This sounds like an interesting system, and I agree it has some merit; I'll often discover I'm speeding a bit in my Toyota minivan because the engine is so quiet and the ride is so smooth it's easy to go faster than you realize. I'm sure other auto brands are similar. I do think making a system like this mandatory would be stupid, but if its use were voluntary, and disableable, then I think it'd be okay.
On the other hand, instead of doing something complicated like adjusting the feedback from the gas pedal, why not do something simpler, like sound a buzzer? Provide some feedback based on how long and how much over the speed limit someone is traveling.
If you get a 1080i-native-capable projector, you'll wind up with a gorgeous result. It may not have the total pixel resolution of your 4X4-multiplexed system, but it will lack the gaps between the displays and you'll be able to emplace the picture-in-pictures via software, with (depending on your system's horsepower) the ability to split the window up into as many boxes as you want.
This is a pretty neat idea, but JPEG compression tends to be rather CPU-intensive for various reasons. I'd recommend either recompressing to a more reasonable format - LZW, for instance - or perhaps going to an intermediate compression also based on JPEG but requiring less CPU to deal with. For instance, decompressing to 32- or 64-bit fixed-length tuplets rather than the LZ or numerical compression used in the files.
I don't understand why the FBI is creating so much negative press for itself when it doesn't need to. They already have the power to perform "roving wiretaps" on internet connections, and any form of VoIP over said connections, unless it's heavily encrypted, is easy meat. This campaign for control is redundant.
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What Melanie Wyne doesn't get is that it takes government effort -- and tax dollars -- to enforce IP. Physical property can be guarded by the owner, but aside from having a government police force and court system to prevent intellectual property from flying around on P2P networks, how does one protect IP? And the costs are rising every minute as the internet becomes more pervasive.
There are other ways for content producers to make money for their work. They may not be as potentially lucrative as today, with an effective subsidy provided by government's artifical intellectual property rights, but there will be lots of opportunity -- especially once money stops going towards enforcing the current IP system and is instead spent directly on entertainment.
GRATUITOUS SPAM: I'm personally involved with one agency that is using alternative economic models for paying content producers. Check it out here.
...is for Daniel Keys Moran's novel, The Long Run. I don't think it's been in print for years, which is probably the only reason it's not on the list. I'd also recommend the other novels of the Continuing Time, including Emerald Eyes, but The Long Run is a good start.
Sixty-two thousand years before the birth of Yeshua ha Notzri, whom later humans knew as Jesus the Christ, the Time Wars ended, for reasons which no sentient being now knows. With that ending, the Continuing Time began.
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Please remember that this is 50% mortality among REPORTED cases. There may be plenty of people out there who get sick with mild or moderate symptoms and treat it like the regular flu, stay home, take lots of liquids, etc. The mortality rate is among people who are admitted to the hospital, and this is probably only people already showing severe symptoms.
Depends on how well the network routes things. You can go a long distance in 3-4 hops. You could also design the protocol to act like a switch, with packets being relayed even as they're coming in.
There had been some discussion here in the past about using cell phones as network relays as well as end-points to increase range and reach, but one of the conclusions was that having cell phones constantly retransmitting data would run down the batteries too quickly. This technology might change the equation, making it possible to have an ad-hoc networking system shuttling data between portable devices rather than needing a lot of infrastructure.
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I would personally recommend running a server connected to both wireless and internet with routing between them turned off, and then log on to the server w/ an ssl tunnel for your outside connection. This lets you give individual accounts to people and prevents someone from sniffing the contents of your traffic to the net from the airwaves. I believe you can also control bandwidth per link, as well, but I'm not sure about that.
With screens that size, can we please redesign the machine's form-factor? Say, a detachable CPU/keyboard/drive unit taking up 2/3 of the bottom clamshell, with the rest holding the batteries and acting as the base for the display? We're getting to the point that you want to be able to sit further back from the display and not have it start directly behind the keyboard.
Setting aside my opinions on whether IP should exist or not, the people running the tracker server(s) sharing pirated data could conceivably be held responsible, a la Napster, for contributory infringement. That doesn't mean the primary infringer can't be held responsible as well. Either way, the BitTorrent software itself hasn't been held responsible, which makes me happy.
I think a large part of it is because, even if we have the ability to display the characters, we don't have a convenient way to enter them. The keyboard doesn't have a Sine symbol key. Further, expanding the keyboard to include these symbols will just make it unwieldy. I suppose one could have the display automatically convert sequences into special characters, much like modern word processors perform auto-superscript, but this might cause problems when editing. I personally prefer it as-is.
While having DNS providers battle each other might be somewhat disruptive, at least people could choose between alternative DNS servers. What I'm worried about is if these yahoos try taking over ICANN's IP allocation system. If THAT happened we'd see all sorts of routing problems, and would probably have to isolate the US's networks to keep things from becoming completely disrupted.
Actually, all the base versions of XP (AFAIK) are licensed for 1-2 processors. You can see it on the XP stick-on label. A 4-core machine might cost you more though.
Create a Wikipedia variant where only entries validated by a set of experts. When articles are updated in the main Wikipedia site they'll be queued for expert review; until then, the older, verified versions will remain in place.
(There's room for more than one of these; in fact, Wikipedia.org might grant subdomains to the most deserving versions.)
That's because the rumors for Google tend to be GOOD ideas (as opposed to the Microsoft DivX hoax), and I think Google listens carefully to what's babbled on the net. They "get it".
Taiwan *IS* a province of China, actually. But the exact situation is complicated.
You folks may remember when the Taiwanese legislature was planning to declare independence, and mainland threats made them back down? Well, if there weren't any ties to the mainland, why would they need to declare independence at all?
The reason is that, when Mao Tse-Tung's army took over the Chinese mainland and China's original rulers relocated to Taiwan, the old government maintained a claim to being the government of the mainland. In their eyes they were a province of China as a whole, despite the rest of the country being controlled by interlopers.
Now, over time, they realized the Communist regime, while it's gotten a bit more flexible, wasn't going away. Their own government changed in the meantime, too. And while they've gotten to the point where they no longer consider themselves to be the same country as the mainland, by having laid claim to being the only legitimate part of the original government they're still tied together.
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This sounds like an interesting system, and I agree it has some merit; I'll often discover I'm speeding a bit in my Toyota minivan because the engine is so quiet and the ride is so smooth it's easy to go faster than you realize. I'm sure other auto brands are similar. I do think making a system like this mandatory would be stupid, but if its use were voluntary, and disableable, then I think it'd be okay.
On the other hand, instead of doing something complicated like adjusting the feedback from the gas pedal, why not do something simpler, like sound a buzzer? Provide some feedback based on how long and how much over the speed limit someone is traveling.
If you get a 1080i-native-capable projector, you'll wind up with a gorgeous result. It may not have the total pixel resolution of your 4X4-multiplexed system, but it will lack the gaps between the displays and you'll be able to emplace the picture-in-pictures via software, with (depending on your system's horsepower) the ability to split the window up into as many boxes as you want.
This is a pretty neat idea, but JPEG compression tends to be rather CPU-intensive for various reasons. I'd recommend either recompressing to a more reasonable format - LZW, for instance - or perhaps going to an intermediate compression also based on JPEG but requiring less CPU to deal with. For instance, decompressing to 32- or 64-bit fixed-length tuplets rather than the LZ or numerical compression used in the files.
I don't understand why the FBI is creating so much negative press for itself when it doesn't need to. They already have the power to perform "roving wiretaps" on internet connections, and any form of VoIP over said connections, unless it's heavily encrypted, is easy meat. This campaign for control is redundant.
What Melanie Wyne doesn't get is that it takes government effort -- and tax dollars -- to enforce IP. Physical property can be guarded by the owner, but aside from having a government police force and court system to prevent intellectual property from flying around on P2P networks, how does one protect IP? And the costs are rising every minute as the internet becomes more pervasive.
There are other ways for content producers to make money for their work. They may not be as potentially lucrative as today, with an effective subsidy provided by government's artifical intellectual property rights, but there will be lots of opportunity -- especially once money stops going towards enforcing the current IP system and is instead spent directly on entertainment.
GRATUITOUS SPAM: I'm personally involved with one agency that is using alternative economic models for paying content producers. Check it out here.
...is for Daniel Keys Moran's novel, The Long Run. I don't think it's been in print for years, which is probably the only reason it's not on the list. I'd also recommend the other novels of the Continuing Time, including Emerald Eyes, but The Long Run is a good start.
Sixty-two thousand years before the birth of Yeshua ha Notzri, whom later humans knew as Jesus the Christ, the Time Wars ended, for reasons which no sentient being now knows. With that ending, the Continuing Time began.
Please remember that this is 50% mortality among REPORTED cases. There may be plenty of people out there who get sick with mild or moderate symptoms and treat it like the regular flu, stay home, take lots of liquids, etc. The mortality rate is among people who are admitted to the hospital, and this is probably only people already showing severe symptoms.
If someone wrote their own 3rd party API for the kernel and then released it GPL'd, and then wrote their driver for that API, would it be permissible?
And if you had issues with it, how different is it from running closed-source non-driver apps on a GPL'd OS?
Depends on how well the network routes things. You can go a long distance in 3-4 hops. You could also design the protocol to act like a switch, with packets being relayed even as they're coming in.
There had been some discussion here in the past about using cell phones as network relays as well as end-points to increase range and reach, but one of the conclusions was that having cell phones constantly retransmitting data would run down the batteries too quickly. This technology might change the equation, making it possible to have an ad-hoc networking system shuttling data between portable devices rather than needing a lot of infrastructure.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDe tail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=53540925
There may be other less-expensive models w/ a similar adapter, and you may also be able to find one used.
I would personally recommend running a server connected to both wireless and internet with routing between them turned off, and then log on to the server w/ an ssl tunnel for your outside connection. This lets you give individual accounts to people and prevents someone from sniffing the contents of your traffic to the net from the airwaves. I believe you can also control bandwidth per link, as well, but I'm not sure about that.
With screens that size, can we please redesign the machine's form-factor? Say, a detachable CPU/keyboard/drive unit taking up 2/3 of the bottom clamshell, with the rest holding the batteries and acting as the base for the display? We're getting to the point that you want to be able to sit further back from the display and not have it start directly behind the keyboard.
Setting aside my opinions on whether IP should exist or not, the people running the tracker server(s) sharing pirated data could conceivably be held responsible, a la Napster, for contributory infringement. That doesn't mean the primary infringer can't be held responsible as well. Either way, the BitTorrent software itself hasn't been held responsible, which makes me happy.
I think a large part of it is because, even if we have the ability to display the characters, we don't have a convenient way to enter them. The keyboard doesn't have a Sine symbol key. Further, expanding the keyboard to include these symbols will just make it unwieldy. I suppose one could have the display automatically convert sequences into special characters, much like modern word processors perform auto-superscript, but this might cause problems when editing. I personally prefer it as-is.
Hikita! That little Asian trraitor!
I apparently goofed about ICANN, but IP allocation was one of the things the UN wanted to take over, along with DNS.
While having DNS providers battle each other might be somewhat disruptive, at least people could choose between alternative DNS servers. What I'm worried about is if these yahoos try taking over ICANN's IP allocation system. If THAT happened we'd see all sorts of routing problems, and would probably have to isolate the US's networks to keep things from becoming completely disrupted.
Actually, all the base versions of XP (AFAIK) are licensed for 1-2 processors. You can see it on the XP stick-on label. A 4-core machine might cost you more though.
...MetaWikipedia!
Create a Wikipedia variant where only entries validated by a set of experts. When articles are updated in the main Wikipedia site they'll be queued for expert review; until then, the older, verified versions will remain in place.
(There's room for more than one of these; in fact, Wikipedia.org might grant subdomains to the most deserving versions.)
But wouldn't that make it easier for the bank to be defrauded by its CUSTOMERS?
I won't be logging on to my bank's website on any trips outside the US.
That's because the rumors for Google tend to be GOOD ideas (as opposed to the Microsoft DivX hoax), and I think Google listens carefully to what's babbled on the net. They "get it".
Taiwan *IS* a province of China, actually. But the exact situation is complicated.
You folks may remember when the Taiwanese legislature was planning to declare independence, and mainland threats made them back down? Well, if there weren't any ties to the mainland, why would they need to declare independence at all?
The reason is that, when Mao Tse-Tung's army took over the Chinese mainland and China's original rulers relocated to Taiwan, the old government maintained a claim to being the government of the mainland. In their eyes they were a province of China as a whole, despite the rest of the country being controlled by interlopers.
Now, over time, they realized the Communist regime, while it's gotten a bit more flexible, wasn't going away. Their own government changed in the meantime, too. And while they've gotten to the point where they no longer consider themselves to be the same country as the mainland, by having laid claim to being the only legitimate part of the original government they're still tied together.
No, but Microsoft might get YOUR domain. Stupid idea.