Autonomous UAVs. Excellent!
If we could get multiple armed services and multiple domestic services all using AUAVs for various purposes we could build a system to manage their interactions in airspace.
We could call it The Sky Network.
1. I am not incredibly fast. Therefore I am more likely to represent a larger majority of typists. Industry designs for the broad part of the curve, not the ends.
2. Predictive text is going to be improved. It will support your vocabulary, be available for multiple languages, proper nouns and code conventions. This is not the end of the matter though. You see, fast typists with real programing skills will be ( very quickly ) typing code to make it recognize your fingertips individually, pattern match your typing style, and other as yet untyped features.
Look, all I'm saying is that change happens. Keyboards are not the best solution and will be replaced. When and by what I won't guess, but along the way this tech will be made better and better. All of the concerns you pose are valid. But they won't keep the keyboard alive forever. They'll be solved.
imtuponf this on the iPhone whilsbwatchind the bobcats game. I don't know if in even ckisr.
Ok now I'm looking and I can type at almost the same rate that I can on my laptop. I don't have to make or approve corrections since it defaults to using what it thinks I meant. I didn't capitalize that "I". Or that one. Or put that apostrophe in didn't. I havent capitalized once. I didn't type that period. Or spell period right. Or spell right right. This keyboard does all that for me. Is it perfect? No. I had to hit the character key to get that question mark. But, it is very good. And it's tiny!
Imagine this with ten years of tech and use behind it. Oh, you might still use your clicky keyboard, but your kids will make fun of you.
32-bit color
"32-bit color" is a misnomer when regarding display color depth. A common misconception is that 32-bit color produces 4,294,967,296 distinct colors.
In reality, 32-bit color actually refers to 24-bit color (Truecolor) with an additional 8 bits, either as empty padding space or to represent an alpha channel. Considering red, green, and blue use the same amount of bits for their respective color (with the exception of 16-bit color), the total bits used will be a multiple of 3: like 15-bit color (5 bits each) and 24-bit color (8 bits each). The reason for using empty space is that all but the newest modern computers process data internally in units of 32 bits; as such, using this amount for each pixel can allow speed optimizations, but increasing the installed video memory.
Would I be pissed if I found it was 6-bit? Yes. Would I sue Apple because of it? No.
I find your litigation tedious.
1. Money may gain a legal entity influence.
2. Influence may yeild beneficial legislation.
3. Beneficial legislation may yield money.
4. ???
5. goto 1*
Even if this loop's three possibilities do not all evaluate to true every time, the values for Money, Influence and Beneficial legislation tend to increase over time. Other than the occassional instance where ??? evaluates to ignorance and decreases one or all of the three values, they will tend to approach their
maximum possible values. It looks like a gravity simulation.
I received an office doc the last week without any checks to see if I had MS Office to open it with. FROM APPLE! Training purchase confirmation no less!
I..was...shocked...
I opened it just fine. In Office. Yes, I hate t too, but everyone in my corp has a copy, just like everyone in every corp it seems.
But, you have to admit, Office is waaay better than Excel! (*end of back-handed compliment*)
Really? I find that hard to believe. I have a AMD 3700+ system running XP and I find it's no faster than my 1.25 G4 Powerbook. My new 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo running Tiger smokes the AMD.
Let me be more specific. In booting the mac is faster from "off" to browser launch than the SATA drive based XP machine. By tens of seconds. This on a FUJITSU SATA laptop drive with encryption at the USER level.
In running a processor and graphics intensive application, let's take WoW for example (especially since that's what I built the PC for). The laptop simply outperforms the desktop. launch times for WoW are lower and loading screens don't persist for as long. The dual cores aren't even coming into play on WoW, but I get better framerates at a higher resolution. This with a RadeonX1600 256 MB laptop graphics solution compared to the tweeked ATI 7500 GT 512MB full-size PCI-e card in the XP box.
But really, the XP box is not quick. I loath the hour-glass-of-tedious-waiting.
Interestng comments.
My own opinion on the topic is that all religious and moral "laws" instruct us to persue actions that guuide us to one realization that is contrary to all of the "teachings" that the natural universe gives. That all others are not in fact separate from ourselves. That there is no separation of one thing from another and that there is no "me" and no "other".
This is so contrary to all that we observe and experience that neither science nor religion has any hope of making us realize it. Only one thing can do that.
As it turns out this was all a bluff. The developer has announced that the threat was an attempt to create a scare campaign.
Public Letter:
I hope the public will read this entire letter.
There has been alot of confusion regarding the copy protection of the program called Display Eater.
It is described here in:
There exist two illegal cd-keys that can be used to register the program without paying for it. When Display Eater detects these keys, it would delete your home directory.
However, this is not the case in reality. The whole purpose was to create a scare campaign. You can download, the file linked from the main page, which is now down(the link is still intact here), and check it for yourself. It has been this way since 2/7/07.
It was my hope that by creating a scare campaign, I could stop wasting time writing copy protection routines to be broken over and over.
It turned out to be a mistake.
People started buying multiple keys, which I never intended, and when the protection was in place, people who did not even know they had committed piracy or what piracy was were left in the dark. Legitimate and prospective users started fearing the program, which I never imagined.
A reporter called me today, and suggested that I make it free, and or open source. I plan to do both. Once the code is cleaned up, a GPL'ed version will be released.
Since the program is free, this key will activate it, until it is released as such.
display eater
reverse@reversecode.com
PROD-9PNRM6-4RPRY-JUA5D-XW20G-J0MPY-9MTWX-2L9KW-1
-Reza
Too little too late? Perhaps. Perhaps the biggest publicity this indie developer has ever seen too.
Glad to hear you are supporting people you will never meet telling you what you can and can't do with something that you legally purchase, download, and own. Ahem...
You don't own the music that you buy. You own the physical media, or the file, but you are only purchasing the license to play the music. That is the crux of this entire matter.
The point is not that the two particles have opposite properties. The point is that these properties are linked. If you alter the property of one of them, the linked property of the other particle changes.
Thus, over simplified, I can alter the spin here from up to down to up etc. and send morse code to the observer of the other particle.
get it?
I got scared off by the defenses that TFA through at me. I had to retreat.
Re:M$ is in danger of screwing themselves...
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Time For Anti-Trust 2.0?
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Your assesment of Apple's potential for monopoly abuse is conjecture. Microsoft's monopoly abuse is fact.
Your suggestion that a known abusive monopolistic company should be favored over a company that has no such record is indicative of a personal bias in the matter. Recuse yourself.
> I for one would NEVER play anything on my television that was below antenae quality (if that).
If you, like millions of others, pay for digital cable television then you're wrong. You would pay for something far less than antennae quality video. All cable networks compress (with old poor quality codecs) all "Digital Cable" video. Commonly it's MPEG2 compressed with hardware. These systems are expensive, never upgraded, and produce some of the worst compression artifacting available. Try playing any high-key or low-key scenes back frame by frame on any digital cable network. It doesn't look so much like it's built from legos as duplo.
Now, go start a class action so I can join and sue for the 70% of the signal that I havent' been receiving for the last 30 months. Digital quality my arse.
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Autonomous UAVs. Excellent! If we could get multiple armed services and multiple domestic services all using AUAVs for various purposes we could build a system to manage their interactions in airspace. We could call it The Sky Network.
me!
Me.
1. I am not incredibly fast. Therefore I am more likely to represent a larger majority of typists. Industry designs for the broad part of the curve, not the ends. 2. Predictive text is going to be improved. It will support your vocabulary, be available for multiple languages, proper nouns and code conventions. This is not the end of the matter though. You see, fast typists with real programing skills will be ( very quickly ) typing code to make it recognize your fingertips individually, pattern match your typing style, and other as yet untyped features. Look, all I'm saying is that change happens. Keyboards are not the best solution and will be replaced. When and by what I won't guess, but along the way this tech will be made better and better. All of the concerns you pose are valid. But they won't keep the keyboard alive forever. They'll be solved.
Ok now I'm looking and I can type at almost the same rate that I can on my laptop. I don't have to make or approve corrections since it defaults to using what it thinks I meant. I didn't capitalize that "I". Or that one. Or put that apostrophe in didn't. I havent capitalized once. I didn't type that period. Or spell period right. Or spell right right. This keyboard does all that for me. Is it perfect? No. I had to hit the character key to get that question mark. But, it is very good. And it's tiny!
Imagine this with ten years of tech and use behind it. Oh, you might still use your clicky keyboard, but your kids will make fun of you.
Many foreign states have state IDs. So do we. We are fifty states. This is like a European ID system.
1. Money may gain a legal entity influence.
2. Influence may yeild beneficial legislation.
3. Beneficial legislation may yield money.
4. ???
5. goto 1*
Even if this loop's three possibilities do not all evaluate to true every time, the
values for Money, Influence and Beneficial legislation tend to increase over time.
Other than the occassional instance where ??? evaluates to ignorance and
decreases one or all of the three values, they will tend to approach their
maximum possible values. It looks like a gravity simulation.
*do not taunt happy fun goto.
What crappy hardware are you using? My MacBook Pro doesn't leak any perceptible RF into the audio output.
I received an office doc the last week without any checks to see if I had MS Office to open it with. FROM APPLE! Training purchase confirmation no less!
I..was...shocked...
I opened it just fine. In Office. Yes, I hate t too, but everyone in my corp has a copy, just like everyone in every corp it seems.
But, you have to admit, Office is waaay better than Excel! (*end of back-handed compliment*)
Really? I find that hard to believe. I have a AMD 3700+ system running XP and I find it's no faster than my 1.25 G4 Powerbook. My new 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo running Tiger smokes the AMD.
Let me be more specific. In booting the mac is faster from "off" to browser launch than the SATA drive based XP machine. By tens of seconds. This on a FUJITSU SATA laptop drive with encryption at the USER level.
In running a processor and graphics intensive application, let's take WoW for example (especially since that's what I built the PC for). The laptop simply outperforms the desktop. launch times for WoW are lower and loading screens don't persist for as long. The dual cores aren't even coming into play on WoW, but I get better framerates at a higher resolution. This with a RadeonX1600 256 MB laptop graphics solution compared to the tweeked ATI 7500 GT 512MB full-size PCI-e card in the XP box.
But really, the XP box is not quick. I loath the hour-glass-of-tedious-waiting.
What is hard for me to grasp is with his smarts he output various sized jpegs! Why? Ludicrous!
Indeed the seventies were crap. The sixties were groovy. man.
Interestng comments. My own opinion on the topic is that all religious and moral "laws" instruct us to persue actions that guuide us to one realization that is contrary to all of the "teachings" that the natural universe gives. That all others are not in fact separate from ourselves. That there is no separation of one thing from another and that there is no "me" and no "other". This is so contrary to all that we observe and experience that neither science nor religion has any hope of making us realize it. Only one thing can do that.
No, man is a part of nature. Whether he likes it or not.
FYI there is no such thing as randomness. Quantum fluctuation you say? Flies spontaneously pop out of uncoverd meat I say.
I hope the public will read this entire letter.
There has been alot of confusion regarding the copy protection of the program called Display Eater.
It is described here in:
There exist two illegal cd-keys that can be used to register the program without paying for it. When Display Eater detects these keys, it would delete your home directory.
However, this is not the case in reality. The whole purpose was to create a scare campaign. You can download, the file linked from the main page, which is now down(the link is still intact here), and check it for yourself. It has been this way since 2/7/07.
It was my hope that by creating a scare campaign, I could stop wasting time writing copy protection routines to be broken over and over.
It turned out to be a mistake.
People started buying multiple keys, which I never intended, and when the protection was in place, people who did not even know they had committed piracy or what piracy was were left in the dark. Legitimate and prospective users started fearing the program, which I never imagined.
A reporter called me today, and suggested that I make it free, and or open source. I plan to do both. Once the code is cleaned up, a GPL'ed version will be released.
Since the program is free, this key will activate it, until it is released as such.
display eater
reverse@reversecode.com
PROD-9PNRM6-4RPRY-JUA5D-XW20G-J0MPY-9MTWX-2L9KW-1
-Reza
Too little too late? Perhaps. Perhaps the biggest publicity this indie developer has ever seen too.Now, can he parlay it?
You don't own the music that you buy. You own the physical media, or the file, but you are only purchasing the license to play the music. That is the crux of this entire matter.
The point is not that the two particles have opposite properties. The point is that these properties are linked. If you alter the property of one of them, the linked property of the other particle changes. Thus, over simplified, I can alter the spin here from up to down to up etc. and send morse code to the observer of the other particle. get it?
I got scared off by the defenses that TFA through at me. I had to retreat.
Your assesment of Apple's potential for monopoly abuse is conjecture. Microsoft's monopoly abuse is fact. Your suggestion that a known abusive monopolistic company should be favored over a company that has no such record is indicative of a personal bias in the matter. Recuse yourself.
So in today's reality, by reversing abysmally ignorant previous actions, one can actually gain favor.
Shop this one out guys. It's not in your field of expertise.
Really. It's not.
Really.
> I for one would NEVER play anything on my television that was below antenae quality (if that).
If you, like millions of others, pay for digital cable television then you're wrong. You would pay for something far less than antennae quality video. All cable networks compress (with old poor quality codecs) all "Digital Cable" video. Commonly it's MPEG2 compressed with hardware. These systems are expensive, never upgraded, and produce some of the worst compression artifacting available. Try playing any high-key or low-key scenes back frame by frame on any digital cable network. It doesn't look so much like it's built from legos as duplo.
Now, go start a class action so I can join and sue for the 70% of the signal that I havent' been receiving for the last 30 months. Digital quality my arse.
Operating system they were using. : )