You put the U.S. into such a panic about falling behind in science and technology that they funded my science education.
I couldn't have done it today. No more free tax-funded education. We have to go out and buy our education the free market. No more free tuition at City College. You have to be rich to study engineering in America now.
If some military with launch capabilities wants to put lasers in orbit, you won't even know about it. Why would they advertise it by calling it an asteroid shield?
You advertise it so you can put a bigger laser in orbit; since this is a popular threat scenario you can probably militarize the hell out of space before people wake up to object. But then again, maybe I'm a cynic.
The US gives money to people who buy solar panels, while adding an import tariff on the same solar panels that will be tacked on to the end user price. What was the point of the exercise?
These are inherently different things; the subsidies to buy solar panels only affects demand, but subsidising production creates an uneven playing field for those selling solar panels. There is also less incentive to create better and more affordable products if someone is just throwing money at you to keep production running. Everyone here of course understands this, but I'm guessing it's republican day at slantdot.
I loved the original B&W comics, but it was after I had seen the later stuff. I wouldn't bury the 2007 released TMNT-film though; decent CGI with a lot of nice scenes (the fight in the rain on the rooftop, the scramble in the kitchen with "black betty"-remake playing), it's almost true to the origins.
Are the paparazzi carrying the accessories of that bundle? Individually bought the Purity HD headset is about 150-200$ and the Play360 speaker maybe 100-150$. Slantdot editing at it's finest.
Amen to this:) The biggest issue with scripted languages seems to be that people think simplicity of the language is a substitute for proper design for the solution to your problem. I've been involved in coding a feature where there is a possible solution in both C++ and python; seems that C++ is seen as cumbersome mostly because it requires more forethought and python is then immediately hailed as the victor as soon as it can do a halfassed job of it.
Add to this that most people really can't code C++ and do not understand stl...
... and this one probably isn't any better. Thought I'd quib something about a bionic mother-in-law but after reading the others I'm just too depressed.
Quick note: never bother with the sealed letter to yourself. It won't work anywhere you're likely to want a time record. If you need legal proof with a timestamp, go to a notary. They aren't that hard to find; any bank around here would have one pretty much constantly available.
Hmm... a registered letter looks is maybe a better translation, haven't sent any of those but what I'm getting at is a method of sending letters where it has to be signed for on retrieval; used to be the way to go for amateur novelists, but I suppose this can mean different things in different places.
Publication is not necessary. The rules for older works get much more complicated, but unlikely to apply here.
The question was about how they will prove they own the work. Anyone can claim they make the track in his basement with synthesizer and various audio filter. Yes, copyright apply before publication, but if you are not the first to publish the burden of the prove rest on you. While i have no doubt that Sony has enough money to win any cause in court, the question remain valid and interesting.
Afaik you could use a use a sealed postal letter to yourself (not sure if this translates correctly) or use a public notary to do something similar; both would at least work as a sign of you being in possession of the songs before they were released.
Woosh! But hey at least you got some anti-Apple digging in, thats worth some Slashdot geek points isn't it. If you wish hard enough, one day you may even be able to talk to girls!
Have you *seen* the stuff they're packing? Kevlar body armor, riot shields, fall face masks... anything short of a rifle or a molotov cocktail isn't going to significantly hurt them.
If your job is cashier at McDonalds, you're expected to be able to handle some irate customer yelling at you without flipping out. If your job is programmer at Ubersoft, you're expected to be able to handle a moronic boss yelling at you without losing your shit. And if your job is police officer armed up and suited for a riot, you're expected to be able to handle people yelling at you and tossing rocks without bringing out the shotguns and chemical weapons.
The police don't need better weapons. They need better brains. Problem is, between shitty funding, politics, and a fundamentally broken sense of justice in America, most of the police don't actually know how to handle this sort of thing. They're just as scared as the protesters are, but hey, they've got a badge, and someone handed them a billy club and a can of OC, so they're going to use it the same way any undertrained, terrified person would.
Just because police wear body armor it doesn't mean that the crowds should be allowed to ramp up their offence accordingly, it's not a fricking peaceful protest when people are throwing rocks around.
Is there some modern variant of Godwin's law that applies whenever you mention Steve Jobs or Apple in an unrelated conversation?
I'm just making informed and estute observations like the rest of the pack... sometimes I just get tired of pretending to be a mobile phone market analyst.
And BTW, the summary is somewhat unfair. On the announcement they have posted (besides some impressive photo samples) a whitepaper were they clearly say that is not about quantity of megapixels, is about the quality you get when you average the results given by each one. I've also seen some of the videos were you get a very smooth digital zoom without loss of quality, and is quite remarkable.
Bleh, you're boring the appletards with technical details.
Where there is sun wearing a hat is recommended. The brims of my hats are typically 420 sq cm, the area of a trickle charger for a car battery, and that is not all the area available in a hat. So why not a solar hat that is also a mobile phone, lower a monocle for display, touch pad over the heart. There are heaps of options. GPS of course, wind direction and strength for boaties. A power user could even go for a solar sombrero. Now that has a ring to it. Pork-pie PV?
Solar tracking circuitry to determine which cells are supplying power moment by moment. The technologies are all available. Just add some imagination.
noel
My imagination will not make people buy phones with an obligatory sombrero attached, nor do you accurately represent Nokia's findings that you can't recharge a phone with a solar panel fixed to it.
I have a cheap pocket solar charger, and from a days charge it was able to bring my phone up to half a charge. Nokia doesn't know what the hell they are doing, as clearly you can get a significant charge from a small solar panel, mine is about 1.5"x3".
How hard do you have to try to not RTFA:
Charging mobile phones using sun rays isn't a new concept. For example, Nokia launched what the company contends was the first solar-powered phone back in 1997.
The thing is, modern phones do more than run a couple of lines of ascii chars and make calls. It's also about convenience; using a recharger (be it via usb, a portable pack, whatever) every week or so is convenient, having your phone out all the time to recharge it isn't.
As Lord Lucless said "at no point are citizens consulted in the process" and these companies only bark when it's things are their against interests. If we start giving them some sort of clout as the voice of the people then how can we complain when they're "corrupting" the government? Heck, it would only take tens of millions of actual people to achieve the same results.
... and underlines the travesty that democracy has become. It's bad enough corporations write the legislation now they're going to effectively start voting on them by themselves.. this should scare the living daylights out of us and not be some kind a source for celebration.
Compared to throwing acid on a young girl's face because she wants what we consider an elementary education - now that's worth some outrage.
Children are to be cherished and encouraged to reach for their full potential. Any society that fails to do this is failing, period - USA included.
I think this is a perfect thing to get outraged at since it's just a different side of the same problem, "where you burn books, you will ultimately burn people also".
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you for Sputnik and Vostok.
You put the U.S. into such a panic about falling behind in science and technology that they funded my science education.
I couldn't have done it today. No more free tax-funded education. We have to go out and buy our education the free market. No more free tuition at City College. You have to be rich to study engineering in America now.
In the US, the people elect the government.
Good job reading the summary: "The Microsoft Research team is reporting a 90-100% accuracy rate for SoundWave, even in noisy environments."
That's just with their test gesture, the patented "Hand Clap".
Even if you only count one apartment building demolished, the F-18 still has a better combat record than the F-22.
(I only joke because there were no fatalities!)
The F-18, now also fitted as a suburbian domicile buster.
Context, it doesn't really mean anything to you then.
The proposal is to put smaller lasers up.
Meh, really?
If some military with launch capabilities wants to put lasers in orbit, you won't even know about it. Why would they advertise it by calling it an asteroid shield?
You advertise it so you can put a bigger laser in orbit; since this is a popular threat scenario you can probably militarize the hell out of space before people wake up to object. But then again, maybe I'm a cynic.
The US gives money to people who buy solar panels, while adding an import tariff on the same solar panels that will be tacked on to the end user price. What was the point of the exercise?
These are inherently different things; the subsidies to buy solar panels only affects demand, but subsidising production creates an uneven playing field for those selling solar panels. There is also less incentive to create better and more affordable products if someone is just throwing money at you to keep production running. Everyone here of course understands this, but I'm guessing it's republican day at slantdot.
I loved the original B&W comics, but it was after I had seen the later stuff. I wouldn't bury the 2007 released TMNT-film though; decent CGI with a lot of nice scenes (the fight in the rain on the rooftop, the scramble in the kitchen with "black betty"-remake playing), it's almost true to the origins.
bullshit
Doubt that'll make a good rocket-fuel even if it is affordable.
Are the paparazzi carrying the accessories of that bundle? Individually bought the Purity HD headset is about 150-200$ and the Play360 speaker maybe 100-150$. Slantdot editing at it's finest.
Amen to this:) The biggest issue with scripted languages seems to be that people think simplicity of the language is a substitute for proper design for the solution to your problem. I've been involved in coding a feature where there is a possible solution in both C++ and python; seems that C++ is seen as cumbersome mostly because it requires more forethought and python is then immediately hailed as the victor as soon as it can do a halfassed job of it.
Add to this that most people really can't code C++ and do not understand stl...
... and this one probably isn't any better. Thought I'd quib something about a bionic mother-in-law but after reading the others I'm just too depressed.
Quick note: never bother with the sealed letter to yourself. It won't work anywhere you're likely to want a time record. If you need legal proof with a timestamp, go to a notary. They aren't that hard to find; any bank around here would have one pretty much constantly available.
Hmm... a registered letter looks is maybe a better translation, haven't sent any of those but what I'm getting at is a method of sending letters where it has to be signed for on retrieval; used to be the way to go for amateur novelists, but I suppose this can mean different things in different places.
Publication is not necessary. The rules for older works get much more complicated, but unlikely to apply here.
The question was about how they will prove they own the work. Anyone can claim they make the track in his basement with synthesizer and various audio filter. Yes, copyright apply before publication, but if you are not the first to publish the burden of the prove rest on you. While i have no doubt that Sony has enough money to win any cause in court, the question remain valid and interesting.
Afaik you could use a use a sealed postal letter to yourself (not sure if this translates correctly) or use a public notary to do something similar; both would at least work as a sign of you being in possession of the songs before they were released.
Woosh! But hey at least you got some anti-Apple digging in, thats worth some Slashdot geek points isn't it. If you wish hard enough, one day you may even be able to talk to girls!
AC what you did there.
Have you *seen* the stuff they're packing? Kevlar body armor, riot shields, fall face masks... anything short of a rifle or a molotov cocktail isn't going to significantly hurt them.
If your job is cashier at McDonalds, you're expected to be able to handle some irate customer yelling at you without flipping out. If your job is programmer at Ubersoft, you're expected to be able to handle a moronic boss yelling at you without losing your shit. And if your job is police officer armed up and suited for a riot, you're expected to be able to handle people yelling at you and tossing rocks without bringing out the shotguns and chemical weapons.
The police don't need better weapons. They need better brains. Problem is, between shitty funding, politics, and a fundamentally broken sense of justice in America, most of the police don't actually know how to handle this sort of thing. They're just as scared as the protesters are, but hey, they've got a badge, and someone handed them a billy club and a can of OC, so they're going to use it the same way any undertrained, terrified person would.
Just because police wear body armor it doesn't mean that the crowds should be allowed to ramp up their offence accordingly, it's not a fricking peaceful protest when people are throwing rocks around.
Doubt there's anything really stopping us, I've seen a science piece of a patient with a new jaw from his own stem cells.
link to reuters story
Is there some modern variant of Godwin's law that applies whenever you mention Steve Jobs or Apple in an unrelated conversation?
I'm just making informed and estute observations like the rest of the pack... sometimes I just get tired of pretending to be a mobile phone market analyst.
And BTW, the summary is somewhat unfair. On the announcement they have posted (besides some impressive photo samples) a whitepaper were they clearly say that is not about quantity of megapixels, is about the quality you get when you average the results given by each one. I've also seen some of the videos were you get a very smooth digital zoom without loss of quality, and is quite remarkable.
Bleh, you're boring the appletards with technical details.
If they REALLY wanted to stop it, simply threaten to pull the manufacturing and bring it back to USA. Then Chinese gov. will stop it.
Wouldn't work, the Chinese would just insist that "All your Jobs are belong to us".
Where there is sun wearing a hat is recommended. The brims of my hats are typically 420 sq cm, the area of a trickle charger for a car battery, and that is not all the area available in a hat. So why not a solar hat that is also a mobile phone, lower a monocle for display, touch pad over the heart. There are heaps of options. GPS of course, wind direction and strength for boaties. A power user could even go for a solar sombrero. Now that has a ring to it. Pork-pie PV? Solar tracking circuitry to determine which cells are supplying power moment by moment. The technologies are all available. Just add some imagination.
noel
My imagination will not make people buy phones with an obligatory sombrero attached, nor do you accurately represent Nokia's findings that you can't recharge a phone with a solar panel fixed to it.
I have a cheap pocket solar charger, and from a days charge it was able to bring my phone up to half a charge. Nokia doesn't know what the hell they are doing, as clearly you can get a significant charge from a small solar panel, mine is about 1.5"x3".
How hard do you have to try to not RTFA:
Charging mobile phones using sun rays isn't a new concept. For example, Nokia launched what the company contends was the first solar-powered phone back in 1997.
The thing is, modern phones do more than run a couple of lines of ascii chars and make calls. It's also about convenience; using a recharger (be it via usb, a portable pack, whatever) every week or so is convenient, having your phone out all the time to recharge it isn't.
As Lord Lucless said "at no point are citizens consulted in the process" and these companies only bark when it's things are their against interests. If we start giving them some sort of clout as the voice of the people then how can we complain when they're "corrupting" the government? Heck, it would only take tens of millions of actual people to achieve the same results.
... and underlines the travesty that democracy has become. It's bad enough corporations write the legislation now they're going to effectively start voting on them by themselves.. this should scare the living daylights out of us and not be some kind a source for celebration.
Forget about this...
Compared to throwing acid on a young girl's face because she wants what we consider an elementary education - now that's worth some outrage.
Children are to be cherished and encouraged to reach for their full potential. Any society that fails to do this is failing, period - USA included.
I think this is a perfect thing to get outraged at since it's just a different side of the same problem, "where you burn books, you will ultimately burn people also".