The comparison is between a complex device made in the dozens, and a complex device made in the billions.
A braile display, which needs to display a line of text - a single changing character wouldn't work, as users slide fingers across the characters - is expensive to produce in the small numbers required.
A sound chip and headphones are used in every mp3 player, HPC and computer in existance. Probably ~50c in bulk amounts.
And as for speed: People who use file readers often have them set to run at 2x-4x speed. As long as the diction is good, it's easy to understand. Especially if you are used to it.
As I see it, there is already many ways to purchase better access to your site. You can set up multiple servers throughout the network. You can buy or hire your own pipes, or even lease some bandwidth from an existing pipe, and carry your data on it. (I have read reports that google is doing just that with 'dark fibre'). If a megacorp wants to get better QOS for their customers, they can buy it, and the large telcos can sell it to them.
Surely this obvious fact renders the arguments against NN null and void?
Of course, most here believe, (and I among them) that this is about taking control of our internets, and preventing all the inovative things that are threatening the status quo that is making the existing systems rich.
you engrave every surface that you are going to travel over with.3 mm saw-tooth-shapped groves.
Could be a little difficult on, say, the Atlantic Ocean.
PostgreSQL, originally called Postgres, was created at UCB by a computer science professor named Michael Stonebraker, who went on to become the CTO of Informix Corporation. Stonebraker started Postgres in 1986 as a followup project to its predecessor, Ingres, now owned by Compter Associates. Postgres' name thus plays off of its successor (as in "after Ingres"). Ingres, developed from 1977 to 1985, had been an exercise in creating a database system according to classic RDBMS theory. Postgres, developed between 1986-1994, was a project meant to break new ground in database concepts such as exploration of "object relational" technologies.
I did go to www.ingres.com, but was bombarded by Too Much Flash. You have been warned.
Every tech uses the "Microsoft is stupid" excuse when they cannot fix a problem, don't they?? If you are not using MS, then you can't say that, and it becomes "my choice of OS is stupid", which is more your problem, isn't it?
Still, I would love to work in a wholey non-MS shop.
Re:orbital mechanics-- BONK! ??
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Ignoring resitance due to the earth's atmosphere (which we really should not do at LEO), yes, it will pass through the exact same point that it was struck.
However, the ISS will not be there when it returns.
I'd call that leet, if that isn't anacronistic for WWII technology.
A second advantage is that it saves the weight of a seperate flywheel (or a unnecesarily heavy prop), because an entier engine should be heavy enough for anyone!
It's a question of people shifting aways from larger, US built vehicles (SUVs, especially) to smaller imported ones. Of course, the US could start making small cars, but the cannot compete.
It's a similar issue here in Australia, too. Locally-built cars are all the larger, 6 or 8 cylinder "family cars", and people are shifting to smaller, 4-cylinder, imported cars.
Moving to a renewable, possibly cheaper fuel, that is not at the mercy of international markets and reducing supplies, makes larger cars more attractive.
Yes, I like your idea (Although the RSPCA is threatening anyone who participates in toad-golf with imprisonment), but I will point out that, in the area arround Kakadu, there are few people, and toads breed quickly. By the time toad number 1 lands, another few hundred reinforcements have just hopped out of the swamp.
Actually, several native species are beginning to target the Cane Toad.
Ric Nattrass, in his Wildlife Talkback radio segment (search on abc.net.au for more), often recieves reports about various birds and other animals beginning to eat toads.
Personally, we have native White-Tailed Rats that catch toads in our pond, and eat their insides, leaving a neatly-cleaned skin and skeletal parts behind.
So, although all is not lost, it takes some time, and many species are wiped out before they work out either how to eat them or to leave them alone. When they reach Kakadoo, it is going to be a disaster, but no one has any way to prevent it.
The Cane Toads we have here are generaly smaller. There are a few (I think native) fungi that stop them growing as large. Smaller toads also do better in the slightly drier conditions here, as opposed to Hawaii.
So, although the species does grow that large, they rarely achieve that here, although I have seen one or two that would come near the half-dinner-plate size. (Around Innisfail, FNQ)
Here's a quote from a fictional work picked at random (OK, it's Princess Bride, so it really wasn't random!!) from my shelf. (My Name is Inigo Montoya......)
"No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic of mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
emphasis (and typos) mine.
So the publishers like to think that they have the right to stop this, but Google thinks (and I think that they have the right in it) that they don't, and can do this under "fair use" provisions.
Moderators are just logged in users who have been given a few mod points. It happens more often if you meta-moderate a few times.
So, log in, click that MetaModerate link, (and get to vet a few moderations), and then choose to participate in a conversation by modding up (or down) comments. You then make the moderation system better, or, maybe, more like you.
It will be stuck to the tiles and sinks. It will have an effect similar to oxidizing the biological stuff (germs, viruses, fungi) that contact it. The harmess gunk that remains will easily wash off.
Question: If a corporation like this recieves licence fees for an invalid patent, What is preventing the licensees suing them for the money that they have extorted?
Reasonable size, dominant object in orbit, near-circular orbit, near orbital plane. Yes, they made a mistake calling Pluto a planet, but that's no reason to repeat the mistake.
The other option is to recognise that the word 'planet' is no longer a scientific term, and let the newspapers call whatever they like a planet. It may cause less angst, and less slashdot articles!
To me it infers that, like a herd of oxen, the boxes are only of interest as a collection, and not individually.
You could try a smaller version
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Take a look at http://www.chessvariants.org/small.dir/losalamos.h tml, a small varient. Less squares used means less possibilities, so the tactics are simpler. That one was used in early chess computers. It also means that you will also be trying to work out new strategies, balancing the scales somewhat.
As this one uses standard pieces, upgrading to the full game will be easy.
Personally, I'd replace one of the knights with a bishop, to have the full complement of pieces.
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I keep telling ye: Dey is Organized!
The comparison is between a complex device made in the dozens, and a complex device made in the billions.
A braile display, which needs to display a line of text - a single changing character wouldn't work, as users slide fingers across the characters - is expensive to produce in the small numbers required.
A sound chip and headphones are used in every mp3 player, HPC and computer in existance. Probably ~50c in bulk amounts.
And as for speed: People who use file readers often have them set to run at 2x-4x speed. As long as the diction is good, it's easy to understand. Especially if you are used to it.
This guy has the common misconception that having a US patent is evidence that your invention actually works. Or even exists.
A US patent simply means that you were able to confuse an undertrained patents clerk.
At the moment, however, you can, without endangering NN, buy yourself better QOS. And the companies can sell it to you.
To overgeneralise, they can already sell you an insurance policy. They want to get into the extortion game.
As I see it, there is already many ways to purchase better access to your site. You can set up multiple servers throughout the network. You can buy or hire your own pipes, or even lease some bandwidth from an existing pipe, and carry your data on it. (I have read reports that google is doing just that with 'dark fibre'). If a megacorp wants to get better QOS for their customers, they can buy it, and the large telcos can sell it to them.
Surely this obvious fact renders the arguments against NN null and void?
Of course, most here believe, (and I among them) that this is about taking control of our internets, and preventing all the inovative things that are threatening the status quo that is making the existing systems rich.
...want to destroy???
you engrave every surface that you are going to travel over with .3 mm saw-tooth-shapped groves.
Could be a little difficult on, say, the Atlantic Ocean.
Recently, my local bank branch had it's ATM's replaced. Not more than 15 years overdue, mind you.
And just what greeted my eyes when I next saw them? Yup. Diebold.
Shudder.....
Every tech uses the "Microsoft is stupid" excuse when they cannot fix a problem, don't they?? If you are not using MS, then you can't say that, and it becomes "my choice of OS is stupid", which is more your problem, isn't it?
Still, I would love to work in a wholey non-MS shop.
Ignoring resitance due to the earth's atmosphere (which we really should not do at LEO), yes, it will pass through the exact same point that it was struck.
However, the ISS will not be there when it returns.
I'd call that leet, if that isn't anacronistic for WWII technology.
A second advantage is that it saves the weight of a seperate flywheel (or a unnecesarily heavy prop), because an entier engine should be heavy enough for anyone!
It's a question of people shifting aways from larger, US built vehicles (SUVs, especially) to smaller imported ones. Of course, the US could start making small cars, but the cannot compete. It's a similar issue here in Australia, too. Locally-built cars are all the larger, 6 or 8 cylinder "family cars", and people are shifting to smaller, 4-cylinder, imported cars. Moving to a renewable, possibly cheaper fuel, that is not at the mercy of international markets and reducing supplies, makes larger cars more attractive.
Our fellows might have their problems, but at least the're not Bush and Cheney!!
Yes, I like your idea (Although the RSPCA is threatening anyone who participates in toad-golf with imprisonment), but I will point out that, in the area arround Kakadu, there are few people, and toads breed quickly. By the time toad number 1 lands, another few hundred reinforcements have just hopped out of the swamp.
Actually, several native species are beginning to target the Cane Toad.
Ric Nattrass, in his Wildlife Talkback radio segment (search on abc.net.au for more), often recieves reports about various birds and other animals beginning to eat toads.
Personally, we have native White-Tailed Rats that catch toads in our pond, and eat their insides, leaving a neatly-cleaned skin and skeletal parts behind.
So, although all is not lost, it takes some time, and many species are wiped out before they work out either how to eat them or to leave them alone. When they reach Kakadoo, it is going to be a disaster, but no one has any way to prevent it.
The Cane Toads we have here are generaly smaller. There are a few (I think native) fungi that stop them growing as large. Smaller toads also do better in the slightly drier conditions here, as opposed to Hawaii.
So, although the species does grow that large, they rarely achieve that here, although I have seen one or two that would come near the half-dinner-plate size. (Around Innisfail, FNQ)
http://heavens-above.com/ carries suitsat data.
Here's a quote from a fictional work picked at random (OK, it's Princess Bride, so it really wasn't random!!) from my shelf. (My Name is Inigo Montoya......)
emphasis (and typos) mine.So the publishers like to think that they have the right to stop this, but Google thinks (and I think that they have the right in it) that they don't, and can do this under "fair use" provisions.
Moderators are just logged in users who have been given a few mod points. It happens more often if you meta-moderate a few times.
So, log in, click that MetaModerate link, (and get to vet a few moderations), and then choose to participate in a conversation by modding up (or down) comments. You then make the moderation system better, or, maybe, more like you.
It will be stuck to the tiles and sinks. It will have an effect similar to oxidizing the biological stuff (germs, viruses, fungi) that contact it. The harmess gunk that remains will easily wash off.
Question: If a corporation like this recieves licence fees for an invalid patent, What is preventing the licensees suing them for the money that they have extorted?
Me Too!,/AOL>
Reasonable size, dominant object in orbit, near-circular orbit, near orbital plane. Yes, they made a mistake calling Pluto a planet, but that's no reason to repeat the mistake.
The other option is to recognise that the word 'planet' is no longer a scientific term, and let the newspapers call whatever they like a planet. It may cause less angst, and less slashdot articles!
To me it infers that, like a herd of oxen, the boxes are only of interest as a collection, and not individually.
Take a look at http://www.chessvariants.org/small.dir/losalamos.h tml, a small varient. Less squares used means less possibilities, so the tactics are simpler. That one was used in early chess computers. It also means that you will also be trying to work out new strategies, balancing the scales somewhat.
As this one uses standard pieces, upgrading to the full game will be easy.
Personally, I'd replace one of the knights with a bishop, to have the full complement of pieces.