Likening this dearth of information to doing chemistry knowing only one third of the periodic table, biologist Terry Gosliner is involved . . .
This is not a good analogy. Chemistry, like math or physics, is an exact science where elements are used as "building blocks" for other elements and compounds. Taxonomy is an inexact science, and the fact that a rare Jamaican fruit fly doesn't have a name yet will not affect other areas of science.
More information is always better, but suggesting that this lack of information somehow cripples biologists is sensationalism.
1. Universities already get this from Microsoft all the time. 2. This is a given, except when closed source would be revealed publicly (which is also a given). 3. The very idea is ridiculous. 4. Pretty much a given as well (free, that is).
I was also wondering about the "senses your every intention" technology. What happens if you're patiently waiting at a crosswalk, and someone bumps you hard from behind? Does the thing assume you want to run out in front of a bus at full speed?
Yeah, as I recall from the museum at Kitty Hawk, they would actually take turns running alongside the plane until it was flying stable. This thing couldn't have been doing more than 15mph. And I don't think it got over 4-5 feet of altitude on the first flight.
I was shocked at the amount of spam I was receiving on my Hotmail account. I created a new "test" account, with a less-then-obvious email address. I logged into this account once, then didn't send any email at all, didn't send any email to the account, and didn't publish the name of the address at all, anywhere.
The account has been active for nearly three months now, and the spam count is up to 76 (!). The biggest slice goes to adult sites, with "make money fast" plans coming in second.
So, my conclusion: Microsoft is actually selling its own Hotmail addresses to spammers of the worst kind. Bastards!
The stepping motor can make noise too
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If you attach two of the four pins that power the stepping motor that spins the platters to an audio input, the stepping motor produces an audible square wave when the platter is spun by hand.
Try it! It makes a really nice analog whirrrrrrring sound.
especially when the primary use is perfectly legal
That's just it - the actual primary use is (assumed to be) copyright violation. The stated purpose in the documentation of the cable is another thing; they're going by the percieved actual usage.
The assumption is that this legitimate educational purpose is in the extreme minority of cases.
If the "stated legal usage" were all that mattered, Napster would still be around.
If you don't like their single-user policy, DON'T AGREE TO IT. They have the right to structure their services just about any way they like, and to enforce that structure.
If you don't like it, don't sign up. If you try to cheat on the policy with your l33tness and get caught, don't complain.
The link doesn't seem to be there anymore. And I don't think Yahoo! would be stupid enough to do this . . . just about anyone would think twice about visiting Yahoo! News after being hoodwinked like that a few times.
Not to mention that the first time I loaded the page, it actually had an X10 ad on it. Mixing up a legitimate news link with an ad link would be a trivial scripting error.
Why would you want to use that thing? It reminds me of the keyboard on very small laptops, where you have to press a special shift key to do ANYTHING other than type letters/numbers . . .
Imagine that we use gzip to attempt to compress all possible files. If it gets smaller, we keep it. If not, we keep the original.
Overall, some set of files will get smaller. The rest will stay the same. Therefore, we end up with better than 1:1 over the set of all possible files.
Those are labels, not genres. Let me know about the all-Elephant6-all-the-time college radio station when you find it.
When you want to hear something specific, you listen to recorded music. When you want to hear a variety of the kind of music you like, you listen to the radio.
However, if you're the kind of person who avoids well-known things just to be mysterious and esoteric, you better stick to your CDs.
The whole point of this is the large number of channels. Commercial radio "sucks big time" because there are only 3-10 or so stations in each market, so they must appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Satellite radio opens the possibility of having separate channels like "death metal", "doom metal", and "speed metal". This level of granularity beats even the best college radio stations (unless what you REALLY want is local music, in which case you should just buy the CDs to support them anyway).
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It's good to see our subscription dollars hard at work, with CmdrTaco always finding new and more obvious ways to misspell the headlines.
This is not a good analogy. Chemistry, like math or physics, is an exact science where elements are used as "building blocks" for other elements and compounds. Taxonomy is an inexact science, and the fact that a rare Jamaican fruit fly doesn't have a name yet will not affect other areas of science.
More information is always better, but suggesting that this lack of information somehow cripples biologists is sensationalism.
1. Universities already get this from Microsoft all the time.
2. This is a given, except when closed source would be revealed publicly (which is also a given).
3. The very idea is ridiculous.
4. Pretty much a given as well (free, that is).
On the other hand, the speed of Sonic with the fire-throwing power of Mario would probably do us all some good . . .
(-1, Annoying Pretentious Bastard)
I was also wondering about the "senses your every intention" technology. What happens if you're patiently waiting at a crosswalk, and someone bumps you hard from behind? Does the thing assume you want to run out in front of a bus at full speed?
Yeah, as I recall from the museum at Kitty Hawk, they would actually take turns running alongside the plane until it was flying stable. This thing couldn't have been doing more than 15mph. And I don't think it got over 4-5 feet of altitude on the first flight.
Nice . . . too bad the moderators aren't as well-read as you.
The account has been active for nearly three months now, and the spam count is up to 76 (!). The biggest slice goes to adult sites, with "make money fast" plans coming in second.
So, my conclusion: Microsoft is actually selling its own Hotmail addresses to spammers of the worst kind. Bastards!
Try it! It makes a really nice analog whirrrrrrring sound.
That's just it - the actual primary use is (assumed to be) copyright violation. The stated purpose in the documentation of the cable is another thing; they're going by the percieved actual usage.
The assumption is that this legitimate educational purpose is in the extreme minority of cases.
If the "stated legal usage" were all that mattered, Napster would still be around.
Point 1 will also never happen. The consultants talk to the customers. The customers give the company money. The money pays your salary.
That's the worst-looking X application I've ever seen.
If you don't like it, don't sign up. If you try to cheat on the policy with your l33tness and get caught, don't complain.
Not to mention that the first time I loaded the page, it actually had an X10 ad on it. Mixing up a legitimate news link with an ad link would be a trivial scripting error.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Why would you want to use that thing? It reminds me of the keyboard on very small laptops, where you have to press a special shift key to do ANYTHING other than type letters/numbers . . .
Imagine that we use gzip to attempt to compress all possible files. If it gets smaller, we keep it. If not, we keep the original.
Overall, some set of files will get smaller. The rest will stay the same. Therefore, we end up with better than 1:1 over the set of all possible files.
ZeoSync's HTML site will be available January 13, 2002 with costumer service agents providing chat assistance.
So they have a set of professionals in charge of "dressing up" their technology? Isn't that normally called the marketing department?
Bad software is not the argument. RTFP.
I was worried for a minute there.
When you want to hear something specific, you listen to recorded music. When you want to hear a variety of the kind of music you like, you listen to the radio.
However, if you're the kind of person who avoids well-known things just to be mysterious and esoteric, you better stick to your CDs.
Satellite radio opens the possibility of having separate channels like "death metal", "doom metal", and "speed metal". This level of granularity beats even the best college radio stations (unless what you REALLY want is local music, in which case you should just buy the CDs to support them anyway).
That basically equates to "no major new features for 5 years". I don't think even the DOJ is gullible enough to think that's a realistic idea.
"These go to 802.11!"
It's been an hour now, and it's still down (root URL too). If I ever read this article, I'll be sure not to do whatever they recommend.