They should just chip it out of flint, it's more traditional.
That said, I am in favour of gun control laws. However nothing will prevent someone intent on breaking the law from just ignoring any law meant to hinder him.
Then turn the pyramids in a rockery, and the Sistine Chapel in a storage room. Sometimes humanity has to do something just so that it has been done. You might argue that climbing mount Everest didn't bring any advantage to humanity, but you don't consider all the research that went into it, and all the spinoffs that end up benefiting you later. Perhaps the techniques that went into building this boat will allow your next car to weight 100kg less, use less fuel (or batteries) and as a return pollute less (yes, electric cars pollute too).
If they use a different system to detonate a bomb (and now they know the cellphones won't work, so it becomes more likely) then it will delay any call for help from the area. Can't they just set up the towers so that a new, unknown, or unregistered foreign number can only make and not receive calls? Then it's a matter of asking people crossing the border to register their number if they want to receive calls, and that makes them more traceable. In any case nothing beats good detective work, most of these "security" measures seem to be just for show, and easily defeated. Why people always seems to think that the bad guys must be stupid? Too many action movies?
"A survey by IDC and Appcelerator found 78% of Android developers were 'very interested' in programming for Android smartphones"
I don't know, but I'd expect the near totality of Android developers to be interested in programming for Android, unless I am missing something? Maybe 22% of them are forced to program for it?
What is odd is that it seems Microsoft is following after Canonical in this case. First it was Aero vs Compiz, now this silly "PC OS as tablet OS" thing. Looks like all it takes to give Microsoft the final death blow is to create a popular distribution and then do something incredibly stupid with it, waiting for them to spend enormous resources in copying it.
I think using the pulseaudio network streaming in this case is probably overkill. If the audio does not need to be monitored in realtime you can just record it to a network share with any sort of audio recording software. Even just plain arecord from alsa-utils.
You can presume that a malicious plane will not bother with advertising its position on ADS-B. As a matter of fact it will probably try to be as undetectable as possible to radars or other sensors. So radar coverage will most probably keep on being in place, even if purely for military reasons.
If all you are interested into is just running the game, it runs fine in Wine. On my machine even Skyrim runs fine in Wine, just marginally slower than when booting in Window XP, and my hardware isn't too recent either.
I only use Windows to play games (the ones that can cause some issues under Wine), so it wasn't that big a deal. Anyway, I had avira blocking explorer.exe and cmd.exe from running. Luckily they still ran fine if I logged in as administrator, so I just added them to the list of exceptions, and seems to work properly now. At least good enough for my scope, which is playing games. No big loss, though, Skyrim works perfectly fine in Wine....
If it had been a few years ago it would have been an Aliens III exo-suit. But since the Iron Man movie is more current the concept had to be stretched to fit
Well, you wouldn't want to risk having the robots getting all ethical on you all of a sudden. Humans are ethically more malleable.
Also, once your adversary reaches the same technological level the end result is having robots fight other robots. I think that sort of thing makes you go blind or something.
Would you like to have an Italian built and managed nuclear power station in your country? Add to that the fact that there's no zone in Italy that is not a seismically active area.
So, essentially Geohotz can no longer try and read the console's bios, that's it. And even that is disputable, since the terms of an agreement can be trumped by any overriding law. Doesn't look like such a victory for Sony. Err, SCEA.
I wonder if this settlement is in any way related to the ongoing Class Action ( http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110402000830503 ) that Sony (actually SCEA) would really want closed as well. The judge in that case is starting to ask uncomfortable questions, and I suspect they would not want to fight two battles that would result damaging to Sony's reputation, if they have any left after the rootkit case from a few years back. I also suspect that SCEA's views are not Sony's, and perhaps the parent company is asking for them to lower the tones.
that's not what I described, and if you look at the vehicle you will see that the propeller is not spun by the wind. The direction the propeller spins is as if it were pushing against the wind. what happens here is that the wheels are geared to the propeller, and spin it in such a way that it effectively becomes a sail moving backward relative to the whole of the contraption. The wind pushes on the prop, that pushes on the car, dragging it forward. This spins the wheels, that gear down the speed to convert it in torque to spin the propeller in the opposite direction the wind would spin it. Essentially the wheels are levering the small torque they have to generate a stack of sails to climb on. This is not a perpetual motion machine, the 2d law is safe... it extracts energy by the difference in speed between the wind and the ground. If you like another interesting theoretical puzzle, can you get a Brennan torpedo to travel down a river faster than the water flow by attaching the control cables to the shore?
it is possible, if what you do is to extract energy from the speed difference between the wind and the ground instead of that between the wind and the vehicle. Consider this greatly simplified concept: Build an enormous wheel, and set it up so that it has large sails around its circumference, between the thread and the shaft. Sat things up so that the sail will be closed or parallel to the wind when on top of the wheel, and perpendicular to it when on the bottom. The wind will push the sail, that will lever against the ground and cause the wheel to roll forward. Since the shaft is above the sail, it can travel faster than the wind even if the sail is slower,, and if the resistance of all the setup is small enough, you have something that travels faster than the wind, even if it's actually pushed by it
Not only that, the DMCA explicitly allows reverse engineering of software in order to allow for interoperability with other applications: see paragraph (f) here: http://static.chillingeffects.org/1201.shtml Microsoft has no ground to stand on from the copyright angle, so it's attempting to imlpement the same limitations from a software patent angle. Which currently has no value in most of the civilized world.
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They should just chip it out of flint, it's more traditional. That said, I am in favour of gun control laws. However nothing will prevent someone intent on breaking the law from just ignoring any law meant to hinder him.
Then turn the pyramids in a rockery, and the Sistine Chapel in a storage room. Sometimes humanity has to do something just so that it has been done. You might argue that climbing mount Everest didn't bring any advantage to humanity, but you don't consider all the research that went into it, and all the spinoffs that end up benefiting you later. Perhaps the techniques that went into building this boat will allow your next car to weight 100kg less, use less fuel (or batteries) and as a return pollute less (yes, electric cars pollute too).
If they use a different system to detonate a bomb (and now they know the cellphones won't work, so it becomes more likely) then it will delay any call for help from the area. Can't they just set up the towers so that a new, unknown, or unregistered foreign number can only make and not receive calls? Then it's a matter of asking people crossing the border to register their number if they want to receive calls, and that makes them more traceable. In any case nothing beats good detective work, most of these "security" measures seem to be just for show, and easily defeated. Why people always seems to think that the bad guys must be stupid? Too many action movies?
Other sources seem to show that children exposed to technology might actually end up learning better than otherwise. http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php
"A survey by IDC and Appcelerator found 78% of Android developers were 'very interested' in programming for Android smartphones" I don't know, but I'd expect the near totality of Android developers to be interested in programming for Android, unless I am missing something? Maybe 22% of them are forced to program for it?
All forms of direct solar power usage have a way too small energy density to be currently considered for a commercial plane.
What is odd is that it seems Microsoft is following after Canonical in this case. First it was Aero vs Compiz, now this silly "PC OS as tablet OS" thing. Looks like all it takes to give Microsoft the final death blow is to create a popular distribution and then do something incredibly stupid with it, waiting for them to spend enormous resources in copying it.
I think using the pulseaudio network streaming in this case is probably overkill. If the audio does not need to be monitored in realtime you can just record it to a network share with any sort of audio recording software. Even just plain arecord from alsa-utils.
You can presume that a malicious plane will not bother with advertising its position on ADS-B. As a matter of fact it will probably try to be as undetectable as possible to radars or other sensors. So radar coverage will most probably keep on being in place, even if purely for military reasons.
Something that can be dangerous when grossly misused can be outright banned.
Unless it's a weapon
If all you are interested into is just running the game, it runs fine in Wine. On my machine even Skyrim runs fine in Wine, just marginally slower than when booting in Window XP, and my hardware isn't too recent either.
There goes my retirement plan!
I only use Windows to play games (the ones that can cause some issues under Wine), so it wasn't that big a deal. Anyway, I had avira blocking explorer.exe and cmd.exe from running. Luckily they still ran fine if I logged in as administrator, so I just added them to the list of exceptions, and seems to work properly now. At least good enough for my scope, which is playing games. No big loss, though, Skyrim works perfectly fine in Wine....
Man, in his place I'd probably have said "Well, it's my job"... Unfortunately most people can't seem to recognize sarcasm.
How am I supposed to trust the results of these studies anyway?
If it had been a few years ago it would have been an Aliens III exo-suit. But since the Iron Man movie is more current the concept had to be stretched to fit
Well, you wouldn't want to risk having the robots getting all ethical on you all of a sudden. Humans are ethically more malleable. Also, once your adversary reaches the same technological level the end result is having robots fight other robots. I think that sort of thing makes you go blind or something.
Awful, I know, but I could not hold myself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel
Would you like to have an Italian built and managed nuclear power station in your country? Add to that the fact that there's no zone in Italy that is not a seismically active area.
So, essentially Geohotz can no longer try and read the console's bios, that's it. And even that is disputable, since the terms of an agreement can be trumped by any overriding law. Doesn't look like such a victory for Sony. Err, SCEA.
I wonder if this settlement is in any way related to the ongoing Class Action ( http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110402000830503 ) that Sony (actually SCEA) would really want closed as well. The judge in that case is starting to ask uncomfortable questions, and I suspect they would not want to fight two battles that would result damaging to Sony's reputation, if they have any left after the rootkit case from a few years back. I also suspect that SCEA's views are not Sony's, and perhaps the parent company is asking for them to lower the tones.
It's not a perpetual motion machine. The treadmill is the source of energy. The wheels spin the prop, that pushes AGAINST the relative wind
that's not what I described, and if you look at the vehicle you will see that the propeller is not spun by the wind. The direction the propeller spins is as if it were pushing against the wind. what happens here is that the wheels are geared to the propeller, and spin it in such a way that it effectively becomes a sail moving backward relative to the whole of the contraption. The wind pushes on the prop, that pushes on the car, dragging it forward. This spins the wheels, that gear down the speed to convert it in torque to spin the propeller in the opposite direction the wind would spin it. Essentially the wheels are levering the small torque they have to generate a stack of sails to climb on. This is not a perpetual motion machine, the 2d law is safe... it extracts energy by the difference in speed between the wind and the ground. If you like another interesting theoretical puzzle, can you get a Brennan torpedo to travel down a river faster than the water flow by attaching the control cables to the shore?
it is possible, if what you do is to extract energy from the speed difference between the wind and the ground instead of that between the wind and the vehicle. Consider this greatly simplified concept: Build an enormous wheel, and set it up so that it has large sails around its circumference, between the thread and the shaft. Sat things up so that the sail will be closed or parallel to the wind when on top of the wheel, and perpendicular to it when on the bottom. The wind will push the sail, that will lever against the ground and cause the wheel to roll forward. Since the shaft is above the sail, it can travel faster than the wind even if the sail is slower,, and if the resistance of all the setup is small enough, you have something that travels faster than the wind, even if it's actually pushed by it
Not only that, the DMCA explicitly allows reverse engineering of software in order to allow for interoperability with other applications:
see paragraph (f) here:
http://static.chillingeffects.org/1201.shtml
Microsoft has no ground to stand on from the copyright angle, so it's attempting to imlpement the same limitations from a software patent angle. Which currently has no value in most of the civilized world.