It will also make the FCC obsolete because the software will essentially be doing the same job as the FCC- negotiating for free open bandwidth.
But the problem that needs to be avoided is when not every device is "negotioating" in good faith. Part of TFA described the ability to download OSS that allows one to alter the base settings of communications devices. So if yoiu're not getting a good signal, you kick up your transmission power. That interferes with your neighbors, so one of them kicks up their transmission power (both now bleeding more into nearby channels). Pretty soon communications isn't a negotiation, its a war. That's what the FCC is supposed to prevent. I don't forsee that aspect changing.
Think so? I'd be willing to bet that for every soccer mom, there's a soccer dad who squeezes in some GTA:SA after mom puts Ashley and Courtney to sleep at night.
Wrong!
This dad's putting the kids to bed (early) so he can have the entire evening free for some GTA:SA action.
Mom puts 'em to bed way too late. OTOH she thinks I quickly change what's on the TV when she (or the kids) walk in because I'm watching porn. Why else would that "controller" be vibrating while I'm flushed and breathing heavy?.
He will now harass PA and the thing is, he knows full well how to do it and could make PA suffer in the short ru
I don't know. I was thinking PA should send him a Thank You stating how his harassment of them has brought hundreds of new readers to the site, more than offsetting the cost of the donation they made in his place.
Anyone actually been nearby when a pressure-cooker explodes?
I never really understood this but how come in this day and age the default format for text isn't html?
Call me old-fashioned, but I still think the best format for text is.txt. If you want more formatting options,.rtf. If you want images, tables, etc, then go HTML.
My craps are rarely like concrete, and are often regarded by my wife to be physical phenomena. So not patentable on two accounts.
Well, mine often are like concrete and at the least are quite tangible. Not to mention the event more closely resemble a spiritual phenomena (including much speaking in tongues and biblical references).So that means that at least mine are patentable!
That's pretty much what I was wondering. Seems the/. crowd supports going after the person/company making the tool that's being misused as well as the person/company/country misuing it.
You mean luciferin? Still burns chemical energy in the way of ATP hydrolysis to create light. I don't know that it would be any more efficient at providing light.
Yeah, that stuff they leave on the windshield when you hit them. Resistant to almost every cleaning substance known to man that doesn't dissolve the glass too.
I agree. Ask anyone in the biomaterials field. They'll tell you finding materials with the right mechanical properties is easy. Finding one that has the right mechanical properties and won't react in some negative way with the body is a real chore.
For example, you find resilin has the right mechanical properties and is non-immunogenic (highly unlikely IMO), so you make an artificial artery. Oops! What's with all those platelets aggregating on the super-artery? They're clogging the thing up!
Or who'd have guessed something made of protein gets broken down over time when placed in a live body?
Or, gee, you dry a liquid under a bright light to get a solid, put it inside a body made mostly of water, and it regains its liquid state! Science is fun
Then there's the possibility that resilin itself might trigger an immune response. Not to mention the fact that degradation of the material over time hasn't been determined. Who cares if it can withstand being flexed 100 million times, if it can't withstand proteases and other reactive compounds in the human body?
they're using the HD codec (H.264) at half-VGA (320x240) resolution
Yes, H.264 is the codec most used for HD, but it was designed to cover the full spectrum of resolutions/bit rates. It was intended just as much for lower bit rate streamed video as for HD.
Granted their partnership with Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios was probably a big reason they agreed
IMO Jobs (via Pixar) essentially putting his money where his mouth is will really help with this.
OTOH I remember Eisner sitting in front of a congressional panel moaning about Apple and their Rip. Mix. Burn, campaign and how evil it was in light of how Dinsney's latest blockbuster, Monsters, Inc. was being downloaded over the net. I don't think it was until afterwords that someone pointed out to him the same Jobs behind Pixar's Monsters, Inc. was the same Jobs behind Rip. Mix. Burn. Not even a NYT article covering the hearing seemed to put the two together.
Yes, they are. The problem is parents (and other adults) seem to think its all the other parents who aren't doing their job. Therefor "we" need to enact laws to force other parents to do things the way "we" think "they" should be done.
Don't allow yourself to fall into the trap of believing all other parents must be bad parents. They aren't. Some have different ideals and priorities, but that doesn't mean they're bad parents.
And, BTW, the reason schools are doing so much isn't because any parent thinks their child needs it, its because they think everybody else's child need it (from potty training to sex ed).
IMO when it comes to manned missions to the moon or Mars, the science and technology part is easy compared to the political part, even if a single nation is involved.
IOW, we're technologically capable, just not politically capable/inclined.
Not knowing either Russion or Chinese, I have to ask why the need to change the first part of the term, but keep the last part of the term the same? Or is that actually what the Russians and Chinese call their astronauts?
OK, wikipedia gives some info. Still seems strange to me. At least the "Cosmonaut" is an anglicization of the Russian word ????????? (kosmonavt), makes sense.
More than likely this is the result of American pressure. Many laws up here are at least brought to the table as a direct result of American government or industry
Was wondering how long it would take to blame this on the U.S. As if companies and individuals in other countries could never come up with something like this on their own and would never even consider it if the U.S. wasn't pressuring them.
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It will also make the FCC obsolete because the software will essentially be doing the same job as the FCC- negotiating for free open bandwidth.
But the problem that needs to be avoided is when not every device is "negotioating" in good faith. Part of TFA described the ability to download OSS that allows one to alter the base settings of communications devices. So if yoiu're not getting a good signal, you kick up your transmission power. That interferes with your neighbors, so one of them kicks up their transmission power (both now bleeding more into nearby channels). Pretty soon communications isn't a negotiation, its a war. That's what the FCC is supposed to prevent. I don't forsee that aspect changing.
Think so? I'd be willing to bet that for every soccer mom, there's a soccer dad who squeezes in some GTA:SA after mom puts Ashley and Courtney to sleep at night.
Wrong!
This dad's putting the kids to bed (early) so he can have the entire evening free for some GTA:SA action.
Mom puts 'em to bed way too late. OTOH she thinks I quickly change what's on the TV when she (or the kids) walk in because I'm watching porn. Why else would that "controller" be vibrating while I'm flushed and breathing heavy?.
He will now harass PA and the thing is, he knows full well how to do it and could make PA suffer in the short ru
I don't know. I was thinking PA should send him a Thank You stating how his harassment of them has brought hundreds of new readers to the site, more than offsetting the cost of the donation they made in his place.
Anyone actually been nearby when a pressure-cooker explodes?
I never really understood this but how come in this day and age the default format for text isn't html?
.txt. If you want more formatting options, .rtf. If you want images, tables, etc, then go HTML.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still think the best format for text is
IMO the best format is always the simplest.
Seems the only place it ever gets called OpenDoc is on /. Everybody else (even the journalists) use Open Dcoument Format or OpneDocument Format or ODF.
My craps are rarely like concrete, and are often regarded by my wife to be physical phenomena. So not patentable on two accounts.
Well, mine often are like concrete and at the least are quite tangible. Not to mention the event more closely resemble a spiritual phenomena (including much speaking in tongues and biblical references).So that means that at least mine are patentable!
Gotta go. Prune juice just kicked in.
That's pretty much what I was wondering. Seems the /. crowd supports going after the person/company making the tool that's being misused as well as the person/company/country misuing it.
"If humans had such pads they could leap 100-storey buildings"
That sounds like unsubstantiated exxageration- eg no reality behind it.
I believe that's supposed to be "could leap a 100 story flea condo".
What exactly can this stuff make you do that 50 espresso shots can't?
Walk past a rest room without stopping?
And here I was thinking flubber...
You mean luciferin? Still burns chemical energy in the way of ATP hydrolysis to create light. I don't know that it would be any more efficient at providing light.
Are there more insect substances equally amazing?
Yeah, that stuff they leave on the windshield when you hit them. Resistant to almost every cleaning substance known to man that doesn't dissolve the glass too.
I agree. Ask anyone in the biomaterials field. They'll tell you finding materials with the right mechanical properties is easy. Finding one that has the right mechanical properties and won't react in some negative way with the body is a real chore.
For example, you find resilin has the right mechanical properties and is non-immunogenic (highly unlikely IMO), so you make an artificial artery. Oops! What's with all those platelets aggregating on the super-artery? They're clogging the thing up!
Or who'd have guessed something made of protein gets broken down over time when placed in a live body?
Or, gee, you dry a liquid under a bright light to get a solid, put it inside a body made mostly of water, and it regains its liquid state! Science is fun
Or...,
Then there's the possibility that resilin itself might trigger an immune response. Not to mention the fact that degradation of the material over time hasn't been determined. Who cares if it can withstand being flexed 100 million times, if it can't withstand proteases and other reactive compounds in the human body?
they're using the HD codec (H.264) at half-VGA (320x240) resolution
Yes, H.264 is the codec most used for HD, but it was designed to cover the full spectrum of resolutions/bit rates. It was intended just as much for lower bit rate streamed video as for HD.
I don't know if he means he would pay that much for the old episodes, just the new ones.
Then again....
Granted their partnership with Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios was probably a big reason they agreed
IMO Jobs (via Pixar) essentially putting his money where his mouth is will really help with this.
OTOH I remember Eisner sitting in front of a congressional panel moaning about Apple and their Rip. Mix. Burn, campaign and how evil it was in light of how Dinsney's latest blockbuster, Monsters, Inc. was being downloaded over the net. I don't think it was until afterwords that someone pointed out to him the same Jobs behind Pixar's Monsters, Inc. was the same Jobs behind Rip. Mix. Burn. Not even a NYT article covering the hearing seemed to put the two together.
However, are parents doing their job?
Yes, they are. The problem is parents (and other adults) seem to think its all the other parents who aren't doing their job. Therefor "we" need to enact laws to force other parents to do things the way "we" think "they" should be done.
Don't allow yourself to fall into the trap of believing all other parents must be bad parents. They aren't. Some have different ideals and priorities, but that doesn't mean they're bad parents.
And, BTW, the reason schools are doing so much isn't because any parent thinks their child needs it, its because they think everybody else's child need it (from potty training to sex ed).
I thought France controlled all the green cheese. Is that why Bush doesn't like them?
IMO when it comes to manned missions to the moon or Mars, the science and technology part is easy compared to the political part, even if a single nation is involved.
IOW, we're technologically capable, just not politically capable/inclined.
Astronaut
Cosmonaut
Taikonaut
Not knowing either Russion or Chinese, I have to ask why the need to change the first part of the term, but keep the last part of the term the same? Or is that actually what the Russians and Chinese call their astronauts?
OK, wikipedia gives some info. Still seems strange to me. At least the "Cosmonaut" is an anglicization of the Russian word ????????? (kosmonavt), makes sense.
Lets make a law saying that all our elected officials are required to have a live webcam feed 24/7/365 from their offices, cars and houses.
WooHoo! Britney Spears vs. Pamela Anderson for president!
Do you want a Remote sensing space system
If it'll help me keep track of the TV remote, you're damn right I do!
Time to load up on ammo and head for the shack in Montana.
More than likely this is the result of American pressure. Many laws up here are at least brought to the table as a direct result of American government or industry
Was wondering how long it would take to blame this on the U.S. As if companies and individuals in other countries could never come up with something like this on their own and would never even consider it if the U.S. wasn't pressuring them.