That's true. but "best" takes several factors into account (though there's still much room for disagreement). I'm going to have to read back through that article a bit more.
I'm trying to factor in the many other variables as well, including reliability, sustainability, distrubution, environmental benefit...
I guess "best" really isn't an easy thing to define.
If I'm reading things correctly, the idea isn't to send anything back. Its to provide materials for further colonization of Mars and possibly as a base for further exploration of the solar system.
Besides, it seems like it would be rather hard to actually mine materials from asteroids. Seems landing on a big one would be near impossible and "collecting" smaller ones would require a lot of running around and manuvering (expending lots of fuel).
Solar is too inefficient with current technologies.
Although, depending on how you think of it, we've been using stored solar energy all alone. AFAIK, the best solar cells available are plant cells. Using solar energy and storing it in hydrocarbons. When the plants are fossilized, we get fossil fuels.
The question in my mind is, can we simply bypass the 'fossilization" requirement. Wired had an article about one possibility a while back.
The video is easy. You just have to be willing to part with ~30 sheets of paper and ink refills for every second of video. Then you just need to be able to flip pages real fast.
Which is a curious postition given that MS has moved in so many other areas to support interoperability.
Like what other areas? I'm really curious because every time I see MS talking about interoperability, they're talking about others making their stuff compatible with MS's offerings, never MS interoperating with someone else.
As an example, in the audio and video industries, MS seems to be pushing everyone to adopt WMA/V in the name of interoperability, but they don't exactly go out of their way to support AAC and mpg4.
Exactly. IIRC, back when I was using Word 3.0 it proudly listed all the "competing' formats it supported (from WordPerfect on down). By the time Word 5.0 came out, that list seemed to disappear.
That's part of what I was thinking. iTunes and the other jukebox apps ran on portable computers too. It seems obvious to me that "handheld computers" would use the same navigation.
Speaking of handheld computers, didn't many PIMs use metadata-style navigation for contacts and inventories?
I've been trying to figure out how long iTunes has been doing this. Does anyone remember if the first versions (on OS 9) did this? How about the jukebox apps that predated iTunes on Mac and Windows?
The short of it is they are saying the RIAA can't prove the files on her computer got their illegally (may have been legally ripped from CD), and more to the point, can't prove anybody (who isn't supposed to) downloaded them. IOW, you can't prove the case of distribution unless you can prove it was actually distributed -prior case law indicates just making the offer (making the files/goods available) doesn't constitute distribution. Someone has to actually buy/download.
One fun factor was that the RIAA did download the files, but considering they were working on behalf of the "owners" they had a de facto license to copy -no infringement here.
Yes, most CO2 emitted by human activities comes from burning fuels. However, I assume you mean forest fires. Those do not affect net CO2 levels over the long term because the carbon in forests had been pulled out of the air within the last few decades. That's not the case for fossil fuels.
Well, if forest fires don't affect net CO2 levels over the long term, then burning fossile fuels (which are plant leftovers) doesn't either (just a bit longer term). Its just re-establishing the "equilibrium" that existed before plants did. (not that the global climate has ever been in equilibrium over the long term)
Nah! Global climate change has been happening since the earth was formed. Can you believe how much CO2 those damn plants took out of the atmosphere and sequestered into fossile fuels before animals evolved to reduce the overproduction of oxygen. Now we're finally getting back on track, burning all that oil and coal to put the CO2 back in the atmosphere where it belongs and those "greens" are trying to stop us!
Quick, throw another log on the fire! Go global warming!
"Security:...The reporting mechanism should be fully under the owner's control. "
Exept the owner is the company you licensed the software from. The user is the person who bought the computer and software license.
"Privacy:...designed and implemented with privacy in mind "
The user at the keyboard doesn't really need to know what's going on when "security" is reporting to the owner (see above). Especially since the user already agreed to let the owner do what they want as one of the conditions of "participation" (see below).
"Interoperability:...should not introduce any new interoperability obstacles that are not for the purpose of security. "
Meaning if the owner (see above) needs to do it to secure their software and the files it works with from "attack" by the user, its OK.
Controllability: Each owner should have effective choice and control... their participation must be opt-in. "
Meaning if the user doesn't agree to everything the owner (see above) dictates (which may change at owner's discretion), the owner is free to lock the user out of their computer (or some resources therof).
Sounds exactly like what MS would want. I know I'm putting a dark spin on the definitions, but there's nothing to say my interpretation isn't (partially) correct.
It's not going to stop worms, spyware, viruses, and the like - they are going to continue to plague people's computers
Don't be so pessimistic. Once you're in the "Trusted Enviornment" you're stuck there and can't touch anything else. So, knowing MS, this means worms, viruses and the like will only have access to trusted resources. Meaning MS Office will be wiped off the computer, but Open Office and my pr0n collection will be safe.
Dual 1 GHz G4 (Quicksilver). This was still happening weeks after installing Tiger, and my computer is generally on 24x7.
Not being fully indexed or a corrupted index was my first thought too, but searches from the Spotlight menu didn't have the same problem. Only when I did the search from a Finder window. Others on some of the Mac lists I'm subscribed to had similar problems.
The problem has gone away though. Don't know if it was an upgrade somewhere along the line or what it was.
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That's true. but "best" takes several factors into account (though there's still much room for disagreement). I'm going to have to read back through that article a bit more.
I'm trying to factor in the many other variables as well, including reliability, sustainability, distrubution, environmental benefit...
I guess "best" really isn't an easy thing to define.
Biodiesel would be one possibility. The one mentioned in the article was using algea that release hydrogen.
Yuck!
Who cares?
Can I take my pr0n collection and do they have broadband internet access?
Man's gotta have his priorities.
put me on the first colony ship of homesteaders.
You obviously haven't watched the right movies.
Put me on the second colony ship of homesteaders.
No point in getting ourselves all worked up whenever someone plans something.
Don't know why that made me think of Vista.
If I'm reading things correctly, the idea isn't to send anything back. Its to provide materials for further colonization of Mars and possibly as a base for further exploration of the solar system.
Besides, it seems like it would be rather hard to actually mine materials from asteroids. Seems landing on a big one would be near impossible and "collecting" smaller ones would require a lot of running around and manuvering (expending lots of fuel).
Solar is too inefficient with current technologies.
Although, depending on how you think of it, we've been using stored solar energy all alone. AFAIK, the best solar cells available are plant cells. Using solar energy and storing it in hydrocarbons. When the plants are fossilized, we get fossil fuels.
The question in my mind is, can we simply bypass the 'fossilization" requirement. Wired had an article about one possibility a while back.
The video is easy. You just have to be willing to part with ~30 sheets of paper and ink refills for every second of video. Then you just need to be able to flip pages real fast.
There is a lot of confusion caused by people shortening OpenDocument to OpenDoc. An unfortunate similarity in both name and function.
While OpenDoc does focus largely on presentation
Stop the confusion!
Which is a curious postition given that MS has moved in so many other areas to support interoperability.
Like what other areas? I'm really curious because every time I see MS talking about interoperability, they're talking about others making their stuff compatible with MS's offerings, never MS interoperating with someone else.
As an example, in the audio and video industries, MS seems to be pushing everyone to adopt WMA/V in the name of interoperability, but they don't exactly go out of their way to support AAC and mpg4.
Exactly. IIRC, back when I was using Word 3.0 it proudly listed all the "competing' formats it supported (from WordPerfect on down). By the time Word 5.0 came out, that list seemed to disappear.
That's part of what I was thinking. iTunes and the other jukebox apps ran on portable computers too. It seems obvious to me that "handheld computers" would use the same navigation.
Speaking of handheld computers, didn't many PIMs use metadata-style navigation for contacts and inventories?
Because the people running the patent office haven't graduated from elementary school yet?
I've been trying to figure out how long iTunes has been doing this. Does anyone remember if the first versions (on OS 9) did this? How about the jukebox apps that predated iTunes on Mac and Windows?
LMAO.
Once again, a quick quip with a potentially malformed bit of code will spawn a thread which will consume half the bandwidth of the overall discussion.
The short of it is they are saying the RIAA can't prove the files on her computer got their illegally (may have been legally ripped from CD), and more to the point, can't prove anybody (who isn't supposed to) downloaded them. IOW, you can't prove the case of distribution unless you can prove it was actually distributed -prior case law indicates just making the offer (making the files/goods available) doesn't constitute distribution. Someone has to actually buy/download.
One fun factor was that the RIAA did download the files, but considering they were working on behalf of the "owners" they had a de facto license to copy -no infringement here.
Yes, most CO2 emitted by human activities comes from burning fuels. However, I assume you mean forest fires. Those do not affect net CO2 levels over the long term because the carbon in forests had been pulled out of the air within the last few decades. That's not the case for fossil fuels.
Well, if forest fires don't affect net CO2 levels over the long term, then burning fossile fuels (which are plant leftovers) doesn't either (just a bit longer term). Its just re-establishing the "equilibrium" that existed before plants did. (not that the global climate has ever been in equilibrium over the long term)
Nah! Global climate change has been happening since the earth was formed. Can you believe how much CO2 those damn plants took out of the atmosphere and sequestered into fossile fuels before animals evolved to reduce the overproduction of oxygen. Now we're finally getting back on track, burning all that oil and coal to put the CO2 back in the atmosphere where it belongs and those "greens" are trying to stop us!
Quick, throw another log on the fire! Go global warming!
CFCs destroy ozone.
Yes, but do they have any significant effect compared to say solar flares and the like?
Its a complicated universe.
IMO "good gameplay" is the only one that counts. But then I grew up on Asteroids (don't take that too literally).
"Security: ...The reporting mechanism should be fully under the owner's control. "
...designed and implemented with privacy in mind "
...should not introduce any new interoperability obstacles that are not for the purpose of security. "
Exept the owner is the company you licensed the software from. The user is the person who bought the computer and software license.
"Privacy:
The user at the keyboard doesn't really need to know what's going on when "security" is reporting to the owner (see above). Especially since the user already agreed to let the owner do what they want as one of the conditions of "participation" (see below).
"Interoperability:
Meaning if the owner (see above) needs to do it to secure their software and the files it works with from "attack" by the user, its OK.
Controllability: Each owner should have effective choice and control... their participation must be opt-in. "
Meaning if the user doesn't agree to everything the owner (see above) dictates (which may change at owner's discretion), the owner is free to lock the user out of their computer (or some resources therof).
Sounds exactly like what MS would want. I know I'm putting a dark spin on the definitions, but there's nothing to say my interpretation isn't (partially) correct.
And when herding livestock, say onto a truck, you don't just put the truck in the middle of a field, pull down the ramp and start herding them on.
You slowly herd them into smaller and smaller confinements, and by the time they realize they're headed into a "dead end" its too late to turn back.
It's not going to stop worms, spyware, viruses, and the like - they are going to continue to plague people's computers
Don't be so pessimistic. Once you're in the "Trusted Enviornment" you're stuck there and can't touch anything else. So, knowing MS, this means worms, viruses and the like will only have access to trusted resources. Meaning MS Office will be wiped off the computer, but Open Office and my pr0n collection will be safe.
Dual 1 GHz G4 (Quicksilver). This was still happening weeks after installing Tiger, and my computer is generally on 24x7.
Not being fully indexed or a corrupted index was my first thought too, but searches from the Spotlight menu didn't have the same problem. Only when I did the search from a Finder window. Others on some of the Mac lists I'm subscribed to had similar problems.
The problem has gone away though. Don't know if it was an upgrade somewhere along the line or what it was.