(T)he first really strange stories I remember hearing were Bible stories. And these stories were completely amazing: about parting oceans, and talking snakes. And people really seemed to believe these stories. And I'm talking about adults. Adults, who mainly just did the most mundane things imaginable: mowing their lawns and throwing potluck parties; they all believed in these wild stories. And they would sit around and discuss them in the most matter-of-fact way. So in a way I was introduced to a special local form of surrealism at an early age and so there was always a question in my mind about what's actually true and what is just another art form.
And that's retail. For being 500MB, these sound suspiciously like drives Seagate had sitting in a crate somewhere gathering dust, because they certainly are old tech.
pre-loaded with a digital lock that requires a code that can be purchased online for $10 to $15 each. Even watching "Star Trek" requires registration.
So you *don't* get to watch the movies for $100. The real cost is $300 minimum in a drive that is spectacularly overpriced to start with. How many ways can you say "ripoff?"
DRM
It doesn't go into detail, but I'd bet you can't move those movies off the drive. Also, since these are DRM encumbered, they are a rental. If I want to rent movies, I will use netflix.
The special sale comes as Hollywood is struggling with falling DVD sales in the face of piracy and is looking for new ways to sell movies from its library.
Bullshit. Hollywood is *not* going begging. They're making more money than ever.
This is going to fail and they are going to blame it yet again on privacy when the failure has nothing to do with it but everything to do with trying to screw the customer as much as possible.
This is an insult to my intelligence as a consumer.
I have no sympathy for the studios. The sooner they go bankrupt the better.
A useful classification system will group like with like. Earth at.3% of Jupiter's mass is very much unlike Jupiter. When you consider that Mars and Venus are 11% and 82% of the mass of Earth, it's clear that Earth is much more like them than it is like Jupiter.
I really do appreciate the fact you're sittin here Your voice sounds so wonderful But yer face don't look too clear So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round o brew Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw
1. All definitions are essentially arbitrary at some point. 2. All the other named KBOs are big enough to be round by gravity 3. If we make Ceres a planet, then we have to make the KBOs planets too.
All multiple bodies rotate around a center of mass that is never in the center of the largest body, be it the Earth-Moon system, or the Jupiter system.
Your 4 body problem is not even rejected as per the definition, so it's a red herring.
Number of planets? Since when does that matter? Where is the maximum number of planets in the definition?
The "people" voted? Seriously? You're seriously saying this? Out of 2700 attendees, all but 5 percent had left by the time the vote came up. Never mind that the membership of the IAU that actually attends the congresses is a small minority.
You know what might have made sense? Making Eris the 10th planet. All other KBO/TNOs are smaller than both Pluto and Eris. Using Pluto's mass as the minimum mass for classification would have solved the problem of "infinite" KBOs being classified as planets.
Somehow humanity doesn't dump a core over a new word
It doesn't?
Where the hell have you been?
What about the fights over gender identifying words and political correctness? Gott im himmel, get out from under your rock. Core dump? Entire political movements have been centered around whether we should use certain euphemisms.
That chair has no legs, it has "limbs" - Victorian era That's not a retard, that's a "special person" - Modern times.
And you are using a bad example because you appear to be completely unaware that the reclassification of Pluto was because of a political pissing contest at the IAU.
You know how legislatures approve unpopular bills in the dead of night on a Friday at the end of the session? That's exactly what happened there. But not only that, they waited for most attendees to go home. Scientifically minded people like me were aghast at the shenanigans.
The Novell situation is a whole different kettle of fish.
Since Mono comprises a lot more than just the parts covered by the ECMA standards, De Icaza also announced that Mono will be split in half. "In the next few months we will be working towards splitting the jumbo Mono source code that includes ECMA + A lot more into two separate source code distributions," he explains, "One will be ECMA, the other will contain our implementation of ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Winforms and others."
Yes, but with Qt, you don't have a rabid Microsoft fan bent on directly implementing Microsoft technology on Linux. Trolltech does not have Miguel. Novell does. Judging from Miguel's actions and his words, I think we have something to worry about. I don't think that Miguel is some sort of Manchurian Candidate, but he is driven by his admiration of everything Microsoft.
The contract that Novell signed is not the same as the "promise" that Microsoft published later. There is a difference. Novell is indemnified, and so are Novell's customers and people (e.g., developers) who get mono directly from Novell instead of a third party.
Come on, Microsoft does not like standards and interoperability. They are already undermining their own OOXML by using the proposed standard (the one that passed ecma, but not iso) that was rejected instead of the one that the ISO actually approved.
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An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140.
No, it doesn't. 1TB external drives sell for $70 in Newegg's bargain basement.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yce9qhx
And that's retail. For being 500MB, these sound suspiciously like drives Seagate had sitting in a crate somewhere gathering dust, because they certainly are old tech.
pre-loaded with a digital lock that requires a code that can be purchased online for $10 to $15 each. Even watching "Star Trek" requires registration.
So you *don't* get to watch the movies for $100. The real cost is $300 minimum in a drive that is spectacularly overpriced to start with. How many ways can you say "ripoff?"
DRM
It doesn't go into detail, but I'd bet you can't move those movies off the drive. Also, since these are DRM encumbered, they are a rental. If I want to rent movies, I will use netflix.
The special sale comes as Hollywood is struggling with falling DVD sales in the face of piracy and is looking for new ways to sell movies from its library.
Bullshit. Hollywood is *not* going begging. They're making more money than ever.
This is going to fail and they are going to blame it yet again on privacy when the failure has nothing to do with it but everything to do with trying to screw the customer as much as possible.
This is an insult to my intelligence as a consumer.
I have no sympathy for the studios. The sooner they go bankrupt the better.
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AARL Handbook.
Nearly everything you need to know about the basics.
Also, join a radio club
Someone up there recommended the Forrest Mims book. Yeah, that too.
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Pacific coastal water was 1.02 +/- 0.26 x 10(-14) g
Source: PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18964014
That's "iridium is about as rare as chicken lips in sea water."
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... and 3D is a gimmick.
Instead of spending money on the 3D equipment, buy better scripts and actors.
If Lars Von Trier can make a movie and shoot it on video and have it sell because it's a good story, so can Hollywood.
Golly gee, I might be more motivated to see a movie then.
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To hijack your argument:
A useful classification system will group like with like. Earth at .3% of Jupiter's mass is very much unlike Jupiter. When you consider that Mars and Venus are 11% and 82% of the mass of Earth, it's clear that Earth is much more like them than it is like Jupiter.
Yet all are planets.
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Because when you think about it, the Meter is just as arbitrary as defining Pluto mass objects as the minimum size for planets.
Go ahead, look up the history of the Meter.
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"as if millions of authors suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
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Time flies when you're having fun. Fruit flies like a banana.
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They don't get drunk and wildly reproduce?
-Jimmy Buffet.
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Maybe.
Bank of Montreal is not, because it's abuse of trademark.
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1. All definitions are essentially arbitrary at some point.
2. All the other named KBOs are big enough to be round by gravity
3. If we make Ceres a planet, then we have to make the KBOs planets too.
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Last things first:
All multiple bodies rotate around a center of mass that is never in the center of the largest body, be it the Earth-Moon system, or the Jupiter system.
Your 4 body problem is not even rejected as per the definition, so it's a red herring.
Number of planets? Since when does that matter? Where is the maximum number of planets in the definition?
The "people" voted? Seriously? You're seriously saying this? Out of 2700 attendees, all but 5 percent had left by the time the vote came up. Never mind that the membership of the IAU that actually attends the congresses is a small minority.
You know what might have made sense? Making Eris the 10th planet. All other KBO/TNOs are smaller than both Pluto and Eris. Using Pluto's mass as the minimum mass for classification would have solved the problem of "infinite" KBOs being classified as planets.
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I think you need to do more than merely apologize to TMBG.
You need to buy them a new meter, because you bloody well broke it there.
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To follow up to myself, and to apply this to myself, please don't call me "a person of size"
I'm fat.
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Somehow humanity doesn't dump a core over a new word
It doesn't?
Where the hell have you been?
What about the fights over gender identifying words and political correctness? Gott im himmel, get out from under your rock. Core dump? Entire political movements have been centered around whether we should use certain euphemisms.
That chair has no legs, it has "limbs" - Victorian era
That's not a retard, that's a "special person" - Modern times.
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And you are using a bad example because you appear to be completely unaware that the reclassification of Pluto was because of a political pissing contest at the IAU.
You know how legislatures approve unpopular bills in the dead of night on a Friday at the end of the session? That's exactly what happened there. But not only that, they waited for most attendees to go home. Scientifically minded people like me were aghast at the shenanigans.
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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In one case, only ecma mono is covered.
In the other case, all of mono is covered.
The former is the Microsoft promise.
The latter is the Novell contract.
http://www.osnews.com/story/21784/C_CLI_Under_Community_Promise_Mono_Split_in_Half
There you go.
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The MCP only covers the ecma parts.
Anything mono that is not ecma is not covered.
The Novell situation is a whole different kettle of fish.
http://www.osnews.com/story/21784/C_CLI_Under_Community_Promise_Mono_Split_in_Half
Would you want to touch that with a 10 foot pole?
Yes, but with Qt, you don't have a rabid Microsoft fan bent on directly implementing Microsoft technology on Linux. Trolltech does not have Miguel. Novell does. Judging from Miguel's actions and his words, I think we have something to worry about. I don't think that Miguel is some sort of Manchurian Candidate, but he is driven by his admiration of everything Microsoft.
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The contract that Novell signed is not the same as the "promise" that Microsoft published later. There is a difference. Novell is indemnified, and so are Novell's customers and people (e.g., developers) who get mono directly from Novell instead of a third party.
Come on, Microsoft does not like standards and interoperability. They are already undermining their own OOXML by using the proposed standard (the one that passed ecma, but not iso) that was rejected instead of the one that the ISO actually approved.
I didn't fall off the kielbasa wagon yesterday.
Call it tinfoil. I don't care. You're naive.
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That's encouraging.
Let's hope it stays that way.
But is that the "installed" or did they remove Tomboy and the rest in the repositories too?
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Did you read the "Credit where credit is due: QT" paragraphs?
I think you should.
Without Qt's moc, she would have never been inspired to make her own version of moc.
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Tmrepository is entirely unfunny and a lame ripoff of Adequacy.org.
Get some better writers.
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