doesn't the wavelength matter as much as the emitted power? these things are shooting microwaves... and there's some sort of inverse square relationship between wavelength and emitted power that i don't remember. something like 1 watt at 30 MHz is nothing like 1 watt at 1800 MHz (sorry, i majored in philosophy, i don't remember the equation and don't feel like looking it up. in my discipline, we're still figuring out whether or not you exist. cut me some slack).
This story on ZDNet talks about a study linking cell phones to eye cancer. which kind of makes sense, in a really qualitative sort of way, since eyes are photosensitive.
i don't know about you folks, but i don't want cancer anywhere in my head, 'cause it has a habit of spreading. or anywhere in my body, come to think of it...
Discrimination could only exist as a legal issue if it interfered with A RIGHT TO EQUAL TREATMENT AND STANDING BEFORE THE LAW.
analogy to publicly funded research that's released under the GPL: The government builds an interstate highway system, but vehicles carrying goods for sale or personnel working for a company are not allowed to use them.
it's not that i think they have a right to make a buck and nothing can interfere with that.. it's that they have a right to equal access to a publicly funded product... "equal treatment and standing before the law," as you put it.
next time you're gonna fling insults and type in all caps, login so justice can be served (i.e. so you'll get modded down and lose karma). also, make sure you understand the point someone's making before you flame it.
I think the difference is that TCP/IP is a standard.
i think Nugget is alluding to the BSD TCP/IP stack in saying "TCP/IP development." Which *is* a specific product and is often appropriated by for-profit software companies, like Microsoft (who uses it in Windows).
If that stack weren't under the BSD license and instead was GPL'ed, you'd be forcing Microsoft to write their own stack from scratch because they are a for-profit company and would lose their proprietary code if they used the BSD stack.
so the GPL is biased toward not for profit software. which is fine if it's a grassroots movement. but if the gov't is funding GPL software, they're discriminating against for-profit software companies. and that gets into all sorts of hairy issues, considering we live in a capitalistic society, where the gov't is supposed to be a referee and not a competitor.
While the term 'cancer' is overblown, why should the government be funding projects that eliminate the opportunity for companies to sell their products? That's not fair. The companies pay taxes, too.
Not that those products shouldn't exist. Just that the government that represents those companies shouldn't be undermining them.
this is tantamount to having a fingerprint scanner on my mouse. how do you get around something like this? program your force feedback mouse to randomly make you miss links and increasePredictive's signal to noise ratio?
more and more, people seem to be opting-in for these huge privacy violations. like those special customer discount cards they give you at the supermarket -- hello! now they have a record of everything you buy attached to your name! it's worse than radioshack not letting you buy certain combinations of items because they think you're building a bomb or a red box. i say, any tracking that attaches behavior information to a profile of you, rather than just tracking aggregate information, can be exploited to seriously screw with your private life, and should be avoided.
"Echelon is controlled democratically, but it is the undemocratic knife edge that defends and ensures the existance of our democratic Anglo Saxon realms. "
you have a point, but your usage of the term "anglo saxon" is pretty offensive. this country is made up of a variety of ethinc lineages, and anglo saxon by no means has even a plurality, let alone a majority.
also, echelon doesn't have anything to do with WWII, the Nazis, or preventing the plunging of Europe into a pit of darkness. the UKUSA alliance dates back to 1947; echelon to 1971. check it out:
Product placement is big in the entertainment industry, folks. When you see someone drinking a generic soda in a movie or on TV, that's 'cause some product placement ad sales person didn't do their jobs well enough, and the program/movie didn't want to give someone free advertising.
All we're talking about here with real-time insertion is the ability to seamlessly do product placement in post-production. Aside from obscuring real things that were actually there ala the Times Square/New Year's broadcasts of last year, and anachronisms in really old movies and T.V., the ethical issues are pretty much the same.
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I think you misread those screenshots. They are either fullscreen X11 or one which is looking at an X11 desktop thorugh VNC.
very true. my mistake. THIS thread, however, has a screenshot of a few rootless X windows (the GIMP) running alongside Aqua. 'tis cool!
there's a couple of screenshots in there, one with the gimp running in an X window alongside Aqua apps running in Aqua windows. apparently, someone has got X running rootless as well...
That said, I find the idea of Apple forcing everyone to use LCDs somewhat obnoxious - and it sure isn't going to make Macs any cheaper...
every mac still has a VGA port. their CRTs were too expensive and weren't turning enough of a profit. so now people can either spring for an apple LCD, or go buy a CRT from another vendor. nobody's being forced to do anything.
I've found analyst Ric Dube from the firm Webnoize to be an excellent source of info on all things digital music. He's quoted by the press very often, and even has testified before Congress on digital music issues. i'm not sure if he does stuff like this, but he might be a good source of information at least.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/
that and hundreds of other things orbiting earth...
here's the ISS direct page:
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html
i think i remember reading that even though 2.0 is backwards-compatible, it'll slow down to v1.x speeds if a v1.x device is plugged in. so plug in your keyboard into the same controller, and your hard drive slows to a crawl, etc. anybody know if this is true? how about for 800 and 1600 Mbit firewire?
"The CD is the root of all of our problems with the Net," says Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI, which is testing various copy-protection technologies. "If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs or VHS tapes or even books, we would not be going through anything like what we're going through now with Napster or Gnutella."
uh... do i really have to elaborate on why this is dumb? i'll leave that exercise up to the reader.:)
you don't like Golden Throats? C'mon, you haven't lived until you've heard Leonard Nimoy sing CCR's great "Proud Mary" or William Shatner do "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."
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doesn't the wavelength matter as much as the emitted power? these things are shooting microwaves... and there's some sort of inverse square relationship between wavelength and emitted power that i don't remember. something like 1 watt at 30 MHz is nothing like 1 watt at 1800 MHz (sorry, i majored in philosophy, i don't remember the equation and don't feel like looking it up. in my discipline, we're still figuring out whether or not you exist. cut me some slack).
i don't know about you folks, but i don't want cancer anywhere in my head, 'cause it has a habit of spreading. or anywhere in my body, come to think of it...
analogy to publicly funded research that's released under the GPL: The government builds an interstate highway system, but vehicles carrying goods for sale or personnel working for a company are not allowed to use them.
it's not that i think they have a right to make a buck and nothing can interfere with that.. it's that they have a right to equal access to a publicly funded product... "equal treatment and standing before the law," as you put it.
next time you're gonna fling insults and type in all caps, login so justice can be served (i.e. so you'll get modded down and lose karma). also, make sure you understand the point someone's making before you flame it.
i think Nugget is alluding to the BSD TCP/IP stack in saying "TCP/IP development." Which *is* a specific product and is often appropriated by for-profit software companies, like Microsoft (who uses it in Windows).
If that stack weren't under the BSD license and instead was GPL'ed, you'd be forcing Microsoft to write their own stack from scratch because they are a for-profit company and would lose their proprietary code if they used the BSD stack.
so the GPL is biased toward not for profit software. which is fine if it's a grassroots movement. but if the gov't is funding GPL software, they're discriminating against for-profit software companies. and that gets into all sorts of hairy issues, considering we live in a capitalistic society, where the gov't is supposed to be a referee and not a competitor.
While the term 'cancer' is overblown, why should the government be funding projects that eliminate the opportunity for companies to sell their products? That's not fair. The companies pay taxes, too.
Not that those products shouldn't exist. Just that the government that represents those companies shouldn't be undermining them.
this is tantamount to having a fingerprint scanner on my mouse. how do you get around something like this? program your force feedback mouse to randomly make you miss links and increasePredictive's signal to noise ratio?
more and more, people seem to be opting-in for these huge privacy violations. like those special customer discount cards they give you at the supermarket -- hello! now they have a record of everything you buy attached to your name! it's worse than radioshack not letting you buy certain combinations of items because they think you're building a bomb or a red box. i say, any tracking that attaches behavior information to a profile of you, rather than just tracking aggregate information, can be exploited to seriously screw with your private life, and should be avoided.
LOL. yeah, i'm a roman. wanna fight?
you have a point, but your usage of the term "anglo saxon" is pretty offensive. this country is made up of a variety of ethinc lineages, and anglo saxon by no means has even a plurality, let alone a majority.
also, echelon doesn't have anything to do with WWII, the Nazis, or preventing the plunging of Europe into a pit of darkness. the UKUSA alliance dates back to 1947; echelon to 1971. check it out:
The Echelon FAQ from Echelonwatch
All we're talking about here with real-time insertion is the ability to seamlessly do product placement in post-production. Aside from obscuring real things that were actually there ala the Times Square/New Year's broadcasts of last year, and anachronisms in really old movies and T.V., the ethical issues are pretty much the same.
very true. my mistake. THIS thread, however, has a screenshot of a few rootless X windows (the GIMP) running alongside Aqua. 'tis cool!
Rootless X? Can it be?
Aqua + X Windows = heaven
there's a couple of screenshots in there, one with the gimp running in an X window alongside Aqua apps running in Aqua windows. apparently, someone has got X running rootless as well...
someone incorrectly modded a later comment in this thread up. if you browse at 1, you'll see what i was talking about.
I was saying that the offered Toshiba counterexample weighs nearly 7 pounds, not the Apple one.
except that thing weighs nearly 7 pounds. try again!
how can you tell? you're looking at those screenshots on your blurry/drab CRT!
That said, I find the idea of Apple forcing everyone to use LCDs somewhat obnoxious - and it sure isn't going to make Macs any cheaper... every mac still has a VGA port. their CRTs were too expensive and weren't turning enough of a profit. so now people can either spring for an apple LCD, or go buy a CRT from another vendor. nobody's being forced to do anything.
except that next to that ADC is a VGA port.
find me a pc laptop that has all those I/O options onboard, a 1024x768 display, weighs less than 5 pounds, at that price. or even for $500 more.
I've found analyst Ric Dube from the firm Webnoize to be an excellent source of info on all things digital music. He's quoted by the press very often, and even has testified before Congress on digital music issues. i'm not sure if he does stuff like this, but he might be a good source of information at least.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/ that and hundreds of other things orbiting earth... here's the ISS direct page: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html
i think i remember reading that even though 2.0 is backwards-compatible, it'll slow down to v1.x speeds if a v1.x device is plugged in. so plug in your keyboard into the same controller, and your hard drive slows to a crawl, etc. anybody know if this is true? how about for 800 and 1600 Mbit firewire?
What we need is an OS that's finished, by some definition of the term. looking at the AROS faq, it seems that you're three-quarters of the way there.
please shut the hell up until then.
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did they negotiate this deal in a chat room? ;)
sorry... bad hangover.
you don't like Golden Throats? C'mon, you haven't lived until you've heard Leonard Nimoy sing CCR's great "Proud Mary" or William Shatner do "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."