There are untold societal benefits for piracy. Sure the funding of creating new media would have to be worked from the ground up, like Kickstarters. But you can't deny that if every work of man was available online for free, that good things wouldn't happen immediately and set yourself up for a more cultured/educated society down the road. And free books alone would save K-12 schools a fortune(10,000$ a student) when they move to ereaders and could be the solution we need. I don't need to preach to the choir(Slashdot), but it is easy to see there are lots of benefits for allowing everything online for free. While the only argument every kneejerker gives is,"If you can't make money on media, no one would ever write a book again! We might as well just abandon civilization."
I just realized something else, everyone would be playing with the elevator even more if it talked to you... so maybe it isn't a good thing to emit a sound... Maybe just call security.
If(weight in elevator
if(almost every floor pressed)
{
emit_audio_tone("Hey kid cut that out, people's lives might be at stake because you're playing in a place you shouldn't be playing.");
call_security("Kid pressed all the elevator floor again, go embarrass him to his parents.");
clear_all_floor_buttons();
}
While it happens less that uncommonly, we did drop your console onto the floor. They won't work for average users, but we think that due to being developers, you could fix them. Thanks.
I'm interested in seeing how this will turn out. How is this console different than hooking up your smart phone(same processor right?) to your television and bluetoothing in PS3 controllers? When I first heard of this console, this is what everyone talked it was analogous to.
When theology conflicts with science one or both are flawed. Evolution is not flawed. This means the theology must be flawed. God is still real, I can assure you of this, even if some people get theology wrong here or there. I have an interesting theology here called the long day theory.
Whoa now, some of those 40 year old techies actually have enough qualifications to fit the impossible requests on job requirements. If we hire them, we can't get more H1Bs and complain to congress there aren't enough skilled workers in the US despite a depressed economy where jobs are hard to come by.
Today, you need people to control your robots. You need to convince people to fight for you, and this takes effort and a degree of conviction even with propoganda milling. When you have AI(command given AI), you can have one billionaire control his own army with perfect morale to his will. I think this an important thing to note past your standard,"Well when you're not losing lives to war on your side, you're more willing to go to war."
I believe you can have depth perception with one camera, so long as it is moving. Because you remember the previous position, and your current position, and you have two images. Depending on how you define depth perception, a person can close one eye, walk into a hallway and envision the situation in 3d to navigate the hallway and avoid the obstacles. I would even go so far to say when coding a system to render vision into 3d, it might be easier on the programmer to start with just one camera instead of jumping into stereoscopic rendering.
How does the robot know a certain location is not traversable? I know it is possible to use one camera and a large database of things to get even a 3d guess of its environment without moving. One camera and moving, and suddenly you have all the data to work with. The problem is, no one has developed software that you walk around a building with a video camera, and it becomes a quake level. So unless they did that, I'd be interested in how they find out what is not traversable.
When you build your 486, get Red Baron also. Other games I enjoyed from that era but you might not be interested are Quest for Glory series, Stunts, Xwing, and a really under appreciated game: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. I have fond memories of flying a B-17, and after bombing my target, doing strafing runs on it so my campaign advanced further:P Eventually I got so slick that I'd do a 1/2 barrel roll and strafe the targets with the top turret as well:P
When you put it like that, it makes sense. It is perfectly reasonable to rewrite encryption protocol every 2 weeks or so since it only takes a few hours of coding. But other countries might make a huge deal out of breaking your code like they're doing something special. Why give em that right to brag? Just don't encrypt at all.
I would think encryption is very easy if you want to do it dirty with random number seeds without slowing down the speed of transfer except an int. You just send the data stream assembled in different ways based on the random numbers you have off the seed(the int). Then you disassemble the stream based off the random number seed that gives you the instructions to disassemble the stream back into the unencrypted form. If you do it intensively enough, the video should be a static mess to watch.
If the secrets get out of your encryption algorithm, say a drone gets KO and found and your language gets reverse compiled, so they see how you're encrypting. Simply spend an hour or two writing a new way of assembling the string, and maybe use a different random number generator.
Now if you want to do the security stronger than this, I'm sure there are ways to do it, but this method comes to mind real easy.
If they did the programming in AS3/Flash, there's a text field component known as.height. When selecting a text field, if you layer a tall field over another field rendered first, you can't even select the one underneath. It is possible to half way cover them too. Lots of programming languages you can have coding errors to do stupid stuff like this if you're a weak programmer.. People like to say the saying,"Don't attribute to malice that which can be attributed to ignorance" or something.
A plain ol' sedan is a step up from the early cars looked like. Remember the early electric cars were designed to stand out, and almost all of them looked silly?
I'm all for Tesla, I have a friend that works there. Selling these high class cars gets the technology better so things will be cheaper down the line. I'm hoping someday the electric car is also the economical choice. Once you can have a plug in car, you save a great deal on refueling, and it starts encouraging people to buy solar panels and the electric company to upgrade the grid.
I'm really happy for the technology to keep rolling forward, and maybe someday the electric car becomes an economical choice.
Agreed. I voted "protest evote" in 2008, and I plan on voting it again. These things can be hacked. There are trials where people testify they were asked to hack them for a 51% vote. There was an event I suspect it was used in the primaries because the voting results were "lost" for hours in some old lady's house and came back 51% win. I just suspect as a hunch, but I'm just baseless guessing. To me, the electronic voting is just a way of trying to get voting out of the system. I show up to vote every time just for the very point I don't want anyone going,"The numbers are low, we can get rid of voting, no one cares anyway." The only way I'd accept electronic voting if there was a paper trail alongside it that can be confirmed after the fact.
Watts = Volts x Amps. Watts is energy per unit time... My thinking is that higher Watts(higher energy) is worse for you than low energy transfer like radio/Cell/Wifi.
My reasoning is that people who live near high power lines develop cancer at a higher rate than the general populace, while people using regular electronics and in home wiring systems don't get impacted as bad.
So I would think it would be possibly dangerous to come close to fields where energy is passing through your body. The more energy involved the worse off I'd think people would be. I don't tend to worry much about low energy fields like cell phones or wifi. Yet if a job powered all the computers with remote energy so I'm exposed all day long, I'd have to decline that job. No sense risking cancer for any amount of money.
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There are untold societal benefits for piracy. Sure the funding of creating new media would have to be worked from the ground up, like Kickstarters. But you can't deny that if every work of man was available online for free, that good things wouldn't happen immediately and set yourself up for a more cultured/educated society down the road. And free books alone would save K-12 schools a fortune(10,000$ a student) when they move to ereaders and could be the solution we need. I don't need to preach to the choir(Slashdot), but it is easy to see there are lots of benefits for allowing everything online for free. While the only argument every kneejerker gives is,"If you can't make money on media, no one would ever write a book again! We might as well just abandon civilization."
I hear his defense will actually slow up the system though.
I just realized something else, everyone would be playing with the elevator even more if it talked to you... so maybe it isn't a good thing to emit a sound... Maybe just call security.
if(weight in elevator less than 200) My less than symbol got nixed because it was thinking I meant hypertext markup
If(weight in elevator if(almost every floor pressed)
{
emit_audio_tone("Hey kid cut that out, people's lives might be at stake because you're playing in a place you shouldn't be playing.");
call_security("Kid pressed all the elevator floor again, go embarrass him to his parents.");
clear_all_floor_buttons();
}
While it happens less that uncommonly, we did drop your console onto the floor. They won't work for average users, but we think that due to being developers, you could fix them. Thanks.
I'm interested in seeing how this will turn out. How is this console different than hooking up your smart phone(same processor right?) to your television and bluetoothing in PS3 controllers? When I first heard of this console, this is what everyone talked it was analogous to.
When theology conflicts with science one or both are flawed. Evolution is not flawed. This means the theology must be flawed. God is still real, I can assure you of this, even if some people get theology wrong here or there. I have an interesting theology here called the long day theory.
Whoa now, some of those 40 year old techies actually have enough qualifications to fit the impossible requests on job requirements. If we hire them, we can't get more H1Bs and complain to congress there aren't enough skilled workers in the US despite a depressed economy where jobs are hard to come by.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Today, you need people to control your robots. You need to convince people to fight for you, and this takes effort and a degree of conviction even with propoganda milling. When you have AI(command given AI), you can have one billionaire control his own army with perfect morale to his will. I think this an important thing to note past your standard,"Well when you're not losing lives to war on your side, you're more willing to go to war."
However, that doesn't save you from a crash caused by hackers.
I believe you can have depth perception with one camera, so long as it is moving. Because you remember the previous position, and your current position, and you have two images. Depending on how you define depth perception, a person can close one eye, walk into a hallway and envision the situation in 3d to navigate the hallway and avoid the obstacles. I would even go so far to say when coding a system to render vision into 3d, it might be easier on the programmer to start with just one camera instead of jumping into stereoscopic rendering.
How does the robot know a certain location is not traversable? I know it is possible to use one camera and a large database of things to get even a 3d guess of its environment without moving. One camera and moving, and suddenly you have all the data to work with. The problem is, no one has developed software that you walk around a building with a video camera, and it becomes a quake level. So unless they did that, I'd be interested in how they find out what is not traversable.
When you build your 486, get Red Baron also. Other games I enjoyed from that era but you might not be interested are Quest for Glory series, Stunts, Xwing, and a really under appreciated game: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. I have fond memories of flying a B-17, and after bombing my target, doing strafing runs on it so my campaign advanced further :P Eventually I got so slick that I'd do a 1/2 barrel roll and strafe the targets with the top turret as well :P
When you put it like that, it makes sense. It is perfectly reasonable to rewrite encryption protocol every 2 weeks or so since it only takes a few hours of coding. But other countries might make a huge deal out of breaking your code like they're doing something special. Why give em that right to brag? Just don't encrypt at all.
I would think encryption is very easy if you want to do it dirty with random number seeds without slowing down the speed of transfer except an int. You just send the data stream assembled in different ways based on the random numbers you have off the seed(the int). Then you disassemble the stream based off the random number seed that gives you the instructions to disassemble the stream back into the unencrypted form. If you do it intensively enough, the video should be a static mess to watch.
If the secrets get out of your encryption algorithm, say a drone gets KO and found and your language gets reverse compiled, so they see how you're encrypting. Simply spend an hour or two writing a new way of assembling the string, and maybe use a different random number generator.
Now if you want to do the security stronger than this, I'm sure there are ways to do it, but this method comes to mind real easy.
If the drones aren't encrypted, can't they be jammed?
If they did the programming in AS3/Flash, there's a text field component known as .height. When selecting a text field, if you layer a tall field over another field rendered first, you can't even select the one underneath. It is possible to half way cover them too. Lots of programming languages you can have coding errors to do stupid stuff like this if you're a weak programmer.. People like to say the saying,"Don't attribute to malice that which can be attributed to ignorance" or something.
A plain ol' sedan is a step up from the early cars looked like. Remember the early electric cars were designed to stand out, and almost all of them looked silly?
I'm all for Tesla, I have a friend that works there. Selling these high class cars gets the technology better so things will be cheaper down the line. I'm hoping someday the electric car is also the economical choice. Once you can have a plug in car, you save a great deal on refueling, and it starts encouraging people to buy solar panels and the electric company to upgrade the grid.
I'm really happy for the technology to keep rolling forward, and maybe someday the electric car becomes an economical choice.
If price of the electric car > Price of cheap gas fueled car + 200,000 miles of gasoline then don't buy
Just as an edit, I'm not certain the votes came back 51% win from the lost votes. I heard that, but I can't confirm it.
Agreed. I voted "protest evote" in 2008, and I plan on voting it again. These things can be hacked. There are trials where people testify they were asked to hack them for a 51% vote. There was an event I suspect it was used in the primaries because the voting results were "lost" for hours in some old lady's house and came back 51% win. I just suspect as a hunch, but I'm just baseless guessing. To me, the electronic voting is just a way of trying to get voting out of the system. I show up to vote every time just for the very point I don't want anyone going,"The numbers are low, we can get rid of voting, no one cares anyway." The only way I'd accept electronic voting if there was a paper trail alongside it that can be confirmed after the fact.
Watts = Volts x Amps. Watts is energy per unit time... My thinking is that higher Watts(higher energy) is worse for you than low energy transfer like radio/Cell/Wifi.
My reasoning is that people who live near high power lines develop cancer at a higher rate than the general populace, while people using regular electronics and in home wiring systems don't get impacted as bad.
They've seen people who live under high voltage power lines seem to have a higher rate of cancer
So I would think it would be possibly dangerous to come close to fields where energy is passing through your body. The more energy involved the worse off I'd think people would be. I don't tend to worry much about low energy fields like cell phones or wifi. Yet if a job powered all the computers with remote energy so I'm exposed all day long, I'd have to decline that job. No sense risking cancer for any amount of money.