Rocket fuel is typically either H2 + O2 or kerosene + O2. kerosene is made from oil, and H2 is made from natural gas.
However, the amount of fuel used in a rocket is negligible compared to the expense and humanpower than goes into having a successful (or not so successful) launch.
How dare you call my gods silly. Just look at what happened when New Orleans did not make the proper sacrifices to Neptune. Or was it because we didn't pray enough to the Christian god.
Anyone who says that this 'hurricane' was caused by a giant heat engine must be totally wrong and I pray that whichever god(s) is/are the real one(s) will have mercy in their afterlife.
Funny enough, copyright law is just the opposite. There is no part of copyright law that says that credit must be given or that one cannot claim to be an author of something that (s)he is not. Plagarism and ghostwriting are both perfectly legal.
I am a small-time artist (mostly a programming artist, but I do dabble in other forms). What gets me upset about copyright law as an artist is that: 1 - When I view or read something, I cannot be sure that the listed author actually wrote it, because ghostwriting is so prevelant. 2 - It forces me to hold on to the copyright and enforce at least some provisions. The creative commons license does address this issue, but I should have to be well verse in law and able to implement what I know to have this right protected. It should be the default. If I worked for a company, this would likely be impossible. 3 - While it makes no provisions about unrevokable rights of attribution, it forbids derivative works, and that makes it much, much harder to make the type of works I'd like to make. Both fan fiction and sampling are somewhere from hard to downright impossible to do legally with the current law.
And yes, as a small time artist, my dream is about being famous and influential, not about making boatloads of money. If I achieved the first, making enough money to live off of would not be an issue anyway even without copyrights.
A boycott is essentially unworkable. Entertainment and social stimulus, of one form or another, is a basic human need. And for most couch potatoes and nerds, they have very limited means of getting it aside from the CRT, be it hooked up to a computer or a TV.
If you put a person in isolation, they will go mentally crazy in less than a week.
So you can relate the MPAA and RIAA to the electric and water monopolies.
Personally, I do boycott both the MPAA and RIAA, but it does take its toll, and finding alternative media sure isn't easy (P2P does help in this regard). And I'm a person who hates the MPAA and RIAA with great zeal and I am very good at searching for stuff. I'm sure 99.9% of people wouldn't do it.
The problem is that the MPAA is attacking P2P in general. They would still be upset if all P2P use was 100% legit. The MPAA would actually prefer that you trade their shows online than non-MPAA shows.
The only little problem is that it's pretty much impossible to say "People watching stuff we didn't make is stealing our money" and not be laughed off the podium. It's much easier to say "People use P2P to steal our shows and it should be illegal", and with a big enough echo chamber, enough people will believe it.
The reason they hate P2P so much is that it makes it too easy to cut out the middleman and the censors. It would allow too much space for upstarts and people holding views they don't like from getting heard.
Most of my web friends use words like serving and downloading/uploading. Real world friends use words like give, copy, and trade. Generally the legality isn't considered relevant (and many real-life friends probably assume it is legal).
I hear pirate most often from news websites, though slashdot has the word plenty often too.
What is peculiar about 'pirate' is that it's kept both meanings. Normally, a word with a strongly negative meaning (like gay or pirate) will have the negative meaning replace the old meaning (gay meaning happy). This happened very fast for the word gay.
With 'pirate', you have powerful groups force-feeding the term (and they have done it for centuries). If language was not being manipulated, its usage to mean 'copyright commercial works' wouldn't last very long.
Depends what you're backing up. For movies and TV shows, optical media is generally superior. It's the kind of stuff that you often give out copies of, and it's very easy to duplicate a data DVD-R or CD-R and give the copy out. As far as reliability goes, make 2 copies. At 25-40 cents a blank, they're dirt cheap.
As a side bonus, you can throw those DVD-Rs in just about anything - including DVD players - and they generally will play just fine.
Plenty of problems here. 1 - An N-state transistor takes roughly N units of space and N units of power in exchange for log(N) bits of data. The natural number (e) is the theoritical ideal number of states for a transistor, and anything above that is less than ideal.
2 - Computational power is limited by surface area, not volume. The thicker transistors are packed, the more heat is made, and the slower they have to run.
3 - Exponentials grow really, really fast. Moore's law in particular also has a very high constant, doubling every 1.5 years. I doubt Plank's constant will halve every 1.5 years or the Earth will keep doubling every 1.5 years to make room for our ever shrinking transistors or ever growing chips just to be friendly. Even if we can manufacture ever more powerful chips at that rate, the heat output will eventually overwhelm our power plants and fry our planet.
4 - Quantum tunneling only hurts for transporting current. It means that the our chips are descending into randomness and chaos as they shrink. I fail to see how this can be exploited for moving electricity down wires, when you want the electrons to stay in the wire, not tunnel to adjacent wires.
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Because I'm a nice guy, I'll make it easy on you. Pay me $5,000 and promise not to do it again, and I'll let you off the hook.
Advertising generally is ineffective for small companies (just look at who buys most of the advertisements - the auto industry alone probably buys about 10% of all advertisements).
But the reason they're evil is that they give biased information and they destandardize things (leading to monopolistic competition). Traditional advertising also promotes depression and lowers the savings rate (two serious problems in the US), among other ills.
If no company advertised, then people would seek out their products if they need or want them, and if they don't, then the product probably is frivolous and shouldn't be produced in the first place.
What should be promoted is widespread knowledge of availability, quality, and price of goods. Advertising doesn't to that (instead it implants false ideas about the above).
Advertising in itself is a major evil in my view, and the world-class data mining and targetting they do along with it just makes it worse.
Google might provide a clean and responsive service, and the ads aren't as annoying as those on some other sites, but by no means does that make them nice.
For a company to be nice is commercial suicide, almost by definition, as nice means doing things that you don't have to out of the kindness of your heart, not out of competitive or legal pressures. Corporations are legally obliged (to protect shareholders) not to be nice and to take advantage of every tax loopholes and squeeze every last penny they can.
It's not plagarism if you cite the author (or at least that it's popular folklore if there isn't a particular author). If you can squeeze in a nursery rhyme, I'm sure you can squeeze in the proper attribution.
And other people, like me, still crave a terabyte on a drive and could easily fill several HDDs with video. I would like 1 reliable drive for system files and my documents/projects, but the rest don't have to be particularly reliable. Worst case is I restore from DVD or Blue Ray or whatever optical media it's backed up on.
Yes, when there are several patents on a single invention, the patent holders need permission from the other patent holders. This can result in noone being allowed to use the invention.
In all seriousness, that sounds about fair. Insider trading schemes undermine confidence in the markets and reduces society's wealth as a result.
While not the most heinous of crimes, they are far from victimless, and the effect on everyone's well-being is substantial (far more than the amount stolen). Anything that either reduces total wealth or increases the inequality of its distribution will lead to more preventable deaths.
Now what gets really ludicrous to compare is insider trading schemes and movies. Is a downloaded movie worth 6 insider trading schemes?
PS. If I actually believed that entities should be able to own ideas or art, then I would peg it at around 10^6 to 10^7 movies = a human life.
My threshold for DRM is a normal unencrypted field where a copyright holder and year of copyright may be stored, and an open (patent free) specification for the format, complete enough to implement a working encoder and decoder from.
Any more than that, and I won't buy it, and I won't even download it from P2P if people are stupid enough to encode to it (like WMP format).
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Rocket fuel is typically either H2 + O2 or kerosene + O2. kerosene is made from oil, and H2 is made from natural gas.
However, the amount of fuel used in a rocket is negligible compared to the expense and humanpower than goes into having a successful (or not so successful) launch.
How dare you call my gods silly. Just look at what happened when New Orleans did not make the proper sacrifices to Neptune. Or was it because we didn't pray enough to the Christian god.
Anyone who says that this 'hurricane' was caused by a giant heat engine must be totally wrong and I pray that whichever god(s) is/are the real one(s) will have mercy in their afterlife.
Funny enough, copyright law is just the opposite. There is no part of copyright law that says that credit must be given or that one cannot claim to be an author of something that (s)he is not. Plagarism and ghostwriting are both perfectly legal.
I am a small-time artist (mostly a programming artist, but I do dabble in other forms). What gets me upset about copyright law as an artist is that:
1 - When I view or read something, I cannot be sure that the listed author actually wrote it, because ghostwriting is so prevelant.
2 - It forces me to hold on to the copyright and enforce at least some provisions. The creative commons license does address this issue, but I should have to be well verse in law and able to implement what I know to have this right protected. It should be the default. If I worked for a company, this would likely be impossible.
3 - While it makes no provisions about unrevokable rights of attribution, it forbids derivative works, and that makes it much, much harder to make the type of works I'd like to make. Both fan fiction and sampling are somewhere from hard to downright impossible to do legally with the current law.
And yes, as a small time artist, my dream is about being famous and influential, not about making boatloads of money. If I achieved the first, making enough money to live off of would not be an issue anyway even without copyrights.
A boycott is essentially unworkable. Entertainment and social stimulus, of one form or another, is a basic human need. And for most couch potatoes and nerds, they have very limited means of getting it aside from the CRT, be it hooked up to a computer or a TV.
If you put a person in isolation, they will go mentally crazy in less than a week.
So you can relate the MPAA and RIAA to the electric and water monopolies.
Personally, I do boycott both the MPAA and RIAA, but it does take its toll, and finding alternative media sure isn't easy (P2P does help in this regard). And I'm a person who hates the MPAA and RIAA with great zeal and I am very good at searching for stuff. I'm sure 99.9% of people wouldn't do it.
The problem is that the MPAA is attacking P2P in general. They would still be upset if all P2P use was 100% legit. The MPAA would actually prefer that you trade their shows online than non-MPAA shows.
The only little problem is that it's pretty much impossible to say "People watching stuff we didn't make is stealing our money" and not be laughed off the podium. It's much easier to say "People use P2P to steal our shows and it should be illegal", and with a big enough echo chamber, enough people will believe it.
The reason they hate P2P so much is that it makes it too easy to cut out the middleman and the censors. It would allow too much space for upstarts and people holding views they don't like from getting heard.
No, as in they assume that things that are broadcast for free over the air are fair game for recording and copying.
Most of my web friends use words like serving and downloading/uploading. Real world friends use words like give, copy, and trade. Generally the legality isn't considered relevant (and many real-life friends probably assume it is legal).
I hear pirate most often from news websites, though slashdot has the word plenty often too.
What is peculiar about 'pirate' is that it's kept both meanings. Normally, a word with a strongly negative meaning (like gay or pirate) will have the negative meaning replace the old meaning (gay meaning happy). This happened very fast for the word gay.
With 'pirate', you have powerful groups force-feeding the term (and they have done it for centuries). If language was not being manipulated, its usage to mean 'copyright commercial works' wouldn't last very long.
Depends what you're backing up. For movies and TV shows, optical media is generally superior. It's the kind of stuff that you often give out copies of, and it's very easy to duplicate a data DVD-R or CD-R and give the copy out. As far as reliability goes, make 2 copies. At 25-40 cents a blank, they're dirt cheap.
As a side bonus, you can throw those DVD-Rs in just about anything - including DVD players - and they generally will play just fine.
Plenty of problems here.
1 - An N-state transistor takes roughly N units of space and N units of power in exchange for log(N) bits of data. The natural number (e) is the theoritical ideal number of states for a transistor, and anything above that is less than ideal.
2 - Computational power is limited by surface area, not volume. The thicker transistors are packed, the more heat is made, and the slower they have to run.
3 - Exponentials grow really, really fast. Moore's law in particular also has a very high constant, doubling every 1.5 years. I doubt Plank's constant will halve every 1.5 years or the Earth will keep doubling every 1.5 years to make room for our ever shrinking transistors or ever growing chips just to be friendly. Even if we can manufacture ever more powerful chips at that rate, the heat output will eventually overwhelm our power plants and fry our planet.
4 - Quantum tunneling only hurts for transporting current. It means that the our chips are descending into randomness and chaos as they shrink. I fail to see how this can be exploited for moving electricity down wires, when you want the electrons to stay in the wire, not tunnel to adjacent wires.
This post is the copyrighted property of me. You may only make one copy of this post for personal use. Any additional copies, such as that made by your browser cache, in the registers of your CPU, or on your retina are a violation of copyright law.
Because I'm a nice guy, I'll make it easy on you. Pay me $5,000 and promise not to do it again, and I'll let you off the hook.
Advertising generally is ineffective for small companies (just look at who buys most of the advertisements - the auto industry alone probably buys about 10% of all advertisements).
But the reason they're evil is that they give biased information and they destandardize things (leading to monopolistic competition). Traditional advertising also promotes depression and lowers the savings rate (two serious problems in the US), among other ills.
If no company advertised, then people would seek out their products if they need or want them, and if they don't, then the product probably is frivolous and shouldn't be produced in the first place.
What should be promoted is widespread knowledge of availability, quality, and price of goods. Advertising doesn't to that (instead it implants false ideas about the above).
Advertising in itself is a major evil in my view, and the world-class data mining and targetting they do along with it just makes it worse.
Google might provide a clean and responsive service, and the ads aren't as annoying as those on some other sites, but by no means does that make them nice.
For a company to be nice is commercial suicide, almost by definition, as nice means doing things that you don't have to out of the kindness of your heart, not out of competitive or legal pressures. Corporations are legally obliged (to protect shareholders) not to be nice and to take advantage of every tax loopholes and squeeze every last penny they can.
It's not plagarism if you cite the author (or at least that it's popular folklore if there isn't a particular author). If you can squeeze in a nursery rhyme, I'm sure you can squeeze in the proper attribution.
Because they want to be able to extract rents from whoever does make it possible for the next 20 years.
My only question is why didn't they submarine these suckers.
And other people, like me, still crave a terabyte on a drive and could easily fill several HDDs with video. I would like 1 reliable drive for system files and my documents/projects, but the rest don't have to be particularly reliable. Worst case is I restore from DVD or Blue Ray or whatever optical media it's backed up on.
Yes, when there are several patents on a single invention, the patent holders need permission from the other patent holders. This can result in noone being allowed to use the invention.
With SSE instructions, you can process 4 floats at once, so I'm guessing that 3.2 GHz processor can do a few gigaflops.
can't you crack open the drive and read the platters with whatever special device recovery experts have?
If the virus can set the password, I doubt that the actual contents are encrypted (that would require a few hours to do retroactively).
Quantum computing will be able to break just about all encryption but the one-time pad; however, it's the thought that counts for me.
power/weight is important for space applications.
In all seriousness, that sounds about fair. Insider trading schemes undermine confidence in the markets and reduces society's wealth as a result.
While not the most heinous of crimes, they are far from victimless, and the effect on everyone's well-being is substantial (far more than the amount stolen). Anything that either reduces total wealth or increases the inequality of its distribution will lead to more preventable deaths.
Now what gets really ludicrous to compare is insider trading schemes and movies. Is a downloaded movie worth 6 insider trading schemes?
PS. If I actually believed that entities should be able to own ideas or art, then I would peg it at around 10^6 to 10^7 movies = a human life.
My threshold for DRM is a normal unencrypted field where a copyright holder and year of copyright may be stored, and an open (patent free) specification for the format, complete enough to implement a working encoder and decoder from.
Any more than that, and I won't buy it, and I won't even download it from P2P if people are stupid enough to encode to it (like WMP format).
User-Agent is right on my Tools menu. It's isn't exactly an obscure option. Also, it can be used on a site-by-site basis.
I haven't used it to date, but for some sites, you do need it to get in because they ban Konqueror or browsers that aren't IE.
What's the retail price of something that isn't offered for sale anymore?