Yes, the watch is as real as the moon landings were.
Though the research done with this watch is more implementation research than marketing research. Chances of this watch hitting the shelves is as likely as getting moon rocks at your grocer.
Microsoft lawyers aren't dim. They know that if they loose the first round, they gotta go to appeals. Winning outright the first time is loosing free money the lawyers could get from going to court again and again and again... Swift settlement? Ugh!
Microsoft will likely smarten up and start to fire lawyers as soon as a guilty verdict comes down.
"Imagine for a second that the creature that sprouted first intelligence was a dolphin like creature or a cape buffalo type animal. In that case the course of intelligent life on this planet might have been very different."
First intelligence means naught. Whales beat us to the soup on that one. They are intelligent beasts, but unlike us, they can't make tools to help change their environment.
We have the capability for thought, and tool making. It's not just the ability to fomulate ideas, but also to fabricate those ideas.
Also, who's to say that another species may spring forth which makes us look like primatives compared to them...
Let's not be so blind as to think we know what the universe is like out there, or what the future here on earth holds for us in the next few 200 million years.
"... the words of the Bible are true in asserting that God made us in his image."
image...
God has a body?
Maybe the Bible is not so literal on the 'image' and it is more of some sort of beingness. Humans like to do things, explore, develop and progress. Humans do not wish to stagnate.
Does the Bible state that God created life 'only' on the planet earth (such a narrow scope for such an omnipresent being.) I think that God would most likely develop many lands, and many things. Considering his play ground (the universe) earth is but a dust particle.
The lack of SETI success is only that. Lack of success. SETI is truly looking for a needle in a haystack. Maybe SETI proves we are alone in our galaxy. There are plenty of other galaxies out there too. Chances are strong there are other beings out there that are also made in God's image (made before, during, or after us.)
Maybe more likely then just two passing strangers hooking up, is a galaxy which has two black holes in it's center like twin stars.
With the size of the universe, and the probability of this happening. The chances are good that somewhere there existed, exists, or will exist a twin black hole.
All they are doing is allowing people an alternative to the paper version.
There are pros and cons to both the paper and the electronic versions.
Electronic version is searchable, and updated twice a year, but is harder to read then a book, and 'subscription' ends at the end of the year.
Paper version is easier on the eyes, harder to search, but lasts years after graduation, and is much more portable. Also the paper version can be easily notated.
I have enjoyed paper and electronic versions of the same documents and I rarely used the electronic versions when both were available.
The intent of ALT tags is to alow alternate methods of accessing the data to people who can not get information from the graphics for some reason (can't see them, can't load them, can't decode them...)
If Charles Babbage created the first operating system with his machines (first programable computer with which Ada Lovelace became the first programmer, even though her programs never ran as the machine itself was never completed in her lifetime.)
Then surely the programmable loom (I don't recall the name) which was used as the basis for the program storage for the analytical engine. Information was punched out in connected cards which were fed through the loom which converted the holes into the desired pattern. For the analytical engine the holes represented numbers and operators. The loom it was colour and design.
Both system operated similarly, by using a block of these cards, the machine would perform operations desired by the user. Both machines were programmable, but the loom was first.
And where does the heat come from? The battery power.
By lowering the CPU cycle speed, the voltage required is less, and you have less heat.
Also, I would expect any power management portable to automatically park the hard drive, and turn off the LCD after so many minutes of inactivity (user would determine the time as to their work habits.)
Existance of such a plan was confirmed by Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode 1 as he tested out his pod racer.
"It's working!"
Obvious reference to the grand cosmic plan, as if he couldn't win the race, he wouldn't get off the Tattoine, become a Jedi, turn to the Dark Side, and turn back again.
Part of the grand cosmic scheme.
The tigers part, was to be killed off, and then a preserved fetus would garner up the DNA to start a new strand of the tiger.
That is the plan. Always has, and always will.
Wolly mammoths will prove to be a folly. The plan is for them to come back, and then not procreate as they can't adjust to the changes in the earth since their time. Within 10 years all wolly mammoths will be again extinct. Man will not pursue the dinorsaurs in seriousness. It's not in the plan.
Full copies of the plan are available by contacting Cosmic Plan Publishers, and requesting "The Cosmic Plan: a visionary record of the past, present and future." Volumes 1 to 7,000,000,302 are currently in stock. Volumes 7,000,000,303 to 7,000,000,305 are temporarily out of stock (shortage is explained fully in volume 3,396,128)
Prices and full ordering details are explained in volume 1.
If you read the article, you'll find doctors can *currently* see 1/10 of a mm into the skin with lasers and such, but the chemical injection gives them about 2 mm! That's 20x the current distance.
Undoubtably you gave cash to the homeless when asked when you were a student. Maybe some cash to the vets in November. Maybe some time at the local hospice.
As for the leeching only attitude, it's very sad. I have given (animations, pictures, collection of icons, and software) to the freeware community since the late '80's and never "resized" a graphic a this only adds to the wasted effort of others who download your file after the original. (This was on 2400bps.)
If people are unwilling to allow others access to their personal HD, why don't they post something on the Net? Spend some time putting together something and post it (or is that too much to ask too?)
Do you really expect anyone to believe that besides yourself.
Like those people who say "When I make more money, I'll give to charity." They don't. Come raise time, they just spend more. Giving comes from the heart, not the size of paycheck, or modem speed.
We won't bother with the sparrow and the coconut question, or the shoe size question as they fall by the wayside in comparison to the question which leads to the answer of "42"
They haven't been totally useless. Their software boxes make good door stops once you load the box with sand (don't remove the paper and disk, just dump sand in the box.)
Mike once said that the board of directors of Corel moved fast because computer field moves so quick (this is hot now, that'll be hot next month.) So the lack of direction, would be due to lack of long term planning, and instead trying to catch the next big wave (whatever it was going to be.) Thus lots of blunders, and projects dropped after several months of development.
Maybe now with Mike out of Corel, someone can take the helm and steer the ship instead of letting the waves carry it around like so much flotsam.
Maybe it won't be too late for Corel to make something really useful besides incomplete doorstops (you supply the sand.)
Also, the relative content might be a clue on the the content of the piece.
A porn site has lots of pictures, and some text. The text will be sexual in nature, describing actions and attributes. Thus catch words will be in higher concentration, then that of a site which has a study on effects of pornography. The study may have the same words, but the relationship between those words and other words, will be smaller. Plus the study may have far fewer graphics than a porn site.
Although harder to navigate, porn sites in other languages, can be deemed ok by filtering.
One easy thing to do is to use social pressure. Have the terminal screens open to the public (nobody has their back to a wall while using the internet.) Have users know that porn and stuff is off limits, and allow custodians to bar anyone reading porn. The people finding porn by mistake can quickly click out, and those who linger, loose use of the machine.
I think you are taking viral transmission the wrong way.
Culture is viral. I taste a food I like from India, and then adapt it into my diet. Wham! Viral infection. I didn't adapt it into my diet until i got infected with the taste.
To be a virus, one must be able to transmit on it's own. Repeating catch phrases, forwarding e-mails, gossip and dance crazes are all viral. They pass from person to person in a spreading fashion. Consent is not a factor.
It is correct that human life is viral in many many ways, it is the *speed* of infections that has increased. Now we can infect ourselves with things from other cultures without ever leaving home. (This infection is only cursory, and has no depth that actually visiting the country and experiencing it first hand would have.)
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Yes, the watch is as real as the moon landings were.
Though the research done with this watch is more implementation research than marketing research. Chances of this watch hitting the shelves is as likely as getting moon rocks at your grocer.
Microsoft lawyers aren't dim. They know that if they loose the first round, they gotta go to appeals. Winning outright the first time is loosing free money the lawyers could get from going to court again and again and again... Swift settlement? Ugh!
Microsoft will likely smarten up and start to fire lawyers as soon as a guilty verdict comes down.
The one pound heat sync would make a welcome addition to most lap tops. The extra pound of weight would a great theft deterant.
Wonder what Transmeta thinks of it.
"Imagine for a second that the creature that sprouted first intelligence was a dolphin like creature or a cape buffalo type animal. In that case the course of intelligent life on this planet might have been very different."
First intelligence means naught. Whales beat us to the soup on that one. They are intelligent beasts, but unlike us, they can't make tools to help change their environment.
We have the capability for thought, and tool making. It's not just the ability to fomulate ideas, but also to fabricate those ideas.
Also, who's to say that another species may spring forth which makes us look like primatives compared to them...
Let's not be so blind as to think we know what the universe is like out there, or what the future here on earth holds for us in the next few 200 million years.
"... the words of the Bible are true in asserting that God made us in his image."
image...
God has a body?
Maybe the Bible is not so literal on the 'image' and it is more of some sort of beingness. Humans like to do things, explore, develop and progress. Humans do not wish to stagnate.
Does the Bible state that God created life 'only' on the planet earth (such a narrow scope for such an omnipresent being.) I think that God would most likely develop many lands, and many things. Considering his play ground (the universe) earth is but a dust particle.
The lack of SETI success is only that. Lack of success. SETI is truly looking for a needle in a haystack. Maybe SETI proves we are alone in our galaxy. There are plenty of other galaxies out there too. Chances are strong there are other beings out there that are also made in God's image (made before, during, or after us.)
Maybe more likely then just two passing strangers hooking up, is a galaxy which has two black holes in it's center like twin stars.
With the size of the universe, and the probability of this happening. The chances are good that somewhere there existed, exists, or will exist a twin black hole.
They do have copyrighted material on the site, but they also provide links to the copyright statement for those sites.
As they do bother about the copyright, I guess they likely only archive those sites that give permission to archive.
Many of the flashy sites are more involved with getting the glitz seen, then doing the right thing (getting information out to all the people.)
Check http://www.cast.org if you haven't already for some general guidelines on HTML and accessability (beyond the ALT and LONGDESC tags)
Paper documents do have a life span.
The life of computer information and printed word depend on the cultural change.
The computer culture changes quite rapidly where as printed word culture changes slowly.
Both cultures have documents that are unreadable (such as those stored on 10" floppies or ancient scrolls)
All they are doing is allowing people an alternative to the paper version.
There are pros and cons to both the paper and the electronic versions.
Electronic version is searchable, and updated twice a year, but is harder to read then a book, and 'subscription' ends at the end of the year.
Paper version is easier on the eyes, harder to search, but lasts years after graduation, and is much more portable. Also the paper version can be easily notated.
I have enjoyed paper and electronic versions of the same documents and I rarely used the electronic versions when both were available.
Were talking about *people* here.
The intent of ALT tags is to alow alternate methods of accessing the data to people who can not get information from the graphics for some reason (can't see them, can't load them, can't decode them...)
If Charles Babbage created the first operating system with his machines (first programable computer with which Ada Lovelace became the first programmer, even though her programs never ran as the machine itself was never completed in her lifetime.)
Then surely the programmable loom (I don't recall the name) which was used as the basis for the program storage for the analytical engine. Information was punched out in connected cards which were fed through the loom which converted the holes into the desired pattern. For the analytical engine the holes represented numbers and operators. The loom it was colour and design.
Both system operated similarly, by using a block of these cards, the machine would perform operations desired by the user. Both machines were programmable, but the loom was first.
And where does the heat come from? The battery power.
By lowering the CPU cycle speed, the voltage required is less, and you have less heat.
Also, I would expect any power management portable to automatically park the hard drive, and turn off the LCD after so many minutes of inactivity (user would determine the time as to their work habits.)
There is a cosmic plan.
Existance of such a plan was confirmed by Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode 1 as he tested out his pod racer.
"It's working!"
Obvious reference to the grand cosmic plan, as if he couldn't win the race, he wouldn't get off the Tattoine, become a Jedi, turn to the Dark Side, and turn back again.
Part of the grand cosmic scheme.
The tigers part, was to be killed off, and then a preserved fetus would garner up the DNA to start a new strand of the tiger.
That is the plan. Always has, and always will.
Wolly mammoths will prove to be a folly. The plan is for them to come back, and then not procreate as they can't adjust to the changes in the earth since their time. Within 10 years all wolly mammoths will be again extinct. Man will not pursue the dinorsaurs in seriousness. It's not in the plan.
Full copies of the plan are available by contacting Cosmic Plan Publishers, and requesting "The Cosmic Plan: a visionary record of the past, present and future." Volumes 1 to 7,000,000,302 are currently in stock. Volumes 7,000,000,303 to 7,000,000,305 are temporarily out of stock (shortage is explained fully in volume 3,396,128)
Prices and full ordering details are explained in volume 1.
Ketchup flavoured.
If you read the article, you'll find doctors can *currently* see 1/10 of a mm into the skin with lasers and such, but the chemical injection gives them about 2 mm! That's 20x the current distance.
The copyright is *not* just the performance, but also the sheet music. So, yes, we are talking about Bruce Springsteen (as well as Sony.)
Undoubtably you gave cash to the homeless when asked when you were a student. Maybe some cash to the vets in November. Maybe some time at the local hospice.
As for the leeching only attitude, it's very sad. I have given (animations, pictures, collection of icons, and software) to the freeware community since the late '80's and never "resized" a graphic a this only adds to the wasted effort of others who download your file after the original. (This was on 2400bps.)
If people are unwilling to allow others access to their personal HD, why don't they post something on the Net? Spend some time putting together something and post it (or is that too much to ask too?)
As if faster access would change your ways.
Do you really expect anyone to believe that besides yourself.
Like those people who say "When I make more money, I'll give to charity." They don't. Come raise time, they just spend more. Giving comes from the heart, not the size of paycheck, or modem speed.
We won't bother with the sparrow and the coconut question, or the shoe size question as they fall by the wayside in comparison to the question which leads to the answer of "42"
They haven't been totally useless. Their software boxes make good door stops once you load the box with sand (don't remove the paper and disk, just dump sand in the box.)
Mike once said that the board of directors of Corel moved fast because computer field moves so quick (this is hot now, that'll be hot next month.) So the lack of direction, would be due to lack of long term planning, and instead trying to catch the next big wave (whatever it was going to be.) Thus lots of blunders, and projects dropped after several months of development.
Maybe now with Mike out of Corel, someone can take the helm and steer the ship instead of letting the waves carry it around like so much flotsam.
Maybe it won't be too late for Corel to make something really useful besides incomplete doorstops (you supply the sand.)
Real programmers make their own programming language.
Erudicated porn sites...
Inserting, I mean interesting.
Also, the relative content might be a clue on the the content of the piece.
A porn site has lots of pictures, and some text. The text will be sexual in nature, describing actions and attributes. Thus catch words will be in higher concentration, then that of a site which has a study on effects of pornography. The study may have the same words, but the relationship between those words and other words, will be smaller. Plus the study may have far fewer graphics than a porn site.
Although harder to navigate, porn sites in other languages, can be deemed ok by filtering.
One easy thing to do is to use social pressure. Have the terminal screens open to the public (nobody has their back to a wall while using the internet.) Have users know that porn and stuff is off limits, and allow custodians to bar anyone reading porn. The people finding porn by mistake can quickly click out, and those who linger, loose use of the machine.
I think you are taking viral transmission the wrong way.
Culture is viral. I taste a food I like from India, and then adapt it into my diet. Wham! Viral infection. I didn't adapt it into my diet until i got infected with the taste.
To be a virus, one must be able to transmit on it's own. Repeating catch phrases, forwarding e-mails, gossip and dance crazes are all viral. They pass from person to person in a spreading fashion. Consent is not a factor.
It is correct that human life is viral in many many ways, it is the *speed* of infections that has increased. Now we can infect ourselves with things from other cultures without ever leaving home. (This infection is only cursory, and has no depth that actually visiting the country and experiencing it first hand would have.)