Pipelines contain moisture and deposits that are absorbed by ethanol, thus changing its state during transport.
Wouldn't that only affect the first lot of ethanol pumped? Once it was being pumped constantly, there wouldn't be any moisture/deposits because they'd all been absorbed?
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A real lesson in the relative merits of innovation to stay at the front of the pack instead of dying in court battles.
You're assuming the court battles are initiated by the potential innovators.
And if someone thinks they're on to something, and end up patenting something that they don't have the wherewithal to turn into a viable part of their business... well, too bad. Some airlines fly with a lot of empty seats, lots of expensive theatrical productions play to empty theatres, and plenty of great chefs have no-one to cook for because the restaurant's on the wrong side of the street during rush hour.
Erm, yeah, but the difference is that those businesses aren't prohibiting competitors (and their customers) from benefitting from their incompetence; businesses who sit on patents are.
The sheer enormity of the universe makes my (lay) mind wonder - could Earth be part of a bigger system? If all stars and planets were neurons, the galaxies could be like enormous brains, or something. Just a thought.:-)
You're telling me that any kind of orange juice is bad for you? Geez. It really is true what they say, just about anything that tastes nice is bad for you.:-( Stupid tastebuds, it's so illogical that we'd like stuff that's bad for us and vice versa.
If you're unlucky enough to be on the side of the road when they pass, you need to cover your ears to prevent damage to your hearing, all while they're smiling and waving in white gloves.
So do the people on the float wear ear protectors then?
* (I'm a typical American liberal who thinks the United States has the best political system in the world but hates American complacency and keeps obsessive mental lists of things we could do better and foreign examples we could learn from.)
Please explain to me how the electoral college, legalizes bribery, and first-past-the-post electing could possibly be considered the best political system in the world.
Complaining that we don't know a telephone number is like complaining that we don't know how to use a quill pen, or we no longer know how to set a speed on a record player, or remember to yell gardy loo before emptying our chamber pots into the gutters on the streets below.
So YOU were the one that tipped that on my head without warning the other day? You bastard!
However, it doesn't, because it only applies to a "User Product". "A "User Product" is either (1) a "consumer product", which means any tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation into a dwelling."
Yeah, and as far as I can tell, the only reason they added that clause was to try and placate Linus's whinging about it. It did, for about 5 seconds, but it seems like he's back again. I hope they remove it so that the clause applies to all hardware as before. If Linus doesn't like it, he's just gonna have to be left behind, because it seems quite reasonable to me. The GPL is about the freedom to hack software, not to do what-the-hell-you-want with software. Big difference.
PATA ribbon cables are horrid. I've successfully converted all of my new system to SATA except for the optical drive now (and that'll soon be SATA). I purposely bought an Asus board that only had 1 IDE port (hard to find boards with none).
Information wants to be free. That may be true, but entertaiment wants to be paid and you just want to be cheap. And, last I checked with it, it certainly doesn't want to be anthropomorphized!
What the hell? These sorts of slow-motion trainwrecks never should have happened. There are rules in place, people whose livelihoods depend on making the right call are in positions of power and have a vested interest in doing right and yet they all trip over their own dicks.
If my dick was big enough for me to trip over, I'd probably be concentrating on stuff other than taking boardroom decisions too.
In the phrase, "Too much of a good thing", 'much' is functioning as a noun; this is why 'of' is needed to glue together the nouns 'much' and 'thing'. In almost all other phrases similar to this, 'much' is the only word after the 'too' that functions as a noun; other words are all adjectives. eg. "Too loud a noise", "Too small a quantity", "That great a guy". Adjectives directly describe a noun (eg. 'loud noise', 'small quantity', 'big problem'), and DO NOT NEED the preposition 'of' to glue them with their noun! Incidentally, even 'much' can be used as an adjective, when it is describing an abstract noun: "Too much rain". Therefore, your phrase, "That great of a guy" should have read, "That great a guy". The 'of' is totally redundant and incorrect. Please do not ever use it UNLESS you are using the word 'much' with a non-abstract noun and need 'of' to glue them together.
The judge you get on the day, the jury, how well the lawyers convince the jury to see things their way, what the judge allows and disallows, what the various appeals processes rule, the politicians you buy to change the law at the last moment, all of those change it from absolute certainty to something much hazier.
So what you're saying is that Slashdot discussion on these issues is ultimately a lot more useful than the law? I think we all knew that.
Spammers are like that Simpsons episode where all the ad billboards come alive - if you ignore them, they'll go away. But everyone has to ignore them.
We're pouring so many resources into fighting them... it just strikes me that if we just tried to ignore the bastards, they'd find something better (or more profitable) to do than spam.
I'm not sure I'd be over the moon about them being in government for long, either. But you don't have to want them in for a long time! Just wait for them to reform our democratic system to a PR system, then vote for who you REALLY want! If there isn't a party you want, start a new one, get a following, and have a reasonable chance of getting representation under PR. Why would you want to carry on with the current crappy 2-party bandwagon when you could have that?
And yet you seem to act as if we live in a two party system. If we could just get the Lib Dems in and get PR implemented, we wouldn't have to put up with this shit anymore. Please, stop talking as if these are the only asswipes we have to choose from.
I don't think it's a service to the public. Nobody needs to watch everything.
For me, Minisode's greatness is not about watching everything. It's about one thing: Introducing me to Sheena; the most original excuse to show off a cute blonde's breasts I've EVER seen.
And still, for most things, the size of your bank account is much more important than who your parents are
However, who your parents are probably decides the size of your bank account (and no, I think they are very close to being exclusively related. You generally have to speculate to accumulate, and with no speculation money to put into a college education, you can rarely escape the poverty trap).
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Pipelines contain moisture and deposits that are absorbed by ethanol, thus changing its state during transport.
Wouldn't that only affect the first lot of ethanol pumped? Once it was being pumped constantly, there wouldn't be any moisture/deposits because they'd all been absorbed?
A real lesson in the relative merits of innovation to stay at the front of the pack instead of dying in court battles.
You're assuming the court battles are initiated by the potential innovators.
And if someone thinks they're on to something, and end up patenting something that they don't have the wherewithal to turn into a viable part of their business... well, too bad. Some airlines fly with a lot of empty seats, lots of expensive theatrical productions play to empty theatres, and plenty of great chefs have no-one to cook for because the restaurant's on the wrong side of the street during rush hour.
Erm, yeah, but the difference is that those businesses aren't prohibiting competitors (and their customers) from benefitting from their incompetence; businesses who sit on patents are.
The sheer enormity of the universe makes my (lay) mind wonder - could Earth be part of a bigger system? If all stars and planets were neurons, the galaxies could be like enormous brains, or something. Just a thought. :-)
You're telling me that any kind of orange juice is bad for you? Geez. It really is true what they say, just about anything that tastes nice is bad for you. :-( Stupid tastebuds, it's so illogical that we'd like stuff that's bad for us and vice versa.
If you're unlucky enough to be on the side of the road when they pass, you need to cover your ears to prevent damage to your hearing, all while they're smiling and waving in white gloves.
So do the people on the float wear ear protectors then?
* (I'm a typical American liberal who thinks the United States has the best political system in the world but hates American complacency and keeps obsessive mental lists of things we could do better and foreign examples we could learn from.)
Please explain to me how the electoral college, legalizes bribery, and first-past-the-post electing could possibly be considered the best political system in the world.
Complaining that we don't know a telephone number is like complaining that we don't know how to use a quill pen, or we no longer know how to set a speed on a record player, or remember to yell gardy loo before emptying our chamber pots into the gutters on the streets below.
So YOU were the one that tipped that on my head without warning the other day? You bastard!
However, it doesn't, because it only applies to a "User Product". "A "User Product" is either (1) a "consumer product", which means any tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation into a dwelling."
Yeah, and as far as I can tell, the only reason they added that clause was to try and placate Linus's whinging about it. It did, for about 5 seconds, but it seems like he's back again. I hope they remove it so that the clause applies to all hardware as before. If Linus doesn't like it, he's just gonna have to be left behind, because it seems quite reasonable to me. The GPL is about the freedom to hack software, not to do what-the-hell-you-want with software. Big difference.
but you can only have max 2 PATA IDE devices :?
And that's 2 too many.
PATA ribbon cables are horrid. I've successfully converted all of my new system to SATA except for the optical drive now (and that'll soon be SATA). I purposely bought an Asus board that only had 1 IDE port (hard to find boards with none).
And that only until some enterprising hacker makes a name for himself by publishing the crack.
So at least we can say DRM is helping someone.
What the hell? These sorts of slow-motion trainwrecks never should have happened. There are rules in place, people whose livelihoods depend on making the right call are in positions of power and have a vested interest in doing right and yet they all trip over their own dicks.
If my dick was big enough for me to trip over, I'd probably be concentrating on stuff other than taking boardroom decisions too.
Kevin Martin actually isn't that great of a guy.
In the phrase, "Too much of a good thing", 'much' is functioning as a noun; this is why 'of' is needed to glue together the nouns 'much' and 'thing'.
In almost all other phrases similar to this, 'much' is the only word after the 'too' that functions as a noun; other words are all adjectives. eg. "Too loud a noise", "Too small a quantity", "That great a guy". Adjectives directly describe a noun (eg. 'loud noise', 'small quantity', 'big problem'), and DO NOT NEED the preposition 'of' to glue them with their noun! Incidentally, even 'much' can be used as an adjective, when it is describing an abstract noun: "Too much rain".
Therefore, your phrase,
"That great of a guy"
should have read,
"That great a guy".
The 'of' is totally redundant and incorrect. Please do not ever use it UNLESS you are using the word 'much' with a non-abstract noun and need 'of' to glue them together.
The judge you get on the day, the jury, how well the lawyers convince the jury to see things their way, what the judge allows and disallows, what the various appeals processes rule, the politicians you buy to change the law at the last moment, all of those change it from absolute certainty to something much hazier.
So what you're saying is that Slashdot discussion on these issues is ultimately a lot more useful than the law? I think we all knew that.
What's wrong with recording footage everywhere and then making use of it when a need arises?
How're you supposed to organize a revolution if it'll be televised by the government?
No, you're wrong.
'Surface' can certainly be used with an object, to mean 'bring to the surface'. Look here.
Spammers are like that Simpsons episode where all the ad billboards come alive - if you ignore them, they'll go away. But everyone has to ignore them.
We're pouring so many resources into fighting them... it just strikes me that if we just tried to ignore the bastards, they'd find something better (or more profitable) to do than spam.
I'm not sure I'd be over the moon about them being in government for long, either. But you don't have to want them in for a long time! Just wait for them to reform our democratic system to a PR system, then vote for who you REALLY want! If there isn't a party you want, start a new one, get a following, and have a reasonable chance of getting representation under PR. Why would you want to carry on with the current crappy 2-party bandwagon when you could have that?
And yet you seem to act as if we live in a two party system. If we could just get the Lib Dems in and get PR implemented, we wouldn't have to put up with this shit anymore. Please, stop talking as if these are the only asswipes we have to choose from.
Do NOT insult the superior theory of the Time Cube. Watch this video to be informed. Anyone who doesn't isn educated stupid and EVIL.
Energy wants to be free (as in speech), man!
Actually, in Steorn's case, it would be free as in beer.
I don't think it's a service to the public. Nobody needs to watch everything.
For me, Minisode's greatness is not about watching everything. It's about one thing: Introducing me to Sheena; the most original excuse to show off a cute blonde's breasts I've EVER seen.
The difference is that you are not forced to own a car. You are (more or less) forced to keep living.
Not true.
- Health Insurance company lawyer
And still, for most things, the size of your bank account is much more important than who your parents are
However, who your parents are probably decides the size of your bank account (and no, I think they are very close to being exclusively related. You generally have to speculate to accumulate, and with no speculation money to put into a college education, you can rarely escape the poverty trap).