I have it set to only 10 ad-free pages per day, and I don't block ads with my browser, DNS settings, or anything else. (I even click on a few of the ads.)
That said...there does seem to be a problem with the Slashdot submission/approval process. Recently, when I emailed the on-duty editor about an error in one of the Mysterious Future articles, I got a message back saying that my message was waiting for moderator approval before being admitted on the list. (I suspect they use an internal mailing list...but moderator approval?)
It's the business politics of it I don't like. If they weren't selective about who they licensed to, and didn't form an IP-controlling cooperative, I probably wouldn't mind.
This might be more insightful to me if engineers weren't practically the lowest on the decision-making totem pole.
Depends on the company. In some companies, engineers are a real driving force. I link to Google only because they're the most successful that I know of. But there are many others.
But seriously, doesn't filling a chamber with something sort of nullify the whole vacuum thing?
Sure. But I suspect the important part was that the equipment could remove all the gasses (read, "impurities") from the chamber before they let in the deuterium gas. And provide a controlled method for disposing of the products (still nearly all deuterium) of the experiment afterward.
For chemical reactions, deuterium is identical to hydrogen. So it's something whose disposal has to be controlled, not merely dumped into the lab. Don't want someone's flipping a light switch to cause a fire.
If it's more than one step, you can patent everything along the way...
Collecting license fees from the competitors you like, and strangling the development of the ones you don't. In the process, a cartel controlling patents fundamental to the manufacturing process forms, creating a new IP power for the future to deal with.
...'cause I probably am, after thinking this one up.
Maybe he wants to import the tech intelligentsia of other countries in order to train them to be be knowledgable in, and advocates of, Microsoft software? Give them a contract that says they'll work in the US for five or ten years, then send them home.
Side benefits including being able to seed developing nations with pro-Microsoft software development houses,
Re:From snails point of view, data rate ~= 0 bps
on
Snails Edge Out ADSL
·
· Score: 1
They're referring to measureing time from the snail's perspective. As you increase velocity, the amount of time you experience relative to your surroundings decreases.
Re:Hang on, lets establish some standards here...
on
Snails Edge Out ADSL
·
· Score: 1
Only if you treat each photon as representing a single-digit binary value. You can have it represent any number of bits, if you divide the spectrum into that many ranges, and measure the photon's energy.
Try disabling the eyecandy. XP runs (well, ran. I swapped out the hard drives to run Linux on it for a while) fine on my 750MHz Duron with a TNT2 video card. The catch? I disabled the eyecandy. Which was fine, since it didn't do anything for me, anyway.
That machine will soon be bumped up from 192MB to 768MB. I found 3 256MB sticks in a box I'd forgotten I was building. (It had been packed away while I moves from one room to another.) I might even get back into Diablo 2.
Normally, I'd agree with you. But someone's been using my gmail address in the "From" field of spam messages, and GMail doesn't recognize the bounces from AOL as spam.
All AOL has to do is improve its own spam filtering system to the point of not being harmful to non-AOL customers, and I'd be happy. But they haven't done that.
I used to post as mmol_6453. For some reason or another, I'd stopped getting mod points. I thought I'd done something that pissed off an admin.
A few months after I stopped posting as mmol_6453, I resumed posting as Short Circuit. I sent Taco an email asking if he wanted to drop mods on this account, too. He said they didn't have anything to do with my not getting mod points, that my usage stats were probably out of range of what was required to receive mod points.
Which is probably true. I spend my free time at work reading Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
...is a perspective gun.
;)
Then you'll know exactly how much they matter.
I do.
I have it set to only 10 ad-free pages per day, and I don't block ads with my browser, DNS settings, or anything else. (I even click on a few of the ads.)
That said...there does seem to be a problem with the Slashdot submission/approval process. Recently, when I emailed the on-duty editor about an error in one of the Mysterious Future articles, I got a message back saying that my message was waiting for moderator approval before being admitted on the list. (I suspect they use an internal mailing list...but moderator approval?)
Ignorance of one's rights has always had a dampening effect on the exercise of one's rights. That's hardly the law's fault.
Then what's the deal with Miranda v. Arizona? Perhaps DMCA-invoking companies should be required to notify their targets of avenues of recourse?
That might be a good idea, and it might not. I'm no legal expert.
It's the business politics of it I don't like. If they weren't selective about who they licensed to, and didn't form an IP-controlling cooperative, I probably wouldn't mind.
This might be more insightful to me if engineers weren't practically the lowest on the decision-making totem pole.
Depends on the company. In some companies, engineers are a real driving force. I link to Google only because they're the most successful that I know of. But there are many others.
It still depends on a supply of deuterium which, while it can be distilled from any natural water source, is still rare and difficult to obtain.
I'm going to have to remember that one. I'd use an highly appreciative acronym, but I'd get modded down for it.
:D
Thanks anyway.
once everyone has a decent standard of living we either need to go to space or prepare for another population boom...
:)
Ooh! Ooh! Can I be a Motie, too?
(Sci-fi book reference. Let's see who gets it, and what I'm implying.
But seriously, doesn't filling a chamber with something sort of nullify the whole vacuum thing?
Sure. But I suspect the important part was that the equipment could remove all the gasses (read, "impurities") from the chamber before they let in the deuterium gas. And provide a controlled method for disposing of the products (still nearly all deuterium) of the experiment afterward.
For chemical reactions, deuterium is identical to hydrogen. So it's something whose disposal has to be controlled, not merely dumped into the lab. Don't want someone's flipping a light switch to cause a fire.
If it's more than one step, you can patent everything along the way...
Collecting license fees from the competitors you like, and strangling the development of the ones you don't. In the process, a cartel controlling patents fundamental to the manufacturing process forms, creating a new IP power for the future to deal with.
No. Call me paranoid, but I don't like the idea.
...'cause I probably am, after thinking this one up.
Maybe he wants to import the tech intelligentsia of other countries in order to train them to be be knowledgable in, and advocates of, Microsoft software? Give them a contract that says they'll work in the US for five or ten years, then send them home.
Side benefits including being able to seed developing nations with pro-Microsoft software development houses,
Enabling that would make FPS games more difficult. But I haven't played them much recently, anyway.
Thanks for the tip.
Now, convert or pay!
;-)
Why either/or? You make more money if you demand both.
Nice. I can do with PS/2 connectors...but where's the middle mouse button?
Search bash.org for hunter2.
If you ping a snail, does it become broadband?
They're referring to measureing time from the snail's perspective. As you increase velocity, the amount of time you experience relative to your surroundings decreases.
Only if you treat each photon as representing a single-digit binary value. You can have it represent any number of bits, if you divide the spectrum into that many ranges, and measure the photon's energy.
OK, 300GB drives. That beats your density by eight times!
:)
You may now call me Übergeek.
I thought the baker's pie had crows in it, not toads...
Try disabling the eyecandy. XP runs (well, ran. I swapped out the hard drives to run Linux on it for a while) fine on my 750MHz Duron with a TNT2 video card. The catch? I disabled the eyecandy. Which was fine, since it didn't do anything for me, anyway.
That machine will soon be bumped up from 192MB to 768MB. I found 3 256MB sticks in a box I'd forgotten I was building. (It had been packed away while I moves from one room to another.) I might even get back into Diablo 2.
That wouldn't be a 760XL, would it? The power connector on mine is loose...
I'd like a full-sized USB keyboard with the eraser mouse on it. And multimedia keys. That'd be awesome.
Once you get used to it, that pointing device is great for multiplayer FPS.
Normally, I'd agree with you. But someone's been using my gmail address in the "From" field of spam messages, and GMail doesn't recognize the bounces from AOL as spam.
All AOL has to do is improve its own spam filtering system to the point of not being harmful to non-AOL customers, and I'd be happy. But they haven't done that.
(Or there email, but that's another story)
I used to post as mmol_6453. For some reason or another, I'd stopped getting mod points. I thought I'd done something that pissed off an admin.
A few months after I stopped posting as mmol_6453, I resumed posting as Short Circuit. I sent Taco an email asking if he wanted to drop mods on this account, too. He said they didn't have anything to do with my not getting mod points, that my usage stats were probably out of range of what was required to receive mod points.
Which is probably true. I spend my free time at work reading Slashdot.