Their great untill about 10:00 pm, but cmon, after that its an annoyance.
Yeah, especially when I walk home at midnight after a late shift. I want a nice dark street, honest.
If you want to improove street lights, make it so they dont use 40% of their light bouncing up into the atmostphere or off into peoples houses.
nuclear has and will continue to have its place, but in my opinion it should be used as a backup for when the more "green" methods cant put out enough juice.
"Green" methods? Like what? Solar - majorly toxic panels, if theres enough to cause a difference there's an increase in the earths reflectivity changing global climate Wind - changes rainfall patterns and global climate Tidal - changes sediment flow rate causing erosion elsewhere, and reduces velocity of water which might affect global currents, changing global climate
About the only "friendly" way I can see is off-world production (nuclear meltdown on the moon doesn't make much difference) or fusion. That will still mean that heat is produced on the earth ffrom all those computers and other electrcal devices, which changes temperature.
Reverse engineering codecs/encryption methods without paying royalties is just as bad as software piracy.
No, it's not. Even ignoring the artificial scarcity that goes against all traditional economic systems, reverse engineering for interopability has traditionally been legal in europe, and it is legal in Austrailia too.
I've got nothing wrong with anyone writing commercial software for Linux, and I have several commercial programs. Mathematic functions should not have any copy restrictions though.
Oh, and I'm encrypting this message with ROT-26. If you decrypt it you are as bad as what you claim to detest.
It's not that, I use plenty of commercial software because it's good, however I use plenty of open source software because that's also good. It's free and fair competition.
With DVDs though, I dont get that choice, because somebody decided that xine (which I prefer to powerdvd) is illegal. You see, I like playing some of my not inconsiderable library of ~120 DVD's, all of which I legally purchased, on my laptop on the train.
However the only way I can do this is with this new product. Trouble is, I dont like the interface. I dont get to buy another product, or even write my own, as that's illegal.
This is my concern, the MPAA haven't addressed this.
(To be honest I'm not happy until I can skip the "20th century fox" thing at the start of the disk, easilly done on my cyberhome DVD payer, but not on cyberhome)
What you need is a LART (Luser attitude readjustment tool). They cmoe in many shapes and sizes, my favourite is a red two-by-four on the wall. Coupled with forgetting to answer the phone, the user will have to come to the support desk. When you say, sure, I'll help, stand up and get the LART.
Personally if I could design and build cruise missles I wouldn't want it well known. I don't need to give Al Qaeda reason to kidnap me my strap electrodes to my balls and lock me in an underground machine shop in the middle of the Tora Bora.
You seem to be confusing "Al Qaeda" with "U.S. Army", do an s/Tora Bora/Abu-Ghurayb/.
Probably about half-hour per computer per month, you're looking at $500 a year minimum in that case (cost of techie to do the work, cost of receptionist not working at the time)
7.5 grammes per metre, about the weight of a piece of paper 10cm (4 inches) wide. I hate it when someone drops a letter on my head from the top of a building, it's so aerodynamic it reaches a massive speed of about 20cm/second!
You'd have to move that junk for starters, which means laucnhing something to intercept it. The counterweight for a very thin elevator is pretty insignificant. You'd have to make several flights to get the ribbon up there in the first place, the vehicle the ribbon is in would act as the first counter weight. You then exapand the elevator by using the first elevator. Say the first has a payload of 100kg, send a 50kg vehicle up with 50kg of cable. The 50kg vehicle adds to the counterweight.
About the same as a million piece of cotton floating on the wind.
Everything above the impact zone would hang there, or possibly spring upwards.
Everything below the impact zone would fall at terminal velocity. As the ribon is so thin and light this is negligable, no worse then a leaf falling in Fall, and probably more comparable to a snowlfake. The energy on impact per square mile would be less then a fart.
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TERRORISTS! TERRORISTS!
sombody think of the CHIlDREN!!!!
OMFG if we do that they'll BLOW IT UP!
The UK was under American funded terrorist attack for 30 years from the IRA, did it affect our lives? Hardly.
When was the last time a terrorist blew up a nuclear power station?
Their great untill about 10:00 pm, but cmon, after that its an annoyance.
Yeah, especially when I walk home at midnight after a late shift. I want a nice dark street, honest.
If you want to improove street lights, make it so they dont use 40% of their light bouncing up into the atmostphere or off into peoples houses.
nuclear has and will continue to have its place, but in my opinion it should be used as a backup for when the more "green" methods cant put out enough juice.
"Green" methods? Like what?
Solar - majorly toxic panels, if theres enough to cause a difference there's an increase in the earths reflectivity changing global climate
Wind - changes rainfall patterns and global climate
Tidal - changes sediment flow rate causing erosion elsewhere, and reduces velocity of water which might affect global currents, changing global climate
About the only "friendly" way I can see is off-world production (nuclear meltdown on the moon doesn't make much difference) or fusion. That will still mean that heat is produced on the earth ffrom all those computers and other electrcal devices, which changes temperature.
Reverse engineering codecs/encryption methods without paying royalties is just as bad as software piracy.
No, it's not. Even ignoring the artificial scarcity that goes against all traditional economic systems, reverse engineering for interopability has traditionally been legal in europe, and it is legal in Austrailia too.
I've got nothing wrong with anyone writing commercial software for Linux, and I have several commercial programs. Mathematic functions should not have any copy restrictions though.
Oh, and I'm encrypting this message with ROT-26. If you decrypt it you are as bad as what you claim to detest.
It's not that, I use plenty of commercial software because it's good, however I use plenty of open source software because that's also good. It's free and fair competition.
With DVDs though, I dont get that choice, because somebody decided that xine (which I prefer to powerdvd) is illegal. You see, I like playing some of my not inconsiderable library of ~120 DVD's, all of which I legally purchased, on my laptop on the train.
However the only way I can do this is with this new product. Trouble is, I dont like the interface. I dont get to buy another product, or even write my own, as that's illegal.
This is my concern, the MPAA haven't addressed this.
(To be honest I'm not happy until I can skip the "20th century fox" thing at the start of the disk, easilly done on my cyberhome DVD payer, but not on cyberhome)
They use data from their own site, and 5 million other sites. A few slashdotters (most of whom use IE anyway) wont make any difference
What you need is a LART (Luser attitude readjustment tool). They cmoe in many shapes and sizes, my favourite is a red two-by-four on the wall. Coupled with forgetting to answer the phone, the user will have to come to the support desk. When you say, sure, I'll help, stand up and get the LART.
If the OP had said threated to behead me then I'd agree, but the only incident of electrode-ball interaction I know is from the U.S. Army.
Yet on the first great western London - South West lines, we don't even get at-seat power :(
*see sig*
Personally if I could design and build cruise missles I wouldn't want it well known. I don't need to give Al Qaeda reason to kidnap me my strap electrodes to my balls and lock me in an underground machine shop in the middle of the Tora Bora.
You seem to be confusing "Al Qaeda" with "U.S. Army", do an s/Tora Bora/Abu-Ghurayb/.
Sex.
The VCR took off because of porn
The internet took off because of porn
Space tourism will take of because of Sex.
downtime/patch maintenance
And all those reboots.
Probably about half-hour per computer per month, you're looking at $500 a year minimum in that case (cost of techie to do the work, cost of receptionist not working at the time)
They should have released the series as 6 x 2 hour movies
6 dollars a month for the rest of your life. Even if you need to buy all new hardware, thats a payback time of 1-2 years.
Wow, $144 for a new PVR-ready computer?
Dont get me wrong, a MythTV setup is much more expansive then tivo, but you can get Tivo and 5 years listings for the price.
And reel to reel tape machines. Those things were built to last.
Can't, or arent legally allowed to?
If you normally only want to go to links, which is useful when you aren't using a mouse, you can always find text by pressing "/" before searching
Chances are the typical Slashdot reader is less likely to have spyware installed then the typical wiki reader, rendering Alexa useless at best.
7.5 grammes per metre, about the weight of a piece of paper 10cm (4 inches) wide. I hate it when someone drops a letter on my head from the top of a building, it's so aerodynamic it reaches a massive speed of about 20cm/second!
44.99 what? €s? pounds? yen? dinars?
You can download the book. Major lack of printer needed there.
The fact profs write their own textbooks and get you to buy them?
Yup, and you can join in too! Borrow someone's mobile at work, register, and you can stalk them
You'd have to move that junk for starters, which means laucnhing something to intercept it. The counterweight for a very thin elevator is pretty insignificant. You'd have to make several flights to get the ribbon up there in the first place, the vehicle the ribbon is in would act as the first counter weight. You then exapand the elevator by using the first elevator. Say the first has a payload of 100kg, send a 50kg vehicle up with 50kg of cable. The 50kg vehicle adds to the counterweight.
About the same as a million piece of cotton floating on the wind.
Everything above the impact zone would hang there, or possibly spring upwards.
Everything below the impact zone would fall at terminal velocity. As the ribon is so thin and light this is negligable, no worse then a leaf falling in Fall, and probably more comparable to a snowlfake. The energy on impact per square mile would be less then a fart.