I have several external hard drives that need DC power. All the same manufacturer, all the same requirements, all the same plugs.
I want one DC converter that I can plug into one AC outlet and connect the drives to that converter. Preferably with its own UPS.
And if I can get something like that, then why not one that has variable settings and set of tips and polarity switches for a set of non-homogeneous devices?
And to get into the gripe fest, I'd just be happy if the wall worts they give you for your devices actually identify the device they're supposed to go with. Name, model, and in some cases even serial number would be nice (when you've bought 5 of the product, but each came from a different production run and the power requirements changed, like my old set of Pyro Firewire enclosures).
In the absence of both correct entity recognition and unicode, I propose hyphen-slash, possibly followed by parenthetical value. E.g. "the square root of two" == -/(2). It could even be made syntactical in a programming language as subtract-divide or negative-division wouldn't be a recognized operator pair.
Variations could be done, such as "cube root of two" == 3-/(2) (different than "three times the square root of two" == 3 * -/(2) ).
Better to have a small video projector built-in, have the bag it comes in somehow fold out into a screen to project upon (and easily collapse back into a bag), and a webcam that can track your hands for a projected multi-touch display.
If you add voice recognition and synthesis, that's a few steps closer to being able to call it a Mother box.
What would happen to you if you flew into the US and the customs agents wanted to confiscate your cybernetic limb to analyze as they can do now with your laptops and other electronic devices? What recourse would you have to prevent such thing?
Crush their skulls?
You can have my cold dead hands when you pry them from my cybernetic body!
For a quick demo, shell into a tty and run 'mplayer [some video] -vo caca'... now imagine using that data to navigate the world. Sure, you probably won't bump into any walls, but depth perception and the like are going to be difficult.
I think he means whether the teleportation is rendered continuously or discontinuously. A discontinuous teleport would be like Halo where you touch the teleporter and you're suddenly at the other end. A continuous one allows for a smoother transition or even reversal while being transported.
Compare also the Stargate (SG-1, Atlantis) method where it feels like you walk in on one side and walk out the other, but in fact you're being disintegrated as you step through and aren't reintegrated on the other side until you're fully disintegrated. But with some programming that reintegrates you if you pull out (I'm not sure how that works if you stick your head in; how does your disintegrated head tell your body to pull it back out, or even keep your body standing?). The wormhole traversal animations are a cinematic presentation of the "Zoom" effect to suggest it still takes time to travel from one end to the other. In a game, it could be an out-of-body disorientation effect that renders you vulnerable for a moment on the other end.
Secure socket layers don't matter much when the server is just going to forward the form data in an unencrypted e-mail to an aol.com address, and I worked at a web design company that did exactly that (and worse).
Why don't they just carry the larger device in the first place?
Then it could be separated from you and continue to operate with a decoy continuing on your usual route, concealing your abduction location. By pairing with the chip in your body, if it is separated from you it trips the alarm.
Crow T. Robot: Say Mike, give the incredibly depraved attitude regarding women in today's movie, I knew you'd want me to make a short film for boys and young men teaching them how to treat the fairer sex, with a proper and healthy respect. [Mike and Servo are both reading] Crow T. Robot: Uh... Mike? Mike! Mike Nelson: Uh, yeah sure. Crow T. Robot: So, ah, good, because I went ahead and did it anyway, and hopefully it will help just a little! Let's watch... Crow T. Robot: ["Let's talk Women" - Crow's short film about women] Aaaah, women. Women, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ha-ha-ha-ha. For you young fellows, fresh on the cusp of a blooming manhood, the questions are bound: what are women like? what do women want? how should I treat a women? Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man is finding a woman in the first place! It turns out to be... nearly impossible! This reporter spent countless hours searching for a woman, like these pictured here... [shows clips of Hobgoblins, with Amy and Daphne in them] Crow T. Robot:...to no avail. The nearest we came during a tense stakeout was this fellow... [Shows a clip of Mike Nelson biting into a sandwich] Crow T. Robot:...who experts believe, is not a woman. We begin to wonder, where are all the women? The over-heated references in poetry, the images that dominate our media, is it all an elaborate fraud? This grainy photograph is the only direct evidence we have of a woman in her natural environment. [Shows a black and white, Bigfoot-like photo of a large women in a forest] Crow T. Robot: The longer hair, the gentle and nurturing demeanor are typical of how witnesses describe their supposed encounters with women. This footprint... [Crow stands beside a clay model of a huge Bigfoot-sized footprint] Crow T. Robot:...while possibly the work of jokesters, is another piece of the puzzle! And it is hard to discount this man's terrifying story! [Crow, wearing a mustache, and putting on a fake voice, appears on the screen] Crow T. Robot, w/mustache: Then... uh... this woman - I think it was a woman... she... uh... married me. Crow T. Robot, off-screen interviewer: Did you have any children, sir? Crow T. Robot, w/mustache: [distressed] I don't remember! Crow T. Robot: Some day perhaps, an actual woman will emerge, and they will no longer exist only in the realm of myth and maybe. Thank you. [Video Ends] Crow T. Robot: [sighs] Oh yeah, so, anyway Mike, in conclusion, um... in the off chance that you do run into a woman, uh, you know, treat her with respect and stuff. Mike Nelson: [chuckles] Okay, you do know... Crow, you do know women though, what about Pearl? Crow T. Robot: [pausing in thought] Okay, so one woman exists! That means all women exist? Mike Nelson: We'll be right back. Crow T. Robot: Name me one other woman! Mike Nelson: Well, um... [Mike frowns and thinks]
People can live in very different conditions if their basic needs are met, if there is a cultural web to participate in, and if they have control over their personal space and possibility of advancement.
"Up, up, up the ziggurat, lickety-split." -- Arnold J. Rimmer
In some places, gaining knowledge from any sources other than the textbook and/or the instructor is considered cheating, including and especially talking to your fellow students about the coursework. Even reading ahead in the textbook can be considered cheating.
And don't get me started on the prohibitions on reading the instructor's mind! Two of my classmates were accused of witchcraft and were drowned in the school swimming pool for not admitting it. A third was burned at the stake at Homecoming for admitting it. (Or was it for failing to drown? I forget.)
However, to assume that not a single customer would have purchased the original works - even if it does fall within the spirit of the law - is equally unlikely.
If I may be anecdotal, as a teenager I used to record movies off of HBO to VHS. I had amassed quite a large collection. But I was not in the market to purchase any of them on VHS.
Since then, and because of my exposure to those movies, I have become quite the purchaser of DVDs, and virtually everything I had on VHS that has come to be pressed on DVD I have purchased, as well as a lot more that I had not recorded. Some have yet to come out on DVD, and a select few may never (such as Electric Dreams, likely due to rights issues). I would only now consider self-archiving that which is unobtainable otherwise (even if jumping regions to obtain it, but I'm not willing to learn German to enjoy the movie Prime Risk on DVD), and only until it is obtainable.
If I hadn't recorded so much, I would not have been impelled to "make right" by purchasing the first large chunks of my DVD collection, or continued to purchase DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-Ray disks. If I hadn't bought the Sony 400-disc changer for the many TV series in my collection, I never would have bought any SACDs (though I have only the two and haven't listened to either one of them yet).
Piracy can act as incentivizing seeds to get people to purchase far more later in life, even to repurchase what they appropriated for free. Possibly more effectively than just giving it away (doesn't have the illicitness and guilt). In contrast, people who paid for something once in one format are less likely to repurchase it again in another format (and are more likely to pirate it).
Of course, as a single anecdote, this doesn't prove much.
I (would like to) believe it'll be pretty difficult to find anyone who actually thinks that infringing upon another's copyrighted work for profit is NOT wrong.
Make the same statement striking the word "copyrighted" and see what response you get. The public is so disenfranchised by copyright they don't know what the public domain is. Tell them of a PD work and they'll claim it's copyrighted by Disney.
If someone misrepresented a previously lost and unknown work of Beethoven as their own there would be outrage, profit made or not, even though the "infringed" work would be in the public domain, or even had the cheek to insert their own original work inside a performance of "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov ("ardie betgo indyo cefar oggel").
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I have several external hard drives that need DC power. All the same manufacturer, all the same requirements, all the same plugs.
I want one DC converter that I can plug into one AC outlet and connect the drives to that converter. Preferably with its own UPS.
And if I can get something like that, then why not one that has variable settings and set of tips and polarity switches for a set of non-homogeneous devices?
And to get into the gripe fest, I'd just be happy if the wall worts they give you for your devices actually identify the device they're supposed to go with. Name, model, and in some cases even serial number would be nice (when you've bought 5 of the product, but each came from a different production run and the power requirements changed, like my old set of Pyro Firewire enclosures).
Worse, they actually make fiber-optic cables with gold-plated connectors.
How many other faces there are depends on whether I'm feeling hyper.
In the absence of both correct entity recognition and unicode, I propose hyphen-slash, possibly followed by parenthetical value. E.g. "the square root of two" == -/(2). It could even be made syntactical in a programming language as subtract-divide or negative-division wouldn't be a recognized operator pair.
Variations could be done, such as "cube root of two" == 3-/(2) (different than "three times the square root of two" == 3 * -/(2) ).
Better to have a small video projector built-in, have the bag it comes in somehow fold out into a screen to project upon (and easily collapse back into a bag), and a webcam that can track your hands for a projected multi-touch display.
If you add voice recognition and synthesis, that's a few steps closer to being able to call it a Mother box.
What would happen to you if you flew into the US and the customs agents wanted to confiscate your cybernetic limb to analyze as they can do now with your laptops and other electronic devices? What recourse would you have to prevent such thing?
Crush their skulls?
You can have my cold dead hands when you pry them from my cybernetic body!
And coma patients get to sleep all they want!
Nah, the completely bedridden will get the Roujin Z-001.
For a quick demo, shell into a tty and run 'mplayer [some video] -vo caca' ... now imagine using that data to navigate the world. Sure, you probably won't bump into any walls, but depth perception and the like are going to be difficult.
I don't know. I've seen 3-D ASCII-art.
Ah yes, the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interactive System.
And hey, every episode is available for download for $1.99 per episode or $37.99 for the whole single season from Amazon.com.
Eh, I'd rather own my copy permanently.
I think he means whether the teleportation is rendered continuously or discontinuously. A discontinuous teleport would be like Halo where you touch the teleporter and you're suddenly at the other end. A continuous one allows for a smoother transition or even reversal while being transported.
Compare also the Stargate (SG-1, Atlantis) method where it feels like you walk in on one side and walk out the other, but in fact you're being disintegrated as you step through and aren't reintegrated on the other side until you're fully disintegrated. But with some programming that reintegrates you if you pull out (I'm not sure how that works if you stick your head in; how does your disintegrated head tell your body to pull it back out, or even keep your body standing?). The wormhole traversal animations are a cinematic presentation of the "Zoom" effect to suggest it still takes time to travel from one end to the other. In a game, it could be an out-of-body disorientation effect that renders you vulnerable for a moment on the other end.
I want to see the nautical version, Porthole.
I think they have that at Crazy Adam's Discount Warehouse and Import Emporium.
They looked at cows in widely disparate geographic locations, and at different times of the day.
Were they flying the cows to these locations or just using cows native to those locations?
Which way does your planet rotate?
Northern or southern hemispherical axis point of view? It matters, you know.
"Have you any idea how difficult it is to navigate on a planet with a counter-clockwise rotation?" -- Doctor Who, paraphrased
"Do you know the cow? He is an insolent bastard and will die a horrible, painful death!" -- Mi-ik
Well, I have this stash of about 400 neodymium magnets, I'm going to have lots of fun burrying them in the local farmers fields in exciting patterns.
Try to get them to spell out "eat mor chiken".
How about learned patterns of sunlight corresponding to landmarks? Or did they also try blinding the cows?
Or sealing them inside a large white dome with no discernible edges so that it was all white to infinity?
And did they ask for guns? lots of guns?
Secure socket layers don't matter much when the server is just going to forward the form data in an unencrypted e-mail to an aol.com address, and I worked at a web design company that did exactly that (and worse).
Then it could be separated from you and continue to operate with a decoy continuing on your usual route, concealing your abduction location. By pairing with the chip in your body, if it is separated from you it trips the alarm.
Crow T. Robot: Say Mike, give the incredibly depraved attitude regarding women in today's movie, I knew you'd want me to make a short film for boys and young men teaching them how to treat the fairer sex, with a proper and healthy respect. ...to no avail. The nearest we came during a tense stakeout was this fellow... ...who experts believe, is not a woman. We begin to wonder, where are all the women? The over-heated references in poetry, the images that dominate our media, is it all an elaborate fraud? This grainy photograph is the only direct evidence we have of a woman in her natural environment. ...while possibly the work of jokesters, is another piece of the puzzle! And it is hard to discount this man's terrifying story!
[Mike and Servo are both reading]
Crow T. Robot: Uh... Mike? Mike!
Mike Nelson: Uh, yeah sure.
Crow T. Robot: So, ah, good, because I went ahead and did it anyway, and hopefully it will help just a little! Let's watch...
Crow T. Robot: ["Let's talk Women" - Crow's short film about women] Aaaah, women. Women, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ha-ha-ha-ha. For you young fellows, fresh on the cusp of a blooming manhood, the questions are bound: what are women like? what do women want? how should I treat a women? Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man is finding a woman in the first place! It turns out to be... nearly impossible! This reporter spent countless hours searching for a woman, like these pictured here...
[shows clips of Hobgoblins, with Amy and Daphne in them]
Crow T. Robot:
[Shows a clip of Mike Nelson biting into a sandwich]
Crow T. Robot:
[Shows a black and white, Bigfoot-like photo of a large women in a forest]
Crow T. Robot: The longer hair, the gentle and nurturing demeanor are typical of how witnesses describe their supposed encounters with women. This footprint...
[Crow stands beside a clay model of a huge Bigfoot-sized footprint]
Crow T. Robot:
[Crow, wearing a mustache, and putting on a fake voice, appears on the screen]
Crow T. Robot, w/mustache: Then... uh... this woman - I think it was a woman... she... uh... married me.
Crow T. Robot, off-screen interviewer: Did you have any children, sir?
Crow T. Robot, w/mustache: [distressed] I don't remember!
Crow T. Robot: Some day perhaps, an actual woman will emerge, and they will no longer exist only in the realm of myth and maybe. Thank you.
[Video Ends]
Crow T. Robot: [sighs] Oh yeah, so, anyway Mike, in conclusion, um... in the off chance that you do run into a woman, uh, you know, treat her with respect and stuff.
Mike Nelson: [chuckles] Okay, you do know... Crow, you do know women though, what about Pearl?
Crow T. Robot: [pausing in thought] Okay, so one woman exists! That means all women exist?
Mike Nelson: We'll be right back.
Crow T. Robot: Name me one other woman!
Mike Nelson: Well, um...
[Mike frowns and thinks]
People can live in very different conditions if their basic needs are met, if there is a cultural web to participate in, and if they have control over their personal space and possibility of advancement.
"Up, up, up the ziggurat, lickety-split." -- Arnold J. Rimmer
I never cheated in college.
In some places, gaining knowledge from any sources other than the textbook and/or the instructor is considered cheating, including and especially talking to your fellow students about the coursework. Even reading ahead in the textbook can be considered cheating.
And don't get me started on the prohibitions on reading the instructor's mind! Two of my classmates were accused of witchcraft and were drowned in the school swimming pool for not admitting it. A third was burned at the stake at Homecoming for admitting it. (Or was it for failing to drown? I forget.)
So... to defeat a Man-in-the-Middle attack, you use another Man-in-the-Middle that you can trust?
However, to assume that not a single customer would have purchased the original works - even if it does fall within the spirit of the law - is equally unlikely.
If I may be anecdotal, as a teenager I used to record movies off of HBO to VHS. I had amassed quite a large collection. But I was not in the market to purchase any of them on VHS.
Since then, and because of my exposure to those movies, I have become quite the purchaser of DVDs, and virtually everything I had on VHS that has come to be pressed on DVD I have purchased, as well as a lot more that I had not recorded. Some have yet to come out on DVD, and a select few may never (such as Electric Dreams, likely due to rights issues). I would only now consider self-archiving that which is unobtainable otherwise (even if jumping regions to obtain it, but I'm not willing to learn German to enjoy the movie Prime Risk on DVD), and only until it is obtainable.
If I hadn't recorded so much, I would not have been impelled to "make right" by purchasing the first large chunks of my DVD collection, or continued to purchase DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-Ray disks. If I hadn't bought the Sony 400-disc changer for the many TV series in my collection, I never would have bought any SACDs (though I have only the two and haven't listened to either one of them yet).
Piracy can act as incentivizing seeds to get people to purchase far more later in life, even to repurchase what they appropriated for free. Possibly more effectively than just giving it away (doesn't have the illicitness and guilt). In contrast, people who paid for something once in one format are less likely to repurchase it again in another format (and are more likely to pirate it).
Of course, as a single anecdote, this doesn't prove much.
I (would like to) believe it'll be pretty difficult to find anyone who actually thinks that infringing upon another's copyrighted work for profit is NOT wrong.
Make the same statement striking the word "copyrighted" and see what response you get. The public is so disenfranchised by copyright they don't know what the public domain is. Tell them of a PD work and they'll claim it's copyrighted by Disney.
If someone misrepresented a previously lost and unknown work of Beethoven as their own there would be outrage, profit made or not, even though the "infringed" work would be in the public domain, or even had the cheek to insert their own original work inside a performance of "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov ("ardie betgo indyo cefar oggel").
Would you prefer Open Mike?