Anybody can call their personal stereo a walkman, because Sony didn't defend the name vigorously enough - thus joining xerox, kleenex, and linoleum in the common lexicon.
And I bet Sony just loves it too - they have the exclusive rights to use the most common name for the portable cassette player on their products. As an IP lawyer pointed out in another post, they send cease and desist letters to everyone that 'misuses' walkman as evidence they protect their trademark but I bet they don't really care unless it is a competing company that uses it.
Always wondering, in genetic marketing speeches, how they can pretend that a pill or any process can change genetic code in an already grown being. To change a gene in my body, they'd have to reprogram billions of cells, one by one
Check out in vivo gene therapy. One approach is to use viruses to do the work, many of which already insert new DNA into our cells (HIV, chicken pox, herpes, etc). It's still in its infant stages but is very interesting.
I have a sneaky suspicion that all of the companies that work on Linux do it because they believe it will make them or save them money. I know I should have explicitly said corporation, but as corporations were what the thread was about I assumed they were implied.
Name new technologies/products developed without profits as a big motive? Even the most altruistic sounding products are usually part of some bigger PR campaign.
Oh, as a side note to you snide comment: the product in question was developed by the Japanese, America does not have a monopoly on profitable companies.
I have experienced it on a snowboarding trip to Utah. 3.2% beer can be bought cold at most grocery stores but all other beer can only be bought warm from state run liquor stores. Those stores also had rather limited hours IIRC. They actually did have some good local 3.2% beers, Polygamy Porter was my favorite.
They also had some goofy laws regulating bars. Don't recall those exactly but I seem to recall that places that served beer stronger than 3.2% or cocktails required a nominal 'membership' fee to get around goofy blue laws. Not being able to order a second beer while still finishing off my first one also kinda bugged me.
There is a lot of money in the Olympics, mostly from advertisers on NBC. These new devices are developed more so to improve the TV watcher's experience; there wasn't a need for smart devices in the first Olympics, there is no need now.
Are you sure about that? With the difference between gold and bronze in the men's 100m dash being 0.02 seconds, I think we would need some high speed cameras and not 25 opinions.
If you read his whole article he mentions your point at the bottom. What people are doing though is trying to have their cake and eat it too: they want their vehicle to be over 6000lbs for the tax break but still consider the vehicle under 6000lbs so they can drive on residential streets. I agree with the authors point - let them have it one way or the other but not both.
Probably because of the design philosophy differences:
The Toyota uses the electric motor as the primary propulsion and then augments it with the gas engine as needed and has a SULEV rating.
The Honda uses the gas engine as the primary propulsion and augments that with the electric motor as needed and has a ULEV rating. The first Honda hybrid, the Insight, always had to have the gas engine running leading some people to not consider it a 'true' hybrid further harming the reputation.
I would take your advice, but I decided that all commutes are wasteful so I moved across the street from my office. Bad traffic for me means waiting 15 seconds for traffic to clear before I cross the street. When I do need a car I have a Subaru - almost all the advantages of a SUV (AWD, cargo room) with better fuel efficiency and excellent handling.
Ever notice how people that preach the evils of cars and everyone should only use bicycles (not that my parent poster is one but I have seen zealots on/.) are usually from places like California (where I am from) never come from places like Minnesota or Manitoba?
The Lexus RX400H is an SUV FWIW and has a nifty 4wd system on it. The E320 would not fit my needs for a vehicle to drive to Lake Tahoe for snowboarding.
Why couldn't life form on a MOON of one of these 'big, close-in gas giants'?
We've already found that moon and life on it. There was a documentary a few years ago about a forrest moon called Endor and these little furry kuala looking animals called 'Ewoks'. It was part of a larger series and I believe that one focused on the problems of a high tech society coming into contact with more primitive tribal societies. The whole series was about how some 'primitive' magic is still more powerful than even the best military might. I'm surprised you do not remember it but the documentaries in that series caused quite a commotion and to this day you can still see its effects on our society today even though it took place a long time ago in a place far, far away.
Lithium batteries age, even if you don't use them and cycling a Li-Ion or Li-Poly battery doesn't do huge amounts as they have no memory. To maximize the overall life of your battery keep it away from heat and don't store them with a full or empty charge; both accelerates the chemical process behind the aging problem. Leaving a battery in a parked car in the sun is a good way to reduce its capacity.
The aging problem is also a good reason to not buy an extra battery when you buy a new laptop/phone to use after the first is old enough it can no longer hold a charge: the spare will also have a reduced capacity (although probably not as bad).
Goering's observation could undermine Washington's view, if it was correct. And frankly, I think it is.
I actually believe that too (current events support it), I was giving the reasoning for the framing of the 2nd Amendment, not my modern views. The authors of the constitution had no idea how the technology of violence and communication would advance and how it would affect the future society - at the time they thought they had the best solution.
I can't imagine a one-man-militia, so necessarily, someone has to band together and say: "The government is no so corrupt, good men must band together and overthrow it by violent means if necessary." That's an incitement to violence AFAICU.... A threat of violence is also incitement.
That is a little to simplistic, this is George Washington's view on the militia:
"The well informed members of the community, actuated by the highest motives of self-love, would form the real defense of the country. Rebellions would be prevented or suppressed with ease; invasions of such a government would be undertaken only by mad men; and the virtues and knowledge of the people would effectually oppose the introduction of tyranny."
That is a very Patrick Henry view (e.g. part of the militia's purpose is to stop tyranny of the government) but that is not seditious: the militia will be formed and no violence will take place unless it is incited by others via rebellion, invasion or tyranny and hopefully its mere existence would stop it before it happens.
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....but, I thought that was the second amendment? I mean, how can a well-organized milita exist without someone inciting violence?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. How does the existence of a 'well organized militia' require the constitution to allow someone to incite violence? IMHO militia's don't even require any violence, only the threat of violence from people you have no control over. (None of this is meant to justify any current US foreign policy).
Chromakey == bluescreen; If you were to have even read the wikipedia articles you linked to, you would know that.
And if you had read the articles fully, you would realize that while they are similar and converging, they can still be different.
But to a certain degree you are right and I should have been more precise: as a newscast is always video they will use chromakey (either digital, which is the modern bluescreen/chromokey method or the traditional video chromakey) and not the old school optical bluescreen. Jackass, Anonymous Coward -- but then I repeat myself in a true tautology.
Is this what American corporations are doing nowadays? This monstrous waste of money is pathetically useless. I'd prefer that they actually did something USEFUL.
I hate to rain on your parade but Thomson is mostly a French company, actually used to be owned (at least partly) by the French government.
As a side note, the actual article says they are working with Thomson but the slashdot summary says Philips (another European company, from the Netherlands).
I looked at a link at Panoram Technologies for the WNBC newsroom backdrop. After reading about a $450,000 system to put a 26 foot screen behind the news desk I was left wondering why didn't they just use a high quality chromakey or bluescreen system? They are getting much better at it now: almost completely seamless and it would be much more flexible.
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And I bet Sony just loves it too - they have the exclusive rights to use the most common name for the portable cassette player on their products. As an IP lawyer pointed out in another post, they send cease and desist letters to everyone that 'misuses' walkman as evidence they protect their trademark but I bet they don't really care unless it is a competing company that uses it.
Check out in vivo gene therapy. One approach is to use viruses to do the work, many of which already insert new DNA into our cells (HIV, chicken pox, herpes, etc). It's still in its infant stages but is very interesting.
I have a sneaky suspicion that all of the companies that work on Linux do it because they believe it will make them or save them money. I know I should have explicitly said corporation, but as corporations were what the thread was about I assumed they were implied.
Name new technologies/products developed without profits as a big motive? Even the most altruistic sounding products are usually part of some bigger PR campaign.
Oh, as a side note to you snide comment: the product in question was developed by the Japanese, America does not have a monopoly on profitable companies.
They also had some goofy laws regulating bars. Don't recall those exactly but I seem to recall that places that served beer stronger than 3.2% or cocktails required a nominal 'membership' fee to get around goofy blue laws. Not being able to order a second beer while still finishing off my first one also kinda bugged me.
Are you sure about that? With the difference between gold and bronze in the men's 100m dash being 0.02 seconds, I think we would need some high speed cameras and not 25 opinions.
If you read his whole article he mentions your point at the bottom. What people are doing though is trying to have their cake and eat it too: they want their vehicle to be over 6000lbs for the tax break but still consider the vehicle under 6000lbs so they can drive on residential streets. I agree with the authors point - let them have it one way or the other but not both.
The Toyota uses the electric motor as the primary propulsion and then augments it with the gas engine as needed and has a SULEV rating.
The Honda uses the gas engine as the primary propulsion and augments that with the electric motor as needed and has a ULEV rating. The first Honda hybrid, the Insight, always had to have the gas engine running leading some people to not consider it a 'true' hybrid further harming the reputation.
Ever notice how people that preach the evils of cars and everyone should only use bicycles (not that my parent poster is one but I have seen zealots on /.) are usually from places like California (where I am from) never come from places like Minnesota or Manitoba?
The Lexus RX400H is an SUV FWIW and has a nifty 4wd system on it. The E320 would not fit my needs for a vehicle to drive to Lake Tahoe for snowboarding.
So the Olympics have an all volunteer film crew or is NBC (and therefor NBC advertisers) paying the Olympics for the footage?
The advertisers pay for the bills that the film crews rack up filming the Olympics.
We've already found that moon and life on it. There was a documentary a few years ago about a forrest moon called Endor and these little furry kuala looking animals called 'Ewoks'. It was part of a larger series and I believe that one focused on the problems of a high tech society coming into contact with more primitive tribal societies. The whole series was about how some 'primitive' magic is still more powerful than even the best military might. I'm surprised you do not remember it but the documentaries in that series caused quite a commotion and to this day you can still see its effects on our society today even though it took place a long time ago in a place far, far away.
My girlfriend's not buying it, she said something about worrying about my own preservation.
Check out this guide on DVD playback from a hd.
The aging problem is also a good reason to not buy an extra battery when you buy a new laptop/phone to use after the first is old enough it can no longer hold a charge: the spare will also have a reduced capacity (although probably not as bad).
I actually believe that too (current events support it), I was giving the reasoning for the framing of the 2nd Amendment, not my modern views. The authors of the constitution had no idea how the technology of violence and communication would advance and how it would affect the future society - at the time they thought they had the best solution.
That is a little to simplistic, this is George Washington's view on the militia:
That is a very Patrick Henry view (e.g. part of the militia's purpose is to stop tyranny of the government) but that is not seditious: the militia will be formed and no violence will take place unless it is incited by others via rebellion, invasion or tyranny and hopefully its mere existence would stop it before it happens.I believe he was referring to the boots (and actually a whole new uniform) and not the beret comment.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. How does the existence of a 'well organized militia' require the constitution to allow someone to incite violence? IMHO militia's don't even require any violence, only the threat of violence from people you have no control over. (None of this is meant to justify any current US foreign policy).
And if you had read the articles fully, you would realize that while they are similar and converging, they can still be different. But to a certain degree you are right and I should have been more precise: as a newscast is always video they will use chromakey (either digital, which is the modern bluescreen/chromokey method or the traditional video chromakey) and not the old school optical bluescreen. Jackass, Anonymous Coward -- but then I repeat myself in a true tautology.
I hate to rain on your parade but Thomson is mostly a French company, actually used to be owned (at least partly) by the French government.
As a side note, the actual article says they are working with Thomson but the slashdot summary says Philips (another European company, from the Netherlands).
I looked at a link at Panoram Technologies for the WNBC newsroom backdrop. After reading about a $450,000 system to put a 26 foot screen behind the news desk I was left wondering why didn't they just use a high quality chromakey or bluescreen system? They are getting much better at it now: almost completely seamless and it would be much more flexible.
Careful with using alcohol as a sleep aid. While it can help you fall asleep, it can wake you up later when as your body processes it.