*shrug* Next time you are in germany strike up a conversation with some of the locals about how much the Nazis improved our knowledge of chemistry and furnace design.
Mabey China will be smart enough to start mining asteroids for materials in the near future, that should give the US a good kick in the ass to get it's space program moving along again.
Kazaa Lite was just a window dressing. And now it's gone from the memory of google, which is just about as good as wiping it from the face of the internet for your average user now days.
Really, the fatal flaw of most p2p file shareing networks is that they are owned by a single company, which makes the system pretty ripe for attack or exploitation.
Eh, Kazza ended for me when it became known that they were going to start using people's machines without their knowledge to build a distributed computer. It's just been downhill after that. P2P clients like Kazza are as good as dead for pirates, and anyone with their eyes open would have seen that a year ago.
Wonder which will be the next to fall: IRC, Usenet, or BitTorrent?
AFAIK, a lot of the serious book scanners use feeding scanners to scan a book quickly. It's quite simple, cut all the pages out then put them in the feed tray for your scanner, sit back and wait. The only drawback to this is you destroy the original book in the proccess.
They way I've always looked at e-books is that they are a good to have for reference (searching for names, quotes, etc), but lack the tactile interactivity of a printed work. I think that no matter how small or efficent your reader is, it still won't be the same thing as paper. Electronic paper? Sounds like a good idea, but how do you turn the page?
Maybe what they should start doing if they want people to get into reading e-books is including a copy of the book (like a lot of technical books do currently) on mini-cd or something. The more and more people are exposed to it, the more likely they will start to like reading books electronicaly. Or, you just wasted a lot of money and no one will ever like reading ebooks.
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Some wearable computing gear, with net access. Search in style.
Well, in the long run, the nerd's won't be able to laugh because they have evolved into brainpods that interface directly to the network after hundreds of years of selective breeding/gene modification.
Well.... they'll be able to LOL and:) at least.
I've been under the impression, after reading the article, that it will still be reddish. It just might not be as red as what we have been seeing.
Basicaly it will subtract the colors that the dust adds to things, changing the image to what it would appear like under earth-conditions. Then again, I could be wrong.
I don't see how this will be the "real" color though, since if you were there on mars looking at it with your own eyes, you'd still be seeing things with the colors cast by the dust in the atmosphere.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Well, assuming that they understood the meaning behind the words after they deciphered them, it IS a good way of showing them that we shared something in common with them, mortality. Assuming of course they aren't immortal space jellyfish or something.
How many people are going to stand up and say in court that they hold the copyright to a child porn clip, and demand that they be compensated for loss of profit. Also, I doubt if they would be members of the RIAA, though it wouldn't surprise me that much.
Look up some of the chemicals that are used to produce solar cells. Just imagine how many people have bought solar cells that end up being thrown into landfills/etc, not to mention what the maker's have put there.
What a lot of people don't think about when considering "clean" alternative energy sources is the environmental impact of the manufacturing OF the clean energy sources.
I think the real point of Lord of the Flies is that humans, not just the pint sized versions, can be inherently evil. The rest of them just follow the strongest, and pick on the weakest.
At least that's what I've always got out of it. The fact that they are kids just takes away what kind of social conditioning they world have as adults. But, if you recast the story with adults, it'll just take longer for the decsent to occur, you've got a lot of conditioning to grind down to get to that base human instinct.
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*shrug* Next time you are in germany strike up a conversation with some of the locals about how much the Nazis improved our knowledge of chemistry and furnace design.
Mabey China will be smart enough to start mining asteroids for materials in the near future, that should give the US a good kick in the ass to get it's space program moving along again.
Or get your own free piggybacked on the next microsoft exploit. ;)
That darn kazaalite user is going to have one hell of a bill.....
Kazaa Lite was just a window dressing. And now it's gone from the memory of google, which is just about as good as wiping it from the face of the internet for your average user now days.
Really, the fatal flaw of most p2p file shareing networks is that they are owned by a single company, which makes the system pretty ripe for attack or exploitation.
You don't think people will pay for what they could get for free? Explain hookers, please.
Eh, Kazza ended for me when it became known that they were going to start using people's machines without their knowledge to build a distributed computer. It's just been downhill after that. P2P clients like Kazza are as good as dead for pirates, and anyone with their eyes open would have seen that a year ago.
Wonder which will be the next to fall: IRC, Usenet, or BitTorrent?
I don't know about the tens of thousands of books on an ebook newsgroup, but I think you are mostly right here.
AFAIK, a lot of the serious book scanners use feeding scanners to scan a book quickly. It's quite simple, cut all the pages out then put them in the feed tray for your scanner, sit back and wait. The only drawback to this is you destroy the original book in the proccess.
They way I've always looked at e-books is that they are a good to have for reference (searching for names, quotes, etc), but lack the tactile interactivity of a printed work. I think that no matter how small or efficent your reader is, it still won't be the same thing as paper. Electronic paper? Sounds like a good idea, but how do you turn the page?
Maybe what they should start doing if they want people to get into reading e-books is including a copy of the book (like a lot of technical books do currently) on mini-cd or something. The more and more people are exposed to it, the more likely they will start to like reading books electronicaly. Or, you just wasted a lot of money and no one will ever like reading ebooks.
Some wearable computing gear, with net access. Search in style.
Well, in the long run, the nerd's won't be able to laugh because they have evolved into brainpods that interface directly to the network after hundreds of years of selective breeding/gene modification. Well.... they'll be able to LOL and :) at least.
Doesn't change the fact that it's still illegal to write it in the first place.
Doing something to help out hummanity = being nice Figuring out a way to make money off of it by screwing the government = American.
Or down, if you wanted.
The only one that counts does.
In this house, we obey the laws of thermo-dynamics!
A big foot. A really big foot.
If you want to backup your dvd collection, in the most effiecient means, you might.
I've been under the impression, after reading the article, that it will still be reddish. It just might not be as red as what we have been seeing. Basicaly it will subtract the colors that the dust adds to things, changing the image to what it would appear like under earth-conditions. Then again, I could be wrong. I don't see how this will be the "real" color though, since if you were there on mars looking at it with your own eyes, you'd still be seeing things with the colors cast by the dust in the atmosphere. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Well, assuming that they understood the meaning behind the words after they deciphered them, it IS a good way of showing them that we shared something in common with them, mortality. Assuming of course they aren't immortal space jellyfish or something.
How many people are going to stand up and say in court that they hold the copyright to a child porn clip, and demand that they be compensated for loss of profit. Also, I doubt if they would be members of the RIAA, though it wouldn't surprise me that much.
Look up some of the chemicals that are used to produce solar cells. Just imagine how many people have bought solar cells that end up being thrown into landfills/etc, not to mention what the maker's have put there.
What a lot of people don't think about when considering "clean" alternative energy sources is the environmental impact of the manufacturing OF the clean energy sources.
I think the real point of Lord of the Flies is that humans, not just the pint sized versions, can be inherently evil. The rest of them just follow the strongest, and pick on the weakest.
At least that's what I've always got out of it. The fact that they are kids just takes away what kind of social conditioning they world have as adults. But, if you recast the story with adults, it'll just take longer for the decsent to occur, you've got a lot of conditioning to grind down to get to that base human instinct.