like the article says it's not a new material, its just a new process for packing molecules tighter. the problem i see for using it in implants is that the substrate could potentially be removed from the surface it's coating, and get stuck somewhere. i don't believe this is really frictionless in the classical sense, just very very smooth. this is definately something worth researching though.
its not really the material thats innovative, its the process. the material thats 'frictionless' is just a normal non stick surfac (teflon) the difference is that the molecules are packed tighter because the substrate is stretched before the non stick coating is added (the innovation). to remove it from a surface you would remove the subrate from whatever it's attached to. to break it down you would do whatever they do to teflon currently.
well that would assume two tape drives. which of course is also possible. i agree. this could be good. we just have to figure out how to keep vapster from getting sued.
i don't at all see the logic that proves that large size prevents copying. just because it's uncompressed on the tape doesn't mean you couldn't compress the data after copying. how long will it be until we all have 75GB hard drives? not very long. how much would a box designed to do exactly that (copy, compress, and store on another tape) cost in 5 years? not very much. this is the same stupidly shortsighted vision that got us all mp3s. i hope they actually go through with. there really will be a rush once everybody realizes you can copy them. won't last long though (until the hdmi group watermarks all the tapes)!
aside from the complaints of people who want to look at art with 'obscene' stuff there are some other more practical problems. psychiatrists couldn't research any sex fetishes they might find. what if there is a serial killer on the lose who is a necrophiliac? theoretically police could get information on similar crimes in other states via the internet, but i guess they have other means of getting this information. it does say lewd exhibition of nudity, so theoretically doctors ought to be ok, except for psyciatrists reading about coprophiliacs. also you couldn't do any legitimate research into sex at all. i think you could do research on animal mating because the law seems to provide access to materials depicting bestiality which according to the dictionary is human-lower animal sex, even though i suppose there are people out there who like to watch elephants hump. anyway this isn't really that big of a tread on the first amendment rights of state employees seeing as how the first amendment really doesn't apply as much as people might think.
i think he wants to know which one lets him troll slashdot fastest and lets him get the most first posts.
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well it's not a troll. i honestly believe it. as for progress, i don't know that i really believe that the point is to make things better for everybody. and the blending of culture in america is more give up your culture, join our non culture. the civil rights movement was a great thing but it's being fought tooth and nail, and i don't think its that farfetched that the government reverts to overtly racist and discriminatory policies.
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i don't know what you are complaining about. this is the way it always has been and always will be. all you can do is get the most money and power you can and use it to make yourself happy. because nothing else matter's, and there's no 'greater good' and we aren't headed to some sort utopian society where things like thinking for yourself and being intelligent are as important as looking good and being 'nice'.
err actually ppc's are used in lots of other places where they are really the best processor there is. just not pc's. because they are expensive. has nothing to do with motorola. they aren't going to make them cheaper to sell more because they wouldn't sell enough more.
i guess i would just prefer as few as possible non cops to be armed. and i prefer nobody to be able to buy a gun at a pawn shop for 5 bucks so they can shoot me because i play my music too loud or something. why should buying a gun be easier than buying a car?
i want the government to tell other people how to think and act, and, most importantly, how to spend their money. i'd love a nice government enforced monopoly.
and they shouldn't expect to. just be honest in the policy statement, you have the right to monitor computer, email, phone usage, and they should know that you have the ability.
umm what if you're cancer is curable but the hospital won't provide a cure because there's so much overhead that they won't really make enough profit, whereas plastic surgery is cheap but highly profitable? do you really think anybody who believes in any sort of government health care plan (not even something that everybody has to have) is a whiny liberal? is somebody's life worthless just because they are poor? the working poor contribute to the economy also you know, and it is most likely possible to calculate somebody's economic value. should you not even provide health care to people that covers at least their economic value?
guns aren't dangerous, except for when a half crazy stressed out jackass gets hold of an automatic (or semi automatic) and shoots up his workplace. fortunately that only happens in states where there are no conceal and carry laws since those deter crime.
i can think of some who might not be considered great by you but are close enough, but they still end up not achieving what they could, dragged down by a society that discourages people from believing themselves and doesn't give the resources to people who could do something good with it (but funds lamestartup.com)
the people that wrote those editors were not trying to make up for the lack of 'consumer apps' and the people putting the distros together were most likely not either. i don't think the distributions are really aiming for the windows market yet.
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like the article says it's not a new material, its just a new process for packing molecules tighter. the problem i see for using it in implants is that the substrate could potentially be removed from the surface it's coating, and get stuck somewhere. i don't believe this is really frictionless in the classical sense, just very very smooth. this is definately something worth researching though.
its not really the material thats innovative, its the process. the material thats 'frictionless' is just a normal non stick surfac (teflon) the difference is that the molecules are packed tighter because the substrate is stretched before the non stick coating is added (the innovation). to remove it from a surface you would remove the subrate from whatever it's attached to. to break it down you would do whatever they do to teflon currently.
ok i'm being lazy but is the idvd menuing stuff open at all? it sounds like a great place to have a standard.
well that would assume two tape drives. which of course is also possible. i agree. this could be good. we just have to figure out how to keep vapster from getting sued.
"Wasn't XML supposed to allow us to build this stuff without plugins and stuff?"
no. xml is a standard. it's up to users to adopt it.
after the contract is signed?
apparently slashdot is predicting the future-"It's been -2756 seconds since your last submission!"
i don't at all see the logic that proves that large size prevents copying. just because it's uncompressed on the tape doesn't mean you couldn't compress the data after copying. how long will it be until we all have 75GB hard drives? not very long. how much would a box designed to do exactly that (copy, compress, and store on another tape) cost in 5 years? not very much. this is the same stupidly shortsighted vision that got us all mp3s. i hope they actually go through with. there really will be a rush once everybody realizes you can copy them. won't last long though (until the hdmi group watermarks all the tapes)!
oops meant deny access to materials depicting bestiality
aside from the complaints of people who want to look at art with 'obscene' stuff there are some other more practical problems. psychiatrists couldn't research any sex fetishes they might find. what if there is a serial killer on the lose who is a necrophiliac? theoretically police could get information on similar crimes in other states via the internet, but i guess they have other means of getting this information. it does say lewd exhibition of nudity, so theoretically doctors ought to be ok, except for psyciatrists reading about coprophiliacs. also you couldn't do any legitimate research into sex at all. i think you could do research on animal mating because the law seems to provide access to materials depicting bestiality which according to the dictionary is human-lower animal sex, even though i suppose there are people out there who like to watch elephants hump. anyway this isn't really that big of a tread on the first amendment rights of state employees seeing as how the first amendment really doesn't apply as much as people might think.
i think he wants to know which one lets him troll slashdot fastest and lets him get the most first posts.
well it's not a troll. i honestly believe it. as for progress, i don't know that i really believe that the point is to make things better for everybody. and the blending of culture in america is more give up your culture, join our non culture. the civil rights movement was a great thing but it's being fought tooth and nail, and i don't think its that farfetched that the government reverts to overtly racist and discriminatory policies.
i don't know what you are complaining about. this is the way it always has been and always will be. all you can do is get the most money and power you can and use it to make yourself happy. because nothing else matter's, and there's no 'greater good' and we aren't headed to some sort utopian society where things like thinking for yourself and being intelligent are as important as looking good and being 'nice'.
there was a typo in line 3, i think you meant sun hardware, running solaris.
you're welcome.
err actually ppc's are used in lots of other places where they are really the best processor there is. just not pc's. because they are expensive. has nothing to do with motorola. they aren't going to make them cheaper to sell more because they wouldn't sell enough more.
i guess i would just prefer as few as possible non cops to be armed. and i prefer nobody to be able to buy a gun at a pawn shop for 5 bucks so they can shoot me because i play my music too loud or something. why should buying a gun be easier than buying a car?
i want the government to tell other people how to think and act, and, most importantly, how to spend their money. i'd love a nice government enforced monopoly.
and they shouldn't expect to. just be honest in the policy statement, you have the right to monitor computer, email, phone usage, and they should know that you have the ability.
or increased it
the US media was obviously biased in favor of w.
umm what if you're cancer is curable but the hospital won't provide a cure because there's so much overhead that they won't really make enough profit, whereas plastic surgery is cheap but highly profitable? do you really think anybody who believes in any sort of government health care plan (not even something that everybody has to have) is a whiny liberal? is somebody's life worthless just because they are poor? the working poor contribute to the economy also you know, and it is most likely possible to calculate somebody's economic value. should you not even provide health care to people that covers at least their economic value?
guns aren't dangerous, except for when a half crazy stressed out jackass gets hold of an automatic (or semi automatic) and shoots up his workplace. fortunately that only happens in states where there are no conceal and carry laws since those deter crime.
i can think of some who might not be considered great by you but are close enough, but they still end up not achieving what they could, dragged down by a society that discourages people from believing themselves and doesn't give the resources to people who could do something good with it (but funds lamestartup.com)
your education doesn't matter after you get your first job.
you can start off poor and still have more intelligence than somebody who starts off rich. you can't have more computer though.
the people that wrote those editors were not trying to make up for the lack of 'consumer apps' and the people putting the distros together were most likely not either. i don't think the distributions are really aiming for the windows market yet.