Citric Acid (C6H8O7) is very similar to vitamin C (C6H8O6), and is primarily used as a preservative. It occurs naturally in most of the same places Ascorbic Acid does (citrus fruits) but in much smaller concentrations.
I know all this because Citric Acid alergies are actually pretty common, and for a ceartin percentage of people citric acid makes you die:)
Thanks for the support (and the couple other people who said the same thing):) I think the problem is that some idiot gets mod points and he's DYING to use them, so he picks on someone making a "negative" comment... Although I was trying to be funny and make a serious point. Maybe I wasn't funny enough...
Thats kind of tricky though... Is it legal for me to record a show with a VCR and then keep it? Is it legal for me to record a show on a pc and keep it? Is it legal for a friend to record a show on a vcr and give me the tape ? Is it legal for a friend to record a show on a vcr and for me to make a copy of his tape? Is it legal for a friend to record a show on a computer and give me a copy?
I think the networks will have a tough time litigating this one beacause, you pay for the shows (yes, I pay adelphia for the shows, I dont pay for "service". They dont advertise great HBO *service*, they advertise HBO SHOWS. If the electric company worked the same way, I would be paying for the power poles and not the electrons.) Second of all, if a show is on in my area I *could* have recorded it and that would have been legal. Now for people who dont subscribe to cable, that might be a different story.
The problem with all these site is they want you to *subscribe*. Fileplanet is kind of cool, and when you want a file from them, it might be worth a buck or two to get it from them. BUT, they want you to pay 7$ a month, thats 82$ a year to download files... Why cant I just give them 2$ when I want a file NOW?
And thats the problem with all these subsciption sites. I subscribe to emusic.com, for *15* a month. If I download 0 albums, or 100, they still get their 15$ a month, so what is their incentive to be actively pursuing new and intersting artists? Their incentive is to *not do anything* and save bandwith and personel costs and still collect my 15$ -- Thats why their downloader software fails all the time, and forgets albums you have qued.
Subscriptions reward companies for any quality of crap they put out, whereas a micropayment -- they only get money for *good* material.
I'm not trying to troll, or seem naive here, but is paranoia in the US seriously that high?
YES! My uncle had a friend buy what he called a "nautical generator" for his boat on ebay (he's not very computer inclined). And a few months later the FBI came to the guys house and they wanted to know what he wanted it for and where it was etc... Kind of weird because its difficult to think of any nefarious uses for a generator.
No near death experience... I was legally dead for 5 minutes. What I remember is... Well I'll describe the memory first and then tell you what I think it is... I remember "black", but not just the color, I remember being suspended in a dark, tangible blackness, I remember struggling against it but not being able to move, and I remember giving up struggling and a vague sense of peace.
I had nightmares about it until I was 10 or 12. So long story short, years later I came to find out how I drowned was, the jacuzzi had a thick black rubber mat that was used for insulation, and I fell through a seam on the matt. So I theorize that what I remember is being held down by the matt.
I think a traumatic event like polyneuritus or drowning could make an impression on someone even if they were young:)
Here's my question for you... now that I know Borland watches product registrations like a hawk, whats to stop me from getting a pirate copy of C builder and installing it a few times and entering as my company, the name of the place I last worked because I hate them for firing me?
That happened to a friend of mine, he was a manager at a company, some jerk installed pirate software on most of the dev machines -- when he was fired he called the BSA and reported the software *he* had installed... the company ended up paying a fine of 115k.
also advise you all that C++ Builder comes node-locked now
What is node locked? I own several versions of BCB up to vesrion 5, I was thinking of upgrading but I'm very unhappy with Inprise. They're not supporting their products, to get bugs fixed you have to buy the new versions each year that has *no new features.* Whereas Visual Studio 6 is still supported 6 years after it came out.
Not to mention MS gave me a free copy of vs.net with *no* restrictions...
AR? I thought McCain was an Arizona senator. That's AZ.
An amateur mistake my good fellow. It is well known to political insiders like myself that McCain is in fact Royalty. He represents the most noble gas, Argon, and its 3 stable isotopes Argon 36, 38 and 40.
Being in full compliance isnt that hard really... just takes a little record keeping and a little dilligence. Lemme tell you who makes it impossible to *be* in compliance.
Managers. I was a sysadmin at a university for a little under 3 years, and every time there was a problem it was because a manager didn't *want* to pay for software, not because it slipped our minds. Usually it would happen like this, boss walks up to me at 3:00pm "We need to have such and such capability." me, "when and whats my budget." boss, "We need it by tommorow, and your budget is nothing." I seriously had this exact conversation wiith my boss about once a month.
Once, my boss walked up to me at 4:30pm and said "We need a webmail system before you go home tonight." So under these circumstances, if I could find a free/Open Source solution, I would go with it... but more often then not you just did what you had to do.
This is an extreme example, but generally compliance issues are willful ignorance.
Um that's exactly the point. You don't *know* if you're getting a discount because nobody knows what anyone else is paying. There's no reference or baseline other then the (ridiculous) list price.
It reminds me of something a friend said to me. I was purchasing sun servers for the university I worked at, about 100k worth. The list price was 180k and I got them down to 95k... I was telling my friend that I had negotiated almost a 50% discount, and he said (sarcastically) "Gee, next time we should ask them to raise the list price even more so we get a better discount!"
Point being that... if you have *no clue* what other universities are paying, how can you negotiate a good deal for yourself? I also suspect they want to hide draconian and quite possibly anti-competitive terms like "we'll give you 20% off if you teach your courses in visual studio"
I can't use this, I want to go big time and there's no checkbox for "Jealously guard your copyright by, bribing senators, buying laws, destroying civil liberties in your country, and harming the customers who support you,"
Dogs do this all the time -- but HOW they do it is beyond me.
There is a reason for this actually... if I remember my freshman bio class, in the human brain the nose is "connected" to a center that controls emotion. This is why we are unable to apply any cognitive function to what we smell. Think about the other senses, we have developed complex language to describe them (blue, shiny, transluscent, iridescent... sharp, soft, prickly, sticky, coarse etc, there are also formalized words to describe sounds but I wont go into detail), but with smell there are really only a few words people used to describe a smell, "good" and "bad" most of the time.
Dogs have alot more of their brain dedicated to their olfactory sensors (and I believe more sensors as well?). I wouldn't be surprised if dogs have abilities we don't like being able to recall a smell like we could recall sounds or images. I always thought it was weird that I could remember every note of "The great gig in the sky" and recall it at will as if I was listening to it, but... I cant even remember what my last g/fs perfume smelled like unless I smell it.
Maybe someone who knows more can give us more information
Personally I think it's better to make a movie that touches everybody, and I think it's a lot harder to do.
im really going to have to disagree there, I dont want to see my feelings on the screen, I want to see other peoples feelings which are also interesting:) Besides, I think the only kind of stuff that appeals to mass audiences is pop-psychology garbage from 2d characters.
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keyword: legislation. They would rather force us to use DRM invented by them or microsoft, instead of something that might be out of their hands.
I know all this because Citric Acid alergies are actually pretty common, and for a ceartin percentage of people citric acid makes you die :)
Thanks for the support (and the couple other people who said the same thing) :) I think the problem is that some idiot gets mod points and he's DYING to use them, so he picks on someone making a "negative" comment ... Although I was trying to be funny and make a serious point. Maybe I wasn't funny enough ...
The prices for HD's have been down around 1$/gig for months, especially on surplus stores like comp-geeks.com (new, not used).
Oh please ... I am a videogame junkie but they are not advances in science :)
I bet you are right... but that dosen't mean its legal.
I think the networks will have a tough time litigating this one beacause, you pay for the shows (yes, I pay adelphia for the shows, I dont pay for "service". They dont advertise great HBO *service*, they advertise HBO SHOWS. If the electric company worked the same way, I would be paying for the power poles and not the electrons.) Second of all, if a show is on in my area I *could* have recorded it and that would have been legal. Now for people who dont subscribe to cable, that might be a different story.
The problem with all these site is they want you to *subscribe*. Fileplanet is kind of cool, and when you want a file from them, it might be worth a buck or two to get it from them. BUT, they want you to pay 7$ a month, thats 82$ a year to download files... Why cant I just give them 2$ when I want a file NOW?
And thats the problem with all these subsciption sites. I subscribe to emusic.com, for *15* a month. If I download 0 albums, or 100, they still get their 15$ a month, so what is their incentive to be actively pursuing new and intersting artists? Their incentive is to *not do anything* and save bandwith and personel costs and still collect my 15$ -- Thats why their downloader software fails all the time, and forgets albums you have qued.
Subscriptions reward companies for any quality of crap they put out, whereas a micropayment -- they only get money for *good* material.
I'm imagining something more like, "one key to rule them all" :)
Also on the same page was a job for an AV technician -- BS in comp sci required...
YES! My uncle had a friend buy what he called a "nautical generator" for his boat on ebay (he's not very computer inclined). And a few months later the FBI came to the guys house and they wanted to know what he wanted it for and where it was etc ... Kind of weird because its difficult to think of any nefarious uses for a generator.
I had nightmares about it until I was 10 or 12. So long story short, years later I came to find out how I drowned was, the jacuzzi had a thick black rubber mat that was used for insulation, and I fell through a seam on the matt. So I theorize that what I remember is being held down by the matt.
I think a traumatic event like polyneuritus or drowning could make an impression on someone even if they were young :)
I drowned when I was 18 months old and while I dont have a step-by-step memory of it, I remember what it looked like and felt like quite clearly.
That happened to a friend of mine, he was a manager at a company, some jerk installed pirate software on most of the dev machines -- when he was fired he called the BSA and reported the software *he* had installed ... the company ended up paying a fine of 115k.
What is node locked? I own several versions of BCB up to vesrion 5, I was thinking of upgrading but I'm very unhappy with Inprise. They're not supporting their products, to get bugs fixed you have to buy the new versions each year that has *no new features.* Whereas Visual Studio 6 is still supported 6 years after it came out.
Not to mention MS gave me a free copy of vs.net with *no* restrictions ...
We're all unemployed remember? ... tech crash ... :D
An amateur mistake my good fellow. It is well known to political insiders like myself that McCain is in fact Royalty. He represents the most noble gas, Argon, and its 3 stable isotopes Argon 36, 38 and 40.
Managers. I was a sysadmin at a university for a little under 3 years, and every time there was a problem it was because a manager didn't *want* to pay for software, not because it slipped our minds. Usually it would happen like this, boss walks up to me at 3:00pm "We need to have such and such capability." me, "when and whats my budget." boss, "We need it by tommorow, and your budget is nothing." I seriously had this exact conversation wiith my boss about once a month.
Once, my boss walked up to me at 4:30pm and said "We need a webmail system before you go home tonight." So under these circumstances, if I could find a free/Open Source solution, I would go with it ... but more often then not you just did what you had to do.
This is an extreme example, but generally compliance issues are willful ignorance.
Um that's exactly the point. You don't *know* if you're getting a discount because nobody knows what anyone else is paying. There's no reference or baseline other then the (ridiculous) list price.
It reminds me of something a friend said to me. I was purchasing sun servers for the university I worked at, about 100k worth. The list price was 180k and I got them down to 95k... I was telling my friend that I had negotiated almost a 50% discount, and he said (sarcastically) "Gee, next time we should ask them to raise the list price even more so we get a better discount!"
Point being that ... if you have *no clue* what other universities are paying, how can you negotiate a good deal for yourself? I also suspect they want to hide draconian and quite possibly anti-competitive terms like "we'll give you 20% off if you teach your courses in visual studio"
my god thats the most insightful thing *ever* said on slashdot. Mod this man up!
You forgot "heros Quest I" later renamed to "Quest for Glory" due to a lawsuit by hasbro (which had a board game called heros quest). Rare item :)
you know what, fuck you and your stupid find your sex gateway. You and it are the two stupidest things on the internet.
I can't use this, I want to go big time and there's no checkbox for "Jealously guard your copyright by, bribing senators, buying laws, destroying civil liberties in your country, and harming the customers who support you,"
There is a reason for this actually ... if I remember my freshman bio class, in the human brain the nose is "connected" to a center that controls emotion. This is why we are unable to apply any cognitive function to what we smell. Think about the other senses, we have developed complex language to describe them (blue, shiny, transluscent, iridescent... sharp, soft, prickly, sticky, coarse etc, there are also formalized words to describe sounds but I wont go into detail), but with smell there are really only a few words people used to describe a smell, "good" and "bad" most of the time.
Dogs have alot more of their brain dedicated to their olfactory sensors (and I believe more sensors as well?). I wouldn't be surprised if dogs have abilities we don't like being able to recall a smell like we could recall sounds or images. I always thought it was weird that I could remember every note of "The great gig in the sky" and recall it at will as if I was listening to it, but ... I cant even remember what my last g/fs perfume smelled like unless I smell it.
Maybe someone who knows more can give us more information
Personally I think it's better to make a movie that touches everybody, and I think it's a lot harder to do. im really going to have to disagree there, I dont want to see my feelings on the screen, I want to see other peoples feelings which are also interesting :) Besides, I think the only kind of stuff that appeals to mass audiences is pop-psychology garbage from 2d characters.