Then you have owen wilson sitting on some sort of broken stone structure. The main pursuer with the nice sniper rifle misses his target that has been sitting still for at least 5 minutes. In the real world if he was sitting in the open for so long that sniper would not have missed, end of the movie.
What an incredible double-standard there is here at Slashdot whenever the subject of Microsoft comes up.
If Redhat were to donate $1 billion in free software to all the poorest schools in America, they'd be hailed as saviors of the poor, and nominated for sainthood. But when Microsoft does it, it's just another evil conspiracy.
Double standards are not always a bad thing...
Would you rather Dr. Smith (the friendly and talented neurosurgeon), or Dr. Lecter (the friendly and talented cannibal) perform your brain surgery for free? Even a so called act of 'philanthropy' can be underhanded (look at Gates' recent donations, and how they nicely cancel out most of his taxes owed (link forgotten, do a google search)).
It IS ok to hate one thing and like another based on their historical performances...
You missed the point of my post. "sucks" is slang - not always translated properly. "I do not like" is proper English, and more easily translated and understood.
Please note the following before flaming and modding:
...the Panel has found that non-English speaking Internet users would be likely to attach no significance to the appended word 'sucks' and would therefore regard the disputed domain name as conveying an association with the Complainant.
This makes sense. That's really all there is to it. Non English speaking people truly could be confused by this. (Maybe it's a new movie called 'sucks' being released by VivendiUniversal ?)
Translating languages is difficult enough, but translanting slang and vernacular is almost impossible. Just try listening to some 12 year old girls describe Britteny Spears (sp?). Or try to remember (if you're old enough) 80's style valley girl speak... it's incomprehensible to fluent English speakers, I don't even want to imagine how non English speakers interpret this. For example, if I bought 'totallygrodyvivendiuniversal.com', how many English speakers would know what the hell it meant, and from the name whether it was a legitimate VU website or not? I doubt any non-English speakers would.
And furthermore, if you are concerned about free speech violations, register "IDoNotLikeVivendiUniversal.com". If that gets taken away, we have a problem.
This comes from an extensive history of long distance computer shipments... Boston to LA, LA to Jacksonville, Jax to Seattle, Seattle to NYC, etc.
1. Use the MFG's original boxes if you saved them. If not,:
2. Do not use loose fill (otherwise known as peanuts) to pack your equipment, neither FedEx not UPS will pay on claims where this was used (been burned twice).
3. Double Box! This is a necessity. It may seem stupid, but if you double box almost any claim will go through without question. (You can use loose fill in between the boxes).
4. Take photos BEFORE and take photos AFTER (preferably upon delivery, with the driver or truck in the picture, snap with him walking away if you need to).
5. If the box is damaged, have the driver (deliverer) note this. Make sure he/she does.
6. If you ordered something from a store and the box is damaged, just refuse it.
7. Pray.
Now remember, FedEx is NOT a box shipper. They like to deliver letters (big money, small hassle), and thus I have had MUCH better luck with UPS. But here it's trying to choose the lesser of two evils.
Hope this helps someone. I've lost way too many computers in shipping.
On a side note, in college I shipped a 'cinder block' from Boston to Pittsburgh. UPS broke it. No joke.
It's whether you WANT to charge them a penny/page. Honestly, you think it's wise to charge someone's credit card 1 penny at a time? What about transaction fees with the cardholders' company? And think of the billing statement mess. "Honey, why are there 213 charges for a penny to something called 'OSDN'? Didn someone steal your card over the internet?" *Calls credit card company, who removes the 213 charges, slaps OSDN with the fraud fee for chargebacks*
A magical concept called "minimal billing" solves this problem. It's easy to wait until a site has captured, say, 100 clicks from a user, and then charge a dollar (or 1,000 clicks, and charge $10).
As far as the little sites that might get 1 click from 1 person once a month - well they make nothing (until after 100 months).
No company should ever NOT ADD the amounts they are charging someone into a lump sum. It's silly to think they wouldn't.
I've been looking around for a friendly world order, and I've found a couple of reasonable approximations. However, there really aren't any "peace, love, and sex communes" out there that really meet the needs of a person looking to live in a blissful, peaceful world. In particular, most areas of the world are, more or less, filthy criminal cesspools. As such, they are loaded with scads of seedy prostitutes, beefy murderers, and so forth. This is great, I suppose, if you are running Windows or MacOS (sorry, had to). If you're a philosophical megalomaniac human, and spend most of your time wondering how you can come to rule the world, (er, create world peace), most of that criminal activity is more of a liability than an asset. In other words, I'm talking about religious zealots, current governments and other hackers more than I'm talking about the 'average person'.
In short, hexx is looking to find a way to DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, and if the platform doesn't exist to be able to do this, he's looking for help in creating one. Interested?
Demo kiosk units for modern game consoles usually have these problems, especially prerelease systems that use early hardware revisions.
This is not a demo unit. This is believed to be actual release hardware.
Now, everyone knows that if the unit is in a poorly ventilated area and using serious CPU/GPU/SPU software, it will generate heat and crash. BUT, the article says these are crashing on boot, or when trying to access menus, etc. This should not cause serious overheating!
Also, given Micro$oft's (Get it? I used a '$' instead of an 's'. I am witty.) well known totalitarian deployment arm, I would be surprised to learn that these machines were in anything other than officially authorized kiosks (with air conditioning or something!).
So, is this really not a Microsoft problem? Me thinks not.
Those big mid-page ads on CNET are why I don't go there anymore.
You better have a good explanation for why you think that slashdot folks are willing to tolerate them.
You don't have to tolerate them! Taco just said you can buy a subscription and disable them!
And as unpopular as it is to pay for the things, people work on slashdot so we can all have fun reading it. And they have to make money too (god knows their stock ain't worth shit anymore).
Well we'd have to duplicate at least a fairly large portion of the infrastructure of the internet to facilitate the communication between such devices for it not to affect performance. Hey great, more cable. I doubt the government is going to do that.
What about forcing Cicso and all other router makers to route all packets (when reading) to their real location, and send a copy to blah.fbi.gov or something (obviously multiple FBI machines, not 1:). How long can it take to copy a packet? When a packet is read, it is destroyed and rebuilt anyway...
it's pretty clear that everyone is going to scream about how horrible this is for privacy. Granted, it will be frightening in its approximation of of Orwell's Big Brother but don't overlook that this will slow internet traffic down considerably. Imagine peeking in on every packet sent!
I don't think this is an accurate prediction of how the system would work. Wouldn't it be better to duplicate every packet sent, and save all packets on a monstrous server somewhere? After a time you can delete all but the "suspect" packets, thus you have an almost invisible spying method.
Also, individual packets are as useful as a few words heard in a conversation. It is easier to watch all conversations between A and B than to listen for a bad word spoken between everyone on the planet. And the data does not need to be sorted realtime, so you can let everyone talk and if you find a specific conversation that needs to be watched you can just save their packets.
Thus it may not slow down the net as you suggest. Of course, it is still an invasion of privacy, and I don't want to foot the bill.
it is believed that the shepherd moons [nasa.gov] provide enough disturbance to keep the ring material in a ring (actually they keep the material from spreading out uniformly; it is the Roche limit [nasa.gov] that keeps them from clumping).
Do you know what stops the shepherd moons from breaking up? (they are within the Roche limit)
When Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, we responded not by becoming independent from fossil fuels but by establishing a permanent military presence in Islamic holy lands. Even then we were warned by ibn Laden of the consequences of our actions. Even now he is saying that America will not be safe until we leave their holy lands. He has factually and impassionately stated both the problem and the only acceptable solution. He hasn't even the slightest fantasy of taking over America. He just wants us to leave them alone.
Please begin thinking for yourself. I am tired of sophmoric pseudo-intellects regurgitating silly rhetoric heard by callers on NPR.
Why does Bin Laden have the right to tell America to leave the Islamic holy lands? Does he own all of it? Is he the elected representative of ALL the people? Does he even have the best interest of all the people in mind?
We have been asked to stay in the Holy Land by the governments of those areas. Granted, not all of these governments are democratically elected, but Bin Laden is not even "unfairly elected". He is nothing. He has no more right to tell the Saudis that they must ask the US to leave their land than he has to tell you to wipe your ass with a cactus.
We are protecting Kuwait. Iraq invaded them once, and would do it again if possible. We are assisting the Saudis (they're next after Kuwait, look at a map). Iraq still has a war machine hell bent on owning the entire peninsula.
Bin Laden does not care about the people of the Islamic world any more than Hitler cared about the Gypsies and Jews. If he did, he would have worked to stop the war in Afghanistan - he has been living there for the past 8 years!
Bin Laden is a murderer. He defiles a beautiful religion. He wants to own the Arab world, and remake it in his image. He will murder whoever he can in order to accomplish this. He must be stopped. Our world does not need another (and another, and another) holocaust. There are already too many.
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The USA killed ~7000 innocent Somalian civilians in -98 to kill one single warlord. Nice. I would email you but you don't post your address. What actions are you referring to in your signature above?
When the drived first came out, I purchased a 15G GXP and it did fail a few months later (my first drive failure ever). IBM quickly responded and shipped me a new drive which has had no problems since (more than 1 year).
I use 5 75G drives (purchased in July) in a RAID5 array, and they are all running beautifully.
I use 2 60G drives in a RAID1 array (purchased in August), and both of those are fine as well.
My Windows Box (shutup!) box uses a 45G GXP (purchased in January) and it's running beautifully.
My Linux Box (ok, cheer now) uses a 45G GXP (purchased in March) also, and has no problems ('cept it gets hot, and the 1.33G Athlon fries my bacon).
So in short, when the drives first came out, it appears there were problems (and in fact PCWorld mentioned a plant in Hungary that produced faulty parts). In recent months, however, there do not appear (in my limited experience) to be of poor quality.
In fact, I would say they are exceptionally fast and quiet. I recommend them to friends (I recommend Quantum to my enemies!). And I don't have anything to do with BigBlue.
But more importantly, DRIVES FAIL! If you don't have a backup then you're none too bright. If you do have a backup, don't worry about it. IBM has a 3 year warranty on these suckers!
Either this is a lie, or faulty design played a part in the collapse. You don't have to be an engineer to figure out that the lower the fire, the more likely the collapse due to the increasing weight on the affected area.
The use of asbestos was banned (or cut back severely) after they had already insulated floors -10 through 70. That's why it is more dangerous on 70+.
That's just the problem. It's not hiding the trail.
Yes, this is correct - it will certainly be easier to bust the chain of drug buyers when a supplier is busted. Of course, inventive people will find ways around this.
Perhaps people will set up "proxy banks" - where I go in with my cash card and buy $500 in "matchbox cars", then give those "matchbox cars" to my dealer, he gives me drugs, and then goes back to the "proxy bank" and sells the "matchbox cars" (for maybe $450 or something).
Difficult to prove in this case that anyone was guilty - it was a free market transaction. I bought something, gave (or "traded") it to my friend (or "dealer"), and he promply sold (or "redeemed") it.
When the lower class sorts (you know, Joe Sixpack and friends) amuse themselves, cash often plays a part. You can't stick a dollar bill in a stripper's thong with a debit card, you can't buy marijuana with a credit card, pool games take quarters, and most bars only take cash.
This is faulty (and plain dumb) reasoning.
1. You can't stick a debit card in a strippers thong, but you can stick something like a Disney Dollar... strip bars can sell "Stripper Dollars" - good only at their establishment - for money.
2. You can't buy Marijuana with a credit card? Why not? Maybe it'll be sold as "spicy oregano". Maybe it'll be sold as a "relaxation service" to hide the trail. Cash-less society does not mean one person can't pay another person. People will just learn to hide what was really bought/sold.
3. Pool games taking quarters and bars taking cash is just silly - I've seen pool tables and vending machines that take credit cards, and bars that take cash only are a relic of days gone by - it's easy (albeit sometimes expensive) for a legitimate business to accept credit cards.
And of course, the "lower class" abstraction is just silly. I'm not lowerclass, and I go to strip clubs!!!
These measures only hurt legitimate customers. It takes only one h@x0r to bypass the protection on that CD in order to freely share the song as MP3.
I think we need to ask ourselves if the record companies truly don't realize this. My guess is that they understand that copy protecting the CD in this manner won't stop the MP3 from being made Anyone can make an ok mp3 with their normal stereo and a microphone wired to their computer. So what we really need to ask is why the record companies are releasing CD's in this manner.
I believe it is to stop legitimate music owners from making MixCD's and from copying the CD directly. It's obvious that finding and downloading MP3 adds extra steps to the piracy (or backup) process - making redistributing a CD on a real medium (such as CDR) that much more difficult. In fact, if I bought a whole "protected" CD, I would never burn copies for my friends - because it would take fair amount or time and dedication to download *each* track from the CD in *good
So the record companies have likely succeeded in their task of making music piracy (or backups) slightly more complicated for the legitimate CD owner.
Of course, those people who don't buy the CD in the first place, i.e. the habitual music pirate, will not have a more difficult task than they already have with unprotected music, because the music will make it to MP3 format, and fault tolerant CDROM's already exist...
It seems to me that if their customers had oogles of free time -and- the requisite skills the company might lose money when everyone decides to just buil their own after downloading the source code from the website.
Isn't the real concern that a competitor with more money will just take all their work and repackage it themselves?
I may be examining this situation incorrectly, but a large company like IBM or Microsoft or whoever can easily take some small company's work and resell it cheaper, use a bigger advertising budget, etc.
This is an obvious impetus for a company to violate the GPL - not because they want to stop individuals with the know-how from recreating their product, but to stop the larger corporation from doing so.
Multiple fans mean multiple inspections & failures. An array of 100 3-meter fans would probably cause more problems than one well-maintained 30 meter fan, and cost more than a nuclear pile in the basement:-).
This is not necessarily a problem. Look at lightbulbs. Many small bulbs is better than one large one - until a certain number fail there is no need to replace any.
Furthermore, some fans (like better the cooling fans in my cases) spin for years on end without failure - and are cheap!
w/r/t the spillage problem, you could do this more simply with one large multivaned turbine.
Yes, but this increases the mass of the fan and makes a catastrophic failure even moreso... Imagine a 2 ton 100RPM fan breaking out of it's enclosure in downtown Chicago.
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Snipers are infallible? Like Jesus or something?
What an incredible double-standard there is here at Slashdot whenever the subject of Microsoft comes up.
If Redhat were to donate $1 billion in free software to all the poorest schools in America, they'd be hailed as saviors of the poor, and nominated for sainthood. But when Microsoft does it, it's just another evil conspiracy.
Double standards are not always a bad thing...
Would you rather Dr. Smith (the friendly and talented neurosurgeon), or Dr. Lecter (the friendly and talented cannibal) perform your brain surgery for free? Even a so called act of 'philanthropy' can be underhanded (look at Gates' recent donations, and how they nicely cancel out most of his taxes owed (link forgotten, do a google search)).
It IS ok to hate one thing and like another based on their historical performances...
You missed the point of my post. "sucks" is slang - not always translated properly. "I do not like" is proper English, and more easily translated and understood.
Please note the following before flaming and modding:
...the Panel has found that non-English speaking Internet users would be likely to attach no significance to the appended word 'sucks' and would therefore regard the disputed domain name as conveying an association with the Complainant.
This makes sense. That's really all there is to it. Non English speaking people truly could be confused by this. (Maybe it's a new movie called 'sucks' being released by VivendiUniversal ?)
Translating languages is difficult enough, but translanting slang and vernacular is almost impossible. Just try listening to some 12 year old girls describe Britteny Spears (sp?). Or try to remember (if you're old enough) 80's style valley girl speak... it's incomprehensible to fluent English speakers, I don't even want to imagine how non English speakers interpret this. For example, if I bought 'totallygrodyvivendiuniversal.com', how many English speakers would know what the hell it meant, and from the name whether it was a legitimate VU website or not? I doubt any non-English speakers would.
And furthermore, if you are concerned about free speech violations, register "IDoNotLikeVivendiUniversal.com". If that gets taken away, we have a problem.
This comes from an extensive history of long distance computer shipments... Boston to LA, LA to Jacksonville, Jax to Seattle, Seattle to NYC, etc.
:
1. Use the MFG's original boxes if you saved them. If not,
2. Do not use loose fill (otherwise known as peanuts) to pack your equipment, neither FedEx not UPS will pay on claims where this was used (been burned twice).
3. Double Box! This is a necessity. It may seem stupid, but if you double box almost any claim will go through without question. (You can use loose fill in between the boxes).
4. Take photos BEFORE and take photos AFTER (preferably upon delivery, with the driver or truck in the picture, snap with him walking away if you need to).
5. If the box is damaged, have the driver (deliverer) note this. Make sure he/she does.
6. If you ordered something from a store and the box is damaged, just refuse it.
7. Pray.
Now remember, FedEx is NOT a box shipper. They like to deliver letters (big money, small hassle), and thus I have had MUCH better luck with UPS. But here it's trying to choose the lesser of two evils.
Hope this helps someone. I've lost way too many computers in shipping.
On a side note, in college I shipped a 'cinder block' from Boston to Pittsburgh. UPS broke it. No joke.
Then maybe we'd finally get to see Princess Leia out of the gold bikini...
A magical concept called "minimal billing" solves this problem. It's easy to wait until a site has captured, say, 100 clicks from a user, and then charge a dollar (or 1,000 clicks, and charge $10).
As far as the little sites that might get 1 click from 1 person once a month - well they make nothing (until after 100 months).
No company should ever NOT ADD the amounts they are charging someone into a lump sum. It's silly to think they wouldn't.
I've been looking around for a friendly world order, and I've found a couple of reasonable approximations. However, there really aren't any "peace, love, and sex communes" out there that really meet the needs of a person looking to live in a blissful, peaceful world. In particular, most areas of the world are, more or less, filthy criminal cesspools. As such, they are loaded with scads of seedy prostitutes, beefy murderers, and so forth. This is great, I suppose, if you are running Windows or MacOS (sorry, had to). If you're a philosophical megalomaniac human, and spend most of your time wondering how you can come to rule the world, (er, create world peace), most of that criminal activity is more of a liability than an asset. In other words, I'm talking about religious zealots, current governments and other hackers more than I'm talking about the 'average person'. In short, hexx is looking to find a way to DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, and if the platform doesn't exist to be able to do this, he's looking for help in creating one. Interested?
In fact, I had too many beers last night.
I meant to say 'me thinks SO'
Demo kiosk units for modern game consoles usually have these problems, especially prerelease systems that use early hardware revisions.
This is not a demo unit. This is believed to be actual release hardware.
Now, everyone knows that if the unit is in a poorly ventilated area and using serious CPU/GPU/SPU software, it will generate heat and crash. BUT, the article says these are crashing on boot, or when trying to access menus, etc. This should not cause serious overheating!
Also, given Micro$oft's (Get it? I used a '$' instead of an 's'. I am witty.) well known totalitarian deployment arm, I would be surprised to learn that these machines were in anything other than officially authorized kiosks (with air conditioning or something!).
So, is this really not a Microsoft problem? Me thinks not.
Last thing.
Those big mid-page ads on CNET are why I don't go there anymore.
You better have a good explanation for why you think that slashdot folks are willing to tolerate them.
You don't have to tolerate them! Taco just said you can buy a subscription and disable them!
And as unpopular as it is to pay for the things, people work on slashdot so we can all have fun reading it. And they have to make money too (god knows their stock ain't worth shit anymore).
What about forcing Cicso and all other router makers to route all packets (when reading) to their real location, and send a copy to blah.fbi.gov or something (obviously multiple FBI machines, not 1
I don't think this is an accurate prediction of how the system would work. Wouldn't it be better to duplicate every packet sent, and save all packets on a monstrous server somewhere? After a time you can delete all but the "suspect" packets, thus you have an almost invisible spying method.
Also, individual packets are as useful as a few words heard in a conversation. It is easier to watch all conversations between A and B than to listen for a bad word spoken between everyone on the planet. And the data does not need to be sorted realtime, so you can let everyone talk and if you find a specific conversation that needs to be watched you can just save their packets.
Thus it may not slow down the net as you suggest.
Of course, it is still an invasion of privacy, and I don't want to foot the bill.
Really? Umm... does my DVD drive have to *function* after I squeeze it into the 3.5" bay?
I have a hammer and a lotta glue...
Do you know what stops the shepherd moons from breaking up? (they are within the Roche limit)
Please begin thinking for yourself. I am tired of sophmoric pseudo-intellects regurgitating silly rhetoric heard by callers on NPR.
Why does Bin Laden have the right to tell America to leave the Islamic holy lands? Does he own all of it? Is he the elected representative of ALL the people? Does he even have the best interest of all the people in mind?
We have been asked to stay in the Holy Land by the governments of those areas. Granted, not all of these governments are democratically elected, but Bin Laden is not even "unfairly elected". He is nothing. He has no more right to tell the Saudis that they must ask the US to leave their land than he has to tell you to wipe your ass with a cactus.
We are protecting Kuwait. Iraq invaded them once, and would do it again if possible. We are assisting the Saudis (they're next after Kuwait, look at a map). Iraq still has a war machine hell bent on owning the entire peninsula.
Bin Laden does not care about the people of the Islamic world any more than Hitler cared about the Gypsies and Jews.
If he did, he would have worked to stop the war in Afghanistan - he has been living there for the past 8 years!
Bin Laden is a murderer. He defiles a beautiful religion. He wants to own the Arab world, and remake it in his image. He will murder whoever he can in order to accomplish this. He must be stopped. Our world does not need another (and another, and another) holocaust. There are already too many.
The USA killed ~7000 innocent Somalian civilians in -98 to kill one single warlord. Nice.
I would email you but you don't post your address. What actions are you referring to in your signature above?
When the drived first came out, I purchased a 15G GXP and it did fail a few months later (my first drive failure ever). IBM quickly responded and shipped me a new drive which has had no problems since (more than 1 year).
I use 5 75G drives (purchased in July) in a RAID5 array, and they are all running beautifully.
I use 2 60G drives in a RAID1 array (purchased in August), and both of those are fine as well.
My Windows Box (shutup!) box uses a 45G GXP (purchased in January) and it's running beautifully.
My Linux Box (ok, cheer now) uses a 45G GXP (purchased in March) also, and has no problems ('cept it gets hot, and the 1.33G Athlon fries my bacon).
So in short, when the drives first came out, it appears there were problems (and in fact PCWorld mentioned a plant in Hungary that produced faulty parts). In recent months, however, there do not appear (in my limited experience) to be of poor quality.
In fact, I would say they are exceptionally fast and quiet. I recommend them to friends (I recommend Quantum to my enemies!). And I don't have anything to do with BigBlue.
But more importantly, DRIVES FAIL! If you don't have a backup then you're none too bright. If you do have a backup, don't worry about it. IBM has a 3 year warranty on these suckers!
The use of asbestos was banned (or cut back severely) after they had already insulated floors -10 through 70. That's why it is more dangerous on 70+.
Yes, this is correct - it will certainly be easier to bust the chain of drug buyers when a supplier is busted. Of course, inventive people will find ways around this.
Perhaps people will set up "proxy banks" - where I go in with my cash card and buy $500 in "matchbox cars", then give those "matchbox cars" to my dealer, he gives me drugs, and then goes back to the "proxy bank" and sells the "matchbox cars" (for maybe $450 or something).
Difficult to prove in this case that anyone was guilty - it was a free market transaction. I bought something, gave (or "traded") it to my friend (or "dealer"), and he promply sold (or "redeemed") it.
This is faulty (and plain dumb) reasoning.
1. You can't stick a debit card in a strippers thong, but you can stick something like a Disney Dollar... strip bars can sell "Stripper Dollars" - good only at their establishment - for money.
2. You can't buy Marijuana with a credit card? Why not? Maybe it'll be sold as "spicy oregano". Maybe it'll be sold as a "relaxation service" to hide the trail. Cash-less society does not mean one person can't pay another person. People will just learn to hide what was really bought/sold.
3. Pool games taking quarters and bars taking cash is just silly - I've seen pool tables and vending machines that take credit cards, and bars that take cash only are a relic of days gone by - it's easy (albeit sometimes expensive) for a legitimate business to accept credit cards.
And of course, the "lower class" abstraction is just silly. I'm not lowerclass, and I go to strip clubs!!!
I think we need to ask ourselves if the record companies truly don't realize this. My guess is that they understand that copy protecting the CD in this manner won't stop the MP3 from being made Anyone can make an ok mp3 with their normal stereo and a microphone wired to their computer. So what we really need to ask is why the record companies are releasing CD's in this manner.
I believe it is to stop legitimate music owners from making MixCD's and from copying the CD directly. It's obvious that finding and downloading MP3 adds extra steps to the piracy (or backup) process - making redistributing a CD on a real medium (such as CDR) that much more difficult. In fact, if I bought a whole "protected" CD, I would never burn copies for my friends - because it would take fair amount or time and dedication to download *each* track from the CD in *good
So the record companies have likely succeeded in their task of making music piracy (or backups) slightly more complicated for the legitimate CD owner.
Of course, those people who don't buy the CD in the first place, i.e. the habitual music pirate, will not have a more difficult task than they already have with unprotected music, because the music will make it to MP3 format, and fault tolerant CDROM's already exist...
Isn't the real concern that a competitor with more money will just take all their work and repackage it themselves?
I may be examining this situation incorrectly, but a large company like IBM or Microsoft or whoever can easily take some small company's work and resell it cheaper, use a bigger advertising budget, etc.
This is an obvious impetus for a company to violate the GPL - not because they want to stop individuals with the know-how from recreating their product, but to stop the larger corporation from doing so.
I also want to note that images.google.com is my favorite place in the universe to idly explore the wierdness of the net.
.. is THAT what they call pr0n in your neck of the woods now?
oooh... ummm.. "wierdness"
This is not necessarily a problem. Look at lightbulbs. Many small bulbs is better than one large one - until a certain number fail there is no need to replace any.
Furthermore, some fans (like better the cooling fans in my cases) spin for years on end without failure - and are cheap!
w/r/t the spillage problem, you could do this more simply with one large multivaned turbine.
Yes, but this increases the mass of the fan and makes a catastrophic failure even moreso... Imagine a 2 ton 100RPM fan breaking out of it's enclosure in downtown Chicago.