Of course the RIAA still collects royalties from radios, pubs etc, for music by artists who don't belong to them. The amount of jumping through hoops to opt out is rarely worth the money you save. And they could sue you into ground before you can prove your innocence.
Bad news to you. The name "Hamburger" is trademark to McDonalds too, and corresponds to the simplest hamburger sandwich. Ever notice how none of the big competition dares to use that specific name, always getting around, by calling stuff "burgers" and the likes? Only small booths get away with it because McD never bothers.
It isn't that bad, and wouldn't be the first case where the state of mind/knowledge of a party decides about guilty/not guilty.
The example is the crime of "receiving stolen goods." It's a crime if you knowingly receive the goods or have a reasonable suspicion the goods might be stolen. If you had no reason to suspects the goods were stolen, you're not guilty. It's up to the court to establish what you knew or suspected. And while everyone can say "I didn't know it was stolen", fences land in prison all the time.
Add a showerhead to simulate rain, and some kind of bumpers on the sides to give impressions of trucks clipping you, and you've almost got the real thing!
Toner, on the other hand, is pretty cheap. And if you intend to print a book, you're much better off picking some semi-bulk service like a print shop than trying to use your home printer.
That was before that Apple burt? Or wasn't the apple commandment the first one? Anyway, it seems he changed his mind sometime around Noah, and after the second massive incestfest (first with Adam and Eve's children) it was pretty much established who has the right to kill and who should be the ones killed and then the killing commenced. Exodus especially shows that commandments were less of a law and more like a guidelines, and killing non-Israelis was most welcome...
As long as OpenOffice/LibreOffice isn't the business standard, Microsoft has nothing to worry about and can graciously spew projects that generate losses. The cash cow will pay for all.
And they like to create big projects that can create (some) loss but hog a huge market, just to keep that sectors of market occupied to prevent competitors from rising to power and becoming dangerous through these sectors. They do a lot of things that create losses, but -not- doing them would create greater losses in the long run as someone could grab the cake and obtain resources to damage their monopolist position.
Both PS3 and Wii would be far, far more profitable if XBox360 did not exist. And so, possibly next Sony and Nintendo consoles would be truly awesome, with all that extra revenue. And then Microsoft would lose a part of Windows market with people going for Nintendo+Apple instead of gaming PC. And then lose Office sales. And some of the business market, because people enjoying Apple would replace some of the work computers with Apple. And as they get Apple, they don't want Windows smartphone, they'll pick iPhone instead. With loss of popularity of mobile Windows platform, Microsoft loses some mobile apps developers. So the new "pad" with built-in TV will get less apps and become less successful. And so people will not view so many ads on MSNBC TV and pick a different platform than MSN for their stocks operations...
So it's better to spend $1bln extra on XBox and stop Sony and Nintendo from grabbing huge profits, than allow them and suffer the consequences.
Why do you think Google keeps Youtube? It never got anywhere close to becoming profitable...
The surface, the bad blocks is not really the problem here. Sure it degrades and starts slowing down, and eventually bad blocks may happen. But far sooner the disk motor bearing will die from constant vibrations, the head mechanism bearing will fail, the seals will leak moisture inside (and the dessicant bag will reach its capacity), the lubricant supply for the bearings will run dry, the "emergency parking" mechanism of the head will get stuck, capacitors will die on the PCB, and so on...
The magnetic surface quality is the least of the problems, but the quality of bearings puts a real practical limit on lifetime of every drive.
anyway, tollerances get smaller, meaning less room for error, wear and smaller wear causes faults. Disk that had 2 years warranty was built so that it could work for 18 years +-15 years. Now a disk with 2 years warranty will work 3 years +- 6 months...
I'm afraid the limitation is cost, few people are willing to pay twice the price for same capacity...on obsolete technology. There were few CD-ROM drives that used multiple lasers, then DVD came in and the projects didn't return their own cost. So far the bus was always not fast enough to guarantee doubling the speed of the fastest drives. If you want faster HDD, get SSD.
And as for home mods, 1) the precisions involved are out of reach of any non-professional, 2) just think about writing the firmware to run that sensibly...
Somewhere up to 80GB drives were openable and even had "rebreather holes". Currently they are filled with protective atmosphere and a membrane protects the inside from atmospheric air while retaining pressure. Opening a disk pretty much destroys it.
Oh, but did the rules state the data read needs to be the same as the data written? Error free? Just grab the data from the cache without worry if the cache got to be filled correctly and enjoy superior read speed!
The problem is not the old disks. Actually, the older, the more reliable. It's the newest disks that are the worst. When you boast "My disk is running fine for 5 years already" you're talking about a disk from 5 years ago. And it's the disks from 2 years ago that keep dying on us. Tollerances get
So much talk about global warming doing so much harm, and when someone finally starts spending some serious money on actually getting some of the air cooler, suddenly protests everywhere!
I can assure you the wall of a fuel truck is no less suspectible to iron sights sniper rifle fire (old common soviet 7.62x54r Mosin-Naganat from IIWW will perfectly suffice) and shooting it can wreak much more havoc at a base than damaging all the solar panels.
Wait. Copper alloy hammers have been in use for centuries in metalworking, used for shaping without creating dents.
And a toilet seat that closes tight... ships use vacuum toilets anyway, so give it a seal and allow some vacuum and the toilet will stay locked. And if you're not satisfied with that, add a couple of magnets, how hard can it be?
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Still, complex numbers arithmetics is inherently 2-dimensional. And e^(value*tau) compared to e^(value*2pi) really helps once you include it in complicated expressions, where the "2" starts to crop up, getting squared, added, multiplied and so on.
Are they graded for -40~+120 Celsius degrees, variable humidity, high EMI resistance? Are they guaranteed to retain accuracy in extreme conditions? Are they available on common commercially available SBC that have the specific set of features we need as well? Alternatively, do they use one of common protocols like SPI or CAN, without need to add a whole lot of glue logic (both hardware and software) to make them readable from embedded Linux? Is the price comparable to, say, a decent GPS-based clock? Do they have their own battery backup? I guess I could find 10 other obstacles given enough time.
The problem with "industrial quality" devices where human life depends on correct performance is that "a chip exists" is like 5% of the solution. The chip must play well with the rest, must conform to standards, must either never fail, or always fail gracefully, must not be overly complex to include in existing infrastructure and must not exceed the price and complexity of current work-around (in our case - RS232-based GPS). And the clocks in our boards work very well in room temperature. It's during the coldest winter or hottest summer when they begin to drift....also, standalone controllers are increasingly rare occurrence and all the networked ones simply grab time from NTP. There's little point to include a "better" solution that will likely cost more to develop and implement than it would ever return in sales. Nope, current RTC solution is -sufficient-.
But still, this is not graceful, to have two separate clock sources, one for daytime, another for clock cycle, out of sync with each other. The -right- solution would be to use grid clock and only use on-board RTC during rare power failures. Unfortunately, grid clock sucks, and that was my point.
It is an issue in devices that must be: - minimum maintenance - not networked (outside power grid connection) - synchronized.
It so hapzens that I work for a traffic lights company. If there is no way to put a synchronizing cable between two crossings, they have to be synchronized by clock. Clocking them from the power grid assures their clocks will never go out of sync with each other, so you can generate "green wave" without any data link just set the clocks right. They still need to switch programs for day/night, weekends and so on. So they need RTC. Unfortunately, for that they need internal quartz (which sucks and isn't very reliable, so a serviceman has to set the clock every few months) or GPS (which adds some $$$ to the bill, 'cause it needs to be industrial quality, able to operate 24/7 in all weather conditions) because the grid frequency accuracy sucks, and if it was used as source for RTC it would have to be reset every few weeks, not months. Now if the power companies served me nice 50Hz +- 2 cycles/day, I'd be all happy and able to do away with on-board clocks.
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Of course the RIAA still collects royalties from radios, pubs etc, for music by artists who don't belong to them. The amount of jumping through hoops to opt out is rarely worth the money you save. And they could sue you into ground before you can prove your innocence.
Bad news to you, Bitcoin is a strictly deflational currency and its inherent nature prevents it from ever reaching such number.
Burdock fastener?
Bad news to you. The name "Hamburger" is trademark to McDonalds too, and corresponds to the simplest hamburger sandwich. Ever notice how none of the big competition dares to use that specific name, always getting around, by calling stuff "burgers" and the likes? Only small booths get away with it because McD never bothers.
It isn't that bad, and wouldn't be the first case where the state of mind/knowledge of a party decides about guilty/not guilty.
The example is the crime of "receiving stolen goods." It's a crime if you knowingly receive the goods or have a reasonable suspicion the goods might be stolen. If you had no reason to suspects the goods were stolen, you're not guilty. It's up to the court to establish what you knew or suspected. And while everyone can say "I didn't know it was stolen", fences land in prison all the time.
...and considering the legal battle is roughly $1mln in court costs for the defense, no matter who wins, people prefer settling.
Add a showerhead to simulate rain, and some kind of bumpers on the sides to give impressions of trucks clipping you, and you've almost got the real thing!
Toner, on the other hand, is pretty cheap. And if you intend to print a book, you're much better off picking some semi-bulk service like a print shop than trying to use your home printer.
I used to repair computers for a living
So you don't any more?
When did you finish?
If more than 2-3 years ago, your experience is obsolete...
That was before that Apple burt? Or wasn't the apple commandment the first one? Anyway, it seems he changed his mind sometime around Noah, and after the second massive incestfest (first with Adam and Eve's children) it was pretty much established who has the right to kill and who should be the ones killed and then the killing commenced. Exodus especially shows that commandments were less of a law and more like a guidelines, and killing non-Israelis was most welcome...
As long as OpenOffice/LibreOffice isn't the business standard, Microsoft has nothing to worry about and can graciously spew projects that generate losses. The cash cow will pay for all.
And they like to create big projects that can create (some) loss but hog a huge market, just to keep that sectors of market occupied to prevent competitors from rising to power and becoming dangerous through these sectors. They do a lot of things that create losses, but -not- doing them would create greater losses in the long run as someone could grab the cake and obtain resources to damage their monopolist position.
Both PS3 and Wii would be far, far more profitable if XBox360 did not exist. And so, possibly next Sony and Nintendo consoles would be truly awesome, with all that extra revenue. And then Microsoft would lose a part of Windows market with people going for Nintendo+Apple instead of gaming PC. And then lose Office sales. And some of the business market, because people enjoying Apple would replace some of the work computers with Apple. And as they get Apple, they don't want Windows smartphone, they'll pick iPhone instead. With loss of popularity of mobile Windows platform, Microsoft loses some mobile apps developers. So the new "pad" with built-in TV will get less apps and become less successful. And so people will not view so many ads on MSNBC TV and pick a different platform than MSN for their stocks operations...
So it's better to spend $1bln extra on XBox and stop Sony and Nintendo from grabbing huge profits, than allow them and suffer the consequences.
Why do you think Google keeps Youtube? It never got anywhere close to becoming profitable...
The answer is in the Old Testament. All over it. Killing=good, sex=evil. Just be killing the right people.
Since both the government AND the supreme court is in hands of religious people, this sets USA on par with Iran as teocracy.
The surface, the bad blocks is not really the problem here. Sure it degrades and starts slowing down, and eventually bad blocks may happen. But far sooner the disk motor bearing will die from constant vibrations, the head mechanism bearing will fail, the seals will leak moisture inside (and the dessicant bag will reach its capacity), the lubricant supply for the bearings will run dry, the "emergency parking" mechanism of the head will get stuck, capacitors will die on the PCB, and so on...
The magnetic surface quality is the least of the problems, but the quality of bearings puts a real practical limit on lifetime of every drive.
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anyway, tollerances get smaller, meaning less room for error, wear and smaller wear causes faults. Disk that had 2 years warranty was built so that it could work for 18 years +-15 years. Now a disk with 2 years warranty will work 3 years +- 6 months...
I'm afraid the limitation is cost, few people are willing to pay twice the price for same capacity...on obsolete technology. There were few CD-ROM drives that used multiple lasers, then DVD came in and the projects didn't return their own cost. So far the bus was always not fast enough to guarantee doubling the speed of the fastest drives.
If you want faster HDD, get SSD.
And as for home mods, 1) the precisions involved are out of reach of any non-professional, 2) just think about writing the firmware to run that sensibly...
Somewhere up to 80GB drives were openable and even had "rebreather holes". Currently they are filled with protective atmosphere and a membrane protects the inside from atmospheric air while retaining pressure. Opening a disk pretty much destroys it.
Oh, but did the rules state the data read needs to be the same as the data written? Error free?
Just grab the data from the cache without worry if the cache got to be filled correctly and enjoy superior read speed!
The problem is not the old disks. Actually, the older, the more reliable. It's the newest disks that are the worst. When you boast "My disk is running fine for 5 years already" you're talking about a disk from 5 years ago. And it's the disks from 2 years ago that keep dying on us. Tollerances get
Depends -what- post was that. If they rickrolled the jury, they were really asking for it.
Plain text "Error establishing a database connection" in default H1 style.
That's not a very creative error page they have in there.
So much talk about global warming doing so much harm, and when someone finally starts spending some serious money on actually getting some of the air cooler, suddenly protests everywhere!
I can assure you the wall of a fuel truck is no less suspectible to iron sights sniper rifle fire (old common soviet 7.62x54r Mosin-Naganat from IIWW will perfectly suffice) and shooting it can wreak much more havoc at a base than damaging all the solar panels.
Wait. Copper alloy hammers have been in use for centuries in metalworking, used for shaping without creating dents.
And a toilet seat that closes tight... ships use vacuum toilets anyway, so give it a seal and allow some vacuum and the toilet will stay locked. And if you're not satisfied with that, add a couple of magnets, how hard can it be?
Still, complex numbers arithmetics is inherently 2-dimensional.
And e^(value*tau) compared to e^(value*2pi) really helps once you include it in complicated expressions, where the "2" starts to crop up, getting squared, added, multiplied and so on.
Yes, there are.
Are they graded for -40~+120 Celsius degrees, variable humidity, high EMI resistance? Are they guaranteed to retain accuracy in extreme conditions?
Are they available on common commercially available SBC that have the specific set of features we need as well? Alternatively, do they use one of common protocols like SPI or CAN, without need to add a whole lot of glue logic (both hardware and software) to make them readable from embedded Linux?
Is the price comparable to, say, a decent GPS-based clock?
Do they have their own battery backup?
I guess I could find 10 other obstacles given enough time.
The problem with "industrial quality" devices where human life depends on correct performance is that "a chip exists" is like 5% of the solution. The chip must play well with the rest, must conform to standards, must either never fail, or always fail gracefully, must not be overly complex to include in existing infrastructure and must not exceed the price and complexity of current work-around (in our case - RS232-based GPS). And the clocks in our boards work very well in room temperature. It's during the coldest winter or hottest summer when they begin to drift. ...also, standalone controllers are increasingly rare occurrence and all the networked ones simply grab time from NTP. There's little point to include a "better" solution that will likely cost more to develop and implement than it would ever return in sales. Nope, current RTC solution is -sufficient-.
But still, this is not graceful, to have two separate clock sources, one for daytime, another for clock cycle, out of sync with each other. The -right- solution would be to use grid clock and only use on-board RTC during rare power failures. Unfortunately, grid clock sucks, and that was my point.
Timing IS an issue.
It is an issue in devices that must be:
- minimum maintenance
- not networked (outside power grid connection)
- synchronized.
It so hapzens that I work for a traffic lights company. If there is no way to put a synchronizing cable between two crossings, they have to be synchronized by clock. Clocking them from the power grid assures their clocks will never go out of sync with each other, so you can generate "green wave" without any data link just set the clocks right.
They still need to switch programs for day/night, weekends and so on. So they need RTC. Unfortunately, for that they need internal quartz (which sucks and isn't very reliable, so a serviceman has to set the clock every few months) or GPS (which adds some $$$ to the bill, 'cause it needs to be industrial quality, able to operate 24/7 in all weather conditions) because the grid frequency accuracy sucks, and if it was used as source for RTC it would have to be reset every few weeks, not months. Now if the power companies served me nice 50Hz +- 2 cycles/day, I'd be all happy and able to do away with on-board clocks.