There are plenty of means of transportation where riders don't care about control- subways, busses, and taxis/limousines.
Also, people already use their cars for all sorts of other tasks and drive at the same time, significantly decreasing safety. There would be little risk in applying makeup, making phone calls, watching movies, or using a computer in a self-driving car.
I don't think anyone is responsible, because I doubt the mechanism is physically capable of dropping the car. I suppose simple mechanical failure could happen at any time, though, but then there wouldn't be any question of blame.
It gets better- those are just the pieces of space junk we can track with radar. Even a loose screw or a paint chip can do significant damage when it hits something at orbital velocity.
You are technically correct about gravity, but what you should be comparing distances to is the radius of the Earth- 6000km. Going from sea level to Everest is miniscule compared to this. Even going up to the edge of the atmosphere (a few hundred km at most) is not much proportional change. You're have to go out several thousand km before the decrease became noticable, and *way* farther than that before Earth's gravity can be ignored.
Look beyond first-person shooters. Prince of Persia didn't have a single load point in the entire game, you can't get much more "sprawling" than that. DX's mistake was to try to be designed for consoles and PCs simultaneously.
All it means is that they have a class A address. There are exactly 256 of those. That's about 16.7 million addresses; the next step down is 65536. I'm not sure what they mean by "almost no" legitimate hosts, what's probably going on is that the UCSD owns the class A and uses a very small fraction of it (even an entire university wouldn't have more than a few tens of thousands of hosts) and every packet not directed to one of them goes into the telescope.
I dont think so. P2P is based in principal on theft. It should not be legitimized by finding ways to use it that were unintended. Endorsing something rooted in theft does not change the morality of the base. I don't care how shiny you giftwrap bullshit, it's still bullshit.
There, fixed that for you.
It just goes to show that technology is still just a tool. It can be used by people for good or evil.
The music stores who are trying to make money off selling music won't have a chance, but Apple's already making virtually zero profit on the ITMS and would certainly be willing to price-match Microsoft while being supported by the iPod. There's nothing on the horizon that would dethrone it, not even the Portable Media Center.
The rule as I've heard it goes: 10% of the people will steal anything that isn't nailed down. 10% of the people won't steal anything, ever. Forget both of those groups and concentrate on the other 80%.
If some strange holocaust killed all software pirates, it wouldn't change the revenue of software companies at all.
A much more interesting question is, what would happen if some strange holocause killed IRC, Usenet, DC, and all the other "sharing" tools. How many people that would have pirated the game would go buy it? You say it's zero, the software companies say it's large. The correct answer is in the middle somewhere, but you can't argue that piracy has *zero* effect on the market.
We're listening for anything likely to be a radio communication, like the radio signals we've been sending out into the galaxy for the past hundred years. Sure, we'll only discover any life forms that happen to have invented wireless communications, but you have to be pretty intelligent to do that anyway.
(Also, there is no way to measure characteristics of planets outside our own system with present technology. We can only detect them at all by observing their indirect effects on the measurable characteristics of the stars they orbit.)
Apple seems to have picked up an interesting strategy over the past few years, regarding features they think "ought to be" on the Mac. They'll wait a short time to give a third party developer a chance to supply that application, but if they don't, or Apple is unsatisfied with the result, they'll move in and release their own version for free. Sometimes this strategy succeeds (Safari, this screen reader) and sometimes it doesn't (the Sherlock/Watson mess). While this is not all that far from Microsoft's much-hated "bundling" tricks, at least it should be better than the accessibility features of 10.3
According to current plans, there will be several years between the Hubble being decommissioned and a new space telescope taking its place, and that's assuming everything goes according to Bush's plan. There's no alternate instrument that can do what the Hubble does during that time, so a large subsection of astronomy as a whole would be crippled.
It's all a tradeoff- If you shun commercial radio and music with significant promotion behind it (i.e. label music) and prefer to experiment and check out independent music you've never heard before, then it's your time and money that you're going to spend to separate the wheat from the chaff. Which do you think is worse, spending $15 on a chart-topping pop CD with 1 good song out of 10 on it, or spending $15 on ITMS or Audio Lunchbox and ending up with 1 song out of 15 you can stand listening to more than once? Don't forget that music taste is extremely subjective- there are tons of rappers with huge followings that I wouldn't buy or listen to in a million years. I personally am not willing to spend hours hunting around for great independent music; that's my choice and I'm not unhappy with my collection, pattern of expanding that collection, or listening habits. (fortunately there are still plenty of free and legal methods of hearing an entire song before buying it, even if what you're looking for is pretty esoteric (and I'm not talking about Kazaa)).
I agree that "nobody" is not a good term to use here, but off-label music is not a vast utopia of excellent tunes ripe for the picking either.
Doubtless Epic wouldn't want to piss off potential customers by having a virus associated with them.
I don't think anyone downloading this program is a potential paying customer. Unless you mean the 5 or 6 people who honestly do use warez to evaluate programs and buy them if they like them.
That, and you're sharing with a very small number of people, as opposed to millions of users on the P2P network. Much more defensible, much easier to claim fair use.
The article says "a wi-fi standard", but you're right that this is useless without knowing which one. 802.11, though, was designed for relatively high-powered devices like laptop computers; good luck getting a laptop battery into a 3x1" badge. Does Bluetooth have the bandwidth for two-way voice?
An even better alternative would be a cellular technology, as that's more mature and vastly more widespread than 802.11.
All joking aside, this could easily be done by storing the audio in a small buffer (say, 5 seconds would be more than enough for "[any conceivable name] to [any conceivable name]"), doing the name detection and connection negotiation, then playing the contents of the buffer to the targeted party before opening two-way communication.
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There are plenty of means of transportation where riders don't care about control- subways, busses, and taxis/limousines.
Also, people already use their cars for all sorts of other tasks and drive at the same time, significantly decreasing safety. There would be little risk in applying makeup, making phone calls, watching movies, or using a computer in a self-driving car.
I think it jumped the shark when Homer got assraped by a giant panda.
I don't think anyone is responsible, because I doubt the mechanism is physically capable of dropping the car. I suppose simple mechanical failure could happen at any time, though, but then there wouldn't be any question of blame.
It gets better- those are just the pieces of space junk we can track with radar. Even a loose screw or a paint chip can do significant damage when it hits something at orbital velocity.
The major contribution of the Xbox to our culture so far has been corpse humping in first person shooters. Not really something to be proud of...
You are technically correct about gravity, but what you should be comparing distances to is the radius of the Earth- 6000km. Going from sea level to Everest is miniscule compared to this. Even going up to the edge of the atmosphere (a few hundred km at most) is not much proportional change. You're have to go out several thousand km before the decrease became noticable, and *way* farther than that before Earth's gravity can be ignored.
Most albums with more than 10 songs on them are $10.
Look beyond first-person shooters. Prince of Persia didn't have a single load point in the entire game, you can't get much more "sprawling" than that. DX's mistake was to try to be designed for consoles and PCs simultaneously.
All it means is that they have a class A address. There are exactly 256 of those. That's about 16.7 million addresses; the next step down is 65536. I'm not sure what they mean by "almost no" legitimate hosts, what's probably going on is that the UCSD owns the class A and uses a very small fraction of it (even an entire university wouldn't have more than a few tens of thousands of hosts) and every packet not directed to one of them goes into the telescope.
I dont think so. P2P is based in principal on theft. It should not be legitimized by finding ways to use it that were unintended. Endorsing something rooted in theft does not change the morality of the base. I don't care how shiny you giftwrap bullshit, it's still bullshit.
There, fixed that for you.
It just goes to show that technology is still just a tool. It can be used by people for good or evil.
The music stores who are trying to make money off selling music won't have a chance, but Apple's already making virtually zero profit on the ITMS and would certainly be willing to price-match Microsoft while being supported by the iPod. There's nothing on the horizon that would dethrone it, not even the Portable Media Center.
That should be, IBM's hardware abstraction technology
- A software solution like VPC that can be easily added to existing hardware (at a large performance cost)
- IBM's
?We're listening for anything likely to be a radio communication, like the radio signals we've been sending out into the galaxy for the past hundred years. Sure, we'll only discover any life forms that happen to have invented wireless communications, but you have to be pretty intelligent to do that anyway.
(Also, there is no way to measure characteristics of planets outside our own system with present technology. We can only detect them at all by observing their indirect effects on the measurable characteristics of the stars they orbit.)
Apple seems to have picked up an interesting strategy over the past few years, regarding features they think "ought to be" on the Mac. They'll wait a short time to give a third party developer a chance to supply that application, but if they don't, or Apple is unsatisfied with the result, they'll move in and release their own version for free. Sometimes this strategy succeeds (Safari, this screen reader) and sometimes it doesn't (the Sherlock/Watson mess). While this is not all that far from Microsoft's much-hated "bundling" tricks, at least it should be better than the accessibility features of 10.3
According to current plans, there will be several years between the Hubble being decommissioned and a new space telescope taking its place, and that's assuming everything goes according to Bush's plan. There's no alternate instrument that can do what the Hubble does during that time, so a large subsection of astronomy as a whole would be crippled.
It's all a tradeoff- If you shun commercial radio and music with significant promotion behind it (i.e. label music) and prefer to experiment and check out independent music you've never heard before, then it's your time and money that you're going to spend to separate the wheat from the chaff. Which do you think is worse, spending $15 on a chart-topping pop CD with 1 good song out of 10 on it, or spending $15 on ITMS or Audio Lunchbox and ending up with 1 song out of 15 you can stand listening to more than once? Don't forget that music taste is extremely subjective- there are tons of rappers with huge followings that I wouldn't buy or listen to in a million years. I personally am not willing to spend hours hunting around for great independent music; that's my choice and I'm not unhappy with my collection, pattern of expanding that collection, or listening habits. (fortunately there are still plenty of free and legal methods of hearing an entire song before buying it, even if what you're looking for is pretty esoteric (and I'm not talking about Kazaa)).
I agree that "nobody" is not a good term to use here, but off-label music is not a vast utopia of excellent tunes ripe for the picking either.
Doubtless Epic wouldn't want to piss off potential customers by having a virus associated with them.
I don't think anyone downloading this program is a potential paying customer. Unless you mean the 5 or 6 people who honestly do use warez to evaluate programs and buy them if they like them.
That, and you're sharing with a very small number of people, as opposed to millions of users on the P2P network. Much more defensible, much easier to claim fair use.
And when one of these badges freezes up, you can reset it by tapping the button twice and shouting "REBOOT!"
The article says "a wi-fi standard", but you're right that this is useless without knowing which one. 802.11, though, was designed for relatively high-powered devices like laptop computers; good luck getting a laptop battery into a 3x1" badge. Does Bluetooth have the bandwidth for two-way voice?
An even better alternative would be a cellular technology, as that's more mature and vastly more widespread than 802.11.
I just realized I didn't answer your objection at all, but I'm still correct for a real-world comm system :)
All joking aside, this could easily be done by storing the audio in a small buffer (say, 5 seconds would be more than enough for "[any conceivable name] to [any conceivable name]"), doing the name detection and connection negotiation, then playing the contents of the buffer to the targeted party before opening two-way communication.
No it wasn't... You had to go through 5 layers of organization? Safari's empty cache command is in one of the main menus.