The difference in this instance is that it's not a crowd, as such. It's a large grouping of individuals. I know that that's the definition of a crowd, but its more like a large grouping of individuals, each of whom has his own cubicle, so they never realize they're in a crowd in order to acchieve critical stupid mass and become a mob.
Well, the simple solution would be to set up such financial concerns among one of the several 'immortal' companies who will no doubt jump on the bandwagon for such services. Western Union springs to mind as a company that might get in on that. (Send a letter from 1885). Maybe some astoundingly long-lived banks, too. Bank of London, perhaps. (Worked to hold Lestat's estate while he slept).
Chances are, if these companies go under (its possible) then there's a major shift in the economics of the world, or at least your country, and you've got larger issues than someone handling your taxes.
I grew up in a (canadian) military family, and we always had a supply of that army-green duct tape handy. The old man referred to it as "gun tape" because it was often used for field repair of training weapon stocks (which were often in poor repair).
Yes, you're right, I was thinking chickens, not ducks. What I meant was that they have large amounts of breast muscle, which WOULD be white meat, if they were crippled, farm grown birds instead of wild, migratory ones. Sorry.
I suspect that this can be chalked up to the proportionatly enormous wing muscles these birds have, which is why ducks and geese are sought after game birds. They have tons of white meat compared to, say, a crow. They also have a relatively long wingspan for their weight, I think.
Also, migratory birds don't fly the whole way from Canada down south in one go. They often stop to rest and refuel (and crap on my car).
I'm no ornithologist, but these seem like logical deductions. Could be wrong.
I'm not sure you understand how huge the osx86 project is. When updates are released to OSX, they're generally adapted for commodity PC usage within hours, or days at the most. And the system runs flawlessly on beige box systems, if you have hardware that's in Apples list of supported devices. Broadcom wireless, intel or ati graphics, etc. And it's not the complicated install of yesteryear where you needed seperate external hard drives and all. Its no different than installing it on an Apple system now. Insert DVD, boot, select software packages you want, click go, wait for 20 minutes, reboot, OSX.
Erm, a long time. Apple needs to differentiate itself from Microsoft to retain its market share. Moving to an Intel architecture was a risky step, as it deprived them of one of their major differentiating factors, PPC architecture.
Are you talking about OSX (Tiger, Leopard, what have you) just RUNNING on commodity PCs or Apple supporting it? Because Tiger has been running on beige boxes since 10.4.1, just unsupported. In fact, I write this from 10.4.7 running on an Acer laptop. Its an unsupported, third party installation DVD, but it works out of the box with no messing around. Supports everything this system has on first boot.
Apple SUPPORTING beige box systems, I agree, would be a huge mistake on Apple's part. They rely on the whole image of "The Apple Lifestyle" to sell to a large portion of their current audience, and the small slice they'd gain from selling to commodity users wouldn't offset the potential loss of Apple fan(boy)s. This doesn't even touch on the support nightmare you'd get from needing to support the huge, undocumented cloud various permutations and combinations of 3rd party PC hardware.
You can patent a recipe. The trick is being able to prove novelty and nonobviousness. You couldn't patent putting a chicken in a 400' oven, but you could probably patent a method of spin drying the chicken, inserting hand woven leek clusters in its body cavity, then cooking in a jet powered roasting tube for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
Similar with the mathematical formula. The nonobviousness of mathematical functions used to create an encryption schema are what make it patentable whereas V=IR might not be. And just because someone didn't patent something, doesn't mean it's not patentable. You can get patents for just about everything these days, if you can meet the minimum standards.
Yeah, you're correct.. Bad example. I should have said "the same way you can patent a method for cooking chicken" or something. If one puts a mathematical expression together in such a way that it generates a new form of encryption, then its trivial to patent that. Its the inventor's IP, since no one else thought of doing it the same way. It no different than a recipe or a piece of software or some new type of radio, they're all made up of base components.
In what way do people want to "advance their character"? I'm guessing the argument is about wanting the higher level armor, because I've got a character that's been 60 for about 2 months now and I've never once done a raid or even an instance that required more than my and maybe 3 friends or people I met who were asking for a 4th.
The problem with offering a service or product for less and less money all the time is the diminishing Lowest Common Denominator that the product or service then caters to. For example, I work at a store that sells digital satellite systems. When it cost $800+ for a system to be bought and installed, we rarely, if ever, recieved the ignorant, angry calls about every silly little thing that goes wrong (probably caused by user error in the first place). Today, after credits, it costs you -$20 (negative 20 dollars) to have the same system put in, and we're innundated with calls from people who've switched from channel 3 to channel 48 and can't figure out how to tune the tv back to the right channel, or people who have let their 3 year old use the remote as a submarine, or the people who have lost the recievers down the drain (last one is an exaggeration for comedic effect, but the other two are anecdotal). I fear to see the quality of users of a $100 laptop, given the quality of users of a $800 laptop that I deal with these days.
Even if it did work in linux as the sensor designers intended, it would make little difference. The active protection system sucks, and at my office we still end up replacing about half of the over 5000 IBM Thinkpad hard drives in circulation every year due to mysterious, spontaneous failure. They lasted a lot longer, with a failure rate of around 10-15% back in the days of the Thinkpad 385ED (a p266 based system) but most of that can be chalked up to how much more capacity the new drives (40-80G) have versus the old ones (6-10g).
Problem being that the DW6000 + Dish costs over $1000 cdn for the equipment, let alone the installation, which is not simply plopping a dish on the side of a barn like DTV woud be. The tuning of a DirectWay/Lincsat dish is extremely sensitive, especially for the uplink. Once the dish is properly aligned for +60% transmitter strength, the mere act of gently tightening the bolts often throws it +/- 5% out of wack.
Lincsat is trying to get the DW4000 modems out the door, and is offering a deal of $499CDN with dish, free installation, and 'only' $49.95 for the first two months. After that, the price goes up to the regular $79.95/month for the remainder of the two year contract.
I don't print very much, but I'll admit that I have an HP printer. I got it 'free' when I purchased a PC at a retail outlet. When the ink ran out, I just refilled the carts for around $8, and I'll continue to do that until the print quality suffers, then I'll discard the whole unit. Just because a judge says you can't refill a Lexmark printer doesn't mean that it's impossible. Judges also say you can't use Windows or use DirectTV without paying for it, but how many of you have pirated software or satellite? This truely only effects the uninformed, those who buy products without researching or those who buy brand names out of some misguided sense of loyalty.
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The difference in this instance is that it's not a crowd, as such. It's a large grouping of individuals. I know that that's the definition of a crowd, but its more like a large grouping of individuals, each of whom has his own cubicle, so they never realize they're in a crowd in order to acchieve critical stupid mass and become a mob.
Well, the simple solution would be to set up such financial concerns among one of the several 'immortal' companies who will no doubt jump on the bandwagon for such services. Western Union springs to mind as a company that might get in on that. (Send a letter from 1885). Maybe some astoundingly long-lived banks, too. Bank of London, perhaps. (Worked to hold Lestat's estate while he slept).
Chances are, if these companies go under (its possible) then there's a major shift in the economics of the world, or at least your country, and you've got larger issues than someone handling your taxes.
I grew up in a (canadian) military family, and we always had a supply of that army-green duct tape handy. The old man referred to it as "gun tape" because it was often used for field repair of training weapon stocks (which were often in poor repair).
Yes, you're right, I was thinking chickens, not ducks. What I meant was that they have large amounts of breast muscle, which WOULD be white meat, if they were crippled, farm grown birds instead of wild, migratory ones. Sorry.
I suspect that this can be chalked up to the proportionatly enormous wing muscles these birds have, which is why ducks and geese are sought after game birds. They have tons of white meat compared to, say, a crow. They also have a relatively long wingspan for their weight, I think.
Also, migratory birds don't fly the whole way from Canada down south in one go. They often stop to rest and refuel (and crap on my car).
I'm no ornithologist, but these seem like logical deductions. Could be wrong.
I'm not sure you understand how huge the osx86 project is. When updates are released to OSX, they're generally adapted for commodity PC usage within hours, or days at the most. And the system runs flawlessly on beige box systems, if you have hardware that's in Apples list of supported devices. Broadcom wireless, intel or ati graphics, etc. And it's not the complicated install of yesteryear where you needed seperate external hard drives and all. Its no different than installing it on an Apple system now. Insert DVD, boot, select software packages you want, click go, wait for 20 minutes, reboot, OSX.
Erm, a long time. Apple needs to differentiate itself from Microsoft to retain its market share. Moving to an Intel architecture was a risky step, as it deprived them of one of their major differentiating factors, PPC architecture.
Are you talking about OSX (Tiger, Leopard, what have you) just RUNNING on commodity PCs or Apple supporting it? Because Tiger has been running on beige boxes since 10.4.1, just unsupported. In fact, I write this from 10.4.7 running on an Acer laptop. Its an unsupported, third party installation DVD, but it works out of the box with no messing around. Supports everything this system has on first boot.
Apple SUPPORTING beige box systems, I agree, would be a huge mistake on Apple's part. They rely on the whole image of "The Apple Lifestyle" to sell to a large portion of their current audience, and the small slice they'd gain from selling to commodity users wouldn't offset the potential loss of Apple fan(boy)s. This doesn't even touch on the support nightmare you'd get from needing to support the huge, undocumented cloud various permutations and combinations of 3rd party PC hardware.
Sometimes a coin lands on it's edge. Just like the third shot of TXP.
You can patent a recipe. The trick is being able to prove novelty and nonobviousness. You couldn't patent putting a chicken in a 400' oven, but you could probably patent a method of spin drying the chicken, inserting hand woven leek clusters in its body cavity, then cooking in a jet powered roasting tube for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
Similar with the mathematical formula. The nonobviousness of mathematical functions used to create an encryption schema are what make it patentable whereas V=IR might not be. And just because someone didn't patent something, doesn't mean it's not patentable. You can get patents for just about everything these days, if you can meet the minimum standards.
Yeah, you're correct.. Bad example. I should have said "the same way you can patent a method for cooking chicken" or something. If one puts a mathematical expression together in such a way that it generates a new form of encryption, then its trivial to patent that. Its the inventor's IP, since no one else thought of doing it the same way. It no different than a recipe or a piece of software or some new type of radio, they're all made up of base components.
The same way you get a patent on a diesel engine. That's just made up of levers, inclined planes and hydrocarbon explosions.
The same way you get a patent on a drawing of Mickey Mouse. It's just pen markings on a cellulose sheet.
What do you think that samophlange is doing? Digging for oranges?
# The current radiation levels are probably a lot lower than the levels when the area was freshly sprayed with molten core and irradiated particles.
I did a molten core run last night with my guild.
At least its not a superscope. Good thing that didn't catch on, or we'd be a generation of one-eyed fiddler crabs.
At least the ESA can probably convert from old timey to scientific measurements properly.
<Mission control> Spacecraft 1, you are currently 1300 rods from impact, at a fuel consumption rate of 4 7/16 hogshead per mile. Be advised.
<Spacecraft> WTF?!
It happened about about 14 football fields ago.
In what way do people want to "advance their character"? I'm guessing the argument is about wanting the higher level armor, because I've got a character that's been 60 for about 2 months now and I've never once done a raid or even an instance that required more than my and maybe 3 friends or people I met who were asking for a 4th.
The problem with offering a service or product for less and less money all the time is the diminishing Lowest Common Denominator that the product or service then caters to. For example, I work at a store that sells digital satellite systems. When it cost $800+ for a system to be bought and installed, we rarely, if ever, recieved the ignorant, angry calls about every silly little thing that goes wrong (probably caused by user error in the first place). Today, after credits, it costs you -$20 (negative 20 dollars) to have the same system put in, and we're innundated with calls from people who've switched from channel 3 to channel 48 and can't figure out how to tune the tv back to the right channel, or people who have let their 3 year old use the remote as a submarine, or the people who have lost the recievers down the drain (last one is an exaggeration for comedic effect, but the other two are anecdotal). I fear to see the quality of users of a $100 laptop, given the quality of users of a $800 laptop that I deal with these days.
The iPod shuffle 1GB is $129.99 from the apple store. Maybe Target was selling them for $149.99 at the time, not an unreasonable assumption.
As long as you don't want bnet to work.
Even if it did work in linux as the sensor designers intended, it would make little difference. The active protection system sucks, and at my office we still end up replacing about half of the over 5000 IBM Thinkpad hard drives in circulation every year due to mysterious, spontaneous failure. They lasted a lot longer, with a failure rate of around 10-15% back in the days of the Thinkpad 385ED (a p266 based system) but most of that can be chalked up to how much more capacity the new drives (40-80G) have versus the old ones (6-10g).
I think it's more likely that only those of us with our brains in backwards could ever see fit to sit through an entire course of Prolog.
Problem being that the DW6000 + Dish costs over $1000 cdn for the equipment, let alone the installation, which is not simply plopping a dish on the side of a barn like DTV woud be. The tuning of a DirectWay/Lincsat dish is extremely sensitive, especially for the uplink. Once the dish is properly aligned for +60% transmitter strength, the mere act of gently tightening the bolts often throws it +/- 5% out of wack.
Lincsat is trying to get the DW4000 modems out the door, and is offering a deal of $499CDN with dish, free installation, and 'only' $49.95 for the first two months. After that, the price goes up to the regular $79.95/month for the remainder of the two year contract.
I don't get it
I don't print very much, but I'll admit that I have an HP printer. I got it 'free' when I purchased a PC at a retail outlet. When the ink ran out, I just refilled the carts for around $8, and I'll continue to do that until the print quality suffers, then I'll discard the whole unit. Just because a judge says you can't refill a Lexmark printer doesn't mean that it's impossible. Judges also say you can't use Windows or use DirectTV without paying for it, but how many of you have pirated software or satellite? This truely only effects the uninformed, those who buy products without researching or those who buy brand names out of some misguided sense of loyalty.