Downloading copyrighted material from P2P is a vastly different issue from ripping a CD that you own, or taping a television/radio/cable/satellite/Etc. broadcast. The the latter is explicitly permitted by the law under the home taping act, and the precedent of the Betamax Supreme court decision. Time shifting, (the ability to watch/hear a program when you want rather then live as it airs) transfering to new media, (Eg, making tapes for your car from LP's, CD's or even 8-track cassettes, as well as recording and encoding to MP3/AAC/Ogg Vorbis for use on your PC or other portable media device, (iPod, Creative Nomad or Zen, PSP, Yada yada...) and making working copies, to protect the original) are all accepted rights of consumers under the doctrines of fair use, and home taping act.
point is:
Having MP3's is not illegal ripping your CD's is not illegal P2P file sharing of copyrighted material has not yet been fully tested by the courts yet, so your guess is as good as mine.
So it's basically like the glass of the windshield of your car, (glass with a slightly flexible polymer coating that keeps the tiny shards from flying all over the cabin, right?
How it works is that the FCC grants the public the right to use a frequency band with in certain guidelines, (Mainly power.)
900 Mhz 2.4 Ghz and 5Ghz are all unlicensed bands.
there are several bands on lower frequencies, but I don't know what they are, (I just know those three because they are the ones advertised on cordless phones.) the lower unlicensed bands are also used for RC cars/planes/boats etc.
Something Interesting I heard on the Maccast podcast; the host had a tech chat with the host of the Apple Log, Windows Log, and Linux Log podcasts.
Interesting to note that Windows 3.1 was aimed at consumers, and the consumers dragged it into the workplace, and then MS realised what boneheads they were and three the proverbial baby, (Win 3.1/Dos) out with the bathwater to create a real business grade OS, (NT 3)
It looks like Apple wants to do the same thing, commoditize the hardware, get back into the education market, and create a whole generation of mac users, who will want Macs as they move into the job market.
As if clicking "Start" makes any more sense when you need to shut your computer down.
I'm slowly making the switch to OSX and so far, the worst part of it has been getting used to the fact that the shortcut keys I need are in different places
In reality, Windows rose to dominance because it was an inferior product brought to market at the right time.
businesses chose to use windows because they wouldn't have to rewrite all their legacy/mainframe/in-house apps, because underneath it all, you still had DOS. and if your app didn't play nice with windows task-switching of DOS apps, you could exit wondows entirely, and have essentially a clean slate for the custom app to use.
Pretty much any tool-free design is going to be proprietary, and never totally "tool-free" essentially tool-free only means that you can remove the side panel and/or the optical/floppy/hard drive(s) from the case without a screwdriver.
Compaq's tool free cases actually require a torx #10 driver, and are actually quite ingenious.
I have a K6-2 350, and I'll be the first to admit, it wasn't the best computer I've ever had. On the other hand, my mom's upgraded PII 450, (with 256 MB RAM and 20GB 7200 RPM HDD) works quite well with Windows XP and Office XP
To the best of my knowledge, it has long been known that RISC is faster than CISC, but the main reason why people created CISC computers was because CISC could make-do with less memory, (which was insanely expensive at the time, my dad spent over $1000 USD to upgrade an IBM PS/2 from 1MB Ram to 5MB)
Of course the wind blows because of temperature differentials created by the sun. and therefore is being replenished by another finite source of energy.
Given 2nd law of thermodynamics all energy sources are finite, and will eventually run out.
therefore even tidal energy will eventually run out.
and I think that the energy that will eventually run out is the Earth's rotational motion, (Tidal forces create resistance to earth's rotation, harvesting electricity creates more resistance.)
Improperly synced LCD's, LCD's Driven at less than native resolution, and especially LCD's driven by an analog, (VGA) signal all have the potential to look horrible.
personally, I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 with a 14.1" LCD, and I love it so much, I use it to remote desktop into the Desktop sitting right next to me!
(The Desktop is my file sharing workhorse)
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I'm still running an ATI AIW Radeon 64 MB DDR in my "Good" machine.
It's plenty fast enough for my 15" Monitor, and my RTS (Read Processor and RAM Intensive) games
but hydro is just as dependant on the weather as wind.
Hydro relies on stopping water from going downstream, but the weather is what gets more water back upstream to the source(s) of the tributary system(s) that feed the hydro dam.
the resivoir means it can ride out a drought, but power output will decrease as the drought progresses, because there is less potential energy stored up in the resivoir.
I seem to recall thinking the same thing about projects to tap into tidal energy.
I seem to recall that the rotation oif the Earth is slowing by a miniscule amount every year, believed to be caused by resistance to tidal movement, and using the tides to generate electricity creates more resistance...
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Simple. Once they're successfull they have power to negotiate far better deals. Not to mention that whole "Prince" "The artist..." thing...
whoa there killer...
Downloading copyrighted material from P2P is a vastly different issue from ripping a CD that you own, or taping a television/radio/cable/satellite/Etc. broadcast. The the latter is explicitly permitted by the law under the home taping act, and the precedent of the Betamax Supreme court decision. Time shifting, (the ability to watch/hear a program when you want rather then live as it airs) transfering to new media, (Eg, making tapes for your car from LP's, CD's or even 8-track cassettes, as well as recording and encoding to MP3/AAC/Ogg Vorbis for use on your PC or other portable media device, (iPod, Creative Nomad or Zen, PSP, Yada yada...) and making working copies, to protect the original) are all accepted rights of consumers under the doctrines of fair use, and home taping act.
point is:
Having MP3's is not illegal
ripping your CD's is not illegal
P2P file sharing of copyrighted material has not yet been fully tested by the courts yet, so your guess is as good as mine.
So it's basically like the glass of the windshield of your car, (glass with a slightly flexible polymer coating that keeps the tiny shards from flying all over the cabin, right?
Red Light Cams have been shown to increase the incidence of accidents in intersections, because people will panic brake for fear of a ticket.
How it works is that the FCC grants the public the right to use a frequency band with in certain guidelines, (Mainly power.)
900 Mhz 2.4 Ghz and 5Ghz are all unlicensed bands.
there are several bands on lower frequencies, but I don't know what they are, (I just know those three because they are the ones advertised on cordless phones.) the lower unlicensed bands are also used for RC cars/planes/boats etc.
wrong again.
because again, the signal has been somewhat secured, (usually some kind of key exchange when the handset is placed on the reciever)
Absolutely worong, because the satelite companies do secure/encrypt their signals.
Something Interesting I heard on the Maccast podcast; the host had a tech chat with the host of the Apple Log, Windows Log, and Linux Log podcasts.
Interesting to note that Windows 3.1 was aimed at consumers, and the consumers dragged it into the workplace, and then MS realised what boneheads they were and three the proverbial baby, (Win 3.1/Dos) out with the bathwater to create a real business grade OS, (NT 3)
It looks like Apple wants to do the same thing, commoditize the hardware, get back into the education market, and create a whole generation of mac users, who will want Macs as they move into the job market.
As if clicking "Start" makes any more sense when you need to shut your computer down.
I'm slowly making the switch to OSX and so far, the worst part of it has been getting used to the fact that the shortcut keys I need are in different places
(Command + Z/X/C/V vs. Ctrl + Z/X/C/V)
quite the contrary, all "Old Stock" machines sold by Apple stores after the Official roll-out of the new OS get a free upgrade kit.
since the hole has not yet reached the mantle, it should be "Hole TO BE Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust"
In reality, Windows rose to dominance because it was an inferior product brought to market at the right time.
businesses chose to use windows because they wouldn't have to rewrite all their legacy/mainframe/in-house apps, because underneath it all, you still had DOS. and if your app didn't play nice with windows task-switching of DOS apps, you could exit wondows entirely, and have essentially a clean slate for the custom app to use.
Pretty much any tool-free design is going to be proprietary, and never totally "tool-free" essentially tool-free only means that you can remove the side panel and/or the optical/floppy/hard drive(s) from the case without a screwdriver.
Compaq's tool free cases actually require a torx #10 driver, and are actually quite ingenious.
Actually, you can cet sound via USB, for example the Sound Blaster Extigy
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I have a K6-2 350, and I'll be the first to admit, it wasn't the best computer I've ever had. On the other hand, my mom's upgraded PII 450, (with 256 MB RAM and 20GB 7200 RPM HDD) works quite well with Windows XP and Office XP
quite the contrary, because what actually causes the vast majority of the "Wear and tear" that leads to failures is caused by startup cycles.
I have used "off the shelf" IDE hard drives in PC's that run 24/7 and never had a problem. I also have protected all my PC's with APC Batteries.
that only works if you have "CardBus"
It will not work with PC-Card
Oddly enough, I don'y think I've ever seen a notebook with CardBus that didn't already have USB.
To the best of my knowledge, it has long been known that RISC is faster than CISC, but the main reason why people created CISC computers was because CISC could make-do with less memory, (which was insanely expensive at the time, my dad spent over $1000 USD to upgrade an IBM PS/2 from 1MB Ram to 5MB)
I think legalizing and taxing pot could balance the stupid budget.
Think of how much monet that would bring in.
Of course the wind blows because of temperature differentials created by the sun. and therefore is being replenished by another finite source of energy.
Stop me if I'm way off the deep end here, but:
Given 2nd law of thermodynamics all energy sources are finite, and will eventually run out.
therefore even tidal energy will eventually run out.
and I think that the energy that will eventually run out is the Earth's rotational motion, (Tidal forces create resistance to earth's rotation, harvesting electricity creates more resistance.)
Improperly synced LCD's, LCD's Driven at less than native resolution, and especially LCD's driven by an analog, (VGA) signal all have the potential to look horrible.
personally, I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 with a 14.1" LCD, and I love it so much, I use it to remote desktop into the Desktop sitting right next to me!
(The Desktop is my file sharing workhorse)
I'm still running an ATI AIW Radeon 64 MB DDR in my "Good" machine.
It's plenty fast enough for my 15" Monitor, and my RTS (Read Processor and RAM Intensive) games
but hydro is just as dependant on the weather as wind.
Hydro relies on stopping water from going downstream, but the weather is what gets more water back upstream to the source(s) of the tributary system(s) that feed the hydro dam.
the resivoir means it can ride out a drought, but power output will decrease as the drought progresses, because there is less potential energy stored up in the resivoir.
I seem to recall thinking the same thing about projects to tap into tidal energy.
I seem to recall that the rotation oif the Earth is slowing by a miniscule amount every year, believed to be caused by resistance to tidal movement, and using the tides to generate electricity creates more resistance...