Because Microsoft demanded OEMs give it that control, or else lose their access to dirt-cheap OEM windows licenses. As it is impossible to sell a computer without Windows outside of a very small niche - most users don't even know what an OS is - that gives Microsoft such bargaining power that when they demand, OEMs have no choice but to comply.
Long, unbroken series of covalent bonds... sounds a lot like diamond to me. Superconductors are complicated - there's something only vaguely understood going on inside them, and it depends upon quantum effects.
The enemy doesn't have to fight fair. They can exploit that. Just place the launcher on top of a school, hospital or orphanage. Wait for the counterstrike. Propaganda win.
The point holds, though. Interceptors are highly sophisticated devices - they need to exactly hit a small target in three dimensions, while both interceptor and target are moving at great velocity. Your basic attack missile, on the other hand, can be as simple as a garage-made rocket with a chunk of fertilizer on the end. For every interceptor one side makes, even a comparatively low-tech and poorly-funded attacker could build many missiles.
Israel's defense system has a simple solution. It's programmed with a map showing which areas are populated, and which expendable. On detecting an incoming rocket*, it estimates the impact site and only fires an interceptor if it is heading for somewhere populated.
*The ones Israel is being showered with at the moment are numerous, but very cheap and simple - barely even guided, just enough to hit the right city, sometimes.
It'd have made little difference. Pirates would just have started uploading rar archives encrypted with different passowords or single-byte changes in the.nfo file. The piracy continues, and megaupload's costs increase significantly.
I'm by no means an expert, but I understand that the physics of superconductors is barely understood even by the most knowledgeable - covalent bonds certainly can't explain it, as high-temperature superconductors tend to have highly complex structures. The highest temperature room-pressure superconductor known to date is a compound of copper, oxygen, mercury, calcium and barium - and not a simple compound at that, but a precision-grown crystal.
Why is it so expensive? Because it has to go through all the legal process of gathering evidence, formal accusation, defence and so on. I predict that the next step will be for RIANZ to call for the process to be 'streamlined' by taking away all that expensive 'innocent until proven guilty' rubbish and just automating the lot: Enforcer bot finds suspect file, informs ISP, ISP adds the fine on the customer's next bill. So much cheaper than due process.
You can beat them, but you must then endure the ritualised taunting of the camper. Gaming culture strongly discourages that style of play because it can ruin the fun: If everyone does it, no-one ever moves anywhere. Camping only works fun-wise for everyone on maps designed so the camping spots are good, but not too good: You need the snipers to at least poke their heads into the open, not shoot through a hole exactly large enough to see through.
Realism isn't fun. No real soldier, no matter how well trained, is going to fight his way through hundreds of nazis/terrorists/monsters single-handed and come out alive. Only one of them needs to get in a lucky shot.
They are officially communist, but unlike the USSR they were able to acknowledge that communism isn't always the best solution to every problem and turn to market solutions when appropriate.
Including one of mine, for the music in a silent movie made so long ago the copyright had actually expired. I looked up the date of the producer's death and checked very throughly. Bug Vaudeville.
I can only theorise that while the producer/animator had died then, the composer managed to live on into his nineties - and with the US term of life plus seventy years, the music may still in copyright. The content ID notice claimed to come from a 'collecting society.' I can't verify this theory, as I have no idea who the composer was, and youtube's appeal system is just a joke - none of my attempts to contact them got so much as a response. It's quite possible that the music actually did expire in copyright years ago, and the collecting society merely 'neglected' to remove it from their list seventy years after the composer's death.
The crazy I met believed that the notion of mathematical proof was blasphemous, as it placed mere imperfect human reason on a par with divine perfection. An idea she considered so dangerous, and suggested that the field of mathematics might have been invented or inspired by Satan himself as a way to inflate the ego of man and inspire rebellion against God.
And yet that is only the second craziest person I have argued with on the internet. Number one slot has to go to the person who claimed (seriously) that god had placed a crucifix-shaped black hole just one light year from the solar system as proof of Christianity, and claimed many times that 'the smallest structure in the human body' was in the shape of a crucifix.
The overlooked chemical class is oxidized compounds produced by the oil degrading after the leak, usually ignored because they are more difficult to measure than plain old hydrocarbons.
Not delusional - they just have the advantage. They can afford to ask for overqualified candidates, because there is a surplus of applicants at all qualification levels, scrambling over each other in the frantic rush to grab a job - any job at all, so long as it pays the rent.
You've really got two problems to deal with. The civil liability, and the criminal prosecutions. The first gets you in trouble for all the copyright infringement, the latter the downloading of child porn. That's a particular concern, because the usual social approach to child porn is 'Hang the perverted monster.' Even if you can prove beyond all doubt that it was someone else, a hard thing to do, you'll still find that your name is dirt, no company will hire even an accused pedophile, and your neighbours start smashing your windows in an effort to make you leave.
That's the standard approach used by businesses now - it's too complicated for a business like a restaurant to set up themselves, but they can easily enough enter into some form of agreement with a hotspot operator to provide the service. It's not practical for the home user though, without a company to run the authentication who can maintain the authentication/logging system and contract with a mobile network operator to send SMS messages.
That mistake I will admit to. Though in turn, I feel obliged to criticize Microsoft for a branding approach that seems designed to ensure the ease of confusion of two very different products.
Hopefully some more insight into those large areas of the unknown you talk about. We may not be able to simulate a human brain, but we can simulate lots of ideas and see what works best. Even if it doesn't revolutionize neuroscience, it might still churn out a few practical designs for things like voice recognition or visual navigation. Once the supercomputer has found the neural networks that work really well, cheaper hardware can execute them.
Those singularists have a tiny but non-zero chance of success. Compare to religion, which can offer so little in real arguments it had to turn willful suspension of disbelief into a virtue and call it 'faith.'
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More interestingly, how are they going to keep it cool without noise? People are used to PCs that whirr, they are less forgiving of consoles.
Some of the old G5 Mac Pros did use liquid cooling.
Because Microsoft demanded OEMs give it that control, or else lose their access to dirt-cheap OEM windows licenses. As it is impossible to sell a computer without Windows outside of a very small niche - most users don't even know what an OS is - that gives Microsoft such bargaining power that when they demand, OEMs have no choice but to comply.
Long, unbroken series of covalent bonds... sounds a lot like diamond to me. Superconductors are complicated - there's something only vaguely understood going on inside them, and it depends upon quantum effects.
The enemy doesn't have to fight fair. They can exploit that. Just place the launcher on top of a school, hospital or orphanage. Wait for the counterstrike. Propaganda win.
The point holds, though. Interceptors are highly sophisticated devices - they need to exactly hit a small target in three dimensions, while both interceptor and target are moving at great velocity. Your basic attack missile, on the other hand, can be as simple as a garage-made rocket with a chunk of fertilizer on the end. For every interceptor one side makes, even a comparatively low-tech and poorly-funded attacker could build many missiles.
Israel's defense system has a simple solution. It's programmed with a map showing which areas are populated, and which expendable. On detecting an incoming rocket*, it estimates the impact site and only fires an interceptor if it is heading for somewhere populated.
*The ones Israel is being showered with at the moment are numerous, but very cheap and simple - barely even guided, just enough to hit the right city, sometimes.
It'd have made little difference. Pirates would just have started uploading rar archives encrypted with different passowords or single-byte changes in the .nfo file. The piracy continues, and megaupload's costs increase significantly.
I'm by no means an expert, but I understand that the physics of superconductors is barely understood even by the most knowledgeable - covalent bonds certainly can't explain it, as high-temperature superconductors tend to have highly complex structures. The highest temperature room-pressure superconductor known to date is a compound of copper, oxygen, mercury, calcium and barium - and not a simple compound at that, but a precision-grown crystal.
Why is it so expensive? Because it has to go through all the legal process of gathering evidence, formal accusation, defence and so on. I predict that the next step will be for RIANZ to call for the process to be 'streamlined' by taking away all that expensive 'innocent until proven guilty' rubbish and just automating the lot: Enforcer bot finds suspect file, informs ISP, ISP adds the fine on the customer's next bill. So much cheaper than due process.
In the end, only the lawyers win.
You can beat them, but you must then endure the ritualised taunting of the camper. Gaming culture strongly discourages that style of play because it can ruin the fun: If everyone does it, no-one ever moves anywhere. Camping only works fun-wise for everyone on maps designed so the camping spots are good, but not too good: You need the snipers to at least poke their heads into the open, not shoot through a hole exactly large enough to see through.
Realism isn't fun. No real soldier, no matter how well trained, is going to fight his way through hundreds of nazis/terrorists/monsters single-handed and come out alive. Only one of them needs to get in a lucky shot.
They are officially communist, but unlike the USSR they were able to acknowledge that communism isn't always the best solution to every problem and turn to market solutions when appropriate.
Including one of mine, for the music in a silent movie made so long ago the copyright had actually expired. I looked up the date of the producer's death and checked very throughly. Bug Vaudeville.
I can only theorise that while the producer/animator had died then, the composer managed to live on into his nineties - and with the US term of life plus seventy years, the music may still in copyright. The content ID notice claimed to come from a 'collecting society.' I can't verify this theory, as I have no idea who the composer was, and youtube's appeal system is just a joke - none of my attempts to contact them got so much as a response. It's quite possible that the music actually did expire in copyright years ago, and the collecting society merely 'neglected' to remove it from their list seventy years after the composer's death.
So I moved the video to my own site.
http://birds-are-nice.me/video/bug.ogv
I have no idea what scientism is.
The crazy I met believed that the notion of mathematical proof was blasphemous, as it placed mere imperfect human reason on a par with divine perfection. An idea she considered so dangerous, and suggested that the field of mathematics might have been invented or inspired by Satan himself as a way to inflate the ego of man and inspire rebellion against God.
And yet that is only the second craziest person I have argued with on the internet. Number one slot has to go to the person who claimed (seriously) that god had placed a crucifix-shaped black hole just one light year from the solar system as proof of Christianity, and claimed many times that 'the smallest structure in the human body' was in the shape of a crucifix.
I once argued with a person who refused to acknowledge that 1+1=2.
Really. Not making it up. She rejected the existance of mathematics on religious grounds, arguing that god alone can provide true certainty.
You can, but performance is poor because there are few people dedicated enough to the cause or just plain reckless to run an exit node.
The overlooked chemical class is oxidized compounds produced by the oil degrading after the leak, usually ignored because they are more difficult to measure than plain old hydrocarbons.
Not delusional - they just have the advantage. They can afford to ask for overqualified candidates, because there is a surplus of applicants at all qualification levels, scrambling over each other in the frantic rush to grab a job - any job at all, so long as it pays the rent.
You've really got two problems to deal with. The civil liability, and the criminal prosecutions. The first gets you in trouble for all the copyright infringement, the latter the downloading of child porn. That's a particular concern, because the usual social approach to child porn is 'Hang the perverted monster.' Even if you can prove beyond all doubt that it was someone else, a hard thing to do, you'll still find that your name is dirt, no company will hire even an accused pedophile, and your neighbours start smashing your windows in an effort to make you leave.
That's the standard approach used by businesses now - it's too complicated for a business like a restaurant to set up themselves, but they can easily enough enter into some form of agreement with a hotspot operator to provide the service. It's not practical for the home user though, without a company to run the authentication who can maintain the authentication/logging system and contract with a mobile network operator to send SMS messages.
That mistake I will admit to. Though in turn, I feel obliged to criticize Microsoft for a branding approach that seems designed to ensure the ease of confusion of two very different products.
Hopefully some more insight into those large areas of the unknown you talk about. We may not be able to simulate a human brain, but we can simulate lots of ideas and see what works best. Even if it doesn't revolutionize neuroscience, it might still churn out a few practical designs for things like voice recognition or visual navigation. Once the supercomputer has found the neural networks that work really well, cheaper hardware can execute them.
Those singularists have a tiny but non-zero chance of success. Compare to religion, which can offer so little in real arguments it had to turn willful suspension of disbelief into a virtue and call it 'faith.'