My thoughts exactly. Here is a fine example of how this law really would hurt society more than help. How many times have those who have the power been taken down by camera phones? I dunno but I think that its important to keep this feature in phones for just this reason. Afterall, who is watching those who watch over us?
I wish that they would take the time to actually make this game a learning tool. The potential is there just not the effort on the programming side.
As a game it is lots of fun. From a guitarists stand point, it would be better it they took the time to get actual song/midi data and used it to teach the muscle memory the right things.
Will my ATM card finally remember that my preferred language is English? I mean, honest, its not so annoying to hear 'paper or plastic' to me compared to constantly being harassed for a language preference every time I stick the card in the moneyhell machine. You'd figure that with all the other data that is stored on an ATM card it should know after a couple years of use you never choose the other languages available...
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus. I don't know... should every artist of every type constantly suffer and wonder where tonights dinner is coming from or how are they going to put their kids through college? I think they have a right to make whatever they can and it saddens me to think how little they actually make (per unit) compared to the labels that own them do.
Not to make a profit. In the end it really is their fiduciary responsibility to their families and fans to make good money. If they don't, eventually they will disappear back to the workforce in order to meet the needs that life demands of them. When that happens there's no new music from them either.
That said, I won't be buying a new Metallica album. They've proven to be quite ignorant of digital music as an issue and alienated many of their original fans.
Where I live the free wifi came about as a very nicely negotiated deal by the city and the company that provides wifi for the local departments and emergency services. In the RFP that was put out for bid, part of the contract to provide a secure wireless network (for police, fire, rescue, building dept., and code compliance) the city insisted that the provider arrange for Free public wifi for the whole city. They just finished testing and are starting roll-out this month. We'll see how it goes. I can see one of the access points about 30feet from my balcony and the signal is 100%. More info can be gleaned here
Back in the early 90's they had an IBM ad for a slick phone/wearable computer/heads-up display. Some guy was trading pork belly's in a park on the other side of the world while feeding pidgeons. They showed it again on the last episode of Star Trek TNG. Probably a few times after that. The product never made it to market and even if they launched it today would probably be the iphone killer that every geek dreams of.
My vote for the biggest vaporware product ad evah.
He used to post here a lot too. He did do some interesting stuff even while the mindpixel project was going on. One of the last jobs he had was driving the VLT in Paranal Chile and working on the databases there. I always thought his posts here were interesting. When I learned he offed himself though, it was not a surprise. He had, in the past, posted many times about earlier attempts at suicide and bouts of depression throughout his life.
Actually, I'd like my old account back as well but can't for the life of me remember which email address and password it had with it... oh well. Its not like jumping from this uid to the old one (was a five digit uid) would be that impressive or anything but it be nice to have my name back.
Personally, I feel sorry for the kid. Too many lawyers and greedy bastards all the way around. If the kid had stolen a physical cd, it would have been a minor issue, not years of misery and thousands of dollars in court. Whatever happened to having the punishment fit the crime?
What's 'justice' and what happens in a court room are, unfortunately, quite often two different things.
Actually, Elton's cover of Pinball Wizard is, as far as I can recall, the only cover of a Who song that made the charts in the top ten. Behind Blue Eyes?
Actually the government didn't talk about the U2 until one piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down. At which point the cat was really out of the bag anyway. They had no intention of talking about it but found at that point they had no choice.
Actually, in Ben Rich's excellent book "Skunk Works" he mentions that the morning Gary Powers was shot down was the first time he could ever tell his wife what kind of work he was doing. He told her "I built that plane that they are talking about..." Her reply was something like "I figured as much"
Wow, this has been one of those things that really piss me off for quite some time. While it is true that the laser jet printers do better than inkjets they ALSO LIE and ARE DESIGNED TO FAIL.
For example; I bought a laser two years ago (from a company that rhymes with hell). I bought it because I needed to print letters to clients and do things like print checks. Nothing heavily graphics intensive nor really heavy duty text work either.
So here is what I discovered with my 'efficient' laser printer; My '5000 page' toner cartridge prints about 1000 pages. Pissed, I decided to open one up as they are about $100 for a new one.
Lo and behold it was still full of toner. Somehow, as the printer printed the quality of the prints degraded as the toner 'ran out' a little more with each print. At the time I figured this was because there was no toner but the proof was now in my hands (and all over my desk for that matter) so I decided to investigate further. It seems that these toner cartridges use chips to tell your pc that its running out each time you print.
Now, I'm not electronics guru, so I don't have a machine I can actually read the chip with, but I am under the impression that this chip also purposefully degrades the quality of your prints as it counts down your toner level. To test that theory I ordered some refill kits off of the web.
First thing I noticed after doing the chip replacement was that the quality of the prints immediately improved. I printed for several weeks, noticed the quality go down again, replaced the chip (no toner added in there yet...) and viola worked beautiful. When that chip said it was empty I opened the whole thing up again and took a look. This time it was indeed very low, but not empty. I poured in the new bottle of toner and put in a new chip and went back to work.
I usually order 3 chips for each bottle of toner I purchase . Currently I get about 4000 pages per bottle of toner. My refill purchases cost me $29 for two bottles of toner and six chips (on chip comes with each bottle and I add the other four to the order) Let's see$200 vs $29 for two 'cartridges' worth of prints... hmmm.... yeah I'll refill. Add to that the fact that the purchased carts don't get the same mileage as the refilled ones with extra chips to replace the old ones.
I guarantee I will never buy another 'rhymes with hell' printer again.
I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. However, considering that when you decide to mine a given asteroid for its resources you've probably already surveyed it and decided that its worth doing. One that's headed your way for an impact isn't always worth mining.
That said, I think it would be interesting if we could design a way to capture Apophis on one of its visits. Not for mining mind you, but for use with building a space tether/elevator. At ~250 meters its almost a gift in terms of an anchor.
Are the suicidal robots being misinformed about 72 virgin robots awaiting them? no, but, can you imagine the new nasa press releases;
KSC, FLORIDA - In a bold initiative against rogue asteroids ordered by the Bush administration, NASA engineers have announced today that 3 asteroid probes have suceesfully completed their martydom operations. Each probe's sacrifice against the Trojans has brought the jihad to new levels and liberated us from the threat of these wandering interstellar crusaders in a series of pre-emptive strikes designed to provide security to the American peoples and bring democracy to peoples of the world.
The weight on the outer rim of the space station will be uneven. As a result, the space station will wobble and move as it spins. How would you compensate for this wobble? Here's one that makes me wonder... bullets spin, as do many satellites and space probes, for the specific reason that it helps them to stay on course. If what you said is true, then why do we spin anything in zero g environments? I seem to remember seeing footage from one of the Shuttles launching a satellite and it spun up on its way...
It shouldn't be too hard to develop a gimbled active dampening system to compensate. In theory this could be done with a few massive flywheels like the way hubble is pointed, just a larger scale. No fuel required other than electricity to spin up the flywheels, which could be provided via solar array or a nuclear reactor(which is also a worthy space project). We'd have to build one to try and work out these problems and right now that isn't happening.
Now, that said I am not a rocket surgeon or anything like that so I could be very wrong about all of this.
Actually...people can say what they want about all these new fangled phones versus the old ones. I just think it interesting that the reception I got on my old motorola brick was better than any of the bright and shiny ones I've had in the last 10 years.
So... I click on the moon.google.com link you posted.
Nice, nice... not thrilling, but nice... then I zoomed in on the Apollo 11 landing site. Still nice, not thrilling but nice...
so I zoomed in all the way to see how good the resolution gets.
All of the sudden... Yikes! the moon turned yellow and looked like cheese... Not surrender monkey Brie or boardshead gouda either but aparantly the surface is clearly some type of swiss cheese.
I was not prepared for this revelation! My day has now been wrecked by the likes of the google crew...
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My thoughts exactly. Here is a fine example of how this law really would hurt society more than help. How many times have those who have the power been taken down by camera phones? I dunno but I think that its important to keep this feature in phones for just this reason. Afterall, who is watching those who watch over us?
I wish that they would take the time to actually make this game a learning tool. The potential is there just not the effort on the programming side.
As a game it is lots of fun. From a guitarists stand point, it would be better it they took the time to get actual song/midi data and used it to teach the muscle memory the right things.
Hey that was pretty cool! Thanks for posting it :)
Yeah because speech alerts are really distracting.
Well, the less distracted, the better.
Personally, I'd think that a great app for iphones would be one that shuts the damn thing off when it realizes your driving.
Will my ATM card finally remember that my preferred language is English? I mean, honest, its not so annoying to hear 'paper or plastic' to me compared to constantly being harassed for a language preference every time I stick the card in the moneyhell machine. You'd figure that with all the other data that is stored on an ATM card it should know after a couple years of use you never choose the other languages available...
That said, I won't be buying a new Metallica album. They've proven to be quite ignorant of digital music as an issue and alienated many of their original fans.
This is not a science article. Arguably it is a math article to the interested christians on /. but certainly not science.
Where I live the free wifi came about as a very nicely negotiated deal by the city and the company that provides wifi for the local departments and emergency services. In the RFP that was put out for bid, part of the contract to provide a secure wireless network (for police, fire, rescue, building dept., and code compliance) the city insisted that the provider arrange for Free public wifi for the whole city. They just finished testing and are starting roll-out this month. We'll see how it goes. I can see one of the access points about 30feet from my balcony and the signal is 100%. More info can be gleaned here
Back in the early 90's they had an IBM ad for a slick phone/wearable computer/heads-up display. Some guy was trading pork belly's in a park on the other side of the world while feeding pidgeons. They showed it again on the last episode of Star Trek TNG. Probably a few times after that. The product never made it to market and even if they launched it today would probably be the iphone killer that every geek dreams of.
My vote for the biggest vaporware product ad evah.
He used to post here a lot too. He did do some interesting stuff even while the mindpixel project was going on. One of the last jobs he had was driving the VLT in Paranal Chile and working on the databases there. I always thought his posts here were interesting. When I learned he offed himself though, it was not a surprise. He had, in the past, posted many times about earlier attempts at suicide and bouts of depression throughout his life.
Actually, I'd like my old account back as well but can't for the life of me remember which email address and password it had with it... oh well. Its not like jumping from this uid to the old one (was a five digit uid) would be that impressive or anything but it be nice to have my name back.
Also forgot OGG...
OGG was some of the funniest trolls I ever read... I kinda miss those caveman posts
"Tom, I can name that tune in <1 ms..."
Personally, I feel sorry for the kid. Too many lawyers and greedy bastards all the way around. If the kid had stolen a physical cd, it would have been a minor issue, not years of misery and thousands of dollars in court. Whatever happened to having the punishment fit the crime?
What's 'justice' and what happens in a court room are, unfortunately, quite often two different things.Actually the government didn't talk about the U2 until one piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down. At which point the cat was really out of the bag anyway. They had no intention of talking about it but found at that point they had no choice.
Actually, in Ben Rich's excellent book "Skunk Works" he mentions that the morning Gary Powers was shot down was the first time he could ever tell his wife what kind of work he was doing. He told her "I built that plane that they are talking about..." Her reply was something like "I figured as much"
Wow, this has been one of those things that really piss me off for quite some time. While it is true that the laser jet printers do better than inkjets they ALSO LIE and ARE DESIGNED TO FAIL.
For example; I bought a laser two years ago (from a company that rhymes with hell). I bought it because I needed to print letters to clients and do things like print checks. Nothing heavily graphics intensive nor really heavy duty text work either.
So here is what I discovered with my 'efficient' laser printer; My '5000 page' toner cartridge prints about 1000 pages. Pissed, I decided to open one up as they are about $100 for a new one.
Lo and behold it was still full of toner. Somehow, as the printer printed the quality of the prints degraded as the toner 'ran out' a little more with each print. At the time I figured this was because there was no toner but the proof was now in my hands (and all over my desk for that matter) so I decided to investigate further. It seems that these toner cartridges use chips to tell your pc that its running out each time you print.
Now, I'm not electronics guru, so I don't have a machine I can actually read the chip with, but I am under the impression that this chip also purposefully degrades the quality of your prints as it counts down your toner level. To test that theory I ordered some refill kits off of the web.
First thing I noticed after doing the chip replacement was that the quality of the prints immediately improved. I printed for several weeks, noticed the quality go down again, replaced the chip (no toner added in there yet...) and viola worked beautiful. When that chip said it was empty I opened the whole thing up again and took a look. This time it was indeed very low, but not empty. I poured in the new bottle of toner and put in a new chip and went back to work.
I usually order 3 chips for each bottle of toner I purchase . Currently I get about 4000 pages per bottle of toner. My refill purchases cost me $29 for two bottles of toner and six chips (on chip comes with each bottle and I add the other four to the order) Let's see$200 vs $29 for two 'cartridges' worth of prints... hmmm.... yeah I'll refill. Add to that the fact that the purchased carts don't get the same mileage as the refilled ones with extra chips to replace the old ones.
I guarantee I will never buy another 'rhymes with hell' printer again.
Caveat emptor indeed.
I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. However, considering that when you decide to mine a given asteroid for its resources you've probably already surveyed it and decided that its worth doing. One that's headed your way for an impact isn't always worth mining.
That said, I think it would be interesting if we could design a way to capture Apophis on one of its visits. Not for mining mind you, but for use with building a space tether/elevator. At ~250 meters its almost a gift in terms of an anchor.
KSC, FLORIDA - In a bold initiative against rogue asteroids ordered by the Bush administration, NASA engineers have announced today that 3 asteroid probes have suceesfully completed their martydom operations. Each probe's sacrifice against the Trojans has brought the jihad to new levels and liberated us from the threat of these wandering interstellar crusaders in a series of pre-emptive strikes designed to provide security to the American peoples and bring democracy to peoples of the world.
It shouldn't be too hard to develop a gimbled active dampening system to compensate. In theory this could be done with a few massive flywheels like the way hubble is pointed, just a larger scale. No fuel required other than electricity to spin up the flywheels, which could be provided via solar array or a nuclear reactor(which is also a worthy space project). We'd have to build one to try and work out these problems and right now that isn't happening.
Now, that said I am not a rocket surgeon or anything like that so I could be very wrong about all of this.
Actually...people can say what they want about all these new fangled phones versus the old ones. I just think it interesting that the reception I got on my old motorola brick was better than any of the bright and shiny ones I've had in the last 10 years.
heh...
just imagine the set of devils horns you could display when angry...
or
the pinochio nose when fibbing...
or
the spock ears for the next trekkie convention...
Just look at the example our fearless leader, pres. duhbya and co have set... /me runs and ducks for cover from inbound feces...
So... I click on the moon.google.com link you posted.
Nice, nice... not thrilling, but nice... then I zoomed in on the Apollo 11 landing site. Still nice, not thrilling but nice...
so I zoomed in all the way to see how good the resolution gets.
All of the sudden... Yikes! the moon turned yellow and looked like cheese... Not surrender monkey Brie or boardshead gouda either but aparantly the surface is clearly some type of swiss cheese.
I was not prepared for this revelation! My day has now been wrecked by the likes of the google crew...
If this rock is of sufficint size and its orbit near enough to take advantage of... why not us this as an anchor for a space elevator?