If both sites are set up with an electronic whiteboard and projecter, you can use NetMeeting or something similar to be able to use the whiteboard from either side.
One of the neat things about the mimio is that you can attach it to existing white boards with suction cups. The $500 version has it's own memory so you don't have to hook it up to a computer while you are using it to capture drawings (just to download).
All the ludites in the farm industry are now out of business? My neighbor has been using GPS to record production when he harvests and uses the data to adjust the amount of fertilizer the following year. The adjustment is done in real time; he just has to drive the equipment like he always has.
Farming is tough business. Its a high tech world--if you don't take every advantage of technology you can, you'll loose the farm in short order to someone who will.
Blue jeans, rock and roll, English as the language of the air and Internet, t-shirts with American icons of pop culture and industry...
The US has far more world impact in culture than it should if a person only considered percentage of the world population (about 8%). Chinese and Indian culture dominate the land masses on which they exist, but are not very strong in Europe, Africa, Australia or the Americas, even though they they both have for or more times the population of the US.
The US has too tight of a grip on the world. It's time to seriously think about getting off planet.
A little history lesson:
Great Britain started the Industrial Revolution and passed all sorts of laws that protected IP to keep its dominant position. We see that this worked...for a while. The early 1800s had massive leaps in development and inventions and the 1900s started with the British on top of the world in a global empire.
Also at the start of the Industrial Revolution, consider the US. It was not by any means a global power, recently seperated from the British. However, it enacted laws and gave incentives to steal as much IP as possible and the talent who created it from Great Britain. The beginning of the 20th century saw the US emerging as a contender in world affairs. After WWII, they were the last ones standing (that did not have their manufacturing centers ravaged by war) and continuing to coast from the war build-up.
Now the US is passing laws to protect its IP and dominant position. When Britain was dominant, history shows that they were unable to successfully force thier interests across the Atlantic. To reach the same situation in the modern era, a similarly unreachable outpost must be found where monopolistic IP laws don't have effect. Since the US is the global superpower in war, economics and culture, I don't think that there is anywhere on the planet that is safe.
So...it's time to cross the new Atlantic--and reach accross the solar system.
What I am referring to is monopolistic behaviours. The individual acts might not be illegal, but denying resources to you oponents (retainers on most of the law offices with anti-trust experience) in multiple states appears to have a pretty clear link with monopolistic actions.
Giving money to politicians (directly or indirectly) is not always legal--there have been cases where bribery was charged, even though legal chanels were used as the basis. As an example, it is legal to give as much money as you want by some methods, but to threaten withholding those funds unless a politician votes your way has been found to be bribery. I'm not accusing MS specifically of this, but it sure seems that they are trying to influence legislation (outspending Enron's whole year spending in the seven days before the verdict in the orginal trial).
My VCR has a "skip" button that lets you skip in 30 second inrements. True, not instantaneous, but 2 seconds per comercial is not bad.
Really, all the features that are on a PVR could be implemented in a VCR; VCR stands for Video Cassette Recorder - it's only named for the recording medium, not the other features. I think this lawsuit would would be summilarly dismissed if brought against a PVR that uses tapes to store the shows (and was referred to as a VCR).
There have been lots of studies linking the mental development of a fetus with external stimuli; the mothers movements and sounds all have an impact on the developing brain.
At least a pig is a natural environment. Mamals are complex organisms; their developmental needs are not limited to biological.
This started as somebody's grad project. The idea is that you can mass produce the modules cheaply and they can be configured as needed for a specific task. I think the software is probably what is slowing them down...
What would prevent the military from dispensing nerve gas or some other biological or chemical agent? It wouldn't take a very large container.
More in line with treaties that ban the above, it could dispense an explosive vapor that it could light from a distance with an incindiary device (e.g. phosphorous) for concusive explosions, spray glue or release metal streamers to short out power transmission systems.
I kinda like the idea of flash suits that freeze the appendage that has been hit. I don't know what could do that though...maybe some fluid between two membranes that solidifies in an electric field? Of course, motion feedback would be even better.
I believe it was the lag-induced motion sickness that killed the last generation. But newer hardware should be able to cut down on the lag between movement on the controls and movement in the display.
You are correct about the first statement. It is probably more accurate to say that we took much of their published physics work and extrapolated from it.
Robert H. Goddard was the American rocket expert, Wernher von Braun was the German expert.
That's what the US did back at the beginning of the 19th century. The US was not the first industrialized country--ask the Brits. Many US companies and entrapenours hired corporate spies to steal technology, like machining and steam engines.
They did it again durring World War II. Every time it captured a piece of German technology, the US exploited it. Tha atom bomb--they didn't invent it, but we cajoled their scientists into creating it after they defected. The space race--the V2 was VASTLY supperior to Godards little rockes. When we captured their bases and convinced Von Warner to join us, we entered the space age long before we would have.
The US industrial-military complex has stollen every piece of IP it could get its hands on. It has been utterly ruthless in this regard, and THAT'S why it is top dog.
The whole industry was created to satisfy a market: the desire to pay for quality music. When that market was established, very few had the ability to promote, record, manufacture and distribute music. Large companies grew up to fill that niche, where economies of scale made music available to the masses.
The problem is that the major premises have gone away. The internet allows easy promotion and distribution. The cost of decent caliber recording equipment has come down and many independent sound studios exist that cater to home-town artists. MP3s and Ogg Vorbis reduces the manufacturing requirements to a computer and compression software. If a CD is requested, the cost to burn a CD is less than a couple of dollars, including the shipping.
The music industry as we have known it is based on premises that no longer are based in real world technical or logistical limitations. They realize that the only way to continue their existance is to artificially constrain access to their product. If they do not, they will continue to lose potential business to the artists who choose to publish themselves and to the businesses who cater to them.
The US constitution grants patents and copyrights to promote science and the useful arts. If they are using copyright law to limit the spread of good music by closing down distribution and manufacturing channels that are more efficient than their own methods, then they are doing so illegaly. I don't see how it is possible to promote a useful art by constraining its difusion.
If you are using the NAN to communicate localy, what is to prevent you from connecting to the internet using the same tools to communicate long distance. If the local telco doesn't provide that internet link, they end up losing out.
Of course, they'll sense the shift as it is happening and either die or adjust to accomodate the new market.
Pole-mounted... you ass. Yea, everyone is just gonna run out and isntall these on telephone poles near their house... and then realize they have no way to power them.
Right! If we could get power at the tops of poles, then we could do all sorts of neat stuff, like light our streets...
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One of the neat things about the mimio is that you can attach it to existing white boards with suction cups. The $500 version has it's own memory so you don't have to hook it up to a computer while you are using it to capture drawings (just to download).
Don't use too much or it will disolve the PVC.
Or try to imagine an internet where every single computer is a gateway to an entirely different internet.
Farming is tough business. Its a high tech world--if you don't take every advantage of technology you can, you'll loose the farm in short order to someone who will.
The US has far more world impact in culture than it should if a person only considered percentage of the world population (about 8%). Chinese and Indian culture dominate the land masses on which they exist, but are not very strong in Europe, Africa, Australia or the Americas, even though they they both have for or more times the population of the US.
A little history lesson:
Great Britain started the Industrial Revolution and passed all sorts of laws that protected IP to keep its dominant position. We see that this worked...for a while. The early 1800s had massive leaps in development and inventions and the 1900s started with the British on top of the world in a global empire.
Also at the start of the Industrial Revolution, consider the US. It was not by any means a global power, recently seperated from the British. However, it enacted laws and gave incentives to steal as much IP as possible and the talent who created it from Great Britain. The beginning of the 20th century saw the US emerging as a contender in world affairs. After WWII, they were the last ones standing (that did not have their manufacturing centers ravaged by war) and continuing to coast from the war build-up.
Now the US is passing laws to protect its IP and dominant position. When Britain was dominant, history shows that they were unable to successfully force thier interests across the Atlantic. To reach the same situation in the modern era, a similarly unreachable outpost must be found where monopolistic IP laws don't have effect. Since the US is the global superpower in war, economics and culture, I don't think that there is anywhere on the planet that is safe.
So...it's time to cross the new Atlantic--and reach accross the solar system.
They lost.
Giving money to politicians (directly or indirectly) is not always legal--there have been cases where bribery was charged, even though legal chanels were used as the basis. As an example, it is legal to give as much money as you want by some methods, but to threaten withholding those funds unless a politician votes your way has been found to be bribery. I'm not accusing MS specifically of this, but it sure seems that they are trying to influence legislation (outspending Enron's whole year spending in the seven days before the verdict in the orginal trial).
I can't help but think that if someone is successful at reproducing ball lightning in the lab, the military will make try to make use of it.
Really, all the features that are on a PVR could be implemented in a VCR; VCR stands for Video Cassette Recorder - it's only named for the recording medium, not the other features. I think this lawsuit would would be summilarly dismissed if brought against a PVR that uses tapes to store the shows (and was referred to as a VCR).
At least a pig is a natural environment. Mamals are complex organisms; their developmental needs are not limited to biological.
This started as somebody's grad project. The idea is that you can mass produce the modules cheaply and they can be configured as needed for a specific task. I think the software is probably what is slowing them down...
More in line with treaties that ban the above, it could dispense an explosive vapor that it could light from a distance with an incindiary device (e.g. phosphorous) for concusive explosions, spray glue or release metal streamers to short out power transmission systems.
You are correct about the first statement. It is probably more accurate to say that we took much of their published physics work and extrapolated from it.
Robert H. Goddard was the American rocket expert, Wernher von Braun was the German expert.
They did it again durring World War II. Every time it captured a piece of German technology, the US exploited it. Tha atom bomb--they didn't invent it, but we cajoled their scientists into creating it after they defected. The space race--the V2 was VASTLY supperior to Godards little rockes. When we captured their bases and convinced Von Warner to join us, we entered the space age long before we would have.
The US industrial-military complex has stollen every piece of IP it could get its hands on. It has been utterly ruthless in this regard, and THAT'S why it is top dog.
The problem is that the major premises have gone away. The internet allows easy promotion and distribution. The cost of decent caliber recording equipment has come down and many independent sound studios exist that cater to home-town artists. MP3s and Ogg Vorbis reduces the manufacturing requirements to a computer and compression software. If a CD is requested, the cost to burn a CD is less than a couple of dollars, including the shipping.
The music industry as we have known it is based on premises that no longer are based in real world technical or logistical limitations. They realize that the only way to continue their existance is to artificially constrain access to their product. If they do not, they will continue to lose potential business to the artists who choose to publish themselves and to the businesses who cater to them.
The US constitution grants patents and copyrights to promote science and the useful arts. If they are using copyright law to limit the spread of good music by closing down distribution and manufacturing channels that are more efficient than their own methods, then they are doing so illegaly. I don't see how it is possible to promote a useful art by constraining its difusion.
Of course, they'll sense the shift as it is happening and either die or adjust to accomodate the new market.
Right! If we could get power at the tops of poles, then we could do all sorts of neat stuff, like light our streets...