"If DeCSS were declared legal, what would stop a hardware manufacturer from selling DVD players with no licensing from DVDCCA."
Nothing is stopping them NOW. You can't put the official DVD symbol on your player if it isn't licensed.
8 of 20 screen showing Harry here in a suburb of Vancouver. More advance sales since Phantom Menance. My three kids all enjoyed the film, and I'd reccommend it to any child aged 8 and up. 12 year olds are too cool to admit they want to watch it, but they showed up at the theatre.
I would expect that they detect half as many neutrino's with half as many detectors. The experiment will have to run twice as long to get the same quality of data.
Having half as many detectors will have NO affect on the pressure on each sensor. Only the DEPTH of the water over a particular sensor has any effect on the pressure on it.
I would guess that since they broke a great number of these expensive sensors they are are planning on making do with the sensors that didn't explode.
1]
The Taliban noticed that Amercian support for bombing Afghanistan was waning so they quickly arranged to down another airliner to assure the continued support of the American public for the current war campaign.
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Replace "Taliban" with "American right-Wing Nutcases" and repeat 1].
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Replace "Taliban" with "your favorite violent lunatic group" and repeat 1].
4]
It was a 'normal' tragic accident.
5]
No one actually knows yet, but once the media feeding frenzy ends we'll find out from some calm and boring official.
Do you have any idea of the energy involved in expelling a body the size of Venus from jupiter's gravity well? Do you have any idea of the energy required to 'maneuver' Venus near Earth then into a stable circular orbit? Bedides the fact that we HAVE ancient records of stars which include Venus (the morning star) there is NOT a shred of real evidence that Venus ever took this interesting tour of the solar system.
Velikovsky made a lot of claims that were very bad science. Venus did NOT get expelled from Jupiter and wonder through the solar system. Velikovsky was wrong to base his theories almost purely on old myth and legend, and he wasn't practising science.
Where Velikovsky was correct was in saying that the history of the Earth was not completely uniform, and that, in fact, huge global catastrophes took place at infrequent intervals. Velikovsky read a little too much into the world's myths, but he was correct that global upheavals had taken place which was a hertical idea in the 1950's. It was this idea of global disaster as much as his loopy astronomy that made scientists of the day think he was a nut. If Velikovsky had used errant comets and metors instead of wondering planets as the harbringers of doom, he might be remembered as trail blazer instead of a crackpot.
Evolution is not random, but mutation is random. The random mutations that succesfully breed get to live, the others DIE. Nothing random about that. Unsuccessful mutations get weeded out pretty fast.
I wish everyone would stop trying to get the government to play the role of global babysitter.
If you don't want your kids to see things you don't like on the internet then SUPERVISE your kids. Educate your kids. Teach your kids to respect themselves. Trust your children to use their own good judgement when they are old enough. (If you don't trust your kids you screwed up as a parent) BUT don't try to legislate away a problem that is only a problem for the lazy, apathetic, and those willing to force their narrow views on everyone.
Does anyone here understand the difference between strategy and tactics?
Strategy - a large scale plan, conducting a plan or campaign of war on a broad scale.
Tactics - the handling of troops in war in the presence of the enemy or for immiediate objectives.
So, build lots of medium units, a few large ones, and send them into combat as soon as possible IS a strategy.
Chess is game of tactics. Other than playing defensively or offensively there isn't much grand strategy. You both have perfect knowledge, no new resources will enter the fray, and you start off in contact with the enemy.
The problem with many games is that very simple stratgies ARE the most effective. There is no penalty for throwing everything you have into battle if the battle is not directly linked into a larger campaign. RTS's favour the quick who use simple strategies - there is no time to setup anything subtle or tricky. Turn based games give you the luxury of the time to setup grand strategies. STARS! is an older turn based combat/resource/research game that rewards good long term strategy. It doesn't allow for tactics beyond sending fleets to other planets. The computer runs all combat. I got creamed the first few times I played multi-player Stars games because my strategies sucked. I misallocated resources, I colonized planets too slow, I spread my ships too thin. Sometimes you have to fient, or attempt to draw out the enemy. Diplomancy is important too. Unless you really luck out (lots of good planets near the home world) you nead allies to win, but you have to betray them eventually to win everything.
It seems silly to limit a KVM review to 2 ports - its hardly even worth the expense of a good KVM until you get at least 4 ports.
We have had very good results with Cybex KVM's. We had some trouble with the Master View KVM's - the mouse would deactivate sometimes, and was slow to 'switch' sometimes.
When purchasing a KVM watch out for the price of the cables - they can be very expensive!
In British Columbia, Canada, you can get adsl or cable internet service from your friendly local telco or cable monopoly for about $40 CDN ($30 us) a month. They don't try to sell me anything but a connection. The telco has a web site, but its mainly customer service stuff. The telco makes a reasonable profit, and I get reliable service (2 outages, both less than 6 hours over 1 year). There are limits in the TOS about how much bandwidth I can use, but I've never come close to the limit. You aren't allowed to run a business unless you pay more for a business connection, but otherwise there are very few restrictions.
Once again, the boring but sensible Canadians do things right.
You must have accidently ended up at Adequancy.org as the linked articles were a fairly balanced look at some of the underlying reasons for the rage many Muslims feel towards western society.
You comment isn't coherent enough to give a more specific critque. Are you complaining that the Muslims or the Americans are engaging in 'nationalist jingoism'?
If you actually read the articles you would see that it does not argue that the West is hated because it is 'free'. A number of different issues, policies, and cultural differences have all worked together to get to where the worlds is today.
Cars in the sixties had big grilles in front because it looked cool. The radiator in my 69 Pontiac is only slightly bigger than the one in a 01 Impala. Out of the 8 feet of front grill on the old Pontiac (Parisian, not Firebird) only about 3 feet were needed by the rad. The rest of the grill was pure 60's style.
A tune-up sure is easier when you can sit on the wheel well under the hood and there is over 6 inches of cleance between the engine and the wheel well.
Am I the only one who thinks its really funny that the Russians, once those evil commies, are being more entrepreneurial than the USA in more than one field? Space, digital commerce, used plutonium (just kidding about that last one).
Where has the boldness gone? The USA won't do anything today unless its safer than milk, or makes a sure profit for an existing huge business. Where are the risk takers? Where is the freedom? Where is the urge to push on existing boundries?
Cops with an axe to grind don't mind doing a little work on their own time. A local RCMP officer was reprimanded a couple of years a go for passing on information regarding pro-choice people to some anti-womens rights (pro-life ha) people.
I'm not worried about being busted for parking tickets - I'm worried about being busted for having the wrong point of view.
Those young stars shone for billions of years in ALL possible directions. It would be odd if there was nothing between us and them over such a large distance.
You have trouble with metric? Whats so hard about powers of ten?
Take temperature for example:
Imperial, freezing is at 32, boiling at 212
celcius, freezing at 0, boiling at 100
distance
12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, 5000 and change feet to the mile, anyone know how long a furlough is?
10 mm to the cm
100 cm to the meter
1000 meters to the kilometer
1000 ml to the liter
miligrams, grams, kilograms
its obvious what these are just from the name.
Imperial uses ounces for both wieght and volume!
Metric features a uniform system of naming:
mili - thousandth
centi - hundreth
kilo - thousand
etc...
Metric is MUCH simpler than imperial. The same obstinace that has the whole world speaking english is the only reason the USA hasn't switch to metric.
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"If DeCSS were declared legal, what would stop a hardware manufacturer from selling DVD players with no licensing from DVDCCA." Nothing is stopping them NOW. You can't put the official DVD symbol on your player if it isn't licensed.
Having half as many detectors will have NO affect on the pressure on each sensor. Only the DEPTH of the water over a particular sensor has any effect on the pressure on it.
I would guess that since they broke a great number of these expensive sensors they are are planning on making do with the sensors that didn't explode.
The Taliban noticed that Amercian support for bombing Afghanistan was waning so they quickly arranged to down another airliner to assure the continued support of the American public for the current war campaign.
2]
Replace "Taliban" with "American right-Wing Nutcases" and repeat 1].
3]
Replace "Taliban" with "your favorite violent lunatic group" and repeat 1].
4]
It was a 'normal' tragic accident.
5]
No one actually knows yet, but once the media feeding frenzy ends we'll find out from some calm and boring official.
Where Velikovsky was correct was in saying that the history of the Earth was not completely uniform, and that, in fact, huge global catastrophes took place at infrequent intervals. Velikovsky read a little too much into the world's myths, but he was correct that global upheavals had taken place which was a hertical idea in the 1950's. It was this idea of global disaster as much as his loopy astronomy that made scientists of the day think he was a nut. If Velikovsky had used errant comets and metors instead of wondering planets as the harbringers of doom, he might be remembered as trail blazer instead of a crackpot.
Evolution is not random, but mutation is random. The random mutations that succesfully breed get to live, the others DIE. Nothing random about that. Unsuccessful mutations get weeded out pretty fast.
If you don't want your kids to see things you don't like on the internet then SUPERVISE your kids. Educate your kids. Teach your kids to respect themselves. Trust your children to use their own good judgement when they are old enough. (If you don't trust your kids you screwed up as a parent) BUT don't try to legislate away a problem that is only a problem for the lazy, apathetic, and those willing to force their narrow views on everyone.
that is a TACTICAL game, not a strategic game.
Strategy - a large scale plan, conducting a plan or campaign of war on a broad scale.
Tactics - the handling of troops in war in the presence of the enemy or for immiediate objectives.
So, build lots of medium units, a few large ones, and send them into combat as soon as possible IS a strategy.
Chess is game of tactics. Other than playing defensively or offensively there isn't much grand strategy. You both have perfect knowledge, no new resources will enter the fray, and you start off in contact with the enemy.
The problem with many games is that very simple stratgies ARE the most effective. There is no penalty for throwing everything you have into battle if the battle is not directly linked into a larger campaign. RTS's favour the quick who use simple strategies - there is no time to setup anything subtle or tricky. Turn based games give you the luxury of the time to setup grand strategies. STARS! is an older turn based combat/resource/research game that rewards good long term strategy. It doesn't allow for tactics beyond sending fleets to other planets. The computer runs all combat. I got creamed the first few times I played multi-player Stars games because my strategies sucked. I misallocated resources, I colonized planets too slow, I spread my ships too thin. Sometimes you have to fient, or attempt to draw out the enemy. Diplomancy is important too. Unless you really luck out (lots of good planets near the home world) you nead allies to win, but you have to betray them eventually to win everything.
That's my site that pops up at the TOP of Google.
Anyone else get to the top using three keywords or less?
Googles top site for a topic - better brag than a Cray in the basement.
We have had very good results with Cybex KVM's. We had some trouble with the Master View KVM's - the mouse would deactivate sometimes, and was slow to 'switch' sometimes.
When purchasing a KVM watch out for the price of the cables - they can be very expensive!
Once again, the boring but sensible Canadians do things right.
Makes my resume look pretty thin.
You comment isn't coherent enough to give a more specific critque. Are you complaining that the Muslims or the Americans are engaging in 'nationalist jingoism'?
If you actually read the articles you would see that it does not argue that the West is hated because it is 'free'. A number of different issues, policies, and cultural differences have all worked together to get to where the worlds is today.
You can still buy Meccano in Canada, I bought some last Chistmas for my kids from Toys'R'Us. I used to have meccano when I was a kid too. Tough stuff.
A tune-up sure is easier when you can sit on the wheel well under the hood and there is over 6 inches of cleance between the engine and the wheel well.
Where has the boldness gone? The USA won't do anything today unless its safer than milk, or makes a sure profit for an existing huge business. Where are the risk takers? Where is the freedom? Where is the urge to push on existing boundries?
I'm not worried about being busted for parking tickets - I'm worried about being busted for having the wrong point of view.
Those young stars shone for billions of years in ALL possible directions. It would be odd if there was nothing between us and them over such a large distance.
You have trouble with metric? Whats so hard about powers of ten?
Take temperature for example:
Imperial, freezing is at 32, boiling at 212
celcius, freezing at 0, boiling at 100
distance
12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, 5000 and change feet to the mile, anyone know how long a furlough is?
10 mm to the cm
100 cm to the meter
1000 meters to the kilometer
1000 ml to the liter
miligrams, grams, kilograms
its obvious what these are just from the name.
Imperial uses ounces for both wieght and volume!
Metric features a uniform system of naming:
mili - thousandth
centi - hundreth
kilo - thousand
etc...
Metric is MUCH simpler than imperial. The same obstinace that has the whole world speaking english is the only reason the USA hasn't switch to metric.
How clean a rocket is depends on the fuel, its silly to state that all rockets pollute.
pocket full of posies,
ashes, ashes,
all fall down."
The ashes are of witches burned at the stake. Another wonderful children's rhyme. Or so I thought (read it somewhere), but these people think its a much later little poem that was created due to a ban on dancing:
the best written article on ring-aroud-the-rosie
more Ring-a-round the rosie info
more rosie info
Its not fraud, its a "misleading or deceptive" business practice which the USA's FTC frowns on.
But the USA could change that whenever they want.