You had to rescue those nations? How did you do that, go back in time? And now those nations have to pay tribute to you with support for all those other wars your country is diving in? Pardon me, but have you been drinking the nationalistic-flavoured Kool-aid? All people that fought in WW2 are retired or dead. The politicians that got you in that war are all dead. Do you think you somehow inherited some right over 'your' former allies?
Most usians may not be familiar with it, but fascism at it's core is the joining of political and corporate powers. Both Italy and Germany in the 30s had huge corporate blocks that had a lot of political power. That may give you some pause next time you see all the 'campaign donations' that flow one way. What do you think flows the other way?
(oh and mods: please show your immaturiy to mod something down when you don't agree with it)
Well we are being told that it has a 3 Volt lithium battery in it and a 20 mW blue laser, so we can take guesses how long you can play with this blue laser thingie before the battery runs down.
Honestly, this is one of the most hollow slashvertisments I have seen in a long time. They are selling something, but we are not told why it is so good to spend 2K on it. My gues is they have bought 0 (zero) BlueRay players and created a mockup so somebody would pay them to take a blueray player apart (and put it's laser into a useless thingie).
Sun may have had other motives than that, but some people will interpret this move as Sun has written off java and is now giving their inventory away. Yes that is a croocked argument, but I am sure some bonehead CTO's or MS-salesdroids will make it anyway.
GPL does not prevent forking (and some forks will develop due to $$$)but if the forker abides by the GPL he has to publish his code for the forks, so Sun could have incorporated those changes making Sun java compatible with MS-J.
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If you insist on teaching the smart and the dumb in the same class, then measure at regular intervals and award improvements, not just the high scores. If you only pay for the A's, you will end up paying only the smartest students, the dumb ones may try forever and fail everytime. Now there is a good demotivator for the majority of the class. If you pay for the improvement of the student (how much of his learning capacity he has used the last trimester), you are actually rewarding learning. The downside is that you will need to test more than just a few days to accurately measure knowledge and capacity, so some computer aided program that gathers the data while you are learning might be in order. (for which is somehow no money available)
Sorry, but you seem to miss the other point: Freedom is also for people thet disagree with you, or think about committing a crime against you. Most attempts at crime are not illegal in itself, and the ones that are (attempted murder etc.) require that you actually do much more than reading a few books or having the wrong friends. However bad her toughts are, she (and anybody else) is free to think them.
And what good will that do? Waiting untill 'the spam problem' is solved will make you wait forever. If the problem is not directly related, there is no reason to make the solutions dependent.
If point and shoot camera's were in the same pricerange I might consider reading the article. But they are not. The article, and most people that will defend buying expensive equipment, have something else to defend: If you have bought an expensive toy and somebody else comes with a very reasonable argument why you would have been better off buying something else/cheaper, you will look like a dumb fool with too much money (which, incidently, is most likely what you are). So all these heated arguments are IMHO not about if reflexes are better than compacts, but if the big spender is a fool with too much money that buys to impress. If the reflexes were cheaper than compacts, the big mouths here would have very similar stories, except their focus of desire would be a compact.
(and no, I will not buy a reflex, one reason for that is that they are too heavy and I don't have any use for a complicated lens&mirror system when I can't look through the viewfinder. I can't look trought the viewfinder because I hang my camera under a model airplane. 100gr compacts for me!)
No it is not. If you read the article (which has nice but useless paging system btw), you would have read that the are givving up any licencing claims they had on ther virtual disk format. (Ignoring the fact that software licences are not enforcable in the EU anyway). So they are not giving software away, but leave it to the other manufacturers to figure out a way to read these windoze virtual HD images. So where exactly is VM-ware (gives away vm products) or Xen (is free from the very beginning) getting hurt?
Sorry, I seem to have missed the latest diet fad. What do you consider to be 'trans-fats' and why do you consider them to be so bad that you can have none in your diet? Is cholesterol a trans-fat? And what does this have to do with the hysteria over GM food? (what, you can taste those modified genes? Amazing!)
Only beginners and the guys that don't mind a heavy battery pack use NiMH. It is just cheaper if you want to be able to draw 100 Amps from your pack. The discharge rate for NiMHs is about 8C, while some lithium Polymer batteries claim up to 20C. (The C here means the dischage factor, or how much amps * the battery capacity you can discharge continiously.) A cheap 2.2Ah 10C lipo can deliver 22 Amps at ~11.1V, which works out to ~240 Watt. What kind of flash would you like to run off that? But even for AA NiMHs, a 7 cell pack can deliver 8C * ~1.6Ah * 8.4V = ~ 100 Watt. That is still ample power to run a flash on (that is only on for 1/10000th of the time) My guess is the GP does not know what he is talking about and/or is no professional photographer. Maybe the symptoms he sees are there, but they are not caused by insufficient battery capacity. Oh and normal litium [ion|polymer] cells are 3.7V. How/why you would make a functional AA Cell (at 1.5V)out of that is beyond me.
you probably think you know it all, but there is only so much herbicide you can spray on a crop. There is no benefit of killing the crop while killing the weeds. The idea of herbicide resistant crops is to be able to use a more PLANT toxic herbicide that instead of letting 50% escape, kills 99% -100% of all weeds, but leaves the money maker alone. That will make sure you have to spray once or twice, which is less than continiously spraying with a 'mild' herbicide that only kills some percentage of the weeds that eat the fertiliser you intended for your crops. Remember that modern farming is just a numbers game: you pay a bit more for your feedstock, but have to pay less for herbicides. Farmers that inisit on tradition are growing bio-organic-full-moon-lunacy or are bankrupt. Altough you may think that farming is traditional, that does not make it less technological advanced as it really is. (It's your loss to consider wet science not a technology).
Besides if you haven't noticed yet that the european GM resistance has been hijacked by geopolitcal interests you have not been paying attention. 'Bio-diversity' coming from a politician that only knows the names of 50 (at best!) plants is just hypocritical. Maybe the problem is not the GM, but the fact that Monsanto holds the patent for both Roundup and roundup-resistance genes.
The test for a derivative work is very simple. Take out the GPL-ed program. Does the non-gpl program still function in a meaningfull way? Could you use another program instead of the GPL one? If so, then you have a non derivative work. If not, it clearly relies on the GPL program and cannot be distributed without violating copyright/GPL. It is not the method it uses, it is the reliance that matters. Offcoourse, take this non-legal advise with a spoonfull of salt IANAL!
True, but the resistance against GM is the result of a good working FUD campaign. Smoking is in part stimulated by well orchestrated advertising campaigns. It is hard to break the habit once you are addicted to ciggies, but it is very easy to act like you think you are supposed to act when answering some questionaire.
This solutions sounds pretty obvious, so it is partly brilliant. The hurray press release thoug appears to be a bit myopic. In case some disaster destroyed my town i'd be more concerned at staying warm than about my meat going off. But I think this unit could supply heating too, after all te rest product after all conversions have been done is carbon dioxide and hot air/heat. Just combine the radiators from the absorbtive cooling with the inlett fan of a inflatable sports hall and there you have your warm shelter. (if you don't like the refugees you could use the exaust from the generator too to put everybody to sleep:)
Is to make him your friend instead. Obviously this will require skills that the subject does not posess, but you might give it a shot. Get to know his name, and greet him with his name every time you see him. Smile happily at him even if he gives you a dirty look. If he does not know your name, politely introduce yourself to him. Just make sure he recognises you as 'Johnny from number 18', not as another faceless youth he can direct his anger to. Once you have built up some credit with him, use that credit to point out to him that his device (that he probably forgot anyway) is really causing you discomfort. He will probably turn it off without hesitation.
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It is not. Plants don't start making seeds in the end of the growing season. Seeds are already very good containers to store small amounts of protein and fats in. They are not designed that way, but have evolved into that because that is what gives plants a better chance to reproduce.
"with low frequency ultrasound pulses" is pretty uninformative for me. If they can regrow theeth, do they first have to implant a 'seed' that will focus the growth? Every theeth has a quite specific form, how will this device influence that?
Or can it be that somebody patented a possible way to stimulate bone & tooth growth and some reporter let his fantasy run wild on it?
AFAIK, gold is twice as heavy as lead, and albatrosses are way more aerodynamically efficient than geese. So the transfer to a lead albatros is to be considered an upgrade. You still need a pretty dense atmosphere for it to be able to fly...
so you want to undercut their buisiness with cheaper prices and better service? That won't work as most people will equate more quality -> higher prices. (or lower quality -> lower prices) as the geek squad business already has determined the pricepoint for bad service, you can only go up.
Because that won't work: Those that really want the item no matter the cost will try to snipe it themselves. The rest of the people will not put that much effort in, so 5 mins more or less will not make a difference at all. Neither will an hour if most people are asleep at that time.
The sniping phenomenon is a solution to the problem that bids are visible to other users. In effect it transforms the auction into a blind auction, except for those people that don't understand it that well.
Another thing to note is that even ebay is by far no perfect market. A lot of items I look at have been viewed less than 25 times, and the amount of bids will also stay fairly low. With such low numbers in a sample, the variation will go through the roof. And because of buyers' bias (never buy an item over the 'real' value) that variation is distributed very uneven at the low side.
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You had to rescue those nations? How did you do that, go back in time? And now those nations have to pay tribute to you with support for all those other wars your country is diving in?
Pardon me, but have you been drinking the nationalistic-flavoured Kool-aid? All people that fought in WW2 are retired or dead. The politicians that got you in that war are all dead. Do you think you somehow inherited some right over 'your' former allies?
Most usians may not be familiar with it, but fascism at it's core is the joining of political and corporate powers. Both Italy and Germany in the 30s had huge corporate blocks that had a lot of political power. That may give you some pause next time you see all the 'campaign donations' that flow one way. What do you think flows the other way?
(oh and mods: please show your immaturiy to mod something down when you don't agree with it)
Well we are being told that it has a 3 Volt lithium battery in it and a 20 mW blue laser, so we can take guesses how long you can play with this blue laser thingie before the battery runs down.
Honestly, this is one of the most hollow slashvertisments I have seen in a long time. They are selling something, but we are not told why it is so good to spend 2K on it. My gues is they have bought 0 (zero) BlueRay players and created a mockup so somebody would pay them to take a blueray player apart (and put it's laser into a useless thingie).
Sun may have had other motives than that, but some people will interpret this move as Sun has written off java and is now giving their inventory away. Yes that is a croocked argument, but I am sure some bonehead CTO's or MS-salesdroids will make it anyway.
GPL does not prevent forking (and some forks will develop due to $$$)but if the forker abides by the GPL he has to publish his code for the forks, so Sun could have incorporated those changes making Sun java compatible with MS-J.
If you insist on teaching the smart and the dumb in the same class, then measure at regular intervals and award improvements, not just the high scores. If you only pay for the A's, you will end up paying only the smartest students, the dumb ones may try forever and fail everytime. Now there is a good demotivator for the majority of the class.
If you pay for the improvement of the student (how much of his learning capacity he has used the last trimester), you are actually rewarding learning. The downside is that you will need to test more than just a few days to accurately measure knowledge and capacity, so some computer aided program that gathers the data while you are learning might be in order. (for which is somehow no money available)
Sorry, but you seem to miss the other point: Freedom is also for people thet disagree with you, or think about committing a crime against you. Most attempts at crime are not illegal in itself, and the ones that are (attempted murder etc.) require that you actually do much more than reading a few books or having the wrong friends. However bad her toughts are, she (and anybody else) is free to think them.
And what good will that do? Waiting untill 'the spam problem' is solved will make you wait forever. If the problem is not directly related, there is no reason to make the solutions dependent.
If point and shoot camera's were in the same pricerange I might consider reading the article. But they are not. The article, and most people that will defend buying expensive equipment, have something else to defend:
If you have bought an expensive toy and somebody else comes with a very reasonable argument why you would have been better off buying something else/cheaper, you will look like a dumb fool with too much money (which, incidently, is most likely what you are). So all these heated arguments are IMHO not about if reflexes are better than compacts, but if the big spender is a fool with too much money that buys to impress. If the reflexes were cheaper than compacts, the big mouths here would have very similar stories, except their focus of desire would be a compact.
(and no, I will not buy a reflex, one reason for that is that they are too heavy and I don't have any use for a complicated lens&mirror system when I can't look through the viewfinder. I can't look trought the viewfinder because I hang my camera under a model airplane. 100gr compacts for me!)
No it is not. If you read the article (which has nice but useless paging system btw), you would have read that the are givving up any licencing claims they had on ther virtual disk format. (Ignoring the fact that software licences are not enforcable in the EU anyway).
So they are not giving software away, but leave it to the other manufacturers to figure out a way to read these windoze virtual HD images. So where exactly is VM-ware (gives away vm products) or Xen (is free from the very beginning) getting hurt?
Sorry, I seem to have missed the latest diet fad. What do you consider to be 'trans-fats' and why do you consider them to be so bad that you can have none in your diet? Is cholesterol a trans-fat? And what does this have to do with the hysteria over GM food? (what, you can taste those modified genes? Amazing!)
Only beginners and the guys that don't mind a heavy battery pack use NiMH. It is just cheaper if you want to be able to draw 100 Amps from your pack. The discharge rate for NiMHs is about 8C, while some lithium Polymer batteries claim up to 20C. (The C here means the dischage factor, or how much amps * the battery capacity you can discharge continiously.) A cheap 2.2Ah 10C lipo can deliver 22 Amps at ~11.1V, which works out to ~240 Watt. What kind of flash would you like to run off that?
But even for AA NiMHs, a 7 cell pack can deliver 8C * ~1.6Ah * 8.4V = ~ 100 Watt. That is still ample power to run a flash on (that is only on for 1/10000th of the time)
My guess is the GP does not know what he is talking about and/or is no professional photographer. Maybe the symptoms he sees are there, but they are not caused by insufficient battery capacity.
Oh and normal litium [ion|polymer] cells are 3.7V. How/why you would make a functional AA Cell (at 1.5V)out of that is beyond me.
Your mistake was reading non-gpl program as OS.
you probably think you know it all, but there is only so much herbicide you can spray on a crop. There is no benefit of killing the crop while killing the weeds. The idea of herbicide resistant crops is to be able to use a more PLANT toxic herbicide that instead of letting 50% escape, kills 99% -100% of all weeds, but leaves the money maker alone. That will make sure you have to spray once or twice, which is less than continiously spraying with a 'mild' herbicide that only kills some percentage of the weeds that eat the fertiliser you intended for your crops.
Remember that modern farming is just a numbers game: you pay a bit more for your feedstock, but have to pay less for herbicides. Farmers that inisit on tradition are growing bio-organic-full-moon-lunacy or are bankrupt. Altough you may think that farming is traditional, that does not make it less technological advanced as it really is. (It's your loss to consider wet science not a technology).
Besides if you haven't noticed yet that the european GM resistance has been hijacked by geopolitcal interests you have not been paying attention. 'Bio-diversity' coming from a politician that only knows the names of 50 (at best!) plants is just hypocritical. Maybe the problem is not the GM, but the fact that Monsanto holds the patent for both Roundup and roundup-resistance genes.
The test for a derivative work is very simple. Take out the GPL-ed program. Does the non-gpl program still function in a meaningfull way? Could you use another program instead of the GPL one? If so, then you have a non derivative work. If not, it clearly relies on the GPL program and cannot be distributed without violating copyright/GPL. It is not the method it uses, it is the reliance that matters.
Offcoourse, take this non-legal advise with a spoonfull of salt IANAL!
True, but the resistance against GM is the result of a good working FUD campaign. Smoking is in part stimulated by well orchestrated advertising campaigns.
It is hard to break the habit once you are addicted to ciggies, but it is very easy to act like you think you are supposed to act when answering some questionaire.
This solutions sounds pretty obvious, so it is partly brilliant. The hurray press release thoug appears to be a bit myopic. In case some disaster destroyed my town i'd be more concerned at staying warm than about my meat going off. :)
But I think this unit could supply heating too, after all te rest product after all conversions have been done is carbon dioxide and hot air/heat. Just combine the radiators from the absorbtive cooling with the inlett fan of a inflatable sports hall and there you have your warm shelter. (if you don't like the refugees you could use the exaust from the generator too to put everybody to sleep
Is to make him your friend instead.
Obviously this will require skills that the subject does not posess, but you might give it a shot. Get to know his name, and greet him with his name every time you see him. Smile happily at him even if he gives you a dirty look. If he does not know your name, politely introduce yourself to him. Just make sure he recognises you as 'Johnny from number 18', not as another faceless youth he can direct his anger to. Once you have built up some credit with him, use that credit to point out to him that his device (that he probably forgot anyway) is really causing you discomfort. He will probably turn it off without hesitation.
well, I should have used preview instead?
It is not. Plants don't start making seeds in the end of the growing season. Seeds are already very good containers to store small amounts of protein and fats in. They are not designed that way, but have evolved into that because that is what gives plants a better chance to reproduce.
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"with low frequency ultrasound pulses" is pretty uninformative for me. If they can regrow theeth, do they first have to implant a 'seed' that will focus the growth? Every theeth has a quite specific form, how will this device influence that?
Or can it be that somebody patented a possible way to stimulate bone & tooth growth and some reporter let his fantasy run wild on it?
AFAIK, gold is twice as heavy as lead, and albatrosses are way more aerodynamically efficient than geese. So the transfer to a lead albatros is to be considered an upgrade. You still need a pretty dense atmosphere for it to be able to fly...
so you want to undercut their buisiness with cheaper prices and better service?
That won't work as most people will equate more quality -> higher prices. (or lower quality -> lower prices) as the geek squad business already has determined the pricepoint for bad service, you can only go up.
Because that won't work: Those that really want the item no matter the cost will try to snipe it themselves. The rest of the people will not put that much effort in, so 5 mins more or less will not make a difference at all. Neither will an hour if most people are asleep at that time.
The sniping phenomenon is a solution to the problem that bids are visible to other users. In effect it transforms the auction into a blind auction, except for those people that don't understand it that well.
Another thing to note is that even ebay is by far no perfect market. A lot of items I look at have been viewed less than 25 times, and the amount of bids will also stay fairly low. With such low numbers in a sample, the variation will go through the roof. And because of buyers' bias (never buy an item over the 'real' value) that variation is distributed very uneven at the low side.