This of course doesn't speak to the IP issues any more than the "fact" (well, I hold it to be a fact) that my music purchases increased dramatically when I was using Napster, and have fallen dramatically since I've stopped - like many, I used it to screen (preview? prehear?) music before buying, and was able to access much more music than I would've normally done, especially since I live in an area not served by any decent radio (and being way too cheap for XM - though maybe I'll have to rethink that).
I especially liked being able to peruse music which was a "guilty pleasures" to me...
No doubt; Asimov even had the Empire's last great general be named "Bel Riose", who worked tirelessly to win back as much of the old empire for his strong emperor, just as the Eastern Roman General Belisarius did for the emperor Justinian (who is echoed as "Cleon II" by Asimov).
All roads, of course, led to Trantor (Rome). I don't think that Asimov hid his borrowing from history - note that any author generally freely borrows from history, past or present (reality). Borrowing so heavily from another author's works, on the other hand, is another matter IMHO.
Working form home definitely isn't for everyone. I've been doing it for about 13 years now, about 90-95% working from home (going into the "real office" a couple of days a month), so I speak from some experience.
Basically, it can be really tough to focus sometimes. When my kids were young, especially, and we were homeschooling, I basically had to work at night in order to get anything at all done. Of course, the flexibility of the work-from-home allowed this (and my contract jobs did too), and so I got to spend a lot of time with the kids.
One nice thing is that instead of getting bored at the office and going and hanging out at someone's cube, I'll get up, go the my shop and fix something, or go mow the lawn, or go for a ride. Then, I come back, refocused and get back to work.
These days, I'm either working hard, or hardly working, depends on the day, the weather, and what my wife's doing. Oh, and whether or not it's snowed recently;)
If a branch hits you on the head, but the branch wasn't thrown by a person, are you still knocked out?
Or, if a machine taps your communications and takes a transcript, even if not "directed by a person" (didn't a person have to direct the general tapping?), weren't you still tapped?
It's kind of like saying that it's ok for the police to come through your house and make a list of what you've got and just to log it, in case someday later they should have a reason to wonder what you had before
Without RTFA, and thus most likely wrong, but someone feeling right, I think that what's up is that it pops open an IE with links that are just begging to be clicked, and when you do, they get their money. Of course, the user may not actually click anything, but if they're like the lusers I've seen too much of, they'll go "huh, what's that" and cha-ching...
Is that the closed-source people will jump all over the report and say "see how bad Firefox is?", when the reality is that a similar analysis of their browser would likely (I assume) turn up similar, if not worse, defect levels; of course, since the analysis can't be done, they get the opportunity to bad-mouth the open-source effort.
They're apparently in a fairly stable orbital situation such that ne'er will their paths cross.
As such:
Pluto is locked in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune; i.e. Pluto's orbital period is exactly 1.5 times longer than Neptune's. Its orbital inclination is also much higher than the other planets'. Thus though it appears that Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's, it really doesn't and they will never collide.
So you're saying that if my road bike wheel, with 120psi in the really really small tire, is balanced on my finger (contact patch about 1/2 sq inch) then there's 240psi on my finger? Doesn't feel like it, feels like the 2# wheel on 1/2sqin, or about 4psi - where does the 120psi come into the pressure on the ground?
If said 120psi tire on the wheel was on the moon, and it was resting on the ground, it would weigh only 1/3#, and the contact pressure would then only be 1/6psi.
The contact pressure has nothing to do with the pressure in the tire.
The PSI of the tire has nothing to do with the pressure of the tire against the pavement, but the pressure within the tire itself.
Consider if the unicycle weighs, say, 14 pounds, and the rider is a/.'er weighing perhaps... 186 pounds (generous here - he's 5'8" probably), we have 200 pounds. Depending on the tire dimensions and air pressure, I'll give the tire a 1.66"x3" contact patch (the tire flattens somewhat on the ground), which gives us 5 sq inches of contact. The unicycle is exerting 40psi against the ground in this case (200 pounds over 5 sqin).
Wi-Fi: Eh. Apparently you can use the Wi-fi feature to "loan" other Zune owners music for some short period (a day)
Does this mean that your "friends" will have a copy of the music - even just for a day? Did the copyright holders say that it's ok to copy it for a day?
I used to subscribe, but having an admittedly limited appetite for movies (I like them, but I also like to read, bike, talk, sleep, whatever) I found that I wasn't watching them quickly enough to make economic sense. In particular, long movies, which I felt I didn't have the time to watch on any given night, would just sit and sit.
Finally, I realized that with the amount of money I was spending on the netflix subscription, I could just buy movies on the cheap and watch them whenever with no feeling that I was blowing the subscription (http://www.dvdpricesearch.com, AFAIK, is the best way to look for movies). Works for me, but I watch only one or two a month.
I do have friends, though, who can easily handle the max movies allowed by netflix, and still seem to have time to go to the 20-plex and sit through 5 movies in a single day.
Let's not forget that Chimps have been evolving along the way as well - I highly doubt that they were the same 4.5-6.3M years ago as they are now, so *our ancenstors* were doing it with *their ancestors*, not with "chimps" per se.
The only time I've ever said "yes" to Wal-mart was in another city when I need to find a size-12 (women's) pair of pumps for Halloween at the last moment... you should've seen the look on this woman shopping nearby when my wife said "oh look at these, they should fit you!"
I'm happy to say that I live in a Walmart-less town. Unfortunately we do have a Kmart (pronounce Kmart as "Came-apart"), though no Target (which is "Tar-zhay", being someone more refined). Luckily, though, my town has a decent amount of tourism and can support quite a bit of small-town business, which I'm happy to partonize.
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I especially liked being able to peruse music which was a "guilty pleasures" to me...
All roads, of course, led to Trantor (Rome). I don't think that Asimov hid his borrowing from history - note that any author generally freely borrows from history, past or present (reality). Borrowing so heavily from another author's works, on the other hand, is another matter IMHO.
Basically, it can be really tough to focus sometimes. When my kids were young, especially, and we were homeschooling, I basically had to work at night in order to get anything at all done. Of course, the flexibility of the work-from-home allowed this (and my contract jobs did too), and so I got to spend a lot of time with the kids.
One nice thing is that instead of getting bored at the office and going and hanging out at someone's cube, I'll get up, go the my shop and fix something, or go mow the lawn, or go for a ride. Then, I come back, refocused and get back to work.
These days, I'm either working hard, or hardly working, depends on the day, the weather, and what my wife's doing. Oh, and whether or not it's snowed recently ;)
It's always grated on me just how much Lucas ripped off so many different excellent works to piece together "his" universe - Dune, Foundation, etc...
Or, if a machine taps your communications and takes a transcript, even if not "directed by a person" (didn't a person have to direct the general tapping?), weren't you still tapped?
It's kind of like saying that it's ok for the police to come through your house and make a list of what you've got and just to log it, in case someday later they should have a reason to wonder what you had before
How many eV would it take to make Han Solo's blaster? :)
Without RTFA, and thus most likely wrong, but someone feeling right, I think that what's up is that it pops open an IE with links that are just begging to be clicked, and when you do, they get their money. Of course, the user may not actually click anything, but if they're like the lusers I've seen too much of, they'll go "huh, what's that" and cha-ching...
Probably just as valid.....
Not our "stated agenda" perhaps, but actions, so far, speak louder than words....
26 years, and going strong. I think it's on its fourth set of batteries...
Is that the closed-source people will jump all over the report and say "see how bad Firefox is?", when the reality is that a similar analysis of their browser would likely (I assume) turn up similar, if not worse, defect levels; of course, since the analysis can't be done, they get the opportunity to bad-mouth the open-source effort.
As such:
See this for more.From the wikipedia: "Charon was discovered by astronomer James Christy on June 22, 1978"
If said 120psi tire on the wheel was on the moon, and it was resting on the ground, it would weigh only 1/3#, and the contact pressure would then only be 1/6psi.
The contact pressure has nothing to do with the pressure in the tire.
Consider if the unicycle weighs, say, 14 pounds, and the rider is a /.'er weighing perhaps... 186 pounds (generous here - he's 5'8" probably), we have 200 pounds. Depending on the tire dimensions and air pressure, I'll give the tire a 1.66"x3" contact patch (the tire flattens somewhat on the ground), which gives us 5 sq inches of contact. The unicycle is exerting 40psi against the ground in this case (200 pounds over 5 sqin).
I don't think so.
Finally, I realized that with the amount of money I was spending on the netflix subscription, I could just buy movies on the cheap and watch them whenever with no feeling that I was blowing the subscription (http://www.dvdpricesearch.com, AFAIK, is the best way to look for movies). Works for me, but I watch only one or two a month.
I do have friends, though, who can easily handle the max movies allowed by netflix, and still seem to have time to go to the 20-plex and sit through 5 movies in a single day.
0x29A?
Let's not forget that Chimps have been evolving along the way as well - I highly doubt that they were the same 4.5-6.3M years ago as they are now, so *our ancenstors* were doing it with *their ancestors*, not with "chimps" per se.
And thus, she's not a user.
I'm happy to say that I live in a Walmart-less town. Unfortunately we do have a Kmart (pronounce Kmart as "Came-apart"), though no Target (which is "Tar-zhay", being someone more refined). Luckily, though, my town has a decent amount of tourism and can support quite a bit of small-town business, which I'm happy to partonize.
Am I the only one to notice that the supposed binary representation of 0xFE on the blogger's page is actually that of 0x7E (ie, it's missing a one)?
I, for one, welcome our new translucent overlords!