0 deg and 100deg in the F system are weather temperature extremes. Most places in the world are between these two temps. You say 30C is Toast? Most places go above 30C for parts of the summer time, but to go above 100F (38C) is an extreme case (living in Arizona 30C is not toast, its a wonderfully nice sunny day). Same goes for 0C, many parts of the world have snow for significant portions of the winter, but to go below 0F (-18C) is an extreme case. 0-100F is a good temperature range that describes most outdoor weather conditions. Of course the Fahrenheit system is useless in anything scientific.
You make it sound like in the US we are banned to use the metric system. The US was one of the countries that originally signed onto the treaty establishing the meter. All science in the US is taught in metric, and most companies use either metric, or metric and imperial. Also all weights and measures for the federal goverment are required to be in metric. The imperial system is used mostly by average joe for daily things where measurement system is trivial. Driving distances, outdoor temperature (which is much better described in F than in C), and people's weight.
Are you sure you're in the right forum? You prefer a weapon from 1911 that works on simple chemical-energy based acceleration, over a shiney brand new 21st century electro-kinetic weapon straight out of sci-fi! You should be posting things like: "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these," or "1. Buy Rail Gun 2.Mount on iPod BMW 3.? 4.PROFIT"
From my understanding, not telling your name is not a crime. The police however have the power to detain you until your identity is determined, but you are not charged with a crime. The second ruling is to reenforce 5th amendment rights by saying you can't be charged with a crime for not telling your name (ie hindering prosecution), even if you are suspected of another crime. Obligatory Simpsons quote: arrest me? umm my address, its umm, 1-2-3 fake street
The thing is the people can get the freedoms back if the government oversteps its power.
Powerful lobbying leading to removal of rights isn't something new, the anti-saloon league and Women's Christian Union were able to convince the states and congress to pass Prohibition.
Ultimately the citizens were able to repeal the infringements of their rights.
yes, since you purchased a license from the company, they are obligated to continue your access to the information. If companies replace my broken CDs at cost ($1-2). I have no problem with me not being able to make backup copies of my own.
just replace random citizens, replace with random goverment official. Then there will be a vested inerest in the officials making the system as good as possible
Hmmm for some strange reason my pirated version of neverwinter nights looks different than whats in the video. Darn pirates ripped me off! And its encouraging to see equipment makers like Dell taking steps to prevent people from copying floppies
So by your rationale, I can use your car while you are out of town because nobody is being deprived of use. The definition of theft: 1. The act or instance of stealing Stealing: To take (the property of another) without right or permission. There is no mention of depriving somebody of use.
Darth Vader already had such an assistant. (Episode IV)
"And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base..." Given Vader was Leia's father, right after he asked about the base, he probably continued with: "Now lets talk about your cell phone bill. How the HELL do you spend 50,000 credits text messaging han_solo@falcon.net?! You think I'm made of money? I have a freaking goverment job, and I'm still paying on the loans I had to take out to pay for your mother's dresses! Back when I was your age I got my damn arm chopped off in the war, trying to keep those droid nazi's from taking over...."
If people vote they have the power to change what the candidates do. But don't just walk to the poll, take the next step and ORGANIZE! Organize the votes of likeminded individuals under 1 voice, and the politicians will listen There are 2 types of groups politicians listen to, those that give them lots of money, or those that give them lots of votes. Politicians listen to RIAA, MPAA, because they contribute lots of money. They listen to the Christian Coalition, pro-choice, NAACP, mostly because they provide large chunks of votes. There could easily be a Nerd Coalition, that provided tens of thousands of votes in California. There are lots of unemployed techies in Calif. plus its got the most electoral votes, just organize and at least one of the candidates would have some focus on tech issues: privacy rights, patents, outsourcing. But if you don't actively participate in YOUR goverment, nothing will happen
Why should society as a whole recognize this as a great achievement? Its great and personally I find the creativity and logic required to solve such a problem amazing, but 99.9% of people have no interest in these sorts of things. It's not something that changes people's lives, its proving an answer to a question. Nothing more. How can the average person think "wow that's great" when they the proof is practically another language, and people can't even relate to the meaning of the hypothesis itself Imagine walking down the street and a group of people were looking at a bunch of scribbles, and they tell you that it is the answer to the "question of thingamagig". You have no context to understand whats going on, and in the end it really doesn't matter to you either way.
Think of P2P networks, information is totally free, but when you download something, how do you know its what you want. In the case of scientific articles, how do you know its real and not made up data? I hold the medical advice of the New England Journal of Medicine in higher regard than the free Spam i get in my email. Maybe the itunes business model would work. The reader pays a small fee for specific articles they want. It assures the reader the information has been peer reviewed, and generates income to support the review process.
In your example I would use shift key because there is alot of switching between upper and lower case. Because I so rarely use caps lock, it becomes a distraction to use. Its just so much more natural to hold shift and type "s-e-l-e-c-t" than pausing, looking down, and hitting caps lock. Yeah I know caps lock is right above shift, but I have trained myself to not accidently hit it, so I just can't naturally hit caps lock while typing . I only caps lock when I know at the beginning of a large chunk of text that I will be using all caps. I think this article does beg the question "When should we trade tradition for efficiency?"
Most sheep, er, consumers, will jump through whatever hoops necessary to listen to the latest tripe from the music industry.
You underestimate the sheep. Yes they are willing to put up with alot more than the average/.'er simply because they don't care, but they do have a breaking point. I'm sure this is past that point because the implementation of this technology is too intrusive. The majority of consumers don't complain about DRM when its transparent to their normal usage; most people don't copy, rip, etc. they just listen to the CD. Once you intrude on the experience of just putting a CD in the player and listening to music, like this technology, you get a consumer backlash. There is actually one way to get consumers to not buy DRM CDs, even if it is transparent to most of them. Forcing the labelling of CDs with a DRM warning tag. Even if it wouldnt impact their listening experience, they won't buy it because it has a warning that "its broken"
Didn't Stephen King try this? He would raise money to release the next chapter of his book "the plant". At first people paid the $1 per chapter, then eventually people stopped, I'm guessing the novelty of the system had worn off.
Steve Jackson Games is the perfect place to check out for the geek board gamer.
The assorment of games is great, and fill lots of niches. Alot of my non-geek friends enjoy Car Wars, my D&D friends like Munchkin, illuminati appeals to my political friends (its great when "the federal reserve" takes over "girlie magazines"), and everybody loves Ninja Burger.
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0 deg and 100deg in the F system are weather temperature extremes. Most places in the world are between these two temps.
You say 30C is Toast? Most places go above 30C for parts of the summer time, but to go above 100F (38C) is an extreme case (living in Arizona 30C is not toast, its a wonderfully nice sunny day). Same goes for 0C, many parts of the world have snow for significant portions of the winter, but to go below 0F (-18C) is an extreme case.
0-100F is a good temperature range that describes most outdoor weather conditions.
Of course the Fahrenheit system is useless in anything scientific.
You make it sound like in the US we are banned to use the metric system. The US was one of the countries that originally signed onto the treaty establishing the meter.
All science in the US is taught in metric, and most companies use either metric, or metric and imperial. Also all weights and measures for the federal goverment are required to be in metric.
The imperial system is used mostly by average joe for daily things where measurement system is trivial. Driving distances, outdoor temperature (which is much better described in F than in C), and people's weight.
Are you sure you're in the right forum?
You prefer a weapon from 1911 that works on simple chemical-energy based acceleration, over a shiney brand new 21st century electro-kinetic weapon straight out of sci-fi!
You should be posting things like:
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of these," or
"1. Buy Rail Gun
2.Mount on iPod BMW
3.?
4.PROFIT"
People already sell their DNA. If you're a world class athlete or nobel prize winner, your sperm or eggs can bring in good money.
Yes AMD stole .1% market share last quarter.
Its a known issue in the industry. Seems like Intel & AMD go back and forth locking and unlocking their chips.
From my understanding, not telling your name is not a crime. The police however have the power to detain you until your identity is determined, but you are not charged with a crime.
The second ruling is to reenforce 5th amendment rights by saying you can't be charged with a crime for not telling your name (ie hindering prosecution), even if you are suspected of another crime.
Obligatory Simpsons quote: arrest me? umm my address, its umm, 1-2-3 fake street
Mea Culpa is a commonly used latin phrase
The thing is the people can get the freedoms back if the government oversteps its power.
Powerful lobbying leading to removal of rights isn't something new, the anti-saloon league and Women's Christian Union were able to convince the states and congress to pass Prohibition. Ultimately the citizens were able to repeal the infringements of their rights.
yes, since you purchased a license from the company, they are obligated to continue your access to the information.
If companies replace my broken CDs at cost ($1-2). I have no problem with me not being able to make backup copies of my own.
just replace random citizens, replace with random goverment official. Then there will be a vested inerest in the officials making the system as good as possible
An all powerful and all knowing Clippy! Not exactly sure which category he'd fall under though.
Hmmm for some strange reason my pirated version of neverwinter nights looks different than whats in the video. Darn pirates ripped me off!
And its encouraging to see equipment makers like Dell taking steps to prevent people from copying floppies
So by your rationale, I can use your car while you are out of town because nobody is being deprived of use.
The definition of theft: 1. The act or instance of stealing
Stealing: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
There is no mention of depriving somebody of use.
Darth Vader already had such an assistant. (Episode IV) "And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base..."
Given Vader was Leia's father, right after he asked about the base, he probably continued with:
"Now lets talk about your cell phone bill. How the HELL do you spend 50,000 credits text messaging han_solo@falcon.net?! You think I'm made of money? I have a freaking goverment job, and I'm still paying on the loans I had to take out to pay for your mother's dresses! Back when I was your age I got my damn arm chopped off in the war, trying to keep those droid nazi's from taking over...."
Most hardware in space vehicles is old.
RS232 is there probably so its compatible with the computers running on the space shuttle or ISS.
If people vote they have the power to change what the candidates do. But don't just walk to the poll, take the next step and ORGANIZE! Organize the votes of likeminded individuals under 1 voice, and the politicians will listen
There are 2 types of groups politicians listen to, those that give them lots of money, or those that give them lots of votes. Politicians listen to RIAA, MPAA, because they contribute lots of money. They listen to the Christian Coalition, pro-choice, NAACP, mostly because they provide large chunks of votes.
There could easily be a Nerd Coalition, that provided tens of thousands of votes in California. There are lots of unemployed techies in Calif. plus its got the most electoral votes, just organize and at least one of the candidates would have some focus on tech issues: privacy rights, patents, outsourcing.
But if you don't actively participate in YOUR goverment, nothing will happen
Why should society as a whole recognize this as a great achievement? Its great and personally I find the creativity and logic required to solve such a problem amazing, but 99.9% of people have no interest in these sorts of things. It's not something that changes people's lives, its proving an answer to a question. Nothing more.
How can the average person think "wow that's great" when they the proof is practically another language, and people can't even relate to the meaning of the hypothesis itself
Imagine walking down the street and a group of people were looking at a bunch of scribbles, and they tell you that it is the answer to the "question of thingamagig". You have no context to understand whats going on, and in the end it really doesn't matter to you either way.
Think of P2P networks, information is totally free, but when you download something, how do you know its what you want. In the case of scientific articles, how do you know its real and not made up data?
I hold the medical advice of the New England Journal of Medicine in higher regard than the free Spam i get in my email.
Maybe the itunes business model would work. The reader pays a small fee for specific articles they want. It assures the reader the information has been peer reviewed, and generates income to support the review process.
Yes because nobody would throw random objects into a kitchen appliance
Reading the patents, they refer to a RF mobile device with a processor that sends/receives e-mail.
In your example I would use shift key because there is alot of switching between upper and lower case.
Because I so rarely use caps lock, it becomes a distraction to use. Its just so much more natural to hold shift and type "s-e-l-e-c-t" than pausing, looking down, and hitting caps lock. Yeah I know caps lock is right above shift, but I have trained myself to not accidently hit it, so I just can't naturally hit caps lock while typing .
I only caps lock when I know at the beginning of a large chunk of text that I will be using all caps.
I think this article does beg the question "When should we trade tradition for efficiency?"
Most sheep, er, consumers, will jump through whatever hoops necessary to listen to the latest tripe from the music industry. /.'er simply because they don't care, but they do have a breaking point. I'm sure this is past that point because the implementation of this technology is too intrusive.
You underestimate the sheep. Yes they are willing to put up with alot more than the average
The majority of consumers don't complain about DRM when its transparent to their normal usage; most people don't copy, rip, etc. they just listen to the CD. Once you intrude on the experience of just putting a CD in the player and listening to music, like this technology, you get a consumer backlash.
There is actually one way to get consumers to not buy DRM CDs, even if it is transparent to most of them. Forcing the labelling of CDs with a DRM warning tag. Even if it wouldnt impact their listening experience, they won't buy it because it has a warning that "its broken"
Didn't Stephen King try this? He would raise money to release the next chapter of his book "the plant". At first people paid the $1 per chapter, then eventually people stopped, I'm guessing the novelty of the system had worn off.
Steve Jackson Games is the perfect place to check out for the geek board gamer.
The assorment of games is great, and fill lots of niches. Alot of my non-geek friends enjoy Car Wars, my D&D friends like Munchkin, illuminati appeals to my political friends (its great when "the federal reserve" takes over "girlie magazines"), and everybody loves Ninja Burger.