They may not be as staggering as you think. I'm 20 and I download music, but I do it from legal sources. I do know a fair number of others my age who don't pirate music either.
And as soon as I stumbled across Slashdot and became more informed about issues like this, I decided to boycott music from RIAA-associated labels.
So yes, regardless of our age, some of us "young kids" do have principles, don't necessarily do anything wrong, and are fed up with being treated like criminals just because of our age.
Google "search engines". It's even one of the top hits suggested as you type. Can you twist my words to come up with an analogous situation in Windows where it gives you a one-click option to install or even test-drive an alternative OS?
I do use Windows on a regular basis and even prefer it for some applications, but you do have to admit that they have a bit of a lock-in. Most people have a reasonable awareness of what search engine they are using, but don't recognize what an OS is. Even if they do, switching typically means either purchasing a new computer or begging a geek friend for help (possibly even relenting to the geek friend's begging to "help').
Perhaps a better analogy would be some sort of security circuit tied to the starter. It could phone home every time before it let you start up, and maybe even rob engine performance.
Continuing the theme of your analogy, a car hotwired to bypass the circuit would work better, but a more accurate scenario might be someone mass-producing or putting out plans for the "cracked" car. Would you pay for the broken version if you knew there was a better, cheaper one?
... is hydrogen an energy source or a way of storing energy?
For the purposes the hydrogen fuel cells are aimed at, it's a method of storing energy, an intermediary much like a battery. Only, apparently, much more inefficient. Power still needs to be generated somewhere to produce the hydrogen, as it is not found in large underground deposits.
The only advantage I see in hydrogen power over pure electric vehicles is the convenience factor you get from being able to "fill it up". And while I know gasoline is explosive and we've done all right handling it so far, allowing the average person to refill a highly compressed cylinder of hydrogen in their car has always seemed like a bad idea to me. What if they drive off with the nozzle attached, leave the cap off, or get in a crash that damages the tank, as seems to happen a lot with cars that are out there today. Also, average person may be stretching it a little, as I've also heard there is not enough platinum in the world to convert all vehicles to hydrogen power. While that point may be moot with the new catalyst described they will still be awfully expensive to buy and maintain, especially if you get virtually no efficiency bonus over gas.
Overall, what I don't get is why we are not building charging stations. Even if the Big Three can't/won't produce electric vehicles, there are definitely companies out there that aren't quite so scared of change. *cough... hybrid... cough*
I don't know what the magic number is. Ten cents sounds about right, but it might be a bit more or a bit less. But it is much less than 99 cents, and much, much less than what the labels want to charge.
I just checked my eMusic page and I'm paying 30. I'm pretty happy with that. I'm not sure what Magnatune or similar sites use as a pricing scheme but I'd suspect it's something similar. Then there's also sites like Jamendo or individual artists that work on a voluntary donation basis. And there's no troublesome DRM scheme involved with any of these options.
Systems such as the one you and the GP advocate are in place. There's no shortage of talent and you should be able to find something you enjoy, so if you really want to see these things change, hit the RIAA where it hurts, show them what a lost sale actually is, and support the record companies that play nice.
We're still using copper targets in all the XRDs at Iowa State University (yes, Iowa, it's actually a very decent engineering school). I'm not aware they use anything else and can't see that many advantages to switch. The thermal properties of copper mentioned elsewhere make it a pretty good candidate. As opposed to lead, it has the distinct advantage of not becoming a molten pool as soon as the instrument is turned on.
And there's also the fact that it's been used pretty much exclusively for as long as XRD has. Changing the target metal would change the characteristic radiation given off- the one we used was the K(alpha) peak at 1.54 angstroms. The fact that this has been used as a standard since at least the fifties (as attested to by ancient tomes filled with XRD data) makes it easy to look up and compare results to references, without any tricky conversion calculations. A standard frequency also allows the manufacturer to get very good at making filters and monochrometers that only allow that wavelength through. Any switch would need some pretty good reasons that I just don't see.
I believe lead and tungsten are both used in the XRD apparatus, just not in the way the grandparent claims. A tungsten tip is used as the emission source because it has such a high melting point. And I think lead is used for shielding, because although it may not block cosmic rays (can anything do this?) it will block X-rays.
Abolition of copyright would mean the return of patrons as a motivating force in the arts, and it would probably be for the best.
Be careful what you wish for. It seems like things might be headed this way, only the patrons would inevitably be corporations. I don't listen to radio much and the following statement may make this horribly obvious, but the other day I swear I heard an extended version of a Doublemint commercial I'd seen. As though the song had been written about the product, rather than adapted to fit it.
Just how many songs about how Coke makes the summer cool do you think you can take?
The thing is we have _no_ skeletons that show death by weapons, until the discovery of bows and arrows. I don't know why.
An interesting theory I've heard is that it the emotional toll on a human of killing another human is much less if you can do it from a distance. Thus, conflicts that ended with people killing one another were much more uncommon before the discovery of ranged weapons, especially bows and arrows. The use of other weapons is simply exemplary of the paradigm shift that comes with killing becoming more common and "acceptable"
And have YOU ever tried getting the crap they sell at Walmart to run in Linux?
I find this comment particularly interesting. A couple years back I got an all-in-one printer that was on sale at Walmart. HP's friendly little installation guide got it installed, for the most part, on my (then) Windows box.
The problem was it didn't stay installed. Every time it got unplugged or powered off and reconnected the software would pop up, reinstall the printer, and give it a new name (of course no the default). It caused me all kinds of problems, sometimes preventing me from using the printer, and while I admit I'm no IT expert, I consider myself fairly computer savvy.
Eventually some other problems with the Windows box convinced me to bite the bullet and give Linux a whirl. I was dreading the printer install, but to my surprise, it worked immediately upon plugging it in, with no further issues on any of the functions it has. The same goes for all peripherals I have tried, with the exception of my mp3 player that syncs with Amarok easily enough.
I would say the average user is intelligent enough to at least match up the plugs Sesame Street-style. (cue IT horror storries) If that's all the setup required in Linux, as it seems to be, I think most would even prefer it to the bullshit some peripherals put you through because of the GUI.
Wasn't there a story on here some time ago about HP looking into developing their own flavor of Linux?
I'd venture that they're taking a harder look at it now. Doesn't have to be their only offering, but it would definitely get Microsoft's attention to see it get implemented. Especially if they make it price-competitive with their Windows line.
Every single time I walk into Best Buy with something that looks like it might come from inside, the guy at the door puts a little sticker on it to make sure this doesn't happen. I guess I thought it was standard procedure. Maybe I've just been really lucky but I've always had very positive experiences when dealing with their customer service people. On one occasion I recall I went in with an mp3 player that crapped out, no receipt, not even original packaging, and got cash for it. I was rather impressed and it's definitely something I consider whenever I'm thinking about purchasing anything else they might carry.
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From Wikipedia (with emphasis added):
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
It's nice of you to make it so easy to moderate your post. Hopefully this gives those who don't understand the moderation system some idea of what the mods are looking at and why they don't like people who just try to piss others off.
For those of you who don't RTFA, the summary could be misleading. TFA doesn't imply it's best to just jump straight into exercising. Rather you still need to do some warm-up activity (light jogging, jumping jacks, etc..), and then do dynamic stretches, rather than static stretches. What dynamic stretches you should do depends on your sport.
Exactly right. We got pretty much the same speech my sophomore year in cross country - this seems to have been common knowledge in fitness circles for a while. Once we started dynamic stretching warmups we all hated it because it seemed like so much more work, but over the next three years I was there we went from the team that celebrated any meet where we didn't finish dead last to a perennial state contender.
But, it seems, not common knowledge to the general public - whenever I run nowadays, my friends still look at me like I'm crazy because I "stretch" after rather than beforehand.
Seriously , nine ?
I struggle with 2000 in daylight.
From the way the article is written, this will probably be used for very different situations than what you use your projector for. Mine struggles to keep up with daylight, too. However, the closer I move it towards the screen, the brighter it gets, so you sacrifice screen size for brightness. This thing just changes the sweet spot to a much smaller size in order to add portability - I'd see it moving more into the niche of portable TVs and DVD players than going toe-to-toe with the projectors that are out there today. Plus it's cool as shit.
Exactly. I grew up on a farm and any time we were bored we got to scoop manure out of the hog building. I think I started swearing around my parents before I ever uttered the word bored. Come to think of it, I might not have even done that yet.
I'm betting the next format will be built for storage first,and movies will come along later. Maybe holodiscs?
Hasn't this happened already? It seems to me like online formats are beginning to come into their own. Now that terabytes of storage are available to the average person, and internet speeds are getting to the point where streaming HD is possible, it seems like people can just stream or download what they want to watch and keep it in a simple, centralized storage media. This used to be pirate domain, but more and more companies are waking up and offering these options, too. I think physical media in general might be on its way out, or at least will be relegated to a fraction of the market share it has today.
I'm pretty sure the school officials aren't just going to sit there and take abuse like this. If these kind of things keep going to court, schools are eventually going to wise up and just start targeting those kids with standard violations more. So maybe instead of suspending you for that offense per se, they will just watch really close until the kid screws up with something else like cheating on a test and bring out the school code in the full force it almost never sees.
The kids may think they are smarter than the adults in charge, but that is almost never the case. Especially if they're using MySpace to launch attacks at someone.
There is something that's more or less self driving that's been invented for ages. It's called a train
People also used to use horses for this task. From what I've heard, it was not all that uncommon to let a well-trained horse know where you wanted to go (not sure how they did that though) and then let it do the work, as long as you were headed someplace familiar. The "driver" was then free to do whatever he wanted, including taking a nap.
One big problem, though, was that horses also had difficulty interpreting what to do at intersections, especially with other types of vehicles. A fair number of people got killed in their sleep because the horse didn't recognize that it should yield to a train or something like that.
So obviously a "horses for seniors" program wouldn't work all that well. However, something similar is probably what it's going to take to keep a large percentage of the elderly driving safely. With a reduction in senses and reaction time, it seems to me there's a need for the vehicle itself to actively identify threats and make decisions. And as far as I'm aware, the only things that do that today are public transportation systems with a human driver. They really need to be better utilized, and not just by the elderly.
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They may not be as staggering as you think. I'm 20 and I download music, but I do it from legal sources. I do know a fair number of others my age who don't pirate music either.
And as soon as I stumbled across Slashdot and became more informed about issues like this, I decided to boycott music from RIAA-associated labels.
So yes, regardless of our age, some of us "young kids" do have principles, don't necessarily do anything wrong, and are fed up with being treated like criminals just because of our age.
I don't know, I thought that sentence was rather straightforward and possibly even accurate.
Were there a global cloning conspiracy, I doubt they would allow photography of their weighing apparatus.
I also suspect Scarlett Johansson would do her best to prevent pictures of any scale she used, if she's at all similar to other women I know.
Even if you could get access to image her scale, I think there'd be a few photos you would judge more worthwhile.
Don't forget the ones who spoof Linux for geek cred. And for something to bitch about.
Google "search engines". It's even one of the top hits suggested as you type. Can you twist my words to come up with an analogous situation in Windows where it gives you a one-click option to install or even test-drive an alternative OS?
I do use Windows on a regular basis and even prefer it for some applications, but you do have to admit that they have a bit of a lock-in. Most people have a reasonable awareness of what search engine they are using, but don't recognize what an OS is. Even if they do, switching typically means either purchasing a new computer or begging a geek friend for help (possibly even relenting to the geek friend's begging to "help').
Perhaps a better analogy would be some sort of security circuit tied to the starter. It could phone home every time before it let you start up, and maybe even rob engine performance.
Continuing the theme of your analogy, a car hotwired to bypass the circuit would work better, but a more accurate scenario might be someone mass-producing or putting out plans for the "cracked" car. Would you pay for the broken version if you knew there was a better, cheaper one?
... is hydrogen an energy source or a way of storing energy?
For the purposes the hydrogen fuel cells are aimed at, it's a method of storing energy, an intermediary much like a battery. Only, apparently, much more inefficient. Power still needs to be generated somewhere to produce the hydrogen, as it is not found in large underground deposits.
The only advantage I see in hydrogen power over pure electric vehicles is the convenience factor you get from being able to "fill it up". And while I know gasoline is explosive and we've done all right handling it so far, allowing the average person to refill a highly compressed cylinder of hydrogen in their car has always seemed like a bad idea to me. What if they drive off with the nozzle attached, leave the cap off, or get in a crash that damages the tank, as seems to happen a lot with cars that are out there today. Also, average person may be stretching it a little, as I've also heard there is not enough platinum in the world to convert all vehicles to hydrogen power. While that point may be moot with the new catalyst described they will still be awfully expensive to buy and maintain, especially if you get virtually no efficiency bonus over gas.
Overall, what I don't get is why we are not building charging stations. Even if the Big Three can't/won't produce electric vehicles, there are definitely companies out there that aren't quite so scared of change. *cough... hybrid... cough*
Will this be the perfect troll that finally gets modded up to +5? I sure hope so.
Obviously isn't helping improve driving skills much. The second bloke's on the wrong side of the road!
I don't know what the magic number is. Ten cents sounds about right, but it might be a bit more or a bit less. But it is much less than 99 cents, and much, much less than what the labels want to charge.
I just checked my eMusic page and I'm paying 30. I'm pretty happy with that. I'm not sure what Magnatune or similar sites use as a pricing scheme but I'd suspect it's something similar. Then there's also sites like Jamendo or individual artists that work on a voluntary donation basis. And there's no troublesome DRM scheme involved with any of these options.
Systems such as the one you and the GP advocate are in place. There's no shortage of talent and you should be able to find something you enjoy, so if you really want to see these things change, hit the RIAA where it hurts, show them what a lost sale actually is, and support the record companies that play nice.
We're still using copper targets in all the XRDs at Iowa State University (yes, Iowa, it's actually a very decent engineering school). I'm not aware they use anything else and can't see that many advantages to switch. The thermal properties of copper mentioned elsewhere make it a pretty good candidate. As opposed to lead, it has the distinct advantage of not becoming a molten pool as soon as the instrument is turned on.
And there's also the fact that it's been used pretty much exclusively for as long as XRD has. Changing the target metal would change the characteristic radiation given off- the one we used was the K(alpha) peak at 1.54 angstroms. The fact that this has been used as a standard since at least the fifties (as attested to by ancient tomes filled with XRD data) makes it easy to look up and compare results to references, without any tricky conversion calculations. A standard frequency also allows the manufacturer to get very good at making filters and monochrometers that only allow that wavelength through. Any switch would need some pretty good reasons that I just don't see.
I believe lead and tungsten are both used in the XRD apparatus, just not in the way the grandparent claims. A tungsten tip is used as the emission source because it has such a high melting point. And I think lead is used for shielding, because although it may not block cosmic rays (can anything do this?) it will block X-rays.
Abolition of copyright would mean the return of patrons as a motivating force in the arts, and it would probably be for the best.
Be careful what you wish for. It seems like things might be headed this way, only the patrons would inevitably be corporations. I don't listen to radio much and the following statement may make this horribly obvious, but the other day I swear I heard an extended version of a Doublemint commercial I'd seen. As though the song had been written about the product, rather than adapted to fit it.
Just how many songs about how Coke makes the summer cool do you think you can take?
Wouldn't a hyperbolic example just approach madness, rather than cross right over the line?
*ducks
The thing is we have _no_ skeletons that show death by weapons, until the discovery of bows and arrows. I don't know why.
An interesting theory I've heard is that it the emotional toll on a human of killing another human is much less if you can do it from a distance. Thus, conflicts that ended with people killing one another were much more uncommon before the discovery of ranged weapons, especially bows and arrows. The use of other weapons is simply exemplary of the paradigm shift that comes with killing becoming more common and "acceptable"
Who comes to slashdot to talk about the stories?
And have YOU ever tried getting the crap they sell at Walmart to run in Linux?
I find this comment particularly interesting. A couple years back I got an all-in-one printer that was on sale at Walmart. HP's friendly little installation guide got it installed, for the most part, on my (then) Windows box.
The problem was it didn't stay installed. Every time it got unplugged or powered off and reconnected the software would pop up, reinstall the printer, and give it a new name (of course no the default). It caused me all kinds of problems, sometimes preventing me from using the printer, and while I admit I'm no IT expert, I consider myself fairly computer savvy.
Eventually some other problems with the Windows box convinced me to bite the bullet and give Linux a whirl. I was dreading the printer install, but to my surprise, it worked immediately upon plugging it in, with no further issues on any of the functions it has. The same goes for all peripherals I have tried, with the exception of my mp3 player that syncs with Amarok easily enough.
I would say the average user is intelligent enough to at least match up the plugs Sesame Street-style. (cue IT horror storries) If that's all the setup required in Linux, as it seems to be, I think most would even prefer it to the bullshit some peripherals put you through because of the GUI.
Wasn't there a story on here some time ago about HP looking into developing their own flavor of Linux?
I'd venture that they're taking a harder look at it now. Doesn't have to be their only offering, but it would definitely get Microsoft's attention to see it get implemented. Especially if they make it price-competitive with their Windows line.
Every single time I walk into Best Buy with something that looks like it might come from inside, the guy at the door puts a little sticker on it to make sure this doesn't happen. I guess I thought it was standard procedure. Maybe I've just been really lucky but I've always had very positive experiences when dealing with their customer service people. On one occasion I recall I went in with an mp3 player that crapped out, no receipt, not even original packaging, and got cash for it. I was rather impressed and it's definitely something I consider whenever I'm thinking about purchasing anything else they might carry.
(Note to moderators: There is no -1 Controversial. If you disagree, be man enough to answer.)
From Wikipedia (with emphasis added):
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
It's nice of you to make it so easy to moderate your post. Hopefully this gives those who don't understand the moderation system some idea of what the mods are looking at and why they don't like people who just try to piss others off.
For those of you who don't RTFA, the summary could be misleading. TFA doesn't imply it's best to just jump straight into exercising. Rather you still need to do some warm-up activity (light jogging, jumping jacks, etc..), and then do dynamic stretches, rather than static stretches. What dynamic stretches you should do depends on your sport.
Exactly right. We got pretty much the same speech my sophomore year in cross country - this seems to have been common knowledge in fitness circles for a while. Once we started dynamic stretching warmups we all hated it because it seemed like so much more work, but over the next three years I was there we went from the team that celebrated any meet where we didn't finish dead last to a perennial state contender.
But, it seems, not common knowledge to the general public - whenever I run nowadays, my friends still look at me like I'm crazy because I "stretch" after rather than beforehand.
Seriously , nine ? I struggle with 2000 in daylight.
From the way the article is written, this will probably be used for very different situations than what you use your projector for. Mine struggles to keep up with daylight, too. However, the closer I move it towards the screen, the brighter it gets, so you sacrifice screen size for brightness. This thing just changes the sweet spot to a much smaller size in order to add portability - I'd see it moving more into the niche of portable TVs and DVD players than going toe-to-toe with the projectors that are out there today. Plus it's cool as shit.
Exactly. I grew up on a farm and any time we were bored we got to scoop manure out of the hog building. I think I started swearing around my parents before I ever uttered the word bored. Come to think of it, I might not have even done that yet.
I believe with all the problems they're having, the actual date when the high-energy collisions begin will be December 2012.
I'm betting the next format will be built for storage first,and movies will come along later. Maybe holodiscs?
Hasn't this happened already? It seems to me like online formats are beginning to come into their own. Now that terabytes of storage are available to the average person, and internet speeds are getting to the point where streaming HD is possible, it seems like people can just stream or download what they want to watch and keep it in a simple, centralized storage media. This used to be pirate domain, but more and more companies are waking up and offering these options, too. I think physical media in general might be on its way out, or at least will be relegated to a fraction of the market share it has today.
I'm pretty sure the school officials aren't just going to sit there and take abuse like this. If these kind of things keep going to court, schools are eventually going to wise up and just start targeting those kids with standard violations more. So maybe instead of suspending you for that offense per se, they will just watch really close until the kid screws up with something else like cheating on a test and bring out the school code in the full force it almost never sees.
The kids may think they are smarter than the adults in charge, but that is almost never the case. Especially if they're using MySpace to launch attacks at someone.
There is something that's more or less self driving that's been invented for ages. It's called a train
People also used to use horses for this task. From what I've heard, it was not all that uncommon to let a well-trained horse know where you wanted to go (not sure how they did that though) and then let it do the work, as long as you were headed someplace familiar. The "driver" was then free to do whatever he wanted, including taking a nap.
One big problem, though, was that horses also had difficulty interpreting what to do at intersections, especially with other types of vehicles. A fair number of people got killed in their sleep because the horse didn't recognize that it should yield to a train or something like that.
So obviously a "horses for seniors" program wouldn't work all that well. However, something similar is probably what it's going to take to keep a large percentage of the elderly driving safely. With a reduction in senses and reaction time, it seems to me there's a need for the vehicle itself to actively identify threats and make decisions. And as far as I'm aware, the only things that do that today are public transportation systems with a human driver. They really need to be better utilized, and not just by the elderly.