Which also brings up the question of whether an LCD manufactured outside the US falls under the protection of this patent. Any thoughts on that?
US patents apply to any products sold in the US regardless of where they're manufactured. Otherwise, patents wouldn't mean anything as you could simply manufacture products outside the country, import them, and sell them with impunity.
Re:It's not like this is new logic...
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Fluid Logic Chips
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Would they survive an EM burst?
Depends on frequency, intensity, and duration. How long does your cold cup of coffee stay cold when being microwaved on high?
Hmm... like spam there's no clear way to stop trolls, only minimize the pleasure they get from trolling. If you have a clear and consistant plan before the trolls hit, I'm guessing you'll be better prepared. And yes, you've seen it here, the best advice is "Don't feed the trolls".
One creative solution I heard from Phil Greenspun is to simply let the trolls post away. If you find someone is trolling, simply mark their account (or IP address) with a troll flag in the database. With this flag, they can post all they want but they are the only ones who can see the content -- to everybody else, what they post doesn't even show up. This way, the trolls think that their stuff is visible but nobody ever replies or makes any comments, which makes for a very dissatisfying troll experience. Trolls want nothing more than to get attention and stir up a controversial discussion, or have adversarial matches where they try and defeat your banning methods. Hard drive space is cheap, and it's rather easy to filter results based on account information so that only certain people see it. I think it's one of the better ways to 'not feed the trolls'.
They followed the proper nomenclature (a pleasant surprise to me) and called malicious hackers "crackers".
I wish people would similarly follow proper historical nomenclature for vehicles. It's the horseless carriage, people! Don't let anyone tell you it's a "car" or "automobile" -- they are just trying to rewrite history.
I'm somewhat partial to units involving elephants. Can I get this expressed in terms of the potential energy of x elephants dropped from an altitude of 100km?
But destructe research wins over constructive alternatives hands down.
Given that matter + anti-matter is a purely destructive process to begin with, it isn't surprising that this is a key area of military research. On the brighter side, tons of everyday inventions funnel down from military funded projects, so it's not all doom and gloom.
I think the similarities are much more than the differences. My clothes washer can not only detect the water level, but it also adjusts its spin to evenly distribute the clothes in a matter than doesn't result in a wobbly spin. But even with all this advanced electronics, motors, sensors, etc. it still doesn't know if the clothes are clean at the end of the cycle.
The Roomba is great as it can adjust its vacuuming pattern to avoid obstacles, but not only does it similarly not know if it's being effective at cleaning the areas it covers (will it re-do a spot if it didn't pick up all the dirt on the first pass?), it also doesn't guarantee that it will cover an entire room. The patterns it follows as it spirals and sweeps around don't guarantee 100% coverage. And there's also the possibility of it getting stuck.
I wouldn't really call either of these robotic, in the classic sci-fi sense of the word. However, I'm not sure where the threshold is -- why one particular device can be considered robotic whereas another is just electro-mechanical.
The additional mass also has downsides. In single vehicle accidents it's better to have less mass as there is less energy to dissipate.
It's not so simplistic. As an AC reply pointed out, were your theory to hold true scooters should be safer than SUVs since they have less mass. It's not so much the mass per se as it is the density and distribution of the mass combined with the absorbency of the material when it crumples. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but that's how I see it. You need sufficient mass to form an effective barrier which will crumple properly and mitigate the effects of sudden deceleration as well as protect the occupants from getting impacted directly. So the ultimate would be a large vehicle which has an incredibly light but impenetrable rigid inner core (ie: the passenger compartment) but outside this inner core would be material of appropriate stiffness so that it can crumple and take the sudden deceleration, depleting the energy over the course of the crumple distance. Or something like that.:)
Also information on Newsforge. The Newsforge web admins might want to somehow exclude the Sybase ads from accompanying that story. It was a tad surprising, to say the least, to see the Sybase "monster" slamming the guy's body from side to side or (on subsequent refreshes) pounding his head down with a club. Perhaps a neutral ad would be much more appropriate in such unfortunate circumstances.
As long as we have people, and the technology to create them; we'll always have forums.
Please, do share this people-creating technology you speak of! I, for one, am hoping to build an army of clones so I can outsource all my coding projects to myself.
Re:100gb mail? just give me the stinkin drive!
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100 GB Email Account
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Considering that you can get a 120GB SATA drive for about $100 these days, it's not really costing them all that much (yeah... sparse, compression, all that goodness). And if Tom's Hardware is correct: "An ad-free 100 GByte email account will be priced at $150 per year", they'll even make money at those prices.
I think someone should come up with a 1TB email service for $99/year. Make everything RAID5 or RAID6, guaranteed backups, etc. etc. and watch the money roll in. By the time people start using up that much email, storage will be dirt cheap anyways.
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My server's on a 100Mbps connection, and yes, I can use up the full 100Mbps (it's on a gig backbone). You pay for the bandwidth cost, I'll send the emails. Heck, given that the winner gets a 1TB email account on a dedicated server, this might even be worthwhile!
I've always wondered... as a consumer, what's the Value Add in paying yet another exhorbitant Tax? Do I get any benefits of value from it? Maybe insurance against DOA products or something? The VAT has to be one of the biggest misnomers yet.
In fact he flooded the world killing everybody in it except one family and the animals.
So let me get this straight... God killed everybody on earth except for Noah's family? He then told Noah and family to go and repopulate the earth. So who do Noah's children have sex with? Noah's kids have sex with their brothers/sisters and with their parents, their kids have sex with their parents, siblings, cousins, etc... repeat ad nauseum. Ewww... I guess we're all the product of one big incestual orgy.
I just finished reading Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Nearly Everything which covers just about the exact same topics. It starts out with the creation of the universe, and works itself forward in the timeline, covering formation of the planet, early life, cambrian explosion, etc. until it ends up with the advent of homo sapien. Not a bad read.
If there's any argument against India's moon launch, it's that it will further enrage the demented savages in the Middle East, since it will involve an infidel country performing a feat that most Muslim states are too barbaric and and degenerate to even contemplate.
Perhaps so. However, I don't believe the alternative, abandoning the goal out of fear, is a good option to take. I'm fully in support of a war against terror -- I just think that the current actions in Iraq may not be the most effective theater in which to stage that war. Now, before I go and stick my foot into my mouth (again?), I'll leave it at that since my knowledge of the subject is incomplete.
It is a bit of international dick waving. On the other hand, with a country of over a billion people, it's like spending 8 cents per person on a huge national pride campaign. That's really cheap. The spinoffs could be huge... maybe it will inspire more people to get an education and boost India's GNP in technology-related businesses.
Besides, what was so crucial about the US's mission to the moon? Was it really crucial back then to know the composition of moon rock? Hardly. Your complaints are better aimed at the billions per month spent in Iraq rather than how a foreign nation decides to spend its money.
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Which also brings up the question of whether an LCD manufactured outside the US falls under the protection of this patent. Any thoughts on that?
US patents apply to any products sold in the US regardless of where they're manufactured. Otherwise, patents wouldn't mean anything as you could simply manufacture products outside the country, import them, and sell them with impunity.
Would they survive an EM burst?
Depends on frequency, intensity, and duration. How long does your cold cup of coffee stay cold when being microwaved on high?
Well, it's showing up now. Must've been a glitch in the Matrix.
"My blog is still loading, I just checked it"
Check again. Page source is:
<html><body></body></html>
Way to go.
Hmm... like spam there's no clear way to stop trolls, only minimize the pleasure they get from trolling. If you have a clear and consistant plan before the trolls hit, I'm guessing you'll be better prepared. And yes, you've seen it here, the best advice is "Don't feed the trolls".
One creative solution I heard from Phil Greenspun is to simply let the trolls post away. If you find someone is trolling, simply mark their account (or IP address) with a troll flag in the database. With this flag, they can post all they want but they are the only ones who can see the content -- to everybody else, what they post doesn't even show up. This way, the trolls think that their stuff is visible but nobody ever replies or makes any comments, which makes for a very dissatisfying troll experience. Trolls want nothing more than to get attention and stir up a controversial discussion, or have adversarial matches where they try and defeat your banning methods. Hard drive space is cheap, and it's rather easy to filter results based on account information so that only certain people see it. I think it's one of the better ways to 'not feed the trolls'.
They followed the proper nomenclature (a pleasant surprise to me) and called malicious hackers "crackers".
I wish people would similarly follow proper historical nomenclature for vehicles. It's the horseless carriage, people! Don't let anyone tell you it's a "car" or "automobile" -- they are just trying to rewrite history.
I'm somewhat partial to units involving elephants. Can I get this expressed in terms of the potential energy of x elephants dropped from an altitude of 100km?
But destructe research wins over constructive alternatives hands down.
Given that matter + anti-matter is a purely destructive process to begin with, it isn't surprising that this is a key area of military research. On the brighter side, tons of everyday inventions funnel down from military funded projects, so it's not all doom and gloom.
I think the similarities are much more than the differences. My clothes washer can not only detect the water level, but it also adjusts its spin to evenly distribute the clothes in a matter than doesn't result in a wobbly spin. But even with all this advanced electronics, motors, sensors, etc. it still doesn't know if the clothes are clean at the end of the cycle.
The Roomba is great as it can adjust its vacuuming pattern to avoid obstacles, but not only does it similarly not know if it's being effective at cleaning the areas it covers (will it re-do a spot if it didn't pick up all the dirt on the first pass?), it also doesn't guarantee that it will cover an entire room. The patterns it follows as it spirals and sweeps around don't guarantee 100% coverage. And there's also the possibility of it getting stuck.
I wouldn't really call either of these robotic, in the classic sci-fi sense of the word. However, I'm not sure where the threshold is -- why one particular device can be considered robotic whereas another is just electro-mechanical.
My robotic vaccumm cleaner arrived today.
That's nothing. Robotic dishwashers and clothes washers have existed for over half a century now.
A question: Has anyone put together an Open Source voting protocol?
I think Diebold has. One line of code from their source explains it all...
if (vote = GW_BUSH) {
The additional mass also has downsides. In single vehicle accidents it's better to have less mass as there is less energy to dissipate.
:)
It's not so simplistic. As an AC reply pointed out, were your theory to hold true scooters should be safer than SUVs since they have less mass. It's not so much the mass per se as it is the density and distribution of the mass combined with the absorbency of the material when it crumples. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but that's how I see it. You need sufficient mass to form an effective barrier which will crumple properly and mitigate the effects of sudden deceleration as well as protect the occupants from getting impacted directly. So the ultimate would be a large vehicle which has an incredibly light but impenetrable rigid inner core (ie: the passenger compartment) but outside this inner core would be material of appropriate stiffness so that it can crumple and take the sudden deceleration, depleting the energy over the course of the crumple distance. Or something like that.
Also information on Newsforge. The Newsforge web admins might want to somehow exclude the Sybase ads from accompanying that story. It was a tad surprising, to say the least, to see the Sybase "monster" slamming the guy's body from side to side or (on subsequent refreshes) pounding his head down with a club. Perhaps a neutral ad would be much more appropriate in such unfortunate circumstances.
As long as we have people, and the technology to create them; we'll always have forums.
Please, do share this people-creating technology you speak of! I, for one, am hoping to build an army of clones so I can outsource all my coding projects to myself.
Considering that you can get a 120GB SATA drive for about $100 these days, it's not really costing them all that much (yeah... sparse, compression, all that goodness). And if Tom's Hardware is correct: "An ad-free 100 GByte email account will be priced at $150 per year", they'll even make money at those prices.
I think someone should come up with a 1TB email service for $99/year. Make everything RAID5 or RAID6, guaranteed backups, etc. etc. and watch the money roll in. By the time people start using up that much email, storage will be dirt cheap anyways.
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your existing command line account rather limited. To better serve
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service packages:
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This is our most basic account. You get a shell prompt. On-line
help is disabled. Transfer protocol is 'cat'.
$5.00/month
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o On-line help
o On-line manual pages (first 20 accesses free)
o XModem (checksum)
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o Unlimited manual page reference
o Lower case support
o 8-bit connection
o XModem (CRC)
$10.00/month + $1.00/hour
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All Super(tm) features, plus:
o Command line editing (backspace, ^X)
o 24-hour access privileges
o XModem (1K blocks), YModem
o Free outbound mail
$12.00/month + $1.25/hour
Master(tm) Account
All SuperExtra(tm) features, plus:
o Free inbound mail
o Newsgroup access
o ZModem
$15.00/month + $1.65/hour
MasterExtra(tm) Account
All Master(tm) features, plus:
o Configurable newline termination
o Apple Newton(tm) support
o Personal netnews killfiles enabled
o 9600 bps access privileges
o Kermit
$20.00/month + $2.10/hour
MasterSuper(tm) Account
All MasterExtra(tm) features, plus:
o Account password protection
o Shift-lock support
o Access to code development tools (vi, emacs, EDLIN,
etc.)
o UUCP
$22.00/month + $2.50/hour + $0.01/Kbyte
MasterSuperExtra(tm) Account
All MasterSuper(tm) features, plus:
o Access to additional code development tools (cc, as,
etc.)
o 80 column support
o 512K storage
o Tint control
o Gopher
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o 2048K disk storage (additional to 512K on tape)
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storage for extra charge)
o Full suite of development tools (yacc, lex, sed, awk, perl,
etc.)
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(in Postscript and DVI)
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who explicitly requested at least three times to be excluded)
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$300.00/month!
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flexibility, and that no one else offers a better deal for direct
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My server's on a 100Mbps connection, and yes, I can use up the full 100Mbps (it's on a gig backbone). You pay for the bandwidth cost, I'll send the emails. Heck, given that the winner gets a 1TB email account on a dedicated server, this might even be worthwhile!
When agreeing with a negative, use either, not too.
Wouldn't that be neither?
The "Me, too", in response to "I didn't understand it", reads as "I, also, didn't understand it".
For a second there, I thought OpenBSD released a new product called CanyoneroBSD!
I've always wondered... as a consumer, what's the Value Add in paying yet another exhorbitant Tax? Do I get any benefits of value from it? Maybe insurance against DOA products or something? The VAT has to be one of the biggest misnomers yet.
In fact he flooded the world killing everybody in it except one family and the animals.
So let me get this straight... God killed everybody on earth except for Noah's family? He then told Noah and family to go and repopulate the earth. So who do Noah's children have sex with? Noah's kids have sex with their brothers/sisters and with their parents, their kids have sex with their parents, siblings, cousins, etc... repeat ad nauseum. Ewww... I guess we're all the product of one big incestual orgy.
I just finished reading Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Nearly Everything which covers just about the exact same topics. It starts out with the creation of the universe, and works itself forward in the timeline, covering formation of the planet, early life, cambrian explosion, etc. until it ends up with the advent of homo sapien. Not a bad read.
If there's any argument against India's moon launch, it's that it will further enrage the demented savages in the Middle East, since it will involve an infidel country performing a feat that most Muslim states are too barbaric and and degenerate to even contemplate.
Perhaps so. However, I don't believe the alternative, abandoning the goal out of fear, is a good option to take. I'm fully in support of a war against terror -- I just think that the current actions in Iraq may not be the most effective theater in which to stage that war. Now, before I go and stick my foot into my mouth (again?), I'll leave it at that since my knowledge of the subject is incomplete.
It is a bit of international dick waving. On the other hand, with a country of over a billion people, it's like spending 8 cents per person on a huge national pride campaign. That's really cheap. The spinoffs could be huge... maybe it will inspire more people to get an education and boost India's GNP in technology-related businesses.
Besides, what was so crucial about the US's mission to the moon? Was it really crucial back then to know the composition of moon rock? Hardly. Your complaints are better aimed at the billions per month spent in Iraq rather than how a foreign nation decides to spend its money.