Apollo was a gigantic PR stunt. The entire nation of the united states turning their collective backsides to the Soviet Union and dropping their pants. Without a political motivation, not many politicians can see the value in pure science. The only possibility I see for the US getting back into manned space exploration would be if China started making a really big deal about getting to Mars first, thus compelling a rapid defence of the American national penis size once again.
The shouts aren't actually that useful to me. Can only get one or two off in a fight, while I can throw my dual-cast firebolts for quite some time with the number of enchantments I keep for the purpose.
Oh, and reforging the gorothingie amulet. There's a gap in the invisible wall in front of the ghost-observers, and a well-placed shout from Boss Number Two can launch you over it and into an area from which there is no escape. Both of those were solved by just using a slightly old save, though. Not gamebreakers.
I've only found one. In the temple of Meridia. Before you do the end-of-dungeon fight, tell your companion to wait outside the doors to the arena. Otherwise they get sealed inside, forever.
Doesn't that just make it even worse? It can't even be argued that the money is going to the public good. It's nothing but the most blatant of corruption: Take from everyone, and hand it straight over to a few companies that had the political influence to get laws made in their favor.
Apple might actually benefit. Sure, it'll make the iPhone more expensive... but the iPhone is already a premium, very expensive product. Proportionally their lower-priced competitors would be affected far worse.
Canada too. Not sure about the US and UK, but wouldn't surprise me. Not as heavy, but the same idea: Tax all storage and media players on the assumption that they'll be used to infringe, and give the money to any major copyright holder with enough political clout to get a share. Independant artists obviously get screwed because it'd be impractical to administer.
Perhaps that's the idea. This is a copyright-inspired effort, after all - and with the move to the cloud and it's inherent ease of central control, perhaps the thinking behind such high taxes is that ordinary people cannot be trusted with so much storage of their own. They might misuse it for piracy.
I see the simularity. The algorithm is the same in each of them - take a space, determine current and desired temperature, move it from the current to desired while displaying to the user an estimate of the time taken to complete the change. The difference is in what that space is: One patent covers using the estimate-time in an HVAC system, one in an oven. So they cover two possible applications of the same thing.
Ah, the old comparitor-and-switch device. I've seen that before, in applications that need a tiny bit of power from the mains without the size and expense of a full power supply. The power factor would be hell, if they ever drew enough current to worry about.
Smaller and more portable has its costs, like smaller screens, fiddley controls and less storage. Many people want to have the convenience of a portable but also the ability to hook up to external peripherals when at their desk.
It's more useful on laptops. Get home, plug your laptop into just two cables (Thunderbolt and power) and you're ready to go with your big monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, external drives, network and that silly light-up snowman your mother bought you for Christmas. Just like you could do with a docking station, except not limited to just a few laptops by one vendor and without taking up a big chunk of desk.
"with the ugly exception of the fact that a very high speed peripheral bus and a video-out interface were bodged into the same connector for no wildly obvious reason."
Save space. With the trend towards smaller and smaller portables, expansion connectors are becoming a luxury.
You assume that having an account authorised in a technical sense is in some manner equivilent to being authorised in the legal sense. Other than sharing a name, they are completly unrelated.
You can go look at them - someone has been nice enough to digitise the entire nervous system, down to every last synapse. It's browseable at http://wormweb.org/neuralnet#c=BAG&m=1
For the singulatity fans: Yes, this is almost the first full brain upload. It isn't quite, as it doesn't store synapse response data and the brain-map is actually a composite from multible individuals, but give it a couple more decades and one of the little worms may go down in history as the first naturally-occuring intelligence (If you can call it that) to make the transition to digital immortality.
Because conservatives are not unified. There are at least three major factions within - the social, political and fiscal conservatives. They are allied in the US only because it brings mutual political advantage - by rallying together in the republican party they can most effectively fight their common enemy, the democrats. If the two-party system didn't force them into this alliance, they'd be opposing each other.
1. Because before, some teachers could actually face diciplinary action for peaching in classs! Now they teachers are protected form this. Not that it happened very often - teachers have to do some really crazy religious stuff, like burning a crucifix into students' arms, before most schools would dare to incur the anger of the conservative pressure groups.
2. Because teaching time is valuable, and when there's a curriculum to meet and exams to pass teachers just can't afford to explore every aspect of the subject. If it isn't on the test, it'll be passed over for something that is.
I don't read the National Review site on a regular basis. I have no familiarity with it's layout. Besides, I was probably semi-distracted. I multitask a lot.
... did someone actually decide to classify the species of animal on which medics train? What possibly national security risk could such information pose? But that does seem to be the way militaries work: Anything not explicitly authorised for public release is secret by default.
1. Accessing a computer system without authorisation from the owner is a crime.
2. A ToS specifies what a user can do, and upon violation becomes invalid - thus, the user is no longer authorised, legally. Even if their account still exists.
3. So any access breaking the ToS is, in legal fact, unauthorised - and indistinguishable from if they had, say, used an exploit or guessed a password. The means by which unauthorised access is granted is legally unimportant - it doesn't matter if it's via sophisticated hacking, script-kiddie work, social engineering, finding someone's password on a postit or pure luck in guessing. The important part is that the user, having broken the ToS, is no longer authorised by the system owner to access that computer system. See point one.
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Apollo was a gigantic PR stunt. The entire nation of the united states turning their collective backsides to the Soviet Union and dropping their pants. Without a political motivation, not many politicians can see the value in pure science. The only possibility I see for the US getting back into manned space exploration would be if China started making a really big deal about getting to Mars first, thus compelling a rapid defence of the American national penis size once again.
The shouts aren't actually that useful to me. Can only get one or two off in a fight, while I can throw my dual-cast firebolts for quite some time with the number of enchantments I keep for the purpose.
Oh, and reforging the gorothingie amulet. There's a gap in the invisible wall in front of the ghost-observers, and a well-placed shout from Boss Number Two can launch you over it and into an area from which there is no escape. Both of those were solved by just using a slightly old save, though. Not gamebreakers.
I've only found one. In the temple of Meridia. Before you do the end-of-dungeon fight, tell your companion to wait outside the doors to the arena. Otherwise they get sealed inside, forever.
The x86 architecture may be Intel's, but the instruction set was largely based upon the Z80. Zilog would still hold the copyright on that.
Doesn't that just make it even worse? It can't even be argued that the money is going to the public good. It's nothing but the most blatant of corruption: Take from everyone, and hand it straight over to a few companies that had the political influence to get laws made in their favor.
Apple might actually benefit. Sure, it'll make the iPhone more expensive... but the iPhone is already a premium, very expensive product. Proportionally their lower-priced competitors would be affected far worse.
Sooner or later, someone is going to try to tax contraceptives.
That 50% figure sounds highly dubious. Even the most determined homeless illegal tax-dodger is going to have to pay sales tax on occasion.
Canada too. Not sure about the US and UK, but wouldn't surprise me. Not as heavy, but the same idea: Tax all storage and media players on the assumption that they'll be used to infringe, and give the money to any major copyright holder with enough political clout to get a share. Independant artists obviously get screwed because it'd be impractical to administer.
Perhaps that's the idea. This is a copyright-inspired effort, after all - and with the move to the cloud and it's inherent ease of central control, perhaps the thinking behind such high taxes is that ordinary people cannot be trusted with so much storage of their own. They might misuse it for piracy.
I see the simularity. The algorithm is the same in each of them - take a space, determine current and desired temperature, move it from the current to desired while displaying to the user an estimate of the time taken to complete the change. The difference is in what that space is: One patent covers using the estimate-time in an HVAC system, one in an oven. So they cover two possible applications of the same thing.
Ah, the old comparitor-and-switch device. I've seen that before, in applications that need a tiny bit of power from the mains without the size and expense of a full power supply. The power factor would be hell, if they ever drew enough current to worry about.
Smaller and more portable has its costs, like smaller screens, fiddley controls and less storage. Many people want to have the convenience of a portable but also the ability to hook up to external peripherals when at their desk.
It's more useful on laptops. Get home, plug your laptop into just two cables (Thunderbolt and power) and you're ready to go with your big monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, external drives, network and that silly light-up snowman your mother bought you for Christmas. Just like you could do with a docking station, except not limited to just a few laptops by one vendor and without taking up a big chunk of desk.
"with the ugly exception of the fact that a very high speed peripheral bus and a video-out interface were bodged into the same connector for no wildly obvious reason."
Save space. With the trend towards smaller and smaller portables, expansion connectors are becoming a luxury.
You assume that having an account authorised in a technical sense is in some manner equivilent to being authorised in the legal sense. Other than sharing a name, they are completly unrelated.
Keep going. C.Elegans has more neurons than that.
You can go look at them - someone has been nice enough to digitise the entire nervous system, down to every last synapse. It's browseable at http://wormweb.org/neuralnet#c=BAG&m=1
For the singulatity fans: Yes, this is almost the first full brain upload. It isn't quite, as it doesn't store synapse response data and the brain-map is actually a composite from multible individuals, but give it a couple more decades and one of the little worms may go down in history as the first naturally-occuring intelligence (If you can call it that) to make the transition to digital immortality.
Because conservatives are not unified. There are at least three major factions within - the social, political and fiscal conservatives. They are allied in the US only because it brings mutual political advantage - by rallying together in the republican party they can most effectively fight their common enemy, the democrats. If the two-party system didn't force them into this alliance, they'd be opposing each other.
1. Because before, some teachers could actually face diciplinary action for peaching in classs! Now they teachers are protected form this. Not that it happened very often - teachers have to do some really crazy religious stuff, like burning a crucifix into students' arms, before most schools would dare to incur the anger of the conservative pressure groups.
2. Because teaching time is valuable, and when there's a curriculum to meet and exams to pass teachers just can't afford to explore every aspect of the subject. If it isn't on the test, it'll be passed over for something that is.
3. See 2.
I don't read the National Review site on a regular basis. I have no familiarity with it's layout. Besides, I was probably semi-distracted. I multitask a lot.
... did someone actually decide to classify the species of animal on which medics train? What possibly national security risk could such information pose? But that does seem to be the way militaries work: Anything not explicitly authorised for public release is secret by default.
When I got my iPod touch*, I got to see the agreement to use the app store. Ninety-nine pages long. That was one of the shorter ones.
*Don't worry, it was a freebie with something else and went on eBay.
The legal reasoning, simplified, goes like this:
1. Accessing a computer system without authorisation from the owner is a crime.
2. A ToS specifies what a user can do, and upon violation becomes invalid - thus, the user is no longer authorised, legally. Even if their account still exists.
3. So any access breaking the ToS is, in legal fact, unauthorised - and indistinguishable from if they had, say, used an exploit or guessed a password. The means by which unauthorised access is granted is legally unimportant - it doesn't matter if it's via sophisticated hacking, script-kiddie work, social engineering, finding someone's password on a postit or pure luck in guessing. The important part is that the user, having broken the ToS, is no longer authorised by the system owner to access that computer system. See point one.
That would be the 'ineffective token condemnation.' Do nothing, and pretend it is taking a stand.