it's REALLY difficult to prevent snarls during retraction
Couldn't they just use a winch with the cable fed through a pair of rollers with brakes on them to keep the cable from piling up in the winch?
Or reel it in from both ends while its still spinning (to keep some small amount of tension on it) and apply counter-spin thrust to keep the RPMs constant as radius decreases?
Granted none of this seems trivial, but not does it seem that difficult.
Its all about risk. Why spend $4 million on development of a risky game that might be a massive hit when you can spend $1 million on the game, $3 million on marketing and be fairly sure that it'll make a million or two profit. If the marketing approach fails, its because of piracy obviously.
This is true, and works for quarterly gains.
Just don't expect long term (5+ year) success out of it.
What does it matter if teeth are organs? Our definition of organ is contrived based on observation to begin with.
This whole obsession with pigeon-hole-principal style of categorization, and the unwillingness to create new categories or modify existing ones seems to me to be a waste of time and irrelevant.
Is a tooth an organ? Who cares? We're going to keep chewing on them regardless of whether or not we call them organs or flaffynerfers.
Is pluto a planet or not? Who cares? It's going to keep right on spinning in space either way.
Are viruses considered life or not? Who cares? They exist, and will continue doing what they're doing regardless of how we classify them.
The arbitrary human-contrived category that a thing belongs to won't affect the thing itself, our time would be better spent studying the thing itself and ignoring the semi-arbitrary categories it may or may not belong to. There are more important things to worry about.
It's about the same as an iPhone 3GS and those are selling like hotcakes.
Also, netbooks don't' fit in your pocket or connect to most wireless carriers. Bear with me, this is kinda long, but has a point...
I for one, love my iphone. It's so powerful as to be a near-pocket computer and doubles as a really good phone and MP3 player, with a very nice camera by phone standards (I've taken worse pictures with digital camera, often). It's basically the all-in-one device I've been waiting for that's fast enough to not be painful, with a capacitive touch screen that's got a truly amazing smudge resistant coating. The smudgy mess on those N900 pictures looked downright awful. As I look down at my iphone sitting on my desk right now the display is literally gleaming without a mark on it. Just from having it in my pocket for 2 minutes.
All of this awesomeness makes me wonder if Nokia can truly rival it. I have an N810 and really loved it...until I got my iPhone. Now it's collecting dust despite how much I loved it as an ebook reader. The hassle of finding and converting ebooks to a format it can read is generally outweighed by the convenience of the kindle iphone app and the fact that I can get new, scifi/fantasy titles via Amazon. I don't *like* the fact that they're DRMed to hell & back, and the kindle reader app sucks horribly compared to the customizability of FBReader, but overall the iPhone wins out.
All of that for $700, or $200 and a 2 year wallet parasite. And if the N900 can rival the iPhone on functionality and usability with about the same price tag? I'm *very* interested.
Speaking from my experience writing PIC assembly in college anyway...
We would write the code in assembly, then run a couple of command line programs over it to compile it into something that would actually run on the chip, then burn it to the firmware.
The code is assembly, but it's fairly human readable, especially with comments - at least compared to actual binary code - but the CPU or chip does not run human readable assembly, it runs binary code. So yes, even though it's assembly, it has to be compiled - or at least interpreted and compacted into binary before the computer can run it.
In short, even assembly code is still ASCII or Unicode, neither of which is particularly useful to a processor directly, so they do need some compilation-like work done before it can actually run. Even if it's not technically compilation, per se.
Also, that's probably a pretty generic license, so it includes all sorts of legal clauses and is almost certainly over-broad.
That's because numbers without context are completely meaningless.
Here's proof by examples:
29A would scare a lot of people were it to magically appear on their bathroom mirror overnight, but only if written differently. That alone is sufficient proof for me that numerology is stupid, and that superstition is all in your head. You'll never hear a profit talking about 29A.
52 is at the heart of a lot of not-so-inside jokes. That is, if you first convert it from octal.
0 is the true/good/success in *nix, not so much for your bank account.
This is why they're called "magic numbers" in programming, without sufficient context, they're utterly meaningless. readline(37.4); seems pretty magical to me when it makes the program work correctly. Hence, 37 must be magical. That is unless it relates to your fiancée.
If the student's phone disrupts the class, it gets turned off and put in the bucket till the end of the day.
If the pull it out and start using it when they're supposed to be paying attention, it gets turned off and put int he bucket till the end of the day.
Those students that can be responsible can keep their phones. Even on their person and quietly receiving texts, emails or whatever, or even use them when they're done with their classwork as long as it doesn't disrupt the class.
Those students that disrupt the class with them, or cannot use them responsibly get them confiscated until the end of the day.
Students that behave can keep their phones, students that can't, can't. Teachers can still use theirs, and so can the administrators, janitors and visitors. And you can buy a lot of buckets for a fraction of $5,000.
Everybody wins but the people selling the questionably legal cell phone jammers.
Send your money exclusively to the people who provide what you actually want.
Those that would rather draconian control for their own selfish gain at your expense will soon become extinct in the face of actual competition.
If they won't give you want you want don't settle for the best that you can get from them boycott them completely. If every person out there actually did this scum like this would go out of business overnight.
This is why there's no such thing as a technical solution to a social problem.
Here's another example: My company instituted a policy where recipient names would not auto complete on the To/CC fields - enforced through the domain security policy - to prevent people from sending stuff meant for one client to another.
Less than 48 hours later someone sent a sensitive email to the wrong client anyway.
I have a theory that explains yours. And it's a lot shorter (but not nearly as funny).
Human beings are selfish, greedy, lazy, and usually incompetent.
This makes all things they're involved with tend toward shit. It's only when things get super-shitty that the few altruistic, competent people put forth the effort to swing the pendulum back toward not-shit.
Note that I did not say people who aren't lazy, because, as Heinlein said, "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."
If a single cell phone using hacked firmware can crash a cell tower, then the tower needs fixed.
This is nothing more than an attempt by Apple to retain control of and thus be able to profit more from their product to the detriment of their customers.
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I wanna see if it works on women.
I bet it does.
So don't listen to them.
Being ignored is their worst nightmare.
Couldn't they just use a winch with the cable fed through a pair of rollers with brakes on them to keep the cable from piling up in the winch?
Or reel it in from both ends while its still spinning (to keep some small amount of tension on it) and apply counter-spin thrust to keep the RPMs constant as radius decreases?
Granted none of this seems trivial, but not does it seem that difficult.
Or gyros to eat up the momentum?
This is true, and works for quarterly gains.
Just don't expect long term (5+ year) success out of it.
Set up your own robocaller calling only members of congress or the senate every hour on the hour asking them to support your political campaign.
See how they like it.
What does it matter if teeth are organs? Our definition of organ is contrived based on observation to begin with.
This whole obsession with pigeon-hole-principal style of categorization, and the unwillingness to create new categories or modify existing ones seems to me to be a waste of time and irrelevant.
Is a tooth an organ? Who cares? We're going to keep chewing on them regardless of whether or not we call them organs or flaffynerfers.
Is pluto a planet or not? Who cares? It's going to keep right on spinning in space either way.
Are viruses considered life or not? Who cares? They exist, and will continue doing what they're doing regardless of how we classify them.
The arbitrary human-contrived category that a thing belongs to won't affect the thing itself, our time would be better spent studying the thing itself and ignoring the semi-arbitrary categories it may or may not belong to. There are more important things to worry about.
It's about the same as an iPhone 3GS and those are selling like hotcakes.
Also, netbooks don't' fit in your pocket or connect to most wireless carriers. Bear with me, this is kinda long, but has a point...
I for one, love my iphone. It's so powerful as to be a near-pocket computer and doubles as a really good phone and MP3 player, with a very nice camera by phone standards (I've taken worse pictures with digital camera, often). It's basically the all-in-one device I've been waiting for that's fast enough to not be painful, with a capacitive touch screen that's got a truly amazing smudge resistant coating. The smudgy mess on those N900 pictures looked downright awful. As I look down at my iphone sitting on my desk right now the display is literally gleaming without a mark on it. Just from having it in my pocket for 2 minutes.
All of this awesomeness makes me wonder if Nokia can truly rival it. I have an N810 and really loved it...until I got my iPhone. Now it's collecting dust despite how much I loved it as an ebook reader. The hassle of finding and converting ebooks to a format it can read is generally outweighed by the convenience of the kindle iphone app and the fact that I can get new, scifi/fantasy titles via Amazon. I don't *like* the fact that they're DRMed to hell & back, and the kindle reader app sucks horribly compared to the customizability of FBReader, but overall the iPhone wins out.
All of that for $700, or $200 and a 2 year wallet parasite. And if the N900 can rival the iPhone on functionality and usability with about the same price tag? I'm *very* interested.
You wouldn't like the latency though.
You still have to compile (sota) assembler.
Speaking from my experience writing PIC assembly in college anyway...
We would write the code in assembly, then run a couple of command line programs over it to compile it into something that would actually run on the chip, then burn it to the firmware.
The code is assembly, but it's fairly human readable, especially with comments - at least compared to actual binary code - but the CPU or chip does not run human readable assembly, it runs binary code. So yes, even though it's assembly, it has to be compiled - or at least interpreted and compacted into binary before the computer can run it.
In short, even assembly code is still ASCII or Unicode, neither of which is particularly useful to a processor directly, so they do need some compilation-like work done before it can actually run. Even if it's not technically compilation, per se.
Also, that's probably a pretty generic license, so it includes all sorts of legal clauses and is almost certainly over-broad.
Why wait 3 seconds?
So if you hide it from the users, that makes it OK, legally.
Which is sickening.
That's because numbers without context are completely meaningless.
Here's proof by examples:
29A would scare a lot of people were it to magically appear on their bathroom mirror overnight, but only if written differently. That alone is sufficient proof for me that numerology is stupid, and that superstition is all in your head. You'll never hear a profit talking about 29A.
52 is at the heart of a lot of not-so-inside jokes. That is, if you first convert it from octal.
0 is the true/good/success in *nix, not so much for your bank account.
This is why they're called "magic numbers" in programming, without sufficient context, they're utterly meaningless. readline(37.4); seems pretty magical to me when it makes the program work correctly. Hence, 37 must be magical. That is unless it relates to your fiancée.
Yeah, don't deploy advertisements so infuriatingly intrusive that people will go through great pains to block them.
I don't understand what anyone sees in VLC. It's a usability train wreck.
In MPC, spacebar pauses/plays. So does clicking the video.
Last time I used VLC, I abandoned it seconds into using it because it was so user un-friendly, and the settings dialog was a total clusterfuck.
MPC can play anything VLC can, but without being irritating or getting in the way of itself.
In this case, imitation is the sincerest form of failure.
OO.org is second only to Office itself in terms of annoying.
Pressing the delete key pops up a modal "what do you want to delete" dialog? Are you fucking serious?
Quick, put it on Snopes.com.
It's the best we can do for now.
Except everything but for the eggs in stasis. How did that happen?
A bucket in each classroom on the teacher's desk.
If the student's phone disrupts the class, it gets turned off and put in the bucket till the end of the day.
If the pull it out and start using it when they're supposed to be paying attention, it gets turned off and put int he bucket till the end of the day.
Those students that can be responsible can keep their phones. Even on their person and quietly receiving texts, emails or whatever, or even use them when they're done with their classwork as long as it doesn't disrupt the class.
Those students that disrupt the class with them, or cannot use them responsibly get them confiscated until the end of the day.
Students that behave can keep their phones, students that can't, can't. Teachers can still use theirs, and so can the administrators, janitors and visitors. And you can buy a lot of buckets for a fraction of $5,000.
Everybody wins but the people selling the questionably legal cell phone jammers.
This is how you do it.
Send your money exclusively to the people who provide what you actually want.
Those that would rather draconian control for their own selfish gain at your expense will soon become extinct in the face of actual competition.
If they won't give you want you want don't settle for the best that you can get from them boycott them completely. If every person out there actually did this scum like this would go out of business overnight.
This is why there's no such thing as a technical solution to a social problem.
Here's another example: My company instituted a policy where recipient names would not auto complete on the To/CC fields - enforced through the domain security policy - to prevent people from sending stuff meant for one client to another.
Less than 48 hours later someone sent a sensitive email to the wrong client anyway.
Except this is completely retarded for government computers running linux and downloading new image ISOs via bittorrent.
Or, you could just not run as an administrator and get most of the same security.
I have a theory that explains yours. And it's a lot shorter (but not nearly as funny).
Human beings are selfish, greedy, lazy, and usually incompetent.
This makes all things they're involved with tend toward shit. It's only when things get super-shitty that the few altruistic, competent people put forth the effort to swing the pendulum back toward not-shit.
Note that I did not say people who aren't lazy, because, as Heinlein said, "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."
Also, driving at whatever speed you please in the passing lane is the biggest cause of dense traffic on highways.
It's not the fast lane people. Fast is relative. Passing isn't.
If a single cell phone using hacked firmware can crash a cell tower, then the tower needs fixed.
This is nothing more than an attempt by Apple to retain control of and thus be able to profit more from their product to the detriment of their customers.