nope, the damn thing had a giant liquid helium leak... see here.
Perhaps caused by a capacitor, although I doubt it. The article stipulates only an electrical failure between two magnets.
Since I haven't RTFA, I feel I must answer this seemingly authoritatively. No. It won't run on linux, because as the OP stated, it runs within the touchsmart software. I guess it means they've published the API, but not really "opened" the code.
That's funny. The Perl Journal had those obfuscated contests too. Here was my lone attempt: #!/usr/bin/perl for(unpack('C*',pack "H*",unpack "u", "B,\&\$V8S8Q-F4W,C>U-F8T83\(P-F,W,C8U-3\`R,#8U-C\@U-\`\`\`")){unshift @^O,$_};foreach $_(@^O){print pack('c*',$_)};print "
\n";
The shareholders have a say in what the board does, but often boards of directors are myopic, and will do ANYTHING to return "value" to the shareholders in the short term, and long term value be damned. But in the end, the shareholders, who themselves are near-sighted, determine what "value" is.
*picks up mic*
Since I'm rationalizing anyway, here goes...
I've gladly paid more (twice) for a Mac that was better built, more well thought out, and didn't have XP, Vista, or whatever, and DID have Unix under the hood. Since I've switched to Macs from Wintel, my upgrade cycles have lengthened tenfold. Things don't need "re-installed". Shit just works. And no, I'm not a Mac fanboi. I've thoroughly used HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, GNU/Linux, OSX, Win3.11, 95, 98, and XP, on all kinds of hardware. The consumer grade Wintel crap was, well... crap. Macs are the nice place in between crap and waaaaay expensive.
I believe the point was twofold. 10 bucks for 100KWh is reasonable at today's pricing, but the demand already increases in the summer, as does the price. If you increase demand anywhere above the capacity of the grid to supply it, I'll bet that the price increases exponentially with the increased demand. Secondly, the grid won't handle it. We're not talking simply about adding reactors or coal plants, we're talking about at least 40 percent more load on the system, given my anecdotal knowledge of average electricity usage. I use on average, about 900-1000KWh per month. 300 miles is what I drive to and from work every week. So an additional 100KWh usage every week is not insignificant. Take my 900KWh, and add 400KWh per month, multiply it by fifty million cars or so, and were getting into some serious brown-outs.
You are 100% correct. DRM is not about the author's rights, nor about the rights consumer of the work. It is only for the protection of a revenue stream for the corporation who holds the copyright. If you vote with your wallet, no amount of DRM will protect that revenue stream, and the corporation will be forced either to update its dilapidated business model or die.
There is no straw-man argument here. If you rob a bank, and give the money to charity, it doesn't make robbing a bank any more right even if the money does some real good. It is still considered ill-gotten gains.
Automatic content classification for things like "repetitive loops of drum/bass" should be easy enough, but IMHO the hard part comes when trying to automatically determine whether lyrics are melodic or not. Major and minor chords should be easy enough, as should various modes and rhythms, but how does one determine something as nebulous as "more mellow" or "Southern Rock" vs. "Classic Rock"?
So yeah, that's a great idea. I'll print out all the web pages that I frequently visit and I think will change, and then soon enough, I won't be able walk through my own house. Shipping labels I understand, web pages... not so much.
Dang, beat me to it. Absofreakinglutely correct though... massive LAN bandwidth doesn't do shit for me if all I'm doing is downloading torrents from somewhere in Russia or looking at pr0n.
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Just guessing... since the Yellowstone Caldera has been suggested to have been responsible for mass-extinctions, it would have a similar effect in a marine environment as well.
I believe that yelling fire in a crowded theater should be legal, and being afraid of one's own shadow enough to run in dire panic with no investigation of actual smoke or fire because someone yelled fire should be punishable by burning in a crowded smoke filled theater.
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nope, the damn thing had a giant liquid helium leak... see here.
Perhaps caused by a capacitor, although I doubt it. The article stipulates only an electrical failure between two magnets.
Since I haven't RTFA, I feel I must answer this seemingly authoritatively. No. It won't run on linux, because as the OP stated, it runs within the touchsmart software. I guess it means they've published the API, but not really "opened" the code.
That's funny. The Perl Journal had those obfuscated contests too. Here was my lone attempt:
#!/usr/bin/perl
for(unpack('C*',pack "H*",unpack "u", "B,\&\$V8S8Q-F4W,C>U-F8T83\(P-F,W,C8U-3\`R,#8U-C\@U-\`\`\`")){unshift @^O,$_};foreach $_(@^O){print pack('c*',$_)};print " \n";
The shareholders have a say in what the board does, but often boards of directors are myopic, and will do ANYTHING to return "value" to the shareholders in the short term, and long term value be damned. But in the end, the shareholders, who themselves are near-sighted, determine what "value" is.
*picks up mic*
Since I'm rationalizing anyway, here goes...
I've gladly paid more (twice) for a Mac that was better built, more well thought out, and didn't have XP, Vista, or whatever, and DID have Unix under the hood. Since I've switched to Macs from Wintel, my upgrade cycles have lengthened tenfold. Things don't need "re-installed". Shit just works. And no, I'm not a Mac fanboi. I've thoroughly used HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, GNU/Linux, OSX, Win3.11, 95, 98, and XP, on all kinds of hardware. The consumer grade Wintel crap was, well... crap. Macs are the nice place in between crap and waaaaay expensive.
One word..... "Lincoln"
I believe the point was twofold. 10 bucks for 100KWh is reasonable at today's pricing, but the demand already increases in the summer, as does the price. If you increase demand anywhere above the capacity of the grid to supply it, I'll bet that the price increases exponentially with the increased demand. Secondly, the grid won't handle it. We're not talking simply about adding reactors or coal plants, we're talking about at least 40 percent more load on the system, given my anecdotal knowledge of average electricity usage. I use on average, about 900-1000KWh per month. 300 miles is what I drive to and from work every week. So an additional 100KWh usage every week is not insignificant. Take my 900KWh, and add 400KWh per month, multiply it by fifty million cars or so, and were getting into some serious brown-outs.
You are 100% correct. DRM is not about the author's rights, nor about the rights consumer of the work. It is only for the protection of a revenue stream for the corporation who holds the copyright. If you vote with your wallet, no amount of DRM will protect that revenue stream, and the corporation will be forced either to update its dilapidated business model or die.
There is no straw-man argument here. If you rob a bank, and give the money to charity, it doesn't make robbing a bank any more right even if the money does some real good. It is still considered ill-gotten gains.
Hell, Windows itself is optional.
Automatic content classification for things like "repetitive loops of drum/bass" should be easy enough, but IMHO the hard part comes when trying to automatically determine whether lyrics are melodic or not. Major and minor chords should be easy enough, as should various modes and rhythms, but how does one determine something as nebulous as "more mellow" or "Southern Rock" vs. "Classic Rock"?
So yeah, that's a great idea. I'll print out all the web pages that I frequently visit and I think will change, and then soon enough, I won't be able walk through my own house. Shipping labels I understand, web pages... not so much.
you print stuff out? from a browser? you mean... like a web page that will probably change tomorrow?
Dang, beat me to it. Absofreakinglutely correct though... massive LAN bandwidth doesn't do shit for me if all I'm doing is downloading torrents from somewhere in Russia or looking at pr0n.
In the words of Iron Maiden... "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!". Although I'm sure someone else said it first.
So, if I enter the country without a warrant, I can expect to be violated in various cavities. ewwww...
0. It wasn't available then.
BSD based operating systems, like OS X and Darwin are not Linux.
hush...I'm reading the sticker on your card...
Just guessing... since the Yellowstone Caldera has been suggested to have been responsible for mass-extinctions, it would have a similar effect in a marine environment as well.
That's actually where I was deriving peek from was the original peek and poke keywords in BASIC. Your pun was not lost on me.
simply because I wanted to be called peek, but it was taken, and peek2 or peek9187235 was unacceptable, so I made it peektwice.
A friend of mine has dual citizenship in the US and Israel. How would this affect someone like him visiting Israel, even though the U.S. is his home?
I believe that yelling fire in a crowded theater should be legal, and being afraid of one's own shadow enough to run in dire panic with no investigation of actual smoke or fire because someone yelled fire should be punishable by burning in a crowded smoke filled theater.