Other than newsfeeds, usually there isn't anything worth watching. Sometimes local tv stations show something relevant to my interests, but that's a pretty rare occurence. My TV usage shot up when my satellite provider issued a promotion for free Discovery and related channels, but that'll soon be over.

Then he'll read the fine print above, find out who you are and also punish you.

SCIENCE!

The theoretical speed for a momentum-limited, 100m orion craft would be 3,3% of the speed of light, so... no. No it wouldn't.

Yup, the creation date was preserved when transferring from one filesystem to another (pretty nifty converter, that. Can't remember the name anymore). Modified, however, shows 12-02-1996, the day I did the transfer ;) .

04-07-1989 - mod.urodziny, my first (very, very crap, nospread ;] ) tune made with Ultimate Soundtracker on the Amiga, which I transfered a long time ago to my PC... then my next PC... and another... and so on.

Good times :) .

Remember these are just baby steps of solar powered flight. This in itself is quite an achievement, but there's still room for improvement. As solar panel technology gets better, so will the capabilities and usefulness of such projects in real life. However, i think just waiting for a better panel won't cut it - the rest can still be optimized, like internal circuitry, materials, the design and so on. That's why IMO it's important to keep making such prototypes. If (when?) we finally get better panels, we'll be all set with a proper aircraft architecture and, if we're lucky, it'll be able to sustain itself in every climate.

That said, the military will probably never release the specs to the public, so meh ;) .

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Oh wait, you're serious.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Available as a Torrent in 3... 2... 1...

> - Obliged to introduce CP filter. Filter can be expanded for other 'illegal' websites.

So THAT's why I can't find anything about Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the internet!

It's simple - I don't want to penalize the maker since he might stop making more products that I enjoy, instead catering to a less vocal consumer :) . And yes, if the product in question is art, then I have no other choice than to simply not enjoy it. With software you can almost always say "Go get [some other freeware, opensource or Free alternative]", but art does not work that way - you can't really make an alternative to, say, Futurama, Watchmen, Duke Nukem 3D or Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - you can make art similar in concept or execution, but all of the characters, settings, plots, visuals and audio are substituted into something else that might not pander to my personal tastes. While art is just another commodity, and in the end I could go by without it, it would definitely make my life that much more empty. Art inspires, shapes character and belief, it is as close to a personification of culture as you can get. There is a lot of it around for free, sure, but some works, even if crippled with DRM, deserve to be seen - they're just that good.

(I almost Morbo'd that one sentence.)

I believe works of art are unique in themselves. There is no known case in history of two different artists creating an identical, or at least very similar piece of work without knowledge of the other attempt. This is why I want to support artists whose work I enjoy, because nobody else would be able to give me those exact same experiences. If I refused to try their offerings based on some philosophical grudge, those works would be forever lost to me. Some of the best pieces of art that influenced and continue to influence me were locked down by either abusive copyright law or nasty DRM, so I might even go as far as to say I would be a totally different person today if I hadn't experienced them.

To you and whoever modded op insightful: unicode needs some sort of character that marks jokes, like ENDOFJOKE or something. Also, I wonder if that algorithm from a newsstory couple of days ago that was supposed to detect sarcasm could be adapted here?

Ancient art represents ancient reality, news at 11!

True, but since I already have a pirated copy, I can just shelf the original into my hall of fame and keep using the downloaded media. I'm not a fan of DRM, but I also don't want to penalize the creators for choosing/being forced to choose a half-assed protection scheme. By buying their products, I show them that I like what they've done and hope they'll keep doing good stuff in the future... though +1 sale on the cash-o-meters of big publishers is hardly even a blip (as proven by, for example, Beyond Good & Evil), so I might as well not bother ;) .

Pah! Finally, those uncultured stem cells will learn the finer arts of high society!