Write your favorite disk drive manufacturer and let them know your opinion. Copy prevention schemes tend to make programs more likely to fail, which is why widespread floppy-based copy prevention failed 20 years ago. Manufacturers of specially marked floppies quit doing so.
I already told my cable company that if the proposed video copying restrictions are implemented, my loss of timeshifting ability would greatly reduce the usefulness of my cable TV service.
Several of the pages in that site state that it is a 1900MHz GSM phone interface. SMS is supported. A "14.4Kbps modem" is mentioned, but the phrasing makes it sound as if it is an analog modem, not GSM digital data. Odd, as usually access to SMS also means support for digital data in a phone. I could get GSM digital data in my cell phone with my carrier's $40/month "unlimited Internet" service.
I'd be glad to create obscenechildpornharmfultominors.com if I could figure out a way to get income from being blocked. Should be cheap to operate, as it wouldn't need content.
Automated lawnmowers have been commercially available for 30 years. Most use a buried wire to detect the edge of the lawn. Some mow randomly within those limits, while others follow the wire for the first cut and use grass-edge detectors to spiral inward. Do a web search for "robot lawnmower" to find the Mowbot, Lawn Nibbler, Robomow, and others.
There aren't that many planes in any area to cause processing difficulties. If you have the GPS coordinates of each plane and direction/speed of travel, calculating distances and directions from your plane takes a fraction of a second. Calculating where the paths intersect takes only a little longer (much less if you're only checking if your plane will meet another one).
Notice that many more such calculations are done each second by "flight simulator" software, and such software has been running on desktop PCs since the time when 40MHz was a fast machine.
Making each plane broadcast its info in a reliable way and allowing it to be used is what the FAA is presently studying. Its simplest use is for collision avoidance -- pointing out a problem to the human pilot who can decide what to do. Automatic flight control is more complicated at several levels (ATC interface, quality assurance, geographic and airspace restrictions, regulatory, and avionics interfaces).
"think of what all that processing power can do. is this really what we need it to do? raw power like that, available only to
those who can construct it. oh well."
What do you want, to give the results of this effort to those who don't need it and can't use it? "Here are your food stamps and your array processing ration card."
"The complex reclamation process, on the other hand, requires considerable investment in special plant and this
cannot be run economically unless a steady supply of scrap material is assured."
A steady supply is easily assured by asking the employees of the recycling plant to bring to work their unwanted AOL CD-ROMs.
Try the CHAMP satellite site and the CHAMP Systems page has a link to the GPS system. The reflected GPS signals are used for additional GPS altitude info.
Signals reflected off the oceans would travel further than direct signals. By knowing where the satellite really is, perhaps they estimate the delay and can use the reflected signal as if it is an extra satellite. Whatever they're using the reflected signals for, it's an interesting idea -- unfortunately only something above ground level can use it.
Or symlink it to your personal bin dir, or add a shell alias or... well, there are at least six ways to make it run. If you have ~/bin in your PATH you can "ln -s/usr/sbin/traceroute ~/bin/traceroute".
If traceroute is in/usr/sbin and that is not in your PATH (type "echo $PATH" to check it), you can add that directory with this command: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
But if you didn't know that, you also don't know about.profile and other details of your shell.
This level of analysis has been compared to a map. You can see where the streets are and perhaps the buildings, but you can't see the colors of the houses and the windows and doors.
Further analysis is needed to figure out what molecules are created by each gene and under what circumstances. For example, neurons have on part of their surface a receptor for serotonin. This "receptor" is a molecule of a certain shape which the serotonin molecule fits into, and when this happens the receptor causes a change in behavior in the cell. There's a gene sequence someplace which builds the receptor molecule and adds it to the surface of the cell -- but this level of genetic maps don't tell us exactly where this gene sequence is and what the shape of the receptor is. Further research is needed to find the location of this genetic sequence, to analyze the exact genetic code, and what molecules that code can build.
Even that won't tell us everything about a cell -- some drugs work by fitting into a receptor near a receptor whose action they are targeted to block, and the drug works because the rest of its physical shape crowds the target receptor so what usually activates that target receptor cannot reach the receptor. It takes a lot of study to figure out the 3-D shape of the surface of a cell to understand what can be going on in the molecular soup of life.
Yes, coal is not pure carbon. There are assorted other materials (you may have heard of coal having different amounts of sulfur). Most coal is probably from organic matter (while oil is geologic in origin), which contains assorted metals from its food, and also mixed with whatever rocks happened to be nearby. About 1% of the burned coal is emitted as ash from a modern plant. The ash remaining in the plant contains the same concentrated non-carbon metals (concentrated because the hydrogen and carbon has been removed from the mix). Places with environmental standards treat ash as a hazardous waste.
The radioactive emissions from coal plants are greater than from a nuclear power plant. The problem at Chernobyl was that it sprayed its fuel outside instead of keeping it inside where it belonged. But remember that the radioactive fuel came from the environment in the first place. Where do you prefer it to be?
The math is not that hard. The failed Chernobyl plant was producing 1600 megawatts (now the limit is 700MW for that type of reactor). A U.S. style 1,000MW coal-fired power plant burns 4 million tons of coal a year and emits 5.2 tons of uranium and 12.8 tons of thorium. These emit 17,100 millicuries of radiation per power plant.
2 coal plants to replace the failed Chernobyl one emit 10.4 tons of uranium and 25.6 tons of thorium, and a total of 34,200 millicuries (34 curies) of radiation per year. So operating for a million years they would emit 34 million curies.
Do you mean like the old World Wide File System (WWFS), which let you access the whole WWW as a file system?
I suppose after you mount the WWFS on your system, you could copy your web pages into it (your web server would grant you write permission) and delete your originals, leaving your web pages wholly resident within the WWW -- whatever physical file system your WWW server is using is invisible to you.
I suppose if you mounted Gnutella as a filesystem on your web server you'd also be sharing your hyperlinks...
No, that's ~50% of people who did not vote and no guy of theirs got in. The guy who got in has ~25% of the people behind him, and the same amount support the other guy. And the 2% for Nader make 102%.
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No, no, no... If you like Star Wars and technology, try E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" series. It was written at the height of the 1930's "space police" space opera and intentionally overwhelmed the others in scope and scale. If you think the Star Wars rebels are underdogs, you don't know Atlantis. If you think the Star Wars fleet battles are large and complex, you don't know fleet formation fighting. If you think planetary defenses are impressive, you don't know the difference between a negasphere and a planet's intrinsic velocity.
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I already told my cable company that if the proposed video copying restrictions are implemented, my loss of timeshifting ability would greatly reduce the usefulness of my cable TV service.
Several of the pages in that site state that it is a 1900MHz GSM phone interface. SMS is supported. A "14.4Kbps modem" is mentioned, but the phrasing makes it sound as if it is an analog modem, not GSM digital data. Odd, as usually access to SMS also means support for digital data in a phone. I could get GSM digital data in my cell phone with my carrier's $40/month "unlimited Internet" service.
Start the bidding at $1 and the first few thousand can dream...
I'd be glad to create obscenechildpornharmfultominors.com if I could figure out a way to get income from being blocked. Should be cheap to operate, as it wouldn't need content.
I await eagerly the announcement of which stations will be part of the Geeks in Radio Space network.
Automated lawnmowers have been commercially available for 30 years. Most use a buried wire to detect the edge of the lawn. Some mow randomly within those limits, while others follow the wire for the first cut and use grass-edge detectors to spiral inward. Do a web search for "robot lawnmower" to find the Mowbot, Lawn Nibbler, Robomow, and others.
Notice that many more such calculations are done each second by "flight simulator" software, and such software has been running on desktop PCs since the time when 40MHz was a fast machine.
Making each plane broadcast its info in a reliable way and allowing it to be used is what the FAA is presently studying. Its simplest use is for collision avoidance -- pointing out a problem to the human pilot who can decide what to do. Automatic flight control is more complicated at several levels (ATC interface, quality assurance, geographic and airspace restrictions, regulatory, and avionics interfaces).
What do you want, to give the results of this effort to those who don't need it and can't use it? "Here are your food stamps and your array processing ration card."
A steady supply is easily assured by asking the employees of the recycling plant to bring to work their unwanted AOL CD-ROMs.
I went to ElLamo.Com and registered, but I still couldn't read the article.
Try the CHAMP satellite site and the CHAMP Systems page has a link to the GPS system. The reflected GPS signals are used for additional GPS altitude info.
Signals reflected off the oceans would travel further than direct signals. By knowing where the satellite really is, perhaps they estimate the delay and can use the reflected signal as if it is an extra satellite. Whatever they're using the reflected signals for, it's an interesting idea -- unfortunately only something above ground level can use it.
If traceroute is in /usr/sbin and that is not in your PATH (type "echo $PATH" to check it), you can add that directory with this command: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
But if you didn't know that, you also don't know about .profile and other details of your shell.
Well, the contestants have their uniforms and the hosts have their uniforms. And everything comes from out there in the junkyard.
Further analysis is needed to figure out what molecules are created by each gene and under what circumstances. For example, neurons have on part of their surface a receptor for serotonin. This "receptor" is a molecule of a certain shape which the serotonin molecule fits into, and when this happens the receptor causes a change in behavior in the cell. There's a gene sequence someplace which builds the receptor molecule and adds it to the surface of the cell -- but this level of genetic maps don't tell us exactly where this gene sequence is and what the shape of the receptor is. Further research is needed to find the location of this genetic sequence, to analyze the exact genetic code, and what molecules that code can build.
Even that won't tell us everything about a cell -- some drugs work by fitting into a receptor near a receptor whose action they are targeted to block, and the drug works because the rest of its physical shape crowds the target receptor so what usually activates that target receptor cannot reach the receptor. It takes a lot of study to figure out the 3-D shape of the surface of a cell to understand what can be going on in the molecular soup of life.
The radioactive emissions from coal plants are greater than from a nuclear power plant. The problem at Chernobyl was that it sprayed its fuel outside instead of keeping it inside where it belonged. But remember that the radioactive fuel came from the environment in the first place. Where do you prefer it to be?
2 coal plants to replace the failed Chernobyl one emit 10.4 tons of uranium and 25.6 tons of thorium, and a total of 34,200 millicuries (34 curies) of radiation per year. So operating for a million years they would emit 34 million curies.
8 tons of Chernobyl fuel was blasted out of the plant, in addition to radioactive gas leaks. "Several million curies" to "50 million curies" were released.
Apparently BT lawyers don't read /. and no cooperative emerged to formally refute their patent due to the earlier discussion.
I suppose after you mount the WWFS on your system, you could copy your web pages into it (your web server would grant you write permission) and delete your originals, leaving your web pages wholly resident within the WWW -- whatever physical file system your WWW server is using is invisible to you.
I suppose if you mounted Gnutella as a filesystem on your web server you'd also be sharing your hyperlinks...
Nelson's work was mentioned in the article. It definitely influenced the Web technology.
No, that's ~50% of people who did not vote and no guy of theirs got in. The guy who got in has ~25% of the people behind him, and the same amount support the other guy. And the 2% for Nader make 102%.
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No, no, no... If you like Star Wars and technology, try E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" series. It was written at the height of the 1930's "space police" space opera and intentionally overwhelmed the others in scope and scale. If you think the Star Wars rebels are underdogs, you don't know Atlantis. If you think the Star Wars fleet battles are large and complex, you don't know fleet formation fighting. If you think planetary defenses are impressive, you don't know the difference between a negasphere and a planet's intrinsic velocity.
...and you know that if Junkyard Wars builds robots, you don't want your red shoe to be anywhere near them!
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