Blocking does not work. The only people who think blocking works do not know how the Internet works (parents, teachers, politicians, middle mannagers).
Walk into any school computer lab that has blocked sites with a fist full of cash. Offer $50 to any student who can access the sites. You will be broke by the end of the day.
The worst thing about being blind in one eye is no depth perception. The girls all look flat and they really get upset when you ask them to turn sidways so you can see their 'endowments'...
"Only to those of you recently clued in on Israel's stranglehold over US politics."
This just goes to show you how polarized US politics has become, where a very small voting block, Jews or Cuban exiles, can influence government policy and operations to such a large extent.
Actually the content files are (will be once we get bigger) mirrored across servers on several networks and the player software implements load balancing and server availability logic so while listening to a book you can be accessing the data from several different servers depending on which on will give you the fastest download. The software will only use as much space as you allocate for it and will juggle files based on what books you accessed last. You can be listening to several books at the same time since the system maintains multiple bookmarks. It does advance fetching so it negates gaps in netconnectivity.
The system does not use streaming.
As to listening to it in your car you can always download the content to an mp3 player. An application is supplied that with manage the content on it and synchronize it with your stored bookmark collection which itself is globally accessible. You can even email bookmarks to friends. Or use your laptop or netbook and soon cars will be equipped with on board wifi (or similar technology ) and will be also be able to run the software. Until that happens we are creating software that will be able to run on smart phones. (We actually had a Alpha version running on a Palm Tungstun at one time.)
This is a new concept in audio book delivery currently on XP/Vista but coming to Linux/Mac (Java) not to mention a smartphone near you. No CDs, no file management, just drag a book from the library and drop it in the player software and it starts playing. No lengthy downloads. Or you can use the pod loader to manage the book parts on any mp3 device (except iPod and Kindel that is, DRM problems). A nice feature is you can start listening to a book on your PC at home and pickup right where you left off during lunch on your office PC without having to bring anything with you, no CDs no files.
Web sites are designed for use by people. A person can only hit links and read pages only so fast. Just impliment a process that ensures a minimum time period between requests from a single IP. This will not stop it but it will increase the costs at the other end, only a little but every little bit helps.
If NASA were smart they would name the thing "Colbert" and encurage the chap to do a "ISS Report" or similar NASA/space oriented report on his show at regular intervals. Keep space research in front of the people. Even to the point of reporting on NASA's own humorous internal mistakes/problems/gaffs with actual data supplied by NASA. National / International attention and it costs them nothing.
I do not unlawfully download copyrighted content so why must I pay the tax. I already have to pay a tax on my CD's that I use for backups of my own personal stuff.
Get off your butts and run for public office. Become a member of your local school board. Just don't sit back and complain and hope someone else will do it for you.
Now all graduates from Texas will be screened from all jobs related science or to critical thinking not to metion places in schools of higher learning. All the more positions for the rest of us.
It is hard to imagine how a court which routinely streams its own oral arguments can rule that it is somehow inappropriate for similar oral arguments in the district court to be streamed as well."
In a few years you will see China overtake the 'West' in the utilization of 'space' and the West will never be able to regain their prominence in that area. This is because the West does not have the one thing that is needed in order to maintain long tern projects of this magnitude. The West does not have continuous governments.
In China with one party rule they have the ability to put forward really long term plans. This is not so in the West where governments only have a life of about four years. No sooner does a Western government come to power than they start to campaign for the next election instead of moving their societies forward and usually in the process discontinue the grand plans of the previous governments so that they don't get credit for their success should their be any.
Sea ice is measured in meters not kilometers. To drill down a couple of meters is no problem. In addition the photos don't reliably tell you how thick the ice is only how much there is.
I have here an old family postcard dated 1902 or 1907 mailed from Australia. It is a painting of a huge bush fire. The note on the back says that they were the worst anyone had ever seen. All manner of people, lovestock, fields, forests and buildings were destroied.
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Blocking does not work. The only people who think blocking works do not know how the Internet works (parents, teachers, politicians, middle mannagers).
Walk into any school computer lab that has blocked sites with a fist full of cash. Offer $50 to any student who can access the sites. You will be broke by the end of the day.
The worst thing about being blind in one eye is no depth perception. The girls all look flat and they really get upset when you ask them to turn sidways so you can see their 'endowments'...
I think that we should get a discount when we go to see movies that are in 3D.
"Only to those of you recently clued in on Israel's stranglehold over US politics."
This just goes to show you how polarized US politics has become, where a very small voting block, Jews or Cuban exiles, can influence government policy and operations to such a large extent.
Actually the content files are (will be once we get bigger) mirrored across servers on several networks and the player software implements load balancing and server availability logic so while listening to a book you can be accessing the data from several different servers depending on which on will give you the fastest download. The software will only use as much space as you allocate for it and will juggle files based on what books you accessed last. You can be listening to several books at the same time since the system maintains multiple bookmarks. It does advance fetching so it negates gaps in netconnectivity.
The system does not use streaming.
As to listening to it in your car you can always download the content to an mp3 player. An application is supplied that with manage the content on it and synchronize it with your stored bookmark collection which itself is globally accessible. You can even email bookmarks to friends. Or use your laptop or netbook and soon cars will be equipped with on board wifi (or similar technology ) and will be also be able to run the software. Until that happens we are creating software that will be able to run on smart phones. (We actually had a Alpha version running on a Palm Tungstun at one time.)
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This is a new concept in audio book delivery currently on XP/Vista but coming to Linux/Mac (Java) not to mention a smartphone near you. No CDs, no file management, just drag a book from the library and drop it in the player software and it starts playing. No lengthy downloads. Or you can use the pod loader to manage the book parts on any mp3 device (except iPod and Kindel that is, DRM problems). A nice feature is you can start listening to a book on your PC at home and pickup right where you left off during lunch on your office PC without having to bring anything with you, no CDs no files.
Just launch them into the Sun.
Web sites are designed for use by people. A person can only hit links and read pages only so fast. Just impliment a process that ensures a minimum time period between requests from a single IP. This will not stop it but it will increase the costs at the other end, only a little but every little bit helps.
If NASA were smart they would name the thing "Colbert" and encurage the chap to do a "ISS Report" or similar NASA/space oriented report on his show at regular intervals. Keep space research in front of the people. Even to the point of reporting on NASA's own humorous internal mistakes/problems/gaffs with actual data supplied by NASA. National / International attention and it costs them nothing.
You are right, there is no such thing as gravity, there is just this invisible force that pushes masses together.
As their poster says "If you cannot reach out and grab your child they are too far away".
I do not unlawfully download copyrighted content so why must I pay the tax. I already have to pay a tax on my CD's that I use for backups of my own personal stuff.
Get off your butts and run for public office. Become a member of your local school board. Just don't sit back and complain and hope someone else will do it for you.
Now all graduates from Texas will be screened from all jobs related science or to critical thinking not to metion places in schools of higher learning. All the more positions for the rest of us.
There is a big difference between being exposed to it and being left alone in an environment where you can be drawn into it.
Keep the computer in a high trafic area of the house. Say right next to the kitchen with the screen facing out.
You must be new to this world.
Dumping on video games gets votes. Same as back in the 50s dunpimg on Rock music got votes.
In a few years you will see China overtake the 'West' in the utilization of 'space' and the West will never be able to regain their prominence in that area. This is because the West does not have the one thing that is needed in order to maintain long tern projects of this magnitude. The West does not have continuous governments.
In China with one party rule they have the ability to put forward really long term plans. This is not so in the West where governments only have a life of about four years. No sooner does a Western government come to power than they start to campaign for the next election instead of moving their societies forward and usually in the process discontinue the grand plans of the previous governments so that they don't get credit for their success should their be any.
People in Oklahoma don't need advanced education all they need to know is how to plant and then harvest the 'waving wheat'.
That just might be the plan. Providing jobs for the boys.....
Sea ice is measured in meters not kilometers. To drill down a couple of meters is no problem. In addition the photos don't reliably tell you how thick the ice is only how much there is.
I have here an old family postcard dated 1902 or 1907 mailed from Australia. It is a painting of a huge bush fire. The note on the back says that they were the worst anyone had ever seen. All manner of people, lovestock, fields, forests and buildings were destroied.
Addresses of dating sites....
The mystery behind this picture like the Face on Mars will soon be resolved once more detail is acquired.