The problem as I see it is of mass versus power. It seems that as the size of the organizm is increased linearly the power required for propulsion is increased as a sqare or a cube of size increase. That is why a lot of mosquitos (or any small insects) fly and not too many elephants (large animals) do. If someone would simply resize a mosquito 100x its legs would break and won't even be able to hold its body weight let alone fly. That is why elephants have much thicker legs in proportion to their body as opposed to flies or mosquitos. Or even ostrages don't fly even though they have wings. The point is that humans seem to be just too big and heavy for flight. Our muscles are not strong enough support ourselves in flight. It's nice to dream though...
The competitor's iTunes are called Direct Connect, BitTorrent, Kazaa and eMule. Sometimes it is called "my friend from college that has 200GB of music and hasn't been busted by the record companies (yet!)" The usability factor is there, of course, but it is not that bad actually, and such a thing as "my boyfriend's friend who knows computers(tm)" or "my nephew who is into programming(tm)" coupled with $0/song can make things much easier for the average consumer.
I asked the same question a while ago when discussing the ratings for movies. How a movie with limbs flying and bodies being blown left and right gets a PG-13. But a normal love scene might get a movie an R or NC-17. And one the guys on the forum nailed it down. He said that violence in this country (US) is a public issue, so violence is in the news and in the movies (I would say that disturbingly enough, even sex is mostly connected with violence in Hollywood movies). On the other hand, sex is a very private issue. It is partly from the puritanical background: touching yourself in the "nono" region is "bad". Talking about it - "bad". Showing it on the screen - NC-17, blow the same character up with a granade - PG-13. I think that mostly explained it for me. I did not grow up in this country, so I couldn't quite grasp, why this scrizophrenic attitude toward sex? Don't show it, don't talk about it, but the porno business is a multibillion dollar industry.
In the end I should remark that I do not endorse exposing children to sexual acts or nudity in the media, I would just support stricter control of violence.
It seems if they can show proof that computer navigation is safer they will start using it. Insurance companies base their rates on statistics, I heard once that red cars are more expensive to insure, on the other hand if someone is a good student they get a discount. Well, if statistics show that a certain automatic driving system saves lives and avoids crashes, the insurance companies will embrace it. The companies who make the cars I am sure will find or change some laws to make themselves not liable too. The problem I see, though is to convince people to buy those cars. They will be more expensive and I don't see my parents who have been driving many decades now all of a sudden accepting being driven by a computer.
It is a matter of habit and training. I am used to think in terms of objects so any object oriented language is "natural language" for me. When I solve a problem I think of objects, methods, properties and how they work together. I don't have to translate from some abstract "natural" concepts to OO concepts. I am sure someone who is using lisp will see lists and functions in the same problem that I see objects and methods. I understand that the goal is to have the user just tell the computer what to do in English. The problem is that English is not precise and is too ambiguous. I don't know if I would want to fly on an airpline if I knew the computer on board was programmed in English.
It it both. They made it look like a snatch, to attract attention it is an old advertising trick "Tie things to sex and people will pay more attention to it." On the other hand nobody can blame them, they'll just say "Oh, it's a flame blah blah"
Well that is not totally true. In ex Soviet Union countries they still produce a significant ammount of tubes. A lot of people own old electronics and instead of buying a new TV for example it is cheaper to just buy a new tube and plug it in. They even export it to other countries now that others have stopped the production of tubes. The soviets have perfected the technology of "the tube" and even when solid state was largely used else were they took a long time to switch.
You are looking at numbers. But have you been to all those countries? I grew up in Soviet Union, lived close to Ukraine but I am a Romanian. Now I live in US and work and study along Indians, and Asians. I have to say, that China, Korea and India might have a larger population and more graduate students come from those countries, and the students from Ukraine, Russia, and Romania are fewer but they kick everyone's behind when it comes to doing math or developing an application from scratch, or doing something innovative. Indians and Chinese are good at programming if they have the flowchart or the algorithm ready. I think there are mainly two reasons behind this, one is that people from Eastern Europe a more competitive and also they have a better education system. One of the replies to the comment was that 99% of students there cheat and just "get by" to graduate, that is true but the rest %1 come out to be pretty darn good and end up all over the world as experts.
Yeah I know I stereotyped everyone, but behind most stereotypes there is a grain of truth.
Then it will become the American Venice. And everyone will go there to catch gondola rides, then go back to Europe to go back to work and run the world.
I had (still have) the strangest clone of ZX, it was called Byte made by some obscure electronics plant in a country called Moldova in Eastern Europe. The keyboard was made out of rubber that wore off and I had soddered by hand key-by-key a new keyboard taken from some electronic typewritter after I cut a whole in the case of the console to expose the contacts. I remember tuning the tape player for maximum gain, playing IKARI, and my all time favourite Stock Cars. I even made a special keypad to emulate a kempstone joystic just to play Sock Cars. I wrote my first assembler, pascal, C and of course BASIC program on it.
That console was the biggest gift I had received from my parents. Years later I am a grad student in Comp Sci in U.S. but it all started back home with that ZX clone. Well that is my sappy and nostalgic story.
I grew up there and go back to visit once a year or so and that's just how things are over there. The communism has taught people that honesty and hard work doesn't pay, you can just stay home and the state (the rest of the people) will take care of you. After most have realized that, that is when the whole thing imploded in my oppinion. People learned that those who bribe, cheat and lie will always get ahead. Take my parents for example my dad is an engineer that has worked hard all his life and then overnight almost all our savings have turned into nothing and he lost his job. So now when the government comes up with slogans like "Copying Software is Wrong!" people just think "F*ck off, you screwed us, now everybody for themselves." So slogans like that won't work. Even the people who are supposed to enforce it probably don't see it as a problem and would go and buy burnt CDs when they shop for music. But on the other side, as far as music and software companies loosing money, I don't think they would make a whole lot of money if they ask for $600 for Adobe in that part of the world, people just wouldn't buy it, or find something cheaper. That was my 2 cents.
I think it is called Gordon. It airs late at night on a fairly popular channel not some obscure one. The program has a very simple structure, the host just invites scientists to present topics from recent research and then they discuss it. The topics range as they do in the Nature journal: physics, biochemistry, geology, they might even have math there. The host doesn't know in depth all those fields so he invites two or three guests that so they ask each other questions and talk about the presentation. Not really a program for prime time, but I when I visit back home in Eastern Europe, I try to stay up to watch it. I wish we had something like it here in the States.
Doesn't it make sense to just run a small electric motor with, wich would make the vehicle weigh much less. I guess this would work only if they plan this to be an add-on modules to the already existing hydrogen cars.
The Beast Rules! It's my favorite coaster. It's a different ride at different times of day. And when it hits the bottom of the corkscrew it shakes so hard it still scares me.
They want to let people think they can have an advantage, but in reality they need garanteed profits. It's ok for them to be the "cheater" since they obviosly have the odds set up that they will consistently rack a profit. But if someone, figures a way to cheat them, then they get arrested and blacklisted. The nature of the game and the rules invite cheating. Most people will shake rattles, carry rabbit feet with them and that kind of stuff, but if someone uses their head and skills to create an intelligent bot to play poker, then I think they "almost" deserve the money they win.
I am a student from Eastern Europe, and when I came here I had to do a TB test. Well since I remember I always test positive. I never had it, but I was either exposed to TB in the city transportation, or the BCG vacccine we all get in Eastern Europe cause the skin tests to show positive. So they sent me to get a TB xray test. They didn't have the machine on the University campus, I had to ask someone to me to this place in the slums and it cost me lots of money. I thought I would keep the slide and whenever they need to do the skin test again, I'll just tell them the story and show the slide that I am fine. Oh, no I went home for one month and when I came back they told me I had take the test again. Then I asked them, how would they know if I went home or not? The nurse stopped, thought about and then said, they wouldn't know unless I told them. So I said, ok, I'll go and take the test tomorrow. And they never saw me comming back. Did I do the wrong thing? Probably. Why? Because they refused to fully pay for it with the student insurance (a bill I pay which kicks my butt financialy every semester) and there is evidence I've read that blasting the chest with XRays over and over to test for TB can actually increase the chance of getting a full blown TB.
The idea is just as great as not sharing the email with the outsiders of the group and using encryption and authentication. Then separate the un-encrypted mail from encrypted and potential spam.
I just have more than 1 account. One is a throw-away just to get passwords when I register at sites I don't care about coming back. The others can be for family, the other for friends. So if I am in the mood for some juicy spam I'll check my throw-away account, if I want to see how my family is doing, I check that account. In other words, with a little thinking it is easy to avoid the problem.
Ask a friend o someone else you know that has some experience to share it. People who love linux often love it because they learned it as hobby and those are the people who usually like to share the knowledge and help others learn it. But if the company has the money to spend, give that a try. Also read through the HOWTOs those helped me.
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Toshiba has been doing something like that. The lifetime is about the same except the whole thing is installed underground. There was a news item how they installed one in a remote part of Alaska. They call theym micro-nukes I think. But just going out on a limb, they probably should leave these puppies in Iraq (just yet).
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The problem as I see it is of mass versus power. It seems that as the size of the organizm is increased linearly the power required for propulsion is increased as a sqare or a cube of size increase. That is why a lot of mosquitos (or any small insects) fly and not too many elephants (large animals) do. If someone would simply resize a mosquito 100x its legs would break and won't even be able to hold its body weight let alone fly. That is why elephants have much thicker legs in proportion to their body as opposed to flies or mosquitos. Or even ostrages don't fly even though they have wings. The point is that humans seem to be just too big and heavy for flight. Our muscles are not strong enough support ourselves in flight. It's nice to dream though...
The competitor's iTunes are called Direct Connect, BitTorrent, Kazaa and eMule. Sometimes it is called "my friend from college that has 200GB of music and hasn't been busted by the record companies (yet!)" The usability factor is there, of course, but it is not that bad actually, and such a thing as "my boyfriend's friend who knows computers(tm)" or "my nephew who is into programming(tm)" coupled with $0 /song can make things much easier for the average consumer.
In the end I should remark that I do not endorse exposing children to sexual acts or nudity in the media, I would just support stricter control of violence.
It seems if they can show proof that computer navigation is safer they will start using it. Insurance companies base their rates on statistics, I heard once that red cars are more expensive to insure, on the other hand if someone is a good student they get a discount. Well, if statistics show that a certain automatic driving system saves lives and avoids crashes, the insurance companies will embrace it. The companies who make the cars I am sure will find or change some laws to make themselves not liable too. The problem I see, though is to convince people to buy those cars. They will be more expensive and I don't see my parents who have been driving many decades now all of a sudden accepting being driven by a computer.
It is a matter of habit and training. I am used to think in terms of objects so any object oriented language is "natural language" for me. When I solve a problem I think of objects, methods, properties and how they work together. I don't have to translate from some abstract "natural" concepts to OO concepts. I am sure someone who is using lisp will see lists and functions in the same problem that I see objects and methods.
I understand that the goal is to have the user just tell the computer what to do in English. The problem is that English is not precise and is too ambiguous. I don't know if I would want to fly on an airpline if I knew the computer on board was programmed in English.
It it both. They made it look like a snatch, to attract attention it is an old advertising trick "Tie things to sex and people will pay more attention to it." On the other hand nobody can blame them, they'll just say "Oh, it's a flame blah blah"
Well that is not totally true. In ex Soviet Union countries they still produce a significant ammount of tubes. A lot of people own old electronics and instead of buying a new TV for example it is cheaper to just buy a new tube and plug it in. They even export it to other countries now that others have stopped the production of tubes. The soviets have perfected the technology of "the tube" and even when solid state was largely used else were they took a long time to switch.
You are looking at numbers. But have you been to all those countries? I grew up in Soviet Union, lived close to Ukraine but I am a Romanian. Now I live in US and work and study along Indians, and Asians. I have to say, that China, Korea and India might have a larger population and more graduate students come from those countries, and the students from Ukraine, Russia, and Romania are fewer but they kick everyone's behind when it comes to doing math or developing an application from scratch, or doing something innovative. Indians and Chinese are good at programming if they have the flowchart or the algorithm ready. I think there are mainly two reasons behind this, one is that people from Eastern Europe a more competitive and also they have a better education system. One of the replies to the comment was that 99% of students there cheat and just "get by" to graduate, that is true but the rest %1 come out to be pretty darn good and end up all over the world as experts.
Yeah I know I stereotyped everyone, but behind most stereotypes there is a grain of truth.
Tech support that doesn't speak English or tech support that doesn't speak English?
Ye'll get a complimentary bottle of genuine moonshine with that new LCD monitor if ye buy it today.
Then it will become the American Venice. And everyone will go there to catch gondola rides, then go back to Europe to go back to work and run the world.
That console was the biggest gift I had received from my parents. Years later I am a grad student in Comp Sci in U.S. but it all started back home with that ZX clone. Well that is my sappy and nostalgic story.
Doesn't it make sense to just run a small electric motor with, wich would make the vehicle weigh much less. I guess this would work only if they plan this to be an add-on modules to the already existing hydrogen cars.
The Beast Rules! It's my favorite coaster. It's a different ride at different times of day. And when it hits the bottom of the corkscrew it shakes so hard it still scares me.
They want to let people think they can have an advantage, but in reality they need garanteed profits. It's ok for them to be the "cheater" since they obviosly have the odds set up that they will consistently rack a profit. But if someone, figures a way to cheat them, then they get arrested and blacklisted. The nature of the game and the rules invite cheating. Most people will shake rattles, carry rabbit feet with them and that kind of stuff, but if someone uses their head and skills to create an intelligent bot to play poker, then I think they "almost" deserve the money they win.
I am a student from Eastern Europe, and when I came here I had to do a TB test. Well since I remember I always test positive. I never had it, but I was either exposed to TB in the city transportation, or the BCG vacccine we all get in Eastern Europe cause the skin tests to show positive. So they sent me to get a TB xray test. They didn't have the machine on the University campus, I had to ask someone to me to this place in the slums and it cost me lots of money. I thought I would keep the slide and whenever they need to do the skin test again, I'll just tell them the story and show the slide that I am fine. Oh, no I went home for one month and when I came back they told me I had take the test again. Then I asked them, how would they know if I went home or not? The nurse stopped, thought about and then said, they wouldn't know unless I told them. So I said, ok, I'll go and take the test tomorrow. And they never saw me comming back. Did I do the wrong thing? Probably. Why? Because they refused to fully pay for it with the student insurance (a bill I pay which kicks my butt financialy every semester) and there is evidence I've read that blasting the chest with XRays over and over to test for TB can actually increase the chance of getting a full blown TB.
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I just have more than 1 account. One is a throw-away just to get passwords when I register at sites I don't care about coming back. The others can be for family, the other for friends. So if I am in the mood for some juicy spam I'll check my throw-away account, if I want to see how my family is doing, I check that account. In other words, with a little thinking it is easy to avoid the problem.
Ask a friend o someone else you know that has some experience to share it. People who love linux often love it because they learned it as hobby and those are the people who usually like to share the knowledge and help others learn it. But if the company has the money to spend, give that a try. Also read through the HOWTOs those helped me.
The alliteration gave it away ;-)
Toshiba has been doing something like that. The lifetime is about the same except the whole thing is installed underground. There was a news item how they installed one in a remote part of Alaska. They call theym micro-nukes I think. But just going out on a limb, they probably should leave these puppies in Iraq (just yet).