The only equipment that I could see making good use of scent are 3D simulation games, or army/intel training games. Teaching people how to pay attention to everything around them, including smells.
For games, I can only imagine this being part of a deeply immersive experience, although that would require much better screen resolutions, probably some 10 years off.
The "legal" download services require you to use an unsafe browser, and you don't even own the songs in a format you can use anywhere.
Until the companies offer a good deal for consumers, it's tempting to use free services like Kazaa. However these services have a lot of problems: they install "spyware" and often crash computers. If you download such programs, you are asking for trouble.
There is however one legal way of getting music: copy your friends CDs. I have a whole bunch of them you can borrow so you can make copies for personal use.
If this is useful for you, feel free to use it. If enough of us geeks send this type of message to those we support, the corporate pachiderms might eventually get it. And if one day one of those companies lets us download mp3s with a standards-compliant browser, we should recommend everyone use that service. Until then, I'm not buying Cds.
Madrid and Bercelona are alaready online, and most buildings have multiple views.
As does Paris, and perhaps more cities in France. Check out "Les Pages Jaunes" (yellow pages). They have mapquest type maps, and photos- you can use my old address (Paris, 35 lacordaire, try "resto")
That's exactly what I'm finding too. There are simply so many ways to misspell words that these filters are ineffective.
This may simply create another round of technological escalation, but... if you search Google for "v!agra", it will ask you if you meant "viagra". That's not really difficult to implement.
SO- If instead of storing "v!agra" in the filter we stored say, $typo$__viagra or some such thing, we might get filters working well like before.
Likely someone has already implemented this somewhere, but if so I haven't heard of it:(
I think that is exactly what their leadership wants. The idea that outsiders' cell phones won't work there -- and their citizens' cell phones won't work elsewhere -- has great appeal to a totalitarian government.
Good point. It reminds me of a recent article (Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq). I guess all regimes that rule by force are threatened by the free flow of information...
The only reason I started with MySQL instead of PG was because of the windows installer, or more specifically PHPTriad.
After mucking around in Oracle and PL/SQL for a year and reading about db normalization, going back to PHP was fairly traumatic. There's no way you can build enterprise-scale apps with that toy. No sub-selects or transaction support? Eek!
I'm eagerly waiting for PG's native windows install, and re-writing all my queries to standard SQL, erasing hundreds of line of code that hacked around MySQL's lack of features.
Anyhow, main reason I wanted to respond- I did no know or think to find out what the license was for PG's client libraries. You just gave me another reason to switch, and one that can be convincing to management. Thanks!:)
The sound power level from a single wind turbine is usually between 90 and 100 dB(A). This creates a sound pressure level of 50-60 dB(A) at a distance of 40 metres from the turbine, ie. about the same level as conversational speech. At a house 500 metres away, the equivalent sound pressure level would be 25-35 dB(A) when the wind is blowing from the turbine towards the house. Ten such wind turbines, all at a distance of 500 metres would create a noise level of 35-45 dB(A) under the same conditions.
If the reality of global warming is so grave -and I believe it is- we need solutions that can be deployed much faster than your average nuclear plant.
You can put up a Wind turbine in 2 years, including 1 year to determine the area's potential. Add planning and siting for a nuclear plant, and you're looking at least 5 years.
Not only that, it will take a bit longer for each solution to be energy positive. To build and transport anything, you need energy... and IIRC, a nuclear plant has to produce for at least a year before producing as much as was needed to build it and mine the uranium. Even assuming 2 years for a wind turbine, it's producing energy before the nuclear plant is even built.
So call me a crank, but notice that Lovelock has been opposed to wind energy because it just ain't pretty, and is a notorious flake that posits the Earth as a self-aware and self-healing organism (getting rid of us pests). Occam's razor, anyone?
The most mind-boggling part of this debate, of course, is that there are much faster ways to reduce our energy consumption than we can produce more. A compact fluorescent lightbulb is a cliche example, but you can reduce energy consumption by 75%, with a payback of less than 1 year. Just like you would pay off your debts starting with the highest-interest bearing credit cards, if you want to find the cheapest way to balance energy consumption you start with the 100% return investments (lightbulbs) before the 5-6% ones (nuclear plants).
If you understand global climate change to be a serious problem, start with conservation. And please, help discredit these green scientists that are neither green nor scientists.
Wow, the OP compared global warming to nazis, thus invoking Godwin's law before the discussion even started.
I have no choice but to declare this thread officially closed...
Except if you actually invoke it, since that contradicts it.
In any case, the rather amusing fact of the matter is that we haven't really uprooted the evil we were figthing during WW2: in many ways, we became more like it. With the same excuses -fighting terrorists and protecting minorities- the world's leaders are committing the same crimes: the ultimate crime of starting wars without just cause.
I wouldn't expect anything less nonsensical from such a notorious flake as Lovelock, whose Gaia theory has about as much to do with science as Occam has to shaving. Oh well...
And conveniently, they also have a sender that is likely on your white list...
More sophisticated analysis could also yield useful info (likely gender of the sender based on words and sentence structure; keywords to indicate interests).
We really have no way of knowing what the outcome of the present world political situation will be, whether it results in complete US global supremacy, whether China will take over,
We can't know for sure, but one thing is certain: US hegemony it won't be. Sun-Tzu makes it clear that not understanding your enemy leads to certain defeat. Seeing how the US has precious little clue what the rest of the world thinks, the outcome should be obvious.
You see, corporations don't WANT you to be able to access data easily. One of the major driving factors of the current web is advertising. Basically, this is something none of us want to see, but with web pages it's easy to try and force us to see it. Properly annotated data would kill advertising as we know it, something the corporations will not let happen.
And corporations are going to stop people annotating data... how?
They may use FUD attacks, denounce you as a terrorist or what have you, but it's way to sweeping to say that they just won't let it happen. Corporations are mostly nasty bureacracies, but they are not omniscient or omnipotent. Let's not be afraid:)
Now, now, that's not very nice. How about we make a deal? We assume CNN, CBS and other biased institutions are not representative of your intelligence or credulity, and you assume that the Globe and Mail is just a Canadian media, not representative of all of us Canucks.
Wind and terrestrial solar are the way to go for renewable power generation. They are tiny, but growing at over 30% a year with no end in sight.
In my small province of Nova Scotia, we also have some tidal energy and hydro. Biofuel production is also underway from fish waste.
Of course the most cost-effective way to deal with energy is to find ways to use less for the same effect.
Planting shade trees to use less air conditionning, using compact fluorescent bulbs or new LEDs, solar hot water heaters, LCD monitors instead of CRTs, efficient apppliances, etc...
So, basically, all these discussions about whether we have or will soon pass "peak oil" are irrelevant. New energy sources are coming along, and we still haven't tapped the potential for efficiency.
Several companies hire people in low-wage countries like mexico and have them produce EQ platnium. This in-game money is sold for real money on auction sites.
Reading the article blurb, I was wondering how long that would take, but I guess we already have virtual gladiators.
Yeah, except that the French government outright told the US that while the two are allies, France has an active scientific/technical espionage program.
Some high-profile French companies lost contracts to Americans after being spied on. The French telling the US that they are spying should be interpreted as "Well, if you think you can do that to us, we will do it to you too."
And the French didn't have anything as ambitious as Echelon...
That said, I think both countries actions are shameful, and I hope smaller countries do what they need to do to protect themselves from both.
The problem is that anyone could come up with thousands of figures instead of only one number they believe it is going to be the price. This would not help in getting some good statistic numbers.
You'll still see a distinct pattern when you plot the data. Probably not a bell-curve, but if you know what kind of pattern to expect for this type of data, you can eliminate background noise fairly easily.
Cowardly troll! Just because it's politically correct to think all these wars are bad, we must remember it was a good and noble war against an enemy that disregarded the authority of the League of Nations. Officially using the pretext of humanitarian intervention and seeking to protect itself against terrorists, it led a campaign for unchallenged world domination, including control of resources.
A regime so authoritarian that it created attacks against itself to justify intervening against minorities and other states. A regime of such unspeakable evil that even its willing executioners smiled while butchering their victims.
I mean, seriously... call these terrorists what you want, they're definitely smart and resourceful. They knew enough about American society and culture to select very traumatizing targets.
We should assume that they will find whatever is of interest to them, and that security through obscurity is bound to fail. Given that, geospatial information should be free so citizens can point out weaknesses to the government.
In terms of cost for security... I recently asked for geospatial information from my city, and they would not give it to me for free (councillor district maps- not exactly a privacy or terrorism risk!). States where they have a more liberal policy towards sharing this information have often developed thriving GIS sectors. The cost of secrecy will be reduced competitiveness, as another country could take over in the lucrative GIS market.
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The only equipment that I could see making good use of scent are 3D simulation games, or army/intel training games. Teaching people how to pay attention to everything around them, including smells.
For games, I can only imagine this being part of a deeply immersive experience, although that would require much better screen resolutions, probably some 10 years off.
Until then, this is going to stay a niche thing
If this is useful for you, feel free to use it. If enough of us geeks send this type of message to those we support, the corporate pachiderms might eventually get it. And if one day one of those companies lets us download mp3s with a standards-compliant browser, we should recommend everyone use that service. Until then, I'm not buying Cds.
That's exactly what I'm finding too. There are simply so many ways to misspell words that these filters are ineffective.
:(
This may simply create another round of technological escalation, but... if you search Google for "v!agra", it will ask you if you meant "viagra". That's not really difficult to implement.
SO- If instead of storing "v!agra" in the filter we stored say, $typo$__viagra or some such thing, we might get filters working well like before.
Likely someone has already implemented this somewhere, but if so I haven't heard of it
The only reason I started with MySQL instead of PG was because of the windows installer, or more specifically PHPTriad.
:)
After mucking around in Oracle and PL/SQL for a year and reading about db normalization, going back to PHP was fairly traumatic. There's no way you can build enterprise-scale apps with that toy. No sub-selects or transaction support? Eek!
I'm eagerly waiting for PG's native windows install, and re-writing all my queries to standard SQL, erasing hundreds of line of code that hacked around MySQL's lack of features.
Anyhow, main reason I wanted to respond- I did no know or think to find out what the license was for PG's client libraries. You just gave me another reason to switch, and one that can be convincing to management. Thanks!
1- I'd rather have to deal with some noise than radioactive waste for the next million years.
2- Newer turbines are much quieter. There's no way you could hear them 15 miles downwind:3- Many turbines are being built off-shore
If the reality of global warming is so grave -and I believe it is- we need solutions that can be deployed much faster than your average nuclear plant.
You can put up a Wind turbine in 2 years, including 1 year to determine the area's potential. Add planning and siting for a nuclear plant, and you're looking at least 5 years.
Not only that, it will take a bit longer for each solution to be energy positive. To build and transport anything, you need energy... and IIRC, a nuclear plant has to produce for at least a year before producing as much as was needed to build it and mine the uranium. Even assuming 2 years for a wind turbine, it's producing energy before the nuclear plant is even built.
So call me a crank, but notice that Lovelock has been opposed to wind energy because it just ain't pretty, and is a notorious flake that posits the Earth as a self-aware and self-healing organism (getting rid of us pests). Occam's razor, anyone?
The most mind-boggling part of this debate, of course, is that there are much faster ways to reduce our energy consumption than we can produce more. A compact fluorescent lightbulb is a cliche example, but you can reduce energy consumption by 75%, with a payback of less than 1 year. Just like you would pay off your debts starting with the highest-interest bearing credit cards, if you want to find the cheapest way to balance energy consumption you start with the 100% return investments (lightbulbs) before the 5-6% ones (nuclear plants).
If you understand global climate change to be a serious problem, start with conservation. And please, help discredit these green scientists that are neither green nor scientists.
In any case, the rather amusing fact of the matter is that we haven't really uprooted the evil we were figthing during WW2: in many ways, we became more like it. With the same excuses -fighting terrorists and protecting minorities- the world's leaders are committing the same crimes: the ultimate crime of starting wars without just cause.
I wouldn't expect anything less nonsensical from such a notorious flake as Lovelock, whose Gaia theory has about as much to do with science as Occam has to shaving. Oh well...
And conveniently, they also have a sender that is likely on your white list...
More sophisticated analysis could also yield useful info (likely gender of the sender based on words and sentence structure; keywords to indicate interests).
Seeing as how the person who did this first works for SCO, should I be concerned if I want to copy his idea? :)
Though seeing as how he lets people use it at the burning man festival, he doesn't quite seem like the type to do that... sounds like a very neat guy.
They may use FUD attacks, denounce you as a terrorist or what have you, but it's way to sweeping to say that they just won't let it happen. Corporations are mostly nasty bureacracies, but they are not omniscient or omnipotent. Let's not be afraid
Deal?
Wind and terrestrial solar are the way to go for renewable power generation. They are tiny, but growing at over 30% a year with no end in sight.
In my small province of Nova Scotia, we also have some tidal energy and hydro. Biofuel production is also underway from fish waste.
Of course the most cost-effective way to deal with energy is to find ways to use less for the same effect.
Planting shade trees to use less air conditionning, using compact fluorescent bulbs or new LEDs, solar hot water heaters, LCD monitors instead of CRTs, efficient apppliances, etc...
So, basically, all these discussions about whether we have or will soon pass "peak oil" are irrelevant. New energy sources are coming along, and we still haven't tapped the potential for efficiency.
Well, the mods thought it flamebait, but I found it funny...
And the French didn't have anything as ambitious as Echelon...
That said, I think both countries actions are shameful, and I hope smaller countries do what they need to do to protect themselves from both.
Why should he care? He's just trying to figure out what a large number of people are willing to pay for Google shares, so he can game the auction.
I'm not keen to lug an extra 30 pounds (compared to a conventional, human-powered two-wheeler), especially if most of that is a lead battery...
Could this be an area where fuel-cells make sense?
A regime so authoritarian that it created attacks against itself to justify intervening against minorities and other states. A regime of such unspeakable evil that even its willing executioners smiled while butchering their victims.
I mean, seriously... call these terrorists what you want, they're definitely smart and resourceful. They knew enough about American society and culture to select very traumatizing targets.
We should assume that they will find whatever is of interest to them, and that security through obscurity is bound to fail. Given that, geospatial information should be free so citizens can point out weaknesses to the government.
In terms of cost for security... I recently asked for geospatial information from my city, and they would not give it to me for free (councillor district maps- not exactly a privacy or terrorism risk!). States where they have a more liberal policy towards sharing this information have often developed thriving GIS sectors. The cost of secrecy will be reduced competitiveness, as another country could take over in the lucrative GIS market.
This could actually be great news.
All those currently having a moral panic over kiddie porn might switch some of their energies to those companies peddling malware.
Oh, and companies like Microsoft that allow those things to be installed.