So how hard would it be to wait the thing out? 15 hours is not a lot of time for it to do much damage, particularly if an area has been evacuated/contained.
15 hours is the half life of sodium 24. That doesn't mean that it's safe after 15 hours, it means that half of it has changed into 24Mg. The other half is still there. Wait another 15 hours and only a quarter of it will be left, and so on.
I'd go as far as to state that plastic art in general is almost entirely unaffected by piracy, like actual shows of performance arts.
True story: My dad, a painter, was showing some of his works in the states. A visiting bigwig from a software company that shall not be named was overheard saying to his pal: "This stuff is neat, I'm going to have a go at something like this when I get home".
The partners have built a system that uses green light to transmit 100 megabits a second over a distance of 300 metres, which is the speed telecom companies hope to offer their customers five to ten years from now, and 50 times as fast as a typical adsl broadband connection.
the Iraq war is ruinously expensive in the short term, but perhaps very profitable (in terms of oil) in the medium term, and possibly massively beneficial (in terms of Middle-East reform) in the long term.
I think you meant: The war on Iraq is:
Enormously profitable in the short term (for the people who count)
a wash in the medium term (oil is oil, who gives a damn who's selling it)
a crazy disaster in the long term (who needs more enemies)
On the other hand, it is not acceptable that his software is not being properly distributed, promoted or documented. Nor is it acceptable that he allows his personality quirks to interfere with the primary purpose of getting code into active circulation.
Wow, a low slashdot user id gives greater powers than I thought.
If England threatened to bomb another country killing millions of innocent people the government would be out of office.
Huh? Blair didn't threaten - he did bomb another country, more than a million people have died so far, he was allowed to retire with "honour" and all the people who went along with his madness are still in office.
Take Africa, for example... there are so many different languages and incompatible dialects among the nations of that continent that if it weren't for English, they'd have no ability communicate at all. Hell, my gf is from there, and she tells me that people from neighboring villages often can't speak their native tongues to each other: they speak English!
Your GF is making the same mistake my wife falls into - Africa is less uniform than she thinks. You'd have to replace "English" with "French" for large parts of West Africa for example.
Sometimes the effect is the other way round - my wife's family is spread around the Côte-D'Ivoire (officialy Francophone)/Liberia (officialy Anglophone) border, some of the younger members can't talk to their cousins because they haven't learned their parents shared language.
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Can't seem to remember.
Most people seem to be saying around 4 days.
From French croissant 'crescent', from Middle French creissant.
True story: My dad, a painter, was showing some of his works in the states. A visiting bigwig from a software company that shall not be named was overheard saying to his pal: "This stuff is neat, I'm going to have a go at something like this when I get home".
Hah.
Five to ten years from now? I think they mean last month. http://abonnez-vous.orange.fr/fibre/fibreres/avoirlafibre/Default.aspx?md=10
No, but it does have a regrettable liberal bias...
I think you meant: The war on Iraq is:
"it is not acceptable?" WTF.
No teacher would ever say "I don't know".
"Go sit in the corner" is a much more likely reply.
Better than a 17" laptop.
(Slow? What's slow? What kind of bloatware are you running?)
Yup, that article that you read.
Or was it some guy down the pub?
"Several European Towns and cities"?
No wonder you "won't go into details".
I've got this things older brother (60Gb spinning disk instead of 32Gb flash).
When I'm traveling the I love it's 1Kg mass.
When I'm at home it's in its docking cradle attached to a 21" LCD.
You can have the best of both worlds.
Rubbish, the shrub just does what Cheney tells him to. How could it be his fault?
Yeah, that kind of stealing that isn't stealing 'cos "intellectual property" isn't property.
Beurk.
Sounds like you've been screwed.
Yay! You win 'cos you've found the stupid car analogy.
Meanwhile, back in the virtual world, you're full of shit, and might as well go and hide your head for the next decade(*)
(*) or 2-3 minutes in slashdot time.
OI! I resemble that remark.
Unix - "Multics with the balls cut off".
Come on, you know nobody is going to do anything about Darfur, it's only ever brought up to distract people from Iraq.
Sometimes the effect is the other way round - my wife's family is spread around the Côte-D'Ivoire (officialy Francophone)/Liberia (officialy Anglophone) border, some of the younger members can't talk to their cousins because they haven't learned their parents shared language.