Thanks slashdot, for one of the most grotesque and ambiguous run-on sentences I have seen in a damn long time.
you should see some of the stuff written by a former classmate of mine. you'd think they guy's first language was Latin. he'd write sentences over a full page long.
am i misunderstanding something or is that even eligible for copyright?
wouldn't a recording of government procedings br considered a government work, and thus not be copyrightable? or does this not apply as C-SPAN is a private-sector company recording and broadcasting public-sector procedings?
either way, video of government proceding should be open to the public and not subject to restrictions, so i consider this to be a Good Thing.
to run the drive perhaps, but what about to use the caching? is the "write to buffer till full, then dump to disk" thing handled completely within the drive firmware itself or does it depend on OS-side drivers? TFAs are kinda sparse in that info.
yes, that's why i have felt for a long time that the US needs a real 3rd party. we have 4 seat-holding parties up here. while only 2 of them have a chance of forming the government, the other 2 still swing power, especially in a minority government or in a non-whipped vote.
How do you suggest even the best reader complete a 500-page read of a bill with any level of insight in 30 minutes or less?
one of the good side effects of this would be making said bills significantly simpler, so as that any average joe (or politician) can read and understand the bill completely within half an hour or so of reading, rather than the massive, dense, tomes they have today.
"ours" as in "this group of people", not "ours" as in a statistically significant portion of the population, which is the inertia i was talking about. not inertia in government, but inertia in the people who elect said government.
provide a chance to nominate a non-aligned candidate
nominate. not elect. very big differance. even with them nomonated, you'd still have the nigh-impossible task of overcoming the massive inertia of the "3rd part is wasting your vote". it makes no differance if they're nominated if you can't get a statistically significant number of people to vote for them.
there are presently 2 3rd party/independant senators (both of which sit with the democrats), and no such representives in the house.
there has only ever been 1 independant presidant. (Washington)
to be replaced with a new representative, same as the old representative. the DMCA was a bi-partisan bill, passed with near-unanimous support in both the house and the senate.
that's the problem with a 2-party system, coupled with the self-perpetuating idea that voting 3rd party is throwing away your vote.
actually, we have a number of ideas on how to make them not hit us, several of which is doable with today's tech, such as a gravitational tractor, kinetic impact, or the classic "nuke it".
Go ahead and do that. Idiot. Each hardware player has a unique key, unlike software players. If you get the same brand and model of player that I have, you extract the key and post it online, you get your key revoked and mine is still unaffected.
just because the spec says something doesn't mean it happens in the real world.
Wrong. It is supposed to maximize profits within the bounds of the law. Allowing people to die in order to make a few bucks is illegal in any civilized country I think...
only if you get caught and don't make the appropriate payoffs^W contributions
in the event that the navigation computers fail or you lose power or something, you could presumablely use the sextant, a chronometer (a common wristwatch is likely accurate enough), known astronomical constants, proper charts and a bit of math to figure out where you are and how to get where you're going.
or maybe i'm thinking too much and it's just for good luck or something.
and the performance drop makes my car a sloth in commute traffic... Nice idea though...
which is why i think that current flex-fuel vehicles are not a particularly optimal idea.
ethanol has quite different characteristics to normal gas, the main thing being it has a much higher octane. getting the most out of this would require higher compression, forced induction, etc., but since these cars also need to be able to run on straight gas, you can't do that and thus performance goes in the crapper.
ideally, some kind of sensor in the tank would be able to detect the octane of the fuel in the tank (straight gas (cheap, mid, premium?), straight ethanol, or something in between) and adjust such things accordingly, though I'm not a chemist or a mechanic, so i have no idea is this is at all possible and/or feasible to build.
though i have heard of a dual-fuel engine (the Saab Biopower engine) that adjusts the turbocharger in such a manner and it gets a performance boost (about 36 more hp) when running on ethanol and also has the same mileage as it would running on straight gas.
very similar stuff at my college. the filters even regularly block those evil, virus-ridden raw text files. it also seems to have any lack of consistancy. i've tried sending 5 identical emails and attachments to my account from one of my personal accounts, and 3/5 times, it got stopped, but 2 of them sailed through unharrassed.
and the system lacks a spam queue, so everything that gets blocked just gets dropped into a blackhole. not a single one of my instructors use the system. all of them have a personal account they use for anything important.
possibly as there is likely more than one cause or the fact that low-dose mercury poisoning early in life can produce similar symptoms and that certain people may be more genetically disposed to be sensitive to that mercury.
it is highly likely that there are many causes and contributing causes. this specific story was on the news last night and said that this breakthrough could "explain as many as half of autism cases". provided that statement was actual from the finding, what about the other half?
"there is only one disease as complex as autism. it's called cancer."
has occured so perfectly that it has led to where we are today.
it didn't necessarily have to result in us. one difference somewhere and things could end up completely different.
as for the "time beginning", i would say the big bang. and we currently have no idea what happened before that, hence why i believe that there is something and find atheists rather ridiculous.
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Thanks slashdot, for one of the most grotesque and ambiguous run-on sentences I have seen in a damn long time.
you should see some of the stuff written by a former classmate of mine. you'd think they guy's first language was Latin. he'd write sentences over a full page long.
am i misunderstanding something or is that even eligible for copyright?
wouldn't a recording of government procedings br considered a government work, and thus not be copyrightable? or does this not apply as C-SPAN is a private-sector company recording and broadcasting public-sector procedings?
either way, video of government proceding should be open to the public and not subject to restrictions, so i consider this to be a Good Thing.
all the flash chips we use at my college are rated in write/erase cycles, haven't yet seen one listing MTBF.
to run the drive perhaps, but what about to use the caching? is the "write to buffer till full, then dump to disk" thing handled completely within the drive firmware itself or does it depend on OS-side drivers? TFAs are kinda sparse in that info.
yes, that's why i have felt for a long time that the US needs a real 3rd party. we have 4 seat-holding parties up here. while only 2 of them have a chance of forming the government, the other 2 still swing power, especially in a minority government or in a non-whipped vote.
I'm just in favor of as little party solidarity between the House, the Senate, and the Executive as possible. :P
if harper's plans for an elected senate up here go through, i'd personally be voting for differant parties for each.
How do you suggest even the best reader complete a 500-page read of a bill with any level of insight in 30 minutes or less?
one of the good side effects of this would be making said bills significantly simpler, so as that any average joe (or politician) can read and understand the bill completely within half an hour or so of reading, rather than the massive, dense, tomes they have today.
"ours" as in "this group of people", not "ours" as in a statistically significant portion of the population, which is the inertia i was talking about. not inertia in government, but inertia in the people who elect said government.
provide a chance to nominate a non-aligned candidate
nominate. not elect. very big differance. even with them nomonated, you'd still have the nigh-impossible task of overcoming the massive inertia of the "3rd part is wasting your vote". it makes no differance if they're nominated if you can't get a statistically significant number of people to vote for them.
there are presently 2 3rd party/independant senators (both of which sit with the democrats), and no such representives in the house.
there has only ever been 1 independant presidant. (Washington)
All they have to do is to vote them out.
to be replaced with a new representative, same as the old representative. the DMCA was a bi-partisan bill, passed with near-unanimous support in both the house and the senate.
that's the problem with a 2-party system, coupled with the self-perpetuating idea that voting 3rd party is throwing away your vote.
actually, we have a number of ideas on how to make them not hit us, several of which is doable with today's tech, such as a gravitational tractor, kinetic impact, or the classic "nuke it".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_deflection_
You can actually buy cocaine from pharmaceutical companies.
on a side note, i believe it's still used for some types of facial reconstruction surgury.
Go ahead and do that. Idiot. Each hardware player has a unique key, unlike software players. If you get the same brand and model of player that I have, you extract the key and post it online, you get your key revoked and mine is still unaffected.
just because the spec says something doesn't mean it happens in the real world.
they're working on it. clinical trials on males haven't been finished yet.
Wrong. It is supposed to maximize profits within the bounds of the law. Allowing people to die in order to make a few bucks is illegal in any civilized country I think...
only if you get caught and don't make the appropriate payoffs^W contributions
Even though I'm running as admin, there are a couple of files it will not let me delete
boot to safe mode command prompt? or boot off the windows CD and use the recovery console?
near-worse-case backup, i would imagine.
in the event that the navigation computers fail or you lose power or something, you could presumablely use the sextant, a chronometer (a common wristwatch is likely accurate enough), known astronomical constants, proper charts and a bit of math to figure out where you are and how to get where you're going.
or maybe i'm thinking too much and it's just for good luck or something.
the grunt work still has to be done.
which is has, repeatedly and thoroughly, thus the results are now so common and well-agreed upon that they're easily available on the Internet.
1. methane is natural gas (http://www.energyshop.com/es/homes/gas/gaspricefo recast.cfm)
2. infastructure is already in place, as a lot of furnaces run on natural gas
3. infastructure is already in place, as a lot of furnaces run on natural gas
4. infastructure is already in place, as a lot of furnaces run on natural gas
5. depends on how much this scheme costs.
and the performance drop makes my car a sloth in commute traffic... Nice idea though...
which is why i think that current flex-fuel vehicles are not a particularly optimal idea.
ethanol has quite different characteristics to normal gas, the main thing being it has a much higher octane. getting the most out of this would require higher compression, forced induction, etc., but since these cars also need to be able to run on straight gas, you can't do that and thus performance goes in the crapper.
ideally, some kind of sensor in the tank would be able to detect the octane of the fuel in the tank (straight gas (cheap, mid, premium?), straight ethanol, or something in between) and adjust such things accordingly, though I'm not a chemist or a mechanic, so i have no idea is this is at all possible and/or feasible to build.
though i have heard of a dual-fuel engine (the Saab Biopower engine) that adjusts the turbocharger in such a manner and it gets a performance boost (about 36 more hp) when running on ethanol and also has the same mileage as it would running on straight gas.
very similar stuff at my college. the filters even regularly block those evil, virus-ridden raw text files. it also seems to have any lack of consistancy. i've tried sending 5 identical emails and attachments to my account from one of my personal accounts, and 3/5 times, it got stopped, but 2 of them sailed through unharrassed.
and the system lacks a spam queue, so everything that gets blocked just gets dropped into a blackhole. not a single one of my instructors use the system. all of them have a personal account they use for anything important.
possibly as there is likely more than one cause or the fact that low-dose mercury poisoning early in life can produce similar symptoms and that certain people may be more genetically disposed to be sensitive to that mercury.
it is highly likely that there are many causes and contributing causes. this specific story was on the news last night and said that this breakthrough could "explain as many as half of autism cases". provided that statement was actual from the finding, what about the other half?
"there is only one disease as complex as autism. it's called cancer."
has occured so perfectly that it has led to where we are today.
it didn't necessarily have to result in us. one difference somewhere and things could end up completely different.
as for the "time beginning", i would say the big bang. and we currently have no idea what happened before that, hence why i believe that there is something and find atheists rather ridiculous.
Information and research. MySpace qualifies as entertainment and socialization.
and what if you're gathering information and doing research on entertainment and socialization?
The bill would limit these computers to what they are intended for.
which is what exactly?