The gadgets should be less intrusive. If you need a TV in front of the can, then I'm pretty sure that you are spending too much time on the can. The most electronics I need in a bathroom are a clock and in the interest of energy conservation, maybe some temperature limiter and flow limiter for the shower so I'm not wasting too much hot water. Some people might like a radio in the bathroom, but that's hardly high tech.
A refrigerator that tells me what I have is a bit much, that's just plain lazy, though I will admit that sometimes a small item is behind a large item and I just don't see it.
I wonder if RFID is necessary for that. I wonder if chemistry sniffers might be developed such that it can tell if something's gone bad. Rather than wasting a nickel on every package that gets thrown away eventually, the sniffer might work for the life of the refrigerator.
Does Microsoft's mapping service have a publicly accessible API? At least Google does, and it's a lot less restrictive than Microsoft's, having one with restrictions on how you use the data vs. not having one and not having any software access to said data.
You say China is doing what all governments should be doing, but what China is doing involves life inprisonment, all over naughty photographs. The photographs are presumably of adults, otherwise I'd think the article would note child porn.
Patents are not secret. The only time patents might be considered secret is during the application phase in some countries, like the US. Once approved, the patent becomes available to the public to read. To say otherwise is to misunderstand what a patent is.
But "Linux" needs certain things to be interoperable, such as Samba. I recall that Samba is used by other operating systems to interoperate with Windows, if that's removed then there's not much that can be done without installing SFU or Cygwin on Windows, which aren't that good in my opinion, but at least you'll get NFS.
The article wasn't about the new machines but the older ones. The new machines, even the cheapest ones sold new, run OS X exceedingly well, though it helps to have a good amount of memory. Given that memory is pretty cheap for the most part, I don't think that's really a problem.
An old g3 with a good Rage 128 might have enough horsepower to display an mpeg.
I think you mean that the old G3 might have enough horsepower to display an MPEG, or maybe not. I don't think you'd be using any special technology with the Rage.
I don't think ATI had on-chip MPEG decoding until Radeon. Even then, Apple's record for taking advantage of GPU accellerated MPEG decoding was spotty at times. My G4 mini didn't use its GPU MPEG decoder for DVD playback, it used more than half the CPU. This is compared to a PIIIm Windows notebook of similar CPU power but with a much older Radeon that barely used any CPU at all.
I really don't think teachers should be yelling at students, baited or not.
Like the Rodney King video, while you can leave out preceeding video, I really don't think that video captured from a cell phone is easy to edit such that segments can be removed from the middle and not be noticible. For handheld video capture, the phone shakes so much that it's hard to sync that up well with human movement and not have the segments be noticible.
I think they can be nice, but heck, I worked for two companies that sold cubicles. I think the problem is the specification. The walls can be pretty tall (nearly 7ft) and can be made with sound-absorbing materials. You can even get doors for them and close them in.
I think this is the most rational post here, though the point can be hard to enforce. The teacher in the original article was clearly out of line twice over - one for preaching, another for lying about it. That's a pretty blatant hypocrisy in teaching about Jesus and then lying about it, because I don't know of any teaching of Jesus that justifies the lying about it.
I'm glad a recording was made available, but unfortunately, proper punishment wasn't meted out. Obviously the teacher has proven unable to do his job properly twice over, inability to do the job he was employed to do, and inability to be honest about what he did.
I could have bought an option for my desktop laser engraver that would turn steel black - but that was because it would heat the metal such that it would bring the carbon to the surface. It looks pretty nice and it makes for permanent markings.
I'd be interested to see if the surface hardness changes. I would be curious if this would be good for car radiators or solar thermal absorbtion. Car radiators can't have much of a coating, but they need one to prevent corrosion, and the black helps heat transfer. If this was used on a corrosion resistant metal, maybe it would not need to have a coating at all.
I think this is stupid if they wish to preserve the language. If tribe members have to use a different language in order to use a computer, then those that decide to use computers may simply drop the language that the computer doesn't support.
I don't think Microsoft has wronged anyone by supporting more languages. I don't think it makes any sense to object to Microsoft making money on a translated product. They shouldn't be expected to support the language for free, as in no charge for the software, so the alternative is to not support it at all.
You wouldn't want several of them running in an enclosed space either.
I really don't see this in helping make longer running computers. I think they'll just get faster. If people wanted longer running computers, they can buy notebooks based on lower voltage chips. They run slower but with some current models, you can get twelve hours of operation in a 3lb package.
Debian/SuSe/Redhat, no matter what i did i couldn't make it run on any of em.
Ouch. I do understand the reluctance though. Linux seems to change so much that it's hard to follow, not only that, but every distribution has its own idiosyncracies. That does not help entice commercial developers.
The problem is that you are messing with biology without even considering potential negative consequences. There is no magic bullet in medicine. What if, instead of living to be 100, with this no-sleep pill, you die at 50 instead? Would you still think it is worthwhile?
That's the problem. Dealing with the symptoms do not always deal with the problems. Another is that taking a pill is sometimes just a shortcut to prevent you from having to do the hard thing. Such as diet pills. Those things fail miserably, people are more than generally heavier two years after they start taking diet pills. I for one do not want to deal with the repercussions of taking a no-sleep pill as a simple shortcut, I don't want to have a new disorder named after me because I was stupid enough to take a pill like this.
Well ffs Microsoft, you copied the entire Windows UI from Xerox.
From what I understand, that's a gross oversimplification. Apple bought the rights from Xerox, and Microsoft got the rights to use the UI when Apple wanted an extension of BASIC for the Apple II. This is according to Woz's interview on the NPR Science Friday show.
I think that's a specious argument. There are other technologies that can be used to do the same thing, I just don't think WiFi is the one to use. WiMax looks like a much better idea, and has a range measured in miles, not yards, so you can put up fewer towers. The cellular networks are similarly powerful, I think it would be better to invest in that than WiFi. Heck, I think giving out DSL accounts would be cheaper than a WiFi mesh.
Even worse, if you take a literalist interpretation, there are two accounts of creation in the first few chapters, I think one that says that woman came from man, and another says that man came from woman. Which is true? There are differing accounts elsewhere in the bible. The point wasn't to be literally true, but to paint metaphorical pictures to tell a story and make a point.
A museum is fine, be it about fantasy or reality. The problem is that people with that mentality that it's true are also responsible for trying to water down science curriculum, such as in Kansas, by saying that "Creation", which evolved to "Intelligent Design", is a scientifically valid alternative explanation for the origin of earth and mankind. The issue is that they are substitute science for religion, or reduce science education to a point that it's no threat to the particular beliefs they hold. From the perspective of a an athiest, it would look as bad as Lord of the Rings fans trying to enter "Middle Earth" to history or geology education as a valid alternative.
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The gadgets should be less intrusive. If you need a TV in front of the can, then I'm pretty sure that you are spending too much time on the can. The most electronics I need in a bathroom are a clock and in the interest of energy conservation, maybe some temperature limiter and flow limiter for the shower so I'm not wasting too much hot water. Some people might like a radio in the bathroom, but that's hardly high tech.
A refrigerator that tells me what I have is a bit much, that's just plain lazy, though I will admit that sometimes a small item is behind a large item and I just don't see it.
I wonder if RFID is necessary for that. I wonder if chemistry sniffers might be developed such that it can tell if something's gone bad. Rather than wasting a nickel on every package that gets thrown away eventually, the sniffer might work for the life of the refrigerator.
Does Microsoft's mapping service have a publicly accessible API? At least Google does, and it's a lot less restrictive than Microsoft's, having one with restrictions on how you use the data vs. not having one and not having any software access to said data.
Google hasn't created an industry yet -- all they do is search and provide an awesome research environment Ph.D.s.
Huh? Google has a search engine, but they are an advertising company. I don't think anybody makes substantive money just doing search engines.
You say China is doing what all governments should be doing, but what China is doing involves life inprisonment, all over naughty photographs. The photographs are presumably of adults, otherwise I'd think the article would note child porn.
Honestly, with the way the control scheme works, you CAN be a couch patatoe and play the Wii just fine.
:)
Its just boring
It's been the subject of at least one comic:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/13
Patents are not secret. The only time patents might be considered secret is during the application phase in some countries, like the US. Once approved, the patent becomes available to the public to read. To say otherwise is to misunderstand what a patent is.
But "Linux" needs certain things to be interoperable, such as Samba. I recall that Samba is used by other operating systems to interoperate with Windows, if that's removed then there's not much that can be done without installing SFU or Cygwin on Windows, which aren't that good in my opinion, but at least you'll get NFS.
The article wasn't about the new machines but the older ones. The new machines, even the cheapest ones sold new, run OS X exceedingly well, though it helps to have a good amount of memory. Given that memory is pretty cheap for the most part, I don't think that's really a problem.
An old g3 with a good Rage 128 might have enough horsepower to display an mpeg.
I think you mean that the old G3 might have enough horsepower to display an MPEG, or maybe not. I don't think you'd be using any special technology with the Rage.
I don't think ATI had on-chip MPEG decoding until Radeon. Even then, Apple's record for taking advantage of GPU accellerated MPEG decoding was spotty at times. My G4 mini didn't use its GPU MPEG decoder for DVD playback, it used more than half the CPU. This is compared to a PIIIm Windows notebook of similar CPU power but with a much older Radeon that barely used any CPU at all.
I really don't think teachers should be yelling at students, baited or not.
Like the Rodney King video, while you can leave out preceeding video, I really don't think that video captured from a cell phone is easy to edit such that segments can be removed from the middle and not be noticible. For handheld video capture, the phone shakes so much that it's hard to sync that up well with human movement and not have the segments be noticible.
I think they can be nice, but heck, I worked for two companies that sold cubicles. I think the problem is the specification. The walls can be pretty tall (nearly 7ft) and can be made with sound-absorbing materials. You can even get doors for them and close them in.
I think this is the most rational post here, though the point can be hard to enforce. The teacher in the original article was clearly out of line twice over - one for preaching, another for lying about it. That's a pretty blatant hypocrisy in teaching about Jesus and then lying about it, because I don't know of any teaching of Jesus that justifies the lying about it.
I'm glad a recording was made available, but unfortunately, proper punishment wasn't meted out. Obviously the teacher has proven unable to do his job properly twice over, inability to do the job he was employed to do, and inability to be honest about what he did.
So the "dark ages" were really the dim ages because science didn't shine quite as brightly?
I could have bought an option for my desktop laser engraver that would turn steel black - but that was because it would heat the metal such that it would bring the carbon to the surface. It looks pretty nice and it makes for permanent markings.
I'd be interested to see if the surface hardness changes. I would be curious if this would be good for car radiators or solar thermal absorbtion. Car radiators can't have much of a coating, but they need one to prevent corrosion, and the black helps heat transfer. If this was used on a corrosion resistant metal, maybe it would not need to have a coating at all.
I think this is stupid if they wish to preserve the language. If tribe members have to use a different language in order to use a computer, then those that decide to use computers may simply drop the language that the computer doesn't support.
I don't think Microsoft has wronged anyone by supporting more languages. I don't think it makes any sense to object to Microsoft making money on a translated product. They shouldn't be expected to support the language for free, as in no charge for the software, so the alternative is to not support it at all.
You wouldn't want several of them running in an enclosed space either.
I really don't see this in helping make longer running computers. I think they'll just get faster. If people wanted longer running computers, they can buy notebooks based on lower voltage chips. They run slower but with some current models, you can get twelve hours of operation in a 3lb package.
Debian/SuSe/Redhat, no matter what i did i couldn't make it run on any of em.
Ouch. I do understand the reluctance though. Linux seems to change so much that it's hard to follow, not only that, but every distribution has its own idiosyncracies. That does not help entice commercial developers.
The problem is that you are messing with biology without even considering potential negative consequences. There is no magic bullet in medicine. What if, instead of living to be 100, with this no-sleep pill, you die at 50 instead? Would you still think it is worthwhile?
That's the problem. Dealing with the symptoms do not always deal with the problems. Another is that taking a pill is sometimes just a shortcut to prevent you from having to do the hard thing. Such as diet pills. Those things fail miserably, people are more than generally heavier two years after they start taking diet pills. I for one do not want to deal with the repercussions of taking a no-sleep pill as a simple shortcut, I don't want to have a new disorder named after me because I was stupid enough to take a pill like this.
Well ffs Microsoft, you copied the entire Windows UI from Xerox.
From what I understand, that's a gross oversimplification. Apple bought the rights from Xerox, and Microsoft got the rights to use the UI when Apple wanted an extension of BASIC for the Apple II. This is according to Woz's interview on the NPR Science Friday show.
I think that's a specious argument. There are other technologies that can be used to do the same thing, I just don't think WiFi is the one to use. WiMax looks like a much better idea, and has a range measured in miles, not yards, so you can put up fewer towers. The cellular networks are similarly powerful, I think it would be better to invest in that than WiFi. Heck, I think giving out DSL accounts would be cheaper than a WiFi mesh.
Even worse, if you take a literalist interpretation, there are two accounts of creation in the first few chapters, I think one that says that woman came from man, and another says that man came from woman. Which is true? There are differing accounts elsewhere in the bible. The point wasn't to be literally true, but to paint metaphorical pictures to tell a story and make a point.
How is this a troll? I must have hit a nerve somewhere.
A museum is fine, be it about fantasy or reality. The problem is that people with that mentality that it's true are also responsible for trying to water down science curriculum, such as in Kansas, by saying that "Creation", which evolved to "Intelligent Design", is a scientifically valid alternative explanation for the origin of earth and mankind. The issue is that they are substitute science for religion, or reduce science education to a point that it's no threat to the particular beliefs they hold. From the perspective of a an athiest, it would look as bad as Lord of the Rings fans trying to enter "Middle Earth" to history or geology education as a valid alternative.