Does the open standard make your components needlessly expensive for the consumer?
I propose something slightly different. Instead of forcing all manufacturers to conform to a standard power supply design specification, which may increase costs and decrease reliability, instead, encourage the manufacturers to publish full power supply specifications and allow third party vendors to produce multi-device power bricks that are switchable into various modes. Consumers who have a desperate need to cut down on the number of bricks they possess will be willing to pay for such devices. Or, the hardcore among us can use these specs to build our own such power supplies.
I do not want to pay extra costs and have potentially decreased reliability unless I have a choice. Give me a choice, not a one-size-fits-all compromise which is sure to cater to only the lowest common denominator, dragging down quality for everyone.
I personally think internet anonymity is a good thing. It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems, and ensures an even playing field, since newbies' arguments are heard on the same level as those of our celebrities (at least in theory).
How does knowing that some random person's name is Bob Smith help you to know anything about that person? Whether the name on the screen is Bob Smith or CastIron1551, I still don't know who the hell that person is. Or does a person's full name somehow encode a huge amount of information about that person?
Hell, if your handle is "GoLakers" that tells me more about you than knowing your first name is Alex.
Most of the US states have a state rock, a state flower, a state bird, a state tree, etc. Oregon even has a state fungus. I never really thought it was weird, just an expression of pride for the place you live in. California certainly isn't alone in this.
I'm not saying it makes any sense, but if the law as written is actually anything like that, it seems overly broad. How do you define "obscuring meaning" in an exact sense?
Encryption, per se, is not disallowed. What is prohibited is "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning."
A ham call sign ("handle") masks the personal identity of the user. How is that not "obscuring meaning?" What if two hams have a discussion about "that thing we did last weekend." You haven't said what "that thing" is. You're obscuring meaning. What if you talk in a language only two people on the planet understand? You're obscuring meaning.
The prices depreciate because people value it less. They value it less because its a piece of shit. Its a piece of shit because... well, it's a piece of shit. So what, we're going to stand around boo-hooing about how EVs are pieces of shit? I have better things to do.
"Stuff that's worthless isn't worth much, details at 11." Yawn.
If that were true we might have companies actually following the law....
No, you'd just see a lot fewer companies. People don't, in general, work very well when the constant threat of jail time is dangled over their heads. I'd just go into a less stressful business where I can't be held liable for the actions of others.
It reminds me of an episode of Dirty Jobs where some salvage guys were recovering sunken boats in a Florida marshland. The trees are legally protected, and the crew literally had a police boat following them around at all times so they could immediately arrest everyone if they accidentally bumped into a tree. I remember thinking to myself, who the fuck does that kind of job? Why subject yourself to that?
If the motion of a glider to a new position counts as replicating itself, then me getting up and walking to another room counts as replicating myself. That's nonsense.
Replication is only replication if the original copy remains behind. A glider doesn't do that.
Your ass will not be covered. Instead, you'll be jailed for causing a waste of resources. The way to cover your ass is to leave the country of Italy, or at least cease practicing geology for the government. They can obviously get along just fine without scientists.
Getting an estimate of actual damages was a good call. They need to do the same thing when suing pirates. Don't sue them for some ridiculous amount, just what the ACTUAL DAMAGES for not paying for the movie.
Suing for actual damages doesn't deter anyone. Suppose I don't want to pay for DVDs, so I pirate them. I have a chance of getting away with it, and paying nothing. Or, I could be sued for actual damages, and pay the face value of the DVD. So the total price I pay for my DVDs cannot be greater than, and is probably substantially less than, face value. It's a win for me.
Because who gives a shit how much the phone weighs? What does that have to do with how "harmful" the radiation is? if that's really how they are defining it, then somebody owes me ANOTHER keyboard.
Not theorized, demonstrated. We can easily achieve electroweak unification energies in the accelerators. It's a known thing.
The "unification" of the electric and magnetic force is a different type of unification from electroweak. There truly is just one force, the electromagnetic, which seems to split into two forces because of relativity. The unification of the other forces is of an inherently different kind.
The electric and magnetic forces are both mediated by the same particle -- the photon. This literally means they are the same force.
I weight 81 kg. So my maximum safe absorption absorption is 130 watts. What kind of cell phone can pump out 130 watts of RF? Can somebody send me a new keyboard, I just shot coffee all over mine.
Getting the public to switch to mass transit is hard. It involves convincing everybody to give up what they see as a fundamental part of their own independence. Optimizing fuel consumption with traffic signals is easy. It involves tweaking some code.
You sort of people piss me off. If the solution isn't your ideal solution, then fuck the solution. Fuck the environment, fuck the planet basically. You're more interested in idealism than actually helping anything. Or maybe you just enjoy gloating about your obvious moral superiority. Go jump off a bridge. And fuck yourself on the way down.
If you think that's stupid, you'll go nuts when I tell you that I actually sit at a desk for 40+ hours a week instead of hanging out in the sunshine, just so I can see some digits appear inside some account I have somewhere.
It's not the virtuality of the item that makes this story ridiculous, it's the fact that the item could easily be restored to its rightful "owner" at the push of a button. We're not talking about money where there are, you know, laws against just synthesizing money at will. But here, the owner of the virtual world could set things right in a matter of seconds.
In this case it does. Are the plates going to just stop subducting? There will be a massive quake, with 100% certainty. I live here, and I'm not frightened by it -- what the fuck is the point of being frightened -- but it does influence certain decisions I make, such as buying earthquake insurance, making sure my house will probably survive a quake, keeping some emergency supplies on hand, having a family emergency plan, etc.
A quaint and interesting idea. In this scenario, we should have a say in how all of our tax money gets spent. What do you suppose would happen if we all declared that we wanted our tax money to go to public education and welfare rather than the military-industrial complex?
You can, it's called a "tax deduction." You get to put your money directly to certain causes of your choice. In exchange, the government does not tax that money. The mathematical result is that you have diverted taxes to the causes of your choice. Try it sometime.
My company pays me from 9 to 5 and that does NOT give them the right to invade my live the rest of the time. In return, I will not meddle with their buissness outside office times. What happens at the office, stays at the office, and what happens outside, happens outside. Thats a matter of basic decency.
It's also a matter of basic intelligence. If you post something on the public Internet, it's not "invading your life" when somebody you didn't plan on happens to look at it. You're simply being a moron and a blabbermouth.
I've worked pretty closely* with the HP group responsible for creating their ink jet printer drivers. I haven't noticed any lack of sensibility or honesty. A company is both more and less than the sum of its parts, if that makes any sense. We're all just working hard and trying to do our jobs. If you think that people are going to quit their jobs in an economy like this because of the price of ink, you really are out of touch with reality.
I also know one of the guys who designed some of the first ink jet inks (he happens to be the father of one of my closer friends). After spending a few hours hearing about what goes into these inks, at least to the degree that he's allowed to talk about it, I'm not terribly surprised that the inks are extremely expensive. Could they be LESS expensive? Probably, but people are buying the ink. If the prices are so unrealistic, why don't they just switch to a different manufacturer? There are plenty of them. Brother, Canon, Epson, Xerox, the list goes on. Are all of these companies colluding to fix the price of ink? It would be the biggest story since Rambus.
* I said worked with, not worked for. My position puts me in contact with most of the major home printer manufacturers from time to time.
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Does the open standard make your components needlessly expensive for the consumer?
I propose something slightly different. Instead of forcing all manufacturers to conform to a standard power supply design specification, which may increase costs and decrease reliability, instead, encourage the manufacturers to publish full power supply specifications and allow third party vendors to produce multi-device power bricks that are switchable into various modes. Consumers who have a desperate need to cut down on the number of bricks they possess will be willing to pay for such devices. Or, the hardcore among us can use these specs to build our own such power supplies.
I do not want to pay extra costs and have potentially decreased reliability unless I have a choice. Give me a choice, not a one-size-fits-all compromise which is sure to cater to only the lowest common denominator, dragging down quality for everyone.
I personally think internet anonymity is a good thing. It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems, and ensures an even playing field, since newbies' arguments are heard on the same level as those of our celebrities (at least in theory).
How does knowing that some random person's name is Bob Smith help you to know anything about that person? Whether the name on the screen is Bob Smith or CastIron1551, I still don't know who the hell that person is. Or does a person's full name somehow encode a huge amount of information about that person?
Hell, if your handle is "GoLakers" that tells me more about you than knowing your first name is Alex.
Most of the US states have a state rock, a state flower, a state bird, a state tree, etc. Oregon even has a state fungus. I never really thought it was weird, just an expression of pride for the place you live in. California certainly isn't alone in this.
I'm not saying it makes any sense, but if the law as written is actually anything like that, it seems overly broad. How do you define "obscuring meaning" in an exact sense?
Encryption, per se, is not disallowed. What is prohibited is "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning."
A ham call sign ("handle") masks the personal identity of the user. How is that not "obscuring meaning?" What if two hams have a discussion about "that thing we did last weekend." You haven't said what "that thing" is. You're obscuring meaning. What if you talk in a language only two people on the planet understand? You're obscuring meaning.
The prices depreciate because people value it less. They value it less because its a piece of shit. Its a piece of shit because... well, it's a piece of shit. So what, we're going to stand around boo-hooing about how EVs are pieces of shit? I have better things to do. "Stuff that's worthless isn't worth much, details at 11." Yawn.
If that were true we might have companies actually following the law....
No, you'd just see a lot fewer companies. People don't, in general, work very well when the constant threat of jail time is dangled over their heads. I'd just go into a less stressful business where I can't be held liable for the actions of others.
It reminds me of an episode of Dirty Jobs where some salvage guys were recovering sunken boats in a Florida marshland. The trees are legally protected, and the crew literally had a police boat following them around at all times so they could immediately arrest everyone if they accidentally bumped into a tree. I remember thinking to myself, who the fuck does that kind of job? Why subject yourself to that?
And doesn't a glider do that?
If the motion of a glider to a new position counts as replicating itself, then me getting up and walking to another room counts as replicating myself. That's nonsense.
Replication is only replication if the original copy remains behind. A glider doesn't do that.
Your ass will not be covered. Instead, you'll be jailed for causing a waste of resources. The way to cover your ass is to leave the country of Italy, or at least cease practicing geology for the government. They can obviously get along just fine without scientists.
Getting an estimate of actual damages was a good call. They need to do the same thing when suing pirates. Don't sue them for some ridiculous amount, just what the ACTUAL DAMAGES for not paying for the movie.
Suing for actual damages doesn't deter anyone. Suppose I don't want to pay for DVDs, so I pirate them. I have a chance of getting away with it, and paying nothing. Or, I could be sued for actual damages, and pay the face value of the DVD. So the total price I pay for my DVDs cannot be greater than, and is probably substantially less than, face value. It's a win for me.
Because who gives a shit how much the phone weighs? What does that have to do with how "harmful" the radiation is? if that's really how they are defining it, then somebody owes me ANOTHER keyboard.
Not theorized, demonstrated. We can easily achieve electroweak unification energies in the accelerators. It's a known thing.
The "unification" of the electric and magnetic force is a different type of unification from electroweak. There truly is just one force, the electromagnetic, which seems to split into two forces because of relativity. The unification of the other forces is of an inherently different kind.
The electric and magnetic forces are both mediated by the same particle -- the photon. This literally means they are the same force.
I weight 81 kg. So my maximum safe absorption absorption is 130 watts. What kind of cell phone can pump out 130 watts of RF? Can somebody send me a new keyboard, I just shot coffee all over mine.
And people were questioning why we should build such big machines...
Getting the public to switch to mass transit is hard. It involves convincing everybody to give up what they see as a fundamental part of their own independence. Optimizing fuel consumption with traffic signals is easy. It involves tweaking some code.
You sort of people piss me off. If the solution isn't your ideal solution, then fuck the solution. Fuck the environment, fuck the planet basically. You're more interested in idealism than actually helping anything. Or maybe you just enjoy gloating about your obvious moral superiority. Go jump off a bridge. And fuck yourself on the way down.
If you think that's stupid, you'll go nuts when I tell you that I actually sit at a desk for 40+ hours a week instead of hanging out in the sunshine, just so I can see some digits appear inside some account I have somewhere.
It's not the virtuality of the item that makes this story ridiculous, it's the fact that the item could easily be restored to its rightful "owner" at the push of a button. We're not talking about money where there are, you know, laws against just synthesizing money at will. But here, the owner of the virtual world could set things right in a matter of seconds.
(3) be able to send PCL commands to LAN-attached printers - Seems detailed enough. Firewall might be a problem.
I don't see why it would be, since PCL is what is typically sent to those printers normally.
In this case it does. Are the plates going to just stop subducting? There will be a massive quake, with 100% certainty. I live here, and I'm not frightened by it -- what the fuck is the point of being frightened -- but it does influence certain decisions I make, such as buying earthquake insurance, making sure my house will probably survive a quake, keeping some emergency supplies on hand, having a family emergency plan, etc.
A quaint and interesting idea. In this scenario, we should have a say in how all of our tax money gets spent. What do you suppose would happen if we all declared that we wanted our tax money to go to public education and welfare rather than the military-industrial complex?
You can, it's called a "tax deduction." You get to put your money directly to certain causes of your choice. In exchange, the government does not tax that money. The mathematical result is that you have diverted taxes to the causes of your choice. Try it sometime.
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Government by body-snatchers?
My company pays me from 9 to 5 and that does NOT give them the right to invade my live the rest of the time. In return, I will not meddle with their buissness outside office times. What happens at the office, stays at the office, and what happens outside, happens outside. Thats a matter of basic decency.
It's also a matter of basic intelligence. If you post something on the public Internet, it's not "invading your life" when somebody you didn't plan on happens to look at it. You're simply being a moron and a blabbermouth.
I've worked pretty closely* with the HP group responsible for creating their ink jet printer drivers. I haven't noticed any lack of sensibility or honesty. A company is both more and less than the sum of its parts, if that makes any sense. We're all just working hard and trying to do our jobs. If you think that people are going to quit their jobs in an economy like this because of the price of ink, you really are out of touch with reality.
I also know one of the guys who designed some of the first ink jet inks (he happens to be the father of one of my closer friends). After spending a few hours hearing about what goes into these inks, at least to the degree that he's allowed to talk about it, I'm not terribly surprised that the inks are extremely expensive. Could they be LESS expensive? Probably, but people are buying the ink. If the prices are so unrealistic, why don't they just switch to a different manufacturer? There are plenty of them. Brother, Canon, Epson, Xerox, the list goes on. Are all of these companies colluding to fix the price of ink? It would be the biggest story since Rambus.
* I said worked with, not worked for. My position puts me in contact with most of the major home printer manufacturers from time to time.
So I can make my build process depend on some obscure piece of hardware and be okay? Excellent!
Good luck getting that relief well drilled.
Wow, I can't believe I didn't think of that. Of course BP is the only company on the planet who knows how to drill a relief well.
As others have pointed out, GPLs 2 and 3 both require the release of the build-prerequisites.
I need to ship you a fucking computer along with the source code? A computer is a prerequisite to build the software.