And... 1. It is really stupid. 2. Is Evil. 3. Did I mention really stupid. Hey once they have you as part of the bot net what else will they use your machine for?
"ell, by that standard, Red Dawn [imdb.com] was nothing but a propaganda story about terrorists." Yes it really was and a bad movie as well.
When you are killing your own countrymen your a terrorist. The Iraqi solders that fought the invasion where solders. The ones that are killing innocent Iraqi's are terrorists. The ones that are killing US troops are insurgents.
Okay to be honest I can sort of see Israel's point of view. I don't think their actions are wise. I also will not join any botnet. At best this is a sad stupid situation. I wish I could see a good way out. Israel tried to give a little and then got rockets in return. The Arab nations have kept the Palestinians in refugee camps for how many decades? Just a mess over all.
Why? They are both songs. It really comes down to a matter of taste as far as value goes. You can not claim any scarcity since you can make as many copies of one as the other. Popularity? Well shouldn't that be it's own reward. More people like it then more people buy it so you make more money from it.
The only reason that they are doing this is because they can. From what I have seen though the songs are priced based on age which isn't that bad. There is a lot more old songs I like than new ones.
That was also a good one. Along with Computer Language. I don't know if the Internet is such a lousy substitute. The problem with the Internet is you must be your own editor. You decide what is quality and what is trash. Back in the good old days others filtered the trash for you.
Okay I am sorry about saying Mindless but it is still FUD. And what do you not agree with? That tidal basins are ecological very sensitive? That really isn't debatable. That wave power isn't dense enough to be practical? Again show me one 20 megawatt wave power plant. Wind is reliable? Every place has variable winds. Solar is reliable? Every place has night and rain. Western Nuclear power plants have a good safety record? The one issue with a US plant was TMI. The results of that where possible.5 deaths do to radiation release. Over the past 20 years the natural gas plant in my old home town was had three deaths all from falls. Light water reactors like those used in the US use water as a coolant and a moderator. If you loose all the water the reaction stops. You can still have damage to the fuel elements due to residual heat from decay. The myth of China Syndrome is just that a myth. Containment buildings work as TMI proved. So yes I will take back mindless but your statements are not based on any facts or data. It is based on fear. Heck even one of the founders of Greenpeace has gone pro-nuclear! So not mindless but also not based on facts or reality. Now if somebody wanted to build a graphite moderated reactor without a containment building anywhere in the US? Heck yea I would protest it. The two Light water reactors a few miles from my house? Love the. No smoke stacks, no coal, no oil shipments, cheaper fuel costs than Natural Gas. And no CO2!
They where wonderful back in the day. DDJ is down to like 5 pages. The rest are long gone. Back in the day those where the best way to learn about computers. Now we have the Internet. I find it so interesting that so many computer magazines have survived.
When I said emitting neutrons I meant that they where leaving the reactor. I wouldn't want to bury a neutron source because neutrons make other elements radioactive. Gamma doesn't and alpha and beta can be shielded very easily. The only safe reason I could see for burying it would be gamma shielding and security. It would be hard to steal if it was that far under ground.
Not a straw man at all. Nuclear can provide 24/7/365 power while the only renewable sources that offer that are Hydro and Geothermal and those are very limited. I agree about wind except yes you can have windless days. The wind farms in Texas under performed this year because of lack of wind. I agree with with supplementing with renewable sources but as you put it wind is good for up to 20% of your power needs. That leaves 80% that has to come from somewhere else.
Because they are not more sane. Wave energy is very hard to harness in useful amounts. Tides only work a few limited locations and the tidal areas are about the most sensitive on the planet. Geothermal again is great where you have it. Most places don't. Solar only works for a few hours a day and not at all if there is a rain storm. Wind you can not throttle. Texas ran into that problem when there was less wind than predicted so they had to spend more on power then expected this year. I am all for supplementing our power production with things like solar, wind, and Geothermal. But none of your suggestions are more "sane" than nuclear at this time and yes you are spreading FUD. Again you use totaly fake terms like "one thing goes wrong". To cause a major problem many, many, many things have to go wrong with a modern nuclear plant even then the most likely consequence would be the plant is ruined and would be very expensive to clean up. The fuel in a modern plant can not be weaponized by an group smaller than a nation. The spent fuel should be recycled so it is no longer a threat but even then it is a much lower risk than industrial and medical radiation sources. It is just too big and bulky to walk out with. So yes mindless FUD.
"So many more sane options than nuclear." Umm not at all. Western Nuclear power stations have a great safety record. The soviet reactor that people like to throw out would never be built in the west. Also tides and waves are to different things and tidal power only works in certain locations and could have a large impact on the environment. We don't have ample power from dams and geothermal. They are limited as well. Calling nuclear power insane is just mindless FUD.
"Hyperion Power Generation Inc. has developed a garden shed-sized nuclear reactor that can produce enough heat to generate 25 megawatts of electricity for up to 10 years.
That's enough energy to power 20,000 homes, but still tiny by current nuclear standards."
These are not going to be burried in peoples back years. A small town might have one city may have a few scattered around. A factory may have one or a data center. As too what could go wrong? Well maybe they are as safe as they say. I would be willing to bet that they are pretty dang safe. If so then they could be great. Think of all the small villages in Northern Canada or Alaska that depend on diesel fuel truck or flown in. Or think of small nations like the Bahamas. Yea this sounds great if it is safe.
I saw XP in OfficeMax Saturday night. The way you complain about price is simple. You don't buy it. But I can see why your upset about Adobe's pricing scheme.
This replaces renting. Legally you can not copy or resell NetFlix disks. Of course I wonder if anybody has studies just how many NetFlix DVDs are copied?
Get out XCode and write your own. Problem solved. I hear this all the time but it is at best rude. It takes a lot of work to write a good text editor, file management tool, or mp3 player. Some people want to do it for free and put it out under GPL. That is great. I have released GPL code myself. Some people want to get paid for their hard work. I am also all for that. If you like their product pay for it. If you don't like their product enough to pay them what they ask then DON"T USE IT AND DON"T COMPLAIN. There is a lot of Free as in beer and Free as in speech software for the Mac. The reason that you probably see more shareware for the Mac may be that Mac users are more willing to support those that write for their machine. Maybe Mac users don't think of programmers as slaves that should produce free software and be grateful that we are willing to use the fruit of their labors.
Read the TOS please. It states that AOL can take it down at anytime and the users agreed to that. How about people taking some reponsibilty for a change? Make stinking backups. Heck USB flash drives and DVDs are CHEAP. make copies people.
Slashdot Mirror
yea that would help.....
Good grief
Why duck?
Really FSX, Steam, and ITunes are the only reason I boot out of Linux.
I think they got rid of DRM for music. What about Video?
And...
1. It is really stupid.
2. Is Evil.
3. Did I mention really stupid. Hey once they have you as part of the bot net what else will they use your machine for?
"ell, by that standard, Red Dawn [imdb.com] was nothing but a propaganda story about terrorists."
Yes it really was and a bad movie as well.
When you are killing your own countrymen your a terrorist. The Iraqi solders that fought the invasion where solders. The ones that are killing innocent Iraqi's are terrorists.
The ones that are killing US troops are insurgents.
Okay to be honest I can sort of see Israel's point of view. I don't think their actions are wise. I also will not join any botnet.
At best this is a sad stupid situation. I wish I could see a good way out. Israel tried to give a little and then got rockets in return. The Arab nations have kept the Palestinians in refugee camps for how many decades?
Just a mess over all.
The other side was firing rockets and mortars into Israel for a while now.
At best I say a pox on both their houses.
Why? They are both songs. It really comes down to a matter of taste as far as value goes. You can not claim any scarcity since you can make as many copies of one as the other. Popularity? Well shouldn't that be it's own reward. More people like it then more people buy it so you make more money from it.
The only reason that they are doing this is because they can. From what I have seen though the songs are priced based on age which isn't that bad. There is a lot more old songs I like than new ones.
That was also a good one. Along with Computer Language. I don't know if the Internet is such a lousy substitute. The problem with the Internet is you must be your own editor. You decide what is quality and what is trash. Back in the good old days others filtered the trash for you.
Okay I am sorry about saying Mindless but it is still FUD. .5 deaths do to radiation release. Over the past 20 years the natural gas plant in my old home town was had three deaths all from falls.
And what do you not agree with?
That tidal basins are ecological very sensitive? That really isn't debatable.
That wave power isn't dense enough to be practical? Again show me one 20 megawatt wave power plant.
Wind is reliable? Every place has variable winds.
Solar is reliable? Every place has night and rain.
Western Nuclear power plants have a good safety record? The one issue with a US plant was TMI. The results of that where possible
Light water reactors like those used in the US use water as a coolant and a moderator. If you loose all the water the reaction stops. You can still have damage to the fuel elements due to residual heat from decay. The myth of China Syndrome is just that a myth. Containment buildings work as TMI proved.
So yes I will take back mindless but your statements are not based on any facts or data. It is based on fear. Heck even one of the founders of Greenpeace has gone pro-nuclear!
So not mindless but also not based on facts or reality.
Now if somebody wanted to build a graphite moderated reactor without a containment building anywhere in the US? Heck yea I would protest it. The two Light water reactors a few miles from my house? Love the. No smoke stacks, no coal, no oil shipments, cheaper fuel costs than Natural Gas. And no CO2!
They where wonderful back in the day. DDJ is down to like 5 pages. The rest are long gone. Back in the day those where the best way to learn about computers. Now we have the Internet. I find it so interesting that so many computer magazines have survived.
When I said emitting neutrons I meant that they where leaving the reactor.
I wouldn't want to bury a neutron source because neutrons make other elements radioactive. Gamma doesn't and alpha and beta can be shielded very easily. The only safe reason I could see for burying it would be gamma shielding and security. It would be hard to steal if it was that far under ground.
Not a straw man at all. Nuclear can provide 24/7/365 power while the only renewable sources that offer that are Hydro and Geothermal and those are very limited.
I agree about wind except yes you can have windless days. The wind farms in Texas under performed this year because of lack of wind.
I agree with with supplementing with renewable sources but as you put it wind is good for up to 20% of your power needs. That leaves 80% that has to come from somewhere else.
Because they are not more sane.
Wave energy is very hard to harness in useful amounts. Tides only work a few limited locations and the tidal areas are about the most sensitive on the planet.
Geothermal again is great where you have it. Most places don't.
Solar only works for a few hours a day and not at all if there is a rain storm.
Wind you can not throttle. Texas ran into that problem when there was less wind than predicted so they had to spend more on power then expected this year.
I am all for supplementing our power production with things like solar, wind, and Geothermal. But none of your suggestions are more "sane" than nuclear at this time and yes you are spreading FUD. Again you use totaly fake terms like "one thing goes wrong". To cause a major problem many, many, many things have to go wrong with a modern nuclear plant even then the most likely consequence would be the plant is ruined and would be very expensive to clean up. The fuel in a modern plant can not be weaponized by an group smaller than a nation. The spent fuel should be recycled so it is no longer a threat but even then it is a much lower risk than industrial and medical radiation sources. It is just too big and bulky to walk out with.
So yes mindless FUD.
"So many more sane options than nuclear."
Umm not at all. Western Nuclear power stations have a great safety record. The soviet reactor that people like to throw out would never be built in the west.
Also tides and waves are to different things and tidal power only works in certain locations and could have a large impact on the environment.
We don't have ample power from dams and geothermal. They are limited as well.
Calling nuclear power insane is just mindless FUD.
But right now nobody can build a wind farm that will run a city 24/7/365.
Large reactors don't bother me any more than large dams, or networks.
If you want carbon limted power today you have three choices.
1. Hydro if it available.
2. Geo thermal if you have it available.
3. Nuclear.
It can't meltdown. You bury it for security and to shield from gamma. If this thing is emiting neutrons then they better not bury it but shield it.
And nuclear is far reliable than solar and wind.
You might want to read the link. Each reactor can power 20,000 homes so they are not going to put them in everybody's or frankly anybody's back yard.
"Hyperion Power Generation Inc. has developed a garden shed-sized nuclear reactor that can produce enough heat to generate 25 megawatts of electricity for up to 10 years.
That's enough energy to power 20,000 homes, but still tiny by current nuclear standards."
These are not going to be burried in peoples back years.
A small town might have one city may have a few scattered around. A factory may have one or a data center.
As too what could go wrong? Well maybe they are as safe as they say. I would be willing to bet that they are pretty dang safe. If so then they could be great. Think of all the small villages in Northern Canada or Alaska that depend on diesel fuel truck or flown in. Or think of small nations like the Bahamas.
Yea this sounds great if it is safe.
I saw XP in OfficeMax Saturday night. The way you complain about price is simple. You don't buy it. But I can see why your upset about Adobe's pricing scheme.
This replaces renting. Legally you can not copy or resell NetFlix disks.
Of course I wonder if anybody has studies just how many NetFlix DVDs are copied?
Have you looked at 7zx? it seems to be 7Zip for the Mac.
Get out XCode and write your own. Problem solved.
I hear this all the time but it is at best rude. It takes a lot of work to write a good text editor, file management tool, or mp3 player. Some people want to do it for free and put it out under GPL. That is great. I have released GPL code myself. Some people want to get paid for their hard work. I am also all for that. If you like their product pay for it.
If you don't like their product enough to pay them what they ask then DON"T USE IT AND DON"T COMPLAIN.
There is a lot of Free as in beer and Free as in speech software for the Mac. The reason that you probably see more shareware for the Mac may be that Mac users are more willing to support those that write for their machine. Maybe Mac users don't think of programmers as slaves that should produce free software and be grateful that we are willing to use the fruit of their labors.
Read the TOS please. It states that AOL can take it down at anytime and the users agreed to that.
How about people taking some reponsibilty for a change?
Make stinking backups.
Heck USB flash drives and DVDs are CHEAP. make copies people.