They are tremendously useful for stargazing - e.g. green laser collimators are fantastic tools for pointing out celestial objects or aiming a telescope.
Also, long-distance cat annoying.
Though maybe it should not be encouraged to point them up at the sky considering what happened in this case.
I listen in the truck with a blown exhaust and whilst getting high on the fumes, lossy or lossless? I have trouble noticing if the car radio is even turned on.
Lossy was referring to the audio quality, not brain cells.
Don't do anything? Offer the download and have a "click here to donate" button? I've seen and used those programs and have very rarely paid anything. There are a great deal of people who would pay for a program they use, but don't simply because it was convenient enough to get for free. Hell, I'd say this is most people.
The determined pirate you will never stop. Elaborate DRM schemes will only hurt your paying customers. The answer isn't to do nothing and hope people pay you - because most won't. You need to make the purchase process convenient and unobtrusive.
The question is "How do I prevent piracy?". The answer is "Don't". As to the question of "Should I make it easy and desirable for people to give me money?"... Well I cannot think of a situation where this is not a good idea.
No, I didn't. I have lifetime upgrades but only for a limited number of activations. I had a computer go tits up on me and it was a hassle to get the license switched over. They haven't really screwed me. I just lost interest in continuing with them.
I would consider not being able to use software you paid for due to stupid company policies to be getting screwed by the company.
As far as not letting them know how they messed up, that is your prerogative. If you had reported it, they would likely have simply fixed your one case and kept on with their dumb policy, so it may not have changed anything.
Seriously. Don't. If your program is any good, people will pirate it. Actually even if your program is terrible people will pirate it, just because they can. And they can, no matter what steps you take. However people are vastly more likely to give money to a indie developer. Pirates can be classified people that are either compulsive/hoarder pirates and wouldn't pay for it anyhow, genuinely need your program but cannot afford it, and people that will pay for it after a "trial run" when the realize you are an indie developer and your program is reasonably priced.
It looks almost like someone had an attack of aphasia half way through writing that headline. Using a transitive verb (which could also be mistaken for a noun), especially a short one like "Hit", next to another short, and unusual word (Ars) makes for tricky parsing.
Not only that, but:
Turns out it may have been the same guy
So it's okay, only the headline is potentially libelous.
You wouldn't think it was so funny if someone hit your Honan.
Out of curiosity - what would render this law illegal/unconstitutional? Please refer to the specific clause and/or amendment.
In the United States it would be the 14th Amendment, which fixes Bill of Rights to actually apply to everyone, though it took another 60 or 70 years to get rid of segregation, which the 14th also is supposed to make illegal. The law would be discriminatory against Beardo, whomever that is.
Mod parent up. Sintering is closer to baking. But solar heat is cheap and plentiful on the moon, with periodic availability. Use it to make lego bricks and automate the process of lego assembly. No need for rebar, as moonquakes are not severe. After the structure is up, all the bricks are compressed and strong. Spray the interior to seal pores. Add air.
Need? Because ISS's most important mission is giving rich people a place to float around in microgravity. That this is even an issue that a celebrity is getting bumped in favor of a scientist is absurd.
There's a market to send rich people up to the ISS to float around in microgravity. Doesn't that mean it's extremely important? If you can make money off them, then sending them up is a way to fund some of the science. What's the problem with that?
Because we are sending rich people up there instead of doing science.
that it was safe to drink was just a side effect of the boiling part of the brewing, if they had boiled water it would have been ok to drink too
That is true, but as soon as the water cooled down it would start to get infected with bacteria and mold again. Sealed containment of pure water did not exist until the 20th century (probably post WWII). The slight alcohol content would help preserve the water.
And when we say "beer" in this context, we are really talking about Gruit which was a beverage flavored with herbs not hops. Hops did not become popular until the middle ages, and primarily in Europe (invented in Germany, where else?). Also we talk about something that is very very light, at 3% or less, not heavy enough to make an active person drunk.
Need? Because ISS's most important mission is giving rich people a place to float around in microgravity. That this is even an issue that a celebrity is getting bumped in favor of a scientist is absurd.
I don't think Stonehenge can claim that it is operating though. They still don't know what it was used for. The Pantheon on the other hand is still used as a church. It's a very impressive structure - a dome with a hole in the roof. I'm really curious how they pulled off that engineering trick without heavy machinery,
Stonehenge is just a bunch of rocks standing in a field. It's like comparing CPM with a Symbolics Lisp Machine, no comparison.
It is a pile of rocks, so I would say it isn't operating... but it is quite literally "up".
a slab of concrete has been found with an uptime of 3737 years
You exaggerate. The oldest concrete structure I know of is the dome of the Pantheon, and that's only been around for 1887 years. Time will tell if it was well built.
That number is pretty close to the uptime of Stonehenge, though.
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They are tremendously useful for stargazing - e.g. green laser collimators are fantastic tools for pointing out celestial objects or aiming a telescope.
Also, long-distance cat annoying.
Though maybe it should not be encouraged to point them up at the sky considering what happened in this case.
Eating magnets? What's the attraction in that?
Ironic, don't you think?
I listen in the truck with a blown exhaust and whilst getting high on the fumes, lossy or lossless? I have trouble noticing if the car radio is even turned on.
Lossy was referring to the audio quality, not brain cells.
Make me a sandwich, too.
Yahoo will rise again. They clearly grasp the significance of cloud computing, which is why they've collected all their employees in one place.
Oh my god. You have figured it out. Yahoo is planning a mass suicide.
Don't do anything? Offer the download and have a "click here to donate" button? I've seen and used those programs and have very rarely paid anything. There are a great deal of people who would pay for a program they use, but don't simply because it was convenient enough to get for free. Hell, I'd say this is most people.
The determined pirate you will never stop. Elaborate DRM schemes will only hurt your paying customers. The answer isn't to do nothing and hope people pay you - because most won't. You need to make the purchase process convenient and unobtrusive.
The question is "How do I prevent piracy?". The answer is "Don't". As to the question of "Should I make it easy and desirable for people to give me money?"... Well I cannot think of a situation where this is not a good idea.
No, I didn't. I have lifetime upgrades but only for a limited number of activations. I had a computer go tits up on me and it was a hassle to get the license switched over. They haven't really screwed me. I just lost interest in continuing with them.
I would consider not being able to use software you paid for due to stupid company policies to be getting screwed by the company.
As far as not letting them know how they messed up, that is your prerogative. If you had reported it, they would likely have simply fixed your one case and kept on with their dumb policy, so it may not have changed anything.
Your sig is on topic as well.
Neither the submitter nor the editor read the story. And "OMG Diesel means black smoke clouds."
Idiots. Makes me sad to be an American.
Actually, a lot of things make me sad to be an American.
Seriously. Don't. If your program is any good, people will pirate it. Actually even if your program is terrible people will pirate it, just because they can. And they can, no matter what steps you take. However people are vastly more likely to give money to a indie developer. Pirates can be classified people that are either compulsive/hoarder pirates and wouldn't pay for it anyhow, genuinely need your program but cannot afford it, and people that will pay for it after a "trial run" when the realize you are an indie developer and your program is reasonably priced.
Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan
It looks almost like someone had an attack of aphasia half way through writing that headline. Using a transitive verb (which could also be mistaken for a noun), especially a short one like "Hit", next to another short, and unusual word (Ars) makes for tricky parsing.
Not only that, but:
Turns out it may have been the same guy
So it's okay, only the headline is potentially libelous.
You wouldn't think it was so funny if someone hit your Honan.
Out of curiosity - what would render this law illegal/unconstitutional? Please refer to the specific clause and/or amendment.
In the United States it would be the 14th Amendment, which fixes Bill of Rights to actually apply to everyone, though it took another 60 or 70 years to get rid of segregation, which the 14th also is supposed to make illegal. The law would be discriminatory against Beardo, whomever that is.
...environmental impact reports?
Don't be a smartass...
Sounds like something the Mythbusters would do. Reminds me of the chicken cannon....
If I keep on smacking my kids, their arms will get shorter?
Only after several generations. Thus the phrase "I will hit you so hard your great-grandchildren will feel it!"
The lego moonbase set was my favorite as a kid.
Wait, who am I kidding? It's still my favorite!
Mod parent up. Sintering is closer to baking. But solar heat is cheap and plentiful on the moon, with periodic availability. Use it to make lego bricks and automate the process of lego assembly. No need for rebar, as moonquakes are not severe. After the structure is up, all the bricks are compressed and strong. Spray the interior to seal pores. Add air.
The lego moonbase set was my favorite as a kid.
Need? Because ISS's most important mission is giving rich people a place to float around in microgravity. That this is even an issue that a celebrity is getting bumped in favor of a scientist is absurd.
There's a market to send rich people up to the ISS to float around in microgravity. Doesn't that mean it's extremely important? If you can make money off them, then sending them up is a way to fund some of the science. What's the problem with that?
Because we are sending rich people up there instead of doing science.
that it was safe to drink was just a side effect of the boiling part of the brewing, if they had boiled water it would have been ok to drink too
That is true, but as soon as the water cooled down it would start to get infected with bacteria and mold again. Sealed containment of pure water did not exist until the 20th century (probably post WWII). The slight alcohol content would help preserve the water.
And when we say "beer" in this context, we are really talking about Gruit which was a beverage flavored with herbs not hops. Hops did not become popular until the middle ages, and primarily in Europe (invented in Germany, where else?). Also we talk about something that is very very light, at 3% or less, not heavy enough to make an active person drunk.
Need? Because ISS's most important mission is giving rich people a place to float around in microgravity. That this is even an issue that a celebrity is getting bumped in favor of a scientist is absurd.
get/get/Verb: Come to have or hold (something); receive
Experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)
"gets sequenced?"
wouldn't simply "sequenced" have been better?
"gets" is present-tense, "sequenced" is past tense.
Yinz clothes needs worshed.
I don't think Stonehenge can claim that it is operating though. They still don't know what it was used for. The Pantheon on the other hand is still used as a church. It's a very impressive structure - a dome with a hole in the roof. I'm really curious how they pulled off that engineering trick without heavy machinery,
Stonehenge is just a bunch of rocks standing in a field. It's like comparing CPM with a Symbolics Lisp Machine, no comparison.
It is a pile of rocks, so I would say it isn't operating... but it is quite literally "up".
Counting to 10 sounds more like an even technique to me. Might I suggest 11 or 9 instead?
This one goes to 11.
noise cancellation headphones work well for airplanes, trains, ..., I am not so sure they work very well for voices...
For some reason as I was reading that I thought you were going to continue "... in my head."
Perhaps the voices in my head were just telling me that.
Fill the room with breasts. Attached to beautiful coeds. You won't hear a thing.
I'm sorry I cant hear you, I have breasts on my ears.
a slab of concrete has been found with an uptime of 3737 years
You exaggerate. The oldest concrete structure I know of is the dome of the Pantheon, and that's only been around for 1887 years. Time will tell if it was well built.
That number is pretty close to the uptime of Stonehenge, though.