Oxyride batteries are also supposed to deliver more power. The result, the company says, is that battery-operated toothbrushes spin faster, flashlights shine brighter, camera flashes are quicker to recharge and music players produce richer sound.
This is one of the dumbest paragraphs I've seen recently in the (so-called) scientific press.
Is there more current, more voltage, or both? Any of the above is possible from what they say above, and none of these will give you richer sound on your portable music player.
Why not say:
Your battery-operated tooth brush will over-stress its plastic gears.
Flashlights burn out quicker.
Camera flashes let you take more bad family photos quicker than before.
And because you're now using the latest technology, you will even imagine that your portable music player sounds richer than ever.
Then again, who really still expects truth to be found in the NYT?
Just wondering if these trackers are still in The Wayback Machine.
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If they hosted even one copyrighted work, they broke copyright law.
I reply:
Substantially non-infringing uses.
You were speeding once. Should you lose your car?
You stole a package of chewing gum. Is that Grand Theft?
You made a mistake once. Does that make all your actions those of a hardned criminal?
It's not a perfect world. If there is an infriging performance, notify them to remove the tracker. Only if they don't do that quickly enought then might you consider threating a lawsuit. These lawyers are nothing more than legal extortionists in my opinion. The law should not be allowed to be used as a club against those who cannot afford to defend themselves.
Of course they're a threat. Do you have any idea how many old people there are still living?
Hey, they're the ones with the money. Of course the pigopolists want to corral them in.
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Isn't it true that the torrent files are still out there? Only the tracker is now missing?
Then the solution is an alternative method of tracker distribution. One that can't be shut down. Along with someone dedicated to receiving trackers and distributing it in a way other than being sued as the web-site owner.
My modest suggestion:
Usenet.
Unless everyone can agree on one adware-free/spyware-free P2P network to make them available on.
In that case: WinMX.
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Obviously the **AA is going to shut down Bittorrent one site at a time. These people folded from a mere SLL (Scary Lawyer Letter). They were easy, low-hanging fruit. Every shutdown site puts more of a load on the remaining sites. What they can't get in the courts, they're going to try otherwise -- legal, or not.
It is a true shame that lawyers aren't automatically disbarred when they commit illegal acts. And it is an illegal act to threaten someone with an expensive lawsuit when they haven't broken the law.
The link to the Macromedia page is less than helpful. Rather than just telling you how to defeat PIE, it seems to want to tell you everything about their settings.
Scientists at LLNL for the first time have performed 16-million-atom molecular dynamics simulations with the highest accuracy inter-atomic potentials necessary to resolve the key physical effects to successfully model pressure induced rapid resolidification in Tantalum.
Fair Useshould always cover translation to a new format when the old format cannot be used in that situation (e.g. ripping a CD to MP3 to play on a portable player that does not include CD capabilities).
I'm not saying it does -- although I hope the court will say so -- but it should. The copyright owner should have no ability to determine or limit how you view the work.
Honda did set up an experimental filling station for fuel cells run entirely by photocells
One filling station does not a solution make. Some people suggest that bio-diesel (recycled vegatable oil) would solve all our automotive fuel needs, ignoring the fact that there isn't enough vegatable oil existing to fuel even a tiny fraction of the diesel vehicles, let alone the cost of converting it and transporting to where it is needed, all of which uses conventional energy. It makes a few movie stars feel good about their Hummers, and nothing significant more.
The Honda hydrogen station is not presently economic. You could have figured this out for yourself when you realized there is only one of them. Maybe some day there will be economic solar hydrogen farms in the desert using existing natural gas lines and infrastructure, but we're not there yet, and won't be in the next several years at least.
And just how does the BIOS prevent locking your harddrive. Yes it might not have the API call if you use the BIOS, but can't you call the drive outside of the BIOS code?
focused on developing cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
But fuel cells would require a complete reinvention of the automobile, not to mention the nation's gas stations,
This gives the impression that we can get the hydrogen for free. At the moment we can't. We need more energy and non-renewable resources to get it than it's worth when reconverted back into energy in a fuel cell.
It may be a good deal to the criminal in this case, but not to the rest of us computer users who have to put up with this type of worthless scum on a daily basis. If all the worm/virus/adware/spyware/hijack/root kit etc. writers and those who use their products to infect the rest of us were to disappear tomorrow, I, for one, wouldn't miss them for a moment. Life is tough enough already without humans preying on other humans.
Strikes me as an anti-competative move against Internet Explorer -- not that Microsoft has pulled tricks against other browsers (e.g. Opera). IE will not prove as nimble now in some circumstances compared to FF at one of the most visited Internet portals in the world. I expect howls of outrage any time now from MS.
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This is one of the dumbest paragraphs I've seen recently in the (so-called) scientific press.
Is there more current, more voltage, or both? Any of the above is possible from what they say above, and none of these will give you richer sound on your portable music player.
Why not say:
Your battery-operated tooth brush will over-stress its plastic gears.
Flashlights burn out quicker.
Camera flashes let you take more bad family photos quicker than before.
And because you're now using the latest technology, you will even imagine that your portable music player sounds richer than ever.
Then again, who really still expects truth to be found in the NYT?
Not entirely true. I have it on good authority that they'll accept gold bullion as well -- at least on Tuesdays.
Just wondering if these trackers are still in The Wayback Machine.
I reply:
Substantially non-infringing uses.
You were speeding once. Should you lose your car?
You stole a package of chewing gum. Is that Grand Theft?
You made a mistake once. Does that make all your actions those of a hardned criminal?
It's not a perfect world. If there is an infriging performance, notify them to remove the tracker. Only if they don't do that quickly enought then might you consider threating a lawsuit. These lawyers are nothing more than legal extortionists in my opinion. The law should not be allowed to be used as a club against those who cannot afford to defend themselves.
Hey, they're the ones with the money. Of course the pigopolists want to corral them in.
Then the solution is an alternative method of tracker distribution. One that can't be shut down. Along with someone dedicated to receiving trackers and distributing it in a way other than being sued as the web-site owner.
My modest suggestion:
Usenet.
Unless everyone can agree on one adware-free/spyware-free P2P network to make them available on.
In that case: WinMX.
It is a true shame that lawyers aren't automatically disbarred when they commit illegal acts. And it is an illegal act to threaten someone with an expensive lawsuit when they haven't broken the law.
So which one do I really want to be changing?
What I want to know is how to detect web-sites that are using PIE -- so that I can punish them!
I hear another court case in the offing.
And just how many spammers are there out there right now?
What do you have to fear more? Being sued by Bill Gates for spamming, or the **AA for file sharing?
Just throw some more hardware at it.
You just gotta love a sentence like that!
I'm not saying it does -- although I hope the court will say so -- but it should. The copyright owner should have no ability to determine or limit how you view the work.
WDBGT = What Does Bill Gates Think?
In this example, he probably doesn't think it's legitimate at all.
One filling station does not a solution make. Some people suggest that bio-diesel (recycled vegatable oil) would solve all our automotive fuel needs, ignoring the fact that there isn't enough vegatable oil existing to fuel even a tiny fraction of the diesel vehicles, let alone the cost of converting it and transporting to where it is needed, all of which uses conventional energy. It makes a few movie stars feel good about their Hummers, and nothing significant more.
The Honda hydrogen station is not presently economic. You could have figured this out for yourself when you realized there is only one of them. Maybe some day there will be economic solar hydrogen farms in the desert using existing natural gas lines and infrastructure, but we're not there yet, and won't be in the next several years at least.
And just how does the BIOS prevent locking your harddrive. Yes it might not have the API call if you use the BIOS, but can't you call the drive outside of the BIOS code?
But fuel cells would require a complete reinvention of the automobile, not to mention the nation's gas stations,
This gives the impression that we can get the hydrogen for free. At the moment we can't. We need more energy and non-renewable resources to get it than it's worth when reconverted back into energy in a fuel cell.
10 PRINT "Hello World" 'what a novice
20 END 'boy I'm glad that's over
That's the place where Microsoft is never allowed to register their trademark!
It may be a good deal to the criminal in this case, but not to the rest of us computer users who have to put up with this type of worthless scum on a daily basis. If all the worm/virus/adware/spyware/hijack/root kit etc. writers and those who use their products to infect the rest of us were to disappear tomorrow, I, for one, wouldn't miss them for a moment. Life is tough enough already without humans preying on other humans.
The TLD we all need most of all: .sux
A place where no coropration is ever allowed to register their own trademark!
What I want to know, does it say that Al Gore invented it?
Strikes me as an anti-competative move against Internet Explorer -- not that Microsoft has pulled tricks against other browsers (e.g. Opera). IE will not prove as nimble now in some circumstances compared to FF at one of the most visited Internet portals in the world. I expect howls of outrage any time now from MS.