The only people these UAVs will be spying on are enemy combatants in hostile theatre.
How would you know who was in a location if you didn't look? Are you implying that someone in an area where this thing is aimed is automatically defined as the enemy, like in the Vietnam-era free-fire zones?
Take Windows XP gold, unpatched and put it on a public network, it will be compromised in 15 minutes and a bot within an hour. But do the same think with the contemperaneous [sic] release of Red Hat and OS/X, do the same thing and guess what they will all be compromised within a couple of days.
Amazing, but no one has mentioned the library. Most libraries have some audiobooks, and usually better stuff than mainstream fiction. If you live in a big city, the main branch will have TONS of them. Lots of classics, biographies, histories, and other great stuff.
Just rip them to MP3 to read them via iPod. Might take a bit of tag info editing to make sure they play in the proper order, but, hey, you're a geek, right?
I've "read" a couple of Feynmann books, biographies of several great scientists, and tons of other geeky and non-geeky books this way.
I happen to be one of the lucky folks who can spot a 60Hz monitor from across the room.
Don't you perhaps mean unlucky? Most public terminals (Win) are set at the lowest rate of 60 Hz, regardless of the capability of the monitor. Makes it hard to concentrate at the library, etc., with crazy flicker in your peripheral vision.
That being said, I think this is an area where scientists tend to underestimate the value of manned space travel. You'll notice that as long as manned space travel exists, it generates excitement in the general population. And as it advances, young people dream of one day visiting the stars themselves. Remove manned space travel, and the funding to ALL space ventures will be cut.
Manned space flight gobbles up most of the budget, too, so what is the point of it (theoretically) bringing in extra money through public interest, when it will be spent for the much-more-expensive manned missions? We waste all of the money keeping the people alive. Remove the people, and it gets much cheaper. It is good PR, but excessively expensive PR.
This attitude is similar to the one of Universities who spend tons of money to build a good football team, just so that more alumni will keep returning and (theoreticlaly) provide more in donations.
And anyway, tons of people dream of the wonders of space without wanting to go there themselves.
The one "covering" the iPod is US Patent 6,587,403.
Their filing date is August 17, 2000. Claims cover a device with: (1) audio in, (2) audio out, (3) digital storage of audio, (4) music storage, (5) storage, and (6) playlists (even rudimentary).
In addition to iPods, it appears to cover a jukebox that plays CDs. You know, the kind that have been in bars and restaurants for at least 10 years before their filing.
Your Rio fits the patented article description more explicitly. From what you say, it probably also predates their filing.
So, IANAL, which means I can run around screaming "Prior art! Prior art!"
As a scientist, where I do most of my work in MS Office, I am much more productive in Windows. I basically have to use MS Office because I need to interoperate with my peers and coworkers. Furthermore, Excel (every scientists best friend), is still far and away the best spreadsheet application and to me is Window's so called "killer app". MS Office for the Mac is still wildly unstable, and although it's an option, it's not a very good one.
Unfortunate but true, most scientists are locked into Word for co-authoring publications. But as for stability, I've heard from Windows users that Word is less stable on Windows than Mac. Otherwise, the two are nominally equivalent. Unless you bought Word 2004 Mac. Microsoft has again included some file-format-breaking, that makes Word 2004 documents open improperly in Word X.
SCIENTISTS! Don't buy Office 2004 Mac! It will cause headaches. You can still find copies of Office X around on the web, fortunately.
As for Excel, the only scientific use for it is tabulating and scaling tabular data before exporting to a capable plotting program like Kaleidagraph or SigmaPlot. For heavier lifting, scientists prefer apps like Mathematica or MatLab.
Did you happen to find out if he used anything more than the offal feedstock? Specifically, does he inject hydrogen into the reactors at any point?
I don't understand how they could achieve such reducing conditions otherwise, or how they could shorten chains and get rid of oxygen, without addind hydrogen.
If they do add hydrogen, do they count the energy of producing that in their energy balance equation?
They are recording the output, en route to the speakers. This is called the analog hole. (If you can hear it, you can record it.)
There is a strong effort by content companies to close the analog hole. How? By controlling access to analog-to-digital conversion hardware through new laws.
That's right, it may one day be illegal to use a D/A converter any way you want.
Don't forget, Oregon is also the state where they both give you a tax credit for buying a hybrid, but charge you double for annual vehicle registration if you try to license one.
My only question is:... what in god's name is the use case for that second "enter" key, anyway?
It is an "enter" key. The other one is a "return" key, which is "enter" plus a carriage return. Yes, some applications ignore it, but in many they are different keys.
My fingers know the differnece, so it's hard to think of examples. Entry fields in dialog boxes are one. If you hit enter, it accepts the input in that field, and you can go on to the next. If you hit return, it accepts the input, and thinks you've hit the "OK" button as well. Very different.
The two have different functions for programming as well.
...if Apple worked on iTunes for years, knew that they would call it iTunes and didn't register the trademark during the development phase, then they are dumber then a dim light bulb for a billion $ company.
You can work on a product without having a name for it, you know. Actually, most products work this way. The development guys make it, and the marketing guys name it when it gets close to release (depending on the lead time they want).
Speaking of driving customers away, Radio Shack used to ask every customer for their address before completing a sale. I always refused, but a couple of times the clerk actually refused to sell me the item if I didn't give my address. They were the only source in a small town, so I made one up.
But even now, almost 20 years later, I will still avoid them at all costs when I need a component/cable.
Oops! Didn't mean to be ringing big alarm bells. I should have followed up with:
People who get asbestosis, silicosis, blacklung, etc., are those who have been exposed to high airborne concentrations for extended periods, usually at their job. Coal miners, asbestos installers, potters, etc.. (Silica is used in making whitewares and stoneware, which is why silicosis is also known as "potter's lung").
Everybody has some amount of these types of materials in their lungs. If you've ever driven down a gravel road or broken some glass, you've generated some of these particles, just too few to matter. Everybody probably has some, but becasue our bodies come with extra capacity and the effect is small, you never notice.
So, unless we start slathering our houses with this stuff, or kicking up big dust clouds of it every day, the potential is nothing to worry about. Tiny devices using this would hold insignificant amounts for concern. This is just something for the engineers to keep in the back of their minds.
Something that small and fine could possibly become airborne and eventually irritate allergic responses.
Nah, it has to be micron-scale (1000x larger) for your lungs to recognize it as foreign, and eject it. Like it does with dust.
Not that that's a good thing. People get asbestosis and silicosis for just this reason. Sharp particles that are beneath detection become embedded. And if they aren't broken down and stay sharp, they cut, cut, cut at the cellular level for the rest of your life.
As for graphene becoming airborne, lodging in the lungs, and never breaking down, who knows?
Unfortunately, in our society, the rule is that The TV owns the room.
If I read the paper, I don't bother anyone. If I listen to my iPod, I don't bother anyone. Conversation, eating, etc.. But TV is different. If just ONE person in a crowded room wants to see the TV, then they can have it on. Loud. And you're a jerk if you turn it down/off. Doesn't matter if someone was sitting right in front of the "off" TV prior.
And marketers exploit this, e.g. in airports, where you can't hide from the things.
Some scientist will say that they are not convinced that it is happening now. It is then a question of "when and not "if." There is no doubt about the if.
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Oops! I meant that the claim about Red Hat and OS X was FUD. The generous "15 minutes" for Win XP is well documented.
Anyone?
Zeinfeld says:
Will you please cite a source for that FUD?
Amazing, but no one has mentioned the library. Most libraries have some audiobooks, and usually better stuff than mainstream fiction. If you live in a big city, the main branch will have TONS of them. Lots of classics, biographies, histories, and other great stuff.
Just rip them to MP3 to read them via iPod. Might take a bit of tag info editing to make sure they play in the proper order, but, hey, you're a geek, right?
I've "read" a couple of Feynmann books, biographies of several great scientists, and tons of other geeky and non-geeky books this way.
Is the low refresh of some LEDs visible to many people as well (leading to flashing in the peripheral vision)?
I happen to be one of the lucky folks who can spot a 60Hz monitor from across the room.
Don't you perhaps mean unlucky? Most public terminals (Win) are set at the lowest rate of 60 Hz, regardless of the capability of the monitor. Makes it hard to concentrate at the library, etc., with crazy flicker in your peripheral vision.
This attitude is similar to the one of Universities who spend tons of money to build a good football team, just so that more alumni will keep returning and (theoreticlaly) provide more in donations.
And anyway, tons of people dream of the wonders of space without wanting to go there themselves.
The one "covering" the iPod is US Patent 6,587,403.
Their filing date is August 17, 2000. Claims cover a device with: (1) audio in, (2) audio out, (3) digital storage of audio, (4) music storage, (5) storage, and (6) playlists (even rudimentary).
In addition to iPods, it appears to cover a jukebox that plays CDs. You know, the kind that have been in bars and restaurants for at least 10 years before their filing.
Your Rio fits the patented article description more explicitly. From what you say, it probably also predates their filing.
So, IANAL, which means I can run around screaming "Prior art! Prior art!"
In my field of science, we prefer OS X. Unfortunate but true, most scientists are locked into Word for co-authoring publications. But as for stability, I've heard from Windows users that Word is less stable on Windows than Mac. Otherwise, the two are nominally equivalent. Unless you bought Word 2004 Mac. Microsoft has again included some file-format-breaking, that makes Word 2004 documents open improperly in Word X.
SCIENTISTS! Don't buy Office 2004 Mac! It will cause headaches. You can still find copies of Office X around on the web, fortunately.
As for Excel, the only scientific use for it is tabulating and scaling tabular data before exporting to a capable plotting program like Kaleidagraph or SigmaPlot. For heavier lifting, scientists prefer apps like Mathematica or MatLab.
Did you happen to find out if he used anything more than the offal feedstock? Specifically, does he inject hydrogen into the reactors at any point?
I don't understand how they could achieve such reducing conditions otherwise, or how they could shorten chains and get rid of oxygen, without addind hydrogen.
If they do add hydrogen, do they count the energy of producing that in their energy balance equation?
...follow one of their forums for a couple days to get some insight into how they think.
Could you mention the names of a few?
They are recording the output, en route to the speakers. This is called the analog hole. (If you can hear it, you can record it.)
There is a strong effort by content companies to close the analog hole. How? By controlling access to analog-to-digital conversion hardware through new laws.
That's right, it may one day be illegal to use a D/A converter any way you want.
Read the top article here.
Don't forget, Oregon is also the state where they both give you a tax credit for buying a hybrid, but charge you double for annual vehicle registration if you try to license one.
No, it's not.
At this point it does no good to complain about the extra money required for Iraq, since it's going there no matter what.
If we forget our mistakes, we are certain to make them again.
...Dell laptops that have very high resolution LCDs, but I don't think I'd want to work on one for an extended period of time.
I did.
I think it would hurt my eyes after a while.
It does.
Text was either too small or too large.
My only question is: ... what in god's name is the use case for that second "enter" key, anyway?
It is an "enter" key. The other one is a "return" key, which is "enter" plus a carriage return. Yes, some applications ignore it, but in many they are different keys.
My fingers know the differnece, so it's hard to think of examples. Entry fields in dialog boxes are one. If you hit enter, it accepts the input in that field, and you can go on to the next. If you hit return, it accepts the input, and thinks you've hit the "OK" button as well. Very different.
The two have different functions for programming as well.
Ah, but there could be other effects as well.
The market for movies set in a dystopian future, with cold robot soldiers suppressing the masses, will likely soon disappear.
But maybe they could just pass them off as "realty shows."
A front-page story, where a local TV news station is the only source? And the article doesn't even actually have a quote?
Is slashdot turning into FARK?
BTW, he was reportedly speaking at a conference on women and minorities in engineering.
...if Apple worked on iTunes for years, knew that they would call it iTunes and didn't register the trademark during the development phase, then they are dumber then a dim light bulb for a billion $ company.
You can work on a product without having a name for it, you know. Actually, most products work this way. The development guys make it, and the marketing guys name it when it gets close to release (depending on the lead time they want).
Speaking of driving customers away, Radio Shack used to ask every customer for their address before completing a sale. I always refused, but a couple of times the clerk actually refused to sell me the item if I didn't give my address. They were the only source in a small town, so I made one up.
But even now, almost 20 years later, I will still avoid them at all costs when I need a component/cable.
Oops! Didn't mean to be ringing big alarm bells. I should have followed up with:
People who get asbestosis, silicosis, blacklung, etc., are those who have been exposed to high airborne concentrations for extended periods, usually at their job. Coal miners, asbestos installers, potters, etc.. (Silica is used in making whitewares and stoneware, which is why silicosis is also known as "potter's lung").
Everybody has some amount of these types of materials in their lungs. If you've ever driven down a gravel road or broken some glass, you've generated some of these particles, just too few to matter. Everybody probably has some, but becasue our bodies come with extra capacity and the effect is small, you never notice.
So, unless we start slathering our houses with this stuff, or kicking up big dust clouds of it every day, the potential is nothing to worry about. Tiny devices using this would hold insignificant amounts for concern. This is just something for the engineers to keep in the back of their minds.
Something that small and fine could possibly become airborne and eventually irritate allergic responses.
Nah, it has to be micron-scale (1000x larger) for your lungs to recognize it as foreign, and eject it. Like it does with dust.
Not that that's a good thing. People get asbestosis and silicosis for just this reason. Sharp particles that are beneath detection become embedded. And if they aren't broken down and stay sharp, they cut, cut, cut at the cellular level for the rest of your life.
As for graphene becoming airborne, lodging in the lungs, and never breaking down, who knows?
Unfortunately, in our society, the rule is that The TV owns the room.
If I read the paper, I don't bother anyone. If I listen to my iPod, I don't bother anyone. Conversation, eating, etc.. But TV is different. If just ONE person in a crowded room wants to see the TV, then they can have it on. Loud. And you're a jerk if you turn it down/off. Doesn't matter if someone was sitting right in front of the "off" TV prior.
And marketers exploit this, e.g. in airports, where you can't hide from the things.
The rule needs to change.
Sounds like the virus was written to help the antivirus companies justify their existence.
Hackers are stalking your children online...
Booga booga!
I forgot to leave room in the middle.
Some scientist will say that they are not convinced that it is happening now. It is then a question of "when and not "if." There is no doubt about the if.