Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 159
However it was not available for purchase for 99% of the people who wanted to watch it, so people pirated it.
Because it's a basic human right to be able to consume other people's content on your own terms.
However it was not available for purchase for 99% of the people who wanted to watch it, so people pirated it.
Because it's a basic human right to be able to consume other people's content on your own terms.
Inertial guidance is nothing new, it was developed in the 1930s, German V1 and V2 missiles used it.
V1s did not, they just had a simple gyroscope.
Which had no inertia?
It was passively interfered with by preventing its use of GPS. Is that legally considered sabotage?
My iPad displays its WiFi signal strength in kilopascals, or you can change this in the settings to display millimeters of mercury.
The attractiveness of the opposite sex greatly increases by two to four beers.
There's no hard rule about using "were" after "if". For example, it's perfectly correct to say "If I was rude to you, I apologize" since you're talking about a situation that happened in the past. However, if you know you weren't rude and you wished to make a point, you could say "If I were rude to you, I would have insulted him too". There is a difference and using only "If I was..." loses that distinction. Perhaps the subtlety is lost on those who aren't familiar with it, however.
Wikipedia actually has a pretty good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive#Summary_of_forms
I try to re purpose every machine I can. Have 1 as a linux mail server and it only has a Cyrix 333MHz CPU.
The problem with older systems is that sometimes the cost of power consumption exceeds the value provided. You might be better off consolidating the functionality of several older systems into a single low-power, more reliable modern system.
Modem handshake noise is no longer widely recognised.
*wipes tears from keyboard...*
Why was your keyboard crying?
And when you get a ticket, you can pay the fine in "cynyr dollars" which conveniently uses Monopoly money as its currency.
You've heard of the electoral collage, right?
Is that where they arrange pretty pictures of those running for office?
The grammatically correct meme is "If Taco were still around".
Having said that, I've no doubt violated Muphry's Law somewhere in this post.
That may be true, but you're changing the subject to fines which has no bearing on whether or not tracking should be implemented. He may not pay fines when pulled over by a police officer either, and that is not an argument for the elimination of police officers any more than it is an argument for the elimination of cameras. Either tracking via cameras is bad for 100% of the citizens (of which he is one) or it's not. Make that argument.
I have the same reaction when people tell me that Slashdot has "editors". Puh-leeze... they're just glorified mouse clickers.
If he's in a car, then his own camera system will be tracking his movements and he'll be subject to it as much as anyone else.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
