I share your disinclination to get too excited about any widget that has only been made in an academic lab, but super-capacitors aren't theoretical or non-commercial. Look, you can buy 'em on Digikey: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=131084&k=supercapacitor. Now the magic nano-particle ink on the other hand... (I believe they can make it, but cost effectively?).
Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data.
But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed
Yahoo Photos and
Yahoo Video
and deleted everyone's data, right?
Well of course this could (and eventually probably will happen), but there's nowhere absolutely safe for a physical copy either. Best to have at least one of each in my opinion. The odds of your house getting broken into or catching on fire or your backup HD just plain dying - not an everyday event but certainly well within the realm of reasonable threat. The odds of Flickr being shut down without notice or mistakenly deleting your account - also possible. The odds of both of those happening the same week? Comfortably low, IMHO.
I agree that copyright laws in the US are screwed up and need fix'n, but this is still a mis-aimed argument, Amazon offers War & Peace for free in their store - all nice and formatted for Kindle.
Yeeeaaah, that's kinda what I was talking about. Congrats though, now I just figure you're not that great with people in general, most men I know are more interesting than you portray them too.
Actually, TFA was studying the effectiveness of OTC cough medications on relieving the *symptom* (i.e. coughing), and found that none of them did better than a placebo at making the patients cough less. So might as well stick with the hot water with lemon and honey (and preferably rum) - tastes better and works just as well.
Maybe because the psychological benefits extend beyond accompanying the dog twice daily to the toilet? It is actually possible to spend time with the dog indoors as well. And having a dog-walking robot would enable people like me to actually get to experience some of those benefits. I won't even consider having a dog now, since it would be stuck inside the house alone for 9-10 hours a day, but if there were a robot to take it for walks and keep it company, it might be a possibility. (I figure that if toddlers see robots as peers, dogs will probably be ok with them too...)
Well, it wouldn't be that exciting, because to anyone who HAS read software EULAs, that's a pretty standard clause. Kind of like all the electrical components that specify "not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices." AFAIK, if you want software/hardware that is guaranteed to work for a specific purpose, that's a pretty specialized product - none of the ordinary off-the-shelf stuff is going to make that kind of promise.
"Who wants to put down $60 for a game that makes you put in a CD-Key, keep the CD in the drive while you play, establish/maintain an active internet connection to verify your right to play each time you start the game up? Especially when pirates get the same product for free without the aggravating restrictions?... So it's about time that Microsoft has figured out a way to degrade the experience of software pirates instead of that of legitimate users..."
What makes you think this will work out differently? The same pirates who figured out how to play your game without verifying with the servers or whatnot will get around the Microsoft 'security' and it will just the be legitimate users who will suffer when the WGA servers fail at life.
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I share your disinclination to get too excited about any widget that has only been made in an academic lab, but super-capacitors aren't theoretical or non-commercial. Look, you can buy 'em on Digikey: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=131084&k=supercapacitor. Now the magic nano-particle ink on the other hand... (I believe they can make it, but cost effectively?).
Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data. But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Video and deleted everyone's data, right?
Well of course this could (and eventually probably will happen), but there's nowhere absolutely safe for a physical copy either. Best to have at least one of each in my opinion. The odds of your house getting broken into or catching on fire or your backup HD just plain dying - not an everyday event but certainly well within the realm of reasonable threat. The odds of Flickr being shut down without notice or mistakenly deleting your account - also possible. The odds of both of those happening the same week? Comfortably low, IMHO.
The MSDS for ethanol says it has a "mild, pleasant" odor. What is your "reputable reference" for claiming that it is odorless?
I agree that copyright laws in the US are screwed up and need fix'n, but this is still a mis-aimed argument, Amazon offers War & Peace for free in their store - all nice and formatted for Kindle.
I wasn't trying to be misogynistic
Yeeeaaah, that's kinda what I was talking about. Congrats though, now I just figure you're not that great with people in general, most men I know are more interesting than you portray them too.
I propose forcing women to think like computers instead of like women. They would be much easier to interact with.
Given that your reaction to an unrelated article is a misogynistic 'joke,' the difficulties in your relations with women might not be on their end.
That *is* what I use torrents for, I doubt I'm the only one.
Actually, TFA was studying the effectiveness of OTC cough medications on relieving the *symptom* (i.e. coughing), and found that none of them did better than a placebo at making the patients cough less. So might as well stick with the hot water with lemon and honey (and preferably rum) - tastes better and works just as well.
Maybe because the psychological benefits extend beyond accompanying the dog twice daily to the toilet? It is actually possible to spend time with the dog indoors as well. And having a dog-walking robot would enable people like me to actually get to experience some of those benefits. I won't even consider having a dog now, since it would be stuck inside the house alone for 9-10 hours a day, but if there were a robot to take it for walks and keep it company, it might be a possibility. (I figure that if toddlers see robots as peers, dogs will probably be ok with them too...)
Well, it wouldn't be that exciting, because to anyone who HAS read software EULAs, that's a pretty standard clause. Kind of like all the electrical components that specify "not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices." AFAIK, if you want software/hardware that is guaranteed to work for a specific purpose, that's a pretty specialized product - none of the ordinary off-the-shelf stuff is going to make that kind of promise.
"Who wants to put down $60 for a game that makes you put in a CD-Key, keep the CD in the drive while you play, establish/maintain an active internet connection to verify your right to play each time you start the game up? Especially when pirates get the same product for free without the aggravating restrictions? ... So it's about time that Microsoft has figured out a way to degrade the experience of software pirates instead of that of legitimate users..."
What makes you think this will work out differently? The same pirates who figured out how to play your game without verifying with the servers or whatnot will get around the Microsoft 'security' and it will just the be legitimate users who will suffer when the WGA servers fail at life.