2 (B-2 and B-52) out of the USAF's 3 (other one is the B-1) active bombers are subsonic, as are all 3 dedicated ground-attack planes (Harrier, Thunderbolt II, and the AC-130).
The fact that Bell has been bleeding customers to these small ISPs since they started shaping would definitely suggest they are trying to reduce competition by putting a ceiling on the services.
1. These guys are independent ISPs. They lease last-mile lines from Bell (Bell owns all the phone infrastructure.) to provide DSL and other services.
2. Bell started shaping their own customers months ago, and they started hemorrhaging customers to the smaller ISPs (A free market working properly) who didn't shape traffic.
3. Bell decided to start shaping the traffic from those smaller ISPs.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, it's not writing to them, it's overloading them. RFID works a bit like a crystal set radio, they're powered off the transmission and use that power to transmit a signal back. Transmit a powerful enough signal to them, and you fry the chip.
If you would look at the article, wikipedia states the bureau of justice statistics as the source for that number. 2,299,116 people currently incarcerated in local, state, and federal corrections facilities as of June 30, 2007 (most recent data they list), which is ~0.75% of the population.
They also source from a report from Pew (it's note #8) stating that the incarceration rate is now above 1%.
It throws a sudo (whatever GUI frontend it uses, I forget) password prompt in Ubuntu.
Xubuntu 7.04. It's my aunt's machine pretty much used only for mahjong and other simple games, has no internet connection whatsoever, and it works fine with no issues, so I haven't bothered updating it.
Then you should have stuck for what you believe and refused to sell underpowered vista machines.
I believe that's what they did. Problem being, MS lowered the bar at the last moment after HP was already selling their machines, and everyone else undercut them with less-than-adequate machines. And being as Joe 40oz doesn't know the difference between the systems, he's likely to go with the latter, thus HP loses a ton of money.
The problem is that they're already getting their funding cut back by roughly $21 million and they're being legally forced to allocate $7.5 million to this bullshit, along with $1.5 million per year until this get repealed, money would I could think of far far better uses for.
We're taking about energy levels sufficient to light a 1W lightbulb (one of those tiny christmas tree lights) for about 16 milliseconds, roughly one refresh cycle of an old CRT monitor. If you were pretty close and they all annihilated in a small area all at once, you might see a small blink of light.
You are fantastically overestimating how much they made. 100 billion particles seems like a lot, but it's actually only about 9.1x10^-17 grams (91 attograms). You could likely be physically standing right in front of the thing, in the middle of the spray of particles, and not notice anything.
If the summery is right about what laser they used and the energy use for such (400J), and the count of the particles (~100 billion), and we were able to capture all energy from the annihilation (E=mc^2), we're looking at about 0.004% efficiency.
We're a looooooooooooooong way from having antimatter as a viable energy storage solution.
Something tells me it's a bad idea to sue a school full of law students, law professors, and likely a few more lawyers on retainer or payroll, when you don't have a legal leg to stand on.
It's not so much the jobs they're providing (though GM does employ a small country worth of people), but all the people who live off pensions from them. Company goes down, the pensions disappear, and guess who is now paying more social security to all those people.
More like comparing apples to grape seeds. If you took all the money used on the recent bailouts (~$2 trillion and likely to grow) and put it towards NASA, you could run the place at current funding levels for the rest of this century.
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I was under the impression that nexxia controls backbone lines, not last-mile.
2 (B-2 and B-52) out of the USAF's 3 (other one is the B-1) active bombers are subsonic, as are all 3 dedicated ground-attack planes (Harrier, Thunderbolt II, and the AC-130).
The fact that Bell has been bleeding customers to these small ISPs since they started shaping would definitely suggest they are trying to reduce competition by putting a ceiling on the services.
1. These guys are independent ISPs. They lease last-mile lines from Bell (Bell owns all the phone infrastructure.) to provide DSL and other services.
2. Bell started shaping their own customers months ago, and they started hemorrhaging customers to the smaller ISPs (A free market working properly) who didn't shape traffic.
3. Bell decided to start shaping the traffic from those smaller ISPs.
The problem being, they were to block anything with the evil bit set, they would have to block anything originating from those studios.
Epiphany does use gecko, but there is also an experimental version that uses webkit.
Of course, I'm just banking on it being a troll :P
One man's -1 troll is another man's +5 funny.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, it's not writing to them, it's overloading them. RFID works a bit like a crystal set radio, they're powered off the transmission and use that power to transmit a signal back. Transmit a powerful enough signal to them, and you fry the chip.
If you would look at the article, wikipedia states the bureau of justice statistics as the source for that number. 2,299,116 people currently incarcerated in local, state, and federal corrections facilities as of June 30, 2007 (most recent data they list), which is ~0.75% of the population.
They also source from a report from Pew (it's note #8) stating that the incarceration rate is now above 1%.
Honestly, all this 'using a Buick to swat a fly nonsense has to end sometime.
Why end it? It's likely helping keep GM afloat.
It throws a sudo (whatever GUI frontend it uses, I forget) password prompt in Ubuntu.
Xubuntu 7.04. It's my aunt's machine pretty much used only for mahjong and other simple games, has no internet connection whatsoever, and it works fine with no issues, so I haven't bothered updating it.
Then you should have stuck for what you believe and refused to sell underpowered vista machines.
I believe that's what they did. Problem being, MS lowered the bar at the last moment after HP was already selling their machines, and everyone else undercut them with less-than-adequate machines. And being as Joe 40oz doesn't know the difference between the systems, he's likely to go with the latter, thus HP loses a ton of money.
Sorry. I have a tendency to duck when I notice an unknown object flying towards my head.
Read closer. that's 9.1*10^-17. 0.000000000000000091 grams.
No loophole. Under the Berne convention, all works are automatically copyrighted, notice or no notice, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The problem is that they're already getting their funding cut back by roughly $21 million and they're being legally forced to allocate $7.5 million to this bullshit, along with $1.5 million per year until this get repealed, money would I could think of far far better uses for.
We're taking about energy levels sufficient to light a 1W lightbulb (one of those tiny christmas tree lights) for about 16 milliseconds, roughly one refresh cycle of an old CRT monitor. If you were pretty close and they all annihilated in a small area all at once, you might see a small blink of light.
You are fantastically overestimating how much they made. 100 billion particles seems like a lot, but it's actually only about 9.1x10^-17 grams (91 attograms). You could likely be physically standing right in front of the thing, in the middle of the spray of particles, and not notice anything.
If the summery is right about what laser they used and the energy use for such (400J), and the count of the particles (~100 billion), and we were able to capture all energy from the annihilation (E=mc^2), we're looking at about 0.004% efficiency.
We're a looooooooooooooong way from having antimatter as a viable energy storage solution.
what is so hard to understand about a closed system?
1. Getting it to work properly in microgravity.
2. Doing so without taking up very much space or power, as both are in short supply on the ISS.
3. Getting it to work reliably, as it would be decidedly bad for this kind of thing to break down halfway to Mars.
That's the result of attempting to enter unicode into slashdot.
Something tells me it's a bad idea to sue a school full of law students, law professors, and likely a few more lawyers on retainer or payroll, when you don't have a legal leg to stand on.
It's not so much the jobs they're providing (though GM does employ a small country worth of people), but all the people who live off pensions from them. Company goes down, the pensions disappear, and guess who is now paying more social security to all those people.
It's the exact same principle. The only difference is the magnitude of the effect.
More like comparing apples to grape seeds. If you took all the money used on the recent bailouts (~$2 trillion and likely to grow) and put it towards NASA, you could run the place at current funding levels for the rest of this century.