This reminds me of a topic I was thinking about recently: the misuse of the word "robot." I believe, as the word was originally intended, a robot is some kind of machine that processes input and autonomously makes decisions and acts accordingly (and with some kind of intelligence, to distinguish from simple logic devices like thermostats.) A drone, on the other hand, is some kind of device which can perform sophisticated mechanical acts, but depends on human command and control in order to act intelligently.
Thus, under this classification, most of these technology demonstrators are actually drones. They act as we tell them to act, and that's all they are capable of. Real robotics research, on the other hand, is more about artificial intelligence and autonomous goal achievement. Thus, though they can't walk, talk, and shake our hands, the machines entered in the DARPA Grand Challenge are more robots than these walking contraptions are.
It's not so ridiculous. Aren't we already moving in that direction with highly automated armaments, "smart" bombs, cruise missiles, and now in prototyping, fully automated flying drones? The reason we haven't seen much of it so far is that it has been a long time since we've had full-out combat between two powers wealthy enough to afford it. (Mainly because, I think, countries that could afford it also tend to have nukes.) The U.S. can, and is moving in that direction, but terrorists still prefer the low-tech approach.
I believe that you're still limited to the number of songs that you can record in real-time. To record 100,000 songs, as claimed in the summary, assuming you recorded non-stop 24/7 would take upwards of 200 days.
The inconvenience of this method may be enough of a deterrant to prevent that kind of gross abuse.
People can fix things that break. They can wipe the dust off a solar panel. Most of all, they can respond to an almost infinite array of unanticipated scenarioes. They can conduct intelligent stereoscopic pattern recognition faster than any computer AND - they learn how to get themselves to other places more efficiently in the future.
What I found, though, is that a standard trial is a piss-poor way of getting to the truth.
As well it should be! And I say this as a prosecutor. But the reason for this should be obvious: the truth is very often unknowable. Thus, given that it is impossible for the jury to figure out truth, you narrow the scope a little, and only ask them to resolve certain factual disputes, i.e., who is/isn't lying, whether a story is plausible, what a reasonable person would do, etc. The effect of this is that juries are often shielded from The Truth in order to make their decisions on these more specific matters less biased.
You do realize, don't you, that there is a difference between simply doing a thing vs. legally contracting to do the same thing? Microsoft's claim is that they don't legally bind themselves to back their software, but they back it anyways. Linux doesn't legally bind themselves, NOR do they back it. That is the point of the ads which you intentionally miss.
Ironically, it ads the value of choice. MS has been up front for a long time that their DRM stategy is to give content providers to tools to create virtually any DRM strategy that they can imagine, as much - or as little - as they want. Is this good or bad for consumer? It depends on your point of view. In one sense, it's bad, because it makes DRM more and more commonplace and accepted, and DRM ultimately limits consumers. In another sense, it's good, because it enables the possibilities of goods and services that, without the requisite DRM tools, would be unworkable.
Microsoft is creating the marketplace. Whether there's anything worth buying is for consumers, not Microsoft, to decide.
Haha, blast from the past...that was our chief affirmative plan for my 1995 high school debate team...none of the other teams had a clue WTF we were talking about - but then, neither did the judges...
My own personal reasons:
1. Convenience. Being reachable at the same number, wherever you are. Being able to reach another person when the need arises (e.g, "I forgot what you said you wanted at the store," "I'm lost, can you look at a map and tell me where I am," "I'm drunk and I need a ride home," "I'm stuck in traffic and I'll be a half-hour late." Eliminating those times when you can't leave the house because you are waiting for someone to call.
2. Safety. It is said that the most powerful weapon of the police is the radio. One of the most powerful weapons that a person can carry concealed in a city is a direct link to 911/Roadside Assistance/Friends and relatives.
3. Social interaction. The wireless phone has opened up a somewhat new way of behaving socially. It is common now for people to make no plans at all, but simply coordinate their activities with friends completely on the fly, in real-time, by using text messaging or phone messages. If you don't have a cell phone, you have no hope of meeting up with your friends.
4. Cost. With free long distance, a wireless plan with a reasonable amount of minutes can be cheaper than comparable POTS lines, assuming you don't talk for hours at a time.
Finally,
5. Travel. Eliminate the need to use hotel phones, or worse, (shudder) pay phones when on vacation.
Okay, if that is the course you have chosen, then so be it. But let's be honest what you're really talking about: FUD.
I find the trend in this community towards an acceptance of blatant mischaracterization and spreading of falsehood to be troubling. This is a community founded on the principles of honestyl, openness, and respect. Are you really ready to sell out these ideals for market share?
It may be deep, but it's not wide. In fact, it's very narrow. We're talking about a few swing issues that decide an election, or even no issues at all, but just a "gut feeling" about the candiadates' characters. This is evidence that as to the vast majority of political positions, including the truly most fundamental, there is very broad consensus. Obviously, the minority not part of the consensus may not see it that way, but such is the condition of being a small minority.
Yes. Especially for non-GUI apps. You can do it now, assuming that the coding was done with some thought towards portability (i.e., no hard-coded file names, no WIN32 platform calls). Fortunately,.NET makes it pretty easy to code with this portability in mind.
I could ask you to tell me some of the typical DESKTOP applications that are written in C# and.NET because the answer would be the same as it is for Java.. NONE.
Okay, this is true for MS-produced apps. After all, they want to leverage every last secret bit of their WIN32 platform to gain an edge. But for third-party apps,.NET is rapidly becoming a major player. Example: ATI's new control panel utility.
Huh? I can accept criticism for DRM, for proprietariness, for lock-in marketing...but in fair bit-rate-for-bit-rate comparisons I've found WM video and audio to be pretty damn good. And why wouldn't it be? As far as I understand, it's only slightly modified MPEG-4.
The phenomenon you refer to is intentional. It is the result of the voting system and was chosen as a balance of choice against consensus.
That's the real problem here. You can increase choice, but only at the expense of consensus. In our case, the first-past-the-post system pushes both parties as close as they can get to the median voter, but the result is increased consensus.
As long as you are using HID-compliant USB devices, you can connect a basically unlimited number of keyboards/mice/gamepads/joysticks to any flavor Windows using the 2K kernel.
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Thus, under this classification, most of these technology demonstrators are actually drones. They act as we tell them to act, and that's all they are capable of. Real robotics research, on the other hand, is more about artificial intelligence and autonomous goal achievement. Thus, though they can't walk, talk, and shake our hands, the machines entered in the DARPA Grand Challenge are more robots than these walking contraptions are.
It's not so ridiculous. Aren't we already moving in that direction with highly automated armaments, "smart" bombs, cruise missiles, and now in prototyping, fully automated flying drones? The reason we haven't seen much of it so far is that it has been a long time since we've had full-out combat between two powers wealthy enough to afford it. (Mainly because, I think, countries that could afford it also tend to have nukes.) The U.S. can, and is moving in that direction, but terrorists still prefer the low-tech approach.
I believe that you're still limited to the number of songs that you can record in real-time. To record 100,000 songs, as claimed in the summary, assuming you recorded non-stop 24/7 would take upwards of 200 days. The inconvenience of this method may be enough of a deterrant to prevent that kind of gross abuse.
EMF (Enhanced Metafile Format).
People can fix things that break. They can wipe the dust off a solar panel. Most of all, they can respond to an almost infinite array of unanticipated scenarioes. They can conduct intelligent stereoscopic pattern recognition faster than any computer AND - they learn how to get themselves to other places more efficiently in the future.
As well it should be! And I say this as a prosecutor. But the reason for this should be obvious: the truth is very often unknowable. Thus, given that it is impossible for the jury to figure out truth, you narrow the scope a little, and only ask them to resolve certain factual disputes, i.e., who is/isn't lying, whether a story is plausible, what a reasonable person would do, etc. The effect of this is that juries are often shielded from The Truth in order to make their decisions on these more specific matters less biased.
It seems that the problem the court had with PC-Crash was that it didn't load in the appropriate drivers. And passengers.
Seriously, what does the "CSS" here stand for? Personally, I'd use "TSS" for "Terran Space Ship".
Because the journalists refuse to cooperate, even against the threat of jail time.
Who is going to deprive the journalist of liberty or property if he violates the subpeona? It's not Apple.
This may surprise you, but there are not that many legal exceptions or exemptions for "journalists" as a class.
Isn't that because they don't want the source code for their DLL distributed?
You do realize, don't you, that there is a difference between simply doing a thing vs. legally contracting to do the same thing? Microsoft's claim is that they don't legally bind themselves to back their software, but they back it anyways. Linux doesn't legally bind themselves, NOR do they back it. That is the point of the ads which you intentionally miss.
Microsoft is creating the marketplace. Whether there's anything worth buying is for consumers, not Microsoft, to decide.
Haha, blast from the past...that was our chief affirmative plan for my 1995 high school debate team...none of the other teams had a clue WTF we were talking about - but then, neither did the judges...
My own personal reasons: 1. Convenience. Being reachable at the same number, wherever you are. Being able to reach another person when the need arises (e.g, "I forgot what you said you wanted at the store," "I'm lost, can you look at a map and tell me where I am," "I'm drunk and I need a ride home," "I'm stuck in traffic and I'll be a half-hour late." Eliminating those times when you can't leave the house because you are waiting for someone to call. 2. Safety. It is said that the most powerful weapon of the police is the radio. One of the most powerful weapons that a person can carry concealed in a city is a direct link to 911/Roadside Assistance/Friends and relatives. 3. Social interaction. The wireless phone has opened up a somewhat new way of behaving socially. It is common now for people to make no plans at all, but simply coordinate their activities with friends completely on the fly, in real-time, by using text messaging or phone messages. If you don't have a cell phone, you have no hope of meeting up with your friends. 4. Cost. With free long distance, a wireless plan with a reasonable amount of minutes can be cheaper than comparable POTS lines, assuming you don't talk for hours at a time. Finally, 5. Travel. Eliminate the need to use hotel phones, or worse, (shudder) pay phones when on vacation.
I find the trend in this community towards an acceptance of blatant mischaracterization and spreading of falsehood to be troubling. This is a community founded on the principles of honestyl, openness, and respect. Are you really ready to sell out these ideals for market share?
It may be deep, but it's not wide. In fact, it's very narrow. We're talking about a few swing issues that decide an election, or even no issues at all, but just a "gut feeling" about the candiadates' characters. This is evidence that as to the vast majority of political positions, including the truly most fundamental, there is very broad consensus. Obviously, the minority not part of the consensus may not see it that way, but such is the condition of being a small minority.
Yes. Especially for non-GUI apps. You can do it now, assuming that the coding was done with some thought towards portability (i.e., no hard-coded file names, no WIN32 platform calls). Fortunately, .NET makes it pretty easy to code with this portability in mind.
Okay, this is true for MS-produced apps. After all, they want to leverage every last secret bit of their WIN32 platform to gain an edge. But for third-party apps, .NET is rapidly becoming a major player. Example: ATI's new control panel utility.
Huh? I can accept criticism for DRM, for proprietariness, for lock-in marketing...but in fair bit-rate-for-bit-rate comparisons I've found WM video and audio to be pretty damn good. And why wouldn't it be? As far as I understand, it's only slightly modified MPEG-4.
That's the real problem here. You can increase choice, but only at the expense of consensus. In our case, the first-past-the-post system pushes both parties as close as they can get to the median voter, but the result is increased consensus.
Two FUDs don't make a truth.
What's illegal?
As long as you are using HID-compliant USB devices, you can connect a basically unlimited number of keyboards/mice/gamepads/joysticks to any flavor Windows using the 2K kernel.