The problem is transmitting the pixel data to the lenses wirelessly while also simultaneously feeding them power somehow: you can't really have wires going to your contact lenses. If that could be solved in a reasonable manner then sure, it would be great. I've been thinking to myself that it'd be neat to have some sort of a small plug behind your ear into which you can plug in a small audio cable, and then have the audio transmitted directly to your inner ear through cranial resonance. Now, combine that with augmented-reality contact lenses/glasses and you've got a really, really powerful system useful for things ranging from entertainment to industrial uses to military uses and even remotely-guided surgeries.
... by Tor. I regularly download torrents from behind a draconian campus proxy using Tor. (Yes, I know, the Tor guys don't want us running torrents with it. But I'm too lazy to go looking for other solutions.) I'm "in the clear.":P
You may be "in the clear" but you're also terribly selfish a-hole.
Interesting idea and I wonder why burning one's own body isn't allowed on a pyre. I could understand them be cautionary due to fears of the fire spreading, but that's only a matter of proper precautions. Then again, I have just been pondering about people just dumping my body on the sidewalk or something: it's not like I'll care anymore at that point about what happens to my body so why not use it for some macabre humor?
I too wish to thank for that link. That's quite a lot of stuff that seems to be working, now we just have to hope they get the rest going, too; I know many people will want to use HDMI and while I personally have no use for GPS on a 10" tablet it could still be plenty useful for doing field research or such in combination with full Linux applications. Oh, and of course video cameras for sex cha... err, philosophical conversations on the meaning of life.
Ah, in a reply to myself: apparently you cannot run plain Ubuntu on A500. You can run Ubuntu under Android with e.g. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appbuilder.u14410p30729 but I don't know if that is useful for anyone else or not, but I feel somewhat tempted to try it myself.
I have a 10" Iconia Tab A500 and I know one can run Ubuntu on it, though I do not know how easy it is to install as I haven't tried it. A500 may not be the best tablet out there, but it sports a pretty good, strong aluminum construction which makes it plenty sturdy, and more importantly it sports a full-size USB-host port meaning that you can plug in all kinds of regular USB-devices. In an emergency you can even charge your cellphone from it.
A500 has bluetooth, 802.11n support and does have a MicroSDHC slot for expanding storage, but it isn't exactly cheap. And it doesn't come with 3G. If you want 3G then you can use a USB-dongle under Ubuntu or buy A501 which is otherwise the same as A500 but does include a built-in 3G modem (though I don't know if it is supported under Ubuntu, you better google that)
Other than that I really do not have much to offer though, sorry.
DRIVE. YOUR. CAR. Please. Your car is not an entertainment system, smartphone, web browser, etc. It's a powerful, heavy, moving object. Capable of inflicting life-altering or mortal injuries and enormous property damage, which must be piloted accurately to within less than a few feet at speeds humans were never designed to travel. Treat it as such, which means PAY ATTENTION and keep BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL and your EYES ON THE ROAD.
I heartily agree with you. Cars are dangerous and should be treated with proper respect. Every single god damn day there are news of people crashing or hitting someone, and in almost every case it's because of lack of respect for the dangers a car poses. It's easy to dismiss all the warnings and claim you're totally in control, but when you eventually end up in an accident it's not a laughing matter anymore and you could well have destroyed complete families in the process.
It was calling cards, not credit cards. Reading comprehension, mate. And he wasn't the one doing the stealing, he was trading them. I'm not saying it is acceptable, but it's hardly top-of-the-line criminal activity. And I am not aware of him being part of any insider trading thing.
Is it illegal? I think the only person saying that so far is Kim, and you seem outraged by abuse of power where as I see it as business as usual.
If he paid for the artists to perform, the music and lyrics are completely new and not copied from some previous song, then yes, it is illegal as UMG doesn't own the copyrights to them. You may see illegal DMCA-takedown requests as "business as usual", but that doesn't make it right.
If this abuse bothers you so much what are you doing about it?
I'm not a multibillionaire so there's nothing I can do about it.
I'm not arguing that he isn't. I'm arguing that UMG still shouldn't be allowed to use illegal means to harass him, something that you're trying very hard to ignore.
You might want to talk to the women who are currently bemoaning the preponderance of emo and metro 'men' hoping to become girlfriends-with-a-penis. Gender roles are being shaken up all over the joint.
I see what you did there.
While this is certainly off-topic I do wish to grab on to this a little. More specifically, to your wording of 'men': why do you think they're less men than e.g. you are? Is it manly to blindly follow tradition and be afraid of breaking out of the box, and feminine to be who and what you like? Is it manly to not care how you look like as long as you look like everyone else?
Personally I think it shows a lot more character to not be afraid of causing a little stir by exploring yourself and breaking a few taboos. A 'real man' isn't afraid of being himself, so to say.
He was convicted for 2 years probation for trading in stolen calling card numbers. Hardly some sort of super-criminal type material, I'd say. There is no record of him having done anything illegal after that. So, does that mean that the fact that he has done something illegal over 10 years ago gives people right to also do illegal stuff in order to cause him harm? If you've ever gotten a speeding ticket -- speeding is illegal and you're a criminal if you do that -- I can come over and use illegal tactics to harm you, like bashing the windows in on your car?
TL;DR -- You took my comment a tad bit too seriously, it was a joke o_O
In fact I can't hate VB because I've never used it myself and I did use BASIC quite a bit back when I was taking my first steps into computing on a Commodore 64. I've seen quite a share of horrible VB applications, sure, and I haven't seen a single good, well-made VB application.. but that's not likely the fault of the language.
That would still present the issue of moving all the needed materials, waste and finished products around. Moving all that by boats would be quite limiting, especially since the boats would have to be rather small. They _could_ do a few rounds of drives a day, but I don't know if that would cover even the costs of turning the machinery on.
That makes me wonder.. by learning oneself Basic or Visual Basic one could quickly shrink the size of one's brain mass. Then we could instead start learning something more useful and grow our brains back to original size, just better and stronger. Profit?
Though I think we should take care not to do too much of (Visual) Basic or our brains might fall out of our ears when we sleep.
I doubt the three braincells you have are working to their fullest: this isn't talking about devices, it's talking about Windows Store. Besides, there isn't any device out there yet that has Windows Store installed as the store isn't even finished yet. Windows Phone Marketplace is an entirely different thing, too.
Atleast to my eye it looks like they're trying to lay blame on PHPMyAdmin. Perhaps it's just poor wording but still, that's how it does come out. And well, everyone knows that anything can be made insecure if they're given in incompetent-enough hands.
Yes, the molybdenite is used as the primary material in crafting the transistors themselves, silicon is used for the packaging and insulation.
Abundant as compared to what? Silicon is the third most abundant element on earth and makes up 15% of its mass. Molybdenum is a rare earth element. Also, you can't use the current price of some element based on it not being used to make microprocessors and expect that the cost won't change if you increase the demand for it by many orders of magnitude.
There might be good reasons for building microprocessors from molybdenite but replacing scarce silicon with abundant molybdenite is not one of them.
While it's true that there is a lot of silicon on Earth, it however cannot just be mined and used directly. The silicon must be purified to a very high degree before it can be used in microchips and that is costly and consumes a lot of silicon.
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or augmented-reality contact lenses
The problem is transmitting the pixel data to the lenses wirelessly while also simultaneously feeding them power somehow: you can't really have wires going to your contact lenses. If that could be solved in a reasonable manner then sure, it would be great. I've been thinking to myself that it'd be neat to have some sort of a small plug behind your ear into which you can plug in a small audio cable, and then have the audio transmitted directly to your inner ear through cranial resonance. Now, combine that with augmented-reality contact lenses/glasses and you've got a really, really powerful system useful for things ranging from entertainment to industrial uses to military uses and even remotely-guided surgeries.
... by Tor. I regularly download torrents from behind a draconian campus proxy using Tor. (Yes, I know, the Tor guys don't want us running torrents with it. But I'm too lazy to go looking for other solutions.) I'm "in the clear." :P
You may be "in the clear" but you're also terribly selfish a-hole.
Oh, that's like kicking a dead horse.
Interesting idea and I wonder why burning one's own body isn't allowed on a pyre. I could understand them be cautionary due to fears of the fire spreading, but that's only a matter of proper precautions. Then again, I have just been pondering about people just dumping my body on the sidewalk or something: it's not like I'll care anymore at that point about what happens to my body so why not use it for some macabre humor?
I too wish to thank for that link. That's quite a lot of stuff that seems to be working, now we just have to hope they get the rest going, too; I know many people will want to use HDMI and while I personally have no use for GPS on a 10" tablet it could still be plenty useful for doing field research or such in combination with full Linux applications. Oh, and of course video cameras for sex cha... err, philosophical conversations on the meaning of life.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye on that.
Ah, in a reply to myself: apparently you cannot run plain Ubuntu on A500. You can run Ubuntu under Android with e.g. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appbuilder.u14410p30729 but I don't know if that is useful for anyone else or not, but I feel somewhat tempted to try it myself.
I have a 10" Iconia Tab A500 and I know one can run Ubuntu on it, though I do not know how easy it is to install as I haven't tried it. A500 may not be the best tablet out there, but it sports a pretty good, strong aluminum construction which makes it plenty sturdy, and more importantly it sports a full-size USB-host port meaning that you can plug in all kinds of regular USB-devices. In an emergency you can even charge your cellphone from it.
A500 has bluetooth, 802.11n support and does have a MicroSDHC slot for expanding storage, but it isn't exactly cheap. And it doesn't come with 3G. If you want 3G then you can use a USB-dongle under Ubuntu or buy A501 which is otherwise the same as A500 but does include a built-in 3G modem (though I don't know if it is supported under Ubuntu, you better google that)
Other than that I really do not have much to offer though, sorry.
DRIVE. YOUR. CAR. Please. Your car is not an entertainment system, smartphone, web browser, etc. It's a powerful, heavy, moving object. Capable of inflicting life-altering or mortal injuries and enormous property damage, which must be piloted accurately to within less than a few feet at speeds humans were never designed to travel. Treat it as such, which means PAY ATTENTION and keep BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL and your EYES ON THE ROAD.
I heartily agree with you. Cars are dangerous and should be treated with proper respect. Every single god damn day there are news of people crashing or hitting someone, and in almost every case it's because of lack of respect for the dangers a car poses. It's easy to dismiss all the warnings and claim you're totally in control, but when you eventually end up in an accident it's not a laughing matter anymore and you could well have destroyed complete families in the process.
but is it truly illegal?
Issuing a DMCA-takedown notice for content you don't own copyright to is illegal, yes.
Then why worry about it?
Ignorance is bliss, eh?
Oh, really? Please, do enlighten me.
It was calling cards, not credit cards. Reading comprehension, mate. And he wasn't the one doing the stealing, he was trading them. I'm not saying it is acceptable, but it's hardly top-of-the-line criminal activity. And I am not aware of him being part of any insider trading thing.
Is it illegal? I think the only person saying that so far is Kim, and you seem outraged by abuse of power where as I see it as business as usual.
If he paid for the artists to perform, the music and lyrics are completely new and not copied from some previous song, then yes, it is illegal as UMG doesn't own the copyrights to them. You may see illegal DMCA-takedown requests as "business as usual", but that doesn't make it right.
If this abuse bothers you so much what are you doing about it?
I'm not a multibillionaire so there's nothing I can do about it.
I'm not arguing that he isn't. I'm arguing that UMG still shouldn't be allowed to use illegal means to harass him, something that you're trying very hard to ignore.
You might want to talk to the women who are currently bemoaning the preponderance of emo and metro 'men' hoping to become girlfriends-with-a-penis. Gender roles are being shaken up all over the joint.
I see what you did there.
While this is certainly off-topic I do wish to grab on to this a little. More specifically, to your wording of 'men': why do you think they're less men than e.g. you are? Is it manly to blindly follow tradition and be afraid of breaking out of the box, and feminine to be who and what you like? Is it manly to not care how you look like as long as you look like everyone else?
Personally I think it shows a lot more character to not be afraid of causing a little stir by exploring yourself and breaking a few taboos. A 'real man' isn't afraid of being himself, so to say.
Let's see.
He was convicted for 2 years probation for trading in stolen calling card numbers. Hardly some sort of super-criminal type material, I'd say. There is no record of him having done anything illegal after that. So, does that mean that the fact that he has done something illegal over 10 years ago gives people right to also do illegal stuff in order to cause him harm? If you've ever gotten a speeding ticket -- speeding is illegal and you're a criminal if you do that -- I can come over and use illegal tactics to harm you, like bashing the windows in on your car?
TL;DR -- You took my comment a tad bit too seriously, it was a joke o_O
In fact I can't hate VB because I've never used it myself and I did use BASIC quite a bit back when I was taking my first steps into computing on a Commodore 64. I've seen quite a share of horrible VB applications, sure, and I haven't seen a single good, well-made VB application.. but that's not likely the fault of the language.
That would still present the issue of moving all the needed materials, waste and finished products around. Moving all that by boats would be quite limiting, especially since the boats would have to be rather small. They _could_ do a few rounds of drives a day, but I don't know if that would cover even the costs of turning the machinery on.
it cannot do anything harmful.
Or atleast that's the claim.
That makes me wonder.. by learning oneself Basic or Visual Basic one could quickly shrink the size of one's brain mass. Then we could instead start learning something more useful and grow our brains back to original size, just better and stronger. Profit?
Though I think we should take care not to do too much of (Visual) Basic or our brains might fall out of our ears when we sleep.
But but but but...what if it is an effing MASSIVE ROOM-SIZED MOSQUITO?!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Hmm, maybe that's why I've always liked chain-quests.
Now that is an interesting point, something I never had thought of. Thanks, gives me yet some more to ponder about :)
I doubt the three braincells you have are working to their fullest: this isn't talking about devices, it's talking about Windows Store. Besides, there isn't any device out there yet that has Windows Store installed as the store isn't even finished yet. Windows Phone Marketplace is an entirely different thing, too.
Atleast to my eye it looks like they're trying to lay blame on PHPMyAdmin. Perhaps it's just poor wording but still, that's how it does come out. And well, everyone knows that anything can be made insecure if they're given in incompetent-enough hands.
Gold, sure; platinum, no problem; silicon, WTF?
Yes, the molybdenite is used as the primary material in crafting the transistors themselves, silicon is used for the packaging and insulation.
Abundant as compared to what? Silicon is the third most abundant element on earth and makes up 15% of its mass. Molybdenum is a rare earth element. Also, you can't use the current price of some element based on it not being used to make microprocessors and expect that the cost won't change if you increase the demand for it by many orders of magnitude.
There might be good reasons for building microprocessors from molybdenite but replacing scarce silicon with abundant molybdenite is not one of them.
While it's true that there is a lot of silicon on Earth, it however cannot just be mined and used directly. The silicon must be purified to a very high degree before it can be used in microchips and that is costly and consumes a lot of silicon.