Sadly, the current anti-nuclear stance of the public makes such "nuclear batteries" an unlikely development. Just throw it atop the pile of cool technologies that have never seen the light of day.
If you ever break your atomic battery, you'll never need the light of day again, as you'll glow in the dark rather spectacularly.
Great, just what I need, *another* piece of generic PC hardware with a Windows logo permanently printed on it. I was slightly annoyed when keyboards started to sport a dedicated Microsoft key, but having a LCD display with the same thing will really get on my nerves...
Mainly by using their own crappy, non standard, proprietary formats (minidisc... atrac... memory stick etc. etc.) whilst staunchly refusng to support any sort of standard format.
I can't believe some people can post such childish comments.
Look: do you own a printer? ever noticed you can't buy a printer with "standard non proprietary" cartridges? If I follow your train of thought, you should be outraged, no? Of course not, you keep printing.
Sony has always tried to do the Bic business model, it's nothing new. To their credit, when they develop a shite format like the MD, they stick to it. You can still find Minidiscs today, 14 years after it was introduced. You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now, yet I'm sure you're nowhere as outraged with your printer's manufacturer as you appear to be with Sony.
And I suppose also no Microsoft, no McDonalds, no Proctor and Gamble, no Walmart, no Nike... in your house either? Come on, you'll get over your teenage moral principle-du-jour and you'll buy the Sony device if it's good, just like everybody else.
By the way, Sony is a big multinational. Just because the music division does stupid things doesn't mean the electronics division is evil too.
You know, they *might* just have missed the call saying "Banzai! we're attacking!" as the cables that were tapped were under the Atlantic, and the Japanese probably didn't route their phone calls through them to avoid long-distance charges.
They literally tapped the undersea cables and shipped all post to Europe through Bermuda, where every single call was monitored, every cable printed out, and every letter opened.
Letters traveling through undersea cables? clever that...
They wouldn't last 2 minutes posting and editing at Slashot! GNAA, Goatse... They'd flip!:-)
Yeah, but then unlike the Post, Slashdot is primarily a big biased blog and a few editors who pick stories at random without checking them. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's entertaining enough, but it's no journalism.
Anonymizing yourself isn't a crime or probable cause for any kind of search warrant.
In police states, someone who wants to be anonymous deviates from the norm and automatically becomes suspicious, as The Man considers that if you're not guilty, you have nothing to hide.
In US-PATRIOT USA, I'm not sure I'd want to participate in the Tor network. I'm definitely not the only one. Perhaps I'm a coward, but that should tell you something of what this country is slowly turning into...
I don't get the whole Tor thing, nor do I get running a Gnutella or Freenet node. The thing is, if you use or contribute to these anonymising services, you might think you're anonymous and safe, or that you're doing a great service to freedom of speech, but the real thing you're doing is plastering a big "I have something to hide, like trading kidding porn" sign to anybody willing to trace your communications in the first place.
I've been hit 4 times this past year- 3 of those times by "soccer moms" in their SUV's talking on the phone while driving, the fourth time by someone too impatient with the road construction in town
Funny, I've never been hit by anybody in over 10 years, and I drive a lot.
You've been hit once every 3 months last year? something tells me you don't know how to drive...
Given the possible variation in black hole sizes this poses some interesting problems for long term space travel. Mini-holes will pose major danger during high speed travel unless some fast detection method is found.
I don't mean to be boring or anything, but you do realize humanity is still at the "how do we get out of our miserable gravity well and go further than the moon on chemical power" stage, right?
So I think we can safely set aside the high-speed mini-hole collision hazard problem for now.
I don't know for you, but flat panels make my head hurt. Literally. I know they're the latest craze and all, but I get one big headache after 1 or 2 hours AutoCADing with one. I can go a lot longer with my 10 year old 21" CRTs without headaches. I guess it's the light source or something, because I tend to get headaches with neon lighting as well.
Too bad, because I really like the form factor (big tubes are space wasters) but unless they improve whatever it is that makes me sick, I'll stick with good ole CRTs.
Which is something that is unfortunately missing from Linux...a simple RAD environment which makes GUI development completely trivial for quick-and-dirty tasks.
While mobile-phone internet use is currently low, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is optimistic: "People are going to spend all their time on it eventually," he said."
Not at the current access rates they won't. I've used WAP once, and after getting my bill, I was through. Many people I know had the same experience with it.
There's a difference between a PC case mod, a necktie, and a rice rocket: the former two have (arguable) aesthetic values of their own and people buy them only for that, while the latter is a pathetic attempt by under-monied folks to deceive onlookers into thinking their econoboxes are race cars.
I think there is a lot of disconnect between what people want and what execs think people want.
Well, but that's a circle isn't it? people don't want iPods until iPods come along. Before iPods, they were perfectly happy with regular MP3 players. But Apple proposed a new, better product and created a new want.
Maybe people will finally want TV-phones, when they realize they can watch football at work or something. I don't think they will, personally, but you can't blame the promoters for trying.
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Sadly, the current anti-nuclear stance of the public makes such "nuclear batteries" an unlikely development. Just throw it atop the pile of cool technologies that have never seen the light of day.
If you ever break your atomic battery, you'll never need the light of day again, as you'll glow in the dark rather spectacularly.
I keep my laptop on in sleep mode, and you keep your special display and processor.
Don't forget to turn on your laptop now and then to check the data the special display you don't have doesn't display...
You can see a current take on it (with quite a few links) that works in Windows XP here: http://www.makezine.com/extras/41.html [makezine.com
Great, just what I need, *another* piece of generic PC hardware with a Windows logo permanently printed on it. I was slightly annoyed when keyboards started to sport a dedicated Microsoft key, but having a LCD display with the same thing will really get on my nerves...
They knew a disaster was coming, but no one stepped forward and said, 'Stop this train until it's fixed.'"
Are you saying NASA is managed like Amtrack? I think you might be right there...
Mainly by using their own crappy, non standard, proprietary formats (minidisc... atrac... memory stick etc. etc.) whilst staunchly refusng to support any sort of standard format.
I can't believe some people can post such childish comments.
Look: do you own a printer? ever noticed you can't buy a printer with "standard non proprietary" cartridges? If I follow your train of thought, you should be outraged, no? Of course not, you keep printing.
Sony has always tried to do the Bic business model, it's nothing new. To their credit, when they develop a shite format like the MD, they stick to it. You can still find Minidiscs today, 14 years after it was introduced. You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now, yet I'm sure you're nowhere as outraged with your printer's manufacturer as you appear to be with Sony.
No more Sony in my house, sorry.
And I suppose also no Microsoft, no McDonalds, no Proctor and Gamble, no Walmart, no Nike... in your house either? Come on, you'll get over your teenage moral principle-du-jour and you'll buy the Sony device if it's good, just like everybody else.
By the way, Sony is a big multinational. Just because the music division does stupid things doesn't mean the electronics division is evil too.
You know, they *might* just have missed the call saying "Banzai! we're attacking!" as the cables that were tapped were under the Atlantic, and the Japanese probably didn't route their phone calls through them to avoid long-distance charges.
They literally tapped the undersea cables and shipped all post to Europe through Bermuda, where every single call was monitored, every cable printed out, and every letter opened.
Letters traveling through undersea cables? clever that...
They wouldn't last 2 minutes posting and editing at Slashot! GNAA, Goatse... They'd flip! :-)
Yeah, but then unlike the Post, Slashdot is primarily a big biased blog and a few editors who pick stories at random without checking them. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's entertaining enough, but it's no journalism.
Anonymizing yourself isn't a crime or probable cause for any kind of search warrant.
In police states, someone who wants to be anonymous deviates from the norm and automatically becomes suspicious, as The Man considers that if you're not guilty, you have nothing to hide.
In US-PATRIOT USA, I'm not sure I'd want to participate in the Tor network. I'm definitely not the only one. Perhaps I'm a coward, but that should tell you something of what this country is slowly turning into...
Never worry about having the correct video codec or player again as they will all be pre-installed!
You can tell the guy who's had to deal with porn video file formats a lot. This is real life experience speaking here.
I don't get the whole Tor thing, nor do I get running a Gnutella or Freenet node. The thing is, if you use or contribute to these anonymising services, you might think you're anonymous and safe, or that you're doing a great service to freedom of speech, but the real thing you're doing is plastering a big "I have something to hide, like trading kidding porn" sign to anybody willing to trace your communications in the first place.
Sad but real.
Statistics aren't owned, they just *are*. I mean, any idiot can work out the stats by looking at who won what match, which is public knowledge.
Since the match results are public knowledge and the mathematical methods to work out the stats are both public knowledge and trivial, the result is public knowledge and can't be owned. Gee, Only In America©...
I've been hit 4 times this past year- 3 of those times by "soccer moms" in their SUV's talking on the phone while driving, the fourth time by someone too impatient with the road construction in town
Funny, I've never been hit by anybody in over 10 years, and I drive a lot.
You've been hit once every 3 months last year? something tells me you don't know how to drive...
Given the possible variation in black hole sizes this poses some interesting problems for long term space travel. Mini-holes will pose major danger during high speed travel unless some fast detection method is found.
I don't mean to be boring or anything, but you do realize humanity is still at the "how do we get out of our miserable gravity well and go further than the moon on chemical power" stage, right?
So I think we can safely set aside the high-speed mini-hole collision hazard problem for now.
I have a Dell 24" widescreen and it has no dead pixels.
yet
I don't know for you, but flat panels make my head hurt. Literally. I know they're the latest craze and all, but I get one big headache after 1 or 2 hours AutoCADing with one. I can go a lot longer with my 10 year old 21" CRTs without headaches. I guess it's the light source or something, because I tend to get headaches with neon lighting as well.
Too bad, because I really like the form factor (big tubes are space wasters) but unless they improve whatever it is that makes me sick, I'll stick with good ole CRTs.
Which is something that is unfortunately missing from Linux...a simple RAD environment which makes GUI development completely trivial for quick-and-dirty tasks.
Uuh... Tcl/tk? Python?
This is a mobile. I hate that use of the word, "cell phone" worked just fine, IMO.
This is a cell. I hate that use of the word, "mobile phone" worked just fine, IMO.
Get off your high horse already, and realize English is a living, changing language. This isn't France for crying out loud...
While mobile-phone internet use is currently low, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is optimistic: "People are going to spend all their time on it eventually," he said."
Not at the current access rates they won't. I've used WAP once, and after getting my bill, I was through. Many people I know had the same experience with it.
I live in Chicago. I can't see the stars even if I want to.
Yes you can
Why would my wife being pregnant be a problem?
:)
You'll know 13 years from now
Come to think of it, I could say the samething about my wife.
If your wife is getting rounded, I'd say she's either pregnant or bulimic. Either way, you have a problem.
There's a difference between a PC case mod, a necktie, and a rice rocket: the former two have (arguable) aesthetic values of their own and people buy them only for that, while the latter is a pathetic attempt by under-monied folks to deceive onlookers into thinking their econoboxes are race cars.
I think there is a lot of disconnect between what people want and what execs think people want.
Well, but that's a circle isn't it? people don't want iPods until iPods come along. Before iPods, they were perfectly happy with regular MP3 players. But Apple proposed a new, better product and created a new want.
Maybe people will finally want TV-phones, when they realize they can watch football at work or something. I don't think they will, personally, but you can't blame the promoters for trying.