Right now I have a hideous frankenstein PC setup. I'm not going to drop the cheddar for a dead-sexy Apple rig and then hang a fucking $35 TOSLINK adapter off of it!
(Cue AC offering to sell me one for $150.)
I will have to add a USB TV tuner as it is, and have mixed feelings about that. No way I hang any more USB crap off of it. I have to have the tuner for the PS2 and VHS.
For the record, the reason AC's math doesn't add up either is that it was 180M x 3 + 180M punitive. The remaining change was some actual damages and lawyer fees.
PVs and windmills aren't closed systems. If they were, we couldn't draw energy from them. Therefore, they aren't "passive" in the sense that the OP seemed to mean.
Also, atmospheric gases are subsumed into the Earth, and bleed off into space.
I think that everything, with the possible exception of the universe as a whole, is an open system.
You could have said 1 in 999999999, or 999999999 to 1, or 999999999:1, or even 999999999/1. You can use words and the word ratio with a hyphen, like "big-tiny ratio", and I guess you could extend this to nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine-one ratio, but that's just crazy.
Incidentally, what you said really means 999999998 to 1. Hell, maybe that's what you meant, which would lead me to believe you have a whole other set of problems!
Of course, I have problems of my own. Notably I have way too much time on my hands!
There is a quid pro quo in the "Linux community". Yes, J. Random Hacker is encouraged (and really expected) to patch Linux flaws. But he recieves a Free system with source code in exchange.
It doesn't sit well with me to see Microsoft eat their cake and have it too.
I had a teacher that said this. Makes me crazy. You only get one guess per question. It is a multiple guess test, but they aren't multiple guess questions!
There is a partial ban on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.
I can't imagine how it can be controversial to say that we aren't going to confiscate money from people and spend it research that they believe to be immoral.
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That doesn't follow.
How does wearing out my CD-ROM drive help the artist?
-Peter
Use f5, Go to Jail
Someone has to make a shirt for these kids!
-Peter
Absolutely not.
Right now I have a hideous frankenstein PC setup. I'm not going to drop the cheddar for a dead-sexy Apple rig and then hang a fucking $35 TOSLINK adapter off of it!
(Cue AC offering to sell me one for $150.)
I will have to add a USB TV tuner as it is, and have mixed feelings about that. No way I hang any more USB crap off of it. I have to have the tuner for the PS2 and VHS.
-Peter
Yes, but no S/PDIF! What the hell are they thinking?!
I've never bought an Apple, but I probably will when the release a mini with a freakin' TOSLINK port.
-Peter
Penn Jillette is a genius.
-Peter
That was seriously the most useful AC post ever!
For the record, the reason AC's math doesn't add up either is that it was 180M x 3 + 180M punitive. The remaining change was some actual damages and lawyer fees.
-Peter
While your point holds, I don't think that a quote from a foreign playwright qualifies as "doctrine".
-Peter
I admit that arithmetic is not my strong suit, but I'm usually pretty good at multiplying and dividing by ten (in decimal, anyway).
By my math 280M x 10 = 2.8B. Where'd the other eight-odd billion come from? Or by "over" 280M did they mean 1,100M?
WTF?
-Peter
PS: The Fine Article was of no help.
-P
PVs and windmills aren't closed systems. If they were, we couldn't draw energy from them. Therefore, they aren't "passive" in the sense that the OP seemed to mean.
Also, atmospheric gases are subsumed into the Earth, and bleed off into space.
I think that everything, with the possible exception of the universe as a whole, is an open system.
-Peter
Let's not get bogged down in feigned courtesy or semantics.
I recently read (part of) a book in which the author (jokingly?) stated that the best thing he could do for the environment would be to shoot himself.
He at least toyed with the idea of valuing his continued existence less than preserving the state of the environment.
-Peter
Dude, seriously: too much weed.
-Peter
No, it depends entirely on your values.
-Peter
Wind turbines must slow down the wind. PVs must collect energy that would otherwise impact the environment.
Thermodynamics won't let you continuously pull energy out of a closed system.
Also, human beings are part of nature.
I'm glad we could have this little chat.
-Peter
Wow, are you confused about mathematical symbols.
You could have said 1 in 999999999, or 999999999 to 1, or 999999999:1, or even 999999999/1. You can use words and the word ratio with a hyphen, like "big-tiny ratio", and I guess you could extend this to nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine-one ratio, but that's just crazy.
Incidentally, what you said really means 999999998 to 1. Hell, maybe that's what you meant, which would lead me to believe you have a whole other set of problems!
Of course, I have problems of my own. Notably I have way too much time on my hands!
-Peter
Common ground! Yay!
;-)
I see what you're saying. I just don't care at all about this guy's motivations or potential rewards.
I do think that making him work for Microsoft is too harsh a punishment, though
-Peter
What, exactly, does that have to do with how Microsoft does business?
-Peter
There is a quid pro quo in the "Linux community". Yes, J. Random Hacker is encouraged (and really expected) to patch Linux flaws. But he recieves a Free system with source code in exchange.
It doesn't sit well with me to see Microsoft eat their cake and have it too.
-Peter
The prior art element is clearly failing.
I think the idea has merit. How about allowing application without a working prototype, but require the prototype before the patent can be issued?
-Peter
A more useful link.
-Peter
"Are there a lot of these kinds of bugs?"
"You wouldn't believe."
-Peter
I had a teacher that said this. Makes me crazy. You only get one guess per question. It is a multiple guess test, but they aren't multiple guess questions!
-Peter
I think that this means that individual states can't impose tariffs on imports from other countries, but I'm not sure.
In any case, the market will react to this move.
Politicians being short-sighted. Why, this is virtually unprecedented!
-Peter
All monies are fungible.
When you have unraveled that statement you will know three things.
1. Why your comment is meaningless.
2. Why Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.
3. Why state lotteries aren't really reserved for education or parks or whatever.
-Peter
I think that is very much the same.
I think you have mistaken me for a Republican.
-Peter
There is no ban on embryonic stem cell research.
There is a partial ban on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.
I can't imagine how it can be controversial to say that we aren't going to confiscate money from people and spend it research that they believe to be immoral.
-Peter