Just copy them one after the other after the other and slide 'em into a disk wallet and when you get the urge just watch one.
People say things like this a lot, but I doubt anyone saying it has thought it through. How is building a huge pile of DVD-Rs you don't watch, better than having 3 DVDs you don't watch?
I can see many disadvantages to that scheme. The cost of blank media (DVD-Rs or hard drive space) will outpace your monthly Netflix fee. Better to just think of Netflix as your $18/mo multi-terabyte off-site hard drive.
All it does have is a mechanism for selecting in favour of random mutations that are beneficial, and against random mutations that are negative (which is most of them)
The idea that most mutations are detrimental is a very, very obviously incorrect urban myth. In fact the vast majority of mutations are completely neutral.
Indeed, instead of watching porn, it would be better let them watch people kill each other on daily television.
The violence on television is as fake and unbelivable as the sex on television.
If TV actually showed brain matter flying about, intestines hanging from the bodies of corpses, etc., you might have a point... Not much of one, mind you, but still.
As is, you're saying that hearing a car backfire, and seeing someone lying on the ground covered in ketchup, is worse than hard-core porn.
are you feeling pretty stupid now that it's unanimous among all the hardware sites that the Core 2 kicks butt and that AMD is in trouble?
Did you even READ my last two posts?
"MAYBE they'll introduce them at ridiculously high prices, and only in the distant future."
Since you're just continuing to troll and spout ignorant nonsense, I'm not going to continue this thread. Have the last word if it makes you feel better.
Not true. The companies assests all go somewhere. If it was bought by a larger company, than THAT company now owns them.
The networks were assigned to them, not purchased by them.
That much is true, but besides the point. Just because you got in on the ground floor, when "XYZ" was being given-away (long before it was sold) doesn't mean you don't OWN it.
I wasn't aware that telephones even HAVE "definition", let alone that they are in HIGH DEFINITION now.
definition 4. a. The clarity of detail in an optically produced image, such as a photograph, effected by a combination of resolution and contrast.
b. The degree of clarity with which a televised image or broadcast signal is received.
Of course, what do I know... I didn't realize wireless networking equipment had fidelity, either (ie. WiFi).
A better analogy is if you owned a gigantic ware-house complex
Okay. Good so far...
and then... died with no heirs, no relatives, no business partners, no debtors.
Umm, no. The companies that own the blocks are NOT dead. They are alive, and perfectly capable of selling off some of their subnets if they chose.
Should the warehouse complex continue to be owned by a dead guy and abandoned or should it be resold by the government and used again?
It is abandoned, but the guy is alive and well, and is perfectly capable of managing his property. Taking it away from him, against his will (even if he's not using it) is a rather extreme measure, and for no good reason.
For Bigelow, a dream first drawn out when he started Bigelow Aerospa ce in 1999 had become reality. [...] After eight years of planning, the actual creation and delivery into space took only nine months.
Let's see... 1999 + 8 years of planning + 9 months of "creation and delivery" ( starting in October) would have to mean we're somewhere in 2009 right now...
Only test that I can think of would be to build two of these, plus a control of some sort, and leave them right next to each other for ten years. Only the control will be less accurate than the device you're measuring...
The same way they've been doing it for many years with current atomic clocks... You don't just have a single clock, you have a BANK of numerous atomic clocks, and use statistical sampling to correct drift. And establish a very, very accturate time base.
It's easy to make impressive statements like that when you know nobody will be around to prove you wrong!
Complete nonsense. This isn't a "prediction", it's a mathematical number/time. Like any other number/time, you can easily convert it into shorter time-frames.
1 sec in 400 million years is ==
1/2 sec in 200 million years
1/4 sec in 100 million years
1/8 sec in 50 million years
etc.
That means it is accurate to 0.000000025ths of a second in 10 years... A more partical time-frame, which can be tested fairly easily.
Every mobile device is individially addressable right now by its number and network (12223334444@serviceprovider.com) - effectively a single IP address.
How is an e-mail address "effectively" an IP address?
Each IP address can also directly address 64K computers, via the existing port structure.
Each computer only gets ONE inbound port? That's absolutely horrible. Not to mention it's an absolute NO-GO for servers of just about any kind.
FTP, in particular, doesn't work from NATed machine to NATed machine, even if you've got several ports open/forwarded.
Peer-to-peer communications, of any kind, need open in-bound ports. With VoIP, P2P file sharing, bittorrent, gaming, etc., people need very numerous incomming ports. And since there are fewer IP addresses than people on the planet, and each person generally has more than one networked computer/device, it's every bit a huge problem.
IP addresses can also be reused (over and over) on intranets and subnets, via NAT.
IP addresses can be reused, over and over, period. No need for NAT to do the most basic of tasks IP was designed for.
If abandoned chunks were released for use to currently functioning companies we wouldn't need IPv6 for 20 more years!
More than half the rooms in my house sit unoccupied. I suppose the government should step-in and "release" half my house, to slightly delay the problem.
Funny. You count that document as solid evidence when it suits you, and utterly discount what it actually say when it doesn't suit you. Who's the irrational nutjob again?
If I were Microsoft, I'd make just enough undocumented changes to screw up reverse-engineered implementations of NTFS... providing just enough increased functionality to which I could Point With Pride.
And they'll call it NTFS6...
They already did something like this with NTFS5, found in Windows 2000. Once Windows 2000 has booted-up with access to an NTFS partition, you can't run chkdsk from NT4 (or older) anymore. You're actually stuck with 2000, whether you like it or not. God help you if you remove your Windows 2000 installation.
I'm tired of your insane ranting, so I'll keep this very short.
So what if they were about to kill 400 people just so they have a reason to start a war?
See first post. Also, the plan WASN'T to kill anybody. The plan (imperfect and preliminary as it was) was to more or less HIDE those people. They never even planned to kill those people.
CRIMETHINK! CRIMETHINK! Can't even _entertain_ the thought that just because they put out papers like that, that whey would do things like that.
That's good. Supplement your paranoia with an equally large persecution complex, just because rational people don't buy-in to your insane rantings, and take utter lack of evidence as PROOF.
You didn't say anything about the radiation experiments?
No, I didn't say anything about radiation experiments. However, I had the CIA break into/. headquarters, and covertly edit the comment database to make it APPEAR as if my last comment actually DOES say a great deal about the radiation experiments, all just to fuck with your head, and make you look like a complete idiot.
More likely they will be ordered, ripped, and put up on fileshare networks.
Still numerous sales for content they would make NO money on otherwise.
Also, you might consider the search terms "60 minutes torrent".
60 minutes is only the first thing mentioned because it's the most recognized CBS News show. However, they're offering ALL their CBS News content, not just clips of 60 Minutes.
You either have no idea what this service is, or you're one of the few that does not care at all about the world around you.
The price for the DVDs is a bit high, but I fully expect man people will start ordering sets of DVDs with full coverage of every major historical event in recent memory.
How much money are they going to make just printing DVDs of the coverage of the 9/11 attacks? How about the fall of the Berlin wall, and end of the cold war? Perhaps even videos about the START of the cold war for that matter. How many/.ers are going to order DVDs of every computing/hi-tech story in the past 60 years?
CBS should be commended for at least trying to adapt to the internet, and individual customization. Is it any coincidence they were also the first with free online news videos, and still have the best service? In fact I was just on cbsnews.com a few minutes ago, watching videos on the current Israel/Palestine/Lebanon conflict.
So what if they did plan to invade Cuba by shooting down a civilian airliner over Cuba and then blaming Castro for it
They "plan" every possible senario you can imagine. That's a ridiculously long way from actually doing it.
and now they're friends with BinLaden Terrorgroup Inc.
The Bush family is frendly with the most highly respected family in Saudi Arabia, second only to the Royal Family, who happen to share their last name with a terrorist? *Gasp*!
so what if these people used unsuspectingcivilians and military unwittingly as subjects in radiation experiments, You act like they did this YESTERDAY. People didn't always know that radiation was a bad thing. And, in the past, the accepted standards for experiments on "unwitting" civilians were much more lax than they are today.
Even today, you may end up being an unwitting subject in an artificial blood trial, if you require emergency medial care. If we find out, decades from now, it has some unknown long-term effects we couldn't have imagined, another nut will eventually be yelling about it as proof the government killed thousands of people, and is only faking all the evidence of a colony on Mars.
just because some cooky people have come out of the woodwork to point out that many lights and shadows on the official footage of the moon landing are obviously not what they should be if the images were "real", that still doesn't mean they're right.
"cooky" being the key word. Yes, the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds, who took half a year of art, and a year of "Physical Science" in college, thinks the shadows and the dust patterns don't look quite right.
This crap reminds me of the Zapruder film all over again... People, who have NEVER even seen a high-powered riffle bullet hitting a person, are CONVINCED they know the exact direction the shot really came from.
Why do so many people think Colombus discovered America? He got it into the permanent record, where the vikings, chinese, etc. didn't.
"The permanent record" has nothing to do with it. Carve it in the side of a mountain if you like, and it still won't matter.
Accomplishing something first is insignificant... a footnote in history. The significant part is not keeping that fact stored somewhere, but imparting that knowledge onto others, who can build upon it and benefit.
The Wright Brothers would have been long forgotten if nobody had built upon their invention. It's not that they were the first to meet some arbitrary cosmic goal, it's that they made a leap which was carried on, and to the benefit of mankind.
A man walking on the moon is completely insignificant next to the lessons learned in the process of sending him there.
In many states, the definition of dead includes when brain activity ceases. So, procedures like what I mentioned above can not be performed on people in those states.
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People say things like this a lot, but I doubt anyone saying it has thought it through. How is building a huge pile of DVD-Rs you don't watch, better than having 3 DVDs you don't watch?
I can see many disadvantages to that scheme. The cost of blank media (DVD-Rs or hard drive space) will outpace your monthly
Netflix fee. Better to just think of Netflix as your $18/mo multi-terabyte off-site hard drive.
The idea that most mutations are detrimental is a very, very obviously incorrect urban myth. In fact the vast majority of mutations are completely neutral.
The violence on television is as fake and unbelivable as the sex on television.
If TV actually showed brain matter flying about, intestines hanging from the bodies of corpses, etc., you might have a point... Not much of one, mind you, but still.
As is, you're saying that hearing a car backfire, and seeing someone lying on the ground covered in ketchup, is worse than hard-core porn.
Did you even READ my last two posts?
"MAYBE they'll introduce them at ridiculously high prices, and only in the distant future."
Since you're just continuing to troll and spout ignorant nonsense, I'm not going to continue this thread. Have the last word if it makes you feel better.
Not true. The companies assests all go somewhere. If it was bought by a larger company, than THAT company now owns them.
That much is true, but besides the point. Just because you got in on the ground floor, when "XYZ" was being given-away (long before it was sold) doesn't mean you don't OWN it.
Congratulations on being the guy who completely missed the point. Perhaps next time you'll try reading my entire post before replying.
"Definition" is a video term, it has NO application at all to audio. It makes no sense.
I wasn't aware that telephones even HAVE "definition", let alone that they are in HIGH DEFINITION now.
definition
4. a. The clarity of detail in an optically produced image, such as a photograph, effected by a combination of resolution and contrast.
b. The degree of clarity with which a televised image or broadcast signal is received.
Of course, what do I know... I didn't realize wireless networking equipment had fidelity, either (ie. WiFi).
Okay. Good so far...
Umm, no. The companies that own the blocks are NOT dead. They are alive, and perfectly capable of selling off some of their subnets if they chose.
It is abandoned, but the guy is alive and well, and is perfectly capable of managing his property. Taking it away from him, against his will (even if he's not using it) is a rather extreme measure, and for no good reason.
If something so ridiculously improbable as that happens... testing the accuracy of a new type of clock will be the least of your concerns.
Let's see... 1999 + 8 years of planning + 9 months of "creation and delivery" (
starting in October) would have to mean we're somewhere in 2009 right now...
The same way they've been doing it for many years with current atomic clocks... You don't just have a single clock, you have a BANK of numerous atomic clocks, and use statistical sampling to correct drift. And establish a very, very accturate time base.
Complete nonsense. This isn't a "prediction", it's a mathematical number/time. Like any other number/time, you can easily convert it into shorter time-frames.
1 sec in 400 million years is ==
1/2 sec in 200 million years
1/4 sec in 100 million years
1/8 sec in 50 million years
etc.
That means it is accurate to 0.000000025ths of a second in 10 years... A more partical time-frame, which can be tested fairly easily.
How is an e-mail address "effectively" an IP address?
Each computer only gets ONE inbound port? That's absolutely horrible. Not to mention it's an absolute NO-GO for servers of just about any kind.
FTP, in particular, doesn't work from NATed machine to NATed machine, even if you've got several ports open/forwarded.
Peer-to-peer communications, of any kind, need open in-bound ports. With VoIP, P2P file sharing, bittorrent, gaming, etc., people need very numerous incomming ports. And since there are fewer IP addresses than people on the planet, and each person generally has more than one networked computer/device, it's every bit a huge problem.
IP addresses can be reused, over and over, period. No need for NAT to do the most basic of tasks IP was designed for.
More than half the rooms in my house sit unoccupied. I suppose the government should step-in and "release" half my house, to slightly delay the problem.
Yeah, we've long since reached the point of recycling TLAs.
Funny. You count that document as solid evidence when it suits you, and utterly discount what it actually say when it doesn't suit you. Who's the irrational nutjob again?
And they'll call it NTFS6...
They already did something like this with NTFS5, found in Windows 2000. Once Windows 2000 has booted-up with access to an NTFS partition, you can't run chkdsk from NT4 (or older) anymore. You're actually stuck with 2000, whether you like it or not. God help you if you remove your Windows 2000 installation.
Personally, my hopes lie with FFS Drv. Absolutely EVERY major operating system other than Windows can read/write to UFS/FFS.
See first post.
Also, the plan WASN'T to kill anybody. The plan (imperfect and preliminary as it was) was to more or less HIDE those people. They never even planned to kill those people.
That's good. Supplement your paranoia with an equally large persecution complex, just because rational people don't buy-in to your insane rantings, and take utter lack of evidence as PROOF.
No, I didn't say anything about radiation experiments. However, I had the CIA break into
Still numerous sales for content they would make NO money on otherwise.
60 minutes is only the first thing mentioned because it's the most recognized CBS News show. However, they're offering ALL their CBS News content, not just clips of 60 Minutes.
Yeah, surely you couldn't be bothered to read the short summary to figure out more specific info than the title can convey.
Really, give me a break. To make matters worse, you didn't even bother to suggest an alternative title. You're just making pedantic complaints.
You either have no idea what this service is, or you're one of the few that does not care at all about the world around you.
/.ers are going to order DVDs of every computing/hi-tech story in the past 60 years?
The price for the DVDs is a bit high, but I fully expect man people will start ordering sets of DVDs with full coverage of every major historical event in recent memory.
How much money are they going to make just printing DVDs of the coverage of the 9/11 attacks? How about the fall of the Berlin wall, and end of the cold war? Perhaps even videos about the START of the cold war for that matter. How many
CBS should be commended for at least trying to adapt to the internet, and individual customization. Is it any coincidence they were also the first with free online news videos, and still have the best service? In fact I was just on cbsnews.com a few minutes ago, watching videos on the current Israel/Palestine/Lebanon conflict.
And on which of the 20 pages the review is divided into, should I insert these witty remarks.
They "plan" every possible senario you can imagine. That's a ridiculously long way from actually doing it.
The Bush family is frendly with the most highly respected family in Saudi Arabia, second only to the Royal Family, who happen to share their last name with a terrorist? *Gasp*!
"The permanent record" has nothing to do with it. Carve it in the side of a mountain if you like, and it still won't matter.
Accomplishing something first is insignificant... a footnote in history. The significant part is not keeping that fact stored somewhere, but imparting that knowledge onto others, who can build upon it and benefit.
The Wright Brothers would have been long forgotten if nobody had built upon their invention. It's not that they were the first to meet some arbitrary cosmic goal, it's that they made a leap which was carried on, and to the benefit of mankind.
A man walking on the moon is completely insignificant next to the lessons learned in the process of sending him there.
Sources? I don't believe that one bit.