compare this to the individual
States in the US rather than the 'country' and you'll probably get a more accurate comparison
of scale.
Uhh... hold on, if you want to compair number of provinces then you might have something. Still, not something that is a relevant metric for this comparison.
Try compairing sheer population of "upper North America" vs Europe and you might have someting. No, I am not interested enough to look it up either, just getting the comparison back on track.
Now, if you want to compair usage/populace of full continents, remember to use the entire European population vs. all of the North American population (includes the political division commonly referred to as "Central America").
Actually, this feature was added when the pilots complained that all of the fly-by-wire crap, and other workload reducing measures, left the pilot with nothing to do but sleep and shoot.
Nothing better to keep a body alert than the dark cloud of a fiery death;-)
As for the popcorn recipe itself, here's a hint: popcorn, paper bag, and 2 staples.
Hopefully the bag is not closed with staples BEFORE insertion into the microwave, since this is the perfect formula for a fire.
No idea why you would staple after popping either.
If someone that has read the book can tell us what Mr. Brown has to say about this, before we run out and purchase the book it would be a greatly appreciated money saving assist.
I love "Good Eats", watch it every wednesday at 2100 on the Food channel! I thought I was the only raw clam lover on earth before Alton Brown featured them on his show.
Actually, that does make much more sense than the way the DOJ prices copied software. In this case, the only way to replace the item in question is by launching another lunar mission. In a software case, the replica is already the "evidence" and not real costs were involved to the victim (not advocatig unauthorized copying at all, just making a factual statement).
In the case in point from the headline, if anybody went on an expensive trip to a pristine land, collected a sample and made it availabe for others to examine, then had that unique sample stolen from them and later discovered the person that now possed the sample, would they expect the stolen property to be returned?
I certainly would like it back so that others could examine it, rather than it being some Lucite trophy of a thief thrice removed.
As to "listening" to supernova and the like I beleive this refers parts of the light spectrum we can't see (ie. radio waves), and as such we are still just looing at these phenomenon.
I had a screen saver on a Mac called "Supernova", it was pretty loud:-)
But seriously, the guys on the website lifted the comments about shrinking and enlarging objects right from an Isaac Asimov essay where he was describing his work on the "Fantastic Voyage" book, written from the screenplay. He used some made up physics for the book (that did not carry over to the movie) and added some real physics (that did not make it to the movie either).
BTW, the book was written AFTER the screenplay, while the movie was in production and released before the movie.
Asimov used a white corpuscle to swollow the submarine and have it extracted from the body as opposed to the movie where the sub was just "eaten" and disappears.
For example, if the Federal Aviation Agency were to develop an application (derived from open source) which controlled 747 flight patterns, a number of issues easily become national security questions...
FAA controlling the flight patterns of any aircraft is absolute nonsense! First, every pilot in the system would block it before it ever got past the talking stage, second it is just ignorant.
Maybe software to control the traffic flow? Sorry, that deflates this FUD too, since it would not apply to just one airframe and the author assumes that the people operating the aircraft are just going to let that happen too.
Maybe if he said some more nonsense about FAA requiring all 747s to have this software? Nope, that is the NTSB and the manufacturers, the latter would be marching on the Congress like you never seen before!
Humm, here is a more believeable thing to scare people with "what if all automated traffic light systems had to run Open Source, could you imagine the national security issue of flashing red lights all over the heartland"?
"Their secret weapon is a technology known as a "software-designed radio," which has permitted them to create an inexpensive repeater antenna that can be attached to the outside of a customer's home. The device, which the Etherlinx executives said they believe can be
built in quantity for less than $150 each, would communicate with a central antenna and then convert the signals into the industry-standard Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, signal for reception
inside the home."
Alan Clegg described pretty much the same thing with off the shelf hardware at Summercon recently. Except his solution was staying inside 802.11b and using a 2.4Ghz amplifier.
Granted, his objective was different and the "new" solution is a couple of bucks cheaper, but there are already off-the-shelf solutions that are there for the picking, without adding another licensing layer to the solution.
Okay, first stop misusing the word "momopoly", it is defined as ONE entity controlling a market.
Second, figure out what market you are talking about. If it is high-speed data access then one company owning the local/regional/national cable infrastructure is not a monopoly IF (as is the case) there are DLS and other providers within that territory. Lookup the famous monopoly case against Celophane, the Celophane manufacturer won because the market was wrapping material, not the fact that one manufacturer makes one wildly popular product.
Look folks, the more we keep bastardizing the language the more confusing it will be to communicate.
You might be thinking of the Cringley column on "Roll Your Own DSL". Sorry I am not posting a proper link, but it can be found on pbs.org under Cringly's "old hat" link.
I hope the parent gets modded up, it is the only clueful post on this story about old-fashioned credit card fraud.
BTW, all of you folks rambling on about what rights the government should have might want to look at the US Constitution. The feds have NO RIGHTS. The federal government has powers and authority. The People and the States have all of the rights.
What is wrong with using existing equipment, like that hive of atomic clocks in the GPS system? They already transmit their time to just anybody that wants to receive it and all of the adjustments for relativity, etc., are known and can be removed for "raw" time measurement.
I guess the hammer and feather experiment just gets more expensive in proportion to the expansion of the beurocracy.
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Usenet was probably invented in US (Where's Duke UV?)
Duke is in North Carolina (on the east coast if you are trying to find it on a map).
Believe it or not, some people north of Maryland do not believe that people south of them have electricity yet.
compare this to the individual
States in the US rather than the 'country' and you'll probably get a more accurate comparison
of scale.
Uhh... hold on, if you want to compair number of provinces then you might have something. Still, not something that is a relevant metric for this comparison.
Try compairing sheer population of "upper North America" vs Europe and you might have someting. No, I am not interested enough to look it up either, just getting the comparison back on track.
Now, if you want to compair usage/populace of full continents, remember to use the entire European population vs. all of the North American population (includes the political division commonly referred to as "Central America").
Actually, this feature was added when the pilots complained that all of the fly-by-wire crap, and other workload reducing measures, left the pilot with nothing to do but sleep and shoot.
;-)
Nothing better to keep a body alert than the dark cloud of a fiery death
Is this for roasted popcorn?
As for the popcorn recipe itself, here's a hint: popcorn, paper bag, and 2
staples.
Hopefully the bag is not closed with staples BEFORE insertion into the microwave, since this is the perfect formula for a fire.
No idea why you would staple after popping either.
If someone that has read the book can tell us what Mr. Brown has to say about this, before we run out and purchase the book it would be a greatly appreciated money saving assist.
I love "Good Eats", watch it every wednesday at 2100 on the Food channel! I thought I was the only raw clam lover on earth before Alton Brown featured them on his show.
Actually, that does make much more sense than the way the DOJ prices copied software. In this case, the only way to replace the item in question is by launching another lunar mission. In a software case, the replica is already the "evidence" and not real costs were involved to the victim (not advocatig unauthorized copying at all, just making a factual statement).
In the case in point from the headline, if anybody went on an expensive trip to a pristine land, collected a sample and made it availabe for others to examine, then had that unique sample stolen from them and later discovered the person that now possed the sample, would they expect the stolen property to be returned?
I certainly would like it back so that others could examine it, rather than it being some Lucite trophy of a thief thrice removed.
Yea, but this ice was floating in the water when it broke up and began plummeting to the sea floor as if it were falling through air.
;-)
Maybe you gotta see the movie to disbelieve it
BTW, VTTBOTS was one of my favorite shows as a little kid.
They do make refrence to this in the article, certain lasers being visible in air. It still does not help in the vacume of space.
"Space: 1999" haas to be at the top of the list for bad TV physics too!
Nuclear waste reaches critical mass and blasts the Moon out of the solar system, then it paasses through systems with life about 23 times/year, LOL!
It seems that movie/tv genetics is different too, since the chicks in space movies annd tv are so much hotter than real astronaut chicks.
As to "listening" to supernova and the like I beleive this refers parts of the light spectrum we can't see (ie. radio waves), and as such we are still just looing at these phenomenon.
:-)
I had a screen saver on a Mac called "Supernova", it was pretty loud
But seriously, the guys on the website lifted the comments about shrinking and enlarging objects right from an Isaac Asimov essay where he was describing his work on the "Fantastic Voyage" book, written from the screenplay. He used some made up physics for the book (that did not carry over to the movie) and added some real physics (that did not make it to the movie either).
BTW, the book was written AFTER the screenplay, while the movie was in production and released before the movie.
Asimov used a white corpuscle to swollow the submarine and have it extracted from the body as opposed to the movie where the sub was just "eaten" and disappears.
Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure?
Yes.
"Amazon Bondage Planet"
See pr0n posts above for details.
For example, if the Federal Aviation Agency were to develop an application (derived from open source) which controlled 747 flight patterns, a number of issues easily become national security questions...
FAA controlling the flight patterns of any aircraft is absolute nonsense! First, every pilot in the system would block it before it ever got past the talking stage, second it is just ignorant.
Maybe software to control the traffic flow? Sorry, that deflates this FUD too, since it would not apply to just one airframe and the author assumes that the people operating the aircraft are just going to let that happen too.
Maybe if he said some more nonsense about FAA requiring all 747s to have this software? Nope, that is the NTSB and the manufacturers, the latter would be marching on the Congress like you never seen before!
Humm, here is a more believeable thing to scare people with "what if all automated traffic light systems had to run Open Source, could you imagine the national security issue of flashing red lights all over the heartland"?
We are working on that.
;-)
BTW, where do you hide your books
Warmest regards,
Guy Montag
"Their secret weapon is a technology known as a "software-designed radio," which has permitted them to create an inexpensive repeater antenna that can be attached to the outside of a customer's home. The device, which the Etherlinx executives said they believe can be
built in quantity for less than $150 each, would communicate with a central antenna and then convert the signals into the industry-standard Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, signal for reception
inside the home."
Alan Clegg described pretty much the same thing with off the shelf hardware at Summercon recently. Except his solution was staying inside 802.11b and using a 2.4Ghz amplifier.
Granted, his objective was different and the "new" solution is a couple of bucks cheaper, but there are already off-the-shelf solutions that are there for the picking, without adding another licensing layer to the solution.
The linked site leads with a story by the infamous John Markoff. Hopefully this story has some facts in it.
Handspring Treo is a PDA and phone, I use a Handspring Visor with VisorPhone and eyemodule2
Would you prefer the term 'collusive oligopoly'?
IIF they were in collusion, yes.
Nice to see a well schooled someone here.
ugh, I really need to type more accurately ;-)
Okay, first stop misusing the word "momopoly", it is defined as ONE entity controlling a market.
Second, figure out what market you are talking about. If it is high-speed data access then one company owning the local/regional/national cable infrastructure is not a monopoly IF (as is the case) there are DLS and other providers within that territory. Lookup the famous monopoly case against Celophane, the Celophane manufacturer won because the market was wrapping material, not the fact that one manufacturer makes one wildly popular product.
Look folks, the more we keep bastardizing the language the more confusing it will be to communicate.
Now I can dust off that old VAX in my livingroom and figure out how to load CP/M on it for my eStore!
You might be thinking of the Cringley column on "Roll Your Own DSL". Sorry I am not posting a proper link, but it can be found on pbs.org under Cringly's "old hat" link.
I hope the parent gets modded up, it is the only clueful post on this story about old-fashioned credit card fraud.
BTW, all of you folks rambling on about what rights the government should have might want to look at the US Constitution. The feds have NO RIGHTS. The federal government has powers and authority. The People and the States have all of the rights.
It looks like they want to just add a flag that says "this is a broadcast, do not allow more than one copy
Oh please let this be true! Pretty please?
Everybody keep quiet until these goofballs come up with something totally ineffective. They have not failed us yet!
What is wrong with using existing equipment, like that hive of atomic clocks in the GPS system? They already transmit their time to just anybody that wants to receive it and all of the adjustments for relativity, etc., are known and can be removed for "raw" time measurement.
I guess the hammer and feather experiment just gets more expensive in proportion to the expansion of the beurocracy.
But I bet he had a dog, it just died during his Viking funeral and can't tell us it's name any more.
If dogs name does not work use "Override".