Think about it. I agree that it's silly in a capitalist society to be complaining that someone's selling something for less than you.
Microsoft has a significant other source of income. They can afford to LOSE money selling their codec licensing, as it will strenghen the hold of their OS on the market. the mpeg4 people, as far as I know, only do that, and can't really afford to lose money on it.
Look at the xbox. MS lost massive quantities of money on it, and didn't care, because it gave them a foothold into a new market that they wanted to dominate.
Yes, on the surface, it's a stupid and silly request. But when you consider the above, it's bordering on unfair competition.
if you'd never heard of william gibson, you can't have been searching too hard. Neal Stephenson ring any bells? do a google search for crying out loud.
As an anthropologist specializing in internet communities, I find it very interesting and indicative that this was modded +5 funny. I agree with you 100%;o)
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People are posting about "why?" Consider the havoc that nuclear explosions play with radio frequencies. Consider having a method of secure remote communications which does not rely on radio frequencies of any type in such a situation.
I believe that the debt was the line "Spice mines of Arrakis" in episode IV. Also the large worm like skeleton in the background as c3p0 gets out of the escape pod. Or the Sarnak(sp?) pit, could be interpreted as a worm ala Dune.
If I remember correctly, there's a number of other references. I was always surprised that more people hadn't noticed them.
Discovering widespread genocide within the fossil record would be impossible. Not difficult, impossible. We could find a skeleton or two who were killed by a wielded implement rather than an animal, but it's simply not possible to say that this is indicative of a widespread movement rather than an isolated incident. there just isn't enough evidence. heck, there's bearly enough evidence to determine the differences between the species we're talking about. heh.
As for the brain case size issue, that's even more difficult to determine, as there is no soft tissue left with any of these remains. Size and shape of the brain case varied immensely, and the larger brain cases didn't seem to help, as the neanderthals showed. So size and shape varied greatly and from all we can tell at this point, had no impact on the success of a species.
There's not much evidence out there unfortunately. Skeletal remains are very very fragmentary, and complete skulls rare. It's not like there was one point where it suddenly branched in 5 directions, one of which became us. It was a gradual thing, a new one here, a million years later another new species while one or both of the previous two were dying out... etc. It was a rather gradual process. naturally there were boom times and slim times, but it's a natural process after all. That answer your question a bit?
Just to clear this up a bit, and yes I was an anthro major...
There's still a LOT of debate in the anthropological/archaeological community about the evolution tree of modern humans. Originally it was thought that it was a simple straight line of evolution from ape like 'missing links' to modern humans. These days there's a lot more in the middle there. Neanderthals may or may not be related to modern humans, as the time period when they existed has a very jumbled fossil record. There are at least 3 distinct human-like species (or sub species) from this era, and as one poster already refered to, they may have been able to interbreed. There's way too much going on still in trying to sort this all out, so for now just be happy thinking that these may or may not be humanity's ancestors. Because we don't know the truth yet.
Actually this is a common fallacy. Glass is a crystalline structure, and does not warp with age. The old windows which people often point to as being thicker at the bottom, are that way because the glass itself was irregular, and was installed with the heavy part at the bottom as it is more stable that way. Or so I've been informed by a professional glass-blower who should know such things...
In the last picture near the bottom of that site, there's a shot that looks like little compactflash modules with discs in them. I'm thinking they're probably just the equivalent of jewel cases, but wouldn't that be cool if it were an extension of the IBM microdrive concept. Mmmmm... 4 Gig microdrive...
Yes, the screen shots are gorgeous, but it's all just eye candy. Once we have hardware that can render realistic scenes and humans in real time, there's going to be a sudden realization that for all this prettiness, there's nothing behind it. imho, it's time we started really looking at interactive and reactive programming. Yes, AI research is a step in the right direction, also realtime english parsing stuff, but we need systems that can at least pretend to comprehend and react to realtime and infinitely variable human input. Imagine kings quest, with those graphics, and when you type something in it will understand it no matter what it says (short of l33t sp34k) and the game will react accordingly.
Graphics are pretty, but with nothing behind it the graphics are just empty shells.
The design is still subject to change, but the general idea is great.
Yeah, it's a great general idea, but it's CERTAINLY not a new one. wearable computing has been around for how long now?
That said, it's great that it's getting some government funding, as that seems to be the only way to get something going in these lean times lately. And the display unit looks to be a new design, perhaps a new idea, but they say nothing useful about it in the article.
How is this groupthink? It's my personal opinion, which also happens to be shared by most of the intelligent people in the world. And quite honestly I'm more worried about the rate that we're chewing through our oil reserves than the environment. The environment's a lot hardier than people give it credit for. *flame off*
So they're using a completely renuable resource, namely wave power, to separate sea water into O2 and (2) H2.
This is a great idea for any region with significant ocean frontage. Unfortunately, it is only a great idea in such locations. We can't fuel the US gas glutton SUVs via this method, there just isn't enough ocean frontage for all the soccer-moms.
It's kind of interesting to think about how deeply star wars has slumped in the minds of geeks.
We were all built up and excited about episode 1. Then we saw that it sucked. Then the rumors about Leo DiCrapio playing anakin in 2. Then we saw that it would suck. Luckily that didn't happen. but here's episode 2, and we all hear that it sucks.
What I want to know is whether or not Geroge Lucas really thinks that these are quality movies he's making, or if he realizes that they are in fact made to sell the toys.
Jesus, have you seen the nighttime pictures from space? This planet is already a freakin christmas tree of lights. the only dark spot on the east coast is in the pine barrens of Jersey.
I applaud the intent behind this, trying to bring the third world closer to a western standard of living, but please.
My suitemate has one that he just got yesterday, with camera. I got to play with it for a few minutes. The keyboard is surprisingly well designed, it's easy to hit one key even for people with big fingers like I have. The camera takes solid quality pictures. Don't replace your coolpix with it, but it's perfectly suitable for snapshots.
My friend got it to replace his Ipaq, and he's loving it. Much thinner, nifty design, and he's obsessed with the way the screen flips itself over when you go from clamshell to tablet.
I managed to get the first 3 pages up before it conked out. Basically it's a mostly standard case mod, but he took a piece of plexiglas and melted it either over something or by cutting a hole in something and letting it sag down through it while warm. (Hadn't gotten to his description, just the pictures.) A neat idea, but nothing totally amazing.
That said, I very well may take this new concept into consideration when I attempt my first real mod this summer. Try it again later when it's less slashdotted if you're into case mods.
Otherwise, just suffice it to say that he made a little dome out of plexiglas.
Slashdot Mirror
well that was an incredibly fast slashdotting.
and I was looking forward to having no freakin clue as to what any of the programs did.
Think about it.
I agree that it's silly in a capitalist society to be complaining that someone's selling something for less than you.
Microsoft has a significant other source of income. They can afford to LOSE money selling their codec licensing, as it will strenghen the hold of their OS on the market.
the mpeg4 people, as far as I know, only do that, and can't really afford to lose money on it.
Look at the xbox. MS lost massive quantities of money on it, and didn't care, because it gave them a foothold into a new market that they wanted to dominate.
Yes, on the surface, it's a stupid and silly request. But when you consider the above, it's bordering on unfair competition.
just my thoughts.
if you'd never heard of william gibson, you can't have been searching too hard.
Neal Stephenson ring any bells?
do a google search for crying out loud.
As an anthropologist specializing in internet communities, I find it very interesting and indicative that this was modded +5 funny. ;o)
I agree with you 100%
People are posting about "why?"
Consider the havoc that nuclear explosions play with radio frequencies.
Consider having a method of secure remote communications which does not rely on radio frequencies of any type in such a situation.
Kinda makes you stop and think about things.
I think that the kind of custom firewall they want to implement has more to do with blocking access to certain sites than routing traffic.
I believe that the debt was the line "Spice mines of Arrakis" in episode IV.
Also the large worm like skeleton in the background as c3p0 gets out of the escape pod. Or the Sarnak(sp?) pit, could be interpreted as a worm ala Dune.
If I remember correctly, there's a number of other references. I was always surprised that more people hadn't noticed them.
Discovering widespread genocide within the fossil record would be impossible. Not difficult, impossible. We could find a skeleton or two who were killed by a wielded implement rather than an animal, but it's simply not possible to say that this is indicative of a widespread movement rather than an isolated incident. there just isn't enough evidence. heck, there's bearly enough evidence to determine the differences between the species we're talking about. heh.
As for the brain case size issue, that's even more difficult to determine, as there is no soft tissue left with any of these remains. Size and shape of the brain case varied immensely, and the larger brain cases didn't seem to help, as the neanderthals showed.
So size and shape varied greatly and from all we can tell at this point, had no impact on the success of a species.
There's not much evidence out there unfortunately. Skeletal remains are very very fragmentary, and complete skulls rare.
It's not like there was one point where it suddenly branched in 5 directions, one of which became us. It was a gradual thing, a new one here, a million years later another new species while one or both of the previous two were dying out... etc.
It was a rather gradual process. naturally there were boom times and slim times, but it's a natural process after all.
That answer your question a bit?
Just to clear this up a bit, and yes I was an anthro major...
There's still a LOT of debate in the anthropological/archaeological community about the evolution tree of modern humans. Originally it was thought that it was a simple straight line of evolution from ape like 'missing links' to modern humans.
These days there's a lot more in the middle there.
Neanderthals may or may not be related to modern humans, as the time period when they existed has a very jumbled fossil record. There are at least 3 distinct human-like species (or sub species) from this era, and as one poster already refered to, they may have been able to interbreed.
There's way too much going on still in trying to sort this all out, so for now just be happy thinking that these may or may not be humanity's ancestors.
Because we don't know the truth yet.
Actually this is a common fallacy.
Glass is a crystalline structure, and does not warp with age.
The old windows which people often point to as being thicker at the bottom, are that way because the glass itself was irregular, and was installed with the heavy part at the bottom as it is more stable that way.
Or so I've been informed by a professional glass-blower who should know such things...
8 bit processor...
It's a NES on glass!
wicked!
um...
wow!
Wonder when this may be hitting the market...
In the last picture near the bottom of that site, there's a shot that looks like little compactflash modules with discs in them.
I'm thinking they're probably just the equivalent of jewel cases, but wouldn't that be cool if it were an extension of the IBM microdrive concept.
Mmmmm... 4 Gig microdrive...
"Chuck, we got Slashdotted and we're out of fuel cells. Grab a bucket and make a run to Exxon, wouldja?"
wanted to read that too. gosh darn you geeks...
Yes, the screen shots are gorgeous, but it's all just eye candy.
Once we have hardware that can render realistic scenes and humans in real time, there's going to be a sudden realization that for all this prettiness, there's nothing behind it.
imho, it's time we started really looking at interactive and reactive programming. Yes, AI research is a step in the right direction, also realtime english parsing stuff, but we need systems that can at least pretend to comprehend and react to realtime and infinitely variable human input.
Imagine kings quest, with those graphics, and when you type something in it will understand it no matter what it says (short of l33t sp34k) and the game will react accordingly.
Graphics are pretty, but with nothing behind it the graphics are just empty shells.
The design is still subject to change, but the general idea is great.
Yeah, it's a great general idea, but it's CERTAINLY not a new one. wearable computing has been around for how long now?
That said, it's great that it's getting some government funding, as that seems to be the only way to get something going in these lean times lately. And the display unit looks to be a new design, perhaps a new idea, but they say nothing useful about it in the article.
How is this groupthink?
It's my personal opinion, which also happens to be shared by most of the intelligent people in the world.
And quite honestly I'm more worried about the rate that we're chewing through our oil reserves than the environment. The environment's a lot hardier than people give it credit for.
*flame off*
So they're using a completely renuable resource, namely wave power, to separate sea water into O2 and (2) H2.
This is a great idea for any region with significant ocean frontage. Unfortunately, it is only a great idea in such locations. We can't fuel the US gas glutton SUVs via this method, there just isn't enough ocean frontage for all the soccer-moms.
Kudos to a truly self-powered island!
It's kind of interesting to think about how deeply star wars has slumped in the minds of geeks.
We were all built up and excited about episode 1.
Then we saw that it sucked.
Then the rumors about Leo DiCrapio playing anakin in 2.
Then we saw that it would suck.
Luckily that didn't happen.
but here's episode 2, and we all hear that it sucks.
What I want to know is whether or not Geroge Lucas really thinks that these are quality movies he's making, or if he realizes that they are in fact made to sell the toys.
Just my opinion.
Jesus, have you seen the nighttime pictures from space?
This planet is already a freakin christmas tree of lights. the only dark spot on the east coast is in the pine barrens of Jersey.
I applaud the intent behind this, trying to bring the third world closer to a western standard of living, but please.
Let's put OUT some lights.
My suitemate has one that he just got yesterday, with camera.
I got to play with it for a few minutes.
The keyboard is surprisingly well designed, it's easy to hit one key even for people with big fingers like I have.
The camera takes solid quality pictures. Don't replace your coolpix with it, but it's perfectly suitable for snapshots.
My friend got it to replace his Ipaq, and he's loving it. Much thinner, nifty design, and he's obsessed with the way the screen flips itself over when you go from clamshell to tablet.
A very nice sleek little unit.
I managed to get the first 3 pages up before it conked out.
Basically it's a mostly standard case mod, but he took a piece of plexiglas and melted it either over something or by cutting a hole in something and letting it sag down through it while warm. (Hadn't gotten to his description, just the pictures.)
A neat idea, but nothing totally amazing.
That said, I very well may take this new concept into consideration when I attempt my first real mod this summer. Try it again later when it's less slashdotted if you're into case mods.
Otherwise, just suffice it to say that he made a little dome out of plexiglas.
Hmmm...
so you're saying a Pentium chip is software?
Why dont you read the article.
Ouch, damnit.
You broke my brain.
;o)