A couple of things: Air launches are dangerous - you've got a whole bunch of explosives strapped to the body of a very large aircraft which is carrying humans (pilots, support personnel). This may not sound like a big deal, but it is. The FAA makes certification of a new aircraft a monumental task. Orbital found out that just modifying their jet to carry Pegasus required a very lengthy (and expensive) re-certification process. The initial payload is limited to the capacity of the aircraft minus the booster. That's actually a pretty big deal.
Disclaimer: I worked with the NASA group that designed the original PegSat (first Pegasus payload) and I worked for Orbital, but not their flight group - most of what I know is from the trade rags of the time.
They said readable in a million years, not edible in a million years. Do you really want some redneck to stumble upon the warning twinkie stash a few thousand years from now and swallow all the information? I thought not.;-)
Load 120-150lbs of a flammable liquid designed to explode at a low-to-moderate concentration in air into a container Strap said container to a box loaded with 1-7 humans Energize the entire chassis with a stored energy source capable of providing several hundred amperes of potential current flow Accelerate several hundred of such boxes to 100+fps velocity separated by 3-6 feet Take a second group and send them towards the first so the to groups pass no more than 3-6 feet apart. Make no provision for automatic/active avoidance ???? (profit, I suggest, is not the likely outcome for any participants)
I rarely concern me self with using a cell phone around gas stations, given the otherwise ridiculous amount of risk which is involved in the operation of a vehicle.
Half a trillion? Meh. The US gave the large financial institutions 140% of that one autumn because they made some poor bets on housing.
If each person in the US and EU paid $1000 for a round trip ticket, we'd have the cost covered. Though, to be honest, you wouldn't want those Americans wandering around Europe, and our rednecks would probably shoot half of the 'farners who traveled here.
Actually, CO2 is quite deadly - even in relatively small concentrations above normal. It's a big deal in closed systems like the space station. For short periods, as would be needed by hub-to-hub continental trains, this probably isn't a large concern, but for trips longer than 30-40 minutes you would likely need to provide an air change or two via compressed air storage. Not impossible, but an added cost nonetheless.
If it takes two hours or two days to cross the country by train, your container of plastic shit doesn't care. There's very little money in shaving a day and a half off of transcontinental freight. People, otoh, are very expensive to keep out of service and tend to require maintenance every couple of hours. Reducing the time-in-transit from 6 hours to 1 hour can reduce the cost of a business person by a factor of three (one day in transit, one day in meetings/consulting, one day in return transit), and increase the enjoyment of leisure time by almost 30% (first and last days of a "typical" 7 day vacation not lost to transit), or make distant destinations practical for shorter breaks.
It is, but can you build and connect thousands of them with an acceptably low leak rate? It's the practical aspect of the project which is daunting, such as tolerance to seismic, thermal, and mechanical forces which make it difficult to accomplish.
You would be surprised how frequently sneakernet is used in many organizations, especially inter-departmentally, or with outside consultants. It doesn't help that internet connections are still relatively slow, generic cloud access is blocked, and FTP access is often locked down so drastically (or so mysterious to most non-technical users) as to be a time consuming process. Having to put in a request for someone in the IT department can take a day or two, but if you are under a deadline, a 48 hour turn around to communicate with a consultant is a long time.
The biggest challenge with creating effective security is providing the manpower to work around all of the technological safeguards that keep the network safe.
Depends on if you actually want information, or if there are catalogs on the drive.
Heck, since just plugging in the drive causes the infection (if the machine is set to autorun), just putting it in to format it and use as a cheap sneakernet would infect the machine.
Asking a bunch of slashdotters to send you a vial of DNA my very well be the grossest post ever. And there are a lot of gross things on the internet that get linked from/.
Not really. The only lost because the software was, essentially, an "unopened box". The software had never been registered to a user, and therefore the EULA was not in force.
Samsung's own lawyers were idiots. From a distance, the only distinguishing feature of the face of a tablet when it is off is the aspect ratio or gross size, and the lawyers clearly didn't realize that the Samsung has a longer aspect ratio.
Here's a question: if rounded corners is a unique design feature, is the radius defined as an absolute number or a ratio of one of the sides? Wo what accuracy is the radius "within the patent?" If a sharp cornered tablet were given a patent for design, would then there only be two licence holders for all tablets in the world - round (Apple) and angular (say, Motorola) - for the next 20+ years?
To compare, it is nearly impossible to distinguish smart phones of similar size and color from a distance. Apple's signature "band" of metal is one of the few things that stands out on all-screen phones. Sure, they all have their small differences, but they are - like tablets - rectangles with eased corners. A good lawyer would have pointed out that fact, not fallen for the trap.
It's not ambiguous if you have any context. Nor is it ambiguous if you unambiguously form your sentences - you have omitted both a reference to the speaker as well as use a pronoun without any identification of the person to whom the pronoun refers. Writing as you speak or think may not always be the most effective way to communicate in writing. Grammar will add clarity in almost all situations. Context will add additional clarity if needed.
I will never claim to hold any special affinity for the finer points of grammar, but I find the complete disdain for grammar in modern communications annoying as it more often reduces rather than enhances clarity.
And, for the record, I believe the correct grammar for the sentence is
Helen asked "How do you plan to do that?" where the punctuation occurs within the closing quote mark. As always, there's a reasonable chance I'm wrong - I know more rules than exceptions.
They have fought tooth and nail to keep their "software as a revocable license" model so that they can continue to extort huge sums of money from the industries they service. I expect them to throw their resources at legislative change to "fix" this European problem.
I would have agreed with all the flamebait posts, except that the Plex Media Center team, which makes an otherwise super-user-friendly front end and back end for managing their media center, requires the use of a CLI for even basic operations like updating the library.
I will give up the command line when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers. Still, I would prefer that consumer software not require its use for common, or even uncommon but simple, tasks.
AppleTV is nice, but you'll be paying per show (or season). Roku is cheap, but not as reliable
Netflix (on either ATV or Roku) and Hulu (on Roku) are monthly services which have decent selection. I'm not sure if Amazon is on Roku.
If you're the adventuresome type, don't mind playing fast and loose with the rules (but don't want to get caught), and have a free weekend, you can try and set up the following on a machine you designate as a server:
sabnzbd - a program to download stuff from the usenet sickbeard - a program to find TV shows on usenet couch potato - a program to look for movies on usenet (optional) jailbreak an ATV2 (they're still out there, right?) and put on either XMBC or, for a little more family friendly (but limited), Plex along with Plex Media Server on your PC.
You will also want a NZB account, like NZBmatrix ($10 for 10 years? Lifetime? who knows) and a Usenet account. Look for deals on Slickdeals.net - on rare occasions you can pick up an unlimited account for $6/mo. I rarely use more than 100GB of TV in a month, so a 1TB chuck for about $50-60 is also good.
You tell sickbeard what shows you want it to find, and what your NZB account password is. When it finds the show you want, it passes the info off to sabnzbd (you input your usenet credentials there) which downloads the blocks of the show,decodes it, names it, and puts it into the directory or your choosing. Couch Potato is similar. I'm sure I've gotten something wrong, but after an hour or two of tutorials out there on the net it's not that bad.
Okay, so that's getting you content - probably over https - is a way that does not expose you to the IP owners of the world like P2P does.
Once your content is on the computer, you can either point your Roku or AppleTV with XBMC installed to it and start watching. I prefer Plex, and my 9 yo and wife found it super easy.
We cut the cable (well, sat) back in January and don't miss it. Oh - I do have antennas for OTA reception for local weather and news.
Using usenet isn't exactly legit, but it's also very, very low risk as you are never uploading or sharing any content with others. It's a nice system if you've got a slower connection, too, as you are downloading the files - not streaming them. It means a day or so delay for shows, but you never have to worry about buffering.
"though i'll agree the actual software really isn't there yet."
No, the hardware isn't there yet. There is not a single, full sized, general purpose tablet with accurate pen-input for under $1500, and those that are close are actually full-fledged Windows (or Linux) Personal Computers which just happen to have a digitizer. I have three different note taking apps on my iPad, and three different styli, and they all suck. Yes, they are somewhat passable, but for much more than cartoon drawings they are nearly useless - and I really wanted it to work.
The new Galaxy Note 10.1, if it ever ships, will be the first tablet like what people are recommending for schools that will have that type of interface.
As for the GP, he's just agreeing with Gates - sure they can replace books and printed material...but that's about it. There is very little creative work that can be done on a capacitive device that can't be better on paper or with a keyboard/mouse. That may (probably will) change in the future, but not until we get much better hardware.
Global warming is myth. The sea levels are rising on the east coast of the US because all the fat Americans are causing a shift in mass distribution and locally higher gravitational forces.
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usenet. Keep ports 119 and 563 out of their meddling hands and I'll remain a happy camper.
A couple of things: Air launches are dangerous - you've got a whole bunch of explosives strapped to the body of a very large aircraft which is carrying humans (pilots, support personnel). This may not sound like a big deal, but it is. The FAA makes certification of a new aircraft a monumental task. Orbital found out that just modifying their jet to carry Pegasus required a very lengthy (and expensive) re-certification process. The initial payload is limited to the capacity of the aircraft minus the booster. That's actually a pretty big deal.
Disclaimer: I worked with the NASA group that designed the original PegSat (first Pegasus payload) and I worked for Orbital, but not their flight group - most of what I know is from the trade rags of the time.
They said readable in a million years, not edible in a million years. Do you really want some redneck to stumble upon the warning twinkie stash a few thousand years from now and swallow all the information? I thought not. ;-)
Load 120-150lbs of a flammable liquid designed to explode at a low-to-moderate concentration in air into a container
Strap said container to a box loaded with 1-7 humans
Energize the entire chassis with a stored energy source capable of providing several hundred amperes of potential current flow
Accelerate several hundred of such boxes to 100+fps velocity separated by 3-6 feet
Take a second group and send them towards the first so the to groups pass no more than 3-6 feet apart.
Make no provision for automatic/active avoidance
????
(profit, I suggest, is not the likely outcome for any participants)
I rarely concern me self with using a cell phone around gas stations, given the otherwise ridiculous amount of risk which is involved in the operation of a vehicle.
"The Japanese version does not insult the viewers intelligence. American viewers don't have any."
FTFY
Half a trillion? Meh. The US gave the large financial institutions 140% of that one autumn because they made some poor bets on housing.
If each person in the US and EU paid $1000 for a round trip ticket, we'd have the cost covered. Though, to be honest, you wouldn't want those Americans wandering around Europe, and our rednecks would probably shoot half of the 'farners who traveled here.
Yeah, it's probably a bad idea.
Actually, CO2 is quite deadly - even in relatively small concentrations above normal. It's a big deal in closed systems like the space station. For short periods, as would be needed by hub-to-hub continental trains, this probably isn't a large concern, but for trips longer than 30-40 minutes you would likely need to provide an air change or two via compressed air storage. Not impossible, but an added cost nonetheless.
If it takes two hours or two days to cross the country by train, your container of plastic shit doesn't care. There's very little money in shaving a day and a half off of transcontinental freight. People, otoh, are very expensive to keep out of service and tend to require maintenance every couple of hours. Reducing the time-in-transit from 6 hours to 1 hour can reduce the cost of a business person by a factor of three (one day in transit, one day in meetings/consulting, one day in return transit), and increase the enjoyment of leisure time by almost 30% (first and last days of a "typical" 7 day vacation not lost to transit), or make distant destinations practical for shorter breaks.
It is, but can you build and connect thousands of them with an acceptably low leak rate? It's the practical aspect of the project which is daunting, such as tolerance to seismic, thermal, and mechanical forces which make it difficult to accomplish.
For an industry which used to (and for all I know still does) prohibit artificial insemination, that cloning should even be considered seems crazy.
I think there should either be unrestricted garnishing, or a single, Olympic standard mayonnaise.
You would be surprised how frequently sneakernet is used in many organizations, especially inter-departmentally, or with outside consultants. It doesn't help that internet connections are still relatively slow, generic cloud access is blocked, and FTP access is often locked down so drastically (or so mysterious to most non-technical users) as to be a time consuming process. Having to put in a request for someone in the IT department can take a day or two, but if you are under a deadline, a 48 hour turn around to communicate with a consultant is a long time.
The biggest challenge with creating effective security is providing the manpower to work around all of the technological safeguards that keep the network safe.
Depends on if you actually want information, or if there are catalogs on the drive.
Heck, since just plugging in the drive causes the infection (if the machine is set to autorun), just putting it in to format it and use as a cheap sneakernet would infect the machine.
I'm afraid our accounting and marketing departments are already using that level of technology, or at least it would seem so based on their output.
Asking a bunch of slashdotters to send you a vial of DNA my very well be the grossest post ever. And there are a lot of gross things on the internet that get linked from /.
Not really. The only lost because the software was, essentially, an "unopened box". The software had never been registered to a user, and therefore the EULA was not in force.
Samsung's own lawyers were idiots. From a distance, the only distinguishing feature of the face of a tablet when it is off is the aspect ratio or gross size, and the lawyers clearly didn't realize that the Samsung has a longer aspect ratio.
Here's a question: if rounded corners is a unique design feature, is the radius defined as an absolute number or a ratio of one of the sides? Wo what accuracy is the radius "within the patent?" If a sharp cornered tablet were given a patent for design, would then there only be two licence holders for all tablets in the world - round (Apple) and angular (say, Motorola) - for the next 20+ years?
To compare, it is nearly impossible to distinguish smart phones of similar size and color from a distance. Apple's signature "band" of metal is one of the few things that stands out on all-screen phones. Sure, they all have their small differences, but they are - like tablets - rectangles with eased corners. A good lawyer would have pointed out that fact, not fallen for the trap.
I might tell Siri to call me Dave, just so she can say "I can't do that, Dave."
It's not ambiguous if you have any context. Nor is it ambiguous if you unambiguously form your sentences - you have omitted both a reference to the speaker as well as use a pronoun without any identification of the person to whom the pronoun refers. Writing as you speak or think may not always be the most effective way to communicate in writing. Grammar will add clarity in almost all situations. Context will add additional clarity if needed.
I will never claim to hold any special affinity for the finer points of grammar, but I find the complete disdain for grammar in modern communications annoying as it more often reduces rather than enhances clarity.
And, for the record, I believe the correct grammar for the sentence is
Helen asked "How do you plan to do that?"
where the punctuation occurs within the closing quote mark. As always, there's a reasonable chance I'm wrong - I know more rules than exceptions.
They have fought tooth and nail to keep their "software as a revocable license" model so that they can continue to extort huge sums of money from the industries they service. I expect them to throw their resources at legislative change to "fix" this European problem.
I would have agreed with all the flamebait posts, except that the Plex Media Center team, which makes an otherwise super-user-friendly front end and back end for managing their media center, requires the use of a CLI for even basic operations like updating the library.
I will give up the command line when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers. Still, I would prefer that consumer software not require its use for common, or even uncommon but simple, tasks.
AppleTV is nice, but you'll be paying per show (or season).
Roku is cheap, but not as reliable
Netflix (on either ATV or Roku) and Hulu (on Roku) are monthly services which have decent selection. I'm not sure if Amazon is on Roku.
If you're the adventuresome type, don't mind playing fast and loose with the rules (but don't want to get caught), and have a free weekend, you can try and set up the following on a machine you designate as a server:
sabnzbd - a program to download stuff from the usenet
sickbeard - a program to find TV shows on usenet
couch potato - a program to look for movies on usenet (optional)
jailbreak an ATV2 (they're still out there, right?) and put on either XMBC or, for a little more family friendly (but limited), Plex along with Plex Media Server on your PC.
You will also want a NZB account, like NZBmatrix ($10 for 10 years? Lifetime? who knows) and a Usenet account. Look for deals on Slickdeals.net - on rare occasions you can pick up an unlimited account for $6/mo. I rarely use more than 100GB of TV in a month, so a 1TB chuck for about $50-60 is also good.
You tell sickbeard what shows you want it to find, and what your NZB account password is. When it finds the show you want, it passes the info off to sabnzbd (you input your usenet credentials there) which downloads the blocks of the show,decodes it, names it, and puts it into the directory or your choosing. Couch Potato is similar. I'm sure I've gotten something wrong, but after an hour or two of tutorials out there on the net it's not that bad.
Okay, so that's getting you content - probably over https - is a way that does not expose you to the IP owners of the world like P2P does.
Once your content is on the computer, you can either point your Roku or AppleTV with XBMC installed to it and start watching. I prefer Plex, and my 9 yo and wife found it super easy.
We cut the cable (well, sat) back in January and don't miss it. Oh - I do have antennas for OTA reception for local weather and news.
Using usenet isn't exactly legit, but it's also very, very low risk as you are never uploading or sharing any content with others. It's a nice system if you've got a slower connection, too, as you are downloading the files - not streaming them. It means a day or so delay for shows, but you never have to worry about buffering.
"though i'll agree the actual software really isn't there yet."
No, the hardware isn't there yet. There is not a single, full sized, general purpose tablet with accurate pen-input for under $1500, and those that are close are actually full-fledged Windows (or Linux) Personal Computers which just happen to have a digitizer. I have three different note taking apps on my iPad, and three different styli, and they all suck. Yes, they are somewhat passable, but for much more than cartoon drawings they are nearly useless - and I really wanted it to work.
The new Galaxy Note 10.1, if it ever ships, will be the first tablet like what people are recommending for schools that will have that type of interface.
As for the GP, he's just agreeing with Gates - sure they can replace books and printed material...but that's about it. There is very little creative work that can be done on a capacitive device that can't be better on paper or with a keyboard/mouse. That may (probably will) change in the future, but not until we get much better hardware.
Not if you die.
Global warming is myth. The sea levels are rising on the east coast of the US because all the fat Americans are causing a shift in mass distribution and locally higher gravitational forces.
The nurse is here with my medication...brb