Ironically, the Mac OS EULA used to specifically prohibit you from running the software in a nuclear power facility, given that the operating system did not have proper protected memory facilities, making it inherently crash-prone.
I remember stumbling across that tiny clause in a users' manual one time, and chuckled to myself.
I believe that the clause was finally lifted with the release of OS X.
I think Windows still states that you cannot use it in a nuclear power plant if you have JAVA installed.
Have fun with your monster of a daughter. I'd flip out if I heard a kid so young say something like that.
Wow! Thanks for sharing your enlightened opinion of my daughter. She also started walking at 8 months and could recognize and recite the entire alphabet by a year old. At 5 years old she's currently able to multiply and divide, is reading at a 4th grade level, and is far more respectful and well mannered than most of her friends. [sarcasm]Definite serial killer in the making. Thank you so much for showing me the error of my ways. From now on instead of answering her questions honestly and in a way she can understand I'll make up some "magic fairy" explanation. [/sarcasm]
The system relies on sending sound waves that locate objects by bouncing off of them.
Thank you! Simply saying it relied on SONAR would have left us all completely befuddled.
Well yes and no. Typical military SONAR operates in the 2 kHz to 10 kHz range or sea floor mapping SONAR at 5 kHz, while OAWRS is significantly lower from 300 Hz to 1.5 kHz. It is also different than typical SONAR in that there is a transmitting vessel and a separate receiving vessel. Using separate transmit and receive locations that are a significant distance from each other also differentiates it from conventional long range SONAR which operates at 500 Hz. Here's a link that describes OAWRS in more detail if you're interested: http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/32/reports/docs/08/oamakris.pdf
TNN alienated their core audience and changed their name to something stupid.
Um, which time? They started out as TNN (The Nashville Network)and pretty much played re-runs of The Dukes of Hazzard and NASCAR. Then became TNN (The National Network) and played STTNG non-stop for a while. The last time I looked it seemed Spike was mostly pro-wrestling. So I'd say they've pretty much come full circle.
There's more to it than that even. Take a look at the Acustimass system. A single 2.5 inch paper cone that rolls off at 13KHz. They go down to 280 Hz but the woofer doesn't go any higher than 200 Hz. Notice any frequencies missing there? This is why they call themselves Buy Other Sound Equipment.
you can even get a Bose system for less then $2,000. I say Bose because they are very expensive, and while good quality, you can get similar quality or better for the same price on different brands.
While Bose is expensive, in the home audio arena $2K is definitely not "very expensive". Bose is also not good quality and you can get much better sounding speakers for less as well.
Well it would be simillar to that. aluminum is not magnetic so you wouldn't notice anything when getting into the machine, but as soon as the scan started, the ultrafast sweeping of the gradient magnet's fields that's needed to perform echo sequences with the time resolution relevant to fMRI would create HUGE ohmic heating in the conductive metal and severely burn you, if not light your hair on fire.
Actually you should be more concerned with the RF pulse generating electrical currents in a conductive loop than anything. The gradients are pretty trivial in comparison.
Employers are already looking into early-stage prototypes they can fit on their employees to predict their position and movement within buildings. This will save them time and money since they will never again have to ask, "where did Tom go?"
Unfortunately those early tests have shown a slight decrease in productivity after every computer within 10 feet of the 3 Tesla magnetic field failed to boot. There was also a serious setback when one of the testers forgot to remove the prototype before taking a train home and derailed it.
Personally, I'm having a hard time getting really worked up about this one way or the other. Maybe it's because I lived without satellite images for approximately 33 of my 37 years on this Earth without much of a problem, and I don't think we'd be losing much to not have them again. This is not like GPS or the internet as a whole or something where there is real utility that would be lost if you switched it off.
While I understand where you are coming from and agree to an extent. You can also apply that same line of thinking to all kinds of things, including GPS and the internet. My father lived for the first 60 of 65 years of his life w/o the internet and has lived his entire life w/o GPS. So if they just go away, I really don't think it'd bother him very much.
On the other hand, I'm obviously against all this fear-mongering. I'm not so intentionally dense (as I do believe some people are) as to not see any way that a terrorist could use these images for their own purposes, but that doesn't mean I think it's a reason to blur anything or turn it off. It's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or evil. It's not a weapon, it's not a drug, it's not something the government should have a role in regulating.
It's more like, say, a pipe wrench. Sure, I could take a pipe wrench and whack somebody over the head with it and probably kill them. I could do it repeatedly and probably kill a lot of people.
Or, I could use it to fix broken pipes.
This is the thing with tools. They have a benign purpose and that's what most people use them for. But of course they *could* be used for evil. Are we going to just regulate everything that fits that description?
If the government is going to outlaw Google's satellite images, then it seems to me they need to outlaw pipe wrenches too.
This is where the problem lies, except you'll need to ban more than just wrenches. Books and education will need to go as well. Obviously you need a certain level of knowledge in order to build bombs and such, so to be on the safe side we better ban reading too. Of course judging by this thread: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/1323243 We seem to be taking care of these issues ourselves already.
Hitachi's revenue for 2008 was 175B yen or $1.8B. Which is not even the net profit, it's the all monies coming in before expenses. This is no where near $25B in profit.
In fact they made a net profit of 1.5B yen or $129 Million for 2007. $31 million is almost a quarter of their profits for 2007. For 2008(3-08 to 3-09) they are posting a $7.8B loss.
Let me see if I've got this right. You found the best deal in town, made the purchase, a different retailer a week later lowers their price to $50 below what you paid, so you return to the place of your purchase to complain that you were ripped off? I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
I would guess he has a pretty good idea of what it means. Obviously he knows how to use the phrase to get a retailer to follow their stated policy on post-sale price matching in an expeditious manner as well.
In fact I'd say he got "ripped off" anyhow since CC had a 110% price matching policy.
The whole controversy over the "life beings at conception" is completely religious, and affects only the Abrahamic faiths. In Asia and other parts of the world it is a non-issue.
It's funny that you would mention Asia. Traditionally in East Asian cultures a child was considered to be one year old at birth because they counted the gestation period as the first year of life. Granted this tradition is slowly changing, but is still the norm in some countries. So no, this does not only affect "Abrahamic faiths".
Applied for my coupon the very first day they were available. Didn't get it until almost exactly a year ago.
"Sorry, we have no converters in stock yet"
Tried again. And again. And then again. Apparently, they'd arrive during the day, and be cleared out before I got off work every fucking time.
"No, sorry, you can't reserve one, sir."
Day before they expired in June 2008, I'm going place to place, trying to get one. Still none to be had.
So now, I've been waiting nine months for them to let me reapply. And the numbnuts in Congress waited to the last minute before the conversion to go, "Oh, yeah, those of you screwed by slow processing and then a lack of availability, maybe you should get a second chance, because our asinine expiration date fucked you out of 'em."
I keep seeing stories about this "shortage" and I think the problem is more with how the converters were distributed than a real shortage. The Circuit City where I live priced them at 70% off last weekend and they still had a mountain of them piled up on the floor. I would estimate there were 500+ stacked on the floor by the entrance, and still more on the shelves. I've been to several other cities in the US in the last couple of weeks and have seen them on store shelves also.
The coupons expire after 90 days (I confirmed that on the dtv.gov page).. did you use expired coupons? and they worked?
He said he got them in "Early Jan". Even if he got them on January 1 (Assuming that he didn't mean January of a year other than 2009)it hasn't been 90 days.
Since Digital8 was simply recording digital video to a High 8 cassette, I'd say it made Sony plenty of money too. I've known quite a few people that bought them, and some are still in use to this day.
Memory Stick is debatable as to it's success. Granted no one but Sony uses it, but they sure have sold a lot of their own products that do use it. I see it at every retailer beside the other formats and there is a Memory Stick slot on every "universal" card reader that I've seen.
MiniDisc got killed in the consumer market due to bad timing and Apple out-marketing them by figuring out a way to make a MP3 player cool and easy to use for the average person. However it is still alive an well in broadcast radio. Again, making Sony more that enough money to justify it's existence.
I do agree with you about the engineering and build quality and have bought many of there products over the years. Their ES line of audio equipment is excellent IMO. I also stay away from their products that require proprietary formats though.
And this is why Sony technologies almost never win in the marketplace. That, and their amazing sense of timing.
Yes Beta-max failed, but BetaCam and it's follow up formats Digital Betacam and HD-Cam have pretty much dominated the broadcast market for decades. I'm not sure the mountain of cash they ultimately made off of that could be considered a format failure. While I'm talking about video formats, I think Video 8 and High 8 did pretty good back in the analog days. miniDV did/does fairly well as the digital replacement for those. Let's see who's where those... Oh yeah, Sony had all three of those too. Wow, I guess you can say that was a total fail in the video market.
3.5" floppy disks were received poorly as well. That was another Sony format. Well I guess they aren't doing so well since they have been replaced replaced by CD. Hmm, who developed that format with Phillips? Oh that's right it was Sony. Together they also developed S/PDIF, you sure don't see that on too many audio devices.
Seriously though, Sony has had some colossal failures with some formats but they are far from having the inverse Midis touch in regards to formats. I think there recent business practices have cost them more due to consumer mistrust than any format flop has. Especially since they have had a great many more successful formats.
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Ironically, the Mac OS EULA used to specifically prohibit you from running the software in a nuclear power facility, given that the operating system did not have proper protected memory facilities, making it inherently crash-prone.
I remember stumbling across that tiny clause in a users' manual one time, and chuckled to myself.
I believe that the clause was finally lifted with the release of OS X.
I think Windows still states that you cannot use it in a nuclear power plant if you have JAVA installed.
Have fun with your monster of a daughter. I'd flip out if I heard a kid so young say something like that.
Wow! Thanks for sharing your enlightened opinion of my daughter. She also started walking at 8 months and could recognize and recite the entire alphabet by a year old. At 5 years old she's currently able to multiply and divide, is reading at a 4th grade level, and is far more respectful and well mannered than most of her friends. [sarcasm]Definite serial killer in the making. Thank you so much for showing me the error of my ways. From now on instead of answering her questions honestly and in a way she can understand I'll make up some "magic fairy" explanation. [/sarcasm]
Except there's a third criteria: is the animal tasty enough to disregard the other two criteria.
That reminds me of something my daughter told me while driving past a cow field when she was 4 years old.
"Cows sure are cute daddy... It's too bad they taste so good. Can we have steak when we get home?"
It looks like a Buick concept car to me, Grandma wants a bronze one.
The real question is, "Can I get it in Black in California?" http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/26/1639250
The system relies on sending sound waves that locate objects by bouncing off of them.
Thank you! Simply saying it relied on SONAR would have left us all completely befuddled.
Well yes and no. Typical military SONAR operates in the 2 kHz to 10 kHz range or sea floor mapping SONAR at 5 kHz, while OAWRS is significantly lower from 300 Hz to 1.5 kHz. It is also different than typical SONAR in that there is a transmitting vessel and a separate receiving vessel. Using separate transmit and receive locations that are a significant distance from each other also differentiates it from conventional long range SONAR which operates at 500 Hz. Here's a link that describes OAWRS in more detail if you're interested: http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/32/reports/docs/08/oamakris.pdf
-40 is less than 10, after all,
Yes, but at least it's the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Damn. Now I'll have to update my authorized_particles file!
More importantly does Gordon Freeman know about this?
Speed in itself is not so dangerous, most of the danger is caused by poor drivers and poorly maintained vehicles
Actually it's that sudden stop that gets you every time.
TNN alienated their core audience and changed their name to something stupid.
Um, which time? They started out as TNN (The Nashville Network)and pretty much played re-runs of The Dukes of Hazzard and NASCAR. Then became TNN (The National Network) and played STTNG non-stop for a while. The last time I looked it seemed Spike was mostly pro-wrestling. So I'd say they've pretty much come full circle.
There's more to it than that even. Take a look at the Acustimass system. A single 2.5 inch paper cone that rolls off at 13KHz. They go down to 280 Hz but the woofer doesn't go any higher than 200 Hz. Notice any frequencies missing there? This is why they call themselves Buy Other Sound Equipment.
you can even get a Bose system for less then $2,000. I say Bose because they are very expensive, and while good quality, you can get similar quality or better for the same price on different brands.
While Bose is expensive, in the home audio arena $2K is definitely not "very expensive". Bose is also not good quality and you can get much better sounding speakers for less as well.
Well it would be simillar to that. aluminum is not magnetic so you wouldn't notice anything when getting into the machine, but as soon as the scan started, the ultrafast sweeping of the gradient magnet's fields that's needed to perform echo sequences with the time resolution relevant to fMRI would create HUGE ohmic heating in the conductive metal and severely burn you, if not light your hair on fire.
Actually you should be more concerned with the RF pulse generating electrical currents in a conductive loop than anything. The gradients are pretty trivial in comparison.
Employers are already looking into early-stage prototypes they can fit on their employees to predict their position and movement within buildings. This will save them time and money since they will never again have to ask, "where did Tom go?"
Unfortunately those early tests have shown a slight decrease in productivity after every computer within 10 feet of the 3 Tesla magnetic field failed to boot. There was also a serious setback when one of the testers forgot to remove the prototype before taking a train home and derailed it.
Personally, I'm having a hard time getting really worked up about this one way or the other. Maybe it's because I lived without satellite images for approximately 33 of my 37 years on this Earth without much of a problem, and I don't think we'd be losing much to not have them again. This is not like GPS or the internet as a whole or something where there is real utility that would be lost if you switched it off.
While I understand where you are coming from and agree to an extent. You can also apply that same line of thinking to all kinds of things, including GPS and the internet. My father lived for the first 60 of 65 years of his life w/o the internet and has lived his entire life w/o GPS. So if they just go away, I really don't think it'd bother him very much.
On the other hand, I'm obviously against all this fear-mongering. I'm not so intentionally dense (as I do believe some people are) as to not see any way that a terrorist could use these images for their own purposes, but that doesn't mean I think it's a reason to blur anything or turn it off. It's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or evil. It's not a weapon, it's not a drug, it's not something the government should have a role in regulating.
It's more like, say, a pipe wrench. Sure, I could take a pipe wrench and whack somebody over the head with it and probably kill them. I could do it repeatedly and probably kill a lot of people.
Or, I could use it to fix broken pipes.
This is the thing with tools. They have a benign purpose and that's what most people use them for. But of course they *could* be used for evil. Are we going to just regulate everything that fits that description?
If the government is going to outlaw Google's satellite images, then it seems to me they need to outlaw pipe wrenches too.
This is where the problem lies, except you'll need to ban more than just wrenches. Books and education will need to go as well. Obviously you need a certain level of knowledge in order to build bombs and such, so to be on the safe side we better ban reading too. Of course judging by this thread: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/1323243 We seem to be taking care of these issues ourselves already.
Hardly news, since this'll certainly be struck down \ overturned in future rulings.
We can only hope.
15% got it right, 47% came close.
And the other 53% responded by saying, "Water? You mean like in the toilet?"
That would be an awesome video if Technoviking showed up in the first five seconds and kicked his ass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1nzEFMjkI4
$25 billion in profits last year. Yep, that $31 million fine is staggering.
Citation please? According to http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/earnings/earnings.asp?symbol=6581.T
Hitachi's revenue for 2008 was 175B yen or $1.8B. Which is not even the net profit, it's the all monies coming in before expenses. This is no where near $25B in profit.
In fact they made a net profit of 1.5B yen or $129 Million for 2007. $31 million is almost a quarter of their profits for 2007. For 2008(3-08 to 3-09) they are posting a $7.8B loss.
http://retrenchment-blog.breaking.sg/2009/01/hitachi-cuts-7000-jobs-worldwide/
Let me see if I've got this right. You found the best deal in town, made the purchase, a different retailer a week later lowers their price to $50 below what you paid, so you return to the place of your purchase to complain that you were ripped off? I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
I would guess he has a pretty good idea of what it means. Obviously he knows how to use the phrase to get a retailer to follow their stated policy on post-sale price matching in an expeditious manner as well.
In fact I'd say he got "ripped off" anyhow since CC had a 110% price matching policy.
The whole controversy over the "life beings at conception" is completely religious, and affects only the Abrahamic faiths. In Asia and other parts of the world it is a non-issue.
It's funny that you would mention Asia. Traditionally in East Asian cultures a child was considered to be one year old at birth because they counted the gestation period as the first year of life. Granted this tradition is slowly changing, but is still the norm in some countries. So no, this does not only affect "Abrahamic faiths".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
Applied for my coupon the very first day they were available. Didn't get it until almost exactly a year ago.
"Sorry, we have no converters in stock yet"
Tried again. And again. And then again. Apparently, they'd arrive during the day, and be cleared out before I got off work every fucking time.
"No, sorry, you can't reserve one, sir."
Day before they expired in June 2008, I'm going place to place, trying to get one. Still none to be had.
So now, I've been waiting nine months for them to let me reapply. And the numbnuts in Congress waited to the last minute before the conversion to go, "Oh, yeah, those of you screwed by slow processing and then a lack of availability, maybe you should get a second chance, because our asinine expiration date fucked you out of 'em."
I keep seeing stories about this "shortage" and I think the problem is more with how the converters were distributed than a real shortage. The Circuit City where I live priced them at 70% off last weekend and they still had a mountain of them piled up on the floor. I would estimate there were 500+ stacked on the floor by the entrance, and still more on the shelves. I've been to several other cities in the US in the last couple of weeks and have seen them on store shelves also.
The coupons expire after 90 days (I confirmed that on the dtv.gov page).. did you use expired coupons? and they worked?
He said he got them in "Early Jan". Even if he got them on January 1 (Assuming that he didn't mean January of a year other than 2009)it hasn't been 90 days.
IBM may have invented the first floppies, but the 3.5 version was Sony's. Here's a link about the history of storage from another thread:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/computer_data_storage_through_ages?page=0%2C1
Since Digital8 was simply recording digital video to a High 8 cassette, I'd say it made Sony plenty of money too. I've known quite a few people that bought them, and some are still in use to this day.
Memory Stick is debatable as to it's success. Granted no one but Sony uses it, but they sure have sold a lot of their own products that do use it. I see it at every retailer beside the other formats and there is a Memory Stick slot on every "universal" card reader that I've seen.
MiniDisc got killed in the consumer market due to bad timing and Apple out-marketing them by figuring out a way to make a MP3 player cool and easy to use for the average person. However it is still alive an well in broadcast radio. Again, making Sony more that enough money to justify it's existence.
I do agree with you about the engineering and build quality and have bought many of there products over the years. Their ES line of audio equipment is excellent IMO. I also stay away from their products that require proprietary formats though.
And this is why Sony technologies almost never win in the marketplace. That, and their amazing sense of timing.
Yes Beta-max failed, but BetaCam and it's follow up formats Digital Betacam and HD-Cam have pretty much dominated the broadcast market for decades. I'm not sure the mountain of cash they ultimately made off of that could be considered a format failure. While I'm talking about video formats, I think Video 8 and High 8 did pretty good back in the analog days. miniDV did/does fairly well as the digital replacement for those. Let's see who's where those... Oh yeah, Sony had all three of those too. Wow, I guess you can say that was a total fail in the video market.
3.5" floppy disks were received poorly as well. That was another Sony format. Well I guess they aren't doing so well since they have been replaced replaced by CD. Hmm, who developed that format with Phillips? Oh that's right it was Sony. Together they also developed S/PDIF, you sure don't see that on too many audio devices.
Seriously though, Sony has had some colossal failures with some formats but they are far from having the inverse Midis touch in regards to formats. I think there recent business practices have cost them more due to consumer mistrust than any format flop has. Especially since they have had a great many more successful formats.
"bended"? C'mon, I know /. is the home of the "offline illiterate", but "bended"?
While "bended" is archaic, it's still grammatically correct.