If every car had one of these instead, we wouldn't be having this problem.
By the way, if you come across the story about pulleys and not measuring torque on the same axle, remember that it's completely made-up. I don't know precisely how high the efficiency of a Bourke/VLB-engine is, but it's very high.
The fact that it's been (implicitly) outlawed in the US should tell you something.
If I were able to make chips 10 times denser, why would I not market that right away rather than waiting for 3-5 years
So, you'd rather sell the next-over generation of chips right away and make x billion dollars, than stretch it out over 3-5 years and make 3-5 times x billion dollars, with you being practically guaranteed to stay ahead of the competition the whole time?
That'll go down really well with the CFO.
"Hey, a goose that lays golden eggs... damn, I'm hungry.."
When choosing which media to buy, you have to take your DVD-burner into account. I did that, and ended up buying Memorex 8x DVD-R with mediacode CMC MAG AE1, for my Hivision DRW3S121 (which is really a LiteOn 1213S with a slightly different firmware).
I bought 200 of them, I have burned 110 or so by now, and I've had ZERO coasters. Of course, they were all burned with dvd+rw-tools in Linux(Debian), which might be why I have such good "mileage" with DVD-burning.
PS: I remember Ritek as total crap from when I bought CD-R discs, so I avoid them like the plague. Ritek had their chance, and they blew it. Completely. Never again.
The US (and a few other countries') Military has been building and flying UFOs around the world for decades - problem is, it will take something like them landing at every international airport, stepping out and telling everyone about it at a press conference, for the public to start believing it. Even then, there will be people who'll never believe it. The Alien-UFO cover story has been that effective.
A locomotive has to be diesel-electric to get it going from a standstill. Electric motors have torque at 0 rpm. If you tried to get a train going with only a diesel engine and a clutch, the gearing would be torn to pieces, and/or the clutch would be destroyed very quickly. On a ship, you don't need that much torque to turn a propeller at near 0 rpm.
The builders were probably aware of one human trait, which is hard to overestimate: Curiosity. When enough time had passed, the content of the pyramids would have been forgotten, and someone would try to open them up again, using force.
If the builders had used concrete to seal the entrance, a reopening would be very likely to destroy a large part of a pyramid in the process. (Maybe they imagined long rows of horses/camels pulling stones out of the pyramids, one by one).
The builders also had to make it hard enough for graverobbers to get in, so most of them would give up when realizing it would take months or even years to break in, so the builders had to make some kind of compromise on not sealing the entrance too much or too little. I think they did an ok job on that.
What about the GPLv3 is good for business?The GPL was never about business. GPLv3 is no different, it is neither good nor bad for businesses. Then again, if a business has based their current businees model on using GPLv2 software to screw users, this will probably be over with GPLv3.
Please do tell... all these changes with respect to patentsPatents on software were a (ridiculously) bad idea from the start, and will eventually be ruled illegal anyway, but currently software patents are in effect in the US, so they need to be held at a distance with means such as this.
and needing to share code for web servicesI think I need an example here. Does this relate to the "Corresponding Source"-part?
and the so-called "Tivo" clauses... do you really think businesses want these liabilities?I fail to see how the "TiVo" clause can be a liability. The company is denying users the right to run a modified version of the software, by technical means, because the GPLv2 doesn't specifically disallow this. If the company didn't want users (ever) to have that right, they probably should have chosen a BSD-variant for the base system instead. Now, have we beaten that dead horse(TiVo) enough, or does it need more?
The GPL3 wants you to give the source code of your webservices, things like that. Please elaborate - what's the scenario?
The GPL3 wants you to not lock down your hardware platform if you need it, like TiVo. I'm don't know why the company behind the TiVo needs to lock down the hardware, but then again, I've never had a TiVo, or Cable, or even a TV for the last 7 years. Anyway, when GPLv3 arrives, the company might decide it's cheaper to stay with Gnu/Linux and remove the lock, or go with BSD instead. I couldn't care less.
4. Commercial customers and software companies drop Linux because of GPLv3 Why, pray tell, would they do that? Please consider, that GPL v3 is nowhere near ready. What do you know about GPL v3, that no one else knows? Furthermore 5.-9. seem to be predicated upon 4. happening, so if it doesn't the rest won't either.
When you build it. The info is out there, if you can find it, and tell it apart from the hoaxes. The energy cartels of the world are not going to let anyone put anti-grav cars into production, at least not in the first half of this century, by my guess. Have you noticed how hard it is just to start production of an electric car, no matter which country you try in, even though the first electric car was built over 150 years ago?
Alternatively, you could ask the U.S. government for an old UFO they don't use anymore - they've been flying those around the planet and beyond for the last 50 years or more. The Russians have some too. Good luck with that.
Just a thought here; if the rest of the Linux world moves on to GPLv3, does that prevent Novell from updating SuSE? Has Novell effectively run itself into a corner with the MS-deal?
..or does MS seem to be doing a lot of desperate things lately?
Buying hotels (the Four Seasons hotel group). Developing an iPod-clone (Zune). Launching what's essentially a copy of MySpace. Removing the one-reinstall restriction from Vista. The Vista voucher scheme (promising XP->Vista upgrades for PCs bought now). The MS-Novell deal (which has a dozen different perspectives, but at least promoting Linux).
To me, it seems like MS is genuinely scared of becoming largely irrelevant in the not-so-distant future.
Here in Denmark, I saw a butterfly a few days ago (November 2.), and moskitos dancing in front of my neighbours kitchen window. That occurrance is so completely off-the-chart, that I'm starting to think we're going to have summer most of the year here within a few years. I also don't remember summers being this hot when I was younger. This year has been unusually hot. Furthermore, right now I'm eating an apple that dropped from the apple tree in my back yard less than a week ago - definitely not something I've seen before either.
Forget about debunking global warming - it's here, and it's not going away any time soon.
We just need to plant massive amounts of biomass to soak up all the excess carbon. We just need to turn the United States into a temperate rain forest- with enough variety to ensure tree survival and food production from the rain forest itself. Lock up that carbon in wood-
Sorry, but trees don't grow fast enough to offset that much biomass within the timespan needed. There are plants that do, though. One of them is hemp. Look it up if you don't believe me. http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.h tml
For when you don't want to hear your roommate's laptop exploding
That's definitely one of the things you DO want to hear - especially if (s)he's not home, so you can put the fire out before it has time to spread and burn the whole place down.
I basically agree with you, but there could be one more perk to being a musician: Some people might be big enough of a fan of [some musician] to donate money directly to that musician, either generally for enjoying his/her music, or for some specific purpose; if the musician needs money for an operation, or to replace all his/her stuff if his/her house burned down, and so forth.
I could get hit by a meteor and die instantly when I walk outside tomorrow.There's nothing interesting about that
I think the scenario itself is. It could even be a tiny meteor - it would be very likely to fragment on impact and basically work like a dum-dum bullet (and leave an exit hole an order of magnitude bigger than the entrance hole).
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If every car had one of these instead, we wouldn't be having this problem.
By the way, if you come across the story about pulleys and not measuring torque on the same axle, remember that it's completely made-up.
I don't know precisely how high the efficiency of a Bourke/VLB-engine is, but it's very high.
The fact that it's been (implicitly) outlawed in the US should tell you something.
If I were able to make chips 10 times denser, why would I not market that right away rather than waiting for 3-5 years
... damn, I'm hungry.."
So, you'd rather sell the next-over generation of chips right away and make x billion dollars, than stretch it out over 3-5 years and make 3-5 times x billion dollars, with you being practically guaranteed to stay ahead of the competition the whole time?
That'll go down really well with the CFO.
"Hey, a goose that lays golden eggs
That's "Gandhi".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
When choosing which media to buy, you have to take your DVD-burner into account.
I did that, and ended up buying Memorex 8x DVD-R with mediacode CMC MAG AE1, for my Hivision DRW3S121 (which is really a LiteOn 1213S with a slightly different firmware).
I bought 200 of them, I have burned 110 or so by now, and I've had ZERO coasters. Of course, they were all burned with dvd+rw-tools in Linux(Debian), which might be why I have such good "mileage" with DVD-burning.
This website; http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia was a great help for determining which ones to buy.
PS: I remember Ritek as total crap from when I bought CD-R discs, so I avoid them like the plague. Ritek had their chance, and they blew it. Completely. Never again.
Because gravity also propagates at the speed of light.. html
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Wrong.
The speed of gravity hasn't been measured yet, so it is still in dispute.
http://wugrav.wustl.edu/people/CMW/SpeedofGravity
If you ask me, the speed of gravity is far higher than the speed of light.
Also, black holes are really MECO's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetospheric_etern
the question on everyones mind is whether these even-more-overclocked PCs will be able to run Windows Vista?
.. or most likely some other variation of walking, as seen in Monty Pythons 'Ministry of Silly Walks'.
Well maybe not "run" but it should at least "walk" now.
The US (and a few other countries') Military has been building and flying UFOs around the world for decades - problem is, it will take something like them landing at every international airport, stepping out and telling everyone about it at a press conference, for the public to start believing it.
Even then, there will be people who'll never believe it. The Alien-UFO cover story has been that effective.
The Mafia ordered the assasination, to mess up a much bigger plan:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1019-21.htm
A locomotive has to be diesel-electric to get it going from a standstill. Electric motors have torque at 0 rpm.
If you tried to get a train going with only a diesel engine and a clutch, the gearing would be torn to pieces, and/or the clutch would be destroyed very quickly.
On a ship, you don't need that much torque to turn a propeller at near 0 rpm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VV_Cephei
Sol is pretty small compared to the largest stars.
Ok, how would that be fun without the blood and guts?
(Yes, I've played Carmageddon far too many times).
Eventually demand will surpass capacity to producee sel/biodiesel-benefits.cfm?attr=16
Remember, this is just one source of vegetable oil / biodiesel.
Biodiesel can be made from many other organic products or waste:
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/fuels/biodi
One more for the list, and possibly even the most important source; biodiesel from algae:
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
The builders were probably aware of one human trait, which is hard to overestimate: Curiosity.
When enough time had passed, the content of the pyramids would have been forgotten, and someone would try to open them up again, using force.
If the builders had used concrete to seal the entrance, a reopening would be very likely to destroy a large part of a pyramid in the process. (Maybe they imagined long rows of horses/camels pulling stones out of the pyramids, one by one).
The builders also had to make it hard enough for graverobbers to get in, so most of them would give up when realizing it would take months or even years to break in, so the builders had to make some kind of compromise on not sealing the entrance too much or too little.
I think they did an ok job on that.
What about the GPLv3 is good for business?The GPL was never about business. GPLv3 is no different, it is neither good nor bad for businesses.
... all these changes with respect to patentsPatents on software were a (ridiculously) bad idea from the start, and will eventually be ruled illegal anyway, but currently software patents are in effect in the US, so they need to be held at a distance with means such as this.
... do you really think businesses want these liabilities?I fail to see how the "TiVo" clause can be a liability. The company is denying users the right to run a modified version of the software, by technical means, because the GPLv2 doesn't specifically disallow this. If the company didn't want users (ever) to have that right, they probably should have chosen a BSD-variant for the base system instead. Now, have we beaten that dead horse(TiVo) enough, or does it need more?
Then again, if a business has based their current businees model on using GPLv2 software to screw users, this will probably be over with GPLv3.
Please do tell
and needing to share code for web servicesI think I need an example here. Does this relate to the "Corresponding Source"-part?
and the so-called "Tivo" clauses
The GPL3 wants you to give the source code of your webservices, things like that.
Please elaborate - what's the scenario?
The GPL3 wants you to not lock down your hardware platform if you need it, like TiVo.
I'm don't know why the company behind the TiVo needs to lock down the hardware, but then again, I've never had a TiVo, or Cable, or even a TV for the last 7 years.
Anyway, when GPLv3 arrives, the company might decide it's cheaper to stay with Gnu/Linux and remove the lock, or go with BSD instead. I couldn't care less.
4. Commercial customers and software companies drop Linux because of GPLv3
Why, pray tell, would they do that? Please consider, that GPL v3 is nowhere near ready. What do you know about GPL v3, that no one else knows?
Furthermore 5.-9. seem to be predicated upon 4. happening, so if it doesn't the rest won't either.
When you build it. The info is out there, if you can find it, and tell it apart from the hoaxes.
The energy cartels of the world are not going to let anyone put anti-grav cars into production, at least not in the first half of this century, by my guess. Have you noticed how hard it is just to start production of an electric car, no matter which country you try in, even though the first electric car was built over 150 years ago?
Alternatively, you could ask the U.S. government for an old UFO they don't use anymore - they've been flying those around the planet and beyond for the last 50 years or more. The Russians have some too. Good luck with that.
Just a thought here; if the rest of the Linux world moves on to GPLv3, does that prevent Novell from updating SuSE?
Has Novell effectively run itself into a corner with the MS-deal?
..or does MS seem to be doing a lot of desperate things lately?
Buying hotels (the Four Seasons hotel group).
Developing an iPod-clone (Zune).
Launching what's essentially a copy of MySpace.
Removing the one-reinstall restriction from Vista.
The Vista voucher scheme (promising XP->Vista upgrades for PCs bought now).
The MS-Novell deal (which has a dozen different perspectives, but at least promoting Linux).
To me, it seems like MS is genuinely scared of becoming largely irrelevant in the not-so-distant future.
Maybe he hooked it up to a polygraph, and had a cat walk by on the other side of a glass wall?
Here in Denmark, I saw a butterfly a few days ago (November 2.), and moskitos dancing in front of my neighbours kitchen window. That occurrance is so completely off-the-chart, that I'm starting to think we're going to have summer most of the year here within a few years.
I also don't remember summers being this hot when I was younger. This year has been unusually hot.
Furthermore, right now I'm eating an apple that dropped from the apple tree in my back yard less than a week ago - definitely not something I've seen before either.
Forget about debunking global warming - it's here, and it's not going away any time soon.
Sorry, but trees don't grow fast enough to offset that much biomass within the timespan needed.
There are plants that do, though. One of them is hemp. Look it up if you don't believe me.
http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.
That's definitely one of the things you DO want to hear - especially if (s)he's not home, so you can put the fire out before it has time to spread and burn the whole place down.
I basically agree with you, but there could be one more perk to being a musician:
Some people might be big enough of a fan of [some musician] to donate money directly to that musician, either generally for enjoying his/her music, or for some specific purpose; if the musician needs money for an operation, or to replace all his/her stuff if his/her house burned down, and so forth.
I think the scenario itself is. It could even be a tiny meteor - it would be very likely to fragment on impact and basically work like a dum-dum bullet (and leave an exit hole an order of magnitude bigger than the entrance hole).