1st step in great deception: Make everyone think I'm in parent's basement. 2nd step: make everyone think I only pretend to be in parent's basement. 3rd step: allow everyon
Until some goon started to look at your balls when you board a plane
Many of these people don't have a problem with cameras as they go to the beach in a speedo. They should just wear a tight speedo while boarding a plane if they are worried about definition.
But I wonder how much the people of London are worried about actual privacy/tracking vs. seeing your weenie on a tiny screenie. The UK has one camera for every 14 people.
Now in a self admitted state of grogginess you are expected to be able to operate a firearm with decent accuracy and efficiency that you are able to disable a fully alert assailant before they are able to react.
Maybe somepeople wake up groggy, lazily aiming for the alarm clock when it rings, then stumbling to the kitchen, turning on the coffee machine whilst your eyes are still glazed over... going on your Daily routine.
Would you be accurate with a firearm? Maybe not.
But imagine that you have an important business meeting at 7:00 and your job depends on it. You wake up and are shocked as you see it's 6:45 and you know it takes you 10 minutes to get to work. Your heart beats at 150 bps, your adrenaline rises, you get dressed faster than ever before. You're decisive, do only what's necessary, and you have a far higher state of awareness than the day before.
Would you be accurate with a firearm? That depends, some people are never accurate. Myself? Absolutely.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in?
Why do you think that the state of mind/accuracy that you have(or think most people have), applies to everyone?
With a regular firearm, in your scenario you are already screwed. An assailant will have attacked and disabled you long before you are able to grasp the firearm, let alone use it.
Again, you are making assumptions that while they may be applicable to some, will not be applicable to everyone.
Lets ignore the fact that at your state of grogginess in near darkness you aren't capable of telling the difference between an assailant and your own wife.
The assailant would be the one on the floor. My wife would be the one holding the gun.
You started with a question and finished with the answer. Pressure sensitivity is handy for lots of things, some of which have not even been invented.
My question is whether this will find any widespread use here. The post focuses on writing in Asia. The article mentions pressure, but is it sensitive enough for a strand of hair(from a brush)?
I'm not in Asia and digital art is something that is cool, but a 'niche market' that I doubt this technology is aimed at. So will we see any devices deploying this tech here?
My saying that something would be cool to do is not an answer to my question of what we will see here.
Cursive writing programs are being eliminated from elementary school. The quality of printing is also going downhill. Everything here is being replaced by a keyboard (real and virtual).
Is this a technology that will see a major uptake only in a limited part of the world, amongst those who have trouble writing Pinyin(or similar)?
(But it would be great to have this sensitive enough to use a real brush to paint in digital ink.)
On one side I know that (in this economy) there are many more ways to spend money than space. But few things united the US as much as the space program.
When the political climate was different, the reasons for going to space were different. Now that the Cold War is over, space has become a primarily scientific endeavor. I'm happy that science (instead of politics) is the motivator, but now it seems that politics is choking one of the greatest achievements of our species.
The idea behind this "private taxi service" to space could go either way. We all know how recent new aircraft have suffered delay after delay. But what if a more competitive environment brings innovation that otherwise would have been unattainable? After-all it was a competitive environment that pushed us to be the first on the moon.
What I am really sad about though is the lack of interest in the moon. I believe that a permanent, self sufficient (however difficult that might be) settlement on the moon should be a priority. And if we don't start soon, India or China might beat us to it.
While I believe that any mission to the moon is an international event, other countries/cultures might not share that view. I would prefer for us to set the bar in both - returning to the moon, and sharing that experience with the rest of the world.
Why is Ubisoft forcing their loyal customers to sign up for a Ubisoft account when they don't want to give their private data and only play single player games?
We hope that customers will feel as we do, that signing up for an account will offer them exceptional gameplay and services that are not available otherwise.
"services not available otherwise" Yes, I'm sure customers will feel that.
A while ago I decided that I'll switch to PC only gaming. This was for one reason: I will always be able to play the games I own.
Consoles break, hardware can become irreplaceable, chips can burn out, backup batteries die, ROMs have questionable copyright. But PC's will be forever. I can even play some older games on QEMU right now. In 50 years I will be able to play today's games on an emulated system with an emulated GPU & CPU.
Many (if not most) of today's games have the multi-player component as a critical part of game-play. Playing them on a non-networked computer would be virtually pointless. The benefit of this setup is that I could go to an internet cafe, a friends house or work and start up a game, while being in exactly the same place in the game as at home. But haven't some games had that ability for many years?
Either way, without stand-alone gameplay - I'm not interested. I want to make sure that someday (in the far future) I will be able to play the games I play today with my great-grand-kids, instead of receiving a message like "Sorry, Can't connect to server", "ipv9 not supported", or "Gameplay not available, server offline since 2011".
Patents and copyrights are both immoral protection rackets designed to hide information and make the rich richer. They stall human progress rather than help it.
Hmmmm...
The disclosure requirement lies at the heart and origin of patent law. A state or government grants an inventor, or the inventor's assignee, a monopoly for a given period of time in exchange for the inventor disclosing to the public how to make or practice his or her invention.
Many of us hate software patents. (myself included). They limit what we can do, so we have to find innovative ways to avoid them. Meanwhile we are happy when some large companies get bitten by patents.
Besides litigation, how do software patents benefit their holders?
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1st step in great deception: Make everyone think I'm in parent's basement.
2nd step: make everyone think I only pretend to be in parent's basement.
3rd step: allow everyon
I will definitely apply,
just let me finish moving my stuff back into mom's basement.
I know you all speak English, but does 'Supreme' mean something different in Australia?
I'm quite indifferent to the word 'supreme'.
What I want to know is if the word 'High' means something different?
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Sue: It's okay.
He's Australian.
Fran: Maybe I'd better go there someday.
Until some goon started to look at your balls when you board a plane
Many of these people don't have a problem with cameras as they go to the beach in a speedo.
They should just wear a tight speedo while boarding a plane if they are worried about definition.
But I wonder how much the people of London are worried about actual privacy/tracking vs. seeing your weenie on a tiny screenie. The UK has one camera for every 14 people.
http://comics.com/pc_and_pixel/2010-01-27
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Would you be prepared if gravity reversed itself?
Now in a self admitted state of grogginess you are expected to be able to operate a firearm with decent accuracy and efficiency that you are able to disable a fully alert assailant before they are able to react.
Maybe somepeople wake up groggy, lazily aiming for the alarm clock when it rings, then stumbling to the kitchen, turning on the coffee machine whilst your eyes are still glazed over... going on your Daily routine.
Would you be accurate with a firearm?
Maybe not.
But imagine that you have an important business meeting at 7:00 and your job depends on it. You wake up and are shocked as you see it's 6:45 and you know it takes you 10 minutes to get to work. Your heart beats at 150 bps, your adrenaline rises, you get dressed faster than ever before. You're decisive, do only what's necessary, and you have a far higher state of awareness than the day before.
Would you be accurate with a firearm?
That depends, some people are never accurate.
Myself?
Absolutely.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in?
Why do you think that the state of mind/accuracy that you have(or think most people have), applies to everyone?
With a regular firearm, in your scenario you are already screwed. An assailant will have attacked and disabled you long before you are able to grasp the firearm, let alone use it.
Again, you are making assumptions that while they may be applicable to some, will not be applicable to everyone.
Lets ignore the fact that at your state of grogginess in near darkness you aren't capable of telling the difference between an assailant and your own wife.
The assailant would be the one on the floor.
My wife would be the one holding the gun.
I keep asking this question: Why can't we detect ET's transmissions?
Now I know. They do digital as well.
Not just that.
They've realized what we will also eventually realize.
They use cat6 cable.
Especially after we started sending all those damn microwaves into space and their wifi stopped responding.
Why can't they just use source forge like everybody else?
You mean http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils.
I think this is great news, but what happens if inadvertently some of this software infringes on a patent or two?
You started with a question and finished with the answer. Pressure sensitivity is handy for lots of things, some of which have not even been invented.
My question is whether this will find any widespread use here. The post focuses on writing in Asia. The article mentions pressure, but is it sensitive enough for a strand of hair(from a brush)?
I'm not in Asia and digital art is something that is cool, but a 'niche market' that I doubt this technology is aimed at. So will we see any devices deploying this tech here?
My saying that something would be cool to do is not an answer to my question of what we will see here.
What would we use it for, here?
Cursive writing programs are being eliminated from elementary school.
The quality of printing is also going downhill.
Everything here is being replaced by a keyboard (real and virtual).
Is this a technology that will see a major uptake only in a limited part of the world, amongst those who have trouble writing Pinyin(or similar)?
(But it would be great to have this sensitive enough to use a real brush to paint in digital ink.)
Silly, It's 'EXPOSURE' (not 'PHAGOCYTOSIS') to Young blood cells.
Think Hugh Hefner, not Silence of the Lambs.
BTW This Stargate is the one that was used in both - the movie and the tv show.
In my universe I imagine Steve Jobs buying the stargate.
Him and the Stargate would be a perfect fit.
But I'm worried he might rename it the iGate.
(just imagine the new line of products, like macbooks that would never break)
I sometimes throw in a random 2, then when I need to decrypt everything, they're easy to take out.
On one side I know that (in this economy) there are many more ways to spend money than space.
But few things united the US as much as the space program.
When the political climate was different, the reasons for going to space were different.
Now that the Cold War is over, space has become a primarily scientific endeavor. I'm happy that science (instead of politics) is the motivator, but now it seems that politics is choking one of the greatest achievements of our species.
The idea behind this "private taxi service" to space could go either way. We all know how recent new aircraft have suffered delay after delay. But what if a more competitive environment brings innovation that otherwise would have been unattainable? After-all it was a competitive environment that pushed us to be the first on the moon.
What I am really sad about though is the lack of interest in the moon. I believe that a permanent, self sufficient (however difficult that might be) settlement on the moon should be a priority. And if we don't start soon, India or China might beat us to it.
While I believe that any mission to the moon is an international event, other countries/cultures might not share that view. I would prefer for us to set the bar in both - returning to the moon, and sharing that experience with the rest of the world.
Why not the GPLv3 ?
Cause then skynet could not use it.
(They'd have a problem with section 11 paragraph 6)
Many predictions from the Oracle at Delphi were supposedly inspired by escaping gas vapors.
Will in the future people ask of the 'Sun Oracle' - "What were you guys smokin?".
Why are we linking to articles from yesterday about what has happened today?
Why is Ubisoft forcing their loyal customers to sign up for a Ubisoft account when they don't want to give their private data and only play single player games?
We hope that customers will feel as we do, that signing up for an account will offer them exceptional gameplay and services that are not available otherwise.
"services not available otherwise"
Yes, I'm sure customers will feel that.
(just like jumping onto a bike without a seat)
A while ago I decided that I'll switch to PC only gaming.
This was for one reason: I will always be able to play the games I own.
Consoles break, hardware can become irreplaceable, chips can burn out, backup batteries die, ROMs have questionable copyright.
But PC's will be forever.
I can even play some older games on QEMU right now. In 50 years I will be able to play today's games on an emulated system with an emulated GPU & CPU.
Many (if not most) of today's games have the multi-player component as a critical part of game-play. Playing them on a non-networked computer would be virtually pointless. The benefit of this setup is that I could go to an internet cafe, a friends house or work and start up a game, while being in exactly the same place in the game as at home. But haven't some games had that ability for many years?
Either way, without stand-alone gameplay - I'm not interested. I want to make sure that someday (in the far future) I will be able to play the games I play today with my great-grand-kids, instead of receiving a message like "Sorry, Can't connect to server", "ipv9 not supported", or "Gameplay not available, server offline since 2011".
Next time starbugs RTFA. :)
--Note to self: stop talking to yourself.
Microsoft doing something illegal, and then getting sued for it???
What is this world coming to.
I view Microsoft just like the protagonist in 'Fight Club' views the "major car manufacturer".
If cost of litigation is less than profit then Do It.
Patents and copyrights are both immoral protection rackets designed to hide information and make the rich richer. They stall human progress rather than help it.
Hmmmm...
The disclosure requirement lies at the heart and origin of patent law. A state or government grants an inventor, or the inventor's assignee, a monopoly for a given period of time in exchange for the inventor disclosing to the public how to make or practice his or her invention.
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So the idea of patents was so that there would be fewer trade secrets. At least that was before information traveled at the speed of light.
Software patents stifle innovation.
Yet they are still around.
Many of us hate software patents. (myself included).
They limit what we can do, so we have to find innovative ways to avoid them.
Meanwhile we are happy when some large companies get bitten by patents.
Besides litigation, how do software patents benefit their holders?
As cool as Saabs are, a Klingon coming to Earth would have to drive one of these (Rambo Lambo).
But then they would seek out and destroy all the other '300' LM002s, so that no-one else gets to drive one.