then it dawned upon me. This is a US site. A vet is something entirely different there.