While cutting down (with fossil fuel burning machines) an equal mass of immature trees whose constituant matter is not returned to the soil from which they grew to grow new trees to absorb CO2.
First learn barance, Daniel san. This redistribution of biomass is trickier than it looks.
No. It's called The Carbon Cycle. "Soil" (as opposed to "dirt") is composed of decaying plant matter, decaying because it is being metabolised my microoganisms, a process that releases the CO2 the plant bound in itself over its life.
If the total biomass remains roughly constant, a plant grows for a plant that dies, the system remains roughly in balance, as the new plants absorb the CO2 released by the dead plants.
Vista is due in 2006/7 and will reflect the mid to high end computer design for late 2006.
However, the typical computer is a standard eternity old, and will soon be two standard eternities old, because the typical computer user already has a machine that does what he wants it to do.
This does not speak well for selling quantities of OS upgrades.
Still, I think I'm going to hold out on this one until it's also a camera and can play DVDs, at which point it will be a laptop and need a control peripheral.
One of the reason's I pick at Microsoft is because they aren't developing DRM to protect their own content so much as they are striving to expand their business to get a piece of every entertainment industry transaction.
It's one of those stories that naturally gets duped every year or two as part of the normal "news cycle."
It's a real issue in the marketing of all specialized print magazines. How do you keep your subscribers after the second year, because that's when they start to feel like they're reading the same stories over and over.
Most magazines deal with the issue rather crudely by printing product PR pieces diguised as stories, as there is a never ending stream of new products (and paying advertisers for them), whether they're needed or not, but this is Slashdot, New For Nerds, Stuff That Matters, so we don't have the problem here.
People take my picture a lot. Some of these pictures end up on the web and sometimes I run across them.
A while ago I ran across a picture and thought my mother might like to see it, so I emailed it to her. She emailed back asking if I could print her hard copies.
My first reaction was, "What for? It's on your computer. You can look at it any time you want."
There is a digital divide even between people who have all gone digital. It's all in how you think about it.
"'If consumers even know there's a DRM. . . we've already failed,'"
Well Sparky, you kinda let that cat out of the bag when you forced people to watch ten minutes of ads every time they just wanted to watch a DVD, didn'ch'a?
You only need Battlenet to play against others if you're going OVER the internet.
Not exactly. Over a TCP/IP protocol connection, and the the protocol is the Internet, which isn't Blizzard's; and it's just a network.
If Blizzard wants to check my key to make sure its legal when I use their FREE service (Battlenet) to play online then it's their right.
And nobody has contested this. In fact, Blizzard is the only one who has even contested checking to make sure it's legal when not using their servers.
Stand on your soapbox all you want and argue about OSS. ..
This isn't about OSS.
Protest in the proper fashion. If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
I don't, although I got snagged by a couple of games that formerly supported direct connection via the TCP/IP protocol, but removed it in later iterations. Live and learn.
I would be in violation of the law but nobody would care. ..
No, you wouldn't be, because nobody would care. Normally what price you ask for generators is entirely up to you, just so long as you pay the applicable taxes on any sales you do manage to make.
And yet the price that Home Depot decides to charge for a generator is determined in exactly the same manner as "price gouging" prices are.
A)What do we have to pay to get another one? B)What can we sell the one we have for?
Make A as small as possible, make B as large as possible. Sometimes making B larger actually results in more sales (see the argument that people don't use free software because it's free).
The last time we had a generator shortage near me I had a truck sitting empty and local stores full of generators, but I could not move those generators to the people who needed them because I would have gone broke at the emergency price caps. It costs more to move emergency goods and the cost of moving goods is part of the perfectly legitimate price of those goods.
So people with money that was doing them no good under the circumstances, because they couldn't spend it on the things they needed, frickin' froze, some of them to death.
But hey, at least they died on a pile of cash, eh?
Yes, but the current proceedings will have very little if anything to do with the final outcome. ..
Perhaps, perhaps not, but both the headline and the blurb rather remarkably accurately portray the story as an RIAA case finally having gone before a judge.
And a good many people have been following this case to find out if that was actually going to happen. This is actually news.
Slashdot Mirror
But it took billions of years to evolve Mitchell. :)
KFG
I hope nobody honestly thinks that would be a good idea! ;-)
I've learned the hard way that that is not a safe assumption.
KFG
While cutting down (with fossil fuel burning machines) an equal mass of immature trees whose constituant matter is not returned to the soil from which they grew to grow new trees to absorb CO2.
First learn barance, Daniel san. This redistribution of biomass is trickier than it looks.
KFG
Not to mention destroying the soil itself, which is also an ecosystem in balance.
KFG
No. It's called The Carbon Cycle. "Soil" (as opposed to "dirt") is composed of decaying plant matter, decaying because it is being metabolised my microoganisms, a process that releases the CO2 the plant bound in itself over its life.
If the total biomass remains roughly constant, a plant grows for a plant that dies, the system remains roughly in balance, as the new plants absorb the CO2 released by the dead plants.
If, however, the bio mass is declining. . .
KFG
. . .were not open to other flexible ideas.
.telling the people in the dome anything that would be off-message. Why allow some conduit for politics or whatever?
Like a dedicated radio station instead of blaring loudspeakers.
Methinks you have the shoe on the wrong foot.
. .
Yep, I was right.
KFG
Vista is due in 2006/7 and will reflect the mid to high end computer design for late 2006.
However, the typical computer is a standard eternity old, and will soon be two standard eternities old, because the typical computer user already has a machine that does what he wants it to do.
This does not speak well for selling quantities of OS upgrades.
KFG
. . .until they can send and receive email.
Still, I think I'm going to hold out on this one until it's also a camera and can play DVDs, at which point it will be a laptop and need a control peripheral.
KFG
We'll all be a doublin', doublin', doublin'
.well, 24/7.
We'll all be a doublin' in 32 years.
Film at. .
KFG
Warning! Fatal Error. We really mean it this time. Go a buy a new DVD.
.so people can't see me crying.
My future's so bright I gotta wear shades. .
KFG
One of the reason's I pick at Microsoft is because they aren't developing DRM to protect their own content so much as they are striving to expand their business to get a piece of every entertainment industry transaction.
KFG
This is what we call a "wad."
Works as Designed.
KFG
It's one of those stories that naturally gets duped every year or two as part of the normal "news cycle."
It's a real issue in the marketing of all specialized print magazines. How do you keep your subscribers after the second year, because that's when they start to feel like they're reading the same stories over and over.
Most magazines deal with the issue rather crudely by printing product PR pieces diguised as stories, as there is a never ending stream of new products (and paying advertisers for them), whether they're needed or not, but this is Slashdot, New For Nerds, Stuff That Matters, so we don't have the problem here.
Oh, wait.
KFG
". . .to put it another way, what feature of Excel is still a bit clunky to use?"
Its license.
KFG
People take my picture a lot. Some of these pictures end up on the web and sometimes I run across them.
A while ago I ran across a picture and thought my mother might like to see it, so I emailed it to her. She emailed back asking if I could print her hard copies.
My first reaction was, "What for? It's on your computer. You can look at it any time you want."
There is a digital divide even between people who have all gone digital. It's all in how you think about it.
KFG
"'If consumers even know there's a DRM. . . we've already failed,'"
Well Sparky, you kinda let that cat out of the bag when you forced people to watch ten minutes of ads every time they just wanted to watch a DVD, didn'ch'a?
KFG
On the Long Island "Express"way, yeah, it is.
KFG
. . . it didn't get old. . .
It never had the chance. It lasted nearly hours.
KFG
. . .what an immature neanderthal...
Film all over the Internet.
KFG
But who's going to sneak into google on a flying scooter?
Dean Kamen?
KFG
You only need Battlenet to play against others if you're going OVER the internet.
.
Not exactly. Over a TCP/IP protocol connection, and the the protocol is the Internet, which isn't Blizzard's; and it's just a network.
If Blizzard wants to check my key to make sure its legal when I use their FREE service (Battlenet) to play online then it's their right.
And nobody has contested this. In fact, Blizzard is the only one who has even contested checking to make sure it's legal when not using their servers.
Stand on your soapbox all you want and argue about OSS. .
This isn't about OSS.
Protest in the proper fashion. If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
I don't, although I got snagged by a couple of games that formerly supported direct connection via the TCP/IP protocol, but removed it in later iterations. Live and learn.
KFG
but that they really don't stand much of a chance of conviction by jury.
Not to mention how silly they look.
KFG
I would be in violation of the law but nobody would care. . .
No, you wouldn't be, because nobody would care. Normally what price you ask for generators is entirely up to you, just so long as you pay the applicable taxes on any sales you do manage to make.
And yet the price that Home Depot decides to charge for a generator is determined in exactly the same manner as "price gouging" prices are.
A)What do we have to pay to get another one? B)What can we sell the one we have for?
Make A as small as possible, make B as large as possible. Sometimes making B larger actually results in more sales (see the argument that people don't use free software because it's free).
The last time we had a generator shortage near me I had a truck sitting empty and local stores full of generators, but I could not move those generators to the people who needed them because I would have gone broke at the emergency price caps. It costs more to move emergency goods and the cost of moving goods is part of the perfectly legitimate price of those goods.
So people with money that was doing them no good under the circumstances, because they couldn't spend it on the things they needed, frickin' froze, some of them to death.
But hey, at least they died on a pile of cash, eh?
KFG
Yes, but the current proceedings will have very little if anything to do with the final outcome. . .
Perhaps, perhaps not, but both the headline and the blurb rather remarkably accurately portray the story as an RIAA case finally having gone before a judge.
And a good many people have been following this case to find out if that was actually going to happen. This is actually news.
KFG
This was not a court case, this was a pelimnary hearing.
This was not a trial, but it was most certainly a court case, otherwise there would have been no preliminary hearing.
KFG