Get the government to fund Wikipidea. Socialize it. Make it a public service.
Additionally. with government funding, they have no right to edit content, because of the first amendment. UNLIKE a private corporation, which can ignore first amendment rights.
It's like how some cable public access channels show porn, because of this free right.
I agree with this as well. It's as if saying, when a murder happens, blame it on the murderer.
Instead, one should find faults in a system that allowed the murder to happen in the FIRST place. Once faults in a system are found, then one can actually go about PREVENTING bad things from happening.
It's pointless to find blame without a goal of actually FIXING the fault. Blame should be used as a tool, instead of an excuse. It should be part of the feedback loop of any system for optimization.
Great. So south americans like to kidnap and murder each other. Now what? Cry about it? Punish kidnappers? We could make murder illegal? LOL
I have one. It's big as a brick. Battery lasts less than a day on standby. Not recommended at all, except maybe as a backup Wi-fi web thing for your main phone.
That's like trying to use KDE for you Cell phone...
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Gears Sells a Million
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I hate the state-based motion controls on Gears, though. You know, when you're behind the wall, the controls are of a different state than when running freely. It really does distract from an active firefight. They should have left it free-flowing while adapting to walls automatcially. Instead of pressing a button to get into 'cover' state when approaching a wall, then pressing another button to jump over the wall or dive or what not, they should have just kept it as automatic cover whenever a person approached a wall, and automatic jump-over-the-wall whenever the person moves forward still. The manual state-changes ruin a lot of the freedoms.
Halo had it right. CoD2 had it right. GRAW had it wrong.
Security through obscurity will be the death of us...
It's actually a good thing for Facebook to do this, especially for college kids, since it does teach them about the need for privacy when dealing with the public internet. I hope they keep this feature, since it will help these kids to be more aware of the fact that, yes, data is public on the internet, and that this information is actually pretty easily accessible to ACTUAL stalkers/spammers/scammers/etc..
There's only 1 ad on a facebook page, compared to the 10 billion on the horrible myspace pages, nevermind the ads that myspace morons put on their own pages themselves.
Facebook is actually usable, whereas myspace is probably the worst site on the internet.
Unfortunately, so far, the best controller for an iPod I've seen is still the iPod itself. All the iPod interfaces to car-stereo unit's I've seen use the car's head unit as the controller for the iPod, including setting up playlists and what not. This isn't practical with a 60GB iPod loaded with tens of thousands of tracks and hundreds of playlists.
Just place the iPod near the steering wheel, use that as the controller for the tracks and playlists, and forget about all the horrible interfaces in the head-unit. It should only be connected with an Aux cable for audio. Actually, a bluetooth interface for audio transfer to the car would even be better, since there's no cable. Need apple to come up with a bluetooth equipped iPod, though.
And sometimes it helps to look really ghetto. In college I once got stopped by a cop for doing an illegal u-turn, and he looked at me, looked at my old '81 Honda, and said "Do you think you can afford a ticket for that?". Then he let me go.
Re:The real problem is getting your boarding pass
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Flying Faster Without ID
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Most of the airlines these days lets you print a boarding pass at home up to a day in advance when using an e-ticket. Don't need ID for that.
Please explain more fully how you get "progress increases with economic resources thrown at it" from "the complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months".
Transistor count doubling every 24 months is a results of R&D. This R&D has been given a fixed amount of money over time. Subsitute "money" for "R&D" and it leads to: Transistor count doubing every 24 months is a result of money.
Now, adjust that amount of money, and it doubles every 25 months or 23 months instead.
Therefore: the rate of technological progress leads is directly proportional to money applied.
There may be limits, but we do not know what they are. So, If every scientist stopped what they were doing to work on the Fusion project, we might have a working Fusion reactor.
I personally prefers painting radium on to thin layers of PN Junctions...
Actually, progress does increase with economic resources thrown at it.
It's a derivative of Moore's law.
The more money spent on more scientists (hiring, training), the better chance of coming up with original ideas. The constant flow of money spent each year on semiconductor R&D results in chip costs going down.
Spend $10bn/month on fusion research. Or $10bn/month on a public rail transportation infrastructure, instead of roads for cars. It'll be worth it.
..how is anyone supposed to COPY and pirate HD video in the first place through non-HDCP DVI interfaces?
In other words, what problem is ICT supposed to solve? Are there pirates out there right now stealing from DVI signals?
Also, can't will just convert everything to unencrypted analog and digitize the output. D-A and A-D conversion these days should be no different from a direct digital connection on short-length Component video cables. And, when ICT is finally introduced, they'll just digitize the monitor output by placing a camera in front of it, or digitizing the signals going to the framebuffer or display.
Eventually there's going to be a leak of the device keys, like what happened to CSS, and encrypytion of all previous AACS discs are defeated. Although future AACS discs can ban these leaked device keys, a new set of device keys will be leaked. Especially in software decrypters. This is because the AACS doesn't actually define a PHYSICAL secret device key spec, and so these new device keys are going to be continuously leaked as they disassemble software decoders or read EPROMs. I suspect there's going to be a lot of banned devices in the MKB of AACS.
It's always going to be this cat-and-mouse game...
Gameplay always sells over graphics quality. Consider games like World Of Warcraft and GTA: San Andreas, with their blocky 3000 polygon character models, and how it sells far more than any other game.
This smacks of journalists pompously elevating their self-importance to levels higher than they deserve.
Are you saying that government is supposed to be more important than the press?
Government is a weak institution. It bears very little importance to the lives of ordinary people. It's purpose is to function as a tool for the wealthy. If the US government disappeared tommorrow, the only thing you'll notice is a 33% pay raise.
Let's not give government any credibility. You are no better off under the US government than you would be under a monarchy such as the king of England.
Let's minimize the role of government. A weak government is better than a strong one.
I'm probably as much of a misanthrope as you are, but at least I know democracy works better than a fascist state or monarchy. Get your head out of your ass.
Your statement about democracy working better than a fascist state or monarchy is incorrect. The United Arab Emirates seems to be doing fine for its citizens, correct?
America was better off under the King of England than under the plutocracy. Most americans back then didn't even want independence from Britain. Let's not assume Democracy is a good thing.
A fascist dictatorship is the worst form of government out there, except every other form of government.
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Since they use the webkit as well.
.. just REALLY dumb people.
Get the government to fund Wikipidea. Socialize it. Make it a public service.
Additionally. with government funding, they have no right to edit content, because of the first amendment. UNLIKE a private corporation, which can ignore first amendment rights.
It's like how some cable public access channels show porn, because of this free right.
Seattle school board should have responded to him in such an equal way.
I agree with this as well. It's as if saying, when a murder happens, blame it on the murderer.
Instead, one should find faults in a system that allowed the murder to happen in the FIRST place. Once faults in a system are found, then one can actually go about PREVENTING bad things from happening.
It's pointless to find blame without a goal of actually FIXING the fault. Blame should be used as a tool, instead of an excuse. It should be part of the feedback loop of any system for optimization.
Great. So south americans like to kidnap and murder each other. Now what? Cry about it? Punish kidnappers? We could make murder illegal? LOL
I have one. It's big as a brick. Battery lasts less than a day on standby. Not recommended at all, except maybe as a backup Wi-fi web thing for your main phone.
Apple iPhone can't come soon enough.
Lots of graphical feedback elements and action..
That's like trying to use KDE for you Cell phone...
I hate the state-based motion controls on Gears, though. You know, when you're behind the wall, the controls are of a different state than when running freely. It really does distract from an active firefight. They should have left it free-flowing while adapting to walls automatcially. Instead of pressing a button to get into 'cover' state when approaching a wall, then pressing another button to jump over the wall or dive or what not, they should have just kept it as automatic cover whenever a person approached a wall, and automatic jump-over-the-wall whenever the person moves forward still. The manual state-changes ruin a lot of the freedoms.
Halo had it right. CoD2 had it right. GRAW had it wrong.
So true...
Or:
Democracy - A human and 2 wolves voting on what to eat for dinner.
Security through obscurity will be the death of us...
It's actually a good thing for Facebook to do this, especially for college kids, since it does teach them about the need for privacy when dealing with the public internet. I hope they keep this feature, since it will help these kids to be more aware of the fact that, yes, data is public on the internet, and that this information is actually pretty easily accessible to ACTUAL stalkers/spammers/scammers/etc..
There's only 1 ad on a facebook page, compared to the 10 billion on the horrible myspace pages, nevermind the ads that myspace morons put on their own pages themselves.
Facebook is actually usable, whereas myspace is probably the worst site on the internet.
No.
My freedoms/fun are more important than public safety.
Government lives under the people. The people do NOT live under government.
with OpenGL.
Unfortunately, he did get the idea from last week's Onion: "Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence"
Unfortunately, so far, the best controller for an iPod I've seen is still the iPod itself. All the iPod interfaces to car-stereo unit's I've seen use the car's head unit as the controller for the iPod, including setting up playlists and what not. This isn't practical with a 60GB iPod loaded with tens of thousands of tracks and hundreds of playlists.
Just place the iPod near the steering wheel, use that as the controller for the tracks and playlists, and forget about all the horrible interfaces in the head-unit. It should only be connected with an Aux cable for audio. Actually, a bluetooth interface for audio transfer to the car would even be better, since there's no cable. Need apple to come up with a bluetooth equipped iPod, though.
You should see the EDA software we sell... $2million list price for CAD software to design chips.
And yet, there are very few pirates.
And sometimes it helps to look really ghetto. In college I once got stopped by a cop for doing an illegal u-turn, and he looked at me, looked at my old '81 Honda, and said "Do you think you can afford a ticket for that?". Then he let me go.
Most of the airlines these days lets you print a boarding pass at home up to a day in advance when using an e-ticket. Don't need ID for that.
Please explain more fully how you get "progress increases with economic resources thrown at it" from "the complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months".
Transistor count doubling every 24 months is a results of R&D. This R&D has been given a fixed amount of money over time. Subsitute "money" for "R&D" and it leads to: Transistor count doubing every 24 months is a result of money.
Now, adjust that amount of money, and it doubles every 25 months or 23 months instead.
Therefore: the rate of technological progress leads is directly proportional to money applied.
There may be limits, but we do not know what they are. So, If every scientist stopped what they were doing to work on the Fusion project, we might have a working Fusion reactor.
I personally prefers painting radium on to thin layers of PN Junctions...
Actually, progress does increase with economic resources thrown at it.
It's a derivative of Moore's law.
The more money spent on more scientists (hiring, training), the better chance of coming up with original ideas. The constant flow of money spent each year on semiconductor R&D results in chip costs going down.
Spend $10bn/month on fusion research. Or $10bn/month on a public rail transportation infrastructure, instead of roads for cars. It'll be worth it.
Sure beats killing people.
..how is anyone supposed to COPY and pirate HD video in the first place through non-HDCP DVI interfaces?
In other words, what problem is ICT supposed to solve? Are there pirates out there right now stealing from DVI signals?
Also, can't will just convert everything to unencrypted analog and digitize the output. D-A and A-D conversion these days should be no different from a direct digital connection on short-length Component video cables. And, when ICT is finally introduced, they'll just digitize the monitor output by placing a camera in front of it, or digitizing the signals going to the framebuffer or display.
Eventually there's going to be a leak of the device keys, like what happened to CSS, and encrypytion of all previous AACS discs are defeated. Although future AACS discs can ban these leaked device keys, a new set of device keys will be leaked. Especially in software decrypters. This is because the AACS doesn't actually define a PHYSICAL secret device key spec, and so these new device keys are going to be continuously leaked as they disassemble software decoders or read EPROMs. I suspect there's going to be a lot of banned devices in the MKB of AACS.
It's always going to be this cat-and-mouse game...
Gameplay always sells over graphics quality. Consider games like World Of Warcraft and GTA: San Andreas, with their blocky 3000 polygon character models, and how it sells far more than any other game.
This smacks of journalists pompously elevating their self-importance to levels higher than they deserve.
Are you saying that government is supposed to be more important than the press?
Government is a weak institution. It bears very little importance to the lives of ordinary people. It's purpose is to function as a tool for the wealthy. If the US government disappeared tommorrow, the only thing you'll notice is a 33% pay raise.
Let's not give government any credibility. You are no better off under the US government than you would be under a monarchy such as the king of England.
Let's minimize the role of government. A weak government is better than a strong one.
I'm probably as much of a misanthrope as you are, but at least I know democracy works better than a fascist state or monarchy. Get your head out of your ass.
Your statement about democracy working better than a fascist state or monarchy is incorrect. The United Arab Emirates seems to be doing fine for its citizens, correct?
America was better off under the King of England than under the plutocracy. Most americans back then didn't even want independence from Britain. Let's not assume Democracy is a good thing.
A fascist dictatorship is the worst form of government out there, except every other form of government.