Why must someone bring this up every time? The cable is ultra-light. Large chunks would burn up and small chunks would flutter like paper.
Because parts of it might flutter to the ground like paper, but the bit attached to the load would reach the ground at the load's terminal velocity. Anyway, it's not the impact with the ground which would matter. If the cable hit the ground, you'd have vast amounts of transport (shipping, cars, trains etc) all tangled up in thousands of kilometres of super-strong saran wrap. There would be enormous infrastructure damage.
The SPA is just inflating this number to inflate their claims of software piracy on the Mac
Yeah relax everyone - it looks like someone has accidently run the "Mac market share" numbers through the SPA's "Cost of Piracy" calculator.
Seroiusly though, these guys have a long history of fudging the numbers - that 18% of all software stat has been around unchanged for ten years now, for example. I don't expect the rest of their numbers to be much better.
Chip makers produce underclocked chips which they sell for less; how is this any different?
Because everyone agrees that when you pay for your CPU, you own your CPU and can use and abuse it in any way you want. No-one is claiming overclocking is illegal.
The 7th Circuit and 8th Circuit subscribe to the "license" and "not sold" arguments, while most other circuits do not. In addition, the contracts' enforceability depends on whether the state has passed Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) or Anti-UCITA (UCITA Bomb Shelter) laws. In Anti-UCITA states, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has been amended to either specifically define software as a good (thus making it fall under the UCC), or to disallow contracts which specify that the terms of contract are subject to the laws of a state that's passed UCITA.
Could it be viable to turn the molten into powerful energy source after that? Anyone?
Hot dry rock (HDR) is looking like an interesting clean power source, but in most places its just too deep. The average thermal gradient is 25 to 30 oC/km, so you'd have to drill several kilometres to get useful heat, and at the moment that's too expensive. For those areas with a steep gradient, or if deep drilling gets cheaper, it might be a better long-term prospect than nuclear or solar energy.
http://www.seav.vic.gov.au/renewable_energy/resour ces/geothermal.asp
What if I lose the original, and can't backup my backup.
Don't buy music from any of these artists. http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/ and it won't be an issue. Put your money where your mouth is and support independant music producers who don't restrict your rights. Then Sony will have a problem and you won't.
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No fans
Strange. In my experience, Mac fans have been loud, persistent, and only intermittently cool.
Technically then, with the possible exception of Iceland's geothermal industry, so is every other form of energy we use.
Nuclear power is non-solar as well, but you're right in general. The difference comes from whether the sunlight that is stored is historic or recent. Mining ancient sunlight in coal or oil is consuming a resource which is dense because it encapsulates millenia. Current sunlight is much more tenuous, so it needs to be collected from a larger area.
Biodiesel is solar. It uses solar energy to convert CO2 and water into vegetable oils. It requires sunlight just like photovoltaic solar cells. Its key advantage over photovoltaics and batteries is that it stores the energy in a way which will work with our existing infrastructure (internal combustion engines).
Dynamically declared are a terrible, terrible, terrible thing.
You're missing the point of REXX. It's a string processing language which is used to glue OS and apps. Variables are initialised as strings (uppercase version of string name). Numbers are parsed as strings until you perform an operation on them. If you DON'T want something to be a string, then explicitly type it. Otherwise, the interpreter will do it for you based on the operation you're performing.
In its native environment (OS/2 or AREXX on the Amiga), linking applications which used it as an internal scripting language and an OS which could use it as a shell extension, it worked brilliantly.
Cue astroturfer with FUD anecdote claiming failure of unspecified, probably old, versions of Linux on esoteric hardware. Claims this means all distros of the Linux operating system is unsuitable for average users. Will probably be moderated insightful.
Um, the (conservative part of the) US is not alone in this regard.
Very true, and islamic extremists would have enormous difficulty infiltrating a culture which encouraged people to be naked in public. Perhaps somebody should start a political party based on a "Security through nudity" campaign.
If you're worried about a backlash from the godly, just remind them we are all naked in god's eyes anyway.
It's already bad enough if it allows you to see through clothes that people specifically put on to cover body parts they're not willing to show in public
This is only being seen as bad in the US because you guys have such an opressive anti nudity and sex culture. Just dump the religious right, lighten up a little and have fun with this.
Actually, people may very well already have died in network attacks
Attacks are the least of the problems with communications networks. If you want to prioritise risks, you need to work on incompetence, greed and bureaucracy before you look for black hats under the beds. ahref=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/bo ul-m28_prn.shtmlhttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/ mar2002/boul-m28_prn.shtml>
there is no security archive for them and upgrading everything from the debian testing and unstable upstream respositries on an install as big as knoppix is a pain in the arse.
Not really again. I haven't needed to do this yet, (I normally just use Synaptic myself) but with the right sources.list, making a button which runs 'apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean; apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' should do the trick.
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when Christ went to eat with the publicans and sinners
If you feel a need to make a distinction between sinners and publicans, you obviously don't know many publlicans.
Put differently, how would support the people who innovate?
Why do you think Fleming and Florey developed penicillin? For the money?
Why must someone bring this up every time? The cable is ultra-light. Large chunks would burn up and small chunks would flutter like paper.
Because parts of it might flutter to the ground like paper, but the bit attached to the load would reach the ground at the load's terminal velocity. Anyway, it's not the impact with the ground which would matter. If the cable hit the ground, you'd have vast amounts of transport (shipping, cars, trains etc) all tangled up in thousands of kilometres of super-strong saran wrap. There would be enormous infrastructure damage.
This is blatantly not true.
Well, you can sleep comfortably now. I don't think that big bad DEC is going to be bothering you any more, old timer.
The SPA is just inflating this number to inflate their claims of software piracy on the Mac
Yeah relax everyone - it looks like someone has accidently run the "Mac market share" numbers through the SPA's "Cost of Piracy" calculator.
Seroiusly though, these guys have a long history of fudging the numbers - that 18% of all software stat has been around unchanged for ten years now, for example. I don't expect the rest of their numbers to be much better.
Chip makers produce underclocked chips which they sell for less; how is this any different?
Because everyone agrees that when you pay for your CPU, you own your CPU and can use and abuse it in any way you want. No-one is claiming overclocking is illegal.
That depends on which court the case is heard in.
Could it be viable to turn the molten into powerful energy source after that? Anyone?
r ces/geothermal.asp
Hot dry rock (HDR) is looking like an interesting clean power source, but in most places its just too deep. The average thermal gradient is 25 to 30 oC/km, so you'd have to drill several kilometres to get useful heat, and at the moment that's too expensive. For those areas with a steep gradient, or if deep drilling gets cheaper, it might be a better long-term prospect than nuclear or solar energy. http://www.seav.vic.gov.au/renewable_energy/resou
Then again, if I were a male T-Rex, my DNA would have been all over the place. Nudge nudge.
That's understandable. They didn't have kleenex tissues back then.
Cue the "I welcome our new Ancient Bear Overlords" comments.....
Is the pope a catholic?
Do Ancient Bear Overlords shit in the woods or the caves?
Debian's site WAS hacked not too long ago....open mouth, insert foot.
And the hackage was widely reported, here and elsewhere. So why the accusations of anti-Microsoft bias?
What if I lose the original, and can't backup my backup.
Don't buy music from any of these artists. http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/ and it won't be an issue. Put your money where your mouth is and support independant music producers who don't restrict your rights. Then Sony will have a problem and you won't.
No fans
Strange. In my experience, Mac fans have been loud, persistent, and only intermittently cool.
Technically then, with the possible exception of Iceland's geothermal industry, so is every other form of energy we use.
Nuclear power is non-solar as well, but you're right in general. The difference comes from whether the sunlight that is stored is historic or recent. Mining ancient sunlight in coal or oil is consuming a resource which is dense because it encapsulates millenia. Current sunlight is much more tenuous, so it needs to be collected from a larger area.
Biodiesel is much more significant than solar.
Biodiesel is solar. It uses solar energy to convert CO2 and water into vegetable oils. It requires sunlight just like photovoltaic solar cells. Its key advantage over photovoltaics and batteries is that it stores the energy in a way which will work with our existing infrastructure (internal combustion engines).
Let me see;
Retailer's happy, OSS author's happy, customer's (presumably) happy. So where's the downside?
Dynamically declared are a terrible, terrible, terrible thing.
You're missing the point of REXX. It's a string processing language which is used to glue OS and apps. Variables are initialised as strings (uppercase version of string name). Numbers are parsed as strings until you perform an operation on them. If you DON'T want something to be a string, then explicitly type it. Otherwise, the interpreter will do it for you based on the operation you're performing.
In its native environment (OS/2 or AREXX on the Amiga), linking applications which used it as an internal scripting language and an OS which could use it as a shell extension, it worked brilliantly.
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Cue astroturfer with FUD anecdote claiming failure of unspecified, probably old, versions of Linux on esoteric hardware. Claims this means all distros of the Linux operating system is unsuitable for average users. Will probably be moderated insightful.
are there any other ones besides lynx and links?
Emacs. Of course, vi is better.
Um, the (conservative part of the) US is not alone in this regard.
Very true, and islamic extremists would have enormous difficulty infiltrating a culture which encouraged people to be naked in public. Perhaps somebody should start a political party based on a "Security through nudity" campaign.
If you're worried about a backlash from the godly, just remind them we are all naked in god's eyes anyway.
It's already bad enough if it allows you to see through clothes that people specifically put on to cover body parts they're not willing to show in public
This is only being seen as bad in the US because you guys have such an opressive anti nudity and sex culture. Just dump the religious right, lighten up a little and have fun with this.
You know it's going to happen anyway.
It makes sense to not fund something with taxpayers' money that a significant portion of the taxpayers have severe moral issues with.
As opposed to the billions of dollars being spent on the war in Iraq which, presumably, no taxpayers have problems with?
That "Whoosh" was the sound of a big lump of irony travelling at high speed. Don't worry though, it was well clear of the top of your head.
Actually, people may very well already have died in network attacks
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Attacks are the least of the problems with communications networks. If you want to prioritise risks, you need to work on incompetence, greed and bureaucracy before you look for black hats under the beds. ahref=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/b
there is no security archive for them and upgrading everything from the debian testing and unstable upstream respositries on an install as big as knoppix is a pain in the arse.
Not really again. I haven't needed to do this yet, (I normally just use Synaptic myself) but with the right sources.list, making a button which runs 'apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean; apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' should do the trick.