In theory, you could find out what sort of material is used in the batteries' storage plates (such as nickel/cadmium or Nickel Metal Hydride), buy some of the elements, put it in an insulator, and charge it up with current. You'd have to find the exact right amounts. -- I don't know how to work out the details.
Wow. This is great. Is it possible to get higher resolution images? These would look realy bad if I wanted to put them up as a wall paper on my high resolution screen. How is it licensed? I have POV, but I haven't learned to use it. If I download the source, can I make my own high res. version? How long will it take?
My parents got me private tutoring from a woman who teaches english remidiation at the community colege to adults. She mostly does the private classes with younger people like me, but I imagine she would teach anything having to do with the english language to anyone. Just ask around at your local technical college.
The F4L project (at sourceforge) is already working on an open source alternative to Macromedia's monopoly. The GUI is already in place in version.01, and there are already libraries in the wild for editing.SWF files (based on information released by Macromedia), so it is only a matter of developer time before it is finished.
I run the F4L Documentation Project. You can chat about F4L at irc.freenode.net and #F4L
I think that if people were to communicate directly with this technology, and be able to "hear" each other's thoughts, we would all have to become much more in controll of our emotions. It would probobally be easiest just to keep our thoughts between our selves and our personal computers, and not even try to see other people's.
The systems discussed in the article are brain output only. Some years ago, there was an exparament where a blind man had electrodes implanted in his head so he could "see" through a camera. Unfortunately, I don't have the details. Such a device could be cracked if it were on a network, but the biggest danger would be that lighning could strike the system and kill the user... or it could be intentionally overloaded.
How many star trek episodes?
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And if you add in books, movies, and computer games... Going through it all would easily take 250 hours.
I knew the borg would get slashdot eventually.
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Soon, they will assimilate every computer that loads the slashdot index or RDF and infect them with nanosoft windows so they can cooperate to rule the universe.
More precisely, I don't care about legal controls over privacy. I don't see why anyone (sane) would be interested in anything I don't want them to know about me. I'm not interested in what you don't want me to know about you.
I can't think of any reasons for secrecy besides 1. Insanity, 2. Covering up something one shouldn't have done, or 3. Trying to prevent a crime.
Perhaps a beter solution to privacy "problems" would be to fix the crazy people who are interested in other people's private buisness on impulse, and to adjust our economy and culture so that noone will want to commit crimes.
We are talking about the Patriot Act in the Debate Team at school. I am unfortunately on the afirmative side of the resolve "The safety provided by the PATRIOT Act outweighs one's right to personal liberty." I looked up liberty with KDict, and sure enough, I couldn't find a thing in the definition that the PATRIOT Act effected. Privacy is not a part of liberty, nor is the right to information about why your liberty has been taken away.
If you want my openion, I don't care for privacy, and I trust the government not to detain people for no good reason (at least not very often). What bothers me about the act is the cost.
Claculators can't do proofs - They don't even return very acurate results. Even the most modern computers aren't very good at proof. It will tell you that 11^2+12^2=16.27882060, aproximately.
I like the Fermat jokes! I guess the moderators don't get them:-(.
The TI comunity has been telling TI what they want for years, and TI has been ignoring them. TI knows it's not the people who use the calculators who decide which calculators get purchased - it's the recomendations of public school teachers that make or break TI.
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In theory, you could find out what sort of material is used in the batteries' storage plates (such as nickel/cadmium or Nickel Metal Hydride), buy some of the elements, put it in an insulator, and charge it up with current. You'd have to find the exact right amounts. -- I don't know how to work out the details.
I downloaded it and imported. Then I rendered. Output: "Couldn't Call Povray". I have mandrake 9.
Wow. This is great. Is it possible to get higher resolution images? These would look realy bad if I wanted to put them up as a wall paper on my high resolution screen. How is it licensed? I have POV, but I haven't learned to use it. If I download the source, can I make my own high res. version? How long will it take?
Actually, she was about 30 years to old for me.
My parents got me private tutoring from a woman who teaches english remidiation at the community colege to adults. She mostly does the private classes with younger people like me, but I imagine she would teach anything having to do with the english language to anyone. Just ask around at your local technical college.
I should have done more research. Still, it does not have the familiar GUI, and it is based on Gnome.
In case you are wondering, that documentation which has been written yet is not available for download.
The F4L project (at sourceforge) is already working on an open source alternative to Macromedia's monopoly. The GUI is already in place in version .01, and there are already libraries in the wild for editing .SWF files (based on information released by Macromedia), so it is only a matter of developer time before it is finished.
I run the F4L Documentation Project. You can chat about F4L at irc.freenode.net and #F4L
I think that if people were to communicate directly with this technology, and be able to "hear" each other's thoughts, we would all have to become much more in controll of our emotions. It would probobally be easiest just to keep our thoughts between our selves and our personal computers, and not even try to see other people's.
Personally, I don't want to know what someone is thinking if it's not someone I know well enough that I could just ask. That's a disgusting idea.
The systems discussed in the article are brain output only. Some years ago, there was an exparament where a blind man had electrodes implanted in his head so he could "see" through a camera. Unfortunately, I don't have the details. Such a device could be cracked if it were on a network, but the biggest danger would be that lighning could strike the system and kill the user... or it could be intentionally overloaded.
And if you add in books, movies, and computer games... Going through it all would easily take 250 hours.
Soon, they will assimilate every computer that loads the slashdot index or RDF and infect them with nanosoft windows so they can cooperate to rule the universe.
More precisely, I don't care about legal controls over privacy. I don't see why anyone (sane) would be interested in anything I don't want them to know about me. I'm not interested in what you don't want me to know about you. I can't think of any reasons for secrecy besides 1. Insanity, 2. Covering up something one shouldn't have done, or 3. Trying to prevent a crime. Perhaps a beter solution to privacy "problems" would be to fix the crazy people who are interested in other people's private buisness on impulse, and to adjust our economy and culture so that noone will want to commit crimes.
That's awfuly narow. Under that definition, I could imprison you and it wouldn't take away your liberty.
It still does not mention privacy.
Hey... No fair! If I was old enough, I would have voted for Gore. I tried to anyway.
We are talking about the Patriot Act in the Debate Team at school. I am unfortunately on the afirmative side of the resolve "The safety provided by the PATRIOT Act outweighs one's right to personal liberty." I looked up liberty with KDict, and sure enough, I couldn't find a thing in the definition that the PATRIOT Act effected. Privacy is not a part of liberty, nor is the right to information about why your liberty has been taken away. If you want my openion, I don't care for privacy, and I trust the government not to detain people for no good reason (at least not very often). What bothers me about the act is the cost.
I don't think so, because the magnetic field will be there if it's being used or not. It's just passive absorbtion of the company's waste.
This is the best story to flame in... moderators will never look at it.
There is now an application for TI-83+ that lets you use Reverse Polish Notation on it. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/233/ 23378.html
I submited this story to slashdot about four days before it was posted.
Claculators can't do proofs - They don't even return very acurate results. Even the most modern computers aren't very good at proof. It will tell you that 11^2+12^2=16.27882060, aproximately. I like the Fermat jokes! I guess the moderators don't get them :-(.
The TI comunity has been telling TI what they want for years, and TI has been ignoring them. TI knows it's not the people who use the calculators who decide which calculators get purchased - it's the recomendations of public school teachers that make or break TI.
How about Mathematica?