I'll agree heartily with you in terms of reference books ("you can't grep dead trees"), but i still prefer paper books for leisure reading, though that may change as electronic ink displays get cheaper and more widespread.
copy/paste troll notwithstanding, it does make a point. and i'm saying this as a guy who has spent the last month trying to make my modem work with Linux.
While I'm at it - the 1918 flu outbreak happened during the waning days of the first World War - there's probably something important about that...
yes, soldiers catch it abroad and bring it home with them. given how rapidly and often people are able to travel now, we wouldn't even a particularly large number of people traveling. day-to-day air travel would spread it quite effectively.
actually, i've been hearing about a growing PIIMBY (put it in my backyard) with the new suspended wind power rigs they're developing. i've heard of a number of farmers in the centeral states jumping to lease land to these.
i don't care how big the power supply itself is, but i do take issue when it blocks multiple outlets on my power strip. thank whatever Deity you will for powerstrip liberators, though they shouldn't really be necessary if they would design the things with such a cord built in.
unless things have changed, i remember that the original iPod used a Lithium-polymer battery and i've heard that the useful lifetime of the battery wasn't that great (less than 50% usable capasity after 1 year), which prompted Apple to switch to a regular lithium-ion for the 2nd and later generations.
has anything changed with this or is what i've heard BS?
a good ad (one that does not cause me to blacklist the advertised product) should be
a. unobtrusive, as in, keep out of the way of the actual content, unlike those stupid ads that appear overtop of the article (Google ads is a good example of this)
b. relevant, as in, it is relevant to what i'm reading. if i'm reading an article about a comparison of the latest videocards, i wouldn't mind seeing ads from a (reputable) online store offering said cards (again, i point to Google, though occasionally it gets off base on the keywords for random reasons, but it's far better than most)
c. low-bandwidth, as I'm confined to dialup (again, why i like Google ads. you don't just much lower bandwidth than plain text)
a government should be inefficient in the proper manner.
it's a matter of efficiency at each level, i.e. inefficient at the high level and efficient at the low level.
the government should be efficient at the level at which people are using government services (low-level), but it should be inefficient in the realm of legislative proceedings (high level).
sanctions do work, if you can get everyone on board or cut trade with anyone who trades with anyone who isn't on board, to whatever level of recusion nessesary.
this is difficult/(impossible?) for obvious reasons, thus sancations typically don't work, as you said.
well, since they've got it so they can levitate small things, it should (it never is) simply be a matter of scaling up whatever they used to make the soundwaves (TFA is/.ed, so i can't read it) to produce enough energy to levitate larger objects. though one would have to wonder about the limits of this before it causes adverse effects on whatever is being levitated.
this seems an awful lot like dimagnetic levitation. it is theoretically possible to levitate pretty much anything, but you need really, really strong magnets (into the range of kiloteslas) to make it happen.
you can't buy it pre-assembled, but you could likely get many of the raw componants, aside from the fissionable materiel and explosives, from most hardware and electronics stores.
most of the time that is an setting in the BIOS responsible for that, under a name such as "soft off delay" or something.
usually there is a choice between a 4 second delay the GP describes or the instant off functionality you describe. i personally prefer the former incase something accidentally hit the power button, like my cat for instance.
I challenge you to show me how those obey the laws of supply and demand, or how anyone can make a buck off distributing pictures or videos via Bittorrent.
in this case, we're basically having a currency-less system of supply and demand. no money being transfered, but it still follows "if there is a demand, there will be a supply".
In 20 years, that software will very likely be next to worthless and out of date anyways. Application software just doesn't stand the test of time like physical products do.
the problem being that they aren't patenting applications, but rather that they are patenting concepts, which often are timeless.
a lot of games also use what i think is a rather similar thing (not sure about specifics, but the entire concept seems nearly identical) called Gameguard, made by INCA.
how so? i know of a few types of hardware that won't work in Linux (without a considerable amount of futzing), but i don't know of any that will only work for Linux, unless you're talking about something truly ancient that windows has dropped support for.
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but physical books are obsolete.
I'll agree heartily with you in terms of reference books ("you can't grep dead trees"), but i still prefer paper books for leisure reading, though that may change as electronic ink displays get cheaper and more widespread.
copy/paste troll notwithstanding, it does make a point. and i'm saying this as a guy who has spent the last month trying to make my modem work with Linux.
While I'm at it - the 1918 flu outbreak happened during the waning days of the first World War - there's probably something important about that...
yes, soldiers catch it abroad and bring it home with them. given how rapidly and often people are able to travel now, we wouldn't even a particularly large number of people traveling. day-to-day air travel would spread it quite effectively.
Profit means better service for the customers who can afford it.
there. i fixed that for you.
actually, i've been hearing about a growing PIIMBY (put it in my backyard) with the new suspended wind power rigs they're developing. i've heard of a number of farmers in the centeral states jumping to lease land to these.
i don't care how big the power supply itself is, but i do take issue when it blocks multiple outlets on my power strip. thank whatever Deity you will for powerstrip liberators, though they shouldn't really be necessary if they would design the things with such a cord built in.
unless things have changed, i remember that the original iPod used a Lithium-polymer battery and i've heard that the useful lifetime of the battery wasn't that great (less than 50% usable capasity after 1 year), which prompted Apple to switch to a regular lithium-ion for the 2nd and later generations.
has anything changed with this or is what i've heard BS?
How many years would it take before you made a 'profit' so to speak?
i believe 4 or 5 years is the usual number being thrown around. don't have a source at the moment though.
Is it easy to sell power into the grid?
yes. you hook it all up, then go watch the electric meter run in reverse. you then end up with a negitive power bill.
this guy needs to be modded up.
a good ad (one that does not cause me to blacklist the advertised product) should be
a. unobtrusive, as in, keep out of the way of the actual content, unlike those stupid ads that appear overtop of the article (Google ads is a good example of this)
b. relevant, as in, it is relevant to what i'm reading. if i'm reading an article about a comparison of the latest videocards, i wouldn't mind seeing ads from a (reputable) online store offering said cards (again, i point to Google, though occasionally it gets off base on the keywords for random reasons, but it's far better than most)
c. low-bandwidth, as I'm confined to dialup (again, why i like Google ads. you don't just much lower bandwidth than plain text)
I'm just waiting for them to come out with a hemorrhoid cream so they can tell me to "apply directly to the asshole" multiple times.
according to the wikipedia article, they have a hemorrhoid crea called Freedhem.
Bill Gates, the man with the Zune Touch.
what exactly did Bill have to do with the Zune? i'm pretty sure that he didn't design it.
a government should be inefficient in the proper manner.
it's a matter of efficiency at each level, i.e. inefficient at the high level and efficient at the low level.
the government should be efficient at the level at which people are using government services (low-level), but it should be inefficient in the realm of legislative proceedings (high level).
currently, it seems that is in reverse.
sanctions do work, if you can get everyone on board or cut trade with anyone who trades with anyone who isn't on board, to whatever level of recusion nessesary.
this is difficult/(impossible?) for obvious reasons, thus sancations typically don't work, as you said.
well, since they've got it so they can levitate small things, it should (it never is) simply be a matter of scaling up whatever they used to make the soundwaves (TFA is /.ed, so i can't read it) to produce enough energy to levitate larger objects. though one would have to wonder about the limits of this before it causes adverse effects on whatever is being levitated.
this seems an awful lot like dimagnetic levitation. it is theoretically possible to levitate pretty much anything, but you need really, really strong magnets (into the range of kiloteslas) to make it happen.
i said aside from.
you can get pretty much everything else you need (the electrical aspect of it. timers, fuses, etc.) from the aforementioned stores.
you can't buy it pre-assembled, but you could likely get many of the raw componants, aside from the fissionable materiel and explosives, from most hardware and electronics stores.
Seriously, why do people put up with this bullshit?
because the civil legal system is so fucked up that most people have no choice but to put up with it?
AFAIK, court-ordered payments are not erased by bankruptcy.
most of the time that is an setting in the BIOS responsible for that, under a name such as "soft off delay" or something.
usually there is a choice between a 4 second delay the GP describes or the instant off functionality you describe. i personally prefer the former incase something accidentally hit the power button, like my cat for instance.
I challenge you to show me how those obey the laws of supply and demand, or how anyone can make a buck off distributing pictures or videos via Bittorrent.
in this case, we're basically having a currency-less system of supply and demand. no money being transfered, but it still follows "if there is a demand, there will be a supply".
the problem being that they aren't patenting applications, but rather that they are patenting concepts, which often are timeless.
interesting reasoning.
a lot of games also use what i think is a rather similar thing (not sure about specifics, but the entire concept seems nearly identical) called Gameguard, made by INCA.
http://keepvid.com/
you might find this to be handy.
how so? i know of a few types of hardware that won't work in Linux (without a considerable amount of futzing), but i don't know of any that will only work for Linux, unless you're talking about something truly ancient that windows has dropped support for.