Other people have raised the nuclear proliferation issue. This question ought to be pared down to the Taiwan part, and asked. It will be a huge test of our country's resolve, and a defining moment in the international perception of the United States, if China attempts to invade Taiwan.
This is a "Mom and apple pie" question. No candidate will say they're for animal abuse, yet I don't see any president actually doing anything about it.
Get out of the anti-capitalist college dorm room you're living in and enter the real world sometime.
Oh! Murder's OK because it happens all the time! War is OK because governemnts do it! Suppression of free speech is fine and dandy 'cause that's the status quo!
Think about it. Even if you think the guy who first said, wrote, or drew something is entitled to compensation when others say, write, or draw it, does that mean automatically that the rest of the world has to abide by your moral judgement?
Get off your high "realist" horse and think about a world where the rules aren't all set in stone, and people have the freedom to live the way they want. Maybe, with a little experimenting, we could even get a better world that way.
First, this is not an intermediate version. According to Sony's Web site (translated from Japanese):
The PSX is not a successor to the PlayStation2, it is a HDD/DVD recorder designed with the capabilities of the PlayStation2 in mind.
SONY Japan planned the PlayStation2 as a platform for digital media convergence; this is an outgrowth of that. The PlayStation2 was never supposed to be just a video game console, it was a technology for media processing.
Second, this is an eminently sellable product for its target market: people who want not just a functional but an elegant PVR. The marketing campaign in Japan features yoko, tate, pi! - loosely translated as "across, down, beep!" - scroll across to the "videos" icon, down through your videos until you find the one you want, then beep! -- it plays.
The interface is elegant, as is the design, and the box does what it should do with no fuss. Many consumers would pay for that, particularly in Japan where people are willing to pay more for good products.
If the organization can't make its case to the public directly and attract funds that way, perhaps it shouldn't be getting through "under the radar" by siphoning off taxpayer funds.
I think spinning-off portions of government is reasonable. It decreases taxpayer burden and leaves more money in the hands of individuals. If a group of citizens wants to support an organization like this, then more power to them; I might even participate.
However, bellyaching about government cutting your favorite program is myopic. Remember that other people would like to spend your money on projects of theirs, projects you might be very unhappy to fund.
I must say, though, that if I were a member of an organization that informs law enforcement, I would be hesitant to work with the government on the mainland.
Spamhaus.org in the US can assume that spammers will be assessed for fines; the punishments may be more serious in China, whose legal system is much less transparent than that of the United States (although the US is working on theirs).
I would be very careful to point spammers out to law enforcement; I would hate to have on my conscience that some guy with a family to feed is sitting in jail just for spamming because I cooperated with his government in prosecuting him.
If you don't have time to do anything with your paper notebook after you get back, why do you think you'll have time to do the "final editing" with digital data?
I think a re-evaluation of your schedule after vacations is more justified than a new equipment purpose.
Think about it... Apple has a decent position in the desktop space, and Sun could provide the expertise to make really good backend servers, perhaps based on UltraSPARC early in the game but shifting to Power5 later.
One would need to see a lot more client/server integration, but I think if Sun/Apple (one of my labmates suggested Snapple) marketed enterprise solutions consisting of high-end multiprocessor servers serving Java apps to Apple workstations, they might really get somewhere.
It's a gamble, but Apple could only profit from it and Sun needs new ideas fast.
Well, the kids were of various ages. A ten-year-old that had spent some time with Illustrator could have done that. I don't think it's clear that a parent assised (aside from teaching the kid Illustrator, which IMO is fair game).
I agree that this is head and shoulders over the others, partially because the use of a computer made it more easily integratable into electronic media. The kid clearly had a very good sense of what it takes to make a good logo (the image creates a relationship with the viewer, with the bird looking straight in the viewer's eye).
Very nice, too, is how both the bird and the fish are smiling, which makes the image very cheerful and "childlike" (in the way adults define it).
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In addition, you don't even have to use up bandwidth.
If you simply install a firewall filter that blocks the outgoing spam mail, the spammers can never figure it out and you're making money for nothing. The program runs, it sends spam, the spam just gets nowhere.
A powerful computer to pump out spam quickly and a decent firewall to block it will pay for themselves quickly if you keep them running 24/7.
The spent fuel will burn up in the atmosphere, disintegrating into small particles. It will spread out and deliver a dose probably less than what you get in a doctor's office from an X-ray machine.
The posting of this article to Slashdot is FUD, pure and simple, as is most anti-nuclear propaganda. Radioactive material, like all other toxins, requires a certain concentration to be lethal. The danger is only to spacecraft, and that from collisions.
The word is "Rittai" - solid body. I was surprised by the degree to which they use it as well. In general, it seems as if Japanese product announcements tend to restate the same thing using similar words a lot, with no attempt at literary style.
I preferred "volumetric" to "solid-body" because "volumetric" is industry jargon for this type of display, rather than "3D" which incorporates holographic and stereographic displays. In addition, "3D" translates directly to "san-ji-gen" which was not mentioned once in the paper.
360-degree viewable volumetric display developed Enabling appreciation of real subjects in real time
The Japanese Product Development Team (Pro tempore executive ATSUYAMA Etsuhiko, below "Hitachi") has recently developed a new volumetric display technology that allows viewing of images from 360 degrees. Using this technology, without using specialized lenses or holograms, a viewer can enjoy images as if floating in space. Furthermore, combined with specialized visualization systems, these images may be viewed in real-time. If the images are transmitted across a network, this allows a completely new style of presentation, with volumetric objects displayed at a remote location. This technology, as a new projection-based information transmission system, is poised for use in a broad range of applications.
Among past techniques for projecting a volumetric object in space, holography is widely known. However, in holography, a specialized process is required to record the image, making realtime display impossible.
If it were to become possible to display actual objects in real time, then the transmission of messages delivered by physical images of people and objects would become possible, as in the world of SF movies. Furthermore, it would become possible to change the face of business, enabling Japanese-developed mockups to be viewed synchronously overseas for review or presentation to clients.
Now, Hitachi's Foundational Technologies Research Group's Hitachi Human Interaction Laboratory has developed a volumetric display technology allowing viewers to see realtime volumetric objects from all 360 degrees. Also, as a testbed, a cylindrical volumetric display unit called "Transpost" has been developed. In this case, the developed display technology has the following salient features.
(1) Volumetric Image Display Using Simple Mechanisms
The fundamental principle is that of displaying multiple shots of the object on a rotating screen, and thus displaying a volumetric object. In the testbed display "Transpost," images shot from twenty-four angles are projected onto the ceiling mirror using an LCD projector. The images reflected off of the mirror are projected onto twenty-four mirrors surrounding the rotating screen, and from there are projected onto the screen itself.
(2) Realtime Display of the Volumetric Image
A camera system was developed which automatically generates the twenty-four views of the object. If we transmit the views produced by this system, it is possible to change the viewed object in real time. Furthermore, connecting the system to the "Transpost" using a network, it is possible to send the images over long distances.
The volumetric display developed in this instance is capable of reproducing everything from computer graphics to recorded images, from still images to movies in full color. In an unprecedented era of ubiquitous computing, we anticipate its use in a wide range of fields, including information distribution, business and entertainment.
Maybe some volunteer would have interviewed the protagonist of the story and posted the interview on Slashdot or some other free site.
Perhaps no-one would have.
Simply putting in effort to do something, no matter how cool or difficult it is, doesn't give you the right to prevent others from doing it again, no matter how easy it may be afterward.
And your justification for gross violation of copyright laws is what exactly?
And Salon's restriction of the flow of information is a God-given right? Get off your high horse.
Information can't be bought or sold. They still have it if you get it, so they don't lose anything except the ability to restrict what you think and say.
Copyright is the biggest scam since organized religion.
Maybe they could use him as fossil fuel.
Of course, he'd be pre-cremated so you'd probably need to put more energy into getting the powder to burn than you get out of the process.
According to my Indian friends in graduate school, Indian engineers get a starting pay of 300,000-350,000 Rupees per year.
Now, admittedly, in US currency that's ca. $6500-$7500. But consider: Rent around Bangalore is 6,000 Rupees per month. That's $131 dollars a month. A good computer in India costs 30,000 Rupees or $656.31.
These are not people at the poverty level. They are self-respecting middle-class IT workers. America's cost of living (which drives the computation of minimum wage) doesn't apply.
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This is a fantastic question. I wish I had mod points. Some weaseling may be done here, but fundamentally it should be interesting to see the results.
Other people have raised the nuclear proliferation issue. This question ought to be pared down to the Taiwan part, and asked. It will be a huge test of our country's resolve, and a defining moment in the international perception of the United States, if China attempts to invade Taiwan.
This is a "Mom and apple pie" question. No candidate will say they're for animal abuse, yet I don't see any president actually doing anything about it.
I seem unable to count. The fourth question (on financial aid) is distinct and I think if it passes it ought to be a separate question.
I think this is the best of the three questions on drug policy. Frankly, they are redundant and should be lumped into one question somehow.
Think about it. Even if you think the guy who first said, wrote, or drew something is entitled to compensation when others say, write, or draw it, does that mean automatically that the rest of the world has to abide by your moral judgement?
Get off your high "realist" horse and think about a world where the rules aren't all set in stone, and people have the freedom to live the way they want. Maybe, with a little experimenting, we could even get a better world that way.
This is not an insignificant cost, but if one looks out one can pick up lots of good stuff at reasonable prices.
Second, this is an eminently sellable product for its target market: people who want not just a functional but an elegant PVR. The marketing campaign in Japan features yoko, tate, pi! - loosely translated as "across, down, beep!" - scroll across to the "videos" icon, down through your videos until you find the one you want, then beep! -- it plays.
The interface is elegant, as is the design, and the box does what it should do with no fuss. Many consumers would pay for that, particularly in Japan where people are willing to pay more for good products.
I think spinning-off portions of government is reasonable. It decreases taxpayer burden and leaves more money in the hands of individuals. If a group of citizens wants to support an organization like this, then more power to them; I might even participate.
However, bellyaching about government cutting your favorite program is myopic. Remember that other people would like to spend your money on projects of theirs, projects you might be very unhappy to fund.
Spamhaus.org in the US can assume that spammers will be assessed for fines; the punishments may be more serious in China, whose legal system is much less transparent than that of the United States (although the US is working on theirs).
I would be very careful to point spammers out to law enforcement; I would hate to have on my conscience that some guy with a family to feed is sitting in jail just for spamming because I cooperated with his government in prosecuting him.
If you don't have time to do anything with your paper notebook after you get back, why do you think you'll have time to do the "final editing" with digital data?
I think a re-evaluation of your schedule after vacations is more justified than a new equipment purpose.
One would need to see a lot more client/server integration, but I think if Sun/Apple (one of my labmates suggested Snapple) marketed enterprise solutions consisting of high-end multiprocessor servers serving Java apps to Apple workstations, they might really get somewhere.
It's a gamble, but Apple could only profit from it and Sun needs new ideas fast.
I agree that this is head and shoulders over the others, partially because the use of a computer made it more easily integratable into electronic media. The kid clearly had a very good sense of what it takes to make a good logo (the image creates a relationship with the viewer, with the bird looking straight in the viewer's eye).
Very nice, too, is how both the bird and the fish are smiling, which makes the image very cheerful and "childlike" (in the way adults define it).
If you simply install a firewall filter that blocks the outgoing spam mail, the spammers can never figure it out and you're making money for nothing. The program runs, it sends spam, the spam just gets nowhere.
A powerful computer to pump out spam quickly and a decent firewall to block it will pay for themselves quickly if you keep them running 24/7.
The posting of this article to Slashdot is FUD, pure and simple, as is most anti-nuclear propaganda. Radioactive material, like all other toxins, requires a certain concentration to be lethal. The danger is only to spacecraft, and that from collisions.
Touche.
Important note: the movie won all of the categories it was nominated for, the actors in the movie did not win any.
The word is "Rittai" - solid body. I was surprised by the degree to which they use it as well. In general, it seems as if Japanese product announcements tend to restate the same thing using similar words a lot, with no attempt at literary style.
I preferred "volumetric" to "solid-body" because "volumetric" is industry jargon for this type of display, rather than "3D" which incorporates holographic and stereographic displays. In addition, "3D" translates directly to "san-ji-gen" which was not mentioned once in the paper.
Human-generated translation (mine)
360-degree viewable volumetric display developed
Enabling appreciation of real subjects in real time
The Japanese Product Development Team (Pro tempore executive ATSUYAMA Etsuhiko, below "Hitachi") has recently developed a new volumetric display technology that allows viewing of images from 360 degrees. Using this technology, without using specialized lenses or holograms, a viewer can enjoy images as if floating in space. Furthermore, combined with specialized visualization systems, these images may be viewed in real-time. If the images are transmitted across a network, this allows a completely new style of presentation, with volumetric objects displayed at a remote location. This technology, as a new projection-based information transmission system, is poised for use in a broad range of applications.
Among past techniques for projecting a volumetric object in space, holography is widely known. However, in holography, a specialized process is required to record the image, making realtime display impossible.
If it were to become possible to display actual objects in real time, then the transmission of messages delivered by physical images of people and objects would become possible, as in the world of SF movies. Furthermore, it would become possible to change the face of business, enabling Japanese-developed mockups to be viewed synchronously overseas for review or presentation to clients.
Now, Hitachi's Foundational Technologies Research Group's Hitachi Human Interaction Laboratory has developed a volumetric display technology allowing viewers to see realtime volumetric objects from all 360 degrees. Also, as a testbed, a cylindrical volumetric display unit called "Transpost" has been developed. In this case, the developed display technology has the following salient features.
(1) Volumetric Image Display Using Simple Mechanisms
The fundamental principle is that of displaying multiple shots of the object on a rotating screen, and thus displaying a volumetric object. In the testbed display "Transpost," images shot from twenty-four angles are projected onto the ceiling mirror using an LCD projector. The images reflected off of the mirror are projected onto twenty-four mirrors surrounding the rotating screen, and from there are projected onto the screen itself.
(2) Realtime Display of the Volumetric Image
A camera system was developed which automatically generates the twenty-four views of the object. If we transmit the views produced by this system, it is possible to change the viewed object in real time. Furthermore, connecting the system to the "Transpost" using a network, it is possible to send the images over long distances.
The volumetric display developed in this instance is capable of reproducing everything from computer graphics to recorded images, from still images to movies in full color. In an unprecedented era of ubiquitous computing, we anticipate its use in a wide range of fields, including information distribution, business and entertainment.
Perhaps no-one would have.
Simply putting in effort to do something, no matter how cool or difficult it is, doesn't give you the right to prevent others from doing it again, no matter how easy it may be afterward.
Information can't be bought or sold. They still have it if you get it, so they don't lose anything except the ability to restrict what you think and say.
Copyright is the biggest scam since organized religion.
Maybe they could use him as fossil fuel.
Of course, he'd be pre-cremated so you'd probably need to put more energy into getting the powder to burn than you get out of the process.
Now, admittedly, in US currency that's ca. $6500-$7500. But consider: Rent around Bangalore is 6,000 Rupees per month. That's $131 dollars a month. A good computer in India costs 30,000 Rupees or $656.31.
These are not people at the poverty level. They are self-respecting middle-class IT workers. America's cost of living (which drives the computation of minimum wage) doesn't apply.