S3 is still around, they still make video card, although they're only real use is in quiet computer because the cards are either passive or have only a small fan.
The only reason I know this is because they sponsor a LAN party I go to. (Not that I'd ever actually buy their product)
If anyone is getting ripped by this, it's the independent fuel stations. There a fuel truck that has been driving for days or dipped out of above-ground storage might indeed be warmer.
Not exactly, the amount that is sold is measured at the filling station, not at the delivery station. So it depends on the conditions of the filling station, if that fuel is cold or not, I have no idea, it probably depends on the individual station.
Finally, the station sells gas by the gallon not by the BTU. you are still getting a gallon. And this ends the argument right there, you buy a gallon of gas, you get a gallon of gas. There are no clauses saying what temperature that has to be at, nor is it sold by the BTU. If they change that, then the whole game changes and actually shows the energy density of what you're buying, which will be important later as we work with alternative fuels. Hydrogen, Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene, Propane, BioDiesel, vegtable oil, whatever you run your car on, we should compare fuel prices by BTU, and not by volume.
So why is it that telling a company about a security flaw is a quasi-illegal thing to do? If the company has no proof that you ever used it maliciously, then there is no reason that you shouldn't be able to report security flaws and have like a name/handle put onto a page of contributors. Demanding money for telling them about the flaw is extortion, unless they asked you to do it / offered the reward themselves.
Of course offering money for finding exploits might be a bad idea, it might entice people to look for exploits, find a really good one, use it, and never collect the reward, or wait until they're done with it to collect the reward.
Although I don't understand what the problem is with "illegal means" do you think someone who intends to use a security flaw really cares if the means they use are illegal or not?
"minimizing radio interference and even the fabled electronics-destroying electromagnetic pulse generated by a nuclear blast."
yeah, but what about the walls? will the walls block it? if not then this stuff is not useless, but not as effective as one would imagine. not to mention that if a nuke went off I think we would have more problems than some EM pulse coming in through the windows...
Just make your house into one big Faraday cage, but what about the chimneys?
what I'm trying (and probably saying) is that you plug a hole, the waves will go through another. (not saying that we shouldn't plug them, just that we can't really stop until it is all sealed, in which case you live in a bubble.)
agreed (on the first sentence, I really know nothing about the rest)
The old way of doing this was to have a bunch of military analysts, stick them in a room for a while and see the result. This new way may or may not be more accurate, but it will be more complicated, probably quicker, and won't tell you what you want to hear (lie).
kinda poking a hole in this summary, we already know how long a human can survive without water or food. Chances are that this will instead tell us how long a population will go with limited water, and how that population will react to it (violence, benevolence, ect)
This might be a bad idea actually, for one it might tickle (no idea if it will). Also I know that contractors (construction workers) who use hammers can slowly damage their arms from the vibrations caused by the striking of the hammer. The article does mention that bone for transferring sound has been used in hearing aids, but that is not a structural bone, and considering the use that these might get, it might cause health problems. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not implanting anything next to a bone unless I'm absolutely sure it won't backfire. (or malfunction, imagine trying to install a patch or if it glitches out and starts transmitting 1's constantly... or heaven forbid it gets a virus...)
This is not to replace real training at all, I totally agree that this type of training can and never will be able to (in the foreseeable future) match a real training simulator. This is more of management type training, where a firefighter learns how to make decisions with disaster type situations.
The real advantage of this system of the previous version is it no longer ties up an entire fire team in order to run the simulation, it comes up with truly random situations (a person is more likely to train people about things they experience all the time, well you also need to be able to meet unexpected situations), and it is easier to run. The changed graphics is really just a different UI, it is not nearly good enough to trick someone in to thinking it is the real thing, but as long as you're making the same type of decisions under some pressure, the graphics do not matter. The increased graphics might make it easier to relate to a real situation. An example being a red box is a firetruck vs a more complete model, it just helps with the visualizations.
Perhaps the "free" part of it is to blame, maybe its more that people that make good videos don't like Heinz enough for make an ad for them? I mean would you really spend your free time making a video for a ketchup company?
Re:Cue the "hydrogen is not a power source" chorus
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You're right, it is not a power source. Nothing is a power source if we were to take it to a certain degree, oil based products got their energy from the sun, so does ethanol, and this new system using starch.(the sun gets its energy from the fusion, so I guess you could say that is a power source, but that gets its power from the mass, which gets its power from... well... magic!)
But the real important thing is turning it into a form of energy that we can use. We cannot use the sun's energy directly, we instead use plants (corn/sugar for ethanol, or long dead plants for oil) that changes it into chemical energy that we change into a different chemical energy that is then used for kinetic/thermal energy to drive our cars, which then goes entirely to thermal in the form of friction.
Enough with being pedantic and onto the being practical.
Oil is a power source in the sense that it is readily available stored energy. The difference between it and hydrogen is that hydrogen manufactured through electrolysis is manufactured at a 1:1 ratio of energy put in verses energy removed (under perfect conditions). This starch process allows hydrogen to be produced at a rate much closer to a perfect 0:1 (from our point of view, yes I know energy cannot be created) which is similar to oil.
The question now is, are there enough of these enzymes to go around? Does processing the starch via enzymes leave a byproduct which ends up in our cars? will people be willing to modify their cars to run on hydrogen (a fairly simple process, but try convincing someone of that)? will there be enough starch to go around? In other words, yes it works out chemically, but does it work out practically?
Even worse, this article doesn't mention if the retroactive rates still apply to the original date, making the delay pointless. So who knows, the delay may be a trick.
and even better than that, algae can produce 15,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre. Plus algae grows all year long, verses corn's seasons, where you can expect price hikes when corn is out of season.
The problem is less that there is no search function (with digital data all you're doing is matching one pattern to another), the problem is more that you don't know exactly what you are searching for! My guess is that they are looking for anomalies within the data that would indicate the presence of one of these subatomic particles. My guess furthermore is that once they get enough data analyzed they will be able to form a model to base a search function around. That or the summary lies (wouldn't be the first time) and in fact they know exactly what they are searching for, and they have a search function, but of course someone has to look at the output of those functions to determine what impact they have on their model/ideas.
Thats the decent part of the speech. The other parts of the speech are complete nonsense, like his calling an email an internet, and was slow because the tubes were clogged with video + media.
What I really want to see is photos taken of that same group of object when the digital camera were set up correctly and used by an actual photographer(even a hobbyist would probably have enough know-how to operate one of those cameras much better for those conditions than the default settings).
Not to mention a good quality scan of a film camera to try and determine what the real colors and details of the items are.
Not exactly, you take the cocoa liquor (obtained by fermenting the beans) and either press them or use the Broma process to separate out the butter and the powder. The FDA change would allow the substitution of vegetable oil for the cocoa butter which is added to the liquor (same stuff obtained from the beans) and therefore increases the amount of cocoa butter vs the amount of cocoa powder in the liquor.
The change would not be as significant as removing the cocoa liquor which is what makes chocolate... chocolate. The extra butter allows the chocolate to harden and become a solid, without it the chocolate is stuck melted.
milk chocolate would be further affected by the change with the whey protein vs the traditional milk. I don't really know what affects this would have on the chocolate, but I cannot imagine that it is good.
As for the vegetable oil change, I would not know how this would change the chocolate, but it is probably not very good either.
(for those interested, the Broma process is pretty much where they hang the ground beans from the ceiling in a warm room, the butter drips off the beans, it yields more butter than pressing)
Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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*sigh* yes the rules are a bit ridiculous sometimes, but thats the problem with having thousands upon thousands upon thousands of miles of roads in the US. Do you really expect someone to go out to each road, and try and determine the fastest allowable speed? It is a lot easier (cheaper) just to say, every one of these roads has X for a speed limit.
As for the cops hiding, the rationale there if they don't hide, then all a person has to do is look around, don't see any cops? well then it is ok to speed, right? well not if they're in fact hiding!
As for your robbing a bank thing, that would be like telling someone who has intent and is likely to rob a bank that the cops are watching this bank as part of an operation to catch that person.
""They don't arrest you for saying to someone, "don't rob a bank, the police will get you!" so why should saying "don't drive fast, you'll get a ticket" be any different?""
There is no differences between those two, however the differences are instead between telling someone "Don't drive fast ahead, they're watching there!"(implying that it is ok to speed when the cops are not watching) and "don't rob a bank, the police will get you!"
The likely rationale behind the drug dog not being an unreasonable search is that the dog sniffs the air around your car, which is not your property. That and you cannot assume that drug dogs will always indicate a positive.
anytime you purchase a dvd they are giving you the dvd - in exchange for money not exactly, thats what blank DVD's are, when you purchase a DVD with content on it you are buying the physical media and the rights to view it.
when you buy anything in an electronic format (music, game, software, book, ect...) you are really just buying the license to view and use it, where the data itself comes from is irrelevant.
If you buy an album, then go home and download it, you are not doing anything morally wrong (I would say legally but I really have no clue if it is legal or not in the US)
yeah, but this wasn't made to run OSX, it was made to run whatever it came with, and nothing else. Since it is a TV(or at least streams video) then it was made to run the software it came with, which is most likely not OSX.
My only analogy would be installing Linux on your cable box or dvr...
How about this? if you don't like it, don't use it! SIMPLE AS THAT. unlike other OS's, nobody is going to force you to use Linux.
let me guess your age... 13 at max. If you're going to act like an asshole, at least think of something original and get yourself a real ID. At least then I would know who to add to my list of people to ignore.
Why isn't there something lower than -1, offtopic? There should be a -3, offtopic, flamebait, troll.
If you're the parent poster, or you have ever posted something like that, then you computer should fry itself. You do not deserve it. Your very presence should make computers homicidal(towards you) or suicidal.
I agree(in a way)
The only true solution to illegal aliens from central America sneaking into US is to make the central Americas better, so that they do not need to illegally immigrate.
if you deport them they will come back.
if you put up a wall then its bad PR
if you go on a giant manhunt to get rid of every illegal alien and every person that helps or hires them then you are just asking for trouble, like witch hunt type thing.
there are 2 good solutions (both needing to be implemented at the same time) increase the number of visas so that people will actually try to get one, rather than just ignoring it, and making it so that they have less of a reason to immigrate.
Japan, china and western Europe were annihilated during ww2, and yet with American help (mostly loans) they came back to be major powers, so why cant we fix Central America?
America has always been the refuge for people needing relief from economic or political conditions. All the way back to the colonies, and more importantly the Irish and German immigrations in the 1800's and the immigrations from eastern Europe past the 1850's.
Anyone can send a DMCA request and chances are the company will follow it because it removes their liability. On the other hand you can get counter claimed, and if they won that then they could put it back up.
DMCA requests are also a written oath. If you do not own the copyright and you say you do by filing a DMCA request, you are committing perjury. which is exactly what is going on here.
but who would pay for our group of lawyers? Thats what it boils down to. The RIAA doesn't go after people who can pay a lawyer, they go after people who can't.
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S3 is still around, they still make video card, although they're only real use is in quiet computer because the cards are either passive or have only a small fan. The only reason I know this is because they sponsor a LAN party I go to. (Not that I'd ever actually buy their product)
Not exactly, the amount that is sold is measured at the filling station, not at the delivery station. So it depends on the conditions of the filling station, if that fuel is cold or not, I have no idea, it probably depends on the individual station. Finally, the station sells gas by the gallon not by the BTU. you are still getting a gallon.
And this ends the argument right there, you buy a gallon of gas, you get a gallon of gas. There are no clauses saying what temperature that has to be at, nor is it sold by the BTU. If they change that, then the whole game changes and actually shows the energy density of what you're buying, which will be important later as we work with alternative fuels. Hydrogen, Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene, Propane, BioDiesel, vegtable oil, whatever you run your car on, we should compare fuel prices by BTU, and not by volume.
So why is it that telling a company about a security flaw is a quasi-illegal thing to do? If the company has no proof that you ever used it maliciously, then there is no reason that you shouldn't be able to report security flaws and have like a name/handle put onto a page of contributors. Demanding money for telling them about the flaw is extortion, unless they asked you to do it / offered the reward themselves.
Of course offering money for finding exploits might be a bad idea, it might entice people to look for exploits, find a really good one, use it, and never collect the reward, or wait until they're done with it to collect the reward.
Although I don't understand what the problem is with "illegal means" do you think someone who intends to use a security flaw really cares if the means they use are illegal or not?
"minimizing radio interference and even the fabled electronics-destroying electromagnetic pulse generated by a nuclear blast."
yeah, but what about the walls? will the walls block it? if not then this stuff is not useless, but not as effective as one would imagine. not to mention that if a nuke went off I think we would have more problems than some EM pulse coming in through the windows...
Just make your house into one big Faraday cage, but what about the chimneys?
what I'm trying (and probably saying) is that you plug a hole, the waves will go through another. (not saying that we shouldn't plug them, just that we can't really stop until it is all sealed, in which case you live in a bubble.)
agreed (on the first sentence, I really know nothing about the rest)
The old way of doing this was to have a bunch of military analysts, stick them in a room for a while and see the result. This new way may or may not be more accurate, but it will be more complicated, probably quicker, and won't tell you what you want to hear (lie).
kinda poking a hole in this summary, we already know how long a human can survive without water or food. Chances are that this will instead tell us how long a population will go with limited water, and how that population will react to it (violence, benevolence, ect)
If this is modded 3, informative... I'm afraid... Do people really believe this to be true?!
This might be a bad idea actually, for one it might tickle (no idea if it will). Also I know that contractors (construction workers) who use hammers can slowly damage their arms from the vibrations caused by the striking of the hammer.
The article does mention that bone for transferring sound has been used in hearing aids, but that is not a structural bone, and considering the use that these might get, it might cause health problems. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not implanting anything next to a bone unless I'm absolutely sure it won't backfire. (or malfunction, imagine trying to install a patch or if it glitches out and starts transmitting 1's constantly... or heaven forbid it gets a virus...)
This is not to replace real training at all, I totally agree that this type of training can and never will be able to (in the foreseeable future) match a real training simulator. This is more of management type training, where a firefighter learns how to make decisions with disaster type situations.
The real advantage of this system of the previous version is it no longer ties up an entire fire team in order to run the simulation, it comes up with truly random situations (a person is more likely to train people about things they experience all the time, well you also need to be able to meet unexpected situations), and it is easier to run. The changed graphics is really just a different UI, it is not nearly good enough to trick someone in to thinking it is the real thing, but as long as you're making the same type of decisions under some pressure, the graphics do not matter. The increased graphics might make it easier to relate to a real situation. An example being a red box is a firetruck vs a more complete model, it just helps with the visualizations.
Perhaps the "free" part of it is to blame, maybe its more that people that make good videos don't like Heinz enough for make an ad for them?
I mean would you really spend your free time making a video for a ketchup company?
You're right, it is not a power source. Nothing is a power source if we were to take it to a certain degree, oil based products got their energy from the sun, so does ethanol, and this new system using starch.(the sun gets its energy from the fusion, so I guess you could say that is a power source, but that gets its power from the mass, which gets its power from... well... magic!)
But the real important thing is turning it into a form of energy that we can use. We cannot use the sun's energy directly, we instead use plants (corn/sugar for ethanol, or long dead plants for oil) that changes it into chemical energy that we change into a different chemical energy that is then used for kinetic/thermal energy to drive our cars, which then goes entirely to thermal in the form of friction.
Enough with being pedantic and onto the being practical.
Oil is a power source in the sense that it is readily available stored energy. The difference between it and hydrogen is that hydrogen manufactured through electrolysis is manufactured at a 1:1 ratio of energy put in verses energy removed (under perfect conditions). This starch process allows hydrogen to be produced at a rate much closer to a perfect 0:1 (from our point of view, yes I know energy cannot be created) which is similar to oil.
The question now is, are there enough of these enzymes to go around? Does processing the starch via enzymes leave a byproduct which ends up in our cars? will people be willing to modify their cars to run on hydrogen (a fairly simple process, but try convincing someone of that)? will there be enough starch to go around? In other words, yes it works out chemically, but does it work out practically?
Even worse, this article doesn't mention if the retroactive rates still apply to the original date, making the delay pointless. So who knows, the delay may be a trick.
and even better than that, algae can produce 15,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre. Plus algae grows all year long, verses corn's seasons, where you can expect price hikes when corn is out of season.
The problem is less that there is no search function (with digital data all you're doing is matching one pattern to another), the problem is more that you don't know exactly what you are searching for!
My guess is that they are looking for anomalies within the data that would indicate the presence of one of these subatomic particles. My guess furthermore is that once they get enough data analyzed they will be able to form a model to base a search function around.
That or the summary lies (wouldn't be the first time) and in fact they know exactly what they are searching for, and they have a search function, but of course someone has to look at the output of those functions to determine what impact they have on their model/ideas.
Thats the decent part of the speech. The other parts of the speech are complete nonsense, like his calling an email an internet, and was slow because the tubes were clogged with video + media.
What I really want to see is photos taken of that same group of object when the digital camera were set up correctly and used by an actual photographer(even a hobbyist would probably have enough know-how to operate one of those cameras much better for those conditions than the default settings). Not to mention a good quality scan of a film camera to try and determine what the real colors and details of the items are.
Not exactly, you take the cocoa liquor (obtained by fermenting the beans) and either press them or use the Broma process to separate out the butter and the powder. The FDA change would allow the substitution of vegetable oil for the cocoa butter which is added to the liquor (same stuff obtained from the beans) and therefore increases the amount of cocoa butter vs the amount of cocoa powder in the liquor.
The change would not be as significant as removing the cocoa liquor which is what makes chocolate... chocolate. The extra butter allows the chocolate to harden and become a solid, without it the chocolate is stuck melted.
milk chocolate would be further affected by the change with the whey protein vs the traditional milk. I don't really know what affects this would have on the chocolate, but I cannot imagine that it is good.
As for the vegetable oil change, I would not know how this would change the chocolate, but it is probably not very good either.
(for those interested, the Broma process is pretty much where they hang the ground beans from the ceiling in a warm room, the butter drips off the beans, it yields more butter than pressing)
*sigh* yes the rules are a bit ridiculous sometimes, but thats the problem with having thousands upon thousands upon thousands of miles of roads in the US. Do you really expect someone to go out to each road, and try and determine the fastest allowable speed? It is a lot easier (cheaper) just to say, every one of these roads has X for a speed limit.
As for the cops hiding, the rationale there if they don't hide, then all a person has to do is look around, don't see any cops? well then it is ok to speed, right? well not if they're in fact hiding!
As for your robbing a bank thing, that would be like telling someone who has intent and is likely to rob a bank that the cops are watching this bank as part of an operation to catch that person.
""They don't arrest you for saying to someone, "don't rob a bank, the police will get you!" so why should saying "don't drive fast, you'll get a ticket" be any different?""
There is no differences between those two, however the differences are instead between telling someone "Don't drive fast ahead, they're watching there!"(implying that it is ok to speed when the cops are not watching) and "don't rob a bank, the police will get you!"
The likely rationale behind the drug dog not being an unreasonable search is that the dog sniffs the air around your car, which is not your property. That and you cannot assume that drug dogs will always indicate a positive.
not exactly, thats what blank DVD's are, when you purchase a DVD with content on it you are buying the physical media and the rights to view it.
when you buy anything in an electronic format (music, game, software, book, ect...) you are really just buying the license to view and use it, where the data itself comes from is irrelevant.
If you buy an album, then go home and download it, you are not doing anything morally wrong (I would say legally but I really have no clue if it is legal or not in the US)
yeah, but this wasn't made to run OSX, it was made to run whatever it came with, and nothing else. Since it is a TV(or at least streams video) then it was made to run the software it came with, which is most likely not OSX. My only analogy would be installing Linux on your cable box or dvr...
How about this? if you don't like it, don't use it! SIMPLE AS THAT. unlike other OS's, nobody is going to force you to use Linux.
let me guess your age... 13 at max. If you're going to act like an asshole, at least think of something original and get yourself a real ID. At least then I would know who to add to my list of people to ignore.
Why isn't there something lower than -1, offtopic? There should be a -3, offtopic, flamebait, troll.
If you're the parent poster, or you have ever posted something like that, then you computer should fry itself. You do not deserve it. Your very presence should make computers homicidal(towards you) or suicidal.
I agree(in a way)
The only true solution to illegal aliens from central America sneaking into US is to make the central Americas better, so that they do not need to illegally immigrate.
if you deport them they will come back.
if you put up a wall then its bad PR
if you go on a giant manhunt to get rid of every illegal alien and every person that helps or hires them then you are just asking for trouble, like witch hunt type thing.
there are 2 good solutions (both needing to be implemented at the same time) increase the number of visas so that people will actually try to get one, rather than just ignoring it, and making it so that they have less of a reason to immigrate.
Japan, china and western Europe were annihilated during ww2, and yet with American help (mostly loans) they came back to be major powers, so why cant we fix Central America?
America has always been the refuge for people needing relief from economic or political conditions. All the way back to the colonies, and more importantly the Irish and German immigrations in the 1800's and the immigrations from eastern Europe past the 1850's.
Anyone can send a DMCA request and chances are the company will follow it because it removes their liability. On the other hand you can get counter claimed, and if they won that then they could put it back up. DMCA requests are also a written oath. If you do not own the copyright and you say you do by filing a DMCA request, you are committing perjury. which is exactly what is going on here.
but who would pay for our group of lawyers? Thats what it boils down to. The RIAA doesn't go after people who can pay a lawyer, they go after people who can't.