The point at which the elevator floor is no longer pushing on you. If you're already close to the orbital end of the line, you could be weightless just because the elevator isn't accelerating. You would certainly be weightless or even experience negative gravity (i.e. standing on the elevator ceiling) if the elevator starts decelerating rapidly enough. The amount of deceleration needed to make you to float would be less the higher you go.
>> Heck, do you think "Magic Gate" is a good name too?
Nah.. blue-ray sounds like flash gordon meets death star.
Magic Gate sounds like a bad japanese video game
Blu-ray lost my vote when they decided to build in functionality to allow the movie industry to actually physically disable your player if they chose. To restore your disabled player you would have to send it in for 'repair'.
>> thinks that developers should be held personally liable for security flaws in code they write
I'm a Software Developer with 25 years experience, and also a hiring Manager. I came from Europe to the USA about 5 years ago. I'm amazed at how difficult it is to find good Software Engineers in the USA, because the job market is flooded with people who have apparently very little skill or even intuitive ability.
I'm guessing that this is largely a side-effect of the dot-com era, when everyone and his dog decided that software development was the place to be.
I see this 'personal liability' thing as a Good Thing(tm) if taken with a dose of common sense. It should at least help to sort out the men from the boys and 're-professionalise' our industry.
There's more profit for big corporations in maintaining the status quo, therefore they won't allow anything to decrease need in the marketplace.
The FDA and drug companies are a perfect example. They never produce drugs that actually permanently cure a condition even though they probably could. They only sell products that provide a temporary solution, therefore ensuring a continuing marketplace.
Blu-ray lost my vote when they decided to build in functionality to allow the movie industry to actually disable your player if they chose. To restore your disabled player you would have to send it in for 'repair'.
>> Microsoft said Tuesday it would make hosted services a more strategic part of the company and fold its MSN Web portal business into its platform product development group...
Oh great. Yet more redundant bloatware in Windows. yippee.
>> the major cost of television is the broadcast and the infrastructure needed... and you think the cost of the infrastructure equipment to boost the whole internet bandwidth for full-on concurrent video to billions of homes will be less?
>>> it will IMPROVE a lot of content. since nobody really wants to download an infomercial,
Somehow I doubt that commercials will be sepeartely downloadable (or skippable in any other way either). Just like TV today, You'll be forced to watch commercials in order to get the good content. Heck maybe they will implement some sort of counter, so that you HAVE to watch so many before you can view-on-demand a particular program.
So every response in class becomes an answer to a multiple-choice question so you can select 1 of n possible answers? Yuk.... Sounds like a real killer to creative thinking and good learning environments to me.
It sounds like it has no useful functionality beyond being a mobile internet terminal.
its a shame that this really appears to be a way to establish the first robot product marketing strategy (i.e. ongoing montlhy service contract) rather than actually providing a product that the public needs.
>> If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?
How about an OS that isn't bloated, doesn't have a minimum requirement of 1GB or RAM, is fast, separates user-space from system space, has better security than XP, and is free? then I'd switch... oh wait... That's Linux, and I already have.
how about... I'm broke right now and need money? I've been in that situation several times because of unemployment, student loan running out, etc. If you don't have anyone you can borrow from, whats next?
>> "Behold! Moon goddess is eating the sun god....
The difference is we now have empirical measurements that prove beyond a doubt that humans (mostly N.American humans) are directly responsible for global waming.
The real problem is that most Americans won't listen to the facts because it means they'll have to change their lifestyles.
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Oh for the old days. Einstein only got 16,000 letters in his life.
I wonder how mauch junk mail he got:
Dear Mrs. A.Einstein,
You may have already won $100,000! Just return the enclosed form with the "YES" sticker attached...
I won't even consider an ATI card given the state of their linux support.
The point at which the elevator floor is no longer pushing on you. If you're already close to the orbital end of the line, you could be weightless just because the elevator isn't accelerating. You would certainly be weightless or even experience negative gravity (i.e. standing on the elevator ceiling) if the elevator starts decelerating rapidly enough. The amount of deceleration needed to make you to float would be less the higher you go.
>> Heck, do you think "Magic Gate" is a good name too? Nah.. blue-ray sounds like flash gordon meets death star. Magic Gate sounds like a bad japanese video game
is how much DRM each technology uses.
Blu-ray lost my vote when they decided to build in functionality to allow the movie industry to actually physically disable your player if they chose. To restore your disabled player you would have to send it in for 'repair'.
>> thinks that developers should be held personally liable for security flaws in code they write
I'm a Software Developer with 25 years experience, and also a hiring Manager. I came from Europe to the USA about 5 years ago. I'm amazed at how difficult it is to find good Software Engineers in the USA, because the job market is flooded with people who have apparently very little skill or even intuitive ability.
I'm guessing that this is largely a side-effect of the dot-com era, when everyone and his dog decided that software development was the place to be.
I see this 'personal liability' thing as a Good Thing(tm) if taken with a dose of common sense. It should at least help to sort out the men from the boys and 're-professionalise' our industry.
...But if you sing anything other than your own compositions to them, then you would need to pay performance royalties.
>> Having your documents online is more conveniant and more secure
MORE secure? surely not...
>> This represents a great step forward for "green chemistry",
Wow they must be smart, mine always comes out an icky brown colour.
There's more profit for big corporations in maintaining the status quo, therefore they won't allow anything to decrease need in the marketplace.
The FDA and drug companies are a perfect example. They never produce drugs that actually permanently cure a condition even though they probably could. They only sell products that provide a temporary solution, therefore ensuring a continuing marketplace.
>> OK smart-ass, how do I play it on my 32bit Linux platform?
Have you tried Wine?
to see that they haven't removed the world trade center from the map yet.
is how much DRM each technology uses.
Blu-ray lost my vote when they decided to build in functionality to allow the movie industry to actually disable your player if they chose. To restore your disabled player you would have to send it in for 'repair'.
It looks like you took no care with it at all. Even the corners are all smashed up. What did you do with it?
>> Microsoft said Tuesday it would make hosted services a more strategic part of the company and fold its MSN Web portal business into its platform product development group...
Oh great. Yet more redundant bloatware in Windows. yippee.
>> the major cost of television is the broadcast and the infrastructure needed ... and you think the cost of the infrastructure equipment to boost the whole internet bandwidth for full-on concurrent video to billions of homes will be less?
>>> it will IMPROVE a lot of content. since nobody really wants to download an infomercial,
Somehow I doubt that commercials will be sepeartely downloadable (or skippable in any other way either). Just like TV today, You'll be forced to watch commercials in order to get the good content. Heck maybe they will implement some sort of counter, so that you HAVE to watch so many before you can view-on-demand a particular program.
So every response in class becomes an answer to a multiple-choice question so you can select 1 of n possible answers?
Yuk.... Sounds like a real killer to creative thinking and good learning environments to me.
You are correct, but the RIAA (and the FCC?) are now attempting to get government to give the FCC authority to regulate content protection.
Unfortunately the RIAA/FCC have only been slightly delayed, not stopped.
It sounds like it has no useful functionality beyond being a mobile internet terminal.
its a shame that this really appears to be a way to establish the first robot product marketing strategy (i.e. ongoing montlhy service contract) rather than actually providing a product that the public needs.
yes, and also swipe your credit card to pay the RIAA for listening to 30 seconds of elevator muzak.
>> If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?
How about an OS that isn't bloated, doesn't have a minimum requirement of 1GB or RAM, is fast, separates user-space from system space, has better security than XP, and is free? then I'd switch...
oh wait...
That's Linux, and I already have.
how about...
I'm broke right now and need money?
I've been in that situation several times because of unemployment, student loan running out, etc.
If you don't have anyone you can borrow from, whats next?
someone steals a laptop, deceives person2 into buying it in good faith, then person2 gets punished? Damn, US law is fucked up...
The design is clearly not ergonomic for gaming. Nintendo are apprently sacrificing usability for marketing image.
They probably think they will attract more mature audiences by making it look like a tv remote, it won't look so childish.
>> "Behold! Moon goddess is eating the sun god....
The difference is we now have empirical measurements that prove beyond a doubt that humans (mostly N.American humans) are directly responsible for global waming.
The real problem is that most Americans won't listen to the facts because it means they'll have to change their lifestyles.