No. 1) They'll add energy to ice to get water. 2) They'll add more energy to water to get oxygen and hydrogren.
They could then burn the hydrogen with oxygen to get energy, but they wouldn't get as much energy out as they put in in step #2, let alone step #1.
Hydrogen will of course be burnt for energy (eg. for vehivles). This is desirable because you can store up energy and then get bursts of energy, and hydrogen is a decent way to store energy long-term.
Most likely, their original energy will come from solar panels.
Is this a ploy so they can say things like "Only 2% of the users actually removed IE"?
Other apps use IE within themselves using IE's API. Until there is a generalized API that will allow Netscape/Opera/etc. to work in the same places IE does now, such a feature is mostly useless.
I can imagine MS may want to shorten that statement down to "this feature is mostly useless".
They want to go all the way. They want automatic electronic enforcement of laws, using the level of smarts that can only determine that the user might be breaking the law currently, which is sufficient justification to allow them to immediately stop you. This is judge, jury, and prosecutor on a chip that can only make a few and/xor/nor decisions.
What's next, they ask congress allow digital cameras to use a stun gun on the user and call the police whenever it thinks the user might be doing something wrong?
Jet Grind Radio — try finding a game that's just like it
Virtua Tennis — the first tennis game that non-fans could enjoy
Crazy Taxi — also unlike any other game... jumping, drifting cars... extreme obstacle courses
Like it or not, this is in line with the government's stance towards possible problems at nuclear power plants: remove plant blueprints and other detailed information from public access.
There are many more. I'm just trying to give an alternate perspective because IMHO, local news places tend to be more interested in sensationalized exposés than in subtle details.
Anyway, you can just add that sit.wav to the start of your answering machine message for free, so it doesn't hurt to see for yourself.
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Read their FAQ: they aren't advocating or only advertising works which get released into the public domain. They're more interested in allowing authors to create their own license that allows and restricts whatever the author feels is good, in case neither of the two extremes of standard copyright or public domain are suitable for an author.
The article says the system tests about 10,000 images a day. If a system had a 99.9% accuracy, that'd be 10 misidentifications a day.
Granted, security personal and law enforcement can weed out 10 false positives a day, but even such a hypothetical system wouldn't be adequate for scanning everyone in a major city.
When Napster was getting off the ground, the labels pooh-poohed it, basically taking the position that anything that got built by average users,
ripping their own MP3s, adding their own metadata, serving off their own PCs with their own network connections would suck. Only a centralized
system could deliver "High Quality Content," because every file on the network would be vetted and served by a Responsible Grownup from the labels.
The new, BMG-owned Napster was very much a Responsible Grownup proposition. Responsible Grownups would centralize the files, take them out of that
greasy-kids-stuff MP3 format and put them in a Responsible Grownup format with "rights management" that would curtail your ability to format-shift,
time-shift and repurpose the music you downloaded. The system really looked like it was going to brutally suck.
So I can't really feel too sad for poor old dead Napster. Death was the best it could hope for now. Dead, its name can remain synonymous with
revolutions; had it lived, its name would have been synonymous with crap.
That's how we do it on the web. If an ad catches your eye, you might pause for a second to watch it flip around. If not, you just continue what you were doing. Am I stealing from websites by acting this way?
That's an extreme form of what's wrong, but it's the same type of problem. Another similar situation: most people living under oppresive dictatorships aren't constantly crying out for help, they're not constantly on the verge of having a mass uprising to overthrow the government. The problem is that humans don't always recognize when they're in a precarious situation, especially if they're put in that position by someone they've somewhat trusted for some time, and there aren't any voices of opposition to make them pay attention. Generally, a lack of knowledge.
That's what this article is. It's a call to users to pay attention, consider for a moment why they might not want to remain in their present situation. It's also a call to those in the know to educate their peers.
That's why Slashdot readers should get all worked up about it, put some thought into it, post good arguments that common people will understand, and then tell all their friends about it.
There are a few things that are specifically designed to remedy such predatory practices, aren't there?
If the case is somewhat novel, then the ACLU or EFF have pooled together funds from many people in order to be able to set good precendents.
If the suit will obviously fall in favor of the defendant, can't you get a good lawyer to file a SLAPP suit, and you won't have to pay the lawyer unless you win?
Because Yahoo, et. al. are free, they make their money from advertising. I pay my ISP, and if they started requiring me to run programs that displayed banner ads at the bottom of my screen continuously -- in addition to the $45 / mo -- I'd leave ASAP.
The preprocessor is always available in C, it's run by default by the compiler. This almost seems like nitpicking that he's using the assembly generator too much for his C code.
Any better suggestions?
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Making keyboards portable is hard. As you mentioned, making them smaller is not ideal. Making them virtual (drawn with lasers) is another option.
My friend has a touchstream keyboard which he used full-time for a couple weeks. His emails constantly looked like the parent post. He attributed this to lack of tactile or auditory feedback.
On the other hand, I use a small two-way alphanumeric pager (size comparison, closeup). You end up typing on it preying-mantis like, holding the front with your thumbs nad the back with your pinkies, and typing with your two pointer fingers. Typing is definitely slower, but you don't end up making constant mistakes like with the other keyboards mentioned.
May point is... as far as I know, mini keyboards are the best solution so far, there are worse solutions available.
That's why apps install the necessarily libraries and programs automatically and seamlessly during their own installation. The most the user needs to do is accept a couple of extra EULAs, that's all.
The user also doesn't want to pay more than they have to for their OS, and they want to encourage as much innovation as the market can bear.
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No. 1) They'll add energy to ice to get water. 2) They'll add more energy to water to get oxygen and hydrogren.
They could then burn the hydrogen with oxygen to get energy, but they wouldn't get as much energy out as they put in in step #2, let alone step #1.
Hydrogen will of course be burnt for energy (eg. for vehivles). This is desirable because you can store up energy and then get bursts of energy, and hydrogen is a decent way to store energy long-term.
Most likely, their original energy will come from solar panels.
Can a Tivo be sold to someone else, and the service continue? If so, then it would mean loss of hardware sales.
Other apps use IE within themselves using IE's API. Until there is a generalized API that will allow Netscape/Opera/etc. to work in the same places IE does now, such a feature is mostly useless.
I can imagine MS may want to shorten that statement down to "this feature is mostly useless".
They want to go all the way. They want automatic electronic enforcement of laws, using the level of smarts that can only determine that the user might be breaking the law currently, which is sufficient justification to allow them to immediately stop you. This is judge, jury, and prosecutor on a chip that can only make a few and/xor/nor decisions.
What's next, they ask congress allow digital cameras to use a stun gun on the user and call the police whenever it thinks the user might be doing something wrong?
Jet Grind Radio — try finding a game that's just like it
Virtua Tennis — the first tennis game that non-fans could enjoy
Crazy Taxi — also unlike any other game... jumping, drifting cars... extreme obstacle courses
The group is Cirque du Soleil. More photos can be found here and here.
Like it or not, this is in line with the government's stance towards possible problems at nuclear power plants: remove plant blueprints and other detailed information from public access.
Also, recessions tend to happen about every 10 years, so the next one has a decent chance of happening during 2012.
I guess this one doesn't count then?
- Do Zappers really work with telemarketers? (15 posts)
- Telezapper easy to defeat? (14 posts)
There are many more. I'm just trying to give an alternate perspective because IMHO, local news places tend to be more interested in sensationalized exposés than in subtle details.Anyway, you can just add that sit.wav to the start of your answering machine message for free, so it doesn't hurt to see for yourself.
Read their FAQ: they aren't advocating or only advertising works which get released into the public domain. They're more interested in allowing authors to create their own license that allows and restricts whatever the author feels is good, in case neither of the two extremes of standard copyright or public domain are suitable for an author.
Granted, security personal and law enforcement can weed out 10 false positives a day, but even such a hypothetical system wouldn't be adequate for scanning everyone in a major city.
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The new, BMG-owned Napster was very much a Responsible Grownup proposition. Responsible Grownups would centralize the files, take them out of that greasy-kids-stuff MP3 format and put them in a Responsible Grownup format with "rights management" that would curtail your ability to format-shift, time-shift and repurpose the music you downloaded. The system really looked like it was going to brutally suck.
So I can't really feel too sad for poor old dead Napster. Death was the best it could hope for now. Dead, its name can remain synonymous with revolutions; had it lived, its name would have been synonymous with crap.
"Powered Island" != "mobile island which moves because of Hydrogen Power".
That's how we do it on the web. If an ad catches your eye, you might pause for a second to watch it flip around. If not, you just continue what you were doing. Am I stealing from websites by acting this way?
- It is possible to dehumanize man completely, and yet for life to go on.
That's an extreme form of what's wrong, but it's the same type of problem. Another similar situation: most people living under oppresive dictatorships aren't constantly crying out for help, they're not constantly on the verge of having a mass uprising to overthrow the government. The problem is that humans don't always recognize when they're in a precarious situation, especially if they're put in that position by someone they've somewhat trusted for some time, and there aren't any voices of opposition to make them pay attention. Generally, a lack of knowledge.1984
That's what this article is. It's a call to users to pay attention, consider for a moment why they might not want to remain in their present situation. It's also a call to those in the know to educate their peers.
That's why Slashdot readers should get all worked up about it, put some thought into it, post good arguments that common people will understand, and then tell all their friends about it.
If the case is somewhat novel, then the ACLU or EFF have pooled together funds from many people in order to be able to set good precendents.
If the suit will obviously fall in favor of the defendant, can't you get a good lawyer to file a SLAPP suit, and you won't have to pay the lawyer unless you win?
Because Yahoo, et. al. are free, they make their money from advertising. I pay my ISP, and if they started requiring me to run programs that displayed banner ads at the bottom of my screen continuously -- in addition to the $45 / mo -- I'd leave ASAP.
Cool Bucky Ball java applet here.
The preprocessor is always available in C, it's run by default by the compiler. This almost seems like nitpicking that he's using the assembly generator too much for his C code.
If you already own the book, then something like this should be a legal and free way to accomplish the same problem, right?
sed -- stream editor
lex -- lexical analyzer
My friend has a touchstream keyboard which he used full-time for a couple weeks. His emails constantly looked like the parent post. He attributed this to lack of tactile or auditory feedback.
On the other hand, I use a small two-way alphanumeric pager (size comparison, closeup). You end up typing on it preying-mantis like, holding the front with your thumbs nad the back with your pinkies, and typing with your two pointer fingers. Typing is definitely slower, but you don't end up making constant mistakes like with the other keyboards mentioned.
May point is... as far as I know, mini keyboards are the best solution so far, there are worse solutions available.
The user also doesn't want to pay more than they have to for their OS, and they want to encourage as much innovation as the market can bear.