The stability of the dye is not the only problem. Oxidation of the silver reflective layer over time due to pollutants in the air is perhaps a bigger issue for storage over a decade.
The gold reflective layer is immune to this, of course.
As far as being able to read it, there is so much stuff on CD sized optical media I would be truly shocked if in 25 year readers would not be commonly available. I've already had CD music players for that long.
It seems to me that a consolidated re-engineered Large Federal Data Center would be even LESS likely to be useful as a repository of information than the smaller distributed systems now in use.
And of course it means a single explosion could take out a much higher percentage of the Federal Data.
Domestic first class mail requires a warrant. The standard of law is that it has the same protection as if it were in your home. Media mail, etc. not so much.
At the borders things degrade even further, however my understanding is that sealed first class mail weighing less than 16 oz has some protection.
Grup here. The 1950's were ok too. Things started getting bad in the age of Aquarius.
Last week I shocked a table of young people by calculating how to divide a restaurant bill for 9 people, some who had been drinking and some not + an 18% tip in my head .
It is an pretty narrow patent because of all of the qualifiers. Basically it's a vertical bar (not a scroll bar) displayed over the image of the document segment that reacts to a proximity object.
Not sure it's worth the effort to even file.
It is certainly of questionable innovative content.
In other words it should have never been filed or granted.
Claim 1.
1. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display: displaying a portion of an electronic document on the touch screen display, wherein the displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document; displaying a vertical bar on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document, the vertical bar displayed proximate to a vertical edge of the displayed portion of the electronic document, wherein: the vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion of the electronic document; and the vertical bar is not a scroll bar; detecting a movement of an object in a direction on the displayed portion of the electronic document; in response to detecting the movement: scrolling the electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in the direction of movement of the object so that a new portion of the electronic document is displayed, moving the vertical bar to a new vertical position such that the new vertical position corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed new portion of the electronic document, and maintaining the vertical bar proximate to the vertical edge of the displayed portion of the electronic document; and in response to a predetermined condition being met, ceasing to display the vertical bar while continuing to display the displayed portion of the electronic document, wherein the displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical extent that is less than a vertical extent of the electronic document.
It is no particular insight that Google is an extension of your mind.
Any tool that can manipulate symbols is an extension of your mind. Abacus, stick and clay tablet, and so on.
Where Google is different is that it is a step forward in the evolution of a hive mind for humanity. The first library was a start down that path; Google plus the content it indexes is currently the most encompassing, friction free implementation of humanities long trail towards ultimate shared thought.
Goldman Sachs has a long history of hiring extremely talented people.
From Wikipedia:
Former employees include Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, as well as Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of Canada since 2008, Mario Draghi, governor of the European Central Bank and Mario Monti, the Italian Prime Minister.
It isn't necessarily a giant conspiracy that governments tap this talent and experience. In fact you could argue that governments should tap into this talent because clearly they should have the best people making policy.
Of course it isn't necessarily a good thing that so much influence comes from one source, either.
The Firedoglake article is actually pretty much garbage because it doesn't examine this aspect of the relationship between government and industry, and just presents a one sided view of a corporate conspiracy theory.
If you are going to cite and then complement an article that is really this content free, from a web site famous for these sorts of articles, well be ready for some critical responses.
Yes, the world is too small for this sort of bullshit.
My wife is from a family that has multinational roots. She was born in Chile; her grandparents were immigrants to Chile from England. She has relatives living all over the world. Who send us things.
She was raised in a bilingual household where both English and Spanish were spoken on a routine basis. She lived in Europe for several years as a student - and as a result of this background speaks several languages fluently. Some of which she has taught at the university level.
The collections of media in our home reflect this. Of course region codes are sometimes an impediment that we have to deal with. The idea that overcoming these restrictions could be considered a crime is ridiculous.
You can repeat this lame argument all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that RMS is adopting a self-contradictory position.
The fact is that the GPL restricts the free sharing that RMS was advocating for other creative works and uses the copyright law he often criticizes to do so.
I don't care what subset you read. The fact is many of these criticisms are made up. Others are flat out fraudulent, or are put forward with corrupt intent like the Wakefield Lancet article. Some others are valid in that they point out real defects in the technology.
However not one of these criticisms are applicable to the point where it is morally valid to refuse to get a child vaccinated unless the child has a medical condition that makes the vaccination dangerous, such as compromised immune system.
As far as your criticism that I was making things up, a quick Google search will pull up references to the concepts I presented. So no, I wasn't making things up.
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Since when is the victim supposed to pay for law enforcement to catch the perp?
> Do I also get the same courtesy if I were to complain about the sustained DDOS attacks on the small network of servers I maintain?
Hahahaha
The stability of the dye is not the only problem. Oxidation of the silver reflective layer over time due to pollutants in the air is perhaps a bigger issue for storage over a decade.
The gold reflective layer is immune to this, of course.
The problem with this is that you are suppose to replenish the alcohol periodically.
Archival Gold CDRs should be fine. The medium is supposed to good for 300 years based on accelerated testing.
http://www.mediasupply.com/mamgold.html
Make a redundant copy and you should be fine.
As far as being able to read it, there is so much stuff on CD sized optical media I would be truly shocked if in 25 year readers would not be commonly available. I've already had CD music players for that long.
It seems to me that a consolidated re-engineered Large Federal Data Center would be even LESS likely to be useful as a repository of information than the smaller distributed systems now in use.
And of course it means a single explosion could take out a much higher percentage of the Federal Data.
I'm liking this consolidation plan more and more.
Domestic first class mail requires a warrant. The standard of law is that it has the same protection as if it were in your home. Media mail, etc. not so much.
At the borders things degrade even further, however my understanding is that sealed first class mail weighing less than 16 oz has some protection.
Hey, I thought string theory wasn't falsifiable. Did you guys figure out something last time I looked at it?
Nice knee-jerk response.
The problem with it is teacher's (and most other) unions are dead set against merit pay.
This is not catering to unions.
Grup here. The 1950's were ok too. Things started getting bad in the age of Aquarius.
Last week I shocked a table of young people by calculating how to divide a restaurant bill for 9 people, some who had been drinking and some not + an 18% tip in my head .
Most young people are not educated.
Test of knowledge of the KJ Bible, obviously.
It is an pretty narrow patent because of all of the qualifiers. Basically it's a vertical bar (not a scroll bar) displayed over the image of the document segment that reacts to a proximity object.
Not sure it's worth the effort to even file.
It is certainly of questionable innovative content.
In other words it should have never been filed or granted.
Claim 1.
1. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display: displaying a portion of an electronic document on the touch screen display, wherein the displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document; displaying a vertical bar on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document, the vertical bar displayed proximate to a vertical edge of the displayed portion of the electronic document, wherein: the vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion of the electronic document; and the vertical bar is not a scroll bar; detecting a movement of an object in a direction on the displayed portion of the electronic document; in response to detecting the movement: scrolling the electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in the direction of movement of the object so that a new portion of the electronic document is displayed, moving the vertical bar to a new vertical position such that the new vertical position corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed new portion of the electronic document, and maintaining the vertical bar proximate to the vertical edge of the displayed portion of the electronic document; and in response to a predetermined condition being met, ceasing to display the vertical bar while continuing to display the displayed portion of the electronic document, wherein the displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical extent that is less than a vertical extent of the electronic document.
It's still an art because the quantity and shape of the blob are not controlled.
With the sheet these variables are controlled.
It always seemed to me that applying paste was more of an art than it should be.
This looks like it would be a more repeatable process.
It is no particular insight that Google is an extension of your mind.
Any tool that can manipulate symbols is an extension of your mind. Abacus, stick and clay tablet, and so on.
Where Google is different is that it is a step forward in the evolution of a hive mind for humanity. The first library was a start down that path; Google plus the content it indexes is currently the most encompassing, friction free implementation of humanities long trail towards ultimate shared thought.
Non-competes are unenforceable in California except in some very limited circumstances.
Well, since she was employee #20 she probably has some experience of that sort.
Goldman Sachs has a long history of hiring extremely talented people.
From Wikipedia:
Former employees include Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, as well as Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of Canada since 2008, Mario Draghi, governor of the European Central Bank and Mario Monti, the Italian Prime Minister.
It isn't necessarily a giant conspiracy that governments tap this talent and experience. In fact you could argue that governments should tap into this talent because clearly they should have the best people making policy.
Of course it isn't necessarily a good thing that so much influence comes from one source, either.
The Firedoglake article is actually pretty much garbage because it doesn't examine this aspect of the relationship between government and industry, and just presents a one sided view of a corporate conspiracy theory.
If you are going to cite and then complement an article that is really this content free, from a web site famous for these sorts of articles, well be ready for some critical responses.
> Of course, expats don't exist.
Yes, the world is too small for this sort of bullshit.
My wife is from a family that has multinational roots. She was born in Chile; her grandparents were immigrants to Chile from England. She has relatives living all over the world. Who send us things.
She was raised in a bilingual household where both English and Spanish were spoken on a routine basis. She lived in Europe for several years as a student - and as a result of this background speaks several languages fluently. Some of which she has taught at the university level.
The collections of media in our home reflect this. Of course region codes are sometimes an impediment that we have to deal with. The idea that overcoming these restrictions could be considered a crime is ridiculous.
> Is Google more responsive to takedown notices than megaupload?
Google have been sued many times on this issue, and are definitely have state of the art capability in this area.
Gotta love that firedoglake citation. One of the most wacko sites on the internet, not an easy accomplishment.
CISPA for telephony.
Yes, but a lot of people don't think a virus has quite enough juice to qualify as being alive.
You can repeat this lame argument all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that RMS is adopting a self-contradictory position.
The fact is that the GPL restricts the free sharing that RMS was advocating for other creative works and uses the copyright law he often criticizes to do so.
I am sorry but that is baloney.
I don't care what subset you read. The fact is many of these criticisms are made up. Others are flat out fraudulent, or are put forward with corrupt intent like the Wakefield Lancet article. Some others are valid in that they point out real defects in the technology.
However not one of these criticisms are applicable to the point where it is morally valid to refuse to get a child vaccinated unless the child has a medical condition that makes the vaccination dangerous, such as compromised immune system.
As far as your criticism that I was making things up, a quick Google search will pull up references to the concepts I presented. So no, I wasn't making things up.
You were.
The problem with your position is the fact that vaccines don't work unless a large percentage of the population is vaccinated.
Look what has happened in Nigeria with the effort to eliminate polio.
Cumulative decisions to not vaccinate have significant consequences to the rest of the population.
It is very unlike abortion.