You'd lose heat the same way the sun would provide heat. Through the little known method of heat transfer called "radiation"
If you've ever tried to breathe through a garden hose from the bottom of a swimming pool, you'd know what unequalized pressure differences can do to your breathing.
On Everest, you have to acclimatize. The environment up there is survivable. You can't acclimatize to space, and even at Everest presures inside your lungs, your lungs would have a hard time containing your breath from the vacuum of space.
...TV producers have an interest in making the shows as good as possible so they can attract the largest possible audience to maximize the amount they can make from their advertisers...
Not at all. It's about sales and perception of quality. Not about actual quality. TV producers have an interest in making the shows as appealing to networks as possible.
This means that anything risque, counterculture or fringe is frowned upon... TV producers have to be concerned about the perception of TV networks which have to be concerned about the perceptions of advertisers, who are concerned about the perceptions of viewers... and not the perception of the television program, but the perception of their advertisement and brand.
There's a lot of miscommunication which goes on there and very, very little feedback in the system. I mean, the correlation between the quality of a program is only losely associated to product sales and complaint letters.
I think because of this, television overwhelmingly lags our cultural themes and is necessarily bland.
The odd thing is that you're not the customer of the Simpsons, you're the product. You're sold to advertisers with the promise that some of you might just possibly not skip their commercials or walk out of the room while their messages are broadcast.
The relationship you broke is between the advertiser and the television station... I never mentioned a relationship between the consumer and the advertiser or television station.
The odd thing is that you're not the customer of the Simpsons, you're the product. You're sold to advertisers with the promise that some of you might just possibly not skip their commercials or walk out of the room while their messages are broadcast.
By downloading the episode, you've broken that relationship. The media empires may just need to find a new business model. I do hope that whatever it is, it moves us back to a relationship where the content is the product and the viewer is the customer.
I think it's a great act of civil dissobedience. The public airwaves are overrun by television which I think is crap soley because of this messed up viewer-product relationship.:-)
IANAL, but I think you can be sued in a civil court for downloading your episodes. If a do-not-record flag is set, you can be hauled off to prison by the federal police for violating the DMCA.
It's home-printed, obviously not mainstream media. Could even be pirated. Pirates often run drugs with pirated vessels, which means they have small armies of body guards which carry weapons. That makes him dangerous.
You still have to thread the screw manually before hitting it with power. Else you'll almost certainly cross-thread the screw. For a 6mm screw, it doesn't take much to finish the job once you've threaded it.
Precision screwdrivers, when used properly, eliminate the need to do the wrist-work with the screws. Regular screwdrivers or sockets are good for losening up the screws.
On that note, a set of taps and extractors for fixing cross-threaded screws and holes might not be a bad addition to a tool crib in a PC repair shop.
Power screwstrippers should be outlawed for use on PCs. Horrible things. I never recommend a shop where I see them being used... The longest screw on a PC is about 6mm, and most are fine metric threads screwing into brass, aluminum or sheet metal.
With due respect I like to disclose a mutual transaction to you. I am Dr Ateeq
Rahman Khan, the Manager International Diplomatic Source Code Services.We have consignment
of the BeOS source code valued US$2,000,000.00 Two Million United State Dollars in our
custody, given to us as a side effect of a business transaction with Palm Inc.
Now in our computer system it records that beneficiary of the source code is dead on Air Crash early June 2003.Until date we have not receive any signal from
his relation for claiming of the Source Code. Now I want your assistance
to move out this Source Code to GPL for free use.
As the manager of our company I would take all measures to make sure the
consignment successfully moved into the GPL. Immediately I receive your positive
response then I will update you on the procedures for success of this our trustee
transaction. I would appreciate you keep it utmost secret because of my position.
Very much agreed... I generally top-quote at home and bottom-quote at work. That's just because of the mail client.
"Why not have the most recent message there instead of having to scroll to the bottom..."
I do find that bottom-quoting generally requires quoting a second time if you're responding to a very specific bit of information.
If I had the choice, I would top-quote all the time. But if somebody sends me a bottom-quoted message, I'll bottom-quote them back. No point in fighting it, either style is valid.
It takes a while for buracracies to do anything, much less set up peripheral offices like this.
I think what it would take is a big telecom provider in Iraq to approach the appropriate office of the government and say "hey, we need to use.iq". Establishing the appropriate office and letting people know about it, might just take that long.
Very few P2P programs are completely decentralized. VERY few.
"When a client first tries and connects to the network if first has to
register with a central server. This is problematic as if the server
is removed from the network then it will stop working. This is what I
am sure the RIAA is trying to do by attempting to shut down KaZaa and
FastTrack. It also allows for complete control of the network should
they wish to introduce subscription fees for example. In part this
also a possible reason why the Morpheus download client was easily
sabotage by KaZaa and force Morpheus to go over to the Gnutella
protocol."
Somebody is going to have to put the city back together. It is going to take years... decades maybe. There's a lot of work which needs to be done and a lot of relief and insurance money to be spent rebuilding. Unemployed people aren't going to walk away, they're going to work.
The upper middle class and upper class aspects of society will probably not come back until their insurance companies signed all the paycheques of the poor to get their roads resurfaced, houses repainted, grocery stores restocked and offices air conditioned..., this could develop a skilled construction industry and subculture which could splinter off throughout the state.
I suppose all I'm saying is, I have no idea what's going to happen, but disasters and war tend to shuffle money around.
Yeah, but everyone on Kazaa knew exactly what was going on and Kazaa knew plainly that the vast majority of people were doing nothing more than leeching illegally redistributed music.
The inventors of TCP/IP or the BSD stack have no ability to shut the network down. Kazza did, and Kazaa profited from not shutting the network down.
This precedent is interesting to me regarding Freenet. A illegal/legal content ratio could mean that you're obligated not to participate in such a network whether or not you're contributing or consuming content. I.e. could the government outlaw participation in a particular P2P network because of highly illegal content? After all, if a corporation can be held responsible regardless of their participation of the illegal activity, couldn't individuals be held responsible for the same?
I worked for one of these guys, I'd rather the icy monster any day.
This kind of explosion reeks of a fellow who feels indestructable in his current position. Breaking out in a violent, destructive rage in the office is not normal, even for these guys.
Just think of his assistant who has to go in afterwards, brief him about his next meetings then contact facilities to send somebody to fix the wall and replace the chair.
I feel for them, not the multimilliondollar exec throwing a tantrum like a four year old.
Besides, a tantrum like that would really make me glad I'm leaving.
All the while, the arctic Innuit wear sunscreen, polar bears starve from melting iceflows, plants and animals appear which they have no native names for, and pesticides poison their food chain.
I'm going to visit the Arctic so that I can tell young people what it was like when people could live there.
Trillions of dollars in lifestyle changes just aren't significant. That money goes somewhere, just because it has changed hands in a different way, doesn't mean that it wasn't spent before. Are you saying that it can't be done? That it is too much work? that's all the money represents, work and materials.
I think there's enough evidence to get started. If we're wrong and act, is it really that big a deal? If we're right and we don't act, humanity is screwed.
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I think every geek has to have at least tried it once as a kid... then gone to the library to figure out why it didn't work. It's a right-of-passage.
Next you'll tell me that you didn't try the "may explode if heated" direction from the side of a battery.
You'd lose heat the same way the sun would provide heat. Through the little known method of heat transfer called "radiation"
If you've ever tried to breathe through a garden hose from the bottom of a swimming pool, you'd know what unequalized pressure differences can do to your breathing.
On Everest, you have to acclimatize. The environment up there is survivable. You can't acclimatize to space, and even at Everest presures inside your lungs, your lungs would have a hard time containing your breath from the vacuum of space.
Not at all. It's about sales and perception of quality. Not about actual quality. TV producers have an interest in making the shows as appealing to networks as possible.
This means that anything risque, counterculture or fringe is frowned upon... TV producers have to be concerned about the perception of TV networks which have to be concerned about the perceptions of advertisers, who are concerned about the perceptions of viewers... and not the perception of the television program, but the perception of their advertisement and brand.
There's a lot of miscommunication which goes on there and very, very little feedback in the system. I mean, the correlation between the quality of a program is only losely associated to product sales and complaint letters.
I think because of this, television overwhelmingly lags our cultural themes and is necessarily bland.
Ummm...
The relationship you broke is between the advertiser and the television station... I never mentioned a relationship between the consumer and the advertiser or television station.
The odd thing is that you're not the customer of the Simpsons, you're the product. You're sold to advertisers with the promise that some of you might just possibly not skip their commercials or walk out of the room while their messages are broadcast.
By downloading the episode, you've broken that relationship. The media empires may just need to find a new business model. I do hope that whatever it is, it moves us back to a relationship where the content is the product and the viewer is the customer.
I think it's a great act of civil dissobedience. The public airwaves are overrun by television which I think is crap soley because of this messed up viewer-product relationship. :-)
IANAL, but I think you can be sued in a civil court for downloading your episodes. If a do-not-record flag is set, you can be hauled off to prison by the federal police for violating the DMCA.
It's home-printed, obviously not mainstream media. Could even be pirated. Pirates often run drugs with pirated vessels, which means they have small armies of body guards which carry weapons. That makes him dangerous.
Schoolteachers with real-world work experience are very valuable.
Most teachers never... ever... left the school system.
That's it!
Rename Linux to Kleenex. Kleenex can't claim trademark in the OS arena!
Holy crap. My PC-XT drive matches my black case!
That's going in!
5 1/4" 360k DSDD here we come!
You still have to thread the screw manually before hitting it with power. Else you'll almost certainly cross-thread the screw. For a 6mm screw, it doesn't take much to finish the job once you've threaded it.
Precision screwdrivers, when used properly, eliminate the need to do the wrist-work with the screws. Regular screwdrivers or sockets are good for losening up the screws.
On that note, a set of taps and extractors for fixing cross-threaded screws and holes might not be a bad addition to a tool crib in a PC repair shop.
Power screwstrippers should be outlawed for use on PCs. Horrible things. I never recommend a shop where I see them being used... The longest screw on a PC is about 6mm, and most are fine metric threads screwing into brass, aluminum or sheet metal.
I'd go as far to say that a new notebook is only as good as its warranty. Anything beyond that is bonus time.
You've obviously never been in my elevator.
Dear Friend,
With due respect I like to disclose a mutual transaction to you. I am Dr Ateeq Rahman Khan, the Manager International Diplomatic Source Code Services.We have consignment of the BeOS source code valued US$2,000,000.00 Two Million United State Dollars in our custody, given to us as a side effect of a business transaction with Palm Inc. Now in our computer system it records that beneficiary of the source code is dead on Air Crash early June 2003.Until date we have not receive any signal from his relation for claiming of the Source Code. Now I want your assistance to move out this Source Code to GPL for free use. As the manager of our company I would take all measures to make sure the consignment successfully moved into the GPL. Immediately I receive your positive response then I will update you on the procedures for success of this our trustee transaction. I would appreciate you keep it utmost secret because of my position.
Expecting your reply via email address:
rahmankhan_kh@yahoo.co.in
Best Regards,
Dr Ateeq Rahman Khan
Very much agreed... I generally top-quote at home and bottom-quote at work. That's just because of the mail client.
"Why not have the most recent message there instead of having to scroll to the bottom..."
I do find that bottom-quoting generally requires quoting a second time if you're responding to a very specific bit of information.
If I had the choice, I would top-quote all the time. But if somebody sends me a bottom-quoted message, I'll bottom-quote them back. No point in fighting it, either style is valid.
Umm... They do have serious problems :-)
It takes a while for buracracies to do anything, much less set up peripheral offices like this.
I think what it would take is a big telecom provider in Iraq to approach the appropriate office of the government and say "hey, we need to use .iq". Establishing the appropriate office and letting people know about it, might just take that long.
Okay, you're sitting in your office one day, and you see on CNN that Iraq's government has collapsed.
Some guy calls you up and says "I'm important, please sign over control over the .iq domain to me"
What do you do?
http://www.symantec.com/press/1998/n980928.html
Throw me a frick'n bone here.
Dr. Evil stopped being cool five years ago.
Much to my dismay :-(
Very few P2P programs are completely decentralized. VERY few.
"When a client first tries and connects to the network if first has to register with a central server. This is problematic as if the server is removed from the network then it will stop working. This is what I am sure the RIAA is trying to do by attempting to shut down KaZaa and FastTrack. It also allows for complete control of the network should they wish to introduce subscription fees for example. In part this also a possible reason why the Morpheus download client was easily sabotage by KaZaa and force Morpheus to go over to the Gnutella protocol."
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=35 225
Somebody is going to have to put the city back together. It is going to take years... decades maybe. There's a lot of work which needs to be done and a lot of relief and insurance money to be spent rebuilding. Unemployed people aren't going to walk away, they're going to work.
The upper middle class and upper class aspects of society will probably not come back until their insurance companies signed all the paycheques of the poor to get their roads resurfaced, houses repainted, grocery stores restocked and offices air conditioned..., this could develop a skilled construction industry and subculture which could splinter off throughout the state.
I suppose all I'm saying is, I have no idea what's going to happen, but disasters and war tend to shuffle money around.
Yeah, but everyone on Kazaa knew exactly what was going on and Kazaa knew plainly that the vast majority of people were doing nothing more than leeching illegally redistributed music.
The inventors of TCP/IP or the BSD stack have no ability to shut the network down. Kazza did, and Kazaa profited from not shutting the network down.
This precedent is interesting to me regarding Freenet. A illegal/legal content ratio could mean that you're obligated not to participate in such a network whether or not you're contributing or consuming content. I.e. could the government outlaw participation in a particular P2P network because of highly illegal content? After all, if a corporation can be held responsible regardless of their participation of the illegal activity, couldn't individuals be held responsible for the same?
I worked for one of these guys, I'd rather the icy monster any day.
This kind of explosion reeks of a fellow who feels indestructable in his current position. Breaking out in a violent, destructive rage in the office is not normal, even for these guys.
Just think of his assistant who has to go in afterwards, brief him about his next meetings then contact facilities to send somebody to fix the wall and replace the chair.
I feel for them, not the multimilliondollar exec throwing a tantrum like a four year old.
Besides, a tantrum like that would really make me glad I'm leaving.
All the while, the arctic Innuit wear sunscreen, polar bears starve from melting iceflows, plants and animals appear which they have no native names for, and pesticides poison their food chain.
I'm going to visit the Arctic so that I can tell young people what it was like when people could live there.
Trillions of dollars in lifestyle changes just aren't significant. That money goes somewhere, just because it has changed hands in a different way, doesn't mean that it wasn't spent before. Are you saying that it can't be done? That it is too much work? that's all the money represents, work and materials.
I think there's enough evidence to get started. If we're wrong and act, is it really that big a deal? If we're right and we don't act, humanity is screwed.