Seriously though, I'm sure that an explosion in piracy would cause Google to require a SSN, Driver's License number, thumbprint and a blood sample to set up an account.
On a side note - I thought I remembered that the higher the voltage, the more efficient the transmission line, however I know that works for DC (If I recall TVA uses something like 50K Volt DC lines to ship power around) don't know about AC power.
If I remember correctly, one of the reasons that the world went with AC over DC was because you can change the voltage of AC without interrupting the transmission. You can pump up the voltage to overcome the initial impedence of the lines and then reduce the voltage to use less electricity. Also the fact that you don't need a substation every 3 miles helps.
I haven't used it in years, but I remember MetroWerks Codewarrior having options to optimize for specific PPC chips under the Mac OS. At the time I was using a 603ev so any time I coded anything that was math intensive I used to select that chip.
To be honest, I'm not sure how much of a benefit it provided, but I used it anyway.
LK
Re:Chip design in a nutshell for the lazy:
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My girlfriend has 3 children, they are disc reapers. Games come into this house to die. It's amazine how badly a child can treat a game disc.
They're so bad, that they are simply not allowed to touch any of my disks.
I haven't taken the time to learn about copying PS2 or XBox games, but I really should. The stack of games in their rooms that look like they've been run over by a truck are a testament to that.
Yassin himself saying it in public as a Hamas official is not enough for you? With other Hamas officials corroborating it and promising more?
Groups like Hamas would claim responsibility for any act that they thought would advance their cause.
By this logic, it is illegal to target enemy's high command -- anyone not directly on the battlefield. If we accept your interpretation, US shouldn't have targeted Saddam in his bunker, for example.
Exactly.
Exactly my point -- we upset him by deploying in Arabia, which we did to protect Kuwait -- a Muslim nation, BTW. Not because of Israel (however hard Saddam tried to bring Israel into war).
The theory is (I can't say I agree or disagree at this point, but it sounds plausible enough to me) that the US encouraged Iraq to invade Kuwait. April Glaspie told Saddam that the US wasn't concerned with Arab-Arab conflicts. Once the invasion had occured, we used that as a pretext to put our soldiers on the ground.
I can't say that I believe 100% in that theory, but it does make a great deal of sense, so I can't discount it 100% either.
Too many goverments around the world seem to thing that they're doing businesses a favor by allowing them to operate. When they place undue restrictions upon those businesses, the citizenry loses out.
In all honesty, I haven't looked at any of the evidence pro or con. But "Because Israel says so" isn't good enough for me.
As for the legalities, consider killing him an act of war.
From the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949)
In all circumstances, the accused persons shall benefit by safeguards of proper trial and defence, which shall not be less favourable than those provided by Article 105 and those following of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949. Art. 147.
Even war has rules.
In a war you don't put enemies on trial.
Not enemies who are on the battlefield. Ones who sit in wheelchairs away from the field of battle are not combatents. They are not subject to the same treatment as soldiers on the field of battle.
In any case, I'm glad you moved from complaining about cowardly murder to discussing the relative highness of the moral ground.
To me, they are the same issue.
I may be inclined to leave things at this.
We'll never convince each other, we're just distilling our viewpoints.
That did not bother Osama until 1991 when American soldiers were deployed in Middle East in vast numbers to restore Kuwait.
I suspect that he had his hands too full with the Soviets before that time. In any case, we hadn't deployed troops in Arabia then.
The crippled Arab was already in Israeli jail once, and was released in a prisoner exchange. Since the release, he encouraged, organized or helped organized over 400 bombings...
Allegedly.
Even kidnapping them was legally dubious, justified mostly by the countries' internal instabilities at the time.
Kidnapping is never justified. However, at least they were granted trials.
None of this was needed in case of Yassin. No one doubts, he (or those killed by Israel after the Munich bombings) were guilty of the things alleged. The only objections are of the "yes, but..." kind.
Not the only objections. Israel is claiming the moral high ground. You can not do that when you're killing unarmed people without trials.
Osama bin Laden's grudge was the presence of the infidel American soldiers in the holy areas of Saudi Arabia -- the result of our action to defend Kuwait.
Your use of the word Infidel tells much. As translated from arabic an Infidel is more than an unbeliever. To be an infidel, as opposed to simply an unbeliever, you must be seen as hostile towards islam. It is the nature of the US's relationship with Israel that makes that difference.
I apologize, it was just laziness on my part. The list on that page was originally published by the Orlando Sentinel in Feb of 1998. I just did a google search for a phrase that I knew was contained in the list. Ronald's page was the first result.
Glad to see, you are no longer so whipped up about that "murder of an old man" you brought up earlier...
That still upsets me, make no mistake, but the bigger problem and the one that is more relevent to MY life is the US's relationship with Israel, the way that my country supports the Israelis no matter what they do and causes terrorists to hate us by extention.
Whenever former Nazis turned up in South America, they were captured, alive. They were tried. They went to jail. Those cases were handled as they should have been. The guilty were punished. A crippled Arab is apparently less deserving than Nazi war criminals.
We did not have to paint a bullseye on ourselves for Germany by helping Britain out in WW2. Certainly, Hitler wouldn't have attacked us merely for fighting his ally (Japan). Not until he was done with Britain and USSR, that is.
Until Pearl Harbor, it wasn't out fight.
Standing up for Israel is the Right Thing, and I'm glad, US keeps doing it despite occasional calls for appeasement from the misguided parts of the electorate.
Right for whom? I am unwilling to die for Israel. That's what happened to 3,000 of our people two and half years ago. They died because of my country's affiliation with Israel. For example, the most notorius example of Post WWII Germany was when Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich olympics. Athletes from around the world were there, the Israelis were the targets. No one else. How did Israel respond? By executing those that THEY decided were responsible, no trials, no formal presentation of evidence, just Israeli commandos and lethal weapons. Nothing has changed for them in 30 years.
The terrorists do not demand money. Their war is against the Western Civilization.
It's a war against the allies of Israel. There have been Muslims for over 1400 years, they've been blowing things up for less than a century. What's changed?
I keep the mini-iPod in a... hidden place... that's very snug. Muggers never look there, and really, who wants to pull the cord out of there?
Dude, seriously, don't joke about that. There is enough of an impression out there that Apple users tend to be homosexuals. Trust me. It's for your own good.
By your reasoning, a bit can have a value that takes more than a bit to store.
I reject that notion. Depending on the application at hand you may need to differentiate between "right and left" or "red and blue" and so on, but those values get reduced to either "1" or "0".
If you want to start pointing to links, I have one for you.
No reasonable person is going to dispute Israel's right to exist. My problem lies in the fact that their behavior and our relationship with them paints a big bullseye on the US. I can't support that.
I used to think that it was some grand scheme to rip off the public, but when I started to work for Echostar I quickly came to understand why there is no a la carte programming choice available.
No U.S. cable or satellite currently offers such a plan.
DishNetwork used to offer something called Dish Picks, the problem was that the cheapskates who wanted it were constantly calling in and dropping/adding channels; sometimes several times per day. They caused so much additional expense for the company that they had to put an end to it.
To force a la carte cable WILL raise the overhead for the cable companies and they WILL pass that expense on to us.
So what you are really asking is "What do I mean when I say 'bit'?".
You asked for someone to define, bit; I and several others did just that. I guess you were expecting people to marvel at your intellectual prowess. You find yourself pointedly mistaken. All you have done is show your inability to deal with the meaning of such common words as "define" and "meaning".
I see no chance for us to find common ground on virtually any issue, I've seen your posts that amount to very thinly veiled defense of the cowardly murder of a wheelchair bound old man.
I could go on a long Off-Topic rant here about how there is only one country on this planet that routinely engages in assassination as a form of diplomacy and question your sanity and principles for supporting that, but I won't.
My first impression of you was accurate, you are a jackass.
A meter is a bit different. The length of a meter is in relation to the size of the earth, a bit has no such dependency on anything external to itself.
Like I said before, a bit is a binary digit, 1 or 0.
Slashdot Mirror
Werd!
Seriously though, I'm sure that an explosion in piracy would cause Google to require a SSN, Driver's License number, thumbprint and a blood sample to set up an account.
LK
How long would it take to run a "ping" over a pidgeon based connection?
LK
On a side note - I thought I remembered that the higher the voltage, the more efficient the transmission line, however I know that works for DC (If I recall TVA uses something like 50K Volt DC lines to ship power around) don't know about AC power.
If I remember correctly, one of the reasons that the world went with AC over DC was because you can change the voltage of AC without interrupting the transmission. You can pump up the voltage to overcome the initial impedence of the lines and then reduce the voltage to use less electricity. Also the fact that you don't need a substation every 3 miles helps.
LK
Damn, I suddenly feel like such a n00b.
Geez, I can't believe I'm saying this, but it would be cheaper to just buy a Mac.
LK
At one time I shared your dream, but I've since let go. There would have been a great synergy with BeOS.
LK
I haven't used it in years, but I remember MetroWerks Codewarrior having options to optimize for specific PPC chips under the Mac OS. At the time I was using a 603ev so any time I coded anything that was math intensive I used to select that chip.
To be honest, I'm not sure how much of a benefit it provided, but I used it anyway.
LK
You dumb ass. That's chip fabrication!
My girlfriend has 3 children, they are disc reapers. Games come into this house to die. It's amazine how badly a child can treat a game disc.
They're so bad, that they are simply not allowed to touch any of my disks.
I haven't taken the time to learn about copying PS2 or XBox games, but I really should. The stack of games in their rooms that look like they've been run over by a truck are a testament to that.
LK
Yassin himself saying it in public as a Hamas official is not enough for you? With other Hamas officials corroborating it and promising more?
Groups like Hamas would claim responsibility for any act that they thought would advance their cause.
By this logic, it is illegal to target enemy's high command -- anyone not directly on the battlefield. If we accept your interpretation, US shouldn't have targeted Saddam in his bunker, for example.
Exactly.
Exactly my point -- we upset him by deploying in Arabia, which we did to protect Kuwait -- a Muslim nation, BTW. Not because of Israel (however hard Saddam tried to bring Israel into war).
The theory is (I can't say I agree or disagree at this point, but it sounds plausible enough to me) that the US encouraged Iraq to invade Kuwait. April Glaspie told Saddam that the US wasn't concerned with Arab-Arab conflicts. Once the invasion had occured, we used that as a pretext to put our soldiers on the ground.
I can't say that I believe 100% in that theory, but it does make a great deal of sense, so I can't discount it 100% either.
LK
Too many goverments around the world seem to thing that they're doing businesses a favor by allowing them to operate. When they place undue restrictions upon those businesses, the citizenry loses out.
LK
Do you have any doubts?
In all honesty, I haven't looked at any of the evidence pro or con. But "Because Israel says so" isn't good enough for me.
As for the legalities, consider killing him an act of war.
From the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949)
In all circumstances, the accused persons shall benefit by safeguards of proper trial and defence, which shall not be less favourable than those provided by Article 105 and those following of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949. Art. 147.
Even war has rules.
In a war you don't put enemies on trial.
Not enemies who are on the battlefield. Ones who sit in wheelchairs away from the field of battle are not combatents. They are not subject to the same treatment as soldiers on the field of battle.
In any case, I'm glad you moved from complaining about cowardly murder to discussing the relative highness of the moral ground.
To me, they are the same issue.
I may be inclined to leave things at this.
We'll never convince each other, we're just distilling our viewpoints.
That did not bother Osama until 1991 when American soldiers were deployed in Middle East in vast numbers to restore Kuwait.
I suspect that he had his hands too full with the Soviets before that time. In any case, we hadn't deployed troops in Arabia then.
LK
The crippled Arab was already in Israeli jail once, and was released in a prisoner exchange. Since the release, he encouraged, organized or helped organized over 400 bombings...
..." kind.
Allegedly.
Even kidnapping them was legally dubious, justified mostly by the countries' internal instabilities at the time.
Kidnapping is never justified. However, at least they were granted trials.
None of this was needed in case of Yassin. No one doubts, he (or those killed by Israel after the Munich bombings) were guilty of the things alleged. The only objections are of the "yes, but
Not the only objections. Israel is claiming the moral high ground. You can not do that when you're killing unarmed people without trials.
Osama bin Laden's grudge was the presence of the infidel American soldiers in the holy areas of Saudi Arabia -- the result of our action to defend Kuwait.
Your use of the word Infidel tells much. As translated from arabic an Infidel is more than an unbeliever. To be an infidel, as opposed to simply an unbeliever, you must be seen as hostile towards islam. It is the nature of the US's relationship with Israel that makes that difference.
The idea of either of those two's "Bottom lines" makes me feel ill;)
..."Forced Bukkake" video.
I think it might be cool to feature Hillary in a
I apologize, it was just laziness on my part. The list on that page was originally published by the Orlando Sentinel in Feb of 1998. I just did a google search for a phrase that I knew was contained in the list. Ronald's page was the first result.
Glad to see, you are no longer so whipped up about that "murder of an old man" you brought up earlier...
That still upsets me, make no mistake, but the bigger problem and the one that is more relevent to MY life is the US's relationship with Israel, the way that my country supports the Israelis no matter what they do and causes terrorists to hate us by extention.
Whenever former Nazis turned up in South America, they were captured, alive. They were tried. They went to jail. Those cases were handled as they should have been. The guilty were punished. A crippled Arab is apparently less deserving than Nazi war criminals.
We did not have to paint a bullseye on ourselves for Germany by helping Britain out in WW2. Certainly, Hitler wouldn't have attacked us merely for fighting his ally (Japan). Not until he was done with Britain and USSR, that is.
Until Pearl Harbor, it wasn't out fight.
Standing up for Israel is the Right Thing, and I'm glad, US keeps doing it despite occasional calls for appeasement from the misguided parts of the electorate.
Right for whom? I am unwilling to die for Israel. That's what happened to 3,000 of our people two and half years ago. They died because of my country's affiliation with Israel. For example, the most notorius example of Post WWII Germany was when Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich olympics. Athletes from around the world were there, the Israelis were the targets. No one else. How did Israel respond? By executing those that THEY decided were responsible, no trials, no formal presentation of evidence, just Israeli commandos and lethal weapons. Nothing has changed for them in 30 years.
The terrorists do not demand money. Their war is against the Western Civilization.
It's a war against the allies of Israel. There have been Muslims for over 1400 years, they've been blowing things up for less than a century. What's changed?
LK
And you probably can't wait for them to add a sub-woofer in the next model.
When I was younger there were people who wouldl call Subs "Rumps", I guess now I know why.
LK
I keep the mini-iPod in a ... hidden place... that's very snug. Muggers never look there, and really, who wants to pull the cord out of there?
Dude, seriously, don't joke about that. There is enough of an impression out there that Apple users tend to be homosexuals. Trust me. It's for your own good.
LK
By your reasoning, a bit can have a value that takes more than a bit to store.
I reject that notion. Depending on the application at hand you may need to differentiate between "right and left" or "red and blue" and so on, but those values get reduced to either "1" or "0".
If you want to start pointing to links, I have one for you.
No reasonable person is going to dispute Israel's right to exist. My problem lies in the fact that their behavior and our relationship with them paints a big bullseye on the US. I can't support that.
LK
Maybe if you'd take a girl out for a steak you could get laid.
When Julia Stiles woke up and quit being a vegan she likened her first bite of a hamburger to an orgasm.
LK
If so I know some Arab gentlemen who would be interested in purchasing a few of these.
Arab, Korean, Pakistani, Chinese, and French might want a piece of that action.
LK
I used to think that it was some grand scheme to rip off the public, but when I started to work for Echostar I quickly came to understand why there is no a la carte programming choice available.
No U.S. cable or satellite currently offers such a plan.
DishNetwork used to offer something called Dish Picks, the problem was that the cheapskates who wanted it were constantly calling in and dropping/adding channels; sometimes several times per day. They caused so much additional expense for the company that they had to put an end to it.
To force a la carte cable WILL raise the overhead for the cable companies and they WILL pass that expense on to us.
LK
So what you are really asking is "What do I mean when I say 'bit'?".
You asked for someone to define, bit; I and several others did just that. I guess you were expecting people to marvel at your intellectual prowess. You find yourself pointedly mistaken. All you have done is show your inability to deal with the meaning of such common words as "define" and "meaning".
I see no chance for us to find common ground on virtually any issue, I've seen your posts that amount to very thinly veiled defense of the cowardly murder of a wheelchair bound old man.
I could go on a long Off-Topic rant here about how there is only one country on this planet that routinely engages in assassination as a form of diplomacy and question your sanity and principles for supporting that, but I won't.
My first impression of you was accurate, you are a jackass.
LK
Wow, from a Simpson's quote to an Empty Nest quote. What's happening to /. these days?
From the web page you linked.
Throughout all these definition changes the length of the meter has not changed, but the precision by which it is measured was improved.
Left, right, black and white are not digits, therefore not bits.
A meter is a bit different. The length of a meter is in relation to the size of the earth, a bit has no such dependency on anything external to itself.
Like I said before, a bit is a binary digit, 1 or 0.
LK