If New Zealand doesn't end up with higher speeds and lower costs, I'll eat a sheep's eye.
Eat one anyway.
They're good, surprisingly crunchy if cooked properly (quickly grilled by itself, or roasted in the sheep's head). Don't just leave it boiling in a soup - it will dissolve into mush.
Doesn't Betelgeuse rhyme with edelweise (instead of being pronounced beetle-juice)?
It's pronounced "Smith". It's just spelled "Betelgeuse".
And while we're on the subject, Chalmondesleigh is pronounced "Chumley", and Featherstonehaugh is pronounced "Fanshaw".
If you ban CIFS and NFS, what's left? Sneakernet has great bandwidth, but the latency sucks and it's a bitch to search.
SSHFS:)
Not if there is any possibility that two users will write to the same directory (or file) at the same time. The underlying sftp will probably make a little mess if that happens...
WARNING: you appear to be an utter imbecile.
We're not smart enough to cope with your level of stupidity.
Please disconnect from all Google services immediately.
I could swear the hubble has been up for 20 years.
Indeed. But Hubble's optics and instruments are optimized for operating in the near-ultraviolet and visible ranges. The more recent Spitzer telescope operates in infra-red (3 micron to 180 micron), so it is a more salient comparison. Spitzer's operational life is limited by its coolant supply of 360 liters of liquid helium http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/technology/cryostat.shtml, unlike Hubble, which does not need cryogenics.
...ever since Galileo observed that there were sunspots, scientists have observed the sun to be on a fairly regular 11 year cycle of maxima and minima...
Where did that "fairly regular" assertion come from?
The cycle is on average just under 11 years in duration, but is somewhat irregular. Individual cycles have varied between 9 and 14 years in duration in the couple of dozen cycles for which adequate observations are available. See http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sunspot-observations.png or http://odin.physastro.mnsu.edu/~eskridge/astr102/bfly.gif for example. The variations in sunspot cycle duration do not appear to be related in any simple way to the variations in amplitude.
RIAA: Ignorance is no excuse from the law. Respect ma authoria'!
Defense: How can anyone reasonably know what is and isn't copyrighted or what the terms are if it's not included with the work?
Defense: Moreover, copyright merely grants the copyright holder the right to control copying. It does not by any means guarantee that such a right is unconditionally asserted, or imply that copying copyrighted content is ipso facto a breach of copyright. In fact, there is a great deal of copyrighted material - including modern music - for which the copyright holder actually encourages copying [Defense counsel might point to the more than 10GB of copyrighted music freely downloadable from SXSW showcases 2003-2010].
Rejection of the "innocent defense" must be contingent on both the copyright status being clear in the work and the denial of the right to copy being clear in the work. These conditions are largely present in movies, but not in music.
People will be less likely to come across Murdoch tripe on the web. This is a Good Thing, as it should reduce the number of victims of his misinformation.
TFA and TFS both refer to "Titanium oxide" which typically means either TiO or Ti2O3 (Ti in either II or III states). However, both TFS and TFA also assert that the "Titanium oxide" is used in sunscreen and suchlike, which implies it is Titanium dioxide, TiO2 (Ti in IV state), not Titanium oxide.
Most likely, TFA should have referred to Titanium dioxide, as this is also a semiconductor in crystalline state.
How much does it cost compared to say, an average office drone's monthly paycheck?
It costs 55euro/month around here. A similar service is a bit cheaper in Helsinki, of course.
No idea what you mean by "office drone", or how much one would make (before or after taxes).
Try using the page for advanced search instead https://www.google.com/advanced_search. That does not get redirected for me (www.google.com gets redirected to www.google.fi automatically, which I do not want).
OK, here goes. I'm in a rural part of an even more sparsely populated country (Finland). We've had fiber to the house with 100Mbit down and 10Mbit up for a couple of years. There are no caps, throttling, or other usage limits or surcharges on the service. Even so, we have not yet reached 1TiB usage in any single month (we've exceeded 500GiB once or twice, though).
For instance, we have a very small population that actually cares about MTV or VH1, but we can't offer Nick which is very popular without the first two. ESPN is one of the worst. Roughly $4 of your monthly cable bill goes straight to that one channel. But, to carry ESPN the cable company and eventually the customer are required to buy the other ESPN channels like ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, etc. at $0.50-$1.00 each
You've just listed the reasons we don't buy ANY of the premium packages, and get only the basic channel set (the IP TV channels bundled with our internet service). Each of the premium packages has one or maybe two channels that might interest one or more family members. But each comes with a plethora of mediocre to repulsive channels, many of which which are almost as attractive as bubonic plague (Big Brother, EPSN, EuroSport and their ilk) but bolster the price asked for the package. But then, we're more internet freaks than couch potatoes. Others must have those preferences reversed, quite clearly.
Is or was under copyright. But this is often irrelevant. I have several GiB of copyrighted music downloaded for free with the permission of the artists. No restrictions were placed on use of these tracks, so they would probably be free to share also. FWIW, it is several years of the artists' sample/promotional tracks from http://www.sxsw.com/, and if you search you can probably find torrents with all of them.
An interesting question is whether - should one of these bands be signed by a major - they could retroactively claim restrictions on use. For example, in 2015 it might be difficult to effectively dispute DMCA-style notices or three-strikes warnings on those tracks which were made available by the artists for free download between 2003 and 2010.
Potty-mouth! Let's have less of your disgusting profanities here, please.
[Apologies to non-EU readers, and those unaware that naughtier words exist than fuck and cunt]
Clarification: the Google estimate is for oil barrels. There are several definitions of barrel in use, all with the same abbreviation (bbl). See http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictB.html
US official = 119.24 L; US oil = 158.99 L; Imperial = 163.66 L; UK beer = 166.36 L; UK wine = 119.24 L (same as US standard)
Then there are various "dry" barrel sizes, and special sizes for fish, pork, cement, etc.
If you understand programming, picking up any given language is straightforward.
Indeed. But it probably helps if you start by learning a fairly well-structured language. Preferably a couple of quite different languages. My first two were Fortran-66 and APL/360, which are almost as different as you can get (and which also reveal my age). The next few languages were PL/I, Focal, C, Basic, and LaTeX, and these have been followed by numerous others.
Adding Pascal/Delphi to the list is a good idea, but dropping C and PHP while retaining VB and VB.net is beyond any sane comprehension.
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If New Zealand doesn't end up with higher speeds and lower costs, I'll eat a sheep's eye.
Eat one anyway.
They're good, surprisingly crunchy if cooked properly (quickly grilled by itself, or roasted in the sheep's head). Don't just leave it boiling in a soup - it will dissolve into mush.
I am not sure which language I would prefer more, brainfuck, or APL.
APL, no contest. When it's done right, it's a non-stop brainfuck.
The city could have a hole lot of problems.
...unless they take a holistic approach to them!
John Brown, whose actions and subsequent hanging for treason were among the steps leading to the American Civil War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
Doesn't Betelgeuse rhyme with edelweise (instead of being pronounced beetle-juice)?
It's pronounced "Smith". It's just spelled "Betelgeuse".
And while we're on the subject, Chalmondesleigh is pronounced "Chumley", and Featherstonehaugh is pronounced "Fanshaw".
If you ban CIFS and NFS, what's left? Sneakernet has great bandwidth, but the latency sucks and it's a bitch to search.
SSHFS :)
Not if there is any possibility that two users will write to the same directory (or file) at the same time. The underlying sftp will probably make a little mess if that happens...
If half of the face is a wolf and the other half a sheep, are you holding a third half in reserve to look like Steve Jobs?
No need. He's fully two-faced.
WARNING: you appear to be an utter imbecile.
We're not smart enough to cope with your level of stupidity.
Please disconnect from all Google services immediately.
I could swear the hubble has been up for 20 years.
Indeed. But Hubble's optics and instruments are optimized for operating in the near-ultraviolet and visible ranges. The more recent Spitzer telescope operates in infra-red (3 micron to 180 micron), so it is a more salient comparison. Spitzer's operational life is limited by its coolant supply of 360 liters of liquid helium http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/technology/cryostat.shtml, unlike Hubble, which does not need cryogenics.
...ever since Galileo observed that there were sunspots, scientists have observed the sun to be on a fairly regular 11 year cycle of maxima and minima...
Where did that "fairly regular" assertion come from?
The cycle is on average just under 11 years in duration, but is somewhat irregular. Individual cycles have varied between 9 and 14 years in duration in the couple of dozen cycles for which adequate observations are available. See http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sunspot-observations.png or http://odin.physastro.mnsu.edu/~eskridge/astr102/bfly.gif for example. The variations in sunspot cycle duration do not appear to be related in any simple way to the variations in amplitude.
RIAA: Ignorance is no excuse from the law. Respect ma authoria'!
Defense: How can anyone reasonably know what is and isn't copyrighted or what the terms are if it's not included with the work?
Defense: Moreover, copyright merely grants the copyright holder the right to control copying. It does not by any means guarantee that such a right is unconditionally asserted, or imply that copying copyrighted content is ipso facto a breach of copyright. In fact, there is a great deal of copyrighted material - including modern music - for which the copyright holder actually encourages copying [Defense counsel might point to the more than 10GB of copyrighted music freely downloadable from SXSW showcases 2003-2010].
Rejection of the "innocent defense" must be contingent on both the copyright status being clear in the work and the denial of the right to copy being clear in the work. These conditions are largely present in movies, but not in music.
People will be less likely to come across Murdoch tripe on the web. This is a Good Thing, as it should reduce the number of victims of his misinformation.
TFA and TFS both refer to "Titanium oxide" which typically means either TiO or Ti2O3 (Ti in either II or III states). However, both TFS and TFA also assert that the "Titanium oxide" is used in sunscreen and suchlike, which implies it is Titanium dioxide, TiO2 (Ti in IV state), not Titanium oxide.
Most likely, TFA should have referred to Titanium dioxide, as this is also a semiconductor in crystalline state.
...directly above the exact center of the Earth.
How much does it cost compared to say, an average office drone's monthly paycheck?
It costs 55euro/month around here. A similar service is a bit cheaper in Helsinki, of course.
No idea what you mean by "office drone", or how much one would make (before or after taxes).
You don't have to wait, I'm posting this from Chrome 6.0.408.1
You're falling behind... I'm using 6.0.414.0 obtained using Ubuntu's package manager.
For me, the URL when searching goes to https://www.google.com/ after that edit, however google then redirect me to http://www.google.co.uk/ :(
Try using the page for advanced search instead https://www.google.com/advanced_search. That does not get redirected for me (www.google.com gets redirected to www.google.fi automatically, which I do not want).
Twist the knife a bit more, will ya? :P
OK, here goes. I'm in a rural part of an even more sparsely populated country (Finland). We've had fiber to the house with 100Mbit down and 10Mbit up for a couple of years. There are no caps, throttling, or other usage limits or surcharges on the service. Even so, we have not yet reached 1TiB usage in any single month (we've exceeded 500GiB once or twice, though).
For instance, we have a very small population that actually cares about MTV or VH1, but we can't offer Nick which is very popular without the first two. ESPN is one of the worst. Roughly $4 of your monthly cable bill goes straight to that one channel. But, to carry ESPN the cable company and eventually the customer are required to buy the other ESPN channels like ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, etc. at $0.50-$1.00 each
You've just listed the reasons we don't buy ANY of the premium packages, and get only the basic channel set (the IP TV channels bundled with our internet service). Each of the premium packages has one or maybe two channels that might interest one or more family members. But each comes with a plethora of mediocre to repulsive channels, many of which which are almost as attractive as bubonic plague (Big Brother, EPSN, EuroSport and their ilk) but bolster the price asked for the package. But then, we're more internet freaks than couch potatoes. Others must have those preferences reversed, quite clearly.
Well all music is copyrighted
Is or was under copyright. But this is often irrelevant. I have several GiB of copyrighted music downloaded for free with the permission of the artists. No restrictions were placed on use of these tracks, so they would probably be free to share also. FWIW, it is several years of the artists' sample/promotional tracks from http://www.sxsw.com/, and if you search you can probably find torrents with all of them.
An interesting question is whether - should one of these bands be signed by a major - they could retroactively claim restrictions on use. For example, in 2015 it might be difficult to effectively dispute DMCA-style notices or three-strikes warnings on those tracks which were made available by the artists for free download between 2003 and 2010.
Belgium
Potty-mouth! Let's have less of your disgusting profanities here, please.
[Apologies to non-EU readers, and those unaware that naughtier words exist than fuck and cunt]
1 cubic mile is about 26 billion barrels.
Clarification: the Google estimate is for oil barrels. There are several definitions of barrel in use, all with the same abbreviation (bbl). See http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictB.html
US official = 119.24 L; US oil = 158.99 L; Imperial = 163.66 L; UK beer = 166.36 L; UK wine = 119.24 L (same as US standard)
Then there are various "dry" barrel sizes, and special sizes for fish, pork, cement, etc.
Thou art a fishmonger...
Add radar absorbing and scattering material, and suddenly the X37 looks a piece of debris...
Debris in space? Alert the "Half Section" and deploy the "Toy Box"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
If you understand programming, picking up any given language is straightforward.
Indeed. But it probably helps if you start by learning a fairly well-structured language. Preferably a couple of quite different languages. My first two were Fortran-66 and APL/360, which are almost as different as you can get (and which also reveal my age). The next few languages were PL/I, Focal, C, Basic, and LaTeX, and these have been followed by numerous others.
Adding Pascal/Delphi to the list is a good idea, but dropping C and PHP while retaining VB and VB.net is beyond any sane comprehension.