Unfortunately, we don't have any weapons that would make it simply not exist, only ones that would break it into lots of small, harder to deal with pieces. Better to target the "artist".
It is certainly important to let and fund anyone who wants to call their self an "artist" to put junk into orbit. And far better to let this jerk, I mean artist, use the funds and the launch space to feel good about himself than to actually put micro-sats or other useful technology into space. After all, they are only designed and built by mere scientists, not artists.
So many bad ones. But the first to come to mind is Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy.
The reason: because after such a good build up from hearing of it from so many people, it was a real disappointment to come to realize that he thought his readers were complete idiots! Really, you couldn't read a chapter without being hit over the head with another "clue" about who the mule was. It got damn annoying. Then, as the book ends, he does his big reveal and tells you the major plot point that you had to have figured out long ago. And then just to be sure that you understood how stupid he thought you were, he goes back and explains all of the painful clues that he kept throwing at you. I could never read another Asimov book again.
Yea, I understand how Slashdot works. I was asked my thoughts, but someone who thinks that Asimov is a God and has mod points will burn my karma rather than trying to discuss this. At Slashdot we just mod people down if we disagree.
Yea. Three days after Apple gives an attacker access to an iCloud account that then wipes several of the owner's devices (and deletes his Google account among other damage), the Woz "predicts" that horrible problems may happen. I've been avoiding "the cloud" and telling my friends to do the same. He's smart, I'm paranoid.
If someone would only give me a mere One million dollar grant to tell them if the religious beliefs are valid, I could have taken care of half the task and saved them a good deal of cash.
The only thing that's keeping me on FireFox is a plug-in that I really really need and that I can't find a suitable replacement for for other browsers. But it has certainly become a love hate relationship.
I've long been a Firefox fan and advocate. I'm using it now as I post this. But one thing that has really turned me off about Firefox is that over the years I've seen big performance hits with some releases.
Yea, I know that I run the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon who thinks that everything should run just fine on his old 8088 based PC, but I have several older Athlon based WinXP laptops that I still try to get some use out of. The one that I keep on the night stand by my bed was just fine for the things that I was using it for, until a couple of years ago when I accepted a FireFox update (you still had a choice at that time). Suddenly the system that I used to keep a lot of open tabs on started bogging down with only a handful of open tabs. I had already expanded the modest memory of the laptop from what it was when I bought it, it wasn't reasonable or practical to do it again. I removed all but one very needed plug-in and have been limping along since, but I don't dare upgrade it again or upgrade a couple of other older laptops that I own. And even on my desktop I'm stuck at 11.0, because I saw the warnings about no longer having upgrades be optional after that and can't risk having the same happen to my main desktop system.
I realize that they design the software for the current generation of systems, not older computers. But FireFox, after all, promoted itself as "lean and mean" with optional plug-ins to add many features. It is a shame to see it bloat beyond where it will run well on the same computer that used to fly with it. It is disturbing that FireFox wants to start forcing updates that might cause the same for other computers. The one thing that I would wish of them but am completely unlikely to get is an option to safely and cleanly "roll back" and update when this happens again and then lock the FireFox version on the last one that operated properly on the hardware.
I suspect that many if not most of the people who follow Slashdot don't believe in religious superstition. I find it truly unfortunate that someone would take advantage of her untimely passing and use it as an opportunity to preach his own religious views. And yes, I expect other supposedly "religious" people will now resort to name calling to mod me down rather than enter into discussion.
anyone with genuine interior design talent could visit one of their business, eating a burger while seeming to be doing no more than casually glance around. They could then go away and recreate what they saw almost as precisely as a photograph.
But that couldn't serve as evidence against health code violations (or proof of customer assault). When a company forbids taking pictures at their store (even for a kid's birthday party) but also says that they are recording you, one should wonder what they are trying to hide.
The company still hasn't explained why Mann was removed from the restaurant, but Mann has speculated that it has a policy against recording.
Not sure about the arches (have refused to eat there for the last 36 years - that's my right, don't mod me down because you eat there), but I've seen a sign on company owned Burger King restaurants that forbid customers from using cameras on the premises. This warning is on the same door sticker that advises customers that the store is recording them! I asked the manager and he said, yes, it does apply ever to someone wanting to record a child's birthday party there. When I said "It makes you wonder and worry about what the company is trying to hide" he just laughed and said "Yea.".
Why would I want the best games incumbered by Steams DRM? I refuse to buy any game with this DRM, and if enough people did then DRM would wither and die. Most of the/. community seems to understand the evils of DRM, it continues to amaze me that they become such sheep when Steam is mentioned.
You're correct. The scene is moving all through the store, but the hand seems locked in in one part of the picture, without any of the normal movement one would expect to see. Even if the camera were shoulder or arm mounted you would see some normal hand movement that is lacking here. This is clearly a mock-up. But that is to be expected when you are trying to sucker investors with a technology that can't really work. And, of course, I mean allegedly trying to sucker investors.
There is just no way that one would get enough information from a magnetometer to give you the information to do this, any more than a compass in the great outdoors can tell you where you are, it can only tell you headings. Of course, there are all of the other issues that people bring up also, like metal or electrical things moving in the area and changing (effectively randomizing) the minimal information that you have. But to focus on that only ignores the greater problem, any simple vector from a magnetometer (even if it included a vector strength) can't tell you a location in 2D or 3D space. And unless you somehow magically know the correct way to orient your magnetometer when you are holding it, then just moving it as you move through the structure could give you any magnetometer direction at any point.
they lost me at "7" I have absolutely zero interest in a tablet less than 10inches
Sounds like you have an obsessive need to think that you have bigger equipment. I'm not sure exactly what tablet you have, you failed to give a resolution, but a Google search on Iconia tablet leads me to believe that your screen resolution on that big equipment is 1280x800, exactly the same as the resolution of the 7" Nexus. Personally I don't need a big screen with widely spaced pixels, if I can get that same number of pixels in a 7 inch display I would rather have that. Of course, I would much rather have the iPad retina display, but without the Apple cost and without the Apple closed software. And I've been using a 7 inch Android tablet as an e-reader and find it a very nice size for a tablet. Not bulky but large enough for practical use (wish it had that 1280x800 display though).
Yea, I was waiting for the Nexus 7, but on seeing it I'll wait a while longer to get something worthwhile.
$50 more for the version with about $4 worth of extra flash, and no slot to allow the user to add an SD card. And the motive behind this seems to be to force users to use the "cloud". Store all of your music and video on the cloud, then see how long it takes the RIAA and/or the MPAA to find out what you have and start bringing lawsuits. But even if I would re-buy all of my music from Google Play, my ISP has started enforcing monthly usage caps. So I dare not listen to all of my music and watch all of the video that I want or I'll go over the caps and get hit with insanely high overage charges (the little old lady next door already got hit because she likes Netflix). And the finite storage with no expansion slot makes it unreasonable to store all of my music locally (same fault with Nexus Q, which can't store anything). The crippling is for Google's vision of wanting to have all of your information, but pretty much ignores the wants and needs of the customer.
I was pretty disappointed to learn a few days ago about the lack of a back facing camera also. Sure, I've heard the rationalizations, "everyone" already has a digital camera so you don't need it. But that ignores all of the cool things that you can do with a back facing camera on a smart tablet that you can't do with a dumb camera. Everything from Geo-tagging photos to pointing the camera at the night sky and having an astronomy app ID what you are seeing. Reading and looking up QR codes and scanning bar codes. Serving as a wifi enabled remote control camera. And plenty more, and things that just can't be done as well with the crappy front facing webcam.
If they want to claim they had to cut corners to get to the $199 price, I might believe that. But the $249 model has $4 more worth of parts. They could have easily added a basic rear facing camera (even without flash or optical zoom) and an SD slot, and this would have given the customer a decent Android experience. As it is, all I'm hoping for from the Nexus 7 tablet is that it will drive other prices down and set better expectations for screen resolution and CPU power. I had been waiting to buy this, but now that the details are out I wouldn't touch it.
as the whole unit spins, you aren't going to get dust build up (ever).
That seems like a strange comment, since I get dust build-up on faster spinning (and even larger) fan blades, I also have doubts about the heat transfer across an air gap, no silver thermal compound here.
Not on my HPs. Can't speak for Lenovos. But I expected it was Microsoft that was trying to prevent making more copies of the software, since the OEM has little reason to go out of its way to do that.
At least on a couple of HPs that I've tried, it stays closed. Make a recovery set once, you can't make one again. Reinstall from the discs that you made, and you still can't make another set of discs. I'm not certain of Lenovo, but I expect that it is a Windows feature, and not something designed by the OEM (after all, they have far less incentive to stop you from making more recovery discs). So the disc that restores the software doesn't quite restore it the way it was when you first bought it. But it does include all of the crapware that the OEM loaded on the system (which might even be the real reason that we don't get real original Windows discs any more)!
On my laptops that have come without physical media,the recovery software can only be made once. So just making it should make the laptop unsellable to the next customer.
Of course not. And it doesn't represent Newegg well that they would try to resell any returned computer rather than returning it to the manufacturer for "refurbishment".
Couldn't you say the same for any computer with installed software, even just some Windows applications? Should I expect to buy a computer from Newegg (even one marked as "open box") and find that it had some software that I object to installed on it? Or maybe kiddy porn or spyware or other junk?
Of course, some might say that the original purchaser should have restored the software to Windows. But that involves making the recovery discs, since computers no longer ship with an actual copy of Windows on optical media. And, at least on the computers that I have made these reinstall discs on, you can only make the restore discs once. So just making the restore discs would put the computer in a condition that should make it unresellable, since the new owner would not be able to make restoration discs!
The real problem is that Windows is bundled with computers, and that resellers like Newegg accept this and don't do anything to get the manufacturers to give buyers options without the Microsoft tax or to get them physical recovery media. I guess they could try to blame the buyer for trying to install software on his purchase, but I doubt that they can claim that they never expect any buyers to install software on their purchases. Maybe there was indeed some driver issue that brought about the return, but resellers have helped create the environment where this can happen, and they need to share the responsibility.
If your books are DRM free then make a copy and put it in a safe place (perhaps in a safe deposit box or with a friend). If you supported DRM technology when you bought the books, then you agreed to and deserve what will happen when they are eventually lost.
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Unfortunately, we don't have any weapons that would make it simply not exist, only ones that would break it into lots of small, harder to deal with pieces. Better to target the "artist".
It is certainly important to let and fund anyone who wants to call their self an "artist" to put junk into orbit. And far better to let this jerk, I mean artist, use the funds and the launch space to feel good about himself than to actually put micro-sats or other useful technology into space. After all, they are only designed and built by mere scientists, not artists.
So many bad ones. But the first to come to mind is Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy.
The reason: because after such a good build up from hearing of it from so many people, it was a real disappointment to come to realize that he thought his readers were complete idiots! Really, you couldn't read a chapter without being hit over the head with another "clue" about who the mule was. It got damn annoying. Then, as the book ends, he does his big reveal and tells you the major plot point that you had to have figured out long ago. And then just to be sure that you understood how stupid he thought you were, he goes back and explains all of the painful clues that he kept throwing at you. I could never read another Asimov book again.
Yea, I understand how Slashdot works. I was asked my thoughts, but someone who thinks that Asimov is a God and has mod points will burn my karma rather than trying to discuss this. At Slashdot we just mod people down if we disagree.
Yea. Three days after Apple gives an attacker access to an iCloud account that then wipes several of the owner's devices (and deletes his Google account among other damage), the Woz "predicts" that horrible problems may happen. I've been avoiding "the cloud" and telling my friends to do the same. He's smart, I'm paranoid.
There is a Ukrainian law enforcement agency? Who knew?
If someone would only give me a mere One million dollar grant to tell them if the religious beliefs are valid, I could have taken care of half the task and saved them a good deal of cash.
The only thing that's keeping me on FireFox is a plug-in that I really really need and that I can't find a suitable replacement for for other browsers. But it has certainly become a love hate relationship.
I've long been a Firefox fan and advocate. I'm using it now as I post this. But one thing that has really turned me off about Firefox is that over the years I've seen big performance hits with some releases.
Yea, I know that I run the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon who thinks that everything should run just fine on his old 8088 based PC, but I have several older Athlon based WinXP laptops that I still try to get some use out of. The one that I keep on the night stand by my bed was just fine for the things that I was using it for, until a couple of years ago when I accepted a FireFox update (you still had a choice at that time). Suddenly the system that I used to keep a lot of open tabs on started bogging down with only a handful of open tabs. I had already expanded the modest memory of the laptop from what it was when I bought it, it wasn't reasonable or practical to do it again. I removed all but one very needed plug-in and have been limping along since, but I don't dare upgrade it again or upgrade a couple of other older laptops that I own. And even on my desktop I'm stuck at 11.0, because I saw the warnings about no longer having upgrades be optional after that and can't risk having the same happen to my main desktop system.
I realize that they design the software for the current generation of systems, not older computers. But FireFox, after all, promoted itself as "lean and mean" with optional plug-ins to add many features. It is a shame to see it bloat beyond where it will run well on the same computer that used to fly with it. It is disturbing that FireFox wants to start forcing updates that might cause the same for other computers. The one thing that I would wish of them but am completely unlikely to get is an option to safely and cleanly "roll back" and update when this happens again and then lock the FireFox version on the last one that operated properly on the hardware.
Just how many cities does Google think are in Rome? By my count I have a pretty good guess what the city in Rome might be.
Sally Ride was a true pioneer and hero.
I suspect that many if not most of the people who follow Slashdot don't believe in religious superstition. I find it truly unfortunate that someone would take advantage of her untimely passing and use it as an opportunity to preach his own religious views. And yes, I expect other supposedly "religious" people will now resort to name calling to mod me down rather than enter into discussion.
anyone with genuine interior design talent could visit one of their business, eating a burger while seeming to be doing no more than casually glance around. They could then go away and recreate what they saw almost as precisely as a photograph.
But that couldn't serve as evidence against health code violations (or proof of customer assault). When a company forbids taking pictures at their store (even for a kid's birthday party) but also says that they are recording you, one should wonder what they are trying to hide.
The company still hasn't explained why Mann was removed from the restaurant, but Mann has speculated that it has a policy against recording.
Not sure about the arches (have refused to eat there for the last 36 years - that's my right, don't mod me down because you eat there), but I've seen a sign on company owned Burger King restaurants that forbid customers from using cameras on the premises. This warning is on the same door sticker that advises customers that the store is recording them! I asked the manager and he said, yes, it does apply ever to someone wanting to record a child's birthday party there. When I said "It makes you wonder and worry about what the company is trying to hide" he just laughed and said "Yea.".
will be able to vote on which ones are the best
Why would I want the best games incumbered by Steams DRM? I refuse to buy any game with this DRM, and if enough people did then DRM would wither and die. Most of the /. community seems to understand the evils of DRM, it continues to amaze me that they become such sheep when Steam is mentioned.
You're correct. The scene is moving all through the store, but the hand seems locked in in one part of the picture, without any of the normal movement one would expect to see. Even if the camera were shoulder or arm mounted you would see some normal hand movement that is lacking here. This is clearly a mock-up. But that is to be expected when you are trying to sucker investors with a technology that can't really work. And, of course, I mean allegedly trying to sucker investors.
There is just no way that one would get enough information from a magnetometer to give you the information to do this, any more than a compass in the great outdoors can tell you where you are, it can only tell you headings. Of course, there are all of the other issues that people bring up also, like metal or electrical things moving in the area and changing (effectively randomizing) the minimal information that you have. But to focus on that only ignores the greater problem, any simple vector from a magnetometer (even if it included a vector strength) can't tell you a location in 2D or 3D space. And unless you somehow magically know the correct way to orient your magnetometer when you are holding it, then just moving it as you move through the structure could give you any magnetometer direction at any point.
boost brain activity? Of the girls that I know with implants, it seems to have done the opposite.
they lost me at "7" I have absolutely zero interest in a tablet less than 10inches
Sounds like you have an obsessive need to think that you have bigger equipment. I'm not sure exactly what tablet you have, you failed to give a resolution, but a Google search on Iconia tablet leads me to believe that your screen resolution on that big equipment is 1280x800, exactly the same as the resolution of the 7" Nexus. Personally I don't need a big screen with widely spaced pixels, if I can get that same number of pixels in a 7 inch display I would rather have that. Of course, I would much rather have the iPad retina display, but without the Apple cost and without the Apple closed software. And I've been using a 7 inch Android tablet as an e-reader and find it a very nice size for a tablet. Not bulky but large enough for practical use (wish it had that 1280x800 display though).
Yea, I was waiting for the Nexus 7, but on seeing it I'll wait a while longer to get something worthwhile.
$50 more for the version with about $4 worth of extra flash, and no slot to allow the user to add an SD card. And the motive behind this seems to be to force users to use the "cloud". Store all of your music and video on the cloud, then see how long it takes the RIAA and/or the MPAA to find out what you have and start bringing lawsuits. But even if I would re-buy all of my music from Google Play, my ISP has started enforcing monthly usage caps. So I dare not listen to all of my music and watch all of the video that I want or I'll go over the caps and get hit with insanely high overage charges (the little old lady next door already got hit because she likes Netflix). And the finite storage with no expansion slot makes it unreasonable to store all of my music locally (same fault with Nexus Q, which can't store anything). The crippling is for Google's vision of wanting to have all of your information, but pretty much ignores the wants and needs of the customer.
I was pretty disappointed to learn a few days ago about the lack of a back facing camera also. Sure, I've heard the rationalizations, "everyone" already has a digital camera so you don't need it. But that ignores all of the cool things that you can do with a back facing camera on a smart tablet that you can't do with a dumb camera. Everything from Geo-tagging photos to pointing the camera at the night sky and having an astronomy app ID what you are seeing. Reading and looking up QR codes and scanning bar codes. Serving as a wifi enabled remote control camera. And plenty more, and things that just can't be done as well with the crappy front facing webcam.
If they want to claim they had to cut corners to get to the $199 price, I might believe that. But the $249 model has $4 more worth of parts. They could have easily added a basic rear facing camera (even without flash or optical zoom) and an SD slot, and this would have given the customer a decent Android experience. As it is, all I'm hoping for from the Nexus 7 tablet is that it will drive other prices down and set better expectations for screen resolution and CPU power. I had been waiting to buy this, but now that the details are out I wouldn't touch it.
as the whole unit spins, you aren't going to get dust build up (ever).
That seems like a strange comment, since I get dust build-up on faster spinning (and even larger) fan blades, I also have doubts about the heat transfer across an air gap, no silver thermal compound here.
Not on my HPs. Can't speak for Lenovos. But I expected it was Microsoft that was trying to prevent making more copies of the software, since the OEM has little reason to go out of its way to do that.
At least on a couple of HPs that I've tried, it stays closed. Make a recovery set once, you can't make one again. Reinstall from the discs that you made, and you still can't make another set of discs. I'm not certain of Lenovo, but I expect that it is a Windows feature, and not something designed by the OEM (after all, they have far less incentive to stop you from making more recovery discs). So the disc that restores the software doesn't quite restore it the way it was when you first bought it. But it does include all of the crapware that the OEM loaded on the system (which might even be the real reason that we don't get real original Windows discs any more)!
On my laptops that have come without physical media,the recovery software can only be made once. So just making it should make the laptop unsellable to the next customer.
Of course not. And it doesn't represent Newegg well that they would try to resell any returned computer rather than returning it to the manufacturer for "refurbishment".
Couldn't you say the same for any computer with installed software, even just some Windows applications? Should I expect to buy a computer from Newegg (even one marked as "open box") and find that it had some software that I object to installed on it? Or maybe kiddy porn or spyware or other junk?
Of course, some might say that the original purchaser should have restored the software to Windows. But that involves making the recovery discs, since computers no longer ship with an actual copy of Windows on optical media. And, at least on the computers that I have made these reinstall discs on, you can only make the restore discs once. So just making the restore discs would put the computer in a condition that should make it unresellable, since the new owner would not be able to make restoration discs!
The real problem is that Windows is bundled with computers, and that resellers like Newegg accept this and don't do anything to get the manufacturers to give buyers options without the Microsoft tax or to get them physical recovery media. I guess they could try to blame the buyer for trying to install software on his purchase, but I doubt that they can claim that they never expect any buyers to install software on their purchases. Maybe there was indeed some driver issue that brought about the return, but resellers have helped create the environment where this can happen, and they need to share the responsibility.
Cut Obama some slack, after all, he wasn't even born or raised in this country.
If your books are DRM free then make a copy and put it in a safe place (perhaps in a safe deposit box or with a friend). If you supported DRM technology when you bought the books, then you agreed to and deserve what will happen when they are eventually lost.