There aren't any canals. The "belief" that there were canals on Mars, carrying water was an artifact of the relatively poor resolving power of the telescopes of the day, and the human mind's desire to find patterns. It's virtually the same process behind the claims of the "Mars face".
Current science says that it would be extremely unlikely that you would find liquid water, on the surface of Mars given it's current conditions (temperature, pressure).
Evidence found by the Rovers indicates that at some point in Mars past, there was likely a standing body of water, probably a highly saline "ocean".
These statements are not contradicting each other.
As I said, losing a lawsuit does not mean that the Lawsuit was frivolous.
There is a difference between a Frivolous lawsuit (suing McDonald's because I'm fat), and a Lawsuit with merit, that is lost (suing Ford for negligence relating to SUV Roll-Overs).
What 'loser pays' means, is that you must have an absolutely air-tight, 100% case before attempting a lawsuit as a private citizen or small firm. And if it's 100% air-tight, there really isn't any need for a trial now is there?
The whole point to a trial is to determine the facts when they are in dispute. 'Loser pays' removes that option from the private citizen, and makes corporations nearly untouchable, since a private citizen can't risk failure without facing bankruptcy.
Just because you lose a lawsuit doesn't mean it was frivolous. It just means you lost.
What 'loser pays' does, is remove civil lawsuits as a remedy against corporations, since corporations can almost always afford to pay any sort of legal fees a citizen could amass, but a private citizen is rarely going to be able to afford the corporations legal fees if they lose the suit.
They can identify themselves (at present, simply as the type and model of product).
You need a MASSIVE honking database to cross-reference the RFID info with purchaser information (where available, and it isn't always available).
For the nightmare scenario to come to pass, the scanners have to scan the myriad RFID tagged objects you are wearing/carrying as you pass the door sensor, and cross reference all of those tags with those in corporation's database, keeping in mind that only a small fraction of the number of tags you may actually be wearing/carrying came from that store, and pick YOU out of the 7 other people who enter or leave the bank of doors at the same time.
And they need a reason for this massive infrastructure... What does it get them? What does it tell them about their customers and their buying habits that their loyalty cards and sales records don't already tell them?
Canada built a space needle, it has as far as I can tell no practicle purpose what-so-ever, but they built it to have a really tall building I think.
That'd be wrong.
"Defining the Toronto skyline, the CN Tower is Canada's most recognizable and celebrated icon. At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building, an important telecommunications hub, and the centre of tourism in Toronto."
"Although the CN Tower inspires a sense of pride and inspiration for Canadians and a sense of awe for tourists, its origins are firmly rooted in practicality. The construction boom in Toronto in the 1960's transformed the skyline characterized by relatively low buildings into one dotted with skyscrapers. These new buildings caused serious communication problems. With its microwave receptors at 338 m (1,109 ft.) and 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches) antenna, the CN Tower swiftly solved the communication problems with room to spare. As a result people living in the Toronto area now enjoy some of the clearest reception in North America."
because the Gyrscopes are totally self-contained as a part of the Z1 Integrated Truss Structure.
They're not in one of the habitable modules of the station.
The Soyuz are only rated for 6 months of "on-orbit" time, therefor the Russians would have to build and launch twice as many Soyuz as they do now, and they just can't do it.
They're struggling as it is to build Soyuz as fast as they can to maintain the current launch tempo, doubling it, plus the rockets to launch them just isn't in the cards.
They will resume thruster orientation maintained by the Russian modules. the Zarya Control module (Formerly the FGB Tug), and the Zvezda Service Module which is how the altitude and orientation were maintained until the Gyroscopes were installed as a part of the Z1 Truss.
Zarya was launched in November 1998. Unity was attached by Shuttle Endeavour in December 1998. Zvedza docked to the fledgling station on July 25th, 2000. The Z1 Truss was installed by Shuttle Discovery in October, 2000. The Control Moment Gyroscopes which are an integral part of the Z1 Truss, weren't activated until Assembly Mission 5A in February 2001.
Yes, this is a big deal, it will not however, result in the station tumbling out of control and dooming it forever.
No, tracking is not implicit because it's not personalized data. It's generalized data about the conditions on the road ahead.
Because it's short range. A sign on the side of the highway is constantly broadcasting the current condition of the road ahead. A reciever in your car, as you pass this sign, receives the signal, and interperts it as "Traffic moving slowly past next transfer" or "Accident ahead in center lane, reduce speed."
They don't have to know who "YOU" are, nor do they even need to know if there's anyone on the road. The sign just keeps spitting out the current road condition ahead, and anyone with a reciever that passes it, get's told what the conditions are up ahead.
They already do this in Ontario with LED signs over the major highways. Sensors imbedded in the roadbeds measure traffic speed and density, and automatically update the signs with the road conditions.
Reading comprehension is difficult, isn't it?
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K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home...
He's listed off the three people his granddaughter has watched using the computer, her mother, his wife, and himself.
if there weren't people looking for it.
It would have remained the realm of academia, research papers in shitty fonts on plain gray backgrounds.
Content appearing on the web went hand in hand with people on the web looking for content.
What kind of mental deficient puts up a billboard (or builds a library) on a country trail in the middle of nowhere where 6 cars a day pass by?
own sites? A LOT Of bands these days have music samples, and videos on their websites, they let you sample the music on the CD's all you want, without violating their copyright and downloading the entire CD.
If you can't find samples provided by people who own the rights to distribute them, don't buy the music, and let them know that you didn't buy the music because they had no samples available.
Maybe that'll lead to more positive change than using a P2P app to commit wholesale piracy, which only fuels their perception that people just want their music for free.
There are constructive ways to seek change, and destructive ways to seek change. Wholesale P2P fuelled piracy is a destructive avenue to the change you, and all of us are seeking.
They've said many times, that iTunes makes them almost no profit at all. It pays it's costs, but the real reason behind iTunes is to drive sales of the iPod, which does have a relatively healthy profit margin.
The iPod (and HP branded iPod) are the only devices that currently play iTunes Music Store content without having to format shift the music.
But in every single one of those cases, the copyright holder made the CHOICE to release their products in that manner.
The problem with the most common, widespread P2P use is that people are distributing products without the consent of the rights holders, removing that choice from whoever holds the copyright on that work.
By all means, support those who make this choice as much as you can, but do not then turn around and TAKE other peoples work, who have not made this choice, and demand that they do, or you'll just keep taking it.
It unreel's the tether behind it.
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As it melts its way through the ice, it's unreeling from its tether (rather than dragging a tether which is unreeling from the lander)
Think of a wire-guided missile or torpedo, the spool of control wire is on the projectile, not the launching station.
That people weren't just taking the coal and oil, bypassing the coal and oil deliverymen. They switched over to gas (and they're paying the Gas company to deliver it to their house via pipelines)
These analogies almost always break down because they ignore the fact that artists aren't losing their jobs to technology, artists are having their creative works taking by people, using technology. They're still creating works, they're just being taken because people don't want to pay for them.
No, Shakespeare and the other greats didn't need the MPAA/RIAA to protect their creative works. They relied on thugs with clubs and incendiary devices to protect their creative works.
If the engines fail, the RAT deploys.
If I'm not mistaken, it's essentially a propeller generataor that is deployed into the airflow (usually under) the aircraft. It provides just enough power in an emergency to keep the hydraulics and flight control systems operating in the event of total engine failure.
Isolated Storage Isolated storage is a feature of the.NET Framework that allows us to store data in files that are automatically grouped by user and by application. Each application has its own isolated storage area for each user. We don't need to worry about where the files are physically stored on disk because that is automatically handled for us.
Isolated storage has the key benefit that it can be used in no-touch deployed code. Since the.NET Framework itself is responsible for managing the files, we need few security permissions to use isolated storage. This means that even code deployed in the Internet or intranet zones can use isolated storage.
Behind the scenes, isolated storage is maintained as a set of subdirectories beneath the user's profile directory. On Microsoft Windows(R) XP for instance, this is systemdrive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\IsolatedStorage. A directory tree is automatically created beneath this location, with each application having its own directory, isolated from any other application directories.
The.NET Framework only allows our application to access its specific files. However, the reality is that this directory tree is accessible to the user or any administrator on the system because they can manually navigate to this directory structure using Windows Explorer. For this reason, sensitive data should not be stored in clear text within isolated storage.
In most cases, isolated storage is ideal for storing user-specific application settings. It is automatically per-user and per-application, so all we need to do is store our settings data as files within the isolated storage area.
HP could certainly have their Jet Direct card look like a Shared Printer and have it respond when the network is browsed, but they don't.
Of course, you could have just installed the Jet Direct Software on the client, and it would have auto-discovered all the Jet Direct printers on the network. Microsoft can hardly be blamed for HP's whacky network support.
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There aren't any canals. The "belief" that there were canals on Mars, carrying water was an artifact of the relatively poor resolving power of the telescopes of the day, and the human mind's desire to find patterns. It's virtually the same process behind the claims of the "Mars face".
Current science says that it would be extremely unlikely that you would find liquid water, on the surface of Mars given it's current conditions (temperature, pressure).
Evidence found by the Rovers indicates that at some point in Mars past, there was likely a standing body of water, probably a highly saline "ocean".
These statements are not contradicting each other.
As I said, losing a lawsuit does not mean that the Lawsuit was frivolous.
There is a difference between a Frivolous lawsuit (suing McDonald's because I'm fat), and a Lawsuit with merit, that is lost (suing Ford for negligence relating to SUV Roll-Overs).
What 'loser pays' means, is that you must have an absolutely air-tight, 100% case before attempting a lawsuit as a private citizen or small firm. And if it's 100% air-tight, there really isn't any need for a trial now is there?
The whole point to a trial is to determine the facts when they are in dispute. 'Loser pays' removes that option from the private citizen, and makes corporations nearly untouchable, since a private citizen can't risk failure without facing bankruptcy.
Just because you lose a lawsuit doesn't mean it was frivolous. It just means you lost.
What 'loser pays' does, is remove civil lawsuits as a remedy against corporations, since corporations can almost always afford to pay any sort of legal fees a citizen could amass, but a private citizen is rarely going to be able to afford the corporations legal fees if they lose the suit.
They can identify themselves (at present, simply as the type and model of product).
You need a MASSIVE honking database to cross-reference the RFID info with purchaser information (where available, and it isn't always available).
For the nightmare scenario to come to pass, the scanners have to scan the myriad RFID tagged objects you are wearing/carrying as you pass the door sensor, and cross reference all of those tags with those in corporation's database, keeping in mind that only a small fraction of the number of tags you may actually be wearing/carrying came from that store, and pick YOU out of the 7 other people who enter or leave the bank of doors at the same time.
And they need a reason for this massive infrastructure... What does it get them? What does it tell them about their customers and their buying habits that their loyalty cards and sales records don't already tell them?
Absolutely nothing.
Canada built a space needle, it has as far as I can tell no practicle purpose what-so-ever, but they built it to have a really tall building I think.
That'd be wrong.
"Defining the Toronto skyline, the CN Tower is Canada's most recognizable and celebrated icon. At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building, an important telecommunications hub, and the centre of tourism in Toronto."
"Although the CN Tower inspires a sense of pride and inspiration for Canadians and a sense of awe for tourists, its origins are firmly rooted in practicality. The construction boom in Toronto in the 1960's transformed the skyline characterized by relatively low buildings into one dotted with skyscrapers. These new buildings caused serious communication problems. With its microwave receptors at 338 m (1,109 ft.) and 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches) antenna, the CN Tower swiftly solved the communication problems with room to spare. As a result people living in the Toronto area now enjoy some of the clearest reception in North America."
Information from the official CN Tower website.
because the Gyrscopes are totally self-contained as a part of the Z1 Integrated Truss Structure. They're not in one of the habitable modules of the station.
The Soyuz are only rated for 6 months of "on-orbit" time, therefor the Russians would have to build and launch twice as many Soyuz as they do now, and they just can't do it.
They're struggling as it is to build Soyuz as fast as they can to maintain the current launch tempo, doubling it, plus the rockets to launch them just isn't in the cards.
They will resume thruster orientation maintained by the Russian modules. the Zarya Control module (Formerly the FGB Tug), and the Zvezda Service Module which is how the altitude and orientation were maintained until the Gyroscopes were installed as a part of the Z1 Truss.
Zarya was launched in November 1998.
Unity was attached by Shuttle Endeavour in December 1998.
Zvedza docked to the fledgling station on July 25th, 2000.
The Z1 Truss was installed by Shuttle Discovery in October, 2000.
The Control Moment Gyroscopes which are an integral part of the Z1 Truss, weren't activated until Assembly Mission 5A in February 2001.
Yes, this is a big deal, it will not however, result in the station tumbling out of control and dooming it forever.
No, tracking is not implicit because it's not personalized data. It's generalized data about the conditions on the road ahead.
Because it's short range. A sign on the side of the highway is constantly broadcasting the current condition of the road ahead. A reciever in your car, as you pass this sign, receives the signal, and interperts it as "Traffic moving slowly past next transfer" or "Accident ahead in center lane, reduce speed."
They don't have to know who "YOU" are, nor do they even need to know if there's anyone on the road. The sign just keeps spitting out the current road condition ahead, and anyone with a reciever that passes it, get's told what the conditions are up ahead.
They already do this in Ontario with LED signs over the major highways. Sensors imbedded in the roadbeds measure traffic speed and density, and automatically update the signs with the road conditions.
K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home...
He's listed off the three people his granddaughter has watched using the computer, her mother, his wife, and himself.
It's trademarked as Windows Millenium Edition.
I'm not sure what language you're speaking though, so who knows, maybe it does.
It is absolutely necessary that they do everything they can to protect their trademarks or they risk losing them.
It's the same sort of thing between Apple Records and Apple Computer (which is heating up again over iTunes).
that Win95 OSR2 put a web browser into the hands of the masses with every computer they bought. It drove the demand for content.
if there weren't people looking for it. It would have remained the realm of academia, research papers in shitty fonts on plain gray backgrounds. Content appearing on the web went hand in hand with people on the web looking for content. What kind of mental deficient puts up a billboard (or builds a library) on a country trail in the middle of nowhere where 6 cars a day pass by?
own sites? A LOT Of bands these days have music samples, and videos on their websites, they let you sample the music on the CD's all you want, without violating their copyright and downloading the entire CD.
If you can't find samples provided by people who own the rights to distribute them, don't buy the music, and let them know that you didn't buy the music because they had no samples available.
Maybe that'll lead to more positive change than using a P2P app to commit wholesale piracy, which only fuels their perception that people just want their music for free.
There are constructive ways to seek change, and destructive ways to seek change. Wholesale P2P fuelled piracy is a destructive avenue to the change you, and all of us are seeking.
They've said many times, that iTunes makes them almost no profit at all. It pays it's costs, but the real reason behind iTunes is to drive sales of the iPod, which does have a relatively healthy profit margin.
The iPod (and HP branded iPod) are the only devices that currently play iTunes Music Store content without having to format shift the music.
But in every single one of those cases, the copyright holder made the CHOICE to release their products in that manner.
The problem with the most common, widespread P2P use is that people are distributing products without the consent of the rights holders, removing that choice from whoever holds the copyright on that work.
By all means, support those who make this choice as much as you can, but do not then turn around and TAKE other peoples work, who have not made this choice, and demand that they do, or you'll just keep taking it.
As it melts its way through the ice, it's unreeling from its tether (rather than dragging a tether which is unreeling from the lander)
Think of a wire-guided missile or torpedo, the spool of control wire is on the projectile, not the launching station.
That people weren't just taking the coal and oil, bypassing the coal and oil deliverymen. They switched over to gas (and they're paying the Gas company to deliver it to their house via pipelines)
These analogies almost always break down because they ignore the fact that artists aren't losing their jobs to technology, artists are having their creative works taking by people, using technology. They're still creating works, they're just being taken because people don't want to pay for them.
No, Shakespeare and the other greats didn't need the MPAA/RIAA to protect their creative works. They relied on thugs with clubs and incendiary devices to protect their creative works.
If the engines fail, the RAT deploys. If I'm not mistaken, it's essentially a propeller generataor that is deployed into the airflow (usually under) the aircraft. It provides just enough power in an emergency to keep the hydraulics and flight control systems operating in the event of total engine failure.
in a useful for to the Internet Content Deployers since Windows 95.
Why then are almost all movie trailers in Quicktime format first, and WMV a distant second?
Isolated Storage .NET Framework that allows us to store data in files that are automatically grouped by user and by application. Each application has its own isolated storage area for each user. We don't need to worry about where the files are physically stored on disk because that is automatically handled for us.
.NET Framework itself is responsible for managing the files, we need few security permissions to use isolated storage. This means that even code deployed in the Internet or intranet zones can use isolated storage.
.NET Framework only allows our application to access its specific files. However, the reality is that this directory tree is accessible to the user or any administrator on the system because they can manually navigate to this directory structure using Windows Explorer. For this reason, sensitive data should not be stored in clear text within isolated storage.
Isolated storage is a feature of the
Isolated storage has the key benefit that it can be used in no-touch deployed code. Since the
Behind the scenes, isolated storage is maintained as a set of subdirectories beneath the user's profile directory. On Microsoft Windows(R) XP for instance, this is systemdrive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\IsolatedStorage. A directory tree is automatically created beneath this location, with each application having its own directory, isolated from any other application directories.
The
In most cases, isolated storage is ideal for storing user-specific application settings. It is automatically per-user and per-application, so all we need to do is store our settings data as files within the isolated storage area.
Storing User Configurations
Fox cancelled the show.
Joss Whedon tried to shop the show around to other networks trying to get it picked up, but was unsuccessful.
Decided to try and get a movie made, managed to get that green lighted.
Best hope is that the movie will be successful enough to give him more ammunition trying to get the show picked up for a second season.
HP could certainly have their Jet Direct card look like a Shared Printer and have it respond when the network is browsed, but they don't.
Of course, you could have just installed the Jet Direct Software on the client, and it would have auto-discovered all the Jet Direct printers on the network. Microsoft can hardly be blamed for HP's whacky network support.