Great. So now the recording labels will be able to take a demo, run it through the software, and know exactly how bad a contract they can afford to offer you. Yet another reason to publish independently.
Fortunately, this does seem to only apply to fluffy pop music. Bands in less market-driven genres will hopefully continue to rely on good song writing and support from their audiences to drive sales.
Say some authority does begin to regulate communications on the internet.
Even if this control is successfully established, how long would it take for a separate network to be set up that is outside the boundaries of this authority's jurisdiction?
What is to stop a bunch of young/bored/rich entrepreneurs investing in some equipment and setting up their own regulation-free network open to subscribers? A lack of restriction would obviously be attractive to many current users of the net.
Also, the massive administrative task involved in policing the net would need to be undertaken by somebody - would there be additional fees for access to the internet to cover the wages of the people charged with this task? Would the US or whoever tax international ISPs, who would of course pass the cost onto the consumer?
I just spoke to my chemistry lecturer (University of Otago), after we briefly covered olefin metathesis in our organic course this morning. Apparently he is off to have a meal with Prof Grubbs in Christchurch, who will be giving a talk at Otago on Monday.
It's not clear from TA whether this is a pulse or continuous beam laser. My guess is that it would be pulsed, in order to carry enough energy to actually destroy anything.
But would the laser not need to be running to be warmed up so it can fire on demand? Would they just switch it on when they get near the combat area?
Also, targeting may only be a problem as far as moving that fridge around is concerned (well, the objective lens anyway, for want of a better term). Remember that it's a laser - at the distances concerned, it's more or less going to hit it's target instantaneously, or at most a few microseconds after being fired.
...but choosing New Zealand English never seemed to have any effect. Words similar to "colour" would still be 'corrected', and "colonisation" and the like would gain a 'z' instead of the 's'.
Perhaps they've fixed that since, I wouldn't know.
I don't know if you're a kiwi either, but I would guess not... we don't spell 'recognised' the way you have. American spelling is being perpetuated in generations of New Zealand children, thanks in part to Office (but more particularly by the saturation of American culture).
Microsoft may be entitled to comment on the proceedings of our government, but I do not see why one company (particularly one that is to all intents and purposes a foreign multinational corporation) should be able to sway our elected representatives' decision on what is in our best interests! Neither should McDonalds, or Fonterra, or Telecom.
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News - NZ election to be held two days before International Speak Like a Pirate day.
Coincidence? I think not.
From what I gather from my (limited) physics, and of course Wikipedia:
A surface plasmon-polariton is formed from the interaction of a photon and surface plasmon (a sort of electronic vibrational mode of the conductor?). This travels along the metal/insulator waveguide with shorter wavelength than that of the original photon, reducing the size requirement of the device. These surface plasmons travel at a somewhat slower velocity than photons, but faster than electrons (which reduces the energy scale of the system through non-linear effects... how?).
Also, how does stacking the insulator layers increase the bandwidth?
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Great. So now the recording labels will be able to take a demo, run it through the software, and know exactly how bad a contract they can afford to offer you. Yet another reason to publish independently.
Fortunately, this does seem to only apply to fluffy pop music. Bands in less market-driven genres will hopefully continue to rely on good song writing and support from their audiences to drive sales.
So how is he supposed to be getting out of the games industry?
By Royal Rainbow?
Say some authority does begin to regulate communications on the internet.
Even if this control is successfully established, how long would it take for a separate network to be set up that is outside the boundaries of this authority's jurisdiction?
What is to stop a bunch of young/bored/rich entrepreneurs investing in some equipment and setting up their own regulation-free network open to subscribers? A lack of restriction would obviously be attractive to many current users of the net.
Also, the massive administrative task involved in policing the net would need to be undertaken by somebody - would there be additional fees for access to the internet to cover the wages of the people charged with this task? Would the US or whoever tax international ISPs, who would of course pass the cost onto the consumer?
Apparently this new telescope has proven quite a literary inspiration:
http://www.salt.ac.za/science/first-light/poetry/
I'm holding out for the haiku though.
DRM software bypasses... itself?! Wait...
I just spoke to my chemistry lecturer (University of Otago), after we briefly covered olefin metathesis in our organic course this morning. Apparently he is off to have a meal with Prof Grubbs in Christchurch, who will be giving a talk at Otago on Monday.
Icky brown?
Well, was it supposed to be a white powder, white crystals or a very pale yellow goo? We are talking about organic chemistry, after all.
"He compared the impact that OpenDocument will have on regular documents to kick-off of the web with selection of HTML as file format."
Raiden! They've got Rose!
It's not clear from TA whether this is a pulse or continuous beam laser. My guess is that it would be pulsed, in order to carry enough energy to actually destroy anything.
But would the laser not need to be running to be warmed up so it can fire on demand? Would they just switch it on when they get near the combat area?
Also, targeting may only be a problem as far as moving that fridge around is concerned (well, the objective lens anyway, for want of a better term). Remember that it's a laser - at the distances concerned, it's more or less going to hit it's target instantaneously, or at most a few microseconds after being fired.
...but choosing New Zealand English never seemed to have any effect. Words similar to "colour" would still be 'corrected', and "colonisation" and the like would gain a 'z' instead of the 's'.
Perhaps they've fixed that since, I wouldn't know.
I don't know if you're a kiwi either, but I would guess not... we don't spell 'recognised' the way you have. American spelling is being perpetuated in generations of New Zealand children, thanks in part to Office (but more particularly by the saturation of American culture).
Microsoft may be entitled to comment on the proceedings of our government, but I do not see why one company (particularly one that is to all intents and purposes a foreign multinational corporation) should be able to sway our elected representatives' decision on what is in our best interests! Neither should McDonalds, or Fonterra, or Telecom.
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News - NZ election to be held two days before International Speak Like a Pirate day.
Coincidence? I think not.
From what I gather from my (limited) physics, and of course Wikipedia:
A surface plasmon-polariton is formed from the interaction of a photon and surface plasmon (a sort of electronic vibrational mode of the conductor?). This travels along the metal/insulator waveguide with shorter wavelength than that of the original photon, reducing the size requirement of the device. These surface plasmons travel at a somewhat slower velocity than photons, but faster than electrons (which reduces the energy scale of the system through non-linear effects... how?).
Also, how does stacking the insulator layers increase the bandwidth?