That's information that really wants to be free! I regularly recieve emails that want to free them. It's only because I keep said information tightly controlled and chained up that it remains non-free.
These days, Slashdot is a commercial concern. It makes its money from our patronage (indirectly). As such, we have every right to demand a better service.
Taco, of course, has every right to tell us to get stuffed, or ingore us, and we have every right to go elsewhere. But that's the beauty of freedom.
Do you realise that analogies are there to draw simple comparisons with familiar situations, rather than complicated comparisons with unheard of situations?
Every time I read about it, I get the impression that the subjects are simply injected with stem cells and they magically get cured. Is it really that simple, or are there additional invonveniences, like unwanted tissue types, or surgery or drugs needed?
/Do 84% of 15-18 year olds even have computers in their homes,/
Presumably:)/or broadband access for downloading games?/
The article suggests they are downloading, but it might be an assumption. Internet connections are not needed, especially at a school where there is a very large social group. I was pirating at that age and didn't even know what the internet was.
And my reason for doing so was that I wanted a lot more games than I could afford.
Even that's not the whole story. There are a few low power local stations. I remember receiving one in Bristol, and I'm fairly certain Oxford has its own channel.
This is a person who managed to cause great annoyance and frustration to millions. He had no empathy and just took advantage of the goodwill of everyone else for self enrichment.
While murder is never a good thing, its remarkably difficult to feel sad about someone who is defined by being an unpleasant person.
I used to work for a graphics chip company. When we tested them we ran them without even a heatsink, and they ran at a perfectly reasonable temperature.
When we sold them to the board makers, they attached a chunky heatsink and fan. Not because that's what was needed, but because that's what their customers expected to see on a graphics card.
These days they run faster and probably hotter, but I wouldn't be surprised if most mainstream cards could be passively cooled.
Why would it use the code in the TV broadcast? What if you lived on the border of a time code/switch area and could recieve signals from stations on different sides of the border? Which time should the TV use?
Well, mine uses the time from the station I tell it to.
Just how many devices adjust for DST without it being possible to disable this feature?
Come to think of it, how many adjust for DST and can't be adjusted?
My computer it can be disabled. Or corrected with a simple patch. My clock gets a time signal by radio. This requires the people who run the time broadcast station to change it at the correct time. they do this. My video recorder gets its time signal from the TV station (and this can be disabled). They adjust for local time. All other devices with a clock, I need to change manually.
My guess is they might delay the release until things in London get a little more back to normal.
If they did that, they'd have released it last week. The attacks had nothing like the severity of the WTC attacks, and London is much more robust against this sort of thing. 5 years of German bombers followed by a few decades of the IRA has that effect.
But the film has to come out on the 5th of November. It's the anniversary of the most famous attempted terrorist attack of all time (at least in Britain).
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No it doesn't, and please stop anthropomorphizing it.
Information wants to be anthropomorphised!
That's information that really wants to be free! I regularly recieve emails that want to free them. It's only because I keep said information tightly controlled and chained up that it remains non-free.
Made sense back in the late 90's.
These days, Slashdot is a commercial concern. It makes its money from our patronage (indirectly). As such, we have every right to demand a better service.
Taco, of course, has every right to tell us to get stuffed, or ingore us, and we have every right to go elsewhere. But that's the beauty of freedom.
How about just pointing out why the analogy is misleading?
Do you realise that analogies are there to draw simple comparisons with familiar situations, rather than complicated comparisons with unheard of situations?
Naah. Poppy seeds and crack come up positive on complketely different tests.
He spelled "heroin" wrong.
How complicated is stem cell treatment?
Every time I read about it, I get the impression that the subjects are simply injected with stem cells and they magically get cured. Is it really that simple, or are there additional invonveniences, like unwanted tissue types, or surgery or drugs needed?
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Why do you need to restart the browser for something so trivial!?
It's an indication. Not a measurement. You can't say anything concrete, but you can determine its relative success compared with previous versions.
Use these to track politicians.
If there's one group in this society I don't trust...
A lot of computer equipment has useful motors. Printers have fairly precise motors and quite a bit of power for the drum.
Or you could go and buy a good quality stepper motor.
You can't follow a kid around everywhere he goes.
/Do 84% of 15-18 year olds even have computers in their homes,/ Presumably:) /or broadband access for downloading games?/
The article suggests they are downloading, but it might be an assumption. Internet connections are not needed, especially at a school where there is a very large social group. I was pirating at that age and didn't even know what the internet was.
And my reason for doing so was that I wanted a lot more games than I could afford.
So...
Am I the only person who saw this as a joke?
It is possible to purchase pirated software from many pirates.
Even that's not the whole story. There are a few low power local stations. I remember receiving one in Bristol, and I'm fairly certain Oxford has its own channel.
This is a person who managed to cause great annoyance and frustration to millions. He had no empathy and just took advantage of the goodwill of everyone else for self enrichment.
While murder is never a good thing, its remarkably difficult to feel sad about someone who is defined by being an unpleasant person.
but my home mail box is full of crap every day!!
If they have a prepaid envelope I reply. I usually talk about the poor use of English, or point out why their offer is bad.
If they have a free number, I ring it and be weird at them.
We all need a hobby.
I wonder how important a fan actually is.
I used to work for a graphics chip company. When we tested them we ran them without even a heatsink, and they ran at a perfectly reasonable temperature.
When we sold them to the board makers, they attached a chunky heatsink and fan. Not because that's what was needed, but because that's what their customers expected to see on a graphics card.
These days they run faster and probably hotter, but I wouldn't be surprised if most mainstream cards could be passively cooled.
Why would it use the code in the TV broadcast? What if you lived on the border of a time code/switch area and could recieve signals from stations on different sides of the border? Which time should the TV use?
Well, mine uses the time from the station I tell it to.
My TV does. So does my VCR
Don't these use the time code encoded in the VBI in TV broadcasts?
Just how many devices adjust for DST without it being possible to disable this feature?
Come to think of it, how many adjust for DST and can't be adjusted?
My computer it can be disabled. Or corrected with a simple patch. My clock gets a time signal by radio. This requires the people who run the time broadcast station to change it at the correct time. they do this. My video recorder gets its time signal from the TV station (and this can be disabled). They adjust for local time. All other devices with a clock, I need to change manually.
They'll just think it's the wrong time. Makes no difference to DVD players. Important for clocks, but these can be set manually twice a year.
Few devices adjust for DST. To my knowledge, only computers do this. And that can be turned off and done manually if need be.
Of course, the terrorists (sorry, insurgent) is the good guy.
No. He's a terrorist. And a murdering psycho. That's the whole point.
My guess is they might delay the release until things in London get a little more back to normal.
If they did that, they'd have released it last week. The attacks had nothing like the severity of the WTC attacks, and London is much more robust against this sort of thing. 5 years of German bombers followed by a few decades of the IRA has that effect.
But the film has to come out on the 5th of November. It's the anniversary of the most famous attempted terrorist attack of all time (at least in Britain).