"It said efforts to tackle piracy had seen numbers of fake copies of Vista at half the level of XP, the previous Windows operating system."
Where is the link? They have added anti-piracy controls, piracy is lower, therefore, anti-piracy controls work. WRONG. What about demand? IMHO piracy is lower because nobody wants this piece of sh!t, free or otherwise.
It's about control. Do you enjoy being able to chat on your cell phone? If the frequencies were open to anyone, then everyone would use the best frequency for their application, and there would be so much interference that nothing would work. By controlling who uses which frequencies, you can ensure that interference is kept at a minimum, and devices remain useable.
We see almost as much variation in types of stars, yet we have a very clear definition of what a star is. The key is the ability to classify them. Stars are easy to see and catalog, direct observation can be performed by anyone with a modest telescope, so a classification system is easy when you have a catalog of millions(billions?). We've directly seen about 10 "planets", we've detected through indirect means an additional ~190 "planets". We don't yet have the technology to observe directly. Until we do, we will only detect the types of planets that can be detected indirectly. This means no huge catalog. No huge catalog means we can't create an accurate classification system. I believe that once we can directly observe a large variety of objects, a classification system can be created, and there is the definition.
As someone else already mentioned, you've got to keep in mind that the hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle. The soyuz is not at all suitable for this kind of work. It lacks the necessary robotic arm to grapple the hubble, a huge risk. While they could manage to move over to an ungrappled object (NASA did it on Gemini 10 using a tether), the risk is HUGE. Soyuz just isn't suited for repair work.
At my college I was testing an advanced system recovery disk I was making, and part of it was a windows password recovery system. I demonstrated the disk to my prof, he was very interested, so I showed him how I can use it to recover passwords. I got the admin password and the school-wide bios password right in front him, he thought it was neat.
Lets be reasonable, what I did, definitely not good, but what these kids did, who cares? What school kid with access to computers has not done this?
See, the key is "huge impact on their overall educations.", the article does not specify that the impact will be a positive one. My school made sure that in our computer courses each student has a computer, even in classes where we don't really need computers. What did this accomplish? Instead of listening to the professor, 40 some odd students get to play solitaire instead.
The difference is, we already know how to make a cost effective airplane, we don't know how to make a cost effective shuttle. Russia can hardly afford its existing space program. NASA's budget is stretched across dozens of programs. Combined though? I just think that space travel should be something shared by the peoples of the world, not limited to one nation and to the richest members of the world. I think that all the combined engineering talents of the world could build a vehicle that could do it faster, cheaper, and easier.
Instead of building an International Black Hole (ISS), the world's space faring nations should join forces and build one common launch vehicle. The combined knowledge and experience of all of these space faring nations could build a new ship far superior to the space shuttle. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, national pride on both sides will prevent this from ever happening.
There's a difference though between the MPAA going after you and your internet provider going after you. ISPs have for a very long time been systematically blocking users that are eating up too much bandwidth. In your case, I don't think it would have mattered if you were downloading tv shows or free linux isos, eat too much bandwidth, isp will stop it.
I think it is not really clear how fair use works in this case. I think what it boils down to, is that it is perfectly legal to download one copy of a show, but it is illegal to distribute. This would explain why the MPAA is going after the sites that offer tv torrents, and not the people downloading them(yet).
Techie: What are these dents in your case from?
Me: Euh, speed holes?
Seriously folks, I've destroyed 3 hard disks from the shock damage of me hitting my comp when it crashes in the middle of an important task.
These stats give useful worldwide usage. But what about local? Have you guys all seen a similar trend on your own websites? I know that on my website, which is not really a tech site, firefox currently accounts for 27.9%, and it has been steadily increasing.
This is true, and it's something that we as Canadians need to stop. I think it is a good thing that Martin has a minority government, it keeps him in check, and it keeps his party accountable. Canada needs to have a minority government.
Even if this ever made it to parliament, it definitely would never pass. Something as controversial as this would be suicide for a minority government, and we've already seen that Martin is being extra-careful.
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"It said efforts to tackle piracy had seen numbers of fake copies of Vista at half the level of XP, the previous Windows operating system." Where is the link? They have added anti-piracy controls, piracy is lower, therefore, anti-piracy controls work. WRONG. What about demand? IMHO piracy is lower because nobody wants this piece of sh!t, free or otherwise.
It's about control. Do you enjoy being able to chat on your cell phone? If the frequencies were open to anyone, then everyone would use the best frequency for their application, and there would be so much interference that nothing would work. By controlling who uses which frequencies, you can ensure that interference is kept at a minimum, and devices remain useable.
The worst by far are the ones that call, then put you on hold.
We see almost as much variation in types of stars, yet we have a very clear definition of what a star is. The key is the ability to classify them. Stars are easy to see and catalog, direct observation can be performed by anyone with a modest telescope, so a classification system is easy when you have a catalog of millions(billions?). We've directly seen about 10 "planets", we've detected through indirect means an additional ~190 "planets". We don't yet have the technology to observe directly. Until we do, we will only detect the types of planets that can be detected indirectly. This means no huge catalog. No huge catalog means we can't create an accurate classification system. I believe that once we can directly observe a large variety of objects, a classification system can be created, and there is the definition.
As someone else already mentioned, you've got to keep in mind that the hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle. The soyuz is not at all suitable for this kind of work. It lacks the necessary robotic arm to grapple the hubble, a huge risk. While they could manage to move over to an ungrappled object (NASA did it on Gemini 10 using a tether), the risk is HUGE. Soyuz just isn't suited for repair work.
But the question is, will all characters be replaced by Ewoks?
Dammit if you're gonna quote Family Guy, at least do it properly!
"Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says 'OOO'"
"Peter those are cheerios."
See, it's just not as funny if you forget the Alphabits part.
Then I should get the death penalty.
At my college I was testing an advanced system recovery disk I was making, and part of it was a windows password recovery system. I demonstrated the disk to my prof, he was very interested, so I showed him how I can use it to recover passwords. I got the admin password and the school-wide bios password right in front him, he thought it was neat.
Lets be reasonable, what I did, definitely not good, but what these kids did, who cares? What school kid with access to computers has not done this?
See, the key is "huge impact on their overall educations.", the article does not specify that the impact will be a positive one. My school made sure that in our computer courses each student has a computer, even in classes where we don't really need computers. What did this accomplish? Instead of listening to the professor, 40 some odd students get to play solitaire instead.
The difference is, we already know how to make a cost effective airplane, we don't know how to make a cost effective shuttle. Russia can hardly afford its existing space program. NASA's budget is stretched across dozens of programs. Combined though? I just think that space travel should be something shared by the peoples of the world, not limited to one nation and to the richest members of the world. I think that all the combined engineering talents of the world could build a vehicle that could do it faster, cheaper, and easier.
Instead of building an International Black Hole (ISS), the world's space faring nations should join forces and build one common launch vehicle. The combined knowledge and experience of all of these space faring nations could build a new ship far superior to the space shuttle. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, national pride on both sides will prevent this from ever happening.
There's a difference though between the MPAA going after you and your internet provider going after you. ISPs have for a very long time been systematically blocking users that are eating up too much bandwidth. In your case, I don't think it would have mattered if you were downloading tv shows or free linux isos, eat too much bandwidth, isp will stop it.
I think it is not really clear how fair use works in this case. I think what it boils down to, is that it is perfectly legal to download one copy of a show, but it is illegal to distribute. This would explain why the MPAA is going after the sites that offer tv torrents, and not the people downloading them(yet).
More space I will never use. Who the heck needs 2 gigs of email storage? I'm using 9mb, and I've had my account for almost a year!
Techie: What are these dents in your case from? Me: Euh, speed holes? Seriously folks, I've destroyed 3 hard disks from the shock damage of me hitting my comp when it crashes in the middle of an important task.
These stats give useful worldwide usage. But what about local? Have you guys all seen a similar trend on your own websites? I know that on my website, which is not really a tech site, firefox currently accounts for 27.9%, and it has been steadily increasing.
This is true, and it's something that we as Canadians need to stop. I think it is a good thing that Martin has a minority government, it keeps him in check, and it keeps his party accountable. Canada needs to have a minority government.
Even if this ever made it to parliament, it definitely would never pass. Something as controversial as this would be suicide for a minority government, and we've already seen that Martin is being extra-careful.
Say we should read it its rights, drag it out in the back and shoot it.
"Pong"? What is this "Pong" you speak of? ..sorry, couldn't resist.
Yup. Just a frontend for PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ .
CherryOS has been released. It's called PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/
The key difference is, the sun has an equitorial radius of about 700,000 km, whereas this star has an equitorial radius of about 20km.
Could be Canadian for example. We still use the "u" that the Americans have cut out of a lot of words.
Thanks for the quote, good point.