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Radiation is relative though, bananas are radioactive but that exposure is insignificant relative to everything else.
Besides, you must state what kind of "regular sugar". Most high fructose corn syrup has 5% more fructose than cane sugar once it is digested. Cane sugar breaks down so 50% of it becomes fructose, 50% glucose. HFCS 55, is 55% fructose, 45% glucose.
GPLv3 might be a step to solve it, but if you're worried about tivoization of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds seems to be fine with Tivo, and he's against upgrading to GPLv3.
I think it's more likely that the bookstores will downsize or close. Retail shelf space has a cost, and they need a certain amount of turnover to pay that cost, going down the tail isn't going to help when you have a very limited amount of space. You need a lot of niche market spending to make up for the loss mass market volume, it's not impossible, but it is hard.
I don't think the adage applies the same way to the demand side, but rather, it really applies most to the supply side. If the demand changes, the supply must adjust. As long as the demand for paper can be met profitably, then it will remain. Only when the demand can't be met profitably, would the demand side must adjust, either by not having new product in the form they want, or by accepting the new technology. I don't think you have anything to be worried about for a long time, I expect printed novels to hang on a lot longer than printed textbooks, reference and periodicals.
I saw that program too, a decade ago. He was saying the Web was all wrong but really didn't explain how his idea was better or what was wrong with the current hypertext method. Maybe he explained it to Cringely, but that was cut out. I understand some of it, but 47 years in and all he has is ZanaduSpace demonstrator, which only covers text. Now we have regularly have audio and video that might benefit from similar concepts but really, he needs to produce a working server and client. 50 years and no working server or client should be a hint that he needs to do something different.
It is a little more than a reboxed gamecube, the main chips are roughly twice as powerful. I realize that's not saying much, but then, the hardware inside the box wasn't Nintendo's selling point either.
ATSC doesn't mean HD. It is a digital broadcast system that also happens to support HD. I usually ignore the SD content though, most station's SD digitization is horrible.
ATSC HD is 720p and 1080i. 480p is sometimes called enhanced definition, not high definition.
Again, this argument is devoid of the cost factor. The faster you move in a fluid, the energy required goes up to the fourth power, meaning lots of money for fuel. Is it worth paying $1500 for each hour of reduced transit time? I think it's relatively safe to say that your ticket was about $1500, would you pay $10,000 to $15,000 for tickets to that flight?
Ask yourself if it's worth paying an extra $10,000 to cut the flight time in half. Would you pay it? If yes, lucky you, I guess. As it sits, not enough people would pay that.
You don't say much about what about faster than sound made people unhappy, if you mean the noise, Concorde wasn't allowed to fly much over land, so that was an operational limitation.
The cost is probably the biggest issue. Concorde tickets were about $10,000 a seat, so it was usually more about status than anything else, though I read one band/performer managed to make two concerts on two different continents within 12 hours of each other, but I imagine that was an exception. I recall everyone involved with Concorde lost money on them, the manufacturer and the two airlines that operated them, they supposedly lost money even at $10,000 a seat for a trans-Atlantic flight.
One thing don't know about this article though, Soyuz should be as fast as the Shuttle. It looks like they carefully worded the article to remove it from considering. I haven't found how fast Soyuz can get.
The main complaint is that he was asking for donations to fight this, and then more or less bailed on the fight. That's the only valid complaint in my opinion, then again, we don't know if and how much money was raised. It pays to be wary of donating to a legal defense fund, you can't be certain it will be spent the way you want it to be spent.
A war begins with a nuclear strike, but does not end with it.
I think the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki show that this statement is not always true, in fact, the only real example of nukes in a war are of nukes ending a war. Despite seven decades of nuclear weapons and numerous wars, one hasn't been used in war since.
I don't think we know how the next big war will begin, but many wars in the past have actually begun from small incidents escalating. The big strike may be the most dramatic, but there is often a chain of events before that. I don't think any major power is just going to sling a nuke without serious provocation.
Punny. You're either taking things too seriously, or not doing a good job of making fun of taking it too seriously.
I don't know if you finished it, but the video acknowledges that most people wouldn't want to make one. It does, however show how a circuit can be easily used in custom projects without taking a significant amount of time.
Every keyboard I've seen have a huge circuit board, how to do deal with that? It would seem the teensy would be better, it's already small, and maybe less prone to failure vs. using a cut-up keyboard circuit board.
What would be the point? Whatever new amendment can be ignored just as easily as the the original bill of rights. In this situation, there is simply no reasonable way that computers shouldn't be covered by the 4th amendment, digital documents carried by computer should not be legally distinct from other kinds of papers and effects.
The problem is they've signed onto an OS that the market doesn't seem to want, at the expense of Symbian. Symbian might not have had a high profile, it seemed to be pretty successful. What is the fall-back plan? Going back to the OS they let hang for a year? I hope they're still continuing to advance Symbian, because a lot happens in a year.
There are other sides to the situation. The difference is that third parties use code and benefit from other people's work without ever contributing anything back. Some people see that as a problem, and I understand why they would.
Christians have a tendency to label any occult Satanism, but that's basically taking a bludgeon to a conversation. Wicca, Thelema, Voodoo, Druid, and all the small tribal religions are considered to be Satanism, on the thought that anyone not worshiping God is really worshiping Satan in different disguises.
[quote]The Vatican stated fact: you have more "Satanists" because there is more information about it available to everyone.[/quote]
The Father in the article admits that the number of "posessions" is very small, so is it really worth convening 60 church officials for a week to talk about what he considered to be a small problem? In regards to the demon possessions, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all just untreated severe mental disorders or chemical problems.
I think it's more likely to be a deliberate distraction from the internal problems they are having.
I agree. Slashdot's April Fools tradition gets a bit old. This one falls apart badly too, it could have been so much better without the sci-fi references.
What is Iron Main? I kid. The personality for Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies is supposedly based on Elon Musk, that's what the disc extras say anyway.
Unless the dictionary in question is up on its jargon, I doubt it would be useful. Open source movement has been about the source code being open and available for everyone to see. Source code didn't exist in the time of Bunsen.
You're right in that it's a failure in proper journalism, though I think Techdirt or Slashdot make that their mission.
Also, the example in the screen shot doesn't even tell the student to secure their router in any plain terms. If that's what they meant, then they failed in clarity. The BC page has been cleansed of that line entirely, it seems to me that they could have re-written it better instead, because it is a potential liability, whether or not we like it.
I agree, Al Jean has a nice, calm answer. The issue I have is that European markets aren't in any danger from the damaged reactors, and only a very tiny fraction of them have family in the stricken area. If it was a Japanese broadcaster choosing to not air certain episodes, then that makes some sense. European stations doing it seems to be more a matter of being hyper-empathetic to people that aren't actually going to be watching the broadcast.
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Radiation is relative though, bananas are radioactive but that exposure is insignificant relative to everything else.
Besides, you must state what kind of "regular sugar". Most high fructose corn syrup has 5% more fructose than cane sugar once it is digested. Cane sugar breaks down so 50% of it becomes fructose, 50% glucose. HFCS 55, is 55% fructose, 45% glucose.
GPLv3 might be a step to solve it, but if you're worried about tivoization of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds seems to be fine with Tivo, and he's against upgrading to GPLv3.
Are any of the yard sale Tivos high def models?
I think it's more likely that the bookstores will downsize or close. Retail shelf space has a cost, and they need a certain amount of turnover to pay that cost, going down the tail isn't going to help when you have a very limited amount of space. You need a lot of niche market spending to make up for the loss mass market volume, it's not impossible, but it is hard.
I don't think the adage applies the same way to the demand side, but rather, it really applies most to the supply side. If the demand changes, the supply must adjust. As long as the demand for paper can be met profitably, then it will remain. Only when the demand can't be met profitably, would the demand side must adjust, either by not having new product in the form they want, or by accepting the new technology. I don't think you have anything to be worried about for a long time, I expect printed novels to hang on a lot longer than printed textbooks, reference and periodicals.
I saw that program too, a decade ago. He was saying the Web was all wrong but really didn't explain how his idea was better or what was wrong with the current hypertext method. Maybe he explained it to Cringely, but that was cut out. I understand some of it, but 47 years in and all he has is ZanaduSpace demonstrator, which only covers text. Now we have regularly have audio and video that might benefit from similar concepts but really, he needs to produce a working server and client. 50 years and no working server or client should be a hint that he needs to do something different.
It is a little more than a reboxed gamecube, the main chips are roughly twice as powerful. I realize that's not saying much, but then, the hardware inside the box wasn't Nintendo's selling point either.
ATSC doesn't mean HD. It is a digital broadcast system that also happens to support HD. I usually ignore the SD content though, most station's SD digitization is horrible.
ATSC HD is 720p and 1080i. 480p is sometimes called enhanced definition, not high definition.
Steel studs shouldn't be a problem, the space between studs should be more than wide enough to allow most 2.4 GHz signals through.
Again, this argument is devoid of the cost factor. The faster you move in a fluid, the energy required goes up to the fourth power, meaning lots of money for fuel. Is it worth paying $1500 for each hour of reduced transit time? I think it's relatively safe to say that your ticket was about $1500, would you pay $10,000 to $15,000 for tickets to that flight?
Only in a vacuum of cost.
Ask yourself if it's worth paying an extra $10,000 to cut the flight time in half. Would you pay it? If yes, lucky you, I guess. As it sits, not enough people would pay that.
You don't say much about what about faster than sound made people unhappy, if you mean the noise, Concorde wasn't allowed to fly much over land, so that was an operational limitation.
The cost is probably the biggest issue. Concorde tickets were about $10,000 a seat, so it was usually more about status than anything else, though I read one band/performer managed to make two concerts on two different continents within 12 hours of each other, but I imagine that was an exception. I recall everyone involved with Concorde lost money on them, the manufacturer and the two airlines that operated them, they supposedly lost money even at $10,000 a seat for a trans-Atlantic flight.
One thing don't know about this article though, Soyuz should be as fast as the Shuttle. It looks like they carefully worded the article to remove it from considering. I haven't found how fast Soyuz can get.
The main complaint is that he was asking for donations to fight this, and then more or less bailed on the fight. That's the only valid complaint in my opinion, then again, we don't know if and how much money was raised. It pays to be wary of donating to a legal defense fund, you can't be certain it will be spent the way you want it to be spent.
A war begins with a nuclear strike, but does not end with it.
I think the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki show that this statement is not always true, in fact, the only real example of nukes in a war are of nukes ending a war. Despite seven decades of nuclear weapons and numerous wars, one hasn't been used in war since.
I don't think we know how the next big war will begin, but many wars in the past have actually begun from small incidents escalating. The big strike may be the most dramatic, but there is often a chain of events before that. I don't think any major power is just going to sling a nuke without serious provocation.
Punny. You're either taking things too seriously, or not doing a good job of making fun of taking it too seriously.
I don't know if you finished it, but the video acknowledges that most people wouldn't want to make one. It does, however show how a circuit can be easily used in custom projects without taking a significant amount of time.
Every keyboard I've seen have a huge circuit board, how to do deal with that? It would seem the teensy would be better, it's already small, and maybe less prone to failure vs. using a cut-up keyboard circuit board.
What would be the point? Whatever new amendment can be ignored just as easily as the the original bill of rights. In this situation, there is simply no reasonable way that computers shouldn't be covered by the 4th amendment, digital documents carried by computer should not be legally distinct from other kinds of papers and effects.
The problem is they've signed onto an OS that the market doesn't seem to want, at the expense of Symbian. Symbian might not have had a high profile, it seemed to be pretty successful. What is the fall-back plan? Going back to the OS they let hang for a year? I hope they're still continuing to advance Symbian, because a lot happens in a year.
There are other sides to the situation. The difference is that third parties use code and benefit from other people's work without ever contributing anything back. Some people see that as a problem, and I understand why they would.
Christians have a tendency to label any occult Satanism, but that's basically taking a bludgeon to a conversation. Wicca, Thelema, Voodoo, Druid, and all the small tribal religions are considered to be Satanism, on the thought that anyone not worshiping God is really worshiping Satan in different disguises.
[quote]The Vatican stated fact: you have more "Satanists" because there is more information about it available to everyone.[/quote]
The Father in the article admits that the number of "posessions" is very small, so is it really worth convening 60 church officials for a week to talk about what he considered to be a small problem? In regards to the demon possessions, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all just untreated severe mental disorders or chemical problems.
I think it's more likely to be a deliberate distraction from the internal problems they are having.
I agree. Slashdot's April Fools tradition gets a bit old. This one falls apart badly too, it could have been so much better without the sci-fi references.
What is Iron Main? I kid. The personality for Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies is supposedly based on Elon Musk, that's what the disc extras say anyway.
Unless the dictionary in question is up on its jargon, I doubt it would be useful. Open source movement has been about the source code being open and available for everyone to see. Source code didn't exist in the time of Bunsen.
You're right in that it's a failure in proper journalism, though I think Techdirt or Slashdot make that their mission.
Also, the example in the screen shot doesn't even tell the student to secure their router in any plain terms. If that's what they meant, then they failed in clarity. The BC page has been cleansed of that line entirely, it seems to me that they could have re-written it better instead, because it is a potential liability, whether or not we like it.
I agree, Al Jean has a nice, calm answer. The issue I have is that European markets aren't in any danger from the damaged reactors, and only a very tiny fraction of them have family in the stricken area. If it was a Japanese broadcaster choosing to not air certain episodes, then that makes some sense. European stations doing it seems to be more a matter of being hyper-empathetic to people that aren't actually going to be watching the broadcast.