Really? "No-question legal?" I'll bet the MPAA, for example, will disagree with you. Lets try a movie version of your idea. Why not take your camcorder to the nearest movie theater or rip a DVD and use snippets of the film alongside a thoughtful review?
Filming a movie you're seeing in a movie theater is specifically prohibited by law, not related (legally) to copyright law.
Ignoring that triviality, have you ever seen an actual movie review show? Using "snippets of the film alongside a thoughtful review" is exactly what they do. What on earth would make you think it's illegal?
Note that (whatever other considerations you might have about such deployment), the Rules of Robotics that some readers have linked to don't really apply to remote-controlled drones, which is what these are.
Uh, more like note that the "Rules of Robotics" don't apply in real life.
Sorry, all the non-nice Scandanavian genes exported themselves elsewhere, or got themselves killed off, during the Viking years. All they've got left is "Bork bork bork, would you like to walk all over me?"
If you could create a wave, with the same wavefront, pi radians (180 degrees) out of phase with the original it would cancel it out. I have no idea how practical it is to do that.
You don't? No idea at all? No idea how "practical" it would be, with mere hours warning, to create a tsunami? Actually, a mega-tsunami the likes of which haven't been seen? And to have it perfectly out of phase with another mega-tsunami? Which is a three-dimensional object expanding in every direction across the surface of the earth, not merely a flat waveform like you see in your stupid little WAV file player?
Back in my day we didn't have a Ctrl key. You had to hold down C-T-R-L all at the same time as the the A, the X, and the V. Then you had to run the deck and check back with operator in a few hours to see your paste ran ok.
Ah, the good old days. To copy, you had to hold down C twice as hard as you were holding down T, R, and L.
I call shenanigans. If there's a 1 in 455 chance that humanity will be wiped out in a given century, then there's a 454 in 455 chance that it will not. And humanity has been around for approximately two million years, which is 200,000 centuries.
That works out to a chance of less than 1 in ten to the 191st power that we would have survived up till now. Give or take, one in a google googles. Inconceivable.
Even if you consider only the relatively recent Homo Sapiens, rather than the whole Homo genus, there's only about a one percent chance that we would've made it this far.
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Really? "No-question legal?" I'll bet the MPAA, for example, will disagree with you. Lets try a movie version of your idea. Why not take your camcorder to the nearest movie theater or rip a DVD and use snippets of the film alongside a thoughtful review?
Filming a movie you're seeing in a movie theater is specifically prohibited by law, not related (legally) to copyright law.
Ignoring that triviality, have you ever seen an actual movie review show? Using "snippets of the film alongside a thoughtful review" is exactly what they do. What on earth would make you think it's illegal?
Spoken like a Slashdot nerd who has never actually encountered a real woman.
More accurately:
Men forget but never forgive.
Women pretend to forgive but neither forgive nor forget.
Yeah, you just go on thinking that. I'm sure it boosts your self-esteem, so that's just super. And it's so cute.
Note that (whatever other considerations you might have about such deployment), the Rules of Robotics that some readers have linked to don't really apply to remote-controlled drones, which is what these are.
Uh, more like note that the "Rules of Robotics" don't apply in real life.
I sought out the help of an ART (active release therapy) specialist, a chiropractor. She's helping me to get better.
Yeah, the pseudoscientist is helping you get better.
Or maybe it's the fact that time is passing.
Believe me, you get used to it really quickly. It's great.
It's a basic fact that programmers make x number of errors per line of code.
In your case, x seems to be 2/3.
(1) No space between the line number and its statement.
(2) "print GOTO 10"?
How does XML help "get rid of the mixture of whitespace conventions in grown code"?
After all, this:
<x>
<y><z>
</z>
</y> </x>
is just as well-formed XML as is:
<x>
<y>
<z>
</z>
</y>
</x>
Don't certain crappy HTML-producing languages, for example CFML, already operate this way?
For example (and yes, I've forgotten my crappy CFML syntax, so this is pseudo-crappy CFML (as opposed to crappy pseudo-CFML)),
<CF-FOR INDEX="I" START="0" END="5" STEP="1">
<CF-PRINT>%I%</CF-PRINT>
<CF-IF CONDITION="I=3">
<CF-PRINT>Aw yeah, baby, three!</CF-PRINT>
</CF-IF>
</CF-FOR>
And, to expand upon my question from my subject:
Aren't they already here? And aren't they already crappy?
BSD makes a lousy desktop.
I assume you mean relative to Linux. If so, in what way?
Is Gnome on BSD different than Gnome on Linux? KDE? XFCE? Any number of other WMs or DEs?
If so, how so? If not, what are you talking about?
Except Lindsay Lohan.
I rennamed a textfile something like claria.exe and that thing started screaming immediately that bad people were trying to take over my life.
Wow, how horrible. I can't imagine how annoying and dangerous that would be for me, given how often I rename text files to claria.exe.
Sorry, all the non-nice Scandanavian genes exported themselves elsewhere, or got themselves killed off, during the Viking years. All they've got left is "Bork bork bork, would you like to walk all over me?"
I flip the page in the spec for the new project, and am confronted with an utterly bizarre diagram.
"Can someone explain how this is supposed to be interpreted, please?"
"It's UML!"
"Okay... can someone explain how this is supposed to be interpreted, please?"
"It's UML!"
"Okay... and it is better than a simple flowchart why?"
"It's UML!"
"Okay... and it is better than a simple flowchart why?"
"It's UML!"
"Okay."
Grab the Pimsleur materials mentioned in the article off any fileshare network
Or legally purchase them.
I'll be able to say "Killing Spree!" in French in no time!
I learned english that way when I was a kid. Reading D&D manuals
"Excusing me, sir... I am... lost? I would like to... how you say... make saving throw?"
Blessed are the sarcastic, for they... ah, whatever.
If you could create a wave, with the same wavefront, pi radians (180 degrees) out of phase with the original it would cancel it out. I have no idea how practical it is to do that.
You don't? No idea at all? No idea how "practical" it would be, with mere hours warning, to create a tsunami? Actually, a mega-tsunami the likes of which haven't been seen? And to have it perfectly out of phase with another mega-tsunami? Which is a three-dimensional object expanding in every direction across the surface of the earth, not merely a flat waveform like you see in your stupid little WAV file player?
No idea at all how practical that would be?
Here, I'll give you a hint:
Are you familiar with the word "not"?
this is all mother natures way of saying 'get off my planet'. she's pissed, we're hurting her.
so how many dead from just the initial tsunami strike. 70k now?
Not to be flippant, but if killing off 0.0012 percent of us is the best Mother Nature can do, she'd damn well better get used to us.
Were you asleep during 7th grade history class? Archimedes predatd the Roman Empire; he was around during the time of the Roman Republic.
Once Hebrews and Arabs learn to get along with each other, then maybe this bug will be fixed. Consider it incentive.
Back in my day we didn't have a Ctrl key. You had to hold down C-T-R-L all at the same time as the the A, the X, and the V. Then you had to run the deck and check back with operator in a few hours to see your paste ran ok.
Ah, the good old days. To copy, you had to hold down C twice as hard as you were holding down T, R, and L.
Whoops - 20,000 centuries, not 200,000. That works out to a whopping one in thirteen quintillion chance that we would've made it this far.
I call shenanigans. If there's a 1 in 455 chance that humanity will be wiped out in a given century, then there's a 454 in 455 chance that it will not. And humanity has been around for approximately two million years, which is 200,000 centuries.
That works out to a chance of less than 1 in ten to the 191st power that we would have survived up till now. Give or take, one in a google googles. Inconceivable.
Even if you consider only the relatively recent Homo Sapiens, rather than the whole Homo genus, there's only about a one percent chance that we would've made it this far.