While it may not use fossil fuels, I've been told a few times the largest viable source of ethanol is industrially cracked ethene (I think) from crude oil.
I guess once we got the vehicles etc. converted to this fuel we could set up fermentation plants if the oil ran out, but it still looks to me like the oil companies are safe for now.
I think that by far the best idea for people who do not understand the concept of bandwidth is use the only example of bandwidth they have ever used - websites.
This is a 56k connection (graphics heavy page loads in 30 seconds). This is cable (same page loads after a 3-4 second delay). This is our new line (pretty 3D graph shows 20,000 similar pages load in thumnails on a big wall display in ~1 second).
Still, it'd die within a year of normal use I would think, especially with frequent read/writes to logfiles etc. I expect better than that from my components.
Indeed - as the summary says, it's not so much a parse error as a dirty hack, so to speak. Our current theory does the job without breaking anything, and in time we will work out a more elegant way to describe the same concept.
Considering it was the US' commitment to education and entrepreneurship that created this world of technology, we have every right to introduce legislation to stop corporate greed from giving the benefit to others.
Disagreement to the parent aside, isn't it the greed of the US companies that are giving the jobs to India? The workers over there are happy to take the work they are offered and get what is considered decent pay there. The US companies are offering, it's not neccesarily the Indians 'stealing' the jobs.
Actually I wasn't intending to be pedantic. The phrasing 'how much training do people need' said to me that s/he was interested in how long they spend in tech school and if the training is adequate, which it could well be.
Strange that before I read the parent I was just about to point out that I have a nice analog watch because it looks good. I am a gadget freak, I have a cellphone/PDA combo that I use for video, web, phonecalls, calendar etc. I could quite easily look at it's clock, and I'm sure it wouldn't take more time than moving my arm to look at my watch. This is immaterial, however. A watch is a piece of jewelery and that's how I like it! IMO gold ones look tacky, but I have a nice, robust aluminium Quiksilver analog watch which cost about GBP100, looks great, does it's job perfectly and should last a good 10 years. I keep phones for 6 months, if that - my watch is an accessory and I like it that way.
While there is not much production of new plain jane phones (there are some, but not many), there is plenty of second hand market. Just get a Nokia 3310 (or an 8210 if you want something smaller) for $50 or less, stick on a new cover and it's as good as new.
All you need then is either a Pay as You Go SIM or the one with the contract you like best. If you're lucky you can even take a flashy, free handset on your contract and sell it for a profit over the plain everyday phone you replace it with.
Having said all that, I love my phones. I use a black titanium 8910 when I'm going out and I have my PDA style P900 for everyday use. No harm in consolidating gadgets into one device if you need to, but I can see some people don't want that.
But seriously, you'd need a pretty good digicam/scanner for that not to be completely obvious
You would, but in a few years time when this technology has legal precident spending a few grand on modding a 'secure' camera to forge evidence in order to get away with millions sounds like a good investment.
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Dammit, I could've sworn it was on the screen somewhere.
There is the little fact that IBM produces Apple's G5 chips that makes that ad kinda redundant in today's terms.
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Cricket is silly. Any game where you dress like that and spend a week throwing a ball at some sticks in the ground can't be that great;-)
I am English, BTW. I never really saw the attraction of football (soccer) as a spectator sport either to be honest. Ice hockey, on the other hand, rocks - shame we only get it at obscure times of the night.
I agree that the moderators were wrong - it was not flamebait, however I felt that it could have been an honest question and I therefore replied with the intention of informing you of why he is suing the RIAA. I simply thought you may have been serious, my intent was not to offend.
The *IAA, however, are threatening people based on their IP addresses, and I believe you can't get confirmed IPs from Kazaa without using a DMCA breaking modified version (all IIRC, I don't personally use Kazaa).
I still want one that supports Sky TV in the UK. I could take the output from the decoder box but then anything I wanted to record I would have to set the box and the PVR, defeating the purpose.
Anyone know how to put a Sky signal straight from the dish into a PC? They use some obscure encryption so even when you pay for a viewing card you cant use it.
Quite likely, although when the newspapers heard that the iPod Mini (selling at US$250) was intended to be priced at 199 (over 60 more) Apple made a sharp turn on pricing policy. Publicity is the key!
I am happy to see targeted banners and text ads - I regularly click slashdot banners or Google AdWords because they relate to the site I am browsing and are actually interesting and sometimes beneficial to me.
I tolerate useless banners that tell me I have won a prize or there is an urgent message waiting because they are just the work of a misguided webmaster trying to pay the bills. I never click these, I don't want their crap and I don't support their cause.
I block popups altogether - anyone who wants to hijack what I'm trying to read rather than become part of the page does not deserve listening to. If they want my help then they should be polite - I don't expect my newspaper to flash an ad for 20 seconds before I can read the story.
Many P900 owners (including myself) use a program called Tracker. It shows a 'desktop' with user selectable menus, movable and changable shortcut icons, selectable data (i.e. contacts, calendar for the day, alarm times). It's skinnable too.
It's integrated such that it opens whenever the flip is down (if you tell it to anyway) meaning that you need never see the long, unordered application list.
Yes, downloading is illegal. Yes, it should not be done. For god's sake make the punishment fit the crime though - if I get caught downloading one MP3 I believe that it is not right to sue me for $5000 or more. That's what they expect for the loss of one sale which, if bought through iTunes, would be $0.99 or less.
Also, you mention Freenet's only purpose being copyright violation. Wasn't it's main purpose to help those under opression make their opinions known? Isn't it far too slow for effective copyright abuse anyway? Isn't BitTorrent a P2P client which is usually used for legitimate purposes?
You could've made an interesting point, but get your facts straight first.
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Shuttles support P4 3.2GHz chips - I challenge anyone to fit a big enough passive heatsink into that case without melting any of your system.
This is a full PC in a small case. If you want an computer powered 'appliance' then go for mini-ITX.
While it may not use fossil fuels, I've been told a few times the largest viable source of ethanol is industrially cracked ethene (I think) from crude oil.
I guess once we got the vehicles etc. converted to this fuel we could set up fermentation plants if the oil ran out, but it still looks to me like the oil companies are safe for now.
Never played 2k2 so can't comment on that, but I'm running an Athlon 2000+/Radeon 9200 and the 2k4 demo's running well for me.
I think that by far the best idea for people who do not understand the concept of bandwidth is use the only example of bandwidth they have ever used - websites.
This is a 56k connection (graphics heavy page loads in 30 seconds). This is cable (same page loads after a 3-4 second delay). This is our new line (pretty 3D graph shows 20,000 similar pages load in thumnails on a big wall display in ~1 second).
Still, it'd die within a year of normal use I would think, especially with frequent read/writes to logfiles etc. I expect better than that from my components.
Indeed - as the summary says, it's not so much a parse error as a dirty hack, so to speak. Our current theory does the job without breaking anything, and in time we will work out a more elegant way to describe the same concept.
Considering it was the US' commitment to education and entrepreneurship that created this world of technology, we have every right to introduce legislation to stop corporate greed from giving the benefit to others.
Disagreement to the parent aside, isn't it the greed of the US companies that are giving the jobs to India? The workers over there are happy to take the work they are offered and get what is considered decent pay there. The US companies are offering, it's not neccesarily the Indians 'stealing' the jobs.
Actually I wasn't intending to be pedantic. The phrasing 'how much training do people need' said to me that s/he was interested in how long they spend in tech school and if the training is adequate, which it could well be.
There was no argument, there was a question from someone who was interested in an answer.
Strange that before I read the parent I was just about to point out that I have a nice analog watch because it looks good. I am a gadget freak, I have a cellphone/PDA combo that I use for video, web, phonecalls, calendar etc. I could quite easily look at it's clock, and I'm sure it wouldn't take more time than moving my arm to look at my watch.
This is immaterial, however. A watch is a piece of jewelery and that's how I like it! IMO gold ones look tacky, but I have a nice, robust aluminium Quiksilver analog watch which cost about GBP100, looks great, does it's job perfectly and should last a good 10 years. I keep phones for 6 months, if that - my watch is an accessory and I like it that way.
While there is not much production of new plain jane phones (there are some, but not many), there is plenty of second hand market. Just get a Nokia 3310 (or an 8210 if you want something smaller) for $50 or less, stick on a new cover and it's as good as new.
All you need then is either a Pay as You Go SIM or the one with the contract you like best. If you're lucky you can even take a flashy, free handset on your contract and sell it for a profit over the plain everyday phone you replace it with.
Having said all that, I love my phones. I use a black titanium 8910 when I'm going out and I have my PDA style P900 for everyday use. No harm in consolidating gadgets into one device if you need to, but I can see some people don't want that.
But seriously, you'd need a pretty good digicam/scanner for that not to be completely obvious
You would, but in a few years time when this technology has legal precident spending a few grand on modding a 'secure' camera to forge evidence in order to get away with millions sounds like a good investment.
Dammit, I could've sworn it was on the screen somewhere.
There is the little fact that IBM produces Apple's G5 chips that makes that ad kinda redundant in today's terms.
Cricket is silly. Any game where you dress like that and spend a week throwing a ball at some sticks in the ground can't be that great ;-)
I am English, BTW. I never really saw the attraction of football (soccer) as a spectator sport either to be honest. Ice hockey, on the other hand, rocks - shame we only get it at obscure times of the night.
Ahh, it's nice to be reminded I'm on a site where the scientifically minded are the majority :-D
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It's taken off some of the shock I just had from seeing 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here' pop up on the TV
I agree that the moderators were wrong - it was not flamebait, however I felt that it could have been an honest question and I therefore replied with the intention of informing you of why he is suing the RIAA. I simply thought you may have been serious, my intent was not to offend.
What copyrights has Sherman violated?
The *IAA, however, are threatening people based on their IP addresses, and I believe you can't get confirmed IPs from Kazaa without using a DMCA breaking modified version (all IIRC, I don't personally use Kazaa).
I still want one that supports Sky TV in the UK. I could take the output from the decoder box but then anything I wanted to record I would have to set the box and the PVR, defeating the purpose.
Anyone know how to put a Sky signal straight from the dish into a PC? They use some obscure encryption so even when you pay for a viewing card you cant use it.
How hard was it to get one of the original invitations? What criteria did they use to pick the initial 12000?
Quite likely, although when the newspapers heard that the iPod Mini (selling at US$250) was intended to be priced at 199 (over 60 more) Apple made a sharp turn on pricing policy. Publicity is the key!
I am happy to see targeted banners and text ads - I regularly click slashdot banners or Google AdWords because they relate to the site I am browsing and are actually interesting and sometimes beneficial to me.
I tolerate useless banners that tell me I have won a prize or there is an urgent message waiting because they are just the work of a misguided webmaster trying to pay the bills. I never click these, I don't want their crap and I don't support their cause.
I block popups altogether - anyone who wants to hijack what I'm trying to read rather than become part of the page does not deserve listening to. If they want my help then they should be polite - I don't expect my newspaper to flash an ad for 20 seconds before I can read the story.
Many P900 owners (including myself) use a program called Tracker. It shows a 'desktop' with user selectable menus, movable and changable shortcut icons, selectable data (i.e. contacts, calendar for the day, alarm times). It's skinnable too.
It's integrated such that it opens whenever the flip is down (if you tell it to anyway) meaning that you need never see the long, unordered application list.
Yes, downloading is illegal. Yes, it should not be done. For god's sake make the punishment fit the crime though - if I get caught downloading one MP3 I believe that it is not right to sue me for $5000 or more. That's what they expect for the loss of one sale which, if bought through iTunes, would be $0.99 or less.
Also, you mention Freenet's only purpose being copyright violation. Wasn't it's main purpose to help those under opression make their opinions known? Isn't it far too slow for effective copyright abuse anyway? Isn't BitTorrent a P2P client which is usually used for legitimate purposes?
You could've made an interesting point, but get your facts straight first.