dealers don't make themselves known to everyone in the world as "drug dealers", due to the illegality and stigma pushed by folks like you. it's a discreet business.
Really? Been to any big city lately? I guess if by "discrete" you mean there isn't a big flashing sign that says DRUG DEALER, then you're right. Otherwise, it's pretty damn easy to tell who's dealing and who isn't. I lived in the bad part of San Diego for five years in the mid 1990s...it didn't take a degree in marketing to know who was doing what. Nothing's changed.
That being said, I've never heard of dealers giving anything away for free. When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, it was a big deal with LSD and heroin, but all I ever heard were "stories".
The asshole that got him hooked was himself. Dealers don't want addicts as customers if they can help it. Addicts are unreliable, poor, and much more likely to get busted for some other crime and flip on the dealer. It's the drug laws that create the situation you are describing, not the drugs themselves.
You're full of shit. Drug dealers want customers with money. They don't give a rip if they're addicts or not. Got money? That's good enough.
Do you really think that the dealer around the corner cares about the character of his customer? Please.
And you can't have it both ways...either the asshole caused his problem or the laws caused the problem. I'll give you a clue...if we didn't have the laws, we'd still have the problem. Case in point: alcohol, far less addictive than crack, directly kills scads of people every year...and even more indirectly. And it's legal! And where I live, the state is the dealer! Yep, the only place that you can legally buy a bottle of booze is the state liquor dispensary. And they don't check to see if you're an alcohol addict before you buy...if you've got the money, you're good to go!
drug dealers are only consuming the resources of people who voluntarily seek out their services.
Sigh. This is the short-sighted, disconnected view of drug abuse that seems to typify the "legalize drugs now" crowd. Nothing happens in a vacuum. The parent comment isn't insightful or even interesting - it's tragic, if the poster actually believes it. When somebody busts out the window of a car to steal a stereo to sell so that they can buy drugs with which to overdose, then go to the hospital, have the bill paid for by the county, to whom we pay taxes, then off to detox, again supported by our taxes...then start the whole process over again. So either taxes have to increase or other programs get short shrift. Insurance premiums rise. Everybody who can afford it moves away. Worst of all, those "volunteers" lose opportunities...for themselves and for everyone else.
I've seen it in Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston and New York. I've even seen it in places that you've never heard of, like Nampa, Idaho and Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
If you really believe that the only resources that drug dealers consume are those of their customers, then you're just fantasizing.
I've had four of them for a few years. They definitely run hot, quite a bit hotter than the Maxtors that I have in other systems. But I haven't had any problem with mine. I guess I'm just a statistical anomaly. They don't make any odd noises, I've never had any errors and I'm pretty much completely satisfied with them.
That said, tonight I'll get home and probably find that all four of them are on fire or something.
I noticed that a while back IBM released some information saying that the problems might have something to do with the drives running idle for extended periods of time. One thing that my drives don't do is sit idle...there is always some kind of activity every few minutes from Fedora. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
3700 odd flight hours, many of Blue Angels type maneuvers. Probably some significant stress and wear on that airframe due to the type of flying. There probably was a good reason that aircraft was retired.
Not at all - the maintenance schedule on military aviation is extraordinarily rigorous, because of the type of flying that is done and because much of the equipment (for its time) is cutting edge, at least mechanically speaking.
The maneuvers that the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds do are the same maneuvers that all of the pilots of those aircraft perform. It's just that the demonstration teams perform them as a group. My old naval aviation buddies tell me that the Blue Angels' jets actually get easier use than the regular jets. They certainly don't have to make any arrested landings or catapault takeoffs!
IF this is true, the release of the source is the nail in the coffin for Microsoft.
Please...you might as well say that BSD is dead. Nobody is happy about all the ruckus that the whole affair is going to raise, but it's a little early to pronounce Microsoft dead.
A car engine is a complex, finely tuned piece of equipment where every variable is carefully thought through - and tested the hell out of over several years by their engineers.
You're confusing trademarks with patents. They don't have to demonstrate due diligence in protecting their patents, they only have to demonstrate infringement.
In the context of the time that they were filed, the patents are novel and unique. But it's a real stretch to make them cover Windows' autoplay feature. The patents seem to focus on a remote control device that is designed to synchronize a multimedia presentation with a printed presentation. Although an autorun feature is mentioned, it is in coordination with the press of a button on a remote control.
Now, I don't know upon what basis TVI is accusing Microsoft of patent infringement, but if I had to guess, I'd say that they are equating the load/eject button on a CD drive with the "data" button described in their patents. Like I said, it seems like a stretch to make their patents fit the situation.
I'd say that in this case, the USPTO didn't screw up. Blame TVI for this one.
That's all well and good, but if push came to shove and the professor actually filed a lawsuit, then somebody has to pay to defend against it. From a practical point of view, regardless of the niceties of the law, most people aren't going to fork over a bunch of money for an attorney for what is really just a hobby. And if I were in Dylan Greene's position, I'd take the site down, too.
Obviously, the credibility of the threat matters - I get threats of lawsuits several times a year over some mailing lists that my company sponsors. You have to sort the wheat from the chaff...and so far, it's all chaff.
And, incidentally, teacherreviews.com is not gone for good, as Dylan's blog reports.
Actually, most of the US rockets that blew up did so right in front of the press corps. Having been around during that era, you'd better believe that there was plenty of knowledge about the failures of the US rocket program. The Soviets didn't have the same exposure, but they certainly lost their fair share of rockets (and cosmonauts).
There was no propaganda war, insofar as US setbacks were concerned. I know that because we had a TV set and read the newspapers. You may not hear much about it now, but it's certainly not because nobody knew about it then!
Well, I'm 41, so the Apollo program really had an impact on me. I also remember hearing about the rovers (and other Soviet space accomplishments), but the late '60s and early '70s were definitely different than today when it comes to topical education. At the time, the whole idea of space exploration was geared around beating the (as my Ukranian friend puts it) Godless Communists to the moon.
Sheesh, after Kirk, Picard, Garrett from that alternate universe/time travel TNG episode and Archer, I'd have thought that we'd had enough of them. But no, now we have Captain Watson. Enough already!
The reality is virtually every profession has some degree of organization - except ours.
The IEEE Computer Society is the largest of the IEEE's 37 societies. And it's been around for 58 years. Besides its own voice in Washington, it has the IEEE's voice behind it.
Finally I should point out that there is a lot of corporate funding for organizations like the IEEE, USENIX (SAGE), ACM and so forth. In some respects it's kind of ridiculous, it would be like having HMO's pay for and to some extent control the AMA.
IEEE's funding is almost entirely from product sales and membership dues.
That's the book that was described by one researcher as: "A rare blend of monster raving egomania and utter batshit insanity" which when I first read it made me laugh out loud. I haven't read the book so I don't know how accurate it is.
I've read it. It's sitting here on my desk. I bought it when it first came out (and saw it at my local Barnes and Noble a week or so ago for about ten bucks). That review is pretty accurate.
On the bright side, it makes a pretty solid bookend.
You cannot apply quantum mechanics that way! It's a macro versus a micro problem, but on a much more massive scale! At a quantum level, the motion of the loudspeaker as a unit is completely decoupled from any quantum motion. At a quantum level, the particles of the loudspeaker are moving in a completely random fashion - not in a series of discrete, uniform steps.
I understand what you're trying to say, but the "discrete quantum jumps" that you're talking about are related to the Uncertainty Principle, and it's important to remember that that applies to what we can (potentially) measure, not what can actually be. And if we're talking about discrete motion at that level, the whole idea of a speaker cone moving as a uniform body simply doesn't apply. You can't mix Newtonian and quantum physics.
And since "pedantic" seems to be my favorite word of the day, since I'm being pedantic, you have to be too;-)
Sheesh...replying to an AC. I don't think that I made any reference to linear or nonlinear motion. In fact, the speaker will behave very non-linearly as it approaches the limit of its travel. And you should see no transmission line effects - you would see back emf as a function of the coil's resistance to change in motion, but that is not a TL effect. In fact, the back emf should be quite minimal...hook up a scope and examine the signal and you'll find a series of very nearly sine waves superimposed upon one another with very few discontinuities.
Take what I said with the same grain of pedanticness (if that's a word) that I took when I said it. The motion is continuous.
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Wow, you totally missed the point of my post. That's a quite outstanding, even for Slashdot!
Really? Been to any big city lately? I guess if by "discrete" you mean there isn't a big flashing sign that says DRUG DEALER, then you're right. Otherwise, it's pretty damn easy to tell who's dealing and who isn't. I lived in the bad part of San Diego for five years in the mid 1990s...it didn't take a degree in marketing to know who was doing what. Nothing's changed.
That being said, I've never heard of dealers giving anything away for free. When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, it was a big deal with LSD and heroin, but all I ever heard were "stories".
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You're full of shit. Drug dealers want customers with money. They don't give a rip if they're addicts or not. Got money? That's good enough.
Do you really think that the dealer around the corner cares about the character of his customer? Please.
And you can't have it both ways...either the asshole caused his problem or the laws caused the problem. I'll give you a clue...if we didn't have the laws, we'd still have the problem. Case in point: alcohol, far less addictive than crack, directly kills scads of people every year...and even more indirectly. And it's legal! And where I live, the state is the dealer! Yep, the only place that you can legally buy a bottle of booze is the state liquor dispensary. And they don't check to see if you're an alcohol addict before you buy...if you've got the money, you're good to go!
Go figure.
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Sigh. This is the short-sighted, disconnected view of drug abuse that seems to typify the "legalize drugs now" crowd. Nothing happens in a vacuum. The parent comment isn't insightful or even interesting - it's tragic, if the poster actually believes it. When somebody busts out the window of a car to steal a stereo to sell so that they can buy drugs with which to overdose, then go to the hospital, have the bill paid for by the county, to whom we pay taxes, then off to detox, again supported by our taxes...then start the whole process over again. So either taxes have to increase or other programs get short shrift. Insurance premiums rise. Everybody who can afford it moves away. Worst of all, those "volunteers" lose opportunities...for themselves and for everyone else.
I've seen it in Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston and New York. I've even seen it in places that you've never heard of, like Nampa, Idaho and Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
If you really believe that the only resources that drug dealers consume are those of their customers, then you're just fantasizing.
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Maybe you should check out Ebay from some scruples. You need some.
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That said, tonight I'll get home and probably find that all four of them are on fire or something.
I noticed that a while back IBM released some information saying that the problems might have something to do with the drives running idle for extended periods of time. One thing that my drives don't do is sit idle...there is always some kind of activity every few minutes from Fedora. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
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Not at all - the maintenance schedule on military aviation is extraordinarily rigorous, because of the type of flying that is done and because much of the equipment (for its time) is cutting edge, at least mechanically speaking.
The maneuvers that the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds do are the same maneuvers that all of the pilots of those aircraft perform. It's just that the demonstration teams perform them as a group. My old naval aviation buddies tell me that the Blue Angels' jets actually get easier use than the regular jets. They certainly don't have to make any arrested landings or catapault takeoffs!
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Please...you might as well say that BSD is dead. Nobody is happy about all the ruckus that the whole affair is going to raise, but it's a little early to pronounce Microsoft dead.
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I wholeheartedly agree!
You're confusing trademarks with patents. They don't have to demonstrate due diligence in protecting their patents, they only have to demonstrate infringement.
Now, I don't know upon what basis TVI is accusing Microsoft of patent infringement, but if I had to guess, I'd say that they are equating the load/eject button on a CD drive with the "data" button described in their patents. Like I said, it seems like a stretch to make their patents fit the situation.
I'd say that in this case, the USPTO didn't screw up. Blame TVI for this one.
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Read it here.
Obviously, the credibility of the threat matters - I get threats of lawsuits several times a year over some mailing lists that my company sponsors. You have to sort the wheat from the chaff...and so far, it's all chaff.
And, incidentally, teacherreviews.com is not gone for good, as Dylan's blog reports.
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There was no propaganda war, insofar as US setbacks were concerned. I know that because we had a TV set and read the newspapers. You may not hear much about it now, but it's certainly not because nobody knew about it then!
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You'd have a hard time buying one, though:
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An exception occurred: 'Execute'
They do look pretty nice, though.
Now THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is a troll. Well done.
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Sheesh, after Kirk, Picard, Garrett from that alternate universe/time travel TNG episode and Archer, I'd have thought that we'd had enough of them. But no, now we have Captain Watson. Enough already!
Try putting :sf:\ in your /etc/printcap file. That's colon sf colon backslash. Check out "man printcap" for details.
Also, as I recall from the article, it only does so if it detects the specific color of a bank note.
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The IEEE Computer Society is the largest of the IEEE's 37 societies. And it's been around for 58 years. Besides its own voice in Washington, it has the IEEE's voice behind it.
Finally I should point out that there is a lot of corporate funding for organizations like the IEEE, USENIX (SAGE), ACM and so forth. In some respects it's kind of ridiculous, it would be like having HMO's pay for and to some extent control the AMA.
IEEE's funding is almost entirely from product sales and membership dues.
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I've read it. It's sitting here on my desk. I bought it when it first came out (and saw it at my local Barnes and Noble a week or so ago for about ten bucks). That review is pretty accurate.
On the bright side, it makes a pretty solid bookend.
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I understand what you're trying to say, but the "discrete quantum jumps" that you're talking about are related to the Uncertainty Principle, and it's important to remember that that applies to what we can (potentially) measure, not what can actually be. And if we're talking about discrete motion at that level, the whole idea of a speaker cone moving as a uniform body simply doesn't apply. You can't mix Newtonian and quantum physics.
And since "pedantic" seems to be my favorite word of the day, since I'm being pedantic, you have to be too
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Take what I said with the same grain of pedanticness (if that's a word) that I took when I said it. The motion is continuous.
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