Some [suitably located] data centers, for instance this one, in Sweden do pump heat into the "remote heat" (fjärrvärme) grid, which then goes out to individual homes, apartment buildings etc
Back whern they were kept in single boxes/partitions/stalls (or what they're called) (today they tend to be allowed to walk around more, often free to use an automated milking station on its own schedule) there was often an electrode suspended just above the back of the cow. Apparently they arch their back as they go.. After a few times they learned to take a step or two backwards, depositing into a grating covered manure ditch instead of onto the floor, avoiding the electrode.
IIRC the use of these electrodes was stopped even prior to the more free style of keeping them.
Marketwatch sees a completely different phenomenon:
Since the $1.05 billion verdict Friday — which found that Samsung infringed on six Apple AAPL -1.04% patents — customers of Samsung have been dumping their Android products on at least one major resale site. Gazelle.com reports a 50% increase in Samsung smartphones over the past three days, which has led to a 10% drop in prices for those devices"
And that's extrapolating wildly outside the data that they have, drawing conclusions they have no real base for, as they have no idea what their sellers bought instead. Couldn't it possibly be newer, potentially under risk of being banned, Samsung gear?
If he was probably hanged, then he may have been unfit for society (although that's not conclusive, as whoever did the hanging could easily have been the one unfit for society).
Not necessarily either of them - it could have been ritual sacrifice, of a valued member, by other valued members, of society...
If the British courts found nothing to press charges then why is the US wasting money pursuing this, and we all know it's at the behest of the MPAA, RIAA or whomever.
Guess they coyldn't pressure the UK government, and through them the British courts, like the did the Swedes. Not long before some Swedish politicos visited Washington, the DA that later brought the case agains TPB said (in effect) "Nothing we can do about TPB given the current laws" - guess he saw the light.
There's a reason we use AC for transmission of power over distances more than a few meters.
Unless it's real long haul / bulk transmission, where DC is again a player - in the form of High Voltage DC where they actually can offer lower losses than AC.
Ice has less density than water, true, so floating ice that melts will lower the water level, not raise it.
Bzzzzzzt... Mr. Archimedes begs to differ - the water level will remain unchanged
The difference in densities is what causes part of the icecube/berg to stick up above the surface. As the ice melts it will increase it density and lower its volume to perfectly fill the volume that was beneath the surface
> if the judge had been a member of the Pirate Party, TPB would have been acquitted, and would not be able to be retried (double jeopardy)
The case would have gone to the next level (Hovrätten) anyway as the prosecution may appeal the lower court's (Tingsrätten) verdict, just the same as the defence can.
...Or some of us really are apathetic.
I'm not sure if I'm going to not vote as a protest, or to cast a ballot for whomever is going to make my life less miserable.
Less miserable? Won't happen. Best you can hope for would be for least amount of more miserable...
Sense of proportion - Copyright infringement: Max 3 years, Murder - 25 to Life. I see a sense of proportion
from what I've found in a quick search (not that familiar with the Swedish penalty ranges) the penalty for murder in Sweden is 10 years to life - where life isn't life but often around 14 years inside. Of a 10 year penalty 6-7 is typically actually served.
I'd be very surprised if this filesharer gets rprison time - the case is about one movie, not for profit.. What would someone selling burned CDs/DVDs of software get? Or in true large scale operations where thay actually press the discs in thousands? While this DA said "we have to investigate everyhing reported", another one (in Malmö), is apparently of a differing view and declines to investigate as the "penalty value" is too low... article in the paper Sydsvenskan: http://w1.sydsvenskan.se/Article.jsp?article=10113 163
I heard a rumour that in Sweden, traffic tickets and many other fines are proportional to your income as opposed to being fixed. This means, if a rich guy gets caught speeding, this mere fine can cost him millions. It's just a rumour I overheard, so don't take it for granted nor accurate.
Not the minor stuff like minor speeding etc, there the fines are fixed, but towards the upper end (serious speeding etc) where the court gets involved you can get a penalty of x "dagsböter" (x "days earnings") which is based on your income -- what you bring home per day.
Very much doubt it's ever reached millions (even in SEK) - maybe, maybe if someone like Bill Gates would do Mach 1 weaving through rush-hour traffic...
In Denmark the Smart forfour 1.5L will cost you approx $39,000 - quite a long way from 12,000
But don't you guys have some really high taxes and stuff that adds alot to the base price of the car?
I know that, as a Swede, I can import a car from Denmark, and for the cost of dealing with the administrative stuff save quite a bit of money even after adding the Swedish taxes etc. This, as I understand it, because the car manufacturers actually depress the base price in Denmark so that the final price the customer pays won't get even higher...
Creative is one of the most consumer-hostile companies in the world
The Karma is from Rio (as the name Rio Karma hints...). Rio is know owned by DNNA (Digital Networks North America) in turn owned by Denon. I fail to see where Creative enters the picture.
Could someone pass character_assassin the cluestick, please?
It seems to me that character_assasin isn't the one needing the cluestick...
Huh?
No need to open the case at all - for reading out pics I used the connector from an old Palm III dock and it works nicely. The batteries are standard AAs, exchangeable by a normal battery hatch - no need to unscrew anything.
They were reading byte by byte - each byte read required multiple calls on the USB channel. That was before they discovered the commands for doing bulk reads, now it takes less than a second to get a pic off the camera.
The initially posted pictures aren't good - there are two other sites with samples that are better quality. Seems the first guy might have had a cam with misaligned lense or something like that...
It's cheap, but the pics I can pull of mine are definately OK for web use - and the camera is cheap enough that I don't need to worry about it getting lost, stolen or abused at some drunken party...
I'll probably get another one and adjust the focus so it can be used at really close range, to document electronics and such.
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Nah, while related, Swedish!= German (which I believe is what GP was aiming for)
of course it'd also very likely generate hydrogen gas - and that, when mixed with air and sparks/molten metal, is rather likely to explode...
Some [suitably located] data centers, for instance this one, in Sweden do pump heat into the "remote heat" (fjärrvärme) grid, which then goes out to individual homes, apartment buildings etc
Back whern they were kept in single boxes/partitions/stalls (or what they're called) (today they tend to be allowed to walk around more, often free to use an automated milking station on its own schedule) there was often an electrode suspended just above the back of the cow. Apparently they arch their back as they go.. After a few times they learned to take a step or two backwards, depositing into a grating covered manure ditch instead of onto the floor, avoiding the electrode. IIRC the use of these electrodes was stopped even prior to the more free style of keeping them.
Marketwatch sees a completely different phenomenon :
Since the $1.05 billion verdict Friday — which found that Samsung infringed on six Apple AAPL -1.04% patents — customers of Samsung have been dumping their Android products on at least one major resale site. Gazelle.com reports a 50% increase in Samsung smartphones over the past three days, which has led to a 10% drop in prices for those devices"
And that's extrapolating wildly outside the data that they have, drawing conclusions they have no real base for, as they have no idea what their sellers bought instead. Couldn't it possibly be newer, potentially under risk of being banned, Samsung gear?
If he was probably hanged, then he may have been unfit for society (although that's not conclusive, as whoever did the hanging could easily have been the one unfit for society).
Not necessarily either of them - it could have been ritual sacrifice, of a valued member, by other valued members, of society...
SAP is well-known . . . but I don`t think that many people really know what it actually does.
Sucks the money out of any organization trying to implement it?
If the British courts found nothing to press charges then why is the US wasting money pursuing this, and we all know it's at the behest of the MPAA, RIAA or whomever.
Guess they coyldn't pressure the UK government, and through them the British courts, like the did the Swedes. Not long before some Swedish politicos visited Washington, the DA that later brought the case agains TPB said (in effect) "Nothing we can do about TPB given the current laws" - guess he saw the light.
h puts him in the top 95% around here...
Faint praise if I ever saw it...I suspect that you mean "in the top 5%" or "above 95% of"
There's a reason we use AC for transmission of power over distances more than a few meters.
Unless it's real long haul / bulk transmission, where DC is again a player - in the form of High Voltage DC where they actually can offer lower losses than AC.
Ice has less density than water, true, so floating ice that melts will lower the water level, not raise it.
Bzzzzzzt... Mr. Archimedes begs to differ - the water level will remain unchanged
The difference in densities is what causes part of the icecube/berg to stick up above the surface. As the ice melts it will increase it density and lower its volume to perfectly fill the volume that was beneath the surface
time for slashdot to get with the times.
We may not have flying cars, but in this case I vote for a flying chair icon...
They're also working to develop a process that allows the transformation of gold into lead.
They're late - the economists already have that process perfected.
Why do you assume he's not factoring in the number of people who simply wouldn't make the purchase into the figures he's saying?
Past performance? Presenting cooked numbers & flawed studies is after all S.O.P. for the media business and its hang-arounds.
> if the judge had been a member of the Pirate Party, TPB would have been acquitted, and would not be able to be retried (double jeopardy)
The case would have gone to the next level (Hovrätten) anyway as the prosecution may appeal the lower court's (Tingsrätten) verdict, just the same as the defence can.
...Or some of us really are apathetic. I'm not sure if I'm going to not vote as a protest, or to cast a ballot for whomever is going to make my life less miserable.
Less miserable? Won't happen. Best you can hope for would be for least amount of more miserable...
Under Tools -> IE Tab Options, Sites Filter tab - add the site, wildcarded as needed, for instance like http://foo.com/*
Sense of proportion - Copyright infringement: Max 3 years, Murder - 25 to Life. I see a sense of proportion
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from what I've found in a quick search (not that familiar with the Swedish penalty ranges) the penalty for murder in Sweden is 10 years to life - where life isn't life but often around 14 years inside. Of a 10 year penalty 6-7 is typically actually served.
I'd be very surprised if this filesharer gets rprison time - the case is about one movie, not for profit.. What would someone selling burned CDs/DVDs of software get? Or in true large scale operations where thay actually press the discs in thousands? While this DA said "we have to investigate everyhing reported", another one (in Malmö), is apparently of a differing view and declines to investigate as the "penalty value" is too low... article in the paper Sydsvenskan: http://w1.sydsvenskan.se/Article.jsp?article=1011
I heard a rumour that in Sweden, traffic tickets and many other fines are proportional to your income as opposed to being fixed. This means, if a rich guy gets caught speeding, this mere fine can cost him millions. It's just a rumour I overheard, so don't take it for granted nor accurate.
Not the minor stuff like minor speeding etc, there the fines are fixed, but towards the upper end (serious speeding etc) where the court gets involved you can get a penalty of x "dagsböter" (x "days earnings") which is based on your income -- what you bring home per day. Very much doubt it's ever reached millions (even in SEK) - maybe, maybe if someone like Bill Gates would do Mach 1 weaving through rush-hour traffic...
In Denmark the Smart forfour 1.5L will cost you approx $39,000 - quite a long way from 12,000 But don't you guys have some really high taxes and stuff that adds alot to the base price of the car? I know that, as a Swede, I can import a car from Denmark, and for the cost of dealing with the administrative stuff save quite a bit of money even after adding the Swedish taxes etc. This, as I understand it, because the car manufacturers actually depress the base price in Denmark so that the final price the customer pays won't get even higher...
From the article: "lawsuits that the RIAA filed against individuals charged with illegally sharing songs" (emphasis mine)
The Rio Karma requires that you convert all your files to some lossy DRM-encumbered format before it will play the files back.
/Michael
Wrong. The Karma plays mp3, ogg, wma and flac. So no need to use a lossy format, nor DRM...
The Rio Karma is also unsupported by Mac OS X
While the Rio Music Manager is Windows only, the Rio Music Manager Lite is Java and should run on any platform supported by Java...
Creative is one of the most consumer-hostile companies in the world
The Karma is from Rio (as the name Rio Karma hints...). Rio is know owned by DNNA (Digital Networks North America) in turn owned by Denon. I fail to see where Creative enters the picture.
Could someone pass character_assassin the cluestick, please?
It seems to me that character_assasin isn't the one needing the cluestick...
Yup, details of how to mess with the Dakota Digital camera can be found here, for instance.
Huh? No need to open the case at all - for reading out pics I used the connector from an old Palm III dock and it works nicely. The batteries are standard AAs, exchangeable by a normal battery hatch - no need to unscrew anything.
They were reading byte by byte - each byte read required multiple calls on the USB channel. That was before they discovered the commands for doing bulk reads, now it takes less than a second to get a pic off the camera.
The initially posted pictures aren't good - there are two other sites with samples that are better quality. Seems the first guy might have had a cam with misaligned lense or something like that...
It's cheap, but the pics I can pull of mine are definately OK for web use - and the camera is cheap enough that I don't need to worry about it getting lost, stolen or abused at some drunken party...
I'll probably get another one and adjust the focus so it can be used at really close range, to document electronics and such.