Years ago, did you ever record radio to an audiocassette? Do you ever store ANYTHING on DAT? If so, the RIAA has been compensated the price they agreed to for those works, because those media have levies associated with them.
Home Taping was apparently killing music back in the days of the vinyl LP 20 years ago. I distinctly remember the skull and cross bones tape logo. I'm not sure the RIAA has already been compensated except by the licence fee the broadcasters pay. Canada has a blank media tax aimed at compensating the RIAA for CDs burnt but I doubt they think it's sufficient.
Both these mechanisms for copying are limited by the ammount of blank media you can obtain and the time involved in creating copies with the media.
What scares the beejeebus out of the RIAA is that bits and bytes have an almost limitless supply for everyone aside from the almost negligble initial cost (approx £70 for 1 terrabyte == 1000's albums, way more than you can listen to in a whole years listening). The other thing is our fat internet connections can fill this limitless storage while we sleep with the products they used to be able to strictly control the supply of.
Once they wake up and realise the days of skimming a fat profit out the music industry by simply playing the middle man are over and get back to promoting artists and recouping costs by finding good acts that sell out big tours and flog merchandise that can't easily be replicated, say T-Shirts the better.
The genie is already out the bottle and isn't going back in however much they keep their corporate heads in the sand.
I think all these discussions skip over the fundamental fact that women are the only ones biologically capable of bringing a child into the world and the 9 month investment that requires rather than the 9 minute (assuming 8 minutes of foreplay) investment from a man.
Yes there will be women quite entitled to skip the whole process entirely. There will be others who will happily give birth and immediately go back to work leaving someone else at home to look after the child be it a stay at home dad or paid nanny. Many many more will enjoy motherhood and accept the hard work raising a child can be.
Evolution has made it so that women are naturally more bonded to their children and want to look after them and for good reason so the species can propagate.
All that has been shown is that there is a reduced probability that you will get Alzheimers.
To make a D&D analogy, say getting alzheimers is a roll of four or more. If you don't drink coffee you have to roll a 20D but if you do drink coffee only roll an 8D.
Combining all the other lifestyle factors that can be statistically linked to alzheimers means you're just changing the number of sides your dice has. Some will mean you need more sides and are more likely to get it and sometime less sides so you're less likely.
Immunity would be if you could roll a three sided dice!
Along the same lines if alcohol was discovered now it would be identified as the poison it actually is and be far more illegal than marijuana and a host of other drugs. Fortunately it's been around for such a long, long time (and is a bonanza for governments in tax) that thoughts of outlawing it rarely given much credence, US prohibition the most notable exception, and that was on moral grounds.
The internet concept was initially developed as a way for scientists to share their research and data freely and easily. The general populous has also been able to make use of the network through the various social tools now developed to work on it. The original purpose is still served very well such as the data sharing for the LHC.
I's hardly surprising that scientists are now leveraging the social tools to further their research in the way non-scientists initially furthered their entertainment using the original network.
Engineers plan to send commands to the telescope switch over to a backup computer that has not even been turned on since before the telescope arrived in orbit 18 years ago. However there's very little ageing that goes on with an unpowered component in space. It's actually a very benign storage environment.
The errors were found in Hubble's science data formatter, which relays data between Earth and the probe's science instruments. There is an identical formatter â" known as 'Side B' â" on the telescope, and NASA is planning to boot up that backup system. That entails switching not only the telescope's formatter but also six other units over to their B sides, a process that is expected to take 47 hours.
Ground testing of the switchover was completed on Monday, but the Hubble team is still awaiting approval from top NASA officials to make the switch.
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The truth is much harder because it's easier to disprove a hypothesis, just provide one counter example, than to prove the 'truth' i.e. that there are no counter examples.
There are plenty of mathematical proofs that we essentially think are correct but we have yet to conclusively proove e.g. the Riemann Hypothesis
If someone doesn't want to vote then they should void their ballot, not sure if you can do that electronically mind you. If you simply tick all boxes your vote can't be counted but you have still taken part in the process.
We should all appreciate our part in choosing government and being in a democratic society. A lot of wars have been fought and still get fought for this right. Just look at the state of Zimbabwe that's supposed to be democratic!
When you get 40% turn out in elections like often here in the UK it's not difficult for the government to be elected with less than 1/5 of the eligible populace actually choosing them.
So I agree with the GP that voting should be mandatory, like in Australia, but if you want to not actually pick a candidate you can void your ballot but you have to be part of the process.
The part that is being checked for each add-on is the max version set in the install.rdf file that is part of the xpi archive.
If you want to try your addon in a later version just save the xpi file for the addon to your HD. Open it with your preferred archive tool like WinRAR.
Extract the install.rdf file, open in a text editor and look for the em:maxVersion element in the xml. Set this value to your latest version of the browser and add the file back to the archive.
Open the updated xpi file normally and it will install.
This is all most addon developers need to do to allow their creations to work in a new version, unless of course they've relied on some changed element.
I've just done this to keep YSlow working in 3.0rc with the latest beta of Firebug.
Read that as "dangerous tech people" and thought of all those nasty cyber terrorists when you obviously mean "dangerous tech that people will tolerate".
Perhaps the question to pose is what people will NOT do to "protect their kids". Is peer pressue in parenting as bad as that in the playground at school? (No idea - no kids) In the same way soccer mom's that drive SUV's so little jonny isn't hurt when (IF) they crash have bought the same kind of line.
The other emense problem of scale is chronology, a far superior alien civilisation may have passed by earth and only seen the dinosaurs and decided not to come back. We need to not only be able to travel vast distances to meet our alien overlords but to also become suffciently advanced at the same 'time' (travelling included). From the 13 billion years or so of the universe we've been around about 40,000. Most of the time during which we were a primative baby species barely capable of communicating with each other never mind another sentient lifeform. Leaves a narrow gap for both civilisations to make contact and get to know each other. Speed dating will never work!
The track record of the current administration is quite short as they've only just taken office. They've started out in a different direction to the previous government with an apology to the indiginous people of Australia so maybe we should hold judgement for now?
Not sure about elsewhere but WoW have had an advertising campaign in the UK for a free 10 day trial. I downloaded and played to see what the fuss was about. Not going to buy the game or try to play again in all honesty but I'd expect I'm now part of this 10 million. BTW the Bill Shatner add for this was pretty amusing.
They found it by controlling the telescope over the net so they were probably looking for something cool to be doing in their computer class and so I'd say their interest was more in computers than science.
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Years ago, did you ever record radio to an audiocassette? Do you ever store ANYTHING on DAT? If so, the RIAA has been compensated the price they agreed to for those works, because those media have levies associated with them.
Home Taping was apparently killing music back in the days of the vinyl LP 20 years ago. I distinctly remember the skull and cross bones tape logo. I'm not sure the RIAA has already been compensated except by the licence fee the broadcasters pay. Canada has a blank media tax aimed at compensating the RIAA for CDs burnt but I doubt they think it's sufficient.
Both these mechanisms for copying are limited by the ammount of blank media you can obtain and the time involved in creating copies with the media.
What scares the beejeebus out of the RIAA is that bits and bytes have an almost limitless supply for everyone aside from the almost negligble initial cost (approx £70 for 1 terrabyte == 1000's albums, way more than you can listen to in a whole years listening). The other thing is our fat internet connections can fill this limitless storage while we sleep with the products they used to be able to strictly control the supply of.
Once they wake up and realise the days of skimming a fat profit out the music industry by simply playing the middle man are over and get back to promoting artists and recouping costs by finding good acts that sell out big tours and flog merchandise that can't easily be replicated, say T-Shirts the better.
The genie is already out the bottle and isn't going back in however much they keep their corporate heads in the sand.
I think all these discussions skip over the fundamental fact that women are the only ones biologically capable of bringing a child into the world and the 9 month investment that requires rather than the 9 minute (assuming 8 minutes of foreplay) investment from a man.
Yes there will be women quite entitled to skip the whole process entirely. There will be others who will happily give birth and immediately go back to work leaving someone else at home to look after the child be it a stay at home dad or paid nanny. Many many more will enjoy motherhood and accept the hard work raising a child can be.
Evolution has made it so that women are naturally more bonded to their children and want to look after them and for good reason so the species can propagate.
All that has been shown is that there is a reduced probability that you will get Alzheimers. To make a D&D analogy, say getting alzheimers is a roll of four or more. If you don't drink coffee you have to roll a 20D but if you do drink coffee only roll an 8D. Combining all the other lifestyle factors that can be statistically linked to alzheimers means you're just changing the number of sides your dice has. Some will mean you need more sides and are more likely to get it and sometime less sides so you're less likely. Immunity would be if you could roll a three sided dice!
Along the same lines if alcohol was discovered now it would be identified as the poison it actually is and be far more illegal than marijuana and a host of other drugs. Fortunately it's been around for such a long, long time (and is a bonanza for governments in tax) that thoughts of outlawing it rarely given much credence, US prohibition the most notable exception, and that was on moral grounds.
The internet concept was initially developed as a way for scientists to share their research and data freely and easily. The general populous has also been able to make use of the network through the various social tools now developed to work on it. The original purpose is still served very well such as the data sharing for the LHC. I's hardly surprising that scientists are now leveraging the social tools to further their research in the way non-scientists initially furthered their entertainment using the original network.
and no wonder he'd "be quite high by that point"
Whoops, read that as "cornwall ... it's quite monotanous" and couldn't agree more!
The following is shamelessly plagerised from the following two articles; NASA to reboot Hubble Space Telescope and Hubble replacement part has glitches of its own
Engineers plan to send commands to the telescope switch over to a backup computer that has not even been turned on since before the telescope arrived in orbit 18 years ago. However there's very little ageing that goes on with an unpowered component in space. It's actually a very benign storage environment.
The errors were found in Hubble's science data formatter, which relays data between Earth and the probe's science instruments. There is an identical formatter â" known as 'Side B' â" on the telescope, and NASA is planning to boot up that backup system. That entails switching not only the telescope's formatter but also six other units over to their B sides, a process that is expected to take 47 hours.
Ground testing of the switchover was completed on Monday, but the Hubble team is still awaiting approval from top NASA officials to make the switch.
New spots are beginning to break out on the face of the Sun and may signal the end of a dry spell in solar activity.
The truth is much harder because it's easier to disprove a hypothesis, just provide one counter example, than to prove the 'truth' i.e. that there are no counter examples. There are plenty of mathematical proofs that we essentially think are correct but we have yet to conclusively proove e.g. the Riemann Hypothesis
WHO is to be the arbiter of "truth"? History is written by the victors
Yeah like sometimes you RTFA and there's facts in it!
I assume by 'color spectrum' you are referring to visible light which our eyes are sensitive to and so allows us to see an image. The frequencies of electromagnetic radiation that are outside of this range can provide details that 'color' alone can't such as infra-red being able to penetrate dust that otherwise obscures the subject. Think of the impressive images of the Horsehead Nebula that were taken in infra-red as the Horsehead is believed to a dense cloud of tiny interstellar grains of dust that blocks the light of the emission nebula IC 434 and stars behind. While dark nebula are generally invisible (except of course where back lit as in the case of the Horsehead), their dust grains very effectively absorb light and ultraviolet radiation and then re-radiate this energy at infrared wavelengths.
I agree with your sentiment entirely but I think this is really about $$$MONEY$$$
Sorry looks like you can keep typing whilst the preview loads, it show you what you had when you clicked preview but then submit the lot!
Isn't that doublethink? Double plus ungood for missing the chan
If someone doesn't want to vote then they should void their ballot, not sure if you can do that electronically mind you. If you simply tick all boxes your vote can't be counted but you have still taken part in the process.
We should all appreciate our part in choosing government and being in a democratic society. A lot of wars have been fought and still get fought for this right. Just look at the state of Zimbabwe that's supposed to be democratic!
When you get 40% turn out in elections like often here in the UK it's not difficult for the government to be elected with less than 1/5 of the eligible populace actually choosing them.
So I agree with the GP that voting should be mandatory, like in Australia, but if you want to not actually pick a candidate you can void your ballot but you have to be part of the process.
The part that is being checked for each add-on is the max version set in the install.rdf file that is part of the xpi archive.
If you want to try your addon in a later version just save the xpi file for the addon to your HD. Open it with your preferred archive tool like WinRAR.
Extract the install.rdf file, open in a text editor and look for the em:maxVersion element in the xml. Set this value to your latest version of the browser and add the file back to the archive. Open the updated xpi file normally and it will install.
This is all most addon developers need to do to allow their creations to work in a new version, unless of course they've relied on some changed element.
I've just done this to keep YSlow working in 3.0rc with the latest beta of Firebug.
Read that as "dangerous tech people" and thought of all those nasty cyber terrorists when you obviously mean "dangerous tech that people will tolerate".
Perhaps the question to pose is what people will NOT do to "protect their kids". Is peer pressue in parenting as bad as that in the playground at school? (No idea - no kids) In the same way soccer mom's that drive SUV's so little jonny isn't hurt when (IF) they crash have bought the same kind of line.
The other emense problem of scale is chronology, a far superior alien civilisation may have passed by earth and only seen the dinosaurs and decided not to come back. We need to not only be able to travel vast distances to meet our alien overlords but to also become suffciently advanced at the same 'time' (travelling included). From the 13 billion years or so of the universe we've been around about 40,000. Most of the time during which we were a primative baby species barely capable of communicating with each other never mind another sentient lifeform. Leaves a narrow gap for both civilisations to make contact and get to know each other. Speed dating will never work!
The track record of the current administration is quite short as they've only just taken office. They've started out in a different direction to the previous government with an apology to the indiginous people of Australia so maybe we should hold judgement for now?
Not sure about elsewhere but WoW have had an advertising campaign in the UK for a free 10 day trial. I downloaded and played to see what the fuss was about. Not going to buy the game or try to play again in all honesty but I'd expect I'm now part of this 10 million. BTW the Bill Shatner add for this was pretty amusing.
Origami spaceplane aims for space station descent
They found it by controlling the telescope over the net so they were probably looking for something cool to be doing in their computer class and so I'd say their interest was more in computers than science.
Yes the new look wasn't great so I just downloaded a theme and now it's very easy on the eyes, well at least for my eyes anyway. There's bound to be something in there you'll like the look of.