We all knew it was a dupe and yet we decided to read the comments anyway even though we knew they were just going to be complaints about dupes with a few smart ass comments here and there. Since we are reading this, it is what we wanted to read and thus we shouldn't be complaining about it... Of course that wouldn't leave us anything to read so we have to complain that we got exactly what we wanted.
I have this little passive card that opens locks when I wave it at them. Perhaps it's charged by the field as it's waved through. The same thing should work for a laptop no?
If the engines are producing that much heat and you have to run the air conditioning to get the temperature back down, even though the outside temperature is much lower than cabin temperature, how is that not evidence of a well insulated cabin?
That would be evidence of an insulated cabin but not proof of a well insulated cabin. If you had an infinite quanity of heat, any insulation at all would cause the aircraft to become infinitly hot.
95% or more of web users won't know or understand a client side function vs. a server side one. This might work with some site that marketed only to geeks that did know the difference.
Any geek that took the time to look at the Javascript would delibratly screw with their answers because they can.
Someday, I think we will have "smart" plugs. Wall power outlets will not be live by default; they will only serve power when a proper coded request goes in over a smart plug
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"Because his company trafficked the software in America. If you made and sent drugs to the U.S. from the Netherlands, you'd be arrested, and justifiably."
Not so. If I worked for a company in the Netherlands that made hash, and the company decided to ship some of that product to America, the company would be responsible but not me. Correct me if I'm wrong,(Like that would happen on./) but they were not shiping there product to America, rather people in America were "taking their product home with them". Much like I might take some product home with me from the Netherlands (I would be breaking American laws in America and thus be liable, but drug inc. of Amsterdam would have done nothing wrong).
It was closer to "He who will trade freedom for security will get, nor deserve, neither"...
That is actualy an interesting point. Note that this has been billed as protecting freedom when it is really about protecting security at the expense of freedom.
"why do you assume that the government is out to get us? do you really believe that the federal government wants nothing more than to enslave us in some police state?"
Why would the government of any country want to do such a thing? How has it happened in the past? Are we somehow immune to such a thing as we were immune to much of the terrorism that has been going on all over the world for years and has only recently (1993) effected the US?
>> A military/government really shouldn't use Microsoft products when people's lives are on the line. In fact, they shouldn't rely on technology in general that much.
In the military, peoples lives are on the line all the time, kind of a byproduct of blowing shit up. Now, I admit that they use alot of proprietary crap that crashes all the time, but it is way better then not having it at all. Where you are, where other units are and where you blow shit up is all there on a little screen. This is a huge advantage. I can't think of a single weapons system, used by the US Army, that isn't controled in some way by a computer of sorts.
>>By this reasoning development of the telephone, light bulb, and computer should have harmed the economy
The telephone, light bulb, and computer were not developed with huge sums of Govt cash.
>>You're using the broken window fallacy, which says that deliberately breaking a window is good for the economy, because then somebody gets paid to fix it.
Creating something that did not previously exist is not comprable to breaking something that does. It is similar to the difference between war (in some other country) and a major flood (in ours). War stimulates the economy because we are producing something useless (read in context), The flood on the other hand causes us to replace a lot of windows that were already there, but has very little positive effect on the economy. Don't take my word for it, look at the historical data on it.
>>..Likewise, if we develop cheaper energy, maybe it will hurt Enron's profits for awhile, but all the money that consumers save would be spent more productively and would benefit the overall economy.
Let's be real here, the current administration is not going to mess with the energy companies all that much. That being said, the production of cheaper energy does not promote spending. If you wanted to slow down inflation, cheaper energy would do the trick.
>> Its just a pity they can't spend the money on better forms of energy, or better "education" systems, or other projects that would actually benefit people.
Education wouldn't work, doesn't produce much wealth(read that in context). Better forms of energy would be bad for the economy. It has to go towards something almost totaly useless that doesn't displace something that is already producing revenue. When Enron figures out how to charge for sunlight we will have more solar cells then we know what to do with.
Missiles are a way for powerful interests to get government contracts that are so secret that the taxpayers cannot see how much money is being made, and wasted.
When you are talking about this kind of money, you have to realise that it is not real. What we are talking about is money going around in circles, the more it goes around, the more wealth is created. By spending money, the govt increases the clock speed of the economy and thus creates more wealth. I pay you to make something, you pay people and contractors to work for you. Part of your profit goes back to me, part of what you pay the people who work for you comes back to me, part of the money that they spend comes back to me part of the profit derived from their purchase comes back to me. In the end, I get all my money back plus a little, and as a byproduct some great technology is developed. Hit this flying projectile that is moving faster then a bullet. Lots of cool shit goes into developing something like that. Of course, I realy don't care about the product, all I care about is chosing a product that will move money around so that I get my money back plus a little.
"Bernoulli's principle merely states that the faster a gas is moving, the lower its pressure. Modern aviation is just an application of this concept. The top of the wing/"aerofoil" is curved, and the bottom is relatively flat, making the perimeter of the top longer than the bottom. Since the wing is moving through the air, the air on top travels over a longer distance than the air on bottom in the same amount of time. Rearrange the formula Distance=Time*Rate and you'll see that the larger the distance the faster the air must travel (duh).
Try running the numbers for say a Piper Tripacer using only the diference in distance between the top and the bottom of an aerofoil. In order for the plane to fly, the wings would have to be 75% longer or it would have to fly 75% faster. I do not dispute that lift is created by the diference in transient distances, but without angel of attack and the resultant downforce, the plane would never get off the ground.
This may be a little convaluted, but try to follow my train of thought here. You can get variations of Linux under various names, but there is no distro of Linux called "Linux" as far as I know. Does Linus hold the TM on Linux? and if so, Are Linux.com,.org, and.net, which all lead to diferent sites, in violation of that trademark? Since Mysql is GPLed, I can take the source, do whatever I want with it, and re-release it under the GPL of course. Could I call it $x Mysql? Under trademark laws that wouldn't fly assuming Mysql was a TM. A solution would be to modify the GPL to include a clause that allowed the inclusion of the name of the base product in the name of the new product... Of course that wouldn't fly exactly because then you would end up with $y RedHat Linux. The question here is, If everyone can use Linux in the Name of their distro, can everyone also use Mysql in theirs?
"Flight computers" as they are often called are still in use all over the world. They have mostly been replaced by GPS, but any pilot with any sense still caries one on their knee board. I think they are still tought in ground school but am not sure.
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I'll start to charge a $1 tax from anyone who enter my room. This is to pay for possible losses, since they may steal something
You can do that because it is your room.
It is not there room.
We all knew it was a dupe and yet we decided to read the comments anyway even though we knew they were just going to be complaints about dupes with a few smart ass comments here and there. Since we are reading this, it is what we wanted to read and thus we shouldn't be complaining about it... Of course that wouldn't leave us anything to read so we have to complain that we got exactly what we wanted.
I have this little passive card that opens locks when I wave it at them. Perhaps it's charged by the field as it's waved through. The same thing should work for a laptop no?
we do not receive Nigerian Scam Emails until we are...
You mean that's a scam?
doh.
they've been conditioned to accept that all computers have Pentium processors...
They don't know what a processor is.
It has big numbers?
Big numbers are better then small numbers right?
If the engines are producing that much heat and you have to run the air conditioning to get the temperature back down, even though the outside temperature is much lower than cabin temperature, how is that not evidence of a well insulated cabin?
That would be evidence of an insulated cabin but not proof of a well insulated cabin. If you had an infinite quanity of heat, any insulation at all would cause the aircraft to become infinitly hot.
95% or more of web users won't know or understand a client side function vs. a server side one. This might work with some site that marketed only to geeks that did know the difference.
Any geek that took the time to look at the Javascript would delibratly screw with their answers because they can.
Someday, I think we will have "smart" plugs. Wall power outlets will not be live by default; they will only serve power when a proper coded request goes in over a smart plug
Before pluging in your new MSlamp, click here to agree to our EULA.
The non-driving state ID is actaully not valid for the purchase of alcohol.
I guess that's why "liquor ID" is printed on it.
"Because his company trafficked the software in America. If you made and sent drugs to the U.S. from the Netherlands, you'd be arrested, and justifiably." ./) but they were not shiping there product to America, rather people in America were "taking their product home with them". Much like I might take some product home with me from the Netherlands (I would be breaking American laws in America and thus be liable, but drug inc. of Amsterdam would have done nothing wrong).
Not so. If I worked for a company in the Netherlands that made hash, and the company decided to ship some of that product to America, the company would be responsible but not me. Correct me if I'm wrong,(Like that would happen on
It was closer to "He who will trade freedom for security will get, nor deserve, neither"...
That is actualy an interesting point. Note that this has been billed as protecting freedom when it is really about protecting security at the expense of freedom.
"why do you assume that the government is out to get us? do you really believe that the federal government wants nothing more than to enslave us in some police state?"
Why would the government of any country want to do such a thing? How has it happened in the past? Are we somehow immune to such a thing as we were immune to much of the terrorism that has been going on all over the world for years and has only recently (1993) effected the US?
>> A military/government really shouldn't use Microsoft products when people's lives are on the line. In fact, they shouldn't rely on technology in general that much.
In the military, peoples lives are on the line all the time, kind of a byproduct of blowing shit up. Now, I admit that they use alot of proprietary crap that crashes all the time, but it is way better then not having it at all. Where you are, where other units are and where you blow shit up is all there on a little screen. This is a huge advantage. I can't think of a single weapons system, used by the US Army, that isn't controled in some way by a computer of sorts.
>> and most of the good algorithms for going between RGB, CMYK, and PANTONE are patented. # This is a question, not a smart ass remark.
You can patent an algorithm?
>>By this reasoning development of the telephone, light bulb, and computer should have harmed the economy
The telephone, light bulb, and computer were not developed with huge sums of Govt cash.
>>You're using the broken window fallacy, which says that deliberately breaking a window is good for the economy, because then somebody gets paid to fix it.
Creating something that did not previously exist is not comprable to breaking something that does. It is similar to the difference between war (in some other country) and a major flood (in ours). War stimulates the economy because we are producing something useless (read in context), The flood on the other hand causes us to replace a lot of windows that were already there, but has very little positive effect on the economy. Don't take my word for it, look at the historical data on it.
>>..Likewise, if we develop cheaper energy, maybe it will hurt Enron's profits for awhile, but all the money that consumers save would be spent more productively and would benefit the overall economy.
Let's be real here, the current administration is not going to mess with the energy companies all that much. That being said, the production of cheaper energy does not promote spending. If you wanted to slow down inflation, cheaper energy would do the trick.
>> Its just a pity they can't spend the money on better forms of energy, or better "education" systems, or other projects that would actually benefit people.
Education wouldn't work, doesn't produce much wealth(read that in context). Better forms of energy would be bad for the economy. It has to go towards something almost totaly useless that doesn't displace something that is already producing revenue. When Enron figures out how to charge for sunlight we will have more solar cells then we know what to do with.
Sory about running the previous post together like that. The first bit is a quote, not my words.
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Missiles are a way for powerful interests to get government contracts that are so secret that the taxpayers cannot see how much money is being made, and wasted. When you are talking about this kind of money, you have to realise that it is not real. What we are talking about is money going around in circles, the more it goes around, the more wealth is created. By spending money, the govt increases the clock speed of the economy and thus creates more wealth. I pay you to make something, you pay people and contractors to work for you. Part of your profit goes back to me, part of what you pay the people who work for you comes back to me, part of the money that they spend comes back to me part of the profit derived from their purchase comes back to me. In the end, I get all my money back plus a little, and as a byproduct some great technology is developed. Hit this flying projectile that is moving faster then a bullet. Lots of cool shit goes into developing something like that. Of course, I realy don't care about the product, all I care about is chosing a product that will move money around so that I get my money back plus a little.
"Bernoulli's principle merely states that the faster a gas is moving, the lower its pressure. Modern aviation is just an application of this concept. The top of the wing/"aerofoil" is curved, and the bottom is relatively flat, making the perimeter of the top longer than the bottom. Since the wing is moving through the air, the air on top travels over a longer distance than the air on bottom in the same amount of time. Rearrange the formula Distance=Time*Rate and you'll see that the larger the distance the faster the air must travel (duh).
Try running the numbers for say a Piper Tripacer using only the diference in distance between the top and the bottom of an aerofoil. In order for the plane to fly, the wings would have to be 75% longer or it would have to fly 75% faster. I do not dispute that lift is created by the diference in transient distances, but without angel of attack and the resultant downforce, the plane would never get off the ground.
This may be a little convaluted, but try to follow my train of thought here. You can get variations of Linux under various names, but there is no distro of Linux called "Linux" as far as I know. Does Linus hold the TM on Linux? and if so, Are Linux.com, .org, and .net, which all lead to diferent sites, in violation of that trademark? Since Mysql is GPLed, I can take the source, do whatever I want with it, and re-release it under the GPL of course. Could I call it $x Mysql? Under trademark laws that wouldn't fly assuming Mysql was a TM. A solution would be to modify the GPL to include a clause that allowed the inclusion of the name of the base product in the name of the new product... Of course that wouldn't fly exactly because then you would end up with $y RedHat Linux. The question here is, If everyone can use Linux in the Name of their distro, can everyone also use Mysql in theirs?
Wenn dein Rechtsanwalten Tollwut haben, mahcen sie auf eine kurzer Hundeleine. As close as I can translate it, but Shorter leash translates not good.
you have to pay taxes even if you live and work in another country.
Not if you are out of the country for more then a year.
Volunteer! Now, instead of running Seti@home, You can mill rocket parts in your garage out of all that magnesium alloy you have sitting around.
What are some examples of space shuttle research that has actually panned out as something useful?
Velcro and mamagrams.
"Flight computers" as they are often called are still in use all over the world. They have mostly been replaced by GPS, but any pilot with any sense still caries one on their knee board. I think they are still tought in ground school but am not sure.