Yup. I've tried tuning in outside the car - travelling in convoy, and instructing the other driver to tune his radio to mine - but unless you're really tailgating the car in front, there's no way you can pick up that signal. You can tell how low the power is because 'proper' stations interfere with it if you accidentally stumble on their frequency. So there's really no incentive to try to create a 'pirate' station - it just won't get picked up.
So it's great news - a new piece of legislation actually 'for the people'. Brilliant!
Incidentally, you should retract your aerial if you want to improve reception - or get an FM modulator (that's wired into your aerial) rather than a transmitter. Or get a head unit with a line-in port (although that's more expensive).
I couldn't agree more. Firefox is meant to be about what it doesn't contain, not what 'features' (read bloat) have been added. Make Firefox slimmer, get rid of the bugs, make it start up quicker and make it more secure. It's not sexy but then, it is only a browser. Don't make it the victim of some horrid tick-list feature bloat marketing.
This is obviously a joke, but I've done a bit (not a huge amount) of editing on Wikipedia, and I've got into the habit of looking for the 'edit' tab whenever I see a mistake on any website. I want to participate, dammit! This isn't 1995 any more.
Just go round and ask them, nicely and discreetly, to leave. It's not acceptable for some freeloader to sit there for hours on end taking up a seat that could be used by a paying customer. It's your coffee shop after all - you have the right to say who's allowed in and who isn't. Put a sign up warning people if you have to.
ANOTHER Google story? Seriously, guys, I can't remember the last time I checked Slashdot and there wasn't a Google story. Could you please be less of an advert/rumourmonger for Google and more.. well, more anything else?
thanks.
Cecilia Gonzalez didn't settle against the RIAA, and on January 7, she received only a summary judgment in a U.S. District Court... [T]he court ordered her to pay damages of $750 for each of 30 songs she was found to have downloaded illegally.
$750 PER SONG? That's insane. How the hell is a song (incidentally a metaphor for something cheap, as it "sold it for a song") worth $750 in damages? At a record store, you can pay $20 and get ten of them! I thought these people ran record companies...
Seriously, does anyone know how this is calculated? I know they're trying to factor in the "lost revenue", but what about "gained revenue" from people who just use P2P as a 'try-before-you-buy' thing to sample new music before they buy the CD?
I signed up to AllofMP3 last week and immediately spent $20 downloading 22 albums (after checking the quality was acceptable:). I had to stop myself getting more. As the parent poster points out, it's so cheap you might as well download stuff that might turn out to be rubbish (because occasionally you discover something new and great). I'm perfectly aware that the artist perhaps isn't getting well-paid for this; however, if I like an artist enough I'll buy a CD. And go to gigs. And buy merchandise. And play all their music incessantly at my friends until they all love this artist too.
Downloads should be as cheap as possible, simply because distribution is so easy, in order to get any given artist's work exposed to as great an audience as possible. I'm prepared to pay for good-quality, well-tagged downloads, organised the way I want them (which is exactly what AllofMP3 does, bar creating playlists), but I'm not going to pay as much as I would for a CD. If I get a CD, I can rip it to any format I like, play it on any device I like, and I get something _physical_ (a box, a shiny bit of plastic, and some cover art) which I still think is important. (But maybe I'm getting old.)
I use PowerMenu. It adds a few items to every window's title bar menu - minimize to tray, set transparency, set task priority and 'always on top'. I find it incredibly useful.
hth
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When you say "a thin ribbon", to support its own weight, a space elevator cable would have to be many metres (10? 20?) in diameter - and it needs to be thicker towards the middle to keep the centre of mass in a geostationary orbit. Relatively speaking this is incredibly thin compared to its length of tens of thousands of km. I'm convinced that a falling cable could inflict ridiculous amounts of damage to the ground below, even if most of it burned up in the atmosphere. See Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy for a description of this. He describes a terror attack on a space elevator, and (I think) he's researched the science pretty thoroughly.
Having said all that, I'm 100% in favour of building space elevators. It's probably the coolest technology I can think of.
10^15 bytes? Each human on Earth has 3 billion (3x10^9) base pairs of DNA. Assuming 2 bits to encode a base pair of DNA, that means a PetaBox(tm) can only store the DNA of 1.3 million people. So you'd need getting on for 5000 of these (assuming no compression) to store the entire population.
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Yup. I've tried tuning in outside the car - travelling in convoy, and instructing the other driver to tune his radio to mine - but unless you're really tailgating the car in front, there's no way you can pick up that signal. You can tell how low the power is because 'proper' stations interfere with it if you accidentally stumble on their frequency. So there's really no incentive to try to create a 'pirate' station - it just won't get picked up.
So it's great news - a new piece of legislation actually 'for the people'. Brilliant!
Incidentally, you should retract your aerial if you want to improve reception - or get an FM modulator (that's wired into your aerial) rather than a transmitter. Or get a head unit with a line-in port (although that's more expensive).
I couldn't agree more. Firefox is meant to be about what it doesn't contain, not what 'features' (read bloat) have been added. Make Firefox slimmer, get rid of the bugs, make it start up quicker and make it more secure. It's not sexy but then, it is only a browser. Don't make it the victim of some horrid tick-list feature bloat marketing.
This is obviously a joke, but I've done a bit (not a huge amount) of editing on Wikipedia, and I've got into the habit of looking for the 'edit' tab whenever I see a mistake on any website. I want to participate, dammit! This isn't 1995 any more.
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
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Just go round and ask them, nicely and discreetly, to leave. It's not acceptable for some freeloader to sit there for hours on end taking up a seat that could be used by a paying customer. It's your coffee shop after all - you have the right to say who's allowed in and who isn't. Put a sign up warning people if you have to.
ANOTHER Google story? Seriously, guys, I can't remember the last time I checked Slashdot and there wasn't a Google story. Could you please be less of an advert/rumourmonger for Google and more.. well, more anything else? thanks.
Cecilia Gonzalez didn't settle against the RIAA, and on January 7, she received only a summary judgment in a U.S. District Court ... [T]he court ordered her to pay damages of $750 for each of 30 songs she was found to have downloaded illegally.
$750 PER SONG? That's insane. How the hell is a song (incidentally a metaphor for something cheap, as it "sold it for a song") worth $750 in damages? At a record store, you can pay $20 and get ten of them! I thought these people ran record companies...
Seriously, does anyone know how this is calculated? I know they're trying to factor in the "lost revenue", but what about "gained revenue" from people who just use P2P as a 'try-before-you-buy' thing to sample new music before they buy the CD?
Downloads should be as cheap as possible, simply because distribution is so easy, in order to get any given artist's work exposed to as great an audience as possible. I'm prepared to pay for good-quality, well-tagged downloads, organised the way I want them (which is exactly what AllofMP3 does, bar creating playlists), but I'm not going to pay as much as I would for a CD. If I get a CD, I can rip it to any format I like, play it on any device I like, and I get something _physical_ (a box, a shiny bit of plastic, and some cover art) which I still think is important. (But maybe I'm getting old.)
So I guess all the interesting events in China happen outside?
I use PowerMenu. It adds a few items to every window's title bar menu - minimize to tray, set transparency, set task priority and 'always on top'. I find it incredibly useful. hth ning
But does it run Doom3? (or, for that matter, Longhorn..?) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Having said all that, I'm 100% in favour of building space elevators. It's probably the coolest technology I can think of.
10^15 bytes? Each human on Earth has 3 billion (3x10^9) base pairs of DNA. Assuming 2 bits to encode a base pair of DNA, that means a PetaBox(tm) can only store the DNA of 1.3 million people. So you'd need getting on for 5000 of these (assuming no compression) to store the entire population.