First 14 years: 0 tax Next 14 years: 5% of assessed value, minimum $25,000 per year per copyright Next 14 years: 5%, $50,000 min Next 14 years: 5%, $100,000 min
and so on. Make people and companies VERY careful about which works they wish to maintain copyright on.
The short answer is because an entire season of watching people stare out the window, as they spend months a million miles from anything of interest, doesn't get very good ratings.
My approach: install a logger early on. Scare the piss out of them for a while by casually mentioning what they have been up to. Then delete the logger. Saves having to check on it and damn hard to get rid of a logger that doesn't exist.
They'll be left with a perpetual feeling they are being watched and hard pressed to prove they aren't. If and when they figure it out or turn 18, I'll happily tell them I trusted them and deleted any spyware long ago. My real goal is for them to think very hard before doing something dumb. At least until they are a bit more experienced. And any kid smart enough or ballsy enough to find there is no logger or ignore a logger isn't going to be deterred by one.
Do you use stairs or just jump to the next level of a building?
Focused, incremental improvements can reduce the number of bugs that have to be chased down with each version upgrade. The numbering system is arbitrary but does signal to users when they should upgrade. So yes, in the right circumstances, the release cycle will be better. And fewer bugs.
If you think about it, the way you develop a vaccine is to: Embrace : copy the original Extend : modify that version Extinguish : wipe out the original
The US flew lots of space plane prototypes. Most of the X-plane series way back when. We'd strap them to a B-52 and drop them. Not hard to do compared to sending them to orbit.
As a matter of fact, Branson is doing the same thing privately.
No, you could do just the opposite. I always wondered why they didn't try millions of random calls and text messages in Iraq during the height of cell phone bombings. Could have resulted in dozens or hundreds of premature detonations, maybe even take out a few of the bomb makers. Eventually bombers would find ways to mitigate it, but worth a try.
(hmmm a billion text messages at 10 cents each, now that would have been a bill!)
I should have used mass instead of binding energy for fusion (lots of nickel isotopes, so tried to take a shortcut). My information was correct, but conclusions wrong. I looked at mass for fission, so was at least half right.
I don't totally buy that it is making copper. It could be true, but unlikely. A few things to consider:
Nickel isotopes have high nuclear binding energies. Ni62 has the highest binding energy. Very tough to get a nuclear reaction that produces power out of Ni, impossible from Ni62. Reactions with Ni62 are endothermic.
Copper has 2 stable isotopes. The rest don't last long. Cu63 and Cu65 are stable.
The Ni is ether absorbing or emitting a particle. Ni62 and lower seem like poor candidates. Wrong side of the tracks.
Ni64 could become Cu63 from some sort of fission, but would also be endothermic.
I see lots of advice on what storage media to use and how to configure, but how about the robustness of the file system? NTFS vs EXT2/3/4 vs other? How about using PAR2 to mitigate bit-rot? And what I really what to know is has anyone optimized a file system for archival storage? Maybe bake PAR2 into EXT4? Presumably this could all be done in addition to mirroring and RAID.
parallel universe where "people" live lives like ours, as unaware of us as we are of them. All undetectable, except by their gravitational attraction on us.
Are you talking about women? I've actually seen them. No joke!
I guess not many people used it, but AltaVista Personal did an amazing job of indexing and searching local and network files. Faster than any of the "modern" OS integrated offerings I've seen. And without sucking up resources. If there were a version for XP/Vista/Win7 I'd use it in a heartbeat.
I read Rand because I was curious what the hubbub was about. Make up my own mind. My conclusion was Atlas Shrugged could have been a good book, if it was 90% shorter. It would make a better short story with a cautionary point than a full novel becoming a way of life.
No, I was relaying an anecdote, not invalidating your rule. My intent was to save you from wasting time on a particular banned book. It's your rule to make up and follow as you wish.
And may I suggest switching to a decaf? Many brands are just as good.
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Easy. Two words: Property Tax.
First 14 years: 0 tax
Next 14 years: 5% of assessed value, minimum $25,000 per year per copyright
Next 14 years: 5%, $50,000 min
Next 14 years: 5%, $100,000 min
and so on. Make people and companies VERY careful about which works they wish to maintain copyright on.
The short answer is because an entire season of watching people stare out the window, as they spend months a million miles from anything of interest, doesn't get very good ratings.
My approach: install a logger early on. Scare the piss out of them for a while by casually mentioning what they have been up to. Then delete the logger. Saves having to check on it and damn hard to get rid of a logger that doesn't exist.
They'll be left with a perpetual feeling they are being watched and hard pressed to prove they aren't. If and when they figure it out or turn 18, I'll happily tell them I trusted them and deleted any spyware long ago. My real goal is for them to think very hard before doing something dumb. At least until they are a bit more experienced. And any kid smart enough or ballsy enough to find there is no logger or ignore a logger isn't going to be deterred by one.
"This ensure that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs or from Bittorrent"?
Damn dyslexia...
No worse than naval warfare. Conjures up images of sumo wrestling.
And don't get start on air combat.
As dead as your sense of humor.
And the villagers rejoiced.
Do you use stairs or just jump to the next level of a building?
Focused, incremental improvements can reduce the number of bugs that have to be chased down with each version upgrade. The numbering system is arbitrary but does signal to users when they should upgrade. So yes, in the right circumstances, the release cycle will be better. And fewer bugs.
But no guarantees.
If you think about it, the way you develop a vaccine is to:
Embrace : copy the original
Extend : modify that version
Extinguish : wipe out the original
Bill Gates is right at home.
I don't know, but I'll keep wearing my lucky underwear when analyzing particle collision tracks.
The US flew lots of space plane prototypes. Most of the X-plane series way back when. We'd strap them to a B-52 and drop them. Not hard to do compared to sending them to orbit.
As a matter of fact, Branson is doing the same thing privately.
There is a pneumatic set. I don't recommend it, but you could build an oxy-acetylene torch using the pressure vessel, tubes, connectors, and valves.
No, you could do just the opposite. I always wondered why they didn't try millions of random calls and text messages in Iraq during the height of cell phone bombings. Could have resulted in dozens or hundreds of premature detonations, maybe even take out a few of the bomb makers. Eventually bombers would find ways to mitigate it, but worth a try.
(hmmm a billion text messages at 10 cents each, now that would have been a bill!)
I should have used mass instead of binding energy for fusion (lots of nickel isotopes, so tried to take a shortcut). My information was correct, but conclusions wrong. I looked at mass for fission, so was at least half right.
Sorry.
I don't totally buy that it is making copper. It could be true, but unlikely. A few things to consider:
Nickel isotopes have high nuclear binding energies. Ni62 has the highest binding energy. Very tough to get a nuclear reaction that produces power out of Ni, impossible from Ni62. Reactions with Ni62 are endothermic.
Copper has 2 stable isotopes. The rest don't last long. Cu63 and Cu65 are stable.
The Ni is ether absorbing or emitting a particle. Ni62 and lower seem like poor candidates. Wrong side of the tracks.
Ni64 could become Cu63 from some sort of fission, but would also be endothermic.
That's what they mean by micropayments!
I see lots of advice on what storage media to use and how to configure, but how about the robustness of the file system? NTFS vs EXT2/3/4 vs other? How about using PAR2 to mitigate bit-rot? And what I really what to know is has anyone optimized a file system for archival storage? Maybe bake PAR2 into EXT4? Presumably this could all be done in addition to mirroring and RAID.
He does have infinite mod points. As punishments go, being modded down ranks well below a paper-cut. But it is omnipotence in a very very narrow way.
Plus no need to see a shrink. Slashdot is a religion!
And Slashdot is a religion? Let's see...
Check. Well, friend is a stretch. Benevolent leader?
Check.
Crap! Do we have to tithe too?
Are you talking about women? I've actually seen them. No joke!
Oxygen migrates in rust. Aluminum, titanium, and chromium don't allow oxygen migration. Zinc forms a carbonate layer.
I guess not many people used it, but AltaVista Personal did an amazing job of indexing and searching local and network files. Faster than any of the "modern" OS integrated offerings I've seen. And without sucking up resources. If there were a version for XP/Vista/Win7 I'd use it in a heartbeat.
How do they taste?
I read Rand because I was curious what the hubbub was about. Make up my own mind. My conclusion was Atlas Shrugged could have been a good book, if it was 90% shorter. It would make a better short story with a cautionary point than a full novel becoming a way of life.
No, I was relaying an anecdote, not invalidating your rule. My intent was to save you from wasting time on a particular banned book. It's your rule to make up and follow as you wish.
And may I suggest switching to a decaf? Many brands are just as good.