Dogs die. Their handlers have trained with them for months or years. Losing a dog is *very* hard on the handler. Robots would not be so hard to lose.
That is not thrue. if the robotics dog is to be really usefull it must have some form of intelligence and must be able to learn from t's environment (like the Sony AIBO).
Some studies showed that people owning an AIBO have the same emotional attachement to the robot than people have with pets.
Also the fact that the handlers is emotionaly attached to its dog is beneficial in the same way that soldier in the same unit will become (encouraged by their training) attached (like a familly or friend) to other in the same unit. This give a better team dynamics as each members will look out for each other.
However, I don't know if developers would actually want to be liable for their work. The pay increase would have to be much higher than his current pay so he can afford some kind of liability insureance.
With the possible amount of damage a company can claim for intrusion (remember K. Mitnick case) I'm pretty sure that insurance cost will be very high.
The two largest PC manufacturer in the world (HP and Dell) adopted the +R/+RW standard. While other manufacturer, like Sony, who were on the -R/-RW standard are now producing drives that can do both format.
The winner in the long run (if the run is long enough) will be DVD+R/+RW.
Compatibility issues are not real issues. Both format are incompatible with some DVD player to mostly the same level. and I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, DVD player that were release in the past year are compatible with both format.
That and the sound is compressed to reduce its dynamic range. This allow for a higher average volume. (the same technique is used on radio broadcast to have an higher signal to noise ratio)
So by checking the variation in dynamic range of the sound the software is able to guess that some part of the recording is a commercial.
I believe this is the main method used to detect commercials.
Beside unknown political reason, one of the reason was that the wheel weight to much. One must not forget that the only thing that absorb shocks to protect the mechanics of the wheel engine is the tire. The more it weights the more damaging a bump can be to the engine.
On the other hand, if I were a creator of material published on such a magazine, I'd want to be properly compensated if it became part of a lucratively-marketed collected work; I'd probably have been paid a relatively small amount in the first place based on its use being ephemeral (in the context of a periodical) rather than the larger amount I'd expect for permanent rights to something that would remain in print.
You know, as a creator, in light of this court decision, you would add an article in your contract to allow the publisher to be able to publish your work only in media you want (paper for example), any publishing on different medi would have to be negociated.
I expect that well-known freelance photographer will now require that kind of thing in their contract with publisher.
Similarly, suppose the publisher could release 3D versions of the NG photos, in the form of a 3D viewing box : wouldn't you expect knobs to turn the photo around left and right, and up and down, on the viewing box? should that be considered a new work just because the 3D versions of the same photos have knobs? I don't think so, the core of the work is still the original photos, the viewing knobs are just accessories that should be expected given the type of medium the photos are on.
IANAL... Creating 3D version of existing photo would be considered a new work. You are taking the work of somebody and creating a derivation of it.
I agree with parent. At the speed of reentry, failure is bound to happen really fast. They is no way a human being could react in time, to a life treathening failure, to do something about it (maybe he'll just had the time to shout ARGGGGG!).
I bought mine 6 months ago and it changed my life (actually, my back life). The backpack is well padded and very comfortable. It include a removeable plastic rack so you can put many books and keep them organized.
You'll have no trouble running with it and it's very robust.
Search for freenet could be easily implemented using a current p2p network. Just publish the freenet key for some content on a p2p network and there you go... There is no way for the RIAA to link someone who host the searchable key to the actual content (unless you have it on your harddrive, but then the RIAA would have to get a warrant to get into your home which would require a criminal investigation).
So you use the search capabilities of existing p2p network to publish reference on an anonymous p2p network.
The problem with web of trusts is that they grow very slowly (if people are very carefull about who they trusts). So the amount of stuff availlable to one will be quite small compared to the p2p networks we have now.
It is also inevitable that at one point, someone untrusted will join the network. Then he can gatter information to build a case against sharers in the web of trusts. You probably have no way of knowing who is the stool and you'll have to scrap your web of trysts and rebuild it from scratch.
So web of trusts will never work. You'll hve better luck with stuff like freenet that can garantee anonymity.
Unless you bough a MP3 encoded file, what you are making availlable is already a copy of the original, not the actual original. So if you allow upload of MP3s then you are in fact distributing a copy of the musical work which is illegal.
Maybe you should RTFA, when the grand-parent was talking battery drain it was for the "haptick" feedback wich is implemented by making the device vibrate when you tao a button on the touch screen. I can see this vibration draining the battery at a faster rate than if it was not enabled.
Because the actual mean of encryption also allow you a certain control on who access your AP. The security standard is mean to offer equivalent privacy a wire (which is not that private).
I have no trouble with multiple layer of security. Especially that not every site or e-mail server use encryption (SSL) to access their resources. I may not want absolute privacy when sending some e-mail but I don't want everybody in my neighborhood to be able to read them without efforts.
It's quite easy, even with a transmition over multiple frequencies, to detect that you have an artficial signal at frequency X. You may have are really hard time deconding it, but the transmition will still be very easy to detect.
When you yak on your cell phone, I may have a difficult time to capture and decrypt everything (especially if I have no prior knowledge on how the tramsition is done) but I will have no trouble locating you because of all the carrier signal you emit that don't look like any natural phenonema.
SETI is not trying to decrypt any signal, they are just trying to find if some signal appear artificial.
You really have a bad understanding of what SETI is looking for.
In most area, motor vehicules are banned from sidewalk... Why would it be different for Segway. If some vehicule can go faster than a jogger, it does not belong on the sidewalk.
You do not have the right Action/Consequence premises.
The right one would be: Action: The RIAA members produce 20% less new releases than before Consequence: The RIAA members sales figures are 20% less than before, but they blame pirate for less sales.
Not to mention that MPAA member DVD sales are up, gaming consoles and games sales are up. But consumer have roughly the same (or less because of the economic downturn) amount of money in their pocket so they spend less on music.
Maybe someone can clear this FUD for me. Would'nt the possible interference exists only if they use the same frequency range for power-line transmission than the one used for TV/radio/whatever transmission?
I doubt that the FCC and CRTC (in Canada) would allow such a power-line broadband service if it was interfering with existing broadcasts signals anyway.
Remember when PC chip approached the GHz, there was a bunch of people that were fearing they would interfere with TV and other applicance? None of that happened.
A bunch of people are also using the X10 protocol to control lights/appliances in there home... Wait, there is no interference with broadcast signals!
Note that the utility cie are doing field tests. If the users find the service is interfering with other service, then the field test will fail anyway. So why worry that much?
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Dogs die. Their handlers have trained with them for months or years. Losing a dog is *very* hard on the handler. Robots would not be so hard to lose.
That is not thrue. if the robotics dog is to be really usefull it must have some form of intelligence and must be able to learn from t's environment (like the Sony AIBO).
Some studies showed that people owning an AIBO have the same emotional attachement to the robot than people have with pets.
Also the fact that the handlers is emotionaly attached to its dog is beneficial in the same way that soldier in the same unit will become (encouraged by their training) attached (like a familly or friend) to other in the same unit. This give a better team dynamics as each members will look out for each other.
However, I don't know if developers would actually want to be liable for their work. The pay increase would have to be much higher than his current pay so he can afford some kind of liability insureance.
With the possible amount of damage a company can claim for intrusion (remember K. Mitnick case) I'm pretty sure that insurance cost will be very high.
just a correction... it is not Sony that were on the DVD-R side. Anyway... next time, I'll check my facts before posting.
You are right!
The two largest PC manufacturer in the world (HP and Dell) adopted the +R/+RW standard. While other manufacturer, like Sony, who were on the -R/-RW standard are now producing drives that can do both format.
The winner in the long run (if the run is long enough) will be DVD+R/+RW.
Compatibility issues are not real issues. Both format are incompatible with some DVD player to mostly the same level. and I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, DVD player that were release in the past year are compatible with both format.
But when you click on it, it will open full-size instantaneously :-)
It will be called XX.
But I suggest you wait a bit for what will replace XX!
If you can afford to buy enough songs to fill the extra 10G, you can surely afford a new iPod!
.99$ = 1413.72$
(I'm being generous with file size)
10G/7M = 1428 songs *
That and the sound is compressed to reduce its dynamic range. This allow for a higher average volume. (the same technique is used on radio broadcast to have an higher signal to noise ratio)
So by checking the variation in dynamic range of the sound the software is able to guess that some part of the recording is a commercial.
I believe this is the main method used to detect commercials.
Beside unknown political reason, one of the reason was that the wheel weight to much. One must not forget that the only thing that absorb shocks to protect the mechanics of the wheel engine is the tire. The more it weights the more damaging a bump can be to the engine.
On the other hand, if I were a creator of material published on such a magazine, I'd want to be properly compensated if it became part of a lucratively-marketed collected work; I'd probably have been paid a relatively small amount in the first place based on its use being ephemeral (in the context of a periodical) rather than the larger amount I'd expect for permanent rights to something that would remain in print.
You know, as a creator, in light of this court decision, you would add an article in your contract to allow the publisher to be able to publish your work only in media you want (paper for example), any publishing on different medi would have to be negociated.
I expect that well-known freelance photographer will now require that kind of thing in their contract with publisher.
Similarly, suppose the publisher could release 3D versions of the NG photos, in the form of a 3D viewing box : wouldn't you expect knobs to turn the photo around left and right, and up and down, on the viewing box? should that be considered a new work just because the 3D versions of the same photos have knobs? I don't think so, the core of the work is still the original photos, the viewing knobs are just accessories that should be expected given the type of medium the photos are on.
IANAL... Creating 3D version of existing photo would be considered a new work. You are taking the work of somebody and creating a derivation of it.
I agree with parent. At the speed of reentry, failure is bound to happen really fast. They is no way a human being could react in time, to a life treathening failure, to do something about it (maybe he'll just had the time to shout ARGGGGG!).
Try a Rakgear deluxe backpack.
I bought mine 6 months ago and it changed my life (actually, my back life). The backpack is well padded and very comfortable. It include a removeable plastic rack so you can put many books and keep them organized.
You'll have no trouble running with it and it's very robust.
I bough it at Radio-Shack fo less than $50 CAN.
You can't go wrong with it.
Search for freenet could be easily implemented using a current p2p network. Just publish the freenet key for some content on a p2p network and there you go... There is no way for the RIAA to link someone who host the searchable key to the actual content (unless you have it on your harddrive, but then the RIAA would have to get a warrant to get into your home which would require a criminal investigation).
So you use the search capabilities of existing p2p network to publish reference on an anonymous p2p network.
The problem with web of trusts is that they grow very slowly (if people are very carefull about who they trusts). So the amount of stuff availlable to one will be quite small compared to the p2p networks we have now.
It is also inevitable that at one point, someone untrusted will join the network. Then he can gatter information to build a case against sharers in the web of trusts. You probably have no way of knowing who is the stool and you'll have to scrap your web of trysts and rebuild it from scratch.
So web of trusts will never work. You'll hve better luck with stuff like freenet that can garantee anonymity.
Unless you bough a MP3 encoded file, what you are making availlable is already a copy of the original, not the actual original. So if you allow upload of MP3s then you are in fact distributing a copy of the musical work which is illegal.
Maybe you should RTFA, when the grand-parent was talking battery drain it was for the "haptick" feedback wich is implemented by making the device vibrate when you tao a button on the touch screen. I can see this vibration draining the battery at a faster rate than if it was not enabled.
Because the actual mean of encryption also allow you a certain control on who access your AP.
The security standard is mean to offer equivalent privacy a wire (which is not that private).
I have no trouble with multiple layer of security. Especially that not every site or e-mail server use encryption (SSL) to access their resources. I may not want absolute privacy when sending some e-mail but I don't want everybody in my neighborhood to be able to read them without efforts.
The current standard security scheme in wireless device is weak enough that the Chinese governement has no need to supply a less secure protocol.
Your argument are full of crap.
It's quite easy, even with a transmition over multiple frequencies, to detect that you have an artficial signal at frequency X. You may have are really hard time deconding it, but the transmition will still be very easy to detect.
When you yak on your cell phone, I may have a difficult time to capture and decrypt everything (especially if I have no prior knowledge on how the tramsition is done) but I will have no trouble locating you because of all the carrier signal you emit that don't look like any natural phenonema.
SETI is not trying to decrypt any signal, they are just trying to find if some signal appear artificial.
You really have a bad understanding of what SETI is looking for.
Looks like our humble reviewer forgot to mention one big side effect of one on the cons.
The fact that it cannot play encrypted AAC mean that it would not be able to play the songs you purchased on iTMS. So long for iTunes integration.
Sure you can burn your playlist and convert it to MP3 but it would be better if that step would not be required.
In most area, motor vehicules are banned from sidewalk... Why would it be different for Segway. If some vehicule can go faster than a jogger, it does not belong on the sidewalk.
I believe a compass can be easily jammed with a strong magnetic field.
As for the sextant, they just need to create some sort of clouds. Which is probably not that difficult oer s relatively small area.
You do not have the right Action/Consequence premises.
The right one would be:
Action: The RIAA members produce 20% less new releases than before
Consequence: The RIAA members sales figures are 20% less than before, but they blame pirate for less sales.
Not to mention that MPAA member DVD sales are up, gaming consoles and games sales are up. But consumer have roughly the same (or less because of the economic downturn) amount of money in their pocket so they spend less on music.
Maybe someone can clear this FUD for me. Would'nt the possible interference exists only if they use the same frequency range for power-line transmission than the one used for TV/radio/whatever transmission?
I doubt that the FCC and CRTC (in Canada) would allow such a power-line broadband service if it was interfering with existing broadcasts signals anyway.
Remember when PC chip approached the GHz, there was a bunch of people that were fearing they would interfere with TV and other applicance? None of that happened.
A bunch of people are also using the X10 protocol to control lights/appliances in there home... Wait, there is no interference with broadcast signals!
Note that the utility cie are doing field tests. If the users find the service is interfering with other service, then the field test will fail anyway. So why worry that much?