Some of my tutors have seen the logic port prototypes of the first GSM phone, and that took several trollies to cart around. Then they were able to make a portable version. Well, portable, I guess it weighed over 10 kg, and was carried in a "backpack" configuration. Like those field radioes you see in Vietnam war movies, only twice as big and heavy. I saw a picture of one guy on a testing trip with that thing on, and cross country skis, visiting a cabin in Norway. He'd better stay on his feet. Ouch! Not to mention all the damaged tech.....
"Walked like a duck, talked like a duck and looked like a duck." "But it's an eagle in disguise! Yes it was. An eagle in disguise! Oh! Oh! Oh!" claimed a traveling Elvis impersonator. "No, it wasn't!" says a local journalist. "This was a little whale. If it's father had been the 'King' of Whales, this would have been the prince of Whales."
Friday morning, a whale calf was washed up on the shore of a Japanese village by a mini-tsunami. The tsunami was caused by a landslide on a hillside above the water. Nobody was hurt by the incident, allthough property damage could exceed ¥ 2000000. The local population could take advantage of the situation, though. After veterinary authorities had deemed it safe, the meat was distributed among the population. When asked about his experience of the situation was, a local man answered: "It sounded like a train. It was the size of a Volkswagen beetle. It was colored like the wind. And it tastes like chicken."
That's what is great about the United States - if you don't like windows DON'T BUY IT and shut up about it.
if you don't like the war in Iraq, and the way it's covered on Fox, DON'T WATCH IT, and shut up about it.
Seriously though. If nobody were working to provide alternatives, people wouldn't get away from using it. And if nobody were speaking up against it, all those violations of the law would just be swept under the carpet quietly. It is still being swept under the carpet, but not as quietly.
From the article:All of us know that both the car and the PC have a 12V line
But they neglect to tell us if this mod is for diesel or gas powered computers.
Seriously though: Since cars typically use the car body as the return from the positive terminal (i.e. the car body is connected to negative), the fastenings for a car part could be designed to connect to the negative terminal. (A few cars are made the other way around. Look out.) A computer case is supposed to be connected to ground. So although connecting turn signals, cigarette lighters and horns (Ellen Feiss would go deaf) to your computer might sound tempting, you'd better check out how the car and the part is coupled. In other words: Tell Chewie to isolate the reverse power couplings.
I wonder they chose a pedestrian bridge from a pre-automobile era to help sell sell high tech car parts! Because when that car computer crashes, they have to walk to the nearest phone and call customer support. (Because the cell phone was integrated in the car. D'oh!) Let's hope it doesn't become a common event.
Because[sic] the US really, really respects the opinion of the rest of the World.
Well we were able to found the International Criminal Court without much backing from the U.S. The Berne Convention has clauses that allow parties to denounce (withdraw) from it. They could start up a new collective copyright protection scheme that didn't involve the U.S.A. May be a bit of a pipe dream. But does anybody know if the present Berne Convention makes it possible to drop works that are still protected in the U.S. into the public domain in other countries.? (E.g. are works published in signatory state A just granted equal time of protection in state B as works published in state B, or are the works protected as long as in state A? Or in simpler terms: Will Steamboat Willie be freely distributable in Europe?)
After the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, I doubt 7 of 9 will be striking this down. Argh! All hope left is for them to step down and be replaced. Or that the law makers come to their senses. Or that the rest of the World replace the Berne Convention. Argh!
My knee-jerk reaction to this was: OK, now Australians can't use Google anymore. But of course, that only applies if they go to China. And they can perhaps use a VPN connection to Australia to access all those blocked sites?
Much like Windows can't. In all fairness, no conventional computer can do anything without a program. Many of these cheap shots at Windows would be directed at the most dominant desktop platform anyway. While some wouldn't. But a computer that asks people "Where do you want to go today." will be hard pressed to keep its promise if the user wants it to gain super powers, merge with the power grid and turn into a mech that could be used to lay waste to Tokyo in a one-mech peace rally.
lost their Japanese identity adopting capitalism and that the western people enslaved Japanese people under the hierarchical structure of capitalism.
Have you taken a history course where the history of Japan was featured extensively? My impression was that most of Japan was dominated by Feudalism. I thought the Western things, and modern technology were things that make the Japanese forget their ancient culture.
We should have finished it during the last war with Iraq. That would kind of go against the mandate of the coalition, wouldn't it? It was about throwing Iraq out of Kuwait.
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GSM is a digital standard in Europe, and many other countries. "GSM for Iraq!" by the way :-|
GSM.
SMS/MMS.
Some of my tutors have seen the logic port prototypes of the first GSM phone, and that took several trollies to cart around.
Then they were able to make a portable version. Well, portable, I guess it weighed over 10 kg, and was carried in a "backpack" configuration. Like those field radioes you see in Vietnam war movies, only twice as big and heavy.
I saw a picture of one guy on a testing trip with that thing on, and cross country skis, visiting a cabin in Norway. He'd better stay on his feet. Ouch! Not to mention all the damaged tech.....
hardware-cum-software
That is a double entendre if I ever heard one...
And pretty accurately describes what happens.
f Discover Magazine reports that any day now a plant will go online in Carthage
Did anybody else read this and go "oh, great, another webserver built into a silly object"?
That would be cool. Like, a potato "battery" with a tiny webserver. Would it bake if it was slashdotted?
I wrote "battery". Hm. Battery chickens. Turkeys.
I have to go eat now.
"Walked like a duck, talked like a duck and looked like a duck."
"But it's an eagle in disguise! Yes it was. An eagle in disguise! Oh! Oh! Oh!" claimed a traveling Elvis impersonator.
"No, it wasn't!" says a local journalist. "This was a little whale. If it's father had been the 'King' of Whales, this would have been the prince of Whales."
Friday morning, a whale calf was washed up on the shore of a Japanese village by a mini-tsunami. The tsunami was caused by a landslide on a hillside above the water.
Nobody was hurt by the incident, allthough property damage could exceed ¥ 2000000.
The local population could take advantage of the situation, though. After veterinary authorities had deemed it safe, the meat was distributed among the population.
When asked about his experience of the situation was, a local man answered:
"It sounded like a train. It was the size of a Volkswagen beetle. It was colored like the wind. And it tastes like chicken."
That's what is great about the United States - if you don't like windows DON'T BUY IT and shut up about it.
if you don't like the war in Iraq, and the way it's covered on Fox, DON'T WATCH IT, and shut up about it.
Seriously though.
If nobody were working to provide alternatives, people wouldn't get away from using it.
And if nobody were speaking up against it, all those violations of the law would just be swept under the carpet quietly. It is still being swept under the carpet, but not as quietly.
From the article:All of us know that both the car and the PC have a 12V line
But they neglect to tell us if this mod is for diesel or gas powered computers.
Seriously though:
Since cars typically use the car body as the return from the positive terminal (i.e. the car body is connected to negative), the fastenings for a car part could be designed to connect to the negative terminal. (A few cars are made the other way around. Look out.)
A computer case is supposed to be connected to ground. So although connecting turn signals, cigarette lighters and horns (Ellen Feiss would go deaf) to your computer might sound tempting, you'd better check out how the car and the part is coupled.
In other words: Tell Chewie to isolate the reverse power couplings.
I wonder they chose a pedestrian bridge from a pre-automobile era to help sell sell high tech car parts!
Because when that car computer crashes, they have to walk to the nearest phone and call customer support. (Because the cell phone was integrated in the car. D'oh!)
Let's hope it doesn't become a common event.
Well we were able to found the International Criminal Court without much backing from the U.S.
The Berne Convention has clauses that allow parties to denounce (withdraw) from it. They could start up a new collective copyright protection scheme that didn't involve the U.S.A. May be a bit of a pipe dream.
But does anybody know if the present Berne Convention makes it possible to drop works that are still protected in the U.S. into the public domain in other countries.?
(E.g. are works published in signatory state A just granted equal time of protection in state B as works published in state B, or are the works protected as long as in state A? Or in simpler terms: Will Steamboat Willie be freely distributable in Europe?)
After the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, I doubt 7 of 9 will be striking this down. Argh!
All hope left is for them to step down and be replaced.
Or that the law makers come to their senses.
Or that the rest of the World replace the Berne Convention.
Argh!
My knee-jerk reaction to this was: OK, now Australians can't use Google anymore.
But of course, that only applies if they go to China.
And they can perhaps use a VPN connection to Australia to access all those blocked sites?
(Sort of an "ask Slashdot" question...)
Yes. No sex for Anonymous Cowards while I'm around. Too much mojo
Much like Windows can't.
In all fairness, no conventional computer can do anything without a program.
Many of these cheap shots at Windows would be directed at the most dominant desktop platform anyway. While some wouldn't.
But a computer that asks people "Where do you want to go today." will be hard pressed to keep its promise if the user wants it to gain super powers, merge with the power grid and turn into a mech that could be used to lay waste to Tokyo in a one-mech peace rally.
The new iMacBeth, broght to you by MacOnLinux.
In stylish blood red colors.
I know. But who reads past the headlines anyway?
It's just pseudo-code. It runs on a pseudo-machine. A machine that can guess what I want to do. Much like Windows can't.
If ((2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))){
answer="yes";
}
else{
answer="no";
}
printf(be);
>a.out
>yes
No way!
Public domain!
non?
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lost their Japanese identity adopting capitalism and that the western people enslaved Japanese people under the hierarchical structure of capitalism.
Have you taken a history course where the history of Japan was featured extensively?
My impression was that most of Japan was dominated by Feudalism.
I thought the Western things, and modern technology were things that make the Japanese forget their ancient culture.
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
Bush seems to be followed around by those guys from Men in Black.
Or he just seems to inspire amnesia in people. How strange.
At least if the mimes protested, the protestors would have shut up.
But they would be three times as annoying.
I think it would be good if the mimes went on strike as well.
What would they do? Start yelling?
Why is this strike in Iraq News for Nerds?
Do they have such a booming IT-industry or something?
We should have finished it during the last war with Iraq.
That would kind of go against the mandate of the coalition, wouldn't it? It was about throwing Iraq out of Kuwait.