I can not think of a single profession where there is a similar situation.
I can think of one. My cousin is a teacher in the inner city. She has to buy pencils and supplies for her students. The budget does not cover these things, and she pays out of pocket. You might say that kids should bring their own things, but what happens if they don't? What do they do, sit around all day doing nothing? These are also special needs students, who come from a poor background. Two strikes right there. I realize that office supply costs may seem trivial, but when you have 300 students, need to get construction paper, glue or crayons, it adds up, especially on a teacher's salary.
From the article: ACT HAND: The Anatomically Correct Testbed hand also aims to imitate human anatomy. Its bones mimic ours, the joints provide the same range of motion and stiffness as human joints, and for control it relies on signals that emulate neural commands from the brain. While the goal is to build a full hand, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have completed only one finger. - Xeni Jardin
I wonder which one?
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I could start about how corporations have bought the congress and that we are going down a road to hell, but unfortunately it has been this way for a long time
You make this sound like it is statistically significant. Two of the five normal working days in the week are monday or friday, 2 of 5 is 40%. It would seem more likely that that % would be higher.
I figured about just a little more than one billion, not having any numbers handy, but just said 1-2 billion to have a reasonable upper limit. Russia only has 145,537,200 people? Damn. I seem to recall a figure of 300 million or so, but that could have been when it was the USSR.
Just because a large group of people in the world live at a standard of living well below our own does not mean we should stop envisioning, anticipating, and planning for the next advances in our standard of living.
I never said that we should. I simply meant to say that we should have some perspective when we start spouting off about what the future will hold, and realize that we have a lot of work to do.
From the article: Although advanced countries are at the point where most people have net access in one form or another, much still needs to be done so that every man, woman and child on the planet has it all of the time, he says.
One of the things that struck me about the media coverage about the war on Afghanistan is just how poor and primitive the majority of the people on the planet have it. There are arguably about 1-2 billion people in the G8 countries. How many other countries have running water? Indoor plumbing? Electricity? Look at the goat farmers in the middle east. Do you really think that everyone is going to have web access anytime soon?
The idea that the entire world has our standard of living is simply false.
I understand the desire to stop spam, but how about holding the creator of the operating system that made these exploits possible in the first place somewhat accountable too.
Mass doesn't ever change because of temperature or pressure or stuff like that
This is a true statement. However, what I wrote was Thus for a fixed volume, so does mass.
As heat is applied (generally) the mass will expand, so if you are looking in a fixed volume container, there will be less of the substance in that original volume (original container, if you will) thus the amount of "stuff" in that container changes, thus does it's mass.
By putting spyware on the computer, they are in effect breaking and entering into your property. This is NOT a free speech issue, any more than someone spray painting on the side of your house is free speech. It is tresspassing.
I never said "What happened to Atari2600/Intellivision/ColecoVision and that was all there ever was?" Nor did I try to change it to 6th generation. I was giving an example of an earlier console generation, not THE example.
Three points 1) The article does point out (correctly) that Microsoft's idea of first to market being key to the next generation is not supported by what happened to the Dreamcast console, which was first to market. 2) Even if Microsoft does come out with the Xbox 2 sooner it would have to be light years ahead of the PS2 to get an audience, because both the XBox and the Gamecube are better machines in terms of graphics capacity now, and that is not enough to overcome Sony's dominance 3) I find the generation counting (5th generation -- since NES) offensive. What happened to Atari 2600/Intellivision/Coleco Vision?
This would unfortunately probably never get to the senator, because the secret service would most likely not look kindly on a big package full of "old, junky, nasty" machinery and think it was a bomb or something.
I went to college in fall 1991, to a school that required Macs. At the time, System 7 was just coming out, and the cheapest (recommended) machine to students was the Mac Classic, with 2 MB of ram. Thankfully, I was able to get a Mac IIsi at the time (for $3000), but it turned out that 2MB wasn't enough to run System 7 and Word 5 at the same time. Most students actually preferred Word 4 at the time (install took up 3 floppies instead of 5) and actually declined the free upgrade we were offered, because their machines wouldn't support it. The college finally offered free upgrades to 4 mb ram for the Classic, but at the time we all thought word 5 was big and bloated. (This was version 5.0). As always YMMV.
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I can not think of a single profession where there is a similar situation.
I can think of one. My cousin is a teacher in the inner city. She has to buy pencils and supplies for her students. The budget does not cover these things, and she pays out of pocket. You might say that kids should bring their own things, but what happens if they don't? What do they do, sit around all day doing nothing? These are also special needs students, who come from a poor background. Two strikes right there. I realize that office supply costs may seem trivial, but when you have 300 students, need to get construction paper, glue or crayons, it adds up, especially on a teacher's salary.
It's not
James Doohan, known to Star Trek fans as Scotty has Alzheimer's disease. He is 84. This is truly a sad day. Link here
From the article:
ACT HAND: The Anatomically Correct Testbed hand also aims to imitate human anatomy. Its bones mimic ours, the joints provide the same range of motion and stiffness as human joints, and for control it relies on signals that emulate neural commands from the brain. While the goal is to build a full hand, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have completed only one finger. - Xeni Jardin
I wonder which one?
I could start about how corporations have bought the congress and that we are going down a road to hell, but unfortunately it has been this way for a long time
Oh. (looks sheepish). Ok.
You make this sound like it is statistically significant. Two of the five normal working days in the week are monday or friday, 2 of 5 is 40%. It would seem more likely that that % would be higher.
bash$ boo
bash: boo: command not found
bash$
I figured about just a little more than one billion, not having any numbers handy, but just said 1-2 billion to have a reasonable upper limit. Russia only has 145,537,200 people? Damn. I seem to recall a figure of 300 million or so, but that could have been when it was the USSR.
Just because a large group of people in the world live at a standard of living well below our own does not mean we should stop envisioning, anticipating, and planning for the next advances in our standard of living.
I never said that we should. I simply meant to say that we should have some perspective when we start spouting off about what the future will hold, and realize that we have a lot of work to do.
From the article:
Although advanced countries are at the point where most people have net access in one form or another, much still needs to be done so that every man, woman and child on the planet has it all of the time, he says.
One of the things that struck me about the media coverage about the war on Afghanistan is just how poor and primitive the majority of the people on the planet have it. There are arguably about 1-2 billion people in the G8 countries. How many other countries have running water? Indoor plumbing? Electricity? Look at the goat farmers in the middle east. Do you really think that everyone is going to have web access anytime soon?
The idea that the entire world has our standard of living is simply false.
I understand the desire to stop spam, but how about holding the creator of the operating system that made these exploits possible in the first place somewhat accountable too.
Mass doesn't ever change because of temperature or pressure or stuff like that
This is a true statement. However, what I wrote was
Thus for a fixed volume, so does mass.
As heat is applied (generally) the mass will expand, so if you are looking in a fixed volume container, there will be less of the substance in that original volume (original container, if you will) thus the amount of "stuff" in that container changes, thus does it's mass.
Actually it does matter. Density changes with temperature. Thus for a fixed volume, so does mass.
By putting spyware on the computer, they are in effect breaking and entering into your property. This is NOT a free speech issue, any more than someone spray painting on the side of your house is free speech. It is tresspassing.
Well then the area in memory where your virus is will be changed to NX and it won't be able to run.
Bad idea
Would he bring Harlan Ellison along with him? Given previous history, I doubt that would take off. :-)
I never said "What happened to Atari2600/Intellivision/ColecoVision and that was all there ever was?" Nor did I try to change it to 6th generation. I was giving an example of an earlier console generation, not THE example.
Yes, you are right, and reading the article again it clearly says their [Meaning Nintendo] fifth generation. Point taken.
Three points
1) The article does point out (correctly) that Microsoft's idea of first to market being key to the next generation is not supported by what happened to the Dreamcast console, which was first to market.
2) Even if Microsoft does come out with the Xbox 2 sooner it would have to be light years ahead of the PS2 to get an audience, because both the XBox and the Gamecube are better machines in terms of graphics capacity now, and that is not enough to overcome Sony's dominance
3) I find the generation counting (5th generation -- since NES) offensive. What happened to Atari 2600/Intellivision/Coleco Vision?
This would unfortunately probably never get to the senator, because the secret service would most likely not look kindly on a big package full of "old, junky, nasty" machinery and think it was a bomb or something.
I went to college in fall 1991, to a school that required Macs. At the time, System 7 was just coming out, and the cheapest (recommended) machine to students was the Mac Classic, with 2 MB of ram. Thankfully, I was able to get a Mac IIsi at the time (for $3000), but it turned out that 2MB wasn't enough to run System 7 and Word 5 at the same time. Most students actually preferred Word 4 at the time (install took up 3 floppies instead of 5) and actually declined the free upgrade we were offered, because their machines wouldn't support it. The college finally offered free upgrades to 4 mb ram for the Classic, but at the time we all thought word 5 was big and bloated. (This was version 5.0). As always YMMV.
I was suprised too, but not as suprised as this guy
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