Wookies live on Kashykk, and Endor was a MOON. The PLANET was Yavin. Yavin IV or V, if I remember right. Yavin was the gas giant the FIRST death star had to go around to get to the rebel base on its moon, Yavin 4.
Endor is the name of both the moon the second death star was built over, and the name of its gas giant planet.
At least you're (almost) right about the wookies, except it's spelled Kashyyyk.
And how did that turn out for them? I assume Cisco lost or they wouldn't be taking on the entire rest of the industry at once, but I'd like to see some actual report of it.
chairman Nicholas Negroponte says that's fine with hin: "It would be hard for OLPC to say it was 'open' and then be closed to Microsoft. Open means open." But 'open' DOESN'T mean that the XO project should have doubled the specs and cost of the OLPC so Microsoft would have an easier time porting to it.
I've often wondered if you could demand the source for the radar gun. If it's as bad as the breathalyzer, I'm sure you could easily show there was a good chance it was actually the car passing you at the time.
1. What is the time the GPS device averages over? On the devices I've seen it updates about every second. Unless you have a REALLY nice car you're not going to go from 65 to 90 and back down for long enough to average 65 over that kind of time.
2. At least one state (MA) and perhaps others have laws that require your AVERAGE speed over some distance (I believe MA is 1/4 mi) to be over the limit for a speeding ticket.
I'm pretty sure that's not what the OP is advocating. If you set up a camera in your car, YOU control it and all the tapes. If you do something illegal or that you don't want taped, you can either turn the camera off beforehand or destroy the tape after. The only place the government comes into this is if you turn the tapes over to the government/court to prove your innocence.
The rate of evaporation of a black hole is, counterintuitively, proportional to the inverse square of the mass. That means the larger a black hole is, the less power it emits. It would take billions of years for any decently sized black hole to evaporate. I plugged in the numbers for our Sun, and it would take ~10^67 years to evaporate. Then consider that the black holes are several orders of magnitude higher, and the evaporation time is proportional to the cube of the mass, and we're around 10^80 years for a supermassive black hole like this. Any black hole that we can detect, we will never see evaporate.
When these fonts are freely avalible and routinely installed on 90+% of computers they might be acceptable to use instead of what's currently in use. They're freely available as part of both Vista and Office 2007. I'd give it about a year until they've met your criteria. From what I've seen about vista and office 2007 adoption, I doubt it'll get 90% install base without a windows update stealth "critical upgrade" on XP too.
Whether we like it or not, "linux" has almost from the start meant more than just a kernel. QFT, and people would do well to remember that without a GUI, Linux will get *nowhere* in the desktop market.
I'm pretty sure you can only lose rights to sue for not enforcing Trademarks, not patents. If you can find any evidence to the contrary, please post it.
If she has the money or contacts, she'll appeal. The RIAA would have if the decision was the opposite.
The $/song is insane. What I find worrisome is that this might convince some (perhaps innocent) people to settle out of court much more quickly, seeing as how the average there is around $3500. If she had money or contacts, she would likely have won this case.
iPhone users own it... but does that mean that Apple should have to release software to work with homebrewed mods and non-Apple firmware? Why do people insist that it's Apple's duty to support people making hard and soft hacks that Apple themselves didn't envision? No way. You may disagree with Apple's closing of the platform to non-Apple development, but don't thereby expect Apple to cave in and support non-Apple hard and soft hacks. I would not be one bit surprised if Apple went out of their way to brick the unlocked phones, or at least that's what it looks like. If anyone can get some evidence for that accusation, I think Apple could and should be liable for criminal property damage, or the electronic equivalent. It seems no different than a virus that searches your hard drive and if it finds something it doesn't like, it erases your harddrive, corrupts your bios and erases your boot sector.
Yes. The US Congress streamlined patent litigation by setting up a special court to cover it, and that court immediately set about ruling that everything under the sun is patentable. That gives me a great idea. Hold on while I patent sunlight.
Instead of addressing the concerns the Video Professor has decided to take the litigious route. That's pretty much the standard nowadays. Who is going to spend time and money making things better when you can just sue the whiners for complaining?
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210 years ago? You're showing your age. It's been over 230 now.
Endor is the name of both the moon the second death star was built over, and the name of its gas giant planet.
At least you're (almost) right about the wookies, except it's spelled Kashyyyk.
And how did that turn out for them? I assume Cisco lost or they wouldn't be taking on the entire rest of the industry at once, but I'd like to see some actual report of it.
... my first thought is, "The RIAA is going too far this time."
I've often wondered if you could demand the source for the radar gun. If it's as bad as the breathalyzer, I'm sure you could easily show there was a good chance it was actually the car passing you at the time.
Two things:
1. What is the time the GPS device averages over? On the devices I've seen it updates about every second. Unless you have a REALLY nice car you're not going to go from 65 to 90 and back down for long enough to average 65 over that kind of time.
2. At least one state (MA) and perhaps others have laws that require your AVERAGE speed over some distance (I believe MA is 1/4 mi) to be over the limit for a speeding ticket.
I'm pretty sure that's not what the OP is advocating. If you set up a camera in your car, YOU control it and all the tapes. If you do something illegal or that you don't want taped, you can either turn the camera off beforehand or destroy the tape after. The only place the government comes into this is if you turn the tapes over to the government/court to prove your innocence.
The rate of evaporation of a black hole is, counterintuitively, proportional to the inverse square of the mass. That means the larger a black hole is, the less power it emits. It would take billions of years for any decently sized black hole to evaporate. I plugged in the numbers for our Sun, and it would take ~10^67 years to evaporate. Then consider that the black holes are several orders of magnitude higher, and the evaporation time is proportional to the cube of the mass, and we're around 10^80 years for a supermassive black hole like this. Any black hole that we can detect, we will never see evaporate.
Ad revenue.
And a fire.
But yes, if you can get a nice speed on a torrent, do so to keep the load off the servers for us who can't get torrents.
Or $100,000 if you use Excel 2007.
This, perhaps
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/serveredition
Haven't tried it myself, anyone know how it compares?
I'm pretty sure you can only lose rights to sue for not enforcing Trademarks, not patents. If you can find any evidence to the contrary, please post it.
The $/song is insane. What I find worrisome is that this might convince some (perhaps innocent) people to settle out of court much more quickly, seeing as how the average there is around $3500. If she had money or contacts, she would likely have won this case.
That gives me a great idea. Hold on while I patent sunlight.