What regions create economic value and what regions destroy it (in wars usually)?
I think it's a safe bet that hisec generally has a positive GDP while 0.0 is probably lucrative for a select few (BoB? Goon Squad?) but generally negative overall. After all, how many corps move to 0.0 only to get wtfpwned after a few weeks, losing everything? Still, it would be nice to see it in writing with actual figures and graphs.
It's not losing weight, it's losing mass!. The kilogram is not a measure of weight, but mass. Silly pound-centric editors:p
However if you are putting it on a scale to weigh it, you are measuring weight. On earth, weight = mass. Of course you could measure the mass through the density equation or a number of other means, but the simplest method is to weigh it.
They mean tactical nukes - the ones that can fit in artillery shells and are just around 7-15 kT.
They also mean the extent of the kill zone. Conventional explosives do a great deal of damage in a small area but the pressure wave generated dissipates rather quickly. Nukes are much hotter and therefore create a great deal more overpressure as well as doing damage directly by the radiation/heat. These bombs have a much larger kill zone than a conventional weapon of the same yield, and thus this area is comparable to a small nuclear device. Without the expense, paperwork, and fallout.
Of course nothing else comes close to the power of the big strategic nukes, like the Russian's 20 megaton SS-18 "Satan". Yet.
Not to mention their *multiple* politicians. Because after all, NO ONE lobbies as hard and as well as the telcos... Perhaps NTP is doing everyone a favor with this suicidal action. Maybe now finally a little balance and conscience will be brought to patent law. Or perhaps I'm dreaming again and what will really happen is that telcos and Washinton will find a really ingenous way to screw NTP AND the public.
Written, professional codes of ethics exist to make money for lawyers. If you don't understand the obligations and limitations of your profession after your training, perhaps you're in the wrong line of work.
We physicians have the Hippocratic Oath, which is a joke and quite out of date. Occasionally we DO operate patients to remove kidney stones, and medical students have to pay for their training - both are flagrant violations of that same oath. If a physician needs to be reminded that (s)he's not supposed to sleep with his patients or murder them, perhaps (s)he's in the wrong line of work too.
Yes the Oath has great sentimental value, and yes all physicians should hold the "do no harm" verse close to their hearts. However, having a "committee" sit down and pen a "code of ethics" for a profession in my mind is an exercise to make said committee feel important, and opens the door to endless arguments and lawsuits. Because if there's one thing life is full of, it's the "exceptions".
20 years from now, people are going to be laughing as hard and reminiscing at our current technology and ads for it.
+++++++++++++++IMTF++++++++++++++++
The scary thing is, 20 years from now people might look back and envy us being able to do whatever we wanted with our computers:
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There was nothing like running the command to show memory usage (and its been too long, I don't even remember what this was at this point)
It was (tadaa): mem
Yeah we all used to celebrate the day we were able to load our mouse drivers and whatnot in "high" memory. I remember playing the excellent F-16 sim "Falcon 3.0", but this game was EXTREMELY fussy because it required something like 620K (out of our 640!) to be "free". If you didn't have the right set up to move most of your drivers (mouse, sound card, etc) to "high" memory, it just wouldn't load. At one point people realized that in fact the OLDER version of the mouse driver took less memory (around 10k) than the newer (the beginnings of Microsoft bloat?), so most people who played this downgraded their mouse drivers to the previous version.
Anyway, another useless bit of trivia from a bygone age.
Don't worry, NONE of those digits are significant, since the ACTUAL temperature of a blast furnace is around 2000-2300 degrees C. I certainly remember the kilns at the cement plant my dad worked at used to get up to around 1900 C. 600 degrees is nothing as far as furnaces are concerned, although it's more than your oven can do.
Are you sure that wasn't just because Apple feels that maybe it can sell more phones and make more money if they drop the price under $600 per item? Come on - $600 for a PHONE?
OK, I admit it would be pretty hard to prove my point. But it's also hard to prove that Apple was "forced" into dropping the price by consumers.
Anyway I wasn't referring to petty stuff. I'm talking about things like the civil rights movement, suffrage, etc. Now people just riot and use it as an excuse to steal stuff. There's no POINT anymore.
then people would be demanding a reversal on this Genuine Advantage program.
It's been a few decades since the people have "demanded" ANYTHING. So long as they have their beer and their sports channels and big screen tv's, the people - for perhaps the first time in history - are content to let you take everything else away from them. Or am I wrong?
Countries will make it illegal to disable pirated OSes? Really?
No one cares about the pirates. They're fair game, and will probably either crack it or work around it somehow anyway. The point is we KNOW that legitimate users WILL be affected, and THAT should be against the law.
At the very least it's a form of automated defamation. Microsoft is accusing you of being a thief, and inconveniencing you in a MAJOR fashion. What happens to the security guards and the store when they grab you in the parking lot, throw you on the pavement, breaking your nose in the process, only to find out that the guy who stole something wasn't you but someone who was wearing the same jacket as you? They get sued.
but they should realize that means they have to pay for it.
You forgot - they have to pay for it again and again and again. Oh and just wait until Microsoft bribe^H^H^H convinces big game companies to start releasing DirectX 10-only games. Cute. Isn't it fun to own a Monopoly? I can't wait until the US gets some balls again and...heh, who am I kidding.
That's ok, I just installed ubuntu today. Guess what? I LIKE it. XP is now officially games only. And with the way DosBox and WINE are turning out, soon not even that.
Look at Microsoft's license agreement, there is NO WARRANTY, not even FITNESS for a PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Yes but think of the scale. Laws have been changed/created over less. DESPITE what the EULA would like you to believe. Look at what is happening to cell phone providers and their "contracts". You can only do this kind of thing so often.
Yep, right now it stands at a whole 3% of the market (the same as linux). I expect messing around with people's machines is going to increase it's popularity with a) "try before I buy" types and b) word of mouth from people too ignorant to realize what's happening and thinking that the OS is unstable (after all, OSes are supposed to 'blue screen' once in a while, RIGHT?).
I had a look a another page on this website out of curiosity. I was tickled to note that despite the fact that linux usage has remained fairly steady at 3.odd percent, Windows Vista - for all the hype and OEM bundles, has exactly the same usage as linux so long after its release.
Oh wait, I hear the sound of Microsoft shills and Vista apologists headed this way...
Vista's retail "great success" is almost, but not quite, the same magnitude as W's "Mission Accomplished"...
Just because the practice is winked at doesn't make it legal.
There's also a lot to be said about a government that has done nothing about the practice for years nay DECADES and suddenly (and EXCLUSIVELY) because of lobbying starts "arresting" people for it.
I wonder how much orphaned legacy Delphi code there is out there looking for a support route.
OMG, powerful alliteration and anthropomorphism. Here I am with a visual image of a young code snippet out in the winter cold, begging people for a couple pence for a "cuppa tea".
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What regions create economic value and what regions destroy it (in wars usually)?
I think it's a safe bet that hisec generally has a positive GDP while 0.0 is probably lucrative for a select few (BoB? Goon Squad?) but generally negative overall. After all, how many corps move to 0.0 only to get wtfpwned after a few weeks, losing everything? Still, it would be nice to see it in writing with actual figures and graphs.
presumably if it is that important to you you can switch to Red Flag Linux or the like.
I already have.
when you install the "WGA" it says personal information is _not_ sent to microsoft, so why is there any need to investigate, as they are NOT doing it?
Because "we will investigate" is the standard, canned answer for ANY corporation. It sounds real pro-active and nice and all that.
It's not losing weight, it's losing mass!. The kilogram is not a measure of weight, but mass. Silly pound-centric editors :p
However if you are putting it on a scale to weigh it, you are measuring weight. On earth, weight = mass. Of course you could measure the mass through the density equation or a number of other means, but the simplest method is to weigh it.
They mean tactical nukes - the ones that can fit in artillery shells and are just around 7-15 kT.
They also mean the extent of the kill zone. Conventional explosives do a great deal of damage in a small area but the pressure wave generated dissipates rather quickly. Nukes are much hotter and therefore create a great deal more overpressure as well as doing damage directly by the radiation/heat. These bombs have a much larger kill zone than a conventional weapon of the same yield, and thus this area is comparable to a small nuclear device. Without the expense, paperwork, and fallout.
Of course nothing else comes close to the power of the big strategic nukes, like the Russian's 20 megaton SS-18 "Satan". Yet.
You can see the video of the detonation here, along with an explanation.
their *multiple* law firms will eat your lunch.
Not to mention their *multiple* politicians. Because after all, NO ONE lobbies as hard and as well as the telcos... Perhaps NTP is doing everyone a favor with this suicidal action. Maybe now finally a little balance and conscience will be brought to patent law. Or perhaps I'm dreaming again and what will really happen is that telcos and Washinton will find a really ingenous way to screw NTP AND the public.
Written, professional codes of ethics exist to make money for lawyers. If you don't understand the obligations and limitations of your profession after your training, perhaps you're in the wrong line of work.
We physicians have the Hippocratic Oath, which is a joke and quite out of date. Occasionally we DO operate patients to remove kidney stones, and medical students have to pay for their training - both are flagrant violations of that same oath. If a physician needs to be reminded that (s)he's not supposed to sleep with his patients or murder them, perhaps (s)he's in the wrong line of work too.
Yes the Oath has great sentimental value, and yes all physicians should hold the "do no harm" verse close to their hearts. However, having a "committee" sit down and pen a "code of ethics" for a profession in my mind is an exercise to make said committee feel important, and opens the door to endless arguments and lawsuits. Because if there's one thing life is full of, it's the "exceptions".
I wouldn't be so sure: (from the header)
Opportunity drove far enough in -- about four meters (13 feet) -- to get all six wheels past the crater rim.
Damn, those rovers are bigger than I thought... or are martian meters smaller than terran meters?
20 years from now, people are going to be laughing as hard and reminiscing at our current technology and ads for it.
+++++++++++++++IMTF++++++++++++++++
The scary thing is, 20 years from now people might look back and envy us being able to do whatever we wanted with our computers:
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Please report to your local police station for processing within 72 hours of this notice, or you will be considered a terrorist sympathizer.
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There was nothing like running the command to show memory usage (and its been too long, I don't even remember what this was at this point)
It was (tadaa): mem
Yeah we all used to celebrate the day we were able to load our mouse drivers and whatnot in "high" memory. I remember playing the excellent F-16 sim "Falcon 3.0", but this game was EXTREMELY fussy because it required something like 620K (out of our 640!) to be "free". If you didn't have the right set up to move most of your drivers (mouse, sound card, etc) to "high" memory, it just wouldn't load. At one point people realized that in fact the OLDER version of the mouse driver took less memory (around 10k) than the newer (the beginnings of Microsoft bloat?), so most people who played this downgraded their mouse drivers to the previous version.
Anyway, another useless bit of trivia from a bygone age.
Don't worry, NONE of those digits are significant, since the ACTUAL temperature of a blast furnace is around 2000-2300 degrees C. I certainly remember the kilns at the cement plant my dad worked at used to get up to around 1900 C. 600 degrees is nothing as far as furnaces are concerned, although it's more than your oven can do.
iPhone users demanded a refund and got one.
Are you sure that wasn't just because Apple feels that maybe it can sell more phones and make more money if they drop the price under $600 per item? Come on - $600 for a PHONE?
OK, I admit it would be pretty hard to prove my point. But it's also hard to prove that Apple was "forced" into dropping the price by consumers.
Anyway I wasn't referring to petty stuff. I'm talking about things like the civil rights movement, suffrage, etc.
Now people just riot and use it as an excuse to steal stuff. There's no POINT anymore.
and they know more than you
:)
I was with you up to that point. But hey, this is a CORPORATION you're dealing with. I wouldn't be so sure!
then people would be demanding a reversal on this Genuine Advantage program.
It's been a few decades since the people have "demanded" ANYTHING. So long as they have their beer and their sports channels and big screen tv's, the people - for perhaps the first time in history - are content to let you take everything else away from them. Or am I wrong?
Countries will make it illegal to disable pirated OSes? Really?
No one cares about the pirates. They're fair game, and will probably either crack it or work around it somehow anyway. The point is we KNOW that legitimate users WILL be affected, and THAT should be against the law.
At the very least it's a form of automated defamation. Microsoft is accusing you of being a thief, and inconveniencing you in a MAJOR fashion. What happens to the security guards and the store when they grab you in the parking lot, throw you on the pavement, breaking your nose in the process, only to find out that the guy who stole something wasn't you but someone who was wearing the same jacket as you? They get sued.
but they should realize that means they have to pay for it.
...heh, who am I kidding.
You forgot - they have to pay for it again and again and again. Oh and just wait until Microsoft bribe^H^H^H convinces big game companies to start releasing DirectX 10-only games. Cute. Isn't it fun to own a Monopoly? I can't wait until the US gets some balls again and
That's ok, I just installed ubuntu today. Guess what? I LIKE it. XP is now officially games only. And with the way DosBox and WINE are turning out, soon not even that.
Look at Microsoft's license agreement, there is NO WARRANTY, not even FITNESS for a PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Yes but think of the scale. Laws have been changed/created over less. DESPITE what the EULA would like you to believe. Look at what is happening to cell phone providers and their "contracts". You can only do this kind of thing so often.
Any takers for December 7th?
Yep, right now it stands at a whole 3% of the market (the same as linux). I expect messing around with people's machines is going to increase it's popularity with a) "try before I buy" types and b) word of mouth from people too ignorant to realize what's happening and thinking that the OS is unstable (after all, OSes are supposed to 'blue screen' once in a while, RIGHT?).
They have patented an unethical behaviour. Does that mean it will be harder for other people to do what the patent describes? Please?
No, it just means they will sue your pants off if you are more unethical than they are.
I had a look a another page on this website out of curiosity. I was tickled to note that despite the fact that linux usage has remained fairly steady at 3.odd percent, Windows Vista - for all the hype and OEM bundles, has exactly the same usage as linux so long after its release.
Oh wait, I hear the sound of Microsoft shills and Vista apologists headed this way...
Vista's retail "great success" is almost, but not quite, the same magnitude as W's "Mission Accomplished"...
Just because the practice is winked at doesn't make it legal.
There's also a lot to be said about a government that has done nothing about the practice for years nay DECADES and suddenly (and EXCLUSIVELY) because of lobbying starts "arresting" people for it.
I wonder how much orphaned legacy Delphi code there is out there looking for a support route.
OMG, powerful alliteration and anthropomorphism. Here I am with a visual image of a young code snippet out in the winter cold, begging people for a couple pence for a "cuppa tea".