symbolics.com is actually older than any currently registered edu domain, beating Berkeley by a month. nordu.net was registered a couple months prior to symbolics.
I'm not sure about.mil or deprecated.arpa domains - they are hard to check up on.
c: It does NOT get *.whatever, only www.*.(TLD), thus even when you don't opt out, it is at least limited to web-related typos. This is actually a big deal, as I think Comcast is the first one NOT to do it for everything.
In the quick test I did, the hijack occurred regardless of the "www" prefix being present.
I own it, so now you know 1 person:) I wouldn't call it the greatest PC game of all time. It was more like reading a novel. But it was worthy of a purchase.
I don't know what their claimed piracy figures were on that game. However, I do know that PC games ALSO suffer from poor price controls and shelf life, compared with console games. Not to mention back when that game was released, there weren't CD keys, online registration and whatnot in place, which essentially block first sale privileges. That made it easy for people to return the game to the store and/or resell it when they found out it wasn't what they expected. And frankly, I don't think it had mass market appeal.
Yes, I read it. Yes I understand the Nissan loan money is going towards one of their factories in the U.S. My complaint is that this is being done for a company *that is competing with U.S. owned companies* in a sector where we're struggling.
Wrong. I can almost guarantee that the RIAA owns the specific recordings of each song in question. It's in almost all contracts with artists that are signed by an RIAA label. They no more own those recordings than you or I.
Now if we were talking about someone filesharing songs that were bootlegged from a live performance, then your argument would carry more weight.
Spend any time at 40m, and just make sure you know what you're doing; deco stops come into play very quickly.
Not really an issue if you're diving with a single cylinder, which is usually the case for someone on vacation. You shouldn't be at that depth in the first place with that setup. But ignoring that, you'd probably be low on air before running into other problems.
The end result, unfortunately, is even more dangerous. Any product that requires updates to be installed results in a UAC prompt every time. Developers hate that, so they started writing *services* that install on the first run. That way the user gets one UAC prompt, the service installs (probably not telling the user that it is a service), and then that developer can forevermore install anything to his hearts delight, without prompts, by going through the privileged service.
While I agree with some of your comments regarding the mileage claims, the materials comments are another story.
Granted, the Lupo is a subcompact POS, but to claim that it's unsafe due to use of aluminum isn't quite the case. First, most newer cars use a unibody construction with crumple zones to protect the passengers. You won't have a full steel frame on ANY newer car unless you're talking about trucks. Second, several cars use a fiberglass body and still manage to meet crash requirements. In my non-scientific opinion, I'd argue that aluminum wouldn't be worse than that.
I'm a bit surprised at the use of magnesium though, mainly because it can burn and be quite difficult to put out. For example, getting sideswiped into a road barrier and scraping that magnesium door alongside it probably wouldn't be good.
According to Wikipedia, the Lupo weighs in at 1830 lbs, only about 150 pounds lighter than the Lotus Elise. Granted the Elise uses a cast aluminum tub for the passenger compartment, but then again you're not going to be racing a Lupo at the track.
Dogfighting requires situation awareness that is very difficult to achieve in a drone
And it requires teamwork and coordination.
I think the F-14 did dogfighting in anger exactly twice in its entire career with the US Navy
The F-14 was originally intended to be an interceptor, especially after the addition of the Phoenix missiles. It was intended to score kills before it had to dogfight. Other aircraft are more capable in close engagements.
Someone will get a lawyer to analyze the law and work around it. For example, they might start using contracts where the customer "sells" the PC to the shop, with the provision that the shop will sell it back to the customer after the repair is complete.
It's not hard to assess which judges disagreed with the ruling. Scalia and Thomas, who haven't taken a non-conservative stance in their entire existence on the court, and Bush's new nominees Alito and Roberts. What a surprise.
Just wanted to add a little more info to these two responses:
The basic idea behind a flywheel is to store kinetic energy. You can increase the amount of energy stored in two ways: higher rpms, and a heavier flywheel.
Now, AFS Trinity has focused on super-high rpm flywheels made out of lighter materials like carbon fiber. They also work to minimize friction. This type of flywheel is more responsive to rapid charge / discharge. You don't want to start a flywheel from a dead-stop, and then completely drain it each time, because it is very inefficient.
Also this type of flywheel was designed for safety reasons. If it breaks out of its containment, its lightweight materials and high rpms tend to cause disintegration into something along the lines of cotton-candy. It's much safer than having a heavy metal flywheel hitting something and flinging shrapnel everywhere.
I will be interested to read more on how they adapt them for F1 racing use. However that will be a relatively small flywheel used to assist braking and acceleration, as opposed to powering the entire vehicle.
I own one (also 2006), with the hardtop, gets about 32mpg highway *if* I'm behaving and driving a steady speed.
In town, it's more like 22-24mpg.
Still, this is a great example of what attention to weight can get you. Consider another 2-seater, similar in performance: the Porsche Boxster. Its curb weight is around 2900 lbs, as opposed to 1950 for the U.S. Elise. So yeah the Boxster has more horsepower but the hp : weight ratio is about the same on both cars. And the Elise of course gets better mileage.
They can be replaced with a much lighter flywheel that also has a higher efficiency than batteries, at storing and releasing energy (and also works with regenerative braking). I think you need to look up precession.
This is the reason flywheel energy storage is not used in vehicles. The flywheels turn at super-high rpms, amplifying this issue. AFS Trinity (formerly American Flywheel Systems, I think...) worked on the AFS-20 as a prototype flywheel car back in the mid 90s. They never got it working. The problem is that when you are driving, and you turn, precession causes a large amount of friction against your flywheel bearings as it resists the turn.
Last I heard, they were working on magnetic bearings, instead of physical ones, but there's been little progress released to the public so far.
The main advantage of a flywheel is that it can handle rapid charge / discharge, but ultracapacitors are another way to gain that benefit without the disadvantages of flywheels.
I guess what I didn't clarify, with regard to insurance, is that leaving addicts without medical coverage doesn't "let them reap the reward of their behavior". It puts the burden on the rest of society. Because when they end up in the ER, in most cases the doctors can't turn them away (esp if it's life-threatening). The rest of us pick up the tab.
On your other comment - about the "disease" designation, that's often a point of dispute. But whether you want to call it a disease or not, I think we can agree that the human body is a complex piece of chemical machinery. Addicts, alter their chemical balance to the point that without drugs they feel horrible. All the time. Their body has adapted to the presence of the drug and no longer functions like a normal person.
If we can medically help restore that functionality AND get the person to step up and take responsibility / change his old ways, then I'm all for it. It will speed the recovery process and reduce incidence of relapse. So if you prefer to call it medical treatment of a condition rather than a disease, then perhaps that is more accurate.
(I am for a system that excludes drug users from coverage if the illness can be attributed to their drug use) Unfortunately normal logic doesn't apply to this type of problem. You can't simply jack up insurance rates for drug addicts because they are higher risk, since they probably won't pay for insurance in the first place. At the same time if you don't provide them with some sort of health coverage, they tend to engage in *more* risky behavior.
It's better for society if we just cough up the money for preventative medicine on these folks. That includes checkups as well as risk-reduction (needle exchange, safe injection locations, that sort of thing). In the end it is much less costly than the spread of disease and uninsured trips to the ER.
In regards to the rest of your post I agree with some of it. I'm not personally an addict but as a kid I watched my uncle go through much of what you described. I know you can make the choice to get clean, but you're still fighting a disease. When you've (ab)used for a long time, you change your brain chemistry. So you're struggling against a disrupted equilibrium. We are learning more every year on how to medically restore a proper balance. The key for the addict is to overcome old patterns and habits that led to his use in the first place.
Funny, but true. The first thing that popped into my head reading that article was... it'll never gain acceptance because everyone will be trying to figure out "how can I monetize this?". Then I clicked the link at the bottom to his company and sure enough, there it is.:)
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According to wikipedia:
symbolics.com is actually older than any currently registered edu domain, beating Berkeley by a month.
nordu.net was registered a couple months prior to symbolics.
I'm not sure about .mil or deprecated .arpa domains - they are hard to check up on.
c: It does NOT get *.whatever, only www.*.(TLD), thus even when you don't opt out, it is at least limited to web-related typos. This is actually a big deal, as I think Comcast is the first one NOT to do it for everything.
In the quick test I did, the hijack occurred regardless of the "www" prefix being present.
I own it, so now you know 1 person :) I wouldn't call it the greatest PC game of all time. It was more like reading a novel. But it was worthy of a purchase.
I don't know what their claimed piracy figures were on that game. However, I do know that PC games ALSO suffer from poor price controls and shelf life, compared with console games. Not to mention back when that game was released, there weren't CD keys, online registration and whatnot in place, which essentially block first sale privileges. That made it easy for people to return the game to the store and/or resell it when they found out it wasn't what they expected. And frankly, I don't think it had mass market appeal.
Yes, I read it. Yes I understand the Nissan loan money is going towards one of their factories in the U.S. My complaint is that this is being done for a company *that is competing with U.S. owned companies* in a sector where we're struggling.
Anyone left wondering why our tax dollars are funding a loan for Nissan while U.S. auto companies are struggling?
Wrong. I can almost guarantee that the RIAA owns the specific recordings of each song in question. It's in almost all contracts with artists that are signed by an RIAA label. They no more own those recordings than you or I.
Now if we were talking about someone filesharing songs that were bootlegged from a live performance, then your argument would carry more weight.
Spend any time at 40m, and just make sure you know what you're doing; deco stops come into play very quickly.
Not really an issue if you're diving with a single cylinder, which is usually the case for someone on vacation. You shouldn't be at that depth in the first place with that setup. But ignoring that, you'd probably be low on air before running into other problems.
Little difference between orange juice and cola, really. If you like one over the other fine, but it's close to a wash nutritionally.
If you don't mind swapping lots of vitamin C and potassium for caffeine and caramel color, then yeah it's a wash :P
Yeah but since it's triple the output, you could call it Tritanium.
The end result, unfortunately, is even more dangerous. Any product that requires updates to be installed results in a UAC prompt every time. Developers hate that, so they started writing *services* that install on the first run. That way the user gets one UAC prompt, the service installs (probably not telling the user that it is a service), and then that developer can forevermore install anything to his hearts delight, without prompts, by going through the privileged service.
While I agree with some of your comments regarding the mileage claims, the materials comments are another story.
Granted, the Lupo is a subcompact POS, but to claim that it's unsafe due to use of aluminum isn't quite the case. First, most newer cars use a unibody construction with crumple zones to protect the passengers. You won't have a full steel frame on ANY newer car unless you're talking about trucks. Second, several cars use a fiberglass body and still manage to meet crash requirements. In my non-scientific opinion, I'd argue that aluminum wouldn't be worse than that.
I'm a bit surprised at the use of magnesium though, mainly because it can burn and be quite difficult to put out. For example, getting sideswiped into a road barrier and scraping that magnesium door alongside it probably wouldn't be good.
According to Wikipedia, the Lupo weighs in at 1830 lbs, only about 150 pounds lighter than the Lotus Elise. Granted the Elise uses a cast aluminum tub for the passenger compartment, but then again you're not going to be racing a Lupo at the track.
Or you could purchase a business connection on either of those, which costs more but gets rid of some of the strings.
Dogfighting requires situation awareness that is very difficult to achieve in a drone
And it requires teamwork and coordination.
I think the F-14 did dogfighting in anger exactly twice in its entire career with the US Navy
The F-14 was originally intended to be an interceptor, especially after the addition of the Phoenix missiles. It was intended to score kills before it had to dogfight. Other aircraft are more capable in close engagements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F00f
Watch the whole plane crash as its pilots desperately try to reboot the fly-by-wire system.
Someone will get a lawyer to analyze the law and work around it. For example, they might start using contracts where the customer "sells" the PC to the shop, with the provision that the shop will sell it back to the customer after the repair is complete.
I don't have mod points but this sums up the problems of the new URL bar very nicely.
It's not hard to assess which judges disagreed with the ruling. Scalia and Thomas, who haven't taken a non-conservative stance in their entire existence on the court, and Bush's new nominees Alito and Roberts. What a surprise.
Just wanted to add a little more info to these two responses:
The basic idea behind a flywheel is to store kinetic energy. You can increase the amount of energy stored in two ways: higher rpms, and a heavier flywheel.
Now, AFS Trinity has focused on super-high rpm flywheels made out of lighter materials like carbon fiber. They also work to minimize friction. This type of flywheel is more responsive to rapid charge / discharge. You don't want to start a flywheel from a dead-stop, and then completely drain it each time, because it is very inefficient.
Also this type of flywheel was designed for safety reasons. If it breaks out of its containment, its lightweight materials and high rpms tend to cause disintegration into something along the lines of cotton-candy. It's much safer than having a heavy metal flywheel hitting something and flinging shrapnel everywhere.
I will be interested to read more on how they adapt them for F1 racing use. However that will be a relatively small flywheel used to assist braking and acceleration, as opposed to powering the entire vehicle.
Don't forget power steering. All that extra weight makes the car tougher to steer, so we need to add extra weight for hydraulic assist :)
I own one (also 2006), with the hardtop, gets about 32mpg highway *if* I'm behaving and driving a steady speed.
In town, it's more like 22-24mpg.
Still, this is a great example of what attention to weight can get you. Consider another 2-seater, similar in performance: the Porsche Boxster. Its curb weight is around 2900 lbs, as opposed to 1950 for the U.S. Elise. So yeah the Boxster has more horsepower but the hp : weight ratio is about the same on both cars. And the Elise of course gets better mileage.
This is the reason flywheel energy storage is not used in vehicles. The flywheels turn at super-high rpms, amplifying this issue. AFS Trinity (formerly American Flywheel Systems, I think...) worked on the AFS-20 as a prototype flywheel car back in the mid 90s. They never got it working. The problem is that when you are driving, and you turn, precession causes a large amount of friction against your flywheel bearings as it resists the turn.
Last I heard, they were working on magnetic bearings, instead of physical ones, but there's been little progress released to the public so far.
The main advantage of a flywheel is that it can handle rapid charge / discharge, but ultracapacitors are another way to gain that benefit without the disadvantages of flywheels.
I guess what I didn't clarify, with regard to insurance, is that leaving addicts without medical coverage doesn't "let them reap the reward of their behavior". It puts the burden on the rest of society. Because when they end up in the ER, in most cases the doctors can't turn them away (esp if it's life-threatening). The rest of us pick up the tab.
On your other comment - about the "disease" designation, that's often a point of dispute. But whether you want to call it a disease or not, I think we can agree that the human body is a complex piece of chemical machinery. Addicts, alter their chemical balance to the point that without drugs they feel horrible. All the time. Their body has adapted to the presence of the drug and no longer functions like a normal person.
If we can medically help restore that functionality AND get the person to step up and take responsibility / change his old ways, then I'm all for it. It will speed the recovery process and reduce incidence of relapse. So if you prefer to call it medical treatment of a condition rather than a disease, then perhaps that is more accurate.
- SEAL
It's better for society if we just cough up the money for preventative medicine on these folks. That includes checkups as well as risk-reduction (needle exchange, safe injection locations, that sort of thing). In the end it is much less costly than the spread of disease and uninsured trips to the ER.
In regards to the rest of your post I agree with some of it. I'm not personally an addict but as a kid I watched my uncle go through much of what you described. I know you can make the choice to get clean, but you're still fighting a disease. When you've (ab)used for a long time, you change your brain chemistry. So you're struggling against a disrupted equilibrium. We are learning more every year on how to medically restore a proper balance. The key for the addict is to overcome old patterns and habits that led to his use in the first place.
Just my $.02
- SEAL
Funny, but true. The first thing that popped into my head reading that article was... it'll never gain acceptance because everyone will be trying to figure out "how can I monetize this?". Then I clicked the link at the bottom to his company and sure enough, there it is. :)
If people are really against Apple that much, there's a simple recourse: uninstall iTunes. Problem solved.