Probably because they have only "talked" about implementing micropayments in BF Heroes, just as the idea of micropayments is in the "what if" stages with titles like Spore.
I had the same concerns when I undertook a document scanning project when I worked for a major municipality. Was worried about whether PDF's or TIFFs would be best for the long term, especially since we were scanning in several million documents.
That was ten years ago (1998), and still are both viable. We went with multipage TIFFs, btw.
I was discharged from service in 1998, medically, from wounds received during "peacetime" counter-terrorist activities. I continued working with the government, but this time without a sidearm.
Were they even there before? Threat? Worse than killing our children and raping our women, they started "threatening" us at the gas station back in the 1970's.
Not sure who you are referring to as the 'hijackers of our government'. Nixon? Carter? We are not newcomers to the middle east, and even under the benevolent leadership of Clinton, the U.S. undertook several missions designed to counteract the terrorist threat.
Just a curiosity, but did where did you get these ideas? Your service time in middle east? MTV? CNN? Just wondering what inspired such strong language (murderous criminals?). I spent years of my life over there, and the only thing that gets me emotionally fired up is the lack of reason on this side of the pond. Would it kill you to perhaps form your opinion based off of experience, rather than from TV?
Mark this as a troll, but there HAS to be more than a handful of vets that read Slashdot and agree with this - am I the only one, and do I have to bite my tongue for EVERY post like this?
Yeah, but see, you don't know that (the only ones who have proposed that are the experts over at CNN).
During my time spent in the middle east (all of which took place before 9/11) I saw... drumroll please... people who wanted to kill Americans. WHAT? DURING CLINTON?? Yes. We are not the 'cause' of these insurgents, and no matter how much you hate Bush for whatever you think it is he has done, or how much you want to blame him for the problems he inherited (from, IMO, the dem president that preceded him), he didn't make them either.
The very boring and undramatic truth of the matter is, there are always people who will capitalize on the loss or misgivings of a group of people, and people of the Middle East happen to be the latest target. Arafat did it with the PLO (which has NOTHING to do with liberating Palestinians, and has everything with creating a power base), and the same thing is happening now around Iraq.
So about "the sure thing is, there weren't insurgents": this rhetoric may work on your bleeding heart girlfriend, and probably works on many here on Slashdot, but don't try flinging that nonsense around vets, govt employees, or anyone else who has actually tried to DO something about these issues. It may sell books or commercial time on news channels, but it doesn't make any sense.
Sure there is. It just doesn't mean what you think it means.
"Happening in a time span lower than the response rate of the observer." If I move my mouse, the cursor moves "instantaneously", even though there's a delay significantly higher than c's round trip through mouse, cable, USB bus, CPU, AGP, GPU, VGA cable, monitor control, eyes. The post your response was hanging off of - i apologize if this was in error.
This is the strangest post i have seen yet - is it a troll? Anyhoo.
The very paper you refer clearly states that time not a constant. This is why his ideas were so interesting... it opened the door to 'instantaneous' as quite an ordinary thing. It's quite short and easy to understand (the second time you read it).
The above poster is also correct in the frame of quantum mechanics: in the quantum world, the ONLY constant is the observer. His entire post was prologued with 'Happening in a time span lower than the response rate of the observer.'
I would recommend imagining the people you encounter as much smarter than you may think. It may be a blow to your ego for a while, but you will find a massive source of information and ideas.
Nobody knows much physics, btw. You would be lying if you claimed to know much beyond newtonian physics.
I simply refuse to be associated with casinos and all the social problems they lead to (dramatically increased bankruptcy rates, violent crime, auto thefts, larceny, substance abuse, suicide rates, etc.).
If by casinos you meant the public school system then yes, i totally agree.
It was a drug bust. It's likely undercover cops were present to confirm/asssist arrest. Taking pictures of said drug busts could cost lives. Your 'precious rights to an afternoon sitting on the couch' stop the moment you put somebody's life in danger. Period.
Whaddya think the aiming tolerance for these systems are? Could you increase this tolerance by putting a lense that spreads the beam out a little at the expense of bandwidth? If so, optical networking would make a good alternative for remote control over mobile rcvr's as long as they could maintain LOS - no FCC control if you want to use higher-bandwidth applications (like video from the remote unit)
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This is also true for extremely small values of 2.5
When you say Carnegie Melon you make me think of an industrialist sitting down to eat a cantaloupe.
Why do developers keep trying to convince us what is wrong with the highest selling console? (sales in the U.S., 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars#United_States_sales_figures)
Individuals who pass the A-levels are rewarded with the use of a secret website that describes the world to them: Wikipedia
Probably because they have only "talked" about implementing micropayments in BF Heroes, just as the idea of micropayments is in the "what if" stages with titles like Spore.
I had the same concerns when I undertook a document scanning project when I worked for a major municipality. Was worried about whether PDF's or TIFFs would be best for the long term, especially since we were scanning in several million documents.
That was ten years ago (1998), and still are both viable. We went with multipage TIFFs, btw.
Thanks for reading!
Eric
I was discharged from service in 1998, medically, from wounds received during "peacetime" counter-terrorist activities. I continued working with the government, but this time without a sidearm.
Nice comeback, but please try harder next time!
Were they even there before? Threat? Worse than killing our children and raping our women, they started "threatening" us at the gas station back in the 1970's.
Not sure who you are referring to as the 'hijackers of our government'. Nixon? Carter? We are not newcomers to the middle east, and even under the benevolent leadership of Clinton, the U.S. undertook several missions designed to counteract the terrorist threat.
Just a curiosity, but did where did you get these ideas? Your service time in middle east? MTV? CNN? Just wondering what inspired such strong language (murderous criminals?). I spent years of my life over there, and the only thing that gets me emotionally fired up is the lack of reason on this side of the pond. Would it kill you to perhaps form your opinion based off of experience, rather than from TV?
Mark this as a troll, but there HAS to be more than a handful of vets that read Slashdot and agree with this - am I the only one, and do I have to bite my tongue for EVERY post like this?
Yeah, but see, you don't know that (the only ones who have proposed that are the experts over at CNN).
During my time spent in the middle east (all of which took place before 9/11) I saw... drumroll please... people who wanted to kill Americans. WHAT? DURING CLINTON?? Yes. We are not the 'cause' of these insurgents, and no matter how much you hate Bush for whatever you think it is he has done, or how much you want to blame him for the problems he inherited (from, IMO, the dem president that preceded him), he didn't make them either.
The very boring and undramatic truth of the matter is, there are always people who will capitalize on the loss or misgivings of a group of people, and people of the Middle East happen to be the latest target. Arafat did it with the PLO (which has NOTHING to do with liberating Palestinians, and has everything with creating a power base), and the same thing is happening now around Iraq.
So about "the sure thing is, there weren't insurgents": this rhetoric may work on your bleeding heart girlfriend, and probably works on many here on Slashdot, but don't try flinging that nonsense around vets, govt employees, or anyone else who has actually tried to DO something about these issues. It may sell books or commercial time on news channels, but it doesn't make any sense.
Just my 2c
Hmmm... I feel safer killing insurgents in their backyard rather than killing them here, but I am probably strange that way.
To turn it off
LOL - I think most slashdot geeks are too stiff to get your joke, solszew...
Sure there is. It just doesn't mean what you think it means.
"Happening in a time span lower than the response rate of the observer." If I move my mouse, the cursor moves "instantaneously", even though there's a delay significantly higher than c's round trip through mouse, cable, USB bus, CPU, AGP, GPU, VGA cable, monitor control, eyes. The post your response was hanging off of - i apologize if this was in error.
Eric
This is the strangest post i have seen yet - is it a troll? Anyhoo.
The very paper you refer clearly states that time not a constant. This is why his ideas were so interesting... it opened the door to 'instantaneous' as quite an ordinary thing. It's quite short and easy to understand (the second time you read it).
The above poster is also correct in the frame of quantum mechanics: in the quantum world, the ONLY constant is the observer. His entire post was prologued with 'Happening in a time span lower than the response rate of the observer.'
I would recommend imagining the people you encounter as much smarter than you may think. It may be a blow to your ego for a while, but you will find a massive source of information and ideas.
Nobody knows much physics, btw. You would be lying if you claimed to know much beyond newtonian physics.
Eric
Credibility? You lost me at "French".
I simply refuse to be associated with casinos and all the social problems they lead to (dramatically increased bankruptcy rates, violent crime, auto thefts, larceny, substance abuse, suicide rates, etc.).
If by casinos you meant the public school system then yes, i totally agree.Developing on .Net three to four years before it's release? Somebody mod parent up! He deserves his own submission!!!
libel is in print - slander is by voice
Probably why it was so easy to get VIP tickets...
(48h or look @ Gitmo)
I was unaware there were american citizens locked up at gitmo.
It was a drug bust. It's likely undercover cops were present to confirm/asssist arrest. Taking pictures of said drug busts could cost lives. Your 'precious rights to an afternoon sitting on the couch' stop the moment you put somebody's life in danger. Period.
Nice attempt at a troll. Privately held companies answer to stock holders, just not public ones.
"Free speech" has been watered down once again. Its sad to see constitutional rights prostituted by CEOs as a way to make the stock holders happy.
like harrison ford im getting frantic
Whaddya think the aiming tolerance for these systems are? Could you increase this tolerance by putting a lense that spreads the beam out a little at the expense of bandwidth?
If so, optical networking would make a good alternative for remote control over mobile rcvr's as long as they could maintain LOS - no FCC control if you want to use higher-bandwidth applications (like video from the remote unit)