For me it's a conscious decision. I don't like ads, so when they come on, I change channel or turn the tv off. I have developed a good sense for how long the ads last, so I rarely miss any of the show this way. I really don't understand why anyone would choose to watch ads.
... if a community effort could raise the money needed to keep Voyager going. There seem to be lots of passionate responses here wanting to keep the mission funded.
This is no different than paying for a CD instead of donating that money to charity.
In fact, this could be a good way to fund the creation of any digital media product - video, music, or software. Once the thing is paid for, it's public domain, and can thus be shared legally over p2p. It solves the whole piracy issue. It would probably result in better quality stuff too.
You can't get something for nothing is one of the fundamental laws of physics.
No, it's not - but things usually turn out that way.
Statements like hydrogen being a nearly limitless source of fuel fails to note that energy (electricity) needs to be applied to water to get the hydrogen out.
But you may be able to get out more than you put in - that's the whole point of the research. Note also that all energy generation schemes require an energy input.
Also, the statement in the article that the reaction would generate five times the amount of energy it consumes doesn't seem to square with the law of entropy -- otherwise you could just plug the thing into itself and have the equivilent of a perpetual motion machine.
You can plug the thing into itself. That is, use some of the energy out as the energy in to keep the reaction going. This is not a perpetual motion machine because, as you said, the fuel is nearly infinite, ie. not infinite.
I was about to say something similar. I imagine the people there now do have noble goals - they have shown nothing but respect for the online community thus far. But those guys won't be there forever. I think it is inevitable that within, say, a couple of decades, the company will be run by people interested only in the next unit of currency. If Google is a monopoly when that happens, the monopoly status will be exploited.
Yes. I found this story amusing since I am using floppies right now to install Debian on a machine which refuses to boot from the cd drive. Without floppies, I'd have no way to do the installation.
As a person who grew up in a familly that kept a close watch on the electrical meter to ensure we didn't go over budget, and yet had parents pridefull enough to consistantly turn away handouts and christmas baskets on the grounds that there were other people who needed them more (I'd still like to know who) and lived most of my childhod in a three room house in the country (which had been abandoned for generations before my parents (with such aid as may be offered by a 6 year old and an 8 year old) made it semi-habitable using materials scavenged from derelict farm buildings) 5 miles from the nearest bus route without a car for the majority of the time there, I know damn well exactly what poor is
Wow, you're so poor you even know how to make a sentence last forever.
Perhaps it can be proved that for any executable, there is exactly one string that can be embedded such that the new file's signature is the embedded string?
I know nothing about this technology. Anyone care to tell us more?
The better looking the artist, the worse the music.
Seriously, surfing the music channels I have lately found myself switching channels before hearing the song, if the people in the video are too pretty. Perhaps I'll become classically conditioned to dislike beautiful people.
Hmmm. This is beginning to suggest a Pavlovian psychology study. Also reminds me a little of A Clockwork Orange.
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For me it's a conscious decision. I don't like ads, so when they come on, I change channel or turn the tv off. I have developed a good sense for how long the ads last, so I rarely miss any of the show this way. I really don't understand why anyone would choose to watch ads.
Talent-(Teensensations-Boybands-Onehitwonders-Yani )=profit
Surely you meant + signs in the brackets.
...that's why they're called Al-Gore-ithms.
... if a community effort could raise the money needed to keep Voyager going. There seem to be lots of passionate responses here wanting to keep the mission funded.
This is no different than paying for a CD instead of donating that money to charity.
In fact, this could be a good way to fund the creation of any digital media product - video, music, or software. Once the thing is paid for, it's public domain, and can thus be shared legally over p2p. It solves the whole piracy issue. It would probably result in better quality stuff too.
Yes and in Constitution Repubic USA.
The USA relives its teenage years?
You can't get something for nothing is one of the fundamental laws of physics.
No, it's not - but things usually turn out that way.
Statements like hydrogen being a nearly limitless source of fuel fails to note that energy (electricity) needs to be applied to water to get the hydrogen out.
But you may be able to get out more than you put in - that's the whole point of the research. Note also that all energy generation schemes require an energy input.
Also, the statement in the article that the reaction would generate five times the amount of energy it consumes doesn't seem to square with the law of entropy -- otherwise you could just plug the thing into itself and have the equivilent of a perpetual motion machine.
You can plug the thing into itself. That is, use some of the energy out as the energy in to keep the reaction going. This is not a perpetual motion machine because, as you said, the fuel is nearly infinite, ie. not infinite.
I think Aubrey is already 1000: it must have taken that long to grow that beard.
I was about to say something similar. I imagine the people there now do have noble goals - they have shown nothing but respect for the online community thus far. But those guys won't be there forever. I think it is inevitable that within, say, a couple of decades, the company will be run by people interested only in the next unit of currency. If Google is a monopoly when that happens, the monopoly status will be exploited.
Yes. I found this story amusing since I am using floppies right now to install Debian on a machine which refuses to boot from the cd drive. Without floppies, I'd have no way to do the installation.
If there was a way to duplicate a cognac glass for 10 cents each, it'd be a different story.
Don't bother. Today's Cognac is so manufactured, it all tastes the same. Do yourself a favour and go find an older, original recipe.
When I read the CS Lewis books as a kid, I loved them all up to the last one (don't remember the name of it).
"The Last Battle" iirc. I loved those books too.
...to play Hypersports.
I think there is nothing beyond the scope of human accomplishment if we could just focus on things that are really important.
Unfortunately, using this eye, nobody can focus on anything.
As a person who grew up in a familly that kept a close watch on the electrical meter to ensure we didn't go over budget, and yet had parents pridefull enough to consistantly turn away handouts and christmas baskets on the grounds that there were other people who needed them more (I'd still like to know who) and lived most of my childhod in a three room house in the country (which had been abandoned for generations before my parents (with such aid as may be offered by a 6 year old and an 8 year old) made it semi-habitable using materials scavenged from derelict farm buildings) 5 miles from the nearest bus route without a car for the majority of the time there, I know damn well exactly what poor is
Wow, you're so poor you even know how to make a sentence last forever.
(Joke. No disrespect to your situation).
Perhaps it can be proved that for any executable, there is exactly one string that can be embedded such that the new file's signature is the embedded string?
I know nothing about this technology. Anyone care to tell us more?
Is not the human brain itself a "recording device"?
Yes - you can now go to jail for having a photographic memory.
In the Sony vs. Betamax case, the Supremes ruled that a device was legal so long as it had "substantial non-infringing uses."
How come Diana Ross and co get to judge legal cases?
Oh wait, I see...
The better looking the artist, the worse the music.
Seriously, surfing the music channels I have lately found myself switching channels before hearing the song, if the people in the video are too pretty. Perhaps I'll become classically conditioned to dislike beautiful people.
Hmmm. This is beginning to suggest a Pavlovian psychology study. Also reminds me a little of A Clockwork Orange.
use money/women/men/donkeys
Btw, if you meet a woman with a donkey, don't forget that great opening line:
"Hey babe, nice ass!"
Sorry.