How will the kids take notes, write reports and essays, etc?
I guess the CCS assumes life will be a multiple choice menu made up of animated icons. If you don't fit one of the options offered, you're screwed (like a Slashdot poll).
This allows schools to eliminate carrying around half a dozen books to and from school
It also keeps school districts from reusing textbooks for a couple of years. Or donating them to needy students. Once the year is up, the publisher can reach out and delete the iPad copies.
I've seen earthquake reports on the media from around the world. Most often, they show some interesting computer generated plots of quake energy, frequency distribution and lots of information that might be useful for the prediction task.
When we have a quake in the Pacific Northwest (near Seattle), they cut to a scene at the geoscience department of the UW, with a shot of a drum recorder and a leaky ink pen scribbling wavy lines.
I think there's an element of the indiscriminacy (if that's a word) of the device. A bunker buster is aimed at a bunker, usually full of enemies. Biological agents, most land mines and other similar weapons cannot be aimed. It's also a matter of collateral damage. Using a tactical nuke against a hardened target isolated from population centers would probably not be WMD use. Hitting a city, even to take out a manufacturing facility located within it would.
Yes, color is used. But not the way you think it is.
Chromatic dispersion causes different wavelengths (colors) to propagate at different speeds. So what would start out as a coincident red and blue bit wouldn't stay that way very long. But using separate colors as one would use separate fibers with each carrying its own data stream does work.
then the color would be purple.
Your eyes and brain work that way. Other sensors don't. A 'red bit' plus a 'blue bit' will not trigger a purple sensor.
That worked against proposed legislation. In that case, Tesla could show that it was probably aimed specifically at their marketing strategy. In other states, where such laws are already in place (having been put there for other reasons) I think it would be tougher to overturn them.
Just thinking out loud: The Xbox Kinect might be more (or less) than a Windows Kinect with an oddball connecter. Its possible that some of the Windows Kinect firmware functions have been moved into the Xbox and the Xbox Kinect lacks those functions. And can't be upgraded.
Different sense of the word in this case. In our legal system its also called prosecutorial discretion. A prosecutor (at any level of government) is allowed to pass on cases that they believe (or 'judge') to be unwinnable, or likely to be overturned on appeal.
What our current system does is place civil rights above majority or mob rule. It doesn't matter if you can muster 51% to pass a law either through your legislature or a citizen's initiative.
Obama refused to defend DOMA because he judged that this law wouldn't stand a SCOTUS test and he didn't want to waste time and money on useless legal action that would be overturned. It appears that he judged correctly.
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How will the kids take notes, write reports and essays, etc?
I guess the CCS assumes life will be a multiple choice menu made up of animated icons. If you don't fit one of the options offered, you're screwed (like a Slashdot poll).
This allows schools to eliminate carrying around half a dozen books to and from school
It also keeps school districts from reusing textbooks for a couple of years. Or donating them to needy students. Once the year is up, the publisher can reach out and delete the iPad copies.
I've seen earthquake reports on the media from around the world. Most often, they show some interesting computer generated plots of quake energy, frequency distribution and lots of information that might be useful for the prediction task.
When we have a quake in the Pacific Northwest (near Seattle), they cut to a scene at the geoscience department of the UW, with a shot of a drum recorder and a leaky ink pen scribbling wavy lines.
At least now we have the goods on Paula Deen.
I think there's an element of the indiscriminacy (if that's a word) of the device. A bunker buster is aimed at a bunker, usually full of enemies. Biological agents, most land mines and other similar weapons cannot be aimed. It's also a matter of collateral damage. Using a tactical nuke against a hardened target isolated from population centers would probably not be WMD use. Hitting a city, even to take out a manufacturing facility located within it would.
I guess my wife's meat loaf would fall into that category as well.
Yes, color is used. But not the way you think it is.
Chromatic dispersion causes different wavelengths (colors) to propagate at different speeds. So what would start out as a coincident red and blue bit wouldn't stay that way very long. But using separate colors as one would use separate fibers with each carrying its own data stream does work.
then the color would be purple.
Your eyes and brain work that way. Other sensors don't. A 'red bit' plus a 'blue bit' will not trigger a purple sensor.
More twisted porn!
That worked against proposed legislation. In that case, Tesla could show that it was probably aimed specifically at their marketing strategy. In other states, where such laws are already in place (having been put there for other reasons) I think it would be tougher to overturn them.
It could have been tribbles.
Just thinking out loud: The Xbox Kinect might be more (or less) than a Windows Kinect with an oddball connecter. Its possible that some of the Windows Kinect firmware functions have been moved into the Xbox and the Xbox Kinect lacks those functions. And can't be upgraded.
Sort of like the old Winmodems.
Right. As long as it is network-aware I'm fine with it.
No problem. But that will only last until the next possum forgets the right-of-way laws.
The plates are covered with mud and the entrails of small animals.
Obama refused to defend DOMA because he judged
Different sense of the word in this case. In our legal system its also called prosecutorial discretion. A prosecutor (at any level of government) is allowed to pass on cases that they believe (or 'judge') to be unwinnable, or likely to be overturned on appeal.
What our current system does is place civil rights above majority or mob rule. It doesn't matter if you can muster 51% to pass a law either through your legislature or a citizen's initiative.
Obama refused to defend DOMA because he judged that this law wouldn't stand a SCOTUS test and he didn't want to waste time and money on useless legal action that would be overturned. It appears that he judged correctly.
No. Cheating would be poking a hole in the back of the battery packs, waiting for the seawater to hit the lithium and taking off like a rocket.
Teledesic, Iridium, Globalstar, Orbcomm
But we could always check their birth certificate.
Africa: There's a Chinese guy with a checkbook knocking at our door.
Thank goodness there's a pacific Ocean between Aus and the USA. Or this subversive thinking might infect us.