Well you know what the solution to that is?
Do not let the end-user actually play the music at all! No analogue output, no holes, no problem. Unhappy customers, but hey... we've got their money!
Please send cheques to DRM Enterprises PO Box: BLLSHIT.
Even though this research may not do me any good personally if I were in a panicking crowd situation... I'm glad it's being done. I am definitely fearful of being in large frenzied crowds. Perhaps it's being fueled by certain apocalyptic movies like 28 Days Later, I am Legend, or War of the Worlds. The image of thousands of other people with their own agenda to survive jam packed beside me is a horrible, horrible thing.
Why does not make a distinction between a profit or non-profit. Otherwise non-profits would be renamed "do-gooders" and profits would be named "heartless-SOBs".
It has to do with their finances (their how): a non-profit balances income with expenses the ultimatum for a for-profit is to maximize income and lower expenses.
As you said, this a for-profit poaching on a non-profits territory. Quite ugly, but made even worse by the fact that Intel was in bed with OLPC. Where does personal ego fit into the mix?
I've done some reading on it, and I don't think that's true. I have heard the lasers are most costly for BluRay, but it yields higher data storage. Where do you get consumer unfriendly from?
Anyone notice the appropriately placed ad on/. right below the article?
As a consumer who hasn't adopted high definition yet I'm glad someone is winning the race!
Recently got Crysis for Jesusmas and I am thoroughly enjoying playing through it. I would classify it as a "sandbox" game in the same way Jenkins says MGS is a sandbox game. It gives you objectives (direction) but lets you determine the path with which you want to complete those objectives.
Do you want to stealth in close and take them by surprise? Perhaps snipe the gas pump and make a distraction before blowing them away? Maybe guns blazing is your style.
On top of the many combat approaches, there are multiple ways to arrive at a destination (walking, Route A, Route B, vehicles). All in all, I'd call Crysis a "sandbox" game where you're subtly led through a scripted storyline.
I wondered at first why the parent was modded +5 Informative, rather than +5 Funny. Then I realized he said Martin, and not Morgan, Freeman.
Martin Freeman would be a fantastic Bilbo. However, I can see a Shawshank-era Morgan Freeman doing a superb job of it as well. It's a toss-up, ladies and gentlemen.
Do you have that IMPORTANT NOTE in your copy-paste clipboard and use it on every posting you make on the web?
The 3 line disclaimer is not necessary. "IANAL" suffices, although you sound mighty like one of them.
As for the short circuit, how much is far more current? We're dealing with milliamperes here. Enough current to cause a spark? I know light can't short circuit, but you still have electricity inside the tank.
What do you mean by "there's only so much power coming into the system"? I was saying that the light is converted to electricity (complete with shorting capability) inside the tank. Perhaps if every single component in the regulation and conversion circuitry were solid state, then maybe it wouldn't be a problem... but I still see the problem of having electrical power in the fuel tank.
Agreed, low efficiency isn't a massive deal for sensors, however electrical based sensors do have much higher efficiency. It is quite shoddy if you ask me. I wonder if the efficiency of other photovoltaic cells (solar, etc.) is comparable?
Existing sensors I've worked with typically require ~5V and low low amperage and when properly insulated the chances of sparking are very minimal.
With this solution, there still is electronics inside the fuel tank, so I do not see how this solves the problem. The light is converted into electricity inside the tank, so potentially even more problems with the conversion circuitry. However this tech is pretty cool and may have other applications. The 50% efficiency is bothersome as well, that's crap given todays electrical standards.
What interests me for fuel tanks is why they couldn't use some sort of a camera or sonar sensor from the outside of the tank to measure it. Perhaps having a tonight sealed porthole to view into, or maybe even sonar through the metal could determine the amount of fuel.
From summary, "where have been the usual swift victories?".
Gmail is still in Beta. It's taken years and years to get a customer base and most peons I know still use Hotmail.
Google Search itself took a long time to catch on after being late comer in the Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves.com, crowded marketplace.
Sometimes first-to-market is a good strategy, but in other times simply good software wins out in the end. That said, I have no experience with OpenSocial, but this seems to be someone saying, "1,000,000 people didn't subscribe in the first day!? It's a failure!1!"
Apologize for the rotten LOTR reference, but apart from applications to electronic this could make a really could mass light storage device. "Take this crystal with you into the (forest, cave, night, basement) and flip the switch and it will turn from darkness to light!"
Sounds hocus-pocus, but cool nonetheless! Then you just charge it by leaving it in light (artificial or sunlight) and you've got another use out of it.
If this device can translate your thoughts (impulses) into real world signals to produce sound, how can it separate internal dialogue from the external. Often I think of something ("I can't stand this dimwitt.") but I say something else ("Mmm very interesting idea Sir").
I wonder if this can separate the internal/external dialogues we all have going on in our heads...
To each his own. The man was saying that he doesn't need the latest quad core Intel to program/do graphics work in. He said he's fine with his P4. It was you who went ahead and tried to Wow us with your intellect and went rambling about 233 MHz and 1kb of RAM.
You sound like you enjoy a double espresso latté with skim milk from Starbucks while you listen to your new iPod touch and cyber-code in Web 2.0.
Yes, I am of the opinion that my DNA is a personal thing. Why should it be in a database if I have done nothing wrong? Start sequencing people who have committed crimes yes, people who are suspects in crimes (suspects through classical methods of police work) yes. But if I go into the police station to report my stolen bicycle, I don't want them to stick a needle in my arm "just in case" I turn out to be a bike thief 10 years down the track.
It all comes back to the question, "Why do you care if you have nothing to hide?" I find. Why do presumably innocent people care if they are on CCTV if they are not committing a crime. But I am fundamentally against this logic. I have read far to many stories preaching on the dangers of a omniscient government and letting "minor" infringements of privacy slide. I just don't like it.
Crimes can't be so sophisticated of late that we need all this DNA sequencing of every boy and child in order to solve crimes. Admittedly it can help... but why not in the case of:
1) Crime scene, collect DNA
2) Draw up possible suspects
3) Match DNA
4) Rinse 'n' repeat
I'd like to know what % of crimes are unsolved or the innocent are mislabeled guilty. It's probably very few out of the total amount of crimes. I feel DNA logs of citizens (because you know where this is heading) is a privacy concern and is subject to a Statute of Limitations.
What he was saying is that corporations are not above the law. By your logic are you saying people are above the law?
If you choose to operate in a country (or continent), follow their rules - corporation or citizen. Simple as that.
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Well you know what the solution to that is?
Do not let the end-user actually play the music at all! No analogue output, no holes, no problem. Unhappy customers, but hey... we've got their money!
Please send cheques to DRM Enterprises PO Box: BLLSHIT.
Even though this research may not do me any good personally if I were in a panicking crowd situation... I'm glad it's being done. I am definitely fearful of being in large frenzied crowds. Perhaps it's being fueled by certain apocalyptic movies like 28 Days Later, I am Legend, or War of the Worlds. The image of thousands of other people with their own agenda to survive jam packed beside me is a horrible, horrible thing.
Why does not make a distinction between a profit or non-profit. Otherwise non-profits would be renamed "do-gooders" and profits would be named "heartless-SOBs".
It has to do with their finances (their how): a non-profit balances income with expenses the ultimatum for a for-profit is to maximize income and lower expenses.
As you said, this a for-profit poaching on a non-profits territory. Quite ugly, but made even worse by the fact that Intel was in bed with OLPC. Where does personal ego fit into the mix?
I've done some reading on it, and I don't think that's true. I have heard the lasers are most costly for BluRay, but it yields higher data storage. Where do you get consumer unfriendly from?
Anyone notice the appropriately placed ad on /. right below the article?
As a consumer who hasn't adopted high definition yet I'm glad someone is winning the race!
Recently got Crysis for Jesusmas and I am thoroughly enjoying playing through it. I would classify it as a "sandbox" game in the same way Jenkins says MGS is a sandbox game. It gives you objectives (direction) but lets you determine the path with which you want to complete those objectives.
Do you want to stealth in close and take them by surprise?
Perhaps snipe the gas pump and make a distraction before blowing them away?
Maybe guns blazing is your style.
On top of the many combat approaches, there are multiple ways to arrive at a destination (walking, Route A, Route B, vehicles). All in all, I'd call Crysis a "sandbox" game where you're subtly led through a scripted storyline.
Yeah but the guy in the article is Henry.
JENKINS!
I wondered at first why the parent was modded +5 Informative, rather than +5 Funny. Then I realized he said Martin, and not Morgan, Freeman. Martin Freeman would be a fantastic Bilbo. However, I can see a Shawshank-era Morgan Freeman doing a superb job of it as well. It's a toss-up, ladies and gentlemen.
Do you have that IMPORTANT NOTE in your copy-paste clipboard and use it on every posting you make on the web? The 3 line disclaimer is not necessary. "IANAL" suffices, although you sound mighty like one of them.
As for the short circuit, how much is far more current? We're dealing with milliamperes here. Enough current to cause a spark? I know light can't short circuit, but you still have electricity inside the tank. What do you mean by "there's only so much power coming into the system"? I was saying that the light is converted to electricity (complete with shorting capability) inside the tank. Perhaps if every single component in the regulation and conversion circuitry were solid state, then maybe it wouldn't be a problem... but I still see the problem of having electrical power in the fuel tank. Agreed, low efficiency isn't a massive deal for sensors, however electrical based sensors do have much higher efficiency. It is quite shoddy if you ask me. I wonder if the efficiency of other photovoltaic cells (solar, etc.) is comparable?
Existing sensors I've worked with typically require ~5V and low low amperage and when properly insulated the chances of sparking are very minimal.
With this solution, there still is electronics inside the fuel tank, so I do not see how this solves the problem. The light is converted into electricity inside the tank, so potentially even more problems with the conversion circuitry. However this tech is pretty cool and may have other applications. The 50% efficiency is bothersome as well, that's crap given todays electrical standards.
What interests me for fuel tanks is why they couldn't use some sort of a camera or sonar sensor from the outside of the tank to measure it. Perhaps having a tonight sealed porthole to view into, or maybe even sonar through the metal could determine the amount of fuel.
From summary, "where have been the usual swift victories?". Gmail is still in Beta. It's taken years and years to get a customer base and most peons I know still use Hotmail. Google Search itself took a long time to catch on after being late comer in the Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves.com, crowded marketplace. Sometimes first-to-market is a good strategy, but in other times simply good software wins out in the end. That said, I have no experience with OpenSocial, but this seems to be someone saying, "1,000,000 people didn't subscribe in the first day!? It's a failure!1!"
RTFA, you wouldn't be able to *see* the Soup, all the light has stopped!
Apologize for the rotten LOTR reference, but apart from applications to electronic this could make a really could mass light storage device. "Take this crystal with you into the (forest, cave, night, basement) and flip the switch and it will turn from darkness to light!" Sounds hocus-pocus, but cool nonetheless! Then you just charge it by leaving it in light (artificial or sunlight) and you've got another use out of it.
They might, but how would anyone hear them?
If this device can translate your thoughts (impulses) into real world signals to produce sound, how can it separate internal dialogue from the external. Often I think of something ("I can't stand this dimwitt.") but I say something else ("Mmm very interesting idea Sir"). I wonder if this can separate the internal/external dialogues we all have going on in our heads...
...simply made a http://www.google.com/mars/ mash-up to select the landing sites.
^^ Mod this guy up. Exactly my thinking... it does seem suspicious for those exact reasons.
Doing a simple wiki search on soft lithography yields a resolution of ~30nm. So perhaps that is the limit of this little experiment?
To each his own. The man was saying that he doesn't need the latest quad core Intel to program/do graphics work in. He said he's fine with his P4. It was you who went ahead and tried to Wow us with your intellect and went rambling about 233 MHz and 1kb of RAM.
You sound like you enjoy a double espresso latté with skim milk from Starbucks while you listen to your new iPod touch and cyber-code in Web 2.0.
lol ^^ wtf is this guy talking about? I couldn't even focus enough to finish one sentence of his "storey".
Yes, I am of the opinion that my DNA is a personal thing. Why should it be in a database if I have done nothing wrong? Start sequencing people who have committed crimes yes, people who are suspects in crimes (suspects through classical methods of police work) yes. But if I go into the police station to report my stolen bicycle, I don't want them to stick a needle in my arm "just in case" I turn out to be a bike thief 10 years down the track.
It all comes back to the question, "Why do you care if you have nothing to hide?" I find. Why do presumably innocent people care if they are on CCTV if they are not committing a crime. But I am fundamentally against this logic. I have read far to many stories preaching on the dangers of a omniscient government and letting "minor" infringements of privacy slide. I just don't like it.
Crimes can't be so sophisticated of late that we need all this DNA sequencing of every boy and child in order to solve crimes. Admittedly it can help... but why not in the case of: 1) Crime scene, collect DNA 2) Draw up possible suspects 3) Match DNA 4) Rinse 'n' repeat I'd like to know what % of crimes are unsolved or the innocent are mislabeled guilty. It's probably very few out of the total amount of crimes. I feel DNA logs of citizens (because you know where this is heading) is a privacy concern and is subject to a Statute of Limitations.
What he was saying is that corporations are not above the law. By your logic are you saying people are above the law? If you choose to operate in a country (or continent), follow their rules - corporation or citizen. Simple as that.