I don't think "utility" is the right word. The utility is clear, if the challenges can be surmounted. Of course, eye strain is a concern for any display technology.
I can even live with 640x480 resolution - just use a motion detector to scroll the view across a virtual desktop when I move my head.
An even better idea: how about one that scrolls along with the motion of the eye? It'd be even less necessary motion, and possibly far more natural than moving one's head around.
What "facts" do you want me to re-examine? Human life is a continuum from conception to death. And if you disagree with that, that there is a discontinuity, you still have to answer why we have the right to end development before that point is passed.
I do disagree with that continuum. I posit that human life does *not* begin with conception. I posit that it begins *before* conception. If there were some point at which life were made from completely nonliving material, you might have a potential point here. But, as I'm sure you're aware, everything involved is alive before, during, and after conception. As such, I say that conception is irrelevant to this discussion. What *is* relevant, however, is consciousness. I am quite certain that a blastocyst is *not* conscious or sentient, as it completely lacks the neural structure to be so. Until it does, it is physiologically no different than any other parasite living inside another person's body. So please tell me your justification for why a parasite living inside someone else's body has a natural right to life?
Terror is a tactic.
To clarify: You said "war on terror", not "war on terrorists" or something equivalent.
Today? No. But Europe will be fully Muslim within a generation or two (European birthrates are below the replacement threshold). And if you'll study your history, you'll find that Islam is a state building religion. They won't stop with Europe. It remains to be seen if Islam can be transformed into something compatible with Western notions of liberty.
Does this mean you eventually see us declaring war on a European nation?
First, nobody is stopping a woman from having sex or becoming pregnant. What should be stopped is the deliberate taking of an innocent human life. Second, that one of the functions of government is to prevent the strong from preying on the weak does not mean that government has to be involved in all areas. For example, I would wholeheartedly support the disbanding of the Department of Education, for example.
If you think a blastocyst or an embryo is actually equivalent to a full human life, you really should re-examine some facts.
First, I don't consider (insert politically correct modifier here)-Islam to be an intangible opponent. I will live under the U. S. Constitution; I will not submit to sharia law. Second, do you know what percentage of GDP is spent on the war? There is far more fiscal irresponsibility in the budget (the damned prescription drug plan, for example, not to mention social security and medicare).
You didn't say "-Islam", you said terror. Terror *is* an intangible.
And... do you seriously think there is anyone with the capability of actually forcing sharia law on us?
I'd argue that the source code for voting machine should be made public in any circumstance. There is *no* reason to keep any part of the counting process secret. If there are exploitable holes in this process, that means the *process* is at fault, and should be redone until there are no holes.
Upon reading just the title, that actually *was* what passed through my head, followed by trying to come up with what could be a legitimate use for such a switch.
I'd consider this to be either a legitimate question, or a fake one well crafted. It occurs to me that a suicide bomber really wouldn't have the need for GPS anywhere in this system, as the location of someone who has just blown himself up is really rather apparent.
I appreciate the fact that we can finally have more comments on a page than 100. It's a rather annoying limit for some of the larger threads, especially when a discussion thread is interrupted in the middle by a page break.
Seconded. I've figured out the sort of minor hack of opening the particular comment in its own tab, but doing so is still quite a bit of a hassle. I *don't* want to have to scroll 100-some comments down and then back up to some tiny piece of the middle just to moderate.
And lefties can forget about using any pen or pencil that smudges. Your hand drags all over everything you've just written, so not only is your writing deemed sloppy and messy and worthy of only the finest chicken huts, but the side of your hand gets covered with a inky splotch, something akin to an organic Jackson Pollock.
The solution is actually really simple. Just learn to write upside down.
You have a brain. Inside are memories. As things are right now, there are no legal restrictions on you thinking about or even recalling these memories. What DRM does is place restrictions on these memories. Everyone involved in these memories now must give you permission before you can access them. If someone says something stupid in front of you, you now need their permission to remember it. If someone has sex with you, you now need their permission to recall it. If you see a murder, you now need the murderer's permission to remember it.
DRM is about giving control of information *permanently* to the creator. This is not where it belongs. It belongs (eventually at least) in the public domain for everyone to do with as they please.
I actually managed to get through to them before the slashdotting, and talked with a CSR there. After confirming that I had a 'splodie battery, what were their instructions?
I was about to recommend this exact mouse, but I was going to note that I use this mouse with my left hand. It's not noted whether or not the pain is in both hands, so if the person is only experiencing it in the right hand, switching to the other may be helpful.
The mouse mentioned (as it's entirely ambidextrous) would be *extremely* useful for doing that.
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..And I believe they named him Philip J. Fry instead of Curtis J. Fry in his honor
I don't think "utility" is the right word. The utility is clear, if the challenges can be surmounted. Of course, eye strain is a concern for any display technology.
I can even live with 640x480 resolution - just use a motion detector to scroll the view across a virtual desktop when I move my head.
An even better idea: how about one that scrolls along with the motion of the eye? It'd be even less necessary motion, and possibly far more natural than moving one's head around.I, for one, welcome our genetically engineered ergonomic overlords.
Well, there is the guy who claims to be able to store 256 GiB on an A4 sheet of paper.
This could make DRM for books feasible. You buy a book, and a week or so later, it fades away.
Its usefulness seems rather limited though...
Do you seriously think that the American government has no influence on the Iraqi government?
It is, after all, the force that installed them there, and still has quite a few troops in the area.
I actually saw an earlier model to the Sony UX90P the last time I was at a Fry's. So those are clearly not new.
And the eyeglass-TVs have been around for probably at least a decade.
Who wouldn't want an Impreza?
I do disagree with that continuum. I posit that human life does *not* begin with conception. I posit that it begins *before* conception. If there were some point at which life were made from completely nonliving material, you might have a potential point here. But, as I'm sure you're aware, everything involved is alive before, during, and after conception. As such, I say that conception is irrelevant to this discussion. What *is* relevant, however, is consciousness. I am quite certain that a blastocyst is *not* conscious or sentient, as it completely lacks the neural structure to be so. Until it does, it is physiologically no different than any other parasite living inside another person's body. So please tell me your justification for why a parasite living inside someone else's body has a natural right to life?
To clarify: You said "war on terror", not "war on terrorists" or something equivalent.
Does this mean you eventually see us declaring war on a European nation?
If you think a blastocyst or an embryo is actually equivalent to a full human life, you really should re-examine some facts.
You didn't say "-Islam", you said terror. Terror *is* an intangible.
And... do you seriously think there is anyone with the capability of actually forcing sharia law on us?
I'd argue that the source code for voting machine should be made public in any circumstance. There is *no* reason to keep any part of the counting process secret. If there are exploitable holes in this process, that means the *process* is at fault, and should be redone until there are no holes.
Upon reading just the title, that actually *was* what passed through my head, followed by trying to come up with what could be a legitimate use for such a switch.
I'd consider this to be either a legitimate question, or a fake one well crafted. It occurs to me that a suicide bomber really wouldn't have the need for GPS anywhere in this system, as the location of someone who has just blown himself up is really rather apparent.
I appreciate the fact that we can finally have more comments on a page than 100. It's a rather annoying limit for some of the larger threads, especially when a discussion thread is interrupted in the middle by a page break.
Just use the threshold menu on the left to move the threshold down. You'll still keep the capability to close comment threads.
Seconded. I've figured out the sort of minor hack of opening the particular comment in its own tab, but doing so is still quite a bit of a hassle. I *don't* want to have to scroll 100-some comments down and then back up to some tiny piece of the middle just to moderate.
The solution is actually really simple. Just learn to write upside down.
You have a brain. Inside are memories. As things are right now, there are no legal restrictions on you thinking about or even recalling these memories. What DRM does is place restrictions on these memories. Everyone involved in these memories now must give you permission before you can access them. If someone says something stupid in front of you, you now need their permission to remember it. If someone has sex with you, you now need their permission to recall it. If you see a murder, you now need the murderer's permission to remember it.
DRM is about giving control of information *permanently* to the creator. This is not where it belongs. It belongs (eventually at least) in the public domain for everyone to do with as they please.
Comes with a mullet, a swiss army knife, some little toy magnets, a straw, a rubber band, a paperclip, and a couple wires.
You make the computer yourself, or the bad guys get away.
I actually managed to get through to them before the slashdotting, and talked with a CSR there. After confirming that I had a 'splodie battery, what were their instructions?
Go to the website to fill out a form.
Because decriminalization would automatically make it legal to drive under the influence. You know, like how it is with alcohol.
I was about to recommend this exact mouse, but I was going to note that I use this mouse with my left hand. It's not noted whether or not the pain is in both hands, so if the person is only experiencing it in the right hand, switching to the other may be helpful.
The mouse mentioned (as it's entirely ambidextrous) would be *extremely* useful for doing that.
Who developed it? Our *public* government developed this network.
It's been a commercially usable network ever since legislation changed it to be one.
Nukes?
Wives?
Reversed things?
The *truly* sad part is, looking back on his history, he seems to have managed a +1 karma bonus.
Aren't they trying for this in Sweden? They seem to have enough of an anti-copyright stance to have a pro-piracy political party.