It's not like the USA and Israel don't have the same thing, or similar construction methods that Iran does not have. The 13.6-ton "bunker-buster" bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, was specifically designed to take out the hardened fortifications built by Iran and North Korea, the report said.
http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-bunker-buster-not-powerful-enough.html
We would have to use TWO of those! OH NOES!
The Galaxy's dimensions are 100,000 light years in diameter and approximately 2,000 light years thick
And it is ever-expanding, so perhaps at the beginning it was perfectly flat, but without knowing the acceleration of each dimension how can you say it's not expanding vertically? And then how do you know it's not horizontal or which way is up in space in relation to no valid point of reference? To say it is flat is simply another way weak minded people cope with what they see. You believe it is flat, just like you believe the basic laws of physics to be true. I don't consider it to be flat. Without actual organization and measurement of where every planetary body is located in the 2,000 light years of thickness, you can't really say it's flat unless they all line up exactly IMO.
I would consider the area to be 'bumpy' as a compromise, but not flat.:)
By solar mean time, it does not account for leap seconds between 1970 and today. Can any computer get a concept such as time, correct? And does anyone else care?
I won't be going to see this. To me, it's on the same level as Stargate 90210. Ever wonder why they don't use money in the 24th century? Why it's because the economy was so screwed up that it wasn't worth anything anymore.
Read, learn...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/118404/techgov_paying_for_piracy_in_advance.html
Besides, just because it's not specifically stated anywhere that there are fees given to intellectual property holders of independent works on data CD media, you can bet some of the purchase price of the hardware goes to them. They lost the battle way back in the 70's anyway, if not earlier.
What is so difficult about setting your video card to report the audio out, or plug a cdplayer into the audio in jack and recording the music? That's how it was originally done. Technology has idiot proofed it so anyone can do it now with one click. It's true, most people didn't know what the internet was either, and obviously as you have proven here, intelligence is still in quite limited supply.
The fact that there even is a royalty fee on blank recordable media would imply that the industry already knows you are going to break the law. It's an endorsement of illegal activity. I can use a cd audio disc just as easily as a standard cdr disc, to put my own personal diary on - so why do they specifically state it is a royalty fee, and continue to prosecute you with lawsuits when you do what they endorse? I see no reason to pay their royalty fee on any media (whether it be vhs tapes, cdr discs, audio discs, lp's, standard white paper for all I care) if the content I stick on it is my own.
If you read my reply, you would know I didn't mention copyright warnings. Now they are advertising that it is possible to download movies for free and they would like you not to do it. Had they not advertised, perhaps people like yourself would consider it impossible and not even investigate how to get it done. As you say, it was impossible to get music off a compact disc to copy or convert to mp3 before 1995.
Spokeswoman Cara Duckworth of the RIAA says the lawsuits have spawned a "general sense of awareness" that file sharing copyrighted music without authorization is "illegal."
"Think about what the legal marketplace and industry would look like today had we sat on our hands and done nothing," Duckworth says in a statement.
Buzzt...wrong. Set the wayback machine to 1995-1996. This was near the beginning of the mp3 format. Those on the edge were ripping their music cd's to their hard drives for their own use back then. It took nearly 3 years for the information to disseminate to a wide enough audience for Shawn Fanning to decide to create the Napster network. Then it took a full 2 years more for the RIAA to realize this could be done to begin with. The RIAA is quite slow and stupid. I would go so far as to propose that because the RIAA sued Napster, and brought massive media attention to this 'illegal' activity, they have been the teacher of their own destruction. Now everyone with any computer, ipod, or cell phone knows they can download music for free, and they also know how to do it, which is now maximizing the recording industry's losses beyond their wildest imagination.
And then the RIAA/MPAA added their warnings to not download movies, in the previews of video tapes and DVD films. Now the entire world knows they can get on the internet and download illegal copies of movies too. They have not learned anything.
How many times must we tell them - all they have to do is come up with a reasonable way to allow the public to get what they want, whether that is gratis/fair use, or simply include the fee as a part of the media cost. In the United States, we already pay a copyright fee on every piece of blank cdr/cdrw and dvdr/dvdrw media that is for sale - and they want more money from people who actually violate this law to line their own pockets beyond compare?
I'm not sure what's causing it for you. I have a linksys router for years. it's a simple 5 port switch that connects to a cable modem. I don't have to unplug/replug/reboot it at all. It's been 9 months since my internet service went out. The router has been constantly powered on for the last 2 years without a problem. When the cable modem lost connection all I had to do was log into the router and release/renew the WAN information.
The publishers already require a different book each year so they can sell more. The actual information isn't changed, just chapter formats and problems. So what difference with each semester make? You either learn the material or you don't learn the material. Free books and supplies with tuition would make it all a mute point.
Yeah, I downloaded Fedora Linux in about 3 hours - 4 cdr's, with bit torrent. And that old Diablo game demo was on bit torrent too - free/shareware variety. It seems they didn't mess with the bandwidth for those at all.
I'd have to agree with that - nothing lasts forever. Best to capture and save a few snapshots, maybe a video or two - and whatever you keep, reproduce in a variety of mediums. I used to burn 4 or 5 copies of everything to different types of cdr, dvdr, video tape, and an external spare hard drive. Sure some of them are lower quality - but if that is the only one to survive it's better than losing the entire thing.
The study is inconclusive. The internet is a terrible medium to use for a study such as this as you have no way of providing a true control group. Your users will cheat, as they did. Zebra striping is best fit for in your hands, on paper. Now a study that might be a better test, would be to have the standard mono-color stripring process, as opposed to full color striping, and the control being no striping. In person with a stopwatch, ask the same person 12 questions, 4 from each page type. and time their answers.
Make it easy to use - as all we are interested in is lining up randomized data in a row with randomized data in a column.
Perhaps as a followup, print the chart on multiple pages.
As it is now, the 'study' concludes absolutely nothing.
I can agree with that. Any error that crashes 1 out of 20 or so concurrent threads, on multiple cores, using shared cache, is too complex for a mere human to figure out. After 30+ years programming single threaded applications, it will take a lot of new tools to make this happen.
This tells me nothing. Why would you want a game (Common single threaded-programmed application) to compete with your divx compression and ray tracing bryce3d application running in the background?
Are they (Intel, AMD, IBM) all saying that we need to hook up 8 or 12 or 24 processor cores at 3ghz each to get an actual speed of 4ghz while each one waits around wasting processing cycles to get something to do? That is the lamest thing I've heard in a long time. I'd much rather have a SINGLE CORE Graphene processor at 12Ghz, than quadcore or oct-core at 4ghz.
I can't think of any protection scheme that hasn't been bypassed/broken/cracked. If it hasn't, it's because nobody cared to try. As for why they don't make it DRM-Free, well, software is protected for about 2-4 hours after release by whatever copy protection they use. Music, any tape recorder can record the live sound output from playback, whether it be on a pc captureing from the line out jack, or simply a microphone. Books have photocopiers. TAPE/DVD/Blue Ray can all be recorded, in lesser quality, or exact duplicates on pc with the right software. What they should do, if they're really serious, is to make a format that can not be written to. But even then lesser quality version copies will proliferate.
I think it was Sony that lost the video tape recorder case - ever since then they're fighting a losing battle. If it hadn't been for the first tape recorders, then it would have turned out differently.
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How do you un-fold, un-burn, un-crumple, and un-tear the paper?
It's not like the USA and Israel don't have the same thing, or similar construction methods that Iran does not have. The 13.6-ton "bunker-buster" bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, was specifically designed to take out the hardened fortifications built by Iran and North Korea, the report said. http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-bunker-buster-not-powerful-enough.html We would have to use TWO of those! OH NOES!
Where are the Republicans and Tea party now with their "No taxes" mantra? Or wait, it's perfectly acceptable to tax the poor some more...!
When they get rid of them, there is a new top 5% to send warnings to....
Oh, those media press releases? Look, over there! Starbucks tracks your every move, not us! lol...
The Galaxy's dimensions are 100,000 light years in diameter and approximately 2,000 light years thick And it is ever-expanding, so perhaps at the beginning it was perfectly flat, but without knowing the acceleration of each dimension how can you say it's not expanding vertically? And then how do you know it's not horizontal or which way is up in space in relation to no valid point of reference? To say it is flat is simply another way weak minded people cope with what they see. You believe it is flat, just like you believe the basic laws of physics to be true. I don't consider it to be flat. Without actual organization and measurement of where every planetary body is located in the 2,000 light years of thickness, you can't really say it's flat unless they all line up exactly IMO. I would consider the area to be 'bumpy' as a compromise, but not flat. :)
It's a cube, not a square. If scientists go around saying it's a square shape, then everyone will think the galaxy is flat.
By solar mean time, it does not account for leap seconds between 1970 and today. Can any computer get a concept such as time, correct? And does anyone else care?
I won't be going to see this. To me, it's on the same level as Stargate 90210. Ever wonder why they don't use money in the 24th century? Why it's because the economy was so screwed up that it wasn't worth anything anymore.
That's too bad. Perhaps he was favored by the media because he was the better candidate? No, couldn't be that.
dang I am too tired...anyway, replace "video card" with audio card, change "report" to "record". The world doesn't care what I say.
Read, learn... http://www.pcworld.com/article/118404/techgov_paying_for_piracy_in_advance.html Besides, just because it's not specifically stated anywhere that there are fees given to intellectual property holders of independent works on data CD media, you can bet some of the purchase price of the hardware goes to them. They lost the battle way back in the 70's anyway, if not earlier.
What is so difficult about setting your video card to report the audio out, or plug a cdplayer into the audio in jack and recording the music? That's how it was originally done. Technology has idiot proofed it so anyone can do it now with one click. It's true, most people didn't know what the internet was either, and obviously as you have proven here, intelligence is still in quite limited supply. The fact that there even is a royalty fee on blank recordable media would imply that the industry already knows you are going to break the law. It's an endorsement of illegal activity. I can use a cd audio disc just as easily as a standard cdr disc, to put my own personal diary on - so why do they specifically state it is a royalty fee, and continue to prosecute you with lawsuits when you do what they endorse? I see no reason to pay their royalty fee on any media (whether it be vhs tapes, cdr discs, audio discs, lp's, standard white paper for all I care) if the content I stick on it is my own. If you read my reply, you would know I didn't mention copyright warnings. Now they are advertising that it is possible to download movies for free and they would like you not to do it. Had they not advertised, perhaps people like yourself would consider it impossible and not even investigate how to get it done. As you say, it was impossible to get music off a compact disc to copy or convert to mp3 before 1995.
Spokeswoman Cara Duckworth of the RIAA says the lawsuits have spawned a "general sense of awareness" that file sharing copyrighted music without authorization is "illegal." "Think about what the legal marketplace and industry would look like today had we sat on our hands and done nothing," Duckworth says in a statement. Buzzt...wrong. Set the wayback machine to 1995-1996. This was near the beginning of the mp3 format. Those on the edge were ripping their music cd's to their hard drives for their own use back then. It took nearly 3 years for the information to disseminate to a wide enough audience for Shawn Fanning to decide to create the Napster network. Then it took a full 2 years more for the RIAA to realize this could be done to begin with. The RIAA is quite slow and stupid. I would go so far as to propose that because the RIAA sued Napster, and brought massive media attention to this 'illegal' activity, they have been the teacher of their own destruction. Now everyone with any computer, ipod, or cell phone knows they can download music for free, and they also know how to do it, which is now maximizing the recording industry's losses beyond their wildest imagination. And then the RIAA/MPAA added their warnings to not download movies, in the previews of video tapes and DVD films. Now the entire world knows they can get on the internet and download illegal copies of movies too. They have not learned anything. How many times must we tell them - all they have to do is come up with a reasonable way to allow the public to get what they want, whether that is gratis/fair use, or simply include the fee as a part of the media cost. In the United States, we already pay a copyright fee on every piece of blank cdr/cdrw and dvdr/dvdrw media that is for sale - and they want more money from people who actually violate this law to line their own pockets beyond compare?
I'm not sure what's causing it for you. I have a linksys router for years. it's a simple 5 port switch that connects to a cable modem. I don't have to unplug/replug/reboot it at all. It's been 9 months since my internet service went out. The router has been constantly powered on for the last 2 years without a problem. When the cable modem lost connection all I had to do was log into the router and release/renew the WAN information.
The publishers already require a different book each year so they can sell more. The actual information isn't changed, just chapter formats and problems. So what difference with each semester make? You either learn the material or you don't learn the material. Free books and supplies with tuition would make it all a mute point.
Yeah, I downloaded Fedora Linux in about 3 hours - 4 cdr's, with bit torrent. And that old Diablo game demo was on bit torrent too - free/shareware variety. It seems they didn't mess with the bandwidth for those at all.
I'd have to agree with that - nothing lasts forever. Best to capture and save a few snapshots, maybe a video or two - and whatever you keep, reproduce in a variety of mediums. I used to burn 4 or 5 copies of everything to different types of cdr, dvdr, video tape, and an external spare hard drive. Sure some of them are lower quality - but if that is the only one to survive it's better than losing the entire thing.
The study is inconclusive. The internet is a terrible medium to use for a study such as this as you have no way of providing a true control group. Your users will cheat, as they did. Zebra striping is best fit for in your hands, on paper. Now a study that might be a better test, would be to have the standard mono-color stripring process, as opposed to full color striping, and the control being no striping. In person with a stopwatch, ask the same person 12 questions, 4 from each page type. and time their answers. Make it easy to use - as all we are interested in is lining up randomized data in a row with randomized data in a column. Perhaps as a followup, print the chart on multiple pages. As it is now, the 'study' concludes absolutely nothing.
Samples per second would be more accurate.
I can agree with that. Any error that crashes 1 out of 20 or so concurrent threads, on multiple cores, using shared cache, is too complex for a mere human to figure out. After 30+ years programming single threaded applications, it will take a lot of new tools to make this happen.
This tells me nothing. Why would you want a game (Common single threaded-programmed application) to compete with your divx compression and ray tracing bryce3d application running in the background? Are they (Intel, AMD, IBM) all saying that we need to hook up 8 or 12 or 24 processor cores at 3ghz each to get an actual speed of 4ghz while each one waits around wasting processing cycles to get something to do? That is the lamest thing I've heard in a long time. I'd much rather have a SINGLE CORE Graphene processor at 12Ghz, than quadcore or oct-core at 4ghz.
I can't think of any protection scheme that hasn't been bypassed/broken/cracked. If it hasn't, it's because nobody cared to try. As for why they don't make it DRM-Free, well, software is protected for about 2-4 hours after release by whatever copy protection they use. Music, any tape recorder can record the live sound output from playback, whether it be on a pc captureing from the line out jack, or simply a microphone. Books have photocopiers. TAPE/DVD/Blue Ray can all be recorded, in lesser quality, or exact duplicates on pc with the right software. What they should do, if they're really serious, is to make a format that can not be written to. But even then lesser quality version copies will proliferate. I think it was Sony that lost the video tape recorder case - ever since then they're fighting a losing battle. If it hadn't been for the first tape recorders, then it would have turned out differently.