True, but the article does not talk about science fiction, it talks about Scifi Channel, which also shows fantasy and sometimes even horror. Besides, fans of those genres often are fans of scifi too.
Well, you are basically right in that. Let's be realistic: porn producers everywhere get loads of revenues, and p2p doesn't put those in danger. When some big movie studio or music company puts a new product on the market, they see it as a some sort of masterpiece that must be protected at all means possible. This includes suing fileswappers, if the company is big and influential enough to attack them.
Porn industry sees their own products differently. Even though they are copyrighted and technically illegal to share, it's not like anyone's gonna get sued for p2p-porn. These products are treated as bulk whose only purpose is to make money. If something doesn't sell enough, it's time to move on. Big factor here is that publishing such film always pays itself back, since costs are rather small and customer interest always high. No amount of "illegal" filesharing is gonna change that.
Again: "99% of gun use is against people" was the claim. I'm not going to argue statistics for a war that ended before my parents were even born...not in a discussion about what gun use "is" - a present-tense word.
Parent was using WWII just as an example. There are more than dozen wars going on right now around the world, and even more lesser conflicts, with thousands and thousands of people dying in them. The amount of gun use for hunting or stuff like that is small when compared to shooting humans, at present.
What point, exactly, does that prove? I don't see anything serious on the single pages of summaries about these countries, while the USA entry is a 47-page long read with several actual violations of human rights. Granted, no state is free of wrongdoings but I'd say we have a clear winner here.
Of course, this is also offtopic. The discussion was about decisions of Italian and Swiss governments, not human rights in France.
Don't forget that Berlusconi's government was, and still is, one of the most important supporters in that invasion. Situation in Italy was pretty much similar to Spain with over 80% of country against the war, but their prime ministers joined the attack nonetheless. Last year Italy had some of the biggest anti-war demonstrations in history, in the largest there were over 3 million protestors in Rome alone.
Prime minister, actually. Though it doesn't really matter, he has practically all power in Italy nowadays and since he owns the media, slight majority of people still vote for his right-wing coalition. Google a little, you'll soon find out this leader doesn't care about what's fair or democratic. It's sad to see how bad the political state in one of the EU's big countries is right now.
Just because you haven't used IRC and DCC for anything else, doesn't mean people wouldn't have legitimate and productive uses for it. The way DCC file transfer is designed to use is individual users sending an occasional file or two to each other. No different than the file transfer features more or less standard with any of today's IM clients.
This is totally unlike than p2p networks which we all know are designed for mass sharing. On IRC, it's only these xdcc bots and fileservs with all the kids "downloading moviez from mIRC" giving bad name for a good thing. And even with those, there certainly are more sensible ways to go than trying to forbid the development of an efficient protocol. Just take a look at twentysomething biggest irc nets: one or two are just for warez, some have rampant filesharing with many channels, but i'd say many, if not most, have only little or none of this stuff around. They simply don't allow channels advertising and serving any illegal files, thus minimizing the problem inside the network. And if two regular clients who know each other happen to exchange some files over irc, well they could've done it on ICQ too, no?
That's what I'm thinking, too. Just remember how many times some classics like Robin Hood or Dracula have been filmed, yet we can't generally agree which version is the absolute best of those, just that they're different. Quite probably there'll be another director's version of LotR on big screen in 20 or so years, which might be better or worse than the current movies. It's not impossible that something similar happens with other books. Niven has large fanbase and if this miniseries turns out to be bad, something more justifiable to the books will be needed.
... "Mars was once a warm place and is now cold and dry". May be Venus would be the next earth?...
This is an interesting idea, and it was a popular concept for a while ago. Writers as diverse as Burroughs and C.S. Lewis wrote stories around these concepts. It could be called "dying Mars, high noon Earth, and promising Venus" hypothesis or something. I suppose this has lot to do with Percival Lowell's writings about ancient martians still trying to fight against their planet's inevitable destiny as a dry and dead place (with canals he claimed to have found). Add to this the fact that before 1960's we had no way of knowing how it's like in the surface of Venus, so it was easy for scifi writers to place there nice tropical forests just waiting for future civilizations to appear. After all, who could've guessed that right now Venus has temperatures around 480 Celsius and about the worst greenhouse effect you can imagine.
However, it's not getting cooler. Quite the opposite. Everyone doesn't agree about the exact timelines but the general consensus seems to be that we only have about billion years til Earth becomes too hot for living. That's simply because the Sun is getting hotter as it gets older.
One cannot underestimate the power of popular culture that has painted us the image of dying Mars. However it's important to see why the red planet once was better place for life and held vast amounts of liquid water, and why it isn't anymore. Of course we can't be sure about everything yet, but we can make good guesses. Most probable reason is that Mars, being smaller, has so low gravity compared to Earth or Venus. This has led it gradually losing most of its atmosphere, lowering both the pressure and temperature on surface. This in turn made conditions unfit for liquid water, so the seas then disappeared, making it very hard for any possible life there. Question now is, where is the water? If it's anywhere to be found anymore, it just might've vaporized to space. And obviously we're interested in any possible marks of life.
So apparently the Sun, and thus the whole solar system is getting increasingly hotter, but still we cannot reliably say what happens in any individual planet. I'm not sure anyone has complete theory explaining what causes Venus's ultra-thick atmosphere and what that planet would be like if something thinned the atmosphere to more Earth-like levels...
wooden cases huh? wouldnt want an Athlon in there, the heat might cause an office fire.
There is no concern, as others have already pointed out. Even the hottest Athlon wouldn't produce even nearly enough heat to cause the least damage to case, and it catching fire would need literally enormous amounts of heat. If you just have the normal air cooling you'll be just fine.
Overall after reading this discussion it seems to me that people don't really know about different materials' properties. Think about it, you have lots of plastic parts inside your case, cables all kind of stuff. These are much less heat-resistant, they'll start melting in so low temperatures that wood won't have any impact. Yet when was the last time you saw a melt IDE cable? No, your computer won't cause fire and if it does that'd be because something stops the air flow, wooden or aluminium case won't make any difference to that because it's not the aluminium case that keeps computer cool. And in the event of real home fire started from the couch or TV etc. the computer will ultimately burn, too, even with a case made of steel.
Besides, people have used TVs with wooden chassis for decades, those don't cause fires any more often than plastic ones. Wooden case mods have been around for ages too. And Swedx is only selling wooden monitors, keyboards and mice, all of which are probably plastic, and thus questionable if heated, in a regular PC. So this news doesn't pose a problem to anyone.
This is correct. During the time of LotR Aragorn is 87, and lives for a grand total of 210 years, well over the average lifespan of men. This is because he is part of Dunedain in Middle-earth, probably also the most pure-blooded one of them. Everyone of this people is bound to live longer than the average folk, and Aragorn in his 80s is just middle-aged. Note that people of higher order in Gondor also still had some dunedain characteristics, especially the Stewards' house.
Basic Physics: It's the fusion reactions that keep the sun and other stars from collapsing to a compact package. White dwarf can't produce enough fusion reactions anymore, so gravity wins.
Interesting, but I don't know how much it being English-only actually matters, seeing that in Alexa global Top 500 over half of the Top 100 sites are in Asian language, either Korean, Japanese or Chinese.
Yea, like everyone didn't know that already. I mean seriously, do you think base 12 is the reason America still sticks to imperial system? It isn't, tradition is.
Besides, the system's hardly base 12 when you look at all the units. Imperial weights are not at least: pound is 16 ounces, and 1 stone is 14 pounds. Fourteen indeed, now how do you divide that by three? No, 12 is a nice number but American system isn't based on it.
Besides, even if it was, it'd still be harder to use and figure out than metric system. You see, we've been using base 10 for centuries. Number 10 is what we all learn to use, even though it might not be the best base number of them all. But when you've learned to think in powers of then, wouldn't it be nice to have a measurements system that takes advantage of this feat?
And this is the beauty of metric system. This is why it was originally developed, and later made the SI standard. Everything works in powers of ten, and the basic units relate to each other nicely and logically, because they've been specially adjusted to do so. Hence we can safely say, that as long we use base 10 mathematics, we'll be using metric system for measurements.
Both posted almost the same second. It's only fair that they get the same positive moderation (and distrowatch is an excellent site too). Leave them be.
Additionally, people are complaining how "this poor guy" (ie. celebrity1000 or whatever) paid like whopping $50 for the domain, and so should have somehow the justification for it. Well, their ad revenue from that redirect alone is probably quite a lot higher than that, judging by the number of ads in their real site. The whole domain is set up to trick people who, in search for some info of Tolkien, write 'jrrtolkien' on location bar. I say the judging now is completely fair like it has been in numerous other cases already.
On the other hand, then there's a quite a lot of insects around who could point out how pterodactyls were claiming their intellectual property (of course not that much intellectual when we're talking about insects).
Yeah, it is. What they called themselves doesn't mean their ideology or politics had anything to do with it. Do you know what DDR standed for? Deutsche Democratische Republic. Was it democratic?
Names are just semantics, what matters are the deeds. Nazis, Fascists and other '30s nationalist movements in Europe and America can clearly be counted to the extreme right wing, unfortunately along with many political views in today's US.
Ok, then. why not do the most efficient thing and disallow posting full stop.
That'd do the trick indeed. But I believe the main reason for that self-placed rule was what already said: to prevent people from responding to years-old threads. This has happened sometimes, and it does no good to anyone. For example, people using their ISP's own newsserver won't probably see the article that GG user is responding to. Don't know why Google put the limit as low as one month though.
True, it works like that now. And while I'm not a big fan of Google, this restriction actually is a good thing. It greatly reduces the meaningless trolls or misplaced posts that thousands of abusive or clueless googlers would otherwise be posting in response to various ancient Usenet threads. No one wants to see some newcomer resurrecting a 1994 thread in a busy newsgroup, no? Thus Google Groups draw the line in one month. If you want to answer to older post this should certainly be possible via another newsprovider, where the troll population will be considerably lower and no restrictions have taken place.
I'd guess so. After all, Google isn't even the most visited website (Yahoo is). And that's only internet. What about the other 5 billion people that don't happen to use web searches? Indeed, hitech business suits voting about most recognized brand sounds a little weird.
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True, but the article does not talk about science fiction, it talks about Scifi Channel, which also shows fantasy and sometimes even horror. Besides, fans of those genres often are fans of scifi too.
Well, you are basically right in that. Let's be realistic: porn producers everywhere get loads of revenues, and p2p doesn't put those in danger. When some big movie studio or music company puts a new product on the market, they see it as a some sort of masterpiece that must be protected at all means possible. This includes suing fileswappers, if the company is big and influential enough to attack them.
Porn industry sees their own products differently. Even though they are copyrighted and technically illegal to share, it's not like anyone's gonna get sued for p2p-porn. These products are treated as bulk whose only purpose is to make money. If something doesn't sell enough, it's time to move on. Big factor here is that publishing such film always pays itself back, since costs are rather small and customer interest always high. No amount of "illegal" filesharing is gonna change that.
Again: "99% of gun use is against people" was the claim. I'm not going to argue statistics for a war that ended before my parents were even born...not in a discussion about what gun use "is" - a present-tense word.
Parent was using WWII just as an example. There are more than dozen wars going on right now around the world, and even more lesser conflicts, with thousands and thousands of people dying in them. The amount of gun use for hunting or stuff like that is small when compared to shooting humans, at present.
Indeed she will. Note though that since we're talking about Venus and Jupiter, not Afrodite and Zeus, we should also use Hera's Latin name Juno.
What point, exactly, does that prove? I don't see anything serious on the single pages of summaries about these countries, while the USA entry is a 47-page long read with several actual violations of human rights. Granted, no state is free of wrongdoings but I'd say we have a clear winner here.
Of course, this is also offtopic. The discussion was about decisions of Italian and Swiss governments, not human rights in France.
Don't forget that Berlusconi's government was, and still is, one of the most important supporters in that invasion. Situation in Italy was pretty much similar to Spain with over 80% of country against the war, but their prime ministers joined the attack nonetheless. Last year Italy had some of the biggest anti-war demonstrations in history, in the largest there were over 3 million protestors in Rome alone.
Prime minister, actually. Though it doesn't really matter, he has practically all power in Italy nowadays and since he owns the media, slight majority of people still vote for his right-wing coalition. Google a little, you'll soon find out this leader doesn't care about what's fair or democratic. It's sad to see how bad the political state in one of the EU's big countries is right now.
True, it'd be nice if MiB and GiB became standard. For the record, this link explains the actual SI standards and binary multiples.
Just because you haven't used IRC and DCC for anything else, doesn't mean people wouldn't have legitimate and productive uses for it. The way DCC file transfer is designed to use is individual users sending an occasional file or two to each other. No different than the file transfer features more or less standard with any of today's IM clients.
This is totally unlike than p2p networks which we all know are designed for mass sharing. On IRC, it's only these xdcc bots and fileservs with all the kids "downloading moviez from mIRC" giving bad name for a good thing. And even with those, there certainly are more sensible ways to go than trying to forbid the development of an efficient protocol. Just take a look at twentysomething biggest irc nets: one or two are just for warez, some have rampant filesharing with many channels, but i'd say many, if not most, have only little or none of this stuff around. They simply don't allow channels advertising and serving any illegal files, thus minimizing the problem inside the network. And if two regular clients who know each other happen to exchange some files over irc, well they could've done it on ICQ too, no?
That's what I'm thinking, too. Just remember how many times some classics like Robin Hood or Dracula have been filmed, yet we can't generally agree which version is the absolute best of those, just that they're different. Quite probably there'll be another director's version of LotR on big screen in 20 or so years, which might be better or worse than the current movies. It's not impossible that something similar happens with other books. Niven has large fanbase and if this miniseries turns out to be bad, something more justifiable to the books will be needed.
This is an interesting idea, and it was a popular concept for a while ago. Writers as diverse as Burroughs and C.S. Lewis wrote stories around these concepts. It could be called "dying Mars, high noon Earth, and promising Venus" hypothesis or something. I suppose this has lot to do with Percival Lowell's writings about ancient martians still trying to fight against their planet's inevitable destiny as a dry and dead place (with canals he claimed to have found). Add to this the fact that before 1960's we had no way of knowing how it's like in the surface of Venus, so it was easy for scifi writers to place there nice tropical forests just waiting for future civilizations to appear. After all, who could've guessed that right now Venus has temperatures around 480 Celsius and about the worst greenhouse effect you can imagine.
However, it's not getting cooler. Quite the opposite. Everyone doesn't agree about the exact timelines but the general consensus seems to be that we only have about billion years til Earth becomes too hot for living. That's simply because the Sun is getting hotter as it gets older.
One cannot underestimate the power of popular culture that has painted us the image of dying Mars. However it's important to see why the red planet once was better place for life and held vast amounts of liquid water, and why it isn't anymore. Of course we can't be sure about everything yet, but we can make good guesses. Most probable reason is that Mars, being smaller, has so low gravity compared to Earth or Venus. This has led it gradually losing most of its atmosphere, lowering both the pressure and temperature on surface. This in turn made conditions unfit for liquid water, so the seas then disappeared, making it very hard for any possible life there. Question now is, where is the water? If it's anywhere to be found anymore, it just might've vaporized to space. And obviously we're interested in any possible marks of life.
So apparently the Sun, and thus the whole solar system is getting increasingly hotter, but still we cannot reliably say what happens in any individual planet. I'm not sure anyone has complete theory explaining what causes Venus's ultra-thick atmosphere and what that planet would be like if something thinned the atmosphere to more Earth-like levels...
wooden cases huh? wouldnt want an Athlon in there, the heat might cause an office fire.
There is no concern, as others have already pointed out. Even the hottest Athlon wouldn't produce even nearly enough heat to cause the least damage to case, and it catching fire would need literally enormous amounts of heat. If you just have the normal air cooling you'll be just fine.
Overall after reading this discussion it seems to me that people don't really know about different materials' properties. Think about it, you have lots of plastic parts inside your case, cables all kind of stuff. These are much less heat-resistant, they'll start melting in so low temperatures that wood won't have any impact. Yet when was the last time you saw a melt IDE cable? No, your computer won't cause fire and if it does that'd be because something stops the air flow, wooden or aluminium case won't make any difference to that because it's not the aluminium case that keeps computer cool. And in the event of real home fire started from the couch or TV etc. the computer will ultimately burn, too, even with a case made of steel.
Besides, people have used TVs with wooden chassis for decades, those don't cause fires any more often than plastic ones. Wooden case mods have been around for ages too. And Swedx is only selling wooden monitors, keyboards and mice, all of which are probably plastic, and thus questionable if heated, in a regular PC. So this news doesn't pose a problem to anyone.
This is correct. During the time of LotR Aragorn is 87, and lives for a grand total of 210 years, well over the average lifespan of men. This is because he is part of Dunedain in Middle-earth, probably also the most pure-blooded one of them. Everyone of this people is bound to live longer than the average folk, and Aragorn in his 80s is just middle-aged. Note that people of higher order in Gondor also still had some dunedain characteristics, especially the Stewards' house.
Basic Physics: It's the fusion reactions that keep the sun and other stars from collapsing to a compact package. White dwarf can't produce enough fusion reactions anymore, so gravity wins.
Interesting, but I don't know how much it being English-only actually matters, seeing that in Alexa global Top 500 over half of the Top 100 sites are in Asian language, either Korean, Japanese or Chinese.
You know, where I come from, we have this thing called 'sarcasm'.
Yea, like everyone didn't know that already. I mean seriously, do you think base 12 is the reason America still sticks to imperial system? It isn't, tradition is.
Besides, the system's hardly base 12 when you look at all the units. Imperial weights are not at least: pound is 16 ounces, and 1 stone is 14 pounds. Fourteen indeed, now how do you divide that by three? No, 12 is a nice number but American system isn't based on it.
Besides, even if it was, it'd still be harder to use and figure out than metric system. You see, we've been using base 10 for centuries. Number 10 is what we all learn to use, even though it might not be the best base number of them all. But when you've learned to think in powers of then, wouldn't it be nice to have a measurements system that takes advantage of this feat?
And this is the beauty of metric system. This is why it was originally developed, and later made the SI standard. Everything works in powers of ten, and the basic units relate to each other nicely and logically, because they've been specially adjusted to do so. Hence we can safely say, that as long we use base 10 mathematics, we'll be using metric system for measurements.
Both posted almost the same second. It's only fair that they get the same positive moderation (and distrowatch is an excellent site too). Leave them be.
That works much better as an analogy.
Additionally, people are complaining how "this poor guy" (ie. celebrity1000 or whatever) paid like whopping $50 for the domain, and so should have somehow the justification for it. Well, their ad revenue from that redirect alone is probably quite a lot higher than that, judging by the number of ads in their real site. The whole domain is set up to trick people who, in search for some info of Tolkien, write 'jrrtolkien' on location bar. I say the judging now is completely fair like it has been in numerous other cases already.
On the other hand, then there's a quite a lot of insects around who could point out how pterodactyls were claiming their intellectual property (of course not that much intellectual when we're talking about insects).
Yeah, it is. What they called themselves doesn't mean their ideology or politics had anything to do with it. Do you know what DDR standed for? Deutsche Democratische Republic. Was it democratic?
Names are just semantics, what matters are the deeds. Nazis, Fascists and other '30s nationalist movements in Europe and America can clearly be counted to the extreme right wing, unfortunately along with many political views in today's US.
Ok, then. why not do the most efficient thing and disallow posting full stop.
That'd do the trick indeed. But I believe the main reason for that self-placed rule was what already said: to prevent people from responding to years-old threads. This has happened sometimes, and it does no good to anyone. For example, people using their ISP's own newsserver won't probably see the article that GG user is responding to. Don't know why Google put the limit as low as one month though.
True, it works like that now. And while I'm not a big fan of Google, this restriction actually is a good thing. It greatly reduces the meaningless trolls or misplaced posts that thousands of abusive or clueless googlers would otherwise be posting in response to various ancient Usenet threads. No one wants to see some newcomer resurrecting a 1994 thread in a busy newsgroup, no? Thus Google Groups draw the line in one month. If you want to answer to older post this should certainly be possible via another newsprovider, where the troll population will be considerably lower and no restrictions have taken place.
An internet survey?
I'd guess so. After all, Google isn't even the most visited website (Yahoo is). And that's only internet. What about the other 5 billion people that don't happen to use web searches? Indeed, hitech business suits voting about most recognized brand sounds a little weird.
And better yet, bit like everyone knew that "AltaVista" was the same as "searching" before the days of Google. Collapse can be very fast.
In another notion, so many computer illiterate people nowadays seem to think that IE is the only browser, or that it actually is "the Internet"...