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exactly how little do you think these discs (and associated drives) are going to cost?
Besides the fact that, if it's REALLY important data, you should be making at least 2 copies, stored separately, etc., etc.
I didn't notice any mention of the mileage of these vehicles listed in the articles. Considering that a low-tech Cessna gets 18 mpg average, which is better than most V8 sedans, these new planes should certainly be better than any particlar V6, V8, or V10 SUV you want to name (with the possible exception of the Excursion and Touareg diesels).
Consider that these machines don't have road friction, and that they can be tuned to run with maximum efficiency at one speed, and you may realize that efficiency isn't going to be a big issue for them.
Land-line broadband is hopelessly bundled with services that I don't want (cable tv, POTS). wifi is the only hope for unbundled broadband.
Not mine...I've got cable modem only. I rarely ever watch TV, so why pay even the $10 a month for a cable signal? My local cable provider (Time Warner) never even blinked when I asked them to trap off the basic and just give me cable modem.
Which strikes me as odd...A few years ago I'm pretty sure they did bundle the services together; I wonder why they stopped? I certainly wouldn't mind paying the extra $10 a month for a 5 Mb pipe, although I'm glad I don't have to.
And if you're better off with a normal, fuel efficient gasoline vehicle, you'd be even better off with a normal, even more fuel efficient diesel vehicle.
Yes...I would hate to think the Government would have to spend billions on something as unimportant as securing their computer systems. Couldn't they just do it as a supplemental request?
With that said...what does the spin of the star (or, more importantly to your question, the resulting spin) have to do with its linear motion, which happens to have been changed by an outside force? I'm not bashing you, I just don't see how it's relevant.
We're (supposedly) talking about a super-massive black hole, which would be expected to have an enormous gravitational field which would be able to act at a great distance. (In fact, it's got quite a few spiral arms zooming around the cosmos, although they're trapped in orbit around it.:)
This is true. However, because the star is relatively dense and the entire thing is being influenced by a gravitational field that is relatively constant across the breadth of the star, the entire star would be accelerated at the same time. Also, for lack of a better cosmic term, there is very little friction to cause bits of the star to be left behind when it accelerates.
When a baseball is accelerated through the air, friction probably causes some microscopic bits of the leather to stay behind. But because of the relative density of the object to the medium, the majority continues to move forward as a whole. The parent was not necessarily implying that the star is not losing any mass, just that the loss is likely insignificant compared to the total mass because of the almost complete lack of anything that would cause the star to lose pieces of itself. (Within the medium of space itself...obviously this excludes planets, asteroids, other stars, etc.)
And when you add in things like the Bose suspension, I think it starts to sound plausible.
Take a car with electronic steering control, electronic braking control, electronic suspension control, and tie it all together with an adaptable vehicle stability program, and you can change the dynamics of the car competely by changing settings in the conrol software.
Why are we considering the rights of an artificially created sentient being when we refuse to consider the rights of some naturally created sentient beings?
For that matter, why are we artificially creating sentient beings at all, when we don't have a good understanding of what the rights of naturally created sentient beings should be?
A lot of judges on both sides of the aisle have done a lot of stupid things of late to make their side happy. The supreme court is favorable to the right, although I don't know how the justices lean in this particular instance.
However they rule, if it's not worded in a painstakingly careful manner, it's likely to mess up all sorts of things in this area. Unfortunately, you can't tell what will be affected by the decision until things start getting affected by the decision.
All in all, I think all sides (SCO, IBM, the Linux crowd) are focusing on the wrong things here. Litigation never added value to society at all and sucks up resources. I definitely agree with the camp that thinks SCO would be better off devleoping product than litigating.
But, considering SCO's track record with developing products, wouldn't having them doing that again also not add value and suck up resources?
"If you put the centrino name on your (pre-268) linux laptop, we will sue you out of existence and stop selling you our chips for violation of our restrictions on your purchase".
It's the same as if the company had purchased export-restricted hardware or software and sent it to a restricted country; it's a violation of the terms of sale. The only difference is it's not a federal offense.
...The only relevant character trait IMHO is that you could store a side of beef in him for at least a fortnight, and quite probably a Beeblebroxian month.
Hmmm...where do I begin with this one?:)
Zaphod is the one who is "so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month." And, yes, possibly that would be a Betelgeusian month.
All Ford has to do is "...[not] blink often enough" so that "when you [talk] to him for any length of time your eyes began involuntarily to water on his behalf".
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No, with the title, it'd be 9. keystroke logging records characters, not metadata.
Yeah...and with NASA's recent dusty landing record, we should probably be a bit worried about that
doubtful...they like stories like this, because if they only reported on these subjects when things actually happen, they wouldn't have any stories.
Maybe they should make a mars.slashdot.org?
This is obviously some new usage of the phrase "high-temperature" that I hadn't heard about yet...
Hmmm...operator error does NOT mean their products don't work. If I recall, the PRODUCT worked correctly every time.
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exactly how little do you think these discs (and associated drives) are going to cost? Besides the fact that, if it's REALLY important data, you should be making at least 2 copies, stored separately, etc., etc.
Forget the old Ford jokes. It gives a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death".
I didn't notice any mention of the mileage of these vehicles listed in the articles. Considering that a low-tech Cessna gets 18 mpg average, which is better than most V8 sedans, these new planes should certainly be better than any particlar V6, V8, or V10 SUV you want to name (with the possible exception of the Excursion and Touareg diesels).
Consider that these machines don't have road friction, and that they can be tuned to run with maximum efficiency at one speed, and you may realize that efficiency isn't going to be a big issue for them.
Not mine...I've got cable modem only. I rarely ever watch TV, so why pay even the $10 a month for a cable signal? My local cable provider (Time Warner) never even blinked when I asked them to trap off the basic and just give me cable modem.
Which strikes me as odd...A few years ago I'm pretty sure they did bundle the services together; I wonder why they stopped? I certainly wouldn't mind paying the extra $10 a month for a 5 Mb pipe, although I'm glad I don't have to.
Yeah...you wouldn't want them attaching it backwards, and it crashing into the moon and de-orbiting it :\
And if you're better off with a normal, fuel efficient gasoline vehicle, you'd be even better off with a normal, even more fuel efficient diesel vehicle.
Hmmm...do you have a webserver on your box, and a no-ad hosts file?
I ran into that when I had IIS installed and a hosts file with many ad servers sent to 127.0.0.1.
I fixed it by turning off the Web Publishing Service.
Yes...I would hate to think the Government would have to spend billions on something as unimportant as securing their computer systems. Couldn't they just do it as a supplemental request?
Well, assuming they're loaded up, they're running 4GB/blade = 9.182 TB. The power blades support up to 4 GB of RAM apiece.
Mmmm...cherry coke aaallghhhhhghhhgggggghhh
With that said...what does the spin of the star (or, more importantly to your question, the resulting spin) have to do with its linear motion, which happens to have been changed by an outside force? I'm not bashing you, I just don't see how it's relevant.
We're (supposedly) talking about a super-massive black hole, which would be expected to have an enormous gravitational field which would be able to act at a great distance. (In fact, it's got quite a few spiral arms zooming around the cosmos, although they're trapped in orbit around it. :)
When a baseball is accelerated through the air, friction probably causes some microscopic bits of the leather to stay behind. But because of the relative density of the object to the medium, the majority continues to move forward as a whole. The parent was not necessarily implying that the star is not losing any mass, just that the loss is likely insignificant compared to the total mass because of the almost complete lack of anything that would cause the star to lose pieces of itself. (Within the medium of space itself...obviously this excludes planets, asteroids, other stars, etc.)
Take a car with electronic steering control, electronic braking control, electronic suspension control, and tie it all together with an adaptable vehicle stability program, and you can change the dynamics of the car competely by changing settings in the conrol software.
Why are we considering the rights of an artificially created sentient being when we refuse to consider the rights of some naturally created sentient beings?
For that matter, why are we artificially creating sentient beings at all, when we don't have a good understanding of what the rights of naturally created sentient beings should be?
A lot of judges on both sides of the aisle have done a lot of stupid things of late to make their side happy. The supreme court is favorable to the right, although I don't know how the justices lean in this particular instance.
However they rule, if it's not worded in a painstakingly careful manner, it's likely to mess up all sorts of things in this area. Unfortunately, you can't tell what will be affected by the decision until things start getting affected by the decision.
But, considering SCO's track record with developing products, wouldn't having them doing that again also not add value and suck up resources?
Seems pretty simple:
"If you put the centrino name on your (pre-268) linux laptop, we will sue you out of existence and stop selling you our chips for violation of our restrictions on your purchase".
It's the same as if the company had purchased export-restricted hardware or software and sent it to a restricted country; it's a violation of the terms of sale. The only difference is it's not a federal offense.
It's "Count the heads."
Hmmm...where do I begin with this one? :)
Zaphod is the one who is "so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month." And, yes, possibly that would be a Betelgeusian month.
All Ford has to do is "...[not] blink often enough" so that "when you [talk] to him for any length of time your eyes began involuntarily to water on his behalf".