Is the EXACT wording "Possession for commercial purposes, AND Use" or "Possession for commercial purposes AND Use"?
If the former hobby users are screwed, if the latter then they are not since only COMMERICIAL USE is illegal. Placement of a comma makes all the difference in the world.
When an engine in an airplane quits it DOESN'T just fall out of the sky. Most airplanes will GLIDE FOR MILES before losing enough altitude to reach the ground. HOWEVER a loose NUT in the cockpit can always cause an airplane to stall, spin, and crash!
I've landed my Citabera 'dead stick' lots of times (simulated by retarding the throttle to idle where the engine makes more drag than it would if it actually stopped!). No problem at all. A well designed plane doesn't WANT to quit flying!
what many ISP's are now installing on their servers. Bell south is now changing their servers so the clients must log in and verify their identity each time they send mail. BTW they told me they don't surport Mozilla but do support Netscape! Idiots... Netscape IS Mozilla!
As an archive device for computers DVDs and CDs will be replaced by devices with higher capacity. Eventually rotating media will be obsolete and other means of reading/writing will be developed.
As a means of delivering music and video SOMETHING will be around for those that want to have a 'hard' copy. I don't think music and video stores will be obsolete anytime soon, though we will have other options.
On line delivery via broadband could replace video rental. Digital cable via broadband with on demand download would become the 'block buster video' of the future. No need to actually save the content at the site of delivery, with bandwidth to burn the server would be your store. You might pay per view, or perhaps an unlimited per month charge just like for cable and ISP.
Also its possible that not everyone will have broadband in the future, it may never be available for mobile, extreme rural etc.
Given enough pressure from the public and scientists I would hope the president would issue an executive order directing NASA to service Hubble, using the shuttle if necessary. If Bush doesn't have the common sense to do this (probably not) Kerry will.
You know nothing about astronomy, cosmology, or even first grade science if you can make such a statement. Hubble has provided more return for the money than any other government funded science effort. Hubble's return has been in the form of pure knowledge however, not in the form of anything practible on earth. Someone who hasn't ever opened an encyclopedia wouldn't care about the kind of research conducted by the scientists using Hubble. Crawl back under your rock.
I guess if you believe that sex is something that should be done outside of marriage, then you probably don't have a problem with pornography. What does sex outside of marrage have to do with pornography? Sex in public, whether between married people, or absolute strangers would still be porno.
The ONLY venu in which PBS could show a sexual context, would be in a true educational film dealing with a medical subject. This COULD be done in good taste (though there would always be someone objecting to even that).
The P6 processor line (pentium pro, PII and PIII) were what you could call the 686. The P4 is Intels seventh generation arch, codenamed P7, so the Pentium 4 is actually a 786. I guess the Pentium 64 bit extensions processor will be the P8, or 886.
It is 'normal' to lose the ability to hear high frequency sounds as you age. Kids in their pre-teens have been tested to hear frequencies above 20khz (I remember as a kid hearing the ultra-high frequency sounds generated by the security systems in the American Museum of Natural History, which operated at a frequency of about 21khz). Such frequencies are not actually 'heard' though, they cause 'pain' at any volume.
Today (age > 50) I can no longer detect the horizontal flyback sound from my computer monitor or tv set on most days. (TV sets use 15khz, computer monitors can go WELL above 20khz though depending on the resolution).
I don't think I ever listened to music REALLY lound, and walkmans didn't exist in my teen years. However riding the NYC subways may have done some damage! Using my power woodworking tools without hearing protection (I now have a pair of them which I use when I will be up front and personal with power saws) may have also hurt.
Actually no. Air traffic operates on frequencies in the VHF spectrum, cell phones are in the mid UHF band. Not much chance of HIGHER frequency devices inteferring with LOWER frequency ones since generation of SUBharmonics is very limited. The inverse is a problem though.
who takes the train any more, it would be great for subways, but it probably will not work under ground. Yeah, but it you tried it on the NY subway you would probably get mugged and your laptop stolen.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Which means the act might not stand the test of the constitution should the supreme court choose to test it.
I can top that one. Back in the S100 days (age showing) I worked in a shop that sold and repaired Imsai's. The owner was working on a customers memory card in his imsai test bed. The box was open and the computer was running. He reached for his soldering iron, which had impailed a brillo pad used for cleaning the tip. The brillo pad flew through the air and landed in the imsai onto the mother board shorting out an unused s100 socket. FOURTH OF JULY!!!! Would you believe the only dead ic was an el-cheapo SN7400N on the front panel board? Talk about luck! Took me a few hours to fix it though armed only with a logic probe and a schematic. Me good!
It's not the watts, it's the AMPS. Look at the current spec's for each voltage output. They differ from power supply to power supply, even if all are rated at the same watts. Some supplies are heavy on the 12v (to run more hard drives), others beef up the 3.3 and 5v lines (to run bigger cpu's and more ram). And still others must be using Enron accounting to add up the figures to reach that 300 watt rating.
and if you could still easily get printer cartriges for printers made in 1994 I'm sure it would still be quite a usefull machine, but do you still see people using equipment that old? The most reliable laser printers are probably those made by HP in the 1990-1994 era. Also there are third party toner cartriges made for 1/2-1/3 the price of HP's. I had two LJIII's and now have a LJ4, and a 4si. The III's got zapped by a lightning hit to the house and would cost as much to fix as to buy a slightly newer used one on ebay, so I went that route. But if you can find a model III or 4 in good used shape, they are the cheapest cost per page bar none! HP's current laser printer line is cheap plastic junk, that uses over priced toner carts.
So the guy up in the projection booth is spying on the audiance looking for camcorders WHILE HE is copying the movie from the booth with a camcorder! He gets kickbacks from the pirates and the MPAA! what a racket!
My wife and I rented a U haul trailer to bring some stuff back from up north. She tried to back the van and trailer into our driveway, but kept getting the angle wrong and either jackknifing the trailer or almost wiping out our mailbox. Finally I said "let me try it". I've NEVER driven with trailer before, but I nailed it almost perfectly the first time. I couldn't explain how I knew when to cut the wheel and how much, it was just seat of the pants. Maybe flying a taildragger for years helped?
I had another idea years ago on how to build a car that would be easy to park. Enable all four wheels to rotate 90 degrees and just slide into the parking space at right angles! (I'm surprised Q hasn't thought of this yet in a bond flick).
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Is the EXACT wording "Possession for commercial purposes, AND Use" or "Possession for commercial purposes AND Use"?
If the former hobby users are screwed, if the latter then they are not since only COMMERICIAL USE is illegal. Placement of a comma makes all the difference in the world.
When an engine in an airplane quits it DOESN'T just fall out of the sky. Most airplanes will GLIDE FOR MILES before losing enough altitude to reach the ground. HOWEVER a loose NUT in the cockpit can always cause an airplane to stall, spin, and crash!
I've landed my Citabera 'dead stick' lots of times
(simulated by retarding the throttle to idle where the engine makes more drag than it would if it actually stopped!). No problem at all. A well designed plane doesn't WANT to quit flying!
Funny, don't see SCO's name on ANY of them. Sun worries me though.
what many ISP's are now installing on their servers. Bell south is now changing their servers so the clients must log in and verify their identity each time they send mail. BTW they told me they don't surport Mozilla but do support Netscape! Idiots...
Netscape IS Mozilla!
OH and STAND BACK from the 'gate when the
wormhole opens!
Duh. Yes. Duh.
As an archive device for computers DVDs and CDs will be replaced by devices with higher capacity. Eventually rotating media will be obsolete and other means of reading/writing will be developed.
As a means of delivering music and video SOMETHING will be around for those that want to have a 'hard' copy. I don't think music and video stores will be obsolete anytime soon, though we will have other options.
On line delivery via broadband could replace video rental. Digital cable via broadband with on demand download would become the 'block buster video' of the future. No need to actually save the content at the site of delivery, with bandwidth to burn the server would be your store. You might pay per view, or perhaps an unlimited per month charge just like for cable and ISP.
Also its possible that not everyone will have broadband in the future, it may never be available for mobile, extreme rural etc.
Writeing to the code segment is also a privilged
operation.
Always knew Tricky Dick was a crook.
Given enough pressure from the public and scientists I would hope the president would issue an executive order directing NASA to service Hubble, using the shuttle if necessary. If Bush doesn't have the common sense to do this (probably not) Kerry will.
You know nothing about astronomy, cosmology, or even first grade science if you can make such a statement. Hubble has provided more return for the money than any other government funded science effort. Hubble's return has been in the form of pure knowledge however, not in the form of anything practible on earth. Someone who hasn't ever opened an encyclopedia wouldn't care about the kind of research conducted by the scientists using Hubble.
Crawl back under your rock.
I guess if you believe that sex is something that should be done outside of marriage, then you probably don't have a problem with pornography.
What does sex outside of marrage have to do with pornography? Sex in public, whether between married people, or absolute strangers would still be porno.
The ONLY venu in which PBS could show a sexual context, would be in a true educational film dealing with a medical subject. This COULD be done in good taste (though there would always be someone objecting to even that).
The P6 processor line (pentium pro, PII and PIII) were what you could call the 686. The P4 is Intels
seventh generation arch, codenamed P7, so the Pentium 4 is actually a 786.
I guess the Pentium 64 bit extensions processor will be the P8, or 886.
It is 'normal' to lose the ability to hear high frequency sounds as you age. Kids in their pre-teens have been tested to hear frequencies above 20khz (I remember as a kid hearing the ultra-high frequency sounds generated by the security systems in the American Museum of Natural History, which operated at a frequency of about 21khz). Such frequencies are not actually 'heard' though, they cause 'pain' at any volume.
Today (age > 50) I can no longer detect the horizontal flyback sound from my computer monitor or tv set on most days. (TV sets use 15khz, computer monitors can go WELL above 20khz though depending on the resolution).
I don't think I ever listened to music REALLY lound, and walkmans didn't exist in my teen years.
However riding the NYC subways may have done some damage! Using my power woodworking tools without hearing protection (I now have a pair of them which I use when I will be up front and personal with power saws) may have also hurt.
Actually no. Air traffic operates on frequencies in the VHF spectrum, cell phones are in the mid UHF band. Not much chance of HIGHER frequency devices inteferring with LOWER frequency ones since generation of SUBharmonics is very limited. The inverse is a problem though.
who takes the train any more, it would be great for subways, but it probably will not work under ground.
Yeah, but it you tried it on the NY subway you would probably get mugged and your laptop stolen.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Which means the act might not stand the test of the constitution should the supreme court choose to test it.
I can top that one. Back in the S100 days (age showing) I worked in a shop that sold and repaired Imsai's. The owner was working on a customers memory card in his imsai test bed. The box was open and the computer was running. He reached for his soldering iron, which had impailed a brillo pad used for cleaning the tip. The brillo pad flew through the air and landed in the imsai onto the mother board shorting out an unused s100 socket. FOURTH OF JULY!!!! Would you believe the only dead ic was an el-cheapo SN7400N on the front panel board? Talk about luck! Took me a few hours to fix it though armed only with a logic
probe and a schematic. Me good!
Hey, an instant tatoo machine!
Think I'll patent that!
Maybe not.
It's not the watts, it's the AMPS.
Look at the current spec's for each voltage output. They differ from power supply to power supply, even if all are rated at the same watts. Some supplies are heavy on the 12v (to run more hard drives), others beef up the 3.3 and 5v lines (to run bigger cpu's and more ram). And still others must be using
Enron accounting to add up the figures to reach that 300 watt rating.
and if you could still easily get printer cartriges for printers made in 1994 I'm sure it would still be quite a usefull machine, but do you still see people using equipment that old?
The most reliable laser printers are probably those made by HP in the 1990-1994 era. Also there are third party toner cartriges made for 1/2-1/3 the price of HP's. I had two LJIII's and now have a LJ4, and a 4si. The III's got zapped by a lightning hit to the house and would cost as much to fix as to buy a slightly newer used one on ebay, so I went that route. But if you can find a model III or 4 in good used shape, they are the cheapest cost per page bar none!
HP's current laser printer line is cheap plastic junk, that uses over priced toner carts.
So the guy up in the projection booth is spying on the audiance looking for camcorders WHILE HE is copying the movie from the booth with a camcorder!
He gets kickbacks from the pirates and the MPAA!
what a racket!
maybe watching someone else screw it up from the outside was beneficial as well.
Except I was too busy trying NOT to get run over!
My wife and I rented a U haul trailer to bring some stuff back from up north. She tried to back the van and trailer into our driveway, but kept getting the angle wrong and either jackknifing the trailer or almost wiping out our mailbox. Finally I said "let me try it". I've NEVER driven with trailer before, but I nailed it almost perfectly the first time. I couldn't explain how I knew when to cut the wheel and how much, it was just seat of the pants.
Maybe flying a taildragger for years helped?
I had another idea years ago on how to build a car that would be easy to park. Enable all four wheels to rotate 90 degrees and just slide into the parking space at right angles! (I'm surprised Q hasn't thought of this yet in a bond flick).