Are you afraid that since you're strapping something on your head that it will shock you?
Because we all know that our current interface devices, like keyboards and mice will shock you?
I fail to see what happens if the device misfires an electrical signal as compared to any other electrical device. It's not like this device is sending an impulse into your head, but rather, its trying to detect and decode electrical impulses.
Those paid "member-only" lanes are a laugh. Any person who travels enough on a significant basis to actually fork out money for "express" lanes should be an elite member of one of the frequent flyer programs out there that already grant express access via the first class lines.
Did you know that those metal detectors purposely aren't set sensitive enough to pick up the few coins of loose change in your pockets. Hell, depending how much metal is present in your belt, it may not be enough to set off the metal detector either.
Also, you can carry your wallet on you through the metal detector, unless your wallet has a chain attached. No need to take your wallet out and toss it in the bins.//frequent traveler
Oh, add a Faraday cage to every plane so remote explosives can't get their signals. Because the good old explosives have a local timer instead of a remote timer?/troll
Except for the fact that when I did try to use Rhapsody six months ago, the software could never get past updating my Windows Media DRM.
Their tech support was of no help, and when I tried to cancel the free trial, they offered me an additional free month. I don't get the point of that considering that their software didn't work in the first place.
Yahoo Music Unlimited and Napster did not have issues with updating DRM.
Napster's interface is pretty horrid and some of the songs are written with invalid tags (i think this is an issue with UTF-8 tags being written incorrectly) and would crash my Archos AV500 portable media player. I had to re-write the tags on a significant number of files in order for them to function properly.
Yahoo Music Unlimited! had a pretty streamlined interface that made searching for music / discovering new music relatively easy. In addition, the suggestions weren't pure garbage either (because it actually had a rating system that would adapt with your tastes). No issues with tags.
Increased range, far greater damage potential (because of the extremely high kinetic energies), smaller size of the projectile (because there is no explosive component), etc
It's not a guided projectile, because anything you'd strap to it probably couldn't withstand the high acceleration nor the extremely high electrical and magnetic fields in the launcher.
But if you have a computer to adjust firing angle, firing energy, etc, you can very well make it targeted (by doing the calculation required for it to strike a target XX miles away at XX altitude).
Because they don't keep the capacitors charged at all times?
Discharged capacitors == minimal hazard compared to explosive ammo.
These capacitors are rated for pulsed operation. These capacitors are only holding energy for a small amount of time. They're not meant to stay charged for a long period of time (and if you tried to keep them charged, they'd fail extremely quickly).
Not to mention that the Navy's contractors are working on energy recovery mechanisms to recover the wasted energy after the gun has fired.
It's the electric and magnetic fields generated by having two parallel rails charged up that fires the railgun.
After the circuit is broken by the projectile leaving the railgun, you can work on recovering some of the wasted energy back into your power system (else, the remaining energy gets dissipated by the spark that is created at the muzzle when the circuit is broken).
When you talk about railguns, one of the primary measures is current, namely the current that is passing through the rais to generate the magnetic and electric fields to launch a projectile.
The pulses for these rail guns are real short, and typically are produced by putting a number of PFNs together. It's not a slow acceleration up to Mach 8, it's actually really sudden.
The main problem is firing these things without destroying the rails, as something accelerating up to that speed will put a huge amount of friction on the rails themselves.
A CD can't officially be platinum unless its certified by the RIAA.
[quote] I own hundreds of CDs, and I'm not going to pay. Do you think i'm especially unique? I think the REAL message will be delivered come 2008, when this free, 6 month old album goes PLATINUM. [/quote]
Geeks.com is Computer Geeks, an online store. Different from Geek Squad. One actually provides reliable parts, the other is run by Best Buy (enough said).
Ummm.. can you tax illegal money transfer? And, like, imprison a thief for tax evasion along with, say, robbery? If they're taxing it, doesn't it HAVE to be legal?
No. The IRS rules clearly state that you're required to report ALL income, including income from the black market, illegal sources, etc.
As was cited earlier, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. It doesn't matter if you're out there selling weed or working as a hooker, that income has to be reported and properly taxed.
If virtual property was taxed when convered back to real money, then you'd also have to account for the expenses incurred in obtaining that virtual property.
Deductions for my World of Warcraft monthly fees? Deductions for my ventrilo server? Deductions for the costs incurred in developing a SL object? etc
I don't think anyone has really taken a look at that issue, but much of it is already covered under existing US tax laws (business expenses).
And if I cash out less than what I originally put in, can I write off the loss?
That's just like saying that you never put a hint of sour flavoring into various recipes. Bitterness is a vital part of a number of recipes. Personally, I'd rather not be drinking pure sugar (which is pretty close to Coke). Some people experience the "too sweet" effect when eating certain sweet foods. Besides, a much more complex flavor is desired in various wines and beers.
And you may also lose out on a significant portion of very small businesses and individuals who aren't willing to pay the "fees" that are associated with PTR DNS records.
There's actually a field of study for this: Traffic Analysis. Of course, this is not to be confused with all of the material out there relating to internet/network/packet analysis.
This mainly deals with optimizing freeways and the like, based on people's behavior in traffic, and the ripple affects.
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Are you afraid that since you're strapping something on your head that it will shock you?
Because we all know that our current interface devices, like keyboards and mice will shock you?
I fail to see what happens if the device misfires an electrical signal as compared to any other electrical device. It's not like this device is sending an impulse into your head, but rather, its trying to detect and decode electrical impulses.
It was their UPS system that caught on fire, not the servers.
It's hard to read because they wanted to post the entire email with headers?
OMG CENSORSHIP!
Those paid "member-only" lanes are a laugh. Any person who travels enough on a significant basis to actually fork out money for "express" lanes should be an elite member of one of the frequent flyer programs out there that already grant express access via the first class lines.
Did you know that those metal detectors purposely aren't set sensitive enough to pick up the few coins of loose change in your pockets. Hell, depending how much metal is present in your belt, it may not be enough to set off the metal detector either.
//frequent traveler
Also, you can carry your wallet on you through the metal detector, unless your wallet has a chain attached. No need to take your wallet out and toss it in the bins.
Except for the fact that when I did try to use Rhapsody six months ago, the software could never get past updating my Windows Media DRM.
Their tech support was of no help, and when I tried to cancel the free trial, they offered me an additional free month. I don't get the point of that considering that their software didn't work in the first place.
Yahoo Music Unlimited and Napster did not have issues with updating DRM.
Napster's interface is pretty horrid and some of the songs are written with invalid tags (i think this is an issue with UTF-8 tags being written incorrectly) and would crash my Archos AV500 portable media player. I had to re-write the tags on a significant number of files in order for them to function properly.
Yahoo Music Unlimited! had a pretty streamlined interface that made searching for music / discovering new music relatively easy. In addition, the suggestions weren't pure garbage either (because it actually had a rating system that would adapt with your tastes). No issues with tags.
Increased range, far greater damage potential (because of the extremely high kinetic energies), smaller size of the projectile (because there is no explosive component), etc
It's not a guided projectile, because anything you'd strap to it probably couldn't withstand the high acceleration nor the extremely high electrical and magnetic fields in the launcher.
But if you have a computer to adjust firing angle, firing energy, etc, you can very well make it targeted (by doing the calculation required for it to strike a target XX miles away at XX altitude).
Because they don't keep the capacitors charged at all times?
Discharged capacitors == minimal hazard compared to explosive ammo.
These capacitors are rated for pulsed operation. These capacitors are only holding energy for a small amount of time. They're not meant to stay charged for a long period of time (and if you tried to keep them charged, they'd fail extremely quickly).
Not to mention that the Navy's contractors are working on energy recovery mechanisms to recover the wasted energy after the gun has fired.
It's the electric and magnetic fields generated by having two parallel rails charged up that fires the railgun.
After the circuit is broken by the projectile leaving the railgun, you can work on recovering some of the wasted energy back into your power system (else, the remaining energy gets dissipated by the spark that is created at the muzzle when the circuit is broken).
When you talk about railguns, one of the primary measures is current, namely the current that is passing through the rais to generate the magnetic and electric fields to launch a projectile.
The pulses for these rail guns are real short, and typically are produced by putting a number of PFNs together. It's not a slow acceleration up to Mach 8, it's actually really sudden.
The main problem is firing these things without destroying the rails, as something accelerating up to that speed will put a huge amount of friction on the rails themselves.
Who's Esmee Denters?
A CD can't officially be platinum unless its certified by the RIAA.
[quote]
I own hundreds of CDs, and I'm not going to pay. Do you think i'm especially unique? I think the REAL message will be delivered come 2008, when this free, 6 month old album goes PLATINUM.
[/quote]
Geeks.com is Computer Geeks, an online store. Different from Geek Squad. One actually provides reliable parts, the other is run by Best Buy (enough said).
5V @ 500mA max == 2.5W. That's absolutely nothing in terms of power.
Quad Core? We're talking about multiple CPUs, not multiple cores.
WoW has a MacOS port, not a linux port.
Semantics
That's called the BSD license.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.ph
No. The IRS rules clearly state that you're required to report ALL income, including income from the black market, illegal sources, etc.
As was cited earlier, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. It doesn't matter if you're out there selling weed or working as a hooker, that income has to be reported and properly taxed.
As per "barter" in the tax code.
You have a market price for linden dollars, this is available on Linden Lab's website. That's your "market value" of the goods.
If virtual property was taxed when convered back to real money, then you'd also have to account for the expenses incurred in obtaining that virtual property.
Deductions for my World of Warcraft monthly fees?
Deductions for my ventrilo server?
Deductions for the costs incurred in developing a SL object?
etc
I don't think anyone has really taken a look at that issue, but much of it is already covered under existing US tax laws (business expenses).
And if I cash out less than what I originally put in, can I write off the loss?
That's just like saying that you never put a hint of sour flavoring into various recipes. Bitterness is a vital part of a number of recipes. Personally, I'd rather not be drinking pure sugar (which is pretty close to Coke). Some people experience the "too sweet" effect when eating certain sweet foods. Besides, a much more complex flavor is desired in various wines and beers.
And you may also lose out on a significant portion of very small businesses and individuals who aren't willing to pay the "fees" that are associated with PTR DNS records.
There's actually a field of study for this: Traffic Analysis. Of course, this is not to be confused with all of the material out there relating to internet/network/packet analysis.
This mainly deals with optimizing freeways and the like, based on people's behavior in traffic, and the ripple affects.
"And, nobody fast-forwards through any part of Counter-Strike,' added Lombardi."
Instead of fast forwarding, I just alt tab out if I die early in a match.