If the system need to be connected, and they are important, put them on their own private sub network, and programming a gateway computer to forward the necessary connections. It would not be cheap.
I don't mind how long the copyright is for as long as one has to pay for extensions.
Give a copyright for a short time for free, and then charge for renewals.
I think 5 years for free would be best, but I would not mind if it was 10 or 25 years.
After that time is up, one should have to pay for renewals, and the payment
should be in the thousands of dollars. That way Disney and the like could renew the
copyright on Snow White and similar works forever, but most works would be free of copyright after
a small number of years.
I see emojis as the beginnings of a new written language. Solving the same problem as written Chinese did. I see it will turn into a common world wide written language,
In the late 1933 the US defined the inch to be exactly 2.54 cm.
The US maps still use the definition of a inch that was used before the standardization which is about 2.54000508001016 cm.
If you gave someone a modern processor chip in 1950's. I expect that they would see it as an alloy of silicon and a bunch of other strange elements, embedded in plastic.
I can well believe that a more advanced civilization could build devices atom by atom, and we would just see those devices as a alloy.
This was the oldest computer I ever programed on. It was not my first computer. It still being used at the time to process paper tape and write it to magnetic tape. It had no memory only a drum. The only fun thing about is that it had a brass huge bell, that you could ring with an instruction.
Microsoft made it hard to change the default search engine. I believe most users put chrome in by accident, but start using it because google is much better than bing.
If there are multiple low level images such as would occur in a surveillance camera. It should be possible to combine them a get a much better guess at a true image.
If you look at people who have been involved with technology for 20 plus years. That technology has changed dramatically and If they are still involved with technology they have learned how to adjust to the changes. Those people who could not adjust to the change will be left behind, and not have jobs that require with technology, and maybe not have jobs period. The 20 somethings start with a more modern base, but a significant number of them will not be able to adjust as the technology changes under neath them.
People would switch if public transportation allowed them to get to their destination faster. As long as you can get to your destination faster in a private vehicle, people will use them. Make the public transportation the fastest method people will use, That is why we fly long distances rather than drive.
I had a second disk on my machine that was used for backups, and I was very good about taking backups.
My fan on my computer died, and as a result the disk controller screwed up and the disk controller seem to write randomly over both disks, thus destroying my system and my backups at the same time. Now I make sure that my backups are not kept on the same computer.
IEEE floating point has NAN. I have always liked it. 0/0 gives it as a result. Calculating a value and seeing that the result is NAN is often cleaner code then
checking each variable for zero first. It would be nice if integral arithmetic had something similar but it is not going to happen.
Computer Glasses, are a form of progressives designed for use with computers.
Normal progressives have have a very narrow corridor at computer screen distance which makes you move your head rather than yours eyes to look at a large screen. Computer glasses have a wide corridor at screen reading distance. Some computer glasses have both a narrow corridor at infinity, and at reading distance, but most computer glasses only have screen distance and reading distance.
Normally the top of the lens is set to view at your screen distance and the bottom is set to your reading distance, and they don't work for driving.
I am naturally nearsighted so I don't need glasses to read, so I wear a pair of computer glasses with the top set to infinity and the bottom set to my computer screen distance.
I believe that there are a lot more people who lie about bad cop behavior then there are bad cops.
I expect with such tools most of the complaints about cop behavior would disappear.
But I also believe that any cops whose camera's recording was lost should be in serious trouble.
Most cops are good, but there a some bad ones.
But those people that had the old jobs don't get the new jobs, that is for the next generations.
The industrial revolution displayed a large number of people and made their lives worse,
Over time new types of jobs were created which employed people and gave those people a much better standard of living.
I believe the same thing is happening again.
I believe that most asteroids are just a huge dust ball held together by gravity, no big rocks, just lots and lots of small particles gathering around a small core. With that view of an asteroid, an explosion in the atmosphere would be expected, and almost no solids would reach the ground.
How many years earlier did humans just use pointed sticks.
The technology to sharpen a stick to a point is a lot simpler than a stone point.
I believe humans started to stand on two feet just to be able to carry a long pointed stick to use for defense and attack.
I understand what Microsoft is trying to do. They want one computer (a phone) that can be docked to a larger screen (a tablet) or docketed to a keyboard/mouse and a very large screen (a desktop). We are getting to the point where such a computer will exist.
The trouble is: their implementation is horrible.
It is possible to configure Win 8 as a desktop, that works as well as Win 7. You just have set a lot of defaults and use the "windows key" on your keyboard more often. If you configure your Win 8 as a desktop, it would make a horrible tablet or phone.
What they need to do is have two sets of file associations, one for tablet mode and one for desktop mode. The resulting model should be that anything that starts in desktop mode stays in desktop mode, and anything that starts in tablet mode stays in table
mode, other than explicitly requesting a mode change.
Furthermore I should be able to run my tablet mode screen as a window in my desktop when I run in desktop mode.
Why do I want two devices; two devices to maintain and populate with apps. I want one devices, probably a phone, that I can easily add a large touch screen or multiple touch screens)and keyboards etc. I see my self carrying around a phone, which has a docking station with two or more large screens, keyboard and mouse which I use at my desk. When I travel I take a 10 in. screen which attaches to my phone and I use of as tablet.
I have moved several times and the schools seems all seem to have "The Veldt", "1984", and "Brave New World" as part of the curriculum.
It is not that there is SF in the curriculum, but rather is there relevant SF in the curriculum. The titles above good but dated, the best
SF makes you think about the world that you are in and what the futures could be, the titles above starting point is too far in the past.
I have trouble recommending title because the best I can immediately think of have too much sex and drugs in them for the schools
systems (e.g. William Gibson).
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It is about the only definition that works
And by that definition the picture is art.
If the system need to be connected, and they are important, put them on their own private sub network, and programming a gateway computer to forward the necessary connections. It would not be cheap.
I don't mind how long the copyright is for as long as one has to pay for extensions. Give a copyright for a short time for free, and then charge for renewals. I think 5 years for free would be best, but I would not mind if it was 10 or 25 years. After that time is up, one should have to pay for renewals, and the payment should be in the thousands of dollars. That way Disney and the like could renew the copyright on Snow White and similar works forever, but most works would be free of copyright after a small number of years.
I see emojis as the beginnings of a new written language. Solving the same problem as written Chinese did. I see it will turn into a common world wide written language,
In the late 1933 the US defined the inch to be exactly 2.54 cm. The US maps still use the definition of a inch that was used before the standardization which is about 2.54000508001016 cm.
If you gave someone a modern processor chip in 1950's. I expect that they would see it as an alloy of silicon and a bunch of other strange elements, embedded in plastic. I can well believe that a more advanced civilization could build devices atom by atom, and we would just see those devices as a alloy.
This was the oldest computer I ever programed on. It was not my first computer. It still being used at the time to process paper tape and write it to magnetic tape. It had no memory only a drum. The only fun thing about is that it had a brass huge bell, that you could ring with an instruction.
Microsoft made it hard to change the default search engine. I believe most users put chrome in by accident, but start using it because google is much better than bing.
If there are multiple low level images such as would occur in a surveillance camera. It should be possible to combine them a get a much better guess at a true image.
If you look at people who have been involved with technology for 20 plus years. That technology has changed dramatically and If they are still involved with technology they have learned how to adjust to the changes. Those people who could not adjust to the change will be left behind, and not have jobs that require with technology, and maybe not have jobs period. The 20 somethings start with a more modern base, but a significant number of them will not be able to adjust as the technology changes under neath them.
Manufacturing is coming back, but the manufacturing that is coming back is automated. The manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
People would switch if public transportation allowed them to get to their destination faster. As long as you can get to your destination faster in a private vehicle, people will use them. Make the public transportation the fastest method people will use, That is why we fly long distances rather than drive.
I had a second disk on my machine that was used for backups, and I was very good about taking backups. My fan on my computer died, and as a result the disk controller screwed up and the disk controller seem to write randomly over both disks, thus destroying my system and my backups at the same time. Now I make sure that my backups are not kept on the same computer.
IEEE floating point has NAN. I have always liked it. 0/0 gives it as a result. Calculating a value and seeing that the result is NAN is often cleaner code then checking each variable for zero first. It would be nice if integral arithmetic had something similar but it is not going to happen.
Computer Glasses, are a form of progressives designed for use with computers. Normal progressives have have a very narrow corridor at computer screen distance which makes you move your head rather than yours eyes to look at a large screen. Computer glasses have a wide corridor at screen reading distance. Some computer glasses have both a narrow corridor at infinity, and at reading distance, but most computer glasses only have screen distance and reading distance. Normally the top of the lens is set to view at your screen distance and the bottom is set to your reading distance, and they don't work for driving. I am naturally nearsighted so I don't need glasses to read, so I wear a pair of computer glasses with the top set to infinity and the bottom set to my computer screen distance.
If the airplane wheels were sitting for a long time on a hot pavement, I would expect the compartment to be kept lot warmer that the outside air.
Tax each one penny
I believe that there are a lot more people who lie about bad cop behavior then there are bad cops. I expect with such tools most of the complaints about cop behavior would disappear. But I also believe that any cops whose camera's recording was lost should be in serious trouble. Most cops are good, but there a some bad ones.
But those people that had the old jobs don't get the new jobs, that is for the next generations. The industrial revolution displayed a large number of people and made their lives worse, Over time new types of jobs were created which employed people and gave those people a much better standard of living. I believe the same thing is happening again.
I believe that most asteroids are just a huge dust ball held together by gravity, no big rocks, just lots and lots of small particles gathering around a small core. With that view of an asteroid, an explosion in the atmosphere would be expected, and almost no solids would reach the ground.
How many years earlier did humans just use pointed sticks. The technology to sharpen a stick to a point is a lot simpler than a stone point. I believe humans started to stand on two feet just to be able to carry a long pointed stick to use for defense and attack.
I understand what Microsoft is trying to do. They want one computer (a phone) that can be docked to a larger screen (a tablet) or docketed to a keyboard/mouse and a very large screen (a desktop). We are getting to the point where such a computer will exist. The trouble is: their implementation is horrible. It is possible to configure Win 8 as a desktop, that works as well as Win 7. You just have set a lot of defaults and use the "windows key" on your keyboard more often. If you configure your Win 8 as a desktop, it would make a horrible tablet or phone. What they need to do is have two sets of file associations, one for tablet mode and one for desktop mode. The resulting model should be that anything that starts in desktop mode stays in desktop mode, and anything that starts in tablet mode stays in table mode, other than explicitly requesting a mode change. Furthermore I should be able to run my tablet mode screen as a window in my desktop when I run in desktop mode.
Why do I want two devices; two devices to maintain and populate with apps. I want one devices, probably a phone, that I can easily add a large touch screen or multiple touch screens)and keyboards etc. I see my self carrying around a phone, which has a docking station with two or more large screens, keyboard and mouse which I use at my desk. When I travel I take a 10 in. screen which attaches to my phone and I use of as tablet.
and by using StackOverflow, they are avoiding all the burnt out and useless ones.
I have moved several times and the schools seems all seem to have "The Veldt", "1984", and "Brave New World" as part of the curriculum. It is not that there is SF in the curriculum, but rather is there relevant SF in the curriculum. The titles above good but dated, the best SF makes you think about the world that you are in and what the futures could be, the titles above starting point is too far in the past. I have trouble recommending title because the best I can immediately think of have too much sex and drugs in them for the schools systems (e.g. William Gibson).