In Dubai, you will get a minimum of 4 years of prison for drug posession.
Having a poppy seed on your clothing (because you ate a sandwich at a UK airport) constitutes drug posession. If you don't want to be prosecuted then here's an idea, don't break the law? Easier said than done. Notice that you now can get fined for having your dog poop on the pavement. But if you try to have them go after your stolen laptop, they're too busy. With dog poop, no doubt.
One person now has the ability to push a button and wipe out millions. Some call that progress. I suppose it is, but not toward peace. Arguably, the goal of science is to create bigger explosions; At this point, the explosions are simply not yet big enough. But once we manage, I'm sure we'll have peace from that point on. By the way, kudos to whoever did that Big Bang thing.
Out of 70000 people, 700 were arrested. That translates to 99% false positives. Meanwhile, the "false negatives" go undetected. Is that really the best they can do?
Lately I've been giving some thought about how the hard part of multi-touch touch panel is the projection. Such a screen can be built from a sheet of glass+webcam, but the problem is that projecting an image back onto it requires a rather expensive projector. A $200-$300 laser projector would take this into the realm of 'affordable' technology.
It could also render the OLED technology of the 'optimus maximus' keyboard obsolete- many people have a second VGA port that they do not use. Using this port to display a key map onto an essentially transparent keyboard would do the same. It could also allow people to choose the decoration to be displayed on the rest of their keyboard.
> Is that how one interfaces with rarely-used document archives? via groping? Yes, didn't you know? You should have RTFM:
GROPE
NAME
grope, egrope, fgrope, rgrep - print lines matching a pattern
in rarely used document archives
SYNOPSIS
grope (options) PATTERN (FILE...)
DESCRIPTION
grope searches the named archives FILEs (or standard input if none are
named, or the file name - is given) for lines containing a match to the
given PATTERN. By default, grope prints the matching lines.
In addition, three variant programs egrope, fgrep and rgrep are avail-
able. egrep is the same as grope -E. fgrope is the same as
grope -F. rgrope is the same as grope -r.
BUGS
Backreferences are very slow, and may require exponential time.
Obviously you don't pay for the physical medium; That piece of plastic isn't worth 10-15 bucks. No, what you pay for is the music on it (as the RIAA must have argued previously).
Transferred ownership would imply that the music wouldn't belong to the record company anymore. That would be a very bad deal to the record company, so instead, what they sell you is a license to listen to that music. Once you buy a CD, you get to listen to a piece of music as many times as you want.
But you cannot distribute copies of it- the music is protected by copyright law. Now, the record companies argue that making a copy for personal use implies you are not listening to the licensed material anymore- instead, you are listening to a copy (never mind that bits *must* be copied around before the audio hits the speaker).
A case can be made for the fact that an MP3 isn't the licensed material: you can do a bitwise comparison and find out that what you are listening to isn't what you licensed.
This is where the fun starts. Rights and obligations most always come in pairs. If you have the obligation to send your kids to school, this implies the right to have schools built to send your kid to (and building the schools is then in turn the obligation of the state).
So if I cannot make copies for personal use but paid for a license to listen to music represented by a certain pattern of bits, I will have an unalienable right to listen to that music, represented by that *exact* pattern of bits. This implies the obligation of the record company to indefinitely provide me with that exact pattern of bits forever and ever and ever (unless otherwise stated in a written license agreement).
This means that whenever I accidentally scratch the CD that I bought so that it isn't bit-for-bit readable anymore, I'm entitled to a replacement- this obligation arises on RIAA's side of the deal. I guess that is where my microwave oven and sledge hammer come into the picture, and that is where the fun *really* starts.
Simulation may be one thing, but what about modeling the actual functioning? If I make, say, a computer model of snow flakes, that by no means indicates that it models the complexities of a snow storm.
Likewise MAME doesn't model (all) the complexities of the actual arcade machines it emulates. But that doesn't mean it doesn't *work*. If the model is reasonably accurate, the outcome of the simulation will match the real thing.
The Linux drivers I found for the Mark of the Unicorn audio hardware are slick as hell, stable and sound great. Out of curiosity, what hardware is that specifically- the one that does firewire? I've been looking around for a good multi-channel interface for a while, but the RME HDSP (which has been around for a while) has a bit higher price tag than I can justify.
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Thats why you should go for good ol' `rock'. Nuthin' beats that!
No no no - the girls were the GOOD GUYS, remember?
:O :O
The girls were GUYS?
In Dubai, you will get a minimum of 4 years of prison for drug posession. Having a poppy seed on your clothing (because you ate a sandwich at a UK airport) constitutes drug posession. If you don't want to be prosecuted then here's an idea, don't break the law? Easier said than done. Notice that you now can get fined for having your dog poop on the pavement. But if you try to have them go after your stolen laptop, they're too busy. With dog poop, no doubt.
Go out and buy stuff to keep the corporations happy.
Consume.
There is no substitute for good old optimisation. ...said the Traveling Salesman.
But *skilled* IT workers is a different matter altogether. It's a pity that whoever hires IT workers can rarely tell the difference.
54 miles per gallon = 22.9577601 kilometers per liter
But what about concealed weapons? No, I have a better idea- all passengers must be NAKED!
I don't do misstakes Right.
This must be the first time I heard anyone say "perfect lighting conditions" and mean "total darkness".
I would love to try out that bluetooth laser keyboard. Me too. Depending on the strength of the laser, of course.
One person now has the ability to push a button and wipe out millions. Some call that progress. I suppose it is, but not toward peace. Arguably, the goal of science is to create bigger explosions; At this point, the explosions are simply not yet big enough. But once we manage, I'm sure we'll have peace from that point on. By the way, kudos to whoever did that Big Bang thing.
They are rapidly becoming collectors items. On Ebay they're already selling for over $400. For ONE unit, that is.
Great business model.
1. Buy two laptops for $200
2. Give one to charity
3. Sell the other one for $400
4. Profit!
Out of 70000 people, 700 were arrested. That translates to 99% false positives. Meanwhile, the "false negatives" go undetected. Is that really the best they can do?
Lately I've been giving some thought about how the hard part of multi-touch touch panel is the projection. Such a screen can be built from a sheet of glass+webcam, but the problem is that projecting an image back onto it requires a rather expensive projector. A $200-$300 laser projector would take this into the realm of 'affordable' technology.
It could also render the OLED technology of the 'optimus maximus' keyboard obsolete- many people have a second VGA port that they do not use. Using this port to display a key map onto an essentially transparent keyboard would do the same. It could also allow people to choose the decoration to be displayed on the rest of their keyboard.
> Is that how one interfaces with rarely-used document archives? via groping?
Yes, didn't you know? You should have RTFM:
GROPE
NAME
grope, egrope, fgrope, rgrep - print lines matching a pattern
in rarely used document archives
SYNOPSIS
grope (options) PATTERN (FILE...)
DESCRIPTION
grope searches the named archives FILEs (or standard input if none are
named, or the file name - is given) for lines containing a match to the
given PATTERN. By default, grope prints the matching lines.
In addition, three variant programs egrope, fgrep and rgrep are avail-
able. egrep is the same as grope -E. fgrope is the same as
grope -F. rgrope is the same as grope -r.
BUGS
Backreferences are very slow, and may require exponential time.
Obviously you don't pay for the physical medium; That piece of plastic isn't worth 10-15 bucks. No, what you pay for is the music on it (as the RIAA must have argued previously).
Transferred ownership would imply that the music wouldn't belong to the record company anymore. That would be a very bad deal to the record company, so instead, what they sell you is a license to listen to that music. Once you buy a CD, you get to listen to a piece of music as many times as you want.
But you cannot distribute copies of it- the music is protected by copyright law. Now, the record companies argue that making a copy for personal use implies you are not listening to the licensed material anymore- instead, you are listening to a copy (never mind that bits *must* be copied around before the audio hits the speaker).
A case can be made for the fact that an MP3 isn't the licensed material: you can do a bitwise comparison and find out that what you are listening to isn't what you licensed.
This is where the fun starts. Rights and obligations most always come in pairs. If you have the obligation to send your kids to school, this implies the right to have schools built to send your kid to (and building the schools is then in turn the obligation of the state).
So if I cannot make copies for personal use but paid for a license to listen to music represented by a certain pattern of bits, I will have an unalienable right to listen to that music, represented by that *exact* pattern of bits. This implies the obligation of the record company to indefinitely provide me with that exact pattern of bits forever and ever and ever (unless otherwise stated in a written license agreement).
This means that whenever I accidentally scratch the CD that I bought so that it isn't bit-for-bit readable anymore, I'm entitled to a replacement- this obligation arises on RIAA's side of the deal. I guess that is where my microwave oven and sledge hammer come into the picture, and that is where the fun *really* starts.
"fair use". Happy suing, RIAA- you don't stand a chance.
pr0n?
...and he'll perform it himself. Single-handedly.
Nerd sniping
Imagine the votes sitting in a beowulf-cluster of puppet-controlled machines!
Dogs living with cats?? Check.
The Linux drivers I found for the Mark of the Unicorn audio hardware are slick as hell, stable and sound great. Out of curiosity, what hardware is that specifically- the one that does firewire? I've been looking around for a good multi-channel interface for a while, but the RME HDSP (which has been around for a while) has a bit higher price tag than I can justify.