The tests were conducted in part to develop the ability to rapidly deploy large liquid drops by rupturing an enclosing membrane.
All I can say is THANK GOD someone has finally researched this. I've lost count of the number of times I've wanted to rapidly deploy large liquid drops is a low/no-G environment.
Now can they please start with th research of the effects of pepper spray on penguins. That's the real science goldmine.
You make a good point. Further weighing down the poor malnourished wallets of the Hollywood fatcats is EXACTLY the way to fight evils in the world. How could we all have missed that?
Anyway you must excuse me, I'm off to support a better, freeer, healthier world by being bumraped by price-fixed tripe. I'll slip the poor guys at Univsal Studios half my yearly wages too - just in case they haven't enough caviar-filled swimming pools this month. I'also saving so many starving infants from death that I'll sleep soundly at night. We all win!
You'd seriously expect people to be able to, never mind want to, install their own OS, gather drivers, etc???
That would work for you, I, and other similar minded people, but the other 99% of the world wouldn't want to, and probably 75% of them just plain couldn't.
Well to be fair that's because Apple and MS have significantly different business models.
MS work mostly with expensive one off costs that are then able to be copied at very little cost - ie software.
Apple are a hardware company - per unit costs are always going to give them significantly lower profit margins (given a good enough scale for MS). Oh that make an OS, too.
The differences aren't because MS are printing money, or because Apple are rubbish - they're just doing quite different things.
Terrorism still on the rise, poverty, famine and disease running rampant through large parts of the world, growing unrest in an ever increasingly militant Middle East.... what does the US govt. come up with in these troubled times?
That's right, they bend over and take large cash injections up the rear from the corrupt media industry and spend YOUR OWN money launching lawsuits against you. Ho ho ho ho ho.
And I just adore the extreme arrogance of a US political post being created to fight *global* IP infringement. So will they be enforcing other countries laws in other countries, or will it be US law? Either way is just.... wow... too arrogant for words.
Seriously you guys, get off your damn asses and find a government that will work for the voters instead of working for the people who bribe them the most.
We didn't "defend Britain against the fascists." We fought alongside the British. The Brits are amongst the bravest fighters in the world. They do not need anyone to defend them, and I will always be happy to fight alongside them. I am sorry to pop that bubble.
Congrats on being an intelligent American with your head located outside of your posterior. No, seriously, I think you are genuinely the first American I've read that doesn't think that you single-handedly beat the Nazis while we sat around drinking tea or something.
As for the issue at hand, these requests from the police are far more reasonable and open to abuse than a certain other country. Also despite being an incredible sceptic when it comes to these things, having first hand experience working alongside significant parts of the police force here, I have genuine faith in their ability not to abuse the powers of they are granted.
And not only that, if you don't touch DRM crap in the first place there is ZERO EFFECT ON YOU.
This being in Longhorn is a win-draw situation. You win if you get content you wouldn't have otherwise got, and you draw if you just make no use of it.
The only people who lose are the ones who spend othewise productive time crying and bitching about something that takes absolutely nothing away from them.
Hell, they probably don't even use Windows anyway. It'd be like me bitching about a new feature in OS X.
I never said otherwise, and never mentioned HD-DVD's result.
But still, a survey along the lines of:
"Do you like blu-ray (hands out freebies and offers free sex from Natalie Portman to the interviewee), or do you like HD-DVD (spits and cusses at the interviewee)?"
Seriously, if you're running your own biased survey, you've loaded the dice in your favour, and you still only get 58% of the vote for something most people can't tell apart anyway, something is wrong.
What isn't said there, is that all 1200 of these consumers work for Sony.
I love how the automatic assumption is that this is a bad thing. Surely it's GOOD that a 9 year old can manage it, highlighting the ease of Windows management? Isn't the question to ask is what can be done with other systems as easy to grasp?
A more serious point though is that you can train a kid to do anything like that. I'd be willing to bet that this is less a reflection of MS and the kid, and more of the parents raping their child of her youth. Give me someone from birth and I bet I could make them a Solaris guru by the time they were 10.
Anyway, I blamed parents and promoted Windows' ease of use - I expect to be thouroughly berated and modded down for being a troll. yay.
what happens if the US decide to be all freaky n stuff? Go all isolationist, or attack all the rest of the world, they get nuked to feck and back by china, or whatever else?
They should at least have such a system ready so the rest of the world can carry on regardless. Relying on one country for something so important to the world is one of the suckiest ideas ever.
Yes that's right. Amazon already have in the planning stage a patent for the previously unknown concept of "selling". This unique and freshly invented process involves the exchange of goods for money.
There are also plans in the pipeline for saeveral other uniquie and novel concepts. Expect the following to be taken to the patent stage soon: -Websites -The number 5 -Presenting a product to a customer -Telling people they can buy stuff -Creating words from symbols known as 'letters' -Only accepting orders if a payment is made -Sending out orders in 'boxes', whatever they are -Inhaling air, and exhaling carbon dioxide
I wish I had the brains of those guys - they am them most cleverest.
If you're transferring files from Computer A to Computer B, Computer B doesn't need a burner, just a reader.
Why do I point that out? Floppies are used to transfer information from A to B. B is probably more likely to be able to read a CD-R as it is a floppy.
But after you make changes and want to transfer it back, B is more likely to be able to write to floppy that CD.
ID management's biggest problem will never be solved by Linux. Nor will it be solved by Windows.
As long as we have people putting passwords on post-its attached to their screens, as long as we have people clueless enough to fall for even the most simple of social engineering, there's no real thing as a proper ID on a computer system. In my (amazingly wonderful) opinion, no system deserves the name ID management unless it has a genuinely good chance of doing so. Physical tokens or biometrics (aka built-in physical tokens) are a minimum.
Well, unless you're after the account ID, but I think admins are normally more concerned about the ID of the person using the account.
We need to stop barricading the windows when people are walking merrily through the doors.
Email is just one possible method used falling under the "internet/LAN" category. Could just as well be FTP, IM, etc.
And yes all of the alternatives have niches, but what I was saying is that none of them replace the floppy - just part of it.
I guess we lose the safety of knowing everything is going to be on one standard floppy, but gain the benefits each of them bring to their own area. More complicated though, which is shit for average computer users.
Yes my numbers are estimates, but think about what you're saying.
What use is a CD-ROM drive as a floppy replacement? 0% efficient - you cannot write with it. I'm talking about the %age of computers with CDRW drives. I think in that case that 50% is a very reasonable guess.
On NEW computers we're probably talking 95%+ having a CDRW capable drive, but you have to consider the existing userbase.
There are 8cm CDs with over 200MB storage capacity, you know.
Yeah, but try getting one in a slot-loading player, such as found in a lot of PCs designed for aesthetics (eg Mac Mini) or, far more importantly, a very large number of laptops such as the one I am using right now.
A floppy can go in your pocket naked without a problem.
A CD (if it'll fit in your pocket) is open to scratches, bending, etc. Stick it in a case to protect it and it just becomes laughable big for 'portable' media. When looked after properly yes CDs last longer than floppies, but that's just not reasonable a lot of the time.
Besides, the big thing with CDs/DVDs is portability. They're just too big.
A possibility would be mini (8cm) CDsDVDs I guess. But MiniCDs are too small capacity-wise. MiniDVDs are rare, and both have compatability problems fitting into several players.
CDs/DVDs certainly have their place, but large-scale floppy replacement is not that place.
What have we got in terms of removable media though?
CD? certainly cheap, and at a guess 50% of computers now have them, but they are BIGGER than what they're replacing. Probably not as durable for day-to-day usage, either. FAIL
DVD? Well a much better replacement option than CD, were it not for the fact that probably only 10% of comnputers have them. Less durable that CD, with compatability issues still lingering on older equipment. FAIL
ZIP? Dead. Dead
USB memory sticks? Probably usable by 95%+ at least. Most are compatible alternative (well the ones using standard mass storage drivers anyway), but there are price issues. The cheapest ones are an order of magnitude or two more expensive than floppys/CDs/DVDs. Higher capacity ones (650MB-4.7GB) are A LOT more expensive than the alternative replacements, CDs and DVDs.
Portable HD? Great capacity, compatability, capacity/price ratio, but an even higher minimum price than the thumbdrives.
All other options just have no real benefits over the alternatives listed above and/or have a pathetic tiny market share.
Why did the industry fail so horribly in coming up with a cheap and easy floppy replacement? Perhaps there's just far less need for it now that so many PCs are connected via the internet or local LAN.
Is it "Floppy is dead" or "removable mass media is dead"?
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The tests were conducted in part to develop the ability to rapidly deploy large liquid drops by rupturing an enclosing membrane.
All I can say is THANK GOD someone has finally researched this. I've lost count of the number of times I've wanted to rapidly deploy large liquid drops is a low/no-G environment.
Now can they please start with th research of the effects of pepper spray on penguins. That's the real science goldmine.
You make a good point. Further weighing down the poor malnourished wallets of the Hollywood fatcats is EXACTLY the way to fight evils in the world. How could we all have missed that?
Anyway you must excuse me, I'm off to support a better, freeer, healthier world by being bumraped by price-fixed tripe. I'll slip the poor guys at Univsal Studios half my yearly wages too - just in case they haven't enough caviar-filled swimming pools this month. I'also saving so many starving infants from death that I'll sleep soundly at night. We all win!
That is just never going to work.
You'd seriously expect people to be able to, never mind want to, install their own OS, gather drivers, etc???
That would work for you, I, and other similar minded people, but the other 99% of the world wouldn't want to, and probably 75% of them just plain couldn't.
Well to be fair that's because Apple and MS have significantly different business models.
MS work mostly with expensive one off costs that are then able to be copied at very little cost - ie software.
Apple are a hardware company - per unit costs are always going to give them significantly lower profit margins (given a good enough scale for MS). Oh that make an OS, too.
The differences aren't because MS are printing money, or because Apple are rubbish - they're just doing quite different things.
Terrorism still on the rise, poverty, famine and disease running rampant through large parts of the world, growing unrest in an ever increasingly militant Middle East.... what does the US govt. come up with in these troubled times?
That's right, they bend over and take large cash injections up the rear from the corrupt media industry and spend YOUR OWN money launching lawsuits against you. Ho ho ho ho ho.
And I just adore the extreme arrogance of a US political post being created to fight *global* IP infringement. So will they be enforcing other countries laws in other countries, or will it be US law? Either way is just.... wow... too arrogant for words.
Seriously you guys, get off your damn asses and find a government that will work for the voters instead of working for the people who bribe them the most.
We didn't "defend Britain against the fascists." We fought alongside the British. The Brits are amongst the bravest fighters in the world. They do not need anyone to defend them, and I will always be happy to fight alongside them. I am sorry to pop that bubble.
Congrats on being an intelligent American with your head located outside of your posterior. No, seriously, I think you are genuinely the first American I've read that doesn't think that you single-handedly beat the Nazis while we sat around drinking tea or something.
As for the issue at hand, these requests from the police are far more reasonable and open to abuse than a certain other country. Also despite being an incredible sceptic when it comes to these things, having first hand experience working alongside significant parts of the police force here, I have genuine faith in their ability not to abuse the powers of they are granted.
Considering the earlier story, I would have thought that they would have just claimed that this email was spam.
They could easily get rid of 90% of incriminating emails that way.
"No your honour, that isn't evidence of us being lying weasels, it is spam. By the way, do you want to En14rg3 yur p3ni5?"
Well said.
And not only that, if you don't touch DRM crap in the first place there is ZERO EFFECT ON YOU.
This being in Longhorn is a win-draw situation. You win if you get content you wouldn't have otherwise got, and you draw if you just make no use of it.
The only people who lose are the ones who spend othewise productive time crying and bitching about something that takes absolutely nothing away from them.
Hell, they probably don't even use Windows anyway. It'd be like me bitching about a new feature in OS X.
I never said otherwise, and never mentioned HD-DVD's result.
But still, a survey along the lines of:
"Do you like blu-ray (hands out freebies and offers free sex from Natalie Portman to the interviewee), or do you like HD-DVD (spits and cusses at the interviewee)?"
isn't a very good one.
Seriously, if you're running your own biased survey, you've loaded the dice in your favour, and you still only get 58% of the vote for something most people can't tell apart anyway, something is wrong.
What isn't said there, is that all 1200 of these consumers work for Sony.
I love how the automatic assumption is that this is a bad thing. Surely it's GOOD that a 9 year old can manage it, highlighting the ease of Windows management? Isn't the question to ask is what can be done with other systems as easy to grasp?
A more serious point though is that you can train a kid to do anything like that. I'd be willing to bet that this is less a reflection of MS and the kid, and more of the parents raping their child of her youth. Give me someone from birth and I bet I could make them a Solaris guru by the time they were 10.
Anyway, I blamed parents and promoted Windows' ease of use - I expect to be thouroughly berated and modded down for being a troll. yay.
what happens if the US decide to be all freaky n stuff? Go all isolationist, or attack all the rest of the world, they get nuked to feck and back
by china, or whatever else?
They should at least have such a system ready so the rest of the world can carry on regardless. Relying on one country for something so important to the world is one of the suckiest ideas ever.
Reckon this time the check attached was big enough... or it didn't bounce.
Amazon got around this tricky problem by patenting the "cheque bouncing process", thus denying the banks the ability to do so.
Handy these patent things when you learn how to abuse them and rape them like the bitches they are.
Yes that's right. Amazon already have in the planning stage a patent for the previously unknown concept of "selling". This unique and freshly invented process involves the exchange of goods for money.
There are also plans in the pipeline for saeveral other uniquie and novel concepts. Expect the following to be taken to the patent stage soon:
-Websites
-The number 5
-Presenting a product to a customer
-Telling people they can buy stuff
-Creating words from symbols known as 'letters'
-Only accepting orders if a payment is made
-Sending out orders in 'boxes', whatever they are
-Inhaling air, and exhaling carbon dioxide
I wish I had the brains of those guys - they am them most cleverest.
If you're transferring files from Computer A to Computer B, Computer B doesn't need a burner, just a reader. Why do I point that out? Floppies are used to transfer information from A to B. B is probably more likely to be able to read a CD-R as it is a floppy.
But after you make changes and want to transfer it back, B is more likely to be able to write to floppy that CD.
We've all seen those enormous fuel tanks, you sure as hell don't need a sense to know it's there!!! Just look out the window
I don't even know what Linux is, I just come here for the pretty colours.
ID management's biggest problem will never be solved by Linux. Nor will it be solved by Windows.
As long as we have people putting passwords on post-its attached to their screens, as long as we have people clueless enough to fall for even the most simple of social engineering, there's no real thing as a proper ID on a computer system.
In my (amazingly wonderful) opinion, no system deserves the name ID management unless it has a genuinely good chance of doing so. Physical tokens or biometrics (aka built-in physical tokens) are a minimum.
Well, unless you're after the account ID, but I think admins are normally more concerned about the ID of the person using the account.
We need to stop barricading the windows when people are walking merrily through the doors.
Email is just one possible method used falling under the "internet/LAN" category. Could just as well be FTP, IM, etc.
And yes all of the alternatives have niches, but what I was saying is that none of them replace the floppy - just part of it.
I guess we lose the safety of knowing everything is going to be on one standard floppy, but gain the benefits each of them bring to their own area. More complicated though, which is shit for average computer users.
Yes my numbers are estimates, but think about what you're saying.
What use is a CD-ROM drive as a floppy replacement? 0% efficient - you cannot write with it. I'm talking about the %age of computers with CDRW drives. I think in that case that 50% is a very reasonable guess.
On NEW computers we're probably talking 95%+ having a CDRW capable drive, but you have to consider the existing userbase.
There are 8cm CDs with over 200MB storage capacity, you know.
Yeah, but try getting one in a slot-loading player, such as found in a lot of PCs designed for aesthetics (eg Mac Mini) or, far more importantly, a very large number of laptops such as the one I am using right now.
A floppy can go in your pocket naked without a problem.
A CD (if it'll fit in your pocket) is open to scratches, bending, etc. Stick it in a case to protect it and it just becomes laughable big for 'portable' media. When looked after properly yes CDs last longer than floppies, but that's just not reasonable a lot of the time.
Besides, the big thing with CDs/DVDs is portability. They're just too big.
A possibility would be mini (8cm) CDsDVDs I guess. But MiniCDs are too small capacity-wise. MiniDVDs are rare, and both have compatability problems fitting into several players.
CDs/DVDs certainly have their place, but large-scale floppy replacement is not that place.
Well I can't talk for mainland Europe, but here in the UK illegally obtained evidence is not permissable.
Although I disagree with a lot of our cruddy legal system, this I do agree with.
Maybe I would if it applied to me, but it doesn't.
Does it cover unlimited redistribution without renumeration to the author?
What have we got in terms of removable media though?
CD? certainly cheap, and at a guess 50% of computers now have them, but they are BIGGER than what they're replacing. Probably not as durable for day-to-day usage, either. FAIL
DVD? Well a much better replacement option than CD, were it not for the fact that probably only 10% of comnputers have them. Less durable that CD, with compatability issues still lingering on older equipment. FAIL
ZIP? Dead. Dead
USB memory sticks? Probably usable by 95%+ at least. Most are compatible alternative (well the ones using standard mass storage drivers anyway), but there are price issues. The cheapest ones are an order of magnitude or two more expensive than floppys/CDs/DVDs. Higher capacity ones (650MB-4.7GB) are A LOT more expensive than the alternative replacements, CDs and DVDs.
Portable HD? Great capacity, compatability, capacity/price ratio, but an even higher minimum price than the thumbdrives.
All other options just have no real benefits over the alternatives listed above and/or have a pathetic tiny market share.
Why did the industry fail so horribly in coming up with a cheap and easy floppy replacement? Perhaps there's just far less need for it now that so many PCs are connected via the internet or local LAN.
Is it "Floppy is dead" or "removable mass media is dead"?