It doesn't take up any size or weight, because it's a separate launch. Why not just launch both at the same time? Or one day later? Or one day earlier? In fact, wouldn't it make more sense to just launch the required stuff 2 years beforehand so it's waiting for them when they arrive? Why does the fact they may need it in the future mean it has to be launched in the future?
I don't get what you mean at all. Why are you waiting 2 months to send stuff you think they'll need? You won't know for definite until after they've landed, at which point your next time to send is 2 years after launch.
The second mission, which should be launched two or three months, not years, later, could include a return vehicle with additional supplies and food
That's not going to work. The reason they launch missions every two years or so is because that's when Mars is closest to the Earth. You can see this in Celestia by speeding up the time a bit.
No... read my original comment. It works on Linux when I first boot up; it fails after the computer is idle for some time....It's OBVIOUSLY a Linux problem.
I did read your original comment, and I stand by mine. If you don't believe me find out who is responsible for usb on Linux, and email them with your make of motherboard...see what they have to say.
I don't know the particulars, but I can at least give you a hypothetical scenario how a buggy usb implementation could cause what you're seeing:
The usb ports should not shut down after an idle period (or at least, should come back up). The usb implementation on the motherboard dies if it's left idle too long (this is the bug). Windows keeps checking the usb ports (not in the spec, but ok to do), so they never go idle. Therefore, it works fine on Windows. Linux doesn't keep checking the usb ports (no reason why it should, if the spec is followed) so they die if you don't touch your mouse (or whatever) for a while. They only checked it worked with Windows.
There. No problem with Windows or Linux, but a buggy usb implementation produces what you're seeing. I'd like to restate that this is just a hypothetical, but I remain convinced that is is *some* kind of bug with the board. As I said before, email the Linux usb folk if you really want the particulars.
It's so buggy that Windows doesn't have a problem with it.
Seriously, I'm a huge Linux fan, I use it at work, I use it at home, I'm using it right now... but that's just ridiculous.
The usb implementation is buggy. They threw in enough fixes till it roughly worked on Windows and then it was considered good enough to ship. That's why it doesn't work on Linux. I'm just wondering how you don't know this already. Surely you've heard of this happening before?
But if a digital copy can be made easily it has to have a method for authorization or tracking if you're going to punish the 'leakers'.
Indeed, but this is in the nature of copies, in that the whole point of copying is to replicate information. This makes watermarking it relatively easy. DRM intends that you should be able to possess digital information (not just view it, but have it in your possession!) but *not* copy it. Which is, frankly, stupid.
I'm surprised they haven't funded their own studios already.
As you've already pointed out, a reduction in copyright would be of massive benefit to the theatres, but how many of them have pushed for such a thing?
Hrm, yeah, that could work, though you'd be trading DRM for copyright.
Not really DRM, more like a trade secret. Films are treated like that anyway, AFAIK.
You're also assuming the theatres won't collude to gain power over the studios.
They might. I doubt they'd totally gain the upper hand since they'd still require their supply of new films, but would a little evening of the situation be such a bad thing?
That's not true either - if there were no IP protections, most theatres would show 3rd-party digital copies of the film, not the officially rented ones.
Not at all. How are they going to get these copies? Any theatre leaking the film would:
1. Breach its agreement with the creators/distributors and get sued 2. Never receive another release copy of a film again
WALL-E does not begin as a pre-existing stream of numbers but as the collective effort of about 400 artists and craftsman working on a budget of $180 million dollars.
That does not happen - that never happens - unless the studio and its financial backers see a reasonable expectation of profit.
You're being just as deceptive yourself. WALL-E had a budget of $180 million, and has made $420,603,606 from theatrical performances. It would still have made this profit without IP protection, so your suggestion that no IP means no profit is simply wrong.
And, just because I know it'll come up: UK VAT is 17.5%. (528/100)*82.5=$435.60 so pre-tax we're paying just under $100 premium for absolutely nothing.
That's not how you actually calculate the price before VAT.
Think of the pre-tax price as 100% and then you add 17.5% to get 117.5% for price+VAT.
Another way of thinking of this is that you multiply your 100% by 1.175 to get 117.5%.
i.e. price_before_vat * 1.175 = price_including_vat
So, price_including_vat / 1.175 = price_before_vat
Therefore $528/1.175 = $449* is the correct pre-tax figure.
*(I'm sure the exchange rate isn't accurate enough for cents!)
Yes indeed. Public/socialised health care is far from free. Countries with such a system (like my own, Australia) just make up for it with higher income tax.
No, you don't. Australia spends less per capita on public funding of healthcare than the US does (link). You may have a higher income tax (I'll take your word for it) but that's not where it's being spent.
Whence the similarity from languages seemingly so far apart?
I'm not a language expert (or language anything, actually), but I checked this out. According to the wikipedia entry for Oklahoma "The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw phrase okla humma, literally meaning red people."
By checking the entry for Choctaw, it seems that Okla = Men/People and therefore it's probable that Humma = Red. Which removes the coincidence, I'm afraid.
Well, I can't believe you put down this as accurately as 0.1 of a cent, but:
Our year actually averages out to 365.2425, which gives $241,580.03 a day. Still, if you've thought of.25 I guess.2425 is easy to remember.
You could think of this as the amount the US national debt increases every 20 seconds or so. In other words, if you're not worried about the national debt, why worry about this expenditure?
How sad is it that I know very little about the inner workings of filesystems and I found an error in that link in like 2 seconds. It says that only Windows Vista allows for soft links and before that NTFS could only create junctions and only on the same partition and it couldn't create them for files.
Not as sad as the fact that you clearly know more than Microsoft about this, since that info came from a Microsoft Technet article! Link.
A file system feature many have considered missing from NTFS, the symbolic file link (or as it's called in UNIX, the soft link) finally arrives in Windows Vista. The Windows 2000 version of NTFS introduced symbolic directory links, called directory junctions, which allow you to create a directory that points at a different directory, but until the Windows Vista version, NTFS has only supported hard links for files.
Thank you! I've been considering stuff for my nephew and I was actually thinking of a ZX Spectrum emulator (Speccy was my first computer), to show how things worked, but this seems to have actual modern applications that can be understood. Helpful people like you are the reason I still read Slashdot comments. Thanks again!
On the other hand there are some other surprises. If you expand the old graphs of PC processor clock speeds, we should have 12GHz CPUs now, but we don't. Clock speeds stopped increasing about 4 years ago. Processors are still faster due to architectural changes, faster bus speeds and more cores, but clock speeds are exactly the same if not slower than they were a few years back.
I think the growth in computing power has remained fairly close to the mark though. Last review I saw for a Core 2 Duo had a benchmark that was rated as 1.0 for a 1GHz P3. The Core 2 Duo scored around 15, meaning you'd need a P3 running at 15GHz to match it, which is close to your figure. Obviously it's difficult to compare on a single benchmark, but it's interesting that for some tasks at least the growth is fairly constant.
Tom's hardware has a page here that'll allow you to compare your P4 to your new chip.
If you want to get slightly more complicated, you can have left-palm-in, right-palm-out and left-palm-out, right-palm-in to tack another couple of bits onto your maximum.
Actually, if you're going to do that, why not use palm-in (on both hands) to represent 2^11 up and palm-out to represent 2^10 down.
So, to get 2083 for example, you'd show second finger on left hand, all closed on right hand, with palm-in, followed by fifth and third finger on left hand and first finger on right hand, with palm-out. (Obviously I'm counting thumb as finger one).
Anyway, this lets you count to 2^20-1 or 1,048,575
The Panda's thumb is by Stephen J Gould who IMHO is an excellent authour, it is not what I was thinking off. Not sure now of the title but it had something to do with Panda's and was basically the same old creationist nonesense.
The best is when I try to download an XPI for thunderbird and firefox tries to install it. And get this: there's no save as! The solution, ironically, is to load up IE7 and do a save as.
The other guy did tell you how to do it, but I'm curious....have a look at this (or, in fact, any Thunderbird extension). How on earth did you miss that big green box with the title "How to Install in Thunderbird"?
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It doesn't take up any size or weight, because it's a separate launch. Why not just launch both at the same time? Or one day later? Or one day earlier? In fact, wouldn't it make more sense to just launch the required stuff 2 years beforehand so it's waiting for them when they arrive? Why does the fact they may need it in the future mean it has to be launched in the future?
I don't get what you mean at all. Why are you waiting 2 months to send stuff you think they'll need? You won't know for definite until after they've landed, at which point your next time to send is 2 years after launch.
That's not going to work. The reason they launch missions every two years or so is because that's when Mars is closest to the Earth. You can see this in Celestia by speeding up the time a bit.
I did read your original comment, and I stand by mine. If you don't believe me find out who is responsible for usb on Linux, and email them with your make of motherboard...see what they have to say.
I don't know the particulars, but I can at least give you a hypothetical scenario how a buggy usb implementation could cause what you're seeing:
The usb ports should not shut down after an idle period (or at least, should come back up).
The usb implementation on the motherboard dies if it's left idle too long (this is the bug).
Windows keeps checking the usb ports (not in the spec, but ok to do), so they never go idle. Therefore, it works fine on Windows.
Linux doesn't keep checking the usb ports (no reason why it should, if the spec is followed) so they die if you don't touch your mouse (or whatever) for a while.
They only checked it worked with Windows.
There. No problem with Windows or Linux, but a buggy usb implementation produces what you're seeing. I'd like to restate that this is just a hypothetical, but I remain convinced that is is *some* kind of bug with the board. As I said before, email the Linux usb folk if you really want the particulars.
The usb implementation is buggy. They threw in enough fixes till it roughly worked on Windows and then it was considered good enough to ship. That's why it doesn't work on Linux. I'm just wondering how you don't know this already. Surely you've heard of this happening before?
Indeed, but this is in the nature of copies, in that the whole point of copying is to replicate information. This makes watermarking it relatively easy. DRM intends that you should be able to possess digital information (not just view it, but have it in your possession!) but *not* copy it. Which is, frankly, stupid.
As you've already pointed out, a reduction in copyright would be of massive benefit to the theatres, but how many of them have pushed for such a thing?
Not really DRM, more like a trade secret. Films are treated like that anyway, AFAIK.
They might. I doubt they'd totally gain the upper hand since they'd still require their supply of new films, but would a little evening of the situation be such a bad thing?
Not at all. How are they going to get these copies? Any theatre leaking the film would:
1. Breach its agreement with the creators/distributors and get sued
2. Never receive another release copy of a film again
You're being just as deceptive yourself. WALL-E had a budget of $180 million, and has made $420,603,606 from theatrical performances. It would still have made this profit without IP protection, so your suggestion that no IP means no profit is simply wrong.
Start with the -w switch (e.g. "nano -w myfile.txt") or put "set nowrap" in your .nanorc (or /etc/nanorc if you want it global).
That's not how you actually calculate the price before VAT.
Think of the pre-tax price as 100% and then you add 17.5% to get 117.5% for price+VAT.
Another way of thinking of this is that you multiply your 100% by 1.175 to get 117.5%.
i.e. price_before_vat * 1.175 = price_including_vat
So, price_including_vat / 1.175 = price_before_vat
Therefore $528/1.175 = $449* is the correct pre-tax figure.
*(I'm sure the exchange rate isn't accurate enough for cents!)
Well, you can get some of them at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/churchill_audio.shtml
No, you don't. Australia spends less per capita on public funding of healthcare than the US does (link). You may have a higher income tax (I'll take your word for it) but that's not where it's being spent.
In Windows*? From 5.6 MB to 7.0 MB? I don't think that's really a large jump.
*(the Linux download is actually smaller; probably because it's bz2 rather than the program itself)
I'm not a language expert (or language anything, actually), but I checked this out. According to the wikipedia entry for Oklahoma "The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw phrase okla humma, literally meaning red people."
By checking the entry for Choctaw, it seems that Okla = Men/People and therefore it's probable that Humma = Red. Which removes the coincidence, I'm afraid.
Well, I can't believe you put down this as accurately as 0.1 of a cent, but:
Not as sad as the fact that you clearly know more than Microsoft about this, since that info came from a Microsoft Technet article! Link.
Thank you! I've been considering stuff for my nephew and I was actually thinking of a ZX Spectrum emulator (Speccy was my first computer), to show how things worked, but this seems to have actual modern applications that can be understood. Helpful people like you are the reason I still read Slashdot comments. Thanks again!
Tom's hardware has a page here that'll allow you to compare your P4 to your new chip.
So, to get 2083 for example, you'd show second finger on left hand, all closed on right hand, with palm-in, followed by fifth and third finger on left hand and first finger on right hand, with palm-out. (Obviously I'm counting thumb as finger one).
Anyway, this lets you count to 2^20-1 or 1,048,575
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