As far as I know, anything viewable from a public area may be photographed. If the artists want to enforce copyright, they should place their sculptures in an enclosed building.
Kodachrome from 50 years ago looks as good today as when it was shot. And that's film that hasn't been stored optimally for preservation. It doesn't use unstable dyes; it instead uses silver, much like black and white film.
It's another example of using tax dollars for something outside of the scope of government. Just because someone is a slashdot reader who feels they _need_ internet access and don't feel like paying, that does not mean it is a role of the government. Other people don't want to pay for internet access, and shouldn't have to. I want a car, and I want it cheap. Should the government be in that business too?
This is another example of Microsoft's marketing prowess. They know that IT managers want to hear about vendor accountability, single source solutions, etc. Those who still are using only Windows are probably not technically competent enough to see through the FUD. The truth is irrelevant here.
Real clusters use high speed networking like InfiniBand or Myrinet to reduce latency to tolerable levels. Anything else is just a bunch of computers hooked together for trivially parallelizable problems. Seeing as how there aren't expansion slots in the Mac Mini, I really don't see the point.
On the Mac platform, there's Microsoft Office available natively, and now Keynote and Pages. OpenOffice arguably competes with MS Office essentially only on the basis of price, not by being better. However, people who buy macs have already demonstrated a willingness to pay a premium so that things "work". Therefore, it's not worth the manpower to maintain a native port for a small percentage of a small market.
I keep MS office around solely for opening other people's files, and use LaTeX, Matlab, and the Adobe products for preparing documents.
Lawyers and the courts have been subverting the constitution for years. This is just another example of it. Not surprising, especially given that their own kind was attacked.
What sets Marathon apart is the balanced gameplay. The multiplayer games were not about "who knows where the rocket launcher is", because every weapon could be countered by another. Rockets were slow, flamethrowers had short range, the flechette was inaccurate, etc.
We'd sometimes turn off time limits and play single games for hours on end starting at 12 or 1AM. I still have some "film" files for nostalgia. Oh, the memories.
I've found printing at home to be a waste of money. West Coast Imaging (http://www.westcoastimaging.com) prints Chromira prints in 16x20 for around $25. They look better than prints made at home, and I can get enough to wallpaper a room for the price of a home printer, paper, and ink to do it.
It's good (but exceedingly rare) to hear about legislation that doesn't take away rights. Perhaps it's even more sad that we need the legislation, rather than being free to travel in space by default. But I think it's progress, and it's coming from my representative in Congress to boot!
They claim 3500 lumens, but later in the article, they mention that's the lamp spec. Looking at the picture, how much of that is actually projected onto the wall and how much is diffused away right at the projector?
I guess it depends on whether you consider the supplied product "music" or "music by Mariah Carey". I would liken the latter to a brand name, and it seems that current copyright law would be fair to allow her to do as she will with her music (including signing the rights over to a record label). Obviously, I agree with you that copyright is anti-competitive and does allow for higher prices, but I would argue that it is fair (though the _length_ of copyright is a different, more problematic issue).
I doubt that demand in the music market is as elastic as you claim, to the point that a company would make more money by selling on lower volumes at a higher price, especially when the marginal cost of production is practically zero. The prices are not a supply problem so much as the monopoly issue.
The price is low because the demand for classical music is low, and the demand for classical music from lesser known orchestras is even lower. Price is driven by demand, and the profit to the company is determined by the cost to them.
It seems that these "robots" are actually just remote controlled vehicles with shotguns. I don't think they're autonomous, most of the concerns raised don't reem relevant.
People have already mentioned why camera phones aren't up to snuff. I have a diminutive Canon SD200 which I love. I wish I could find an equally good phone. Instead, all the phones with bluetooth seem to also have a camera built in and therefore suffer in size and weight. Not everyone wants a mediocre phone/camera/camcorder/mp3 player, and I don't think it's possible due to ergonomics to make something that does all of those well.
For #300, you could buy an apple dock, some used entry level B&W speakers, and an amp. And it would sound good. Bose thrives on marketing and a catchy tagline, but inevitably their products underperform and are overpriced.
"High end receiver" is pretty much an oxymoron.
I have separate components (which I bought used for less than many of the costly receivers), and there are definitely no fans.
They may have the look and feel of high end audio equipment, but a component that uses fans is not acceptable. And hard drive noise just makes matters worse.
It would be more interesting if it at least incorporated some sort of baffling and sound deadening to mitigate the problem. But as is, it seems like a lot of money for pure looks.
Alas, this is a dying concept. Ask your average person on the street about a national ID card, and they use the "if you've got nothing to hide..." justification. Nowadays, people like to err on the side of perceived safety rather than liberty, and I fear the days of true liberty are numbered (or perhaps already gone). The unfortunate fact is that the pioneers of personal freedom would nowadays be branded as extremist [right/left] wing ideologues.
The reason that US companies move their headquarters is that the US is one of the only countries in the world to double tax corporations - we make them pay US corporate income tax on income earned both in the US and abroad. Therefore, they end up paying taxes to both the US and foreign countries on foreign earned income. Other countries only tax corporations on income earned in their country.
I live in Huntington Beach, one of the first places this is rolling out. That said, I'm going to be content with my 3Mb/768k DSL until I'm sure there aren't any ridiculous "for entertainment only" policies on Verizon's books. My current ISP (SurfCity DSL) doesn't block ports, sells me a static IP for a small fee, and even sells IP address blocks for reasonable (~$20/mo) fees. Having all the bandwidth in the world is practically useless with a dynamic IP and having the major ports blocked.
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As far as I know, anything viewable from a public area may be photographed. If the artists want to enforce copyright, they should place their sculptures in an enclosed building.
Kodachrome from 50 years ago looks as good today as when it was shot. And that's film that hasn't been stored optimally for preservation. It doesn't use unstable dyes; it instead uses silver, much like black and white film.
It's another example of using tax dollars for something outside of the scope of government. Just because someone is a slashdot reader who feels they _need_ internet access and don't feel like paying, that does not mean it is a role of the government. Other people don't want to pay for internet access, and shouldn't have to. I want a car, and I want it cheap. Should the government be in that business too?
This is another example of Microsoft's marketing prowess. They know that IT managers want to hear about vendor accountability, single source solutions, etc. Those who still are using only Windows are probably not technically competent enough to see through the FUD. The truth is irrelevant here.
Real clusters use high speed networking like InfiniBand or Myrinet to reduce latency to tolerable levels. Anything else is just a bunch of computers hooked together for trivially parallelizable problems. Seeing as how there aren't expansion slots in the Mac Mini, I really don't see the point.
On the Mac platform, there's Microsoft Office available natively, and now Keynote and Pages. OpenOffice arguably competes with MS Office essentially only on the basis of price, not by being better. However, people who buy macs have already demonstrated a willingness to pay a premium so that things "work". Therefore, it's not worth the manpower to maintain a native port for a small percentage of a small market. I keep MS office around solely for opening other people's files, and use LaTeX, Matlab, and the Adobe products for preparing documents.
Ivy League graduates aren't wealthy - not when tuition is $25,000/year. I'm going to be paying for my education for a long time to come.
Lawyers and the courts have been subverting the constitution for years. This is just another example of it. Not surprising, especially given that their own kind was attacked.
Broadband isn't going to break the cycle of poverty. Education is. Sounds like a waste of taxpayer money to me.
What sets Marathon apart is the balanced gameplay. The multiplayer games were not about "who knows where the rocket launcher is", because every weapon could be countered by another. Rockets were slow, flamethrowers had short range, the flechette was inaccurate, etc. We'd sometimes turn off time limits and play single games for hours on end starting at 12 or 1AM. I still have some "film" files for nostalgia. Oh, the memories.
I've found printing at home to be a waste of money. West Coast Imaging (http://www.westcoastimaging.com) prints Chromira prints in 16x20 for around $25. They look better than prints made at home, and I can get enough to wallpaper a room for the price of a home printer, paper, and ink to do it.
It's good (but exceedingly rare) to hear about legislation that doesn't take away rights. Perhaps it's even more sad that we need the legislation, rather than being free to travel in space by default. But I think it's progress, and it's coming from my representative in Congress to boot!
Ah, FAT. The cornerstone of any modern operating system...
They claim 3500 lumens, but later in the article, they mention that's the lamp spec. Looking at the picture, how much of that is actually projected onto the wall and how much is diffused away right at the projector?
I guess it depends on whether you consider the supplied product "music" or "music by Mariah Carey". I would liken the latter to a brand name, and it seems that current copyright law would be fair to allow her to do as she will with her music (including signing the rights over to a record label). Obviously, I agree with you that copyright is anti-competitive and does allow for higher prices, but I would argue that it is fair (though the _length_ of copyright is a different, more problematic issue). I doubt that demand in the music market is as elastic as you claim, to the point that a company would make more money by selling on lower volumes at a higher price, especially when the marginal cost of production is practically zero. The prices are not a supply problem so much as the monopoly issue.
The price is low because the demand for classical music is low, and the demand for classical music from lesser known orchestras is even lower. Price is driven by demand, and the profit to the company is determined by the cost to them.
It seems that these "robots" are actually just remote controlled vehicles with shotguns. I don't think they're autonomous, most of the concerns raised don't reem relevant.
People have already mentioned why camera phones aren't up to snuff. I have a diminutive Canon SD200 which I love. I wish I could find an equally good phone. Instead, all the phones with bluetooth seem to also have a camera built in and therefore suffer in size and weight. Not everyone wants a mediocre phone/camera/camcorder/mp3 player, and I don't think it's possible due to ergonomics to make something that does all of those well.
For #300, you could buy an apple dock, some used entry level B&W speakers, and an amp. And it would sound good. Bose thrives on marketing and a catchy tagline, but inevitably their products underperform and are overpriced.
"High end receiver" is pretty much an oxymoron. I have separate components (which I bought used for less than many of the costly receivers), and there are definitely no fans.
They may have the look and feel of high end audio equipment, but a component that uses fans is not acceptable. And hard drive noise just makes matters worse. It would be more interesting if it at least incorporated some sort of baffling and sound deadening to mitigate the problem. But as is, it seems like a lot of money for pure looks.
Alas, this is a dying concept. Ask your average person on the street about a national ID card, and they use the "if you've got nothing to hide..." justification. Nowadays, people like to err on the side of perceived safety rather than liberty, and I fear the days of true liberty are numbered (or perhaps already gone). The unfortunate fact is that the pioneers of personal freedom would nowadays be branded as extremist [right/left] wing ideologues.
The reason that US companies move their headquarters is that the US is one of the only countries in the world to double tax corporations - we make them pay US corporate income tax on income earned both in the US and abroad. Therefore, they end up paying taxes to both the US and foreign countries on foreign earned income. Other countries only tax corporations on income earned in their country.
I live in Huntington Beach, one of the first places this is rolling out. That said, I'm going to be content with my 3Mb/768k DSL until I'm sure there aren't any ridiculous "for entertainment only" policies on Verizon's books. My current ISP (SurfCity DSL) doesn't block ports, sells me a static IP for a small fee, and even sells IP address blocks for reasonable (~$20/mo) fees. Having all the bandwidth in the world is practically useless with a dynamic IP and having the major ports blocked.
Ummm...That's why there are the brakes.
And no, the brakes can't be overpowered by the engine.