Oh no, no. No no no no no no. Olives need a long process of acid removal before they're edible at all.
Although if you made a good meal of them (and perhaps mixed with a good selection of raw cashews and uncooked tapioca) you would provide good fertiliser for a tree somewhere, which would be a nice thing to do for it.
"It is a fundamental tenet of copyright law that statutory damages awarded must bear a reasonable relationship to the actual damage sustained."
Indeed. It's interesting how the high court ruled that statutory damages must, at the end of the day, resemble actual damages. This is clearly not the case here.
Given how this can logically lead only to the egregious overvaluing of the RIAA's product on their part, we can add "immensely inflated sense of self-worth" to their crimes.
It's utterly astounding how many twists they have in their legal fishing line, how they can get so much mileage from walking on air.
Injustice on this scale - metaphors simply fail. Sorry, I tried.
What I don't get -- if the laser isn't actually being used for thermal properties -- is how the light actually "fixes" the problem. If it's just the light that's "stimulating" the cells to "clean up their mess", why not dump 532nm light from an LED? They're just as monochromatic and oughta be bright enough to shine through the relevant tissues.
Monochrome light isn't the only useful characteristic of a laser. Accuracy is another - the beam doesn't spread out over any appreciable distance because of the coherent nature of the beam.
That said, it makes a very clean instrument; nothing quite as sterile as something that doesn't touch you at all.
IANAO but a very happy recovered patient of a good one. Although my sight was restored with ultrasound and acrylic as much as lasers. With lens replacement surgery lasers are sometimes required to burn away the back of the lens capsule. Strangely, I found the whole process rather fun and entertaining, rather than frightening, but I'm a geek (and no, there were no drugs involved).
Of course that doesn't matter, if there's the prospect of having your sight restored after nearly a year without it, you'd crawl through broken glass if that's what it took.
But then, has there been anything in science lately that warrants any kind of gee-whiz fiction based on it?
I might suggest you have a look at pretty much anything written by Greg Bear (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, Eon et.al - see Wikipedia on Greg Bear). I'm not sure if 10 or so year old stuff fits your criteria for "new", but there is no question that this is real science fiction, based on extrapolations of scientific discoveries - not D&D with ray guns (not that there's anything wrong with that). From your post I think you might like him.
Having run RAID quite a bit myself one must remember having all your drives in one box is always an invitation for trouble since hardware failures on a higher order will likely hit all the drives.
For desktop systems, the best thing to do is buy a terabyte sized USB disk and use the Seagate backup software that generally comes with those. Unplug when done and put it somewhere else. You're fine, you're covered. If you're talking about large commercial systems, well, you've got a job of design ahead of you. Banks, for example, don't see any difficulty in geographically-dispersed multiply redundant blockwise replication. Imagine three full sets of replicas in different parts of a city, replicated in near real time. Hardware and line cost is kind of irrelevant when you're protecting a few billion per day in transactions.
But for home backup? USB connected disk drives are actually kind of cheap.
The ironic part is that GM had a great electric car years ago that they destroyed in favor of things like the Hummer.
Yes, but... I'm convinced they didn't want to sell it. You don't need to be a marketing guru to see that calling it the "Impact" was sending the wrong sort of message on safety. And GM is very aware of marketing messages and how you can subtly alter perceptions by using loaded words.
This is on the exact same track as the behaviour that brought them their first major antitrust suit. Perhaps the Bing switch is "an essential part of the operating system". Bunk.
Well yes, obviously it's a decoy. The NSA knows that we would immediately jump to the conclusion that this is a decoy, and start looking elsewhere. In fact, they're counting on it. They want us looking elsewhere so that they can install their top secret datacentre hardware in Utah.
Perhaps, but there's no evidence that the Voynich manuscript is a cypher in the traditional sense. A natural language isn't normally "decyphered", since it was never encrypted in the first place.
I ran the Voynich text through a strange old Apple ][ assembler program an old friend once wrote. The results don't make sense to me, either. It starts:
"Es Brillig war. Die schlichte toven warten und wimmelten in Waben. Alle mumsige war die Borgegoven, und die Momeraths ausgraben."
well, actually, no, there is no such thing as "simply speech." there are plenty of things that you can write on the internet or issue from your mouth that should rightfully result in you being imprisoned
The problem wasn't speech, the problem was child abuse. Speech was just the type of whip used.
In Australia the legal definition of "assault" includes verbal abuse, speech used with the intention to intimidate or overtly induce fear in a person.
Back in high school a kid we hung out with was verbally abused by members of his family to the point of suicide. I can remember feeling outrage as much as sadness when he died. It was a series of actions that led to the ultimate harm.
When young adults are first trying their wings in social situations, they are often inept and very, very vulnerable. It takes a special kind of person to prey on the weak like that through what is thought to be the safe medium of speech. Kind of like a coward who bites.
What comet63 said. Large primoridal clouds of hydrogen are easy to understand, and oxygen is enough lighter than carbon that it could occur early on in stellar formation, I'd think (IANAAP, IMBFOS). So I can imagine large clouds of the two gases igniting in the early part of our planetary history, with enough being captured by our own gravity well to compress and become water. The rest, as they say, is geography. Add lots of the slightly less reactive nitrogen and you'd get something approaching the mixture we're breathing. But in order to seed both the Earth and the Oort cloud, those gas sources would have to be huge. What happened to the rest of it? Blown away on the solar wind? If so, could we see traces like this around other star systems and make a guess about water atmospheres?
Throwing your computer off the roof - Because your time isn't free
There are other reasons for throwing your computer off the roof. In the early days of Apple we had a little commercial system based on Apple Pascal that ran on a ][+. It was a true blivit in the classical sense, something sort of written that ran a part of the business until it couldn't anymore.
When we took it to the roof of the building and threw it into the parking lot, someone remarked "That's the longest it's ever gone without a crash". We used 11/70's from that point until they couldn't do the job either, but they were too big to conveniently throw off the roof.
IBM's MQ Series is indeed bulletproof. Guaranteed single-instance delivery. Runs on everything from mainframes to a chip nailed to a block of wood.
Another option would be the FileZilla client perhaps. Install XAMPP on your Windows box for a very nice WAMP environment. I use it for a Joomla! instance and it comes with FileZilla. No problems with it to date.
Slashdot Mirror
There, fixed that for you.
(Yes, I know you were applying sarcasm, couldn't resist ;)
olives should be eaten off the vine
Oh no, no. No no no no no no. Olives need a long process of acid removal before they're edible at all.
Although if you made a good meal of them (and perhaps mixed with a good selection of raw cashews and uncooked tapioca) you would provide good fertiliser for a tree somewhere, which would be a nice thing to do for it.
And I like a good Cabernet, thank you.
You're quite right, there were eyedrops involved. What I meant to impart was that there were no drugs that made me giggle.
easily...with a majority of dumb people disposing trash in the very street whenever they can ?
Dear gods, where do you live where people actually dump trash in the street? That's totally uncivil!
- Melburnian
"It is a fundamental tenet of copyright law that statutory damages awarded must bear a reasonable relationship to the actual damage sustained."
Indeed. It's interesting how the high court ruled that statutory damages must, at the end of the day, resemble actual damages. This is clearly not the case here.
Given how this can logically lead only to the egregious overvaluing of the RIAA's product on their part, we can add "immensely inflated sense of self-worth" to their crimes.
It's utterly astounding how many twists they have in their legal fishing line, how they can get so much mileage from walking on air.
Injustice on this scale - metaphors simply fail. Sorry, I tried.
Hell, why don't we go back to sending kids who steal bread to Australia while we're at it.
We'll take 'em. And if they're that hungry, we'll feed 'em.
That doesn't change the fact that the law allowed him to do this...
Sometimes laws come into conflict with other laws. You need to move up a level to determine which one wins.
What I don't get -- if the laser isn't actually being used for thermal properties -- is how the light actually "fixes" the problem. If it's just the light that's "stimulating" the cells to "clean up their mess", why not dump 532nm light from an LED? They're just as monochromatic and oughta be bright enough to shine through the relevant tissues.
Monochrome light isn't the only useful characteristic of a laser. Accuracy is another - the beam doesn't spread out over any appreciable distance because of the coherent nature of the beam.
That said, it makes a very clean instrument; nothing quite as sterile as something that doesn't touch you at all.
IANAO but a very happy recovered patient of a good one. Although my sight was restored with ultrasound and acrylic as much as lasers. With lens replacement surgery lasers are sometimes required to burn away the back of the lens capsule. Strangely, I found the whole process rather fun and entertaining, rather than frightening, but I'm a geek (and no, there were no drugs involved).
Of course that doesn't matter, if there's the prospect of having your sight restored after nearly a year without it, you'd crawl through broken glass if that's what it took.
Thank you Fred Hollows, wherever you are.
Arrrrgh NO! "10x Less" is the important phrase because it renders the sentence meaningless.
I've been reliably informed by my auto salesman that the windows on this new car I'm looking at are 30% more transparent.
But then, has there been anything in science lately that warrants any kind of gee-whiz fiction based on it?
I might suggest you have a look at pretty much anything written by Greg Bear (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, Eon et.al - see Wikipedia on Greg Bear). I'm not sure if 10 or so year old stuff fits your criteria for "new", but there is no question that this is real science fiction, based on extrapolations of scientific discoveries - not D&D with ray guns (not that there's anything wrong with that). From your post I think you might like him.
You're quite right. It's clear that IANAC and IWFOS. Apologies.
Having run RAID quite a bit myself one must remember having all your drives in one box is always an invitation for trouble since hardware failures on a higher order will likely hit all the drives.
For desktop systems, the best thing to do is buy a terabyte sized USB disk and use the Seagate backup software that generally comes with those. Unplug when done and put it somewhere else. You're fine, you're covered. If you're talking about large commercial systems, well, you've got a job of design ahead of you. Banks, for example, don't see any difficulty in geographically-dispersed multiply redundant blockwise replication. Imagine three full sets of replicas in different parts of a city, replicated in near real time. Hardware and line cost is kind of irrelevant when you're protecting a few billion per day in transactions.
But for home backup? USB connected disk drives are actually kind of cheap.
The ironic part is that GM had a great electric car years ago that they destroyed in favor of things like the Hummer.
Yes, but... I'm convinced they didn't want to sell it. You don't need to be a marketing guru to see that calling it the "Impact" was sending the wrong sort of message on safety. And GM is very aware of marketing messages and how you can subtly alter perceptions by using loaded words.
This is on the exact same track as the behaviour that brought them their first major antitrust suit. Perhaps the Bing switch is "an essential part of the operating system". Bunk.
....beer, handguns and strippers...
Whoa! You just gave me my new game title. Thanks!!
You could also add balcksmithing, leather working/tanning, animal husbandry or brewing...
Careful with that. I knew a guy who went to jail for animal husbandry.
Well yes, obviously it's a decoy. The NSA knows that we would immediately jump to the conclusion that this is a decoy, and start looking elsewhere. In fact, they're counting on it. They want us looking elsewhere so that they can install their top secret datacentre hardware in Utah.
You've heard about Plato? Socrates? Imbiciles!
...Ah hahaha!!! AH HAH... (thump)
If anyone could be considered tuna breeders, it would be the bottle nosed dolphins. Their ability to herd and select fish is awesome.
Perhaps, but there's no evidence that the Voynich manuscript is a cypher in the traditional sense. A natural language isn't normally "decyphered", since it was never encrypted in the first place.
I ran the Voynich text through a strange old Apple ][ assembler program an old friend once wrote. The results don't make sense to me, either. It starts:
"Es Brillig war. Die schlichte toven warten und wimmelten in Waben. Alle mumsige war die Borgegoven, und die Momeraths ausgraben."
well, actually, no, there is no such thing as "simply speech." there are plenty of things that you can write on the internet or issue from your mouth that should rightfully result in you being imprisoned
The problem wasn't speech, the problem was child abuse. Speech was just the type of whip used.
In Australia the legal definition of "assault" includes verbal abuse, speech used with the intention to intimidate or overtly induce fear in a person.
Back in high school a kid we hung out with was verbally abused by members of his family to the point of suicide. I can remember feeling outrage as much as sadness when he died. It was a series of actions that led to the ultimate harm.
When young adults are first trying their wings in social situations, they are often inept and very, very vulnerable. It takes a special kind of person to prey on the weak like that through what is thought to be the safe medium of speech. Kind of like a coward who bites.
No, it isn't a mystery.... Gen 1:1 In the beginning...
That's the Cliff's Notes abstract. For the expanded version, start with the Big Bang and use physics.
God is the name I give to the Universe and all her natural laws.
Science is my prayer. I keep my logical integrity intact by understanding that the converse is not also true.
What comet63 said. Large primoridal clouds of hydrogen are easy to understand, and oxygen is enough lighter than carbon that it could occur early on in stellar formation, I'd think (IANAAP, IMBFOS). So I can imagine large clouds of the two gases igniting in the early part of our planetary history, with enough being captured by our own gravity well to compress and become water. The rest, as they say, is geography. Add lots of the slightly less reactive nitrogen and you'd get something approaching the mixture we're breathing. But in order to seed both the Earth and the Oort cloud, those gas sources would have to be huge. What happened to the rest of it? Blown away on the solar wind? If so, could we see traces like this around other star systems and make a guess about water atmospheres?
I'm still trying to fit a Hula Doll to my [Flying Machine].
Throwing your computer off the roof - Because your time isn't free
There are other reasons for throwing your computer off the roof. In the early days of Apple we had a little commercial system based on Apple Pascal that ran on a ][+. It was a true blivit in the classical sense, something sort of written that ran a part of the business until it couldn't anymore.
When we took it to the roof of the building and threw it into the parking lot, someone remarked "That's the longest it's ever gone without a crash". We used 11/70's from that point until they couldn't do the job either, but they were too big to conveniently throw off the roof.
Another option would be the FileZilla client perhaps. Install XAMPP on your Windows box for a very nice WAMP environment. I use it for a Joomla! instance and it comes with FileZilla. No problems with it to date.