this is slashdot... a good 99.3% of you were geeks as kids and it got you to where you were. chances are you learned complex technology despite the fact most people around you sucked at it (sometimes even teachers) and often tried to distract you or discourage you from these endeavours... willpower kicks ass when you are motivated and technology is a knowledge enablers.
Technology can be helpful but you have to teach the children boundaries and focus them - and this is as much a responsability of the teacher and the students. Yes, technology can be a distraction, so can a bee be one too. Students are easily distracted.. at all ages.
Even playing can be a learning experience... it can be argued some people get paid to play games they played as a kid under different settings (sports, singing,...)
Don't blame the distraction, blame the distractee (the student) and the distractor (the teacher failing to focus the attention of its student)
But if you have a car pool or drive with a friend, you can mitigate this issue somewhat. Other one drives the car there, and your friend drives it back. Now you have doubled your reliability.
Technically, your reliability remains the same because reliability is a percentage of total... and total number of trips will decrease accordingly
yesterday the namibia object, today this one... lots of object falling... london bridge is ok but the freaking sky litterally is litterally falling down
It does not really make sense as an argument... you had as much friction to go buy the book as to go rent it. I am really worried that in the digital age, the first sale doctrine is being completely obliterated. Before, you bought a book, a record, anything... you could lend it, resell it, break it even copy it for your own use as you pleased... now, bit by bit (no pun intended)... you get less and less rights on the products you buy
Oops, I was replying to speed of light... I guess I hit reply faster than 186000 miles per second:)... and I attached my reply to the wrong post... I was replying to the 186000 miles per second below
If they get to play with mercury, I'd consider moving, because mercury is awesome.
Heck, have them play with venus or mars instead:)... euh, what do you mean, not that mercury? you mean nasa's mercury? no? darn, the type of cars? still no? hum, mercury, mercury, I know what it means, I swear:p... hang on, I'll get back to you:)
I can confidently say plenty of people would pay to watch that and you could get tons of funding haha.... maybe not governmental, but definitely tons of individuals would be interested:)
No, they would have too much to lose. What exactly would happen, depends on many factors... but ideally they would lobby for different rules, make patents for obviousness a lot more difficult to obtain worldwide... probably through some secret treaty like acta
hopefully the us gets an incentive to fix the patent system. China is as entitled to patents as any other country... but the fact that the usa does not want to be deadlocked by china may give an incentive to fix the patent system:)
Why is this modded troll? It is actually quite insightful.
Pardon my ignorance but I regularly see articles speaking of a material that could double, triple... sometimes more collected energy potential... what does this really mean? compared to what? can these innovations be combined? what does it mean for the general public? Yes, these articles sound cool, yes we all want to be able to tap the potential of free energy... but if solar cells had improved that much, we'd all be running on free energy.
To be fair, there has been improvements... just not as much as is touted in the articles
this is a blatant abuse of the DMCA provisions to silence someone. Definitely not good if legal precedent is set where this is ok... not good for free speech, or anyone that has ideas other people do not like. I am not a lawyer but technically this could be extended to negative reviews or any content that someone thinks is troublesome... let s hope there is a real trial where they are actually get fined to discourage such behavior.
I guess viewed from that angle, it makes sense... yet, if the enemy has the capacity to intercept systematically each drone using an unpatched public vulnerability as well as have accesss to unencrypted feed (thus rendering useless the stealth, because it is possible to figure out where the drone is from the images it sends)... it becomes a serious issue. It was not just shooting it down, it is completely hijacking it. Yes, you get intelligence but it has been costly from international opinion standpoint (officially asking for it back was definitely not a good way of showing strength)... Given they will get better at it, is it really worth it? letting a stealth drone get caught is like firing a blank bullet while hiding from the enemy.... not a good idea because now they know where to look... they may not completely reverse engineer it but probably can figure out something to defeat the stealth in case of a real open conflict. but of course, this is my humble outsider perspective
No matter how fancy the tech, how many buzzwords... if it can be fooled by inexpensive off the shelf equipment by the opponent, then not sure how useful the equipment really is
I agree with you, big mergers should be reviewed... though the timing seems slightly suspicious... motorola announces a battle with apple... and pouf, they get called in by the regulator. In this case, given apple's litigative anti competitive behavior, it may be a good way to even out the playing field
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this is slashdot... a good 99.3% of you were geeks as kids and it got you to where you were. chances are you learned complex technology despite the fact most people around you sucked at it (sometimes even teachers) and often tried to distract you or discourage you from these endeavours... willpower kicks ass when you are motivated and technology is a knowledge enablers.
Technology can be helpful but you have to teach the children boundaries and focus them - and this is as much a responsability of the teacher and the students. Yes, technology can be a distraction, so can a bee be one too. Students are easily distracted.. at all ages.
Even playing can be a learning experience... it can be argued some people get paid to play games they played as a kid under different settings (sports, singing, ...)
Don't blame the distraction, blame the distractee (the student) and the distractor (the teacher failing to focus the attention of its student)
But if you have a car pool or drive with a friend, you can mitigate this issue somewhat. Other one drives the car there, and your friend drives it back. Now you have doubled your reliability.
Technically, your reliability remains the same because reliability is a percentage of total... and total number of trips will decrease accordingly
but it is not the same, they are patenting doing this with only one click :)
yesterday the namibia object, today this one... lots of object falling... london bridge is ok but the freaking sky litterally is litterally falling down
It does not really make sense as an argument... you had as much friction to go buy the book as to go rent it. I am really worried that in the digital age, the first sale doctrine is being completely obliterated. Before, you bought a book, a record, anything... you could lend it, resell it, break it even copy it for your own use as you pleased... now, bit by bit (no pun intended)... you get less and less rights on the products you buy
The one who goes and checks it out, really has some balls :)
Don't Panic and always have a towel :)
Oops, I was replying to speed of light... I guess I hit reply faster than 186000 miles per second :)... and I attached my reply to the wrong post... I was replying to the 186000 miles per second below
Technically, even light slows down in busy places :)
If they get to play with mercury, I'd consider moving, because mercury is awesome.
Heck, have them play with venus or mars instead :)... euh, what do you mean, not that mercury? you mean nasa's mercury? no? darn, the type of cars? still no? hum, mercury, mercury, I know what it means, I swear :p... hang on, I'll get back to you :)
I can confidently say plenty of people would pay to watch that and you could get tons of funding haha.... maybe not governmental, but definitely tons of individuals would be interested :)
No, they would have too much to lose. What exactly would happen, depends on many factors... but ideally they would lobby for different rules, make patents for obviousness a lot more difficult to obtain worldwide... probably through some secret treaty like acta
hopefully the us gets an incentive to fix the patent system. China is as entitled to patents as any other country... but the fact that the usa does not want to be deadlocked by china may give an incentive to fix the patent system :)
get at least a quad core... time for an upgrade haha :)
Why is this modded troll? It is actually quite insightful.
Pardon my ignorance but I regularly see articles speaking of a material that could double, triple... sometimes more collected energy potential... what does this really mean? compared to what? can these innovations be combined? what does it mean for the general public? Yes, these articles sound cool, yes we all want to be able to tap the potential of free energy... but if solar cells had improved that much, we'd all be running on free energy.
To be fair, there has been improvements... just not as much as is touted in the articles
this is a blatant abuse of the DMCA provisions to silence someone. Definitely not good if legal precedent is set where this is ok... not good for free speech, or anyone that has ideas other people do not like. I am not a lawyer but technically this could be extended to negative reviews or any content that someone thinks is troublesome... let s hope there is a real trial where they are actually get fined to discourage such behavior.
I guess viewed from that angle, it makes sense... yet, if the enemy has the capacity to intercept systematically each drone using an unpatched public vulnerability as well as have accesss to unencrypted feed (thus rendering useless the stealth, because it is possible to figure out where the drone is from the images it sends)... it becomes a serious issue. It was not just shooting it down, it is completely hijacking it. Yes, you get intelligence but it has been costly from international opinion standpoint (officially asking for it back was definitely not a good way of showing strength)... Given they will get better at it, is it really worth it? letting a stealth drone get caught is like firing a blank bullet while hiding from the enemy.... not a good idea because now they know where to look... they may not completely reverse engineer it but probably can figure out something to defeat the stealth in case of a real open conflict. but of course, this is my humble outsider perspective
Thank you for the insight
No matter how fancy the tech, how many buzzwords... if it can be fooled by inexpensive off the shelf equipment by the opponent, then not sure how useful the equipment really is
When did they upgrade from punchcards?
Hum... what could go wrong... nothing, not likely to have controversial opinions and flame wars :) ... haha
Fucking Slashdot.
You have managed to have sex with an actual website... respect man, awesommmmme! :p
sounds like a mad scientist plan... but hey if it works :)
coming soon near a reactor near you... we may finally get started on this super comics they have been writing about... it's about time :p
I agree with you, big mergers should be reviewed... though the timing seems slightly suspicious... motorola announces a battle with apple... and pouf, they get called in by the regulator. In this case, given apple's litigative anti competitive behavior, it may be a good way to even out the playing field
I believe it is a license meant for quantic processors... it is required and not required at the same time