when performing official duties for the good of the public.
If their supervisor showed up, they'd have to fully disclose everything which they were doing, ditto internal affairs, the police chief / superintendent, or a government functionary whose bailiwick involved the performance of their current duties.
If they have something to hide, which they don't want revealed in court, they need to find some other line of work.
If it were priced appropriately, and released often enough, I wouldn't mind that --- I'd dearly love to be able to download additional missions for Red Steel 2, and would buy at least one a month if only they were offered.
Actually, that's more about meeting TEMPEST requirements so as to not emit a signal from which an enemy can derive useful information. Hardening of the avionics is a different thing, and not something one will readily find an image of.
Actually, they've stated that Wii Motion Remotes will work w/ it --- so there seems to be no evolution of that beyond integrating the Motion Plus functionality.
Which people could instead be getting directly from Project Gutenberg or Archive.org?
Amazon would've done everyone a service if they'd up-front batch converted _everything_ in PG's archives and made it available at $0.98 and then sent the royalties on to PG --- their catalog would be much nicer and cleaner, not cluttered w/ umpteen different but identical versions of public domain texts.
William (who has had a hardware ebook reader for years and is still catching up on his classics reading and hasn't bought any books)
It is if this happens often enough that it becomes inconvenient to society, and the FBI is held accountable for the loss in wages / productivity and the expense of replacing the destroyed vehicles.
Tax the interface between the vehicles and the road --- the tires.
Use the square root of the mass of the tire measured in a small unit like grams and you'll have a negligible tax for small tires (or none if there's a cut-off at which there's no tax per your suggestion), and a large one for large tires w/a steep curve between them.
Results would be:
- people would start to value their tires and take better care of them, keeping them properly inflated so as to minimize wear
- vehicle manufacturers would make vehicles w/ more tires which are smaller (rather than fewer axles w/ larger tires) which would reduce the wear the vehicles cause on the roads
- this also ensures older vehicles (w/o GPS units) will still be taxed
- avoids people ameliorating their tax rate by using larger diameter tires
Easy to enforce since there're already taxes on tires, plus disposal fees &c.
Yes, but doesn't the effort to create such tools add to the costs of developing the Wii version?
Maybe you know developers who will knock out such code for free, but I don't believe that that sort of thing works at the accounting depts. at major game developers.
Moreover, for those games which are developed for all three consoles, the Wii requires special textures / sprites / whatever the dev is using to make stuff appear on the screen which ratchets up development costs. The Wii having graphics-equivalence w/ the XBox 360 and PS3 will allow devs to use the same graphical elements across all three platforms and should result in more games being available for the Wii.
My thought was that such blocks would be used as the central core of a home and expanded upon outward (and surrounded by a yard w/ room for a garden, some trees strategically placed so as to maximize shade for cooling in the summer &c.
What could one do to create a small, secure, mass-produced core for a family to live in and w/ which to sustain themselves?
Imagine a portable block filled w/
- water filtration system
- sleeping areas for 4 people
- photovoltaic roof to provide energy to power everything
- system to capture rainwater from the roof and to store water (of course it arrives fully filled)
- composting toilet
- one or more glass walls which function as a greenhouse (and connections to allow such to be expanded)
- integrated tank for raising freshwater shrimp
How small could such a block be? What would be the lowest price at which it could be delivered on-site? (probably the best technique would be for it to be a metal frame which is then covered w/ locally available materials)
The problem w/ Ted Nelson's vision of a structured hypertext system w/ verified knowledge is that he hasn't been able to get from funding to actual, workable, profitable implementation. Tim Berners-Lee fought that battle and gave up, which gave his system the win when he changed ``universal resource locator'' to ``uniform...''. People aren't librarians, they aren't disciplined and they won't file every little bit which they write properly by category --- that's why search engines came into existence.
The world wide web works because it allows anyone access and doesn't force monetization, but it places on the user the burden of evaluating the web page accessed in terms of credibility, &c.
price range when the Concorde went on the drawing board --- then the Arab Oil Embargo hit and the price reached levels the engineers hadn't dreamed of --- then came the tire blow-out and the day of the test for the replacement was 9/11.
While it's nice that the Concorde made it possible for Henry Kissinger to be in Europe for the day and back in the States that evening, it's rather sobering to look at its fuel consumption and consider how many homes could've been heated for a winter, or how many pounds of plastics could have been made &c.
Oil is no longer cheap and it's running out --- society has to face that, sooner, rather than later and come up w/ viable options.
I've written (literally, using the HWR and a stylus) out a fair number of programs and utilities using Runtime Revolution (a Hypercard clone) on various Windows pen computers and Tablet PCs. Most generally useful is a replacement for a graphic design proportion wheel / calculator which will also do unit conversions:
And when the interviewer asks you point blank which software you used for a given design and where you got it your answer is?
If you're working in the design field, you're getting payed depends on other people paying for intellectual property --- stealing the tools you use to make such is the height of hypocrisy.
None of which come with a Pantone license, or Toyo ink license, and Microsoft doesn't have to pay itself for the Windows Media Technologies which Adobe has to license --- and that's just InDesign. Adobe Acrobat uses technology from Autonomy, OCR Technology from Image Integrated Systems, &c.
Except that Adobe has always offered reduced-price Educational versions of their products:
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Student & Teacher Edition List Price: $1,899.00 Price: $399.99 & this item ships for FREE You Save: $1,499.01 (79%)
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when performing official duties for the good of the public.
If their supervisor showed up, they'd have to fully disclose everything which they were doing, ditto internal affairs, the police chief / superintendent, or a government functionary whose bailiwick involved the performance of their current duties.
If they have something to hide, which they don't want revealed in court, they need to find some other line of work.
If it were priced appropriately, and released often enough, I wouldn't mind that --- I'd dearly love to be able to download additional missions for Red Steel 2, and would buy at least one a month if only they were offered.
Actually, that's more about meeting TEMPEST requirements so as to not emit a signal from which an enemy can derive useful information. Hardening of the avionics is a different thing, and not something one will readily find an image of.
William
Actually, they've stated that Wii Motion Remotes will work w/ it --- so there seems to be no evolution of that beyond integrating the Motion Plus functionality.
Because a TV isn't smart enough to receive a minimal amount of data wirelessly and render an HD quality image from it.
check out _Lady El_ by Jim Starlin and Dana Graziunas
http://www.amazon.com/Lady-El-Jim-Starlin/dp/0451451619
Which people could instead be getting directly from Project Gutenberg or Archive.org?
Amazon would've done everyone a service if they'd up-front batch converted _everything_ in PG's archives and made it available at $0.98 and then sent the royalties on to PG --- their catalog would be much nicer and cleaner, not cluttered w/ umpteen different but identical versions of public domain texts.
William
(who has had a hardware ebook reader for years and is still catching up on his classics reading and hasn't bought any books)
Which Microsoft wound up w/ and used as the ``inspiration'' for VisualBASIC:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacBasic.txt
Rather a shame that AppleScript Studio in XCode went away w/ Snow Leopard.
William
It is if this happens often enough that it becomes inconvenient to society, and the FBI is held accountable for the loss in wages / productivity and the expense of replacing the destroyed vehicles.
Tax the interface between the vehicles and the road --- the tires.
Use the square root of the mass of the tire measured in a small unit like grams and you'll have a negligible tax for small tires (or none if there's a cut-off at which there's no tax per your suggestion), and a large one for large tires w/a steep curve between them.
Results would be:
- people would start to value their tires and take better care of them, keeping them properly inflated so as to minimize wear
- vehicle manufacturers would make vehicles w/ more tires which are smaller (rather than fewer axles w/ larger tires) which would reduce the wear the vehicles cause on the roads
- this also ensures older vehicles (w/o GPS units) will still be taxed
- avoids people ameliorating their tax rate by using larger diameter tires
Easy to enforce since there're already taxes on tires, plus disposal fees &c.
William
Iraq's oil money made it possible for Saddam Hussein to compensate the families of suicide bombers US$25,000:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/25/1017004766310.html
Cutting off that funding helped to reduce the number of ``martyrs''.
Here:
http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2006/09/21/banned-the-golden-book-of-chemistry-experiments/
Also be sure to get your kids a copy of:
http://www.amazon.com/Do---Yourself-Gunpowder-Cookbook/dp/0873646754/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304105028&sr=8-1
and perhaps a book on glass-blowing or get the good / original Pyrex from yardsales:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/28/did-the-sale-of-pyrex-hurt-the-crack-cocaine-industry/
William
Yes, but doesn't the effort to create such tools add to the costs of developing the Wii version?
Maybe you know developers who will knock out such code for free, but I don't believe that that sort of thing works at the accounting depts. at major game developers.
Moreover, for those games which are developed for all three consoles, the Wii requires special textures / sprites / whatever the dev is using to make stuff appear on the screen which ratchets up development costs. The Wii having graphics-equivalence w/ the XBox 360 and PS3 will allow devs to use the same graphical elements across all three platforms and should result in more games being available for the Wii.
personal communication devices like his ``Knowledge Navigator'' (which eventually became the Newton MessagePad) --- looks like he was right.
William
My thought was that such blocks would be used as the central core of a home and expanded upon outward (and surrounded by a yard w/ room for a garden, some trees strategically placed so as to maximize shade for cooling in the summer &c.
What could one do to create a small, secure, mass-produced core for a family to live in and w/ which to sustain themselves?
Imagine a portable block filled w/
- water filtration system
- sleeping areas for 4 people
- photovoltaic roof to provide energy to power everything
- system to capture rainwater from the roof and to store water (of course it arrives fully filled)
- composting toilet
- one or more glass walls which function as a greenhouse (and connections to allow such to be expanded)
- integrated tank for raising freshwater shrimp
How small could such a block be? What would be the lowest price at which it could be delivered on-site? (probably the best technique would be for it to be a metal frame which is then covered w/ locally available materials)
William
The problem w/ Ted Nelson's vision of a structured hypertext system w/ verified knowledge is that he hasn't been able to get from funding to actual, workable, profitable implementation. Tim Berners-Lee fought that battle and gave up, which gave his system the win when he changed ``universal resource locator'' to ``uniform...''. People aren't librarians, they aren't disciplined and they won't file every little bit which they write properly by category --- that's why search engines came into existence.
The world wide web works because it allows anyone access and doesn't force monetization, but it places on the user the burden of evaluating the web page accessed in terms of credibility, &c.
William
price range when the Concorde went on the drawing board --- then the Arab Oil Embargo hit and the price reached levels the engineers hadn't dreamed of --- then came the tire blow-out and the day of the test for the replacement was 9/11.
While it's nice that the Concorde made it possible for Henry Kissinger to be in Europe for the day and back in the States that evening, it's rather sobering to look at its fuel consumption and consider how many homes could've been heated for a winter, or how many pounds of plastics could have been made &c.
Oil is no longer cheap and it's running out --- society has to face that, sooner, rather than later and come up w/ viable options.
William
How will society adapt if people begin to pull themselves off the electrical grid?
Quit purchasing food from the local grocery store in favour of hothouse lettuce and tomatoes and shrimp and algae raised in a tank?
Make things for themselves using a reprap or other fabbing machine?
Heat their home w/ geothermal and solar systems?
Power their vehicle using hydrogen extracted from a solar system?
Capture rain water in a cistern and filter it for use in the home?
More importantly how small could one make a system which would do all of the above?
William
I've written (literally, using the HWR and a stylus) out a fair number of programs and utilities using Runtime Revolution (a Hypercard clone) on various Windows pen computers and Tablet PCs. Most generally useful is a replacement for a graphic design proportion wheel / calculator which will also do unit conversions:
Windows:
http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/interfaceconcepts/proportionbar.zip
Mac OS X:
http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/interfaceconcepts/proportionbar.app.sit
One of these days I'll get around to modifying it to understand points and pica measurements....
I'd still like to see a general-purpose data manipulation / calculation tool like Zoomracks for a modern system though.
William
::applause::
She's all the more impressive since her comic is limited by real-world physics which the author tries very hard to get right.
William
And when the interviewer asks you point blank which software you used for a given design and where you got it your answer is?
If you're working in the design field, you're getting payed depends on other people paying for intellectual property --- stealing the tools you use to make such is the height of hypocrisy.
None of which come with a Pantone license, or Toyo ink license, and Microsoft doesn't have to pay itself for the Windows Media Technologies which Adobe has to license --- and that's just InDesign. Adobe Acrobat uses technology from Autonomy, OCR Technology from Image Integrated Systems, &c.
Except that Adobe has always offered reduced-price Educational versions of their products:
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Student & Teacher Edition
List Price: $1,899.00 Price: $399.99 & this item ships for FREE You Save: $1,499.01 (79%)
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Creative-Premium-Student-Teacher/dp/B003D8XE4K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1302030554&sr=8-3
William