I suggest as a minimum reading a bool called the Curve of Binding Energy... I'm pretty sure its got a chapter talking about Ted Taylor's efforts to build micro-yield devices.
Either way, your comment is completely wrong. Its far more complicated to created small yield devices, but not even remotely impossible. Its extremely unlikely that North Korea did that, though. While creating a nuclear detonation is simple given enough raw fissionable material (US and Russia both had no failed tests with primitive technology until we started pushing the envelope for smaller and smaller explosions), creating micro-yield explosions is, and the details is one of the closest kept nuclear secrets in the US.
They created the content. They spent the money doing it. Its not a natural resource, its not something you could possibly come up with an argument to claim you have any ownership rights over.
Its their content. Its their business how they license that content to you.
Although it pisses me off as much as anyone else on here that these content companies want "do not record", "only play until xxx", and "do not copy" type flags on their content, I do believe they've got every right to do that since the material belongs to them.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. There's lots of far higher quality movies, programs and music out there from people who aren't as fixated on keeping strict controls.
If the majority of people care, then they will change or go out of business. But the fact is, most people don't care. They're still going to watch "6 Feet Under"...
Is it because of the loss of jobs that the majority of people in LA are functionally illiterate or is it because the wealthy are having one or two children later in life, and the poor are cranking out a dozen or more at a young age?
The skewing of the statistics in the US is just as much about population growth as economics.
I watched them all, and I remember a campy western set in space, a all-to-perfect soap opera buried in technobabble, a total fluke in the Trek saga in the form of DS9 when the show sucked until they dropped any semblance of it actually being like "Trek", and went much darker and was far better than the prior series. Voyager shouldn't even be commented on. It was the worst part of all the sci-fi shows on TV all mushed together in a shocking display of suck. Enterprise has been entertaining, I suppose. The acting is horrid, but its never been good in the Trek franchise.
In all of those, however (even being a Trek fan), I fail to see any semblance of a cerebral root.
PDP had pleanty of non-mainframe variants after 1965. The PDP-8 was a desktop system, the PDP-11 had a number of desktop variants. The MicroPDP was unquestionably a single-user desktop machine.
1) Maybe not among/. 18ish year olds, but most people who had familiarity with computers in the 80's would have. Thats like asking who ever heard of a company called Wang or something. These were HUGE companies.
2) All the people who bought their Alpha desktop systems, I suppose. DEC sold desktop systems for at least 15-20 years. Everything from the MicroVAX, to Multia, to the real horsepower of their multi-processor Alpha desktops. They certainly were selling systems designed specifically as 64-bit desktops ten years ago. I had several of them. The DEC Multia for example was really the Dec UDB (Universal Desktop Box)... so someone seemed to consider them that.
3) Thats just rediculous. DEC was building desktop computers before Jobs et al were even in school. Ever hear of the PDP-8? That was a desktop system in the mid 60's. Designed for the desktop, purchased for the desktop, and used on the desktop as a personal computer.
MINC, GIGI, Rainbow, DEBmate, MicroVAX, MicroPDP, the whole VAXstation line, The whole DECstation line, the whole AlphaStation line, the higher end VT terminals, multia, The InfoServer product... how many more desktop systems ought we list?
A company like MS doesn't really care about that market. Look at the percentage penetration they have in the various markets the sell to. Internal corporate servers? King of the hill. Client systems? King. Consumer systems? King. Schools? They have some, they don't have others, but its not a huge industry. There's growth there, but not tens of billions worth.
There are markets where they still represent a single percentage in terms of market share. Those are the capabilities of Longhorn and its associated business applications is targeted at.
10 megawatts is 13,410.2209 horsepower. 1 million pounds. 0.0134 hp per lbs.
The 250hp engine in my truck weighs about 450lbs. Thats 186,425 watts, or.55 hp per lbs.
I'm not sure why the post was moderated as Interesting, since I assume it was a joke, but a lot of people don't realize a modern car engine puts out a hundred or more kilowatts peak.
Someone may have already mentioned this, but the problem isn't interference in the aircraft, its interference on the ground. You can't use them in *ANY* aircraft, including hot air balloons. Why? The problem is the distance at which your signal can be picked up, not the electronics on the aircraft. In early days of the cell network, your phone jumping between cells so rapidly or appearing on an unexpectedly large number of cells would freak the system out and cause dropped calls for other customers.
My understanding is, things have gotten somewhat better with the virtual demise of analog cell phones.
Thats my point. A 90 minute orbit is determined by the lowest altitude that you don't have significant atmospheric drag, and the mass of the planet. Make a denser planet, or have less atmosphere, and a planet the size of earth can absolutely have stable orbits shorter than 90 minutes.
No, an orbit above the atmosphere where drag will allow you to continue orbiting on a planet of Earth's mass and its atmospheric thickness and density is 90 minutes.
Denser planet, or thinner atmosphere and it can be shorter.
Most people in the world are honest people who would rather not steal from people, even if the people they are stealing from is a giant evil industry association.
Just because your morals are more flexible doesn't mean everyones are.
Not specifically Skynard, but the licensing organization (BMI or ASCAP) absolutely does. Then they figure out how to divvy out the money to their members.
Its not my rationale, its the law. You may disagree, but to be blunt, you're wrong.
You absolutely have to pay royalties/licensing to ASCAP or other organization managing the licensing for the music in question to perform that music legally.
Most professional bands do. Schlocky local bands don't, but they are breaking the law as much as anyone is stealing music online.
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And what, precisely, do you think happens in the space shuttle, space station or any other spacecraft?
Only on Slashdot could just an utterly rediculous statement be moderated Insightful.
The interesting particles are not on the surface of the collectors, they're embedded within the collectors.
They just have to be very careful cleaning the surface, and they can still extract the trapped particles.
That the Xbox 2 is not the same processor as XBox 1?
The US tested many sub-kiloton devices.
I suggest as a minimum reading a bool called the Curve of Binding Energy... I'm pretty sure its got a chapter talking about Ted Taylor's efforts to build micro-yield devices.
Either way, your comment is completely wrong. Its far more complicated to created small yield devices, but not even remotely impossible. Its extremely unlikely that North Korea did that, though. While creating a nuclear detonation is simple given enough raw fissionable material (US and Russia both had no failed tests with primitive technology until we started pushing the envelope for smaller and smaller explosions), creating micro-yield explosions is, and the details is one of the closest kept nuclear secrets in the US.
Huh? How is that even remotely related?
They created the content. They spent the money doing it. Its not a natural resource, its not something you could possibly come up with an argument to claim you have any ownership rights over.
Its their content. Its their business how they license that content to you.
Although it pisses me off as much as anyone else on here that these content companies want "do not record", "only play until xxx", and "do not copy" type flags on their content, I do believe they've got every right to do that since the material belongs to them.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. There's lots of far higher quality movies, programs and music out there from people who aren't as fixated on keeping strict controls.
If the majority of people care, then they will change or go out of business. But the fact is, most people don't care. They're still going to watch "6 Feet Under"...
Aparently her part is very minor in it... just above a cameo.
Is it because of the loss of jobs that the majority of people in LA are functionally illiterate or is it because the wealthy are having one or two children later in life, and the poor are cranking out a dozen or more at a young age?
The skewing of the statistics in the US is just as much about population growth as economics.
Of course the solution to your iPod example is to point out you don't have the USB cable...
I watched them all, and I remember a campy western set in space, a all-to-perfect soap opera buried in technobabble, a total fluke in the Trek saga in the form of DS9 when the show sucked until they dropped any semblance of it actually being like "Trek", and went much darker and was far better than the prior series. Voyager shouldn't even be commented on. It was the worst part of all the sci-fi shows on TV all mushed together in a shocking display of suck. Enterprise has been entertaining, I suppose. The acting is horrid, but its never been good in the Trek franchise.
In all of those, however (even being a Trek fan), I fail to see any semblance of a cerebral root.
The website is a year out of date... that makes it only moderately useful, at best.
Um. Spend a few minutes googling.
PDP had pleanty of non-mainframe variants after 1965. The PDP-8 was a desktop system, the PDP-11 had a number of desktop variants. The MicroPDP was unquestionably a single-user desktop machine.
1) Maybe not among /. 18ish year olds, but most people who had familiarity with computers in the 80's would have. Thats like asking who ever heard of a company called Wang or something. These were HUGE companies.
2) All the people who bought their Alpha desktop systems, I suppose. DEC sold desktop systems for at least 15-20 years. Everything from the MicroVAX, to Multia, to the real horsepower of their multi-processor Alpha desktops. They certainly were selling systems designed specifically as 64-bit desktops ten years ago. I had several of them. The DEC Multia for example was really the Dec UDB (Universal Desktop Box)... so someone seemed to consider them that.
3) Thats just rediculous. DEC was building desktop computers before Jobs et al were even in school. Ever hear of the PDP-8? That was a desktop system in the mid 60's. Designed for the desktop, purchased for the desktop, and used on the desktop as a personal computer.
MINC, GIGI, Rainbow, DEBmate, MicroVAX, MicroPDP, the whole VAXstation line, The whole DECstation line, the whole AlphaStation line, the higher end VT terminals, multia, The InfoServer product... how many more desktop systems ought we list?
A company like MS doesn't really care about that market. Look at the percentage penetration they have in the various markets the sell to. Internal corporate servers? King of the hill. Client systems? King. Consumer systems? King. Schools? They have some, they don't have others, but its not a huge industry. There's growth there, but not tens of billions worth.
There are markets where they still represent a single percentage in terms of market share. Those are the capabilities of Longhorn and its associated business applications is targeted at.
You do realize most /. readers were in diapers last time anyone was using Token Ring, right? That joke probably went right over half their heads.
And I bet the majority on here haven't had to worry about taking a whole office network down by knocking off a terminator on a 10base2...
Damn kids today. Got everything easy.
10 megawatts is 13,410.2209 horsepower. 1 million pounds. 0.0134 hp per lbs.
.55 hp per lbs.
The 250hp engine in my truck weighs about 450lbs. Thats 186,425 watts, or
I'm not sure why the post was moderated as Interesting, since I assume it was a joke, but a lot of people don't realize a modern car engine puts out a hundred or more kilowatts peak.
Someone may have already mentioned this, but the problem isn't interference in the aircraft, its interference on the ground. You can't use them in *ANY* aircraft, including hot air balloons. Why? The problem is the distance at which your signal can be picked up, not the electronics on the aircraft. In early days of the cell network, your phone jumping between cells so rapidly or appearing on an unexpectedly large number of cells would freak the system out and cause dropped calls for other customers.
My understanding is, things have gotten somewhat better with the virtual demise of analog cell phones.
Thats my point. A 90 minute orbit is determined by the lowest altitude that you don't have significant atmospheric drag, and the mass of the planet. Make a denser planet, or have less atmosphere, and a planet the size of earth can absolutely have stable orbits shorter than 90 minutes.
No, an orbit above the atmosphere where drag will allow you to continue orbiting on a planet of Earth's mass and its atmospheric thickness and density is 90 minutes.
Denser planet, or thinner atmosphere and it can be shorter.
Most people in the world are honest people who would rather not steal from people, even if the people they are stealing from is a giant evil industry association.
Just because your morals are more flexible doesn't mean everyones are.
Not specifically Skynard, but the licensing organization (BMI or ASCAP) absolutely does. Then they figure out how to divvy out the money to their members.
Its not my rationale, its the law. You may disagree, but to be blunt, you're wrong.
Want to bet?
You absolutely have to pay royalties/licensing to ASCAP or other organization managing the licensing for the music in question to perform that music legally.
Most professional bands do. Schlocky local bands don't, but they are breaking the law as much as anyone is stealing music online.
Must be the piles of credibility my uber-cool four digit UID gives me. :)
I mean its a pretty slick polished game, but its a direct knock off of a game thats been around for ages.
No creativity in game design, just in artwork.
I've seen a lot of slick opensource games (Super Tux is really coming along, too), but they're all derivatives or direct clones of existing games.
Where is the real creativity?