Easy to fix. Set up a RupertMurdock tracking site. Every time someone see's Rupert, or on of his family, they report it to the site. (With pictures, where available.) Once a week, a $1000 dollar prize is awarded to the best sighting.
I am sure this close scrutiny would piss the bloody old prick off enough so that he would learn to pull his head in. Thank Christ Rupert renounced his Australian citizenship. and became a US citizen, as this type of behavior is very un-Australian! (But... it is about par for the USA!)
The truth is he used it to decipher many of the emails he had in his in tray... It shocked him so much that he decided dictionaries were a bad thing. (He probably concluded that the dic part was rude in its own right!
Apple users are after all religious users of technology. (Otherwise, they would be Luddites!)
Well, compare yourself to Australia... http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=NB03014.pdf
Our population is about 1/12th that of the US, but our gun deaths are about 100th those of the USA. Also, since a draconian change to our laws, te gun deaths have fallen 50%. This is indicative of what the USA might become if it altered its current laws.
H'mm, beryllium used to be the element of choice for thermal grease before its carcinogenic properties were understood. However, thermal grease used to be explained as preventing gas filled voids between the heatsink and the device to be cooled.
While diamond does have good thermal conductivity, I wonder if anyone has tried a thin slab of bismuth. Bismuth is reasonably conductive, is fairly malleable, and will readily deform to get rid of any voids. It also has a very low melting point. a hot cup of coffee placed on a slab of bismuth is sufficient to leave an indent of the cups base!
How does XKCD work as a book? Half of the joke is only seen when you hover over the cartoon. Sometimes the material is only understanable if you happen to understand the context, usually some obscure subject in mathematics, science, or tech.
You obviously have never ever worked on complex hardware/software. Unless there are only a few commands, you cannot possibly test all the various possible combinations! If you read the article, you would find that a reboot between the offending command was required before the problem showed... not something that most testing regimes would have specified in the first place!
That patent is far too specific. To begin with, you specifically indicate that two ropes are required, thus an imitator using either 1 or more than two ropes has already invalidated your patent. Secondly, you specify rope... what about chains, or some other connecting media. You obviously have a long way to go in this area.
PS: which version of the bible... there are hundreds of versions, and they do not all contain the same text!
How about a user initiated DDOS attack? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) A few thousand people continuously (and aggressively pinging the relevant servers might get the message through to the greedy bastards who think adverts in games is a good idea. Supposedly, adverts in television is what pays the bills (Although, pay TV in Australia has grown to have 8 minutes of ads in any 30 minute time slot, go figure... GREED again!)
One wonders about this. To orbit some AD HOC electronics package does not sound like a very good idea to me! At the very least, the packages would need to pass stringent EMI/EMC testing, the likes of which would undoubtedly cost more than $8k alone!
Mind you, would be great for making annoying messages to broadcast down upon unsuspecting populations. (I am sure I could easily build a low power TV transmitter + annoying several hours of program material (set to repeat) in less than 220 grams!) (how many 50 gram 4 gig MPEG players are around that would suffice for just the program material!)
Lets face it, the Music Industry have only themselves to blame. At one time, the various musical genre's could be counted on one hand. Around the 1970's, all of a sudden the "Music industry" added 10 or more "new" ones. (Lets see, Punk, Hip-Hop, Rap, new wave,... ).
Lets face it, the disposable income of the music buying public has been significantly impacted by many things (IE: mobile phones, Computer Video games...) Now with technology moving on, there is significantly more competition for their product, yet they refuse to acknowledge this competition. While I doubt that the industry will totally wither away, there will be a long period of adjustment. (Good riddance to the loser's. Perhaps some genuine competition will occur with those that remain.)
You're mostly correct, except it wasn't the Germans themselves who did it. It was the Allies, then still occupying Germany, who imposed most of those restrictions as the required condition of Germany becoming a free independent state again.
Am I alone in thinking that this seems rather ironic? The countries that traditionally valued freedom disallowing the very same freedom in a conquered country? (However, most of these so called "freedom loving" countries are now devolving into fascist regimes in their own right.)
I hate Microsoft and now Apple is starting to give me a rash.
I have always thought Apple made product that was technically inferior to the equivalent IBM style hardware. (This is still true... just looking at an Apple Laptop proves it (and they still have a one button mouse) They have always been secretive, and if it wasn't for the artyfart fan boys, Apple would have been long gone. The one thing Apple seems to be good at is marketing. Apple marketing could successfully sell ice to Eskimo's.
RIAA... Recording Institute Association of America You could always do what you did to the POMS (British) in Boston... Sack their offices and pour all of the Music into the bay. (Perhaps Pirate Bay?).
Yes, this sucks... and is certainly illegal under the current Australian laws. But, remember, copyright laws in the USA have been somewhat dubious for a long time. Unfortunately, influence is about the only thing the USA has (successfully) exported for at least 30 years. So, expect the rest of the world to eventually catch this very same disease. (Shit, I forgot about Junk Bonds issued by USA Banks... very successful export there guys!)
Has ARM actually shipped any CPU's? I always believed ARM was a licensed architechture. Its makers are Sharp, Intel, Fairchild, The fred blogs IC company...
Personally, I don't expect M$ to target the ARM market until there are valid financial reasons to do so!
I had always read that the Arabs were the repository of ancient knowledge, keeping good quality copies in libraries, not some cloister in some hick medieval village. (In fact, religion is often quoted as being the cause of the destruction of the library at Alexandria...) Thus our numeric scheme (0..9, 10...). As much as many seem to deny (in the threads above) Religion has been accused of holding back scientific progress. If some halfwit religous nut calculates that the world is only 6231.1215926 years old, that is the age of the world! Thus evolution is a load of crap, since the world is demonstrably less than 7000 years old.
Better get of my soapbox now, before some deluded religious maniac threatens me with bodily harm.
HA HA, organic milk. Laughed my arse off!... Just exactly how does organic milk differ from the "other" type? I have visions of a star trek "Borg" cow somehow hooked up to a milking cube.
Exactly!. Why do they insist it needs de-orbiting in 2016? This seems to be the ultimate stupidity! (Sell it to Hilton as the ultimate (for now) tourist destination!)
Bloody hell, what is the real difference between a VCR/tape recorder and a computer podcast? None that really matters, except the media has been digitised for storage. I guess all sorts of crap will endf up being patented at this rate. Perhaps a digital method for excreting modified proteins? (Having a crap (all in "digital" pieces).
The USPTO obviously pays peanuts, because their decisions are definitely made by monkee's.
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Easy to fix. Set up a RupertMurdock tracking site. Every time someone see's Rupert, or on of his family, they report it to the site. (With pictures, where available.) Once a week, a $1000 dollar prize is awarded to the best sighting.
... it is about par for the USA!)
I am sure this close scrutiny would piss the bloody old prick off enough so that he would learn to pull his head in. Thank Christ Rupert renounced his Australian citizenship. and became a US citizen, as this type of behavior is very un-Australian! (But
Not to mention the taste is out of this world.
The truth is he used it to decipher many of the emails he had in his in tray ... It shocked him so much that he decided dictionaries were a bad thing. (He probably concluded that the dic part was rude in its own right!
Apple users are after all religious users of technology. (Otherwise, they would be Luddites!)
Well, compare yourself to Australia ... http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=NB03014.pdf
Our population is about 1/12th that of the US, but our gun deaths are about 100th those of the USA. Also, since a draconian change to our laws, te gun deaths have fallen 50%. This is indicative of what the USA might become if it altered its current laws.
H'mm, beryllium used to be the element of choice for thermal grease before its carcinogenic properties were understood. However, thermal grease used to be explained as preventing gas filled voids between the heatsink and the device to be cooled.
While diamond does have good thermal conductivity, I wonder if anyone has tried a thin slab of bismuth. Bismuth is reasonably conductive, is fairly malleable, and will readily deform to get rid of any voids. It also has a very low melting point. a hot cup of coffee placed on a slab of bismuth is sufficient to leave an indent of the cups base!
H'mm, you must NOT be a real geek, since for a real geek, the saying goes
... Never the less, I suppose your going to live with your mother ...
When ALL else fails, RTFM!
(Besides, your getting married
30000 lbs ... how many obese Americans does it take to reach 30000lbs? Can you fit this many on a jumbo jet?
How does XKCD work as a book? Half of the joke is only seen when you hover over the cartoon. Sometimes the material is only understanable if you happen to understand the context, usually some obscure subject in mathematics, science, or tech.
Just showed that your simulation was poor. Try using the AFTER command in VHDL to generate more precise simulations.
You obviously have never ever worked on complex hardware/software. Unless there are only a few commands, you cannot possibly test all the various possible combinations! If you read the article, you would find that a reboot between the offending command was required before the problem showed ... not something that most testing regimes would have specified in the first place!
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
That patent is far too specific. To begin with, you specifically indicate that two ropes are required, thus an imitator using either 1 or more than two ropes has already invalidated your patent. Secondly, you specify rope ... what about chains, or some other connecting media. You obviously have a long way to go in this area.
... there are hundreds of versions, and they do not all contain the same text!
PS: which version of the bible
How about a user initiated DDOS attack? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) A few thousand people continuously (and aggressively pinging the relevant servers might get the message through to the greedy bastards who think adverts in games is a good idea. Supposedly, adverts in television is what pays the bills (Although, pay TV in Australia has grown to have 8 minutes of ads in any 30 minute time slot, go figure ... GREED again!)
The really good hackers they extradite from The UK!
One wonders about this. To orbit some AD HOC electronics package does not sound like a very good idea to me! At the very least, the packages would need to pass stringent EMI/EMC testing, the likes of which would undoubtedly cost more than $8k alone!
Mind you, would be great for making annoying messages to broadcast down upon unsuspecting populations. (I am sure I could easily build a low power TV transmitter + annoying several hours of program material (set to repeat) in less than 220 grams!) (how many 50 gram 4 gig MPEG players are around that would suffice for just the program material!)
Lets face it, the Music Industry have only themselves to blame. At one time, the various musical genre's could be counted on one hand. Around the 1970's, all of a sudden the "Music industry" added 10 or more "new" ones. (Lets see, Punk, Hip-Hop, Rap, new wave, ... ).
...) Now with technology moving on, there is significantly more competition for their product, yet they refuse to acknowledge this competition. While I doubt that the industry will totally wither away, there will be a long period of adjustment. (Good riddance to the loser's. Perhaps some genuine competition will occur with those that remain.)
Lets face it, the disposable income of the music buying public has been significantly impacted by many things (IE: mobile phones, Computer Video games
You're mostly correct, except it wasn't the Germans themselves who did it. It was the Allies, then still occupying Germany, who imposed most of those restrictions as the required condition of Germany becoming a free independent state again.
Am I alone in thinking that this seems rather ironic? The countries that traditionally valued freedom disallowing the very same freedom in a conquered country? (However, most of these so called "freedom loving" countries are now devolving into fascist regimes in their own right.)
Christ, even night carts only had 50 pisstins.
On the other hand, think how fast your fusion powered car would go, given 220 pistons!
I hate Microsoft and now Apple is starting to give me a rash.
I have always thought Apple made product that was technically inferior to the equivalent IBM style hardware. (This is still true ... just looking at an Apple Laptop proves it (and they still have a one button mouse) They have always been secretive, and if it wasn't for the artyfart fan boys, Apple would have been long gone. The one thing Apple seems to be good at is marketing. Apple marketing could successfully sell ice to Eskimo's.
RIAA ... Recording Institute Association of America You could always do what you did to the POMS (British) in Boston ... Sack their offices and pour all of the Music into the bay. (Perhaps Pirate Bay?).
... and is certainly illegal under the current Australian laws. But, remember, copyright laws in the USA have been somewhat dubious for a long time. Unfortunately, influence is about the only thing the USA has (successfully) exported for at least 30 years. So, expect the rest of the world to eventually catch this very same disease. (Shit, I forgot about Junk Bonds issued by USA Banks ... very successful export there guys!)
Yes, this sucks
Has ARM actually shipped any CPU's? I always believed ARM was a licensed architechture. Its makers are Sharp, Intel, Fairchild, The fred blogs IC company ...
Personally, I don't expect M$ to target the ARM market until there are valid financial reasons to do so!
I had always read that the Arabs were the repository of ancient knowledge, keeping good quality copies in libraries, not some cloister in some hick medieval village. (In fact, religion is often quoted as being the cause of the destruction of the library at Alexandria ...) Thus our numeric scheme (0..9, 10 ...). As much as many seem to deny (in the threads above) Religion has been accused of holding back scientific progress. If some halfwit religous nut calculates that the world is only 6231.1215926 years old, that is the age of the world! Thus evolution is a load of crap, since the world is demonstrably less than 7000 years old.
Better get of my soapbox now, before some deluded religious maniac threatens me with bodily harm.
HA HA, organic milk. Laughed my arse off! ... Just exactly how does organic milk differ from the "other" type? I have visions of a star trek "Borg" cow somehow hooked up to a milking cube.
Exactly!. Why do they insist it needs de-orbiting in 2016? This seems to be the ultimate stupidity! (Sell it to Hilton as the ultimate (for now) tourist destination!)
Bloody hell, what is the real difference between a VCR/tape recorder and a computer podcast? None that really matters, except the media has been digitised for storage. I guess all sorts of crap will endf up being patented at this rate. Perhaps a digital method for excreting modified proteins? (Having a crap (all in "digital" pieces).
The USPTO obviously pays peanuts, because their decisions are definitely made by monkee's.
This is also known as "the true cost of using Microsoft Products".