--knowing full well they are at risk of acquiring pirated operating systems elsewhere--
They *really* care about *me*. I mean, these days it is *so* hard to distinguish legal copies of windows from illegal copies.... I mean, my neighbor giving me a burned copy of windows ? is that legal ? all these so-called 'warez' sites ? are they legal ? copies you buy in pc stores ? legal or not ? Man this world is just *so* confusing. Thanks to MS, now it's all a lot easier. No more dodgy pc vendors refusing to install a legal copy of an os.
it is my guess that if you buy a pc in say thailand or russia with a preinstalled copy of windows, that it will be an illegal copy... This saves the customer the trouble of finding a copy. Now how's that for customer relations ?
I think ms should just make windows embedded software and make windows a cartridge, solves all their problems....
-whatever you do will be more fun - (ring a bell ?)
ok, let's see YOU plug an electrode into an ants ass.... Go ahead, try it!
The reason the used Locusts was clearly explained on the site if you had bothered to read it. Their nervous system is accesible (and the electrodes aren't bigger than the target organism).
that's not the point, the only reason that they used electrodes is to measure muscle activity, they could have used an optical device to measure the wing activity with the same effect. For the ant just use a suitable device that will measure the relevant directional parameters...
I don't really understand what the big deal is about this piece of expiriment/research. We all know that locusts don't fly into anything except lights and windows. They just tapped the signal the insect uses to steer... They could have used any other insect/animal that has some intelligence about direction and tapped it's muscles. The tapping of muscles is not new.
I think a useful option might be using ants because ants have a tendency to follow a sort of 'invisible path' left by the ant(s) before him -the ants leave some sort of chemical-. This could be used to steer vehicles along a certain path and that could be quite useful for unmanned vehicles in factories etc. . Although I'm not sure how an ant would respond to travelling at 30 km/h instead of 1 km/h ?
I live in the Netherlands, I've heard of peta, but I've never heard of these dudes. If they are for real they have a really screwed philosophy, they are fascists of course, but mosts fascists regard themselves as the ubermensch and try to kill/enslave all others. These dudes regard themselves as the ones to be enslaved/killed ie. the untermensch. I think they should start by killing themselves; I mean, they might get into a mosquito's or ant's private space or something like that. Imagine the vile injustice.... Fuck, it's also weird that they kill other animal rights activists.
Oh well, maybe it's all a big troll ? can someone enlighten me ?
Gambling is only a 'sport' for people who can't do math!
While it may be a bit offtopic here goes;
Gambling is about buying entertainment, you pay for the 'suspense' of losing/winning. I think that most gamblers already know that they're going to lose money. Lost money is just the cost of the entertainment, just like going to the movies costs money. With gambling you're in control of how much entertainment you want, gamble a lot - pay (lose) a lot. I think gambling is pretty boring though and not worth my money.
I think that the media/content companies need to be restricted by law. Just like big industries can't pollute the environment and have to see to it that their employees have a 'healthy' workspace. Likewise media companies should not be allowed to 'pollute' the 'public interest / cultural environment' and mistreat their 'employees' by taking away their free speech rights...
There should be separate realistic intellectual property/copyright laws for media companies that take free speech into consideration, without it free speech will become increasingly less free as the media/content companies become more powerful.
and who needs all the shit that those media companies feed us anyhow ?
I'm glad that here in Holland public tv covers the olympics (although I don't watch it, they don't really have that many decent sports anyway; Olympic soccer ? yeah right, what kinda respect do you get for being Olympic soccer champions ?)
When the Dutch crown prince became a member of the IOC it was seen as a controversial move. The parliament even had debates about whether he should be in it or not. All this because of the IOC's reputation for corruption. I mean what kinda body is the IOC ? who controls them ? Are there any kind of regulations from within the organization itself ? Oh yeah and did you hear about Samaranch asking the Indonesian government to release an IOC member who is currently in jail because of an investigation into corruption (not IOC related)charges. Samaranch didn't really think it was all that bad, and thought the games are more important. Just the fact that it entered his mind to ask the Indonesian government to release him baffles me... Of course he got laughed at by the Indonesian government....
after all the 'toasters running linux' stories on/. you would expect there to be some mentioning of linux in some way whether relevant (offtopic) or not....
For example, if a pilot relies in this system and sees a plane on a collision course, or near collision course, he might turn, into the path of another aircraft that isn't showing up on the system.
well in that case he would have crashed into it without the system as well wouldn't he ?
just because an aircraft would have a new navigation system installed doesn't mean that it gets rid of the old one. You should see how many archaic shit is still in new aircraft these days to provide some backup in case the newer shit fails
Well the earth isn't exactly round. Also the sea has variations in height just like land has, they're just not as pronounced as on land. Your father's handheld gps is probably a lot different from the differential gps the planes would use. normal gps is accurate to about 100 m (300ft), differential gps to about 10m.
corporation: government
customer : voter
purchase : vote
monopoly : dictatorhip
president : president
market : electorate
marketshare: mandate
advertisement: campaign
the list goes on and on, but i guess that what it comes down to is that the consumer/voter by himself has little power over government/corporations but a lot of them have a lot of power. I think that when you buy something from someone you can consider it as a 'vote' for that corporation. People just need to realize this politization of consumerism. off course sometimes you have no choice and off course you don't get any product when you vote. but the simile goes surprisingly well for the power aspect of it.....
he said every atom. Off course you could use different compression types depending for different purposes. On the other hand maybe someone can give every atom a record number and store it in a access database together with it's location.
uhhh, are you saying that recording the position of 1 atom takes less than 1 atom in the recording medium ? Otherwise you would need at least the whole universe to store the whole universe, now think about that
But instead, the satellite builders, designers and other people involved in the project got new cars.
The people designing and building those cars could have bought new cars too... The bottom line is that write offs destroy value.
If Iridium could have been sold, the money could have been used to buy more cars or pay money to people that build new satellites who can then buy new cars etc. etc.
. The original poster is right to say that the loss was entirely borne by Motorola shareholders, and occurred some time ago when the sueless things were actually built.
No, not true, the shareholders could have spent their money buying a new car instead, the carmakers lost out. When value is destroyed everyone loses
Just as the original author proclaimed, it makes much more sense to have a hot convertible sports car when your 21 than it does when your 61. Man just think the dates I could have gotten if I had a nice car when I was in high-school!
well, if everyone has a nice car then it wouldn't be much of a status symbol anymore would it ?
negative votes ? Do you mean that their votes would go to the opposing candidate (provided there are only 2) Then people on welfare should vote for the candidate they hate most
But seriously, most Western countries at one time have had a system similar to this (not the weighted voting, but more the can or can't vote), it depended on your social status/race whether you could vote or not
> You're wrong; technological developement thrives in periods with relative social stability, where lots of people get a chance to an education/information.
I would like to agree with this, but it seems far too general. For instance, aviation technology grew by leaps and bounds during two world wars, and nuclear technology, computational technology, crypto technology, synthetic materials, etc., all benefited much from the disorder of WWII.
I agree that I was too general, (although not as general as the posts I was replying to) however I would like to say about the WWII thing that it wasn't the chaos that caused technology to advance but it was the massive effort put into research and development. War economies allow these types of efforts to be made. In non-war economies stability offers a better framework for technological advance than chaos.
In Holland we fought a war over Freedom of religion against the Spaniards that at that time occupied Holland. After we won we established principles like freedom of speech and religion (be it in a rudimentary form)
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They *really* care about *me*. I mean, these days it is *so* hard to distinguish legal copies of windows from illegal copies.... I mean, my neighbor giving me a burned copy of windows ? is that legal ? all these so-called 'warez' sites ? are they legal ? copies you buy in pc stores ? legal or not ? Man this world is just *so* confusing. Thanks to MS, now it's all a lot easier. No more dodgy pc vendors refusing to install a legal copy of an os.
it is my guess that if you buy a pc in say thailand or russia with a preinstalled copy of windows, that it will be an illegal copy... This saves the customer the trouble of finding a copy. Now how's that for customer relations ?
I think ms should just make windows embedded software and make windows a cartridge, solves all their problems....
-whatever you do will be more fun - (ring a bell ?)
such a person would be great to have around...
that's not the point, the only reason that they used electrodes is to measure muscle activity, they could have used an optical device to measure the wing activity with the same effect. For the ant just use a suitable device that will measure the relevant directional parameters...
I don't really understand what the big deal is about this piece of expiriment/research. We all know that locusts don't fly into anything except lights and windows. They just tapped the signal the insect uses to steer... They could have used any other insect/animal that has some intelligence about direction and tapped it's muscles. The tapping of muscles is not new.
I think a useful option might be using ants because ants have a tendency to follow a sort of 'invisible path' left by the ant(s) before him -the ants leave some sort of chemical-. This could be used to steer vehicles along a certain path and that could be quite useful for unmanned vehicles in factories etc. . Although I'm not sure how an ant would respond to travelling at 30 km/h instead of 1 km/h ?
I think it's a joke
Man, are these dudes for real ?
I live in the Netherlands, I've heard of peta, but I've never heard of these dudes. If they are for real they have a really screwed philosophy, they are fascists of course, but mosts fascists regard themselves as the ubermensch and try to kill/enslave all others. These dudes regard themselves as the ones to be enslaved/killed ie. the untermensch. I think they should start by killing themselves; I mean, they might get into a mosquito's or ant's private space or something like that. Imagine the vile injustice.... Fuck, it's also weird that they kill other animal rights activists.
Oh well, maybe it's all a big troll ? can someone enlighten me ?
While it may be a bit offtopic here goes;
Gambling is about buying entertainment, you pay for the 'suspense' of losing/winning. I think that most gamblers already know that they're going to lose money. Lost money is just the cost of the entertainment, just like going to the movies costs money. With gambling you're in control of how much entertainment you want, gamble a lot - pay (lose) a lot. I think gambling is pretty boring though and not worth my money.
I think that the media/content companies need to be restricted by law. Just like big industries can't pollute the environment and have to see to it that their employees have a 'healthy' workspace. Likewise media companies should not be allowed to 'pollute' the 'public interest / cultural environment' and mistreat their 'employees' by taking away their free speech rights...
Offtopic
They're taking all this shit waaaaaaaaaay too far
There should be separate realistic intellectual property/copyright laws for media companies that take free speech into consideration, without it free speech will become increasingly less free as the media/content companies become more powerful.
and who needs all the shit that those media companies feed us anyhow ?
I'm glad that here in Holland public tv covers the olympics (although I don't watch it, they don't really have that many decent sports anyway; Olympic soccer ? yeah right, what kinda respect do you get for being Olympic soccer champions ?)
When the Dutch crown prince became a member of the IOC it was seen as a controversial move. The parliament even had debates about whether he should be in it or not. All this because of the IOC's reputation for corruption.
I mean what kinda body is the IOC ? who controls them ? Are there any kind of regulations from within the organization itself ?
Oh yeah and did you hear about Samaranch asking the Indonesian government to release an IOC member who is currently in jail because of an investigation into corruption (not IOC related)charges. Samaranch didn't really think it was all that bad, and thought the games are more important. Just the fact that it entered his mind to ask the Indonesian government to release him baffles me... Of course he got laughed at by the Indonesian government....
IOC == International Organized Crime
after all the 'toasters running linux' stories on /. you would expect there to be some mentioning of linux in some way whether relevant (offtopic) or not....
well in that case he would have crashed into it without the system as well wouldn't he ?
just because an aircraft would have a new navigation system installed doesn't mean that it gets rid of the old one. You should see how many archaic shit is still in new aircraft these days to provide some backup in case the newer shit fails
Well the earth isn't exactly round. Also the sea has variations in height just like land has, they're just not as pronounced as on land. Your father's handheld gps is probably a lot different from the differential gps the planes would use. normal gps is accurate to about 100 m (300ft), differential gps to about 10m.
ask ms to include a 'letter to congresman' wizard in word or windows or something...
here's my dictionary of 21st century politics :
corporation: government
customer : voter
purchase : vote
monopoly : dictatorhip
president : president
market : electorate
marketshare: mandate
advertisement: campaign
the list goes on and on, but i guess that what it comes down to is that the consumer/voter by himself has little power over government/corporations but a lot of them have a lot of power. I think that when you buy something from someone you can consider it as a 'vote' for that corporation. People just need to realize this politization of consumerism. off course sometimes you have no choice and off course you don't get any product when you vote. but the simile goes surprisingly well for the power aspect of it.....
Hey man, maybe you should start a militia....
he said every atom. Off course you could use different compression types depending for different purposes. On the other hand maybe someone can give every atom a record number and store it in a access database together with it's location.
uhhh, are you saying that recording the position of 1 atom takes less than 1 atom in the recording medium ? Otherwise you would need at least the whole universe to store the whole universe, now think about that
The people designing and building those cars could have bought new cars too... The bottom line is that write offs destroy value. If Iridium could have been sold, the money could have been used to buy more cars or pay money to people that build new satellites who can then buy new cars etc. etc.
No, not true, the shareholders could have spent their money buying a new car instead, the carmakers lost out. When value is destroyed everyone loses
Weh !
well, if everyone has a nice car then it wouldn't be much of a status symbol anymore would it ?
Weh !
What stopped them ?
Weh !
But seriously, most Western countries at one time have had a system similar to this (not the weighted voting, but more the can or can't vote), it depended on your social status/race whether you could vote or not
Weh
I would like to agree with this, but it seems far too general. For instance, aviation technology grew by leaps and bounds during two world wars, and nuclear technology, computational technology, crypto technology, synthetic materials, etc., all benefited much from the disorder of WWII.
I agree that I was too general, (although not as general as the posts I was replying to) however I would like to say about the WWII thing that it wasn't the chaos that caused technology to advance but it was the massive effort put into research and development. War economies allow these types of efforts to be made. In non-war economies stability offers a better framework for technological advance than chaos.
In Holland we fought a war over Freedom of religion against the Spaniards that at that time occupied Holland. After we won we established principles like freedom of speech and religion (be it in a rudimentary form)
Weh