Here's what happened to me last month: american brother of a friend comes to visit. He brings a handful of DVDs, we try to watch them but lo, I haven't dezoned my DVD writer. After 30 minutes of trying to find the patch I give up, and spend about 30 secs to look the movies up in a bittorrent site and initiate download.
We watch them the next day with excellent quality and no FBI warning crap.
As I said in an earlier post, should SFR (cell phone (3G) provider) try to implement this shit, they'd get hit hard and fast. They're already being investigated, along with "competitors" Orange and Bouygtel for price-fixing.
The EU has vigorously promoted competition in the telecom business, with significant success so far. As for ISPs blocking VoIP calls in France, for instance, fat chance. Most ISPs already offer free local calls with multifunction ADSL modems. I understand the article refers implicitly to call phone carriers; but you have to keep in mind that those currently are under investigation for price fixing. That would be a very stupid way for them to quickly get the anti-monopoly agency and the telecom regulation agency pounding frantically on their asses.
No, this is an example of a really dangerous precedent.
What if, for example, I was to send you an email contained a corrupted file that crashed your system?
Is that tresspass too?
How the fuck do we know?
You argument would'nt be completely retarded if the concept of "intent" was never considered in a court of law.
Turbines have several advantages over piston engines: - less noise (almost none) - much better efficiency (double IIRC) - can burn anything (vegetable oil, natural gas, jet fuel...) - less pollution (they burn better IIRC)
They also have issues that make it impractical for regular cars: - must turn very fast to achieve the best efficiency - short range of usable speeds - high temperature (requires expensive materials)
Those issues (except the last one) are automagically solved when the turbine is connected to an alternator instead of a car transmission.
So why not just build a turbine-electric hybrid? The efficiency would be way above any existing car.
Not so many do. Besides I'm not aware of any waiting list in France (except for transplants but then that's another issue), or most EU countries for that matter.
There was an earlier slashdot story about the crocodiles' immune system being studied to cure AIDS. It appears that crocs have a very powerful immune system, capable of fending off most infections. This is likely due to the fact that they've lived in very infectious areas such as swamp for millions of years, as well as having nasty territorial fights leaving them wounded very often. As a result, the evolutionary pressure for a powerful immune system is enormous.
Stem-cell cures are probably two decades away, if proven viable.
Just yesterday I read a story where severely burnt kids (3rd degree) were succesfully treated with stem cells. Those cells disappeared eventually from the skin (unlike skin grafts), but acted as a booster to the recovery process, promoting natural cell growth. Recovery was sped up several times, and on top of that, compared to standard methods, the skin was of much better quality with significantly less scarring.
So here it is. Unless you think wounded children should be left to suffer, I guess. You christbots love others' suffering, don't you? That's what you get from worshipping a god-on-a-stick.
Yeah, that's very expensive. At home I have 15Mbps/1Mbps ADSL for €29.90 a month. Tiscali sells "guaranteed bandwidth" SDSL 1.5Mbps for less than €250. That includes a 4h guaranteed repair time in case something goes wrong; I'm not sure how a T1 would be any better than that.
3) Personally I think that if were to replace all of our energy production with Wind Power, we would screw up the global climate so much that it would be worse then any global warming due to CO2 emissions.
That's just retarded, and this retarded piece of thinking keeps popping up more and more often.
No, it's not going to fuck up the climate. There are already human-made structures with the same kind of impact windmills would. They're called "buildings."
There are already natural structures with the same effect. They're called "trees" and "mountains." Now, yeah, the Himalayas have quite a dramatic impact on weather and climate (the moonsoon?) Do you see a wind farm, well, even a bunch of wind farm having the same impact as just one mount in the Himalayas? Give me a break.
They would'nt have agreed to an unconditionnal surrender without the bomb.
They would, however, have agreed to a conditional surrender, which included, for example, keeping their emperor as head of state.
Funny thing, they got to have their conditions in the end anyway. Therefore the bomb was really useless as far as Japan is concerned. It was dropped for other reasons.
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Yeah, that's weird isn't it?
... duh. I'm developping an extension that would make good use of this. Sigh.
And it's not even a criticism, merely a feature request
Kind of makes E4X useless for extension writing goodness.
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Here's the URL (no link since they block
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2705
Here's what happened to me last month: american brother of a friend comes to visit. He brings a handful of DVDs, we try to watch them but lo, I haven't dezoned my DVD writer. After 30 minutes of trying to find the patch I give up, and spend about 30 secs to look the movies up in a bittorrent site and initiate download.
We watch them the next day with excellent quality and no FBI warning crap.
Sadly platypuses and echydnaes have mammary glands but no tits.
So there.
It's probably the infrared and near infrared that attract bugs.
As I said in an earlier post, should SFR (cell phone (3G) provider) try to implement this shit, they'd get hit hard and fast. They're already being investigated, along with "competitors" Orange and Bouygtel for price-fixing.
The EU has vigorously promoted competition in the telecom business, with significant success so far. As for ISPs blocking VoIP calls in France, for instance, fat chance. Most ISPs already offer free local calls with multifunction ADSL modems. I understand the article refers implicitly to call phone carriers; but you have to keep in mind that those currently are under investigation for price fixing. That would be a very stupid way for them to quickly get the anti-monopoly agency and the telecom regulation agency pounding frantically on their asses.
Doesn't even register a hit in CPU usage.
The outmost part of the skin is made of dead cells. You really can't kill them twice. Seriously.
No, this is an example of a really dangerous precedent. What if, for example, I was to send you an email contained a corrupted file that crashed your system? Is that tresspass too? How the fuck do we know?
You argument would'nt be completely retarded if the concept of "intent" was never considered in a court of law.
Wild chickens do fly.
They do actually debug their products before releasing them.
Nokia phones are relatively quite bug-free compared to other brands.
(I know this from people who supply them with components.)
Turbines have several advantages over piston engines: ...)
- less noise (almost none)
- much better efficiency (double IIRC)
- can burn anything (vegetable oil, natural gas, jet fuel
- less pollution (they burn better IIRC)
They also have issues that make it impractical for regular cars:
- must turn very fast to achieve the best efficiency
- short range of usable speeds
- high temperature (requires expensive materials)
Those issues (except the last one) are automagically solved when the turbine is connected to an alternator instead of a car transmission.
So why not just build a turbine-electric hybrid? The efficiency would be way above any existing car.
"The fact that the average temperature of all space is 4' kelvin is also an issue. "
Nope. In the void there is no convection -- and that's how you lose most heat. In space you only lose it through thermal radiation.
I don't think so. Why should they deserve a share of iPod sales?
Most chimeras probably die at an early stage, from that very immune problem. Those who get through are just "lucky."
Not so many do. Besides I'm not aware of any waiting list in France (except for transplants but then that's another issue), or most EU countries for that matter.
The French Quarter hasn't been flooded. You lose!
There was an earlier slashdot story about the crocodiles' immune system being studied to cure AIDS. It appears that crocs have a very powerful immune system, capable of fending off most infections. This is likely due to the fact that they've lived in very infectious areas such as swamp for millions of years, as well as having nasty territorial fights leaving them wounded very often. As a result, the evolutionary pressure for a powerful immune system is enormous.
Stem-cell cures are probably two decades away, if proven viable.
Just yesterday I read a story where severely burnt kids (3rd degree) were succesfully treated with stem cells. Those cells disappeared eventually from the skin (unlike skin grafts), but acted as a booster to the recovery process, promoting natural cell growth. Recovery was sped up several times, and on top of that, compared to standard methods, the skin was of much better quality with significantly less scarring.
So here it is. Unless you think wounded children should be left to suffer, I guess. You christbots love others' suffering, don't you? That's what you get from worshipping a god-on-a-stick.
Yeah, that's very expensive. At home I have 15Mbps/1Mbps ADSL for €29.90 a month. Tiscali sells "guaranteed bandwidth" SDSL 1.5Mbps for less than €250. That includes a 4h guaranteed repair time in case something goes wrong; I'm not sure how a T1 would be any better than that.
I'm about 1000x to die in a car accident than in a terrorist attack. And I don't drive much.
An intolerance shows the bodys natural levels of tolerance to different food stuffs - like eating raw meat (we are intolerant to that).
We are? That's odd, I don't get that feeling when eating steak tartare or beef carpaccio.
3) Personally I think that if were to replace all of our energy production with Wind Power, we would screw up the global climate so much that it would be worse then any global warming due to CO2 emissions.
That's just retarded, and this retarded piece of thinking keeps popping up more and more often.
No, it's not going to fuck up the climate. There are already human-made structures with the same kind of impact windmills would. They're called "buildings."
There are already natural structures with the same effect. They're called "trees" and "mountains." Now, yeah, the Himalayas have quite a dramatic impact on weather and climate (the moonsoon?) Do you see a wind farm, well, even a bunch of wind farm having the same impact as just one mount in the Himalayas? Give me a break.
They would'nt have agreed to an unconditionnal surrender without the bomb.
They would, however, have agreed to a conditional surrender, which included, for example, keeping their emperor as head of state.
Funny thing, they got to have their conditions in the end anyway. Therefore the bomb was really useless as far as Japan is concerned. It was dropped for other reasons.