Republicans are basically saying their chances of actually winning government are about as good as America putting a base on the moon in the next 5 years.
As much as I dislike the CRTC and the telcos, C-11 doesn't help them any. In fact as ISP's (Bell, Rogers) they may be liable for stuff they would not have been before.
Hey I know, rather than all this BS, lets just appease these gangsters by giving them a cut of all digital media sold anywhere for any purpose, surely that will make them happy. I mean its free money for nothing what so ever, the perfect business model. You do nothing, I give you money. Repeat. Oh wait, that's right, we do that already. Thanks.
A large quarry might extract 5 or 10 million tonnes annually. Lets say 10 million tonnes for ease of use. That is about 10/52, meh call it 200,000 tonnes a week. 200,000/7 about 30,000 a day. 30,000/24 about 1200 an hour 1200/60 about 20 a minute 20/60 about 1/3 a second.
0.33 x 100,000 tonnes/sec = 33,000...
Sooooooo its like about 33,000 very large quarries digging up the planet.
No idea how many we have currently operating on Earth. Of course we aren't vaporizing it and ejecting into space either.
Yes they all come with Over volt, heat, surge protection these days.
However that is presuming those features actually work. Like any fab, they likely check a few, and the rest are assumed to be OK, which may or may not be the case. In addition, the usual suspect of CPU fail is heat. If your "protection" is also on chip, which is likely also susceptible to heat failure, you just hope that it doesn't fail "first". Also it may be that these protections only work a few times, and degrade the more stress you put them under.
Anyway just guessing here, I have zero actual technical knowlege of this stuff, but that would make sense to me. These features make it much more tolerant than it use to be however, and in the past if you even went a little too far, ZAP. You're done.
They make it better, but is by no means a guarantee, which is now what they are offering. Is it worth it? I am doubtful. If you do moderate OC, probably not. If you buy really high end stuff and extreme OC it? Yes it likely is. Call it, 250$ with 5% fail for 35$, or 600$ with 40% fail for 35$. Depends on situation. What would be interesting to me is how long is that warranty for? It say's 6 months, but I think that is the offer, not the service. As high OC and higher temps do reduce lifespan of CPU no matter what generally speaking (most people that do, likely intend to replace long before fail anyway).
This happens all the time. I have heard of floor tiles being returned rather than xboxes etc... When stuff like that happens it is either one of two things:
1) Staff that are lazy, inept, untrained, overworked that do not bother to check product. I would hazard every story has a policy that says they should. 2) The product was actually stolen by lazy, inept, untrained, overworked, and underpaid staff in the first place, and blamed on an "unchecked" return.
More common is that staff at best buy, futureshop, etc... are mostly people getting paid very little that know absolutely NOTHING about the products they actually sell. There are exceptions of course, but it is not the rule. (in many cases they really don't care either, just a temp job)
One common thing I have heard of is you go and buy a 500$ high end PC video card. Install it in your PC. Take your old busted ass 30$ video card, and package it back up. Return it. A) Likely they won't even check it, see above, and B) Even if they do, they will have no idea what they are looking at. They will see something in there, that sort of resembles a video card, and call it a day. Then resell it to some smuck who now just paid 500$ for a 30$ old video card. Hopefully they can tell the difference and can return it. Problem is, now THEY are the ones trying to pass off an old video card for a 500$ one... Brutal eh?
If you really want to get complicated and make it tougher for them to check, many enthusiasts use custom cooler, or water blocks etc... So what you do is remove the stock heat sink off the 500$ video card (which now a days covers almost the entire card), and stick it to your busted ass 30$ old card. It is now hidden behind a massive heatsink that looks like the exact picture on the box. Staff looks at heat sink, looks at box, calls it a day.
Anyway I am not suggesting that anyone should do any of this stuff, only that I am sure that it does happen. Yet another reason I would never buy anything like that at any of those types of stores. A good PC store will almost always have the item for cheaper anyway. They only people who do shop, are those that don't know any better, or perhaps those than can't wait a week for delivery and need it today (I bought an external drive to backup a failing system once, as I could get the item in 5min as opposed to a week, I way overpaid for it however).
I am the same. Mine was intentional however. I use my Yahoo account for everything online. I fwd all of my yahoo stuff to my gmail account. I never check my yahoo account. The idea was if/when the amount of spam I got in my yahoo account ever became too much the idea was I could cut the strings to my yahoo account, and use my gmail, maybe fwd that to another, rinse repeat. Once you have had an account for as long as I have (it was probably 1996-97 also) and use it for everything online, pretty much everyone has it got for whatever they want to use it for. My gmail isn't immune of course as I send emails from it. However every time you sign up for something, or register, etc... you are put on a data mining list that is sold and re-sold to everyone.
Anyway that's my excuse for my yahoo account. Friends and family get my gmail. Oh and nothing pisses me off more than friends using my email address in order to register to get something free at the expense of my email address (which has happened a few times with my gmail). But it really is unavoidable.
Not being from the USA, I am limited in my response. Mine however will be pretty simple. The list of supporting companies was published. I won't buy their products.
I mean I saw "1-800-CONTACTS" was on the list. They sell contact lenses online. WTF do they have to do with SOPA? I have bought contacts from them before. I will be buying a years supply this month. Guess who won't be getting my business. It is a small thing really, but if more people put their money where their principles are...
Sounds like the new copyright bill the Canadian conservatives have been trying to get pass into law over the last 5 years. They just keep putting it out there, and it keeps failing. However now that they have a majority, they can pretty much ram through whatever laws they want to. I keep waiting for this to raise its ugly head again. It hasn't yet, but I wouldn't bet 10$ against it not returning before their term is done.
Nothing goes away ever. If some political group has some ideological beef with it, or they are getting paid boatloads to have an ideological beef, it will never go away. People have to be ever vigilant. If like in this case, they simply try and be sneaky and get it in without anyone knowing, then the people have to have repercussions for that. Which is don't vote for them, vote for the group that promises to repeal the bill. Which of course may or may not happen, politicians being politicians.
When I think about the USA being a science leader it was about the same time that Cave Johnson got his first Pipboy 3000.
In other words, circa the 1960's. Maybe it was 3 mile island that scared the collective public off, who knows. Heck look at all the heroes in comic books (or even villains), they were all scientists of some sort, or involved science in some way. It was thought of as an esteemed career. Kids got electronic kits and chemistry sets. Model Rocketry and Plane Kits.
What the hell happened to all the romanticism around science and the possibilities for the future?
The real issue isn't GM foods isn't that it is "bad". It is that corporations are patenting it. They are better in the fact that they out compete natural varieties, because they are made more resistant, hardy, etc... which really is a good thing right?
Evil Scheme Muhaha GM Beta 1 Step 1) Create GM food. Patent it. Step 2) Let GM food kill off all natural competition. Step 3) Sue the bajesus out of everyone that doesn't pay you licencing fees. Step 4) PROFIT!
When you product kills off your competition, its pretty much the perfect product profit model. Add to that the amount of control you now have over world food markets by way of your patent.
Anyway I would feel much better about GM foods, if they just sold the stuff, and didn't patent them. I mean patents are retarded enough these days, this just makes it much much worse.
Not to brag about sanity, but up here in Canada we just had a court decision in the last year about the legality of suing someone for linking something.
The short version is that its not.
It might be going to appeal, but currently sanity is holding out against the powers of stupid.
Its one thing if some stupid company wants to sue Ireland or something, at least they have to pay their own legal bills. While its not exactly fair when they go after individuals for extortion because the have oodles of money and a small army of lawyers.
However I think it is criminal that the same stupid company can get one country to try to criminally charge another in another country.
Just think about how much it will cost to extradite this guy and prosecute him? Millions of taxpayer money is now being used. That is theft. They are using your money for their purposes.
This is basically the MPAA going after someone using your money to front it. If ever there was a waste of taxpayer money this is it. Particulary when governments are bitching and moaning about "the times we live in", and "austerity measures", etc...
I have had people call me up for support of some software, or project, or questions about procedure, and it was all news to me.
Where someone somewhere decided that they would include my name/number on an email, or documents pointing to me, to say that I was the contact.
Sometimes I have had to say, if you want me to support something or answer questions about something, or direct something, perhaps it might be a good idea in the future to say, invite me to the meeting, include me on the email, heck how about asking me or telling me in any way.
I mean eventually you will find out, and at that point what you do is what you should get judged on, be it taking responsibility or sticking ones head in the sand.
Also following orders under duress is another. The classic I was afraid I would be killed myself unless I did what I was told sort of thing. To a point it is legitimate, depending on what you are being asked to do and what the situation is, however at some point you will likely not be under direct duress, and how you act should be how you are judged.
Person's life-span? That's being kind. A Civilizations life-span? Even that is Generous.
More like species or organism life-span.
I know calculating going to the last closest exoplanet they announced at Voyager speeds (it being the only thing we have flung out of our solar system for comparison) would take approximately 14 Million years travel time. And that estimate is if you smash into the planet not bothering to try and decelerate!:)
The word "tricorder" is a portmanteau of "tri-" and "recorder", referring to the device's three default scanning functions: GEO (geological), MET (meteorological), and BIO (biological).
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Republicans are basically saying their chances of actually winning government are about as good as America putting a base on the moon in the next 5 years.
People are copying my reality all the time! Get the heck out! I am going to sue all of you for using it!
P.S. Stop breathing my air!
Yes to all the above.
As much as I dislike the CRTC and the telcos, C-11 doesn't help them any. In fact as ISP's (Bell, Rogers) they may be liable for stuff they would not have been before.
Hey I know, rather than all this BS, lets just appease these gangsters by giving them a cut of all digital media sold anywhere for any purpose, surely that will make them happy. I mean its free money for nothing what so ever, the perfect business model. You do nothing, I give you money. Repeat. Oh wait, that's right, we do that already. Thanks.
Cloud is a teenager with spiky yellow hair and a big sword.
The Cloud is just bad English, or Cloud referring to himself in the 3rd person, which is just weird and creepy.
They'll buy anything!
A large quarry might extract 5 or 10 million tonnes annually. Lets say 10 million tonnes for ease of use.
That is about 10/52, meh call it 200,000 tonnes a week.
200,000/7 about 30,000 a day.
30,000/24 about 1200 an hour
1200/60 about 20 a minute
20/60 about 1/3 a second.
0.33 x 100,000 tonnes/sec = 33,000...
Sooooooo its like about 33,000 very large quarries digging up the planet.
No idea how many we have currently operating on Earth. Of course we aren't vaporizing it and ejecting into space either.
What are the other two fifths?
Why not 500 Trillion? They're not even trying hard enough anymore...
Yes they all come with Over volt, heat, surge protection these days.
However that is presuming those features actually work. Like any fab, they likely check a few, and the rest are assumed to be OK, which may or may not be the case. In addition, the usual suspect of CPU fail is heat. If your "protection" is also on chip, which is likely also susceptible to heat failure, you just hope that it doesn't fail "first". Also it may be that these protections only work a few times, and degrade the more stress you put them under.
Anyway just guessing here, I have zero actual technical knowlege of this stuff, but that would make sense to me. These features make it much more tolerant than it use to be however, and in the past if you even went a little too far, ZAP. You're done.
They make it better, but is by no means a guarantee, which is now what they are offering. Is it worth it? I am doubtful. If you do moderate OC, probably not. If you buy really high end stuff and extreme OC it? Yes it likely is. Call it, 250$ with 5% fail for 35$, or 600$ with 40% fail for 35$. Depends on situation. What would be interesting to me is how long is that warranty for? It say's 6 months, but I think that is the offer, not the service. As high OC and higher temps do reduce lifespan of CPU no matter what generally speaking (most people that do, likely intend to replace long before fail anyway).
Or the staff stole it themselves and sold it on eBay.
This happens all the time. I have heard of floor tiles being returned rather than xboxes etc... When stuff like that happens it is either one of two things:
1) Staff that are lazy, inept, untrained, overworked that do not bother to check product. I would hazard every story has a policy that says they should.
2) The product was actually stolen by lazy, inept, untrained, overworked, and underpaid staff in the first place, and blamed on an "unchecked" return.
More common is that staff at best buy, futureshop, etc... are mostly people getting paid very little that know absolutely NOTHING about the products they actually sell. There are exceptions of course, but it is not the rule. (in many cases they really don't care either, just a temp job)
One common thing I have heard of is you go and buy a 500$ high end PC video card. Install it in your PC. Take your old busted ass 30$ video card, and package it back up. Return it. A) Likely they won't even check it, see above, and B) Even if they do, they will have no idea what they are looking at. They will see something in there, that sort of resembles a video card, and call it a day. Then resell it to some smuck who now just paid 500$ for a 30$ old video card. Hopefully they can tell the difference and can return it. Problem is, now THEY are the ones trying to pass off an old video card for a 500$ one... Brutal eh?
If you really want to get complicated and make it tougher for them to check, many enthusiasts use custom cooler, or water blocks etc... So what you do is remove the stock heat sink off the 500$ video card (which now a days covers almost the entire card), and stick it to your busted ass 30$ old card. It is now hidden behind a massive heatsink that looks like the exact picture on the box. Staff looks at heat sink, looks at box, calls it a day.
Anyway I am not suggesting that anyone should do any of this stuff, only that I am sure that it does happen. Yet another reason I would never buy anything like that at any of those types of stores. A good PC store will almost always have the item for cheaper anyway. They only people who do shop, are those that don't know any better, or perhaps those than can't wait a week for delivery and need it today (I bought an external drive to backup a failing system once, as I could get the item in 5min as opposed to a week, I way overpaid for it however).
I am the same. Mine was intentional however. I use my Yahoo account for everything online. I fwd all of my yahoo stuff to my gmail account. I never check my yahoo account. The idea was if/when the amount of spam I got in my yahoo account ever became too much the idea was I could cut the strings to my yahoo account, and use my gmail, maybe fwd that to another, rinse repeat. Once you have had an account for as long as I have (it was probably 1996-97 also) and use it for everything online, pretty much everyone has it got for whatever they want to use it for. My gmail isn't immune of course as I send emails from it. However every time you sign up for something, or register, etc... you are put on a data mining list that is sold and re-sold to everyone.
Anyway that's my excuse for my yahoo account. Friends and family get my gmail. Oh and nothing pisses me off more than friends using my email address in order to register to get something free at the expense of my email address (which has happened a few times with my gmail). But it really is unavoidable.
Not being from the USA, I am limited in my response. Mine however will be pretty simple. The list of supporting companies was published. I won't buy their products.
I mean I saw "1-800-CONTACTS" was on the list. They sell contact lenses online. WTF do they have to do with SOPA? I have bought contacts from them before. I will be buying a years supply this month. Guess who won't be getting my business. It is a small thing really, but if more people put their money where their principles are...
Sounds like the new copyright bill the Canadian conservatives have been trying to get pass into law over the last 5 years. They just keep putting it out there, and it keeps failing. However now that they have a majority, they can pretty much ram through whatever laws they want to. I keep waiting for this to raise its ugly head again. It hasn't yet, but I wouldn't bet 10$ against it not returning before their term is done.
Nothing goes away ever. If some political group has some ideological beef with it, or they are getting paid boatloads to have an ideological beef, it will never go away. People have to be ever vigilant. If like in this case, they simply try and be sneaky and get it in without anyone knowing, then the people have to have repercussions for that. Which is don't vote for them, vote for the group that promises to repeal the bill. Which of course may or may not happen, politicians being politicians.
When I think about the USA being a science leader it was about the same time that Cave Johnson got his first Pipboy 3000.
In other words, circa the 1960's. Maybe it was 3 mile island that scared the collective public off, who knows. Heck look at all the heroes in comic books (or even villains), they were all scientists of some sort, or involved science in some way. It was thought of as an esteemed career. Kids got electronic kits and chemistry sets. Model Rocketry and Plane Kits.
What the hell happened to all the romanticism around science and the possibilities for the future?
I'm still waiting for WinFS two operating systems ago.
You make it sound like Harper is resisting... This is more like he is on his knees giving tribute to the corporate gods...
The real issue isn't GM foods isn't that it is "bad". It is that corporations are patenting it. They are better in the fact that they out compete natural varieties, because they are made more resistant, hardy, etc... which really is a good thing right?
Evil Scheme Muhaha GM Beta 1
Step 1) Create GM food. Patent it.
Step 2) Let GM food kill off all natural competition.
Step 3) Sue the bajesus out of everyone that doesn't pay you licencing fees.
Step 4) PROFIT!
When you product kills off your competition, its pretty much the perfect product profit model. Add to that the amount of control you now have over world food markets by way of your patent.
Anyway I would feel much better about GM foods, if they just sold the stuff, and didn't patent them. I mean patents are retarded enough these days, this just makes it much much worse.
Oracle, why don't you come back and talk to me when you decide to stop being retarded OK?
Not to brag about sanity, but up here in Canada we just had a court decision in the last year about the legality of suing someone for linking something.
The short version is that its not.
It might be going to appeal, but currently sanity is holding out against the powers of stupid.
Its one thing if some stupid company wants to sue Ireland or something, at least they have to pay their own legal bills. While its not exactly fair when they go after individuals for extortion because the have oodles of money and a small army of lawyers.
However I think it is criminal that the same stupid company can get one country to try to criminally charge another in another country.
Just think about how much it will cost to extradite this guy and prosecute him? Millions of taxpayer money is now being used. That is theft. They are using your money for their purposes.
This is basically the MPAA going after someone using your money to front it. If ever there was a waste of taxpayer money this is it. Particulary when governments are bitching and moaning about "the times we live in", and "austerity measures", etc...
Out of the loop is to a point.
I have had people call me up for support of some software, or project, or questions about procedure, and it was all news to me.
Where someone somewhere decided that they would include my name/number on an email, or documents pointing to me, to say that I was the contact.
Sometimes I have had to say, if you want me to support something or answer questions about something, or direct something, perhaps it might be a good idea in the future to say, invite me to the meeting, include me on the email, heck how about asking me or telling me in any way.
I mean eventually you will find out, and at that point what you do is what you should get judged on, be it taking responsibility or sticking ones head in the sand.
Also following orders under duress is another. The classic I was afraid I would be killed myself unless I did what I was told sort of thing. To a point it is legitimate, depending on what you are being asked to do and what the situation is, however at some point you will likely not be under direct duress, and how you act should be how you are judged.
Person's life-span? That's being kind. A Civilizations life-span? Even that is Generous.
More like species or organism life-span.
I know calculating going to the last closest exoplanet they announced at Voyager speeds (it being the only thing we have flung out of our solar system for comparison) would take approximately 14 Million years travel time. And that estimate is if you smash into the planet not bothering to try and decelerate! :)
Initially I thought you were making a Red Dwarf joke...
http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Fish_Song
The word "tricorder" is a portmanteau of "tri-" and "recorder", referring to the device's three default scanning functions: GEO (geological), MET (meteorological), and BIO (biological).
Not sure what the Geological setting might say.