Suuuure, it's all about nukes and nothing about how interconnected modern economies are. It used to be beneficial to start a war with your neighbour, it's no longer the case because he's now your customer and manufacturer.
Indeed, though I think it's easier at home/flat -- you could just place a few dozen RFID tags as markers and be done with it.
On the other hand, at industrial level it is not a viable solution and it would be great if low-cost solution existed, based on placing cheap APs instead of expensive laser stuff, etc. and still obtain accuracy of, say, 10 centimeters.
What kind of accuracy is possible to achieve using NAVSOP - or other systems you know of - if I can place stuff like APs, mobile phones, etc. myself in a factory area? Do you have methodology for designing placement of such devices so positioning accuracy is reached at every point? How low can one get with costs of such solutions?
I wonder if anyone would give some thoughts about watching TV the 2012-way outside of "the first world". I'm not in the USA, UK or Germany. I'm inside EU, but services such as Netflix are NOT globally available. Are there any good alternatives that are legal? Or is Pirate Bay the only sensible option.
Exactly, the same goes with pension schemes, especially in Europe. I'm in my early 30s and have to pay A LOT of money so people can retire at an average age between 55-65 years. If I'm gonna have the same privilege, I'll have to steal from my children. Children, I don't have enough because I can't afford having them. Don't you think these children SHOULD be worried and SHOULD protest? If nothing is changed, they're gonna have to work until they're dead and give 90% of their income back to those retired.
I second this. I have one Atom mini itx board inside a full size pc chassis with several harddrives working as an energy efficient and powerful file server.
I have put together an Nvidia ION board, an eSata pendrive as its harddrive and put it inside a small factor chassis which was meant to be used in a car -- it's small enough that I could hide it between my LCD TV and the wall. It runs a custom Ubuntu distribution with XBMC, uses Microsoft remote and is great. It is also very usable by non-technical people such as my child's grandma who can easily play some cartoons:-)
If you're looking to tinker A LOT with software and hardware it's not a way to go, it's also not as cheap as one could get. But in terms of being easy and comfortable, there's nothing better for me.
If 'Pi is a non-copyrightable fact', nothing is copyrightable because if you go far enough in decimal digits of Pi, you'll find any series you want, be it encoded works of Shakespeare or Lady Gaga's newest hit.
Maybe human brain is massively parallel at physical level, but it is NOT multithreaded when it comes to consiousness and thinking. It is really hard to write fiction with multiple hyperlinked threads. It is also not very pleasant to read, therefore not much demand and not much supply. Simple.
6 year old PCs can still run XP (which is unsupported since 2009) OR KDE 4.8 which will probably be supported for a few years coming.
Why do you compare latest KDE to old XP? Does Windows 7 work well on old PCs?
Even though I wish you succeeded, it's an impossible Utopia. We do NOT have unlimited resources, especially energetic (for lots of good, sceptical and scientific read about it go to http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/) and if we spread all of the resources used by humanity equally over every living person on this globe, we would meet at the level of living of Bangladesh (I've read an interesting article about it in Polish periodic "Wiedza i ycie").
Of course, we could stop our economy based on artificially increasing demand, but even if it was easy, it would take generations to adjust -- me and You are already raised in a society where everyone wants more and more - so we debt ourselves and fall into a trap. I don't think these connections in our brains can be undone, perhaps there would be a chance for our grandchildren at best.
Slashdot Mirror
...just to find some interesting websites to take a look at? :-)
If they did it on their own, it would be much harder to proove the real cost of it.
Suuuure, it's all about nukes and nothing about how interconnected modern economies are. It used to be beneficial to start a war with your neighbour, it's no longer the case because he's now your customer and manufacturer.
Indeed, though I think it's easier at home/flat -- you could just place a few dozen RFID tags as markers and be done with it. On the other hand, at industrial level it is not a viable solution and it would be great if low-cost solution existed, based on placing cheap APs instead of expensive laser stuff, etc. and still obtain accuracy of, say, 10 centimeters.
What kind of accuracy is possible to achieve using NAVSOP - or other systems you know of - if I can place stuff like APs, mobile phones, etc. myself in a factory area? Do you have methodology for designing placement of such devices so positioning accuracy is reached at every point? How low can one get with costs of such solutions?
I wonder if anyone would give some thoughts about watching TV the 2012-way outside of "the first world". I'm not in the USA, UK or Germany. I'm inside EU, but services such as Netflix are NOT globally available. Are there any good alternatives that are legal? Or is Pirate Bay the only sensible option.
I don't think iPhone needed to have multitasking AT ALL to succeed.
Yeah, the USA will send nukes and save the day.
How about not having wars in the future at all, instead of trying to "humanely" differentiate between combatants and non-combatants.
Exactly.
I haven't seen the Scion commercial and I'm not native English speaker, but is the babe really doing donuts, not making them? :-)
Exactly, the same goes with pension schemes, especially in Europe. I'm in my early 30s and have to pay A LOT of money so people can retire at an average age between 55-65 years. If I'm gonna have the same privilege, I'll have to steal from my children. Children, I don't have enough because I can't afford having them. Don't you think these children SHOULD be worried and SHOULD protest? If nothing is changed, they're gonna have to work until they're dead and give 90% of their income back to those retired.
So, if I start hitting you, I can't be punished until you're killed?
You should read about CPT symmetry and breaking it. If you reverse time flow, you have to make some other changes to apply the same laws of physics.
I can use PPAs with Ubuntu derivatives and not with Debian. For a lazy asshole such as me it's a deciding advantage.
And who would write a bill to reform the system? Lawyers?
I second this. I have one Atom mini itx board inside a full size pc chassis with several harddrives working as an energy efficient and powerful file server. I have put together an Nvidia ION board, an eSata pendrive as its harddrive and put it inside a small factor chassis which was meant to be used in a car -- it's small enough that I could hide it between my LCD TV and the wall. It runs a custom Ubuntu distribution with XBMC, uses Microsoft remote and is great. It is also very usable by non-technical people such as my child's grandma who can easily play some cartoons :-)
If you're looking to tinker A LOT with software and hardware it's not a way to go, it's also not as cheap as one could get. But in terms of being easy and comfortable, there's nothing better for me.
If 'Pi is a non-copyrightable fact', nothing is copyrightable because if you go far enough in decimal digits of Pi, you'll find any series you want, be it encoded works of Shakespeare or Lady Gaga's newest hit.
Reminds me of Illegal Prime...
You can't be from USA, you placed Poland on the correct continent.
Yes, I do. They're tougher than what ACTA was trying to introduce.
...just because I live in Poland or some other "obscure" country. I say fuck you and go back to piratebay.
Also, Ubuntu is base on Debian. What's your point?
Maybe human brain is massively parallel at physical level, but it is NOT multithreaded when it comes to consiousness and thinking. It is really hard to write fiction with multiple hyperlinked threads. It is also not very pleasant to read, therefore not much demand and not much supply. Simple.
6 year old PCs can still run XP (which is unsupported since 2009) OR KDE 4.8 which will probably be supported for a few years coming.
Why do you compare latest KDE to old XP? Does Windows 7 work well on old PCs?
Even though I wish you succeeded, it's an impossible Utopia. We do NOT have unlimited resources, especially energetic (for lots of good, sceptical and scientific read about it go to http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/) and if we spread all of the resources used by humanity equally over every living person on this globe, we would meet at the level of living of Bangladesh (I've read an interesting article about it in Polish periodic "Wiedza i ycie").
Of course, we could stop our economy based on artificially increasing demand, but even if it was easy, it would take generations to adjust -- me and You are already raised in a society where everyone wants more and more - so we debt ourselves and fall into a trap. I don't think these connections in our brains can be undone, perhaps there would be a chance for our grandchildren at best.