You guess wrong - at least where the next generation of hardware is concerned. The data between your HDTV and the player will be encrypted, and the player will refuse to work (or only output a low-res version of the movie) when connected to a display that does not authenticate itself. A player that does not do this will be made illegal (won't be allowed to use some of the patented key technolgies). Same with the HDDVD/BlueRay format war: the technological merits are irrelevant, it's all about which fromat can offer the most restrictive and unbreakable DRM.
The issue is that the recipients of these DVDs are reviewers from which you want positive reviews of your movie. Making them jump through hoops for that doesn't sound like a very smart move.
OTOH, it's apparently exactly these screeners that are a common source of high-quality pre-cinematic-release-bootlegs, which must be by far the most painful (for the makers) kind, so it's understandavle that they'd risk a backlash from the reviewers to prevent them.
Since it's such a great series, any incentive to rewatch it is a good thing, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't have more than one or two appearances outside that one episode where she's the second major character next to Hachi.
The significance of her appearance in the last episode makes up for any lack of screentime otherwise. It's one of the reasons I prefer the animated version to the manga.
Funny you should mention that. I remember reading that one classic greek philosopher actually thought that alphabetization was, at best, a mixed blessing, exactly because written text enforces linearity which he considered NOT to be a natural property of human thoughts.
The assertion that we have "hardwired functions in brain" for "spoken discourse" is certainly rather bold, considering that the time since the human race developed languages complex enough to hold a discourse is *quite* short from an evolutionary point of view.
It's only one episode of 26 (and a short, but very nice part in the very end), and IIRC all we learn is that at age 12, one girl is half a head taller than an adult Japanese male born and raised on Earth. Far more interesting are the social and political implications of people who think of Earth as "an interesting place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" and nations as a silly concept they've heard about but don't really understand.
The topic also turns up in "Das Marsprojekt", a book by German SF writer Andreas Eschbach, where a successful Mars colonization is scheduled to be aborted due to budget cuts and the colonists to be evacuated, when one of the children born there turns out to have a heart defect that makes it impossible for her to acclimate to Earth gravity.
If you think that only paranoid neurotics worry about that, you are an ignorant idiot. Wasps and bees like sugar, so it's pretty likely to happen. And a wasp or bee sting in the throat is severely life-threatening to people allergic to the poison - a pretty common allergy. And even if you're not allergic, it still pretty damn painful. Not wanting your kids to suffer that is just common sense.
The international community is sending a lot of aid, but it appears that Pakistan's congenital disunity is a bigger problem than anything else.
The biggest problem seems to me the lack of infrastructure in the area. All the aid in the world does nothing if you can't get it to where it's needed when it's needed.
And I could NOT care less, because I don't use instant messaging at all. Honestly, what's the point? It combines all the worst points of phone (intrusive, no time to compose your thoughts) and email (have to type = slow, only works when online).
The ol' invisible hand would rapidly solve the problem of assigning an appropriate value to every article and every author in the Wikipedia.
Yeah, right. Like it assigns an "appropriate value" to ear candles, RAM optimizers and penis enlargment pills.
Evidence aside, one of the PREREQUISITES for market forces to work as you believe they do is that all participants have perfect information - but the validity of the information itelf is what's being judged here! You're expecing something akin to pulling yourself up into the air by your own bootstraps.
HBO's actions amount to computer hacking and denial of service,
Either you didn't understand what they're doing or you're totally full of shit.
By no stretch of imagination is this "computer hacking" (except in the original benign sense of finding elegant solutions to problems); there is no circumvention of any security measures involved. And the "service" being denied is illegal, without the denial causing collateral damage.
Who said anything about REPLACING? This just makes sure she shows up with a full mug in time, without you having to get her attention (which you may already be unable to).
even if it was boiling, it should not have caused any serious burns, as the temperature did not change, right ?
Actually, it would cool down because the state change from liquid to gaseous requires energy. This is basically how freezers work. But since the saliva would have been near body temperature at first, it probably wouldn't get really cold. Should be a weird sensation, though.
so if he had an open mouth (or probably also access to the tongue through the nose ?) it might have actualle started boiling
No, because the blood is still protected by the skin and blood vessel tissue. What actually DID boil away in the incident mentioned was the saliva on the tongue. This loss of moisture would pose a problem in prolonged vacuum exposure without any protection, apart from the lack of oxygen.
I would think that you'll need pressure in order to avoid your blood literally boiling at body temperature.
Sufficient pressure is provided by your skin and connective tissue. Note that the pressure differential between sea level and vacuum is a measly 1 bar, and that people survive just fine at 0.3 bar on top of Mt. Everest, if they have sufficient oxygen and warm clothing (the latter being neccessary mainly to counter losing heat to the remaining atmosphere).
No, because Java does automatic array bounds checks, which makes normal buffer overflow vulnerabilities impossible - one of the most common kind if security flaw in C apps.
Not difficult, but it's still an additional step that many people probably never do (because they don't know about Usenet or forget about it), thereby missing potentially valuable information.
And what exactly is the ADVANTAGE of separating the indexes? I can't think of any.
Come to think of it, I can't really think of that many times when I've had to say "Damn, there are too many blog entries in these results". If you know how to search, you're only going to see blogs when they contain info that you might want anyway.
I've had that experience quite a few times when looking for quotable information, especially about politically charged topics. With technical issues, you can try out a proposed solution and see if it works. But political articels in blogs tend to be partisan, full of spin and distorted of facts. Quoted sources are usually other blogs.
The singularity itself is crushed into an infinitely small point.
A singularity has, by DEFINITION, infinitesimal size. The general theory of relativity predicts a singularity of space-time curvature at the center of a black hole. However, a lot of astrophysicists think that that theory cannot accurately describe what happens inside the event horizon.
It's not about viewing. As our technology and understanding of astrophysics improves, we get new data and interpret old data differently. That discoveries made between you childhood and now caused the estimated age of the universe to increase is a coincidence. It may well be that the next big discovery causes the esitmations to be lowered again.
Only some particle radiation (beta, I think), and high-energy E.M. radiation (UV and above), has a more than miniscule probability of doing that.
All particle radiation has that effect, and it's actually weakest in beta radiation. Alpha radiation is a lot more destructive (four nucleons instead of one electron!) but can be shielded much easier, exactly because it interacts more readily with matter. I think Neutrons are the worst, because they can activate (make radioactive) atoms they hit.
But the total energy put out by gamma bursts is far larger than the energy put out by supernova. AFAIK, the prevailing theory is that the total energy is much, much lower than the intensity indicates, because it is emitted in focussed beam rather than spread in all directions.
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You guess wrong - at least where the next generation of hardware is concerned. The data between your HDTV and the player will be encrypted, and the player will refuse to work (or only output a low-res version of the movie) when connected to a display that does not authenticate itself. A player that does not do this will be made illegal (won't be allowed to use some of the patented key technolgies). Same with the HDDVD/BlueRay format war: the technological merits are irrelevant, it's all about which fromat can offer the most restrictive and unbreakable DRM.
The issue is that the recipients of these DVDs are reviewers from which you want positive reviews of your movie. Making them jump through hoops for that doesn't sound like a very smart move.
OTOH, it's apparently exactly these screeners that are a common source of high-quality pre-cinematic-release-bootlegs, which must be by far the most painful (for the makers) kind, so it's understandavle that they'd risk a backlash from the reviewers to prevent them.
Since it's such a great series, any incentive to rewatch it is a good thing, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't have more than one or two appearances outside that one episode where she's the second major character next to Hachi.
The significance of her appearance in the last episode makes up for any lack of screentime otherwise. It's one of the reasons I prefer the animated version to the manga.
Funny you should mention that. I remember reading that one classic greek philosopher actually thought that alphabetization was, at best, a mixed blessing, exactly because written text enforces linearity which he considered NOT to be a natural property of human thoughts.
The assertion that we have "hardwired functions in brain" for "spoken discourse" is certainly rather bold, considering that the time since the human race developed languages complex enough to hold a discourse is *quite* short from an evolutionary point of view.
It's only one episode of 26 (and a short, but very nice part in the very end), and IIRC all we learn is that at age 12, one girl is half a head taller than an adult Japanese male born and raised on Earth. Far more interesting are the social and political implications of people who think of Earth as "an interesting place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" and nations as a silly concept they've heard about but don't really understand.
The topic also turns up in "Das Marsprojekt", a book by German SF writer Andreas Eschbach, where a successful Mars colonization is scheduled to be aborted due to budget cuts and the colonists to be evacuated, when one of the children born there turns out to have a heart defect that makes it impossible for her to acclimate to Earth gravity.
If you think that only paranoid neurotics worry about that, you are an ignorant idiot. Wasps and bees like sugar, so it's pretty likely to happen. And a wasp or bee sting in the throat is severely life-threatening to people allergic to the poison - a pretty common allergy. And even if you're not allergic, it still pretty damn painful. Not wanting your kids to suffer that is just common sense.
The international community is sending a lot of aid, but it appears that Pakistan's congenital disunity is a bigger problem than anything else.
The biggest problem seems to me the lack of infrastructure in the area. All the aid in the world does nothing if you can't get it to where it's needed when it's needed.
And I could NOT care less, because I don't use instant messaging at all. Honestly, what's the point? It combines all the worst points of phone (intrusive, no time to compose your thoughts) and email (have to type = slow, only works when online).
The ol' invisible hand would rapidly solve the problem of assigning an appropriate value to every article and every author in the Wikipedia.
Yeah, right. Like it assigns an "appropriate value" to ear candles, RAM optimizers and penis enlargment pills.
Evidence aside, one of the PREREQUISITES for market forces to work as you believe they do is that all participants have perfect information - but the validity of the information itelf is what's being judged here! You're expecing something akin to pulling yourself up into the air by your own bootstraps.
HBO's actions amount to computer hacking and denial of service,
Either you didn't understand what they're doing or you're totally full of shit.
By no stretch of imagination is this "computer hacking" (except in the original benign sense of finding elegant solutions to problems); there is no circumvention of any security measures involved. And the "service" being denied is illegal, without the denial causing collateral damage.
Who said anything about REPLACING? This just makes sure she shows up with a full mug in time, without you having to get her attention (which you may already be unable to).
even if it was boiling, it should not have caused any serious burns, as the temperature did not change, right ?
Actually, it would cool down because the state change from liquid to gaseous requires energy. This is basically how freezers work. But since the saliva would have been near body temperature at first, it probably wouldn't get really cold. Should be a weird sensation, though.
so if he had an open mouth (or probably also access to the tongue through the nose ?) it might have actualle started boiling
No, because the blood is still protected by the skin and blood vessel tissue. What actually DID boil away in the incident mentioned was the saliva on the tongue. This loss of moisture would pose a problem in prolonged vacuum exposure without any protection, apart from the lack of oxygen.
That's why the posting a few levels up suggested a "skin tight layer" of some fabric to keep the water in as neccessary additional protection.
As for the solved gasses, they are not a problem as long as they stay solved, which they will since the pressure inside the body is maintained.
I would think that you'll need pressure in order to avoid your blood literally boiling at body temperature.
Sufficient pressure is provided by your skin and connective tissue. Note that the pressure differential between sea level and vacuum is a measly 1 bar, and that people survive just fine at 0.3 bar on top of Mt. Everest, if they have sufficient oxygen and warm clothing (the latter being neccessary mainly to counter losing heat to the remaining atmosphere).
A crappy client is one explanation, in which case I recomment Azureus. It's a resource hog, but it works well.
Of course it could also be that your ISP doesn't like P2P and blocks the default ports of popular P2P protocols.
While buffer overflows and scripting vulnerabilities may the the most common form of exploits, they're most definitely NOT the only ones.
Ha, ha, he poked fun at Java being slow. How well-informed and original...
No, because Java does automatic array bounds checks, which makes normal buffer overflow vulnerabilities impossible - one of the most common kind if security flaw in C apps.
Not difficult, but it's still an additional step that many people probably never do (because they don't know about Usenet or forget about it), thereby missing potentially valuable information.
And what exactly is the ADVANTAGE of separating the indexes? I can't think of any.
Come to think of it, I can't really think of that many times when I've had to say "Damn, there are too many blog entries in these results". If you know how to search, you're only going to see blogs when they contain info that you might want anyway.
I've had that experience quite a few times when looking for quotable information, especially about politically charged topics. With technical issues, you can try out a proposed solution and see if it works. But political articels in blogs tend to be partisan, full of spin and distorted of facts. Quoted sources are usually other blogs.
The singularity itself is crushed into an infinitely small point.
A singularity has, by DEFINITION, infinitesimal size. The general theory of relativity predicts a singularity of space-time curvature at the center of a black hole. However, a lot of astrophysicists think that that theory cannot accurately describe what happens inside the event horizon.
It's not about viewing. As our technology and understanding of astrophysics improves, we get new data and interpret old data differently. That discoveries made between you childhood and now caused the estimated age of the universe to increase is a coincidence. It may well be that the next big discovery causes the esitmations to be lowered again.
Only some particle radiation (beta, I think), and high-energy E.M. radiation (UV and above), has a more than miniscule probability of doing that.
All particle radiation has that effect, and it's actually weakest in beta radiation. Alpha radiation is a lot more destructive (four nucleons instead of one electron!) but can be shielded much easier, exactly because it interacts more readily with matter. I think Neutrons are the worst, because they can activate (make radioactive) atoms they hit.
But the total energy put out by gamma bursts is far larger than the energy put out by supernova.
AFAIK, the prevailing theory is that the total energy is much, much lower than the intensity indicates, because it is emitted in focussed beam rather than spread in all directions.