I think that having the floor of the room open to a bottomless pit when the machine is moved would make a great anti-theft device... I could save staffing costs by letting go all of the thousand year old guys with swords!
Requiring the speaker to push the material without leaning heavily on a Powerpoint presentation or similar also prevents one of the things I've been most frustrated with since starting at my current institution, the tendancy for a class traditionally presented in a large lecture to be broken into many small sections taught by professors not necessarily familiar with the material in order to 'reduce class size'. It's frustrating to have a professor who you know is really good at what they do trying to present someone else's Powerpoint slides on a completely different topic.
Seeings as to exercise your right to make a copy for personal use, you usually have to defeat some half-hearted digital lock (though the actual level of protection is more akin to packing twine). Sure you've got fair use rights, but the recording industry can make you have to break other laws to exercise them.
Says the AC posting from a browser probably written at least in part in C++, linked to libraries written at least in part in C++, running on an operating system written at least in part in C++. I'd say C++ is pretty effectively allowing you to make an ass of yourself.
The issue isn't running out of air so much as having big tanks strapped to your back. If you just have some batteries and this device, it's less awkward.
You're assuming that transfer of consciousness won't have a mandated flag to impare transfer to new, better machines without paying ransom to the Sony/Microsoft Digital (you have no)Rights Management Alliance...
What interests me is that the older iPods are expected to retain more of their battery life. If a 1st or 2nd gen drops below 5 hours/charge, it is covered by this suit, but apparently 5 hours/charge is acceptable for a 3rd gen part. What amazing new capability on the 3rd gen iPod so dramatically reduces (by 20%) its expected battery life?
Not so much. A stepper motor has a ring of permanant magnets, much like any motor. The difference is that in a stepper motor there are a lot more poles (to provide the precise resolution you use stepper motors for). This motor removes all permanant magnets, somehow using several rotors pushing off each other.
I play UT2K4 on a laptop LCD with a wireless mouse, and still manage to top 3 just about every round. What's this 'LCDs aren't for gaming' that I keep hearing?
Do casual users really copy discs for each other? I thought it was more they hopped on $latest_p2p_network and download it... so you just need one fairly competant guy to crack a CD.
The point of open source is that the features that get added and the platforms that are supported are the ones that people put the time in to code. If a project supports platform x, it goes to reason that someone, somewhere, uses platform x and the given application, and has the skill to make them work together. This isn't a commercial project, where you have a marketroid telling you 'someone, somewhere wants feature x and for the application to work on platform y'.
Its a *scripting* language. If you're taking days to compose a script, perhaps its not appropriate for the task. The idea is to be able to quickly gin something up to complete a task. Having to declare variables and work out types for everything makes the use of a script less of an efficiency gain.
Um... you are aware you're buying a subscription, not stock? There will never, ever be a paid dividend from your subsciption to either service (barring class-action lawsuit payout, but in that case you want to be with the scummier company), and the 'value' of your subscription for resale will always be zero (in fact, you need to dump *more* in every month to keep the same level of 'investment').
Worse than changing their name back in shame is having to pay some company that you used to own for the privledge... I mean seriously, what was the logic behind giving 55% stake in the holder of your old name to a spinoff. (not that the spinoff was a terribly good idea, since PalmOne was the only customer)
I think that it is reasonable to trust a bank more than an alley bank shark. I do not, however, think that it is reasonable to expect 100% security. Banks get robbed. These things happen, they do their best to prevent it, and there is no need for them to be 'severely punished'. If you need to punish anyone, start with the theives, and end with the sensationalists who make it seem like banks just give this stuff away.
As fast as you build walls, people will find some way to breach them. It is outlandish to expect a company to do any more for you than you have contracted with them. When you signed up with your bank, did they promise unbreachable security? I presume that a person so conscious of identity theft would have inquired with their financial institution as to security measures prior to giving them anything, and failing sufficient security, not done business there? In the end, you entrusted your information to some one. Unless you have some agreement about what happens if that data should be compromised, anything they do for you is out of the goodness of their hearts.
Taxing cars to encourage people buying new ones is insane; you generate a lot of waste cars that are still functional, and do a ton on environmental damange manufacturing the new ones. Ever wonder at how anything you buy for your car has hazmat data over half of the packaging's surface? Those are the watered down consumer grade versions of that stuff.
For once, they actually posted 'news for nerds'. And, if you're receptive to the idea that the universe is made out of these superstrings, as opposed to say, god-breath, it's 'stuff that matters' as well.
If the battery is letting out enough radiation to do damage to your precious testicles, its not a very efficient design. There isn't a lot of energy coming out of the tritium they're using anyway...
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I think that having the floor of the room open to a bottomless pit when the machine is moved would make a great anti-theft device ... I could save staffing costs by letting go all of the thousand year old guys with swords!
Even if you can't get over rhyming it with things, the fact that there is 'from Microsoft' in there means instant acceptance from management.
Most commerical scanners have a low power laser. Cue Cats, however, use a pair of high intensity LEDs.
Requiring the speaker to push the material without leaning heavily on a Powerpoint presentation or similar also prevents one of the things I've been most frustrated with since starting at my current institution, the tendancy for a class traditionally presented in a large lecture to be broken into many small sections taught by professors not necessarily familiar with the material in order to 'reduce class size'. It's frustrating to have a professor who you know is really good at what they do trying to present someone else's Powerpoint slides on a completely different topic.
Seeings as to exercise your right to make a copy for personal use, you usually have to defeat some half-hearted digital lock (though the actual level of protection is more akin to packing twine). Sure you've got fair use rights, but the recording industry can make you have to break other laws to exercise them.
Says the AC posting from a browser probably written at least in part in C++, linked to libraries written at least in part in C++, running on an operating system written at least in part in C++. I'd say C++ is pretty effectively allowing you to make an ass of yourself.
The issue isn't running out of air so much as having big tanks strapped to your back. If you just have some batteries and this device, it's less awkward.
The bubbleless breathing systems still use tanks, they just collect the exhaled gas rather than expelling it.
It's possible there is no HDTV support because there are fewer scanlines than an SD signal supports ...
You're assuming that transfer of consciousness won't have a mandated flag to impare transfer to new, better machines without paying ransom to the Sony/Microsoft Digital (you have no)Rights Management Alliance ...
What interests me is that the older iPods are expected to retain more of their battery life. If a 1st or 2nd gen drops below 5 hours/charge, it is covered by this suit, but apparently 5 hours/charge is acceptable for a 3rd gen part. What amazing new capability on the 3rd gen iPod so dramatically reduces (by 20%) its expected battery life?
Not so much. A stepper motor has a ring of permanant magnets, much like any motor. The difference is that in a stepper motor there are a lot more poles (to provide the precise resolution you use stepper motors for). This motor removes all permanant magnets, somehow using several rotors pushing off each other.
I play UT2K4 on a laptop LCD with a wireless mouse, and still manage to top 3 just about every round. What's this 'LCDs aren't for gaming' that I keep hearing?
Do casual users really copy discs for each other? I thought it was more they hopped on $latest_p2p_network and download it ... so you just need one fairly competant guy to crack a CD.
That's not a rare species of owl, its a wifi access point!
I for one welcome our new 3rd grade overlords.
The point of open source is that the features that get added and the platforms that are supported are the ones that people put the time in to code. If a project supports platform x, it goes to reason that someone, somewhere, uses platform x and the given application, and has the skill to make them work together. This isn't a commercial project, where you have a marketroid telling you 'someone, somewhere wants feature x and for the application to work on platform y'.
Only terrorists resist the anal probe!
Its a *scripting* language. If you're taking days to compose a script, perhaps its not appropriate for the task. The idea is to be able to quickly gin something up to complete a task. Having to declare variables and work out types for everything makes the use of a script less of an efficiency gain.
Um ... you are aware you're buying a subscription, not stock? There will never, ever be a paid dividend from your subsciption to either service (barring class-action lawsuit payout, but in that case you want to be with the scummier company), and the 'value' of your subscription for resale will always be zero (in fact, you need to dump *more* in every month to keep the same level of 'investment').
Worse than changing their name back in shame is having to pay some company that you used to own for the privledge ... I mean seriously, what was the logic behind giving 55% stake in the holder of your old name to a spinoff. (not that the spinoff was a terribly good idea, since PalmOne was the only customer)
I think that it is reasonable to trust a bank more than an alley bank shark. I do not, however, think that it is reasonable to expect 100% security. Banks get robbed. These things happen, they do their best to prevent it, and there is no need for them to be 'severely punished'. If you need to punish anyone, start with the theives, and end with the sensationalists who make it seem like banks just give this stuff away.
As fast as you build walls, people will find some way to breach them. It is outlandish to expect a company to do any more for you than you have contracted with them. When you signed up with your bank, did they promise unbreachable security? I presume that a person so conscious of identity theft would have inquired with their financial institution as to security measures prior to giving them anything, and failing sufficient security, not done business there? In the end, you entrusted your information to some one. Unless you have some agreement about what happens if that data should be compromised, anything they do for you is out of the goodness of their hearts.
Taxing cars to encourage people buying new ones is insane; you generate a lot of waste cars that are still functional, and do a ton on environmental damange manufacturing the new ones. Ever wonder at how anything you buy for your car has hazmat data over half of the packaging's surface? Those are the watered down consumer grade versions of that stuff.
For once, they actually posted 'news for nerds'. And, if you're receptive to the idea that the universe is made out of these superstrings, as opposed to say, god-breath, it's 'stuff that matters' as well.
If the battery is letting out enough radiation to do damage to your precious testicles, its not a very efficient design. There isn't a lot of energy coming out of the tritium they're using anyway ...