Of course they are. Data covering specific area's of inquiry is extremely valuable. Company's only exist to make money, everything else is a distant 5th or 10th concern.
doesn't matter if it is polluting water, or giving away information on their customers, as long as it either makes money or is cheaper than the alternatives companies will do it. That is why polluters only respond to threats of massive fines. it suddenly becomes cheaper to do things right.
Selling their data is like selling anything else. you have a product that someone wants and can make you money. This won't stop until the governments start creating fines for data privacy breaches.
Real Software security won't take effect until the losses incurred by said breaches exceeds the costs of actually securing the software properly the first time.
Um no it isn't how my eyes work. stop talking about bullshit that only works for a percentage of the population.
My eyes don't focus that way. I see 3D just fine but only adjusting focus with one eye. I can tell depth and distance just fine with only my left eye.
So if i can see 3D, and depth with one eye, how can showing my eyes alternate views "allow" me to see depth that isn't there?
We really don't understand how the brain processes images. The fact that significant portions of the population get headaches, or don't see the effects at all should be a clear sign of that. stop spouting theories that are being proven to only be correct in certain situations as facts for the entire concept.
Exactly. I have wanted tablets since I saw slates in 2003-2004 however I noticed that MSFT had basically destroyed slate abilities and made all tablets by them have to be convertibles as you needed a keyboard 90% of the time.
the Ipad, and now Android tablets are showing that you don't need a keyboard except for large data entry. a slashdot post is not large data entry.
The Irony of it is that MSFT tarnished their brand by excessive marketing, and pushing into area's they really couldn't support. Combined with bad management decisions, and stupid internal restrictions means that Windows as a whole suffered.
MSFT came out with a tablet edition of the OS in 2002, but 9 years later still don't have a tablet edition of any other software they deploy.
When apple developed the ipad, one of the first set of included apps was a slightly dumbed down, but functional copy of their software.
i did something similar 3 years ago. the netware 3.1 server just never died. when we los tpower and rebooted you had to reset the clock as the calendar was fine software wise but the hardware bios wouldn't set right upon boot.
However the company closed/sold out and i made two copies of their SYS and DATA vol each one to a separate computer. all i had to due was flip a couple of settings and redirect some file pointers and the server became two separate computers with all data intact.
One of those has since died(unlucky lighting strike) the other is in an old HP laptop that only boots off of the power cable and isn't hooked up.
fast breeder reactors take the waste and convert it into other elements with short half lives.
Fast breeder reactor research has been canceled due to anti-nuclear crowd campaigning
The dig a big hole and burry method has also been canceled due to the anti nuclear crowd.
right now we have waste we can't get rid of because we have no way to deal with it, or put it, because anytime someone mentions it a crowd appears around them protesting it.
if the anti nuclear crowd protested gasoline engines, we would still be using steam trains, and horses.
well lets take a look at what previsou generations of tablets lacked.
(1)wireless networking(3G or Wifi) (2)Broad adoption of said wireless networking meaning you can go many places and connect. (3)Battery life, while some ran well on regular batteries in general you didn't get very far. (4)Poor screen quality, sure an 80 by 180 character display might seem awesome, but until you start to use it you realize just how small it is compared to a sheet of paper. (5)Weight. components were large and weighed a lot the first notebooks weren't really a "laptop" as they weighed in at 10-15 pounds. Even the tablets of 9 years ago weighed as much as regular laptop at 4-6 pounds each.
That won't even get into the software differences between the 80's 90's(newton) and today.
we have solved the waste problem technically, we just can't get funding for it as anti-nuclear crowd blocks all good research, and development.
Seriously the last nuclear plant built in the USA was started in 1977. I was born in 1978.
We literally have 30 years of additional knowledge but are unable to capitalize on it to help solve the problems of nuclear waste because of the anti-nuclear crowd.
H.264 is only around for as long as MPEG-LA doesn't charge you for viewing as well as decoding the video files.
Take a good look at what they can do. they can place a per viewer, per decoder, per encoder, per streamed, charge on every video you view online.
Right now they only charge for the streamers, and encoders. but every year they release a statement saying they can do the rest but aren't for the next couple of years.
Not Only can DSL be over suscribed but in many area's the phone lines them selves are crap. Old copper lines stretched, with bad insulation causes problems.
Phone companies refuse to upgrade those old lines even if they are serving a whole city block worth of customers. So out of a 100pair phone cable there may be 60 traditional phone lines and of those 20 are good enough to be available for DSL.
Phone companies got away with that 10 years ago because people didn't care, and now it is because all those people are moving to VOIP or cell phones.
um items fall until they reach terminal velocity. they accelerate because gravity pulls you down. you then go through the portal and and continue falling.
eventually you reach terminal velocity.
Your speed through the portal itself is relative.(ie you don't come out any faster than you went in)
First rule of arresting someone. Always assume they will resist, and are armed.
Failure to obey that rule as a cop means you can end up dead.
Do you know how many cops are killed every year? 48 was in 2009 over 3/4 of them at traffic stops.(speeding suspected drunk driving, etc)
While guns drawn seems bad. EVERY Cop wants to go home to their spouse's at the end of their shift. To do that 100% of the time means they have to be prepared for anything.
This is it exactly. IP's addresses aren't people especially with IPv4 addresses. I don't know about the average slashdotter, but on my single IP address are 4 people, with 9 different computers.
If one person fails to update one computer with a zero day patch, and that machine gets comprised and can then download whatever they want, and leave behind incriminating evidence getting someone else in trouble for your dirty deeds.
NAT's are good at such things. Heck I am now tempted to leave an unsecured computer on my network and let it get infected with crap. Just so if the ops ever raid me for "music/video/porn" I can point to the honeypot and machine and claim ignorance.
And how do you enter the atmosphere and stop half way down?
build a glider that can lift you back up to the altitudes needed?
deploy a parachute and a ballon?
not being making fun of you but answer the real questions first. while in concept it might work, the fact is it is a whole lot harder to deal with the thicker atmosphere of venus, where heating will be higher on orbital entry, then try to stop in the middle of the air.
that was my thought. I was withholding judgement until Apple actually opened their mouths.
apparently they decided to stick their feet into their mouths.
then again there is no indication that apple actually gets any of the location data. unlike google which only keeps a few days locally but transmits it to google regularly(who knows how many days they store at google) .
In some cases it is hard. you can have 4-8 remotes to control your fancy tv/audio setup.
what is really needed is a standard set of controlling codes for remotes. so you don't have to go through the often lengthy and wrong procedure of trying to teach a remote all the codes that it might need.
a universal remote often sacrifces ease of use for features.
That blurring is because your head isn't straight. Most likely you tilt your head slightly. That is the other trick with fake3d. If your not perfectly straight for the entire movie it will look off. No neck stretching, no lying on a couch. But ram rod straight until it is done.
It is the other trick with fake3d TV's. 95% of homes aren't laid out for the minimal viewing angles homes actually have
I seldom worry about apple's lock strategies. Once you start down the road of tight lockin you either have to sue your way out of it, or you are forced to let go.
In the case of music apple basically scared the music studios into stripping off DRM. Now apple is being aggressively stupid themselves. It will bite them on the arse. It will be interesting to watch. but apple can't affect android the way oracle can with java and davik.
Here is the trick though. current 3D tech doesn't work for something like 15% of the population.
3D tech is like those magic pictures where if you stared hard enough you saw another picture. the problem is since they are optical illusions a lot of people see right through them.
Fake3D is just that Fake. it is an illusion trying to trick your simple mind into seeing things that just aren't there(depth).
i can see real depth just fine. broadcasting fake depth on a 2D surface is just play confusing for too many people.
verizon and sprint aren't 100% CDMA2000 EV-DO speeds though.
why don't you try leaving your basement and find the real world. I know lots of area's where verizon EV-DO network is slower than AT&T edge and makes dial up look like a speed champ.
Area's where the land goes for $200,000 an acre, and multi million dollar mansions are strung out, and it has the cell phone coverage of a desert.
don't listen to the hype and do some real world tests. My company got tired of verizon's network slow speeds in their rural areas. it was so slow it would constantly drop calls.
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Of course they are. Data covering specific area's of inquiry is extremely valuable. Company's only exist to make money, everything else is a distant 5th or 10th concern.
doesn't matter if it is polluting water, or giving away information on their customers, as long as it either makes money or is cheaper than the alternatives companies will do it. That is why polluters only respond to threats of massive fines. it suddenly becomes cheaper to do things right.
Selling their data is like selling anything else. you have a product that someone wants and can make you money. This won't stop until the governments start creating fines for data privacy breaches.
Real Software security won't take effect until the losses incurred by said breaches exceeds the costs of actually securing the software properly the first time.
Um no it isn't how my eyes work. stop talking about bullshit that only works for a percentage of the population.
My eyes don't focus that way. I see 3D just fine but only adjusting focus with one eye. I can tell depth and distance just fine with only my left eye.
So if i can see 3D, and depth with one eye, how can showing my eyes alternate views "allow" me to see depth that isn't there?
We really don't understand how the brain processes images. The fact that significant portions of the population get headaches, or don't see the effects at all should be a clear sign of that. stop spouting theories that are being proven to only be correct in certain situations as facts for the entire concept.
Exactly. I have wanted tablets since I saw slates in 2003-2004 however I noticed that MSFT had basically destroyed slate abilities and made all tablets by them have to be convertibles as you needed a keyboard 90% of the time.
the Ipad, and now Android tablets are showing that you don't need a keyboard except for large data entry.
a slashdot post is not large data entry.
so just in your office some where between 30-50% of the testing group failed to be able to use the product as was intended(5-8 people out 15-20).
It is why I call this crap Fake3D. it works by faking you out to see something that isn't there.
what I really want to know is if the same people who are fooled by this 3D tech are the same group of people who get fooled by seeing ghosts?
The Irony of it is that MSFT tarnished their brand by excessive marketing, and pushing into area's they really couldn't support. Combined with bad management decisions, and stupid internal restrictions means that Windows as a whole suffered.
MSFT came out with a tablet edition of the OS in 2002, but 9 years later still don't have a tablet edition of any other software they deploy.
When apple developed the ipad, one of the first set of included apps was a slightly dumbed down, but functional copy of their software.
i did something similar 3 years ago. the netware 3.1 server just never died. when we los tpower and rebooted you had to reset the clock as the calendar was fine software wise but the hardware bios wouldn't set right upon boot.
However the company closed/sold out and i made two copies of their SYS and DATA vol each one to a separate computer. all i had to due was flip a couple of settings and redirect some file pointers and the server became two separate computers with all data intact.
One of those has since died(unlucky lighting strike) the other is in an old HP laptop that only boots off of the power cable and isn't hooked up.
well it probably runs just fine.
I know I have a complete install of 3.12 and manuals around work some where. the hard part is getting it to work with windows XP.
fast breeder reactors take the waste and convert it into other elements with short half lives.
Fast breeder reactor research has been canceled due to anti-nuclear crowd campaigning
The dig a big hole and burry method has also been canceled due to the anti nuclear crowd.
right now we have waste we can't get rid of because we have no way to deal with it, or put it, because anytime someone mentions it a crowd appears around them protesting it.
if the anti nuclear crowd protested gasoline engines, we would still be using steam trains, and horses.
well lets take a look at what previsou generations of tablets lacked.
(1)wireless networking(3G or Wifi)
(2)Broad adoption of said wireless networking meaning you can go many places and connect.
(3)Battery life, while some ran well on regular batteries in general you didn't get very far.
(4)Poor screen quality, sure an 80 by 180 character display might seem awesome, but until you start to use it you realize just how small it is compared to a sheet of paper.
(5)Weight. components were large and weighed a lot the first notebooks weren't really a "laptop" as they weighed in at 10-15 pounds. Even the tablets of 9 years ago weighed as much as regular laptop at 4-6 pounds each.
That won't even get into the software differences between the 80's 90's(newton) and today.
we have solved the waste problem technically, we just can't get funding for it as anti-nuclear crowd blocks all good research, and development.
Seriously the last nuclear plant built in the USA was started in 1977. I was born in 1978.
We literally have 30 years of additional knowledge but are unable to capitalize on it to help solve the problems of nuclear waste because of the anti-nuclear crowd.
H.264 is only around for as long as MPEG-LA doesn't charge you for viewing as well as decoding the video files.
Take a good look at what they can do. they can place a per viewer, per decoder, per encoder, per streamed, charge on every video you view online.
Right now they only charge for the streamers, and encoders. but every year they release a statement saying they can do the rest but aren't for the next couple of years.
Not Only can DSL be over suscribed but in many area's the phone lines them selves are crap. Old copper lines stretched, with bad insulation causes problems.
Phone companies refuse to upgrade those old lines even if they are serving a whole city block worth of customers. So out of a 100pair phone cable there may be 60 traditional phone lines and of those 20 are good enough to be available for DSL.
Phone companies got away with that 10 years ago because people didn't care, and now it is because all those people are moving to VOIP or cell phones.
NASA does more than just space but also test beds advanced aeroflight concepts.
alternative fuel and production is a big thing for the military to help cut down supply lines.
Imagine aircraft carrier making their own fuel from seaweed and algee?
um items fall until they reach terminal velocity. they accelerate because gravity pulls you down. you then go through the portal and and continue falling.
eventually you reach terminal velocity.
Your speed through the portal itself is relative.(ie you don't come out any faster than you went in)
First rule of arresting someone. Always assume they will resist, and are armed.
Failure to obey that rule as a cop means you can end up dead.
Do you know how many cops are killed every year? 48 was in 2009 over 3/4 of them at traffic stops.(speeding suspected drunk driving, etc)
While guns drawn seems bad. EVERY Cop wants to go home to their spouse's at the end of their shift. To do that 100% of the time means they have to be prepared for anything.
This is it exactly. IP's addresses aren't people especially with IPv4 addresses. I don't know about the average slashdotter, but on my single IP address are 4 people, with 9 different computers.
If one person fails to update one computer with a zero day patch, and that machine gets comprised and can then download whatever they want, and leave behind incriminating evidence getting someone else in trouble for your dirty deeds.
NAT's are good at such things. Heck I am now tempted to leave an unsecured computer on my network and let it get infected with crap. Just so if the ops ever raid me for "music/video/porn" I can point to the honeypot and machine and claim ignorance.
And how do you enter the atmosphere and stop half way down?
build a glider that can lift you back up to the altitudes needed?
deploy a parachute and a ballon?
not being making fun of you but answer the real questions first. while in concept it might work, the fact is it is a whole lot harder to deal with the thicker atmosphere of venus, where heating will be higher on orbital entry, then try to stop in the middle of the air.
If your going to die, you might as well go out with a bang, on someone else's dime, in the most glorious fashion possible.
Just remember lots of people will remember your name if your the first person to walk on mars, and never come home.
If you had played portal 2 you would build a giant airlock, put a portal inside, and put another (insert ending here).
That is how you get to mars on the cheap.
that was my thought. I was withholding judgement until Apple actually opened their mouths.
apparently they decided to stick their feet into their mouths.
then again there is no indication that apple actually gets any of the location data. unlike google which only keeps a few days locally but transmits it to google regularly(who knows how many days they store at google) .
In some cases it is hard. you can have 4-8 remotes to control your fancy tv/audio setup.
what is really needed is a standard set of controlling codes for remotes. so you don't have to go through the often lengthy and wrong procedure of trying to teach a remote all the codes that it might need.
a universal remote often sacrifces ease of use for features.
That blurring is because your head isn't straight. Most likely you tilt your head slightly. That is the other trick with fake3d. If your not perfectly straight for the entire movie it will look off. No neck stretching, no lying on a couch. But ram rod straight until it is done.
It is the other trick with fake3d TV's. 95% of homes aren't laid out for the minimal viewing angles homes actually have
I seldom worry about apple's lock strategies. Once you start down the road of tight lockin you either have to sue your way out of it, or you are forced to let go.
In the case of music apple basically scared the music studios into stripping off DRM. Now apple is being aggressively stupid themselves. It will bite them on the arse. It will be interesting to watch. but apple can't affect android the way oracle can with java and davik.
Here is the trick though. current 3D tech doesn't work for something like 15% of the population.
3D tech is like those magic pictures where if you stared hard enough you saw another picture. the problem is since they are optical illusions a lot of people see right through them.
Fake3D is just that Fake. it is an illusion trying to trick your simple mind into seeing things that just aren't there(depth).
i can see real depth just fine. broadcasting fake depth on a 2D surface is just play confusing for too many people.
verizon and sprint aren't 100% CDMA2000 EV-DO speeds though.
why don't you try leaving your basement and find the real world. I know lots of area's where verizon EV-DO network is slower than AT&T edge and makes dial up look like a speed champ.
Area's where the land goes for $200,000 an acre, and multi million dollar mansions are strung out, and it has the cell phone coverage of a desert.
don't listen to the hype and do some real world tests. My company got tired of verizon's network slow speeds in their rural areas. it was so slow it would constantly drop calls.