How about placing it in orbit around something else then, like the moon. It'll cost more, and be harder to repair, and have 'lag' on communications. But if the earth orbit is that 'polluted' it could be an option
Unfortunately, the much larger gravitational pull of the Earth would drag whatever we put in orbit around a smaller planetary body than the Earth itself (like the moon) into the Earth's own orbit. Oops.
It almost seems like the big companies are doing everything they can to make Orwell's book "[i]Nineteen Eigthy-Four[/i]" come true. They want to total control over what everyone does with their copy of some software, music or a movie. It'll be only a matter of time before some big company proposes tracking every single individual in a country. Hang on, I seem to recall this already having been proposed in a similar form...
So, what are we going to decide? Will we allow the big companies (the 'Party') to take away all of our freedoms one by one? Today fair-use, tomorrow anonymity?
It sounds to me like this would be the ideal time to use the united force of all people around the world who value their freedom to fight the sickening proposals being made by those who stand above the possible effects of their ideas.
Certainly, this technology might be useful in certain situations, but it should never be used to limit the freedom of the individual.
Are we willing to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of the profits of the 'entertainment' industry? It would hardly surprise me if after a successful introduction of TCPA, the number of sold CDs/movies and the profits made on movies in theatres would rapidly decrease, instead of rise, like they did before the introduction of TCPA (profits made by the entertainment industry has continued to rise in the past few years, despite the doubling of the number of sold illegal CDs and the exponentially growth of P2P software over 2001).
I propose that we, the people, make our final stand here and let utter defeat be the fate of our opponent(s).
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Isn't this one of the main problems chip-manufacturers have to deal with now that individual transistors are becoming so small?
I'd imagine that the electron-migration with 10 nm transistors is pretty bad, not to mention the inferference between individual traces.
I could be horribly wrong, though. Anyone wants to hit me with a clue-stick?:)
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You seem to ignore the fact that the ancestors of these people you're talking about used to live in nomadic tribes. These tribes could not settle anywhere, but had to keep moving, or die from starvation.
To summarize what we know by now...
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Something is definitely happening to the climate on this planet, but what precisely, and what the cause(s) for this process are, not to mention the endresult (if there is one), are still unknown.
Something is happening, we only don't know what or why.
I'm of the opinion that people (this includes everyone) should be made aware of the fact that there are different OSs, of which only a few can run the software written for another OS.
With this rudimentary knowledge, the world would become a much more pleasant place to live in if you happen to work at a helldesk.
Note: the typo was intentional.
Not necessarily. Although the biological neural network we refer to as ourselves has been shaped by seemingly random (yet possibly predefined in some way) interactions between certain substances, this network itself is governed by a set of what I usually refer to as 'evolution'-algorithms, which do not completely rely on external impulses (i.e. we have thoughts).
In essence, this little neural network is pretty much independent from other processes in the universe.
And if it weren't, would we even know? Would even this post I'm typing right now have been predefined at the beginning at the universe?
Furthermore, isn't Quantum Mechanics for a large part about uncertainties, unlike Newtonian physics?
Mems is the technology behind DLP the movie theater light projection. The only problems I have heard is that it takes some adjustment a few hours for you eyes to adjust to the rapid flashes, friends will likely get a headache the first time they come over.
If you had actually read the article, you would have known that MEMS-based TVs/projects are actually superior to CRTs in this regard. The image is in fact much more 'smooth'.
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How about placing it in orbit around something else then, like the moon. It'll cost more, and be harder to repair, and have 'lag' on communications. But if the earth orbit is that 'polluted' it could be an option
Unfortunately, the much larger gravitational pull of the Earth would drag whatever we put in orbit around a smaller planetary body than the Earth itself (like the moon) into the Earth's own orbit. Oops.
It almost seems like the big companies are doing everything they can to make Orwell's book "[i]Nineteen Eigthy-Four[/i]" come true. They want to total control over what everyone does with their copy of some software, music or a movie. It'll be only a matter of time before some big company proposes tracking every single individual in a country. Hang on, I seem to recall this already having been proposed in a similar form...
So, what are we going to decide? Will we allow the big companies (the 'Party') to take away all of our freedoms one by one? Today fair-use, tomorrow anonymity?
It sounds to me like this would be the ideal time to use the united force of all people around the world who value their freedom to fight the sickening proposals being made by those who stand above the possible effects of their ideas.
Certainly, this technology might be useful in certain situations, but it should never be used to limit the freedom of the individual.
Are we willing to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of the profits of the 'entertainment' industry? It would hardly surprise me if after a successful introduction of TCPA, the number of sold CDs/movies and the profits made on movies in theatres would rapidly decrease, instead of rise, like they did before the introduction of TCPA (profits made by the entertainment industry has continued to rise in the past few years, despite the doubling of the number of sold illegal CDs and the exponentially growth of P2P software over 2001).
I propose that we, the people, make our final stand here and let utter defeat be the fate of our opponent(s).
Déjà vu?
Isn't this one of the main problems chip-manufacturers have to deal with now that individual transistors are becoming so small?
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I'd imagine that the electron-migration with 10 nm transistors is pretty bad, not to mention the inferference between individual traces.
I could be horribly wrong, though. Anyone wants to hit me with a clue-stick?
You seem to ignore the fact that the ancestors of these people you're talking about used to live in nomadic tribes. These tribes could not settle anywhere, but had to keep moving, or die from starvation.
Something is definitely happening to the climate on this planet, but what precisely, and what the cause(s) for this process are, not to mention the endresult (if there is one), are still unknown.
Something is happening, we only don't know what or why.
I'm of the opinion that people (this includes everyone) should be made aware of the fact that there are different OSs, of which only a few can run the software written for another OS. With this rudimentary knowledge, the world would become a much more pleasant place to live in if you happen to work at a helldesk. Note: the typo was intentional.
It's a good thing that the Universe wasn't written in C++. Otherwise, our friends would be able to access our private members.
As opposed to having your members directly exposed to the public? Hmm...
Not necessarily. Although the biological neural network we refer to as ourselves has been shaped by seemingly random (yet possibly predefined in some way) interactions between certain substances, this network itself is governed by a set of what I usually refer to as 'evolution'-algorithms, which do not completely rely on external impulses (i.e. we have thoughts).
In essence, this little neural network is pretty much independent from other processes in the universe.
And if it weren't, would we even know? Would even this post I'm typing right now have been predefined at the beginning at the universe?
Furthermore, isn't Quantum Mechanics for a large part about uncertainties, unlike Newtonian physics?
Mems is the technology behind DLP the movie theater light projection. The only problems I have heard is that it takes some adjustment a few hours for you eyes to adjust to the rapid flashes, friends will likely get a headache the first time they come over.
If you had actually read the article, you would have known that MEMS-based TVs/projects are actually superior to CRTs in this regard. The image is in fact much more 'smooth'.