At the risk of feeding the trolls,
"Dark fiber". VPN tunnels. Modems.
There are still a lot of ways data gets from point A to B without going through the normal routing rules, so near as I can tell, we already have more than one internet.
Disclaimer, I'm in the USA, and they're still counting the votes in my state for some of the races.
I'm oddly okay with movie theatres doing this. It's their private property, and it's probably legal so long as they have signs up or add it in the fine print n the ticket. I'm not going to investigate as much.
I will vote with my dollars and skip the movie theatres, though. I'm quite happy to stay at home with my Netflix account, air-popper, 12-pack of soda, and 'movie theatre candy box' from WinCo. They can keep their cameras and blockbuster releases, so long as Hollywood keeps employing actors and Netflix keeps streaming movies.
If they put cameras on my television or XBox, on the other hand...
Himself. Motorcycles have a lot of speed, high acceleration and maneuverability, little mass, and very little between the rider and the road. If he'd met another vehicle at 127mph, the other vehicle would be operable with a dent, and this video would've ended with road pizza.
Stupid driving? Extremely. Dangerous to those around him? Not really.
Here in my state, what the cop did would be called 'threatening with a deadly weapon'.
re #5: There are rows of wind generators that have gone up in the last decade along the Columbia Gorge, through which the Columbia River flows, and has multiple dams on it (including John Day, Bonneville, and McNary). The sides are rather steep in most places, and the largest communities include The Dalles and Hood River. The surrounding areas on top of either side of the Gorge are primarily agriculture.
The aluminum industry used to be a big thing for demand response ("we have X megawatts, want 'em?"), but I don't know what the state of aluminum in the PNW/Gorge, likely thrashed with the costs of shipping, raw materials (demand from China), and environmental concerns.
We've had a very wet season, and there dam operators have actually been spilling water rather than keeping it high. From the article, and from a region resident.
I haven't run afoul of any laws, writing software, but I'm always tangling with copyright readers and software licenses whenever I start up a project (which happens every year or two). Open source licenses especially, since the standing rule is that 'copyleft is bad, because we want to keep control of our work'.
Software licenses come up every couple months, but the shop does a good job keeping the site licenses for the software that we use, and personal software is discouraged. I have a couple sets of VS8/9/10 discs that I pass to the interns and new FTEs, but have the license codes squirreled away separately -- if the site license doesn't pick them up, it's IT's problem. I've had a license expire, which was inconvenient, but had the project money for the latest version.
Code plagiarism is another concern, but a pretty easy one ~ either don't copy it, or contact the original author. Pretty straightforwards.
Why would Bungie bust out the lawyers? When the Demon? Devil? Armor guys wrote them about the Spartan armor, they invited the guy to their offices to show it off.
Odds are they'll give this guy a ticket to show off and talk shop as well.
It makes sense, but seems overly impractical due to the sheer energy or mass involved with a black hole. It'd be fun to see what would happen if the static forces were able to push photons hard enough to kick them out of the gravity well. I don't buy the bit about angular momentum so readily, I think the mass would then need to be flying off the sides of the black hole ~ impractical to get that much kinetic energy when you're adding more mass.
The RIAA is claiming US$1.5T is owed to an industry that had about US$12.4B of worldwide sales in 2005?
The fallacy (IMO) is in trying to pin the blame for every LimeWire user on the guys who ran LimeWire. Analogous to blaming Ford for everyone who deliberately speeds or runs someone over. It looks like they're wasting time for the sake of bogus arguements... but all the RIAA lawyers really have to do is run the clock and the lawyer fees to make things bad for the Lime Group.
The RIAA lawyers will be called on blowing smoke, the LimeWire client will get neutered, and 'damages' will be dependent on the quality of the lawyers and the disposition of the judge.
...signs of zombies were discovered on Planet Earth when there was a distinct absence of intelligence in recent observation. This would indicate the presence of brain-eating zombies, as all their feeding mechanisms drain intelligence from the local biosphere.
Note to self, write my state representative with a number of situations where the outcome of 'police action' resulted in a he-said-she-said and the 'offender' being injured or killed, and with situations where photographers are arrested for observing law enforcement rather than for breaking laws.
As an open-mic musician who gets up and plays for fun, I'm not surprised by the dollar value for businesses affected by fair use. Karaoke, open mic, folk music, classical music, 'expired' music, etc, all ends up being used in a small or large part by a huge number of companies. Who owns the copyright for Vivaldi's orchestrations? Mozart's compositions?
'Fair use' is what lets me get up and play 'Rare Old Times', 'Whiskey in the Jar', or 'Black Velvet Band' in front of a small crowd without worrying if ASCAP or the like has someone fishing for royalty violations ~ which did happen in my little 100k population city a few years back and turned a lot of businesses off from allowing live music.
It's just music, one of the oldest pastimes known to mankind, likely pre-dating inebriation. There are bone flutes the date back 9k-35k years.
It's just music, one of those odd things that Alzheimer's patients are still able to do even when they can't remember how where those metal casks in the back room of the brewery are.
It's just music, an element so firmly entrenched in our brains that few people recognize just how much music is involved in their lives.
Or you want to be a better musician or actor. How many teenagers pick up the guitar and say, "I want to be as good as Stevie Ray Vaughn"? Or Jimi Hendrix? Geddy Lee? Eddie Van Halen?
Lots of people out there, and no guarantee that they'll be anything like you expect.
"If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors? In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists."
Yes. They'll need someone up on stage for the concerts, and for people to pay attention to ~ heroes, celebrities, role models, fashion models, etc. You can't fantasize about a simulation. Closer to home, the local bar will still want someone to make noise for their Friday Rock/Punk/Jazz Show, and another band for St Patty's week ~ which is where the labels find new talent, not by plugging in "Peart, Grohl, Eric Johnson" in for a virtual supergroup. Whoever came up with the summary needs to get out of their parents' basement more and get exposed to some nightlife.
Just like the easiest way to understand how a dog works is to dissect them.
In short, no. You can figure out how some of the parts work, but there's a lot within complex software that is non-deterministic, whether for internal, external, or thoroughly inadvertant reasons on either side. Just because you _think_ you know what it's doing doesn't mean it'll act the way you expect it to.
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Slashdot -- Mad Libs edition! BEST. APRIL FIRST. EVER. Can we keep this after today as a 'special section', to parallel Idle?
At the risk of feeding the trolls,
"Dark fiber". VPN tunnels. Modems. There are still a lot of ways data gets from point A to B without going through the normal routing rules, so near as I can tell, we already have more than one internet.
Dust storms?
I'm oddly okay with movie theatres doing this. It's their private property, and it's probably legal so long as they have signs up or add it in the fine print n the ticket. I'm not going to investigate as much.
I will vote with my dollars and skip the movie theatres, though. I'm quite happy to stay at home with my Netflix account, air-popper, 12-pack of soda, and 'movie theatre candy box' from WinCo. They can keep their cameras and blockbuster releases, so long as Hollywood keeps employing actors and Netflix keeps streaming movies.
If they put cameras on my television or XBox, on the other hand...
Himself. Motorcycles have a lot of speed, high acceleration and maneuverability, little mass, and very little between the rider and the road. If he'd met another vehicle at 127mph, the other vehicle would be operable with a dent, and this video would've ended with road pizza.
Stupid driving? Extremely. Dangerous to those around him? Not really.
Here in my state, what the cop did would be called 'threatening with a deadly weapon'.
re #5: There are rows of wind generators that have gone up in the last decade along the Columbia Gorge, through which the Columbia River flows, and has multiple dams on it (including John Day, Bonneville, and McNary). The sides are rather steep in most places, and the largest communities include The Dalles and Hood River. The surrounding areas on top of either side of the Gorge are primarily agriculture.
The aluminum industry used to be a big thing for demand response ("we have X megawatts, want 'em?"), but I don't know what the state of aluminum in the PNW/Gorge, likely thrashed with the costs of shipping, raw materials (demand from China), and environmental concerns.
We've had a very wet season, and there dam operators have actually been spilling water rather than keeping it high. From the article, and from a region resident.
I haven't run afoul of any laws, writing software, but I'm always tangling with copyright readers and software licenses whenever I start up a project (which happens every year or two). Open source licenses especially, since the standing rule is that 'copyleft is bad, because we want to keep control of our work'.
Software licenses come up every couple months, but the shop does a good job keeping the site licenses for the software that we use, and personal software is discouraged. I have a couple sets of VS8/9/10 discs that I pass to the interns and new FTEs, but have the license codes squirreled away separately -- if the site license doesn't pick them up, it's IT's problem. I've had a license expire, which was inconvenient, but had the project money for the latest version.
Code plagiarism is another concern, but a pretty easy one ~ either don't copy it, or contact the original author. Pretty straightforwards.
Why would Bungie bust out the lawyers? When the Demon? Devil? Armor guys wrote them about the Spartan armor, they invited the guy to their offices to show it off.
Odds are they'll give this guy a ticket to show off and talk shop as well.
This is why 4x10s are better. Only 25% of work days are taken on Mondays or Fridays, with those schedules!
It makes sense, but seems overly impractical due to the sheer energy or mass involved with a black hole. It'd be fun to see what would happen if the static forces were able to push photons hard enough to kick them out of the gravity well. I don't buy the bit about angular momentum so readily, I think the mass would then need to be flying off the sides of the black hole ~ impractical to get that much kinetic energy when you're adding more mass.
The RIAA is claiming US$1.5T is owed to an industry that had about US$12.4B of worldwide sales in 2005?
The fallacy (IMO) is in trying to pin the blame for every LimeWire user on the guys who ran LimeWire. Analogous to blaming Ford for everyone who deliberately speeds or runs someone over. It looks like they're wasting time for the sake of bogus arguements ... but all the RIAA lawyers really have to do is run the clock and the lawyer fees to make things bad for the Lime Group.
The RIAA lawyers will be called on blowing smoke, the LimeWire client will get neutered, and 'damages' will be dependent on the quality of the lawyers and the disposition of the judge.
...signs of zombies were discovered on Planet Earth when there was a distinct absence of intelligence in recent observation. This would indicate the presence of brain-eating zombies, as all their feeding mechanisms drain intelligence from the local biosphere.
(sorry, couldn't help it.)
Note to self, write my state representative with a number of situations where the outcome of 'police action' resulted in a he-said-she-said and the 'offender' being injured or killed, and with situations where photographers are arrested for observing law enforcement rather than for breaking laws.
Why was taxpayer money spent making and passing such a bill?
Can we get a mod to do a grammar check on the summary? It's atrociously worded and nigh incomprehensible.
As an open-mic musician who gets up and plays for fun, I'm not surprised by the dollar value for businesses affected by fair use. Karaoke, open mic, folk music, classical music, 'expired' music, etc, all ends up being used in a small or large part by a huge number of companies. Who owns the copyright for Vivaldi's orchestrations? Mozart's compositions?
'Fair use' is what lets me get up and play 'Rare Old Times', 'Whiskey in the Jar', or 'Black Velvet Band' in front of a small crowd without worrying if ASCAP or the like has someone fishing for royalty violations ~ which did happen in my little 100k population city a few years back and turned a lot of businesses off from allowing live music.
Correlation is not causation. Facebook usage may correlate, but doesn't cause it.
"Don't drink and park. Accidents make people."
It's just music, one of the oldest pastimes known to mankind, likely pre-dating inebriation. There are bone flutes the date back 9k-35k years.
It's just music, one of those odd things that Alzheimer's patients are still able to do even when they can't remember how where those metal casks in the back room of the brewery are.
It's just music, an element so firmly entrenched in our brains that few people recognize just how much music is involved in their lives.
Or you want to be a better musician or actor. How many teenagers pick up the guitar and say, "I want to be as good as Stevie Ray Vaughn"? Or Jimi Hendrix? Geddy Lee? Eddie Van Halen?
Lots of people out there, and no guarantee that they'll be anything like you expect.
"If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors? In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists." Yes. They'll need someone up on stage for the concerts, and for people to pay attention to ~ heroes, celebrities, role models, fashion models, etc. You can't fantasize about a simulation. Closer to home, the local bar will still want someone to make noise for their Friday Rock/Punk/Jazz Show, and another band for St Patty's week ~ which is where the labels find new talent, not by plugging in "Peart, Grohl, Eric Johnson" in for a virtual supergroup. Whoever came up with the summary needs to get out of their parents' basement more and get exposed to some nightlife.
Hey, more than I got. I hope the EFF can retrieve all the "research data" they're collecting from the servers that must be melting into slag...
Try popping the clutch, and/or shifting into reverse. You'll eventually retread ground you've already covered, or at least you'll just be rolling.
That's what I call some baaaahhhd medicine.
Just like the easiest way to understand how a dog works is to dissect them.
In short, no. You can figure out how some of the parts work, but there's a lot within complex software that is non-deterministic, whether for internal, external, or thoroughly inadvertant reasons on either side. Just because you _think_ you know what it's doing doesn't mean it'll act the way you expect it to.
Also, see http://xkcd.com/397/