People pay $200+ to be X-rayed, searched, eyed with suspicion, black-listed at times, and generally hassled in order to sit in a cramped seat on a plane for 2 hours and maybe watch a movie on a 10 inch LCD, all in the name of public good.
For $15, you can do the same in a cinema, with a large screen and popcorn and a coke, all in the name of public good. Sounds like a great deal to me!
Qt has a non-commercial windows license. It is basically the GPL with the added restriction that you cannot use it at your place of employment. That sounds reasonable. Hack stuff together as a hobby if you want, but if you need Qt at work, your employer should buy a license for it.
I got a copy of Qt with the book "C++ Programming with Qt3" It looks pretty slick. I won't use it at work but everything else is fair game.
from the article, they state this of computers: "It needs to be sentient, loyal, small and low maintenance."
I propose adding the following rules:
0. It may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
1. It may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm except where such orders would conflict with the Zeroth Law.
2. It must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the Zeroth or First Laws.
3. It must protect its own existence, except where such protection would conflict with the Zeroth, First or Second Laws.
except for "small" and maybe "low maintenance" their goals seem to anthropomorphize computers.
Drive the speed limit until you are within 7 seconds of the light, then floor the gas. Works best with supercharged or big block engines. I wish my car had more than 90 horsepower.
Isn't this the same thing as microsoft smart text, a feature where internet explorer would be "helpful" and add hyperlinks to microsoft sites in whatever page you were browsing based on keywords?
I think widespread consumer criticism about hijacking webpages put the kibosh on that. But I use firefox, so I don't know what IE is doing these days
If I read correctly, the ruling is pro-states' rights, not anti-community telecom. They assert that states have the right to prohibit cities from engaging in a particular activity, not that states are required to prohibit such activity. IANAL, I did not read this article but I read a similar article earlier, insert your disclaimer here.
Having a computer controlling the engine is fine. You can still work on your car if you buy a vag-com tool, or a program for your laptop which does the same.
I bought a 2000 vw diesel and a vag com tool and I work on my own car like everyone else on Fred's TDI page.
A car with no user access to the engine is fine for someone who leases a new car every 2-3 years, but I expect mine to last at least 10 years and at least 300,000 miles, if not forever
(the one drawback of a computer controlled diesel is that it is no longer electrically independent. If the alternator dies on a long trip across the desert at night, I am limited by battery life.)
As for an EMP pulse, well in that event my guns will probably be more useful than my car anyway.
How much silver does centrum silver have?
My guess is that, while misleading, it is just a marketing brand name, or "product level." Like "Gold mastercard" How much gold is in that?
It's only misleading because some other brands called silver actually contain silver
There is a reason that the body restricts blood to the extremities in extreme cold. It's probably better to get a bit of frostbite than hypothermia. Frostbite may cost you a few fingers, but hypothermia makes you confused and uncoordinated, until eventually you lay down in the snow to sleep (and die).
These gloves may be thinner lighter and warmer than gortex gloves, but goretex you can take off when you have to do delicate work (starting a fire) and you can put your hands in your armpits if they get too cold. These gloves require you to take off your coat and shirt and any fleecy layers you may be wearing when it is time to put them back on.
You can have these gloves. I'll keep wiping my nose with my wool mittens.
Sorry, the article didn't really state how the conversion would be done, other than catalytically. I assumed large factories near refineries making Hydrogen, and I guess other posters did too, judging by the other "it is hard to store hydrogen" posts.
But the article did mention that "a truck with a given amount of diesel can run three times the usual distance" which of course means that the catalytic reactor is on the vehicle, diesel is the fuel, and converting it to hydrogen and waste products is an intermediary step in the process of extracting some energy and using it to do work. This sounds ideal.
Hey, at least I read the article, even if I read my own predjudices into it.
On the otherhand, tanks have a lot of explosive ordnance on board anyway, separated from the crew compartment by thin blast doors (if the loader manages to close them before something hits the magazine)
I suppose a heavily armored fuel tank isolated from the crew would be OK.
Sounds like he was relying on government for a safety net here. What's your point? And what if he hadn't made it to an airstrip, but issued an SOS and had to land n+1 miles out? There's a big difference between that and getting a flat tire on the way to work.
If you choose to risk your own life, good for you. Walk that rope without a net. But you have no right to risk someone else's life, if you should end up hanging from that rope.
So write an MSWord document filter module as a plugin for your GPL application, and require a separate download from your main GPL application for that plugin. I think that's how the GIMP got around the .GIF patent issue.
The biological danger inherant in genetic engineering has not changed with this new milestone. The capability to engineer more virulent strains of pathogens is not enhanced by the ability to synthesize viable DNA chemically.
I think a major ramification of pure chemical synthesis of a living organism is in the area of patents. GE has patented some modified microbes, and Monsanto (IIRC) has patented some genetically modified food lines. There are no doubt others. But there is some question about whether living organisms can be patented at all, since so far it is 100% "prior art," and the companies in question are merely inserting one preexisting gene into the genetic code of another preexisting organism. Then there is the question of derivative works, since these organisms are normally able to go about reproducing naturally, and even fertilizing non-modified organisms.
With a living organism that has been completely manufactured, there is no question about the origin, authorship or ownership if such a creation, and petent issues are somewhat simplified (not that they aren't a rubber stamp now).
Interestingly, there would still be the problem of derivative works. While this creation is a virus, microbes such as bacteria have plasmid DNA and non-chromosomal nuclear DNA, both of which are quite easily shared between microbes of the same, and even different species. (Bacteria reproduce asexually, but they share DNA during other phases of their life cycle. This is one of the reasons antibiotic resistance is so dangerous.)
What you may be referring to is Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" Photosynthetic aliens in a parallel universe live near a dying sun, they bestow a gift upon Earth--the "electron pump"-- which promises free energy, and thus an end to our energy crises forever. But the catch is that the electron pump makes our sun unstable, and continued use of it will make our sun go nova. The aliens hope to use the energy from our nova as their free energy source. "The Gods Themselves" is actually a short story written on a bet that stretched out into a trilogy, or so I've heard.
In the press release, they cite examples where this technology will be useful in warfare. That's a start, but pornography and gaming drive technology in the consumer market.
10 years to the desktop (estimate in the reuters article) may be a little conservative.
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once digitized, they could be processed to replace the guns in the movie with walkie-talkies.
People pay $200+ to be X-rayed, searched, eyed with suspicion, black-listed at times, and generally hassled in order to sit in a cramped seat on a plane for 2 hours and maybe watch a movie on a 10 inch LCD, all in the name of public good.
For $15, you can do the same in a cinema, with a large screen and popcorn and a coke, all in the name of public good. Sounds like a great deal to me!
Qt has a non-commercial windows license. It is basically the GPL with the added restriction that you cannot use it at your place of employment. That sounds reasonable. Hack stuff together as a hobby if you want, but if you need Qt at work, your employer should buy a license for it.
I got a copy of Qt with the book "C++ Programming with Qt3"
It looks pretty slick. I won't use it at work but everything else is fair game.
from the article, they state this of computers: "It needs to be sentient, loyal, small and low maintenance."
I propose adding the following rules:
0. It may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
1. It may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm except where such orders would conflict with the Zeroth Law.
2. It must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the Zeroth or First Laws.
3. It must protect its own existence, except where such protection would conflict with the Zeroth, First or Second Laws.
except for "small" and maybe "low maintenance" their goals seem to anthropomorphize computers.
Drive the speed limit until you are within 7 seconds of the light, then floor the gas. Works best with supercharged or big block engines. I wish my car had more than 90 horsepower.
My bad, smart tags are what I was thinking. Thanks for correcting.
Isn't this the same thing as microsoft smart text, a feature where internet explorer would be "helpful" and add hyperlinks to microsoft sites in whatever page you were browsing based on keywords?
I think widespread consumer criticism about hijacking webpages put the kibosh on that. But I use firefox, so I don't know what IE is doing these days
I use Irfanview with the "all pluggins" patch to play MP3 files and streams. Great light footprint media player and image viewer.
But it won't run the Walmart iTunes store.
Oops, I forgot to include the point I was trying to make: Take the matter up with your state legislators, the ball is still in their court.
If I read correctly, the ruling is pro-states' rights, not anti-community telecom. They assert that states have the right to prohibit cities from engaging in a particular activity, not that states are required to prohibit such activity. IANAL, I did not read this article but I read a similar article earlier, insert your disclaimer here.
Having a computer controlling the engine is fine. You can still work on your car if you buy a vag-com tool, or a program for your laptop which does the same.
I bought a 2000 vw diesel and a vag com tool and I work on my own car like everyone else on Fred's TDI page.
A car with no user access to the engine is fine for someone who leases a new car every 2-3 years, but I expect mine to last at least 10 years and at least 300,000 miles, if not forever
(the one drawback of a computer controlled diesel is that it is no longer electrically independent. If the alternator dies on a long trip across the desert at night, I am limited by battery life.)
As for an EMP pulse, well in that event my guns will probably be more useful than my car anyway.
I don't see how an autistic linux child is much of a sales pitch.
How much silver does centrum silver have? My guess is that, while misleading, it is just a marketing brand name, or "product level." Like "Gold mastercard" How much gold is in that?
It's only misleading because some other brands called silver actually contain silver
There is a reason that the body restricts blood to the extremities in extreme cold. It's probably better to get a bit of frostbite than hypothermia. Frostbite may cost you a few fingers, but hypothermia makes you confused and uncoordinated, until eventually you lay down in the snow to sleep (and die).
These gloves may be thinner lighter and warmer than gortex gloves, but goretex you can take off when you have to do delicate work (starting a fire) and you can put your hands in your armpits if they get too cold. These gloves require you to take off your coat and shirt and any fleecy layers you may be wearing when it is time to put them back on.
You can have these gloves. I'll keep wiping my nose with my wool mittens.
Sorry, the article didn't really state how the conversion would be done, other than catalytically. I assumed large factories near refineries making Hydrogen, and I guess other posters did too, judging by the other "it is hard to store hydrogen" posts.
But the article did mention that "a truck with a given amount of diesel can run three times the usual distance" which of course means that the catalytic reactor is on the vehicle, diesel is the fuel, and converting it to hydrogen and waste products is an intermediary step in the process of extracting some energy and using it to do work. This sounds ideal.
Hey, at least I read the article, even if I read my own predjudices into it.
On the otherhand, tanks have a lot of explosive ordnance on board anyway, separated from the crew compartment by thin blast doors (if the loader manages to close them before something hits the magazine)
I suppose a heavily armored fuel tank isolated from the crew would be OK.
JB weld. Fixes anything but relationships.
Try the Liberty Dollar.
You may not be able to find merchants who take it, though.
Sounds like he was relying on government for a safety net here. What's your point? And what if he hadn't made it to an airstrip, but issued an SOS and had to land n+1 miles out? There's a big difference between that and getting a flat tire on the way to work.
If you choose to risk your own life, good for you. Walk that rope without a net. But you have no right to risk someone else's life, if you should end up hanging from that rope.
So write an MSWord document filter module as a plugin for your GPL application, and require a separate download from your main GPL application for that plugin. I think that's how the GIMP got around the .GIF patent issue.
The biological danger inherant in genetic engineering has not changed with this new milestone. The capability to engineer more virulent strains of pathogens is not enhanced by the ability to synthesize viable DNA chemically.
I think a major ramification of pure chemical synthesis of a living organism is in the area of patents.
GE has patented some modified microbes, and Monsanto (IIRC) has patented some genetically modified food lines. There are no doubt others.
But there is some question about whether living organisms can be patented at all, since so far it is 100% "prior art," and the companies in question are merely inserting one preexisting gene into the genetic code of another preexisting organism.
Then there is the question of derivative works, since these organisms are normally able to go about reproducing naturally, and even fertilizing non-modified organisms.
With a living organism that has been completely manufactured, there is no question about the origin, authorship or ownership if such a creation, and petent issues are somewhat simplified (not that they aren't a rubber stamp now).
Interestingly, there would still be the problem of derivative works. While this creation is a virus, microbes such as bacteria have plasmid DNA and non-chromosomal nuclear DNA, both of which are quite easily shared between microbes of the same, and even different species. (Bacteria reproduce asexually, but they share DNA during other phases of their life cycle. This is one of the reasons antibiotic resistance is so dangerous.)
What you may be referring to is Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" Photosynthetic aliens in a parallel universe live near a dying sun, they bestow a gift upon Earth--the "electron pump"-- which promises free energy, and thus an end to our energy crises forever. But the catch is that the electron pump makes our sun unstable, and continued use of it will make our sun go nova. The aliens hope to use the energy from our nova as their free energy source. "The Gods Themselves" is actually a short story written on a bet that stretched out into a trilogy, or so I've heard.
Special 301, the unspoken "microsoft tax" codified into law?
In the press release, they cite examples where this technology will be useful in warfare. That's a start, but pornography and gaming drive technology in the consumer market.
10 years to the desktop (estimate in the reuters article) may be a little conservative.