I should not have to pay for a digital copy of Jimi Hendrix' work... It should be in the public domain as the Founding Fathers wished and as is written in the US Constitution. Wait... the Founding Fathers were Hendrix fans?!? Damn, those guys really were ahead of their time!;) (Yes, at the time of the founding of the US, unauthorized republication of European sheet music and books was rampant. Ben Franklin probably participated in this pirating... can anybody cite actual proof?)
Lawyers are hired guns. Does anybody think the RIAA lawyers actually believed in the cause they were litigating over? No, they were doing what they were told. Redirecting some of the most competent RIAA lawyers' efforts into more productive work could actually be a good thing.
Man, and I thought it sucked to be stuck behind a bus before! Who could have predicted that all those experiments my Norwegian friends did with lighting farts when they were younger would actually lead to a viable energy source?
In one of my many jobs, I reverse-engineered SMB user authentication so that our firewall product could use an NT server for user authentication. (And discovered that sending a badly-formed SMB message to the login process would crash the login process every time, resulting in nobody being able to login.) Having access to the source definitely would have helped! And I'm sure all those nice folks on the Samba team would love to get a look at the SMB source as well. So no, nobody would base a new product on old Windows source -- but it would sure help with interoperability efforts (something Microsoft now claims to be promoting).
No, it just smells that way!;) MIPS and Sparc are dead. The Cell processor is PPC based, so we may have PPC with us as specialty processors for a while still. I agree, ARM and x86 completely dominate their respective markets; soon Atom will as well.
Economies of scale and the familiarity of the evil we know will always triumph over superior technology. Intel and AMD are probably spending $1 billion a year improving x86. Even if somebody designs a better CPU, if they can't afford to throw the R&D dollars at it that Intel and AMD are spending, then it will fall behind in a few years. Hence MIPS, Sparc, and PA-RISC, all of which initially showed some promise, have gone by the wayside.
I have a theory that most closed source remains closed source simply because the authors would die of embarrassment if anybody else saw what a steaming pile of crap they had written. Microsoft's "ship it when it is 'good enough' and let the customer complete the beta testing" philosophy probably doesn't allow for cleaning up old code bases to make them presentable.
Waterspouts probably do more damage to fishermen in dories than large yachts.
As for avalanches, those almost always do the most damage to the losers that triggered the avalanche in the first place!
I'm not sure an event triggered by rich people's recreational activities qualifies as a "natural" disaster.
On those rare occasions when an avalanche or mudslide actually wipes out part of a town, I'm sure the poor are disproportionately effected.
...the condom police just have sex with you bareback, and afterwards they say "okay well this time it was just genital warts... next time it might be AIDS!
If the government could just identify all those people gullible enough for fall for spam, then just go ahead and sell them herbal v1agra and/or breast enlargement cream, then we could pay down a lot of the national debt! There is precedent; we already have a tax on stupidity called a State Lottery. Hey, somebody's going to screw these people over, so why not let it be the government?
My definition of "Intelligent civilization" includes being smart enough to NOT broadcast their whereabouts to unknown other beings in the vicinity that might have hostile intentions towards them. Humans used to methodically kill wolves, bear, shark, and other species because they felt they were competing with them for resources. It's not too big a stretch to imagine that some other species might feel the same way about humans.
It's not getting it to lose 2% of the votes that is important... the trick is getting it to lose the right 2% of the votes!
Yes, if all lost votes being cast for one candidate or the other would make no difference in any of the outcomes, then the results should be certified. If there was any possibility that it would make a difference (as was clearly the case in the Minnesota senate election) then they should hold another special election.
Before putting all this effort, time, and money into bringing back an extinct species, shouldn't scientists first be required to answer the question, "How does it taste?"
I also find it funny, and sad, that a Swedish entity caved so easily to a legal threat from outside the country...
Hey, after seeing what the Israelis did to the residents of Gaza, would YOU want a bunch of Israelis pissed off at YOU?!?
Heck, start by computing a baseline and run through recordings of previous Presidents, working your way toward the current administration. I'd skip W though... he might break the machine. Not a man to be misunderestimated!
Who EVER had "The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine" ?! Obviously somebody that whacked their head thousands of times in their life!
How much $ for the Aero EV? I'm thinking the batteries alone must be over $100K, so we're talking what, a quarter-million dollar car? Much as I'd love to own one, I'm just not THAT desperate for an elaborate electric penis-extension.
A plug-in version of the new Honda Insight Hybrid comes close to those specs, but I suspect for a pure electric the 500km range is incompatible with the other requirements -- the batteries alone would cost over $20k for a 500km (300mi) range. I would settle for a hybrid with those specs.
Personally, I think they've been far too cautious. "As of 2007, in-flight accidents have killed 19 astronauts, training accidents have claimed 11 astronauts, and launchpad accidents have killed at least 71 ground personnel.
About two percent of the manned launch/reentry attempts have killed their crew, with Soyuz and the Shuttle having almost the same death percentage rates...
About five percent of the people that have been launched have died doing so..."
Surprisingly enough, Soviet and American casualties are about the same. These people knew the risks they were taken; being the first to try out a new technology is always a risky proposition. Compared to human costs of building bridges, testing aircraft, even driving race cars, 101 deaths is a really small number. Heck, I'm willing to bet more people have died playing football than working for NASA -- yet nobody accuses football coaches of not being cautious enough. (That is, a higher number of total deaths, not a higher percentage.)
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I should not have to pay for a digital copy of Jimi Hendrix' work... It should be in the public domain as the Founding Fathers wished and as is written in the US Constitution. Wait... the Founding Fathers were Hendrix fans?!? Damn, those guys really were ahead of their time! ;) (Yes, at the time of the founding of the US, unauthorized republication of European sheet music and books was rampant. Ben Franklin probably participated in this pirating... can anybody cite actual proof?)
Lawyers are hired guns. Does anybody think the RIAA lawyers actually believed in the cause they were litigating over? No, they were doing what they were told. Redirecting some of the most competent RIAA lawyers' efforts into more productive work could actually be a good thing.
Man, and I thought it sucked to be stuck behind a bus before! Who could have predicted that all those experiments my Norwegian friends did with lighting farts when they were younger would actually lead to a viable energy source?
In one of my many jobs, I reverse-engineered SMB user authentication so that our firewall product could use an NT server for user authentication. (And discovered that sending a badly-formed SMB message to the login process would crash the login process every time, resulting in nobody being able to login.) Having access to the source definitely would have helped! And I'm sure all those nice folks on the Samba team would love to get a look at the SMB source as well. So no, nobody would base a new product on old Windows source -- but it would sure help with interoperability efforts (something Microsoft now claims to be promoting).
No, it just smells that way! ;) MIPS and Sparc are dead. The Cell processor is PPC based, so we may have PPC with us as specialty processors for a while still. I agree, ARM and x86 completely dominate their respective markets; soon Atom will as well.
Economies of scale and the familiarity of the evil we know will always triumph over superior technology. Intel and AMD are probably spending $1 billion a year improving x86. Even if somebody designs a better CPU, if they can't afford to throw the R&D dollars at it that Intel and AMD are spending, then it will fall behind in a few years. Hence MIPS, Sparc, and PA-RISC, all of which initially showed some promise, have gone by the wayside.
I have a theory that most closed source remains closed source simply because the authors would die of embarrassment if anybody else saw what a steaming pile of crap they had written. Microsoft's "ship it when it is 'good enough' and let the customer complete the beta testing" philosophy probably doesn't allow for cleaning up old code bases to make them presentable.
Waterspouts probably do more damage to fishermen in dories than large yachts. As for avalanches, those almost always do the most damage to the losers that triggered the avalanche in the first place! I'm not sure an event triggered by rich people's recreational activities qualifies as a "natural" disaster. On those rare occasions when an avalanche or mudslide actually wipes out part of a town, I'm sure the poor are disproportionately effected.
Every natural disaster has a disproportionate effect on the poor! That's just one of the many, many reasons why it sucks to be poor!
Haven't we known for 40 years now that injecting water into a fault can trigger a quake?
I foresee this technology currently being developed by the military leading in the near future to great advances in the field of teledildonics!
Sending out spam to decrease spam is like having sex to increase virginity.
Ewww! I hate it when that happens!
If the government could just identify all those people gullible enough for fall for spam, then just go ahead and sell them herbal v1agra and/or breast enlargement cream, then we could pay down a lot of the national debt! There is precedent; we already have a tax on stupidity called a State Lottery. Hey, somebody's going to screw these people over, so why not let it be the government?
Another theory is that they haven't contacted us because they're just not that into us.
My definition of "Intelligent civilization" includes being smart enough to NOT broadcast their whereabouts to unknown other beings in the vicinity that might have hostile intentions towards them. Humans used to methodically kill wolves, bear, shark, and other species because they felt they were competing with them for resources. It's not too big a stretch to imagine that some other species might feel the same way about humans.
Yes, if all lost votes being cast for one candidate or the other would make no difference in any of the outcomes, then the results should be certified. If there was any possibility that it would make a difference (as was clearly the case in the Minnesota senate election) then they should hold another special election.
Before putting all this effort, time, and money into bringing back an extinct species, shouldn't scientists first be required to answer the question, "How does it taste?"
I also find it funny, and sad, that a Swedish entity caved so easily to a legal threat from outside the country...
Hey, after seeing what the Israelis did to the residents of Gaza, would YOU want a bunch of Israelis pissed off at YOU?!?
Heck, start by computing a baseline and run through recordings of previous Presidents, working your way toward the current administration. I'd skip W though... he might break the machine. Not a man to be misunderestimated!
Please don't give these abominations the ability to make replicas of themselves!
Who EVER had "The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine" ?!
Obviously somebody that whacked their head thousands of times in their life!
How much $ for the Aero EV? I'm thinking the batteries alone must be over $100K, so we're talking what, a quarter-million dollar car? Much as I'd love to own one, I'm just not THAT desperate for an elaborate electric penis-extension.
A plug-in version of the new Honda Insight Hybrid comes close to those specs, but I suspect for a pure electric the 500km range is incompatible with the other requirements -- the batteries alone would cost over $20k for a 500km (300mi) range. I would settle for a hybrid with those specs.
Personally, I think they've been far too cautious. "As of 2007, in-flight accidents have killed 19 astronauts, training accidents have claimed 11 astronauts, and launchpad accidents have killed at least 71 ground personnel. About two percent of the manned launch/reentry attempts have killed their crew, with Soyuz and the Shuttle having almost the same death percentage rates... About five percent of the people that have been launched have died doing so..." Surprisingly enough, Soviet and American casualties are about the same. These people knew the risks they were taken; being the first to try out a new technology is always a risky proposition. Compared to human costs of building bridges, testing aircraft, even driving race cars, 101 deaths is a really small number. Heck, I'm willing to bet more people have died playing football than working for NASA -- yet nobody accuses football coaches of not being cautious enough. (That is, a higher number of total deaths, not a higher percentage.)