I think Joe Public might not care now, but will care soon.
Teenagers and college students make up a sizable proportion of the music buying population. Many use CD ripping programs to schedule up a playlist for a party etc.
Currently, these CD-rippers are for more technically advanced users. But look at RealJukebox/RealOne and M$'s Windows Media Player v7 and v8. WMP I know supports ripping as a method of playing CDs (as opposed to straight audio-out, this way you can put it through a software EQ), and both make a big deal of recording CDs to your hard disk. Both are aimed at personal users, the likes Joe Sixpack's Mum and Dad even. Heck, WMP is bundled with WinME and XP, monopolistic practices aside that is pretty much the definition of mass usage. RealJukebox has been downloaded 40+ million times itself, so there's another large segment of the market.
So over the next few years, there's probably going to be quite a few users clicking through the options of these programs and wondering why it doesn't work... backlash brewing? I can seriously see a "fair use" class action going here if these CDs are not obviously labelled as restricted, and not just amongst technically inclined users.
With the growing amount of space detritus, another good point in favour of smaller satellites is less statistical risk of a collision.
This would go both ways -- less risk of debris colliding with satellites, and less risk of a rogue satellite colliding with something else. The odds are minimal anyway, but it can't hurt that much.
On the buildings still standing, the instrument detects piles of debris on the roofs.
Why does this require a LIDAR to do -- surely a person with binoculars could do the same? If debris is on the roof shouldn't it be visible at least in part?
Nevertheless this is very interesting, mostly with regards to the craters underground. With accurate maps, fatalities amongst rescuers can hopefully be avoided -- an untimed collapse of the rubble is an event well worth avoiding.
Hotmail has a similar "Conditions of Use" statement in their How to Link to Hotmail secion, excerpted:
You may not display the Logo on any site that disparages Microsoft or its products or services, infringes any Microsoft intellectual property or other rights, or violates any state, federal or international law.
This is probably fair enough for Hotmail, and Frontpage too -- how many Slashdotters would like the see the/. logo used to villify the site across the web?
However, as for any content generated by the program in question... strip out the META tags and M$ junk it includes in HTML files, and voila! "Could've been any program that done this, guv'ner..."
Who is to say that survivors had their cellphones on them? If a building in which you were residing got hit by a plane and started to burn, would you want to get out first and buy a new cellphone later, or waste time finding your existing phone?
Perhaps all this would achieve, even if it was accurate enough, would be to find a whole load of lost phones amongst the rubble. Potentially, this could also confuse the situation as some of the owners may have escaped safely.
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I think Joe Public might not care now, but will care soon.
Teenagers and college students make up a sizable proportion of the music buying population. Many use CD ripping programs to schedule up a playlist for a party etc.
Currently, these CD-rippers are for more technically advanced users. But look at RealJukebox/RealOne and M$'s Windows Media Player v7 and v8. WMP I know supports ripping as a method of playing CDs (as opposed to straight audio-out, this way you can put it through a software EQ), and both make a big deal of recording CDs to your hard disk. Both are aimed at personal users, the likes Joe Sixpack's Mum and Dad even. Heck, WMP is bundled with WinME and XP, monopolistic practices aside that is pretty much the definition of mass usage. RealJukebox has been downloaded 40+ million times itself, so there's another large segment of the market.
So over the next few years, there's probably going to be quite a few users clicking through the options of these programs and wondering why it doesn't work... backlash brewing? I can seriously see a "fair use" class action going here if these CDs are not obviously labelled as restricted, and not just amongst technically inclined users.
With the growing amount of space detritus, another good point in favour of smaller satellites is less statistical risk of a collision.
This would go both ways -- less risk of debris colliding with satellites, and less risk of a rogue satellite colliding with something else. The odds are minimal anyway, but it can't hurt that much.
Nevertheless this is very interesting, mostly with regards to the craters underground. With accurate maps, fatalities amongst rescuers can hopefully be avoided -- an untimed collapse of the rubble is an event well worth avoiding.
Now, all we need is an Outlook user simulator package that automatically opens executable attachments if it's asked for advice :)
This is probably fair enough for Hotmail, and Frontpage too -- how many Slashdotters would like the see the
However, as for any content generated by the program in question... strip out the META tags and M$ junk it includes in HTML files, and voila! "Could've been any program that done this, guv'ner..."
Who is to say that survivors had their cellphones on them? If a building in which you were residing got hit by a plane and started to burn, would you want to get out first and buy a new cellphone later, or waste time finding your existing phone?
Perhaps all this would achieve, even if it was accurate enough, would be to find a whole load of lost phones amongst the rubble. Potentially, this could also confuse the situation as some of the owners may have escaped safely.
This is getting cilia and cilia.