This has happened before and it will happen again. OK so you can "hyperlink" to content, but this is "so different, its like they use a program, and its not a web browser..." Once the lawyers get their reality distortion fields locked on to the, hand picked and mind numbed, jury any thing can happen. All they need is a few precedents and money can often buy them. Remember, in the US the tomato is legally a vegetable (not a fruit) simple because it pleased someone financially. Reality and reason can often have little place in a courtroom when big dollar civil cases are in play.
Its a basic fact: Like large amounts of mater warps space time, large amounts of money warps peoples perception of reality....
Sounds like the exact problem had with an old CTR, it when all green. In the end it turned out to be a shorted cable, if you bent it one way it would go normal again. A new cable fixed that. I bet your A.) are using a 25 pin sub-D cable and B.) its cable (or its plug) has gone bad. The fact that it "got better" for some time may indicate this. Check it out.
Well this will get the better part of the windows security software industry up in arms. T-Minus 6 months for the lawyers to start flying from their subterranean (or is that suburban) caves to feast on the blood of the cash cow that is Microsoft. Of course like real vampire bats they only take a little blood and the bites don't relay hurt such a large cow. I wonder who will win... this time.
Yes your chemistry sounds about right, as the aluminum corrodes you get a current. However this can't be too good for the plant. Besides the obvious bit about a big spike being nailed in, aluminum ions are toxic to plants. As this thing makes "power" (which in it self is questionable due to the energy cost of refining aluminum) it poisons the tree. I am sure since IAPMB (I am a Plant Molecular Biologist) that the plant can tolerate a certain amount of aluminum, however quite a lot can come from acid soils and the environment. I am doubtful that any real amount of "power" can be harvested this way without killing (or severely stunting) the trees. In short, what the heck is the point, sure you can make a potato battery out of a tree. However like the potato clock, you don't expect the potato to survive long term as a living battery.
Talk about the rape of the forests... This must be forest BDSM.
Heres a brief overview for those that hate to read patent apps.
The word "scotopic" you seen in the app. refers to reduced illumination or reduced completeness of the wave lengths of light used to make white light. If I have "scotopic vision" it means I can function in low light.
summary:
These guys mixed up a set of additional phosphors that that they blended to produce this afterglow effect and tuned ti to be a nice green(sense human eyes are most sensitive to green) so you won't notice the slow reduction of glow over time. The bulbs have about a "hyperbolic decay rate dropping to approximately ten (10%) percent of its initial brightness in about six minutes".
some of the phosphors used:
Sr4AL14O25: Eu Dy (powere on phosphor)
(Sr Mg)3 (PO4): Sn
Mg WO4: W
Ca WO4: Pb
SrO (P2 O5 B2 O3): Eu
Y2 O3: Eu
La PO4: Co, Tb
Sr2 P2 O7: Eu
Ba Mg2 Al16 O27: Eu
construction and function:
Phosphors (I assume many or all of the above but I may be mistaken) are layered up in the tube as a chalky composite material and coated with aluminum oxide to prevent flaking off the walls. The after glow phosphors are coated on the outside of the tube, "the spray-on after-glow phosphor coating is slightly noticeable and causes only a slight decrease in normal lumen output". As someone surmised these phosphors absorb light from the tube as it is powered up and the greater light intensity in the tube is that which makes such a high density of phosphors useful and possible to so highly charge. These may well be similar phosphors to those found in glow plastics but I can not say for sure, however, they do work similarly. These tubes work on the older standard of operation, ie they are the wide mercury containing tubes, not the thin ones that don't have Hg that you have to use in the USA in new installations these days.
Porters eh, did any one read that as Linux geeks acting as a caravan of human beasts of burden, aka a Sherpa. I can just about see myself bearing the burden of an endless stream of computers with sound blaster audigy cards and having to get them working in asla, or some other menial yet difficult task......
B.) Like artists there appear to be quite a number of programmers that insist on making true crap and calling it "programing", while only a few make truly good programs.
C.) and like art many people seem to actively pursue the work of some of these programmers and place high values on their works. However, they do so with little regard as to weather the works belong to the "crap" or the "skilled" categories.
Oh brother, big upgrades may cause problems, this is not really news. We all backup our servers (or important boxes) before we do ANY upgrade, especially if its this big (woody -> sarge). then we are mostly "safe" when (or if) something breaks. At the very least get a list of your installed packages and backup the "critical things". that ways if X eats Y you know how it was before.
As a complete pessimist I truly expected bad things from this upgrade. I was pleasantly surprised that when I upgraded 7 boxes and 2 servers the worst that happened was one old testing box (a PPC that had not been updated in years probably) wanted to uninstall KDE. At this point I may add, of course when we do say an "apt-get dist-upgrade" we LOOK at what wants to be uninstalled don't we. If somthing we like / need is gona be uninstalled we usually think abit and fix that dependency first (at least I always do).
At any rate, many of these boxes (not all mine) were a mash of headless pseudo servers and desktops running various states of woody, the old sarge and many bits of sid and sarge all muddled together. And they all came through with no real hitches, just a the usual twiddle of the sources lists and may be a quick tweak of the installed kernels in the grub menu (so the right one is default and all entries are sane).
Got it all done in an afternoon, and got on with the rest of the day. All and all, a much better upgrade path than I remember with potato -> woody back when I was younger and much stupider. We now have a much more homogeneous set of light use boxes / desktops and the file servers are set to get their security upgrades and be basically unnoticed for another 3 years if need be.
The pessimist is happy... Thank you to the Debian team, I have been a little less pessimistic for the last 5 years thanks to all your hard work.
*nothing is truly broken and nothing is truly idiot proof by nature, it is all how you deal with it. That is what really defines who is really at fault with the shit rain starts to fall.
if I begin using PoE in my building here in the USA, in order to be within code, I have to put my ethernet cable in a conduit. While bare wires in walls is ok if it is just for data, but all forms of power lines heave to be enclosed. This issue may not be present in all states of the union but similar unreasonable (I.e. legally imposed) restrictons can hinder any widespread adoption of this. Simply due to the hassle, higher costs of conversions and red tape.
On the other side, I am sure a few, less building code tied, home users may just love a 15 watt PoE powered multimedia computer (think Myth box), I for one would.
I do more or less this exact way, rsync incrimentaly each day, save weely images each sunday via cron. Each week I then use mkzftree and mkisofs to make that compressed ziso image of my system.
My big change is to then take out my trusty slax live image (but you can probably use any live distro with rysync) and burn the ziso images with that to a dvd (either remasterd or as a second session. That way i can restore from total failure. Be sure to avoid 2gb or greater files that don't work in ISO format, if you have such files use UDF or break em up.
To restore jsut mount the images on dvd via loop and copy a few files or use rsync to do it all. if the disk is dead you can boot to your live distro and then you have the tools to fix it first then copy em back.
Of course nearly all these tasks can be done as scripts once you get tired of the commands:) , and the trick of the boot image is usefull if you rsync, tar or dd your backups.
Looking over at my periodic table on the wall and low i see more than 112, my table goes to 118 but misses the odd #'s over 112. I thought that 116 (ununhexium) was the most massive element and then they missed 114 (ununquadium) as well.
I am not sure if 116 or 114 are "confirmed" but 116 is fairly reproducible and the article states that japans 113 is not yet "confirmed" so that would but it on par with these others. As a note 118 was reported by a Russian but was later retracted due to reproducibility problems.
not sure about the pulse (or lack thereof) but i am certainly sure that human body needs to have a clot free blood stream.
regrettably the insertion of most foreign (non biological) materials into the blood causes clots. this is going to be true of the Lvad described here as well. true stagnation elimination helps but that is not the real problem. it is simply a materials issue. These materials readily recognized as not proper tissue and they are not soft and do damage blood cells. the result is they stimulate coagulation. in the case of this occurring in a region of fast blood flow you get the potential for clots flowing in the blood stream. this cans lead to stroke and other serious conditions.
Such risks underscore the need for even a artificial valve patent to need to be on life long anti-coagulation treatment. the down of this is that this had a cumulative risk of about 1% per year for a bleed in the brain as a direct result. may be this is ok if you are already 80 but for a younger heart paten these risks are huge.
sure hope they can figure a way to cover up the artificial materials of these appliances with flesh (possibly lab grown from the patents own cells) or build better surfaces into the devices than metals to reduce this insidious risk. i figure that this will be the fist big step to a truly decent heart transplant / appliance.
"have a heart you say, why my dear boy, i have two"
Beyond the potential taxing of the muscle repair potential and the overall energy needs of the child they may be other problems. think about his heart. this mutation may well cause him to suffer severe heart problems in the future. an over muscled heart can easily lead to several problems:
1 enlargement of the heart (generally a bad thing)
2 potential valve damage (likely in enlarged or arhythmic hearts)
3 arhythmia (enhanced or caused by enlargement and/or the muscle mass, large hearts take longer to respond to beat signals)
4 heart attacks (increased O2 need from all the extra muscle makes a clogged coronary artery that much worse).
The human body can cope with some of these depending on genetics. However that is not controlled by his gene mutation. so if he is not blessed with a high resistance to heart and circulatory disease from his parrents this "extra burden" on his body may well be quite unhealthy even if he looks buff now. so no rushing out for custom gene therapy now......
Unfortunately there will be flavor loss in caffeine free or decaffeinated coffee. it is inevitable as one of the major flavor compounds is the caffeine itself. caffeine has a strong acid (sour) flavor and is quite distinctive as a coffee component. just bite on a caffeine pill some time and compare it to a cup of standard starbucks black roast. i personally prefer a slightly sour (perhaps acrid) coffee with a slight fruity nose. of course decaffeination will not affect the flavor of the average low grade truck stop/diner coffee as that is already very nasty.
....Unlike the past, more crude, implementations this bus will not require 2 large bolts to be placed in the neck of the reanimated customer. This new procedure offers the complete elimination of the tedious installation procedures on dead tissue and all subsequent reanimation. Coupled with many of the new advances in implant technology the required bolts have been reduced in size and are now placed behind the ears to further lower the cosmetic impact of the procedure. These bolts now also serve as the first of many hardpoints for the the installation of upgrade gear that each of our sl^H^H customers may expect to be required to purchase over the course of their asim^H^H^H^H service contract....
hmmmm RFID seems to me no real problem. Some people will care, some will not. If you are one that cares then you simply don't buy RFID equip gear or disable them if you do. To remove, locate it, cut it, crush, EMP, or whatever. As a side note these will likely not stand up to 5 sec in a microwave (usefull if you don't have your own EMP for use on clothes or other non metal goods). If you what to get rid of them to steal, then you are on your own as i advocate not stealing.... If they are trying to build them into stuff like laptops and cell phones i actually don't see a problem as these are already traceable by their wireless links.
at the most make them disclose the use of this technology so you can buy intelligently if you desire to avoid it.
If thy are gona go the pc way then why not just make expansion card that acts as the needed hardware, a DRM tool, a dongl, game card for standard xbox controls, and a AV out for the tv if desired. Package this with software that use the card based hardware to render the game and you have a new product.
This may be invasive and annoying but it will not stop the recording. In order for the flag to work all the software will have to be "flag" compliant. So simply the adoption of this will provide either a resurgence of older tools that don't support this "feature" or new softwear that will not support this (or allow it to be turned off) even if mandated by law. Even that NX thing and the flag combined will not stop the recording as it:
A.) will only be present on new systems so old hardware will still work(how much computer do you need to stream rip any way).
B.) because as long as you can hear it you can record it. so perhaps the sound will have to be recorded right off the analog output by the very same computer that is playing it, after extracting the ID3 of course.
C.) if by some magic they make it work and be fool proof people will simply go back to cd ripping and file sharing. By that time the new encrypted networks will be better and harder to sue users of.
This will only add another teer of complexity and another charge that they can sue the file makers for.
"FROG!"..... "I said frog, now jump dammit, jump!"........"Um boss, it's not working."...... "awww be a good boy, please jump when i say frog".......
Seems to me that an IR remote solution is your best option. If more is desired I seem to like the Gyration keyboard and mouse comb set. It is a USB RF receiver for bother keyboard and mouse and the keyboard is quite small (like a laptop keyboard) nice for a 50 foot or less situation. The mouse also can be operated in air and has nice sensitive accelerometers. All said an IR remote and this setup is all I use for home theater. All this can be had for less than $120 so id say it is a bargain. They make a more powerful model too if more distance is desired (150' is possible I think).
blue tooth is nice but RF is better if you need the range;)
I concur, make sure they take the meds as stoping medication is a common problem. Often the meds work great but there are always side effects such as nausea tremors and sleep problems. These often lead to the patent to reduce and or modify the dosage or even stop taking medicine as they "feel fine." In the case of many disorders they actually don't know how much they need those meds. So be sure if you have a friend (or sister) that they take the meds. If the side effects are bad there may be alternatives to take instead.
Hmmm from my not legal point of view this looks like GLP with law suit limitations and a reserved right to retract the license. but as i reiterate i am no lawyer
here is a fun snip from the license:
/begin snip
7.1.
YOU agree that the laws of England shall apply
to any dispute arising from this LICENCE. YOU
agree for the benefit of VITA NUOVA that the
Courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction
to hear and decide any suit, action or
proceedings (``Proceedings''), and to settle any
disputes, which may arise out of or in
connection with this LICENCE and, for these
purposes YOU irrevo-cably submit to the
jurisdiction of the English Courts.
/end snip
English courts eh? cant say i like that bit. however it seems to me that this would be needlessly restrictive... however i wonder if Slovenia (or any contry that tends to not support foreign copy rights) would even care?
"If you have a dispute you automatically agree to our contries way of settling clams.... 6 months into dispute...... Our champion No-Nuts will now 'Ro-sham-bo" your weak CEO for the copyrights! Kiss your balls good bye, MUHAHA HAHA......"
About mount, It appears that they are now using some type of auto mount. I can't verify that this is true for the floppy as this box has none. However the cd/dvd will auto mount and toss the contense on the screen. You can unmount in a standard way (your lease favorite) or just press the cd eject button and it comes out clean. This caused me no errors at eject or the load of the next disk and i tred it a few times. id say this has a very real chance of being as kid friendly as you desire on the disk mount matter.
Now if only i can figure out the problem with the USB and 1394 drives... so far it's not looking like a quick fix such as an error appearing in fstab...
I Just put 9.1 on and would give it a 9 of 10 (i have yet to see 10) on install and initial setup.
This was installed on my most recent box (3 ghz P4 w HT). I did this up as a dual boot box with XP like i tend to do when testing.
As I am just getting into it I can't give a full review but the install process was very smooth and the whole thing has a polished feel and look. But be sure to pre partition your drive unless you don't mind reinstalling windows ( I just installed over my existing debian linux after I took a image of my partion and MBR). The system right after the install was at about 90%. It setup grub correctly and did not mess up windows. I have to say I like the the boot up menue and the linux boot up sequence, simple but functional or as detailed as you like.
It after system setup it recognized my local ntfs and fat32 partitions and mounted them but is having trouble with my USB and 1394 drives so far. The graphics settings were usable but a bit low for my card (radeon 6800) and need minimal tweaking to get the right color depth and resolution. Network and other peripherals worked right from the start. All the major applications appear to work and I have most every app. I want but firefox and wine. I have not yet tested playing media yet as all that was not the drives that don't yet work. All said this was probably the smoothest install I have ever had. Ill bet I will like this more than red hat.
Closing impression is that I am still debian (and knoppix) at heart but this is a very nice desktop all the same.
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This has happened before and it will happen again. OK so you can "hyperlink" to content, but this is "so different, its like they use a program, and its not a web browser..." Once the lawyers get their reality distortion fields locked on to the, hand picked and mind numbed, jury any thing can happen. All they need is a few precedents and money can often buy them. Remember, in the US the tomato is legally a vegetable (not a fruit) simple because it pleased someone financially. Reality and reason can often have little place in a courtroom when big dollar civil cases are in play.
Its a basic fact: Like large amounts of mater warps space time, large amounts of money warps peoples perception of reality....
Sounds like the exact problem had with an old CTR, it when all green. In the end it turned out to be a shorted cable, if you bent it one way it would go normal again. A new cable fixed that. I bet your A.) are using a 25 pin sub-D cable and B.) its cable (or its plug) has gone bad. The fact that it "got better" for some time may indicate this. Check it out.
Well this will get the better part of the windows security software industry up in arms. T-Minus 6 months for the lawyers to start flying from their subterranean (or is that suburban) caves to feast on the blood of the cash cow that is Microsoft. Of course like real vampire bats they only take a little blood and the bites don't relay hurt such a large cow. I wonder who will win ... this time.
Yes your chemistry sounds about right, as the aluminum corrodes you get a current. However this can't be too good for the plant. Besides the obvious bit about a big spike being nailed in, aluminum ions are toxic to plants. As this thing makes "power" (which in it self is questionable due to the energy cost of refining aluminum) it poisons the tree. I am sure since IAPMB (I am a Plant Molecular Biologist) that the plant can tolerate a certain amount of aluminum, however quite a lot can come from acid soils and the environment. I am doubtful that any real amount of "power" can be harvested this way without killing (or severely stunting) the trees. In short, what the heck is the point, sure you can make a potato battery out of a tree. However like the potato clock, you don't expect the potato to survive long term as a living battery.
... This must be forest BDSM.
Talk about the rape of the forests
Heres a brief overview for those that hate to read patent apps.
The word "scotopic" you seen in the app. refers to reduced illumination or reduced completeness of the wave lengths of light used to make white light. If I have "scotopic vision" it means I can function in low light.
summary:
These guys mixed up a set of additional phosphors that that they blended to produce this afterglow effect and tuned ti to be a nice green(sense human eyes are most sensitive to green) so you won't notice the slow reduction of glow over time. The bulbs have about a "hyperbolic decay rate dropping to approximately ten (10%) percent of its initial brightness in about six minutes".
some of the phosphors used:
Sr4AL14O25: Eu Dy (powere on phosphor)
(Sr Mg)3 (PO4): Sn
Mg WO4: W
Ca WO4: Pb
SrO (P2 O5 B2 O3): Eu
Y2 O3: Eu
La PO4: Co, Tb
Sr2 P2 O7: Eu
Ba Mg2 Al16 O27: Eu
construction and function:
Phosphors (I assume many or all of the above but I may be mistaken) are layered up in the tube as a chalky composite material and coated with aluminum oxide to prevent flaking off the walls. The after glow phosphors are coated on the outside of the tube, "the spray-on after-glow phosphor coating is slightly noticeable and causes only a slight decrease in normal lumen output". As someone surmised these phosphors absorb light from the tube as it is powered up and the greater light intensity in the tube is that which makes such a high density of phosphors useful and possible to so highly charge. These may well be similar phosphors to those found in glow plastics but I can not say for sure, however, they do work similarly. These tubes work on the older standard of operation, ie they are the wide mercury containing tubes, not the thin ones that don't have Hg that you have to use in the USA in new installations these days.
enjoy
Porters eh, did any one read that as Linux geeks acting as a caravan of human beasts of burden, aka a Sherpa. I can just about see myself bearing the burden of an endless stream of computers with sound blaster audigy cards and having to get them working in asla, or some other menial yet difficult task ......
Of course, next time I bet they leave off the id tags on the map. So as to improve its abiguity ...
Nice sweet poke-around in a tivo, of course now I want play with one too ;)
B.) Like artists there appear to be quite a number of programmers that insist on making true crap and calling it "programing", while only a few make truly good programs.
C.) and like art many people seem to actively pursue the work of some of these programmers and place high values on their works. However, they do so with little regard as to weather the works belong to the "crap" or the "skilled" categories.
Oh brother, big upgrades may cause problems, this is not really news. We all backup our servers (or important boxes) before we do ANY upgrade, especially if its this big (woody -> sarge). then we are mostly "safe" when (or if) something breaks. At the very least get a list of your installed packages and backup the "critical things". that ways if X eats Y you know how it was before.
As a complete pessimist I truly expected bad things from this upgrade. I was pleasantly surprised that when I upgraded 7 boxes and 2 servers the worst that happened was one old testing box (a PPC that had not been updated in years probably) wanted to uninstall KDE. At this point I may add, of course when we do say an "apt-get dist-upgrade" we LOOK at what wants to be uninstalled don't we. If somthing we like / need is gona be uninstalled we usually think abit and fix that dependency first (at least I always do).
At any rate, many of these boxes (not all mine) were a mash of headless pseudo servers and desktops running various states of woody, the old sarge and many bits of sid and sarge all muddled together. And they all came through with no real hitches, just a the usual twiddle of the sources lists and may be a quick tweak of the installed kernels in the grub menu (so the right one is default and all entries are sane).
Got it all done in an afternoon, and got on with the rest of the day. All and all, a much better upgrade path than I remember with potato -> woody back when I was younger and much stupider. We now have a much more homogeneous set of light use boxes / desktops and the file servers are set to get their security upgrades and be basically unnoticed for another 3 years if need be.
The pessimist is happy... Thank you to the Debian team, I have been a little less pessimistic for the last 5 years thanks to all your hard work.
*nothing is truly broken and nothing is truly idiot proof by nature, it is all how you deal with it. That is what really defines who is really at fault with the shit rain starts to fall.
Consider this:
if I begin using PoE in my building here in the USA, in order to be within code, I have to put my ethernet cable in a conduit. While bare wires in walls is ok if it is just for data, but all forms of power lines heave to be enclosed. This issue may not be present in all states of the union but similar unreasonable (I.e. legally imposed) restrictons can hinder any widespread adoption of this. Simply due to the hassle, higher costs of conversions and red tape.
On the other side, I am sure a few, less building code tied, home users may just love a 15 watt PoE powered multimedia computer (think Myth box), I for one would.
I do more or less this exact way, rsync incrimentaly each day, save weely images each sunday via cron. Each week I then use mkzftree and mkisofs to make that compressed ziso image of my system.
:) , and the trick of the boot image is usefull if you rsync, tar or dd your backups.
My big change is to then take out my trusty slax live image (but you can probably use any live distro with rysync) and burn the ziso images with that to a dvd (either remasterd or as a second session. That way i can restore from total failure. Be sure to avoid 2gb or greater files that don't work in ISO format, if you have such files use UDF or break em up.
To restore jsut mount the images on dvd via loop and copy a few files or use rsync to do it all. if the disk is dead you can boot to your live distro and then you have the tools to fix it first then copy em back.
Of course nearly all these tasks can be done as scripts once you get tired of the commands
Looking over at my periodic table on the wall and low i see more than 112, my table goes to 118 but misses the odd #'s over 112. I thought that 116 (ununhexium) was the most massive element and then they missed 114 (ununquadium) as well.
e xt/Uuh/key.html
h exium.html
I am not sure if 116 or 114 are "confirmed" but 116 is fairly reproducible and the article states that japans 113 is not yet "confirmed" so that would but it on par with these others. As a note 118 was reported by a Russian but was later retracted due to reproducibility problems.
Here is some info sites:
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/t
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/U/unun
** Although lead is rather non-toxic in metal form, when properly accelerated things change slightly **
not sure about the pulse (or lack thereof) but i am certainly sure that human body needs to have a clot free blood stream.
regrettably the insertion of most foreign (non biological) materials into the blood causes clots. this is going to be true of the Lvad described here as well. true stagnation elimination helps but that is not the real problem. it is simply a materials issue. These materials readily recognized as not proper tissue and they are not soft and do damage blood cells. the result is they stimulate coagulation. in the case of this occurring in a region of fast blood flow you get the potential for clots flowing in the blood stream. this cans lead to stroke and other serious conditions.
Such risks underscore the need for even a artificial valve patent to need to be on life long anti-coagulation treatment. the down of this is that this had a cumulative risk of about 1% per year for a bleed in the brain as a direct result. may be this is ok if you are already 80 but for a younger heart paten these risks are huge.
sure hope they can figure a way to cover up the artificial materials of these appliances with flesh (possibly lab grown from the patents own cells) or build better surfaces into the devices than metals to reduce this insidious risk. i figure that this will be the fist big step to a truly decent heart transplant / appliance.
"have a heart you say, why my dear boy, i have two"
Beyond the potential taxing of the muscle repair potential and the overall energy needs of the child they may be other problems. think about his heart. this mutation may well cause him to suffer severe heart problems in the future. an over muscled heart can easily lead to several problems:
......
1 enlargement of the heart (generally a bad thing)
2 potential valve damage (likely in enlarged or arhythmic hearts)
3 arhythmia (enhanced or caused by enlargement and/or the muscle mass, large hearts take longer to respond to beat signals)
4 heart attacks (increased O2 need from all the extra muscle makes a clogged coronary artery that much worse).
The human body can cope with some of these depending on genetics. However that is not controlled by his gene mutation. so if he is not blessed with a high resistance to heart and circulatory disease from his parrents this "extra burden" on his body may well be quite unhealthy even if he looks buff now. so no rushing out for custom gene therapy now
Unfortunately there will be flavor loss in caffeine free or decaffeinated coffee. it is inevitable as one of the major flavor compounds is the caffeine itself. caffeine has a strong acid (sour) flavor and is quite distinctive as a coffee component. just bite on a caffeine pill some time and compare it to a cup of standard starbucks black roast. i personally prefer a slightly sour (perhaps acrid) coffee with a slight fruity nose. of course decaffeination will not affect the flavor of the average low grade truck stop/diner coffee as that is already very nasty.
hmmmm RFID seems to me no real problem. Some people will care, some will not. If you are one that cares then you simply don't buy RFID equip gear or disable them if you do. To remove, locate it, cut it, crush, EMP, or whatever. As a side note these will likely not stand up to 5 sec in a microwave (usefull if you don't have your own EMP for use on clothes or other non metal goods). If you what to get rid of them to steal, then you are on your own as i advocate not stealing.... If they are trying to build them into stuff like laptops and cell phones i actually don't see a problem as these are already traceable by their wireless links.
at the most make them disclose the use of this technology so you can buy intelligently if you desire to avoid it.
If thy are gona go the pc way then why not just make expansion card that acts as the needed hardware, a DRM tool, a dongl, game card for standard xbox controls, and a AV out for the tv if desired. Package this with software that use the card based hardware to render the game and you have a new product.
my $0.02
This may be invasive and annoying but it will not stop the recording. In order for the flag to work all the software will have to be "flag" compliant. So simply the adoption of this will provide either a resurgence of older tools that don't support this "feature" or new softwear that will not support this (or allow it to be turned off) even if mandated by law. Even that NX thing and the flag combined will not stop the recording as it:
..... "I said frog, now jump dammit, jump!" ........"Um boss, it's not working." ...... "awww be a good boy, please jump when i say frog".......
A.) will only be present on new systems so old hardware will still work(how much computer do you need to stream rip any way).
B.) because as long as you can hear it you can record it. so perhaps the sound will have to be recorded right off the analog output by the very same computer that is playing it, after extracting the ID3 of course.
C.) if by some magic they make it work and be fool proof people will simply go back to cd ripping and file sharing. By that time the new encrypted networks will be better and harder to sue users of.
This will only add another teer of complexity and another charge that they can sue the file makers for.
"FROG!"
Seems to me that an IR remote solution is your best option. If more is desired I seem to like the Gyration keyboard and mouse comb set. It is a USB RF receiver for bother keyboard and mouse and the keyboard is quite small (like a laptop keyboard) nice for a 50 foot or less situation. The mouse also can be operated in air and has nice sensitive accelerometers. All said an IR remote and this setup is all I use for home theater. All this can be had for less than $120 so id say it is a bargain. They make a more powerful model too if more distance is desired (150' is possible I think).
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blue tooth is nice but RF is better if you need the range
I concur, make sure they take the meds as stoping medication is a common problem. Often the meds work great but there are always side effects such as nausea tremors and sleep problems. These often lead to the patent to reduce and or modify the dosage or even stop taking medicine as they "feel fine." In the case of many disorders they actually don't know how much they need those meds. So be sure if you have a friend (or sister) that they take the meds. If the side effects are bad there may be alternatives to take instead.
Hmmm from my not legal point of view this looks like GLP with law suit limitations and a reserved right to retract the license. but as i reiterate i am no lawyer
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here is a fun snip from the license:
7.1.
YOU agree that the laws of England shall apply to any dispute arising from this LICENCE. YOU agree for the benefit of VITA NUOVA that the Courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide any suit, action or proceedings (``Proceedings''), and to settle any disputes, which may arise out of or in connection with this LICENCE and, for these purposes YOU irrevo-cably submit to the jurisdiction of the English Courts.
English courts eh? cant say i like that bit. however it seems to me that this would be needlessly restrictive... however i wonder if Slovenia (or any contry that tends to not support foreign copy rights) would even care?
"If you have a dispute you automatically agree to our contries way of settling clams.... 6 months into dispute...... Our champion No-Nuts will now 'Ro-sham-bo" your weak CEO for the copyrights! Kiss your balls good bye, MUHAHA HAHA......"
About mount, It appears that they are now using some type of auto mount. I can't verify that this is true for the floppy as this box has none. However the cd/dvd will auto mount and toss the contense on the screen. You can unmount in a standard way (your lease favorite) or just press the cd eject button and it comes out clean. This caused me no errors at eject or the load of the next disk and i tred it a few times. id say this has a very real chance of being as kid friendly as you desire on the disk mount matter.
Now if only i can figure out the problem with the USB and 1394 drives... so far it's not looking like a quick fix such as an error appearing in fstab...
I Just put 9.1 on and would give it a 9 of 10 (i have yet to see 10) on install and initial setup.
This was installed on my most recent box (3 ghz P4 w HT). I did this up as a dual boot box with XP like i tend to do when testing.
As I am just getting into it I can't give a full review but the install process was very smooth and the whole thing has a polished feel and look. But be sure to pre partition your drive unless you don't mind reinstalling windows ( I just installed over my existing debian linux after I took a image of my partion and MBR). The system right after the install was at about 90%. It setup grub correctly and did not mess up windows. I have to say I like the the boot up menue and the linux boot up sequence, simple but functional or as detailed as you like.
It after system setup it recognized my local ntfs and fat32 partitions and mounted them but is having trouble with my USB and 1394 drives so far. The graphics settings were usable but a bit low for my card (radeon 6800) and need minimal tweaking to get the right color depth and resolution. Network and other peripherals worked right from the start. All the major applications appear to work and I have most every app. I want but firefox and wine. I have not yet tested playing media yet as all that was not the drives that don't yet work. All said this was probably the smoothest install I have ever had. Ill bet I will like this more than red hat.
Closing impression is that I am still debian (and knoppix) at heart but this is a very nice desktop all the same.