Your futurology, like your sig. Does not make sense.
Once you have a suitable storage system (battery) there is no point having the extra complexity and weight of a mechanical engine in the car.
It's down to the batteries. If they become small and light enough to give good range on a car, we will go full electric over the following decades. The economies of scale for fixed electric generation will ensure this.
How can you make a derivative of something if you do not have the original source code? And if they have the j2me code; surely a police complaint is in order since that would be pure theft, and a civil matter.
As far as I can tell, all that has been ruled is that the state should not receive a lit of -what- books you have purchased.
Nothing to prevent them knowing the value of the books you have purchased, with the titles redacted, so you can pay your fair share of taxes like the rest of us.
Yet people here seem to be discussing things off at a tangent to this (like whether books should be taxed at all, a totally different subject really), who would have imagined Slashdotters doing that;-)
'When it comes to music, high production values and experience can trump talent.'
Amen, in the last 5 years I have brought maybe 10 bits of music, all from the artist direct (or their website). But music from the 'big boys'? naah, nothing. Tomorrow night I will (as I have most Wednesdays for a couple of years) go to a band night in a nice bar in town, and pay good money to listen to people with genuine talent.
My spending on music has increased in the last 10 years...
My Spending on the RIAA and their minions has decreased to zero in the last few years.
Quite nifty, I'll certainly spend the whole seconds I save everyday on somehting useful, like picking my nose.
Now for some fun; look at the results you get for the first character typed: A - amazon G - gmail L - lowes B- best-buy K - k-mart I - ikea M - mapquest..ha ha.. MICR - What you have to type before you see microsoft.:-)
The last major offshore oil spill in America occurred off of Santa Barbara in 1969. So... Alaska is not properly part of America then... or maybe a tanker in s sound is not 'offshore'. Impressive how corporate logic works huh..
We'd also better let lots of other posters in this thread know that that they are supposed to be talking about Santa Barbara, and not Prince William sound, us commies need to get more on-message, yeah.
Explosives are used to blow out the fire, think of puffing out a candle... They do not stop the oil flow (unless you are lucky and they flatten the pipes in just the right way.) After the big bang the oils still flows... but is not on fire, so the teams can then allow it to cool before moving in to close the valves, or drop a cap over the wellhead. Oh. Hang on a minute...
Better analogy: You are a nice happy nuclear family, mother, father, three kids. You buy a 5 seat car for your family. You get a Safety Recall notice, take the car in. When it returns it only has 4 seats, the 5th has been removed 'For Safety!'
That's just one of the reasons why they vet all submissions; I guess you could overwhelm that process (and hope they get lazy/authorize things you can attack as fake) but it would be masked from end users.
There were multiple sweet spots, separated by maybe two to four degrees of viewing angle, people standing side-by-side could all get the 3d effect. And even outside of the sweet spots you still got a reasonable level of effect. Maybe you need to actually see this in operation to appreciate how well it worked.
And anyway, the overwhelming majority of all monitor use is solo (at least for normal people and environments); there are very few people who will find this such a big problem that they refuse the technology.
There were 5 reasonably large (22''?) screens using this tech, or similar, in the metro station in Amsterdam CS over the holiday period. Just showing adverts, but rather impressive despite that. There were definite 'sweet spots' for the 3d effect, and the whole image jumped if you changed the viewing angle by more than a few degrees; but it cheered me up because I saw the future of the flat-panel monitor being demo'd;-), just add compiz.
It was a CAT scan, not MRI, and certainly not active MRI. - But I'm afraid that even 'just' a CAT scan can show whether brain tissue is present, and it wasnt.
However, her situation was only one of the possible PVS states people can end up in..
I can only hope that -all- PVS patients get such a scan before anything is disconnected, and if there is a brain left they then get an active MRI scan to see if they are actually thinking. While it may not have saved Terri I'm pretty sure it will save some others.
Oh; and I really worry about decisions made before active MRI and other techniques came about, I think some horrible things have happened.
YOU are the one who wrote these unsubstantiated words
Errr. you mean substantiated words.. fixed it for you.
The diagram linked above, sourced from Emotiv, does indeed show the presence of a 'Gyroscope' (not 'accelerometer' though that is doubtless what it is). And if the headset has a movement sensor in it it is not unreasonable to suppose it is used for something.. It may well be the primary input; augmented with a little feedback/enhancement from a simple EEG system.
Looking at this I'd expect the 'Mind' part of the control to be pretty secondary to the other inputs this controller is getting.
And don't forget that Murdock (yeah.. the guy who's future business plans rely on the removal of free-to-view alternatives and full copyright micro-enforcement) has just 'switched' to them, and they will be in power in the UK soon. I wonder what the deal was; I suspect he thinks it is elimination of both peer-to-peer and the BBC. But I really doubt Camerons ability to deliver that.
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Your futurology, like your sig. Does not make sense.
Once you have a suitable storage system (battery) there is no point having the extra complexity and weight of a mechanical engine in the car.
It's down to the batteries. If they become small and light enough to give good range on a car, we will go full electric over the following decades. The economies of scale for fixed electric generation will ensure this.
How can you make a derivative of something if you do not have the original source code?
And if they have the j2me code; surely a police complaint is in order since that would be pure theft, and a civil matter.
I must be mis-reading this..
As far as I can tell, all that has been ruled is that the state should not receive a lit of -what- books you have purchased.
Nothing to prevent them knowing the value of the books you have purchased, with the titles redacted, so you can pay your fair share of taxes like the rest of us.
Yet people here seem to be discussing things off at a tangent to this (like whether books should be taxed at all, a totally different subject really), who would have imagined Slashdotters doing that ;-)
Yeah.. I love the way 'Officer Bubbles (*)' laywer is saying 'the videos are now removed and that is the end of it'.
Someone is about to have a very bad morning.
(*) I'd make a joke about Michael Jackson and chimps in uniform here, but mocking the dead... now that -is- sick.
'When it comes to music, high production values and experience can trump talent.'
Amen, in the last 5 years I have brought maybe 10 bits of music, all from the artist direct (or their website). But music from the 'big boys'? naah, nothing.
Tomorrow night I will (as I have most Wednesdays for a couple of years) go to a band night in a nice bar in town, and pay good money to listen to people with genuine talent.
My spending on music has increased in the last 10 years...
My Spending on the RIAA and their minions has decreased to zero in the last few years.
MuHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa Loosers.
None of which helps when you are sitting locked in a little room and a big aggressive bloke has just laid a pair of rubber gloves on the table.
it's a good thing it's only $99
Oh no it isn't....
That's merely the entrance fee.. Admission to individual attractions, food, beverage and use of toilets is all extra.
That gets tricky.. what with their heads getting in the way etc..
Me too.. I think this is it.
Quite nifty, I'll certainly spend the whole seconds I save everyday on somehting useful, like picking my nose.
Now for some fun; look at the results you get for the first character typed: ..ha ha.. :-)
A - amazon
G - gmail
L - lowes
B- best-buy
K - k-mart
I - ikea
M - mapquest
MICR - What you have to type before you see microsoft.
The last major offshore oil spill in America occurred off of Santa Barbara in 1969.
So... Alaska is not properly part of America then... or maybe a tanker in s sound is not 'offshore'. Impressive how corporate logic works huh..
We'd also better let lots of other posters in this thread know that that they are supposed to be talking about Santa Barbara, and not Prince William sound, us commies need to get more on-message, yeah.
Explosives are used to blow out the fire, think of puffing out a candle...
They do not stop the oil flow (unless you are lucky and they flatten the pipes in just the right way.)
After the big bang the oils still flows... but is not on fire, so the teams can then allow it to cool before moving in to close the valves, or drop a cap over the wellhead.
Oh. Hang on a minute...
An argument like yours would mean that a large company basically never had to take responsibility for anything just by subcontracting stuff out.
I think that is a core part of their agenda, yes.
Better analogy:
You are a nice happy nuclear family, mother, father, three kids.
You buy a 5 seat car for your family.
You get a Safety Recall notice, take the car in.
When it returns it only has 4 seats, the 5th has been removed 'For Safety!'
That's just one of the reasons why they vet all submissions; I guess you could overwhelm that process (and hope they get lazy/authorize things you can attack as fake) but it would be masked from end users.
There were multiple sweet spots, separated by maybe two to four degrees of viewing angle, people standing side-by-side could all get the 3d effect. And even outside of the sweet spots you still got a reasonable level of effect. Maybe you need to actually see this in operation to appreciate how well it worked.
And anyway, the overwhelming majority of all monitor use is solo (at least for normal people and environments); there are very few people who will find this such a big problem that they refuse the technology.
Believe me, it -is- coming.
There were 5 reasonably large (22''?) screens using this tech, or similar, in the metro station in Amsterdam CS over the holiday period. Just showing adverts, but rather impressive despite that. ;-), just add compiz.
There were definite 'sweet spots' for the 3d effect, and the whole image jumped if you changed the viewing angle by more than a few degrees; but it cheered me up because I saw the future of the flat-panel monitor being demo'd
It was a CAT scan, not MRI, and certainly not active MRI.
- But I'm afraid that even 'just' a CAT scan can show whether brain tissue is present, and it wasnt.
More importantly, she was put in a MRI scanner and there was nothing there..
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/20/regarding-the-cat-scan-of-terri-schiavos-brain/
However, her situation was only one of the possible PVS states people can end up in..
I can only hope that -all- PVS patients get such a scan before anything is disconnected, and if there is a brain left they then get an active MRI scan to see if they are actually thinking. While it may not have saved Terri I'm pretty sure it will save some others.
Oh; and I really worry about decisions made before active MRI and other techniques came about, I think some horrible things have happened.
I think there might be more truth to that comment than we imagine..
the connections themselves ARE the data
Very good point.
YOU are the one who wrote these unsubstantiated words
Errr. you mean substantiated words.. fixed it for you.
The diagram linked above, sourced from Emotiv, does indeed show the presence of a 'Gyroscope' (not 'accelerometer' though that is doubtless what it is). And if the headset has a movement sensor in it it is not unreasonable to suppose it is used for something.. It may well be the primary input; augmented with a little feedback/enhancement from a simple EEG system.
Looking at this I'd expect the 'Mind' part of the control to be pretty secondary to the other inputs this controller is getting.
Unfortunately the ads in bbc video are inline.. (but adblock works great against the ones on their pages)
This is not "informative"
Indeed... it is "Insightful".
Your ignorance of UK politics is amazing..
And don't forget that Murdock (yeah.. the guy who's future business plans rely on the removal of free-to-view alternatives and full copyright micro-enforcement) has just 'switched' to them, and they will be in power in the UK soon. I wonder what the deal was; I suspect he thinks it is elimination of both peer-to-peer and the BBC. But I really doubt Camerons ability to deliver that.