I see the concern, but if you look at how the respective systems actually work out in practice, I'd be much more afraid of my opponent's money in an American court than in a Norwegian one.
There are other worries about norwegian courts, though.
"I have no problem with a guilty as sin child sodomizer being plastered all over this thing."
Really. Do you actually think that setting him up for constant harrassment will actually reduce the chances that he strikes again? Have you ever considered that possibility that it might increase them, since it is now impossible for him to live a normal life and get his shit together?
And yes, there are studies supporting the latter scenario. You better be damn sure that those are wrong and be able to explain why so, before you support this stuff, or you are knowingly and willingly contributing to creating more victims, just for the selfish pleasure of seeing him suffer.
Have you ever found yourself talking with an accent (not on purpose)?
Oh, yes. English is my second language, and although I have had quiet a bit of full-time exposure to it, that was divided between several different places, so I don't have any "home" accent in English that I am confident enough in to hold on to in the face of very different surroundings. The result is that my english is so infuenced by whoever I'm talking to that it even annoys me when I catch myself doing it. Not that they ever notice; you usually have to do an accent quite perfectly for a "native" to even recognise it as theirs. But other people do catch it, so if several are present I find myself thinking things like "how did I talk last time that guy was present" to try and avoid looking like a pathetic wannabe.
And of course, the British always think I have an American accent and Americans think I have a british one (my own accent coming on top of that, of course).
The problem is that for someone to copy your card, even with innovative means, they at least have to interact with the actual card. Either steal it or get you to swipe it through their reader.
Obtaining your fingerprints, however, is orders of magnitude more easy, and can be done undetectably without ever coming within a mile of you. You leave prints everywhere.
All it takes is for an easy method to construct functional prostheses from prints to be invented and become known (in the right circles), and the whole system is not just crackable but worthless.
Dude, your ATM use is the number _one_ easy way for a hypothetical central organisation to track you (OK, that's exaggerated: these days cell phone use or just carrying beats it hands down).
Fingerprints and sosec# are way down the list; they require going places or contacting lots of different parties, and guessing which ones to check first, in order to track you effectively.
The taskbar was, amazingly enough, a relatively unique idea. It sorta borrowed from NeXT and maybe even MacOS if you squinted right, but it was different enough to deserve being called "new".
Wrong. The Acorn Archimedes had a (probably the original) taskbar already in 1987! A somewhat bulky one, but functionally very similar to the windows one (better in some repects)
Oh, and the CDE launch-panel everyone is whining about is not a taskbar or even simliar to one in any other way than being wide, flat and at the bottom of the screen.
Even so, he still called for a transitional government with extended powers and no realistic mechanism for holding them them accountable or ensuring that they were indeed just transitional, and that _is_ a major flaw with the whole project.
There might be other ways to the ultimate goal (if we for the sake of argument accept the promised communist steady-state as desirable) that does not have that flaw, but Marx did not describe them, nor did the other important communist ideologists.
Socialism is simply one step in the progression toward Communism/Marxism
That is simply bullshit. Through the years there have been a number of democratic regimes in western Europe that were (by american standards) socialist but had no intention or tendency to install a communist system.
Good point. As a variation on the spray can idea, for really huge prints, normal airbrush gear comes to mind as the perfect candidate for a homebrew system. Small bulk, good dosage control, low requirements for precision, but high potential if you can fix it, and you can feed them paint and compressed air continuously through tubes.
You would still need to build a harness, driver circuits and software to raster-scan your print head across the surface (the surface probably being horizontal and stationary), and a computer controlled valve for the airbrush, but that's about it.
If you draw with discrete dots you could make do with just on/off control for the valve,and use timing to vary intensity.
For full color you should probably mount all channels on the same write head, to avoid lining up passes. You could have them in a circle pointing down diagonally on roughy the same spot on the media, or in a line after each other and stagger the input appropriately.
If you want to increase printing speed, have it spray continuous scanlines in stead, controlling intensity by varying the flow rate. But this sounds like it needs a whole lot of work and calibration...
But speed could very well be a major issue here: Let's say you ended up spending an average second per pixel you would need more than 3 days to print out a puny 640x480 image...
Decaying biomass releases a modest amount of carbon into the atmosphere, while most of it is recycled directly by plants and microorganisms. In the same way the plants absorb a modest amount of CO2 back from the atmosphere.
Virtually all the carbon in plant material, including nutshells, is absorbed directly from the atmosphere by the plant. For a nutshell it (or an equivalent amount) was probably absorbed during the last year or less before the nut was picked.
It is a fair assumption that a power plant like this is based on the premise that nuts are produced at at least the same rate as their shells are burnt.
So you only get the single release resulting from shortening the cycle, no continuous net flow of carbon to the atmosphere.
Just compare it to a closed system in a box with a plant and a device burning it's seeds; the plant will consume the CO2 a lot slower than the device can produce it
What makes you believe that? Are you assuming that the plant produces seeds at a diminishing rate, or that burning a seed releases more carbon than was put into building it? Because something doesn't add up here.
You are describing a closed system with a net production of carbon. If you have one of those you could be very rich indeed.
Just like a sink will fill when the tap runs faster than the drain can put up with.
That's not a closed system.
The only problem is that it is generally assumed it takes about 100 years for nature to create a balance between CO2-production ans CO2-consumption by plants.
That's a little out of context. Yes, if you completely cut down a forest, it takes a long time until there is once again the same amount of biomass contained on that area. But we're not _removing_ the ecosystem and waiting for it to return here, we're burning a nutshell in stead of allowing it to rot. The tree is still there, and it doesn't take a 100 years to replace a nutshell. If you burn a billion shells a year and produce a billion too, you have a net emission of zero. You're basically just extracting solar energy, the shells and the carbon are just carriers in the process.
There would be an minor initial 'cost' in that you're shortening the cycle a little, releasing the carbon more shortly after it's trapped compared to natural decomposition. So you get an initial emission over the first year or two after start up, as the 'cache' of decomposing shells releases its carbon at the same time as new shells are burnt immediately. But after they're gone you'll be running in balance. Or you could avoid that too by imitating nature and storing the shells a couple of years before burning them.
they might be able to detect their positions from down here
Or better: from Mars orbit. At a suitable point the main probe could eject the pods into a trajectory that would lead them to the surface, but itself continue on a course that would end up in orbit around Mars. From there pick up, position, and relay signals from the tumblers.
nothing NYC has beats the convenience of getting in your car, pulling right into a parking spot 100ft from the store (one of dozens of spots available), putting your purchases in your trunk, and then pulling right back up to your abode.
And then driving over to the gym to get some exercise, I assume?
Sounds like the open-source VOIPs are finally in for some serious usage.
I guess batterly life (while using wifi) will still be pretty bad compared to a moderm mobile, but for international calls it would still be a godsend; I just spent a fortune calling to Europe from the GDC.
INFO! Service: Press the INFO! button to receive an email with detailed information on artists and tracks.
Too bad CDDB has become a tool of satan, and Freedb doesn't seem to have the developer resources to update its fomat to compete at the same level. *sigh*.
-and phonemes have been the dominant approach to speech synthesis basically since the beginning. There may be something else interesting about wht IBM has been doing lately, but from a quick skim of the article, I can't see what is "news" about any of this.
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to say he is being prosecuted for "accessing his own property" is simply shrill hyperbole
Shrill hyperbole empathically supported by the previous court, in that case, if you read the deliberation on the aquittal.
I see the concern, but if you look at how the respective systems actually work out in practice, I'd be much more afraid of my opponent's money in an American court than in a Norwegian one.
There are other worries about norwegian courts, though.
"I have no problem with a guilty as sin child sodomizer being plastered all over this thing."
Really. Do you actually think that setting him up for constant harrassment will actually reduce the chances that he strikes again? Have you ever considered that possibility that it might increase them, since it is now impossible for him to live a normal life and get his shit together?
And yes, there are studies supporting the latter scenario. You better be damn sure that those are wrong and be able to explain why so, before you support this stuff, or you are knowingly and willingly contributing to creating more victims, just for the selfish pleasure of seeing him suffer.
Have you ever found yourself talking with an accent (not on purpose)?
Oh, yes. English is my second language, and although I have had quiet a bit of full-time exposure to it, that was divided between several different places, so I don't have any "home" accent in English that I am confident enough in to hold on to in the face of very different surroundings. The result is that my english is so infuenced by whoever I'm talking to that it even annoys me when I catch myself doing it. Not that they ever notice; you usually have to do an accent quite perfectly for a "native" to even recognise it as theirs. But other people do catch it, so if several are present I find myself thinking things like "how did I talk last time that guy was present" to try and avoid looking like a pathetic wannabe.
And of course, the British always think I have an American accent and Americans think I have a british one (my own accent coming on top of that, of course).
The problem is that for someone to copy your card, even with innovative means, they at least have to interact with the actual card. Either steal it or get you to swipe it through their reader.
Obtaining your fingerprints, however, is orders of magnitude more easy, and can be done undetectably without ever coming within a mile of you. You leave prints everywhere.
All it takes is for an easy method to construct functional prostheses from prints to be invented and become known (in the right circles), and the whole system is not just crackable but worthless.
Dude, your ATM use is the number _one_ easy way for a hypothetical central organisation to track you (OK, that's exaggerated: these days cell phone use or just carrying beats it hands down).
Fingerprints and sosec# are way down the list; they require going places or contacting lots of different parties, and guessing which ones to check first, in order to track you effectively.
An image search in google will show you several machines and desktops. Actually I did before I posted, but forgot to include the link to the image.
Here is an example of the taskbar in action (a modern version, but nothing really big has changed)
The taskbar was, amazingly enough, a relatively unique idea. It sorta borrowed from NeXT and maybe even MacOS if you squinted right, but it was different enough to deserve being called "new".
Wrong. The Acorn Archimedes had a (probably the original) taskbar already in 1987! A somewhat bulky one, but functionally very similar to the windows one (better in some repects)
Oh, and the CDE launch-panel everyone is whining about is not a taskbar or even simliar to one in any other way than being wide, flat and at the bottom of the screen.
Even so, he still called for a transitional government with extended powers and no realistic mechanism for holding them them accountable or ensuring that they were indeed just transitional, and that _is_ a major flaw with the whole project.
There might be other ways to the ultimate goal (if we for the sake of argument accept the promised communist steady-state as desirable) that does not have that flaw, but Marx did not describe them, nor did the other important communist ideologists.
Socialism is simply one step in the progression toward Communism/Marxism
That is simply bullshit. Through the years there have been a number of democratic regimes in western Europe that were (by american standards) socialist but had no intention or tendency to install a communist system.
Not just deaf people; it could really revolutionise things for other minorities too. Exhibitionists, for example.
Even with 3 dpi you have way better quality that the spray can system cited, so it might still be an interesting option for the original poster.
And how come the guy that just says I had a good idea gets modded higher than I did? Humpf.
You want something that can blast out huge dots
Good point. As a variation on the spray can idea, for really huge prints, normal airbrush gear comes to mind as the perfect candidate for a homebrew system. Small bulk, good dosage control, low requirements for precision, but high potential if you can fix it, and you can feed them paint and compressed air continuously through tubes.
You would still need to build a harness, driver circuits and software to raster-scan your print head across the surface (the surface probably being horizontal and stationary), and a computer controlled valve for the airbrush, but that's about it.
If you draw with discrete dots you could make do with just on/off control for the valve,and use timing to vary intensity.
For full color you should probably mount all channels on the same write head, to avoid lining up passes. You could have them in a circle pointing down diagonally on roughy the same spot on the media, or in a line after each other and stagger the input appropriately.
If you want to increase printing speed, have it spray continuous scanlines in stead, controlling intensity by varying the flow rate. But this sounds like it needs a whole lot of work and calibration...
But speed could very well be a major issue here: Let's say you ended up spending an average second per pixel you would need more than 3 days to print out a puny 640x480 image...
it [carbon in the ground] *is* absorbed by plants
Nope, not in significant amounts, anyway.
This is a good read on carbon issues
Sure is. Where exactly does it say plants absorb carbon from the ground?
Decaying biomass releases a modest amount of carbon into the atmosphere, while most of it is recycled directly by plants and microorganisms. In the same way the plants absorb a modest amount of CO2 back from the atmosphere.
Virtually all the carbon in plant material, including nutshells, is absorbed directly from the atmosphere by the plant. For a nutshell it (or an equivalent amount) was probably absorbed during the last year or less before the nut was picked.
It is a fair assumption that a power plant like this is based on the premise that nuts are produced at at least the same rate as their shells are burnt.
So you only get the single release resulting from shortening the cycle, no continuous net flow of carbon to the atmosphere.
You are describing a closed system with a net production of carbon. If you have one of those you could be very rich indeed.That's not a closed system.That's a little out of context. Yes, if you completely cut down a forest, it takes a long time until there is once again the same amount of biomass contained on that area. But we're not _removing_ the ecosystem and waiting for it to return here, we're burning a nutshell in stead of allowing it to rot. The tree is still there, and it doesn't take a 100 years to replace a nutshell. If you burn a billion shells a year and produce a billion too, you have a net emission of zero. You're basically just extracting solar energy, the shells and the carbon are just carriers in the process.
There would be an minor initial 'cost' in that you're shortening the cycle a little, releasing the carbon more shortly after it's trapped compared to natural decomposition. So you get an initial emission over the first year or two after start up, as the 'cache' of decomposing shells releases its carbon at the same time as new shells are burnt immediately. But after they're gone you'll be running in balance. Or you could avoid that too by imitating nature and storing the shells a couple of years before burning them.
they might be able to detect their positions from down here
Or better: from Mars orbit. At a suitable point the main probe could eject the pods into a trajectory that would lead them to the surface, but itself continue on a course that would end up in orbit around Mars. From there pick up, position, and relay signals from the tumblers.
nothing NYC has beats the convenience of getting in your car, pulling right into a parking spot 100ft from the store (one of dozens of spots available), putting your purchases in your trunk, and then pulling right back up to your abode.
And then driving over to the gym to get some exercise, I assume?
"What are the prospects of Johansen winning a second time?"
I'd say it's almost certain. The previous aquittal was crystal clear. I think they're appealing mainly to build some strong case law.
Like it says in the banner: this is News for Nerds. Doesn't promise to be news to anyone else, like people familiar with that intimate stuff.
Sounds like the open-source VOIPs are finally in for some serious usage.
I guess batterly life (while using wifi) will still be pretty bad compared to a moderm mobile, but for international calls it would still be a godsend; I just spent a fortune calling to Europe from the GDC.
If that was interesting 'news', then so is this!
INFO! Service:
Press the INFO! button to receive an email with detailed information on artists and tracks.
Too bad CDDB has become a tool of satan, and Freedb doesn't seem to have the developer resources to update its fomat to compete at the same level. *sigh*.
-and phonemes have been the dominant approach to speech synthesis basically since the beginning. There may be something else interesting about wht IBM has been doing lately, but from a quick skim of the article, I can't see what is "news" about any of this.
That was at right angles. It said it was particularly effective with light coming in from the side. Read.