Not weeks later... people were ripping the songs off the radio station (by either sampling the OTA broadcast or ripping it from the online broadcast) so the old model looked more like:
Hear a song on the radio; like it
Weeks before it's released, somebody rips it from the broadcast; posts the torrent to it
That's because there's more than one (main) company involved in getting you that tv show. You have the network which produces the shows and comes up with a schedule of broadcast they get their money from ads. The other company is the cable/dish/whatever tv provider. They pull the satellite feeds from the major networks and bundle it into one package (coax, or a small, singular satellite broadcast) for your convenience (you could buy a big dish and related hardware and do this yourself). Obviously, this is where your cable bill goes.
There may not be another station with the same show on, but that doesn't mean that that's not the only way to legally watch the show. Most shows, you can wait a day and watch it online through Hulu or the network's website (yes I know these have commercials too). Or, you can wait until the end of the season when the DVDs come out. Those two actually show the network that you don't want to watch their shows on the TV with the commercials. The second option especially shows that you don't want the commercial aspect of it. The third option is to record the show and skip over the commercials with the fast-forward/skip button or via an automated editing process. This option doesn't give any feedback to the network though because you were tuned into it when it aired.
All of these options require a bit of wait before you see the program of course, and apparently for most people, the cost of the loud commercials doesn't outweigh the benefit of seeing the show at the same time as everyone else.
According to the wiki, the senate majority leader can still require actual talking. If you ask me, they should do away with filibustering all together, or at least require that it be on topic. If you were at a local town hall style meeting and were trying to vote on something important, but a small group of people were adamantly against it, would you let them talk forever, or would there come a time where you would say that they've had their chance to sway opinion and it's time to vote? You don't want just a mob rule, yet, you also can't let a few people hold up things that need to get done.
He could be convicted of those sex crimes and as long as the appropriate laws were followed (=> reasonable certainty that he committed said crimes) I wouldn't care. But public figures running around saying he should be charged with treason? That's beyond stupid. Charge him with the espionage laws if any of them apply, but really, if you want to blame somebody, blame the informant. Of course, you can't make headlines with that.
I haven't figured out all the blame is trying to focus on Wikileaks/Assange. To the point where people are being polled on if Assange should be charged with treason. I'm almost certain you need to be a US citizen before you can be charged with treason against the US.... Further, Assange didn't sign any agreements with the US gov't that he wouldn't release their information, that was the original informant. The information isn't (or shouldn't be) copyrighted, so the only thing to prevent anyone from distributing it is signing what is essentially an NDA.
Oddly enough (unless the TV network is owned by TWC and shares the revenue of the cable portion) none of your cable bill goes to the TV networks. That's why they have ads. Your cable bill just pays TWC to bring the TV network content to you. Last I checked, you could still get a large satellite dish (multiple foot diameter, does anyone sell those anymore) and pull down the TV network content yourself.
You realize that you can download and install new soft keyboards from the market, right? (Assuming that your provider/manufacturer didn't decide that you couldn't have the market...) In fact, here's a list of soft keyboards on the market. (Granted most of these are for non-English languages, but there's a few out there that try to improve on the stock keyboard.)
Since when is a single gunshot lethal to everyone on the plane? I can think of only 4 real possibilities here and for the most part they don't pan out that way.
The hole somehow causes everyone to get sucked out of the plane where they fall to their deaths. Unless the gunshot somehow causes the skin of the aircraft (inside and outside) to rip apart like a punctured balloon, there's no way a person is going through a hole less than 1" in diameter unless they've been deboned first.
The cabin depressurizes and everyone suffocates at 30k feet. Pretty sure that's what those masks they tell you about "in case the cabin loses pressure" are for
The bullet kills the pilot, plane falls out of the sky. More reasonable, except the cockpit doors are bulletproof now. Isn't there normally a copilot too?
Bullet hits a vital control mechanism, plane crashes This one is the most feasible of all the options but doesn't seem incredibly likely. I'm not sure, do commercial airplanes have backup control systems in case of failure. It seems like a good idea to have in any event.
OT: Why does an ordered list get rendered so oddly on slashdot?
Just as a random thought:
Most places ramp speeds are posted on yellow signs (US, other areas may vary) which are cautionary rather than statutory. Presumably this means that the curves and sight distance on the ramp are such that a much slower speed is warranted; however, you can't be pulled over just for exceeding that speed, you'd have to be doing something else as well (though reckless driving is probably an easy one at this point)
The only part in that page that I see that really applies is this
The Dvorak layout was designed to address the problems of inefficiency and fatigue which characterized the QWERTY keyboard layout. The QWERTY layout was introduced in the 1860s, being used on the first commercially-successful typewriter, the machine invented by Christopher Sholes. The QWERTY layout was designed so that successive keystrokes would alternate between sides of the keyboard so as to avoid jams.
No malignant purpose of slowing down typists is mentioned, and in fact it mentions a goal of alternate-hand typing.
The problem appears to be just that QWERTY missed it's goal. My thought on this is just that the designer kind of just moved the letters around until it seemed to work, rather than conducting an applied analysis of the English language and human typing capabilities and then laying out the keyboard in fashion that caters to these characteristics.
The most common digraph in English is "th". In QWERTY both those letters are typed with the same finger, which absolutely requires repositioning each time it is typed.
At least on my keyboard 't' is positioned up and right from my left index finger while 'h' is left of my right index finger. It would be quite a stretch to get to 't' with my right hand or 'h' with my left.
"he", "in", "er", "re", "on", "ha", "es", and "st" are among the next most common digraphs in English. They are all typed with two fingers from the same hand, rather than one finger from each hand. Alternating hands makes typing demonstrably faster and reduces fatigue.
I think you must be typing 'h' with your left hand which strikes me as odd.
Other than how an 'h' is typed I'm in agreement with what you're saying here (you'll note I had already pointed out the non-optimum layout of 'e', 's' and 'd' with the 'ed' digraph being really awful to type and I imagine a fairly common thing to type (almost anything happening in the past will require use of -ed)). Unfortunately with defactoism and the investment I've already put into learning QWERTY, I can't really see myself putting in a serious effort to switch.
Oddly enough, Wikipedia makes no mention of slowing typists down by using QWERTY. The idea was to move common letter combinations away from each other so that the type arms/heads wouldn't collide when they were used simultaneously. (Not that it was entirely successful in this, you'll note the close proximity of 'e' to 's' and 'd' on a QWERTY keyboard). Arguably, this separation would INCREASE typing speed by making sure common letter combinations were activated by different fingers, allowing the letters to be typed much quicker than if you had to reposition your finger to type the next letter. Wikipedia does mention that we could have stuck with an ABCDEF layout because there were already mechanisms that made jams impossible or made mistakes from jams immediately apparent.
None of this implies that one layout is better than any other. However, adoption of layouts different than the current popularly accepted local variant is very difficult. People who are already used to the current layout must retrain their fingers to use the new layout. Anytime they use anybody else's computer, they must either change the settings so that they can use their preferred layout, or still be able to type in the current layout. Especially annoying on login screens where it is hard or impossible to change the layout and you can't see what you're typing, especially so if you've committed your password to muscle-memory and barely remember the actual character sequence.
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That's why you find a reference that lists beer by ABV; like this one: http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php
Also, you got the difference backwards: ABW ~= 4/5 ABV so your 4% ABW is about 5% ABV
Apparently you can accidentally mod while trying to move to the next post. Sorry about that.
Right, he still wouldn't be able to play... The EULA is a condition of playing in the first place
That's because there's more than one (main) company involved in getting you that tv show. You have the network which produces the shows and comes up with a schedule of broadcast they get their money from ads. The other company is the cable/dish/whatever tv provider. They pull the satellite feeds from the major networks and bundle it into one package (coax, or a small, singular satellite broadcast) for your convenience (you could buy a big dish and related hardware and do this yourself). Obviously, this is where your cable bill goes.
I, incredibly rich dude, being of sound mind.... give my entire fortune to X charity retroactive to 5 minutes before I am pronounced dead.
There may not be another station with the same show on, but that doesn't mean that that's not the only way to legally watch the show. Most shows, you can wait a day and watch it online through Hulu or the network's website (yes I know these have commercials too). Or, you can wait until the end of the season when the DVDs come out. Those two actually show the network that you don't want to watch their shows on the TV with the commercials. The second option especially shows that you don't want the commercial aspect of it. The third option is to record the show and skip over the commercials with the fast-forward/skip button or via an automated editing process. This option doesn't give any feedback to the network though because you were tuned into it when it aired.
All of these options require a bit of wait before you see the program of course, and apparently for most people, the cost of the loud commercials doesn't outweigh the benefit of seeing the show at the same time as everyone else.
According to the wiki, the senate majority leader can still require actual talking. If you ask me, they should do away with filibustering all together, or at least require that it be on topic. If you were at a local town hall style meeting and were trying to vote on something important, but a small group of people were adamantly against it, would you let them talk forever, or would there come a time where you would say that they've had their chance to sway opinion and it's time to vote? You don't want just a mob rule, yet, you also can't let a few people hold up things that need to get done.
He could be convicted of those sex crimes and as long as the appropriate laws were followed (=> reasonable certainty that he committed said crimes) I wouldn't care. But public figures running around saying he should be charged with treason? That's beyond stupid. Charge him with the espionage laws if any of them apply, but really, if you want to blame somebody, blame the informant. Of course, you can't make headlines with that.
I haven't figured out all the blame is trying to focus on Wikileaks/Assange. To the point where people are being polled on if Assange should be charged with treason. I'm almost certain you need to be a US citizen before you can be charged with treason against the US.... Further, Assange didn't sign any agreements with the US gov't that he wouldn't release their information, that was the original informant. The information isn't (or shouldn't be) copyrighted, so the only thing to prevent anyone from distributing it is signing what is essentially an NDA.
Oddly enough (unless the TV network is owned by TWC and shares the revenue of the cable portion) none of your cable bill goes to the TV networks. That's why they have ads. Your cable bill just pays TWC to bring the TV network content to you. Last I checked, you could still get a large satellite dish (multiple foot diameter, does anyone sell those anymore) and pull down the TV network content yourself.
You could have summed that up just by linking to this: XKCD: 538
You realize that you can download and install new soft keyboards from the market, right? (Assuming that your provider/manufacturer didn't decide that you couldn't have the market...) In fact, here's a list of soft keyboards on the market. (Granted most of these are for non-English languages, but there's a few out there that try to improve on the stock keyboard.)
Since when is a single gunshot lethal to everyone on the plane? I can think of only 4 real possibilities here and for the most part they don't pan out that way.
Unless the gunshot somehow causes the skin of the aircraft (inside and outside) to rip apart like a punctured balloon, there's no way a person is going through a hole less than 1" in diameter unless they've been deboned first.
Pretty sure that's what those masks they tell you about "in case the cabin loses pressure" are for
More reasonable, except the cockpit doors are bulletproof now. Isn't there normally a copilot too?
This one is the most feasible of all the options but doesn't seem incredibly likely. I'm not sure, do commercial airplanes have backup control systems in case of failure. It seems like a good idea to have in any event.
OT: Why does an ordered list get rendered so oddly on slashdot?
Sure it can. Effectiveness and invasiveness are orthogonal in this case.
Invasiveness: does this machine invade your privacy? Yes.
Effectiveness: does this machine prevent planes from being blown up/hijacked? Probably not.
Just as a random thought: Most places ramp speeds are posted on yellow signs (US, other areas may vary) which are cautionary rather than statutory. Presumably this means that the curves and sight distance on the ramp are such that a much slower speed is warranted; however, you can't be pulled over just for exceeding that speed, you'd have to be doing something else as well (though reckless driving is probably an easy one at this point)
Jupiter isn't going to be much help against the big rock that's aimed towards us from solar north...
Actually that version has the countermeasures too it appears: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/o/openssh/openssh_5.1p1-5ubuntu1/changelog
The only part in that page that I see that really applies is this
The Dvorak layout was designed to address the problems of inefficiency and fatigue which characterized the QWERTY keyboard layout. The QWERTY layout was introduced in the 1860s, being used on the first commercially-successful typewriter, the machine invented by Christopher Sholes. The QWERTY layout was designed so that successive keystrokes would alternate between sides of the keyboard so as to avoid jams.
No malignant purpose of slowing down typists is mentioned, and in fact it mentions a goal of alternate-hand typing.
The problem appears to be just that QWERTY missed it's goal. My thought on this is just that the designer kind of just moved the letters around until it seemed to work, rather than conducting an applied analysis of the English language and human typing capabilities and then laying out the keyboard in fashion that caters to these characteristics.
The most common digraph in English is "th". In QWERTY both those letters are typed with the same finger, which absolutely requires repositioning each time it is typed.
At least on my keyboard 't' is positioned up and right from my left index finger while 'h' is left of my right index finger. It would be quite a stretch to get to 't' with my right hand or 'h' with my left.
"he", "in", "er", "re", "on", "ha", "es", and "st" are among the next most common digraphs in English. They are all typed with two fingers from the same hand, rather than one finger from each hand. Alternating hands makes typing demonstrably faster and reduces fatigue.
I think you must be typing 'h' with your left hand which strikes me as odd.
Other than how an 'h' is typed I'm in agreement with what you're saying here (you'll note I had already pointed out the non-optimum layout of 'e', 's' and 'd' with the 'ed' digraph being really awful to type and I imagine a fairly common thing to type (almost anything happening in the past will require use of -ed)). Unfortunately with defactoism and the investment I've already put into learning QWERTY, I can't really see myself putting in a serious effort to switch.
Oddly enough, Wikipedia makes no mention of slowing typists down by using QWERTY. The idea was to move common letter combinations away from each other so that the type arms/heads wouldn't collide when they were used simultaneously. (Not that it was entirely successful in this, you'll note the close proximity of 'e' to 's' and 'd' on a QWERTY keyboard). Arguably, this separation would INCREASE typing speed by making sure common letter combinations were activated by different fingers, allowing the letters to be typed much quicker than if you had to reposition your finger to type the next letter. Wikipedia does mention that we could have stuck with an ABCDEF layout because there were already mechanisms that made jams impossible or made mistakes from jams immediately apparent.
None of this implies that one layout is better than any other. However, adoption of layouts different than the current popularly accepted local variant is very difficult. People who are already used to the current layout must retrain their fingers to use the new layout. Anytime they use anybody else's computer, they must either change the settings so that they can use their preferred layout, or still be able to type in the current layout. Especially annoying on login screens where it is hard or impossible to change the layout and you can't see what you're typing, especially so if you've committed your password to muscle-memory and barely remember the actual character sequence.
Only if the governments and large corporations don't feel like talking to the small businesses and residences...