I think if they were only asking for a DNA fingerprint (just the factors used to identify one person from another) that's ok. It's just that today you can't control what anyone dose with a blood sample. I would like to think that I have copyright over my DNA sequence but it's likely not to be true. I can understand why he is refusing.
It is really hard to figure what niche this is made to fill. If you are desperate to develop on a platform from the 80s can't you just develop for MAME and avoid yet another box on your shelf? If you want to muck about in clunky hardware there are plenty of places that will sell you the original 80s hardware and cartages. And speaking of cartages why is this thing using them and not going for a cheap CD-Rom drive for storing games. If the price point is way low it may take off a bit, but I just don't see it.
So I really hope that if it comes down to it this thing can get "prior arted" away. Otherwise any ethical A.I. system needs to pay this guy? Any open source A.I. system would have to be cruel and nasty, or at the very least indifferent, to the user to avoid prosecution? How the heck do these things get though anyway...
Knots in strings are not the same thing...
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First off I wouldnâ(TM)t really consider binary an âoeinventedâ numerical system. I would only consider the roman system wacky enough to be invented. Also we are talking about labeling things with knots in strings right? Or did they work out rules for binary math? Of course they did have a nice data compression algorithm what with 7 bit binary encoding 1536 items.
Of course if you read the article you find none of this is true. They used colored strings with knots in them to label things. Big deal! Knots in strings are not the same thing as a math system nor should they be compared one to one with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Without really good spam filters and category filtering, mobile email is all but useless. I get around 80 emails a day (not counting spam) with all the various lists and groups Iâ(TM)m on. I donâ(TM)t need to get at all of that on my phone, let alone slog through that many messages with a mini UI. I use PopFile to do all the categorizing work for me on a home machine running all the time and have a small amount of that mail forwarded to a separate account I use for the phone. It works great for me, but most people donâ(TM)t have such a geeky setup. Until solid email management tools become the standard I donâ(TM)t see mobile email getting out of its niche anytime soon.
Wasn't downloading music and watching streaming video the big selling points to getting people signed up for broadband in the first place. What did they think, people are going to pay $50 a month for a fast connection and still worry about the length of their.sig?
If linksys doesn't want massive numbers of returns they have to offer a tri-mode option. It should consist of the ability to use 802.11a, 802.11g and "54 Mode". My base station already lets me switch from A, G and Mixed. So what's one more mode? Who running a home network is going to cut their bandwidth in half to be compliant? Not me.
No sir, I don't like it.
Short story: Chasing Cats Manage to dump a full glass of wine into a laptop, killing both the screen and the keyboard. With the installed 802.11b card and PcAnywhere I managed to get all its files off it and it's still a functional machine.
The "people in a certain area" demographic sounds like a great idea. (not) Since your deographic is already say 10 feet away from the coffee shop what is the point to pulling them in with banners? Isn't the shop itself and the smell of the coffee enough of a draw? Then say OK the banner add gets me in the place, I sit down with my coffee and surf. Arn't all the impressions going to waste at that point???
So will the SciFi network pick up BattleBot as it saved MST3K in the past? It would seem a good fit. Of course a minor management change will replace it will replace it with a John Edwards dopes pinheads show or whatever. But hey, an extension is an extension...
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I think if they were only asking for a DNA fingerprint (just the factors used to identify one person from another) that's ok. It's just that today you can't control what anyone dose with a blood sample. I would like to think that I have copyright over my DNA sequence but it's likely not to be true. I can understand why he is refusing.
It is really hard to figure what niche this is made to fill. If you are desperate to develop on a platform from the 80s can't you just develop for MAME and avoid yet another box on your shelf? If you want to muck about in clunky hardware there are plenty of places that will sell you the original 80s hardware and cartages. And speaking of cartages why is this thing using them and not going for a cheap CD-Rom drive for storing games. If the price point is way low it may take off a bit, but I just don't see it.
So I really hope that if it comes down to it this thing can get "prior arted" away. Otherwise any ethical A.I. system needs to pay this guy? Any open source A.I. system would have to be cruel and nasty, or at the very least indifferent, to the user to avoid prosecution? How the heck do these things get though anyway...
First off I wouldnâ(TM)t really consider binary an âoeinventedâ numerical system. I would only consider the roman system wacky enough to be invented. Also we are talking about labeling things with knots in strings right? Or did they work out rules for binary math? Of course they did have a nice data compression algorithm what with 7 bit binary encoding 1536 items. Of course if you read the article you find none of this is true. They used colored strings with knots in them to label things. Big deal! Knots in strings are not the same thing as a math system nor should they be compared one to one with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Without really good spam filters and category filtering, mobile email is all but useless. I get around 80 emails a day (not counting spam) with all the various lists and groups Iâ(TM)m on. I donâ(TM)t need to get at all of that on my phone, let alone slog through that many messages with a mini UI. I use PopFile to do all the categorizing work for me on a home machine running all the time and have a small amount of that mail forwarded to a separate account I use for the phone. It works great for me, but most people donâ(TM)t have such a geeky setup. Until solid email management tools become the standard I donâ(TM)t see mobile email getting out of its niche anytime soon.
Wasn't downloading music and watching streaming video the big selling points to getting people signed up for broadband in the first place. What did they think, people are going to pay $50 a month for a fast connection and still worry about the length of their .sig?
If linksys doesn't want massive numbers of returns they have to offer a tri-mode option. It should consist of the ability to use 802.11a, 802.11g and "54 Mode". My base station already lets me switch from A, G and Mixed. So what's one more mode? Who running a home network is going to cut their bandwidth in half to be compliant? Not me. No sir, I don't like it.
Short story: Chasing Cats Manage to dump a full glass of wine into a laptop, killing both the screen and the keyboard. With the installed 802.11b card and PcAnywhere I managed to get all its files off it and it's still a functional machine.
The "people in a certain area" demographic sounds like a great idea. (not) Since your deographic is already say 10 feet away from the coffee shop what is the point to pulling them in with banners? Isn't the shop itself and the smell of the coffee enough of a draw? Then say OK the banner add gets me in the place, I sit down with my coffee and surf. Arn't all the impressions going to waste at that point???
So will the SciFi network pick up BattleBot as it saved MST3K in the past? It would seem a good fit. Of course a minor management change will replace it will replace it with a John Edwards dopes pinheads show or whatever. But hey, an extension is an extension...