"Please, Ms. Rowling, I'm so tired and bleeding from both ends..."
"Is J.K. gonna have to choke a bitch? Get me my money!"
Whoosh! That went over my head.
Rowling, I believe is a billionaire. This isn't about money; it's about control. I'm guessing here, but I get the impression that these books mean much more to her than as something that got her out of poverty and made her one of the richest women in the World. Like many creative types, their creation is almost like a one of their children. And I'd be pretty pissed too if someone copied things from me and published them as their own work.
A lot of the laptop crowd have those customer relation management packages that can be database intense. And I guess that means the SSD would be working a bit. I wonder if the power consumption of SSDs increase with use?
So far, every digital cable service I have seen has a music section in its upper channels - like 900s or something. There, the music is segmented. Meaning there's a channel for Classical, Romantic, 80s Rock, 70s Rock,.... Christian Rock, Christian Heavy Metal, Christian Rap, etc....everything.
In this day and age of the all in one home entertainment centers and surround sound, I'm sure many folks are using their cable subscription for their music: not pirating and not buying CDs or downloading.
Everyone needs to realize that's it's not just buy a CD or buy online or pirate.
More likely it will punch a hole in the
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Universe and we'll be in an alternate reality.
You'll know it too. You'll wake up one day with a Black President or with an old geezer and a MILF for a VP.
What we all need to understand is regardless of the technology we use, we will always leave some sort of pollution and some sort environmental impact. The answers we should be looking for is how to minimize them; which is stated in the parent's post, and not to discard any technology because it's not perfect. Because if we sit around looking for the no-impact, no-footprint, no environmental harm solution, we'll just sit here burning our fossil fuels eventually doing more harm in the long run than we would ever have done by trying some other technologies.
I'm for a portfolio of changes. Meaning, not one silver bullet (nuclear, wind, solar, geo, tidal, fat people on Stair Masters, etc...), but for the use of all - smartly of course. Just because a technology doesn't make sense now doesn't mean it won't in the future.
Then there are distributed systems that have pieces all over the place. I once worked on a system that had printers in all of their local offices and sent out batch jobs all over the World. Even with today's fast everything, things would bog down.
But yeah, for just internet surfing, I agree with you.
You characterize and categorize people (90%, society, night people) in terms of what they can give you (social activity).
You speak in military (24 hour) time unnecessarily.
You admit your own faults, but rather than fix them, you prefer to revel in your own meekness.
Dogs have masters.
Cats have servants.
I recognize my overlord and serve her. And as a result, my life is filled with a wondrous furry glory!
The Egyptians worshiped cats as gods and the cats have never forgotten that.
Military time is also computer server time. And if you deal with computers across at least one time zone you may want to use Zulu time too. Oooooo, I used another military term. You know why!? Because, I serve in the army of cats!
Yeah, I guess the clocks would have to take into account the increases in orbits and whatnot mentioned, but so what? Computation has become dirt cheap. So the Naval Observatory does an extra calculation for GPS and things that require that kind of accuracy.
And as far as I'm concerned, my clocks are all within 10 minutes of each other - in other words, I don't give a shit about 10 minutes either way.
I'd be more interested in killing Daylight Savings Time than dealing with Leap Year.
My cat wakes me up in the morning. She doesn't adjust. Because of her, I'm a morning person. Unfortunately, 90% of society are night people. Meaning, any social activity is past my bedtime and I become a wet blanket because I start yawning at everything at 20:00.
Verayo launched the worldâ(TM)s first unclonable silicon chip â" the Vera X512H RFID chip. This new RFID chip is based on recently announced breakthrough technology called Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF). PUF technology is a type of electronic DNA or fingerprinting technology for silicon chips that makes each chip unclonable. Verayoâ(TM)s PUF-based RFID technology offers
So, is it unclonable?
Let's have a pool to see when it's cloned. I got by the end of the year by a Stanford student.
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there are plenty of people doing nice electric S10's for under $10k including the donor car. The 40 miles round trip per charge is almost twice what I need.
I had the same thought. Or at least a kit to put the hybrid guts in an old VW or old Hyundai - for less than $25,000 which I'm sure a lot of that cost is for that fancy ugly looking body and frame.
...at least are forced to reinstall windows enough that a 3 install limit is FAR too limited a deal.
or, if you uninstall something, let's say MS Office because you're turning the machine into a Linux server or something, it should do its call home to tell MS that its no longer installed. That way I can move it to another machine if I wanted to. Blowing hundreds of dollars on a piece of software and have it stuck on one machine is ridiculous. Which brings me to this:
The biggest suspicion is that all this was done to minimize the chance and value of the reselling the game.
It's one thing to install software and then give the license away or sell while still using your installed copy - that's assuming you don't need the CD/DVD in a drive to use it - but, if I don't need the software anymore, what's it to the publisher if I sell it; other than a loss of extra revenue because they couldn't sell another license?
It hurts them more. Because now, I'm much more hesitant to by software. Unless I really need it for some reason, I won't buy because I know that there's no recouping the cost if I should fin that I don't need it in the future. So I make do without or find a F/OSS alternative. I'm not a gamer.
the same thing you posted only about Islam or Christianity, you people would jump on my ass pointing out how it was the individuals and not the churches fault.
I don't get this hatred for Scientology when other religions on this planet are guilty of much much worse.
And if Scientology is something that you people spend all this time on because of its evils, you need to get out more. Scientology is nothing.
Agreed. I haven't seen anything where this religion or cult or whatever you want to call it has done anything to hurt anyone. Yeah, there are a couple of folks who've accused the church of some things, but it was maybe one or two people of questionable credibility. There's more against the Mormoms (Church of Latter Day Saints), and recently against the Catholics in the US - which has been dealt with in the legal system, the church has been making changes and the Pope apologized.
And regards to those protesters, I just want to ask what has the Scientologists done to you - personally?
I have never heard anything where the Scientoloists have a policy of hurting people. Sure, they may use some heavy handed legal techniques, but it's within the legal system and apparently those judges involved thought they had grounds. And as far as charging folks hundred of thousands of dollars to get to a level - so what? It's their money. It doesn't harm anyone. There are folks who voluntarily give that much and more to their church, temple, etc...
The Church of Scientology isn't even on my list a problem organization. Some people need to get a grip and need to learn how evaluate things better.
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"Please, Ms. Rowling, I'm so tired and bleeding from both ends..."
"Is J.K. gonna have to choke a bitch? Get me my money!"
Whoosh! That went over my head.
Rowling, I believe is a billionaire. This isn't about money; it's about control. I'm guessing here, but I get the impression that these books mean much more to her than as something that got her out of poverty and made her one of the richest women in the World. Like many creative types, their creation is almost like a one of their children. And I'd be pretty pissed too if someone copied things from me and published them as their own work.
It doesn't work that way. The shareholders are punished for buying a stock in a company that doesn't open source its drivers.
Oo! Oo! Let me add one: it's because Bush is still in office.
There! We got a post promoting F/OSS and bashing Bush!
Now, WTF was I doing....
A lot of the laptop crowd have those customer relation management packages that can be database intense. And I guess that means the SSD would be working a bit. I wonder if the power consumption of SSDs increase with use?
That's where all tech support departments are these days.
In this day and age of the all in one home entertainment centers and surround sound, I'm sure many folks are using their cable subscription for their music: not pirating and not buying CDs or downloading.
Everyone needs to realize that's it's not just buy a CD or buy online or pirate.
You'll know it too. You'll wake up one day with a Black President or with an old geezer and a MILF for a VP.
Then, and only then, will I worry!
I'm for a portfolio of changes. Meaning, not one silver bullet (nuclear, wind, solar, geo, tidal, fat people on Stair Masters, etc...), but for the use of all - smartly of course. Just because a technology doesn't make sense now doesn't mean it won't in the future.
Thanks but no thank you. I'd like to speak to fellow human beings; you know, face to face.
I talk out of my ass most times. You still want to talk?
I read the headline as Sore . Thinking is was a first person game to give your opponents herpes.
Then there are distributed systems that have pieces all over the place. I once worked on a system that had printers in all of their local offices and sent out batch jobs all over the World. Even with today's fast everything, things would bog down.
But yeah, for just internet surfing, I agree with you.
What the hell does World War ii have to do with it!?
I think your REAL problems are as follows:
You have a cat.
Your cat controls you.
You characterize and categorize people (90%, society, night people) in terms of what they can give you (social activity).
You speak in military (24 hour) time unnecessarily.
You admit your own faults, but rather than fix them, you prefer to revel in your own meekness.
Dogs have masters.
Cats have servants.
I recognize my overlord and serve her. And as a result, my life is filled with a wondrous furry glory!
The Egyptians worshiped cats as gods and the cats have never forgotten that.
Military time is also computer server time. And if you deal with computers across at least one time zone you may want to use Zulu time too. Oooooo, I used another military term. You know why!? Because, I serve in the army of cats!
Then realise that if anyone knew what you were thinking, they'd probably mod you +1 Troll.
Mod points make you psychic?
Yeah, I guess the clocks would have to take into account the increases in orbits and whatnot mentioned, but so what? Computation has become dirt cheap. So the Naval Observatory does an extra calculation for GPS and things that require that kind of accuracy.
And as far as I'm concerned, my clocks are all within 10 minutes of each other - in other words, I don't give a shit about 10 minutes either way.
I'd be more interested in killing Daylight Savings Time than dealing with Leap Year.
My cat wakes me up in the morning. She doesn't adjust. Because of her, I'm a morning person. Unfortunately, 90% of society are night people. Meaning, any social activity is past my bedtime and I become a wet blanket because I start yawning at everything at 20:00.
Oh wait....
Come on! What's happened to Caltech, Georgia Tech, and Texas A&M?
Alright, Kingrames for cloned now by anyone.
Verayo launched the worldâ(TM)s first unclonable silicon chip â" the Vera X512H RFID chip. This new RFID chip is based on recently announced breakthrough technology called Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF). PUF technology is a type of electronic DNA or fingerprinting technology for silicon chips that makes each chip unclonable. Verayoâ(TM)s PUF-based RFID technology offers
So, is it unclonable?
Let's have a pool to see when it's cloned. I got by the end of the year by a Stanford student.
there are plenty of people doing nice electric S10's for under $10k including the donor car. The 40 miles round trip per charge is almost twice what I need.
I had the same thought. Or at least a kit to put the hybrid guts in an old VW or old Hyundai - for less than $25,000 which I'm sure a lot of that cost is for that fancy ugly looking body and frame.
...at least are forced to reinstall windows enough that a 3 install limit is FAR too limited a deal.
or, if you uninstall something, let's say MS Office because you're turning the machine into a Linux server or something, it should do its call home to tell MS that its no longer installed. That way I can move it to another machine if I wanted to. Blowing hundreds of dollars on a piece of software and have it stuck on one machine is ridiculous. Which brings me to this:
The biggest suspicion is that all this was done to minimize the chance and value of the reselling the game.
It's one thing to install software and then give the license away or sell while still using your installed copy - that's assuming you don't need the CD/DVD in a drive to use it - but, if I don't need the software anymore, what's it to the publisher if I sell it; other than a loss of extra revenue because they couldn't sell another license?
It hurts them more. Because now, I'm much more hesitant to by software. Unless I really need it for some reason, I won't buy because I know that there's no recouping the cost if I should fin that I don't need it in the future. So I make do without or find a F/OSS alternative. I'm not a gamer.
I don't get this hatred for Scientology when other religions on this planet are guilty of much much worse.
And if Scientology is something that you people spend all this time on because of its evils, you need to get out more. Scientology is nothing.
The Mormons, Muslims and many Christian groups do exactly the same thing.
And regards to those protesters, I just want to ask what has the Scientologists done to you - personally?
I have never heard anything where the Scientoloists have a policy of hurting people. Sure, they may use some heavy handed legal techniques, but it's within the legal system and apparently those judges involved thought they had grounds. And as far as charging folks hundred of thousands of dollars to get to a level - so what? It's their money. It doesn't harm anyone. There are folks who voluntarily give that much and more to their church, temple, etc...
The Church of Scientology isn't even on my list a problem organization. Some people need to get a grip and need to learn how evaluate things better.