Saying "this'll let you watch movies" is correct, but saying "this'll play movies" would be misleading. Perhaps it wouldn't have been criticized if it was simply stated "this'll allow you to watch movies."
Actually, if it can handle high-speed gaming with an assload of players really well, I bet it would make a beefy P2P backend. (P2P + TNL) * Users * Bandwidth = Extremely beefy high-speed file distribution.
If a medicine truly worked and was marketted for the general public, wouldn't the sheer demand make up for the years of patent tie up? Or must this system be demand on supply to stave off the competition to make a buck without interference. Even if the company who owns the patent decided to produce it cheap right off, it would be a contribution. Just breaking even on such a contribution would a whole other contribution in itself.
Agreed, and we need more people like this. Too bad this kind of attribute seems to be non-existant with many fronts. For example, take medication. Can you, or anyone else, recall any type of medication that really works that wasn't protected with a patent for an ungodly length of time and being sold at an extortionist rate to the wealthy? Would making this kind of contribution accessible to the general public at a generic price better mankind? Certainly. But would this happen? Never.
That's a key point. Without copyrights (rights for the person who created the work to retain it) there would be a serious elitist imbalance of information access. Only trusted individuals would have access to various types of information and some types of information would never be disclosed, or possiblu even recorded. People are human and want recognition for their work and ideas. Copyrights (even to the extreme that they have been taken to today) are the lesser evil in this matter.
Genetically, they [eggs, and embryos] are human beings. The big picture: they are the equivalent of brain-dead humans [until they are proven to be sentient]. They should have about the same rights as those.
So does that mean the "mother" can choose to "pull the plug" at any time, and then "donate" the eggs to this kind of research? Remember, the egg is braindead, it can't make decisions for itself...
Their opposition to human cloning, including for stem cell research, has the same origin as their opposition to abortion: they consider eggs and embryos as living, human beings.
Even if the egg isn't fertalized? It takes both an egg and sperm to make a living human being last time I checked.
We have foresight and obscure rememberence for details that are far too ambiguous for a computer to (yet) understand. The closest thing to natural language that can instruct a computer are BASIC-like languages that have particular words in a particular order in which they follow.
But then I thought about it some more.
Perl is not very picky about order, and it has no problem reading a statement written several different ways, and accomplishes the same task with the expected results.
Believe it or not, one of the most common problems with frying a processor is applying way too much thermal grease to the core. Some people get crazy with this when attempting to overclock. It only takes a couple of drops, not a layer of grease to do the job. In fact, too much grease does the exact opposite and acts as an insultor which causes the processor to fry even faster.
Have you noticed a pattern yet? Most of the editors do not check out the articles--much less proof them--when they are submitted. A sensationalist headline is more likely to get the attention of an editor more than a non-sensationalist one. Hence the the comments about important unnoticed stories that were never accepted that get modded up, simply because the headline didn't excite the editor enough to check it out.
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Wikipedia has some interesting information on ECHELON .
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Saying "this'll let you watch movies" is correct, but saying "this'll play movies" would be misleading. Perhaps it wouldn't have been criticized if it was simply stated "this'll allow you to watch movies."
Actually, if it can handle high-speed gaming with an assload of players really well, I bet it would make a beefy P2P backend. (P2P + TNL) * Users * Bandwidth = Extremely beefy high-speed file distribution.
If a medicine truly worked and was marketted for the general public, wouldn't the sheer demand make up for the years of patent tie up? Or must this system be demand on supply to stave off the competition to make a buck without interference. Even if the company who owns the patent decided to produce it cheap right off, it would be a contribution. Just breaking even on such a contribution would a whole other contribution in itself.
Agreed, and we need more people like this. Too bad this kind of attribute seems to be non-existant with many fronts. For example, take medication. Can you, or anyone else, recall any type of medication that really works that wasn't protected with a patent for an ungodly length of time and being sold at an extortionist rate to the wealthy? Would making this kind of contribution accessible to the general public at a generic price better mankind? Certainly. But would this happen? Never.
That's a key point. Without copyrights (rights for the person who created the work to retain it) there would be a serious elitist imbalance of information access. Only trusted individuals would have access to various types of information and some types of information would never be disclosed, or possiblu even recorded. People are human and want recognition for their work and ideas. Copyrights (even to the extreme that they have been taken to today) are the lesser evil in this matter.
.. but when will we see high definition video support with component and dvi i/o?
Link to Hauppauge PVRs here.
Genetically, they [eggs, and embryos] are human beings. The big picture: they are the equivalent of brain-dead humans [until they are proven to be sentient]. They should have about the same rights as those.
So does that mean the "mother" can choose to "pull the plug" at any time, and then "donate" the eggs to this kind of research? Remember, the egg is braindead, it can't make decisions for itself...
Their opposition to human cloning, including for stem cell research, has the same origin as their opposition to abortion: they consider eggs and embryos as living, human beings.
Even if the egg isn't fertalized? It takes both an egg and sperm to make a living human being last time I checked.
Anyone remember Zmodem Moby Turbo?
Let's try that again.
This RIAA/ATF movie will scare the piss out of you.
But one day tuition will cost three times that, so it'll be an extra college expense.
We have foresight and obscure rememberence for details that are far too ambiguous for a computer to (yet) understand. The closest thing to natural language that can instruct a computer are BASIC-like languages that have particular words in a particular order in which they follow.
But then I thought about it some more.
Perl is not very picky about order, and it has no problem reading a statement written several different ways, and accomplishes the same task with the expected results.
What about the same search query on MSN? Take a look at result #7.
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Believe it or not, one of the most common problems with frying a processor is applying way too much thermal grease to the core. Some people get crazy with this when attempting to overclock. It only takes a couple of drops, not a layer of grease to do the job. In fact, too much grease does the exact opposite and acts as an insultor which causes the processor to fry even faster.
Then voting would work, and it would be illegal.
Have you noticed a pattern yet? Most of the editors do not check out the articles--much less proof them--when they are submitted. A sensationalist headline is more likely to get the attention of an editor more than a non-sensationalist one. Hence the the comments about important unnoticed stories that were never accepted that get modded up, simply because the headline didn't excite the editor enough to check it out.
From dictionary.com:So Passport seems to be the unique identifier. Can we say another successful monopolizing strategy, anyone?
So.. Microsoft got a patent for cookies!? What's next? Patenting site specific identifiable location resources (bookmarks)?
The advertising is the service, you insensitive clod!