Funny that there's not a 2% of indeterminable (since for the majority of people, they don't have to ask 'male or female', and for the rest - well, it's rude to ask).
Ok, now, everyone! Stop buying movies and pirate what you want to see! They can't lobby if they got no cash!
*removes tongue from cheek*
No, seriously, a 'radio tax' would be lovely; there are precedents that say that's the only charge they can make for a given medium.
And because of the fundamental flaws in DRM, I highly doubt we'll see the end of pirated anything, ever. Maybe if they smartened up and started using compression-resistant steganography instead of DRM, they might be able to scare enough of the/suppliers/ into not distributing movies, but I doubt even that would work too well.
"The phrase 'information wants to be free' is pseudo religious nonsense."
You're right, of course. Information doesn't care if its free or not. On the other hand, it can be show that, with the advent of very low cost distribution, creation and promotion, the arguments for copyright protection (ie: to repay the high costs of creation, distribution and promotion) have fallen apart; there are no longer high costs to repay - and if there are, someone's been skimming.
Is it you? Is that why you're sufficiently miffed to troll around an obviously pro-piracy sector?
Surprise, surprise. A 'harmless' religious sort passively advocating the destruction of an entire culture by promoting the assumption that the culture is homogenously violent. Where have I heard this before?
In this modern, interconnected age, muslims - or at least those that have not had their infrastructure bombed into nothing - are forced to interact with non-muslims all the time; exposed to varying levels of disparate culture, the zealotism fades in most of them. Awareness that not every 'heathen' is a threat helps diffuse the powderkeg that is religious isolation.
That said, it doesn't fade in all of them. Sorry, but every religious group will have its crazy, violent psychopaths that you can't reason with. Including atheists. It's just a fact of life.
My guess is that you're not intelligent enough to know that, even counting a huge database of All Human Knowledge as part of your own, no one can know everything. There will always be something new to learn (and if there's not, there's always something new to try).
> "In case of human IQ, the evolution feedback works in the wrong direction." > Evolution does not have any right or wrong directions. That's devolution fallacy.
I believe you're mistaking his grammar. "Wrong direction", in this statement, doesn't apply to any inherent goal of evolution, but to a goal of the race that evolution applies to, specifically enhancing human IQ.
If he had said, "We're devolving", I'd agree with you, but in this case, what quite clearly states is that the process of natural selection appears to be moving an attribute of humankind in a direction that is counterproductive to its apparent goal. In essence, the 'wrong direction'.
He actually states the intent of the devolution fallacy in the correct form, by not attributing a set of goals to an undirected process.
Mmm... the old 'nature v. nurture' argument. A fine example of futility at its best. Like answering the following question: If two guys give me oranges, and I have 17 oranges when they're done, who gave more?
"rich parents typically bear rich kids"...that are very often completely useless. Just thought I'd toss that in there.
Actually, used motor oil, after having being heat-reformed (ie: hydrolytically burned, aka 'thermal conversion process') can be divided into carbon and minerals (which can be used to fertilizae your lawn), methane (used in the heat-reformer), and diesel oil (which can be used to fuel your disel vehicle).
Sorry, but it's funny how inserting a step between an unlikely pair (used oil - fertilizer) can make it viable.
Meanwhile, if you don't have time to wait 8 hours (I imagine most people would have it plugged in as they sleep), you pull up to the juice station and plug into their 12kV@30A (360kW) line and be out of there in two minutes flat. It would best be supplied off their own ultracaps that feed off a continous flow of converted 480V 3-phase at 100A apiece (48kW, meaning a 15 minute recovery time per customer. As a station, you'd want lots of extra capacity). I give this setup because there's already infrastructure to install that sort of line.
"Well I wouldn't want 120KV lines in my house, kinda dangerous since they arc 5 feet or so. "
Not lines; a line. Proabably with a nice idiot-proof interconnect (so there's never any bare conductor). You could probably do it with a low-voltage/high-current magnetic coupling (also designed to not be 'on' until coupled).
"You would also have to have a transformer to upconvert from street voltage to 120KV, those are expensive."
Never heard of a flyback? If not, I don't suggest disassembling your TV. Anyways, they can be had for tens of dollars, or built for less (if you have LOTS of time on your hands)
"Just because you increase the voltage to offset the current flow, it will not negate the fact that you are sending 12KW through, you need big wires for that."
You're not sending 12KW through; you're sending 12 kWh through, over the course of five to eight hours. That means your cable has to be rated for 1500-2400W, 12.5-20A@120V at the transformer input, 0.0125-0.02A@12kV at the output.
Knowing a little Ohm's Law might help you out. Or at least knowing the difference between a Watt and a Watt-Hour.
Meanwhile, the voltage step up has nothing to do with 'offsetting' the current. Because of the way ultracaps work, you have to fill them using a very high potential difference (or suffer a greatly reduced operating capacity). You then step the voltage back down in the device using it (one of the reasons I don't see this tech in small applications anytime soon).
Anyway, a 20A/120V line is about 3/8" in diameter, insulator included (you generally see them as the bright orange extension cables). Hell, your air conditioner has thicker than you'd need (they're usually rated for 30A@120V). Truth is, current determines conductor size, so at 0.02A the conductor need not be very thick - though you'd want to bring it back up to the 3/8" diameter using insulator so as to protect from the voltage; I imagine 12kV would hurt a bit.
Yeah. I'll pay for Click-N-Run, which has about the same package set and ease of use as Synaptic. Oh, and won't have the fun integration benefits that Ubuntu's repository provides.
Are these guys Lindows guys crazy, or just stupid?
Why would you need 10kA service? To fill up the 12kWh at home on the spec'ed out batteries, you need 120V@12.5A and an eight hour nap. Don't have that kinda time? Go to your service station which will be happy to fill you up at 12000V@30A (coming directly off their own ultracapacitors which are filling up off 120V@100-500A).
For example, your television steps your house current up to a couple thousand volts. At, say, 120kv, your house circuit need only handle 20A (ie: 120kv by 0.02A is 20A at 120v. Given the specs of 280Wh/kg and 100lb [45.5kg] for a vehicle power system, that means we have 12kWh to fill. That means 5 hours for a complete fill-up, or just leaving your car plugged in overnight.)
For some reason, I'm seeing Sergeant Debian marching right up to Private Novell, saying "You're no longer fit to wear this Penguin, boy", and angrily ripping the Tux symbols off Novell's epaulets.
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Funny that there's not a 2% of indeterminable (since for the majority of people, they don't have to ask 'male or female', and for the rest - well, it's rude to ask).
You're exactly right, which is why an additional N% of people just have NetFlix and a good DVD ripper.
Ok, now, everyone! Stop buying movies and pirate what you want to see! They can't lobby if they got no cash!
/suppliers/ into not distributing movies, but I doubt even that would work too well.
*removes tongue from cheek*
No, seriously, a 'radio tax' would be lovely; there are precedents that say that's the only charge they can make for a given medium.
And because of the fundamental flaws in DRM, I highly doubt we'll see the end of pirated anything, ever. Maybe if they smartened up and started using compression-resistant steganography instead of DRM, they might be able to scare enough of the
Hey, it's the shill again!
"The phrase 'information wants to be free' is pseudo religious nonsense."
You're right, of course. Information doesn't care if its free or not. On the other hand, it can be show that, with the advent of very low cost distribution, creation and promotion, the arguments for copyright protection (ie: to repay the high costs of creation, distribution and promotion) have fallen apart; there are no longer high costs to repay - and if there are, someone's been skimming.
Is it you? Is that why you're sufficiently miffed to troll around an obviously pro-piracy sector?
Aww, what a cute little AC MPAA shill-troll.
A good question comes to mind:
Does getting a movie from netflix and making a copy count as an 'illegal download'?
Agreed.
18% will admit to having illegally downloaded in a telephone survey.
Another 28% are sufficiently paranoid about it to lie.
*whoosh*
*hands you a medal*
For being a dumbass. Thanks for playing!
Surprise, surprise. A 'harmless' religious sort passively advocating the destruction of an entire culture by promoting the assumption that the culture is homogenously violent. Where have I heard this before?
In this modern, interconnected age, muslims - or at least those that have not had their infrastructure bombed into nothing - are forced to interact with non-muslims all the time; exposed to varying levels of disparate culture, the zealotism fades in most of them. Awareness that not every 'heathen' is a threat helps diffuse the powderkeg that is religious isolation.
That said, it doesn't fade in all of them. Sorry, but every religious group will have its crazy, violent psychopaths that you can't reason with. Including atheists. It's just a fact of life.
Frell, why do I even bother?
My guess is that you're not intelligent enough to know that, even counting a huge database of All Human Knowledge as part of your own, no one can know everything. There will always be something new to learn (and if there's not, there's always something new to try).
> "In case of human IQ, the evolution feedback works in the wrong direction."
> Evolution does not have any right or wrong directions. That's devolution fallacy.
I believe you're mistaking his grammar. "Wrong direction", in this statement, doesn't apply to any inherent goal of evolution, but to a goal of the race that evolution applies to, specifically enhancing human IQ.
If he had said, "We're devolving", I'd agree with you, but in this case, what quite clearly states is that the process of natural selection appears to be moving an attribute of humankind in a direction that is counterproductive to its apparent goal. In essence, the 'wrong direction'.
He actually states the intent of the devolution fallacy in the correct form, by not attributing a set of goals to an undirected process.
Mmm... the old 'nature v. nurture' argument. A fine example of futility at its best. Like answering the following question:
...that are very often completely useless. Just thought I'd toss that in there.
If two guys give me oranges, and I have 17 oranges when they're done, who gave more?
"rich parents typically bear rich kids"
Actually, used motor oil, after having being heat-reformed (ie: hydrolytically burned, aka 'thermal conversion process') can be divided into carbon and minerals (which can be used to fertilizae your lawn), methane (used in the heat-reformer), and diesel oil (which can be used to fuel your disel vehicle).
Sorry, but it's funny how inserting a step between an unlikely pair (used oil - fertilizer) can make it viable.
Whoopty freaking do.
The short answer is you're wrong.
The long answer is you're wrong, and since I already gave you the long answer, you're also too stupid to understand why you're wrong.
Meanwhile, if you don't have time to wait 8 hours (I imagine most people would have it plugged in as they sleep), you pull up to the juice station and plug into their 12kV@30A (360kW) line and be out of there in two minutes flat. It would best be supplied off their own ultracaps that feed off a continous flow of converted 480V 3-phase at 100A apiece (48kW, meaning a 15 minute recovery time per customer. As a station, you'd want lots of extra capacity). I give this setup because there's already infrastructure to install that sort of line.
"Well I wouldn't want 120KV lines in my house, kinda dangerous since they arc 5 feet or so. "
Not lines; a line. Proabably with a nice idiot-proof interconnect (so there's never any bare conductor). You could probably do it with a low-voltage/high-current magnetic coupling (also designed to not be 'on' until coupled).
"You would also have to have a transformer to upconvert from street voltage to 120KV, those are expensive."
Never heard of a flyback? If not, I don't suggest disassembling your TV. Anyways, they can be had for tens of dollars, or built for less (if you have LOTS of time on your hands)
"Just because you increase the voltage to offset the current flow, it will not negate the fact that you are sending 12KW through, you need big wires for that."
You're not sending 12KW through; you're sending 12 kWh through, over the course of five to eight hours. That means your cable has to be rated for 1500-2400W, 12.5-20A@120V at the transformer input, 0.0125-0.02A@12kV at the output.
Knowing a little Ohm's Law might help you out. Or at least knowing the difference between a Watt and a Watt-Hour.
Meanwhile, the voltage step up has nothing to do with 'offsetting' the current. Because of the way ultracaps work, you have to fill them using a very high potential difference (or suffer a greatly reduced operating capacity). You then step the voltage back down in the device using it (one of the reasons I don't see this tech in small applications anytime soon).
Anyway, a 20A/120V line is about 3/8" in diameter, insulator included (you generally see them as the bright orange extension cables). Hell, your air conditioner has thicker than you'd need (they're usually rated for 30A@120V). Truth is, current determines conductor size, so at 0.02A the conductor need not be very thick - though you'd want to bring it back up to the 3/8" diameter using insulator so as to protect from the voltage; I imagine 12kV would hurt a bit.
"What does CnR do that my grandmother can't do with apt-get?"
Answer: Nothing that she can't do with Syanptic.
Seriously. I stopped using apt-get directly years ago.
Now how does this apply with Ubuntu? There's quite literally a 'Find new applications' button.
Yeah. I'll pay for Click-N-Run, which has about the same package set and ease of use as Synaptic. Oh, and won't have the fun integration benefits that Ubuntu's repository provides.
Are these guys Lindows guys crazy, or just stupid?
Why would you need 10kA service? To fill up the 12kWh at home on the spec'ed out batteries, you need 120V@12.5A and an eight hour nap. Don't have that kinda time? Go to your service station which will be happy to fill you up at 12000V@30A (coming directly off their own ultracapacitors which are filling up off 120V@100-500A).
Why would it?
For example, your television steps your house current up to a couple thousand volts. At, say, 120kv, your house circuit need only handle 20A (ie: 120kv by 0.02A is 20A at 120v. Given the specs of 280Wh/kg and 100lb [45.5kg] for a vehicle power system, that means we have 12kWh to fill. That means 5 hours for a complete fill-up, or just leaving your car plugged in overnight.)
Feh. I want to know two things:
Watts per kilogram (330) and Watts per cubic centimeter (not derivable from speculations).
Then I'll be impressed.
(a 25g AA battery at 1.2v output would store 6875 mAh, assuming a similar density to NiMH. Half of that would impress me.)
I dunno.
For some reason, I'm seeing Sergeant Debian marching right up to Private Novell, saying "You're no longer fit to wear this Penguin, boy", and angrily ripping the Tux symbols off Novell's epaulets.
Feh. I don't bother with WGA. Check out http://www.windizupdate.com