I was going to get one of those for my retirement and learn to play it. Yes, I know it's a pleasantly futile task - I've the wrong number of mouths. But it'll pass the time nicely.
A 500MW coal plant produces 500MJ every second. "500MW per year" doesn't make sense.
Makes the same sense as as kilowatt-hours.
500MW-years is an output of 500MJ per second, for a whole year, giving a total output of 500 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 million Joules.
So in the case of solar, and saying that the maximum output is for 8 hours a day, you'd need to put out 1500MW for 8 hours a day every day of the year to get the equivalent of a 500MW plant running 24/7.
Storing that energy for use in non-generating times is an exercise left for the reader.
With.gr domains you may very well get fucked months later (after you've spent money to make people remember your domain)
With the case of the bourdela domain that you cited, is that not its purpose? Months later is a bit of stretch though. Unless you wrote down a few addresses in your little black book or something.:-)
What the hell's this for? Forensics after the fact?
"Yes, and as you can see that the terrorist loitered a lot near the toilets. Of course, quite a few people do that as well while waiting for relatives to finish their business, so we can't use that as a reliable indicator of evil intent. But I'm sure, in time, we'll find something that will show us for certain. Please, we need more funds for research."
But he didn't lose, the case was dropped, "amicably". Nobody won, nobody lost. But the guy is still out his time and legal expenses. What if they'd searched his house, confiscated his equipment, sent him to the point of bankruptcy with legal fees and then went, "Ah, hah-hah, we,er, don't have a case. Yeah, er, sorry about that. Let's call it even, eh?"
Or worse, at that point, they say, "Well, the evidence is shaky. But we've got the time and money to draaaag this out.We're very persistent, you know. We believe you're guilty of *something*. Care for an out-of-court , undisclosed, settlement?"
How many cases does the RIAA have to screw up like this before the law realises that they're out firing random lawsuits at people on the internet?
From what I can tell, they both came to some sort of 'amicable agreement' and each covered their own court costs. So..... going from that, there might have been *cough* some little bit of guilt involved.
I wish some truly innocent person would counter-sue after one of these backdowns for legal costs... and, say, a hundred million for emotional trauma from being branded a horrible, filthy, industry-ruining pirate.
Wii is the first system from Nintendo that we can continue to be involved in (via operating system updates) after the customer buys it. This means that Wii will greatly expand and diversify the ways in which people will enjoy games in the future.
Translation: Firmware updates to prevent hacks, a-la PSP.
The only time I've ever sat through an audio commentary was with 'Goldeneye' and the only reason was that the producers and directors that were doing the commentary, sounded like they had had about 6 beers beforehands, and were genuinely having a good time about it. Poked fun at some girl who won a 'bond girl' contest about 10 years before that movie that gave her a bit part, and was now looking a bit worse for wear now, etc.
But saying all that, I'd accidentally hit the button for the audio commentary track in the first place, and a few ones I checked out after that were pretty dreary, so I've never really bothered that much again.
Reminds me of those VCD arcade games of the 80's - wouldn't that be defined as "interactive video"? You know, those old 'western' type ones. Damned if I can remember the name of it now.
Macridis had telephoned the Reserve Bank on May 30, introducing himself as a security consultant. The Reserve Bank made a complaint to police, who searched Macridis' house on September 21 and seized his computer.
Ok, a bit slow there - four months - but maybe the bank did some research on the flaws first. And the wheels of Big Business turn pretty slow....
Gerasimos Macridis, 39, appeared in the Wellington District Court on Wednesday - the 27th - on one charge of intentionally accessing a computer system without authorisation.
A little over a week from when the police took his computer, to when he appeared in court. They presumably searched it, did all the legal paperwork, had the weekend off, etc. Not much crime in Wellington lately? Or are they normally this speedy?
The thing about a big beige box is that it's very useful. Big size, lots of space inside to cram all that microelectronics.
So if they get some sexy new design, will it take all my bits without drama?
Sexy boxes seem to be smaller, curvier and you never really know if that new card or motherboard or extra drive is actually going to fit without some metalworking skills. Normal size XT,AT and ATX cases were just one of the standard bits that helped make an IBM compatible machine compatible.
1. "just enough blue light for a Blu-ray player to read it okay"
Plus
2. "But it should also let enough light through for HD-DVD players to ignore the Blu-ray recording and find a second HD-DVD layer beneath."
Equals
Discs that work on one player but not on another identical player. This will be a general nightmare for any owner of HD or Blu-ray DVD players, let alone retailers, who have to deal with a heap of "faulty" returns.
He's talking about the plug-in hybrids... I suppose you could convert the cost of the electricity into how much gas that would buy and go from there.
eg: You use $1.20 of electricity to charge your electric-only car up. Gas costs $2.40/gal. You have bought the equivalent of 1/2 gal of gas. You drive 100 miles before recharging, thus you've reached the equivalent of 200MPG.
I've got an iconic cooling system - I get RMS over, and while he's puffing air over the heatsink, I can overclock an extra 25Mhz. You may think 25Mhz is nothing, but my 486 has never been faster! Emacs compiles a lot quicker!
I did try ESR, but even when he was going flat out, it just got hotter. Too much hot air to start with I think. Kept getting a lot of build errors and segfaults with Emacs as well. I don't think Emacs is compatible with ESR cooling.
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Heh. I notice that the first photo linked in that article has a guy opening what looks to be very much like a bottle of wine out on the footpath.
Pretentious snob. Beer would have been perfectly fine for that occasion.
Unless that photo was taken in France, of course.
I'm going sing along, of course. Or maybe I'll just do an extended monologue on man's inhumanity to man. I haven't decided yet.
I was going to get one of those for my retirement and learn to play it. Yes, I know it's a pleasantly futile task - I've the wrong number of mouths. But it'll pass the time nicely.
A 500MW coal plant produces 500MJ every second. "500MW per year" doesn't make sense.
Makes the same sense as as kilowatt-hours.
500MW-years is an output of 500MJ per second, for a whole year, giving a total output of 500 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 million Joules.
So in the case of solar, and saying that the maximum output is for 8 hours a day, you'd need to put out 1500MW for 8 hours a day every day of the year to get the equivalent of a 500MW plant running 24/7.
Storing that energy for use in non-generating times is an exercise left for the reader.
AFL? Bloody aerial ping-pong, mate. Put me in the half that doesn't agree :-P
As for pies, as long as they taste alright, well, does it matter? The ones with a bit of gristle in them are a bit harsh - they'd choke a brown dog.
What's wrong with "shonky"? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
With .gr domains you may very well get fucked months later (after you've spent money to make people remember your domain)
:-)
With the case of the bourdela domain that you cited, is that not its purpose?
Months later is a bit of stretch though. Unless you wrote down a few addresses in your little black book or something.
What the hell's this for? Forensics after the fact?
"Yes, and as you can see that the terrorist loitered a lot near the toilets. Of course, quite a few people do that as well while waiting for relatives to finish their business, so we can't use that as a reliable indicator of evil intent. But I'm sure, in time, we'll find something that will show us for certain. Please, we need more funds for research."
Loser-pays, man. Loser-pays.
,er, don't have a case. Yeah, er, sorry about that. Let's call it even, eh?"
But he didn't lose, the case was dropped, "amicably". Nobody won, nobody lost. But the guy is still out his time and legal expenses. What if they'd searched his house, confiscated his equipment, sent him to the point of bankruptcy with legal fees and then went, "Ah, hah-hah, we
Or worse, at that point, they say, "Well, the evidence is shaky. But we've got the time and money to draaaag this out.We're very persistent, you know. We believe you're guilty of *something*. Care for an out-of-court , undisclosed, settlement?"
How many cases does the RIAA have to screw up like this before the law realises that they're out firing random lawsuits at people on the internet?
From what I can tell, they both came to some sort of 'amicable agreement' and each covered their own court costs.
... and, say, a hundred million for emotional trauma from being branded a horrible, filthy, industry-ruining pirate.
So..... going from that, there might have been *cough* some little bit of guilt involved.
I wish some truly innocent person would counter-sue after one of these backdowns for legal costs
So is he going to counter-sue for the time and money spent defending himself against the allegations of the RIAA?
Wii is the first system from Nintendo that we can continue to be involved in (via operating system updates) after the customer buys it. This means that Wii will greatly expand and diversify the ways in which people will enjoy games in the future.
Translation: Firmware updates to prevent hacks, a-la PSP.
The only time I've ever sat through an audio commentary was with 'Goldeneye' and the only reason was that the producers and directors that were doing the commentary, sounded like they had had about 6 beers beforehands, and were genuinely having a good time about it. Poked fun at some girl who won a 'bond girl' contest about 10 years before that movie that gave her a bit part, and was now looking a bit worse for wear now, etc.
But saying all that, I'd accidentally hit the button for the audio commentary track in the first place, and a few ones I checked out after that were pretty dreary, so I've never really bothered that much again.
Reminds me of those VCD arcade games of the 80's - wouldn't that be defined as "interactive video"?
You know, those old 'western' type ones. Damned if I can remember the name of it now.
I know, they've the same function as the Reserve Bank here in Australia. I just didn't feel like typing it all out.
And the cogs of government are often the slowest moving ones, you know.
At least it shows efficient legal process.
Macridis had telephoned the Reserve Bank on May 30, introducing himself as a security consultant.
The Reserve Bank made a complaint to police, who searched Macridis' house on September 21 and seized his computer.
Ok, a bit slow there - four months - but maybe the bank did some research on the flaws first. And the wheels of Big Business turn pretty slow....
Gerasimos Macridis, 39, appeared in the Wellington District Court on Wednesday - the 27th - on one charge of intentionally accessing a computer system without authorisation.
A little over a week from when the police took his computer, to when he appeared in court.
They presumably searched it, did all the legal paperwork, had the weekend off, etc.
Not much crime in Wellington lately? Or are they normally this speedy?
The thing about a big beige box is that it's very useful. Big size, lots of space inside to cram all that microelectronics.
So if they get some sexy new design, will it take all my bits without drama?
Sexy boxes seem to be smaller, curvier and you never really know if that new card or motherboard or extra drive is actually going to fit without some metalworking skills. Normal size XT,AT and ATX cases were just one of the standard bits that helped make an IBM compatible machine compatible.
I know, submitter was summarising, but
1. "just enough blue light for a Blu-ray player to read it okay"
Plus
2. "But it should also let enough light through for HD-DVD players to ignore the Blu-ray recording and find a second HD-DVD layer beneath."
Equals
Discs that work on one player but not on another identical player. This will be a general nightmare for any owner of HD or Blu-ray DVD players, let alone retailers, who have to deal with a heap of "faulty" returns.
He's talking about the plug-in hybrids... I suppose you could convert the cost of the electricity into how much gas that would buy and go from there.
eg: You use $1.20 of electricity to charge your electric-only car up. Gas costs $2.40/gal. You have bought the equivalent of 1/2 gal of gas. You drive 100 miles before recharging, thus you've reached the equivalent of 200MPG.
I've got an iconic cooling system - I get RMS over, and while he's puffing air over the heatsink, I can overclock an extra 25Mhz. You may think 25Mhz is nothing, but my 486 has never been faster! Emacs compiles a lot quicker!
:P )
I did try ESR, but even when he was going flat out, it just got hotter. Too much hot air to start with I think. Kept getting a lot of build errors and segfaults with Emacs as well. I don't think Emacs is compatible with ESR cooling.
(ducks and runs
a gross classification for the ad (gambling, liquor, sex, stuff I don't care about)
Bender, is that you?
23,000 scooters all up? In what, 4 years?
Something to do with that wallet-clenching price tag perhaps?
It's hardly the blazing star of personal transport that Dean hoped it would be, that's for sure.
Forget freebird, where the hell's pong, for chrissakes?
Try the daylight tubes with high-frequency electronic ballasts. This removes the subliminal 50/60Hz flicker and makes things a lot better for some.
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. Define bad.