Probably not of this age. Ever played a 78? Ever seen a player that would?
Sure. I had an uncle that owned an old wind up Victrola I used to play them on when I was a kid. I still have my first record player, a late 60's model Gerrard. It played 33, 45, 78, and 16 RPM records, though I don't remember every seeing 16's. They were pretty poor quality and only used for speeches and audio books for the blind I believe.
Did you RTFA? The guy asked for a programming training and it was denied. He studied for himself, wrote the software by himself, and bring it to the office, to get his job done. Thus, USAF didn't paid him to write this software. It is *his* software, and he has the right to sell/rent/loan it to anyone he wants, including his employer.
The same applies for every job in the world: you can do whatever you want in your spare time, unless it competes with what the company you work for produces.
I guess you and I have different a understanding of TFA. I do quite a bit of work on "my own time" for my company, but I am not able to sell it to another company. I would think it to be just common sense that you can't develop, test, and implement software in a work place on company owned computers and pull what he did. I don't know the nature of the computers or data that they contain, but in many sectors you would be terminated or disciplined for installing unauthorized software.
Frankly I think he's lucky that the USAF is not suing him and the company that bought the software. This happens in the private sector all the time. Most recently look at Mattel vs. MGA (maker of Bratz dolls).
What I find especially funny is how many Slashdot-ers debate the legitimacy of software patents very frequently. But if the USAF cracks software that was developed by one of it's active soldiers implemented, tested, and used on their property it's just such a travesty.
IANAL but I was also under the impression that the US govt had the ability to take a patent from an individual or company under certain circumstances. Granted I don't know if this would qualify as one.
Ok that's funny, but it got me to thinking. Why bother with artificial intelligence when we can just wire cat brains into machinery? I mean, cats are free, right? Seems like it'd save a lot of time and expense.
Even forgoing the trouble of keeping the cells viable in the the digestive system; angiogenesis can have some nasty side effects, one of which is to cause new vessels to form in the eyes. Putting this in a pill would need some way to ensure that it only targets the myocardium even more so that a local injection does. I believe that this technique is in the process of being done via catheterization rather than actually opening the chest as it was done initially.
I firmly believe that instead of an airbag, cars should have a long, sharp spike mounted on the steering wheel (and pointed directly at the driver). I'm willing to bet that it would significantly reduce speeding...
Perhaps Windows ME was New Coke and Vista is just Pepsi.
No, Vista is definitely a Ford Edsel
That's why we're all here, right? To celebrate V Day, the date 2 years ago when Microsoft took one of the computer industry's most hilarious pratfalls. But why? It really wasn't that bad an operating system. True, the OS was kind of homely, resource hungry and too expensive, particularly at the outset of the late '00s recession. But what else? It was the first victim of Redmond hyper-hype. Microsoft's marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wonderOS; what they got was a XP in drag. Cultural critics speculated that the software was a flop because the CEO behaved like a cunt.
It is designed to remove energy from a system that I truly wonder how well we understand.
Given humanity's batting record of building systems and only recognizing impacts in hindsight, it would be nice to see that there's at least be a modicum of research in the area.
I got a kick out of the last sentence of the summery myself. "... providing cheap electricity without harming our environment"
Note that it won't cause harm to "our" environment as opposed to "the" environment.
Suppose it spots something on a crash course for the Earth, what next? All that will happen is that we know something is heading our way. Bruce Willis is too old to go up to space!
It's not like you have any real choice in the cartel they formed.
Don't know about your neck of the woods, but here in NYC I can switch between two different DSL-providers and a cable-company. Plus the T-Mobile's recent announcement of offering wireless static Internet service.
But I did not start talking about (not) switching — the gp did...
If you actually only have four choices in NYC then I'd take it almost as validation to that statement. Most of the rest of the US is slightly less urban than where you live. My family and friends that live there consider anything that takes more than 20 minutes via highway outside of the city to be the "Boonies".
You couldn't sneak that through a metal detector, though. Hopefully they would overlook it dangling from your keychain, especially if you were smart enough to buy a device that looks nothing like a standard USB key in an attempt to slip by (example). I doubt that any of those look much different from a standard USB key under x-ray. In fact, they'd probably do more to draw attention than to conceal what they are.
Up to 300 years includes 1 day. Since there is no minimum given, it is a semantically void promise. The only thing guaranteed is that your data will not last 300 or more years.
The link also says this two paragraphs down:
"By using an accelerated aging process to test the longevity of CD media, eFilm Gold CD-R disks have been shown to safely store images for 300 years, while the 4.7GB Archival Gold DVD-R media will safely store images for more than 100 years."
Please take a look at 13.3. According to it the US has gone from a homicide rate of 9.4/100K to 5.5/100K from 1990 to 2000. While many of the countries that have more favorable rates have actually increased. Denmark went from.8/100K to 4.0/100K. I was actually surprised Holland and Sweden ranked as high as they are.
Frankly I don't have a lot of faith in statistics like these. The US is a country of immigrants, all with different beliefs and backgrounds. I'm surprised we get along at all, let alone as well as we do. How do you take that into account in these figures? And even if you don't, those numbers don't tell me that I live in a nation of murderous heathens and the EU is some kind of Utopian paradise because they have better gun control laws. Something else that rarely gets mentioned; What is reported as a murder? How many countries with dictatorships are there that report very low murder rates, but sanction the killing of their citizens? How do you quantify that?
"because all gun control in this country is half-assed.
compare violent crime rates in nations with full bans on firearms to those in the US.
i'll give you a day or so to find your jaw under the sofa."
OK. Let's look at Brazil. They have strict gun control laws, and four times the murder rate / capita of the US.
How about England? Their murder rate has been rising steadily for the last fifteen years or so, and is getting frighteningly close to that of the US since it's has been dropping.
Or Australia. They had almost double the violent assault rate/capita of the US in 2000. Armed robbery rose by 45% after their ban in 1996.
"I would imagine there could potentially be geysers of the crap escaping during an earthquake or volcano smothering/killing any animal/plants in the area..."
OK, I can see the animal smothering argument, but the plants? Really?
It's not hard or expensive to swap out the fans in most PCs, cheap or otherwise, to make this a none issue. I've had a "Media PC" for well over a decade. The one that currently resides in my entertainment center is not audible from where I view movies, and barely so unless I'm within a few feet of it and everything else is off.
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I think you mean "Microsoft is sleeping", Microsoft can sleep, but I doubt Windows ( an OS ) can sleep. It can be put to sleep though. :p
But does it dream of electric sheep?
Probably not of this age. Ever played a 78? Ever seen a player that would?
Sure. I had an uncle that owned an old wind up Victrola I used to play them on when I was a kid. I still have my first record player, a late 60's model Gerrard. It played 33, 45, 78, and 16 RPM records, though I don't remember every seeing 16's. They were pretty poor quality and only used for speeches and audio books for the blind I believe.
It's because of terrorism that people can't bring their own coke to a plane anymore
I'm pretty sure that was illegal prior to 9-11.
Whether it's a disability or not, I think we should seriously consider segregating the two populations and putting them in different classrooms.
Can it be called "The Gattaca Initiative"?
A thousand dollars. He sold it six times, then... five times... six times... wait, $5,600?
Did somebody let Schrodinger's cat play with the iPhone again?
From TFA:
That's $5,600 in revenue for Heinrich and $2,400 for Apple, which collects 30% of each sale for "store upkeep."
Did you RTFA? The guy asked for a programming training and it was denied. He studied for himself, wrote the software by himself, and bring it to the office, to get his job done. Thus, USAF didn't paid him to write this software. It is *his* software, and he has the right to sell/rent/loan it to anyone he wants, including his employer.
The same applies for every job in the world: you can do whatever you want in your spare time, unless it competes with what the company you work for produces.
I guess you and I have different a understanding of TFA. I do quite a bit of work on "my own time" for my company, but I am not able to sell it to another company. I would think it to be just common sense that you can't develop, test, and implement software in a work place on company owned computers and pull what he did. I don't know the nature of the computers or data that they contain, but in many sectors you would be terminated or disciplined for installing unauthorized software.
Frankly I think he's lucky that the USAF is not suing him and the company that bought the software. This happens in the private sector all the time. Most recently look at Mattel vs. MGA (maker of Bratz dolls).
What I find especially funny is how many Slashdot-ers debate the legitimacy of software patents very frequently. But if the USAF cracks software that was developed by one of it's active soldiers implemented, tested, and used on their property it's just such a travesty.
IANAL but I was also under the impression that the US govt had the ability to take a patent from an individual or company under certain circumstances. Granted I don't know if this would qualify as one.
Ok that's funny, but it got me to thinking. Why bother with artificial intelligence when we can just wire cat brains into machinery? I mean, cats are free, right? Seems like it'd save a lot of time and expense.
How about a rat brain instead?
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html
Couldn't we *please get this in a pill already?
Even forgoing the trouble of keeping the cells viable in the the digestive system; angiogenesis can have some nasty side effects, one of which is to cause new vessels to form in the eyes. Putting this in a pill would need some way to ensure that it only targets the myocardium even more so that a local injection does. I believe that this technique is in the process of being done via catheterization rather than actually opening the chest as it was done initially.
I firmly believe that instead of an airbag, cars should have a long, sharp spike mounted on the steering wheel (and pointed directly at the driver). I'm willing to bet that it would significantly reduce speeding...
...and tailgating.
I've a feeling that grammer nazies will patrol the comments to this story in full force.
I've a feeling the grammar Nazis will be too. ;-)
Perhaps Windows ME was New Coke and Vista is just Pepsi.
No, Vista is definitely a Ford Edsel
That's why we're all here, right? To celebrate V Day, the date 2 years ago when Microsoft took one of the computer industry's most hilarious pratfalls. But why? It really wasn't that bad an operating system. True, the OS was kind of homely, resource hungry and too expensive, particularly at the outset of the late '00s recession. But what else? It was the first victim of Redmond hyper-hype. Microsoft's marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wonderOS; what they got was a XP in drag. Cultural critics speculated that the software was a flop because the CEO behaved like a cunt.
Paraphrased from Time's 50 Worst Cars.
No, the Edsel was a marketing failure of near biblical proportions, not an engineering failure.
Do you think someone will be able to get $200K+ for a mint condition Vista Ultimate CD in 50 years?
I do like your paraphrasing of the Time write up though.
It is designed to remove energy from a system that I truly wonder how well we understand.
Given humanity's batting record of building systems and only recognizing impacts in hindsight, it would be nice to see that there's at least be a modicum of research in the area.
I got a kick out of the last sentence of the summery myself. "... providing cheap electricity without harming our environment"
Note that it won't cause harm to "our" environment as opposed to "the" environment.
Suppose it spots something on a crash course for the Earth, what next? All that will happen is that we know something is heading our way. Bruce Willis is too old to go up to space!
Ask Chuck Norris do a couple of push ups...
Don't know about your neck of the woods, but here in NYC I can switch between two different DSL-providers and a cable-company. Plus the T-Mobile's recent announcement of offering wireless static Internet service.
But I did not start talking about (not) switching — the gp did...
If you actually only have four choices in NYC then I'd take it almost as validation to that statement. Most of the rest of the US is slightly less urban than where you live. My family and friends that live there consider anything that takes more than 20 minutes via highway outside of the city to be the "Boonies".
The wording here is what is important.
Up to 300 years includes 1 day. Since there is no minimum given, it is a semantically void promise. The only thing guaranteed is that your data will not last 300 or more years.
The link also says this two paragraphs down:"By using an accelerated aging process to test the longevity of CD media, eFilm Gold CD-R disks have been shown to safely store images for 300 years, while the 4.7GB Archival Gold DVD-R media will safely store images for more than 100 years."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
Yes, that's a great source. According to it, there are apparently absolutely no convictions in the US either, or less that 167 at least.
.8/100K to 4.0/100K. I was actually surprised Holland and Sweden ranked as high as they are.
How about this link:
http://www.unece.org/stats/trends/#ch13
Please take a look at 13.3. According to it the US has gone from a homicide rate of 9.4/100K to 5.5/100K from 1990 to 2000. While many of the countries that have more favorable rates have actually increased. Denmark went from
According to: http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2006/09/25/brazil_murder_rate_similar_to_war_zone_data_shows/
Brazil had 55,000 homicides in 2006 compared to a population of 184,184,000 http://population-of.com/en/Brazil/
Frankly I don't have a lot of faith in statistics like these. The US is a country of immigrants, all with different beliefs and backgrounds. I'm surprised we get along at all, let alone as well as we do. How do you take that into account in these figures? And even if you don't, those numbers don't tell me that I live in a nation of murderous heathens and the EU is some kind of Utopian paradise because they have better gun control laws. Something else that rarely gets mentioned; What is reported as a murder? How many countries with dictatorships are there that report very low murder rates, but sanction the killing of their citizens? How do you quantify that?
"because all gun control in this country is half-assed.
/capita of the US in 2000. Armed robbery rose by 45% after their ban in 1996.
compare violent crime rates in nations with full bans on firearms to those in the US.
i'll give you a day or so to find your jaw under the sofa."
OK. Let's look at Brazil. They have strict gun control laws, and four times the murder rate / capita of the US.
How about England? Their murder rate has been rising steadily for the last fifteen years or so, and is getting frighteningly close to that of the US since it's has been dropping.
Or Australia. They had almost double the violent assault rate
OK, I can see the animal smothering argument, but the plants? Really?
It's not hard or expensive to swap out the fans in most PCs, cheap or otherwise, to make this a none issue. I've had a "Media PC" for well over a decade. The one that currently resides in my entertainment center is not audible from where I view movies, and barely so unless I'm within a few feet of it and everything else is off.