My suggestion was meant to be more along the lines of the water-cooling (with a radiator) that is popular among the overclocking crowd, not just a static pool of water. A display like this could be mounted on a wall, with the pump and radiator in a separate location, connected by a hose.
What if the screen was made up of two pieces of glass, with water being passed between them? Water is obviously a proven way to transfer heat and it would be invisible to the user.
I would wager a guess that it would be cheaper and easier to establish a rapport with a smaller, third-world country who would allow these people to make all the social and economic changes they may want.
Or... they might not because they only want the benefits of living in the United States, meanwhile shirking any responsibilities that our society places on its citizens. Like it or not, the US government isn't a giant conspiracy organization. It's made up of people, that we know, and we elect. When we don't like how someone is doing, we elect someone else. The larger the group, the more inertia there is, but stability is also increased.
How long before a few of those 20,000 people starts bitching that someone is taking things from his garden and the group creates some rules, then a small police force, some judges, and then a punishment system?
I sat here for a few minutes trying to formulate a response. When I realized how painful it was to slow my brain down to the corresponding level of your post, I decided it wasn't really worth it.
I'd call you a troll, but most trolls do a better job of formulating a post that will incite people. You, on the other hand, seem to post things that just don't make sense. Perhaps, the reason that your past posts fail to get moderated up, nor down, is you largely get ignored.
Where were you in the 80's? There was a time when any class that had a computer had an Apple. The AppleIIe and AppleIIgs were about the only thing around schools then, because Apple dumped them at rock-bottom prices and got students hooked.
So expensive that it is no longer affordable for the "average Joe" to trade or broadcast.
No, it makes it more difficult from someone to trade or broadcast material that is controlled by the RIAA. It doesn't hinder "average Joe" from broadcasting material of his own creation, nor material created by other that "average Joe" has been given permission to distribute.
If "average Joe" wants to broadcast my music, he can damn well pay me for it. If he doesn't want to pay the prices, according to the value I put on my music, he should make his own or find cheaper content.
Though, I'm not sure if it will be with their teeth or the sheer amount of dog hair. I vaccuum once a week and empty my upright three times, once for each floor. I don't see how that tiny thing could possibly hold up against any single room in my house.
In order to extend the range of the transmission, a 20cm-diameter lens was used to focus the beam. In the laboratory, a 10m range for the system has been confirmed, but NTT is expecting to try and extend the range to 100m
From a scientific standpoint, this is somewhat interesting. I don't see it being news, however, until they seriosuly decrease the size of the transmitters and/or increase the range. The transmitters look to be about the size of a shoebox, which is great for building-to-building, but let us know when they actually bump up the range to say... building-to-building distances.
You cannot expect the warranty cycle to provide you with a new, faster, bigger drive. They don't do that.
I don't expect Western Digital to give me a bigger drive. However, in two occassions with me, once with my brother, once with my father, and numerous times with past customers, that's exactly what they did. Sometimes, even past the warranty time. That alone, is the reason I have always paid a couple bucks more and bought the WD drives.
* That may seem like a large number of failed drives, but considering the volume of drives we've bought, it's around 10% and they all happened after 2+ years of constant use.
I've replaced two WD drives in the past 10 years, or so. I've also witnessed several friends and family do the same, along with a huge amount while I was a teach. In every case, WD took the drive back, even after 3 years, usually with little explanation. I haven't noticed a higher failure rate, but I would buy based entirely on their support.
In most instances, the older drives were replaced with a larger drive and they were sent for free, before I sent mine, so I could return it in the same box. A couple years ago they even had a return postage sticker for the return trip.
By all-in-one I mean I want a Digital Camera/Cell Phone/Pager/mp3 player/PDA with wireless networking all in one no bigger than palm-sized package.
Besides the obvious pain of not being able to talk on the cell phone while scribbling a note into the handheld, there's a greater problem in combining all those devices. When's the last time someone here bought an all-in-one motherboard? People blasted the ones in your typical desktop for years, because upgrading and repair/replacement was difficult or impossible. Even if inexpensive, fast repair was possible, you now have to forfeit your (essential) PDA, (essential) pager, and (essential) cell phone to get your (non-essential) mp3 player working. No thanks.
Combining some of these devices would be fine. I've been bitching about an adequate phone + PDA for a while. However, to be able to comine both would require an earpiece/microphone or incredible dexterity on the part of the user. Even with the former, you're talking wires (bleh) or wireless... which means another device and thereby defeats the purpose. Again, no thanks.
It's really simple. If the webcaster doesn't feel that the RIAA's product is worth it, he shouldn't pay for it. If he doesn't pay for it, he shouldn't use it.
Anger or disgust with high prices doesn't justify theft. Otherwise, I'd have a plasma television on my wall and a BMW in my garage.
Surely this must constitute a cartel operation, or at least a breach of some relevant antitrust legislation.
Why does everyone always jump on the large-organization-screwing-innocent-person bandwagon? The RIAA has the right to defend the property of its members. There's no legislation preventing someone from webcasting music of their own creation. Fair use does not include broadcasting content that doesn't belong to you. It disgusts me that people will badmouth the RIAA and then willingly support them through CD purchases or just plain steal from them.
Hypocrisy aside, I have an mp3 collection. The vast majority of those songs are made up of content I wouldn't listen to otherwise, and ceratinly didn't buy. I make no excuses, and should the cops show up on my doorstep, I would readily admit I did something illegal and I would, unenthusiastically but willingly, delete them. The last thought on my mind would be, "How do I convince the world that they're evil and I'm justified?"
Part of the first paragraph got chopped. It went on to say that Netscape 6 dropped default Java support, too. The combination of both companies ditching Java resulted in us re-writing for ActiveX.
This did happen, in a way. Our original plugin was Java. When MS dropped the Java plugin from Explorer, we felt screwed (there went our ideal
Our ideal situation, using Java, would have included everyone. It isn't our fault that MS controls the greater market share. In fact, even after Java support was dropped, we can recognize that by running with MS instead of against them, it makes significantly less work for us. So, yes, I would most certainly bet on their market share. It's not the popular view around here, but it has its distinct advantages.
People in real jobs often have to perform cost analysis, which usually includes a study of potential client demographics, etc.
Exactly. I worked for a VoIP dot-com a couple years ago. Netscape was getting to be such a hassle that when we saw less than 6% of our users were on it (the absolutely horrid Netscape 6 had less than 1%) we just said, "forget it" and moved on.
Don't get me wrong. Linux was the OS of choice for most of our developers, but when it came to making money, we had to go where the money was. It isn't in Linux.
This is exactly why water transport is a dead end that has rarely worked in the past.
Most water-based transport has been based on using brute force to displace the water with the object. This, like air to a hot-air balloon, lets the water displace the object. The whole point, had you really read the article, is that the glider is letting the water do all the work.
"The customers... loved it... it was a great technology that didn't get great market support."
You don't get one without the other. Your new technology is interesting and may even disrupt piracy for a while. However, that period of time will be remarkably shorter than the time it takes you to develop your technology.
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Heat must escape somewhere.
My suggestion was meant to be more along the lines of the water-cooling (with a radiator) that is popular among the overclocking crowd, not just a static pool of water. A display like this could be mounted on a wall, with the pump and radiator in a separate location, connected by a hose.
What if the screen was made up of two pieces of glass, with water being passed between them? Water is obviously a proven way to transfer heat and it would be invisible to the user.
Just remind me to be excited again in three years. It's interesting, but not really news until there's, at the least, something to look at.
Don't want your type anyway, shut up and go play xbox.
Is Civilization available for the xbox?
They only need 5,000 to make a location choice.
Let's use the power of Slashdotting to their advantage. Everyone sign up, so we can vote, and let's see how far we can send these boneheads packing.
I would wager a guess that it would be cheaper and easier to establish a rapport with a smaller, third-world country who would allow these people to make all the social and economic changes they may want.
Or... they might not because they only want the benefits of living in the United States, meanwhile shirking any responsibilities that our society places on its citizens. Like it or not, the US government isn't a giant conspiracy organization. It's made up of people, that we know, and we elect. When we don't like how someone is doing, we elect someone else. The larger the group, the more inertia there is, but stability is also increased.
How long before a few of those 20,000 people starts bitching that someone is taking things from his garden and the group creates some rules, then a small police force, some judges, and then a punishment system?
It's been done. They called themselves Puritans.
I sat here for a few minutes trying to formulate a response. When I realized how painful it was to slow my brain down to the corresponding level of your post, I decided it wasn't really worth it.
I'd call you a troll, but most trolls do a better job of formulating a post that will incite people. You, on the other hand, seem to post things that just don't make sense. Perhaps, the reason that your past posts fail to get moderated up, nor down, is you largely get ignored.
This should have been done long ago.
Where were you in the 80's? There was a time when any class that had a computer had an Apple. The AppleIIe and AppleIIgs were about the only thing around schools then, because Apple dumped them at rock-bottom prices and got students hooked.
So expensive that it is no longer affordable for the "average Joe" to trade or broadcast.
No, it makes it more difficult from someone to trade or broadcast material that is controlled by the RIAA. It doesn't hinder "average Joe" from broadcasting material of his own creation, nor material created by other that "average Joe" has been given permission to distribute.
If "average Joe" wants to broadcast my music, he can damn well pay me for it. If he doesn't want to pay the prices, according to the value I put on my music, he should make his own or find cheaper content.
Though, I'm not sure if it will be with their teeth or the sheer amount of dog hair. I vaccuum once a week and empty my upright three times, once for each floor. I don't see how that tiny thing could possibly hold up against any single room in my house.
In order to extend the range of the transmission, a 20cm-diameter lens was used to focus the beam. In the laboratory, a 10m range for the system has been confirmed, but NTT is expecting to try and extend the range to 100m
From a scientific standpoint, this is somewhat interesting. I don't see it being news, however, until they seriosuly decrease the size of the transmitters and/or increase the range. The transmitters look to be about the size of a shoebox, which is great for building-to-building, but let us know when they actually bump up the range to say... building-to-building distances.
What was even more funny to me than the original joke was that someone moderated this "Informative"
I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
200 miles is considered a fair distance here.
My guess is that most of the readers here would willingly walk that distance if it meant getting laid.
You cannot expect the warranty cycle to provide you with a new, faster, bigger drive. They don't do that.
I don't expect Western Digital to give me a bigger drive. However, in two occassions with me, once with my brother, once with my father, and numerous times with past customers, that's exactly what they did. Sometimes, even past the warranty time. That alone, is the reason I have always paid a couple bucks more and bought the WD drives.
* That may seem like a large number of failed drives, but considering the volume of drives we've bought, it's around 10% and they all happened after 2+ years of constant use.
I've replaced two WD drives in the past 10 years, or so. I've also witnessed several friends and family do the same, along with a huge amount while I was a teach. In every case, WD took the drive back, even after 3 years, usually with little explanation. I haven't noticed a higher failure rate, but I would buy based entirely on their support.
In most instances, the older drives were replaced with a larger drive and they were sent for free, before I sent mine, so I could return it in the same box. A couple years ago they even had a return postage sticker for the return trip.
By all-in-one I mean I want a Digital Camera/Cell Phone/Pager/mp3 player/PDA with wireless networking all in one no bigger than palm-sized package.
Besides the obvious pain of not being able to talk on the cell phone while scribbling a note into the handheld, there's a greater problem in combining all those devices. When's the last time someone here bought an all-in-one motherboard? People blasted the ones in your typical desktop for years, because upgrading and repair/replacement was difficult or impossible. Even if inexpensive, fast repair was possible, you now have to forfeit your (essential) PDA, (essential) pager, and (essential) cell phone to get your (non-essential) mp3 player working. No thanks.
Combining some of these devices would be fine. I've been bitching about an adequate phone + PDA for a while. However, to be able to comine both would require an earpiece/microphone or incredible dexterity on the part of the user. Even with the former, you're talking wires (bleh) or wireless... which means another device and thereby defeats the purpose. Again, no thanks.
It's really simple. If the webcaster doesn't feel that the RIAA's product is worth it, he shouldn't pay for it. If he doesn't pay for it, he shouldn't use it.
Anger or disgust with high prices doesn't justify theft. Otherwise, I'd have a plasma television on my wall and a BMW in my garage.
Surely this must constitute a cartel operation, or at least a breach of some relevant antitrust legislation.
Why does everyone always jump on the large-organization-screwing-innocent-person bandwagon? The RIAA has the right to defend the property of its members. There's no legislation preventing someone from webcasting music of their own creation. Fair use does not include broadcasting content that doesn't belong to you. It disgusts me that people will badmouth the RIAA and then willingly support them through CD purchases or just plain steal from them.
Hypocrisy aside, I have an mp3 collection. The vast majority of those songs are made up of content I wouldn't listen to otherwise, and ceratinly didn't buy. I make no excuses, and should the cops show up on my doorstep, I would readily admit I did something illegal and I would, unenthusiastically but willingly, delete them. The last thought on my mind would be, "How do I convince the world that they're evil and I'm justified?"
Part of the first paragraph got chopped. It went on to say that Netscape 6 dropped default Java support, too. The combination of both companies ditching Java resulted in us re-writing for ActiveX.
This did happen, in a way. Our original plugin was Java. When MS dropped the Java plugin from Explorer, we felt screwed (there went our ideal
Our ideal situation, using Java, would have included everyone. It isn't our fault that MS controls the greater market share. In fact, even after Java support was dropped, we can recognize that by running with MS instead of against them, it makes significantly less work for us. So, yes, I would most certainly bet on their market share. It's not the popular view around here, but it has its distinct advantages.
People in real jobs often have to perform cost analysis, which usually includes a study of potential client demographics, etc.
Exactly. I worked for a VoIP dot-com a couple years ago. Netscape was getting to be such a hassle that when we saw less than 6% of our users were on it (the absolutely horrid Netscape 6 had less than 1%) we just said, "forget it" and moved on.
Don't get me wrong. Linux was the OS of choice for most of our developers, but when it came to making money, we had to go where the money was. It isn't in Linux.
This is exactly why water transport is a dead end that has rarely worked in the past.
Most water-based transport has been based on using brute force to displace the water with the object. This, like air to a hot-air balloon, lets the water displace the object. The whole point, had you really read the article, is that the glider is letting the water do all the work.
To be honest I wouldn't spend mondey on developing this product
The developers agree with you. Apparently they spend mondey on other projects and reserve tuesdey through fridey for this one.
"The customers... loved it... it was a great technology that didn't get great market support."
You don't get one without the other. Your new technology is interesting and may even disrupt piracy for a while. However, that period of time will be remarkably shorter than the time it takes you to develop your technology.
Dr Mark Wyatt, another team member, said the dust showed evidence of comet activity.
Something tells me my wife won't be excited by this and I'll still get yelled at for not doing a better job of cleaning up the living room.