Actually, the charges are be carried on the inside - carbon nanotubes nanotubes, however, can be (theoretically) filled with metal atoms, thus creating a one-molecule-wide insulated wire, in which the electrons travel through the inside.
Human's can't directly read each other's blood pressure levels - machines shouldn't need to in order to be able to determine someone's emotions. Plus, the computer would need to know that person's normal blood pressure. And if the doctor needs five minutes in order to take my blood pressure, how could a machine do it in less? If it can, whichever method is used, if it's cheap and accurate (it must be to detect emotions) then maybe we should already have it for home medical use...
Why should it be a problem? Driving a car doesn't pose a health risk, and those sparks go off 3000RPM*V6=18000 times a second. And our narrowband transmissions/do/ pose health risks - 30kHz to 300kHz (correct me if I'm wrong) is extremely dangerous to human organs, but is widely used for shortwave radio. Cell phones operate on microwave frequencies, and both of the above transmit 100s of watts and go 100s-1000s of miles; this spark gap goes all of ten feet; I see no health risk unless you touch it...
If I recall correctly, Tesla used spark gaps - Marconi used carrier waves (hence his title "inventor of radio") My proof? It was Tesla that constructed a 50ft (?) tall tower for the express purpose of transmitting via sparks (using the Tesla coil, of course), he only got as far as scaring the nearby town and knocking out their electricity:)
Instead of having real wars, we could have VIRTUAL WARS!!! Just like that show - VR Troopers - they had wars in the virtual world, kinda like Power Rangers only it really wasn't real, unlike Power Rangers, which just wasn't real. Just build a virtual reality device into an outhouse, put it outside the camps of known terrorists, lock them in, turn it on, and BLAMO! They'll think they're in the real world --- freshly armed with hordes of nuclear weapons! No killing, no getting killed, just one smelly outhouse after a few years...
You have 8 to 10 digits on the keyboard at any given time, and need only to make one swift movement with one finger to type each letter. Sometimes even words can be combined into swift movements - you can pump out ten letter words without even moving your fingers (it's easy with Dvorak). Pens, on the other hand, require three digits to operate, and require as much as 4 strokes to write one letter. You also then have to take into account bad handwriting (which doesn't sit too well with bad character recognition). I know I can type almost as fast as one dictates, but I can barely keep up using illegible "shorthand" scribbles and incomplete sentences while using a pen. Not to mention the cramps! I believe some company sells (or will sell) a "virtual" keyboard - finger motions are translated into keystrokes. IMHO,/this/ is where we should put our money.
So a bunch of scientists get a copyright on some funky-sounding music. That's still not a copyright on the DNA. Even if it was, what if two scientists encode DNA->music two different ways? The same DNA strand could have two different songs with two different copyrights. Plus, if DNA can be copyrighted as music for 100 years, then anything from the text of a novel to the design of a combination toilet bowl scrubber/toothbrush could be copyrighted in the same fashion. Certainly there's something wrong with this.
But the problem with previews is people now come in/late/ to a movie, knowing they can spend their time at the concession stand and still not miss the movie. More money for the theatre, less actual exposure for the ads... perhaps advertisers will soon want to move the trailers to the/middle/ of the movie: You.. shall... not... --- On November 25, be prepared for... Toy Story III!!! (yadda yadda) --- ...pass!!! (Balrog falls into darkness)
Almost every reading this is probably an open-source/GNU proponent, and if you're not, then you should be. Why can't we be the same way with music? Hundreds of years ago, people like Bach didn't care who played their music, and I'm sure they wouldn't care who played recordings of their music if that had been at all possible. Why can't we be like that today? We need more open-source bands, using a GNU-style contract: "This recording is free, you can use it how you want to, but any works derived from it (re-mixes, soundtracks, etc.) must use this same contract." I know I'd love to have (and use) a contract like that, how about others?
Web pages contain lots of links to ads, some even more than they have useful links. If user-end solutions can barely filter these links/images out correctly, how is a server-side search engine supposed to do the same w/o slowing down the search immensely and/or misjudging many links?
On the other hand, it would be a good way for the search engines to get advertising in...
If you put a plate of silicon outside, it generates energy. How? Well, we know that it's because of the sun. If we didn't know that, we might say it was "free energy". This device (assuming it works), could very probably be draining another source of energy that we no nothing about, so we think it's "free". It's draining something, but it's not draining anything that we know about. Or is it? One possibility is gravity...
When I first found Ogg/Vorbis (I think it came with TuxRacer), I decided to test it out, since I've always wanted good audio compression, but MP3s have always sounded crappy to me. And I've loved it ever since! At 128kbps, the sound quality is nearly perfect; I can only in rare cases pick out artifacts. And plus, one of my main beefs with MP3 (being a percussionist) was that percussion always gets a flangy sound w/ MP3, but with VBR used in Ogg, it sounds perfect! Since the day I got it, I've been recommending it to my friends. Not yet to any avail, but soon they will be enlightened! Can't wait for RC4...
I think part of the problem is that gurus tend not to use the 'easy-to-use' features. I'm not a guru (only been using Linux for ~8 months), but when I finally convinced my band teacher to install Linux (Mandrake, specifically) and he wanted to know how he could best use his old Office databases, my best answer was 'use Wine'. I've never had to do any database stuff before, but I know if I had to, I'd probably rig up a Perl interface and use TAB-delimited text files.
'Got it right' with USB and no floppy drive? First of all, USB is an overhyped, noncompatible/serial bus/ that can't be interface with old hardware. And without a $10 floppy drive w/ 10c media, you're stuck with a $200 CD-RW drive w/ $2 media that can't be interfaced with old hardware! Sure, the hardware may be good, but it's overpriced, nonextensible, and nonreplacable!
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But now, with an LCD screen, that leaves room for a toaster inside the box...
By licensing his code with the GPL, RMS is excercising power to force other people to use the GPL. And to force everybody else to not use power-invoking licenses, he would have to exercise even more power.
It just hit me the other day that there's more GNU stuff on a Linux box than there is Microsoft stuff on a Windows box. Sometimes I even long to return to the anarchy of MS-DOS, with each piece of software from a different person. Sounds to me like RMS is becoming the Bill Gates of the Open Source world...
XBox runs off a Pentium III, right? Why?!?! The last thing we need is segmented architechture in video game consoles. I guess Microsoft is planning to make Windows run on it or something. Or maybe Minesweeper.
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Actually, the charges are be carried on the inside - carbon nanotubes nanotubes, however, can be (theoretically) filled with metal atoms, thus creating a one-molecule-wide insulated wire, in which the electrons travel through the inside.
Human's can't directly read each other's blood pressure levels - machines shouldn't need to in order to be able to determine someone's emotions. Plus, the computer would need to know that person's normal blood pressure. And if the doctor needs five minutes in order to take my blood pressure, how could a machine do it in less?
If it can, whichever method is used, if it's cheap and accurate (it must be to detect emotions) then maybe we should already have it for home medical use...
Why should it be a problem? Driving a car doesn't pose a health risk, and those sparks go off 3000RPM*V6=18000 times a second. /do/ pose health risks - 30kHz to 300kHz (correct me if I'm wrong) is extremely dangerous to human organs, but is widely used for shortwave radio. Cell phones operate on microwave frequencies, and both of the above transmit 100s of watts and go 100s-1000s of miles; this spark gap goes all of ten feet; I see no health risk unless you touch it...
And our narrowband transmissions
If I recall correctly, Tesla used spark gaps - Marconi used carrier waves (hence his title "inventor of radio") :)
My proof? It was Tesla that constructed a 50ft (?) tall tower for the express purpose of transmitting via sparks (using the Tesla coil, of course), he only got as far as scaring the nearby town and knocking out their electricity
Instead of having real wars, we could have VIRTUAL WARS!!!
Just like that show - VR Troopers - they had wars in the virtual world, kinda like Power Rangers only it really wasn't real, unlike Power Rangers, which just wasn't real.
Just build a virtual reality device into an outhouse, put it outside the camps of known terrorists, lock them in, turn it on, and BLAMO! They'll think they're in the real world --- freshly armed with hordes of nuclear weapons! No killing, no getting killed, just one smelly outhouse after a few years...
You have 8 to 10 digits on the keyboard at any given time, and need only to make one swift movement with one finger to type each letter. Sometimes even words can be combined into swift movements - you can pump out ten letter words without even moving your fingers (it's easy with Dvorak). Pens, on the other hand, require three digits to operate, and require as much as 4 strokes to write one letter. You also then have to take into account bad handwriting (which doesn't sit too well with bad character recognition). I know I can type almost as fast as one dictates, but I can barely keep up using illegible "shorthand" scribbles and incomplete sentences while using a pen. Not to mention the cramps! /this/ is where we should put our money.
I believe some company sells (or will sell) a "virtual" keyboard - finger motions are translated into keystrokes. IMHO,
So a bunch of scientists get a copyright on some funky-sounding music. That's still not a copyright on the DNA. Even if it was, what if two scientists encode DNA->music two different ways? The same DNA strand could have two different songs with two different copyrights.
Plus, if DNA can be copyrighted as music for 100 years, then anything from the text of a novel to the design of a combination toilet bowl scrubber/toothbrush could be copyrighted in the same fashion. Certainly there's something wrong with this.
But the problem with previews is people now come in /late/ to a movie, knowing they can spend their time at the concession stand and still not miss the movie. More money for the theatre, less actual exposure for the ads... perhaps advertisers will soon want to move the trailers to the /middle/ of the movie:
You.. shall... not...
--- On November 25, be prepared for... Toy Story III!!! (yadda yadda) ---
...pass!!! (Balrog falls into darkness)
Almost every reading this is probably an open-source/GNU proponent, and if you're not, then you should be.
Why can't we be the same way with music?
Hundreds of years ago, people like Bach didn't care who played their music, and I'm sure they wouldn't care who played recordings of their music if that had been at all possible.
Why can't we be like that today? We need more open-source bands, using a GNU-style contract: "This recording is free, you can use it how you want to, but any works derived from it (re-mixes, soundtracks, etc.) must use this same contract."
I know I'd love to have (and use) a contract like that, how about others?
Web pages contain lots of links to ads, some even more than they have useful links. If user-end solutions can barely filter these links/images out correctly, how is a server-side search engine supposed to do the same w/o slowing down the search immensely and/or misjudging many links? On the other hand, it would be a good way for the search engines to get advertising in...
no nevermind stupid crap-windows put the computer into SLEEP MODE when I hit the space bar!
die bill gates!!!!!
The only thing the movie/television shows have in common with it is the Gate itself, but it's a great read! Very hard to find, too...
If you put a plate of silicon outside, it generates energy. How? Well, we know that it's because of the sun. If we didn't know that, we might say it was "free energy". This device (assuming it works), could very probably be draining another source of energy that we no nothing about, so we think it's "free". It's draining something, but it's not draining anything that we know about. Or is it? One possibility is gravity...
When I first found Ogg/Vorbis (I think it came with TuxRacer), I decided to test it out, since I've always wanted good audio compression, but MP3s have always sounded crappy to me. And I've loved it ever since! At 128kbps, the sound quality is nearly perfect; I can only in rare cases pick out artifacts. And plus, one of my main beefs with MP3 (being a percussionist) was that percussion always gets a flangy sound w/ MP3, but with VBR used in Ogg, it sounds perfect! Since the day I got it, I've been recommending it to my friends. Not yet to any avail, but soon they will be enlightened! Can't wait for RC4...
I think part of the problem is that gurus tend not to use the 'easy-to-use' features. I'm not a guru (only been using Linux for ~8 months), but when I finally convinced my band teacher to install Linux (Mandrake, specifically) and he wanted to know how he could best use his old Office databases, my best answer was 'use Wine'. I've never had to do any database stuff before, but I know if I had to, I'd probably rig up a Perl interface and use TAB-delimited text files.
'Got it right' with USB and no floppy drive? First of all, USB is an overhyped, noncompatible
</RANTANDRAVE>
But now, with an LCD screen, that leaves room for a toaster inside the box...
By licensing his code with the GPL, RMS is excercising power to force other people to use the GPL. And to force everybody else to not use power-invoking licenses, he would have to exercise even more power.
It just hit me the other day that there's more GNU stuff on a Linux box than there is Microsoft stuff on a Windows box. Sometimes I even long to return to the anarchy of MS-DOS, with each piece of software from a different person. Sounds to me like RMS is becoming the Bill Gates of the Open Source world...
XBox runs off a Pentium III, right? Why?!?!
The last thing we need is segmented
architechture in video game consoles. I guess
Microsoft is planning to make Windows run on it
or something. Or maybe Minesweeper.