Did you notice the "Feb. 21 Update" on that article?
While many people want to know when the lamp will be available, many others point out that it won't actually work.
The criticism is that a great deal of weight -- tons -- would be required and current LEDs are not sufficiently efficient.
Designer Clay Moulton acknowledges that the current state of the art isn't sufficient to actually build the lamp. The news release should have said: "based on future developments in LED technology."
Even though they acknowledge that others have criticized the design on the amount of weight required to make the lamp work, the news release goes on to correct itself only in the matter of "future developments of LED technology."
> When was the last time you had an email that failed to deliver?
It's been happening quite often for me lately. Except that I finally figured out that they were undelivered on purpose by my ISP. I finally realized my undelivered emails were ones that I had forwarded, with the forwarded part emebedded as a.eml attachment. The bastards at the ISP think that any email with a.eml attachment must have a virus, so they just drop the email in the bit bucket without even informing me. Took me a while to figure that one out.
I'm sure they are in violation of my patent on Method and Apparatus for Advocating Political Viewpoints using a distributed computer network, whereby arguments for said Political Advocacy are stored on a server, and are accessible to interested clients via a web browser using a standard web browsing internet protocol.
"We saw a tremendous investment opportunity in SCO and its vast range of products and services, including many new innovations ready or soon to be ready to be released into the marketplace,"
I guess "products and services" means troll patents and lawsuits. I wonder what "new innovations" of these they are about to unleash?
> The photographers I talked to... were unwilling to enter into an "open ended contract" > whereby they lose control over their own work.
Yeah, they think that the pictures that you hired them to take of your children according to your specifications is nothing but "their own work."
It's a scam, all right, and I suppose they wiggle out of the "work for hire" exception to copyright law by not charging you a "sitting fee", but only charge you for prints. See? You didn't really "hire" the photographer to take the pictures. They did that for free! They're selling you copies of "their" art (to which they retain copyright), not photograph-taking services.
What I have noticed in the area where I live is a number of amateur photographers offering studio photography services in their homes. They have pretty good equipment and do as good a job as what you'll find at the chain photography studios (Olan Mills, etc.), IMHO. Sure, they'll make the prints for you if you want, but usually they just hand you a CD of the pictures they took, and tell you to go print 'em yourself and thanks for the $75. I expect we'll only see more of this kind of grass-roots studio photography as the price of halfway decent digital cameras continues to drop.
1) start up your favorite audio recording software (Audacity, say). 2) Select "Wave Out Mix" as the recording input device. 3) Start recording. 4) Play your DRMd music like normal. 5) When the music is done, stop recording. 6) Save the recorded data in whichever format cranks your shaft.
Who cares what the order of magnitude is. If banning video games saves just one innocent person from being murdered, it's worth it!
Also, I think we should ban feeding milk to newborns, for the same reason. It's well known that virtually 100% of hardened drug addict criminals started out by drinking milk as babies...
> Common, can we get article titles and summaries > that don't *immediately* tell us about how we should > feel about an article before even telling us the circumstances?
What? You want me to RTFA before drawing conclusions? You must be new here....
Slashdot Mirror
Presumes you're a criminal otherwise.
And by paying it, you admit it.
notepad.
He's a Visual Basic guy, after all.
Did you notice the "Feb. 21 Update" on that article?
Even though they acknowledge that others have criticized the design on the amount of weight required to make the lamp work, the news release goes on to correct itself only in the matter of "future developments of LED technology."
It's not just a river in Egypt.
I've already got my New Mexico Passport!
Bwhahahaaaa, yourself!
A sneer is not an argument.
Nobel prize doesn't meet the requirements.
> 3. Include objective and transparent scientometric criteria, to prevent the prize award process
> being corrupted by 'political' incentives.
This simply cannot be allowed!
... automatic redirection to the "nearest" mirror?
Brilliant!
What a novel use of technology.
Surely this is just amazing. Who ever woulda thunk that computers could do things for us automatically?
> When was the last time you had an email that failed to deliver?
.eml attachment. The bastards at the ISP think that any email with a .eml attachment must have a virus, so they just drop the email in the bit bucket without even informing me. Took me a while to figure that one out.
It's been happening quite often for me lately.
Except that I finally figured out that they were undelivered on purpose by my ISP.
I finally realized my undelivered emails were ones that I had forwarded, with the forwarded part emebedded as a
I'm sure they are in violation of my patent on Method and Apparatus for Advocating Political Viewpoints using a distributed computer network, whereby arguments for said Political Advocacy are stored on a server, and are accessible to interested clients via a web browser using a standard web browsing internet protocol.
"We saw a tremendous investment opportunity in SCO and its vast range of products and services, including many new innovations ready or soon to be ready to be released into the marketplace,"
I guess "products and services" means troll patents and lawsuits.
I wonder what "new innovations" of these they are about to unleash?
Microsoft already knows it.
> The photographers I talked to ... were unwilling to enter into an "open ended contract"
> whereby they lose control over their own work.
Yeah, they think that the pictures that you hired them to take of your children according to your specifications is nothing but "their own work."
It's a scam, all right, and I suppose they wiggle out of the "work for hire" exception to copyright law by not charging you a "sitting fee", but only charge you for prints. See? You didn't really "hire" the photographer to take the pictures. They did that for free! They're selling you copies of "their" art (to which they retain copyright), not photograph-taking services.
What I have noticed in the area where I live is a number of amateur photographers offering studio photography services in their homes. They have pretty good equipment and do as good a job as what you'll find at the chain photography studios (Olan Mills, etc.), IMHO. Sure, they'll make the prints for you if you want, but usually they just hand you a CD of the pictures they took, and tell you to go print 'em yourself and thanks for the $75. I expect we'll only see more of this kind of grass-roots studio photography as the price of halfway decent digital cameras continues to drop.
" ... Automated Crediting ... 'could be implemented completely devoid of ... automation of any kind.'"
If they can pull that off, they deserve a patent!
Their transmission rate adjustment knob goes up to 11...
1) start up your favorite audio recording software (Audacity, say).
2) Select "Wave Out Mix" as the recording input device.
3) Start recording.
4) Play your DRMd music like normal.
5) When the music is done, stop recording.
6) Save the recorded data in whichever format cranks your shaft.
Easy, eh?
Who cares what the order of magnitude is.
If banning video games saves just one innocent person from being murdered, it's worth it!
Also, I think we should ban feeding milk to newborns, for the same reason. It's well known that virtually 100% of hardened drug addict criminals started out by drinking milk as babies...
> Profiting by fraud/scam is evil and amoral,
Eh? How can something be both evil AND amoral?
Here in the USA at least, it's only possible to check good references.
Nobody dares give bad references anymore, for fear of being sued.
Wondoer no more.
There, fixed it.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Linux VMs running on one of these...
The Moon is already being sold off.
Better stake your quarter-section homestead claim now before it's all gone!
> > Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs ...in tech support.
... In India.
>
> There. Fixed that for you.
Still had a bug.
> Common, can we get article titles and summaries
> that don't *immediately* tell us about how we should
> feel about an article before even telling us the circumstances?
What?
You want me to RTFA before drawing conclusions?
You must be new here....