Why not just use the Sims? you could even model your family in the house. If you felt like it, you could remove the doors and see how your family would die and become ghosts...fun fun.
Even with the mirrors on my tiny hatchback, the mirrors allow me to easily determine the distance between myself and other cars behind me. I wouldn't be able to do that with a two-dimensional image.
Umm, looking into the mirror you are looking at a 2d image.
I agree that for you the archos would be no good. But how many people have that much music. Even at a sample rate of 320 that's what? Over 4000 songs. I am a recent graduate and even at school with the unlimeted bandwidth(ish) And I can only think of 1 person who had close to that many. Added to that that if you download your music (128 KB) you would have close to 10 thousand songs.
Can anyone explain to me why people think there are no options for a PC based portable MP3 player? I have had the 20g Archos Jukebox for five months now and I couldn't be happier with it. Sure it only uses USB 1, but how often do you need to fill 20 gigs?
I put my 5 gigs of music on it overnight when I first bought it and spend a couple of minutes each week putting on my new music. All of that with 2 sets of rechargable 6 hour life batteris for $300. I will admit that the UI is not as pretty as on the iPod but for the price and size difference, I don't care.
If you want to take a look at one go to archos.com
You are one of the unfotunates that believe this site is devoted to linux and linux users. You are wrong. As the tag line reads "News for nerds, stuff that matters." THough linux does play a large role in this site, not all nerds care about it, and it doesnt always matter.
I'm sure that there are some nerds and techies that read/. that think Python stories matter more than linux.
If you don't care about a story, fine, don't read or comment on it. Just don't say it shouldn't be here because it would harm the reputation of Linux.
Looks like someone went to see Minority Report this weekend. Iris scans everywhere people went, used for access and advertising. Hopefully with the increase in biometric scanning will come an increase in black market body-part replacement.
Thats not the point. The point is that AIM utilizes a buddy list that the user must put together. By deffinition your buddy list is a list of friends, whether is is or not. Therefore, trading over AIM could still fall under the fair use clause because it is not opening up the files to millions of people you do not know.
The Ordo server room used this principle in the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. The door frame to the room was steel and wrapped with wire connected to the main power source and a backup generator. Any disk walking through the door would be forced to walk through a huge electromagnet.
The problem with your argument is that you take the fact that the "Borland-Gestapo" has not been known to break down the door to the conclusion that it will never break down the door. In a licensing agreement like this, unlike in IP, there is no provision for the company to enforce this bit of the license fot it to remain valid. So, the company waits for its product to be a mainstream hit, and then goes after everyone using it. That is why this sort of licensing must be brought to the open and challenged.
The article seems to take a shot at AI. Anyone know where they get there facts that the prevailing notion is that computers will never rival human inteligence?
I am a senior at Brandeis University and we do have a real turing machine there. Unfortunately, its not working, and though we still have the schematics, no one has gotten around to fixing it. We also have a big old lisp translator (i think thats what it is) that no one knows how to use.
Movie producers get money to make their movies (some of it) from brand placement. Wayne's World spoofed this wonderfully. This is not really different. So instead of the actor actually holding a coke, he's holding a virtual coke. Big deal. Most of the time we laugh at it in the movies because it is so obvious. I doubt that it will catch many people, most will notice it for what it is and disregard it.
If you are interested in this, I suggest a book called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes.
Jaynes speaks of consciousness as a development of only the past 3 millenia. Before that, the lobes of the brains comunicated in a way such that one half acted as the "God" brain. To say that is a huge generalization of the book, so I suggest you go read it.
If you want, you can buy it at Amazon
Though I don't agree with the ISP blocking Anaconda.com, they are a private business, and can do as they wish. This would be a severe problem is it was the government telling the ISP they had to block this site, but they aren't. You can easily switch ISP's. On a similar note, I am a university student (in the US) and I have been surprised by the arguments I've had roomates and friends of mine (smart people, one a fellow CS major) Who not only cannot understand why I refuse to do business with companies that practice censorship, but actually think that if the government required that you be 17 to buy a video game instead of just Wal-Mart requiring it, well, that would be ok too.
I recall that I heard stories about this a year or two ago. If I remember correctly the stories were from British pilots in the Falklands. When the pilots would fly in from sea, the penguins would watch them and fall over backwards trying to follow the planes.
I thought that there was video of it occuring, but I could be mistaken on that point.
I have always felt that the ease of use-lack of sophistication argument is most prevalent on the Internet. In the days of Usenet, gopher, BBS, and lynx the people posting were those with the know-how to post. The average quality of stuff found on the Internet was higher-it took brains to use, so posts were thought up by brains.
With the advent of the Web (A Very Good Thing) suddenly people without the knowledge of how things work and many other general skills were thrust into an arena where it was easy for them to crear nonsense and havoc. (who do you think put the chaos there?)
To quote my father when a non-tech would ask what was so good about the web- "Nothing, stay off, don't clog it for those of us who want to actually use it."
Im not saying that the Web is a bad thing, but with the ease of use comes an inevitable loss in standards of quality.
I just wanted to say that I am a student at Brandeis and it is great to know that the people actually teaching us (classes by professors, not TAs) are doing some very amazing research.
It is true that a quantum computer wourld basically render all crypto schemes in use today obsolete. However, along with the advent of quantum computing comes a crypto that is unbreakable.
It is based on a concept called Quantum Entanglement. It has been shown that twin photons shot opposite directions down a fiber will, when forced to decide their state, choose the same state at the exact same time. Couple your information to this and you get crypto that cannot be broken because its "key" becomes unusable if grabbed by a third party-the photon is forced to decide state out of synch and kills the message.
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Why not just use the Sims? you could even model your family in the house.
If you felt like it, you could remove the doors and see how your family would die and become ghosts...fun fun.
Umm, looking into the mirror you are looking at a 2d image.
How much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
I agree that for you the archos would be no good. But how many people have that much music. Even at a sample rate of 320 that's what? Over 4000 songs. I am a recent graduate and even at school with the unlimeted bandwidth(ish) And I can only think of 1 person who had close to that many. Added to that that if you download your music (128 KB) you would have close to 10 thousand songs.
I put my 5 gigs of music on it overnight when I first bought it and spend a couple of minutes each week putting on my new music. All of that with 2 sets of rechargable 6 hour life batteris for $300. I will admit that the UI is not as pretty as on the iPod but for the price and size difference, I don't care.
If you want to take a look at one go to archos.com
I'm sure that there are some nerds and techies that read /. that think Python stories matter more than linux.
If you don't care about a story, fine, don't read or comment on it. Just don't say it shouldn't be here because it would harm the reputation of Linux.
Looks like someone went to see Minority Report this weekend. Iris scans everywhere people went, used for access and advertising.
Hopefully with the increase in biometric scanning will come an increase in black market body-part replacement.
ppl=people
Actually, you skip three leap years every 400 years. On a x00 it is only a leap year if divisible by 400.
Where do you keep your Wessels?
Thats not the point. The point is that AIM utilizes a buddy list that the user must put together. By deffinition your buddy list is a list of friends, whether is is or not. Therefore, trading over AIM could still fall under the fair use clause because it is not opening up the files to millions of people you do not know.
The Ordo server room used this principle in the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. The door frame to the room was steel and wrapped with wire connected to the main power source and a backup generator. Any disk walking through the door would be forced to walk through a huge electromagnet.
The problem with your argument is that you take the fact that the "Borland-Gestapo" has not been known to break down the door to the conclusion that it will never break down the door. In a licensing agreement like this, unlike in IP, there is no provision for the company to enforce this bit of the license fot it to remain valid. So, the company waits for its product to be a mainstream hit, and then goes after everyone using it. That is why this sort of licensing must be brought to the open and challenged.
If you want a different view, read Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines. He's a smart guy, whos won several prestigious awards. The National Medal of Technology and The Lemelson-MIT prize.
How can you tell a marsupial from a tooth?
I am a senior at Brandeis University and we do have a real turing machine there. Unfortunately, its not working, and though we still have the schematics, no one has gotten around to fixing it. We also have a big old lisp translator (i think thats what it is) that no one knows how to use.
Actually, stealth aircraft use RAM only as an additional measure. Most aircraft, in particular the F-117a use their faceted shape to scatter radar.
Eink can be found at Eink.com There is also an image of there product with text from hamlet here. Hope that gives everyone some insight.
Movie producers get money to make their movies (some of it) from brand placement. Wayne's World spoofed this wonderfully. This is not really different. So instead of the actor actually holding a coke, he's holding a virtual coke. Big deal. Most of the time we laugh at it in the movies because it is so obvious. I doubt that it will catch many people, most will notice it for what it is and disregard it.
Jaynes speaks of consciousness as a development of only the past 3 millenia. Before that, the lobes of the brains comunicated in a way such that one half acted as the "God" brain. To say that is a huge generalization of the book, so I suggest you go read it.
If you want, you can buy it at Amazon
Though I don't agree with the ISP blocking Anaconda.com, they are a private business, and can do as they wish. This would be a severe problem is it was the government telling the ISP they had to block this site, but they aren't. You can easily switch ISP's.
On a similar note, I am a university student (in the US) and I have been surprised by the arguments I've had roomates and friends of mine (smart people, one a fellow CS major) Who not only cannot understand why I refuse to do business with companies that practice censorship, but actually think that if the government required that you be 17 to buy a video game instead of just Wal-Mart requiring it, well, that would be ok too.
I recall that I heard stories about this a year or two ago. If I remember correctly the stories were from British pilots in the Falklands. When the pilots would fly in from sea, the penguins would watch them and fall over backwards trying to follow the planes.
I thought that there was video of it occuring, but I could be mistaken on that point.
I have always felt that the ease of use-lack of sophistication argument is most prevalent on the Internet. In the days of Usenet, gopher, BBS, and lynx the people posting were those with the know-how to post. The average quality of stuff found on the Internet was higher-it took brains to use, so posts were thought up by brains.
With the advent of the Web (A Very Good Thing) suddenly people without the knowledge of how things work and many other general skills were thrust into an arena where it was easy for them to crear nonsense and havoc. (who do you think put the chaos there?)
To quote my father when a non-tech would ask what was so good about the web- "Nothing, stay off, don't clog it for those of us who want to actually use it."
Im not saying that the Web is a bad thing, but with the ease of use comes an inevitable loss in standards of quality.
I just wanted to say that I am a student at Brandeis and it is great to know that the people actually teaching us (classes by professors, not TAs) are doing some very amazing research.
It is true that a quantum computer wourld basically render all crypto schemes in use today obsolete. However, along with the advent of quantum computing comes a crypto that is unbreakable.
It is based on a concept called Quantum Entanglement. It has been shown that twin photons shot opposite directions down a fiber will, when forced to decide their state, choose the same state at the exact same time. Couple your information to this and you get crypto that cannot be broken because its "key" becomes unusable if grabbed by a third party-the photon is forced to decide state out of synch and kills the message.