Electric radiators are 100% efficient, or a "coefficient of performance" of 1.0. Electric-powered heat pumps, however, have a coefficient of performance of 3-4. Or, if you prefer misusing the thermodynamic term, they are 300-400% efficient.
The energy you draw from the nuclear plant is used to move heat from outside your home to inside your home, instead of being burnt directly. 100% smarter than radiator heating.
(Disclaimer: I live in Texas. My home is heated with natural gas, which is locally produced and doesn't have all the problems of heating oil.)
Some kid threatening to report me because I won't do what he wants isn't a concern. In this case, though, you would have ended up with a lawsuit and a potentially costly settlement because that "kid" was able to drum up a lawsuit against you.
So my option is to invest a week of time with lower productivity (I know, posting on Slashdot at work != productivity har har). In exchange, the software will go from "awful" to "less annoying"?
If it wasn't true, then a site owner would have no way to remove his content from the Wayback Machine retrospectively. I don't necessarily disagree with their policy, but this is the wrong argument for it.
If you publish something, you lose the right to withdraw it from the public archives retrospectively. That's part of the "contract" (term used figuratively) with the public that establishes the foundation of copyright law.
If you don't want it to appear on the Wayback Machine, you have an ability called robots.txt. That's already more than you have if you publish a book and want to keep it out of libraries. In neither case, though, do you have the right to demand or expect the content to be removed from the archive on your request.
I see what the archive does to be a courtesy service, not something that the site owners should expect.
Maybe. I downloaded it yesterday, installed it, spent and hour trying to make the location bar work the way it should, and uninstalled it. I hit a number of websites in that hour, scouring for tips on various settings or addons that could make it work, before I determined my best choice was Firefox 2.0.0.14. =p
I think they'll be a bit of a leveling off as some people decide that the arbitrary changes are just not suited to them, and move back to something else for a while until things settle out.
Consumer protection laws exist for a reason: to protect the consumer from predatory business practices. What you're describing - a contract that someone is forced to accept by receiving something in the public mail - is very anti-consumer in every way.
The same problems happened with Book (or CD) of the Month clubs. You could call them and cancel, but then you still receive the next book/CD. "Oh," you think, "this must have crossed in the mail. Let me send to back to them."
Then you receive another one the next month, so you call again, and they say that sending the first one back relisted you... or they say that you aren't in the system but you need to mail them back their book or pay them for it. And you do.
Then you receieve another one the next month, and you decide it's their fault and you don't do anything with it, and they send you a bill.
Then you take them to court, and you win. While you had previously been under a contract with them, the contract was terminated. The fact that they continued to mail you products was their fault, not yours, and you can consider anything they send to be a gift.
That's precisely how consumer protection laws are supposed to work. Don't go screwing it up.
I despise the awesome bar, and dont understand why there isnt an easier/obvious way to get the old, URL based behavior. I found a method that is working so far:
The slowing down bit and getting over is correct, but the gunning it and overtaking them again, keeping them from passing you, that the GP describes is pure road rage.
The most popular new system eliminated the plating step, attaching components directly to the bare copper using chemicals called Organic Solderability Preservatives. OSP leads to stronger and more durable assemblies than even the old tin/lead process. The problem we ran into with OSP was that it wears off in less than a year. Sure, the boards can be shipped back to the vendor, cleaned off, and coated with a new layer, but that's expensive. We found that OSP-coated boards had a lower shelf life, and tended to show intermittent failures during in-circuit test because of poor electrical contact on the test bed probes.
Anyway, at my company we've settled on immersion silver as our PCB finish of choice. (We've been through white tin and OSP, and dabbled in immersion gold, but the silver finish has been working well for 3-4 years.)
However, you can't mail something to someone with a shrink-wrapped NDA attached, and expect it to have any force. Separate law has already established that unsolicited materials received in the mail are gifts, and that gifts have the first-sale doctrine attached and therefore can be resold. To make the NDA valid, the parties would need to enter into the agreement before the shipments start.
Something as simple as a well-publicized phrase that simply entitles the receiver to use it but not sell it. Other than an NDA, no, sorry, we don't want or need this. How can the receiver dispose of the item if he can't sell it?
Can he throw it away? I have to pay a local company to take my garbage away, and as soon as it's placed on my curb it's considered public property. That's no different than me giving it to a friend, who could then resell it or pass it on.
Must he destroy it? In that case, I would like to send you a 200-ton vat of monkey shit, with a requirement that you can use it, but not sell it or give it away, and that you must destroy it to dispose of it. Maybe you'll find that it burns ok, and you can burn monkey shit in your backyard for the next year. Joking, yes, but it's an extreme of the law you propose.
I think they needed more posts moderated. Rather than lower the threshold for the "quality" of users that get mod points, they chose to give existing moderators more points.
It's actually tough to use all 15 now, since I won't moderate in stories that I wouldn't have been interested to read in the first place.
It's not that the law needs to be changed to strengthen the penalties for forgery or misrepresentation. It's that the law needs to be changed to provide legal status to the same documents when scanned and emailed. That will allow those who trust the strength of the fraud laws the convenience they desire.
YOU may accept and trust people and their submitted documents whether by email or fax, but the law doesn't provide the authority for those in various trade and legal practices to accept emailed documents as legally binding. It'd be their heads (or more likely, their liability) if they accepted as real something that the law says they should not.
Interesting how the woman in the photo is painted entirely in black, while some of the men have their faces or entire bodies painted in red. Obviously it would be nice to know why they have those customs, but I'm not sure how to find out without disturbing them.
I can get the feel for the "soul" for a car by looking at it, sitting in it, and driving it. I get the unbiased review of experts and a fair polling of quality and risk from Consumer Reports.
Buying a car without the first might seem silly to you, but buying a car without the second seems downright dangerous to me.
The owner lost the intangible right to not publish or share his work, or to modify it before publication. In cases with unreleased works like this, those are the biggest rights being violated. You get those back.
There's also cases like the theft of Coca-Cola's formula by a former secretary, who attempted to sell it to Pepsi. None of these involved depriving the owner of physical property, but all of them deprived the owner of a potential trade secret, or deprived them of the right not to publish their work at all.
I disagree, because I believe that unreleased materials should have greater protections than released, copyrighted works. Items that he resold post release should be merely copyright infringement, yes, but if they dealt with stolen prerelease music, where there was no legal license for anyone to infringe, I think the penalties should be much harsher.
The problem that Johnson & Johnson had was that the Red Cross had (apparently) started to commercially license its symbol to businesses that were probably in direct competition with J&J, and this would have been unforseen in the past when J&J probably saw and treated the Red Cross as a completely non-commercial organisation And TFA points out that this isn't the first time the Red Cross has licensed its name and symbols for commercial products, in exchange for a percentage of revenue. They did it in 1986, and the licensee was - - - Johnson and Johnson.
Huh? The subscription fee is like $15 a month. That's less than two movies at the theater (assuming you don't buy snacks), or a evening bowling, or a new hardback novel. Those other things are six to ten hours of enjoyment, tops, which translates to just two to three hours a week of WoW for the same thing.
Break that up into an hour Saturday morning while the kids watch some shows, and a half hour twice a week while waiting for dinner, and it's a downright reasonable way to spend free time. It's the same price or cheaper than many other options.
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Electric radiators are 100% efficient, or a "coefficient of performance" of 1.0. Electric-powered heat pumps, however, have a coefficient of performance of 3-4. Or, if you prefer misusing the thermodynamic term, they are 300-400% efficient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Efficiency
The energy you draw from the nuclear plant is used to move heat from outside your home to inside your home, instead of being burnt directly. 100% smarter than radiator heating.
(Disclaimer: I live in Texas. My home is heated with natural gas, which is locally produced and doesn't have all the problems of heating oil.)
So my option is to invest a week of time with lower productivity (I know, posting on Slashdot at work != productivity har har). In exchange, the software will go from "awful" to "less annoying"?
That doesn't sound like a good deal to me.
Troll? Come on moderators. It was offensive software, and I replaced it.
If you publish something, you lose the right to withdraw it from the public archives retrospectively. That's part of the "contract" (term used figuratively) with the public that establishes the foundation of copyright law.
If you don't want it to appear on the Wayback Machine, you have an ability called robots.txt. That's already more than you have if you publish a book and want to keep it out of libraries. In neither case, though, do you have the right to demand or expect the content to be removed from the archive on your request.
I see what the archive does to be a courtesy service, not something that the site owners should expect.
Maybe. I downloaded it yesterday, installed it, spent and hour trying to make the location bar work the way it should, and uninstalled it. I hit a number of websites in that hour, scouring for tips on various settings or addons that could make it work, before I determined my best choice was Firefox 2.0.0.14. =p
I think they'll be a bit of a leveling off as some people decide that the arbitrary changes are just not suited to them, and move back to something else for a while until things settle out.
Consumer protection laws exist for a reason: to protect the consumer from predatory business practices. What you're describing - a contract that someone is forced to accept by receiving something in the public mail - is very anti-consumer in every way.
The same problems happened with Book (or CD) of the Month clubs. You could call them and cancel, but then you still receive the next book/CD. "Oh," you think, "this must have crossed in the mail. Let me send to back to them."
Then you receive another one the next month, so you call again, and they say that sending the first one back relisted you... or they say that you aren't in the system but you need to mail them back their book or pay them for it. And you do.
Then you receieve another one the next month, and you decide it's their fault and you don't do anything with it, and they send you a bill.
Then you take them to court, and you win. While you had previously been under a contract with them, the contract was terminated. The fact that they continued to mail you products was their fault, not yours, and you can consider anything they send to be a gift.
That's precisely how consumer protection laws are supposed to work. Don't go screwing it up.
1. Uninstall Firefox 3.0 garbage.
2. Install Firefox 2.0.0.14.
It seems to have restored the old URL behavior completely. I'll post back if that changes.
The slowing down bit and getting over is correct, but the gunning it and overtaking them again, keeping them from passing you, that the GP describes is pure road rage.
Anyway, at my company we've settled on immersion silver as our PCB finish of choice. (We've been through white tin and OSP, and dabbled in immersion gold, but the silver finish has been working well for 3-4 years.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement
However, you can't mail something to someone with a shrink-wrapped NDA attached, and expect it to have any force. Separate law has already established that unsolicited materials received in the mail are gifts, and that gifts have the first-sale doctrine attached and therefore can be resold. To make the NDA valid, the parties would need to enter into the agreement before the shipments start. Something as simple as a well-publicized phrase that simply entitles the receiver to use it but not sell it. Other than an NDA, no, sorry, we don't want or need this. How can the receiver dispose of the item if he can't sell it?
Can he throw it away? I have to pay a local company to take my garbage away, and as soon as it's placed on my curb it's considered public property. That's no different than me giving it to a friend, who could then resell it or pass it on.
Must he destroy it? In that case, I would like to send you a 200-ton vat of monkey shit, with a requirement that you can use it, but not sell it or give it away, and that you must destroy it to dispose of it. Maybe you'll find that it burns ok, and you can burn monkey shit in your backyard for the next year. Joking, yes, but it's an extreme of the law you propose.
I'm disappointed that they didn't include vias (i.e. round windows) on the circuit board sides.
I think they needed more posts moderated. Rather than lower the threshold for the "quality" of users that get mod points, they chose to give existing moderators more points.
It's actually tough to use all 15 now, since I won't moderate in stories that I wouldn't have been interested to read in the first place.
It's not that the law needs to be changed to strengthen the penalties for forgery or misrepresentation. It's that the law needs to be changed to provide legal status to the same documents when scanned and emailed. That will allow those who trust the strength of the fraud laws the convenience they desire.
YOU may accept and trust people and their submitted documents whether by email or fax, but the law doesn't provide the authority for those in various trade and legal practices to accept emailed documents as legally binding. It'd be their heads (or more likely, their liability) if they accepted as real something that the law says they should not.
Interesting how the woman in the photo is painted entirely in black, while some of the men have their faces or entire bodies painted in red. Obviously it would be nice to know why they have those customs, but I'm not sure how to find out without disturbing them.
This is different from all other MMORPGs how? (Tank who spends 10x time soloing content as any DPS class.)
It was a comment on the OP's claim: "Gee, that sure is great news for nerds, stuff that (doesn't) matter..."
I merely pointed out that some things can be blatant advertisement and still be cool as hell.
I can get the feel for the "soul" for a car by looking at it, sitting in it, and driving it. I get the unbiased review of experts and a fair polling of quality and risk from Consumer Reports.
Buying a car without the first might seem silly to you, but buying a car without the second seems downright dangerous to me.
The owner lost the intangible right to not publish or share his work, or to modify it before publication. In cases with unreleased works like this, those are the biggest rights being violated. You get those back.
I completely agree. I said the same thing a year ago in this post about episodes of 24, stolen and published to YouTube before their air date.
There's also cases like the theft of Coca-Cola's formula by a former secretary, who attempted to sell it to Pepsi. None of these involved depriving the owner of physical property, but all of them deprived the owner of a potential trade secret, or deprived them of the right not to publish their work at all.
I disagree, because I believe that unreleased materials should have greater protections than released, copyrighted works. Items that he resold post release should be merely copyright infringement, yes, but if they dealt with stolen prerelease music, where there was no legal license for anyone to infringe, I think the penalties should be much harsher.
Nothing wrong here.
But isn't only profit taxed, not income? So they can't really use this for anything.
But will it blend?
Huh? The subscription fee is like $15 a month. That's less than two movies at the theater (assuming you don't buy snacks), or a evening bowling, or a new hardback novel. Those other things are six to ten hours of enjoyment, tops, which translates to just two to three hours a week of WoW for the same thing.
Break that up into an hour Saturday morning while the kids watch some shows, and a half hour twice a week while waiting for dinner, and it's a downright reasonable way to spend free time. It's the same price or cheaper than many other options.