Nobody's saying it is, the article is putting an upper bound on the amount of water and nitrogen that could come from cometary ices. They comment that this leaves the door open for a substantial amount of nitrogen from comets, but only a miniscule amount of water.
Actually, a lot of people have their phone out in direct sunlight, especially in the summer. When I use my black Nokia on the bus, it heats up like crazy as long as the sun's out. The iPhone has one of the best transflective displays on the market, it'd seem a bit of a shame to hide it away from actual sunlight.
No, it's a move to appear to be limiting immigration, because it's a big deal with voters. Immigration from the EU, which probably accounts for most of the traffic in and out of the UK, is constitutionally unrestricted because we're an EU member. And honestly the government's not done a great deal to control illegal immigration. The people coming in on skilled worker or spousal visas are getting harassed instead, which is easy to do and appeases the Daily Mail and all the other right-wing bullshit artists.
The cards are still around, and still mandatory for anyone who's not a UK citizen. So if you're planning to get a visa to live in the UK for any reason, you're still going to have to pay out the £1000-ish and get your biometrics taken, and then carry around a card which any official can ask you to produce at any time, and which is extremely likely to be stolen because of its black market value.
Take an MD5 hash of the data or something, then send it. If it comes back changed, you've got data loss. If it comes back the same, and the files are still a few kb smaller, then either you're the Wizard of File Hashes or you're reading off on-disk size instead of actual data size.
I think it survived because it latched onto the kind of music purchasing model that attracted people to file sharing in the first place. People don't buy music at retail any more because it's essentially valueless. The $10 CD nothing to produce, the music in the store is constantly on the airwaves anyway, and the support it gives the artist is close to zero. Music had become a disposable item, so all-you-can-eat music for the cost of an internet connection was an incredibly attractive proposition, and that's what file sharing provided. And that's what the Napster service had the sense to provide when it went legal.
The court case itself basically ignored the local legal code in favour of US legal precident. I can't see this project surviving the DMCA, even several thousand miles away from the DMCA's jurisdiction.
NASA has yet to release a formal statement, but one of their spokespeople is describing the Sunday Express's article as "fiction". Whether this means the Apollo 11 tapes haven't actually been found, or the way they were found is completely made up, is anyone's guess, but it shows the risks of taking a tabloid newspaper's breakthrough discovery which doesn't name any of its sources at face value.
It would mean the death of all media online, because anything an author doesn't explicitly waive his rights to is under his copyright! Such a law would render linking to anything that wasn't under a free licence completely illegal. That a judge could be so cosmically ignorant of the law to not realise this is diabolical.
Yes, look at number one, Iceland, whose nuclear arsenal and armada of transforming naval Mecha single-handedly conquered the entire south-western part of mainland Europe in 1997. Or Canada, whose great military prowess is subject to story and song in the neighbouring United States.
They're going to have to work hard to keep up with the brave efforts of the rest of the government to completely undermine whatever data security actually exists. Leaving unencrypted information on a train? What can man do against such reckless incompetence?
As an aside, "zero-point energy" devices were very briefly popular in SF (Clarke brought them up once, of all people). The idea being that if you could extract the zero-point energy from something (a vibrating molecule, say) you'd have a huge energy source from seemingly energy-less matter. Of course zero-point energy isn't a meaningful, extractable quantity, any more than the difference between your wages and the national average is a usable income.
I do wonder about Apple's policy there. Ostensibly, it's to stop you running an unapproved app by running it in an emulator, but they're perfectly happy to approve apps which pull down arbitrary and equally unapproved content from the web.
True, but at the time, 2D hardware features were as much a bullet-point as 3D acceleration today, and the C64 had some quite impressive 2D tricks up its sleeve.
That was how Sony convinced the producers that they had won, by counting PS3's instead of stand alone players. This is no different than some of the Apple people claiming 10% market share but failing to state that it included phones!
Actually it's very different. The PS3 is, technically, no different from any other standards-compliant Blu-Ray player. For the longest time it was one of the few that could be updated to keep up wtih Blu-Ray spec bumps and was frequently one of only a handful of players keeping up with those bumps. An iPhone is quite transparently very different from a personal computer.
HD-DVD wasn't "budget" from the outset or because of any particular economy in the price of players or disks. HD-DVD cost as much as Blu-ray to start off with and then it went cheap fast when it became clear it was losing the battle. Had HD-DVD emerged the victor I'm sure we would've seen plenty of bargain-priced Blu-Ray deals and a correspondingly disproportionate install base.
Well, they sold them telecom infrastructure, but the contract mandated a "monitoring centre" which Iran could then kit out with network-meddling equipment acquired from God knows who (the article isn't clear). Now, you could argue that giving the average Iranian access to cellphones and the internet balances out the (somewhat shoddy) web filtering, but it doesn't change the fact that Nokia did contribute to the operation.
It goes without saying that a lazy port of a title to a system with insufficient power to run the original, with chunks cut out to make it fit, will be a piece of shit. It's as true now as when they unveiled Duke 3D for the Game.Com. That tells us absolutely F-all about the remaining 90% of Wii software that wasn't pumped out as a high-return bond by investor-fellating cash-mongers.
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Nobody's saying it is, the article is putting an upper bound on the amount of water and nitrogen that could come from cometary ices. They comment that this leaves the door open for a substantial amount of nitrogen from comets, but only a miniscule amount of water.
Well, I'm glad you've got it all figured out, everybody in planetary formation research can go home now.
This is a comparison, not a correlation.
Actually, a lot of people have their phone out in direct sunlight, especially in the summer. When I use my black Nokia on the bus, it heats up like crazy as long as the sun's out. The iPhone has one of the best transflective displays on the market, it'd seem a bit of a shame to hide it away from actual sunlight.
No, it's a move to appear to be limiting immigration, because it's a big deal with voters. Immigration from the EU, which probably accounts for most of the traffic in and out of the UK, is constitutionally unrestricted because we're an EU member. And honestly the government's not done a great deal to control illegal immigration. The people coming in on skilled worker or spousal visas are getting harassed instead, which is easy to do and appeases the Daily Mail and all the other right-wing bullshit artists.
1982: Because a totalitarian state always seems 2 years away.
The cards are still around, and still mandatory for anyone who's not a UK citizen. So if you're planning to get a visa to live in the UK for any reason, you're still going to have to pay out the £1000-ish and get your biometrics taken, and then carry around a card which any official can ask you to produce at any time, and which is extremely likely to be stolen because of its black market value.
Take an MD5 hash of the data or something, then send it. If it comes back changed, you've got data loss. If it comes back the same, and the files are still a few kb smaller, then either you're the Wizard of File Hashes or you're reading off on-disk size instead of actual data size.
I think it survived because it latched onto the kind of music purchasing model that attracted people to file sharing in the first place. People don't buy music at retail any more because it's essentially valueless. The $10 CD nothing to produce, the music in the store is constantly on the airwaves anyway, and the support it gives the artist is close to zero. Music had become a disposable item, so all-you-can-eat music for the cost of an internet connection was an incredibly attractive proposition, and that's what file sharing provided. And that's what the Napster service had the sense to provide when it went legal.
The court case itself basically ignored the local legal code in favour of US legal precident. I can't see this project surviving the DMCA, even several thousand miles away from the DMCA's jurisdiction.
NASA has yet to release a formal statement, but one of their spokespeople is describing the Sunday Express's article as "fiction". Whether this means the Apollo 11 tapes haven't actually been found, or the way they were found is completely made up, is anyone's guess, but it shows the risks of taking a tabloid newspaper's breakthrough discovery which doesn't name any of its sources at face value.
It would mean the death of all media online, because anything an author doesn't explicitly waive his rights to is under his copyright! Such a law would render linking to anything that wasn't under a free licence completely illegal. That a judge could be so cosmically ignorant of the law to not realise this is diabolical.
Yes, look at number one, Iceland, whose nuclear arsenal and armada of transforming naval Mecha single-handedly conquered the entire south-western part of mainland Europe in 1997. Or Canada, whose great military prowess is subject to story and song in the neighbouring United States.
They're going to have to work hard to keep up with the brave efforts of the rest of the government to completely undermine whatever data security actually exists. Leaving unencrypted information on a train? What can man do against such reckless incompetence?
As an aside, "zero-point energy" devices were very briefly popular in SF (Clarke brought them up once, of all people). The idea being that if you could extract the zero-point energy from something (a vibrating molecule, say) you'd have a huge energy source from seemingly energy-less matter. Of course zero-point energy isn't a meaningful, extractable quantity, any more than the difference between your wages and the national average is a usable income.
Wait, there's a way to automatically parse line breaks?!
I do wonder about Apple's policy there. Ostensibly, it's to stop you running an unapproved app by running it in an emulator, but they're perfectly happy to approve apps which pull down arbitrary and equally unapproved content from the web.
MOS Technology VIC-II; no 3D capability
True, but at the time, 2D hardware features were as much a bullet-point as 3D acceleration today, and the C64 had some quite impressive 2D tricks up its sleeve.
Sounds like a fair punishment to me.
That was how Sony convinced the producers that they had won, by counting PS3's instead of stand alone players. This is no different than some of the Apple people claiming 10% market share but failing to state that it included phones!
Actually it's very different. The PS3 is, technically, no different from any other standards-compliant Blu-Ray player. For the longest time it was one of the few that could be updated to keep up wtih Blu-Ray spec bumps and was frequently one of only a handful of players keeping up with those bumps. An iPhone is quite transparently very different from a personal computer.
HD-DVD wasn't "budget" from the outset or because of any particular economy in the price of players or disks. HD-DVD cost as much as Blu-ray to start off with and then it went cheap fast when it became clear it was losing the battle. Had HD-DVD emerged the victor I'm sure we would've seen plenty of bargain-priced Blu-Ray deals and a correspondingly disproportionate install base.
Well, they sold them telecom infrastructure, but the contract mandated a "monitoring centre" which Iran could then kit out with network-meddling equipment acquired from God knows who (the article isn't clear). Now, you could argue that giving the average Iranian access to cellphones and the internet balances out the (somewhat shoddy) web filtering, but it doesn't change the fact that Nokia did contribute to the operation.
I'm sure that Iran would rather Nokia had never sold them network infrastructure in the first place, the way it's turned out.
(90% may be an overestimate, BTW. The point stands.)
It goes without saying that a lazy port of a title to a system with insufficient power to run the original, with chunks cut out to make it fit, will be a piece of shit. It's as true now as when they unveiled Duke 3D for the Game.Com. That tells us absolutely F-all about the remaining 90% of Wii software that wasn't pumped out as a high-return bond by investor-fellating cash-mongers.