This keyboard looks very cool. Other than that, however, there's not much to it. I don't look at my keyboard, I type on it. I think this would be far more useful for a universal remote. It would be great to have physical keys that can display their current function and can be seen in the dark.
The Russian space program is not bankrupt. Sure, it does not have the huge budget that NASA does (did?), but they make MUCH better use of the little money that they have. This is not the Soviet space program where it was OK to blow up a few rockets and cosmonauts, and then just cover it up. The Russian space program is actually trying to function like a real business -- making deals in the private sector, and attracting publicity. These people mean business.
Now, the idea of the nuclear power plant on Mars does seem a bit farfetched. However, if any country could do it at this point, Russia is it. China is still ramping up to get one of it's people into space. India is thinking about it. The USA has other serious problems (economy, Iraq, North Korea, bin Laden, Columbia blowing up, etc). Russia, of course has Chechnya, but it is enjoying a relatively favorable economy at this point, due to the high oil prices.
Despite the misconceptions that have been created after the Soviet Union fell apart, Russia still has some tricks up it's sleeve.
You got anything to back that up? Dangerous compared to what? THE most dangerous compiler out there is MS Visual C++. It does not comply with standards and often produces broken code. gcc on the other hand has a very good track record of keeping up with standards, and producing very robust code even with the highest level optimization.
I've always wondered why commercial airplanes are designed in such a way that any major failure is a death sentence for everyone onboard. I mean, the only emergency procedures that exist are for water landings...usually an airplane doesn't get to land in the water, but rather crashes and burns. No real use for a life vest at that point.
I think the answer would be to design modular plane, where the passenger compartment could be separeted from the rest of the plane. That way you have a much lighter escape capsule if you will. Dump the baggage, dump the fuel, dump all the crap, but save the people.
It would work great in case of a hijacking also. Somebody starts making trouble and telling you to fly the plane somewhere...just push the button and separate the plane. Then you gently flow down to the ground and wait for the people with guns.
I suppose fatal plane crashes just don't happen often enough for any company to invest into such a drastic redesign. However, I am pretty disappointed that the safety of airplanes has improved only marginally in the entire history of the commercial airline industry.
Extradition is usually done for certain types of crimes, like murder for example. As far as I know Russia and the USA have not signed any extradition treaties for DMCA violations.
I wouldn't lump the entire line of drives from a single company into a category of "Bad Drives." Western Digital has many flavors of drives for different applications. I've been using their top-of-the-line JB and BB series drives for the last few years under very strenious conditions in database servers and IDE RAID configurations and they have fared exceptionally well.
The exorbitant prices for the connection kits are driving me nuts as well. However, a friend of mine just got a T68i, and it can act as a modem via IR. No cables, no problems. Not to mention being able to sync all your contact info with your notebook. It has 6 and 7 also.
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However, the resistance of American culture, or western culture or modern culture, is the defining characteristic of the Amish. Not so for Bhutan. From the article it sounds like they want to jump on the "progress" bandwagon and move "forward." If that's their mindset they'll get "Americanized" in no time at all.
What they should've done is legalized TV, but not advertising. That's where the real evil is.
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Your example demonstrates a clear example of copyright infringement.
If you set up a site to make money from NPR's content, their linking policy is the last thing you'll be worrying about. NPR will sue your pants off pursuant to the US copyright law -- linking policy would be just icing on the cake.
If NPR is afraid the people will listen to their streams, then why in the world would they be putting them up? They should be well-prepared to handle a barrage of people trying to listen to their programming. They advertise their site on the air! They must expect people to chew up their bandwidth.
So in summary, I think your example is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Whenever I sign up for a site, I use a unique e-mail address. I have a special domain, the only purpose of which is to accept mail from every website I ever sign up for. Since every address is unique, and I know who I've given it too, if it gets sold to spammers, I know who did it, and I can easily shut it down. I very rarely get spam.
Wrong! Did you read the article? It says that a symmetric cipher is used for encryption. That means that the data is encrypted and decrypted with the same key. As he repeatedly mentions there's just not enough space to implement a robust public key crypto solution.
As many have pointed out the space shuttle program was cancelled because it was inferior to the currently existing methods of transportation. The whole "selling off" trend that you percieve is simply the equivalent of digging in your garage and seeing what old crap you can sell before it becomes totally worthless. MIR has outlived its original planned mission many times over -- it was time for it to go.
I think the Russian space program is simply streamlining -- getting rid of the old, useless things, and finding new streams of revenue, i.e. space tourism. Hardly the demise.
So we shouldn't try anything just because they might fight back? What kind of a defitist attitude is that? Do you believe that it's not worth asking a girl out because she might say, "no!"?
The only issue is always money. If we can get enough money, there are plenty people for hire to mount devastating campaigns against greedy politicians everywhere. If you want things done right, hire the best professionals. We can be slick, we can be clever, we can expose what Hollings wants to do, and how it will hurt "Joe Sixpack." Why in the world would we have a Finnish geek as our spokesperson? This is all targeted marketing, propaganda, and we have access to the same resources as our enemy.
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This keyboard looks very cool. Other than that, however, there's not much to it. I don't look at my keyboard, I type on it. I think this would be far more useful for a universal remote. It would be great to have physical keys that can display their current function and can be seen in the dark.
The Russian space program is not bankrupt. Sure, it does not have the huge budget that NASA does (did?), but they make MUCH better use of the little money that they have. This is not the Soviet space program where it was OK to blow up a few rockets and cosmonauts, and then just cover it up. The Russian space program is actually trying to function like a real business -- making deals in the private sector, and attracting publicity. These people mean business.
Now, the idea of the nuclear power plant on Mars does seem a bit farfetched. However, if any country could do it at this point, Russia is it. China is still ramping up to get one of it's people into space. India is thinking about it. The USA has other serious problems (economy, Iraq, North Korea, bin Laden, Columbia blowing up, etc). Russia, of course has Chechnya, but it is enjoying a relatively favorable economy at this point, due to the high oil prices.
Despite the misconceptions that have been created after the Soviet Union fell apart, Russia still has some tricks up it's sleeve.
You got anything to back that up? Dangerous compared to what? THE most dangerous compiler out there is MS Visual C++. It does not comply with standards and often produces broken code. gcc on the other hand has a very good track record of keeping up with standards, and producing very robust code even with the highest level optimization.
You also need to pull out the virus disk. Otherwise you blow up.
I am in the same predicament!
I think the answer would be to design modular plane, where the passenger compartment could be separeted from the rest of the plane. That way you have a much lighter escape capsule if you will. Dump the baggage, dump the fuel, dump all the crap, but save the people.
It would work great in case of a hijacking also. Somebody starts making trouble and telling you to fly the plane somewhere...just push the button and separate the plane. Then you gently flow down to the ground and wait for the people with guns.
I suppose fatal plane crashes just don't happen often enough for any company to invest into such a drastic redesign. However, I am pretty disappointed that the safety of airplanes has improved only marginally in the entire history of the commercial airline industry.
Extradition is usually done for certain types of crimes, like murder for example. As far as I know Russia and the USA have not signed any extradition treaties for DMCA violations.
I wouldn't lump the entire line of drives from a single company into a category of "Bad Drives." Western Digital has many flavors of drives for different applications. I've been using their top-of-the-line JB and BB series drives for the last few years under very strenious conditions in database servers and IDE RAID configurations and they have fared exceptionally well.
Yay China!
That would be great!
The exorbitant prices for the connection kits are driving me nuts as well. However, a friend of mine just got a T68i, and it can act as a modem via IR. No cables, no problems. Not to mention being able to sync all your contact info with your notebook. It has 6 and 7 also.
What they should've done is legalized TV, but not advertising. That's where the real evil is.
Your example demonstrates a clear example of copyright infringement.
If you set up a site to make money from NPR's content, their linking policy is the last thing you'll be worrying about. NPR will sue your pants off pursuant to the US copyright law -- linking policy would be just icing on the cake.
If NPR is afraid the people will listen to their streams, then why in the world would they be putting them up? They should be well-prepared to handle a barrage of people trying to listen to their programming. They advertise their site on the air! They must expect people to chew up their bandwidth.
So in summary, I think your example is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Whenever I sign up for a site, I use a unique e-mail address. I have a special domain, the only purpose of which is to accept mail from every website I ever sign up for. Since every address is unique, and I know who I've given it too, if it gets sold to spammers, I know who did it, and I can easily shut it down. I very rarely get spam.
ZDNet is actually owen by CNET, and if you check the WHOIS database, you will see plain as day that CNET does own the com.com domain. QED.
Wrong! Did you read the article? It says that a symmetric cipher is used for encryption. That means that the data is encrypted and decrypted with the same key. As he repeatedly mentions there's just not enough space to implement a robust public key crypto solution.
As many have pointed out the space shuttle program was cancelled because it was inferior to the currently existing methods of transportation. The whole "selling off" trend that you percieve is simply the equivalent of digging in your garage and seeing what old crap you can sell before it becomes totally worthless. MIR has outlived its original planned mission many times over -- it was time for it to go.
I think the Russian space program is simply streamlining -- getting rid of the old, useless things, and finding new streams of revenue, i.e. space tourism. Hardly the demise.
So we shouldn't try anything just because they might fight back? What kind of a defitist attitude is that? Do you believe that it's not worth asking a girl out because she might say, "no!"?
The only issue is always money. If we can get enough money, there are plenty people for hire to mount devastating campaigns against greedy politicians everywhere. If you want things done right, hire the best professionals. We can be slick, we can be clever, we can expose what Hollings wants to do, and how it will hurt "Joe Sixpack." Why in the world would we have a Finnish geek as our spokesperson? This is all targeted marketing, propaganda, and we have access to the same resources as our enemy.
They probably have better ideas anyway.
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