While I personally would like to see a greater rewrite of copyright law to something more encouraging of new innovation, there are some arguments to confine broadcast areas. For instance, much of PBS programming is paid for by state, not by national corporations. By that sense you could not expect to get for free what a dirt farmer in Nebraska had to pay for.
On the other hand, I would really like to be able to see Doctor Who episodes my current local PBS broadcasts here in Maryland while I'm elsewhere, as I may soon be...
While taking an AP Physics class a few years ago I created a glass plate hologram by about the simplest possible method. I remember from it that if I turned the hologram upside down and pointed a light source in the right direction I could make the object appear to float in air. So, does this mean that a center-of-the-room, projected-in-thin-air hologram is possible? I'm sure some people on Slashdot know plenty more about holograms.
That brings back memories. The article asks, "When was 270MB enough for anything lately?"
When I had a 20MB drive on my hand-me-down Leading Edge XT - and that was big.
Really though, this is good. I've been watching them for some time, and their project can only become more useful as Microsoft makes sure that it's impossible to get a DOS license. Open source developers are interestingly enough the only people protecting the world from obsolescence.
It's a shame Linux isn't really installable in its modern incarnations on any machine older than a 486, but good old minix is still available at http://www.minix.org. Remember, this was Linus' base for linux. Minix, unlike DOS, is already fully TCP/IP ready... there is a good site describing how to get on the internet using an XT and Minix. Also, minix.org reminds me of the way linux.org looked about five years ago, pre-commercialization.
You make the twin analogy, but what if when two natural twins were born, one was used to support the other in case they needed a replacement part - sacrificing one for the other?
The question is, of course, where to draw the line between human life and a clump of cells. There is no natural barrier, only artificial ones created by science, i.e. the trimester division of pregnancy.
It seems to me that this doctor's intentions are very misguided. He essentially, from watching Meet the Press, wants to use these cloned eggs to create personalized stem cells for any human in need of a new organ. In other words, create a new human life, and then destroy it for someone else's use. This reminds me way too much of scifi body part harvesting farms. Think about it for a minute.
Downloading movies on a Commodore?
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So let me get this straight - your friend was catching up with movies on a Commodore?
Well, I saw this ad on ebay six months ago, and realized it was nothing but a fresnel lens magnifiying a TV screen. I happened to have a really small one sitting around so I tried projecting my 5" B&W beast onto the ceiling. Well, it worked, but all the lights had to be off and even then it was a very dim picture and hard to keep in focus. It was about 100" though. A word of warning: I ordered some larger Fresnels from Edmund Scientifics to continue experimenting, but their focal length was way too long for them to be of any use. If you're going to try this, make sure you understand optics better than I do.
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While I personally would like to see a greater rewrite of copyright law to something more encouraging of new innovation, there are some arguments to confine broadcast areas. For instance, much of PBS programming is paid for by state, not by national corporations. By that sense you could not expect to get for free what a dirt farmer in Nebraska had to pay for.
On the other hand, I would really like to be able to see Doctor Who episodes my current local PBS broadcasts here in Maryland while I'm elsewhere, as I may soon be...
While taking an AP Physics class a few years ago I created a glass plate hologram by about the simplest possible method. I remember from it that if I turned the hologram upside down and pointed a light source in the right direction I could make the object appear to float in air. So, does this mean that a center-of-the-room, projected-in-thin-air hologram is possible? I'm sure some people on Slashdot know plenty more about holograms.
That brings back memories. The article asks, "When was 270MB enough for anything lately?" When I had a 20MB drive on my hand-me-down Leading Edge XT - and that was big. Really though, this is good. I've been watching them for some time, and their project can only become more useful as Microsoft makes sure that it's impossible to get a DOS license. Open source developers are interestingly enough the only people protecting the world from obsolescence. It's a shame Linux isn't really installable in its modern incarnations on any machine older than a 486, but good old minix is still available at http://www.minix.org. Remember, this was Linus' base for linux. Minix, unlike DOS, is already fully TCP/IP ready... there is a good site describing how to get on the internet using an XT and Minix. Also, minix.org reminds me of the way linux.org looked about five years ago, pre-commercialization.
We Slashdotted Los Alamos!
xxx.lanl.gov.is down.
Do you mean... the PS2?
You make the twin analogy, but what if when two natural twins were born, one was used to support the other in case they needed a replacement part - sacrificing one for the other?
The question is, of course, where to draw the line between human life and a clump of cells. There is no natural barrier, only artificial ones created by science, i.e. the trimester division of pregnancy.
It seems to me that this doctor's intentions are very misguided. He essentially, from watching Meet the Press, wants to use these cloned eggs to create personalized stem cells for any human in need of a new organ. In other words, create a new human life, and then destroy it for someone else's use. This reminds me way too much of scifi body part harvesting farms. Think about it for a minute.
So let me get this straight - your friend was catching up with movies on a Commodore?
Still, interesting story.
Well, I saw this ad on ebay six months ago, and realized it was nothing but a fresnel lens magnifiying a TV screen. I happened to have a really small one sitting around so I tried projecting my 5" B&W beast onto the ceiling. Well, it worked, but all the lights had to be off and even then it was a very dim picture and hard to keep in focus. It was about 100" though. A word of warning: I ordered some larger Fresnels from Edmund Scientifics to continue experimenting, but their focal length was way too long for them to be of any use. If you're going to try this, make sure you understand optics better than I do.