Content providers are feel they are entitled to laws that enhance their profit margins, at the expense of fair-use rights that consumers had. So they buy lobbyists to buy congresscreatures to give them such laws.
As a consumer, I now (post DMCA) have fewer rights than I had before. I no longer buy DRM-crippled media.
Right. Developers have an incentive to write their apps to the API that has the most installations. Users have an incentive to purchase and install the OS that has the best applications.
Turing's Bombe was used to break the 3-rotor Enigma, in use up unti 1943. Joe Desch, working for NCR in Dayton, built the machines that decrypted the 4-rotor Enigma.
I have an outdoor light switched by a photo-detector; comes on at dusk (or when the storm clouds congregate), and shuts off at dawn (or when the skies clear). I had been changing the bulb in that fixture every 3-4 months. About a year ago, I found a six-pack of chinese 13-watt CFL bulbs for $8. Coulda been at Lowes, or Home Depot, or Big Lots. Anyway, that bulb is still glowing all night long.
Can I put CFL bulbs into a ceiling fan? Garage door opener? I want to cut my electric bill, but most of the light fixtures in my house take the small-base chandelier bulbs; haven't seen those in CFLs yet.
I am sort-of a Linux Desktop user. Mostly I am cheap. There is no money in the budget for tech at home. I have a system cobbled together from donated parts, and a HD, motherboard and RAM that I purchased new. Running 2005 Mandriva.
Two problems: in a recent power outage, the master block (?) on the root file system got corrupted. So it comes up in read-only mode. And my wife recently scored a laser printer (in a box-lot at an auction. It came with 2 reams of paper, for $2. Essentially free, but for my time...)
Second issue is that I want the Linux box to be a print server to a Win 98 (100 base-T ehternet) desktop, a WinXP (802.11g wireless) laptop, and a MacOS 9 desktop iMac (100 base-T; ethernet port burned out). I had file serving working to the Mac and the desktop PC (WTF is up with windows security? If I login to the Win machine with no password, I can login to the SMB server also without a password? That isn't secure...)
I'd like the Linux box to also be a usable desktop box (web browsing, checkbook, and some games). And I should get it set up for web development (I earn a living developing web sites in Java).
Say my resources are limited to a stack of blank CD-Rs and after-hours time on a work PC with a CD burner. No cash. What is the best path forward?
Harold Hotelling's Theory of Oligopoly. It also explains why car dealerships end up all bunched together on the same road. Why in a widely-contested primary all the candidates seem to end up in the same position-the middle.
Years ago (i.e. 1996/1997), I was facing the same dilemma with my (now ex-) wife's machine. 486 DX2, IIRC. To get a more powerful processor, we would need a new motherboard. Which meant a new case (mini-AT vs. ATX). New vidoe card (old one was EISA, vs. VESA Local bus or PCI. I don't think AGP was around yes.) New RAM. The CD-ROM was quite obsolete, which left the only reusable components as the hard and floppy drives. The hard drive was already an upgrade.
It was cheaper to get a new PC and to sell the old one to a second hand shop for a hundred bucks.
The 486 briefly ran Linux (that machine was named "Codger", 'cause it was so old. The PowerMac 6100 next to it, when it booted MkLinux, was "Dodger".)
I live in Ohio and we see our Ohio vehicle companies (Honda, GM, Jeep) competing against foreign ones: Toyota across the river in Kentucky; Mazda, Ford and the rest north of the line in MI.
I don't remember that. And it's been less than 10 years since I borrowed TMiaHM from my brother and read it... Maybe it's time for me to read it again.
Lawyers notice that they can win multi-million dollar settlements from MPAA victims. They start advertising for victims, and taking the cases on contingency, and become wealthy. The MPAA stops its practice of threatening individuals. Everybody smiles.
The Russians won a few space races, mostly in the beginning, and then lost a few.
Wins for the Soviets: First satellite in orbit. First human in orbit, and first woman in orbit. First probe of the atmosphere of Venus, lander on Venus. First orbit of Mars, lander on Mars
Wins for the USA: Docking in space. Manned missions to the moon. First flyby of Venus and of Mars, first dual-planet missions, and first missions to the outer planets (Jupiter and beyond). Rovers on Mars. First reusable space vehicle.
Except the way that votes are counted means that one has to vote strategically when one would most like to support a third-party candidate, but still wants input on the choice between the two major-party candidates.
Suppose I like the Libertarian, or Green, or Communist or some other candidate best, but still think that the Republican candidate is a detestable, corrupt, incompetent tool of the Rich and Powerful and the Democratic candidate would only stop making things worse. Until vote counting enables me to express preferences among all candidates, I am stuck. There is no way for me to "vote my conscience"; any vote I cast will be a betrayal of my principles.
"I knew the moment I was pregnant. I could feel it even before the test came out positive." There is a very small possibility that they could detect some slight change in hormone level or other biological indicator but the chances are very, very small.
On what basis do you assess those chances? I have a high-school biology level of understanding of what happens when a fertilized egg implants in a uterus. All kinds of chemical changes happen to that organ; I am not at all surprized that many women claim the ability to detect those changes. My (now ex-) wife was one of them.
never have understood this. Why do they use such flimsy tubing when they run lines under ground? Why not use man-sized tunnels? You don't have to dig them up.
Cost. Those man-sized tubes in man-sized tunnels cost a lot. And have to be maintained, so they don't develop leaks or collapse.
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200 amp service * 220 volts (hot-to-hot) = 44,000 watts.
Recharging 100,000 watt-hours in 5 minutes = 1,200,000 watts.
So the answer is, collectively, the mains feeding 27 households.
I'll let someone more familiar with the NEC spec how thick the conductors have to be.
I doubt that the company will be able to fulfill their claims.
Content providers are feel they are entitled to laws that enhance their profit margins, at the expense of fair-use rights that consumers had. So they buy lobbyists to buy congresscreatures to give them such laws.
As a consumer, I now (post DMCA) have fewer rights than I had before. I no longer buy DRM-crippled media.
Right. Developers have an incentive to write their apps to the API that has the most installations. Users have an incentive to purchase and install the OS that has the best applications.
Chekov didn't appear until the second season.
Turing's Bombe was used to break the 3-rotor Enigma, in use up unti 1943. Joe Desch, working for NCR in Dayton, built the machines that decrypted the 4-rotor Enigma.
I have an outdoor light switched by a photo-detector; comes on at dusk (or when the storm clouds congregate), and shuts off at dawn (or when the skies clear). I had been changing the bulb in that fixture every 3-4 months. About a year ago, I found a six-pack of chinese 13-watt CFL bulbs for $8. Coulda been at Lowes, or Home Depot, or Big Lots. Anyway, that bulb is still glowing all night long.
Can I put CFL bulbs into a ceiling fan? Garage door opener? I want to cut my electric bill, but most of the light fixtures in my house take the small-base chandelier bulbs; haven't seen those in CFLs yet.
I am sort-of a Linux Desktop user. Mostly I am cheap. There is no money in the budget for tech at home. I have a system cobbled together from donated parts, and a HD, motherboard and RAM that I purchased new. Running 2005 Mandriva.
Two problems: in a recent power outage, the master block (?) on the root file system got corrupted. So it comes up in read-only mode. And my wife recently scored a laser printer (in a box-lot at an auction. It came with 2 reams of paper, for $2. Essentially free, but for my time...)
Second issue is that I want the Linux box to be a print server to a Win 98 (100 base-T ehternet) desktop, a WinXP (802.11g wireless) laptop, and a MacOS 9 desktop iMac (100 base-T; ethernet port burned out). I had file serving working to the Mac and the desktop PC (WTF is up with windows security? If I login to the Win machine with no password, I can login to the SMB server also without a password? That isn't secure...)
I'd like the Linux box to also be a usable desktop box (web browsing, checkbook, and some games). And I should get it set up for web development (I earn a living developing web sites in Java).
Say my resources are limited to a stack of blank CD-Rs and after-hours time on a work PC with a CD burner. No cash. What is the best path forward?
Harold Hotelling's Theory of Oligopoly. It also explains why car dealerships end up all bunched together on the same road. Why in a widely-contested primary all the candidates seem to end up in the same position-the middle.
Years ago (i.e. 1996/1997), I was facing the same dilemma with my (now ex-) wife's machine. 486 DX2, IIRC. To get a more powerful processor, we would need a new motherboard. Which meant a new case (mini-AT vs. ATX). New vidoe card (old one was EISA, vs. VESA Local bus or PCI. I don't think AGP was around yes.) New RAM. The CD-ROM was quite obsolete, which left the only reusable components as the hard and floppy drives. The hard drive was already an upgrade.
It was cheaper to get a new PC and to sell the old one to a second hand shop for a hundred bucks.
The 486 briefly ran Linux (that machine was named "Codger", 'cause it was so old. The PowerMac 6100 next to it, when it booted MkLinux, was "Dodger".)
And the 486 also ran Doom.
I live in Ohio and we see our Ohio vehicle companies (Honda, GM, Jeep) competing against foreign ones: Toyota across the river in Kentucky; Mazda, Ford and the rest north of the line in MI.
What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
I don't remember that. And it's been less than 10 years since I borrowed TMiaHM from my brother and read it... Maybe it's time for me to read it again.
Lawyers notice that they can win multi-million dollar settlements from MPAA victims. They start advertising for victims, and taking the cases on contingency, and become wealthy. The MPAA stops its practice of threatening individuals. Everybody smiles.
The book is about MacOS X. The PDF is about the history of Apple's operating systems.
The German Me-163 Comet aircraft did not breathe oxidizer from the ambient.
Vostok wasn't reusable.
A reusable VTOL craft is new.
My mod points expired yesterday; otherwise you'd have one more.
+1 Informative.
Resistance is Useless! (Sombody had to say this!)
The Russians won a few space races, mostly in the beginning, and then lost a few.
Wins for the Soviets: First satellite in orbit. First human in orbit, and first woman in orbit. First probe of the atmosphere of Venus, lander on Venus. First orbit of Mars, lander on Mars
Wins for the USA: Docking in space. Manned missions to the moon. First flyby of Venus and of Mars, first dual-planet missions, and first missions to the outer planets (Jupiter and beyond). Rovers on Mars. First reusable space vehicle.
http://www.astrodigital.org/mars/mission_past.html They need to update their site. The 2003 rover missions to Mars are no longer "future"; they belong in the "successful" category.
Except the way that votes are counted means that one has to vote strategically when one would most like to support a third-party candidate, but still wants input on the choice between the two major-party candidates.
Suppose I like the Libertarian, or Green, or Communist or some other candidate best, but still think that the Republican candidate is a detestable, corrupt, incompetent tool of the Rich and Powerful and the Democratic candidate would only stop making things worse. Until vote counting enables me to express preferences among all candidates, I am stuck. There is no way for me to "vote my conscience"; any vote I cast will be a betrayal of my principles.
It's winning the suit that is hard. Absolutely no guarantee that you could do that before you ran out of money.