Apple's merely guarding their flank against potential impropriety. It might be worthwhile to see what relatively important open source developments have been released by minors. Though IANAL, if they're still undwer 18, they could break "contract" and recind Free access. Just think of the havoc this would cause of some of its code were integrated into a vital app, eh? Hoepfully this isn't too likely.
A gravity well alone doth not a shield make. For a planet to possess sufficient shielding against radiation, it must have an adequately strong magnetosphere. Mars and the Moon, though both gravity wells, do not have magnetospheres.
Is the cost per cubic foot much greater than standard concrete? If not, then I'd be interested in the implications for using it as a residential flooring substrate. Rather than going for a standard radiant heating system, would it be more efficient to employ this?
Of course, yesterday's CD players only supported one disc at a time, too. That's why CD changers were developed. You could always have a RAID array in the trunk wired into the player.
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Apple released their anniversary computer which was an integrated PC and LCD. They did do it first, back in 1997. A great looking computer, even today, but it followed the typical Mac trend by having a price that would choke a Rockefeller. You can check out a good site on it at this site.
This would be most efficient if nations would universally implement a data network as broad and all-encompassing as the phone system. The state in question could offer access for free in exchange for cycles from users' computers, creating an enormous computer at federal/municipal disposal. Offer opt-out at a price, and it seems to me that this would be perfectly friendly to all.
Your interpretation is so blasé, child. If you only look at Iago's motivation as petty revenge for not being chosen for a job, then you must have stopped reading after the first act. Throughout the whole of the play, Shakey makes it clear that Iago is envious of both Cassius and Desdemona because they are close to Othello. Consider Iago and Othello's embrace and the words they exchange during one scene, and also consider the stage directions in the final scene.
That said, yes he doesn't covet Desdemona. I erred in using that word. He merely desires to be Desdemona (Or Cassius), not to have her.
Nothing taught me the meaning of strategy better than spending 10 minutes straight typing "glittering prizes." To this day, I can still type those two words in under a second. Being such an excellent student of strategy, I realized I could save time in typing papers for class if I started working Warcraft I and II cheats into them. Consider the following:
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Othello, Iago covets the glittering prizes of Othello, in the form of his wife, and uses every little thing she does to evoke jealousy in the iron forge of Othello's heart."
I always assumed that a patent was intended to cover a new or uniquely contrived object. Were these geneticists to be patenting recombinant DNA, I would be alright. When they begin to patent DNA that they discover, it becomes a travesty of science. Not only do they have no rights to that DNA, but it impedes scientific progress. Of course, most modern geneticists aren't working for the benefit of man. Some work for their own good first and last, Monsanto, while others work for their own good first but hope to benefit civilization in the process. Even academic research is beginning to fall under the latter category. In both examples, progress is stifled by greed and gluttony.
And each window needs to be constructed elsewhere, shipped, and placed in a hole that is sunk in a wall after the wall is in place. In conrete construction, this entails a good deal of work to do successfully and the benefits to doing so are limited. In fact, in doing so, the insulative value of concrete is often lessened. By having a "window" of transparent concrete, our structure sacrifices less of its insulation and the work required to place them is lessened. Furthermore, transparent concrete would allow for even more artistic placement of windows in modern architecture, since the window could be load-bearing.
Even if the engineers only managed to make the concrete translucent, it would still be of some advantage.
Isn't secrecy the Achilles heel of all mad scientists? We need merely look at many notable cinematic cases to realize that their secrecy inevitably leads to their corpses being ravaged by man-insect-ape hybrid monsters. Furthermore, to make the depressing downright suicide-inducing, we, the innocent citizens of this world, are forced to endure the heroic chicanery of Brad-Pitt-like stereotypes.
We must put an end to this for the sake of the people. Say no to Brad Pitt.
When was the last time you used a diesel generator for everyday use? Many people use generators for emergency use, not as a constant power source for their home or business. Furthermore, electrolytic production of hydrogen is primitive, as you pointed out, because it is the first step in a progression towards better production and consumption tech. We need to explore the potential and produce both better equipment and more efficent means of generating their fuel.
I don't mind the duplicates as much as you. Considering that story was posted in December, no new, interesting comments have likely been made in a while. With a dupe, even if it's an accident, we tend to get more interesting comments from others who hadn't heard it the first time around. This time, someone submitted a link to a picture of it that I hadn't seen the time before, and others have said some interesting things.
Even if it is an error, it's an error that harms no one and benefits many.
While many students treat their TI calculators as toys, they are also valid tools for many others. Also, take a look at the software archives at ticalc.org. I believe an RPN input program was actually released to allow for you RPN-fans to use it.
I still think the most interesting approach to extraterrestrial exploration is to use a fleet of autonomous probes. One such design I'm most partial to is a simple payload cylinder with a solar-sail affixed. If the sail is physical, then build in some radiation shielding. If it's electromagnetic as some physicists have suggested, then your shielding may be unnecessary. Inside, the payload consists of a rack of fertilized cells in stasis, and variously encoded data about our society. Use a long-term radiothermal battery to power it, and launch as many off as we can, in various directions. Make it strong enough to survive the ages and eventually, assuming there is other intelligent life out there, one will eventually be encountered. Furthermore, if we include our own cells, these things could serve as modern day arks. Build them using old missile chassis and we've killed three birds with one stone.
Now that they've found a way of reproducing eyeballs, I suggest they begin work on artificial eyelids. Of course, why replicate nature's work exactly when we can always improve upon it considerably. Think if you could embed a layer light-emitting polymer within the flesh of the eyelid. Close your eyes, instant total recall as your portable computer displays the material inside your lids. Give the eyelids a feed from an infrared or UV camera, or simply one with zoom, and you suddenly have a rather innocuous system of super-vision. I'd pay for it so long as the lids looked natural. Miniatiurize electronics enough and this might be much easier than redesigning eyeballs from scratch to achieve this kind of goal.
There are problems beyond the tech, of course. First, I imagine that one might suffer nausea after prolonged use. Second, what would happen when millions of drivers began watching television on their eyelids while driving down the highway, squinting or holding one eye open so they can catch CNN?
Simple. think about it in other terms, though. Rather than simply manufacturing a claim after the fact, these guys have patented something. I don't say something because I'm unaware of what their patent concerns, but rather because that's all it is. A patent so ambigiously phrased could be manipulated after the fact. If you would read the patent information, as provided in the article, you'd see that the patent is not truly that similar to RDF. In fact, the section where they began referring to its applications in the field of operating systems should have been your first clue. Their patent concerns something referred to as an IOS, or Information OS, not RDF. Having failed in succeeding in this legitimate endeavour, they now seek to make money on their patent by suing for infringement. This conclusion is bolstered by the prolonged absence of their website from the internet. Try a search. I doubt you'll find it. I couldn't even get a google cache. I found only the links to PEARL, and a link describing the IOS of the company. The link to their corporate site fails, by the way.
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I saw an EP2 trailer at Lord of the Rings and it was enough to make me want to reach across the aisle and throttle someone. The only people in the theatre at the time who even enjoyed the trailer were the teenage girls, and the collective simper was horrifying. I can understand modifying the Star Wars we've all known and loved to sell it to the modern demographic, since 20 years does tend to demand certain variations in the theme to capture the interests of the same target. Yet the wholesale bastardization of a concept to attempt to make it appeal to all demographics is a work of marketry and not artistry. It's a damned foolish thing to do and a sign that Lucas has become nothing more than a sellout.
I'd been rallying for another Indiana Jones movie for a few years now. This is the moment when I stop. As much respect as I have for the past accomplishments of Lucas and Co., I couldn't possibly tolerate the desecration of another franchise.
Ya must be a youngin, so we'll all forgive ya. Pac-Man, an arcade classic produced by Namco, involved a small yellow spheroid. The goal of the game was to gobble up dots and fruits for the benefit of Pac-Man. The analogy fits the Open-Source movement rather well, in my opinion. Open programmers make use of those resources that have been left for them to access. Meanwhile, companies that actually care about such petty things as profit and market shares, represented by the ghosts in Gates' Pac-Man analogy, attempt to waylay the Open programmers. These programmers can only combat the corporation by consuming fruit, obviously representing killer ideas that are worth implementation. The whole epic takes place in a maze that is oddly similar to a cubicle forest, further reinforcing the analogy.
And yet, without Windows, you would not be able to use those tools. It is the very platform upon which all of those expensive articles of software run. Office is also very functional, though in a different field. In fact, most specialized applications are very expensive. That was the point I intended to make. The expense comes not from the lack of competition but from the niche-nature of the market. I remember back in the older days of Adobe, and prices really haven't dropped all that much when one factors in the general decrease in cost related to the increasing breadth of the tech market.
Your argument is flawed because you attempt to associate a cheaply produced consumable to an something put out by an "artisan." In the field of software, competition doesn't reduce prices so much as it improves quality. Note Adobe v. Macromedia. Each produces high quality products and competes directly with the other, but the prices are still very high.
Now I have a little bit of "proof" I can break out when I want to deprecate the PS2. reading the writeup for the Gamecube, I was struck with how innovative the design seemed. Of the three, it seems the most traditional in function and intention, but it achieves that with the usual Nintendo pizazz. It'd be a pity if the Gamecube failed to capture a significant market share.
It may reduce cost in your traditional monitor, but does it give enough of a weight decrease to make monitors ubiquitous? Until we can reduce price and weight to such a point that monitors can, as horrifying as the thought may be to anyone with any ecological conscience, be a disposable item. I want my digital paper. I've been waiting 10 years. Will it be another 10?
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Apple's merely guarding their flank against potential impropriety. It might be worthwhile to see what relatively important open source developments have been released by minors. Though IANAL, if they're still undwer 18, they could break "contract" and recind Free access. Just think of the havoc this would cause of some of its code were integrated into a vital app, eh? Hoepfully this isn't too likely.
A gravity well alone doth not a shield make. For a planet to possess sufficient shielding against radiation, it must have an adequately strong magnetosphere. Mars and the Moon, though both gravity wells, do not have magnetospheres.
Is the cost per cubic foot much greater than standard concrete? If not, then I'd be interested in the implications for using it as a residential flooring substrate. Rather than going for a standard radiant heating system, would it be more efficient to employ this?
Of course, yesterday's CD players only supported one disc at a time, too. That's why CD changers were developed. You could always have a RAID array in the trunk wired into the player.
Apple released their anniversary computer which was an integrated PC and LCD. They did do it first, back in 1997. A great looking computer, even today, but it followed the typical Mac trend by having a price that would choke a Rockefeller. You can check out a good site on it at this site.
This would be most efficient if nations would universally implement a data network as broad and all-encompassing as the phone system. The state in question could offer access for free in exchange for cycles from users' computers, creating an enormous computer at federal/municipal disposal. Offer opt-out at a price, and it seems to me that this would be perfectly friendly to all.
This is exciting. Alduous is doing pretty good on his predictions. I'd be scared about the future, but I've just taken a gram of soma.
It's the Warcraft I equivalent of "Deck me out."
Your interpretation is so blasé, child. If you only look at Iago's motivation as petty revenge for not being chosen for a job, then you must have stopped reading after the first act. Throughout the whole of the play, Shakey makes it clear that Iago is envious of both Cassius and Desdemona because they are close to Othello. Consider Iago and Othello's embrace and the words they exchange during one scene, and also consider the stage directions in the final scene.
That said, yes he doesn't covet Desdemona. I erred in using that word. He merely desires to be Desdemona (Or Cassius), not to have her.
I always assumed that a patent was intended to cover a new or uniquely contrived object. Were these geneticists to be patenting recombinant DNA, I would be alright. When they begin to patent DNA that they discover, it becomes a travesty of science. Not only do they have no rights to that DNA, but it impedes scientific progress. Of course, most modern geneticists aren't working for the benefit of man. Some work for their own good first and last, Monsanto, while others work for their own good first but hope to benefit civilization in the process. Even academic research is beginning to fall under the latter category. In both examples, progress is stifled by greed and gluttony.
And each window needs to be constructed elsewhere, shipped, and placed in a hole that is sunk in a wall after the wall is in place. In conrete construction, this entails a good deal of work to do successfully and the benefits to doing so are limited. In fact, in doing so, the insulative value of concrete is often lessened. By having a "window" of transparent concrete, our structure sacrifices less of its insulation and the work required to place them is lessened. Furthermore, transparent concrete would allow for even more artistic placement of windows in modern architecture, since the window could be load-bearing.
Even if the engineers only managed to make the concrete translucent, it would still be of some advantage.
Isn't secrecy the Achilles heel of all mad scientists? We need merely look at many notable cinematic cases to realize that their secrecy inevitably leads to their corpses being ravaged by man-insect-ape hybrid monsters. Furthermore, to make the depressing downright suicide-inducing, we, the innocent citizens of this world, are forced to endure the heroic chicanery of Brad-Pitt-like stereotypes.
We must put an end to this for the sake of the people. Say no to Brad Pitt.
When was the last time you used a diesel generator for everyday use? Many people use generators for emergency use, not as a constant power source for their home or business. Furthermore, electrolytic production of hydrogen is primitive, as you pointed out, because it is the first step in a progression towards better production and consumption tech. We need to explore the potential and produce both better equipment and more efficent means of generating their fuel.
I don't mind the duplicates as much as you. Considering that story was posted in December, no new, interesting comments have likely been made in a while. With a dupe, even if it's an accident, we tend to get more interesting comments from others who hadn't heard it the first time around. This time, someone submitted a link to a picture of it that I hadn't seen the time before, and others have said some interesting things.
Even if it is an error, it's an error that harms no one and benefits many.
While many students treat their TI calculators as toys, they are also valid tools for many others. Also, take a look at the software archives at ticalc.org. I believe an RPN input program was actually released to allow for you RPN-fans to use it.
I still think the most interesting approach to extraterrestrial exploration is to use a fleet of autonomous probes. One such design I'm most partial to is a simple payload cylinder with a solar-sail affixed. If the sail is physical, then build in some radiation shielding. If it's electromagnetic as some physicists have suggested, then your shielding may be unnecessary. Inside, the payload consists of a rack of fertilized cells in stasis, and variously encoded data about our society. Use a long-term radiothermal battery to power it, and launch as many off as we can, in various directions. Make it strong enough to survive the ages and eventually, assuming there is other intelligent life out there, one will eventually be encountered. Furthermore, if we include our own cells, these things could serve as modern day arks. Build them using old missile chassis and we've killed three birds with one stone.
Now that they've found a way of reproducing eyeballs, I suggest they begin work on artificial eyelids. Of course, why replicate nature's work exactly when we can always improve upon it considerably. Think if you could embed a layer light-emitting polymer within the flesh of the eyelid. Close your eyes, instant total recall as your portable computer displays the material inside your lids. Give the eyelids a feed from an infrared or UV camera, or simply one with zoom, and you suddenly have a rather innocuous system of super-vision. I'd pay for it so long as the lids looked natural. Miniatiurize electronics enough and this might be much easier than redesigning eyeballs from scratch to achieve this kind of goal.
There are problems beyond the tech, of course. First, I imagine that one might suffer nausea after prolonged use. Second, what would happen when millions of drivers began watching television on their eyelids while driving down the highway, squinting or holding one eye open so they can catch CNN?
Simple. think about it in other terms, though. Rather than simply manufacturing a claim after the fact, these guys have patented something. I don't say something because I'm unaware of what their patent concerns, but rather because that's all it is. A patent so ambigiously phrased could be manipulated after the fact. If you would read the patent information, as provided in the article, you'd see that the patent is not truly that similar to RDF. In fact, the section where they began referring to its applications in the field of operating systems should have been your first clue. Their patent concerns something referred to as an IOS, or Information OS, not RDF. Having failed in succeeding in this legitimate endeavour, they now seek to make money on their patent by suing for infringement. This conclusion is bolstered by the prolonged absence of their website from the internet. Try a search. I doubt you'll find it. I couldn't even get a google cache. I found only the links to PEARL, and a link describing the IOS of the company. The link to their corporate site fails, by the way.
I saw an EP2 trailer at Lord of the Rings and it was enough to make me want to reach across the aisle and throttle someone. The only people in the theatre at the time who even enjoyed the trailer were the teenage girls, and the collective simper was horrifying. I can understand modifying the Star Wars we've all known and loved to sell it to the modern demographic, since 20 years does tend to demand certain variations in the theme to capture the interests of the same target. Yet the wholesale bastardization of a concept to attempt to make it appeal to all demographics is a work of marketry and not artistry. It's a damned foolish thing to do and a sign that Lucas has become nothing more than a sellout.
I'd been rallying for another Indiana Jones movie for a few years now. This is the moment when I stop. As much respect as I have for the past accomplishments of Lucas and Co., I couldn't possibly tolerate the desecration of another franchise.
Ya must be a youngin, so we'll all forgive ya. Pac-Man, an arcade classic produced by Namco, involved a small yellow spheroid. The goal of the game was to gobble up dots and fruits for the benefit of Pac-Man. The analogy fits the Open-Source movement rather well, in my opinion. Open programmers make use of those resources that have been left for them to access. Meanwhile, companies that actually care about such petty things as profit and market shares, represented by the ghosts in Gates' Pac-Man analogy, attempt to waylay the Open programmers. These programmers can only combat the corporation by consuming fruit, obviously representing killer ideas that are worth implementation. The whole epic takes place in a maze that is oddly similar to a cubicle forest, further reinforcing the analogy.
And yet, without Windows, you would not be able to use those tools. It is the very platform upon which all of those expensive articles of software run. Office is also very functional, though in a different field. In fact, most specialized applications are very expensive. That was the point I intended to make. The expense comes not from the lack of competition but from the niche-nature of the market. I remember back in the older days of Adobe, and prices really haven't dropped all that much when one factors in the general decrease in cost related to the increasing breadth of the tech market.
Your argument is flawed because you attempt to associate a cheaply produced consumable to an something put out by an "artisan." In the field of software, competition doesn't reduce prices so much as it improves quality. Note Adobe v. Macromedia. Each produces high quality products and competes directly with the other, but the prices are still very high.
Now I have a little bit of "proof" I can break out when I want to deprecate the PS2. reading the writeup for the Gamecube, I was struck with how innovative the design seemed. Of the three, it seems the most traditional in function and intention, but it achieves that with the usual Nintendo pizazz. It'd be a pity if the Gamecube failed to capture a significant market share.
It may reduce cost in your traditional monitor, but does it give enough of a weight decrease to make monitors ubiquitous? Until we can reduce price and weight to such a point that monitors can, as horrifying as the thought may be to anyone with any ecological conscience, be a disposable item. I want my digital paper. I've been waiting 10 years. Will it be another 10?