Yeah, but the new addition of dry erase markers must modulate voltage levels into something useful, somehow... Analog electronics are at work somewhere in this high-tech device!
Sharp rocks and powerful scorpions are under the feet? Call me old fashioned (and it won't be the first time) but I'll be carried around on my royal litter, thank you.
I've lived in the Albuquerque area my whole life, and most buildings aren't empty or run down. I'd imagine that run-down sections of the state are more visible due to the fact that you can see for miles around driving down the highway. There's also quite an extreme difference between some of the affluence in the urban areas and the poverty in the reservations (New Mexico has a lot of reservations). The environment out here is delicate and the economic cycle is expected; aquifers dry up, ore is harder to get to, local farming is as hard as it has ever been up against corporate farming. Other than that, I don't know how others perceive us.
We're a part of the United States and most of us do speak English! [/humor]
If you're over 300 kilometers away from the server, a one-way transaction will take more than 1 millisecond at the speed of light anyway. If millisecond gaps were that important, you'd hear about global disparities directly related to distances from the stock exchange servers.
Replying to myself here. I forgot to add that the FCC also forbids the use of amateur radio for commercial purposes. Stick with the existing infrastructure for your web business. If you need daily connectivity, forget remote areas. Satellite internet is the only thing I can think of.
If speed and latency aren't priorities and you can deal with unencrypted transmission, I'd recommend getting an amateur radio license and operating a packet radio.
The reason science is largely unpopular in this country is because of a perceived elitism in the "process" of science. I'm not talking about the scientific method, I'm talking about peer review, university grants, and the esoteric publishing/journaling system that goes on with such a process. Language in scientific literature is purposefully obscure, not because of necessarily technical language, but because different scientific fields try to carve different niches and talk in their own languages to justify their own profession. "Science should be for scientists" or "physics should be for physicists", etc. Science should be for everybody, and the current system under which it operates does not allow that.
the purpose of DRM is entirely admirable: to stop thieves and free riders and to help creators actually get paid for their work.
What have the Slashdot editors been smoking? I could have sworn its sole purpose was to maximize the profits of the distribution middlemen by forcing people to pay for the same thing over and over again. Monopolizing the market is the only way to hold on to an otherwise utterly unenforceable practice. That, or a corporatist police force that arrests "pirates" because of an unfavorable drop in media profits...
I'm a supporter of widespread nuclear power. However, the industry hasn't solved two major issues: -Hazards of mining the fuel -Political viability of fast breeder reactors
If we could get robots to mine the fuel, great. Right now, mining heavy, radioactive material is a hazardous occupation with long-term health effects. Fast breeder reactors are the way to minimize nuclear waste to easily manageable levels. It is also an efficient generator of weapons-grade fissile material. The international community has proliferation concerns associated with this.
I hope to see these issues addressed in the future for ushering in widespread nuclear power along with solar, wind, and geothermal energy.
C'mon, analog radio will follow analog TV within the next few years, with or without an FCC mandate (market forces alone will do the trick, no doubt at all).
I sure hope not. One of the last broadcast media that I can actually build a receiver to listen to? If we have to buy a computer from BIG_IC_MANUFACTURER_X just to listen to a radio broadcast, it will almost certainly be non-serviceable and we'll just throw it away and get a new one when it stops working. Too bad for your "market forces" that people still depend on emergency broadcasts on analog radio. Why force people to be consumers by forcing them to use non-serviceable crap?
Not to mention the opposite side::cough::shills::cough:: using the Nirvana fallacy: If solar and wind energy can only meet (numbers out of nowhere for the sake of presentation) 80-90% of the electricity grid's needs, all solar and wind projects should be scrapped and we should continue to rely on coal. Right? I never understood why otherwise reasonable people preface their posts by saying they "aren't liberals" whenever this topic comes up, but this is Slashdot. I must be new here.
Less government certainly exacerbates the problem. The answer would depend on your political view. More of the status-quo government with deep private financial connections and an oppressive world military? Or a reformed government with more direct citizen action and more severe representative accountability to their constituents? The people who want more government regulation want more of a public say, since the public almost always gets saddled with the losses of financial irresponsibility.
Nobody likes the current corporatist system, except the few who benefit.
We still have 2D interfaces and 2D display outputs. 3D games are enormously more complex to make than 2D games. Until these things change, 2D games (in some form or another) aren't going anywhere.
*If* this is the only way to get data from iTunes, then spoofing the model and vendor should be like the Game Boy requesting an image of the Nintendo logo at bootup. There was a court ruling back in the 90s (Sega vs Galoob, I think) that said the image was treated as a password to go through the BIOS bootup, therefore, anybody could put it in their games. This is probably a completely different ball game, though.
The weapon focuses non-lethal millimeter-wave radiation onto humans, raising their skin surface temperature to an uncomfortable 130 F. The goal is to make the targets drop any weapons and flee the scene.
That is the hardest sentence in the world to read. apt-get vaclib? Whales? Autism generation? Your non-sequitor was drowned out by my overactive imagination, you insensitive clod!
Oh, and a sentence of links will never be browsed. Ever. Except by weird things like the Fasterfox plugin.
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Yeah, but the new addition of dry erase markers must modulate voltage levels into something useful, somehow...
Analog electronics are at work somewhere in this high-tech device!
Sharp rocks and powerful scorpions are under the feet? Call me old fashioned (and it won't be the first time) but I'll be carried around on my royal litter, thank you.
So that it doesn't set your face on fire?
Maybe the heat increase wouldn't be quite that extreme, but it would probably be more heat than the casing or other components are designed to handle.
I've lived in the Albuquerque area my whole life, and most buildings aren't empty or run down. I'd imagine that run-down sections of the state are more visible due to the fact that you can see for miles around driving down the highway. There's also quite an extreme difference between some of the affluence in the urban areas and the poverty in the reservations (New Mexico has a lot of reservations). The environment out here is delicate and the economic cycle is expected; aquifers dry up, ore is harder to get to, local farming is as hard as it has ever been up against corporate farming. Other than that, I don't know how others perceive us.
We're a part of the United States and most of us do speak English! [/humor]
If you're over 300 kilometers away from the server, a one-way transaction will take more than 1 millisecond at the speed of light anyway. If millisecond gaps were that important, you'd hear about global disparities directly related to distances from the stock exchange servers.
Cosmic rays damaging electronic equipment? I've been using this computer for years and my RAM is doing just fi
Replying to myself here. I forgot to add that the FCC also forbids the use of amateur radio for commercial purposes. Stick with the existing infrastructure for your web business. If you need daily connectivity, forget remote areas. Satellite internet is the only thing I can think of.
If speed and latency aren't priorities and you can deal with unencrypted transmission, I'd recommend getting an amateur radio license and operating a packet radio.
Science should be for scientists and academia ...
The reason science is largely unpopular in this country is because of a perceived elitism in the "process" of science. I'm not talking about the scientific method, I'm talking about peer review, university grants, and the esoteric publishing/journaling system that goes on with such a process. Language in scientific literature is purposefully obscure, not because of necessarily technical language, but because different scientific fields try to carve different niches and talk in their own languages to justify their own profession. "Science should be for scientists" or "physics should be for physicists", etc. Science should be for everybody, and the current system under which it operates does not allow that.
the purpose of DRM is entirely admirable: to stop thieves and free riders and to help creators actually get paid for their work.
What have the Slashdot editors been smoking? I could have sworn its sole purpose was to maximize the profits of the distribution middlemen by forcing people to pay for the same thing over and over again. Monopolizing the market is the only way to hold on to an otherwise utterly unenforceable practice. That, or a corporatist police force that arrests "pirates" because of an unfavorable drop in media profits...
I'm a supporter of widespread nuclear power. However, the industry hasn't solved two major issues:
-Hazards of mining the fuel
-Political viability of fast breeder reactors
If we could get robots to mine the fuel, great. Right now, mining heavy, radioactive material is a hazardous occupation with long-term health effects.
Fast breeder reactors are the way to minimize nuclear waste to easily manageable levels. It is also an efficient generator of weapons-grade fissile material. The international community has proliferation concerns associated with this.
I hope to see these issues addressed in the future for ushering in widespread nuclear power along with solar, wind, and geothermal energy.
C'mon, analog radio will follow analog TV within the next few years, with or without an FCC mandate (market forces alone will do the trick, no doubt at all).
I sure hope not. One of the last broadcast media that I can actually build a receiver to listen to? If we have to buy a computer from BIG_IC_MANUFACTURER_X just to listen to a radio broadcast, it will almost certainly be non-serviceable and we'll just throw it away and get a new one when it stops working. Too bad for your "market forces" that people still depend on emergency broadcasts on analog radio. Why force people to be consumers by forcing them to use non-serviceable crap?
Not to mention the opposite side ::cough::shills::cough:: using the Nirvana fallacy:
If solar and wind energy can only meet (numbers out of nowhere for the sake of presentation) 80-90% of the electricity grid's needs, all solar and wind projects should be scrapped and we should continue to rely on coal. Right?
I never understood why otherwise reasonable people preface their posts by saying they "aren't liberals" whenever this topic comes up, but this is Slashdot. I must be new here.
Less government certainly exacerbates the problem. The answer would depend on your political view. More of the status-quo government with deep private financial connections and an oppressive world military? Or a reformed government with more direct citizen action and more severe representative accountability to their constituents? The people who want more government regulation want more of a public say, since the public almost always gets saddled with the losses of financial irresponsibility.
Nobody likes the current corporatist system, except the few who benefit.
Bah, this existed back in 1994. Problem is, it was mostly useless because you couldn't combine it with a Plasma Beam.
Useless, I say!
If they can't pass a double blind test, then the affliction doesn't exist.
Do not look into MASER with remaining eye?
We still have 2D interfaces and 2D display outputs. 3D games are enormously more complex to make than 2D games. Until these things change, 2D games (in some form or another) aren't going anywhere.
If I had a social engineering car, I'd be running over everybody...
Fixed the GP's bad analogy for you.
*If* this is the only way to get data from iTunes, then spoofing the model and vendor should be like the Game Boy requesting an image of the Nintendo logo at bootup. There was a court ruling back in the 90s (Sega vs Galoob, I think) that said the image was treated as a password to go through the BIOS bootup, therefore, anybody could put it in their games. This is probably a completely different ball game, though.
plug your house wiring into the cell phone.
Is there supposed to be smoke and flames billowing out of the display?
Millimeter-wavelength imaging, eh?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/25/1330256
The weapon focuses non-lethal millimeter-wave radiation onto humans, raising their skin surface temperature to an uncomfortable 130 F. The goal is to make the targets drop any weapons and flee the scene.
Just tweak the tuning knob a little bit...
That is the hardest sentence in the world to read. apt-get vaclib? Whales? Autism generation? Your non-sequitor was drowned out by my overactive imagination, you insensitive clod!
Oh, and a sentence of links will never be browsed. Ever. Except by weird things like the Fasterfox plugin.
To a monopoly, IPv4 is a better business case. The artificial scarcity of less than 2^32 addresses will keep the cash rolling in.
it will stand over 36 fe*END OF CARRIER*
Little did Timothy know the true purpose of the rocket and its payload. ::evil laughter in the distance::
But in all likelyhood, our population is going to reduce drasticaly. We can try to manage that, and ease the transition ...
This is Slashdot. We're kinda the vanguard of zero-offspring population control. We are the future.