Although the movements of these robo-fish at first glance look fantastically real there is a giveaway. I've watched my goldfish swim around in its tank a lot, and was/am surprised about what it uses the the two fins at the front of its body for (the fins that stick downwards and to the side). These are the fins that make a fish a real fish. They are used for accurate positioning, turning, standing upright (so the fish can look for food between the little stones at the bottom of the tank), swimming backwards... I haven't seen the robofish use them at all. I presume that the next generation of robofish will be able to move those fins also.
That's another thing, yes. But even recheargable batteries don't make much sense in pacemakers. A pacemaker guy from my hospital told me once there have been nuclear-powered pacemakers that could go for 25 years. They were soon abandoned of course, but most of the time these PM's were taken out long before the end of their lifes because the patient was helped better with a new PM.
I think he meant there wasn't a GNU kernel until 2004. That's why RMS wants us to all say GNU/Linux. GNU tools with a Linux kernel. He has a point there. Unfortunately he acts such like a zealot these days that nobody takes him serious anymore.
About 6 years for a pacemaker. And by that time technology has advanced so much that you want a new pacemaker, so they never change the batteries in pacemakers, but they just put a new pacemaker in.
What an enormously crappy article. There is absolutely nothing new in there. Everybody that is a little bit tech-savvy know that new and better batteries are developed all over the world, and you don't have to be a genius to come up with the idea that charging outside the body would be very handy. Blegh indeed!
So there you are, laying unconscious on the pavement. Luckily the brave military man finds you before you die. The first thing he does is put your USB stick in his computer to see if you have any dangerous deseases that he should know about. But, since you were so obsessed with privacy and encrypted all your data, he is unable to read yuor stick. He injects you with the standard elixer of life, for which you happen to be allergic. You die after a few minutes of agonizing pain.
It's worse than that. With nthe iTMS, you get lower quality sound (128 kbps). It's not bad, but you can hear that it's not as good as CD. So yes, the RIAA is greedy. What I usually do is buy the music at iTunes, and then grab a copy with better sound quality off the P@P networks.
Another thing that never gets mentioned here is the fact that many well-known artists agian and again sign contracts with the major record companies. Of course they can make sure they get a better deal than your average musician, but still, why don't they just make and sell their CD's without a record company? These companies can't be all bad, considering Madonna's, Sting's, U2's etc moves.
...has released a version of it's chess engine for Linux...
This is a common error that I see more and more on the Interweb. It's getting annoying, so I will explain:
A ' replaces something that we are too lazy to type, so it's means it is. If you are talking about a part or a property of something, you use its, not it's.
I hope this is clear to everybody. This was a free lesson to improve your English, brought to you by tsa from Holland.
I was thinking the same thing when reading the article. Why does MS do this? It must be because they think they can make more money this way, but they manage to piss a whole lot of people off in the process. I also wonder what the position of the EU is concerning this issue. They are already giving MS a hard time, and if this licensing scheme is introduced here, I'm very curious as to what will happen.
This is one of those inventions that comes along every now and then, of which you think: why didn't they think of this earlier? Some things stare humanity in the face for years and years before someone finally sees the light. This one took remarkably long...
You're right, but I can not think of a better, faster way to do it. Maybe it's best if the people of China themselves come up for their rights. The world is a complicated place. Thanks for pointing that out...
The sad truth is that the Chinese are where they are now because of the money they get from people in free countries like America and Europe (yes I know Europe is not a country, I live there). Many people in these countries know the Chinese are treated like shit and don't get what they deserve, but still we buy their stuff. Why don't we all boycot Chinese products until the Chinese gouvernment changes its ways? Because we like to buy our stuff cheap. Disgusting when you think about it. I'm also to blame; I just bought an iBook - Made in China, designed in America, as Apple proudly puts on the boxes their stuff comes in.
If scratchability is difficult to reduce, it should be a mayor problem in mobile phones, which are devices that lead an even harder life than iPods in many owners' hands. My phone lives in my pocket together with all my keys, and although the screen is badly scratched I can still read it easily. But I have an old Nokia 3310 with a B&W LCD screen. Is there anyone here who regularly makes pictures with his/her mobile, which also lives inside a trouser pocket with no extra protection? Any problems with scratches?
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Although the movements of these robo-fish at first glance look fantastically real there is a giveaway. I've watched my goldfish swim around in its tank a lot, and was/am surprised about what it uses the the two fins at the front of its body for (the fins that stick downwards and to the side). These are the fins that make a fish a real fish. They are used for accurate positioning, turning, standing upright (so the fish can look for food between the little stones at the bottom of the tank), swimming backwards... I haven't seen the robofish use them at all. I presume that the next generation of robofish will be able to move those fins also.
That's another thing, yes. But even recheargable batteries don't make much sense in pacemakers. A pacemaker guy from my hospital told me once there have been nuclear-powered pacemakers that could go for 25 years. They were soon abandoned of course, but most of the time these PM's were taken out long before the end of their lifes because the patient was helped better with a new PM.
I think he meant there wasn't a GNU kernel until 2004. That's why RMS wants us to all say GNU/Linux. GNU tools with a Linux kernel. He has a point there. Unfortunately he acts such like a zealot these days that nobody takes him serious anymore.
That's what I am in the process of. Switch to OSX at home! At work MS is king :-(
So he has a lesbian kid? Let the rumours fly! :-)
About 6 years for a pacemaker. And by that time technology has advanced so much that you want a new pacemaker, so they never change the batteries in pacemakers, but they just put a new pacemaker in.
What an enormously crappy article. There is absolutely nothing new in there. Everybody that is a little bit tech-savvy know that new and better batteries are developed all over the world, and you don't have to be a genius to come up with the idea that charging outside the body would be very handy. Blegh indeed!
Looks interesting, thanks!
I read the FA, and all I learned was that Serenity is a SciFi movie about people. It would be nice if he had elaborated a bit more on the plot.
So there you are, laying unconscious on the pavement. Luckily the brave military man finds you before you die. The first thing he does is put your USB stick in his computer to see if you have any dangerous deseases that he should know about. But, since you were so obsessed with privacy and encrypted all your data, he is unable to read yuor stick. He injects you with the standard elixer of life, for which you happen to be allergic. You die after a few minutes of agonizing pain.
It's worse than that. With nthe iTMS, you get lower quality sound (128 kbps). It's not bad, but you can hear that it's not as good as CD. So yes, the RIAA is greedy. What I usually do is buy the music at iTunes, and then grab a copy with better sound quality off the P@P networks.
Another thing that never gets mentioned here is the fact that many well-known artists agian and again sign contracts with the major record companies. Of course they can make sure they get a better deal than your average musician, but still, why don't they just make and sell their CD's without a record company? These companies can't be all bad, considering Madonna's, Sting's, U2's etc moves.
...has released a version of it's chess engine for Linux ...
This is a common error that I see more and more on the Interweb. It's getting annoying, so I will explain:
A ' replaces something that we are too lazy to type, so it's means it is. If you are talking about a part or a property of something, you use its, not it's.
I hope this is clear to everybody. This was a free lesson to improve your English, brought to you by tsa from Holland.
I wrote such a program on my Commodore 64, many years ago.
I was thinking the same thing when reading the article. Why does MS do this? It must be because they think they can make more money this way, but they manage to piss a whole lot of people off in the process. I also wonder what the position of the EU is concerning this issue. They are already giving MS a hard time, and if this licensing scheme is introduced here, I'm very curious as to what will happen.
Maybe it's just me reading between the lines, but I gathered as much from TFA.
Does anyone else here get the feeling from this that doctors have a sort of "well, that's how it's always been done" approach to medicine?
I think there's a good reason for this: the way it has always been done has proven to work, and most patients don't like to be experimented on.
This is one of those inventions that comes along every now and then, of which you think: why didn't they think of this earlier? Some things stare humanity in the face for years and years before someone finally sees the light. This one took remarkably long...
GOOD GRAVY THIS SUCKER IS EXPENSIVE!
Maybe this sucker is nuclear?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
You're right, but I can not think of a better, faster way to do it. Maybe it's best if the people of China themselves come up for their rights. The world is a complicated place. Thanks for pointing that out...
The sad truth is that the Chinese are where they are now because of the money they get from people in free countries like America and Europe (yes I know Europe is not a country, I live there). Many people in these countries know the Chinese are treated like shit and don't get what they deserve, but still we buy their stuff. Why don't we all boycot Chinese products until the Chinese gouvernment changes its ways? Because we like to buy our stuff cheap. Disgusting when you think about it. I'm also to blame; I just bought an iBook - Made in China, designed in America, as Apple proudly puts on the boxes their stuff comes in.
Hey, you say something bad about Apple, you get modded down. That's the rule here on /.. Happens to me all the time.
Did you really write that, or are you just using someone elses hard work to show off?
If scratchability is difficult to reduce, it should be a mayor problem in mobile phones, which are devices that lead an even harder life than iPods in many owners' hands. My phone lives in my pocket together with all my keys, and although the screen is badly scratched I can still read it easily. But I have an old Nokia 3310 with a B&W LCD screen. Is there anyone here who regularly makes pictures with his/her mobile, which also lives inside a trouser pocket with no extra protection? Any problems with scratches?
Sorry, it is made to live in a jeans pocket, not life.