I dare say that you'd have a different opinion if you were blind yourself, oh noble AC. Brain implant surgery has extended the lives (real lives, not wheelchair or nursing-home bound) by at least five years, running shunts from the brain to the stomach to help drain fluid pressure buildups. Opening the cranium to help people should never be looked upon as long as it is done in the strictest of care. A man who was able to see for a great deal of his life can finally once again regain some of that sight that he obviously cherished (or he would not have signed up for the surgery). I commend the scientists and doctors who have made this, and all other medical practices possible. As more advanced and sophisticated medical procedures become more routine, the general public is able to afford these procedures more and more. I personally hope to live to see a world where many disabilities can be countered by the intellect and ingenuity of man. The real horror story is trying to stifle innovation.
The left half of both retinas is transmitted to the back of the left hemisphere of the brain, in the occipital (correct me) lobe. The right half of both retinas is transmitted to the right occipital. That way, two composite images are achieved in the brain. I'd bet that if they did stereoscopic vision, they only used one half of the brain.
X seems fine to this UNIX nerd sitting in front of a 19 inch trinitron. I like being able to configure things. And the highlight-middle click seems to work everywhere I've ever wanted to try it. Yay X!
...But a great deal of people like GNOME better than KDE anyway. Seems to me like the old SMS/NES debate... while the SMS had better hardware, the NES just plain had better games...
Just because something is technically 'better' than something else does not mean that it will be automatically utilized to its full extent. A lot of the QT hullabaloo has moved would-be KDE developers over to the GNOME camp... and from my point of view GNOME is growing faster than KDE.
While commercial backing may be better at first for a project (money can make software grow, period), the ethical ramifications that a lot of people heavily involved in Open Source matters have problems with push many good minds into fully Open Source projects.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don;t you have to master a DVD disc on a computer before you can write it to a DVD? -- unlike with CDR, where you can do this on the fly (they even have that *shudder* directcd prog). It might take 20 hours to master a 2 hour DVD, depending on how fast your computer can compress MPEG2.
And even if the price gets down far enough, I don't see the DVDRW scene getting any bigger than the VCD scene. Unless high bandwidth turns the internet evil, that is.
$30 for a DVDRW disc? The film industry shouldn't get too panicky... 6 hours will hold two movies, you can get DVDs for $15, you haven't saved any cash copying commercial DVDs and you're out the $2400 for the DVDRW box.
The only useful illegal application would be to keep rentals longer... and i don't think too many people would be willing to go through all the trouble...
DVD is secure as long as DVD-R discs stay expensive.
Well this is all well and good, but let us remember that Jesse Ventura is one of the reasons why people in Canada think Americans are stupid. Try Angus King, the OTHER independent governor in the United States. Gotta love Maine. We've got the best governor!:) Seriously, though, the law's already been struck down so the point is moot.
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no, it's definitely right halves --> right hemisphere, left halves --> left hemisphere.
I dare say that you'd have a different opinion if you were blind yourself, oh noble AC. Brain implant surgery has extended the lives (real lives, not wheelchair or nursing-home bound) by at least five years, running shunts from the brain to the stomach to help drain fluid pressure buildups. Opening the cranium to help people should never be looked upon as long as it is done in the strictest of care. A man who was able to see for a great deal of his life can finally once again regain some of that sight that he obviously cherished (or he would not have signed up for the surgery). I commend the scientists and doctors who have made this, and all other medical practices possible. As more advanced and sophisticated medical procedures become more routine, the general public is able to afford these procedures more and more. I personally hope to live to see a world where many disabilities can be countered by the intellect and ingenuity of man. The real horror story is trying to stifle innovation.
The left half of both retinas is transmitted to the back of the left hemisphere of the brain, in the occipital (correct me) lobe. The right half of both retinas is transmitted to the right occipital. That way, two composite images are achieved in the brain. I'd bet that if they did stereoscopic vision, they only used one half of the brain.
X seems fine to this UNIX nerd sitting in front of a 19 inch trinitron. I like being able to configure things. And the highlight-middle click seems to work everywhere I've ever wanted to try it. Yay X!
Just because something is technically 'better' than something else does not mean that it will be automatically utilized to its full extent. A lot of the QT hullabaloo has moved would-be KDE developers over to the GNOME camp ... and from my point of view GNOME is growing faster than KDE.
While commercial backing may be better at first for a project (money can make software grow, period), the ethical ramifications that a lot of people heavily involved in Open Source matters have problems with push many good minds into fully Open Source projects.
The only useful illegal application would be to keep rentals longer ... and i don't think too many people would be willing to go through all the trouble ...
DVD is secure as long as DVD-R discs stay expensive.