Installing CHDK involves copying a couple of files onto your camera's memory card; permanently removing it from your camera entails deleting those files. Yeah, real heavy this stuff.
I've seen that FAQ before. What they didn't tell you: The pressure used in one of those studies is still about a million times the pressure of the atmousphere in LEO. That makes quite a difference in the speed of boiling.
I'm don't want to claim I know better than the guys at NASA, but until an astronaut feels like going for some skinny dipping from the ISS, I'm still not convinced. Maybe with the Kibo Module we'll be able to do something like throw a rat out there and see what happens.
Until I see some detailed scientific analysis of the effects of vacuum and decompression on the human organism, I'm not going to believe these "vacuum is safe" posts.
We know from diving that decompression is highly dangerous even in controlled conditions. At very least we can assume you'll ose consciousness almost instantly. And why does the author think that fluids will boil "given enough time"? This isn't a slow vacuum pump we're on about here, but an instant decompression to maybe.1% of normal pressure. It's gonna boil, and it's gonna boil fast. The only question is whether your tissue can supply enough pressure to prevent this from happening. As the structural characteristics of tissue are in turn dependant on water, we can assume this property to be weak. My guess is that you'll start to foam up from the outside in till you're just like a piece of pork rind.
Fluctuating exchange rates undermine the very point of having a currency. What business needs is a stable, predictable and universal measure for value, and that's why we have currencies. Having the underlying basis of a global eceonomy fluctuate depending on the whim of bankers and gamblers has absolutely no value whatsoever. Currency fluctuations certainly cause short term stress and relief for exporting businesses, but in the long term nobody has anything to gain.
And it has been shown time and time again that exchange rates don't always "fluctuate" (meaning always going up and down but staying the same on avrage), they can permanently migrate to different ratios. They're anything from predicatble.
Well for the price of storage thesedays (this was when they only gave you something like five megabytes of storage, GMail gave you Gigabytes) and considering the Ad-loaded tie-in pestering service hotmail is, I wouldn't have thought it would be too much of an expense to keep my email, especially for a company like Microsoft.
There are other free services which allow you to access your account without wading through their web portal first. Microsoft forced it on me every time I wanted to check. That is, unless you buy MS Office and use their stupid MS Outlook.
I trusted Microsoft with my emails and got shit thrown in the face.
Google on the other hand give me a free IMAP account with more and more space all the time.
I used to use a Hotmail account as my preferred email service. I was away when they switched it to "Windows Live" so I probably didn't access the account for about a month and a half.
Next time I logged in, they'd deleted all my mails cause I did't click the new EULA in time.
I sent an mail to support simply stating "you suck" and vowed never to use a MS service again.
Most government offices wouldn't go into a discussion about the availability or usability of implementations.
For them "ISO Standard" will be enough to be able to ignore any objections.
I think everyone here will be ble to tel you a personal nightmare story about office document compatability. There may be plugins and converters etc. , but usually they're not very practical to use, especially if you're working with them all day. And most worrying is tht you never can be certain whether what you saved to a file will appear the same on the screen of the person you sent it to. Finally, telling clients how to save they're documents, causing delay and frustration is definitely not a good idea. From a business perspective the above arguments justify spending a few hundred dollars every three years to avoid problems. Most people do actually buy new versions of Office to maintain compatibiliy, or at least it's very high on the list of reasons for upgrding. For something as simple as a text document, that's inexcusable.
That was mainly just Xenophobia and crazy nationalist pride.
It took for British or American cars to become decisivly worse for people there to consider buying a Toyota.
Cheap crap will alsways be made and bought.
And China is simply the superlative of cheap labour. So it make sense to make the cheap crap there. And the expensive stuff too.
That's why nowadays so much stuff is made in china, from cheap crap to the expensive brands.
What I would like to see is a compulsory labeling of the Original Manufacturer, the same as we have for country of origin.
With counterfeits the customer is deceived.
But the widespread rebranding of products is also a case of consumer deception. Customers are misled over who makes the product.
In which case the user would clearly notice a difference in the specs given and the performance, the drivers and support.
Generaly the kind of customer to buy a computer motherboard isn't the kind that you can sell cheap knock-offs to.
I find the line "the crazy chinese have done it again" funny. They're the ones that make them in the first place!
It would probably more fitting to describe them as "trademark abusing" or whatever. I'd guess it's probably a bit of a challenge to "counterfeit" all parts of a motherboard.
By far the most concise and thought provoking comment I've seen today, I wish I had Mod points.
The Question is though, where does it go from here? Will other companies follow lead and attempt to get "ISO approval" by flooding standards organisations, or will this just be a one-off? It's not exactly as if we can just boycott ISO by ignoring all of the other standards they sell their documentations for. And hurting ISO would probably just make matters worse for interoperability and industrial cooperation.
And if I were the public, I would be pretty peeved that a large amount of money which could be used for something meaningful, is being thrown away by giving away millions and millions worth of television equipment, which probably only genuinely benefit a small minority anyway. How many are going to use the coupon "just cause it's free", and is $40 really that much to ask from Television viewers who have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy free programming for years and have spent much more on buying a TV in the first place. In most countries people have to pay many times that anually for the privelage of being allowed to watch TV in the first place. (sometimes it applies to sole fact of owning a TV, and the argument of "I only use it to watch DVDs" won't work)
They didn't break your TV, they stopped an aging service that they were under no obligation to continue.
The same as nobody broke your VHS recorder by not offering the tapes anymore.
Why do you think the Signal transmitted over the cable is compressed? All video signals travelling over an HDMI cable are uncompressed (some audio compression is supported). That's what it was designed for.
In the realm of orbital maneuvre, it doesn't really matter where you approach it from. They're both travelling at almost exactly the same speed. It's best to just consider them as two floating objects in the vastness of space. The approach velocity is extremely small either way.
Capturing the capsule with a robotic arm might reduce the risk of catastrophic collision, which is probably quite small anyway. But that would probably open up a whole new bag of potential failure.
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But wouldn't the first buyer be able to distribute all the code and source as much as he likes as soon as he gets his han on it?
Has there ever actually been an instance where somebody made use of the three-year limit?
How about this one?
I've seen that FAQ before. What they didn't tell you: The pressure used in one of those studies is still about a million times the pressure of the atmousphere in LEO. That makes quite a difference in the speed of boiling.
I'm don't want to claim I know better than the guys at NASA, but until an astronaut feels like going for some skinny dipping from the ISS, I'm still not convinced.
Maybe with the Kibo Module we'll be able to do something like throw a rat out there and see what happens.
Until I see some detailed scientific analysis of the effects of vacuum and decompression on the human organism, I'm not going to believe these "vacuum is safe" posts.
.1% of normal pressure. It's gonna boil, and it's gonna boil fast. The only question is whether your tissue can supply enough pressure to prevent this from happening. As the structural characteristics of tissue are in turn dependant on water, we can assume this property to be weak. My guess is that you'll start to foam up from the outside in till you're just like a piece of pork rind.
We know from diving that decompression is highly dangerous even in controlled conditions. At very least we can assume you'll ose consciousness almost instantly.
And why does the author think that fluids will boil "given enough time"? This isn't a slow vacuum pump we're on about here, but an instant decompression to maybe
I've got a few machines sitting at home here who would like to disagree with you.
Fluctuating exchange rates undermine the very point of having a currency. What business needs is a stable, predictable and universal measure for value, and that's why we have currencies. Having the underlying basis of a global eceonomy fluctuate depending on the whim of bankers and gamblers has absolutely no value whatsoever.
Currency fluctuations certainly cause short term stress and relief for exporting businesses, but in the long term nobody has anything to gain.
And it has been shown time and time again that exchange rates don't always "fluctuate" (meaning always going up and down but staying the same on avrage), they can permanently migrate to different ratios. They're anything from predicatble.
Well for the price of storage thesedays (this was when they only gave you something like five megabytes of storage, GMail gave you Gigabytes) and considering the Ad-loaded tie-in pestering service hotmail is, I wouldn't have thought it would be too much of an expense to keep my email, especially for a company like Microsoft. There are other free services which allow you to access your account without wading through their web portal first. Microsoft forced it on me every time I wanted to check. That is, unless you buy MS Office and use their stupid MS Outlook.
I trusted Microsoft with my emails and got shit thrown in the face. Google on the other hand give me a free IMAP account with more and more space all the time.
I used to use a Hotmail account as my preferred email service. I was away when they switched it to "Windows Live" so I probably didn't access the account for about a month and a half. Next time I logged in, they'd deleted all my mails cause I did't click the new EULA in time. I sent an mail to support simply stating "you suck" and vowed never to use a MS service again.
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Most government offices wouldn't go into a discussion about the availability or usability of implementations. For them "ISO Standard" will be enough to be able to ignore any objections.
I think everyone here will be ble to tel you a personal nightmare story about office document compatability.
There may be plugins and converters etc. , but usually they're not very practical to use, especially if you're working with them all day. And most worrying is tht you never can be certain whether what you saved to a file will appear the same on the screen of the person you sent it to.
Finally, telling clients how to save they're documents, causing delay and frustration is definitely not a good idea.
From a business perspective the above arguments justify spending a few hundred dollars every three years to avoid problems.
Most people do actually buy new versions of Office to maintain compatibiliy, or at least it's very high on the list of reasons for upgrding. For something as simple as a text document, that's inexcusable.
That was mainly just Xenophobia and crazy nationalist pride. It took for British or American cars to become decisivly worse for people there to consider buying a Toyota. Cheap crap will alsways be made and bought. And China is simply the superlative of cheap labour. So it make sense to make the cheap crap there. And the expensive stuff too. That's why nowadays so much stuff is made in china, from cheap crap to the expensive brands.
Just out of curiosity, since you mentioned factory rejects being sold on local markets: In which country do you live?
What I would like to see is a compulsory labeling of the Original Manufacturer, the same as we have for country of origin. With counterfeits the customer is deceived. But the widespread rebranding of products is also a case of consumer deception. Customers are misled over who makes the product.
In which case the user would clearly notice a difference in the specs given and the performance, the drivers and support. Generaly the kind of customer to buy a computer motherboard isn't the kind that you can sell cheap knock-offs to.
I find the line "the crazy chinese have done it again" funny. They're the ones that make them in the first place! It would probably more fitting to describe them as "trademark abusing" or whatever. I'd guess it's probably a bit of a challenge to "counterfeit" all parts of a motherboard.
By far the most concise and thought provoking comment I've seen today, I wish I had Mod points.
The Question is though, where does it go from here? Will other companies follow lead and attempt to get "ISO approval" by flooding standards organisations, or will this just be a one-off?
It's not exactly as if we can just boycott ISO by ignoring all of the other standards they sell their documentations for. And hurting ISO would probably just make matters worse for interoperability and industrial cooperation.
There are 11 digits, but one is always mysteriously covered by a foreground object Search for the feature called "Austinpowerism".
And if I were the public, I would be pretty peeved that a large amount of money which could be used for something meaningful, is being thrown away by giving away millions and millions worth of television equipment, which probably only genuinely benefit a small minority anyway.
How many are going to use the coupon "just cause it's free", and is $40 really that much to ask from Television viewers who have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy free programming for years and have spent much more on buying a TV in the first place.
In most countries people have to pay many times that anually for the privelage of being allowed to watch TV in the first place. (sometimes it applies to sole fact of owning a TV, and the argument of "I only use it to watch DVDs" won't work)
They didn't break your TV, they stopped an aging service that they were under no obligation to continue. The same as nobody broke your VHS recorder by not offering the tapes anymore.
Why do you think the Signal transmitted over the cable is compressed? All video signals travelling over an HDMI cable are uncompressed (some audio compression is supported). That's what it was designed for.
In the realm of orbital maneuvre, it doesn't really matter where you approach it from. They're both travelling at almost exactly the same speed. It's best to just consider them as two floating objects in the vastness of space. The approach velocity is extremely small either way. Capturing the capsule with a robotic arm might reduce the risk of catastrophic collision, which is probably quite small anyway. But that would probably open up a whole new bag of potential failure.
Sure they will - just keep showing goatse's in ever more frequent intervals.