My brain is fried and beer-addled, so I can't even begin to figure out how much rice we'd need to match the annual demand for this protein, but I can tell that it's a LOT.
As a supplement to existing sources (blood donation) this might be marginally useful. When the yield increases about tenfold, I'll be more excited.
Until then, it seems like you could save a lot more lives by just giving starving people ordinary rice. It would cost less, too.
I am, in fact, on Virgin Media cable. 100mb is the top tier.
I know that their 100mb service isn't available in all cable regions (yet). I also know they claim that they shape P2P on all tiers. However, I've torrented quite a bit and never seen evidence of shaping. I can max out the bandwidth on torrents. Maybe if i did it 24/7 they'd start shaping it, but it hasn't happened yet.
Americans seem to have REALLY low expectations of their ISPs.
Here in an average-sized town in Scotland I've got a 100mb connection for £35($54)/mo. No capping, no traffic shaping, no services blocked.
The "realities" are that US customers have been trained to expect and accept shit service from their ISPs. Lack of competition in many states compounds the problem.
Totally. Steve was a bit of a hippy so I don't know if he believed in an afterlife. If he is up in iHeaven I hope keeps working. I want cool toys when I get there.
Typed this on an Android tablet that probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Steve.
Apart from the technical limitations, what seriously fucks me off about BIOS is how every manufacturer has a different standard for everything.
Some use F2 to enter the Setup menu, others use Del, others use Esc, others use some random key. Then the actual Setup options are spread across a mind-boggling array of menus and sub-menus, with very little consistency. Menu items often have no description, even in the included documentation.
Also, some BIOSes are just plain buggy: some don't correctly save boot order, some advertise F12 for network boot but it doesn't work, etc.
It all comes down to this: You don't own Star Wars, and George Lucas is not your bitch.
Like it or not, they're his movies. He can do whatever he wants with them.
If you paid to see it them the theater, or you bought them in whatever format, that is precisely what you paid for. There was no contract, expressed or implied, that stated that George Lucas couldn't or wouldn't change the movies however he liked.
There's a point where passion for an artistic work (fandom) spills over into a sense of entitlement, or at least an exaggerated sense of fans' "rights" to a work.
If, by modifying the originals, Lucas is really destroying what you love(d) about Star Wars, then maybe it's time to let it go.
Personally, I find it annoying, but ultimately have to accept that it's not what I make of my work that ultimately matters, it's what the viewer makes of it.
That depends who you're creating for. If you're only creating with an intended audience in mind, then sure. If you're creating for yourself because you enjoy the process, or get satisfaction from the work, then you can happily say "screw the viewer/reader/listener/whatever".
It's different. Watch the stars as they pass through the atmospheric layer. They're brighter within it, thanks to atmospheric lensing. Some aren't even visible after they pass above the yellow arc.
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;
The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
"http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ".
The various MP3-related patents expire on dates ranging from 2007 to 2017 in the U.S.[52] The initial near-complete MPEG-1 standard (parts 1, 2 and 3) was publicly available on December 6, 1991 as ISO CD 11172.[53][54] In the United States, patents cannot claim inventions that were already publicly disclosed more than a year prior to the filing date, but for patents filed prior to June 8, 1995, submarine patents made it possible to extend the effective lifetime of a patent through application extensions. Patents filed for anything disclosed in ISO CD 11172 a year or more after its publication are questionable; if only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding may be patent free in the US by September of 2015 when U.S. Patent 5,812,672 expires which had a PCT filing in Oct 1992.[55][56][57]
So.. at least 4 years to go until we can freely use an audio compression format that has since been superseded technically by many other formats, including free ones. Yaaaay...
tyranny[tir-uh-nee]
noun, plural -nies.
1. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
2. the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler.
3. a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler.
4. oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler.
5. undue severity or harshness.
Believe it or not, there is no clearly-defined scope as to when something is tyrranical or not. As someone who feels that copyright protection is unduly severe this would easily fit into the category, without being hyperbole.
In this case, not only is it unduly severe, but it benefits the few at the expense of the many.
Try looking up the definitions of words before using them in your argument.
It's not "legal" but the single, overriding fact is that if there's no money involved, there's no problem.
If a game isn't commercially available, and never will be again, then go nuts. Nobody is gonna care, ever.
If, on the other hand, a copyright holder thinks there might still be value in their property (apart from geek sentimental value) then they might start C&Ding.
The VAST majority of games on MAME are, for all intents and purposes, abandoned. Many of those that aren't completely abandoned (i.e. copyright holding entity still exists out there somewhere) are almost completely unavailable in the marketplace, and the copies that exist haven't benefited the copyright holder since the first sale anyway.
There are, of course, games that MAME supports that are still protected by the copyright holders. For these, if you really care, go pick up the ROMs from somewhere... or don't. Chances are if you're not distributing them, nobody will care about this either.
Use common sense; if it's going to cost you 10x more than the original cost of the game to buy it legally then pirate your little heart out.
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My brain is fried and beer-addled, so I can't even begin to figure out how much rice we'd need to match the annual demand for this protein, but I can tell that it's a LOT.
As a supplement to existing sources (blood donation) this might be marginally useful. When the yield increases about tenfold, I'll be more excited.
Until then, it seems like you could save a lot more lives by just giving starving people ordinary rice. It would cost less, too.
I can't wait until one of the knucklehead police operators accidentally flies this thing into a tree or power lines or something.
Then they get to explain to the media why their $300,000 toy just became a $5 pile of twisted metal.
I think Rick Perry would execute his own mother if you gave him $5.
This should be installed on every glass door and floor-length window in every shop, mall and office building in the world...
...with hilarious results.
I am, in fact, on Virgin Media cable. 100mb is the top tier.
I know that their 100mb service isn't available in all cable regions (yet). I also know they claim that they shape P2P on all tiers. However, I've torrented quite a bit and never seen evidence of shaping. I can max out the bandwidth on torrents. Maybe if i did it 24/7 they'd start shaping it, but it hasn't happened yet.
Americans seem to have REALLY low expectations of their ISPs.
Here in an average-sized town in Scotland I've got a 100mb connection for £35($54)/mo. No capping, no traffic shaping, no services blocked.
The "realities" are that US customers have been trained to expect and accept shit service from their ISPs. Lack of competition in many states compounds the problem.
Totally. Steve was a bit of a hippy so I don't know if he believed in an afterlife. If he is up in iHeaven I hope keeps working. I want cool toys when I get there. Typed this on an Android tablet that probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Steve.
Apart from the technical limitations, what seriously fucks me off about BIOS is how every manufacturer has a different standard for everything.
Some use F2 to enter the Setup menu, others use Del, others use Esc, others use some random key. Then the actual Setup options are spread across a mind-boggling array of menus and sub-menus, with very little consistency. Menu items often have no description, even in the included documentation.
Also, some BIOSes are just plain buggy: some don't correctly save boot order, some advertise F12 for network boot but it doesn't work, etc.
Is EFI going to solve any of THESE problems?
I doubt it.
In fact:
Here's a pic. Plenty of green lights down there.
It all comes down to this: You don't own Star Wars, and George Lucas is not your bitch.
Like it or not, they're his movies. He can do whatever he wants with them.
If you paid to see it them the theater, or you bought them in whatever format, that is precisely what you paid for. There was no contract, expressed or implied, that stated that George Lucas couldn't or wouldn't change the movies however he liked.
There's a point where passion for an artistic work (fandom) spills over into a sense of entitlement, or at least an exaggerated sense of fans' "rights" to a work.
If, by modifying the originals, Lucas is really destroying what you love(d) about Star Wars, then maybe it's time to let it go.
Personally, I find it annoying, but ultimately have to accept that it's not what I make of my work that ultimately matters, it's what the viewer makes of it.
That depends who you're creating for. If you're only creating with an intended audience in mind, then sure. If you're creating for yourself because you enjoy the process, or get satisfaction from the work, then you can happily say "screw the viewer/reader/listener/whatever".
I compared the video to Google Earth, with the viewpoint set at a similar altitude and angle.
I'm pretty sure it's Guatemala City.
I think that's Guatemala City.
It's different. Watch the stars as they pass through the atmospheric layer. They're brighter within it, thanks to atmospheric lensing. Some aren't even visible after they pass above the yellow arc.
From TFV:
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;
The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
"http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ".
Virtualdub was used to create the final movie.
I'm a network manager in local government now. Goes to show how appropriate what they taught was to the real world.
You think network manager in local government == real world.
Hilarious!
From wikipedia:
So.. at least 4 years to go until we can freely use an audio compression format that has since been superseded technically by many other formats, including free ones. Yaaaay...
I'd say you're spending more on electricity than you could be. You could easily consolidate file/mail/print onto a single low-power device.
"Apple is just protecting us, their devoted users, from seeing things that we shouldn't see! They only do it out of the goodness of their hearts!"
Kind of sad commentary on the fucktards who think killing innocent people is fun. Even if it is in a video game, it reflects your values.
No it doesn't. You're the kind of person who would stand next to a Whac-A-Mole machine wailing "WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE MOLES!"
tyranny[tir-uh-nee]
noun, plural -nies.
1. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
2. the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler.
3. a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler.
4. oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler.
5. undue severity or harshness.
Believe it or not, there is no clearly-defined scope as to when something is tyrranical or not. As someone who feels that copyright protection is unduly severe this would easily fit into the category, without being hyperbole.
In this case, not only is it unduly severe, but it benefits the few at the expense of the many.
Try looking up the definitions of words before using them in your argument.
It's not "legal" but the single, overriding fact is that if there's no money involved, there's no problem.
If a game isn't commercially available, and never will be again, then go nuts. Nobody is gonna care, ever.
If, on the other hand, a copyright holder thinks there might still be value in their property (apart from geek sentimental value) then they might start C&Ding.
The VAST majority of games on MAME are, for all intents and purposes, abandoned. Many of those that aren't completely abandoned (i.e. copyright holding entity still exists out there somewhere) are almost completely unavailable in the marketplace, and the copies that exist haven't benefited the copyright holder since the first sale anyway.
There are, of course, games that MAME supports that are still protected by the copyright holders. For these, if you really care, go pick up the ROMs from somewhere... or don't. Chances are if you're not distributing them, nobody will care about this either.
Use common sense; if it's going to cost you 10x more than the original cost of the game to buy it legally then pirate your little heart out.
Quake's biggest contribution was the client-server model. Quake was a better multiplayer game than Doom because of it.
I'm fairly confident that he's joking. If not, I'll help you kill him.
similarly, if the price says "from only $x" that almost certainly means "but if you actually want to use it, at least 50% more than $x"