Seriously, Bober, you're giving unethical scheming corrupt slimebags a bad name by roping them together with politicians. It's like the difference between a carp and a politician. One's a scum sucking bottomfeeder and the other's a fish.
Your music 'dies' with you because your license to have them expired when you did, if not sooner. Remember, we're talking about the *AAs here, they get really touchy about their 'rights'.
Ack! I hate when I screw that up. Your tau factor is 1 minus the percentage of the speed of light. If you're right up there within 1%, your tau will be 0.01. Divide the time units you're measuring by the tau to see how much elapsed time has passed at 'rest'. For instance, a year spent at a tau of 0.01 would translate to 100 years elapsed time at rest. For a 3.3 lightyear cruise (half a lightyear to get to a tau of 0.01, half a light year to 'brake' to at rest from 4.3 light years) is about 0.033 years subjective, or 12 days.
Your tau factor is your percentage of the speed of light. The lower the tau, the faster you're moving. Keep in mind that the total percieved time is also dependent on the distance travelled. 4.3 light-years? Assume constant accelleration at 1gravity (10 meters/sec/sec). About a year after launch, you're nearing lightspeed and you have a decent tau. Coast for 3.something years, flip, decellerate for 1 year at 1 gravity. Total trip is about 5 & a half, 6 years. Perceived time is on the order of 2-2.5 years.
OK, this is supposed to be for servers, only accessed by authorised IT guys. Simple enough.
Let the hardware vender spend the half cent on a jumper right by the BIOS chip. Shut it down, pull it off the net, unplug the drive cables, etc. Plug in the damned jumper. Boot up, flash the ROM off a verified safe flash drive. Shut down. Pull the damned jumper. Hook the cables back up, hook back to the network, close the box reboot. Nice & safe, rig the BIOS where if the jumper is CLOSED, update is possible possible because the jumper controls the write voltage to the BIOS.
No doubt. That light-speed lag is a bitch. Hell, even the round trip to geosynch orbit for satellite internet is too much for some VOIP customers, and that's about half a second.
Oh come on, Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 lightyears away. You wouldn't get anywhere near the tau factor to 'lose' a couple centuries on that kinda flight. Decade at most.
Actually, I'd say it is closer to...the RIAA would rather destroy the entire recording industry than modify their business model from that which made them all filthy rich until the last decade or so.
Correct.
They've fucking lost it. They have absolutly no comprehension or understanding that they don't mean shit anymore. Nobody NEEDS the RIAA or the major labels anymore. Anyone with a few thousand can create a damned good recording studio, cut an album, release it online independently (and to streaming sites), thereby cutting the RIAA entirely out of the equation.
Agreed, they've lost it, but if you think they have zero comprehension of the fact that they are obsolete dinosaurs on the way to the evolutionary scrap pile, you're mistaken. They know they're doomed. And they know if they make streaming media and downloads unprofitable, people will go back to pirating or buy their overpriced cds. By constantly pushing for harsher laws on 'piracy', they get the best of both worlds. More 'John Doe' lawsuits, more 'Let's phish some quick blow money' emails. More people get caught and bankrupted, more people get forced to buy their product, and life goes on, and hookers & blow continue to flow. They spent decades wedging themselves in as middlemen, they're not gonna go away quietly, not when to do so means they might actually have to work for a living. And not while they can 'campaign contribute' themselves into a guaranteed profit.
Thing about those bonus cards is, they're for harvesting demographic data primarily. The store will give you a discount to get an edge on what to put on the shelves. Remember that cinnamon-flavored Mountain Dew they had a few years back? I liked it. I also got severely hooked on vanilla diet Pepsi, of all things. Neither of which you can find in the stores around here. They were serious niche market items that my local supermarket doesn't stock anymore. Neither does Walmart, for that matter, at least around here. Shelf space is valuable, especially these days. If it ain't gonna sell, it needs to go. That's Marketting 101. The bonus card I use only asked me for my name, my birthday, and what city & state I currently live in. Nothing more. They didn't ask for my credit card, my social security number, nothing else. Pure marketting demographics research, for which they were willing to 'pay' me in discounts on food and gas purchases at the supermarket-owned gas station at the end of their parking lot. That's what those bonus cards are for
Yes, humans are fallible. But to REALLY fuck things up takes a computer.
I wanna pay for shit I buy through FB about as much as I want hemmeroid surgery without anesthesia on Pay-Per-View. So why am I thinking of mebbe building my own social media site that harvests demographic data only instead of doing a massive cavity search like Google/FB/etc? Cause mebbe its time has come.
Guns are very very [b]VERY[/b] illegal in Japan. Pretty much, only criminals own them outside of police and the military. You're not gonna find them on every street corner. Likewise, they;re heavily regulated in the UK.
Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features. I'm running RTM Enterprise on a Dell E6520 laptop, and it's flawless. 5 minutes of training - some new shortcut keys, and I'm more productive than before.
I don't suppose those five minutes of training occurred in a conference room in Redmond, by any chance?
I'm just wondering how many of those 5 minutes were spent ducking flying chairs.
That was my experience as well. On some machines, it was good. On other machines, you were lucky to get it past the boot screen. It all depended on what the hardware was.
I'd take Rodale with a grain of salt. After all, the article insinuates that these 'superbugs' only go after GMO bug resistant crops and leave other 'more natural organic' crops alone. Not accurate in the least. Nor do they show that the 'superbugs' prefer the taste of the GMO plants over 'natural organic' plants, probably cause it just ain't so. Like I mentioned in the GP, Rodale has a specific axe to grind, and has had it for decades. From About Rodale off the 'Whole Green Catalog' website:
Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that improves the health and well-being of people and the planet. Our soil scientists and a cooperating network of researchers have documented that organic farming techniques offer the best solution to global warming and famine. We were founded in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in 1947 by organic pioneer J.I. Rodale. Our Farming Systems Trial®, the longest-running U.S. study comparing organic and conventional farming techniques, is the basis for our practical training to thousands of farmers in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Like I say, they got an axe to grind, to wit, 'organic' gardening in all its blemished 'glory'. Supposedly, these techniques, developed by Rodale, of course, can solve famine without the need of 'expensive patented GMO crops'. All of course, documented in their inhouse media company, who will be more than happy to sell you tons of books and videos.
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Seriously, Bober, you're giving unethical scheming corrupt slimebags a bad name by roping them together with politicians. It's like the difference between a carp and a politician. One's a scum sucking bottomfeeder and the other's a fish.
I'd love seeing them subpoena him after he's died. What they gonna do, put his casket in jail for contempt of court?
Your music 'dies' with you because your license to have them expired when you did, if not sooner. Remember, we're talking about the *AAs here, they get really touchy about their 'rights'.
But what about your porn????
Ack! I hate when I screw that up. Your tau factor is 1 minus the percentage of the speed of light. If you're right up there within 1%, your tau will be 0.01. Divide the time units you're measuring by the tau to see how much elapsed time has passed at 'rest'. For instance, a year spent at a tau of 0.01 would translate to 100 years elapsed time at rest. For a 3.3 lightyear cruise (half a lightyear to get to a tau of 0.01, half a light year to 'brake' to at rest from 4.3 light years) is about 0.033 years subjective, or 12 days.
Your tau factor is your percentage of the speed of light. The lower the tau, the faster you're moving. Keep in mind that the total percieved time is also dependent on the distance travelled. 4.3 light-years? Assume constant accelleration at 1gravity (10 meters/sec/sec). About a year after launch, you're nearing lightspeed and you have a decent tau. Coast for 3.something years, flip, decellerate for 1 year at 1 gravity. Total trip is about 5 & a half, 6 years. Perceived time is on the order of 2-2.5 years.
OK, this is supposed to be for servers, only accessed by authorised IT guys. Simple enough.
Let the hardware vender spend the half cent on a jumper right by the BIOS chip. Shut it down, pull it off the net, unplug the drive cables, etc. Plug in the damned jumper. Boot up, flash the ROM off a verified safe flash drive. Shut down. Pull the damned jumper. Hook the cables back up, hook back to the network, close the box reboot. Nice & safe, rig the BIOS where if the jumper is CLOSED, update is possible possible because the jumper controls the write voltage to the BIOS.
No doubt. That light-speed lag is a bitch. Hell, even the round trip to geosynch orbit for satellite internet is too much for some VOIP customers, and that's about half a second.
Oh come on, Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 lightyears away. You wouldn't get anywhere near the tau factor to 'lose' a couple centuries on that kinda flight. Decade at most.
Correct.
Agreed, they've lost it, but if you think they have zero comprehension of the fact that they are obsolete dinosaurs on the way to the evolutionary scrap pile, you're mistaken. They know they're doomed. And they know if they make streaming media and downloads unprofitable, people will go back to pirating or buy their overpriced cds. By constantly pushing for harsher laws on 'piracy', they get the best of both worlds. More 'John Doe' lawsuits, more 'Let's phish some quick blow money' emails. More people get caught and bankrupted, more people get forced to buy their product, and life goes on, and hookers & blow continue to flow. They spent decades wedging themselves in as middlemen, they're not gonna go away quietly, not when to do so means they might actually have to work for a living. And not while they can 'campaign contribute' themselves into a guaranteed profit.
'massive cavity search with a chainsaw'? I probably know people who'd enjoy that...
Ever think that maybe I intentionally misspelled it? I'm a redneck, that's the way we talk.
So get your porn the way the rest of us do: bittorrent.
Thing about those bonus cards is, they're for harvesting demographic data primarily. The store will give you a discount to get an edge on what to put on the shelves. Remember that cinnamon-flavored Mountain Dew they had a few years back? I liked it. I also got severely hooked on vanilla diet Pepsi, of all things. Neither of which you can find in the stores around here. They were serious niche market items that my local supermarket doesn't stock anymore. Neither does Walmart, for that matter, at least around here. Shelf space is valuable, especially these days. If it ain't gonna sell, it needs to go. That's Marketting 101. The bonus card I use only asked me for my name, my birthday, and what city & state I currently live in. Nothing more. They didn't ask for my credit card, my social security number, nothing else. Pure marketting demographics research, for which they were willing to 'pay' me in discounts on food and gas purchases at the supermarket-owned gas station at the end of their parking lot. That's what those bonus cards are for
Yes, humans are fallible. But to REALLY fuck things up takes a computer.
I wanna pay for shit I buy through FB about as much as I want hemmeroid surgery without anesthesia on Pay-Per-View. So why am I thinking of mebbe building my own social media site that harvests demographic data only instead of doing a massive cavity search like Google/FB/etc? Cause mebbe its time has come.
Guns are very very [b]VERY[/b] illegal in Japan. Pretty much, only criminals own them outside of police and the military. You're not gonna find them on every street corner. Likewise, they;re heavily regulated in the UK.
Oh, I dunno. Whales seemed to be able to survive by eating microscopic plankton in clear water...
IMNSFBHO, the best Windows desktop OS was Server 2K3. Stable as a rock.
Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features. I'm running RTM Enterprise on a Dell E6520 laptop, and it's flawless. 5 minutes of training - some new shortcut keys, and I'm more productive than before.
I don't suppose those five minutes of training occurred in a conference room in Redmond, by any chance?
I'm just wondering how many of those 5 minutes were spent ducking flying chairs.
That was my experience as well. On some machines, it was good. On other machines, you were lucky to get it past the boot screen. It all depended on what the hardware was.
It's worked for underclassmen for centuries. Can't beat the track record...
I totally love the idea of preserving this site.
Think they'll sell working copies of those nifty steampunk stun guns in the gift shop?
I think we'll be around a lot longer than another thousand years.
Whether we'll still have Americans, though, remains to be seen...
Thank you.
Wish he wouldn'tve screwed up the formatting too... Original submission
Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that improves the health and well-being of people and the planet. Our soil scientists and a cooperating network of researchers have documented that organic farming techniques offer the best solution to global warming and famine. We were founded in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in 1947 by organic pioneer J.I. Rodale. Our Farming Systems Trial®, the longest-running U.S. study comparing organic and conventional farming techniques, is the basis for our practical training to thousands of farmers in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Like I say, they got an axe to grind, to wit, 'organic' gardening in all its blemished 'glory'. Supposedly, these techniques, developed by Rodale, of course, can solve famine without the need of 'expensive patented GMO crops'. All of course, documented in their inhouse media company, who will be more than happy to sell you tons of books and videos.