I'm not sure how lowering something on a tether is more economical/effective than using thrust to de-orbit, though.
From what I could tell, from my armchair scientist opinion, is that they're using a combo of gravity and air friction to drop the ball.
One plus to this method is it doesn't require the package to have fuel and engines, which thrust would require. Just shove everything into a really heat resistant ball and let it go.
What thourough analysis? The tether's in outer space inside an unmanned craft. Not like you can just pop the hood and go, "Here's the problem. Looks like a vodka lid got stuck in the gears."
I don't see why Apple is in the wrong at all here. The iPhone is in the realm of what I'd consider "no user servicable parts inside," like a game console.
There was a similar thread earlier this month about Nintendo taking the same course of action with the Wii. Frankly, Apple has a set piece of hardware they're going to update for and they don't want or need to care about other software or hardware added by a third party.
You can mod your car, but if you go too far, it will no longer be street legal.
If they want to detain me because they believe I'm a shoplifter, then they should come out and say it, flat out: "Sir, we expect you have shoplifted. Please step into this room and allow us to examine your receipt and your bags."
Bet if they said that every time instead of "Can I see your receipt?" the sheepies wouldn't be as willing to roll over.
If you want to make it a law that we have to have our receipt checked, then write your Congressmen. Until then, I have no want to adhere to this practice.
They're not even rent-a-cops. They're *store employees.* Which is even worse.
Ok, how about this. Stores just lock up everything behind glass. Want to look at a box? Need to call someone over to unlock it, even if it's just a 50 cent pack of gum. Then they collect what you want and you pick it up after you leave.
What I don't see is how anyone can justify letting themselves be detained, without cause or legal grounds, willingly. Don't you have any pride in yourself and what this country is supposed to stand for? Or are you just more accepting to sacrifice rights in the name of convenience?
Sure, stores have a need to do what they can to curb shoplifting; that's what the blacked out half-globes on the ceiling are for. What they don't do is have a right to interfere with you.
His family may have been 'suffering' as you put it, but they weren't directly involved. If you read the article (yea, I know where I am...) it would've involved flying in his sister from California and his father cancelling a European business trip.
If that wasn't a factor I'm sure he'd've kept fighting.
Personally, I don't even see why they'd need to get involved, but the prosecutor probably is hoping for a victory on delay and cash rather than just lose on merit early on.
maybe just show your damn receipt? and get on with your day?
Why should I let myself be treated like a criminal? They have no suspicion of illegal activity. They're illegally detaining me. If I want to walk out, I am.
If you submit to receipt checking, what's next? Metal detectors? The wand? "Secondary inspection?" It only takes a small earthquake to make a major avalanche.
This whole thing could have been avoided had he just showed his receipt.
But WHY does he need to show his receipt? Answer that. There's no law requiring it, hence you are well within your rights to walk by. I do on MANY occassions and have even been followed out by one being rather curt that he 'had to check my receipt.'
Only one though, and I've walked by em a couple dozen times. Rather depressing actually, on a personal level.
Frankly though, they're not law enforcement, there's no law on the books, they have no right to detain me even to check my receipt.
Personally, I'm not interested so much in a savings cost. The one part that *really* appeals to me is that no longer will TV networks be able to tout viewership as "XXX Million households carry ESPN47!"
Lots of Content networks do this to ensure their lesser and crap channels get viewership.
Course, I wouldn't count 'viewership' as actually watching it. There's a world of difference between making something available and someone actually taking advantage of it.
Sadly this is often overlooked by media companies.
The student was allowed to say what he wanted to say, he was not blocked from speaking up at all. In fact he was allowed to keep saying what he wanted to say long after he had broken the rules of the debate
I think that's just because the UFPD doesn't keep ball-gags as part of their standard equipment...
Of course, that should mean that under US tax law, the amount people would pay to be an astronaut counts as imputed income on top of the 60k salary, and therefore should be taxed, but whatever.
Well, they're not selling cds that were printed only in 1989. They could be CDs printed in 89, 95, 01, or this year. Perhaps to a collector, the original 1989 printing has more value, but the same goes for the others. Those of us who are just interested in the contents are oft satisfied with a reprint.
I'll use Watchmen as an example, printed in 1986...not *that* much earlier, although probably a more extreme example. Currently there's an auction on ebay for the original 12 comics at $76, with 3 days still to go. At the other end of the spectrum, I could just pick up a trade paperback collection off Amazon for $13.59 + shipping.
The delivery mechanism then, I'll have to concede, can dictate higher prices further down the road. However, the actual content does not necessarily warrant a higher price.
Pretty Hate Machine came out in 1989. Somewhere in the past 18 years I'd imagine it recouped it's production costs. Could you imagine software made in 1989 being sold at original retail today?
Whenever I had a class where I'd worry I'd miss something important while taking notes, I'd bring along my microcassette recorder. Then I could go over my notes re-listening to the lecture and fill in gaps (and also make more effort to make the chicken scratches legible.)
Course, some profs don't like cassette recorders, but I'd wager if they had to take either those or laptops, they'd go for recorders.
Ironic? Only if you've modded your Wii. I've always considered a console in the realm of "no user servicable parts inside." Course, it's not like Nintendo plans to worry about every possible modding configuration available. Rather, they have a set piece of hardware and a set piece of software. Thus, designers know exactly what they have to code for.
Unlike Windows which you can get to install on damn near anything within reason.
I figure modders should get a second, control Wii if you will, that they can fall back on for games.
As much as I'm for tinkering, it's not like Nintendo's really promoting openess on their systems. Why should the modding community expect it? I feel the same way about the XBox and PS3 (although the PS3 not as much; Sony promoted the Linux part quite a bit).
Guess I'm just old fashioned in some ways. I like my consoles too much to tinker with em.
Kinda funny when you think about it that way, I know I haven't. One would think that if Congress really did hold an approval rating under 50% the demographics would completely switch after two years.
The problem is Congress as a whole is put under that 10% approval rating. Individual representatives or senators aren't rated like that. I wonder what individual approval ratings look like...
Especially if you have any legacy Word 1.0 or 2.0 documents that can't be upgraded to the latest format for contractual reasons
Offtopic, but I'm just too curious... Would it be possible to explain why these can't be migrated to a newer format? I'd think that'd be dangerously unwise.
I'm surprised that more people don't just use.ODF, it's a published, open standard that is as trivial to write a parser for as it is to just unzip the file and look at the XML directly...
Cause we all know how much a success that is; just look at HTML!
If they police aren't enforcing the law, and you think "they do not have the right" to use the courts to enforce the law, how do you think the law should be enforced?
Ahh, the vigilante argument. Someone resurrect the Earp brothers and Judge Roy Bean!
On a serious note, I think you should re-examine your phrasing about using the courts. The RIAA and it's parts have every right to use the court system. The US Code gives them that ability.
However, throughout this period, the RIAA have strongarmed their way through rather than properly using the legal system. If they took proper discovery measures, warrants, subpoenas, and followed the correct procedures, I'd wager there'd be much less backlash against them.
The GP points out the RIAA is using blanket lawsuits and passing off the discovery process to other organizations, most likely in the name of time and cost. It's expensive to do a proper discovery. They'd have to file for warrants, subpoenas, through the court system. They're skipping all that.
That's not how the justice system is supposed to work: the wheels should grind slow and methodically, to ensure that all steps are taken to protect the rights of both the plaintiff and the defendent. Take the SCO cases of late: they took YEARS when we all knew they'd end badly for SCO, but the reasoning is the more attention is paid to detail, the less grounds there are for appeal, and the less questionable the verdict will be.
Kick enemy in balls, he will recover. Grind enemy into powder, he will not bother you again.
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I'm not sure how lowering something on a tether is more economical/effective than using thrust to de-orbit, though.
From what I could tell, from my armchair scientist opinion, is that they're using a combo of gravity and air friction to drop the ball.
One plus to this method is it doesn't require the package to have fuel and engines, which thrust would require. Just shove everything into a really heat resistant ball and let it go.
What thourough analysis? The tether's in outer space inside an unmanned craft. Not like you can just pop the hood and go, "Here's the problem. Looks like a vodka lid got stuck in the gears."
I don't see why Apple is in the wrong at all here. The iPhone is in the realm of what I'd consider "no user servicable parts inside," like a game console.
There was a similar thread earlier this month about Nintendo taking the same course of action with the Wii. Frankly, Apple has a set piece of hardware they're going to update for and they don't want or need to care about other software or hardware added by a third party.
You can mod your car, but if you go too far, it will no longer be street legal.
Ya know, if I cross my eyes while looking at that word...I see a sailboat.
Freaky.
Pan's Labyrinth?
If they want to detain me because they believe I'm a shoplifter, then they should come out and say it, flat out: "Sir, we expect you have shoplifted. Please step into this room and allow us to examine your receipt and your bags."
Bet if they said that every time instead of "Can I see your receipt?" the sheepies wouldn't be as willing to roll over.
If you want to make it a law that we have to have our receipt checked, then write your Congressmen. Until then, I have no want to adhere to this practice.
They're not even rent-a-cops. They're *store employees.* Which is even worse.
Ok, how about this. Stores just lock up everything behind glass. Want to look at a box? Need to call someone over to unlock it, even if it's just a 50 cent pack of gum. Then they collect what you want and you pick it up after you leave.
What I don't see is how anyone can justify letting themselves be detained, without cause or legal grounds, willingly. Don't you have any pride in yourself and what this country is supposed to stand for? Or are you just more accepting to sacrifice rights in the name of convenience?
Sure, stores have a need to do what they can to curb shoplifting; that's what the blacked out half-globes on the ceiling are for. What they don't do is have a right to interfere with you.
His family may have been 'suffering' as you put it, but they weren't directly involved. If you read the article (yea, I know where I am...) it would've involved flying in his sister from California and his father cancelling a European business trip.
If that wasn't a factor I'm sure he'd've kept fighting.
Personally, I don't even see why they'd need to get involved, but the prosecutor probably is hoping for a victory on delay and cash rather than just lose on merit early on.
maybe just show your damn receipt? and get on with your day?
Why should I let myself be treated like a criminal? They have no suspicion of illegal activity. They're illegally detaining me. If I want to walk out, I am.
If you submit to receipt checking, what's next? Metal detectors? The wand? "Secondary inspection?" It only takes a small earthquake to make a major avalanche.
This whole thing could have been avoided had he just showed his receipt.
But WHY does he need to show his receipt? Answer that. There's no law requiring it, hence you are well within your rights to walk by. I do on MANY occassions and have even been followed out by one being rather curt that he 'had to check my receipt.'
Only one though, and I've walked by em a couple dozen times. Rather depressing actually, on a personal level.
Frankly though, they're not law enforcement, there's no law on the books, they have no right to detain me even to check my receipt.
I noticed you posted as an AC. The guy in the article gave his name, which (along with address and DOB) is all he was required to give.
You didn't even give THAT much and you're calling him a jerk?
Personally, I'm not interested so much in a savings cost. The one part that *really* appeals to me is that no longer will TV networks be able to tout viewership as "XXX Million households carry ESPN47!"
At least, I can hope so.
Lots of Content networks do this to ensure their lesser and crap channels get viewership.
Course, I wouldn't count 'viewership' as actually watching it. There's a world of difference between making something available and someone actually taking advantage of it.
Sadly this is often overlooked by media companies.
The student was allowed to say what he wanted to say, he was not blocked from speaking up at all. In fact he was allowed to keep saying what he wanted to say long after he had broken the rules of the debate
I think that's just because the UFPD doesn't keep ball-gags as part of their standard equipment...
Of course, that should mean that under US tax law, the amount people would pay to be an astronaut counts as imputed income on top of the 60k salary, and therefore should be taxed, but whatever.
Sadly it doesn't work in the other direction.
Well, they're not selling cds that were printed only in 1989. They could be CDs printed in 89, 95, 01, or this year. Perhaps to a collector, the original 1989 printing has more value, but the same goes for the others. Those of us who are just interested in the contents are oft satisfied with a reprint.
I'll use Watchmen as an example, printed in 1986...not *that* much earlier, although probably a more extreme example. Currently there's an auction on ebay for the original 12 comics at $76, with 3 days still to go. At the other end of the spectrum, I could just pick up a trade paperback collection off Amazon for $13.59 + shipping.
The delivery mechanism then, I'll have to concede, can dictate higher prices further down the road. However, the actual content does not necessarily warrant a higher price.
Pretty Hate Machine came out in 1989. Somewhere in the past 18 years I'd imagine it recouped it's production costs. Could you imagine software made in 1989 being sold at original retail today?
Whenever I had a class where I'd worry I'd miss something important while taking notes, I'd bring along my microcassette recorder. Then I could go over my notes re-listening to the lecture and fill in gaps (and also make more effort to make the chicken scratches legible.)
Course, some profs don't like cassette recorders, but I'd wager if they had to take either those or laptops, they'd go for recorders.
Ironic? Only if you've modded your Wii. I've always considered a console in the realm of "no user servicable parts inside." Course, it's not like Nintendo plans to worry about every possible modding configuration available. Rather, they have a set piece of hardware and a set piece of software. Thus, designers know exactly what they have to code for.
Unlike Windows which you can get to install on damn near anything within reason.
I figure modders should get a second, control Wii if you will, that they can fall back on for games.
As much as I'm for tinkering, it's not like Nintendo's really promoting openess on their systems. Why should the modding community expect it? I feel the same way about the XBox and PS3 (although the PS3 not as much; Sony promoted the Linux part quite a bit).
Guess I'm just old fashioned in some ways. I like my consoles too much to tinker with em.
Fortunatly for Capitol Hill, people don't elect Congress.
They elect their Congressional representatives...who, for the most part, enjoy approval ratings of 50% or better.
Help! We're all trapped in this bloody great big nutshell!
Kinda funny when you think about it that way, I know I haven't. One would think that if Congress really did hold an approval rating under 50% the demographics would completely switch after two years.
The problem is Congress as a whole is put under that 10% approval rating. Individual representatives or senators aren't rated like that. I wonder what individual approval ratings look like...
Especially if you have any legacy Word 1.0 or 2.0 documents that can't be upgraded to the latest format for contractual reasons
.ODF, it's a published, open standard that is as trivial to write a parser for as it is to just unzip the file and look at the XML directly...
Offtopic, but I'm just too curious... Would it be possible to explain why these can't be migrated to a newer format? I'd think that'd be dangerously unwise.
I'm surprised that more people don't just use
Cause we all know how much a success that is; just look at HTML!
If they police aren't enforcing the law, and you think "they do not have the right" to use the courts to enforce the law, how do you think the law should be enforced?
Ahh, the vigilante argument. Someone resurrect the Earp brothers and Judge Roy Bean!
On a serious note, I think you should re-examine your phrasing about using the courts. The RIAA and it's parts have every right to use the court system. The US Code gives them that ability.
However, throughout this period, the RIAA have strongarmed their way through rather than properly using the legal system. If they took proper discovery measures, warrants, subpoenas, and followed the correct procedures, I'd wager there'd be much less backlash against them.
The GP points out the RIAA is using blanket lawsuits and passing off the discovery process to other organizations, most likely in the name of time and cost. It's expensive to do a proper discovery. They'd have to file for warrants, subpoenas, through the court system. They're skipping all that.
That's not how the justice system is supposed to work: the wheels should grind slow and methodically, to ensure that all steps are taken to protect the rights of both the plaintiff and the defendent. Take the SCO cases of late: they took YEARS when we all knew they'd end badly for SCO, but the reasoning is the more attention is paid to detail, the less grounds there are for appeal, and the less questionable the verdict will be.
Kick enemy in balls, he will recover. Grind enemy into powder, he will not bother you again.
I thought you got modded down because you inferred Madonna has talent.