Most titanium oxides of any sort are semi-unstable and degrade fairly easily
Really? My toothpaste doesn't seem to degrade all that quickly.
In fact, titanium dioxide is chemically stable. What you're confused about is the fact that it is photcatalytic. That's what makes it attractive as a sunscreen. It uses up the UV energy by combining other elements in the sunscreen. That's why it fades, it runs out of stuff to catalyze, the titanium doesn't degrade in any way. If it did, 3 year old marshmallows wouldn't be white. Trust me, they are.
The limiting factor is the disk spin rate, they simply cannot spin much faster than they do now without beginning to wobble, which very quickly shatters the disc.
The answer is packing the data in tighter.
This is why DVD's read an order of magnitude faster than CD's, and Blue Ray is an order of magnitude faster than DVD. They all take about the same amount of time to dump data to disk.
Increase the data density, increase the speed. A disk with much data packed inside will take about as long to rip as a CD, assuming the hard drive could keep up.
Why would they apologize to you? It was their own story that the Watchowski Brothers ruined, not yours. I could see cutting off an ear in shame or something, but an apology?
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2.
Any chemical made entirely of titanium and oxygen can be correctly called titanium oxide, dumbass. Yes, titanium dioxide is more specific, but titanium dioxide is just a form of titanium oxide. I could see you correcting the article if they had called it titanium monoxide or dititanium trioxide, but titanium oxide? That's what it is.
It's no different than iron oxide (which has like, 4 or 5 forms).
Not to mention the fact that neither titanium oxide nor aluminum oxide are toxic in any way. The former is what makes toothpaste white, the latter are more commonly known as rubies, sapphires, or the abrasive in sandpaper.
It's an obvious ripoff of Repo! The Genetic Opera, which is a film adaptation of the successful play by the same name. Repo Men is based on the book Repossession Mamba, which was obviously taken from the play - it was not conceived until well after the play had been released, and the core of the plot and story elements are identical. It's basically just short of plagiarism. I'm also not sure how many books and screenplays are written in tandem, as this one was.
For what it's worth, I really liked the first one. It was an amazing story, and Reeves' unique dumber-than-brick acting style really worked, lent the role an intense cluelessness that was perfect. Once Neo knows what he's doing though, the dumber-than-brick style of Reeves' just doesn't work. It just means Neo is a dumb fuck. As such, the second was only watchable for the fight scenes, and the third was just plain terrible. Even the fight scenes weren't that good.
28 year copyrights with an optional one time renewal of 28 years, that's what they had in the early 1900's. It wasn't until 1976 that it went up to life of the author + 50 years. That's just insane (inspired by the French, no doubt). Then the Sonny Bonno act bumped it up to life + 70 and made copyright automatic. That's right, you actually had to apply for copyright for most of the 1900's. We have whole genres of music that almost certainly wouldn't exist today (soul, rap, rock, just to name a few) thanks to the loose copyright laws.
The old laws actually made sense. Hell, I'd be willing to make the renewal unlimited so long as the rights ended at the author's death, provided there was some moderate fee - say $10,000 inflation-matched. That way they have to decide if it's actually worth more than $10k to renew, and if it is, then great! It obviously means it was a rare huge success.
100% of modern culture is locked up by copyright. Everything from the 70's should be public domain today, yet we can't even get stuff from the 40's. We can get stuff from the 30's for anybody who died around the time they produced the work, but nearly everything from 1900 to the present is locked away by copyright. That is absolutely insane.
I much prefer Chrome - so clean, so shiny, so fast. FF is a major hog on my system, generally the most memory intensive program running (currently 3x the size of McAffee, #2, and 5x the size of Outlook, #3, with only 8 tabs up), yet all it's doing is displaying web pages - most of them static.
I've got to disagree with you there, it's just an application that runs at a lower level to make it easier to run higher level applications. It's known as an Operating System, but it isn't fundamentally different than any other application, and it is identical to other applications with regard to re-writes and such.
Uh... I'm not sure you've got the idea of patents down yet.
The entire point of patents are to instruct how something works and how to make it.
And how do they do that? With a limited monopoly on the idea, not the implementation. It's the exact opposite coverage of copyright, which grants a limited monopoly on the expression but not the idea. Trademarks is a monopoly over a name under certain conditions.
However, these patents are too broad and cover far too much.
The patents themselves aren't, it's the pools that are far too broad and cover far too much. On that I agree. However there is a sharp distinction between what the MPEG-LA is doing and what ordinary patents do.
The alternative situation here is potentially just as stifling - with a thousand patents you may be infringing, creating new codecs can be frightening, especially if the patent holder you've infringed isn't doing so hot economically (or worse, they're doing fantastically well and want to keep it that way). You can be hit with outrageous licensing terms after you've already invested your time and money into creating your codec, or you could be sued outright and bankrupt for infringing a patent you didn't know about.
MPEG-LA takes away a lot of uncertainty, and that's a definite boon. However, in my opinion such a large patent pool has the potential for incredible harm, far worse than the individual patents could if all were taken separately.
Taking out MPEG-LA tosses everything up in the air, and won't necessarily allow for more innovation. It can't allow for less, however, so I think it's definitely worth the risk.
My favorite is DeepBurn for Windows. There is a paid pro version, but I haven't even bothered to look up its features because the free version does everything I've ever needed it to do.
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Most titanium oxides of any sort are semi-unstable and degrade fairly easily
Really? My toothpaste doesn't seem to degrade all that quickly.
In fact, titanium dioxide is chemically stable. What you're confused about is the fact that it is photcatalytic. That's what makes it attractive as a sunscreen. It uses up the UV energy by combining other elements in the sunscreen. That's why it fades, it runs out of stuff to catalyze, the titanium doesn't degrade in any way. If it did, 3 year old marshmallows wouldn't be white. Trust me, they are.
It makes them all 10x funnier, while at the same time creating a strong urge to take a shower and was your mouth out with soap.
The limiting factor is the disk spin rate, they simply cannot spin much faster than they do now without beginning to wobble, which very quickly shatters the disc.
The answer is packing the data in tighter.
This is why DVD's read an order of magnitude faster than CD's, and Blue Ray is an order of magnitude faster than DVD. They all take about the same amount of time to dump data to disk.
Increase the data density, increase the speed. A disk with much data packed inside will take about as long to rip as a CD, assuming the hard drive could keep up.
Yeah yeah! Instead of being just stuck with the one wavelength of modern light, they could sort of, stretch it or squish it, then everything changes!
I propose we call this new light "Ploo" just to torment future generations.
Why would they apologize to you? It was their own story that the Watchowski Brothers ruined, not yours. I could see cutting off an ear in shame or something, but an apology?
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2.
Any chemical made entirely of titanium and oxygen can be correctly called titanium oxide, dumbass. Yes, titanium dioxide is more specific, but titanium dioxide is just a form of titanium oxide. I could see you correcting the article if they had called it titanium monoxide or dititanium trioxide, but titanium oxide? That's what it is.
It's no different than iron oxide (which has like, 4 or 5 forms).
Not to mention the fact that neither titanium oxide nor aluminum oxide are toxic in any way. The former is what makes toothpaste white, the latter are more commonly known as rubies, sapphires, or the abrasive in sandpaper.
Exactly.
This is about as useful as shoving a cell phone up his ass and claiming he now has 3g.
In the future won't be "a penny for your thoughts".
What a great tag line for an evil character! "Penny for your thoughts?" *slice*
It's an obvious ripoff of Repo! The Genetic Opera, which is a film adaptation of the successful play by the same name. Repo Men is based on the book Repossession Mamba, which was obviously taken from the play - it was not conceived until well after the play had been released, and the core of the plot and story elements are identical. It's basically just short of plagiarism. I'm also not sure how many books and screenplays are written in tandem, as this one was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera
For what it's worth, I really liked the first one. It was an amazing story, and Reeves' unique dumber-than-brick acting style really worked, lent the role an intense cluelessness that was perfect. Once Neo knows what he's doing though, the dumber-than-brick style of Reeves' just doesn't work. It just means Neo is a dumb fuck. As such, the second was only watchable for the fight scenes, and the third was just plain terrible. Even the fight scenes weren't that good.
*STHNRABITEL...
* Someone that have not read a book in their entire life.
The first thing I thought was "Damn, someone really resented having a kid."
Hehe, that's what I was going to say.
28 year copyrights with an optional one time renewal of 28 years, that's what they had in the early 1900's. It wasn't until 1976 that it went up to life of the author + 50 years. That's just insane (inspired by the French, no doubt). Then the Sonny Bonno act bumped it up to life + 70 and made copyright automatic. That's right, you actually had to apply for copyright for most of the 1900's. We have whole genres of music that almost certainly wouldn't exist today (soul, rap, rock, just to name a few) thanks to the loose copyright laws.
The old laws actually made sense. Hell, I'd be willing to make the renewal unlimited so long as the rights ended at the author's death, provided there was some moderate fee - say $10,000 inflation-matched. That way they have to decide if it's actually worth more than $10k to renew, and if it is, then great! It obviously means it was a rare huge success.
100% of modern culture is locked up by copyright. Everything from the 70's should be public domain today, yet we can't even get stuff from the 40's. We can get stuff from the 30's for anybody who died around the time they produced the work, but nearly everything from 1900 to the present is locked away by copyright. That is absolutely insane.
So, Obama's message was:
Have hope! I won't do shit!
Is that what you're saying?
Them: "You SURE you want chow mein right? Chow mein have no noodle.".
Sounds like your favorite restaurant doesn't know how to make chow mein...
Just like they mod people trolls when they disagree.
Mods are always thinkin outside the box. ;)
That's exactly why I don't use it much.
I much prefer Chrome - so clean, so shiny, so fast. FF is a major hog on my system, generally the most memory intensive program running (currently 3x the size of McAffee, #2, and 5x the size of Outlook, #3, with only 8 tabs up), yet all it's doing is displaying web pages - most of them static.
The overhead to maintain it soon turned from insane to nuts...
Huh, I always thought "insane" was crazier than plain old "nuts".
And Mac OS X isn't an application
I've got to disagree with you there, it's just an application that runs at a lower level to make it easier to run higher level applications. It's known as an Operating System, but it isn't fundamentally different than any other application, and it is identical to other applications with regard to re-writes and such.
It's funny, Microsoft tried this.
It took years and years to develop, because they were practically re-writing it from the ground up.
Know what it was?
It was called "Windows Vista", and it was an unqualified failure for the only group of users MS really cares about - business users.
Turns out, sometimes you can't stop looking backward even if you want to.
"My name is Khyber, and Nero's anti-trust complaint was my idea."
I believe that's the wording in the US constitution.
Which is an abuse of law.
Uh... I'm not sure you've got the idea of patents down yet.
The entire point of patents are to instruct how something works and how to make it.
And how do they do that? With a limited monopoly on the idea, not the implementation. It's the exact opposite coverage of copyright, which grants a limited monopoly on the expression but not the idea. Trademarks is a monopoly over a name under certain conditions.
However, these patents are too broad and cover far too much.
The patents themselves aren't, it's the pools that are far too broad and cover far too much. On that I agree. However there is a sharp distinction between what the MPEG-LA is doing and what ordinary patents do.
The alternative situation here is potentially just as stifling - with a thousand patents you may be infringing, creating new codecs can be frightening, especially if the patent holder you've infringed isn't doing so hot economically (or worse, they're doing fantastically well and want to keep it that way). You can be hit with outrageous licensing terms after you've already invested your time and money into creating your codec, or you could be sued outright and bankrupt for infringing a patent you didn't know about.
MPEG-LA takes away a lot of uncertainty, and that's a definite boon. However, in my opinion such a large patent pool has the potential for incredible harm, far worse than the individual patents could if all were taken separately.
Taking out MPEG-LA tosses everything up in the air, and won't necessarily allow for more innovation. It can't allow for less, however, so I think it's definitely worth the risk.
Consider that DVD was developed in 1995, so the base MPEG-2 patents expire within 5 years, if not earlier.
Patents last 28 years (in the US at least), that puppy has another 13 years or so on it.
My favorite is DeepBurn for Windows. There is a paid pro version, but I haven't even bothered to look up its features because the free version does everything I've ever needed it to do.