Oh, they can lift way more... I haven't measured their strength but should you ever get two of them stuck flat to each other it takes a fair bit of effort to seperate them.
I'm not engineer so I ask those of you thiat are, would the same principle be applicable to generating power?
ie: can this be used to make hydro plants (or any other power plants) produce more power thus eliminating - or at least delaying - the need for ever more new plants, or is this a one way street?
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And what business do you know aims to break even? People go into business to make money, as is certainly the case with spammers. If they get more people to buy, they will spam more.
Well it's good to see that there will still be paying jobs for software engineers. Pity they'll all be maintenance. Also a shame for joe business owner when he needs to have something fixed or added and finally realizes that even though he's been using 'free' software that the 40 hours of development work he's about to fund would have covered a years worth of closed source that most likely would have done what he wanted out of the box.
I said nothing about not buying software if it's what you need, but after doing so and having said software crash and cost me a fortune to recover, I'd like to know that the author of said software be responsible for providing a fix, rather than finding out that they aren't going to help and showing me some cleverly phrased clause in some EULA.
When I deliver a product to a client, I give them a period of free support, perhaps only a month or less, depending on the value of the contract. I'm human, I make mistakes, and my fixing them for free for a certain period sure must be appreciated.
Make it illegal for a company that sells it's own sotfware, from including clauses in the vein of "we aren't responsible if it breaks, and costs you money"
A commercial product should come with some warranty no? If it's THEIR fault, it should be THEIR RESPONSIBILITY if I use it correctly and it still melts my face!
If they want to bundle other applications, they should charge for those apps, and include the invoice of all the apps that the consumer is paying for. All this with the option of NOT buying certain apps for the consumer. This, I think would force MS to drop the price Windows. Figure, the total bundles price is, oh say $100, with all the bundled stuff included. Start peling off the bits you don't want, what's the price then?
I can imagine some base install and then a web activation (yeah I know, we all love those) where a customer picks all the apps he wants to install, have the installer say something to the effect of "all those extra apps are gonna cost $xxx enter credit card info here:"
Of course, some people will find a way to rip them off, but, that's happening alread right?
For the case of F/OSS, tack on a clause that apps where the client can obtain source, and fix it himself (or audit it before using), is not requred to be warrantied by the author.
Of Course IANAL, It's not perfect, but it's my 2cents.
I don't get it either. I'm a tech in a university, and we have a large batch of P4 2.6GHz E-series Gateways (E-4100). The motherboards use intel chipsets and the CPUs are real P4, not celeries. The Machines run fine, use all standard components case included, which I'll admit, I like. The only component whio's quality I would question is the power-supply, though we have had no trouble with any of them yet. I would even consider taking one or more of these home when they start replacing them, which won't be for a while I guess, we just got them.
I remember Bugs Bunny cartoons "Duck Rogers" with Daffy and Porky riding around in space doging space billboards...
Perhaps WB should be awarded this patent?
I wonder, do you also think the *BSD mascot is satanic, or that it represents satanic values (whatever those may be)?
Anyone who makes business decisions based on a product logo, deserve what they get.
Absolutely. I work as a tech in the computer labs at a Canadian university. Twice a semester, mid-terms & Finals' students come knocking at the door because their papers were on a floppy which is now dead. "Hope you had a backup" as the students leaves crying. We even have CDRWs on all the machines. *sigh*
I keep hearing the Dragon screeches from Warcraft II. Most of the time it's net even about dragons or such, many times I hear them as sounds for space-fighters.
I like this idea. Not that I'm in favor of the 2nd, who cares I'm Canadian anyway, but it is a reality, so can we consider having a stockpile of virii on your personal machine as falling under the "right to bear arms"? After all, US citizens are allowed to have entire armories in their homes...
Or is it because there is no market for virii that it's not protected.
As long as they can sell them to you, then you can buy them, is that how it works?
Treaties which are seemingly totally ignored by the US. Wasn't there one about not developing bio-weapons, to bring this thread back on track, what exactly do you call this mouse-pox, if not the prelude to a potential biological WMD? Look at it from any angle you wish to, I see little merit in this line of research. There are enough deadly bugs on the planet as is, we don't need to be creating new custom ones. Go ahead, call me names, denigrate me, disagree it's still your right to do so, until some 3 letter agency decides otherwise, and strips you af all rights without explanation. The US Patriot Act, how very patriotic to ignore the rights which your constitution guarantees you. All in the name of what? Freedom? Riiiiight.
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Oh, they can lift way more... I haven't measured their strength but should you ever get two of them stuck flat to each other it takes a fair bit of effort to seperate them.
I'm not engineer so I ask those of you thiat are, would the same principle be applicable to generating power? ie: can this be used to make hydro plants (or any other power plants) produce more power thus eliminating - or at least delaying - the need for ever more new plants, or is this a one way street?
Can I use scissors to partition the drive?
I can just see it now.... Some alien species is going to see this and wonder "WTF, they have space weapons, and they're pointed at themselves!?"
Not just read it out loud, but trace it orally!
And what business do you know aims to break even? People go into business to make money, as is certainly the case with spammers. If they get more people to buy, they will spam more.
I said nothing about not buying software if it's what you need, but after doing so and having said software crash and cost me a fortune to recover, I'd like to know that the author of said software be responsible for providing a fix, rather than finding out that they aren't going to help and showing me some cleverly phrased clause in some EULA.
When I deliver a product to a client, I give them a period of free support, perhaps only a month or less, depending on the value of the contract. I'm human, I make mistakes, and my fixing them for free for a certain period sure must be appreciated.
Make it illegal for a company that sells it's own sotfware, from including clauses in the vein of "we aren't responsible if it breaks, and costs you money"
A commercial product should come with some warranty no? If it's THEIR fault, it should be THEIR RESPONSIBILITY if I use it correctly and it still melts my face!
If they want to bundle other applications, they should charge for those apps, and include the invoice of all the apps that the consumer is paying for. All this with the option of NOT buying certain apps for the consumer. This, I think would force MS to drop the price Windows. Figure, the total bundles price is, oh say $100, with all the bundled stuff included. Start peling off the bits you don't want, what's the price then?
I can imagine some base install and then a web activation (yeah I know, we all love those) where a customer picks all the apps he wants to install, have the installer say something to the effect of "all those extra apps are gonna cost $xxx enter credit card info here:"
Of course, some people will find a way to rip them off, but, that's happening alread right?
For the case of F/OSS, tack on a clause that apps where the client can obtain source, and fix it himself (or audit it before using), is not requred to be warrantied by the author.
Of Course IANAL, It's not perfect, but it's my 2cents.
So, are they going to wire the toilets to the power meter and reduce your rate accordingly?
I don't get it either. I'm a tech in a university, and we have a large batch of P4 2.6GHz E-series Gateways (E-4100). The motherboards use intel chipsets and the CPUs are real P4, not celeries. The Machines run fine, use all standard components case included, which I'll admit, I like. The only component whio's quality I would question is the power-supply, though we have had no trouble with any of them yet. I would even consider taking one or more of these home when they start replacing them, which won't be for a while I guess, we just got them.
I remember Bugs Bunny cartoons "Duck Rogers" with Daffy and Porky riding around in space doging space billboards... Perhaps WB should be awarded this patent?
I wonder, do you also think the *BSD mascot is satanic, or that it represents satanic values (whatever those may be)? Anyone who makes business decisions based on a product logo, deserve what they get.
Mod this down if you must, but I agree. Religion is a cancer upon humanity.
Dunno, how long before the US realizes the rest of the world uses the metric system?
Absolutely. I work as a tech in the computer labs at a Canadian university. Twice a semester, mid-terms & Finals' students come knocking at the door because their papers were on a floppy which is now dead. "Hope you had a backup" as the students leaves crying. We even have CDRWs on all the machines. *sigh*
This is just bad journalism. Since when is it OK to print things that are suggested? What happened to facts?
I keep hearing the Dragon screeches from Warcraft II. Most of the time it's net even about dragons or such, many times I hear them as sounds for space-fighters.
Why give the manything to use at all, either against Linux or for their own advancement. Just ignore them...
How much can they "analyze" and use before it becomes a "derivative work". After all, anything they come up with will certainly not be GPLed.
Or is it because there is no market for virii that it's not protected. As long as they can sell them to you, then you can buy them, is that how it works?
Since when does the US respect the Geneva Conventions?
How about attachine it to the ISS? Or at least near it. Might make it a little more accessible when it needs service.
Absolutely, a lesson learned the hard way will never be forgotten, unless it kills you.
Yet you still read the posts...
Treaties which are seemingly totally ignored by the US. Wasn't there one about not developing bio-weapons, to bring this thread back on track, what exactly do you call this mouse-pox, if not the prelude to a potential biological WMD? Look at it from any angle you wish to, I see little merit in this line of research. There are enough deadly bugs on the planet as is, we don't need to be creating new custom ones. Go ahead, call me names, denigrate me, disagree it's still your right to do so, until some 3 letter agency decides otherwise, and strips you af all rights without explanation. The US Patriot Act, how very patriotic to ignore the rights which your constitution guarantees you. All in the name of what? Freedom? Riiiiight.