If you have to try this, TURN IT OFF WITH THE WALL SWITCH.
Yanking the powercord out can damage components easily if the earth comes out first, which is unfortunately very likely with PC power cords.
I have several sticks of RAM that can provide supporting evidence, unfortunately.
There is not any need to go to that much trouble. Any player software that outputs to a speaker will output to a file, in linux at least. Looking through the ( obviously ) slightly vague info on that site, I'm guessing that suported players like iTunes and WMP won't allow that sort of tampering.
Alston was the one who originally put so much egg on the governments face, his going would make this decision easier. As for Family First, they don't have a controlling vote anymore...
Its worth noting that a previous telecomunications minister pushed very hard for just such filtering up to a year ago. Polls showed that it was not a popular moove, and a tech saavy electorate didn't think it would work anyway. The kneejerk reaction already happened, but failed. This is just good politics.
Quote form the article " While NIPLAC has been around since the early 90's, it has never done anything" and it gets 2 million dollars!
Thats my life plan and they stole it from us. I'm going to sue. Who do I speak to?
Yes. A previous poster mentioned a large rocket prototype exploding on the launchpad and killing 150 people. That rocket was supposed to do the same job as the saturn rocket, but failed due to vibration problems ( I think it had 11 engines ). Energia is the rocket that they wanted to build in the 1960's. Its a fantastic design. It can loft Buran into space, or just a giant container, so it can lift quite a bit more than the shuttle could. If the russians can ever fund a major mars mission, Energia can launch just about anything they can think of.
Well, the prototype/proof of concept is said to have crashed, but nowhere does it mention what happened to the follow on vehicle. You can clearly see Energia launching one of them. Which one was it? And I would not call the first craft a mock up. It clearly had every system the craft would need except the laser. An important bit true, but the russians didn't have the same weight/space problems the us had, as they didn't have to fit it inside the space shuttle.
So, Amalgamated Space Flight has a 100% safety record? Excellent. How many flights did you calculate that off? Mine will be the first one, and my deposit is non refundable? Mummy!!!!
Absolutely not. I might be persuaded to trust Burt Rutan. But would I trust the company that will run/lease/buy his spaceplane? And what about the other startup companies? There needs to be regulation of this so that we can be confident that there is some accountability for things if they go wrong.
I believe there are already regulations in place to police anything that is in orbit.
Its not that big a deal for the current generation of space tourism craft, as they don't get into orbit anyway, and takoff and land in the same country.
I thought it was a fair compromise for the FAA to only consider crew and passenger safety if it "Has already been shown in real flight to cause problems"
It may be hard even with that clause and legal waivers for passengers, to avoid law suits should someone die. It is in the companies best interests for any craft they build to be safe. Any accident in space would likely be fatal and destroy the craft, so no company would allow a safety issue to exist.
Can an expert on aviation law say what this proposed limitation of FAA regulation will mean?
Yep. And more pointedly, Australia has already agreed to enacting the DMCA as Australian law, in exchange for a free trade agreement.
For your sake I hope the EU has enough clout to resist being forced to adhere to all of the conditions of the DMCA.
I'm not against the principle of the thing, but there are some sections that make my blood run cold. Anyone who hasn't read it, should read it.
I guess you'd better buy any hdtv equipment at the mid 2005 'non compliance' sale.
I always find that early generations of any given new technology are easier to use because they have fewer copyright type restrictions on them.
I'd say it would apply if you have wireless broadband only, or if you like to download pretty pictures to your phone. I don't think their mandate would extend to things like a home LAN.
The statement is very broad though. i can see expensive litigation over this. Lawyer's love broadly worded laws.
MetaData is not new. Its not radical. But MS aparently can't make it work. So Apple gets to use it first, 5 percent of the computer population go wow! 95 percent ask why can't we have this, and Longhorn SP1 will get it and proclaim it as a great new radical technology.
Yes, of course I agree that they are not the same thing. But the idea should hold true. The idea that trade of any sort, regardless of the medium or the articles being traded, in this case the information culture, are the life blood of a city. What did the major trading cities do to become the hubs that they are? It used to be purely geographical. You built a city where people could get to it, close to everything you needed for that city.now, that may not be true. neither Sydney or Miami were close to anything at their founding, but flows of culture and information made people and trade come to them! It was thought even a few decades ago that technology would change the growing phenomena of urbanisation, but instead it seems to be accelerationg it in many ways.
Im reminded of school history lessons as a kid, full of stories of once great cities, now deserted because the rivers or trade routes that suported them changed.
This is the same sort of thing, those cities are important because of the information that flows through them. How easy these days is it for information to change where its located?
In the past a river would take hundreds of years to change its course. Nowdays, that cultural river can change a great deal in mere decades. How long ago was it that Miami was just a holiday spot?
The evidence is even worse than circumstantial. Its confusing to any but a technical audience. Can you imagine having to prove this to a jury?
And worse, if a jury doesn't understand it, might they not just convict based on the fact he's a scum sucking spam artist...oh, thats not worse at all
I think one of the reasons intel were very quiet about the whole thing is that this move towards higher memory speeds isn't for the current generation of cpu's ( even if it was part of their roadmap over a year ago ).
The major idea behind dual core is that multiple applications can share time on the two cores, this is going to require a fast memory interface. As far as intel are concerned, the sooner more people use fast DDR2 memory now, the more people will be in a position to use intels dual core cpu's later.
As to the lack of genetic diversity, Currently clones are not genetically identical, witness those cute little kittens you can buy in the US when your favoutite kitty dies. Also designer humans wouldn't lack any diversity, It would just be that Gene expresion would change, sellecting for a desired carateristic rather than elliminating it
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Thank you. My chest hurts and I just had my flatmates check in on my sanity, but thank you. That was funny.
I guess those iPod batteries are not nearly as bad as has been claimed.
As all PC power supplies are the same, then I would think that the cord heading out of the back of them would also be the same.
As for the wall socket side, you will usually be alright, but not always.If you have to try this, TURN IT OFF WITH THE WALL SWITCH. Yanking the powercord out can damage components easily if the earth comes out first, which is unfortunately very likely with PC power cords. I have several sticks of RAM that can provide supporting evidence, unfortunately.
There is not any need to go to that much trouble. Any player software that outputs to a speaker will output to a file, in linux at least. Looking through the ( obviously ) slightly vague info on that site, I'm guessing that suported players like iTunes and WMP won't allow that sort of tampering.
Insightful? How about +5 funny!
Alston was the one who originally put so much egg on the governments face, his going would make this decision easier. As for Family First, they don't have a controlling vote anymore...
Its worth noting that a previous telecomunications minister pushed very hard for just such filtering up to a year ago. Polls showed that it was not a popular moove, and a tech saavy electorate didn't think it would work anyway. The kneejerk reaction already happened, but failed. This is just good politics.
Quote form the article " While NIPLAC has been around since the early 90's, it has never done anything" and it gets 2 million dollars! Thats my life plan and they stole it from us. I'm going to sue. Who do I speak to?
Cool. Your right, I was thinking vaguely about the type designation, which my brain translated into 11 engines. Thanks for the extra info.
Yes. A previous poster mentioned a large rocket prototype exploding on the launchpad and killing 150 people. That rocket was supposed to do the same job as the saturn rocket, but failed due to vibration problems ( I think it had 11 engines ). Energia is the rocket that they wanted to build in the 1960's. Its a fantastic design. It can loft Buran into space, or just a giant container, so it can lift quite a bit more than the shuttle could. If the russians can ever fund a major mars mission, Energia can launch just about anything they can think of.
Well, the prototype/proof of concept is said to have crashed, but nowhere does it mention what happened to the follow on vehicle. You can clearly see Energia launching one of them. Which one was it? And I would not call the first craft a mock up. It clearly had every system the craft would need except the laser. An important bit true, but the russians didn't have the same weight/space problems the us had, as they didn't have to fit it inside the space shuttle.
So, Amalgamated Space Flight has a 100% safety record? Excellent. How many flights did you calculate that off? Mine will be the first one, and my deposit is non refundable? Mummy!!!!
Absolutely not. I might be persuaded to trust Burt Rutan. But would I trust the company that will run /lease/buy his spaceplane? And what about the other startup companies? There needs to be regulation of this so that we can be confident that there is some accountability for things if they go wrong.
I believe there are already regulations in place to police anything that is in orbit. Its not that big a deal for the current generation of space tourism craft, as they don't get into orbit anyway, and takoff and land in the same country.
I thought it was a fair compromise for the FAA to only consider crew and passenger safety if it "Has already been shown in real flight to cause problems" It may be hard even with that clause and legal waivers for passengers, to avoid law suits should someone die. It is in the companies best interests for any craft they build to be safe. Any accident in space would likely be fatal and destroy the craft, so no company would allow a safety issue to exist. Can an expert on aviation law say what this proposed limitation of FAA regulation will mean?
Yep. And more pointedly, Australia has already agreed to enacting the DMCA as Australian law, in exchange for a free trade agreement. For your sake I hope the EU has enough clout to resist being forced to adhere to all of the conditions of the DMCA. I'm not against the principle of the thing, but there are some sections that make my blood run cold. Anyone who hasn't read it, should read it.
I guess you'd better buy any hdtv equipment at the mid 2005 'non compliance' sale. I always find that early generations of any given new technology are easier to use because they have fewer copyright type restrictions on them.
I'd say it would apply if you have wireless broadband only, or if you like to download pretty pictures to your phone. I don't think their mandate would extend to things like a home LAN. The statement is very broad though. i can see expensive litigation over this. Lawyer's love broadly worded laws.
MetaData is not new. Its not radical. But MS aparently can't make it work. So Apple gets to use it first, 5 percent of the computer population go wow! 95 percent ask why can't we have this, and Longhorn SP1 will get it and proclaim it as a great new radical technology.
Yes, of course I agree that they are not the same thing. But the idea should hold true. The idea that trade of any sort, regardless of the medium or the articles being traded, in this case the information culture, are the life blood of a city. What did the major trading cities do to become the hubs that they are? It used to be purely geographical. You built a city where people could get to it, close to everything you needed for that city.now, that may not be true. neither Sydney or Miami were close to anything at their founding, but flows of culture and information made people and trade come to them! It was thought even a few decades ago that technology would change the growing phenomena of urbanisation, but instead it seems to be accelerationg it in many ways.
Im reminded of school history lessons as a kid, full of stories of once great cities, now deserted because the rivers or trade routes that suported them changed. This is the same sort of thing, those cities are important because of the information that flows through them. How easy these days is it for information to change where its located? In the past a river would take hundreds of years to change its course. Nowdays, that cultural river can change a great deal in mere decades. How long ago was it that Miami was just a holiday spot?
The evidence is even worse than circumstantial. Its confusing to any but a technical audience. Can you imagine having to prove this to a jury? And worse, if a jury doesn't understand it, might they not just convict based on the fact he's a scum sucking spam artist...oh, thats not worse at all
I think one of the reasons intel were very quiet about the whole thing is that this move towards higher memory speeds isn't for the current generation of cpu's ( even if it was part of their roadmap over a year ago ). The major idea behind dual core is that multiple applications can share time on the two cores, this is going to require a fast memory interface. As far as intel are concerned, the sooner more people use fast DDR2 memory now, the more people will be in a position to use intels dual core cpu's later.
As to the lack of genetic diversity, Currently clones are not genetically identical, witness those cute little kittens you can buy in the US when your favoutite kitty dies. Also designer humans wouldn't lack any diversity, It would just be that Gene expresion would change, sellecting for a desired carateristic rather than elliminating it