It does but be sure to get a good high range tempature guage. The 3,000 ones are normally automated. You set it at what kind of sodlur its using and press a button for warmup. Put the board in and it beeps when its done.
Doing one at a time I can take a hot plate from anywhere. The thermoresister is uselly not the most accurate thing in the world but then that's why you can mod it:)
For courts its about intent. You printed it up and signing it means you "read though the contract and agreed to it" It also means that you have the original contract IN YOUR HANDS while the other party has a copy. If a dispute arose, you both could bring in your copies as evidence.
Its a misnomer that a signature is used for identification purposes. Its used as proof that you agreed to a document not to identify you. The identification aspect was done before anyone signed anything when you introduced yourself.
In either case, the Fax machine works because its an easy way to copy a document and give it to someone without having to mail it. Thats it. Its so blatantly simple to use that even with my grandmas single sheet feed/constantly jams fax machine, she knows how to work around it. Till they make a system easy enough for her or a project manager to use, its not going to change in the next 20 years:P
I have to disagree. They really ARE content consumption devices in almost evey form. Books, movies, games all can be purchased right on the pad. People LOVE to buy these things on it. I have yet to see someone "create" content. Either the great American novel or the next Mona Lesa exclusively on it. Its just not the tool for that job
That's the secret to the tablet's success right there. Its THE replacement of the TV.. Web, books, video, news, sports, games etc. Then they cut the thing under cost and make it up on the app store. The "Tablet PC" could never fill that nitich as its relatively hard to view any kind of content on it. You have to either install it from media, know how to copy files, etc. On pads you just press the store, then press the app you want. No thinking involved.
Tablets are here to stay, but the PC is still relegated to your desk.
Its about how transitory most things on the web is. Lets say you buy, a real example, Modern Warfare 3. It has a semi decent movie style single player campaign and a mufti player campaign you can play for months on. After a while you get board so they keep giving you DLC's to buy with new maps but in the end you put it aside for something else. A year latter when you want to play online again you find hardly anyone is playing anymore. You cannot get even in random ques to save your life. This doesn't happen with MW2 yet but it is with MW.
Even in those "free to play, but pay to advance" games, I am willing to shell out 10 bucks on premium content to see where the game is going but then I get board and go on. Its not that I "care" about the $10, its just that I felt the game was interesting enough for me to invest in a small way. If you are using farmvillie as a reason for the "sign" you are half right. Those games are about showing off. My farm is better than your farm not because of the time I invested, but because of the cash I put in to accurate it. This is why Farmville and Facebook games and their owners get all crazy
All this being said, in Second Life, you are buying art. You change your cash for in game currency and buy furniture for your homes, clothes for your avatars, and airplanes to fly around in. Every one of these items are built by the charters IN the game. Its a social chat room where you go in looking different from everyone else because of the things you decided to wear. There is nothing stopping you from making your own things or selling them, safe to know there is no easy in game way to copy them.
With ALL this exposition, the REAL currency is land. If you own a sim, it means you own a server on the rack, witch also means you own a big chunk of land you can "rent" to anyone. Adult land goes for a premium. I had rented a small patch of dirt from Anshe before. Met her, well in virtual self, few years back. I can tell you first hand it was EXPENSIVE. Flat fee + a weekly rental for an off patch of the smallest sized dirt in an Adult restricted area in the middle of nowhere. She owns SO much that you get pressured by your friends to live close by. Its not that Anshe is unreasonable in late rent, but you decide to forget to pay ahead you will find everything there wiped:P
I don't see any of this as a source of our society going down just a reflection. What REALLY worries me, however, is that Lindin Lab's prance Anshe around for attention on "how much money you can make!" rather than all the cool stuff people has built in there.
I am not an Apple fan, but it doesn't take one to see what is going on. If you understood the phenomenon that is Apple right now, you'd think twice before picking a fight.
Apple is not Mike Tyson. It CAN be struck down. We are seeing it now with Google's Android. It is yet up to snuff yet but you can be sure its making the board room nervous enough to do lawsuits.
The problem with HP is that they doomed Palm from the start. It IS a solid OS with allot of polish to it. It has potential and much easier to develop and handle than Android. The problem is that HP did NOT want to spend the money or the resources to fight apple. It was going to take YEARS. This fight was going to cost billions of dollars. It was going to go though shortfalls, failed tablets and bad manufacturing. They are going to redo the last four years of android phones in essence.
Google was willing to put the money down, get the contracts with phone company's and work with all party's combined to get android to market. It took them billions of R&D to get the android NOW to the point where its usable. All HP had to do was stick with it and they could of taken the tablet market in 2 years by being developer friendly, business friendly, and avoiding the proprietary that is Apple. Instead, Windows 8 will come out next year and take over the business community. it seems Microsoft is the only other company willing to stick to a product they believe in.
Funny though. It feels like the 80's all over again with Apple and Microsoft.
A tiny mistake is "Hey sorry, we thought we posted all the changes. We will post them now" A serious one is, "Sorry, we put some of our proprietary code in there so we are not going to show it in like ever"
I believe it needs to be revokable, but GPL has always been kind of murky on what enforcement will be about it. As a newer poster said, if you have a problem with GPL use MIT or something else.
The story is awesome but I hate gamergaia.com, they just re-post crap from forms and put it on their site.
You get isk by selling these tokens. You buy a token using your credit card and the token represents one month of playtime. Then you can sell this token to another player for ISK. (At-least that's how it was a few years ago. Id figure they have a more direct method by now.)
In the article "The amount of ISK stolen was enough to buy 2,953 30-day time codes which is worth a whopping $51,577.50" This is 246 YEARS of play time here. There is no way of ever recouping this money either so it even makes that 50k worthless as any kind of measure.
1.8 trillion isk? Now thats much more scary number. Even if it did get to 1.0 trillion, that could supply pirates for a long time to come:P
No his argument still stands. Android, when it first came out, was practically unusable. No video recording, sluggish interface not to mention dropped calls when the damn phone app froze. Oh, but programing it was soo easy! So easy that they didn't implement a bare metal C interface till the next major reversion, so there was no chance for an early launch for graphical games or apps
Also its Google. They spent the money to get the tech writers, the ergonomic experts and artists together. You think that interface came out of thin air? There are reasons they abandoned X11 and allot of the standard lib interfaces. It still took Google YEARS to get it as popular as it is now. IPhone won not because of apple fanboys, but because my damn grandma could text to her granddaughter for the first time in her life and not feel like a fool. Even though I have an EVO now, I hesitate to recommend it because of the glitches.
A better comparison is the Palm OS. You look at it and you know someone sat down and designed the UI and programing interface BEFORE they even started on the real work. The interface, above all else, always is smooth. When you load an app that will take a while, you can put it in the background and go back to it intuitively. However the cost was a SDK that came a month after release and a very poor SDK at that. Yes, it also runs linux. To this day, I STILL believe it has the ability to take down Apples dominance with Google being a second.
How about Moto MING ? Anyone remember that nice little Linux phone? It was AWFUL. Small screen, resistive display. You hit the "X" on such a small part of the screen. You couldn't even dial numbers with your fingers on the thing. You basically had to root the phone to get anywhere on it and that's not something a normal person could do. So does this mean linux is crap phone phones? IT'S ALL DESIGN AND USABILITY!
Okian Warrior is right by all accounts. Open Office is a bitch to use if all you want to do is a school paper and never used it before. Gimp might have allot of technical ability but the interface is (well was) mind boggling X11 trash interface.
If the answer to question "Will you still use this product with no documentation and a non-intuitive interface?" is "Yes, because its technically superior to X", that product won't make a dime unless its a niche market.
Interesting read. I think the very reason they screwed up so badly before is why they are going though all these detailed methodical research now. Even if it screws us:P
Even the report says "Standard & Poor's transfer T&C assessment of the U.S. remains 'AAA'. Our T&C assessment reflects our view of the likelihood of the sovereign restricting other public and private issuers' access to foreign exchange needed to meet debt service."
They clearly say that we can pay our bills. It also says they don't believe congress will even follow the bill given. There are numerous complaints that congress will not raise revenue at all and that kills all the projections they have. Call it new taxes, call it tariffs, call it a damn VAT. You cut spending, increase revenue to get out of a hole. All we are doing is tightening our belt and promising our wife that we won't go out to eat as much.
Honestly, I think its more about legacy. Now a days a president has only one, solid good chance to have a legacy. Unless there is a major tragic event involved, no one really remembers a president. (Carter, Clinton, Ford come to mind). From day one, Obama had one shot to put though a health care bill for everyone because it was probery going to be the only time they will get that chance.
I like some of the protections in the new health care. I don't have to worry about being kicked out of my plan because I have diabetes, my mon can get her cancer treatment without worrying about it either. Also, while I would of preferred a public option, these exchanges just might work (republican idea). If not we really see what scumbags the insurance agency's are:P
No it should of happened. This is not a CD here, this is long term, 30 year bond debts we are talking about. S&P ain't saying the US is going to die in 30 years, but what they ARE saying that there is uncertainty on where the US is going to be in 30 years or even 10 for that matter. Its not about paying the bills now, its about, in 10 years, will we just be in MORE debt and have a lesser value currency if we keep down this road.
I think they wanted something that said "In 10 years we will have x amount off our spending/debt" but we didn't do that. Instead we came up with a half ass plan, skipped off for a month of vacation, and didn't pay the bill to the FAA and loose MORE money in not getting airfare taxes.
Seriously, I think going down a small notch was more of a conservative decision. I just hope congress will do something instead of blaming each other.
See now those kind of plots I can get behind. I never liked the idea of Section 31. It feels like any president would of shot those guys down fast. Its easy to see how they can become a secret police very quickly and again, the federation knows what road that goes down.
I just think the ending was a bit of a cop out if they are going to use the point on why Data is a "person" Seriously, you can have the rights as an artist but not be defined as a person? So he can have his book published but gets nothing for it? It would of been much more meaningful if all his rights were scrubbed and the author said the laws have to change rather than a half-assed ruling like this. I mean, if your an artist but not a person, do you have access to a royalty check? Can you get erased but your "art" can't be? If data wasn't a person, he was going on the direction table, so where does that leave the doc? You don't make an episode that leaves THAT many holes and no answers:P
Thats ANOTHING think I hate. You take a good solid episode like The Measure of a Man, know its good and make a lame copy:P I really hope the reboot is worth it.
Not to sound too nerdy but I never understood Author, Author. I mean seriously, all holograms or AI's "almosts" become slaves? Everything they taught us about the federation is about how they care about the rights of individuals and all of a sudden they have a hologram mining camp? They are using a full matrix of technologys so the holograms have the RIGHT to mine rocks in FUCKING MINING CAMP? Even when the episode was written I cannot imagine at ANY point where you use labor like that rather than industrial machinery. If he wasn't declared a person anyway why not delete them and buy a damn robot and some TNT?
This is why I hated voyager and latter part of DS9. The point of the Federation, story wise, was to support the crew of the Enterprise not for the crew to "teach them a lesson" All those lessons should of been learned after the hundreds of years of law, science and war:P
Ok, maybe I will be modded down here, but its a damn ATmega644, maybe overclocked with SNES controllers and a crap DAC hooked up. We have been doing this for years, back even on the old Pic16f84. Granted this is in color with what looks like an impressive API but for the same price you can get hooked up with a Propeller that has a hell of allot more features and even supports VGA resolutions out of box. Not to mention the video/sound timing issues you will have with this thing when you want to try to work outside the API. This is not the 2600 days where we have to watch for Vsyinc like its life or death:P
The ARM kit over at spark fun has way more features, cheaper, AND runs at 72mhz. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10664 Even if you want to "market" this thing for beginners, an Arduino has much better support and gaggits to play with. Game programing, especially with this kind of setup, will be hard.
Sigh. Hell, even putting a 3 dollar CLPD would help the graphic performance alot on that. This whole article seems more of a sales pitch than a real project.
FTFA - "What, in our completely and totally hypothetical situation, would that do?"
I find it more interesting he doesn't have any scrapers as he did before. Hell, I am still amazed mailonater isn't band when some sites still don't take Hotmail or yahoo addresses still.
Christ, you just explained every single WoW Raid I have been in.
When I stopped playing, it was more about getting people who were good enough to atleast tie their shoes and don't use the n-word every other period. It was a sad day when the most fun I had was wiping at Magmaw 10 times because they had more CHR than WIS:P
Lets face it, even if my boss has the INT of a goblin with half his skull missing, if he can cheer me up for just a few hours a day, I'd follow him over a cliff:P
It depends how strong it is. I work for http://www.npitx.org/ where we deal with allot of people that have this. Hell, I am even diagnosed with a "high functioning" version of it. Most people diagnosed have a slue of other problems (Dyslexia is mine and a few others I can live without)
The raw API's from netflix just require a VC1 decoder with a signing key that identify the device as a netflix approved player. Technicality its not hard to make a player that just uses your instant Q as you play list, I think there is some example code in the development section for it.
Sigh. I wish silver-light was opensource, even Microsoft open source like mono. Its SOOO much more stable that flash has ever been, at-least on the PC. Even development for it is much easier, but if they are going to do what they did with VB6, I might just go back to C++ programing and forget about.NET (or the "new" revision) all together:P
How do I know when to worry about these things? Seriously, I got a Radon detector in my house because the sensor was cheap and people said it can kill. If that thing went off, all I would do is go to an apartment till someone figures out whats going on.
Hell, if someone started driving around with loud speakers saying there was an earthquake coming I would think he was a nut too. There are SO many nuts out there, its why we have the damn Darwin Award. If he started shouting out his webpage for "proof" I would know he was selling something.
If your in the know, the best you can do is tell your friends and family to leave for a few days and tell the appropriate people. You can put something in the newspaper but seriously, everyone else is lost:P
Not to say there isn't a few good ones. They wouldn't have to worry about cross platform library's and focus more on core functionally. Lets face it, we are never going to see Gnome on windows, Apple uses their own thing and Google is going with the whole web thing.
Why not just make the gnome project its own distro? I mean seriously, this is the first project that has the momentum and even the people to make linux a decent desktop system where I don't have to go into command line evey time I want to use the thing. Hell, maybe even get rid of the X11 layer and really give it that performance boost.
And as everyone is so willing to say in opensource, if you don't like it go fork (it) yourself:)
I really think they should of used the cameras and do more of this virtual realty, like using those cards. I REALLY see that in the next Pokemon release.
Honestly though, it feels like they went 3D so they could get away without having to go with a higher rez screen and support higher end graphics. 3D in a video card isn't as hard as having to doubling the graphic ablitys for a higher rez.
What really gets me, in all this, was the DS was a revolution. It showed that you make a good product with good software it will sell. But the 3DS is just another gimmicky upgrade to the original.
What I thought was best anecdote was when I was working on a Nokia's engineers computer. He was showing me his N97 and his simple picture slideshow app. He showed it off to some other engineers and they convinced him to go to mangement to see about using it as the default picture viewer. They said no because it was to flashy and they didn't want to support two picture managers for their high end line and cheap phone line. It never made it out of the building. With no app store and it being "Nokia IP" there was never a way for him to even post a free app or even a process for engineers to do it.
What's sad was that when I looked at the smooth movement from one image to another vs the point and click standard, I thought "Man, all they need was to make their phones work like this app and maybe they will sell more." I think allot of the engineers thought the same way.
They probably can't. IBM blade's cost almost 5k per cpu. I doubt that whatever deal they got with IBM allows them to get these chips allows that. If anything, I suspect its this reason they pulled the linux option and blamed it on the hackers as a smokescreen.
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It does but be sure to get a good high range tempature guage. The 3,000 ones are normally automated. You set it at what kind of sodlur its using and press a button for warmup. Put the board in and it beeps when its done. Doing one at a time I can take a hot plate from anywhere. The thermoresister is uselly not the most accurate thing in the world but then that's why you can mod it:)
For courts its about intent. You printed it up and signing it means you "read though the contract and agreed to it" It also means that you have the original contract IN YOUR HANDS while the other party has a copy. If a dispute arose, you both could bring in your copies as evidence. Its a misnomer that a signature is used for identification purposes. Its used as proof that you agreed to a document not to identify you. The identification aspect was done before anyone signed anything when you introduced yourself. In either case, the Fax machine works because its an easy way to copy a document and give it to someone without having to mail it. Thats it. Its so blatantly simple to use that even with my grandmas single sheet feed/constantly jams fax machine, she knows how to work around it. Till they make a system easy enough for her or a project manager to use, its not going to change in the next 20 years:P
I have to disagree. They really ARE content consumption devices in almost evey form. Books, movies, games all can be purchased right on the pad. People LOVE to buy these things on it. I have yet to see someone "create" content. Either the great American novel or the next Mona Lesa exclusively on it. Its just not the tool for that job
That's the secret to the tablet's success right there. Its THE replacement of the TV.. Web, books, video, news, sports, games etc. Then they cut the thing under cost and make it up on the app store. The "Tablet PC" could never fill that nitich as its relatively hard to view any kind of content on it. You have to either install it from media, know how to copy files, etc. On pads you just press the store, then press the app you want. No thinking involved.
Tablets are here to stay, but the PC is still relegated to your desk.
Its about how transitory most things on the web is. Lets say you buy, a real example, Modern Warfare 3. It has a semi decent movie style single player campaign and a mufti player campaign you can play for months on. After a while you get board so they keep giving you DLC's to buy with new maps but in the end you put it aside for something else. A year latter when you want to play online again you find hardly anyone is playing anymore. You cannot get even in random ques to save your life. This doesn't happen with MW2 yet but it is with MW.
Even in those "free to play, but pay to advance" games, I am willing to shell out 10 bucks on premium content to see where the game is going but then I get board and go on. Its not that I "care" about the $10, its just that I felt the game was interesting enough for me to invest in a small way. If you are using farmvillie as a reason for the "sign" you are half right. Those games are about showing off. My farm is better than your farm not because of the time I invested, but because of the cash I put in to accurate it. This is why Farmville and Facebook games and their owners get all crazy
All this being said, in Second Life, you are buying art. You change your cash for in game currency and buy furniture for your homes, clothes for your avatars, and airplanes to fly around in. Every one of these items are built by the charters IN the game. Its a social chat room where you go in looking different from everyone else because of the things you decided to wear. There is nothing stopping you from making your own things or selling them, safe to know there is no easy in game way to copy them.
With ALL this exposition, the REAL currency is land. If you own a sim, it means you own a server on the rack, witch also means you own a big chunk of land you can "rent" to anyone. Adult land goes for a premium. I had rented a small patch of dirt from Anshe before. Met her, well in virtual self, few years back. I can tell you first hand it was EXPENSIVE. Flat fee + a weekly rental for an off patch of the smallest sized dirt in an Adult restricted area in the middle of nowhere. She owns SO much that you get pressured by your friends to live close by. Its not that Anshe is unreasonable in late rent, but you decide to forget to pay ahead you will find everything there wiped:P
I don't see any of this as a source of our society going down just a reflection. What REALLY worries me, however, is that Lindin Lab's prance Anshe around for attention on "how much money you can make!" rather than all the cool stuff people has built in there.
I am not an Apple fan, but it doesn't take one to see what is going on. If you understood the phenomenon that is Apple right now, you'd think twice before picking a fight.
Apple is not Mike Tyson. It CAN be struck down. We are seeing it now with Google's Android. It is yet up to snuff yet but you can be sure its making the board room nervous enough to do lawsuits.
The problem with HP is that they doomed Palm from the start. It IS a solid OS with allot of polish to it. It has potential and much easier to develop and handle than Android. The problem is that HP did NOT want to spend the money or the resources to fight apple. It was going to take YEARS. This fight was going to cost billions of dollars. It was going to go though shortfalls, failed tablets and bad manufacturing. They are going to redo the last four years of android phones in essence.
Google was willing to put the money down, get the contracts with phone company's and work with all party's combined to get android to market. It took them billions of R&D to get the android NOW to the point where its usable. All HP had to do was stick with it and they could of taken the tablet market in 2 years by being developer friendly, business friendly, and avoiding the proprietary that is Apple. Instead, Windows 8 will come out next year and take over the business community. it seems Microsoft is the only other company willing to stick to a product they believe in.
Funny though. It feels like the 80's all over again with Apple and Microsoft.
A tiny mistake is "Hey sorry, we thought we posted all the changes. We will post them now" A serious one is, "Sorry, we put some of our proprietary code in there so we are not going to show it in like ever" I believe it needs to be revokable, but GPL has always been kind of murky on what enforcement will be about it. As a newer poster said, if you have a problem with GPL use MIT or something else.
The story is awesome but I hate gamergaia.com, they just re-post crap from forms and put it on their site.
You get isk by selling these tokens. You buy a token using your credit card and the token represents one month of playtime. Then you can sell this token to another player for ISK. (At-least that's how it was a few years ago. Id figure they have a more direct method by now.)
In the article "The amount of ISK stolen was enough to buy 2,953 30-day time codes which is worth a whopping $51,577.50" This is 246 YEARS of play time here. There is no way of ever recouping this money either so it even makes that 50k worthless as any kind of measure.
1.8 trillion isk? Now thats much more scary number. Even if it did get to 1.0 trillion, that could supply pirates for a long time to come:P
No his argument still stands. Android, when it first came out, was practically unusable. No video recording, sluggish interface not to mention dropped calls when the damn phone app froze. Oh, but programing it was soo easy! So easy that they didn't implement a bare metal C interface till the next major reversion, so there was no chance for an early launch for graphical games or apps
Also its Google. They spent the money to get the tech writers, the ergonomic experts and artists together. You think that interface came out of thin air? There are reasons they abandoned X11 and allot of the standard lib interfaces. It still took Google YEARS to get it as popular as it is now. IPhone won not because of apple fanboys, but because my damn grandma could text to her granddaughter for the first time in her life and not feel like a fool. Even though I have an EVO now, I hesitate to recommend it because of the glitches.
A better comparison is the Palm OS. You look at it and you know someone sat down and designed the UI and programing interface BEFORE they even started on the real work. The interface, above all else, always is smooth. When you load an app that will take a while, you can put it in the background and go back to it intuitively. However the cost was a SDK that came a month after release and a very poor SDK at that. Yes, it also runs linux. To this day, I STILL believe it has the ability to take down Apples dominance with Google being a second.
How about Moto MING ? Anyone remember that nice little Linux phone? It was AWFUL. Small screen, resistive display. You hit the "X" on such a small part of the screen. You couldn't even dial numbers with your fingers on the thing. You basically had to root the phone to get anywhere on it and that's not something a normal person could do. So does this mean linux is crap phone phones? IT'S ALL DESIGN AND USABILITY!
Okian Warrior is right by all accounts. Open Office is a bitch to use if all you want to do is a school paper and never used it before. Gimp might have allot of technical ability but the interface is (well was) mind boggling X11 trash interface.
If the answer to question "Will you still use this product with no documentation and a non-intuitive interface?" is "Yes, because its technically superior to X", that product won't make a dime unless its a niche market.
Interesting read. I think the very reason they screwed up so badly before is why they are going though all these detailed methodical research now. Even if it screws us:P
Even the report says "Standard & Poor's transfer T&C assessment of the U.S. remains 'AAA'. Our T&C assessment reflects our view of the likelihood of the sovereign restricting other public and private issuers' access to foreign exchange needed to meet debt service."
They clearly say that we can pay our bills. It also says they don't believe congress will even follow the bill given. There are numerous complaints that congress will not raise revenue at all and that kills all the projections they have. Call it new taxes, call it tariffs, call it a damn VAT. You cut spending, increase revenue to get out of a hole. All we are doing is tightening our belt and promising our wife that we won't go out to eat as much.
Honestly, I think its more about legacy. Now a days a president has only one, solid good chance to have a legacy. Unless there is a major tragic event involved, no one really remembers a president. (Carter, Clinton, Ford come to mind). From day one, Obama had one shot to put though a health care bill for everyone because it was probery going to be the only time they will get that chance.
I like some of the protections in the new health care. I don't have to worry about being kicked out of my plan because I have diabetes, my mon can get her cancer treatment without worrying about it either. Also, while I would of preferred a public option, these exchanges just might work (republican idea). If not we really see what scumbags the insurance agency's are:P
No it should of happened. This is not a CD here, this is long term, 30 year bond debts we are talking about. S&P ain't saying the US is going to die in 30 years, but what they ARE saying that there is uncertainty on where the US is going to be in 30 years or even 10 for that matter. Its not about paying the bills now, its about, in 10 years, will we just be in MORE debt and have a lesser value currency if we keep down this road.
I think they wanted something that said "In 10 years we will have x amount off our spending/debt" but we didn't do that. Instead we came up with a half ass plan, skipped off for a month of vacation, and didn't pay the bill to the FAA and loose MORE money in not getting airfare taxes.
Seriously, I think going down a small notch was more of a conservative decision. I just hope congress will do something instead of blaming each other.
Maybe that's why it crashed? Calculating the possibility of that fried its circuits.
See now those kind of plots I can get behind. I never liked the idea of Section 31. It feels like any president would of shot those guys down fast. Its easy to see how they can become a secret police very quickly and again, the federation knows what road that goes down.
I just think the ending was a bit of a cop out if they are going to use the point on why Data is a "person" Seriously, you can have the rights as an artist but not be defined as a person? So he can have his book published but gets nothing for it? It would of been much more meaningful if all his rights were scrubbed and the author said the laws have to change rather than a half-assed ruling like this. I mean, if your an artist but not a person, do you have access to a royalty check? Can you get erased but your "art" can't be? If data wasn't a person, he was going on the direction table, so where does that leave the doc? You don't make an episode that leaves THAT many holes and no answers:P
Thats ANOTHING think I hate. You take a good solid episode like The Measure of a Man, know its good and make a lame copy:P I really hope the reboot is worth it.
Not to sound too nerdy but I never understood Author, Author. I mean seriously, all holograms or AI's "almosts" become slaves? Everything they taught us about the federation is about how they care about the rights of individuals and all of a sudden they have a hologram mining camp? They are using a full matrix of technologys so the holograms have the RIGHT to mine rocks in FUCKING MINING CAMP? Even when the episode was written I cannot imagine at ANY point where you use labor like that rather than industrial machinery. If he wasn't declared a person anyway why not delete them and buy a damn robot and some TNT?
This is why I hated voyager and latter part of DS9. The point of the Federation, story wise, was to support the crew of the Enterprise not for the crew to "teach them a lesson" All those lessons should of been learned after the hundreds of years of law, science and war:P
Ok, maybe I will be modded down here, but its a damn ATmega644, maybe overclocked with SNES controllers and a crap DAC hooked up. We have been doing this for years, back even on the old Pic16f84. Granted this is in color with what looks like an impressive API but for the same price you can get hooked up with a Propeller that has a hell of allot more features and even supports VGA resolutions out of box. Not to mention the video/sound timing issues you will have with this thing when you want to try to work outside the API. This is not the 2600 days where we have to watch for Vsyinc like its life or death:P
The ARM kit over at spark fun has way more features, cheaper, AND runs at 72mhz. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10664 Even if you want to "market" this thing for beginners, an Arduino has much better support and gaggits to play with. Game programing, especially with this kind of setup, will be hard.
Sigh. Hell, even putting a 3 dollar CLPD would help the graphic performance alot on that. This whole article seems more of a sales pitch than a real project.
FTFA - "What, in our completely and totally hypothetical situation, would that do?"
I find it more interesting he doesn't have any scrapers as he did before. Hell, I am still amazed mailonater isn't band when some sites still don't take Hotmail or yahoo addresses still.
Christ, you just explained every single WoW Raid I have been in.
When I stopped playing, it was more about getting people who were good enough to atleast tie their shoes and don't use the n-word every other period. It was a sad day when the most fun I had was wiping at Magmaw 10 times because they had more CHR than WIS:P
Lets face it, even if my boss has the INT of a goblin with half his skull missing, if he can cheer me up for just a few hours a day, I'd follow him over a cliff:P
Jesus. Don't give apple any ideas. I can see the iphone skins being made as we speak.
As a side note, I have been messing with iOS 5 beta 2 SDK and I really like the iCloud feature.
It depends how strong it is. I work for http://www.npitx.org/ where we deal with allot of people that have this. Hell, I am even diagnosed with a "high functioning" version of it. Most people diagnosed have a slue of other problems (Dyslexia is mine and a few others I can live without)
That being said, here is a better article about it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8594037/Essex-hacker-Ryan-Cleary-co-operating-with-police-as-they-question-him-over-other-alleged-cyber-crimes.html
Sounds like he might even have a case here. Most people use Asperger's as kind of a "catch" all and this article is piss poor on details :P
The raw API's from netflix just require a VC1 decoder with a signing key that identify the device as a netflix approved player. Technicality its not hard to make a player that just uses your instant Q as you play list, I think there is some example code in the development section for it.
Sigh. I wish silver-light was opensource, even Microsoft open source like mono. Its SOOO much more stable that flash has ever been, at-least on the PC. Even development for it is much easier, but if they are going to do what they did with VB6, I might just go back to C++ programing and forget about .NET (or the "new" revision) all together:P
How do I know when to worry about these things? Seriously, I got a Radon detector in my house because the sensor was cheap and people said it can kill. If that thing went off, all I would do is go to an apartment till someone figures out whats going on.
Hell, if someone started driving around with loud speakers saying there was an earthquake coming I would think he was a nut too. There are SO many nuts out there, its why we have the damn Darwin Award. If he started shouting out his webpage for "proof" I would know he was selling something.
If your in the know, the best you can do is tell your friends and family to leave for a few days and tell the appropriate people. You can put something in the newspaper but seriously, everyone else is lost:P
Not to say there isn't a few good ones. They wouldn't have to worry about cross platform library's and focus more on core functionally. Lets face it, we are never going to see Gnome on windows, Apple uses their own thing and Google is going with the whole web thing.
Why not just make the gnome project its own distro? I mean seriously, this is the first project that has the momentum and even the people to make linux a decent desktop system where I don't have to go into command line evey time I want to use the thing. Hell, maybe even get rid of the X11 layer and really give it that performance boost.
And as everyone is so willing to say in opensource, if you don't like it go fork (it) yourself:)
I really think they should of used the cameras and do more of this virtual realty, like using those cards. I REALLY see that in the next Pokemon release.
Honestly though, it feels like they went 3D so they could get away without having to go with a higher rez screen and support higher end graphics. 3D in a video card isn't as hard as having to doubling the graphic ablitys for a higher rez.
What really gets me, in all this, was the DS was a revolution. It showed that you make a good product with good software it will sell. But the 3DS is just another gimmicky upgrade to the original.
What I thought was best anecdote was when I was working on a Nokia's engineers computer. He was showing me his N97 and his simple picture slideshow app. He showed it off to some other engineers and they convinced him to go to mangement to see about using it as the default picture viewer. They said no because it was to flashy and they didn't want to support two picture managers for their high end line and cheap phone line. It never made it out of the building. With no app store and it being "Nokia IP" there was never a way for him to even post a free app or even a process for engineers to do it.
What's sad was that when I looked at the smooth movement from one image to another vs the point and click standard, I thought "Man, all they need was to make their phones work like this app and maybe they will sell more." I think allot of the engineers thought the same way.
They probably can't. IBM blade's cost almost 5k per cpu. I doubt that whatever deal they got with IBM allows them to get these chips allows that. If anything, I suspect its this reason they pulled the linux option and blamed it on the hackers as a smokescreen.