I live in Queens along the Hudson river, right by a park with a fishing pier. Since there are signs that show you can eat 1 serving a month from the river and there is a fish cleaning table, you can, in fact, eat the fish. What I think you are refereing to is the Upper Hudson River (between the Federal Dam at Troy and Hudson Falls). Catch and release is still the rule there. http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/f ish/uphu dcar.html
Technical usage or words trups common usage. Otherwise how do the experts communicate? If you want to post in a public forum take the time to edit your work. That means spell checking, diction, grammer and proper use of idiomatic expressions. Of course there are probably 12 spelling errors and as many gramatical errors in this post, but I don't expect many will read it.
Is there enough fidelity over a cellular telephone's tiny microphone and noisy connection to process a full vocabulary. I know that one telephone company (AT&T I think) spent soemthing like a hundred million to develop the voice recognition for identifying calling card numbers and words like yes and no over the phone (with no other training.) I'm a bit skeptical that this would work well without a lot of user end training and a very clear phone call. Why not just use a wireless headset, a laptop, and existing voice recognition software. I assume the user has a motorized wheel chair so wouldn't this be much simpler? Less cool I guess... but you'd actually get what you wanted.
The Torah and Haftorah have trope. These markings uner the words are a combination of punctuation and musical notation used make the sounds of reading it aloud similar across a variety of readers. I can imagine a form of trope designed for machine readable intonation. Maybe even sucha notation could replace current methods of writing as it provides additional contextual clues for machine translation and decoding. That way new readers and machines could more readily decode more difficult ideas.
But they don't weight the percentages by number of users. "Most of the known software vulnerabilities announced in 2002 affected Microsoft Windows (44%) followed by Linux (19%), BSD (9%) and Sun Solaris (7%). By comparison only 0.5% of the vulnerabilities announced in 2002 affected SCO Unix, and 1.9% affected Mac OS and Compaq Tru64 systems respectively."
It might be that no one is noticing mac or BSD flaws beacuse many fewer people care. A straight line weighting doesn't make sense either. We should expect a diminishing marginal return on eyeballs. The point is that this overstates Linux and Windows bugs and understates the others(actually I don't know usage rates on Linux but I assume it is the third most used OS.)
If this tech can avoid dead pixels it would get my money. hell, I'd pay a premium for a flat display with no dead pixels. I just go a new computer that came with a LCD monitor and it has a dead pixel. I find it very distracting. I set the colors on my monitor dark to minimize eye strain and a bright white pixel glares at me. I loathe it. I use my CRT when I have serious work to do. Is there anything I can do about to minimize the distraction other than making my monitor look like I'm staring a lightbulb??
Lots of countries do this. Notably, very poor ones with comodity exports. IF you can't seem to collect income tax why not go to your big diamond mine and collect a share of their export revenue. I agree it is horribly inefficent, but then again, so are import tarrifs.
Actually, the USA lacks one tax common to almost every other country: taxes on exports. Article I, section 9 of the US Constitution says No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. But that has nothing to do with ability to afford the lack of tariff. When that was written the USA was a poor colony with almost no industry. We did have cheap labor and lots of commodities to export.
I've always wanted a check box in my browser that allows me to quickly turn shockwave on and off to avoid those horid adds. Now I have it set up so that mozilla doesn't have shockwave and IE does so I browse with mozilla until I see something I NEED shockwave for. Not a great solution but I'm open to ideas.
I this Shoppa is mistaken. Brazil clear-cuts most (approximately 95%) of the forests it cuts down for domestic wood consumption (mostly cooking wood and to farm the land in non-intensive modern farming. They use very little for paper exports. Sure, we chopped down a huge amount of US forests for paper, furniture, cooking and ship building purposes. But then we got rich. Then this happened:
<i>Today, the volume of wood in U.S. forests is about 25 percent greater than it was 40 years ago. The United States has about the same amount of land covered by trees today as it did 80 years ago. In Vermont, for example, forest cover has more than doubled - from 37 percent in 1850 to 77 percent forest today. In New Hampshire, forest cover was 50 percent in 1850 compared to 87 percent today. Each year, there are 1.5 billion tree seedlings planted in the United States - that's more than five new trees for each American, and nearly 2,000 for every bear. Forest planting in the United States currently averages about 2.4 million acres per year. </I>
You should not argue that because the US did it developing nations should be able to do it. I find it interesting that you mention slave labor. One of the great moral misdeeds of the US' national youth was institutionalized, legal slavery. That was not right, it helped national prosperity and now we tell other nations not to do it. Intellectual property is a method for encouraging society to produce valuable works of the mind. I feel that to systematically violate IP is not right, is not prudent, will only help a nation over a short time horizon and we should encourage other nations to not do infringe.
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A honey pot is slang for a vagina as well as a computer used to trap misfits. I think and femal genetalia related symbol would do nicely.
After the fall of the USSR, they dumped cheap titanium on the world market. People bought tons of it until somebody realized much of it was radioactive. It turns out that much of it was salvage torn off nuclear missiles!
Actually, it was not always the optimal strategy. In universes with large numbers of defectors, the tit for tat strategy underperformed the defector strategy. As I recall this was something like 90% of the participants. This meant that in an evil world, sometimes, your best bet is to be evil.
I don't think the point is stopping piracy flawlessly. I think the point is to delay the spead of the pirated versions of their works until they can recoup their investment. From their perspective, the longer they can stall the pirates, the better. A delay of just a few weeks from release to widespread availiblity may be sufficent to support the entire industry in its current model.
"The Network in Every Room" by Gibbs, W. Wayt, it discusses at length the issue of home broadband over power lines. It suggests the broadband over power lines is unlikely in the US because we have a transformer for every few houses here. Apparently, in Europe they use transformers for large groups of homes. This cuts down on the number of bridges they need to keep the signal strong. This is necessary because the transformer would otherwise erase the signals. Alas, the article is not online. Check it out at your local news stand or library.
I have a cover for my palm pilot from the people at concept kitchen. Made of 1/8 inch thick black rubber it protects my palm from anything -- Even beeing thrown hard at the floor.
Maybe you should look into it.
They are much closer than you could imagine.
Perhaps you have heard of the product Anoto?
It is a Bluetooth Pen and a special paper that allows seamless communication between hard copy and digital devices like cell phones, computers and PDAs. Meet a girl at a party, write down her number and a reminder to call her in 3 days. Get home when your pen gets near your computer, it automatically sinks with you PIM, puts in a reminder, and creates a new contact for her. Neat stuff.
Read more about it here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,40190, 00.html
or
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/11/ns-21787.html
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I live in Queens along the Hudson river, right by a park with a fishing pier. Since there are signs that show you can eat 1 serving a month from the river and there is a fish cleaning table, you can, in fact, eat the fish.f ish/uphu dcar.html
What I think you are refereing to is the Upper Hudson River (between the Federal Dam at Troy and Hudson Falls). Catch and release is still the rule there.
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/
Technical usage or words trups common usage. Otherwise how do the experts communicate? If you want to post in a public forum take the time to edit your work. That means spell checking, diction, grammer and proper use of idiomatic expressions.
Of course there are probably 12 spelling errors and as many gramatical errors in this post, but I don't expect many will read it.
Is there enough fidelity over a cellular telephone's tiny microphone and noisy connection to process a full vocabulary. I know that one telephone company (AT&T I think) spent soemthing like a hundred million to develop the voice recognition for identifying calling card numbers and words like yes and no over the phone (with no other training.) I'm a bit skeptical that this would work well without a lot of user end training and a very clear phone call. Why not just use a wireless headset, a laptop, and existing voice recognition software. I assume the user has a motorized wheel chair so wouldn't this be much simpler? Less cool I guess...
but you'd actually get what you wanted.
The Torah and Haftorah have trope. These markings uner the words are a combination of punctuation and musical notation used make the sounds of reading it aloud similar across a variety of readers. I can imagine a form of trope designed for machine readable intonation. Maybe even sucha notation could replace current methods of writing as it provides additional contextual clues for machine translation and decoding. That way new readers and machines could more readily decode more difficult ideas.
But they don't weight the percentages by number of users.
"Most of the known software vulnerabilities announced in 2002 affected Microsoft Windows (44%) followed by Linux (19%), BSD (9%) and Sun Solaris (7%). By comparison only 0.5% of the vulnerabilities announced in 2002 affected SCO Unix, and 1.9% affected Mac OS and Compaq Tru64 systems respectively."
It might be that no one is noticing mac or BSD flaws beacuse many fewer people care. A straight line weighting doesn't make sense either. We should expect a diminishing marginal return on eyeballs. The point is that this overstates Linux and Windows bugs and understates the others(actually I don't know usage rates on Linux but I assume it is the third most used OS.)
If this tech can avoid dead pixels it would get my money. hell, I'd pay a premium for a flat display with no dead pixels. I just go a new computer that came with a LCD monitor and it has a dead pixel. I find it very distracting. I set the colors on my monitor dark to minimize eye strain and a bright white pixel glares at me. I loathe it. I use my CRT when I have serious work to do. Is there anything I can do about to minimize the distraction other than making my monitor look like I'm staring a lightbulb??
Lots of countries do this. Notably, very poor ones with comodity exports. IF you can't seem to collect income tax why not go to your big diamond mine and collect a share of their export revenue. I agree it is horribly inefficent, but then again, so are import tarrifs.
Actually, the USA lacks one tax common to almost every other country: taxes on exports.
Article I, section 9 of the US Constitution says
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
But that has nothing to do with ability to afford the lack of tariff. When that was written the USA was a poor colony with almost no industry. We did have cheap labor and lots of commodities to export.
I've always wanted a check box in my browser that allows me to quickly turn shockwave on and off to avoid those horid adds. Now I have it set up so that mozilla doesn't have shockwave and IE does so I browse with mozilla until I see something I NEED shockwave for. Not a great solution but I'm open to ideas.
I this Shoppa is mistaken. Brazil clear-cuts most (approximately 95%) of the forests it cuts down for domestic wood consumption (mostly cooking wood and to farm the land in non-intensive modern farming. They use very little for paper exports.
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Sure, we chopped down a huge amount of US forests for paper, furniture, cooking and ship building purposes. But then we got rich. Then this happened:
<i>Today, the volume of wood in U.S. forests is about 25 percent greater than it was 40 years ago. The United States has about the same amount of land covered by trees today as it did 80 years ago. In Vermont, for example, forest cover has more than doubled - from 37 percent in 1850 to 77 percent forest today. In New Hampshire, forest cover was 50 percent in 1850 compared to 87 percent today.
Each year, there are 1.5 billion tree seedlings planted in the United States - that's more than five new trees for each American, and nearly 2,000 for every bear. Forest planting in the United States currently averages about 2.4 million acres per year. </I>
http://www.timberhunt.com/country_report/countr
You should not argue that because the US did it developing nations should be able to do it. I find it interesting that you mention slave labor. One of the great moral misdeeds of the US' national youth was institutionalized, legal slavery. That was not right, it helped national prosperity and now we tell other nations not to do it. Intellectual property is a method for encouraging society to produce valuable works of the mind. I feel that to systematically violate IP is not right, is not prudent, will only help a nation over a short time horizon and we should encourage other nations to not do infringe.
A honey pot is slang for a vagina as well as a computer used to trap misfits. I think and femal genetalia related symbol would do nicely.
After the fall of the USSR, they dumped cheap titanium on the world market. People bought tons of it until somebody realized much of it was radioactive. It turns out that much of it was salvage torn off nuclear missiles!
Actually, it was not always the optimal strategy. In universes with large numbers of defectors, the tit for tat strategy underperformed the defector strategy. As I recall this was something like 90% of the participants. This meant that in an evil world, sometimes, your best bet is to be evil.
I don't think the point is stopping piracy flawlessly. I think the point is to delay the spead of the pirated versions of their works until they can recoup their investment. From their perspective, the longer they can stall the pirates, the better. A delay of just a few weeks from release to widespread availiblity may be sufficent to support the entire industry in its current model.
"The Network in Every Room" by Gibbs, W. Wayt, it discusses at length the issue of home broadband over power lines. It suggests the broadband over power lines is unlikely in the US because we have a transformer for every few houses here. Apparently, in Europe they use transformers for large groups of homes. This cuts down on the number of bridges they need to keep the signal strong. This is necessary because the transformer would otherwise erase the signals. Alas, the article is not online. Check it out at your local news stand or library.
I have a cover for my palm pilot from the people at concept kitchen. Made of 1/8 inch thick black rubber it protects my palm from anything -- Even beeing thrown hard at the floor. Maybe you should look into it.
They are much closer than you could imagine. Perhaps you have heard of the product Anoto? It is a Bluetooth Pen and a special paper that allows seamless communication between hard copy and digital devices like cell phones, computers and PDAs. Meet a girl at a party, write down her number and a reminder to call her in 3 days. Get home when your pen gets near your computer, it automatically sinks with you PIM, puts in a reminder, and creates a new contact for her. Neat stuff. Read more about it here: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,40190, 00.html
or
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/11/ns-21787.html
You can find more about the movie (a little more anyway) at the movie's web site. www.otnemem.com (memento backwards get it?)
Check this out www.phys.unsw.edu.au/physoc/physics_faq/glass.html www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/windowpane.html