The last 500 million euro fireworks display was caused by:
"The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer value."
See this link for more stuff
http://www.math.ufl.edu/~cws/3114/ariane-siam.html
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast03dec_1.htm
has all about it.
Apparently caused by re-entry of the first stages of a big russian launch. They were putting up some navigation satellites.
The C5 showed Clive Sinclair, director of MENSA (association of self-proclaimed genii) for what he was. The C5 was slow, unstable, difficult to steer and dangerous. Cruising along with one wheel in the gutter, exhaust fumes blowing through your hair, with the wheelnuts of some juggernaut spinning inches your ear is one reason these failed. Nasty plastic body, poor visibility and range - these were true dorkmobiles and deserved to fail.
You don't need permission to buy a book, just to copy it. Similarly, you don't need permission to buy software, just to copy it.
The point being that when you use 'a work' on a computer (installing, executing etc.) you are almost always copying the work. This copying requires permission from the copyright owner - the permission comes in the form of a licence.
You can use a copyrighted book however you like as long as you don't copy it. Apple could have published the data on their upgrade disk as a book and included permission for the book owner to make a single copy of the upgrade code. The owner could then scan in the relevent data and upgrade their operating system. The owner would not have permission to scan and install the whole book.
I suppose you could transform any work into any other work if you used the correct viewer. If your book turned into the sequel when read backwards you could read it backwards if you wanted but wouldn't be permitted to make a backwards copy that would breach copyright of the sequel.
Probably.
Isn't the point that you when you purchase software, you are actually purchasing a licence to install and use a copy of it? You might own the physical disk but you don't own the pattern of 1s and 0s stored on it. This pattern is copyright of Apple and you need a licence to copy it and install it.
If you found an expensive licence stuffed down the back of the upgrade CD, then you'd have really got something for nothing.
More of a point is why Apple put the whole operating system on the upgrade CD. If I saw such a juicy apple going free, I might be tempted to pluck it too.
A male American would be referred to as a 'geezer'. A 'bloke' is British, drinks warm beer and wouldn't be seen dead with a GPS. Blokes rely, instead, on 'The Knowledge'. 'The Knowledge' involves memorising the entire London A-to-Z streetmap and forgetting all traffic regulations. All London cabbies have done The Knowledge. American geezers can be identified by their baseball hats, oversized back-to-front jeans and 'I shagged Britney' t-shirts. Blokes can be identified by their baseball hats, oversized back-to-front jeans and 'I shagged Britney first' t-shirts.
Ionising radiation creates highly reactive free radical molecules that damage cell proteins, particularly causing breaks in the DNA. Single-strand breaks can be repaired perfectly because the DNA is still held together by the other strand of the double helix. The cell division process can fail, cause damage or kill the cell if it occurs when the DNA is broken. Thus, rapidly dividing cells, which have less time to repair damage, suffer more damage from ionising radiation.
Alpha particles create so much ionisation in their short path (millimeters) that double strand breaks are created. Double strand breaks are much harder to repair and cause permanent damage (mutations) to healthy cells. Some of these mutations are cancerous. Hence, alpha emitters, such as plutonium and radon gas, are highly carcinogenic. The advantage of using alpha emitters in this case is that their range in body tissues is very short and they deliver their dose to the region targeted by the antibodies.
It's paradoxical that people worry about driving a car fueled by pressurised gas but remain unconcerned when carrying containers of compressed butane gas right next to their wedding tackle in the form of gas lighters. All a question of perceived risk. Not eating enough fruit and vegetables is more likely to doom you to an early death than travelling by hydrogen powered car. That is, unless the car driven by my girlfriend.
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The last 500 million euro fireworks display was caused by: "The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer value." See this link for more stuff http://www.math.ufl.edu/~cws/3114/ariane-siam.html
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast03dec_1 .htm
has all about it.
Apparently caused by re-entry of the first stages of a big russian launch. They were putting up some navigation satellites.
The C5 showed Clive Sinclair, director of MENSA (association of self-proclaimed genii) for what he was. The C5 was slow, unstable, difficult to steer and dangerous. Cruising along with one wheel in the gutter, exhaust fumes blowing through your hair, with the wheelnuts of some juggernaut spinning inches your ear is one reason these failed. Nasty plastic body, poor visibility and range - these were true dorkmobiles and deserved to fail.
You don't need permission to buy a book, just to copy it. Similarly, you don't need permission to buy software, just to copy it. The point being that when you use 'a work' on a computer (installing, executing etc.) you are almost always copying the work. This copying requires permission from the copyright owner - the permission comes in the form of a licence. You can use a copyrighted book however you like as long as you don't copy it. Apple could have published the data on their upgrade disk as a book and included permission for the book owner to make a single copy of the upgrade code. The owner could then scan in the relevent data and upgrade their operating system. The owner would not have permission to scan and install the whole book. I suppose you could transform any work into any other work if you used the correct viewer. If your book turned into the sequel when read backwards you could read it backwards if you wanted but wouldn't be permitted to make a backwards copy that would breach copyright of the sequel. Probably.
Watches down the back of car seats?
Isn't the point that you when you purchase software, you are actually purchasing a licence to install and use a copy of it? You might own the physical disk but you don't own the pattern of 1s and 0s stored on it. This pattern is copyright of Apple and you need a licence to copy it and install it.
If you found an expensive licence stuffed down the back of the upgrade CD, then you'd have really got something for nothing.
More of a point is why Apple put the whole operating system on the upgrade CD. If I saw such a juicy apple going free, I might be tempted to pluck it too.
So Bill is currently on the throne - is that where all the crap comes from?
A male American would be referred to as a 'geezer'. A 'bloke' is British, drinks warm beer and wouldn't be seen dead with a GPS. Blokes rely, instead, on 'The Knowledge'. 'The Knowledge' involves memorising the entire London A-to-Z streetmap and forgetting all traffic regulations. All London cabbies have done The Knowledge. American geezers can be identified by their baseball hats, oversized back-to-front jeans and 'I shagged Britney' t-shirts. Blokes can be identified by their baseball hats, oversized back-to-front jeans and 'I shagged Britney first' t-shirts.
I was under the impression that this minature camera was held in-situ with a bent coat-hanger and was not an actual 'helmet mounted' camera.
Ionising radiation creates highly reactive free radical molecules that damage cell proteins, particularly causing breaks in the DNA. Single-strand breaks can be repaired perfectly because the DNA is still held together by the other strand of the double helix. The cell division process can fail, cause damage or kill the cell if it occurs when the DNA is broken. Thus, rapidly dividing cells, which have less time to repair damage, suffer more damage from ionising radiation. Alpha particles create so much ionisation in their short path (millimeters) that double strand breaks are created. Double strand breaks are much harder to repair and cause permanent damage (mutations) to healthy cells. Some of these mutations are cancerous. Hence, alpha emitters, such as plutonium and radon gas, are highly carcinogenic. The advantage of using alpha emitters in this case is that their range in body tissues is very short and they deliver their dose to the region targeted by the antibodies.
It's paradoxical that people worry about driving a car fueled by pressurised gas but remain unconcerned when carrying containers of compressed butane gas right next to their wedding tackle in the form of gas lighters. All a question of perceived risk. Not eating enough fruit and vegetables is more likely to doom you to an early death than travelling by hydrogen powered car. That is, unless the car driven by my girlfriend.