Yes, and the cabinet position of "secretary of state" is not just for a state, it's for the whole country. And of course the dictionary definition: "Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government: a monarch dealing with state matters; the department that handles state security."
Why, will all the energy in the beam get absorbed by the... vaccuum? The real problem would be aiming the beam safely, and making sure any ships on their way to or from the moon (or in orbit of either) don't cross it.
A big problem the designers have faced is that the terrain is unknown (the route isn't announced until that morning). Therefore, all the sensors must be on-board. The available sensors are GPS for general position, cameras/lasers/etc for things like rocks, gullies, etc. Since the course is 200 miles long, and there is a time limit, the vehicle must average over 20 miles per hour. The problem isn't finding a route, it's finding a safe path with limited sensors and with everything happening really quickly.
Games, on the other hand, have a known world, everything is an object in memory, and calculating positions, speeds, angles, etc. is really easy. If the Challenge course had a map accurate to a few inches then the routes would be just as easy as in a game.
Finding the general route would be easily solved by game developers, but that's not really the hard part, you just need two GPS coords and a topo map:)
However, it will only work if these broadband providers allow people to "host" things on their connection. On my DSL, if I upload at the full 20k/s then my latency (gaming, IRC, etc) becomes extremely high. I figure they're shaping the bandwidth so that people can't host www/ftp/p2p apps on their home computers.
I've never really understood why, they buy a symetrical pipe to the internet and most of it is wasted because they don't let anyone use it...
Perhaps the best solution is to not have so many people to support? When you use human labor, you have an incentive to have as many humans around as possible. If humans are merely controllers though, you only need a few. I'm not saying we should start exterminating people, but encouraging at least zero population growth would help.
You assume everyone believes in a single higher power that created us all and runs our lives. Think about the people who don't believe in that, the polytheists and the atheists. We don't believe that we're "under" anything and having our children forced to say that we are is an offense to our beliefs.
I'd like to see the congress-approved version of the pledge rolled back to the pre-1954 version. The version used from 1896 till 1954 was "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". By including "under god" in the pledge, on our currency, in oaths, etc. our government is excluding everyone who is polytheist or atheist. The US is supposed to be a place where people have religious freedom, that includes people who don't believe in a god that rules our country.
Auditory is one of the most inefficient ways to transmit information. Unless you're in a situation where you need to talk to the computer, such as driving and asking "how do I find the nearest store that sells dongles?" then text/video is much better. Another huge problem is that you can't fast forward or skim-listen to audio like you can with text or to a lesser degree video.
Non-computer people love to throw around the star-trek computer interface as the future, but the actual utility of it is questionable.
Amazon is not looking to compete with *google* they're looking to compete with *froogle*, google's product search engine. In both A9 and Froogle, companies can set up data feeds that update the product/price database.
The problem with POTS systems is that you have to have the entire country wired with copper. A place that doesn't have the same huge investment in infrastructure that the US has is probably better off buying a used cell phone system and just running fiber between the towers. We may think of cell phones as being a luxury but that's only because we have 70 years of investment into copper to every home.
You should read up on ANI spoofing and PBX reprogramming. With minor skills you can make it look like you're coming from a different extension even if you're sitting in the lobby or a conference room. Changing the password on next login is a good feature, but it's only usefull in security once the real user tries to log in. A good social engineer picks someone on vacation or leave so that by the time they try to log in the attacker is already long gone.
I've got broadband, my brother has it, my parents have it, my grandparents have it, my coworkers have it. Heck, everyone I know except those in rural places have broadband. The only people who don't, apparently, are the people hosting the article.
I believe sites that have been slashdotted in the past have done this same thing to prevent their server from getting flooded. I think it's AOL's right to do this, they don't want livejournal linking to them. The polite thing to do would be to say why in the error page though, not just give a 404.
On a technical note, you can set up a page with a META Refresh which will clear the referrer (a HTTP server transfer will keep the original referrer intact though)
it's 41 million *numbers* not people, I signed up for three numbers myself.
There are 319 area codes (http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/area.html), times 10,000,000 in each set (or so) gives 319,000,000 potentially valid numbers.
So still impressive, but not necessarily anywhere near 50% of the households in the US...
Think of the RIAA as a Union for corporations. They band together so that they have collective bargaining power against other companies, labels, consumers, governments, etc.
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Yes, and the cabinet position of "secretary of state" is not just for a state, it's for the whole country. And of course the dictionary definition: "Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government: a monarch dealing with state matters; the department that handles state security."
Why, will all the energy in the beam get absorbed by the ... vaccuum? The real problem would be aiming the beam safely, and making sure any ships on their way to or from the moon (or in orbit of either) don't cross it.
IR and RF are the same thing, just at different frequencies. FCC controls the rest of the spectrum, they probably control visible and IR too.
Which book? I haven't been able to find anything on the net by that title, who's the author?
You can get a DirecTV 40 hour tivo for $100 if you use the promo code "FFDVR". (regular $200)
The tivo service is an extra $5 a month, but overall it's worth it.
Cop cars have cameras, cameras can see IR.
A big problem the designers have faced is that the terrain is unknown (the route isn't announced until that morning). Therefore, all the sensors must be on-board. The available sensors are GPS for general position, cameras/lasers/etc for things like rocks, gullies, etc. Since the course is 200 miles long, and there is a time limit, the vehicle must average over 20 miles per hour. The problem isn't finding a route, it's finding a safe path with limited sensors and with everything happening really quickly.
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Games, on the other hand, have a known world, everything is an object in memory, and calculating positions, speeds, angles, etc. is really easy. If the Challenge course had a map accurate to a few inches then the routes would be just as easy as in a game.
Finding the general route would be easily solved by game developers, but that's not really the hard part, you just need two GPS coords and a topo map
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No, that's marketing.
Branding is when you see the nike swoosh or the red coke symbol. Even if you can't read the words, you still know what it implies.
However, it will only work if these broadband providers allow people to "host" things on their connection. On my DSL, if I upload at the full 20k/s then my latency (gaming, IRC, etc) becomes extremely high. I figure they're shaping the bandwidth so that people can't host www/ftp/p2p apps on their home computers.
I've never really understood why, they buy a symetrical pipe to the internet and most of it is wasted because they don't let anyone use it...
Perhaps the best solution is to not have so many people to support? When you use human labor, you have an incentive to have as many humans around as possible. If humans are merely controllers though, you only need a few. I'm not saying we should start exterminating people, but encouraging at least zero population growth would help.
You assume everyone believes in a single higher power that created us all and runs our lives. Think about the people who don't believe in that, the polytheists and the atheists. We don't believe that we're "under" anything and having our children forced to say that we are is an offense to our beliefs.
I'd like to see the congress-approved version of the pledge rolled back to the pre-1954 version. The version used from 1896 till 1954 was "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". By including "under god" in the pledge, on our currency, in oaths, etc. our government is excluding everyone who is polytheist or atheist. The US is supposed to be a place where people have religious freedom, that includes people who don't believe in a god that rules our country.
Video editers and print layout people, to name a few.
One of my recent captures was 8 minutes at 30fps; 12 gigs
Vancouver *CANADA*, not the US.
Maybe the machines didn't let the people of the matrix/zion know about the second law of thermodynamics?
Auditory is one of the most inefficient ways to transmit information. Unless you're in a situation where you need to talk to the computer, such as driving and asking "how do I find the nearest store that sells dongles?" then text/video is much better. Another huge problem is that you can't fast forward or skim-listen to audio like you can with text or to a lesser degree video.
Non-computer people love to throw around the star-trek computer interface as the future, but the actual utility of it is questionable.
Amazon is not looking to compete with *google* they're looking to compete with *froogle*, google's product search engine. In both A9 and Froogle, companies can set up data feeds that update the product/price database.
Amazon is *not* trying to index the web.
The Kazaa network IS encrypted. No one has been able to break the encryption yet either.
The problem with POTS systems is that you have to have the entire country wired with copper. A place that doesn't have the same huge investment in infrastructure that the US has is probably better off buying a used cell phone system and just running fiber between the towers. We may think of cell phones as being a luxury but that's only because we have 70 years of investment into copper to every home.
You should read up on ANI spoofing and PBX reprogramming. With minor skills you can make it look like you're coming from a different extension even if you're sitting in the lobby or a conference room. Changing the password on next login is a good feature, but it's only usefull in security once the real user tries to log in. A good social engineer picks someone on vacation or leave so that by the time they try to log in the attacker is already long gone.
I've got broadband, my brother has it, my parents have it, my grandparents have it, my coworkers have it. Heck, everyone I know except those in rural places have broadband. The only people who don't, apparently, are the people hosting the article.
I believe sites that have been slashdotted in the past have done this same thing to prevent their server from getting flooded. I think it's AOL's right to do this, they don't want livejournal linking to them. The polite thing to do would be to say why in the error page though, not just give a 404.
On a technical note, you can set up a page with a META Refresh which will clear the referrer (a HTTP server transfer will keep the original referrer intact though)
it's 41 million *numbers* not people, I signed up for three numbers myself.
There are 319 area codes (http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/area.html), times 10,000,000 in each set (or so) gives 319,000,000 potentially valid numbers.
So still impressive, but not necessarily anywhere near 50% of the households in the US...
Two possibilities:
Quake 2 uses UDP packets, not TCP, so there is no assured delivery - perhaps it's a state issue.
What it probably does is overload the outbound buffer on the server though, most events don't come all at once.
Think of the RIAA as a Union for corporations. They band together so that they have collective bargaining power against other companies, labels, consumers, governments, etc.