Ohhhh. So that's what it is. I keep seeing it on ads but I've never seen it actually explained. I assumed it was just marketing speak pretending to be some feature that didn't really exist.
Doesn't really matter where you build it, people can get something and reverse engineer it no matter what. It's really more of an issue of market forces meeting demand where there is no legal supply.
Can't say I'm all that surprised about the phones being used in China or the copycats. I guess with one of the world's largest markets, there's going to be a healthy "grey" market too.
I'm pretty cynical, but even I don't think the Cubans living in the US are going to try to interfere with relations now that Castro is gone just for some sort of political power. Now granted if Cuba ends up with somebody just as bad, that's another issue, but if there are changes in Cuba, I'm sure a lot of those people will at the very least want to visit or trade.
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Bush has got to be pretty happy, he could have been American president #10 that Castro outlasted.
But HD DVD doesn't sound stupid. It says exactly what it is, and doesn't embarrass itself. Blu-ray, besides being spelled incorrectly, says nothing about what it is. Whatever happened to the glory days of Video Home System, Compact Disc, and Digital Versatile Disc?
Well, I was definitely rooting for HD-DVD. I mean seriously, wtf kind of name is Blu-Ray? Still, that's not really to say that I wanted either format to win. I'm really hoping they both don't sell all that well, and we get a newer better technology in a few years with a decent name and a standard everyone can agree with.
Just goes to show you, there are no shortcuts in technology. I'm sure that the Cultural Revolution's suppression of intellectuals hasn't helped their research efforts either.
Okay, that makes sense. Still, enough stuff gets built up in the rings, broken apart or otherwise, and collisions will probably be more frequent. Where there's collisions, there could be things breaking out to a higher orbit where such moons could actually coalesce.
No doubt new comets or other objects are going by and getting ripped apart all the time to add to Saturn's rings, but Saturn has a lot of moons already, so clearly Saturn is getting moons somehow.
I know one of the theories for moon formation is debris in orbit of a planet slowly forming into larger bodies until eventually there's a new moon. Could this be a case where one moon is "leaking", and the eventual result will be a new moon formed out of Saturn's rings?
If there actually was a prize, which it doesn't sound like it FTA, it would probably serve more for bragging rights than anything else. Similar to how SpaceShipOne cost $25 million and only got a $10 million prize, the publicity and fame was probably worth it whether the prize was there or not, but the prize actually got everybody's attention.
But, it's just a request for funding, not a prize, so it doesn't matter.
Well, now we have other environmental factors to contend with. Too much junk food, carcinogens, ultraviolet radiation, etc. Eventually we'll probably evolve into really fat people with hearts that don't mind cholesterol and skin that doesn't get cancer.
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Ohhhh. So that's what it is. I keep seeing it on ads but I've never seen it actually explained. I assumed it was just marketing speak pretending to be some feature that didn't really exist.
Doesn't really matter where you build it, people can get something and reverse engineer it no matter what. It's really more of an issue of market forces meeting demand where there is no legal supply.
Can't say I'm all that surprised about the phones being used in China or the copycats. I guess with one of the world's largest markets, there's going to be a healthy "grey" market too.
I'm pretty cynical, but even I don't think the Cubans living in the US are going to try to interfere with relations now that Castro is gone just for some sort of political power. Now granted if Cuba ends up with somebody just as bad, that's another issue, but if there are changes in Cuba, I'm sure a lot of those people will at the very least want to visit or trade.
Bush has got to be pretty happy, he could have been American president #10 that Castro outlasted.
Has anybody actually seen him since his operation anyway? Maybe he really is dead, and this announcement in the paper is just a cover?
Isn't this a dupe? I could've sworn there was an article about this just a week or two ago.
However, a lot of the software patents seem to be based on algorithms, and not a whole lot more.
Yeah, "hundreds" seems like an understatement. There are uncountable trillions out there, millions in our own galaxy.
Yeah, it's a common misconception that it's a backronym. Back before the spec was finalized, it was called Digital Versatile Disc.
Yay! Second wave attack gogogo! Burn their tubes to the ground! Oh well, at least they'll feel better about this one, right?
For those that think we're better off without standards, imagine if there were multiple competing HTTP protocols.
But HD DVD doesn't sound stupid. It says exactly what it is, and doesn't embarrass itself. Blu-ray, besides being spelled incorrectly, says nothing about what it is. Whatever happened to the glory days of Video Home System, Compact Disc, and Digital Versatile Disc?
Well, I was definitely rooting for HD-DVD. I mean seriously, wtf kind of name is Blu-Ray? Still, that's not really to say that I wanted either format to win. I'm really hoping they both don't sell all that well, and we get a newer better technology in a few years with a decent name and a standard everyone can agree with.
I'm not sure that really invalidates the point that your professor's book is not about nanotechnology.
Surely you don't expect the submitter to RTFA either, do you?
Just goes to show you, there are no shortcuts in technology. I'm sure that the Cultural Revolution's suppression of intellectuals hasn't helped their research efforts either.
I thought it was only illegal to provide copyrighted material, not receive it?
Okay, that makes sense. Still, enough stuff gets built up in the rings, broken apart or otherwise, and collisions will probably be more frequent. Where there's collisions, there could be things breaking out to a higher orbit where such moons could actually coalesce.
No doubt new comets or other objects are going by and getting ripped apart all the time to add to Saturn's rings, but Saturn has a lot of moons already, so clearly Saturn is getting moons somehow.
I know one of the theories for moon formation is debris in orbit of a planet slowly forming into larger bodies until eventually there's a new moon. Could this be a case where one moon is "leaking", and the eventual result will be a new moon formed out of Saturn's rings?
There's a lot more servers out there running old versions of PHP than the very latest.
If there actually was a prize, which it doesn't sound like it FTA, it would probably serve more for bragging rights than anything else. Similar to how SpaceShipOne cost $25 million and only got a $10 million prize, the publicity and fame was probably worth it whether the prize was there or not, but the prize actually got everybody's attention.
But, it's just a request for funding, not a prize, so it doesn't matter.
Well, now we have other environmental factors to contend with. Too much junk food, carcinogens, ultraviolet radiation, etc. Eventually we'll probably evolve into really fat people with hearts that don't mind cholesterol and skin that doesn't get cancer.
I agree. Hopefully somebody will come along and mod it underrated. It's certainly not a troll, and I would not even call it offtopic.