The strenght of a capacitor explosion wont be any bigger just because it will have a larger charge.
The explosion is not caused by its energy directly, its caused because of the expansion of its components breaking its wrap.
No matter how many KW its charged, a 12V capacitor will never give more than a 12V tension, so its current will be limited by any resistance it finds, you can touch it with your hand and it wont hurt you more than a car 12V battery.
Here in Brazil, where 90% of software is pirated, people dont buy DRMed music. I work in software development, and study in an university for a CS degree, and I never saw an ipod. MP3 players full of pirated music are quite common.
I will wait for something that plays OGG files to be sold here.
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I never said that. You certainly should defend your rights. I just said it would be too damned stupid for your country to do that.
All your hardware industry will be a big market force against this thing. If they fail, they will be restricted to your internal market, as noone that is not law-enforced (all outside USA) will buy "defective by design" hardware.
If US ever passed anything like that they would be isolated from the world in this DRM-island. That would be the end of microsoft software in the rest of the world. Perhaps the end of US lead in anything hi-tech.
You were most likely linked by some type of forum post, or any other user generated link.
It would not be practical for them to take mp3 in random ftps and reencode it. P2p is far better than doing that.
I know that several brazilian ISPs have asked for increased bandwidth from our biggest (perhaps the only) backbone and had it denied, as it was not possible.
Perhaps were the web is really like a web it will be more reliable, but here were its more like a river/fish-bones, there will be a big slow down due to people watching streams even in worktime.
Not the our actual games, as all our companies release their workers to watch it at home, or bring some TV to the work place when our team is playing. But all other related content.
Macintoshes arent very common here, but they are present. The manufacterers realy get their share here with the notebooks. The unbranded desktops are almost entire from american companies components anyway.
Before the merger of HP and Compaq, the netserver navigator, the software that comes with their 32-bit servers, was being mantained here.
The coders were treated like animals, and had to be replaced frequently, even with a higher than our local average wage. And they didnt spent too much time in selecting people, because their contract with the american HQ was paid by worked-hours, so they wanted to replace people very fast, anyone with some C experience was enough. And some of the bad code was made by the american HQ too.
So, that certainly is not the best that could be done with our workforce.
These corporations sells their products for the entire world. So there is no reason for only the americans to be the only ones with the privilege to work for them.
Of course, I believe you may have more talents, as there isnt much point in studying bleeding edge technologies if most of the work available here in the 3rd world (I live in Brazil), is database Java/VB/C# applications. Anything that is not local-law dependant is pirated.
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The strenght of a capacitor explosion wont be any bigger just because it will have a larger charge. The explosion is not caused by its energy directly, its caused because of the expansion of its components breaking its wrap. No matter how many KW its charged, a 12V capacitor will never give more than a 12V tension, so its current will be limited by any resistance it finds, you can touch it with your hand and it wont hurt you more than a car 12V battery.
Here in Brazil, where 90% of software is pirated, people dont buy DRMed music. I work in software development, and study in an university for a CS degree, and I never saw an ipod. MP3 players full of pirated music are quite common. I will wait for something that plays OGG files to be sold here.
I never said that. You certainly should defend your rights. I just said it would be too damned stupid for your country to do that. All your hardware industry will be a big market force against this thing. If they fail, they will be restricted to your internal market, as noone that is not law-enforced (all outside USA) will buy "defective by design" hardware.
If US ever passed anything like that they would be isolated from the world in this DRM-island. That would be the end of microsoft software in the rest of the world. Perhaps the end of US lead in anything hi-tech.
You were most likely linked by some type of forum post, or any other user generated link. It would not be practical for them to take mp3 in random ftps and reencode it. P2p is far better than doing that.
I know that several brazilian ISPs have asked for increased bandwidth from our biggest (perhaps the only) backbone and had it denied, as it was not possible. Perhaps were the web is really like a web it will be more reliable, but here were its more like a river/fish-bones, there will be a big slow down due to people watching streams even in worktime. Not the our actual games, as all our companies release their workers to watch it at home, or bring some TV to the work place when our team is playing. But all other related content.
Macintoshes arent very common here, but they are present. The manufacterers realy get their share here with the notebooks. The unbranded desktops are almost entire from american companies components anyway. Before the merger of HP and Compaq, the netserver navigator, the software that comes with their 32-bit servers, was being mantained here. The coders were treated like animals, and had to be replaced frequently, even with a higher than our local average wage. And they didnt spent too much time in selecting people, because their contract with the american HQ was paid by worked-hours, so they wanted to replace people very fast, anyone with some C experience was enough. And some of the bad code was made by the american HQ too. So, that certainly is not the best that could be done with our workforce.
The piracy is really a big problem here. But there is a lot of software being bought honestly. And hardware, that cannot be pirated.
These corporations sells their products for the entire world. So there is no reason for only the americans to be the only ones with the privilege to work for them. Of course, I believe you may have more talents, as there isnt much point in studying bleeding edge technologies if most of the work available here in the 3rd world (I live in Brazil), is database Java/VB/C# applications. Anything that is not local-law dependant is pirated.