Despite their origin in normally brittle oxide compounds, the nanobelts are flexible and can be bent 180 degrees without breaking ... Wang says production of the nanobelts is simple and should scale up easily for high-volume production at industrial quantities.
I wonder if we could add a little reinforcment and build flexible displays cheaply. Roll up and carry a 21" display with your laptop!
Zinc oxide and tin oxide nanobelts could be the basis for ultra-small sensors because the conductivity of these materials changes dramatically when gas or liquid molecules attach to their surfaces.
I wonder if these could provide the basis for artificial skin? Layers could be applied to prosthetics to make them more life-like. Or even on the outside of a space suit. Imagine astronauts being able to feel with their hands as the explore. Maybe I'm assuming too much and getting ahead of myself, but that'd be really cool.
Their school has rules against disparaging its reputation, and they have learned their lesson from last week...
I assume the students/parents knew of these rules beforehand and agreed to them. If they DID in fact agree to those rules, they really can't complain too much about being disciplined. Whether or not the punishment fit the crime is another issue.
Why didn't these parents argue for there children's freedom of speech? Not one place in the article does it claim they even tried to use that defense.
Because it's a private school. When they decided to send their children their, they agreed to a set of rules. If they want their children to continue to attend the school, they must follow the rules they agreed to. If not, there are plenty of other schools public and private.
But as long as other products are available, people will stay away from some of the copy protection "features." As the article says: Any fans of Sony's Walkman who try the digital version will be sorely disappointed. Because Sony is also a music publisher, it has saddled its MP3 players with fiendishly complicated anti-piracy software that makes them hard to use. These are signs of a consumer-electronics firm that does not fully understand the culture of computing. If competitors can contract the same factories Sony uses AND put out an easier to use product, Sony is going to have to try awfully hard or buy a lot of laws to dominate. It'll probably all come down to marketing. With the internet allowing such cheap promotion, smaller companies have a good chance of succeeding.
If it were fully linux compatible, why would we need windows? They probably want to give linux users a taste of.NET and let them get comfortable. Maybe later the user will set aside a small partition for Windows so he can use the full feature-set of.NET. Soon he'll depend on it and MS has won him back. Not a bad idea really. I think most of us will stay away from it, but a few are bound to get pulled in.
"Do we have a way for people who host Web sites on Linux to build on [.NET]? Yes we do. That's not to say our overall strategy is not to get those Web sites over to Windows, but we will provide a way for those Linux servers to use.NET," Ballmer said.
Perhaps it is to keep anybody and everybody from applying to be on the list. Charging a small fee will narrow the group down to those serious about their security. I don't know. Just a thought.
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Paragraph 6 from the article:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a presentation given to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter earlier this month, said, "I think you have to rate competitors that threaten your core higher than you rate competitors where you're trying to take from them. So in some senses (that) puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix phenomenon at the top of the list."
Ballmer is saying that there are many aspects to their relationship with Linux. While (says that) he doesn't believe that Linux will be around much longer, Linux does hold a significant portion of particular markets Micros~1 wants.
Skyscrapers need to be able to sway in the wind. I believe the tallest of skyscrapers are designed to sway as much as three feet if I remember correctly. A diamond frame skyscraper would snap off and crush a huge hunk of a city. Then again, I'm no architect. I could be way off.
Do the PDAs need some sort of jacket to prevent them from gathering/transferring germs/deseases in cracks and crevices? What do health regulations say about electronic equipment in hospitals? Does each electronic product have to be certified or something by a governing body as safe for use in a medical facility?
Will MS Apps still be available as local programs? It sounds like.NET will make 'net access a requirement for the programs. Not a problem for most of us, but it essentially raises the base TCO by requiring 'net access and probably a second telephone line or some kind of broadband. Won't this widen the supposed "digital divide" or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
I wonder what sharks and other predators will think of this thing waving around in the water. It looks like a big artificial worm or something. Will these things have any predator repellant of any sort?
Despite it's appearance, this comment is very serious and not flame bait. I doubt that those blacks are any more discriminated against than anyone else in MS. I see more racism against whites than anyone else anymore. Yes, blacks have a rough past. Yes, blacks are still sometimes victims of racism. I think that they're having a hard time at work, and racism is a convenient excuse. Perhaps they don't do it intentionally. Racism is drilled into our heads so much that it's easy to assume a lot of things are the result of racism. Once again, I do believe racism is a problem, but I do not think it's nearly the problem media/lawyers make it out to be. Oh yeah, I'm a young white male, the most discriminated against group in USA =)
Perhaps if invasion of emplyees' privacy (assuming they have any) cost management something, they would be more carefull about when they do it. Don't make it so bad they're afraid/can't afford to investigate; just prevent it from becoming an everyday thing. I know, easier said than done.
They aren't restricting what you can watch (with this technology), they're restricting how many times you can watch it. You can sit down and watch tv all day every day, you just won't be able to make copies of whatever you want. View-protection and copy-protection are two very different and very real issues; don't confuse them.
As stated in the linked article, devices without the copy protection circuitry will not be able to interpret the signal and will display only fuzz. Of course this will be circumvented, but it's not quite as simple as you've stated.
That's more like moving the broadcasting facility rather than moving the moving the time/place it is viewed. Of course we can't demand that they perform a concert somewhere else, but we can watch it from a different place with no inconvenience to them.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/14/162217 &mode=nested
Sorry if this is off topic, but I thought I'd let y'all know.
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Despite their origin in normally brittle oxide compounds, the nanobelts are flexible and can be bent 180 degrees without breaking
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Wang says production of the nanobelts is simple and should scale up easily for high-volume production at industrial quantities.
I wonder if we could add a little reinforcment and build flexible displays cheaply. Roll up and carry a 21" display with your laptop!
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Zinc oxide and tin oxide nanobelts could be the basis for ultra-small sensors because the conductivity of these materials changes dramatically when gas or liquid molecules attach to their surfaces.
I wonder if these could provide the basis for artificial skin? Layers could be applied to prosthetics to make them more life-like. Or even on the outside of a space suit. Imagine astronauts being able to feel with their hands as the explore. Maybe I'm assuming too much and getting ahead of myself, but that'd be really cool.
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Their school has rules against disparaging its reputation, and they have learned their lesson from last week...
I assume the students/parents knew of these rules beforehand and agreed to them. If they DID in fact agree to those rules, they really can't complain too much about being disciplined. Whether or not the punishment fit the crime is another issue.
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Why didn't these parents argue for there children's freedom of speech? Not one place in the article does it claim they even tried to use that defense.
Because it's a private school. When they decided to send their children their, they agreed to a set of rules. If they want their children to continue to attend the school, they must follow the rules they agreed to. If not, there are plenty of other schools public and private.
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Most people have a copy of windows lying around or might buy one so that they can reap the full benefits(?) of .NET
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But as long as other products are available, people will stay away from some of the copy protection "features." As the article says: Any fans of Sony's Walkman who try the digital version will be sorely disappointed. Because Sony is also a music publisher, it has saddled its MP3 players with fiendishly complicated anti-piracy software that makes them hard to use. These are signs of a consumer-electronics firm that does not fully understand the culture of computing. If competitors can contract the same factories Sony uses AND put out an easier to use product, Sony is going to have to try awfully hard or buy a lot of laws to dominate. It'll probably all come down to marketing. With the internet allowing such cheap promotion, smaller companies have a good chance of succeeding.
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If it were fully linux compatible, why would we need windows? They probably want to give linux users a taste of .NET and let them get comfortable. Maybe later the user will set aside a small partition for Windows so he can use the full feature-set of .NET. Soon he'll depend on it and MS has won him back. Not a bad idea really. I think most of us will stay away from it, but a few are bound to get pulled in.
.NET," Ballmer said.
"Do we have a way for people who host Web sites on Linux to build on [.NET]? Yes we do. That's not to say our overall strategy is not to get those Web sites over to Windows, but we will provide a way for those Linux servers to use
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point well taken
I thought the kernel was GPL software
The GPL is just a license, not a deed. Linux IS Linus's.
If I want to use it, I to ask him to use it
By releasing it under the GPL, he has given us permission to use it freely.
Perhaps it is to keep anybody and everybody from applying to be on the list. Charging a small fee will narrow the group down to those serious about their security. I don't know. Just a thought.
Ballmer is saying that there are many aspects to their relationship with Linux. While (says that) he doesn't believe that Linux will be around much longer, Linux does hold a significant portion of particular markets Micros~1 wants.
The phenomenon (El Niño) IS the cause
Constitutional is whatever the judges (or their wallets) want it to be.
Skyscrapers need to be able to sway in the wind. I believe the tallest of skyscrapers are designed to sway as much as three feet if I remember correctly. A diamond frame skyscraper would snap off and crush a huge hunk of a city. Then again, I'm no architect. I could be way off.
Do the PDAs need some sort of jacket to prevent them from gathering/transferring germs/deseases in cracks and crevices? What do health regulations say about electronic equipment in hospitals? Does each electronic product have to be certified or something by a governing body as safe for use in a medical facility?
Will MS Apps still be available as local programs? It sounds like .NET will make 'net access a requirement for the programs. Not a problem for most of us, but it essentially raises the base TCO by requiring 'net access and probably a second telephone line or some kind of broadband. Won't this widen the supposed "digital divide" or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
I wonder what sharks and other predators will think of this thing waving around in the water. It looks like a big artificial worm or something. Will these things have any predator repellant of any sort?
Despite it's appearance, this comment is very serious and not flame bait. I doubt that those blacks are any more discriminated against than anyone else in MS. I see more racism against whites than anyone else anymore. Yes, blacks have a rough past. Yes, blacks are still sometimes victims of racism. I think that they're having a hard time at work, and racism is a convenient excuse. Perhaps they don't do it intentionally. Racism is drilled into our heads so much that it's easy to assume a lot of things are the result of racism. Once again, I do believe racism is a problem, but I do not think it's nearly the problem media/lawyers make it out to be. Oh yeah, I'm a young white male, the most discriminated against group in USA =)
Perhaps if invasion of emplyees' privacy (assuming they have any) cost management something, they would be more carefull about when they do it. Don't make it so bad they're afraid/can't afford to investigate; just prevent it from becoming an everyday thing. I know, easier said than done.
They aren't restricting what you can watch (with this technology), they're restricting how many times you can watch it. You can sit down and watch tv all day every day, you just won't be able to make copies of whatever you want. View-protection and copy-protection are two very different and very real issues; don't confuse them.
As stated in the linked article, devices without the copy protection circuitry will not be able to interpret the signal and will display only fuzz. Of course this will be circumvented, but it's not quite as simple as you've stated.
That's more like moving the broadcasting facility rather than moving the moving the time/place it is viewed. Of course we can't demand that they perform a concert somewhere else, but we can watch it from a different place with no inconvenience to them.
This is copy-protection, not view-protection. If the gov doesn't want a show viewed, they don't let it air. It's already being done.
Hey man, don't mess with Gilligan's Island!