> If the media sharks were remotely interested in actually putting an end to this terrible crime, they'd sign these "pirates" on as local distributors for a cut of their profits!
Of course, if greed had any bounds, Martha Stewart would not have destroyed a business worth millions to save thousands in an about to die stock, and Tyco CEOs would not be led off in handcuffs for stiffing New York for sales tax on million dollar paintings....
Peronally, I found Mozilla on linux kernel 2.4.9-34 to work much better on the desktop with the linux swap partition completely disabled and to setting the browser disk cache to 0.
Of course, if you don't have enough ram, you will have problems, but ram is cheaper than the effects of stress.
The primary reason it works is that lava has high temperature, but low heat capacity. Steam et. al. would not help if the lava was at 2000 degrees and high heat capacity.
Lava walkers (walking across glowing coals) use very specific types of rock, for precisely this reason, their feet would be burnt to a crisp if you substituted a different type of rock.
A more common example is aluminum foil in the oven. You can unwrap a baked potato with bare hands, but it is too hot to simply hold the unwrapped potato, even though they were both at 400 degrees.
From chemistry, you need to know an important difference between temperature and heat capacity. If lava has a low heat capacity, it can have a high temperature but still not provide a high overall temperature. I believe that this is why/how people can walk across glowing hot lava rocks - they have a high temperture but low heat capacity. Another example, an aluminum foil placed in an oven compared to a cast iron frying pan. Both may come out of the over at 400 degrees, but you can grab the foil with a bare hand (you can grab the frying pan with a bare hand as well, if you want to get burned).
Good Guys? Do you really think that Verizon et. al. are doing this because it is the right thing to do? No way. They are **really** mad because the RIAA is trying to force the cost of enforcing their copyrights onto everyone but themselves.
The point taken by Verizon et. al. is right on the mark, the RIAA is not allowing due process; but they are protecting their shareholders, not intentionally "fighting the good fight".
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
I am sorry, but computer graphics do not make realistic images... Most of the graphics in AOTC were not realistic... The thing is, when a story is good and the images do not get in the way, you can suspend disbelief and not notice, regardless of how the effects were created. The problem is, that now you make good computer generated graphics, but they still stink, because the story is terrible....
Personally, that is why I liked LOTR, but hated AOTC. Graphics should not replace a quality story.
While I agree with those who question why a person can not go for a weekend without playing a video game, the bigger question is why the father of a 17 year old is asking! What a pathetic situation.
Your son may have many talents, but evidently solving a simple problem for himself is too much.
Gator claims that higher click-through rates are due to better targeted adds. Perhaps.
IMHO, I suspect that perhaps it is due to Gator software being self selected by the gulible. Regardless of the root cause, it still might be a good deal for advertisers; in fact it might be a big advantage. Further, it results in fewer pop-ups for me....
People seem to be missing the point, the granting of the patent does not need to be enforceable in order to be effective. Any commercial venture that might infringe on the patent is going to have a cloud of uncertainty over it. Potential customers of "infringing" technology are going to be leary of becoming involved, and having to defend themselves later in court.
As soon as your girl friends friends hear that she is getting married, the marketing will explode. Even Mother Teresa would have crumbled under the onslaught.... She is going to hear "It is your **special day** that comes only once...". Even if this was her idea (which it wasn't), mere mortals will not resist the crushing peer pressure. How many times is she going to hear "Oh, lets see the ring! Oh, it isn't a diamond - cheap bastard". You don't believe me, send her with her friends to a bridal fair.... My suggestion is to give her the credit card, whatever she spends is worth not having to be there.....
Well, get some paraffin, melt it onto your sidewalk, and let it age a few days. If someone else can't determine which blobs are which, it is probably paraffin....
Well Billy, I am sorry that your genes pre-disposed you to bashing someone over the head (or stealing billions through corporate fraud), but my genes pre-dispose me to ignoring your plea and locking you up for 50 years.... What delema?
A single floppy linux boot disk is quite handy, if you want to get at a disk without booting the native filesystem....
If you put grub on a floppy, you can use grub to dual boot multiple disks of that *other* operating system, without having to put grub on either one.
I should have used preview....
Check out Sugarloaf.net they are providing wireless broadband to a location not served by other means....
Also, you might want to check out Motorola Canopy for the wireless hardware.
Check out , they are providing broadband, relatively cheap.
You might also consider Motorola Canopy for the wireless part , the equipment is small, no big dishes required.
Sadly, you are probably correct. In the meantime, systems like Motorola's Canopy is actually providing options. Perhaps this is one of the very few times that living in a marginal market is an advantage....
The law in the US distinguishes between different types of speech, and places limits on different types of speech.
Free speech does not allow you to yell "Fire" in a crowded place. If you try it, and you are prosecuted, you are going to loose if you attempt to claim that your actions were legal speech.
Generally, telemarketers, door to door solicitors, and spam are trying to sell you something - this is known as "commercial" speech, and is much more regulated than other sorts of speech on topics like religion or politics. This is why, ultimately, religious and political groups, appeal and usually win, restrictions on non-commercial speech - telemarketers don't. In Colorado, they just started a statewide no-call list. All telephone solicitors are required to purchase the list and NOT call the numbers on the list, fines of up to $10,000 per offense are possible. The big loophole however, is that charitable, political, and established business relationships are excluded. The limits on charitable and politcal groups were added, knowing that they would be struck out on appeal if they had been included.
In your door-to-door example, I believe that you have it backwards - the law was struck down because the religious group had a right to express their beliefs. If the law had been challenged by a salesman, it might/probably would have been different. Commercial speech is not afforded the same rights as protected forms of speech.
The point is, that specific areas of the wireless spectrum is not FCC licensed...which means that you do not need **approval**....you can just do it. Of course, it does take money for equipment and since the spectrum is unlicensed, there are no guarantees that you will not get inteference at some point in the future, but there are options.
This is precisely what CO-OPs are for. In general, businesses are never going to provide a good deal over time, unless there is TRUE competion for products and services.
How many of you use the services of banks, even though credit unions almost always offer lower service charges, lower loan rates, and higher interest.
It is possible to setup your own ISP, see sugarloaf.net. These guys have broadband
in the boonies, for LESS than you are probably paying.....
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> If the media sharks were remotely interested in actually putting an end to this terrible crime, they'd sign these "pirates" on as local distributors for a cut of their profits!
Of course, if greed had any bounds, Martha Stewart would not have destroyed a business worth millions to save thousands in an about to die stock, and Tyco CEOs would not be led off in handcuffs for stiffing New York for sales tax on million dollar paintings....
Peronally, I found Mozilla on linux kernel 2.4.9-34 to work much better on the desktop with the linux swap partition completely disabled and to setting the browser disk cache to 0.
Of course, if you don't have enough ram, you will have problems, but ram is cheaper than the effects of stress.
The primary reason it works is that lava has high temperature, but low heat capacity. Steam et. al. would not help if the lava was at 2000 degrees and high heat capacity. Lava walkers (walking across glowing coals) use very specific types of rock, for precisely this reason, their feet would be burnt to a crisp if you substituted a different type of rock. A more common example is aluminum foil in the oven. You can unwrap a baked potato with bare hands, but it is too hot to simply hold the unwrapped potato, even though they were both at 400 degrees.
From chemistry, you need to know an important difference between temperature and heat capacity. If lava has a low heat capacity, it can have a high temperature but still not provide a high overall temperature. I believe that this is why/how people can walk across glowing hot lava rocks - they have a high temperture but low heat capacity. Another example, an aluminum foil placed in an oven compared to a cast iron frying pan. Both may come out of the over at 400 degrees, but you can grab the foil with a bare hand (you can grab the frying pan with a bare hand as well, if you want to get burned).
Good Guys? Do you really think that Verizon et. al. are doing this because it is the right thing to do? No way. They are **really** mad because the RIAA is trying to force the cost of enforcing their copyrights onto everyone but themselves. The point taken by Verizon et. al. is right on the mark, the RIAA is not allowing due process; but they are protecting their shareholders, not intentionally "fighting the good fight". The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
> If they are then obviously the two couples can sense each others brainwave
Really? Obviously? It is an interesting hypothesis, but it is definitely not obvious that anyone can directly sense someone else's brainwaves.
I am sorry, but computer graphics do not make realistic images... Most of the graphics in AOTC were not realistic... The thing is, when a story is good and the images do not get in the way, you can suspend disbelief and not notice, regardless of how the effects were created. The problem is, that now you make good computer generated graphics, but they still stink, because the story is terrible.... Personally, that is why I liked LOTR, but hated AOTC. Graphics should not replace a quality story.
At the end of the first school year the department should have a brutal class or two, convince the herbivores to switch to something else.
What are they worried about, you can just go to
Las Vegas to see Venice...
While I agree with those who question why a person can not go for a weekend without playing a video game, the bigger question is why the father of a 17 year old is asking! What a pathetic situation. Your son may have many talents, but evidently solving a simple problem for himself is too much.
Gator claims that higher click-through rates are due to better targeted adds. Perhaps. IMHO, I suspect that perhaps it is due to Gator software being self selected by the gulible. Regardless of the root cause, it still might be a good deal for advertisers; in fact it might be a big advantage. Further, it results in fewer pop-ups for me....
People seem to be missing the point, the granting of the patent does not need to be enforceable in order to be effective. Any commercial venture that might infringe on the patent is going to have a cloud of uncertainty over it. Potential customers of "infringing" technology are going to be leary of becoming involved, and having to defend themselves later in court.
As soon as your girl friends friends hear that she is getting married, the marketing will explode. Even Mother Teresa would have crumbled under the onslaught.... She is going to hear "It is your **special day** that comes only once...". Even if this was her idea (which it wasn't), mere mortals will not resist the crushing peer pressure. How many times is she going to hear "Oh, lets see the ring! Oh, it isn't a diamond - cheap bastard". You don't believe me, send her with her friends to a bridal fair.... My suggestion is to give her the credit card, whatever she spends is worth not having to be there.....
What kind of monster is a giant moth and spitting pupas? Now a three headed dragon with lightning is a monster!
"I believe they're covering it up. I really do"
Well, get some paraffin, melt it onto your sidewalk, and let it age a few days. If someone else can't determine which blobs are which, it is probably paraffin....
Well Billy, I am sorry that your genes pre-disposed you to bashing someone over the head (or stealing billions through corporate fraud), but my genes pre-dispose me to ignoring your plea and locking you up for 50 years.... What delema?
Why on earth would you want to make AOTC longer? Six hours of extra footage? I would have been happy to pay extra to have the horrible dialog removed!
A single floppy linux boot disk is quite handy, if you want to get at a disk without booting the native filesystem.... If you put grub on a floppy, you can use grub to dual boot multiple disks of that *other* operating system, without having to put grub on either one.
I should have used preview.... Check out Sugarloaf.net they are providing wireless broadband to a location not served by other means.... Also, you might want to check out Motorola Canopy for the wireless hardware.
Check out , they are providing broadband, relatively cheap. You might also consider Motorola Canopy for the wireless part , the equipment is small, no big dishes required.
Sadly, you are probably correct. In the meantime, systems like Motorola's Canopy is actually providing options. Perhaps this is one of the very few times that living in a marginal market is an advantage....
The law in the US distinguishes between different types of speech, and places limits on different types of speech.
Free speech does not allow you to yell "Fire" in a crowded place. If you try it, and you are prosecuted, you are going to loose if you attempt to claim that your actions were legal speech.
Generally, telemarketers, door to door solicitors, and spam are trying to sell you something - this is known as "commercial" speech, and is much more regulated than other sorts of speech on topics like religion or politics. This is why, ultimately, religious and political groups, appeal and usually win, restrictions on non-commercial speech - telemarketers don't. In Colorado, they just started a statewide no-call list. All telephone solicitors are required to purchase the list and NOT call the numbers on the list, fines of up to $10,000 per offense are possible. The big loophole however, is that charitable, political, and established business relationships are excluded. The limits on charitable and politcal groups were added, knowing that they would be struck out on appeal if they had been included.
In your door-to-door example, I believe that you have it backwards - the law was struck down because the religious group had a right to express their beliefs. If the law had been challenged by a salesman, it might/probably would have been different. Commercial speech is not afforded the same rights as protected forms of speech.
The point is, that specific areas of the wireless spectrum is not FCC licensed...which means that you do not need **approval**....you can just do it. Of course, it does take money for equipment and since the spectrum is unlicensed, there are no guarantees that you will not get inteference at some point in the future, but there are options.
This is precisely what CO-OPs are for. In general, businesses are never going to provide a good deal over time, unless there is TRUE competion for products and services.
How many of you use the services of banks, even though credit unions almost always offer lower service charges, lower loan rates, and higher interest.
It is possible to setup your own ISP, see sugarloaf.net. These guys have broadband in the boonies, for LESS than you are probably paying.....