There's no such thing as an energy source -- conservation of energy, remember?
Why are you spliting hairs? He obviosly meant that traditional cars run using an energy storage medium that is found with the energy already in it, while hydrogen cars use a fuel where we had to invest slighty more energy than the car can extract in order to obtain it from something that can not be used as fuel in the state in which we find it.
You make it sound like MS has a right to profit. That would be like saying I have the right to happiness. I have the right to pursue happiness, MS has a right to pursue profit, there are no guarantees.
If MS has a bad business model that is their own fucking problem, not the moders!
The customer should not be made responsible for a poor business model. It is microsoft's own fault that they aren't making money on the Xbox, and if they don't like that, then they shouldn't sell it at.
Almost none, in a gas engine... You get some in diesels and more in gas turbines. gas engines don't have high enough compression (or temperature) to make much NOx (industry term for nitrous oxides). You would have pre-ignition (fuel blowing up before the piston is all the way up) if you had high enough compression to make much NOx
Americans are loosing money in the action os speeders. The taxpayers of the US indirectly pay a hell of a lot of money to quench our thirst for oil, and when you are speeding you use a lot more gas.
You might say this argument is weak, but I am going to say the same of yours: Nobody can prove that Kazaa is costing copyright holders any money. Who is to say that any of the pirates want the music badly enough to pay for it? The RIAA likes to blame low profits on P2P, but there is no evidence that is the cause (and plenty of evidence that it could be other things...)
I really don't want to get into an argument where you attempt to prove to me your ability to download the latest Eninem album should be a federally protected right
I think that a very small number of people believe that downloading Eminim's album is protected, but the tool can be used for much more than that.
Let's use the war analogy... Kill the enemy (copyrighted material sharing) but civilian (indie bands, anything else that is not copyrighted) casualties are unaceptable.
The part about the civilian casualties is why I don't want to see Kazaa (P2P in general, because we know that when one P2P goes away, everyone just goes to the next one) get blocked.
Ford makes money by selling cars. People buy the Ford Mustang because it is a fast car. Most people who buy fast cars exceed the speed limit on a regular basis. Ford is profiting from illegal activity and should be put out of business.
One thing, that I don't necessarily agree with, that people often site as their reason to want a certain kind of gun is nostalgia. Every member of the Israeli military learns to use an Uzi, I believe it is the first gun they hold in basic. Wanting to have a reminder of what was a scary/important/formative... time in your life is a perfectly valid reason to own one, even if you never intend to shoot it again...
Maybe not the best example, but I feel it does illustrate that technology is not bad, it is people who are...
One of the things that is great about America is that (supposedly, I wonder with ashcroft running around out there) is that you will not be punished for the actions of others. Taking P2P away from Americans would punish those who use it fairly. The argument that most use of something is illegal just doesn't hold water.
Another thing, allowing guns in any way facilitates guns getting into the hands of criminals. I don't have the exact number, but most guns used in street crime are legal at point of sale. AND guns kill people, pirated music does not! I know 2 people who have been killed in the street by guns, one of them was not involved in gangs in any way and had just received a scholarship for B-Ball to get himself (and probably his family) out of the ghetto.
If we are not willing to take strong measures to control guns, why the hell would we control media piracy?
As a fellow american I am offended that you think we should be shuting down kazaa servers. It is an established principle of the US that we go after the people who break the law, not those that make the tools used to do so, especially if the tools have functions besides the ones that are illegal. When the US decides to ban civilian gun ownership (see also hell freezes over, pigs fly...) THEN we can start to talk about making kazaa illegal.
My understanding is that (in f90) most optimizers give up on pointers, but that is why you don't use them unless you have to... It is as simple as that, and when you really need a pointer, it can save you a lot of time. I mostly use pointers in convergence checkers and other stuff that only runs once an hour or so...
I am also really glad to see the OO. I am curious; why do you think that is so awful?
I work in computational fluid dynamics and we have a 640 CPU linux cluster, running intels, to do a lot of our processing. Although I am not deaply involved in this part of the work, I know that we have a group of experts making sure that we use compilers that can properly optimize our codes. On our linux machines, I think we use a protland group compiler for our fortran90.
I don't think anyone else investing that much in raw computing power would not take the necissary measures to see that it is used to it's fullest potential either...
I am an engineer in the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) department at a large aerospace company. Also, just to show it is not all old folks that use fortran, I am under 25...
Most of the people I work with have not even teken the time to learn the new features in fortran 90, I have been trying to get them to adopt them for their own (and my) benifit. It would be hell to get these folks to learn C.
2. Engineers (aero, mech, whatever) have to be conserned with all kinds of things besides writing code, but they are also the ones who understand the problems enough to write the analysis codes, so they need a fast, SIMPLE language. Most of them don't have the time, or their brain power is devoted to other problems, to learn half a dozen languages to do every little thing in just the right code.
I am an engineer who minored in CS, and I work in computational fluid dynamics at a large jet engine company, I learned C++, and scheme in college, I love C++, I did not learn fortran until my senior year when I was interning at my current full time place of employment. I hated it at first, but it has really grown on me. It is also great for all the guys I work with who do not have the same CS experience I have...
This would be catastrophic! The post office does not have to innovate, there is no profit in long term innovations in the aerospace industry (or execs are too focused on short term goals to acknowledge it...). NASA would eventually become another competitor for Boeing, Lockheed, Pratt & Whitney, and all of the other commercial aerospace companies in the US. Right now the aerospace industry relies on NASA to help them develop products on the distant horizon. They could not work with them nearly as effectively if NASA was out to sell the product themselves...
You don't see UPS and FedEx jumping at the opportunity to work with the USPS do you?
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The ones that went on strike were fired. It was illegal for them to strike, no need for Taft-Hartley...
What would the DMCA have to say about commented code, which explains itself in plain english as well as code?
Isn't anyone else glad they put it in the EULA instead of trying to sneak it through?
That would really be spying, what they are doing now it more like buying your personal information with a game...
Why are you spliting hairs? He obviosly meant that traditional cars run using an energy storage medium that is found with the energy already in it, while hydrogen cars use a fuel where we had to invest slighty more energy than the car can extract in order to obtain it from something that can not be used as fuel in the state in which we find it.
Let me clear things up a bit...
1. The car runs on a fuel cell with only a small battery for regenerative braking energy storage and near line use.
2. Fuel cells can be used to generate heat very effectivly. They are even starting to use fuel cells as primary heat sources in many buildings.
3. The water output of a fuel cell is similar to that of an equivilant strength gas engine (his mistake, not yours)
You make it sound like MS has a right to profit. That would be like saying I have the right to happiness. I have the right to pursue happiness, MS has a right to pursue profit, there are no guarantees.
If MS has a bad business model that is their own fucking problem, not the moders!
The customer should not be made responsible for a poor business model. It is microsoft's own fault that they aren't making money on the Xbox, and if they don't like that, then they shouldn't sell it at.
People aren't moding Xboxes with bazookas.
Even though most microsoft products should be modded by a bazooka...
Almost none, in a gas engine... You get some in diesels and more in gas turbines. gas engines don't have high enough compression (or temperature) to make much NOx (industry term for nitrous oxides). You would have pre-ignition (fuel blowing up before the piston is all the way up) if you had high enough compression to make much NOx
Americans are loosing money in the action os speeders. The taxpayers of the US indirectly pay a hell of a lot of money to quench our thirst for oil, and when you are speeding you use a lot more gas.
You might say this argument is weak, but I am going to say the same of yours:
Nobody can prove that Kazaa is costing copyright holders any money. Who is to say that any of the pirates want the music badly enough to pay for it? The RIAA likes to blame low profits on P2P, but there is no evidence that is the cause (and plenty of evidence that it could be other things...)
I think that a very small number of people believe that downloading Eminim's album is protected, but the tool can be used for much more than that.
Let's use the war analogy... Kill the enemy (copyrighted material sharing) but civilian (indie bands, anything else that is not copyrighted) casualties are unaceptable.
The part about the civilian casualties is why I don't want to see Kazaa (P2P in general, because we know that when one P2P goes away, everyone just goes to the next one) get blocked.
By the same logic...
Ford makes money by selling cars. People buy the Ford Mustang because it is a fast car. Most people who buy fast cars exceed the speed limit on a regular basis. Ford is profiting from illegal activity and should be put out of business.
I have used a P2P client (don't use Kazaa, spyware...) to download the original uncopyrighted work of a band comprised of several of my coworkers.
Are you saying I don't mater because I am in the minority?
One thing, that I don't necessarily agree with, that people often site as their reason to want a certain kind of gun is nostalgia. Every member of the Israeli military learns to use an Uzi, I believe it is the first gun they hold in basic. Wanting to have a reminder of what was a scary/important/formative... time in your life is a perfectly valid reason to own one, even if you never intend to shoot it again...
Maybe not the best example, but I feel it does illustrate that technology is not bad, it is people who are...
One of the things that is great about America is that (supposedly, I wonder with ashcroft running around out there) is that you will not be punished for the actions of others. Taking P2P away from Americans would punish those who use it fairly. The argument that most use of something is illegal just doesn't hold water.
Another thing, allowing guns in any way facilitates guns getting into the hands of criminals. I don't have the exact number, but most guns used in street crime are legal at point of sale. AND guns kill people, pirated music does not! I know 2 people who have been killed in the street by guns, one of them was not involved in gangs in any way and had just received a scholarship for B-Ball to get himself (and probably his family) out of the ghetto.
If we are not willing to take strong measures to control guns, why the hell would we control media piracy?
As a fellow american I am offended that you think we should be shuting down kazaa servers. It is an established principle of the US that we go after the people who break the law, not those that make the tools used to do so, especially if the tools have functions besides the ones that are illegal. When the US decides to ban civilian gun ownership (see also hell freezes over, pigs fly...) THEN we can start to talk about making kazaa illegal.
My understanding is that (in f90) most optimizers give up on pointers, but that is why you don't use them unless you have to... It is as simple as that, and when you really need a pointer, it can save you a lot of time. I mostly use pointers in convergence checkers and other stuff that only runs once an hour or so...
I am also really glad to see the OO. I am curious; why do you think that is so awful?
Fortran90 is not OO and has pointers. F90 is modular, and supports types, but that is not OO
I work in computational fluid dynamics and we have a 640 CPU linux cluster, running intels, to do a lot of our processing. Although I am not deaply involved in this part of the work, I know that we have a group of experts making sure that we use compilers that can properly optimize our codes. On our linux machines, I think we use a protland group compiler for our fortran90.
I don't think anyone else investing that much in raw computing power would not take the necissary measures to see that it is used to it's fullest potential either...
I am an engineer in the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) department at a large aerospace company. Also, just to show it is not all old folks that use fortran, I am under 25...
Most of the people I work with have not even teken the time to learn the new features in fortran 90, I have been trying to get them to adopt them for their own (and my) benifit. It would be hell to get these folks to learn C.
1. Momentum...
2. Engineers (aero, mech, whatever) have to be conserned with all kinds of things besides writing code, but they are also the ones who understand the problems enough to write the analysis codes, so they need a fast, SIMPLE language. Most of them don't have the time, or their brain power is devoted to other problems, to learn half a dozen languages to do every little thing in just the right code.
I am an engineer who minored in CS, and I work in computational fluid dynamics at a large jet engine company, I learned C++, and scheme in college, I love C++, I did not learn fortran until my senior year when I was interning at my current full time place of employment. I hated it at first, but it has really grown on me. It is also great for all the guys I work with who do not have the same CS experience I have...
This would be catastrophic! The post office does not have to innovate, there is no profit in long term innovations in the aerospace industry (or execs are too focused on short term goals to acknowledge it...). NASA would eventually become another competitor for Boeing, Lockheed, Pratt & Whitney, and all of the other commercial aerospace companies in the US. Right now the aerospace industry relies on NASA to help them develop products on the distant horizon. They could not work with them nearly as effectively if NASA was out to sell the product themselves...
You don't see UPS and FedEx jumping at the opportunity to work with the USPS do you?
it is called a hypothesis, he did not state anything as fact...
I don't think they know who the dad is, but they said the little one looks a lot like a donkey...