How can a company be so blatantly stupid? If greed wasn't the dominant motivator for development, I would be opposed to the whole P and T Office in general. Unfortunately, so little work gets done for free. Scientists and Engineers rarely devote their lives to something, just so they can be screwed by the world.
The Open Source movement is the antithesis to greed and hipocrisy. Maybe enough of a root can grow, that more modern inventors will work for the world's good. If we merged the technology of today and the ethos of the past we could accomplish much.
The track record of the government, legislative, judicial and executive, had seemed pretty bleak until now. DMCA, COPA, the meth proliferation act, internet taxation. Success and failure.
In fact, I was ready to assume that the government was full of technological neophytes and sychophants, willing to bow down to any corporation with even an ounce of intelligence. I am starting to get restored faih in the government, though. Watching the congressional hearing on MP3 tech, I started to see that the senators aren't all mindless fools.
Lets hope that the judge makes a good ruling, and the MPAA gets beating in the kidneys when they go for appeal.
Its easy to state that, but the hard part is explaining why. I assume you are referring to my part about no use of it outside of high speed transit, and then offering it for probing the depths. If that is the case, feel free to see it that way. I do too. I meant to go off on another tangent, but wrote something else instead. So, yes, my argument is invalid. But the argument that is invalid only deals with potential applications, not with the danger to animals that the journalist himself mentioned.
I don't see what part of the article supports your viewpoint, seeing as the article says 'Assuming it didn't hit a whale on the way, of course.' when referring to trans-atlantic crossing.
Besides, the practical applications of this dissipate as soon as you leave the field of high speed transit. What good is a cavitation bubble in clearing a mine? I could understand inducing a cavitation bubble to detonate the mine, but you would have to locate it first. This means that cavitation is as effective as standard methods of clearing mines.
If you wanted to come up with a good use of the technology, you should have mentioned deep sea exploration. If you want to reach the bottom of the Marinaras trench, you could fire a probe down to the depths, and use a cavitation bubble to protect it from the pressure. Only problem is, as soon as you stop moving quickly, youwould implode. Plus data transmission without a tether would be impossible. You would need to send the probe down, take surveillance at > mach 1.0, and return to the surface.
When I said 'Thank you, Russia' I was being sarcastic. (obviously) But I am sincere in saying that Russian technology is very interesting. They developed Ground Effect craft, Cavitation technology, good rifles, and good jets. I just wish we would think about the effects of flying around in our jets, driving around in our cars, or, now, diving in our jet subs.
Creating a vaccuum, and flying around at mach 1.x. Yay. We can kill dolphins with ease. Either bludgeon them or suck them into your supersonic wake for a few hundred miles. Thank you, Russia!
Yep. The 'great' Charter Communications. @Home still sucks, no matter who's mug is selling it. It's better than the DSL service here: 1/2 the bandwidth at 2x the price.
I agree, and it isn't even a very good monopoly. In this area, we have a constant influx of new companies running the system, each one screwing the people over. Hell, the only reason I even have cable is because of my cable internet provider.
I could understand regulating standard broadcast media: it is so widely available for viewing, and can be picked up in most any conditions. Thus far more people are viewing it, and obviously more children are too. But then you have cable TV. How can you reconcile censoring something that is entirely optional? And now, we have media streams online. So specialized, that you would have to be nuts to ask for government regulation.
The future of broadcast is digital. I am against regulation of narrow acting media, but soon there won't be narrow media. The internet is making things more open, and thus making its self a target for future regulation.
Events in the past 5 years have made me ever the more suspicous of our government. In these past 5 years, we have seen every sort of human rights violation taken to the internet, including here in the US. Technology seems to have made it easier to trample people's rights, while, at the same time, increasing them.
Carnivore, Omnivore, Echelon, and all manner of technological devices are beginning to tighten the noose around freedom online. Right about now, Sealand is starting to sound better and better.
When the internet began to become available to common people, the elitist hackers began to scream. When the common people began to be taken advantage of by some elitist users, they began to scream. Now, after everyone is "safe," and our rights don't matter, only a minority of users can scream.
It is technology such as this that is cutting the vocal cords of the technological minority.
You are telling me that they need to shrink the frigging screen to cut the price? I don't believe it. Sounds to me like they are being cheap. Besides that, I am sick of the vertical platform. I want to see a horizontal PDA that isn't a grand. If I wanted to waste a fucking grand, I would buy a cheap ass laptop, not an expensive PDA.
And what the fuck is with this color craze? Maybe Apple and Palm should spend some time actually working on their hardware, and not the fucking colors they use. Sage? How about a processor that achieves a gigaflop without having a bloated price tag!
Time for the Offtopic, Troll, and Flamebait mod tags.
I didn't bother reading the post because, just as in the past, I got bored after reading the first sentence. That said, here is my un-educated post. Moderators: get the 'offtopic' stamp ready.
Sexual Harrassment laws are just a sample of the horrid American legal system. When a person is accused of harrassing a coworker, their entire sexual history can be introduced as evidence. Yet during a rape trial, the victim's history can not. This is not a victim/criminal distinction, it is a female/male distinction. A victim of a crime has the right to privacy, but only when this privacy does not prevent certain crucial information from coming to light.
But this is only one of many errors. We also see affirmative action laws, designed to equalize, but instead promoting racism. When you wish to make people equal, does it make sense to raise one person up, and lower another? NO! True equality is that of a person using their inherent skills. A blind person is blind. To say that they deserve special treatment is wrong. A black person is black. That doesn't mean they need government assistance to get into college. A woman is a woman. She does not need to sue to get a job.
In fact, all of these supposed indifferences have been proven to be untrue. The female/male wage difference? Skewed by outlying data. 'Minority'/white college enrollment information? Incorrect census data. None of these injustices exist. But that doesn't matter, because the media can keep using them for stories, and the ignorant can keep believing. That is their right, isn't it Mr. Katz?
Unless we wish to see the more claim jumping akin to '.com or the '49 gold rush, new procedure needs to be developed. On certain TLDs, perhaps a system of meoderation could be built. When a domain is requested, it appears on a list of domains. If I think I deserve this domain more, I can pay the license fee and halt the other person's purchase. A debate ensues, and if my argument wins, I get the domain, and he gets his money back. Otherwise, I lose my deposit, and he goes on his merry way.
This would be an invasive restriction, so I don't see using it for a.XXX domain, or anything equally hot, excuse the pun. Something else needs to be done, though. Domains are good for now, but when 6 billion people finally get computer access, we will see a lot of anger.
I enjoy Biometrics greatly. If they arose that biometric devices could be developed cheaply and effectively, a data revolution would occur. If people felt that their information was totally secure, they would be more willing to store it at a central server.
One must ask the question, though: how conspicious is this mouse? Would you know that you were using the mouse? A industrial designer would tell you that this would be the final stage of evolution for the product, but I could see problems arising.
It is not a crime to be obnoxious to a company, so a restraining order would not be appropriate, legally. Harrassment is out of the question, because he bothers the users. Breach of contract won't work either, because the penalty of breach is termination. And, unless the man lives in Texas, the death penalty is out too.
So, what can we do with the trolls? Even if a user of EBay filed a restraining order against the troll, how do you set the conditions? "You can't be within 3 clicks of this person at any time." That won't work. Again, we have a system of government that can't cope with change until a few years after the cause. Damn Republicans and their big government.
No one put a gun to my head when I bought my computer. In fact, it seems that the crux of your argument is based in jealousy. Linux isn't available on most Personal Computers because of people like Ingo. You spend your time working on the kernel making it more powerful, while every professional OS company works on what the common person really wants: a nice and easy GUI.
While a CLI has it's place, the average user enjoys the simplicity of a GUI. Microsoft, while receiving great praise from the Slashdot community for it's innovations, has done something that Linux hasn't: it made an OK product and made people think it was Great. Microsoft can not be faulted for good advertising. To assume that a business must play fair, just because it deals with software, is asinine.
I applaud this development, and I enjoy the approach that Ingo took. But to say that bundling a server with the kernel is different than what MS has done, is to invite a swift beating. Not everyone is a genius programmer, and thus the same limitations are in place as in Windows. I wouldn't worry about the FTC going after a commercial producer of this, though, because the kernel has been specifically improved for content serving. The server is the OS, and the OS is the server. Pity to the moron who would buy it for gaming.
I hate Microsoft, don't get me wrong, but they haven't committed the great sins we accuse them of. I just wish they would release software that was less buggy and more efficient. Otherwise, as soon as a Linux distributor gets some marketing intelligence Apple and Microsoft will be screwed. Just save a spot for Be, ok?
...if there were a voice to text interface. I can't imagine how useful this might be when your only choices are typing on a QWERTY the size of your hand, using script recognition, or using symbol recognition.
I love it whenever someone brings up nitinol for a lifting application. I went to an engineering concept. One of the stupid little tasks was to design a better door for the back of a pickup truck. Those doors are often greater than 30 pounds, but after thinking about it for a little while, the most we could come up with was a cylinder based system. Nothing new. So we decided to play with the judges. We drew are schematic, and decided to use a single strand of nitinol. Max lift: >1 pound. Not to mention it would break very easily. we still won.
Maybe someone will develop another memory alloy, but even still: a large strand of it wouldn't be affective, just like muscle. You need to bundle up smaller cables.
If you follow a link on the printer page to the silophone page, you can input sounds into a tube an listen to them echo back live. I was playing a lot of sounds and then the system started uttering static. I hope I/we didn't break it for everyone else.
Source Code, by American legal definition, is a means of public speach. As such, DeCSS creators would be protected from lawsuit if they were American. Even the DMCA can't limit the rights of the people as presented by the constiution. Yet.
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How can a company be so blatantly stupid? If greed wasn't the dominant motivator for development, I would be opposed to the whole P and T Office in general. Unfortunately, so little work gets done for free. Scientists and Engineers rarely devote their lives to something, just so they can be screwed by the world.
The Open Source movement is the antithesis to greed and hipocrisy. Maybe enough of a root can grow, that more modern inventors will work for the world's good. If we merged the technology of today and the ethos of the past we could accomplish much.
The government imposed a moratorium on internet taxation. However, it did not get passed without opposition. This was a case of success, though.
Praise Cthulu, it's an intelligent Judge!
The track record of the government, legislative, judicial and executive, had seemed pretty bleak until now. DMCA, COPA, the meth proliferation act, internet taxation. Success and failure.
In fact, I was ready to assume that the government was full of technological neophytes and sychophants, willing to bow down to any corporation with even an ounce of intelligence. I am starting to get restored faih in the government, though. Watching the congressional hearing on MP3 tech, I started to see that the senators aren't all mindless fools.
Lets hope that the judge makes a good ruling, and the MPAA gets beating in the kidneys when they go for appeal.
I thought the history channel was going to do something like this, but it turns out that it was "The History of Eunuchs."
I understand now. thank you, I hadn't thought about the bullets that were developed. It would be useful.
Its easy to state that, but the hard part is explaining why. I assume you are referring to my part about no use of it outside of high speed transit, and then offering it for probing the depths. If that is the case, feel free to see it that way. I do too. I meant to go off on another tangent, but wrote something else instead. So, yes, my argument is invalid. But the argument that is invalid only deals with potential applications, not with the danger to animals that the journalist himself mentioned.
I don't see what part of the article supports your viewpoint, seeing as the article says 'Assuming it didn't hit a whale on the way, of course.' when referring to trans-atlantic crossing.
Besides, the practical applications of this dissipate as soon as you leave the field of high speed transit. What good is a cavitation bubble in clearing a mine? I could understand inducing a cavitation bubble to detonate the mine, but you would have to locate it first. This means that cavitation is as effective as standard methods of clearing mines.
If you wanted to come up with a good use of the technology, you should have mentioned deep sea exploration. If you want to reach the bottom of the Marinaras trench, you could fire a probe down to the depths, and use a cavitation bubble to protect it from the pressure. Only problem is, as soon as you stop moving quickly, youwould implode. Plus data transmission without a tether would be impossible. You would need to send the probe down, take surveillance at > mach 1.0, and return to the surface.
When I said 'Thank you, Russia' I was being sarcastic. (obviously) But I am sincere in saying that Russian technology is very interesting. They developed Ground Effect craft, Cavitation technology, good rifles, and good jets. I just wish we would think about the effects of flying around in our jets, driving around in our cars, or, now, diving in our jet subs.
Creating a vaccuum, and flying around at mach 1.x. Yay. We can kill dolphins with ease. Either bludgeon them or suck them into your supersonic wake for a few hundred miles. Thank you, Russia!
Yep. The 'great' Charter Communications. @Home still sucks, no matter who's mug is selling it. It's better than the DSL service here: 1/2 the bandwidth at 2x the price.
I agree, and it isn't even a very good monopoly. In this area, we have a constant influx of new companies running the system, each one screwing the people over. Hell, the only reason I even have cable is because of my cable internet provider.
I could understand regulating standard broadcast media: it is so widely available for viewing, and can be picked up in most any conditions. Thus far more people are viewing it, and obviously more children are too. But then you have cable TV. How can you reconcile censoring something that is entirely optional? And now, we have media streams online. So specialized, that you would have to be nuts to ask for government regulation.
The future of broadcast is digital. I am against regulation of narrow acting media, but soon there won't be narrow media. The internet is making things more open, and thus making its self a target for future regulation.
Events in the past 5 years have made me ever the more suspicous of our government. In these past 5 years, we have seen every sort of human rights violation taken to the internet, including here in the US. Technology seems to have made it easier to trample people's rights, while, at the same time, increasing them.
Carnivore, Omnivore, Echelon, and all manner of technological devices are beginning to tighten the noose around freedom online. Right about now, Sealand is starting to sound better and better.
When the internet began to become available to common people, the elitist hackers began to scream. When the common people began to be taken advantage of by some elitist users, they began to scream. Now, after everyone is "safe," and our rights don't matter, only a minority of users can scream.
It is technology such as this that is cutting the vocal cords of the technological minority.
You are telling me that they need to shrink the frigging screen to cut the price? I don't believe it. Sounds to me like they are being cheap. Besides that, I am sick of the vertical platform. I want to see a horizontal PDA that isn't a grand. If I wanted to waste a fucking grand, I would buy a cheap ass laptop, not an expensive PDA.
And what the fuck is with this color craze? Maybe Apple and Palm should spend some time actually working on their hardware, and not the fucking colors they use. Sage? How about a processor that achieves a gigaflop without having a bloated price tag!
Time for the Offtopic, Troll, and Flamebait mod tags.
I didn't bother reading the post because, just as in the past, I got bored after reading the first sentence. That said, here is my un-educated post. Moderators: get the 'offtopic' stamp ready.
Sexual Harrassment laws are just a sample of the horrid American legal system. When a person is accused of harrassing a coworker, their entire sexual history can be introduced as evidence. Yet during a rape trial, the victim's history can not. This is not a victim/criminal distinction, it is a female/male distinction. A victim of a crime has the right to privacy, but only when this privacy does not prevent certain crucial information from coming to light.
But this is only one of many errors. We also see affirmative action laws, designed to equalize, but instead promoting racism. When you wish to make people equal, does it make sense to raise one person up, and lower another? NO! True equality is that of a person using their inherent skills. A blind person is blind. To say that they deserve special treatment is wrong. A black person is black. That doesn't mean they need government assistance to get into college. A woman is a woman. She does not need to sue to get a job.
In fact, all of these supposed indifferences have been proven to be untrue. The female/male wage difference? Skewed by outlying data. 'Minority'/white college enrollment information? Incorrect census data. None of these injustices exist. But that doesn't matter, because the media can keep using them for stories, and the ignorant can keep believing. That is their right, isn't it Mr. Katz?
Unless we wish to see the more claim jumping akin to '.com or the '49 gold rush, new procedure needs to be developed. On certain TLDs, perhaps a system of meoderation could be built. When a domain is requested, it appears on a list of domains. If I think I deserve this domain more, I can pay the license fee and halt the other person's purchase. A debate ensues, and if my argument wins, I get the domain, and he gets his money back. Otherwise, I lose my deposit, and he goes on his merry way.
.XXX domain, or anything equally hot, excuse the pun. Something else needs to be done, though. Domains are good for now, but when 6 billion people finally get computer access, we will see a lot of anger.
This would be an invasive restriction, so I don't see using it for a
Actually, I believe the last time ISO 3166 was updated was back in 1996. I could be wrong, though.
I enjoy Biometrics greatly. If they arose that biometric devices could be developed cheaply and effectively, a data revolution would occur. If people felt that their information was totally secure, they would be more willing to store it at a central server.
One must ask the question, though: how conspicious is this mouse? Would you know that you were using the mouse? A industrial designer would tell you that this would be the final stage of evolution for the product, but I could see problems arising.
...and let the chips fall where they may!
It is not a crime to be obnoxious to a company, so a restraining order would not be appropriate, legally. Harrassment is out of the question, because he bothers the users. Breach of contract won't work either, because the penalty of breach is termination. And, unless the man lives in Texas, the death penalty is out too.
So, what can we do with the trolls? Even if a user of EBay filed a restraining order against the troll, how do you set the conditions? "You can't be within 3 clicks of this person at any time." That won't work. Again, we have a system of government that can't cope with change until a few years after the cause. Damn Republicans and their big government.
No one put a gun to my head when I bought my computer. In fact, it seems that the crux of your argument is based in jealousy. Linux isn't available on most Personal Computers because of people like Ingo. You spend your time working on the kernel making it more powerful, while every professional OS company works on what the common person really wants: a nice and easy GUI.
While a CLI has it's place, the average user enjoys the simplicity of a GUI. Microsoft, while receiving great praise from the Slashdot community for it's innovations, has done something that Linux hasn't: it made an OK product and made people think it was Great. Microsoft can not be faulted for good advertising. To assume that a business must play fair, just because it deals with software, is asinine.
I applaud this development, and I enjoy the approach that Ingo took. But to say that bundling a server with the kernel is different than what MS has done, is to invite a swift beating. Not everyone is a genius programmer, and thus the same limitations are in place as in Windows. I wouldn't worry about the FTC going after a commercial producer of this, though, because the kernel has been specifically improved for content serving. The server is the OS, and the OS is the server. Pity to the moron who would buy it for gaming.
I hate Microsoft, don't get me wrong, but they haven't committed the great sins we accuse them of. I just wish they would release software that was less buggy and more efficient. Otherwise, as soon as a Linux distributor gets some marketing intelligence Apple and Microsoft will be screwed. Just save a spot for Be, ok?
...if there were a voice to text interface. I can't imagine how useful this might be when your only choices are typing on a QWERTY the size of your hand, using script recognition, or using symbol recognition.
I love it whenever someone brings up nitinol for a lifting application. I went to an engineering concept. One of the stupid little tasks was to design a better door for the back of a pickup truck. Those doors are often greater than 30 pounds, but after thinking about it for a little while, the most we could come up with was a cylinder based system. Nothing new. So we decided to play with the judges. We drew are schematic, and decided to use a single strand of nitinol. Max lift: >1 pound. Not to mention it would break very easily. we still won.
Maybe someone will develop another memory alloy, but even still: a large strand of it wouldn't be affective, just like muscle. You need to bundle up smaller cables.
I just hope the theatres don't use AOL. 20 minute delays while they try and find a dial-up!
If you follow a link on the printer page to the silophone page, you can input sounds into a tube an listen to them echo back live. I was playing a lot of sounds and then the system started uttering static. I hope I/we didn't break it for everyone else.
Source Code, by American legal definition, is a means of public speach. As such, DeCSS creators would be protected from lawsuit if they were American. Even the DMCA can't limit the rights of the people as presented by the constiution. Yet.