The brain's ability to adapt to enormous change in the manner of input it's receiving is incredible. It will be very interesting to see how effectively the brain can adapt to interpreting the sensory signals from the new hand and control it. This seems like even more of a good idea now.
I couldn't say whether that's true or not, but it's irrelevant. People lose hands for all sorts of reasons. Like pop-bottle dry ice bombs...remember, put the cap on then run, don't try shaking it.
One of the potential uses for super-capacitor vehicles is in trolley buses. They run off the overhead lines but can also easily make detours and re-attach to the line if necessary. Exclusively super-capacitor buses provide an extra possibility in the family.
No need to be concerned, it's in the interest of public security. Remember, the police are on our side. Not giving them unrestricted access to monitor everyone continuously would only help the bad guys.
Works great in Canada though. If my car's been sitting in the hot sun on a cold winter day it might warm up almost to 0C. No need for a jeep, just open one window and the "air conditioning" will take it right back to -20C in no time. Much more comfortable.
Seriously though, I consider solar heating for my car an advantage for at least 7 months a year (and for as many as 6 hours a day when the sun is actually high enough in the three coldest months). And I rarely use the A/C in the summer, and then only for highway driving.
Same here, about 5 years ago I ripped my entire CD collection and found that I could tell the difference between 128Kbps mp3 160kbps but upwards of 160kbps it all sounded the same (using high-end Sony reference headphones). Using that, I chose to rip everything at 192Kbps. I haven't ever looked backed back and desperately wished to reclaim those lost 20GB. Besides, I can always re-encode at 128Kbps.
then you could just use it as a conventional nuclear rocket (i.e. superheated steam).
The VASMIR can accelerate a neutral gas to much, much higher velocities than a steam driven rocket would. This means significantly more impulse per unit mass so the fuel weight would be dramatically reduced. Sure the reactor is heavy but it still packs a much higher power density than combustibles so all in all a VASMIR can pull off an excellent power to weight ratio for an extended acceleration.
I think the current state of audio on Linux is to blame, and it's Pulse (well OK, everyone else as well) that's trying to fix it. Much of the trouble arises from not having a consistent standard to deal with across all Linux flavors. I agree that only having one choice would go against the grain of the Linux philosophy, but at the same time it may make it more likely for hardware developers and software developers alike to try to make compatible stuff.
Pulse is much better today than it was even a year ago and when it works, it works damn well. Give it some time to mature and as it acquires more market share we'll see much better compatibility.
I was completely converted to Pulse when I was able to stream music from any PC to any other PC in my house. It really is awesome to have the mpd server on my media center stream flawlessly over my network.
I always thought that KDE had a tendency towards including a bit too much in the desktop environment but this is extreme. Come on Kdevs, leave the fusion to physicists.
I'm listening, many of the readers on/. are listening, many people around the world are listening. It was clever stunt that got a lot of international attention and it's a good step in the right direction. We can only hope that's it's not a loosing battle. For my part, I support any legislation aimed at CO2 reduction; hopefully after hearing about the Maldives more people will do the same.
People need to be less cynical, even at the expense of a "funny" mod.
I read Bell Canada's history up to about 1905 and then skimmed onward from there. It did indeed become a monopoly through government mandated favoritism and also through some exclusivity contracts with the railways and aggressive marketing that would probably be illegal today. I couldn't find anything that suggested federal money was used for its networks in a direct way though.
>I hear it all the time but have never seen it justified
Yeah same here. I've just spent some time (well 10 minutes) looking to back it up but I can't find any supporting evidence. Bell was a government enforced monopoly for providing long-distance telephone service throughout Canada in the first half of the 20th century. As for using public money, however, I can't find supporting evidence. If anyone has a source, let us know:-)
I actually agree with the sentiment, but requiring ID is moronic. I think that OpenID and similar services should and will become more pervasive, attaching a unique ID to everything public that you on the internet. As for everything private, just don't attach your OpenID to it. News site comment boards could reject non-authenticated comments, file transfer sites could require authentication for upload and torrent clients could refuse connections from untrusted sources and, most importantly, e-mail accounts themselves could get flagged as not worth listening to and be forwarded directly to a spam folder.
Essentially, attach a karma number to OpenID accounts and extend the tracking of it to more services. It would, in the lingo of/., increase the signal to noise ratio of the internet just a little.
The trick would be to hit the balance of what data is stored and by whom. Undoubtedly there would be significant privacy concerns and the threat of targeted advertising but I think that it would be possible to address that. The problem of multiple accounts would self regulate as people just stopped paying attention to spam accounts (like how we all ignore Anonymous Coward).
Sure, it's occasionally discovered that politicians or parties got some kickback money but from what I can tell of US news, it's much less extensive here. The $1000 cap limits overt lobbying and corruption scandals are few, generally involving small contracts rather than legislation.
I don't think Microsoft would write bad code to try to make Mozilla look bad. When you hear that MS patched an error it means it's an error in MS code and can in no way reflect well on MS.
/. should try to get a volunteer prosecuted for violating a Term of Service in a hilarious manner. Try to get some free legal counsel for both sides from civil liberties group or from a law firm looking for publicity and then run the sham law suit as far as possible in the court system.
I think it's critical to set precedent by addressing the issue directly rather than via an emotionally confused case. By the same token, I think it would be fun to run a few sham software licence related law suits through the courts. Come on! It'll be fun!
Bell's network was laid using federal money. The network was handed over to Bell in exchange for an agreement that forced Bell to re-sell bandwidth because the network was built with taxpayer dollars. The population density is much lower in Canada so nation-wide infrastructure projects often have to be backed by the federal government to be a worthwhile investment.
Canada has relatively lax regulations as compared to most European countries and it has been a huge damper on innovation and competition. Bandwidth is required to be sold wholesale to smaller providers but wholesale costs are allowed to be much higher than in Europe, and yes, the CRTC is considering lifting what meager regulations we have. It may well be a disaster for broadband prices and speeds and we already have some of the worst in the developed world
It's important to recognize that in Canada the networks were largely built using federal money and then handed over to the telecom giants. This is why regulations should exist; because the government has already interfered with competition, creating a partial monopoly. The US is a bit different since the providers built the networks using little taxpayer money. Nonetheless, more competition would clearly benefit the consumer
It's an interesting problem, I tend to be a libertarian (having just read Atlas Shrugged, it's tough not to lean further to the right than I have in the past) but I'm also an avid broadband user. I generally dislike government regulation, but the nature of the information infrastructure makes it difficult for competition to occur in an unregulated environment.
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The brain's ability to adapt to enormous change in the manner of input it's receiving is incredible. It will be very interesting to see how effectively the brain can adapt to interpreting the sensory signals from the new hand and control it. This seems like even more of a good idea now.
I couldn't say whether that's true or not, but it's irrelevant. People lose hands for all sorts of reasons. Like pop-bottle dry ice bombs...remember, put the cap on then run, don't try shaking it.
One of the potential uses for super-capacitor vehicles is in trolley buses. They run off the overhead lines but can also easily make detours and re-attach to the line if necessary. Exclusively super-capacitor buses provide an extra possibility in the family.
No need to be concerned, it's in the interest of public security. Remember, the police are on our side. Not giving them unrestricted access to monitor everyone continuously would only help the bad guys.
Works great in Canada though. If my car's been sitting in the hot sun on a cold winter day it might warm up almost to 0C. No need for a jeep, just open one window and the "air conditioning" will take it right back to -20C in no time. Much more comfortable.
Seriously though, I consider solar heating for my car an advantage for at least 7 months a year (and for as many as 6 hours a day when the sun is actually high enough in the three coldest months). And I rarely use the A/C in the summer, and then only for highway driving.
I wonder what you would use a haptic feedback device for if you had one. The future is gonna be *awesome* (and a little weird).
I recommend listening to glitch-pop. It's inherently robust against lossy codecs and even some data corruption.
Same here, about 5 years ago I ripped my entire CD collection and found that I could tell the difference between 128Kbps mp3 160kbps but upwards of 160kbps it all sounded the same (using high-end Sony reference headphones). Using that, I chose to rip everything at 192Kbps. I haven't ever looked backed back and desperately wished to reclaim those lost 20GB. Besides, I can always re-encode at 128Kbps.
Not to mention video compression
The VASMIR can accelerate a neutral gas to much, much higher velocities than a steam driven rocket would. This means significantly more impulse per unit mass so the fuel weight would be dramatically reduced. Sure the reactor is heavy but it still packs a much higher power density than combustibles so all in all a VASMIR can pull off an excellent power to weight ratio for an extended acceleration.
I think the current state of audio on Linux is to blame, and it's Pulse (well OK, everyone else as well) that's trying to fix it. Much of the trouble arises from not having a consistent standard to deal with across all Linux flavors. I agree that only having one choice would go against the grain of the Linux philosophy, but at the same time it may make it more likely for hardware developers and software developers alike to try to make compatible stuff.
Pulse is much better today than it was even a year ago and when it works, it works damn well. Give it some time to mature and as it acquires more market share we'll see much better compatibility.
I was completely converted to Pulse when I was able to stream music from any PC to any other PC in my house. It really is awesome to have the mpd server on my media center stream flawlessly over my network.
I always thought that KDE had a tendency towards including a bit too much in the desktop environment but this is extreme. Come on Kdevs, leave the fusion to physicists.
Eeeeeewwwwwww!
before they strap a Google camera to the things and start taking pictures of every corner of every building that doesn't have:
User-agent: * /
Disallow:
in it's robot.txt file.
I'm listening, many of the readers on /. are listening, many people around the world are listening. It was clever stunt that got a lot of international attention and it's a good step in the right direction. We can only hope that's it's not a loosing battle. For my part, I support any legislation aimed at CO2 reduction; hopefully after hearing about the Maldives more people will do the same.
People need to be less cynical, even at the expense of a "funny" mod.
That's a great resource, thanks for posting it.
I read Bell Canada's history up to about 1905 and then skimmed onward from there. It did indeed become a monopoly through government mandated favoritism and also through some exclusivity contracts with the railways and aggressive marketing that would probably be illegal today. I couldn't find anything that suggested federal money was used for its networks in a direct way though.
>I hear it all the time but have never seen it justified
Yeah same here. I've just spent some time (well 10 minutes) looking to back it up but I can't find any supporting evidence. Bell was a government enforced monopoly for providing long-distance telephone service throughout Canada in the first half of the 20th century. As for using public money, however, I can't find supporting evidence. If anyone has a source, let us know :-)
I actually agree with the sentiment, but requiring ID is moronic. I think that OpenID and similar services should and will become more pervasive, attaching a unique ID to everything public that you on the internet. As for everything private, just don't attach your OpenID to it. News site comment boards could reject non-authenticated comments, file transfer sites could require authentication for upload and torrent clients could refuse connections from untrusted sources and, most importantly, e-mail accounts themselves could get flagged as not worth listening to and be forwarded directly to a spam folder.
Essentially, attach a karma number to OpenID accounts and extend the tracking of it to more services. It would, in the lingo of /., increase the signal to noise ratio of the internet just a little.
The trick would be to hit the balance of what data is stored and by whom. Undoubtedly there would be significant privacy concerns and the threat of targeted advertising but I think that it would be possible to address that. The problem of multiple accounts would self regulate as people just stopped paying attention to spam accounts (like how we all ignore Anonymous Coward).
Sure, it's occasionally discovered that politicians or parties got some kickback money but from what I can tell of US news, it's much less extensive here. The $1000 cap limits overt lobbying and corruption scandals are few, generally involving small contracts rather than legislation.
I don't think Microsoft would write bad code to try to make Mozilla look bad. When you hear that MS patched an error it means it's an error in MS code and can in no way reflect well on MS.
"I'm gonna punch your face until you bleed from the asshole"
...you fucking piece of shit! I'LL KILL YOU!
But seriously, I tell my kid...
Uh oh.
/. should try to get a volunteer prosecuted for violating a Term of Service in a hilarious manner. Try to get some free legal counsel for both sides from civil liberties group or from a law firm looking for publicity and then run the sham law suit as far as possible in the court system.
I think it's critical to set precedent by addressing the issue directly rather than via an emotionally confused case. By the same token, I think it would be fun to run a few sham software licence related law suits through the courts. Come on! It'll be fun!
Bell's network was laid using federal money. The network was handed over to Bell in exchange for an agreement that forced Bell to re-sell bandwidth because the network was built with taxpayer dollars. The population density is much lower in Canada so nation-wide infrastructure projects often have to be backed by the federal government to be a worthwhile investment.
Canada has relatively lax regulations as compared to most European countries and it has been a huge damper on innovation and competition. Bandwidth is required to be sold wholesale to smaller providers but wholesale costs are allowed to be much higher than in Europe, and yes, the CRTC is considering lifting what meager regulations we have. It may well be a disaster for broadband prices and speeds and we already have some of the worst in the developed world
It's important to recognize that in Canada the networks were largely built using federal money and then handed over to the telecom giants. This is why regulations should exist; because the government has already interfered with competition, creating a partial monopoly. The US is a bit different since the providers built the networks using little taxpayer money. Nonetheless, more competition would clearly benefit the consumer
It's an interesting problem, I tend to be a libertarian (having just read Atlas Shrugged, it's tough not to lean further to the right than I have in the past) but I'm also an avid broadband user. I generally dislike government regulation, but the nature of the information infrastructure makes it difficult for competition to occur in an unregulated environment.