All we know about human behaviour, and I mean the non-rational part of us, the part which has sentiments and some morality and/or some sense of ownership or territorial defence, well this part is the one that makes us cling to everything we own, makes us attached to that old pair of shoes, makes us feel affection for that old beige box on the desktop.
That's why we'll see more customization kits, swappable cases and GUI skins for portable phones, and disposable phones will probably fail.
I see it this way: You create/invent something useful/recreational. You get paid in vouchers, for a total value that is determined by the rest of the population, in exchange for them to use/benefit from it freely. If you're skilled enough, you can make a living and even get rich (imagine the number of people who'd attribute their vouchers to Linus Torvalds and other Linux contributors).
Makes sense to me, do I misunderstand something ? It only needs some mechanism to block everyone from using the voucher on themselves (voucher exchange with the neighbour ?), I think this is what Dean Baker means by making people eligible when they contribute to the public domain.
What about putting more than one name on the voucher ? Then the value gets divided upon them. With nowadays information system this could be implemented without too much of a cost (hopefully).
I understand how this would work for independant artists contributing to the public domain, but what about all the others, who are bound by exclusive contracts (if not worse - *cough*workforhire*cough*) ?
I suggest the system gets extended to them, except that the money would then come from the majors, instead of tax returns from the Government.
Before you complain, yes, I know the RIAA will fight this to the death...
That's why we need to colonize Mars. Robert Zubrin has calculated that it would cost 15 times less to establish a base on Mars and start mining the asteroid belt from there, than to do it from the Earth or the Moon.
He also thinks that it would establish a triangle trade between Erth, Mars and Asteroids, much like the triangle trade between the Indies, the New World and Europe a few centuries ago, which would fund the terraformation of Mars.
I think it's the other way around: instead of bringing an avatar of your hand into the abstract representation in the computer's screen (mouse pointer), it's the computer's data that will have avatars in your world.
The demonstration video in the article shows Audiopad, among other things. It is the very same MIT people that are working on AudioPad and the SenseTable.
The Lunar Computer will only give you US times. BTW only the Northern East Coast will get totality. You should be able to see the full eclipse from anywhere in Europe, North Africa and Ukrain.
The Moon will be in penumbra at 11 PM CET. Totality begins at 2:06 a.m. CET on the 9th of November, and ends at 2:31 a.m. CET, and the partial eclipse ends at 14:45 a.m. CET.
Several judges in different countries have already established that copy-protection on CDs was a defect and clients got reimbursed. This router behaviour is just the same.
Hundreds of thousands of iTunes Music Store users are now poised and ready to only drink and purchase Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist for the duration of the promotion because there really is no reason to purchase any other product since none of them are possibly giving you back $3 worth of music per 6 pack! I dare you to say, with a straight face, that it really is worth 3 dollars to you.
Advertising borks capitalism. Why should the company with the biggest Communication budget get the benefit of increased sales ? It should only come down to the product's quality and price (the offer), and the customers' needs (the demand).
The solar flare produced proton wind in speed exceeding what the SOHO probe can measure. It also saturated the X-Ray detectors on NOAA's GOES satellites. X28 is an understatement, the actual value cannot be precisely determined, but is thought of being somewhere around X40 to X50. This is a logarithmic scale, NOAA says the peak X-Ray emission reached approximately 2 * 10e-3 W/ squared meter.
M-class solar flares' order of magnitude is 10e-5W/squared meter, X-class' is 10e-4W/ squared meter, and anything beyond 10e-3W/squared meter: - was unheard of until a few days ago. - is a Y-class MEGA FLARE! Tin-foil hat time.
On unrelated news, X-Plane now supports borealis auroras...
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All we know about human behaviour, and I mean the non-rational part of us, the part which has sentiments and some morality and/or some sense of ownership or territorial defence, well this part is the one that makes us cling to everything we own, makes us attached to that old pair of shoes, makes us feel affection for that old beige box on the desktop.
That's why we'll see more customization kits, swappable cases and GUI skins for portable phones, and disposable phones will probably fail.
Bounties only (sometimes) help put the criminals in jail, but they NEVER stopped any crime from happening, ever.
I see it this way:
You create/invent something useful/recreational. You get paid in vouchers, for a total value that is determined by the rest of the population, in exchange for them to use/benefit from it freely. If you're skilled enough, you can make a living and even get rich (imagine the number of people who'd attribute their vouchers to Linus Torvalds and other Linux contributors).
Makes sense to me, do I misunderstand something ? It only needs some mechanism to block everyone from using the voucher on themselves (voucher exchange with the neighbour ?), I think this is what Dean Baker means by making people eligible when they contribute to the public domain.
What about putting more than one name on the voucher ? Then the value gets divided upon them. With nowadays information system this could be implemented without too much of a cost (hopefully).
I understand how this would work for independant artists contributing to the public domain, but what about all the others, who are bound by exclusive contracts (if not worse - *cough*workforhire*cough*) ?
I suggest the system gets extended to them, except that the money would then come from the majors, instead of tax returns from the Government.
Before you complain, yes, I know the RIAA will fight this to the death...
That's why we need to colonize Mars. Robert Zubrin has calculated that it would cost 15 times less to establish a base on Mars and start mining the asteroid belt from there, than to do it from the Earth or the Moon.
He also thinks that it would establish a triangle trade between Erth, Mars and Asteroids, much like the triangle trade between the Indies, the New World and Europe a few centuries ago, which would fund the terraformation of Mars.
I think it's the other way around: instead of bringing an avatar of your hand into the abstract representation in the computer's screen (mouse pointer), it's the computer's data that will have avatars in your world.
The demonstration video in the article shows Audiopad, among other things. It is the very same MIT people that are working on AudioPad and the SenseTable.
Change your keyboard layout (which would be projected on the SenseTable) by dragging the letters around ? The possibilities are nearly endless.
Now we just have to convince the guys who make these to associate with the Tangible Media people. Minority Report indeed.
That's 4:45 a.m., not 2:45. I should get some sleep instead of reloading Slashdot over and over.
The last time reads "2:45 a.m.", mea culpa.
The Lunar Computer will only give you US times. BTW only the Northern East Coast will get totality. You should be able to see the full eclipse from anywhere in Europe, North Africa and Ukrain.
The Moon will be in penumbra at 11 PM CET. Totality begins at 2:06 a.m. CET on the 9th of November, and ends at 2:31 a.m. CET, and the partial eclipse ends at 14:45 a.m. CET.
Substract one hour for GMT.
It is actually a very good example: Jamie hijacked the "from whatever dept" thing for his own benefit, kind of like Belkin hijacks your HTTP request.
At least it makes sense to me...
Except if your firewall blocks filter.belkin.com from setting the flag in your router.
I shouldn't have to click "No thanks", just as I shouldn't have to delete spam.
Several judges in different countries have already established that copy-protection on CDs was a defect and clients got reimbursed. This router behaviour is just the same.
When will they learn ?
If this technology becomes available, believe me Social Security here in my country WILL buy it for the disabled. There go my future taxes...
I suggest you go read this paper about the economic viability of a Matian Colony. It was writtent by Robert Zubrin, of Lockheed Martin Astronautics.
Many people thought that there wasn't a buck to be made from the "worthless wilderness" in newly-discovered America or Australia back then.
Hundreds of thousands of iTunes Music Store users are now poised and ready to only drink and purchase Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist for the duration of the promotion because there really is no reason to purchase any other product since none of them are possibly giving you back $3 worth of music per 6 pack!
I dare you to say, with a straight face, that it really is worth 3 dollars to you.
Advertising borks capitalism. Why should the company with the biggest Communication budget get the benefit of increased sales ? It should only come down to the product's quality and price (the offer), and the customers' needs (the demand).
In other news, Macromedia's stock value went down 1.5% today. Somebody please carpet clue-bomb stock markets.
The solar flare produced proton wind in speed exceeding what the SOHO probe can measure. It also saturated the X-Ray detectors on NOAA's GOES satellites. X28 is an understatement, the actual value cannot be precisely determined, but is thought of being somewhere around X40 to X50. This is a logarithmic scale, NOAA says the peak X-Ray emission reached approximately 2 * 10e-3 W/ squared meter.
:
M-class solar flares' order of magnitude is 10e-5W/squared meter, X-class' is 10e-4W/ squared meter, and anything beyond 10e-3W/squared meter
- was unheard of until a few days ago.
- is a Y-class MEGA FLARE! Tin-foil hat time.
On unrelated news, X-Plane now supports borealis auroras...
AFAIK it is also illegal to bomb offices or government's buildings, hijack a plane, fire rockets at taking-off planes, etc...
Also, what's stopping a terrorist to disable the disabling device ? And toast the GPS unit ?
Don't get me wrong. This tech has good uses, but none of these uses solve the Homeland Security problems.
I have interest in both fusion and rockets. Would you share some pointers about these humongous-ISP fusion drives ?