That sounds a little like paying off kidnappers. Treating all black-hats as a single entity, you are rewarding them for their past mis-deeds, and encouraging them to backlash again in future.
Expending extra effort to reduce the size of Windows XP will not inherently reduce the cost of this special extra-effort version to the end user. This is more like Intel snipping off the pin that activates the 80487 FPU capability of the 486. Extra effort, lower-value product, but opens a new market.
And who's going to produce supplements and scenarios for a roleplaying game that isn't on the shelves, and that therefore only a tiny minority of roleplayers know exists? You haven't been ripped off, none of the contributors consider themselves to have been ripped off (or if they do, they are dumb for not realising what was going to happen), so where's the problem? I am proud to have my name on the credits list for HeroQuest, and I am happy that it is out there on the game store shelves.
When Greg Stafford formed Issaries Inc. to publish a new Gloranthan RPG, he didn't have any cash to do it with. So, he asked the fans to join the GTA, the Glorantha Trading Association, at varying levels of contribution starting at a hundred bucks. For that, you get a T-Shirt, access to a few online tidbits, one free book when it's published, and a free drink at any GTA party you can make it to (I've been to four so far at RPG conventions). No way is this monetarily worth it, but without our contributions, the game would never have been published.
In short: I want to see glossy supplements on the shelves of my FLGS. So do the contributors to Paranoia XP.
I don't think they can stop research because of a patent - the point of patents is to get the knowledge out into the public domain so that science can advance. What they can do is stop (or RAND licence) commercial applications of the gene that result from the research.
So who have you sued for spamming? Have any other corporations that are entirely unrelated to the internet sued spammers? They have a trademark to protect, so criticizing them for protecting it instead of indulging in activities that are entirely unrelated to their business is ludicrous.
It's not like there is some pool of emulator writers, constantly considering what the world needs in terms of emulators. The people that write GBA emulators are people that want a GBA emulator. Asking them nicely to write a Pr1me emulator is likely to get you nowhere. You need to talk to the people that want a Pr1me emulator.
I don't have any expectation of privacy in respect of how I drive my car on the roads. I'm in a public place, controlling a lethal piece of machinery, I should be held to account for my every action.
I do see the reason why western countries protect their farming industry. It's nothing less than a matter of national security. If the world were plunged into some sort of third world war, then food production would be even equally as important as it was in WWII.
No, I've heard about that one before, but there was definitely a time delay. I think it was 11 seconds, but it was quite a long time ago so I misremembering (it may have been, for instance, 7 seconds, but it was of that order of magnitude).
Except the problem is that whining on/. is not going to do anything to increase awareness. Bitching about nearly anything here is preaching to the choir.
Then STOP WHINING ON/. about people WHINING ON/.! If we all just flew off the handle half-cocked, without discussing the issue with our peers, then that would give geeks an even worse name than we already have. Take this article for instance - the debate is running right now over whether this guy is a professional fraudster or not, and whether the Patriot act is still inappropriate given that fact. Personally, I think that is a valid subject for discussion.
If you live in a quiet area, then please listen out for a pop about 11 seconds after each streak. About 20 years ago, we had just returned from holiday in the small hours of the morining of the Perseid shower. We all heard a distinct sound, as of distant gunfire, 11 seconds after each meteor. We wrote to Patrick Moore, and he insisted that there could be no such sound, yet we heard it clearly and reliably.
Mr. Waxman. I only have another paragraph. And as in 1982, the administration is once again taking its cues from industry. While industry lobbyists are asked what they would do if they were Il Duce, environmental groups, the States and the public are shut out of the process.
"Doubles" the temperature? What does that mean?
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Does it double from 2400 degrees Fahrenheit to 4800 degrees Fahrenheit? That would take the total heat content from 1588 Kelvin to 2922 Kelvin, an increase of 84%. If you expressed the temperature in Celcius, 1315 degrees Celcius, the "doubled" it, you get 2903 Kelvin, or a thermal increase of 82%. Doubling the actual thermal energy from 1588 Kelvin to 3176 Kelvin takes the temperature up to 5257 degrees Fahrenheit or 2902 degrees Celcius.
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That sounds a little like paying off kidnappers. Treating all black-hats as a single entity, you are rewarding them for their past mis-deeds, and encouraging them to backlash again in future.
Expending extra effort to reduce the size of Windows XP will not inherently reduce the cost of this special extra-effort version to the end user. This is more like Intel snipping off the pin that activates the 80487 FPU capability of the 486. Extra effort, lower-value product, but opens a new market.
And who's going to produce supplements and scenarios for a roleplaying game that isn't on the shelves, and that therefore only a tiny minority of roleplayers know exists? You haven't been ripped off, none of the contributors consider themselves to have been ripped off (or if they do, they are dumb for not realising what was going to happen), so where's the problem? I am proud to have my name on the credits list for HeroQuest, and I am happy that it is out there on the game store shelves.
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Also, any country that calls itself a democratic republic is actually trying to hide the fact that it's a brutal dictatorship.
When Greg Stafford formed Issaries Inc. to publish a new Gloranthan RPG, he didn't have any cash to do it with. So, he asked the fans to join the GTA, the Glorantha Trading Association, at varying levels of contribution starting at a hundred bucks. For that, you get a T-Shirt, access to a few online tidbits, one free book when it's published, and a free drink at any GTA party you can make it to (I've been to four so far at RPG conventions). No way is this monetarily worth it, but without our contributions, the game would never have been published.
In short: I want to see glossy supplements on the shelves of my FLGS. So do the contributors to Paranoia XP.
I'd heard that the phage department of that hospital was in danger of being shut down due to funding problems a few years back. Are they still going?
I don't think they can stop research because of a patent - the point of patents is to get the knowledge out into the public domain so that science can advance. What they can do is stop (or RAND licence) commercial applications of the gene that result from the research.
So who have you sued for spamming? Have any other corporations that are entirely unrelated to the internet sued spammers? They have a trademark to protect, so criticizing them for protecting it instead of indulging in activities that are entirely unrelated to their business is ludicrous.
You mean Pr1me?
It's not like there is some pool of emulator writers, constantly considering what the world needs in terms of emulators. The people that write GBA emulators are people that want a GBA emulator. Asking them nicely to write a Pr1me emulator is likely to get you nowhere. You need to talk to the people that want a Pr1me emulator.
I don't have any expectation of privacy in respect of how I drive my car on the roads. I'm in a public place, controlling a lethal piece of machinery, I should be held to account for my every action.
I do see the reason why western countries protect their farming industry. It's nothing less than a matter of national security. If the world were plunged into some sort of third world war, then food production would be even equally as important as it was in WWII.
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It's more like somebody that you just ran over fitting a bell and a light to it.
No, I've heard about that one before, but there was definitely a time delay. I think it was 11 seconds, but it was quite a long time ago so I misremembering (it may have been, for instance, 7 seconds, but it was of that order of magnitude).
If you live in a quiet area, then please listen out for a pop about 11 seconds after each streak. About 20 years ago, we had just returned from holiday in the small hours of the morining of the Perseid shower. We all heard a distinct sound, as of distant gunfire, 11 seconds after each meteor. We wrote to Patrick Moore, and he insisted that there could be no such sound, yet we heard it clearly and reliably.
Post back here if you hear it.
Then there's the feather-hammer-drop experiment
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Does it double from 2400 degrees Fahrenheit to 4800 degrees Fahrenheit? That would take the total heat content from 1588 Kelvin to 2922 Kelvin, an increase of 84%. If you expressed the temperature in Celcius, 1315 degrees Celcius, the "doubled" it, you get 2903 Kelvin, or a thermal increase of 82%. Doubling the actual thermal energy from 1588 Kelvin to 3176 Kelvin takes the temperature up to 5257 degrees Fahrenheit or 2902 degrees Celcius.