Let your government select your culture, eh? Europeans have been subjects to the crown for too long. No healthy distrust of government. Follow blindly. Mussolini. Hitler. Franco. Stalin. Lenin. When will you learn.
Ah yes...get your content, news and commentary from your government. As an added bonus, you get to control the thoughts of your subjects (citizens) !YAY! Russia and Cuba have this already! (Russia had some citizen level control until Vlad the Derailer took control of their radio and television stations about a year ago)
ChinaTV anyone! Guaranteed no political dissidents or malcontents on the air at any time!!
Parent post not thought through/applies to perfect governments only. Know one? Not I.
That is a fantastic idea. Product placement with targeted audiences! Perfect- but it also requires that they deliver an infinite number of channels to cope with multiple product placements if it's truly targeted. The best compromise would be to shoot all the programs with greenscreened products and then open the product placement up to a competetive bid. Start really low, let market value (demand) determine price. Show the scenes to the prospective retailers. I think then they'd only have to show one or two (east coast/west coast or over 30/under 30. m/f??)
Jim Lehrer has very modest production expenses, and is running on PUBLIC TELEVISION (read: TAX DOLLARS) and not real business-television. Unfortunately, I've noticed a bit of garage-sale attitudes here regarding content. We GPL type people would obviuosly like everything to be available. Connie Chunk (sic) makes her living on television. She sells commercial airtime for a living. You try to run 200 150kW transmitters 24 hours a day on your budget sometime like ABC and CBS do- You'll see that advertisers only pay for EFFECTIVE advertising.
I think what we need is a new sort of Visa card that has a $1.00 (or equivalent) maximum transaction amount. This would be used as a password type access to paysites , and premium content at news sites, etc. The $1.00 max transaction size should be coupled with a one daily transaction limit, and NO recurrences. That means that each transaction should have to be OK'd by the owner of the account. This would allow people to pay for that content that they USE, like MP3s, ($1 not that unreasonable), instead of subscribing to a site that will bill recurrently until an act of God stops them. Free content is expensive for the provider, and we all know we should pay for some of it. We also need to be able to trust the providers. Since we can't blindly trust everyone, we have to have a method of diminished risk to pay for small transactions. Your gold Visa is not a good choice. Would you be willing to sign up for a bankcard type account like this if enough content providers signed on to this method instead of monthly subscriptions?
Your Cable company ( or sattelite) could use a similar method to allow people to skip commercials if the customer paid for the content value (about 1/2 cent per viewer per commercial or so- depending on timeslot)
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1. There are NO stupid questions.
2. Your answer is less helpful and creative than the post your griping about.
3. This post is exactly within/.'s mode of operation. He wants to take object A and make it do X function outside its normal operation. The purpose of function X is irrelevant, as is the time/effort factor.
4. You were unkind to the poster who did nothing to you, and sought to build yourself up by taking him down. Every geek hates this, has dealt with this, and I, to name one geek, won't sit quiet for it./flame
Your optical mouse works by reflecting the light from the LED to the surface and getting a reflection (angle of incedence, etc) from the surface. It works on paper but not on a perfectly smooth surface. It "sees" bumps and irregularities in surfaces and interprets their movements as mouse movement. Unfortunately, not all printing methods produce any irregularities that can be read by a mouse. Try this: set your mouse on a large barcoded printout. Move the mouse very slowly past the bars and see if it jumps as it crosses a bar. Unfortunately, I tried it and it didn't jump. This means that there are still enough surface anomalies for the mouse to see. It just ignores the barcode. Disassembly of the mouse is your best bet. Change the angle that the LED strikes the paper with. It's a good idea, and can be made to work, but it'll probably make the mouse a little jumpy.
Since music companies actually pay about 50 cents for the media and another two bucks to print a cover and a jacket, won't this add some serious cost to their productions? I can see this on AutoCad or Photoshop maybe.
In addition, with Moore's law stating that we'll essentially have a teraflop computer on our desks in about 10 more years or less, how hard is it to strongarm these codes? even 128 bit encryption shouldn't take that long if it's a simple key type method. You spend an hour scanning possible keys, write down the answer, and write app to apply it to the data. Then you just rip your backup and use your program. The nice thing about backwards compatibility in this design is that the code can't be changing constantly. It's on a cheap little microcontroller.
I vote that this method be used exclusively. Anyone else?
Step One: defeat all pertinent safety interlocks (they're for dweebs).
Step Two: Turn on microwave at HIGH power. Set timer for at least ten minutes.
Step Three: Open Door of Microwave.
Step Four: Learn Morse code. Study in the kitchen.
Step Five: Reset timer for thirty minutes.
Step Six: Aim microwave oven at space aliens and open and close the microwave rapidly according to your encoded message pattern.
Step Seven: Turn off microwave oven as the aliens arrive. Do this before they breach the six-foot safety perimeter. Did I forget to tell you about that? Oh yeah, keep your kids and loved ones at least six feet away from the oven. If you fail to heed this they'll end up rubbery but moist like a microwaved danish.
Okay if your kids ARE loved ones, then they are in BOTH categories in step seven. Yes, they should keep well away from it, too.
How can you display 400 FPS? Is there any display that refreshes at 400Hz? I mean, that's hella fast but Wolfenstein runs fantastic on my Geforce2 Ti. I think the human eye refreshes slower than that.
When can I get a video card that plugs into my skull? At what framerate will I start drooling and murmuring about the lemmings?
Unnnnngggggg....
Can anyone tell me how (theoretically) to apply 1,000g (gravities) to an object without causing that object to hurtle toward the projector assembly at ludicrous speed? Especially in space, wouldn't the object you shoot simply come toward you at breakneck speed and annihilate you and your fancy and expensive gravitron hardware? And if you're tugging on the object with 1000g, doesn't your highly expensive raygun snap its mooring and go happily hurtling away at the same time toward the object you unfortunately shot at? No wonder they won't build it! It's bloody insanity!
Wouldn't it be scientific to reason that if several meteorites from Mars have struck Earth by random chance, that perhaps several meteorites from Earth may have also struck mars?
Both have been impacted by asteroids and comets in the past.
Also- Does Mars have a magnetic field that would make magnetite production helpful in a bacterial strain that's indigenous?
OK, so you coat the boards involved to prevent the solder from corroding. I would use polyurethane conformal coating applied with a brush. Once you isolate the boards mechanically with rubber bushings and do something like watercooling (since fans won't like the grit from salt air), I would think you would be fine with an off the shelf desktop. I would think an LCD screen would be acceptable only if you sealed it off somehow from the moisture. As far as vibrations are concerned, we can look to our past and see solutions like springmounting the case to the ship in all three axes. A laptop would be ideal since there are fewer interboard connections due to the fact that most everything is on the mainboard. Desktops are intriguing only because they're generally faster and can use things like the rollable keyboard from http://www.thinkgeek.com.
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Let your government select your culture, eh? Europeans have been subjects to the crown for too long. No healthy distrust of government. Follow blindly. Mussolini. Hitler. Franco. Stalin. Lenin. When will you learn.
Ah yes...get your content, news and commentary from your government. As an added bonus, you get to control the thoughts of your subjects (citizens) !YAY! Russia and Cuba have this already! (Russia had some citizen level control until Vlad the Derailer took control of their radio and television stations about a year ago) ChinaTV anyone! Guaranteed no political dissidents or malcontents on the air at any time!! Parent post not thought through/applies to perfect governments only. Know one? Not I.
That is a fantastic idea. Product placement with targeted audiences! Perfect- but it also requires that they deliver an infinite number of channels to cope with multiple product placements if it's truly targeted. The best compromise would be to shoot all the programs with greenscreened products and then open the product placement up to a competetive bid. Start really low, let market value (demand) determine price. Show the scenes to the prospective retailers. I think then they'd only have to show one or two (east coast/west coast or over 30/under 30. m/f??)
Who else is sick of these self righteous bastards bragging about how little television they watch? The Unabomber didn't watch TV either. .
Jim Lehrer has very modest production expenses, and is running on PUBLIC TELEVISION (read: TAX DOLLARS) and not real business-television. Unfortunately, I've noticed a bit of garage-sale attitudes here regarding content. We GPL type people would obviuosly like everything to be available. Connie Chunk (sic) makes her living on television. She sells commercial airtime for a living. You try to run 200 150kW transmitters 24 hours a day on your budget sometime like ABC and CBS do- You'll see that advertisers only pay for EFFECTIVE advertising.
I think what we need is a new sort of Visa card that has a $1.00 (or equivalent) maximum transaction amount. This would be used as a password type access to paysites , and premium content at news sites, etc. The $1.00 max transaction size should be coupled with a one daily transaction limit, and NO recurrences. That means that each transaction should have to be OK'd by the owner of the account. This would allow people to pay for that content that they USE, like MP3s, ($1 not that unreasonable), instead of subscribing to a site that will bill recurrently until an act of God stops them. Free content is expensive for the provider, and we all know we should pay for some of it. We also need to be able to trust the providers. Since we can't blindly trust everyone, we have to have a method of diminished risk to pay for small transactions. Your gold Visa is not a good choice. Would you be willing to sign up for a bankcard type account like this if enough content providers signed on to this method instead of monthly subscriptions? Your Cable company ( or sattelite) could use a similar method to allow people to skip commercials if the customer paid for the content value (about 1/2 cent per viewer per commercial or so- depending on timeslot)
Now, if we can get this court for the JPEG issue....
flame on 1. There are NO stupid questions. 2. Your answer is less helpful and creative than the post your griping about. 3. This post is exactly within /.'s mode of operation. He wants to take object A and make it do X function outside its normal operation. The purpose of function X is irrelevant, as is the time/effort factor.
4. You were unkind to the poster who did nothing to you, and sought to build yourself up by taking him down. Every geek hates this, has dealt with this, and I, to name one geek, won't sit quiet for it. /flame
Your optical mouse works by reflecting the light from the LED to the surface and getting a reflection (angle of incedence, etc) from the surface. It works on paper but not on a perfectly smooth surface. It "sees" bumps and irregularities in surfaces and interprets their movements as mouse movement. Unfortunately, not all printing methods produce any irregularities that can be read by a mouse. Try this: set your mouse on a large barcoded printout. Move the mouse very slowly past the bars and see if it jumps as it crosses a bar. Unfortunately, I tried it and it didn't jump. This means that there are still enough surface anomalies for the mouse to see. It just ignores the barcode. Disassembly of the mouse is your best bet. Change the angle that the LED strikes the paper with. It's a good idea, and can be made to work, but it'll probably make the mouse a little jumpy.
Damnations! They've got a computer in my CD! Oh, Wait- I have a computer, too!
Since music companies actually pay about 50 cents for the media and another two bucks to print a cover and a jacket, won't this add some serious cost to their productions? I can see this on AutoCad or Photoshop maybe. In addition, with Moore's law stating that we'll essentially have a teraflop computer on our desks in about 10 more years or less, how hard is it to strongarm these codes? even 128 bit encryption shouldn't take that long if it's a simple key type method. You spend an hour scanning possible keys, write down the answer, and write app to apply it to the data. Then you just rip your backup and use your program. The nice thing about backwards compatibility in this design is that the code can't be changing constantly. It's on a cheap little microcontroller. I vote that this method be used exclusively. Anyone else?
Step One: defeat all pertinent safety interlocks (they're for dweebs). Step Two: Turn on microwave at HIGH power. Set timer for at least ten minutes. Step Three: Open Door of Microwave. Step Four: Learn Morse code. Study in the kitchen. Step Five: Reset timer for thirty minutes. Step Six: Aim microwave oven at space aliens and open and close the microwave rapidly according to your encoded message pattern. Step Seven: Turn off microwave oven as the aliens arrive. Do this before they breach the six-foot safety perimeter. Did I forget to tell you about that? Oh yeah, keep your kids and loved ones at least six feet away from the oven. If you fail to heed this they'll end up rubbery but moist like a microwaved danish. Okay if your kids ARE loved ones, then they are in BOTH categories in step seven. Yes, they should keep well away from it, too.
How can you display 400 FPS? Is there any display that refreshes at 400Hz? I mean, that's hella fast but Wolfenstein runs fantastic on my Geforce2 Ti. I think the human eye refreshes slower than that. When can I get a video card that plugs into my skull? At what framerate will I start drooling and murmuring about the lemmings? Unnnnngggggg....
Can anyone tell me how (theoretically) to apply 1,000g (gravities) to an object without causing that object to hurtle toward the projector assembly at ludicrous speed? Especially in space, wouldn't the object you shoot simply come toward you at breakneck speed and annihilate you and your fancy and expensive gravitron hardware? And if you're tugging on the object with 1000g, doesn't your highly expensive raygun snap its mooring and go happily hurtling away at the same time toward the object you unfortunately shot at? No wonder they won't build it! It's bloody insanity!
Wouldn't it be scientific to reason that if several meteorites from Mars have struck Earth by random chance, that perhaps several meteorites from Earth may have also struck mars? Both have been impacted by asteroids and comets in the past. Also- Does Mars have a magnetic field that would make magnetite production helpful in a bacterial strain that's indigenous?
OK, so you coat the boards involved to prevent the solder from corroding. I would use polyurethane conformal coating applied with a brush. Once you isolate the boards mechanically with rubber bushings and do something like watercooling (since fans won't like the grit from salt air), I would think you would be fine with an off the shelf desktop. I would think an LCD screen would be acceptable only if you sealed it off somehow from the moisture. As far as vibrations are concerned, we can look to our past and see solutions like springmounting the case to the ship in all three axes. A laptop would be ideal since there are fewer interboard connections due to the fact that most everything is on the mainboard. Desktops are intriguing only because they're generally faster and can use things like the rollable keyboard from http://www.thinkgeek.com.