just curious- how do they know that, exactly? what do they compare the prototype to in order to show that it has lost mass instead of whatever they're measuring it with just being off by that much?
i think what you're saying (and i agree with you on this) is, for example, why don't we call what we now call a kilogram a gram and what we now call a gram a milligram so that the defined value is the "default", un-modified value. maybe saying it that way will clarifiy it for those who don't understand it.
i think it would be cool if it were defined in terms of a certain number non-isotopic hydrogen atoms. i suck at math and chem though:) anyone know what that number would be?
when you can get the 30" apple cinema display for less? Sure, it's 12" less in the diagonal dimension, but is TV really any better that much bigger? And at 2560x1600 (as opposed to the Dell's measly 1024x768) it can actually display HDTV, and will be much more usable for computing....not to mention that it looks way cooler...
I think it's a good thing. While the system should've been secure in the first place, it is better that the system gets a trial by fire against (relatively) benign nuisance spyware programs than they go undetected until something really destructive comes along.
think of spyware as the common cold- ever evolving, practically undefeatable, but essentially just a periodic nuisance that keeps the immune system on its toes...
I've done some research on this topic and found out that californias agricultural waste which is mostly funneled down into a southern californian dessert lake area could supply enough fuel to satiate the US oil supply
eww! remind me not to order the pie when i'm in CA...
No kidding. We need a law for this kind of stuff similar to the federal truth in lending laws that require you to basically put the gist of an agreement, the important details, at the top of the contract in plain english.
Better yet, since I'm sure there will still be loopholes in that sort of thing, it could be interesting if there were some sort of universal file format for legal documents (and I don't mean word perfect, har, har) where I could have one generic agreement that I read in detail once and check what I agree with, will and won't do, then when I get a new one from a manufacturer it can show me how they differ. I'd like that......which, I guess, means it'll never happen:)
I don't really care whether humans are causing global warming or not (although I suspect they are). It's simply a good idea for us to do as much as we can to minimize our impact on the environment.
If you recall, there was a time when video didn't exist. Movie studios didn't have any reason to believe that they would continue to profit off of a movie after its initial run in theaters, with the exception of perhaps the late-night showing on TV. And yet they continued to make the movies then. I suspect they would still make them now...
As far as the GNU GPL goes, we only think we rely on it. So far, there haven't been any court cases to enforce it, and yet somehow things work out. Are we to assume that it's the dubious threat of legal action because of the GPL that prevents the source from being locked up?
Who says I have to earn the right to listen to their music? Who says it's even work for them to make it? The recorded works certainly aren't work for them after the initial recording session. Who says they deserve to be continually paid for something they did once? Anyway, I go to concerts all the time of bands that I came to like after listening to their which music I downloaded for free. I pay to get into those concerts. That's what I do for them.
...then i'd hate to be the poor guy who happens to be born 21 years and one day before they start raising the drinking age. talk about suckage- knowing all your life that you could have had a beer if you had only stayed in the womb a day longer! damn!
c'mon- you know you want to try it. it'd beat the mile high club any day. and any girl who's willing to do it just might be geeky enough to dig slashdotters:)
watch out for those bodily fluids floating around though... eeewwww!
I agree. Furthermore, I'll say that is my opinion on current intellectual property laws. All laws aside, could it not be believed that it is unethical to create something which is entirely in the intellectual realm and demand your right to profit indefinitely from the sale of it? If artists want to make money playing music, let them tour and be paid to play. Let their recorded works serve as advertising. Perhaps one shouldn't be able to spend an afternoon in a recording studio singing a catch tune and then rest on their laurels living off of royalties for the rest of their lives...
I had to go through their process the other day when downloading a Windows Mobile SDK and eMbedded Visual C++. Seems pretty dumb, because it's not exactly like you can get an illegal copy of Windows Mobile. Fortunately, I have a legal copy of Win2K, but I did have to dig up my serial number...
It's hard to say if it would be a net good or bad thing, really- on the one hand, those employed by present ISPs will be out of jobs, but then the government would need people to build and operate their network.
A corporation is going to always charge as much as the market will bear. Once the infrastructure is built, it would only be necessary to maintain it, which would mean that the amount of our taxes going to wireless internet infrastructure mantenance should be less than what we would be paying a for-profit company annually for similar service.
This reduced cost would equate to lower overhead for businesses, which should result in lower costs for our goods in services. Sort of a "trickle down" effect, I suppose. This should add extra stimulus to the economy, which would mean more tax revenue for the government.
Who knows? It seems to benefit us to have our other infrastructural needs provided by the government. Besides, recent years seem to show that public utilities are pretty easily privatized. Much harder to socialize an existing private enterprise.
Screw Iraq, or a tax cut, or whatever bullshit subsidy the government wants to spend my money on- we should have this. Now! A $3bn investment in a free, public, high-speed wireless internet infrastructure would repay itself by stimulating all sorts of economic growth in a very short amount of time. Naturally, that means it'll never happen... It'll only get built by a large corporation that will charge us out the asses for it and provide spotty service. Woohoo! Maybe the EU'll do it... It'll certainly benefit places that are further behind in their infrastructure by helping them get past the last mile problem...
I like the idea of creating modern wonders- equivalents of the pyramids or stonhenge for today. We've got all of our technology and power, but we've built very little that is absolutely monumental....But the execution of this one seems a little lame. Why merely imitate an existing structure? And what is it made out of? I think James Turrell's work in Roden Crater in Arizona is much more interesting...
I agree. Perhaps it's just an odometer which uses GPS to detect when you are outside the state's borders and then shuts itself off/on accordingly?
seems pretty technologically unfeasible, and doesn't account for anyone who lives outside the state line but drive into california every day. I'd imagine something like this would only cause a bunch of businesses to move just outside the state line.
This means that each man woman and child would need 174 square meters of panel to be responsible for all the energy made and used in their name!
This, of course, sounds like a lot, but consider the amount of roof surface the average suburban home has. The Average US home is 2,300 sq. ft., which equals ~214 sq. meters. (Okay, so the average 2,300 sq. ft. home is probably 2-story, but humor me) Also consider the amount of roof space there is on office buildings, etc. and consider the reduced amount of line losses there would be in such a distributed grid. It would still likely be prohibitively expensive, and even if it weren't, it probably wouldn't be feasible at 30% efficiency, but there is a pretty good chance that efficiency will continue to increase, and that at some point it could look like a very reasonable option.
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just curious- how do they know that, exactly? what do they compare the prototype to in order to show that it has lost mass instead of whatever they're measuring it with just being off by that much?
i think what you're saying (and i agree with you on this) is, for example, why don't we call what we now call a kilogram a gram and what we now call a gram a milligram so that the defined value is the "default", un-modified value. maybe saying it that way will clarifiy it for those who don't understand it.
:) anyone know what that number would be?
i think it would be cool if it were defined in terms of a certain number non-isotopic hydrogen atoms. i suck at math and chem though
when you can get the 30" apple cinema display for less? Sure, it's 12" less in the diagonal dimension, but is TV really any better that much bigger? And at 2560x1600 (as opposed to the Dell's measly 1024x768) it can actually display HDTV, and will be much more usable for computing. ...not to mention that it looks way cooler...
I think it's a good thing. While the system should've been secure in the first place, it is better that the system gets a trial by fire against (relatively) benign nuisance spyware programs than they go undetected until something really destructive comes along.
think of spyware as the common cold- ever evolving, practically undefeatable, but essentially just a periodic nuisance that keeps the immune system on its toes...
I've done some research on this topic and found out that californias agricultural waste which is mostly funneled down into a southern californian dessert lake area could supply enough fuel to satiate the US oil supply
eww! remind me not to order the pie when i'm in CA...
Tomboy, F-spot, Muine & Blam! ... MooTag, GFax, GIB, Sonance and Bluefunk
WTF? Who comes up with names like these? I would blame the MBA's, but this is open source stuff, right?
who modded this insightful? only on slashdot would someone not realize that this was meant as a joke...
No kidding. We need a law for this kind of stuff similar to the federal truth in lending laws that require you to basically put the gist of an agreement, the important details, at the top of the contract in plain english.
...which, I guess, means it'll never happen :)
Better yet, since I'm sure there will still be loopholes in that sort of thing, it could be interesting if there were some sort of universal file format for legal documents (and I don't mean word perfect, har, har) where I could have one generic agreement that I read in detail once and check what I agree with, will and won't do, then when I get a new one from a manufacturer it can show me how they differ. I'd like that...
nobody cares if you post instructions on how to manufacture Carbon Tetrachloride on your web site
I got in big trouble for that, you insensitive clod!
I don't really care whether humans are causing global warming or not (although I suspect they are). It's simply a good idea for us to do as much as we can to minimize our impact on the environment.
If you recall, there was a time when video didn't exist. Movie studios didn't have any reason to believe that they would continue to profit off of a movie after its initial run in theaters, with the exception of perhaps the late-night showing on TV. And yet they continued to make the movies then. I suspect they would still make them now...
As far as the GNU GPL goes, we only think we rely on it. So far, there haven't been any court cases to enforce it, and yet somehow things work out. Are we to assume that it's the dubious threat of legal action because of the GPL that prevents the source from being locked up?
Who says I have to earn the right to listen to their music? Who says it's even work for them to make it? The recorded works certainly aren't work for them after the initial recording session. Who says they deserve to be continually paid for something they did once? Anyway, I go to concerts all the time of bands that I came to like after listening to their which music I downloaded for free. I pay to get into those concerts. That's what I do for them.
...then i'd hate to be the poor guy who happens to be born 21 years and one day before they start raising the drinking age. talk about suckage- knowing all your life that you could have had a beer if you had only stayed in the womb a day longer! damn!
two words:
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space sex
c'mon- you know you want to try it. it'd beat the mile high club any day. and any girl who's willing to do it just might be geeky enough to dig slashdotters
watch out for those bodily fluids floating around though... eeewwww!
I agree. Furthermore, I'll say that is my opinion on current intellectual property laws. All laws aside, could it not be believed that it is unethical to create something which is entirely in the intellectual realm and demand your right to profit indefinitely from the sale of it? If artists want to make money playing music, let them tour and be paid to play. Let their recorded works serve as advertising. Perhaps one shouldn't be able to spend an afternoon in a recording studio singing a catch tune and then rest on their laurels living off of royalties for the rest of their lives...
I had to go through their process the other day when downloading a Windows Mobile SDK and eMbedded Visual C++. Seems pretty dumb, because it's not exactly like you can get an illegal copy of Windows Mobile. Fortunately, I have a legal copy of Win2K, but I did have to dig up my serial number...
It's hard to say if it would be a net good or bad thing, really- on the one hand, those employed by present ISPs will be out of jobs, but then the government would need people to build and operate their network.
A corporation is going to always charge as much as the market will bear. Once the infrastructure is built, it would only be necessary to maintain it, which would mean that the amount of our taxes going to wireless internet infrastructure mantenance should be less than what we would be paying a for-profit company annually for similar service.
This reduced cost would equate to lower overhead for businesses, which should result in lower costs for our goods in services. Sort of a "trickle down" effect, I suppose. This should add extra stimulus to the economy, which would mean more tax revenue for the government.
Who knows? It seems to benefit us to have our other infrastructural needs provided by the government. Besides, recent years seem to show that public utilities are pretty easily privatized. Much harder to socialize an existing private enterprise.
Screw Iraq, or a tax cut, or whatever bullshit subsidy the government wants to spend my money on- we should have this. Now! A $3bn investment in a free, public, high-speed wireless internet infrastructure would repay itself by stimulating all sorts of economic growth in a very short amount of time. Naturally, that means it'll never happen... It'll only get built by a large corporation that will charge us out the asses for it and provide spotty service. Woohoo! Maybe the EU'll do it... It'll certainly benefit places that are further behind in their infrastructure by helping them get past the last mile problem...
I like the idea of creating modern wonders- equivalents of the pyramids or stonhenge for today. We've got all of our technology and power, but we've built very little that is absolutely monumental. ...But the execution of this one seems a little lame. Why merely imitate an existing structure? And what is it made out of? I think James Turrell's work in Roden Crater in Arizona is much more interesting...
I agree. Perhaps it's just an odometer which uses GPS to detect when you are outside the state's borders and then shuts itself off/on accordingly?
seems pretty technologically unfeasible, and doesn't account for anyone who lives outside the state line but drive into california every day. I'd imagine something like this would only cause a bunch of businesses to move just outside the state line.
no- not related to the dvorak keyboard, and the keys on a dvorak aren't in alphabetical order.
This means that each man woman and child would need 174 square meters of panel to be responsible for all the energy made and used in their name!
This, of course, sounds like a lot, but consider the amount of roof surface the average suburban home has. The Average US home is 2,300 sq. ft., which equals ~214 sq. meters. (Okay, so the average 2,300 sq. ft. home is probably 2-story, but humor me) Also consider the amount of roof space there is on office buildings, etc. and consider the reduced amount of line losses there would be in such a distributed grid. It would still likely be prohibitively expensive, and even if it weren't, it probably wouldn't be feasible at 30% efficiency, but there is a pretty good chance that efficiency will continue to increase, and that at some point it could look like a very reasonable option.
When are robots like Rosie on the Jetsons going to be easily affordable?
About the same time that we get flying cars...
Just get in a corner!