It may be in the poor country's interest to ignore IP laws to save lives now, but that doesn't make the GP wrong. The cost of depriving pharmaceutical companies of profits -today- may be fewer improved drugs -tomorrow-.
Sure you can treat HIV/AIDS with drug cocktails now, but you can't -cure- it. And without lots more research -- paid for by those huge profits -- perhaps we'll never see a cure.
According to the Apple website, it's $30 ONLY if you already have Leopard (10.5). Otherwise you have to buy the snow Leopard "Box Set" for $170.
It's only $30 if she's already running Leopard (10.5). If she's on Tiger (10.4), it's no longer considered an upgrade and will cost $170.
The UK stand alone in world with its absurd ban on driving lessons on motorways.
No, it has Ireland for company (as in so many things). Or it did when I was learning to drive, anyway.
Also, a real second-declension neuter noun in Latin would use a singular verb, even when it is plural. So applying Latin-like rules to English, "data is" is still correct.
Now the iPod is like Kleenex or Hoover - the generic name for all players.
Not yet with people I talk to (in the Washington DC metro area). For them iPod is still very specifically an Apple device. I hear "MP3 player" much more often when people aren't actually talking about the Apple product.
Only a very small sample, obviously.
Yes, but there's more to violence than guns. Rocks, baseball bats, fists, boots
(and a small percentage of 7-year-olds do seem to be able to get at their parents' guns)
... and, um, violence?
Just wanted to point out that the pulsar timing array approach will cover a completely different frequency range (~ 10^-9 to 10^-7 Hz) to existing ground-based detectors (LIGO, Virgo and friends), which operate in the 10^1 to 10^4 Hz range. In between are projects like LISA (http://lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/).
The different frequency ranges mean different astrophysical sources of gravitational waves; generally speaking, the more massive the system, the lower the GW frequency. LISA, for instance, would see the radiation produced by the supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies, while the other detectors would be targetting much smaller systems.
I disagree, unless "segway" means anything apart from the Jeff Bezos creation.
"Segue" is pronounced "segway", and is almost certainly what the product name was evoking.
... unless the boy as doing the smiting.
I dunno
At what speed do they need to spin in order for them not to collapse?
All current research seems to indicate that eventually -all- orbiting BHs will merge eventually, regardless of spin. When the holes are large and aligned with the orbital angular momentum, it will -delay- merger: the system has to radiate more angular momentum before it can collapse.
One of the first numerical relativity papers to demonstrate this effect can be found here: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0604012
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
