However, if this hypothetical homeless man were in your living room with his drum, he would be trespassing on your property and you could request that he beats his drum elsewhere.
If he were to continually sneak in to your house every time you kicked him out, would you not take action against him?
From the posts that I've read so far with regards to software compatibility, there's something I see that's been overlooked. Why should China care if the crappy software (Windows, etc.) from the West works with their microprocessor? The whole point of this endeavour seems to be to eliminate their dependance on the West for computer technology.
The whole thing might be good for Open Source software. Even if it's not, it will still be interesting to see what a country with 1/6th the world's population as its potential user base can come up with.
It seems that nobody has realized that at 800m, the sniper making use of this tech will be very, very well hidden. It doesn't matter how pixelated it is, nor does it matter if there will be a sharp edge around it. By the time you get close enough to notice any of them, the sniper will have tagged you and will be on his merry way. This seems like a very practical invention and could be an invaluable tool for soldiers in the field.
Why is it suddenly the "in" thing to be so negative about every new invention? Patenting physical inventions isn't exactly a new thing.
Warchalkers have questioned the scare stories surrounding the phenomena, saying that anyone with malicious intent is unlikely to publicly mark their target.
It's not the warchalkers themselves that are the great security risk, it's the people who are going to use the open WLANs for malicious purposes who otherwise wouldn't have done the legwork to go out and find the open holes.
Honestly, this is the only post I've read on this entire thread that is not total verbal diarrhoea.
If nobody has noticed, Waterloo/Kitchener is one of the fastest growing industrial areas in Canada, largely due to the UofW. The university has spawned off some huge high tech companies such as RIM and OpenText which provide funding and support to many of the universities in Canada.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a university anywhere in the world that does not accept funding from outside sources. It costs a lot of money to purchase equipment for research and to fund the graduate students.
This funding is usually "targetted." This means that the organization providing the money has requested that it be used for research on a specific topic. Accepting this money does not make the university a "whore," in fact it makes the university a better place. Without this money, there would simply be fewer graduate students doing research.
It is very easy to ignorantly dismiss academia's contribution to technology and society simply because they don't produce as many dime-a-dozen, flavour-of-the-week "skilled workers" as vocational schools do.
In summary, there is nothing wrong with targetted research, nor with a directed curriculum. Academia and industry have a symbiotic relationship which manifests itself through this sort of practice.
As a side benefit, undergraduates who only want to go into the work force will be taught a skill that at least one major employer wants them to know.
To the "Microsoft is the anti-Christ" brigade who at least have the first clue as to what they are doing, we all know that new programming languages are easy to learn when you have a good understanding of how and why programs operate.
Whenever I see this topic coming up, I'm reminded of the #1 quote on the #geekissues quote database involving inventing a device with which he could stab people in the face over the internet.
Will people please learn the difference between Digital TV and HDTV?
Thank you.
They're not mandating that every TV has an HDTV tuner on board. They are mandating that every TV has a digital tuner. This would mean that you don't need to use that external box for your digital cable any more.
Had the FCC not required manufacturers to put the tuners that we use today, we'd still be using those old cable boxes. I'm sure that most of you have seen one of those clunky things before.
I know that it's the "in thing" to get all up in arms when "The Man" does anything at all, but show some common sense.
Something that everyone seems to be looking over with respect to the mod chip installations is that it's proof of his criminal intent.
Not only did he copy copyrighted material, he made a point of altering his customer's hardware to allow the pirated software to run. Seems like a fairly cut-and-dry case to me!
7. Eat crow when you realize that you will have to show the receipts for them. Think that's silly? Tell that to the BSA. When they file suit, they require you to show your invoices to prove that you didn't buy the software after the charges were laid.
Who cares what language his examples are in? I'm sure that most everyone who reads these articles can translate them to the API in whichever language they're going to write their program in.
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Yes! You can play Halo, Tony Hawk 2X, 3 and Nascar online! Man, with a selection like that, you'll never need another game again!
Why condemn Celera when they're doing the same thing that successful OSS-based companies are doing? They're providing the information for free (in this case, genetic code) and making money with value-added services. Yay Celera!
The intensity of the light hitting a given object is proportional to the sin of the angle at which the waves hit, so you would need even more than 10% of the moon's surface covered. Think of the case where the two arrays of reflectors are perpendicular to the sun's rays. Those reflectors would absorb a whopping 0% of the 13000TW of power.
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Don't forget to return the real money that he gained from the transaction.
However, if this hypothetical homeless man were in your living room with his drum, he would be trespassing on your property and you could request that he beats his drum elsewhere.
If he were to continually sneak in to your house every time you kicked him out, would you not take action against him?
The diamonds set in some of them might have something to do with the high prices too. ;)
From the posts that I've read so far with regards to software compatibility, there's something I see that's been overlooked. Why should China care if the crappy software (Windows, etc.) from the West works with their microprocessor? The whole point of this endeavour seems to be to eliminate their dependance on the West for computer technology.
The whole thing might be good for Open Source software. Even if it's not, it will still be interesting to see what a country with 1/6th the world's population as its potential user base can come up with.
Go China. Stick it to the West.
henry@triscuit:~$ fuck ./fuck: Permission denied
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It seems that nobody has realized that at 800m, the sniper making use of this tech will be very, very well hidden. It doesn't matter how pixelated it is, nor does it matter if there will be a sharp edge around it. By the time you get close enough to notice any of them, the sniper will have tagged you and will be on his merry way. This seems like a very practical invention and could be an invaluable tool for soldiers in the field.
Why is it suddenly the "in" thing to be so negative about every new invention? Patenting physical inventions isn't exactly a new thing.
Wow. Someone has far too much time on his hands!
Warchalkers have questioned the scare stories surrounding the phenomena, saying that anyone with malicious intent is unlikely to publicly mark their target.
It's not the warchalkers themselves that are the great security risk, it's the people who are going to use the open WLANs for malicious purposes who otherwise wouldn't have done the legwork to go out and find the open holes.
Honestly, this is the only post I've read on this entire thread that is not total verbal diarrhoea.
If nobody has noticed, Waterloo/Kitchener is one of the fastest growing industrial areas in Canada, largely due to the UofW. The university has spawned off some huge high tech companies such as RIM and OpenText which provide funding and support to many of the universities in Canada.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a university anywhere in the world that does not accept funding from outside sources. It costs a lot of money to purchase equipment for research and to fund the graduate students.
This funding is usually "targetted." This means that the organization providing the money has requested that it be used for research on a specific topic. Accepting this money does not make the university a "whore," in fact it makes the university a better place. Without this money, there would simply be fewer graduate students doing research.
It is very easy to ignorantly dismiss academia's contribution to technology and society simply because they don't produce as many dime-a-dozen, flavour-of-the-week "skilled workers" as vocational schools do.
In summary, there is nothing wrong with targetted research, nor with a directed curriculum. Academia and industry have a symbiotic relationship which manifests itself through this sort of practice.
As a side benefit, undergraduates who only want to go into the work force will be taught a skill that at least one major employer wants them to know.
To the "Microsoft is the anti-Christ" brigade who at least have the first clue as to what they are doing, we all know that new programming languages are easy to learn when you have a good understanding of how and why programs operate.
Whenever I see this topic coming up, I'm reminded of the #1 quote on the #geekissues quote database involving inventing a device with which he could stab people in the face over the internet. Will people please learn the difference between Digital TV and HDTV? Thank you.
They're not mandating that every TV has an HDTV tuner on board. They are mandating that every TV has a digital tuner. This would mean that you don't need to use that external box for your digital cable any more.
Had the FCC not required manufacturers to put the tuners that we use today, we'd still be using those old cable boxes. I'm sure that most of you have seen one of those clunky things before.
I know that it's the "in thing" to get all up in arms when "The Man" does anything at all, but show some common sense.
Something that everyone seems to be looking over with respect to the mod chip installations is that it's proof of his criminal intent.
Not only did he copy copyrighted material, he made a point of altering his customer's hardware to allow the pirated software to run. Seems like a fairly cut-and-dry case to me!
Do any of you know how to burn the .raw file? Pick an OS, any OS! I want to try this out on my xbox.
7. Eat crow when you realize that you will have to show the receipts for them. Think that's silly? Tell that to the BSA. When they file suit, they require you to show your invoices to prove that you didn't buy the software after the charges were laid.
Stupid.
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Just wait until your kernel panics. Who's laughing then? ;)
When I was a freshman, I took great joy in hosing my Slackware 3.something system on a regular basis. It's what made me the man I am today.
;)
Kind of sad, isn't it.
FYI: MS uses smaller teams (15-20 IIRC) of programmers.
Who cares what language his examples are in? I'm sure that most everyone who reads these articles can translate them to the API in whichever language they're going to write their program in.
Yes! You can play Halo, Tony Hawk 2X, 3 and Nascar online! Man, with a selection like that, you'll never need another game again!
Besides, GameSpy Tunnel is far more convenient.
Lighten up man. Have some fun. In case you haven't noticed, people outside the IT industry enjoy Star Wars as well.
If you want to live in the library, be my guest. Just don't complain to the rest of us that are out enjoying our lives.
Does it strike anyone as odd that on the same day Ted Turner calls users of PVRs "thieves" and a story about TiVo being programmable over AOL-TW?
To quote Safety Monkey of Penny Arcade:
"I call bullshit."
Why condemn Celera when they're doing the same thing that successful OSS-based companies are doing? They're providing the information for free (in this case, genetic code) and making money with value-added services. Yay Celera!
The intensity of the light hitting a given object is proportional to the sin of the angle at which the waves hit, so you would need even more than 10% of the moon's surface covered. Think of the case where the two arrays of reflectors are perpendicular to the sun's rays. Those reflectors would absorb a whopping 0% of the 13000TW of power.
You're a perl "programmer," I presume?