Check out the Kameleon. It's a multifunction remote control, not a touch screen, but it has numerous Star Trek-like features, like dynamically reconfigurable display, a pleasing rubbery feel instead of a slick glassy surface, etc.
I don't know the details of how this particular holographic technology works, but one of the attractive features of some kinds of holographic storage is that the data is distributed across the entire recording medium. Thus, damage to localized areas of the recording medium results in no loss of data whatsoever (assuming the data was recorded using an error-tolerant encoding).
So these things might actually be much, much more tolerant of damage that traditional discs.
Well, I'll make a wild guess here and suppose that you just might be... American?
It works the same in most (but maybe not all) other countries with stock markets, as well.
The problem is, a corporation cannot be socially responsible for its own sake, if that causes a loss of shareholder value. It's illegal. Blame the laws, not the corporation.
If it's a public company, sure. Unlisted companies don't have the same constraints.
Wrong, a private company has exactly the same constraints. However, since most private shareholders tend to be employees or owners of the company, they have less reason to bring suit against the corporation since they'd only be hurting themselves. But it is possible.
Assuming a LoC is a measure of information, then the unit "gigabyte per LoC" has dimensions of information/information, i.e., no dimensions at all. It is not a unit.
Assuming you're transmitting bits with a laser pointed out into space (i.e. the bits are moving at the speed of light), then a spatial data density of 1 GB per parsec would imply a data rate of only 77 bits per second. Kind of teh suck, if you ask me.
The moment you seed a P2P network with your own copyrighted material, you have explicitly granted permission for anyone to download your music.
What if I claim I was using a P2P client for legitimate purposes, and accidentally shared my entire drive, thus unintentionally making the copyrighted work available?
Or even simpler, why not just give my friend a copy of the word and let him share it? Plausible deniability and all that.
Anything that size is a gas giant. I mean i guess a rocky planet would be possible, but i somehow doubt it as well.
If the planet was rocky, it would be intensely hot. As material conglomerates to form a planet it must give up both kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy -- this energy appears as heat. A rocky planet the size of Jupiter would be so massive with so much leftover heat that it would glow noticeably.
The hydrogen would only be captured by the star if the gravity of the planet was too weak to hold the hydrogen, or the gravity at the planet's "surface" or whatnot was weaker than the gravity exerted at that surface by the star.
If that was the case (gravity of the star overcomes the gravity of the planet), the entire planet would be falling into the star. Either the planet and its atmosphere are BOTH orbiting a star, or NEITHER one is.
The reason hydrogen is able to escape planetary atmospheres has nothing to do with the difference in gravity between planet and star -- it has to do with the Maxwell distribution of particle velocities and the fact that hydrogen is so light that it can accelerate to speeds beyond the escape velocity of the planet.
They keep finding giant planets closer to stars than Mercury, which seems to fly in the face of many previously established theories of planetary system formation.
Just because it's orbiting there now doesn't mean it had to have formed there. There are some theories of our own Solar System which place Jupiter in a much closer orbit billions of years ago, but it slowly migrated outward through interactions with other solar system bodies.
Most planets discovered outside of our solar system have been done with Spectroscopy and Interferometry.
Spectroscopy is definitely the way they determine the chemical makeup of the discovered planets, but I was under the impression that the discoveries themselves were primarily by measuring the wobble of the central star, or by looking for periodic dimming of the central star.
Tell me what you would want to happen to these people, should you come home one day and find your wife or mom brutally raped or killed by one of these "sick people"?
People often bring this up as an argument for the death penalty.
The answer is, yes, if somebody murdered a member of my family I would want them to die. And I would be wrong in wanting that.
The distressed emotional state of bereft family members is no excuse for murder, even in return for murder.
Nothing makes you look more desperate and willing to take half-price than the silly three letters "OBO." What a stupid waste. Name your price and leave it at that -- people will negotiate regardless.
Yes, I realize I'm both offtopic and I'm responding seriously to a joke:-)
Yes, we dehumanize the poor pathetic souls in Iraq who like to chop off innocent civilian's heads by calling them "terrorists."
You are a simpleton, and you make my point for me.
Yes, there are those in Iraq who can rightfully be called terrorists. By applying the term "terrorist" to people who do nothing more than vandalize the Internet, however, the term loses all meaning.
I, for one, would like to reserve the term "terrorist" for those usages where it is truly appropriate instead of belittling it into meaninglessness. And yes, the Iraqi beheaders are most definitely terrorists.
Rather than take up the fight and demand a proper day in court, the only manner in which a precedent can be set and thusly followed hereafter, the EFF decides to take the low road and simply settle out of court thus making the whole case moot and completely lacking in historic substance.
Once the song was discovered to be in the public domain, any copyright dispute brought before the court would have been "frivolous." I, for one, do not want the EFF to tarnish its image by bringing frivolous cases before a court.
After seeing this story I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps I've begun to feel the initial symptoms of this attack...
Don't jump to conclusions too quickly... The chances that somebody, somewhere on the planet is experiencing Internet-related problems on the same day as this was announced is pretty much 100%. It just so happens that you're the guy with the problems. Doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Equating the temporary shutdown of a portion of the Internet with terrorism should be extremely insulting to all people who have been touched by terrorist attacks.
While it could certainly cause serious damage to businesses who depend on the Internet, it in no way evokes terror in people's hearts and minds. The purpose of terrorism is to coerce through terror of random violence. I'm sorry, but the threat of having a portion of the Internet shut down does not fill my heart with terror.
It's a slap in the face to all those who have died on September 11 and all other victims of terrorism around the world.
Not to mention the extremely disturbing precedent being set here. The word "terrorist" is becoming similar to how the word "communist" was used during the Cold War. I.e., a term you apply to anybody you don't like in order to dehumanize them. I find it sickening.
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I suppose you also take issue with the term "gigabit ethernet" then?
The song does not have to be declared into the public domain. It is, in fact, in the public domain.
Check out the Kameleon. It's a multifunction remote control, not a touch screen, but it has numerous Star Trek-like features, like dynamically reconfigurable display, a pleasing rubbery feel instead of a slick glassy surface, etc.
So these things might actually be much, much more tolerant of damage that traditional discs.
It works the same in most (but maybe not all) other countries with stock markets, as well.
The problem is, a corporation cannot be socially responsible for its own sake, if that causes a loss of shareholder value. It's illegal. Blame the laws, not the corporation.
Wrong, a private company has exactly the same constraints. However, since most private shareholders tend to be employees or owners of the company, they have less reason to bring suit against the corporation since they'd only be hurting themselves. But it is possible.
Assuming a LoC is a measure of information, then the unit "gigabyte per LoC" has dimensions of information/information, i.e., no dimensions at all. It is not a unit.
Assuming you're transmitting bits with a laser pointed out into space (i.e. the bits are moving at the speed of light), then a spatial data density of 1 GB per parsec would imply a data rate of only 77 bits per second. Kind of teh suck, if you ask me.
What if I claim I was using a P2P client for legitimate purposes, and accidentally shared my entire drive, thus unintentionally making the copyrighted work available?
Or even simpler, why not just give my friend a copy of the word and let him share it? Plausible deniability and all that.
A few hints: Spelling != Grammar, Usage != Grammar, Capitalization != Grammar, Puntuation != Grammar.
This are a grammar error. Misusing "tact" in place of "tack" is not.
Or, we could stop blowing billions of dollars on killing people and get both at the same time.
If the planet was rocky, it would be intensely hot. As material conglomerates to form a planet it must give up both kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy -- this energy appears as heat. A rocky planet the size of Jupiter would be so massive with so much leftover heat that it would glow noticeably.
The hydrogen would only be captured by the star if the gravity of the planet was too weak to hold the hydrogen, or the gravity at the planet's "surface" or whatnot was weaker than the gravity exerted at that surface by the star.
If that was the case (gravity of the star overcomes the gravity of the planet), the entire planet would be falling into the star. Either the planet and its atmosphere are BOTH orbiting a star, or NEITHER one is.
The reason hydrogen is able to escape planetary atmospheres has nothing to do with the difference in gravity between planet and star -- it has to do with the Maxwell distribution of particle velocities and the fact that hydrogen is so light that it can accelerate to speeds beyond the escape velocity of the planet.
Wow, that's some impressive software.
Just because it's orbiting there now doesn't mean it had to have formed there. There are some theories of our own Solar System which place Jupiter in a much closer orbit billions of years ago, but it slowly migrated outward through interactions with other solar system bodies.
Where R is orbital radius, G is gravitational constant, T is orbital period.
Plugging into Google gives a mass for the star of 2.3*10^30 kilograms. Almost exactly equal to our sun's mass.
(Offtopic note -- I love Google calculator. It normalizes all units to SI automagically!)
Spectroscopy is definitely the way they determine the chemical makeup of the discovered planets, but I was under the impression that the discoveries themselves were primarily by measuring the wobble of the central star, or by looking for periodic dimming of the central star.
People often bring this up as an argument for the death penalty.
The answer is, yes, if somebody murdered a member of my family I would want them to die. And I would be wrong in wanting that.
The distressed emotional state of bereft family members is no excuse for murder, even in return for murder.
If a criminal doesn't think he'll get caught, what does he care how long a sentence might be? We're talking criminals here, not statisticians.
Nothing makes you look more desperate and willing to take half-price than the silly three letters "OBO." What a stupid waste. Name your price and leave it at that -- people will negotiate regardless.
Yes, I realize I'm both offtopic and I'm responding seriously to a joke :-)
Shame on you.
You are a simpleton, and you make my point for me.
Yes, there are those in Iraq who can rightfully be called terrorists. By applying the term "terrorist" to people who do nothing more than vandalize the Internet, however, the term loses all meaning.
I, for one, would like to reserve the term "terrorist" for those usages where it is truly appropriate instead of belittling it into meaninglessness. And yes, the Iraqi beheaders are most definitely terrorists.
Now, get thee back to kindergarten.
Once the song was discovered to be in the public domain, any copyright dispute brought before the court would have been "frivolous." I, for one, do not want the EFF to tarnish its image by bringing frivolous cases before a court.
This song is my song, it is not your song...
Don't jump to conclusions too quickly... The chances that somebody, somewhere on the planet is experiencing Internet-related problems on the same day as this was announced is pretty much 100%. It just so happens that you're the guy with the problems. Doesn't necessarily mean anything.
While it could certainly cause serious damage to businesses who depend on the Internet, it in no way evokes terror in people's hearts and minds. The purpose of terrorism is to coerce through terror of random violence. I'm sorry, but the threat of having a portion of the Internet shut down does not fill my heart with terror.
It's a slap in the face to all those who have died on September 11 and all other victims of terrorism around the world.
Not to mention the extremely disturbing precedent being set here. The word "terrorist" is becoming similar to how the word "communist" was used during the Cold War. I.e., a term you apply to anybody you don't like in order to dehumanize them. I find it sickening.