For the longest time, I thought my soundcard wasn't working, until I thought to turn up the volume. Once I realized that, I discovered that my soundcard had been working perfectly all along.
I do like what was said below about using the state change to cool, pumping the gaseous Sapphire away and re-condensing it. It would be more complicated than just putting your computer in a fish tank full of the stuff and letting convection do the rest (circulate the liquid keeping the coolest of it at the bottom), though.
Yeah, but if you're going to implement a pump with a condenser/radiator in it anyway, why not just use water? It's probably way cheaper than this Sapphire stuff.
You brought up economics, which is something I hadn't thought of. Whoever pays to have all this garbage eliminated is going to have to find a way to profit off the reclaimed land, enough so to make it worth his while:)
That's a good idea, we could let gravity do most of the work. All we'd have to do is give it enough speed to escape earth's gravity, then let the sun pull it the rest of the way.
However, your concern about pollution is a valid one and I agree that it would suck if we made the moon into a wastepaper basket and chucked random shit at it.
What's so bad about turning the moon into a landfill? It's a large, barren wasteland to begin with. Sending all our garbage to the moon sure beats the heck out of having landfills overrun the planet down here.
Now, if only we could find a cheap way to get all the world's landfills onto the moon...
explain how this isn't a tripod on wheels with a weight attached?
Simple: It's not a tripod, and it has no wheels.
At best, you could call it a monopod, but even then, it's meant to be carried, it doesn't rest on the ground. So I guess it's a nonopod.
What it really is is a stick with a weight attached. The weight steadies the camera from sudden jerks, simply due to it's own inertia. It still relies on the camera guy to have a fairly steady hand, this just "takes the edge off" of the shakiness, so to speak.
Hey, I check the signature all the time. I've even caught a handful of people. Some of them actually were "just using my father's card" or whatever, but when you've got a native woman with the name "Alphonse Lao" on the card, you've got a problem.;)
But then how would you reliably distribute the md5 sums? Say you distributed news.txt and news.txt.md5, anybody who would edit news.txt can trivially re-generate news.txt.md5, so there's no point to that. With the Web of Trust, anybody could still edit news.txt, but they wouldn't be able to regenerate news.txt.gpg, so you'd know that news.txt had been tampered with.
Step One. Seek professional legal advice. Step Two. Disregard all advice that you might get on slashdot, with the exception of the people who tell you to: Step Three. Seek professional legal advice.
What do you mean defraud with trickery? In Canada, it is perfectly ordinary (in fact, expected) that you will be paying more than the advertised price, because tax is added on at the cash register.
It really bugs me when you pay $1.06 for something that's $0.99.
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Who are you to say that they don't wrap their HDD's in gauze, which then needs to be removed?
My dad married his second wife in Vegas, by an Elvis impersonator, on April 1st.
;)
It's brilliant: if he ever forgets his anniversary, he can just say: "you thought I forgot? April fools!"
As my math teacher always said, KISS.
That's illegal in most states, isn't it?
For the longest time, I thought my soundcard wasn't working, until I thought to turn up the volume. Once I realized that, I discovered that my soundcard had been working perfectly all along.
I'm not sure off the top of my head, but I think that digikam for KDE can do all of that.
What the fuck is with "fsck"? Am I the only one who pronounces fsck "fuhsck"?
Nope, I pronounce it that way, too.
I do like what was said below about using the state change to cool, pumping the gaseous Sapphire away and re-condensing it. It would be more complicated than just putting your computer in a fish tank full of the stuff and letting convection do the rest (circulate the liquid keeping the coolest of it at the bottom), though.
Yeah, but if you're going to implement a pump with a condenser/radiator in it anyway, why not just use water? It's probably way cheaper than this Sapphire stuff.
ESR's rant over CUPS is something we need more of.
I disagree, I think we need less ranting and raving, and more people actually doing something about the problem.
well, I've always pronounced it 'Cutie'.
You brought up economics, which is something I hadn't thought of. Whoever pays to have all this garbage eliminated is going to have to find a way to profit off the reclaimed land, enough so to make it worth his while :)
That's a good idea, we could let gravity do most of the work. All we'd have to do is give it enough speed to escape earth's gravity, then let the sun pull it the rest of the way.
Wouldn't you have to spell it 'Pythoan'?
However, your concern about pollution is a valid one and I agree that it would suck if we made the moon into a wastepaper basket and chucked random shit at it.
What's so bad about turning the moon into a landfill? It's a large, barren wasteland to begin with. Sending all our garbage to the moon sure beats the heck out of having landfills overrun the planet down here.
Now, if only we could find a cheap way to get all the world's landfills onto the moon...
If somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison.
;)
I'd hate to live in a system where I'd go to prison just because somebody killed someone, somewhere.
explain how this isn't a tripod on wheels with a weight attached?
Simple: It's not a tripod, and it has no wheels.
At best, you could call it a monopod, but even then, it's meant to be carried, it doesn't rest on the ground. So I guess it's a nonopod.
What it really is is a stick with a weight attached. The weight steadies the camera from sudden jerks, simply due to it's own inertia. It still relies on the camera guy to have a fairly steady hand, this just "takes the edge off" of the shakiness, so to speak.
Hey, I check the signature all the time. I've even caught a handful of people. Some of them actually were "just using my father's card" or whatever, but when you've got a native woman with the name "Alphonse Lao" on the card, you've got a problem. ;)
But then how would you reliably distribute the md5 sums? Say you distributed news.txt and news.txt.md5, anybody who would edit news.txt can trivially re-generate news.txt.md5, so there's no point to that. With the Web of Trust, anybody could still edit news.txt, but they wouldn't be able to regenerate news.txt.gpg, so you'd know that news.txt had been tampered with.
Step One. Seek professional legal advice.
Step Two. Disregard all advice that you might get on slashdot, with the exception of the people who tell you to:
Step Three. Seek professional legal advice.
You want me to troll your ass? That could be painful.
Reminds me of that saying, "Optimists believe that this is the best possible world; pessimists fear that this is true."
defraud it's customers with sales tax trickery.
What do you mean defraud with trickery? In Canada, it is perfectly ordinary (in fact, expected) that you will be paying more than the advertised price, because tax is added on at the cash register.
It really bugs me when you pay $1.06 for something that's $0.99.
Out of curiosity, what countries include the tax in the advertised price? I can't think of any stores that do that here in Canada.
With a tax, the money goes to the government, with a levy, the money goes to a private (unelected) company/organisation/etc.
They want to... prevent the copying of music? Why on earth would you do that? It's perfectly legal.
OSVBD? The Open Source Vulnera Bility Database?