I think that the main issue is that people see the TV shows and movies and think that "life" has to look like that.
But those are just theatrics so that human actors can play the parts.
Yep. All intelligent life just happens to be bipeds with the brain in a head at the top with a face that has eyes above the nose and the mouth just underneath it.
I'm still wondering how Spock can be the offspring of a human and a Vulcan - complete with two hearts and green blood!
I didn't know that anyone had a problem with perpetual motion on frictionless surfaces. After all... isn't that how galaxies keep spinning forever? If there's no friction then there's no entropy and of course you can keep doing it.
If it gives even a 50% chance that a kid who steals dad's gun won't be able to shoot up their school, or that a young child won't be able to accidentally shoot themselves, then surely that's worth something.
If there's a 50% chance that parents think "It doesn't matter if I leave this on the table, the kids can't fire it..." then it's worth nothing.
DRM has hurt plenty of paying customers, yes. People have been root-kitted, they've had CDs that won't play in their PCs, you can't make a copy of a CD you own for listening to in your car, or a copy of DVDs for the kids to scratch, etc. Legal, paying customers have to put up with all sorts of crap.
Pirates, OTOH haven't been inconvenienced at all by DRM. The idea that DRM prevents piracy is a fallacy, basing your "Think of the artists!!" sermons on it is disingenuous at best.
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I think that the main issue is that people see the TV shows and movies and think that "life" has to look like that.
But those are just theatrics so that human actors can play the parts.
Yep. All intelligent life just happens to be bipeds with the brain in a head at the top with a face that has eyes above the nose and the mouth just underneath it.
I'm still wondering how Spock can be the offspring of a human and a Vulcan - complete with two hearts and green blood!
And, like, did anybody even think it was good...?
By the time there's any condensate to wipe off the glass, hasn't the damage (i.e. heat from condensation) already been done?
Wiping probably makes it worse - expose fresh cold glass to the air for more condensate.
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I didn't know that anyone had a problem with perpetual motion on frictionless surfaces. After all... isn't that how galaxies keep spinning forever? If there's no friction then there's no entropy and of course you can keep doing it.
Am I missing something here?
Galaxies don't spin forever.
Why bother? We already have pirate bay proxies: http://proxybay.info/
That revolves around stealing other people's stuff.
Governments?
A bunch of alt-coins are already out there
This is precisely what makes Bitcoin worthless.
As soon as mining becomes too difficult, all the miners/speculators will shift to the Next Big Thing (all hoping to get in at the top level).
The miners/speculators are what gives Bitcoin its value. That value will come crashing down when they leave.
Scarcity doesn't necessarily drive prices up.
Gullibility, OTOH...
Bitcoin is a scam, and is never going to go anywhere. After all, you can't pay your taxes with it.
Last I heard, the tax office doesn't accept chickens, goats, cows, flint axes, clam shells... or any number of things that were once used as money.
A founder at the top making a mint, some early adopters below him doing well, lots and lots of people at the bottom struggling to break even...
It sure sounds like a pyramid scheme to me.
The sun has finite energy.
Is that different from "the sun doesn't have an infinite supply of energy"?
I hate to be a Spelling Nazi, but: http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/peak-peek-pique/
I thought the 'bias' was because they demand real wages and are harder to treat like slaves.
If it gives even a 50% chance that a kid who steals dad's gun won't be able to shoot up their school, or that a young child won't be able to accidentally shoot themselves, then surely that's worth something.
If there's a 50% chance that parents think "It doesn't matter if I leave this on the table, the kids can't fire it..." then it's worth nothing.
He should be disbarred for giving lawyers a bad name (yes, that's possible...)
Exactly. I'm not surprised it happened, I'm surprised it got reported!
Has it been reported anywhere outside of hardcore-techie web sites? I bet Fox News isn't covering it.
It's not the "not running Android" that's the problem, it's the locking it down that's a problem.
They aren't locking it down so you can't run Linux. They're locking it down so you have to go to their app store for 3rd party apps.
Oh, you mean good reasons for the customer?
Um. No.
DRM has hurt plenty of paying customers, yes. People have been root-kitted, they've had CDs that won't play in their PCs, you can't make a copy of a CD you own for listening to in your car, or a copy of DVDs for the kids to scratch, etc. Legal, paying customers have to put up with all sorts of crap.
Pirates, OTOH haven't been inconvenienced at all by DRM. The idea that DRM prevents piracy is a fallacy, basing your "Think of the artists!!" sermons on it is disingenuous at best.
Helicopters can glide, a human-powered helicopter ought to glide quite well because the power to weight ratio will be high.
Question: Would more cameras have *prevented* the bombing? Because that's the only acceptable reason.
Most of the photos used to identify them were taken by the public.
People who can wear narrower shoes will get to breed more often?
Cool, thanks...!
Never mind FPGA, we want a PDF version!
It might ... if you don't count the man-hours needed to rewrite the software and the constant effort needed to keep a 10-year-old PC from imploding.
seeing people trip or drop stacks or boxes of cards on the floor and then crying
Grab a marker pen and draw some diagonal lines/crosses on the edges of the stack. You can easily see which ones are out of order.
You can also see if anybody has swapped a couple of them around as a "joke".