No it won't. They'll still just make it up as they go along and deny the previous episodes ever happened. Audience: what happened to the dinosaur? writers: what dinosaur? Audience: what happened to the polar bears? writers: what polar bears? Writers: Lalalalalalaalal, we can't hear you.
Sumatra PDF is a good lightweight (under 1mb) freeware PDF viewer for Windows.
It opens PDF files extremely quickly (usually in less than a second on my rather average computer, compared to an average of almost 10 secs with Adobe Reader) and doesn't try to takeover you computer and run your life etc. I've also yet to find a PDF which doesn't display correctly with it.
"And you have to pay for the BBC channels, even if you only want the non-BBC channels"
But would you actually want to? Unless you like endless big brother (which apparently is restarting soon, god dammit!), ITV Play and the crap they have on the commercial channels, the current system is optimal imho. Sure, some claim they watch Sky TV or cable exclusively for a while, but sooner or later everyone realises that brain cells need companions and so end up switching back to watching mainly terrestrial channels.
Failed? Didn't you see that "Mission Accomplished" speech that was on the news a few years ago? We must have won.
I never quite understood though why a "victory" speech about a war in a virtually landlocked country was made from an aircraft carrier sitting in an ocean hundreds miles away. Besides, according to Bush the people of Baghdad would great us (and therefore him) "with open arms".
The summary does match the topic, it is just the title which is slightly misleading. The first line of the summary reads "A new £3.6bn project to upgrade the space communications network for British forces".
What if a 14 year old (or someone with subject knowledge of a 14 year old, which for many science topics is most people), wants to read the rest of the article?
By doing that you are making every wikipedia article a mere paragraph in length for all but the sorts of people who probably already know about the subject.
But what does that have to do with the problem highlighted by the article?
It seems to be more based around the common issue of reader competence and the fact that different many unrelated editors inevitably produce articles which are not coherent in this way. The problem remains that the only way Wikipedia articles can become suitable for a range of readership levels (as the editors inevitably write for) is to make the articles large and bloated.
As the article states, there is no way this problem can be directly overcome while Wikipedia remains in its current form.
This isn't necessarily the case. Look at Battlefield 2, it has paid add-ons (which, given their frequency of release, became pretty similar to a subscription). Although the add-ons allow the player to choose from a greater selection of weapons, few would say they get any real advantage, they simply get to use a different weapon.
Why does the title read "Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter" when - as the first line of the summary states -, the HST actually only "may have finally found dark matter".
"Has found" and "may have found" are very different things. I "may have" the lotto ticket which is going to win me millions of dollars in Saturday's draw; on the other hand, I may not. To pre-emptively state a conclusion before it has been made is foolish and extremely unscientific and simply not an accurate description.
I can't believe Lucas wanted a longer pod race! That was probably the worst part of the entire film imho. Talk about a lack of suspense, everyone knew from the start he was obviously going to win, so what exactly was the point of even showing it?
Although it's obviously a marketing name, technically speaking the term "true hybrid" is somewhat of an oxymoron. Something can either be whole/pure: true or it can be a mixture/partial: hybrid.
The term "full hybrid" is only slightly better. But lets not let facts stand in the way of marketing, I'm still waiting to find out where the "Sports" in "Sports Utility Vehicle" comes from. Nascar and Formula-1 vehicles are definitely "sports" cars, Ford Explorer's are most certainly not in my opinion.
If you had documented the process by which a random number generator had thrown up that number completely by chance and not in pursuit of the AACS encryption key then I think you would be OK.
It is a purely hypothetical question though because even if every single person on earth ran a random number generator the chances of the AACS encryption key coming up would be like 1 in 10^28 or so. which is why no court would believe you. If say the AACS encyption key was "6" out of a possible number system 1 - 9, and IP addresses were also 1 digit long, then I reckon you would probably get away with it though.
BTW: anyone can "sue" anyone for any reason, it doesn't mean squat. The crux is whether the case wins in court or not.
If it was obvious you choose it at random (of which the chance is something like 1 in 3 x 10^38) or because of a reason other than its relation to the AACS HD-DVD encryption system, yes. Otherwise, no.
I was using the dollar because as one of the (if not the) world's main currencies the fact that (along with the Yen) it has decreased in value would imply that the Euro was likely to seriously decrease in value to what should be its lowest point yet.
The fact that (initial over-pricing aside) it has increased in value (all currencies only have a value relative to other currencies) against the Dollar (and Yen) proves it has not been quite the failure your post implied.
I must say however that your evaluation of the Yaun demonstrates a stark misunderstanding of macro-economics.
The DMCA never states that it is illegal to distribute any number, it states that it is illegal to distribute a number which has the sole/main/intended/implied/whatever-else purpose of breaking a copyright measure.
If you had encrypted your haiku with any 128bit number then it would most probably be deemed that someone with a 128bit IP address was using your number by co-incidence. If however your 128-bit haiku encryption number appeared on a "how to decrypt encrypted haikus" website, then you would have a case however.
You should also tell the DoD, they only ensure civilian accuracy to around 50 ft / 15 meters (it's far less accurate in many parts of the world). The Galileo system on the other hand will work with GPS to allow accuracy within a few Inches/Centimeters.
You say that as if the Euro is in a weak position. It has certainly performed a lot stronger then both the U.S. Dollar and the Japanese Yen over the last half-decade. Only the Chinese and British currencies have beaten it.
During the same period, our U.S. Dollar has decreased from being worth around 0.75 British Pounds to the point now where it is hovering around half a British Pound (i.e. 1 British Pound regularly topping 2 dollars!), a comparison not seen in several decades.
Combined with our current massive foreign deficit and the slowdown in the economy, the weak dollar is not good at all. Sure, it does help our (i.e. USA) exporters and the picture is complicated as always, but it is really hurting the rest of us. The rising price of gas being one of the most obvious examples, but more worrying is all the big corporations moving from New York to London and Paris.
I think "could" is the operative word here. We all know though that it won't, otherwise cable itself would already be free (i.e. before DVRs/TiVos started allowing Ad removal).
Getting woman is extremely easy, you just have to remember one simple rule:
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Unfortunately, it is also extremely boring! But that's how you get girls. simple!
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No it won't. They'll still just make it up as they go along and deny the previous episodes ever happened.
Audience: what happened to the dinosaur? writers: what dinosaur?
Audience: what happened to the polar bears? writers: what polar bears?
Writers: Lalalalalalaalal, we can't hear you.
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Sumatra PDF is a good lightweight (under 1mb) freeware PDF viewer for Windows.
It opens PDF files extremely quickly (usually in less than a second on my rather average computer, compared to an average of almost 10 secs with Adobe Reader) and doesn't try to takeover you computer and run your life etc. I've also yet to find a PDF which doesn't display correctly with it.
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"And you have to pay for the BBC channels, even if you only want the non-BBC channels"
But would you actually want to? Unless you like endless big brother (which apparently is restarting soon, god dammit!), ITV Play and the crap they have on the commercial channels, the current system is optimal imho. Sure, some claim they watch Sky TV or cable exclusively for a while, but sooner or later everyone realises that brain cells need companions and so end up switching back to watching mainly terrestrial channels.
Failed? Didn't you see that "Mission Accomplished" speech that was on the news a few years ago? We must have won.
I never quite understood though why a "victory" speech about a war in a virtually landlocked country was made from an aircraft carrier sitting in an ocean hundreds miles away. Besides, according to Bush the people of Baghdad would great us (and therefore him) "with open arms".
The summary does match the topic, it is just the title which is slightly misleading. The first line of the summary reads "A new £3.6bn project to upgrade the space communications network for British forces ".
What if a 14 year old (or someone with subject knowledge of a 14 year old, which for many science topics is most people), wants to read the rest of the article?
By doing that you are making every wikipedia article a mere paragraph in length for all but the sorts of people who probably already know about the subject.
But what does that have to do with the problem highlighted by the article?
It seems to be more based around the common issue of reader competence and the fact that different many unrelated editors inevitably produce articles which are not coherent in this way. The problem remains that the only way Wikipedia articles can become suitable for a range of readership levels (as the editors inevitably write for) is to make the articles large and bloated.
As the article states, there is no way this problem can be directly overcome while Wikipedia remains in its current form.
This isn't necessarily the case. Look at Battlefield 2, it has paid add-ons (which, given their frequency of release, became pretty similar to a subscription). Although the add-ons allow the player to choose from a greater selection of weapons, few would say they get any real advantage, they simply get to use a different weapon.
"but the idea of paying a subscription fee for content that will be available "as we go along" has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard"
I take it you've never heard of World of Warcraft then?
Why does the title read "Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter" when - as the first line of the summary states -, the HST actually only " may have finally found dark matter".
"Has found" and "may have found" are very different things. I "may have" the lotto ticket which is going to win me millions of dollars in Saturday's draw; on the other hand, I may not. To pre-emptively state a conclusion before it has been made is foolish and extremely unscientific and simply not an accurate description.
I can't believe Lucas wanted a longer pod race! That was probably the worst part of the entire film imho. Talk about a lack of suspense, everyone knew from the start he was obviously going to win, so what exactly was the point of even showing it?
A pair of dark glasses and a 70's style trenchcoat will fix that. The hot chick will never suspect a thing.
I couldn't agree more. Cut out all the emotional bullsh!t from the 3 recent movies and they would probably be quite good.
Well, the 2nd and 3rd ones at least, I don't think anything could save the Phantom Menace!
I'm hoping it's an adaptation of "The Mandalorian Armor". I was always told this was be the natural next progression after Return of the Jedi.
Although it's obviously a marketing name, technically speaking the term "true hybrid" is somewhat of an oxymoron. Something can either be whole/pure: true or it can be a mixture/partial: hybrid.
The term "full hybrid" is only slightly better. But lets not let facts stand in the way of marketing, I'm still waiting to find out where the "Sports" in "Sports Utility Vehicle" comes from. Nascar and Formula-1 vehicles are definitely "sports" cars, Ford Explorer's are most certainly not in my opinion.
If you had documented the process by which a random number generator had thrown up that number completely by chance and not in pursuit of the AACS encryption key then I think you would be OK.
It is a purely hypothetical question though because even if every single person on earth ran a random number generator the chances of the AACS encryption key coming up would be like 1 in 10^28 or so. which is why no court would believe you. If say the AACS encyption key was "6" out of a possible number system 1 - 9, and IP addresses were also 1 digit long, then I reckon you would probably get away with it though.
BTW: anyone can "sue" anyone for any reason, it doesn't mean squat. The crux is whether the case wins in court or not.
If it was obvious you choose it at random (of which the chance is something like 1 in 3 x 10^38) or because of a reason other than its relation to the AACS HD-DVD encryption system, yes. Otherwise, no.
I was using the dollar because as one of the (if not the) world's main currencies the fact that (along with the Yen) it has decreased in value would imply that the Euro was likely to seriously decrease in value to what should be its lowest point yet.
The fact that (initial over-pricing aside) it has increased in value (all currencies only have a value relative to other currencies) against the Dollar (and Yen) proves it has not been quite the failure your post implied.
I must say however that your evaluation of the Yaun demonstrates a stark misunderstanding of macro-economics.
The DMCA never states that it is illegal to distribute any number, it states that it is illegal to distribute a number which has the sole/main/intended/implied/whatever-else purpose of breaking a copyright measure.
If you had encrypted your haiku with any 128bit number then it would most probably be deemed that someone with a 128bit IP address was using your number by co-incidence. If however your 128-bit haiku encryption number appeared on a "how to decrypt encrypted haikus" website, then you would have a case however.
CM accuracy is available from GPS???
I wish the receiver in my car knew that!
You should also tell the DoD, they only ensure civilian accuracy to around 50 ft / 15 meters (it's far less accurate in many parts of the world). The Galileo system on the other hand will work with GPS to allow accuracy within a few Inches/Centimeters.
"How did they "keep the peace"."
A wise man once said "The pen is mightier than the sword".
You say that as if the Euro is in a weak position. It has certainly performed a lot stronger then both the U.S. Dollar and the Japanese Yen over the last half-decade. Only the Chinese and British currencies have beaten it.
During the same period, our U.S. Dollar has decreased from being worth around 0.75 British Pounds to the point now where it is hovering around half a British Pound (i.e. 1 British Pound regularly topping 2 dollars!), a comparison not seen in several decades.
Combined with our current massive foreign deficit and the slowdown in the economy, the weak dollar is not good at all. Sure, it does help our (i.e. USA) exporters and the picture is complicated as always, but it is really hurting the rest of us. The rising price of gas being one of the most obvious examples, but more worrying is all the big corporations moving from New York to London and Paris.
I think "could" is the operative word here. We all know though that it won't, otherwise cable itself would already be free (i.e. before DVRs/TiVos started allowing Ad removal).
Getting woman is extremely easy, you just have to remember one simple rule:
Woman (and I guess men) only care about themselves. If you want to get a woman, simply spend the whole time talking about them and stuff which concerns them. It's easy.
Unfortunately, it is also extremely boring! But that's how you get girls. simple!