Despite the image-recognition capabilities, really this seems no more than a $1600+ remote controlled robot. So it has a web-cam and can be driven over the internet. Yay, just what I wanted to do.... drive a low-res 5fps web-cam around my house from school or work (the specs I just made up but we all know what real-world internet video feeds are like).
Sorry guys, when I see a robot that can recognize objects decently, and can converse with me in a semi-normal way, then I'll be interested. Not this glorified webcam on a rc car junk
As much as I like the idea of being able to see the code in software programs, I don't believe this is going to work for two reasons...
*First of all, the author's analogy about the construction of bridges is flawed. While Joe Blow could look at a bridge and see how it's designed... being able to reconstruct it would require him to be able to manufacture the parts, have skilled construction subcontractors, etc...
*Software code on the other hand, is easy to copy... all Joe has to do is cut and paste. No manufacturing infrastructure whatsoever.. just a compiler.
*Secondly, even if code was open, doesn't mean the scrutiny is going to live up. How often have you seen a well-documented peice of code wiht all the variables labeled, etc..?? exactly. Not to mention that a company could just write an obfusticator to make the code completely unreadable.
that's my 2 cents..
Has anyone ever considered organizing a directed attack on known spammers? It seems to me that if I have to spend time deleting penis enlargement spam emails and forwarding them onto ucef@ftc.gov, I am losing productivity which in turn costs money.
Considering that that govt in the US is condsidering allowing recording companies to infect P2P networks legally, why shouldn't the same rights be given to a coalition of ordinary people to do directed attacks on spammers and their ISPs who little about the problem?
While this seems like a great(?) thing for packrats like myself who can't bear to throw anything away, my question is how is all this information going to be digitized?
Right now in my closet I have 2 boxes of photos and another 10 loaded down with papers? So now I would have to spend a few months of free time endlessly scanning in all this junk? It just seems easier to sort through all the stuff.
Personally I would rather see a software package with decent OCR, is smart enough to realign pages that are tilted, and can automatically take the text and categorize it. Just my 10b cents...
Do what I do... I download the popular stuff too and burn it onto a cd since I can always find it.
The rare/indie/hard-to-find stuff I make sure I share, because I knew how much trouble I went to trying to get it. So then there will at least be one more node with it
I was reading through the specs and I can't tell if this records hdtv as well. Also, it doesn't appear to have home network capabilities. Anyone know of a dvr that does either or both of these things? THanx
So we've got a company named after something from a simpsons episode, cheezy doctored photographs of planes on a pylon, and all for sale on an EBAY AUCTION??? Words fail me....
My girlfriend finally convinced me to sort through all my computer junk laying around so now I'm down to my two PCs and two rubbermaid containers of stuff.
The worst was when she made me give up my six 120mb ide hard drives! --sniff--- I always thought they'd make a great wall decoration, but never got around to mounting them. Now everyone's talking about their geek rooms and I have nothing left!:(
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but seriously, why don't the record companies do something productive like adding more content to CDs if they're not willing to lower the price?
Recently I've seen a few cd's on the shelves (the one that comes to mind is the Nick Carter CD > ) that include a DVD with videos and stuff for the same price as a regular cd. If more labels did that, offering video content at DVD resolution, I would gladly plunk down the $16 for a new cd!
Anytime I've messed with ac stuff around my monitor, it causes interference like there's no tomorrow... anyone else had problems like that?
Not enough data to make that assumption
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1. The problem is, there just simply isn't a large enough sample size at different frequencies of gamma radiation to make any sort of determination about the distribution of antimatter. The number of particles detected varies based on solar activity levels, etc...
2. I believe the most popular theory now is that the distribution of antimatter galaxies is in other galactic clusters... therefore, we don't see much evidence in our immediate neighborhood.
3. There are actually many different ways of decaying matter to produce antiparticles... the problem is most of these take place in the nucleus, where they are quickly annihilated, and most of these are at higher energies than is common today.
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Despite the image-recognition capabilities, really this seems no more than a $1600+ remote controlled robot. So it has a web-cam and can be driven over the internet. Yay, just what I wanted to do.... drive a low-res 5fps web-cam around my house from school or work (the specs I just made up but we all know what real-world internet video feeds are like).
Sorry guys, when I see a robot that can recognize objects decently, and can converse with me in a semi-normal way, then I'll be interested. Not this glorified webcam on a rc car junk
As much as I like the idea of being able to see the code in software programs, I don't believe this is going to work for two reasons...
*First of all, the author's analogy about the construction of bridges is flawed. While Joe Blow could look at a bridge and see how it's designed... being able to reconstruct it would require him to be able to manufacture the parts, have skilled construction subcontractors, etc... *Software code on the other hand, is easy to copy... all Joe has to do is cut and paste. No manufacturing infrastructure whatsoever.. just a compiler.
*Secondly, even if code was open, doesn't mean the scrutiny is going to live up. How often have you seen a well-documented peice of code wiht all the variables labeled, etc..?? exactly. Not to mention that a company could just write an obfusticator to make the code completely unreadable. that's my 2 cents..
Has anyone ever considered organizing a directed attack on known spammers? It seems to me that if I have to spend time deleting penis enlargement spam emails and forwarding them onto ucef@ftc.gov, I am losing productivity which in turn costs money.
Considering that that govt in the US is condsidering allowing recording companies to infect P2P networks legally, why shouldn't the same rights be given to a coalition of ordinary people to do directed attacks on spammers and their ISPs who little about the problem?
While this seems like a great(?) thing for packrats like myself who can't bear to throw anything away, my question is how is all this information going to be digitized?
Right now in my closet I have 2 boxes of photos and another 10 loaded down with papers? So now I would have to spend a few months of free time endlessly scanning in all this junk? It just seems easier to sort through all the stuff.
Personally I would rather see a software package with decent OCR, is smart enough to realign pages that are tilted, and can automatically take the text and categorize it. Just my 10b cents...
The rare/indie/hard-to-find stuff I make sure I share, because I knew how much trouble I went to trying to get it. So then there will at least be one more node with it
that sneaky bastard!
I was reading through the specs and I can't tell if this records hdtv as well. Also, it doesn't appear to have home network capabilities. Anyone know of a dvr that does either or both of these things? THanx
So we've got a company named after something from a simpsons episode, cheezy doctored photographs of planes on a pylon, and all for sale on an EBAY AUCTION??? Words fail me....
My girlfriend finally convinced me to sort through all my computer junk laying around so now I'm down to my two PCs and two rubbermaid containers of stuff. The worst was when she made me give up my six 120mb ide hard drives! --sniff--- I always thought they'd make a great wall decoration, but never got around to mounting them. Now everyone's talking about their geek rooms and I have nothing left! :(
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but seriously, why don't the record companies do something productive like adding more content to CDs if they're not willing to lower the price? Recently I've seen a few cd's on the shelves (the one that comes to mind is the Nick Carter CD > ) that include a DVD with videos and stuff for the same price as a regular cd. If more labels did that, offering video content at DVD resolution, I would gladly plunk down the $16 for a new cd!
Anytime I've messed with ac stuff around my monitor, it causes interference like there's no tomorrow... anyone else had problems like that?
1. The problem is, there just simply isn't a large enough sample size at different frequencies of gamma radiation to make any sort of determination about the distribution of antimatter. The number of particles detected varies based on solar activity levels, etc...
2. I believe the most popular theory now is that the distribution of antimatter galaxies is in other galactic clusters... therefore, we don't see much evidence in our immediate neighborhood.
3. There are actually many different ways of decaying matter to produce antiparticles... the problem is most of these take place in the nucleus, where they are quickly annihilated, and most of these are at higher energies than is common today.