Breaking big asteroid into little asteroids merely alters an asteroid that would have thrown the Atlantic over all of Europe into many little asteroids, each of which can demolish Paris, London, Berlin, Geneva... you don't understand the energies involved.
In order to be burned up in the atmosphere you have to reduce it to pieces smaller than an automobile, preferably smaller than a dictionary.
Tax laws probably also require that if you're taking tax deductions for business expenses and equipment, those must be used for business purposes...not employee personal use. That's one reason a "company car" often has certain restrictions.
There are companies that do such things, but you have to pay them. It's more effort to extract the materials than the materials are worth. Yes, you can see there is gold in your computer but since the 1970s the amount of gold has been miniscule.
When energy gets cheap enough, you could dump the stuff in an industrial-scale mass spectrometer, and get all the constituent elements dropped into buckets. But we'll need fission or fusion power for that, and there's not enough activity in either field now.
[A mass spectrometer immolates a material with an electric flame or plasma torch, which tears apart most molecules into simple molecules or atoms. After electrically charging the material, it is thrown past a magnet -- lighter elements are deflected further than heavier ones, thus separating the various types of materials. Imagine dumping a truckload of junk into a rocket exhaust and ending up with a bucket of lead, a bucket of iron, a bucket of carbon, and tanks of hydrogen and oxygen...along with many more buckets of rather pure materials]
Any plumber can tell you about hard water deposits covering the inside of plumbing. Actually, many large cities used lead in the water supply until a few decades ago, but the old pipes are still in use. You can find assurances that the mineral coating is protecting us...
You could use a gamepad or joystick interface -- there are several things that can plug into a soundcard.
Or stick a few buttons connected to a parallel port on the front panel. With 8 buttons you could use two for volume up/volume down. Particularly if you can put an LCD panel on there and can alter the on-screen button labels based on the selected mode. If the case has two 5.25" bay covers, one could be filled with the LCD and the other with buttons and IR sensor...or can you squeeze it all into one bay cover?
If you notice that large white socket horizontally across the top of the board -- that's a 72-pin SIMM socket. Look at the size of a 72-pin SIMM and you'll understand the scale.
Or the IDE socket on the right side can also give you a feel for the size of the thing. And those two large round jacks on the lower left side look like audio jacks.
The IDE drive will be large -- you could shop for laptop drives, but then you'd need a converter. [or is this board wired for laptop IDE? the site is slow at the moment so I couldn't see the details pages.]
I've invested a great deal of effort in driving a car. Due to my great deal of effort, you should not be permitted to drive without paying me for permission to drive.
Excuse me, but as your inflamed tissue is having problems because there isn't enough room for it -- in what way would growing more tissue help? Having more tissue in that small area would make it worse.
I remember various copy-protected floppy schemes. People stopped buying copy protected programs because they failed in various ways.
The difference here is that hard drives do tend to last longer than floppy disks. On the other hand, they're also awfully inexpensive now -- can't someone who wants to copy just sell stuff on preinstalled hard drives?
Oh, and as for the other comments about Microsoft requiring this...I did say that programs failed in various ways... :-)
bots from companies such
as the above mentioned continue aggressive spidering.
If their robots will not honor your robots.txt then you do not have to honor their robots nor give them useful information. You could detect them and feed them random responses -- either the types of responses which they do like or the types which they don't like. 43,000 links to metallica -- which when an expensive human looks at them will be found to be artwork made with glitter-covered glue...
"Were they referring to Intervideo, another company, xor was it a bald-faced
lie?"
The answer is yes. When you XOR three things, of which only one can be TRUE, the result is always TRUE. Any odd number of TRUE causes a result of TRUE.
Static testing will start soon, with the prototype anchored to the ground. They have to ensure all the systems work before they can try any flight testing. Just a little longer...
"...they included junk DNA to keep people from knowing which bits to replicate."
Somehow I don't understand why a forger shouldn't just copy the junk DNA along with the tag DNA.
For that matter, the "scanner" being used must be only looking at the invisible ink. If the invisible ink is not there, then a DNA test (probably an antibody reaction) can be done on the appropriate area to confirm there's no appropriate DNA there.
Gee, they're trying to prove a negative -- the assumption is that the new merchandise has not been laundered or otherwise had the markings damaged. Don't leave your T-shirts in the sun for a month while trying to sell them...
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In order to be burned up in the atmosphere you have to reduce it to pieces smaller than an automobile, preferably smaller than a dictionary.
Tax laws probably also require that if you're taking tax deductions for business expenses and equipment, those must be used for business purposes...not employee personal use. That's one reason a "company car" often has certain restrictions.
When energy gets cheap enough, you could dump the stuff in an industrial-scale mass spectrometer, and get all the constituent elements dropped into buckets. But we'll need fission or fusion power for that, and there's not enough activity in either field now.
[A mass spectrometer immolates a material with an electric flame or plasma torch, which tears apart most molecules into simple molecules or atoms. After electrically charging the material, it is thrown past a magnet -- lighter elements are deflected further than heavier ones, thus separating the various types of materials. Imagine dumping a truckload of junk into a rocket exhaust and ending up with a bucket of lead, a bucket of iron, a bucket of carbon, and tanks of hydrogen and oxygen...along with many more buckets of rather pure materials]
Any plumber can tell you about hard water deposits covering the inside of plumbing. Actually, many large cities used lead in the water supply until a few decades ago, but the old pipes are still in use. You can find assurances that the mineral coating is protecting us...
The article is about MO drives. Some previous comments to which I referred had already referred to hard drive behavior.
What cases will this and a disk fit in? I look forward to the Cases Catalog and Cases Contest Results.
Or stick a few buttons connected to a parallel port on the front panel. With 8 buttons you could use two for volume up/volume down. Particularly if you can put an LCD panel on there and can alter the on-screen button labels based on the selected mode. If the case has two 5.25" bay covers, one could be filled with the LCD and the other with buttons and IR sensor...or can you squeeze it all into one bay cover?
Or the IDE socket on the right side can also give you a feel for the size of the thing. And those two large round jacks on the lower left side look like audio jacks.
The IDE drive will be large -- you could shop for laptop drives, but then you'd need a converter. [or is this board wired for laptop IDE? the site is slow at the moment so I couldn't see the details pages.]
(No, I wasn't touching my keyboard when I heard of this -- Festival was reading the news to me...)
Who will be first to patent the mouse pointing device in the E.U.?
I've invested a great deal of effort in driving a car. Due to my great deal of effort, you should not be permitted to drive without paying me for permission to drive.
Make sure you keep us informed of what happens to you.
I prefer the technical cure for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Excuse me, but as your inflamed tissue is having problems because there isn't enough room for it -- in what way would growing more tissue help? Having more tissue in that small area would make it worse.
The difference here is that hard drives do tend to last longer than floppy disks. On the other hand, they're also awfully inexpensive now -- can't someone who wants to copy just sell stuff on preinstalled hard drives?
Oh, and as for the other comments about Microsoft requiring this...I did say that programs failed in various ways... :-)
If their robots will not honor your robots.txt then you do not have to honor their robots nor give them useful information. You could detect them and feed them random responses -- either the types of responses which they do like or the types which they don't like. 43,000 links to metallica -- which when an expensive human looks at them will be found to be artwork made with glitter-covered glue...
You mean he wasn't checking with Dr. Frasier Crane before posting?
The answer is yes. When you XOR three things, of which only one can be TRUE, the result is always TRUE. Any odd number of TRUE causes a result of TRUE.
Static testing will start soon, with the prototype anchored to the ground. They have to ensure all the systems work before they can try any flight testing. Just a little longer...
I saw no mention that the athlete was competing in the Olympics. Maybe it was someone who completed their walkabout.
Somehow I don't understand why a forger shouldn't just copy the junk DNA along with the tag DNA.
For that matter, the "scanner" being used must be only looking at the invisible ink. If the invisible ink is not there, then a DNA test (probably an antibody reaction) can be done on the appropriate area to confirm there's no appropriate DNA there.
Gee, they're trying to prove a negative -- the assumption is that the new merchandise has not been laundered or otherwise had the markings damaged. Don't leave your T-shirts in the sun for a month while trying to sell them...
I had the same problem. Smalltalk was too expensive, and required more hardware than I could afford at the time. I still have that issue of BYTE...
Only a Microsoft user would consider proposing a standard which involves a proprietary executable program...
"We don't want to hurt your feelings. You're a year older, so we'll pass you on to the next administration. Work harder next year, you bureacracy."
That's the Department of D+efence now.