How can a system of symbols be valid if you can't tell what each part represents ? I can't tell a US style date from a British style date until one of the components gets past 12. However, a british style date has logical progression, day, month, year, whereas the US system goes medium, small, largest. WTF ?
IMHO the only real solution is the yyyymmdd version, because that lists correctly on a computer, and can be used in calculations.
(As an aside, part of the reason the London bomb attacks were on the 7/7 was so that the Americans could understand it - smacks a little of deliberate design to me. I'm unaware of any religious significance to muslims of 7/7. And 911 was a no brainer for the US. What's the betting that if the US used the UK date system, the US attacks would have been in November ?)
And then you have a third, medium unit called the feet, just to make it a little more unwieldy.
Foot. Plural is feet, singular is foot.
And you very rarely need to convert imperial measures within the same system. It was designed and implemented around specific tasks, so you use miles, leagues,furlongs for longer distances, rods, poles, yards, feet for medium distances and inches and parts thereof for small measurements. There is no need to calculate 1,234,000 inches, ever, unless you want to know how many of your penis lengths are in 19.48 miles (411,333.3). And you start by converting inches to yards after just 36 of them. Metric is good for digital measurements, imperial is good for analogue measurements like half, quarter, third. But fractions seem to be a mystery to people these days.
The Higgs Boson is a theoretical particle. We have no way of knowing whether it exists at all. The LHC might find it, but only if it exists to be found. What if the theory that predicted it is wrong ? I can devise a theory that deposits $100M in my bank account. When it doesn't happen, is that because the universe is somehow conspiring against me ?
On a related note, regarding dark matter/ dark energy - if quantum uncertainty is true, and a particle is never actually in existence in a certain place until you observe it, wouldn't that account for the "missing" matter / energy ? Because it actually "exists" in all dimensions at once, maybe the combined effect would explain the discrepancy we think we have found. I don't actually believe the basis for the dark matter theory anyway. Noticing that a galaxy's rotation is uniform from the centre to the edge is odd, but why would dark matter help ? Why does the solar system not act the same ? It was the application of the solar gravitational model to galaxies that brought the subject up in the first place. Maybe the discrepancy is due to the solar system not being centred around a super massive black hole. Of course the models will be different. And the fact that spiral galaxies exist surely shows that the "arms" have travelled slower than the centre at some stage. Maybe the rotation at the centre has slowed down to match that of the arms, making us think we need extra matter to account for the observation.
The eReader software allows you to highlight text and add notes. You can access those notes directly via an index, or if you see highlighted text, just click it and the note appears. Can't the kindle do that ?
And the fact that the 3G service is built into the price should give any body with half a brain pause for thought. How long will they honour this ? If it costs the provider money and not enough people buy the books (which is where they would surely get their profit) will they not simply cease the service ? And since the 3G service is probably set up to only connect to the BN servers for the single purpose of buying books, what would be the point ? By hacking it to allow access to other servers, you remove the profit incentive of the provider, and kill the whole project.
Proprietary shit. If you can choose your own provider and pay less for the device I could see a future, but tied up like it is - no way, Jose.
Spot on, the whole point is the display. A solution in search of a problem, and now being touted as being equivalent to paper but more tightly controlled by the man. Why should I rush out and buy something with less functionality than a mobile phone just for 1 overrated and restrictive display technology ? Sure you can bang on about the battery all day if you like, but my phone gets put on charge every night anyway, so why is power consumption a big deal ?
Its e-ink screen is much better than an iPhone (I don't want a flashlight shining directly into my eyes when I read at night).
What, doesn't the iphone allow you to adjust the brightness ? Sad. My HTC allows it, and the ereader software allows me to access that control as well as font size, background colour, font colour, blah blah blah. I can easily read at arms length and it doesn't hurt my eyes. And that's on a 320x240 screen. And I don't need a bag to carry it - it fits in a front pocket of my pants. I use what ever mobile provider I want, and I host my ebook collection on my own server, even though I can fit many hundreds of "books" on an SD card. Or alternatively I can go to manybooks.net and download a book direct from there, for free.
If we can perfect AI, then the things we have created will BE us anyway. If you had a perfect robot brain, then you could treat it exactly like a human child, it would have the same emotions, impulses, thoughts... So why not ? We (as a species) can go and stay awake the whole time. Why would anybody NOT want to be almost invulnerable ? The only real objection most of the time is you don't feel it would be right. Remember the Matrix, what you feel is the result of your own mind, and if you had grown up in a robot mind, how would you know or care ? Of course we would have to be sure that we had the perfect AI before we took the plunge, but after v2 and a couple of service packs, it should be fine. Having infinite capability to progress further using only the robot mind would indicate success I think.
The point is that they are discovering more planets all the time. The "couple of hundred" you speak of is actually over 400 to date, and the number increases every time we apply a new piece of technology towards looking. And they did point out the more interesting ones - 4 of the new planets discovered are less than +6 earth masses. As we create better technology with greater and greater resolution, we will find the ones that are interesting (or earth sized anyway, all new planets are interesting unless your sole purpose is to find a new MacD). If you are not interested in the process of doing so, STFU and go do something else. We should be concentrating on looking more closely at the nearest systems for new planets, rather than looking further and further away. As we get more observant, we may find a decent planet within reaching distance. But you'll still be bored I expect - see first sentence.
Ideally we should be working on a way to take advantage of ANY planet we find, not just the ones like earth. It would be a waste to ignore the larger planets.
You can. Get a bank loan from somewhere else and pay off your student debt in full. Then it is not bound by the rules any more. Or have you promised to pay over a certain time span ?
I'd say it was a great study in the work of natural selection, but a weak study in evolution until it crosses the border into some other definitely recognizable bacteria. High school biology was a long time ago - I let my wife handle the micro-biology today - she has a degree in it.
It is a definitely recognisable different bacteria. If you take generation 1 and generation 40,000 they are different right down to their genetics. What else do you want ? There are many types of E.Coli in the wild so speciation is evident, and generation 40,000 is not like any found in the wild. You realise that there is only 1% difference between human and chimp DNA ? What were you expecting after 40,000 generations, birds ?
That's the trouble with creationists, they won't beleive that land animals evolved from aquatic creatures unless you can find a fossil fish wearing boots. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Bacteria evolved flagellum, multicelled organisms took the concept further, until you had fish with fins. Those fins strengthened for bottom dwelling fish and then some of those fish made it out of the water from time to time. Gradually the leg became stronger and more suited to land. The first fish didn't suddenly have offspring with legs fully formed, and as such there is no "missing link" because the link is in fact thousands of links, each going a little bit further towards what we see today. Because fossilisation only takes place under specific circumstances, it is wrong to expect a representative fossil for every slight change in an organism.
That's the trouble with believing a story, you expect a beginning, a middle and an end. You forget the second by second action that makes up the rest of the time in between your handy, easily digestible segments.
In other words, every fossil was from a creature that was an evolutionary dead end. We have never found the fossil from a creature whose offspring evolved into something that's still around. If the strong survive and the weak die off, it makes sense that the strong would survive long enough to evolve. Shouldn't there be MORE of these fossils? Why do we only find the dead end?
Explain crocodiles. According to the fossil record they have hardly changed from their ancestors millions of years ago. But they *have* changed. And we don't "only find the dead end". There is no dead end if there are descendants. What you're forgetting is that fossilisation only happens in relatively rare circumstances, so the vast majority of the record is not preserved at all. That unfortunately is where the step by step evolution would be easily recognised. But you can still fill in the gaps with insight and close examination. After all, the current generation came from somewhere, and it's pretty unlikely it started from scratch as is.
Regarding crocodiles, the current species get to between 20 and 30 feet in length. Crocs in the Cretaceous period were around 40 feet in length. But back then they were dealing with prey much larger than is available today. Overall, most species on earth are smaller than their ancestors, except of course humans, who have no real predators and are able to take advantage of a wider range of foods.
We have played our part in the destruction of the chain of evidence too. If you buy fish, you may have seen a halibut on the counter. Maybe it's a couple of feet long, probably less. But specimens have been caught that are 7.5 feet long and weigh over 621 pounds. They only get that big through long life, and these days we are catching them before they ever get that big. Future paleontologists will wonder why the "giant halibut" died out relatively suddenly, but there will be no missing link fossils because we ate them.
While coral does grow like that, upwards in times of higher sea level, they are unable to do so unless the atoll is covered with water. Coral grows on top of an existing coral base, not from the base. There are islands in the West Indies that have coral terraces gaining heights of 60 or 70 meters above sea level. They are not being pushed up, the sea level has dropped by that much since the first (top level) terrace was formed. Kind of puts things in perspective, i.e. how low sea level actually is today.
You bring up Katrina, so New Orleans is fair play. Which parts of NO survived relatively undamaged, and unflooded ? The old quarter. Maybe the reason they didn't build down in the lower parts of the land was because it was a soggy piece of shit, that was prone to getting flooded in storms. Greedy people thought they could make money using that land just by building earth banks around it and letting it dry out. I see the same thing here in the UK. There is currently a large amount of building on an area called the Somerset Levels. This area is criss-crossed with drainage ditches and canals, just to drain it enough for agriculture. And still it floods every year. Now they are building housing estates and commercial parks on it. Who will get the blame when it floods ? The government. Blame global warming, whinge at the local council, but if you buy a property on a flood plain, you get what you asked for.
One of those images shows how perpendicular this ribbon is to the galactic field lines. Suppose the bottom left end of the ribbon is "north" on the solar magnetic field, and the top left of the picture is "north" on the galactic field. Then assume that without the galactic magnetic field, that "north" pole of the solar field would naturally be pointing bottom right (parallel to the galactic field, but reversed in polarity). Couldn't the galactic field be pulling the solar field towards the galactic fields polarity ? And the fact it isn't totally successful, could explain part of the protective effect of the solar field - the heliosphere ?
This could be why we might be seeing an aurora type field line effect on solar scale.
Alternatively, if we assume that the solar field is polarised to the galactic field, could the ribbon just be the area directly between the north and south poles where magnetism cancels out - ENF = the neutral zone ?
I've been a customer of eReader.com since 2004. Back then I had a Palm device and eReader sold.pdb ebooks. I am still using those books, they are still accessible, I have copies of books on my server, my phone and my (xp)desktop. They don't have the capability of deleting my copies, or removing them remotely. The only encryption used is my own credit card number, which I am unlikely to share on TPB, and while I know of no cracks, I really wouldn't be interested anyway. So what if I can't copy the text directly into another document. I couldn't do that with a real book (apart from OCR) so what's the big deal. It's my copy of a book. The same copy that ran on my Palm runs perfectly the same on my HTC running WM5, or XP.
OK, their prices could use a dressing down, but otherwise they are a lot like windows mobile. Berated, laughed at and overlooked but still plugging away in the background, "just working". You could do a lot worse.
The only niggle is no linux version, but on the plus side, their pdb creator software runs in wine, and the old version is java, with command line batching. Another plus is most Gutenburg texts are available in.pdb format and Manybooks.net offers an RSS feed of the newest editions, available in 24 different formats. Why hack a file just to share it when a made to measure copy exists on the net for free ?
As for the device, I don't want a paperback book sized object, or I would carry a book. My HTC is good enough for mobile use, and the files are available on my desktop anyway. Nor do I want *another* device in addition to my phone. It's taken me years to get things reduced down to one object, I'm not throwing all that away. If they start selling flexible epaper, which, when fitted to the side of your phone can be pulled out, and read and manipulated like a touch screen, get back to me. Sort of like a roller blind or projector screen, but it locks in the extended position - maybe have touch controls on the ends of the "bar" that the loose end terminates in. I picture a cylinder of about 20mm diameter and about 90mm long, black with a mike and speaker at either end. A smaller cylinder roughly 5mm in diameter mostly recessed in the main cylinder when at rest, would hold the end of the epaper rollout mechanism, and hold the hardware controls. If it acted as a colour monitor, there is nothing you couldn't do with it. The trick of course is getting all that radio, video, cpu, memory and battery inside a 20 mm diameter tube. We MUST be close by now.
fuck off. Kids fight. Ever watched kittens or puppies ? they fight all the time. It's part of growing up. Except nobody goes through it these days, they call the police in instead, and consequently never GROW UP ! I really cannot get my head round kids complaining because somebody called them names. You may have noticed that this phenomenon is increasing not decreasing since corporal punishment was outlawed. Sometimes you need the fear of Dog put in you to teach you a lesson. Kids these days aren't getting that lesson. What kind of adults are they going to be ? Whiny self-important over litigious assholes, that's who.
Society was a lot better off when simple ego conflicts were settled privately. Now we all have to abide by stupid laws thanks to weeners who can't or won't stand up for themselves. And when they're forced to act by circumstance, they have no sense of proportion and resort to guns and knives. It never used to be like that, so what's changed ? Human nature or interfering lawmakers doing it "for the children". I know several teens who really need a good slap to wipe the smile off their smirking idle, ignorant faces, but I can't give it to them, and nobody in authority will. So I just hope something really nasty happens to them instead. And I know it will because I'm one of the nice guys. I choose to control myself, others aren't so restrained.
What's wrong with a keyboard shortcut key or assigning a function key ? It's a laptop, you probably don't just walk away frequently and leave it unattended. Not anywhere I know anyway.
Well I've had my HTC since 2006 and that has Wifi. It also has HSDPA and GPS. I also get to choose who I connect through and nobody tries to brick it with updates. It's rare I use the wifi though as having HSDPA makes it plenty quick enough, and uses less power. So all those reports could be true. Conspicuous usage is a condition I associate with apple users.
According to the AGPL quote somewhere above, you HAVE to distribute your source if people interact directly with the program you have altered. How is that different from regular GPLd software like oscommerce where the source is shared and people do share their changes. And the end users can get it too if they want. Or are you just paranoid nobody will use it ? How would you even know that somebody had improved the source without stalking every downloader of your version ? Trust. Learn it.
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How can a system of symbols be valid if you can't tell what each part represents ? I can't tell a US style date from a British style date until one of the components gets past 12. However, a british style date has logical progression, day, month, year, whereas the US system goes medium, small, largest. WTF ?
IMHO the only real solution is the yyyymmdd version, because that lists correctly on a computer, and can be used in calculations.
(As an aside, part of the reason the London bomb attacks were on the 7/7 was so that the Americans could understand it - smacks a little of deliberate design to me. I'm unaware of any religious significance to muslims of 7/7. And 911 was a no brainer for the US. What's the betting that if the US used the UK date system, the US attacks would have been in November ?)
Foot. Plural is feet, singular is foot.
,furlongs for longer distances, rods, poles, yards, feet for medium distances and inches and parts thereof for small measurements. There is no need to calculate 1,234,000 inches, ever, unless you want to know how many of your penis lengths are in 19.48 miles (411,333.3). And you start by converting inches to yards after just 36 of them. Metric is good for digital measurements, imperial is good for analogue measurements like half, quarter, third. But fractions seem to be a mystery to people these days.
And you very rarely need to convert imperial measures within the same system. It was designed and implemented around specific tasks, so you use miles, leagues
The Higgs Boson is a theoretical particle. We have no way of knowing whether it exists at all. The LHC might find it, but only if it exists to be found. What if the theory that predicted it is wrong ? I can devise a theory that deposits $100M in my bank account. When it doesn't happen, is that because the universe is somehow conspiring against me ?
On a related note, regarding dark matter/ dark energy - if quantum uncertainty is true, and a particle is never actually in existence in a certain place until you observe it, wouldn't that account for the "missing" matter / energy ? Because it actually "exists" in all dimensions at once, maybe the combined effect would explain the discrepancy we think we have found. I don't actually believe the basis for the dark matter theory anyway. Noticing that a galaxy's rotation is uniform from the centre to the edge is odd, but why would dark matter help ? Why does the solar system not act the same ? It was the application of the solar gravitational model to galaxies that brought the subject up in the first place. Maybe the discrepancy is due to the solar system not being centred around a super massive black hole. Of course the models will be different. And the fact that spiral galaxies exist surely shows that the "arms" have travelled slower than the centre at some stage. Maybe the rotation at the centre has slowed down to match that of the arms, making us think we need extra matter to account for the observation.
Questions, questions.
Bob Lazar is still around ? After all that area 51 crap ?
The eReader software allows you to highlight text and add notes. You can access those notes directly via an index, or if you see highlighted text, just click it and the note appears. Can't the kindle do that ?
And the fact that the 3G service is built into the price should give any body with half a brain pause for thought. How long will they honour this ? If it costs the provider money and not enough people buy the books (which is where they would surely get their profit) will they not simply cease the service ? And since the 3G service is probably set up to only connect to the BN servers for the single purpose of buying books, what would be the point ? By hacking it to allow access to other servers, you remove the profit incentive of the provider, and kill the whole project.
Proprietary shit. If you can choose your own provider and pay less for the device I could see a future, but tied up like it is - no way, Jose.
Spot on, the whole point is the display. A solution in search of a problem, and now being touted as being equivalent to paper but more tightly controlled by the man. Why should I rush out and buy something with less functionality than a mobile phone just for 1 overrated and restrictive display technology ? Sure you can bang on about the battery all day if you like, but my phone gets put on charge every night anyway, so why is power consumption a big deal ?
What, doesn't the iphone allow you to adjust the brightness ? Sad. My HTC allows it, and the ereader software allows me to access that control as well as font size, background colour, font colour, blah blah blah. I can easily read at arms length and it doesn't hurt my eyes. And that's on a 320x240 screen. And I don't need a bag to carry it - it fits in a front pocket of my pants. I use what ever mobile provider I want, and I host my ebook collection on my own server, even though I can fit many hundreds of "books" on an SD card. Or alternatively I can go to manybooks.net and download a book direct from there, for free.
Why limit ourselves to human bodies ?
... So why not ? We (as a species) can go and stay awake the whole time. Why would anybody NOT want to be almost invulnerable ? The only real objection most of the time is you don't feel it would be right. Remember the Matrix, what you feel is the result of your own mind, and if you had grown up in a robot mind, how would you know or care ? Of course we would have to be sure that we had the perfect AI before we took the plunge, but after v2 and a couple of service packs, it should be fine. Having infinite capability to progress further using only the robot mind would indicate success I think.
If we can perfect AI, then the things we have created will BE us anyway. If you had a perfect robot brain, then you could treat it exactly like a human child, it would have the same emotions, impulses, thoughts
How is that worse than the space station ?
Bored people are boring.
The point is that they are discovering more planets all the time. The "couple of hundred" you speak of is actually over 400 to date, and the number increases every time we apply a new piece of technology towards looking. And they did point out the more interesting ones - 4 of the new planets discovered are less than +6 earth masses. As we create better technology with greater and greater resolution, we will find the ones that are interesting (or earth sized anyway, all new planets are interesting unless your sole purpose is to find a new MacD). If you are not interested in the process of doing so, STFU and go do something else. We should be concentrating on looking more closely at the nearest systems for new planets, rather than looking further and further away. As we get more observant, we may find a decent planet within reaching distance. But you'll still be bored I expect - see first sentence.
Ideally we should be working on a way to take advantage of ANY planet we find, not just the ones like earth. It would be a waste to ignore the larger planets.
Maximum 96 pixels.
What is "glazed glass" ? Is that glass that has glass in it ?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&num=20&q=glazed&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB
You can. Get a bank loan from somewhere else and pay off your student debt in full. Then it is not bound by the rules any more. Or have you promised to pay over a certain time span ?
It is a definitely recognisable different bacteria. If you take generation 1 and generation 40,000 they are different right down to their genetics. What else do you want ? There are many types of E.Coli in the wild so speciation is evident, and generation 40,000 is not like any found in the wild. You realise that there is only 1% difference between human and chimp DNA ? What were you expecting after 40,000 generations, birds ?
That's the trouble with creationists, they won't beleive that land animals evolved from aquatic creatures unless you can find a fossil fish wearing boots. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Bacteria evolved flagellum, multicelled organisms took the concept further, until you had fish with fins. Those fins strengthened for bottom dwelling fish and then some of those fish made it out of the water from time to time. Gradually the leg became stronger and more suited to land. The first fish didn't suddenly have offspring with legs fully formed, and as such there is no "missing link" because the link is in fact thousands of links, each going a little bit further towards what we see today. Because fossilisation only takes place under specific circumstances, it is wrong to expect a representative fossil for every slight change in an organism.
That's the trouble with believing a story, you expect a beginning, a middle and an end. You forget the second by second action that makes up the rest of the time in between your handy, easily digestible segments.
Explain crocodiles. According to the fossil record they have hardly changed from their ancestors millions of years ago. But they *have* changed. And we don't "only find the dead end". There is no dead end if there are descendants. What you're forgetting is that fossilisation only happens in relatively rare circumstances, so the vast majority of the record is not preserved at all. That unfortunately is where the step by step evolution would be easily recognised. But you can still fill in the gaps with insight and close examination. After all, the current generation came from somewhere, and it's pretty unlikely it started from scratch as is.
Regarding crocodiles, the current species get to between 20 and 30 feet in length. Crocs in the Cretaceous period were around 40 feet in length. But back then they were dealing with prey much larger than is available today. Overall, most species on earth are smaller than their ancestors, except of course humans, who have no real predators and are able to take advantage of a wider range of foods.
We have played our part in the destruction of the chain of evidence too. If you buy fish, you may have seen a halibut on the counter. Maybe it's a couple of feet long, probably less. But specimens have been caught that are 7.5 feet long and weigh over 621 pounds. They only get that big through long life, and these days we are catching them before they ever get that big. Future paleontologists will wonder why the "giant halibut" died out relatively suddenly, but there will be no missing link fossils because we ate them.
While coral does grow like that, upwards in times of higher sea level, they are unable to do so unless the atoll is covered with water. Coral grows on top of an existing coral base, not from the base. There are islands in the West Indies that have coral terraces gaining heights of 60 or 70 meters above sea level. They are not being pushed up, the sea level has dropped by that much since the first (top level) terrace was formed. Kind of puts things in perspective, i.e. how low sea level actually is today.
You bring up Katrina, so New Orleans is fair play. Which parts of NO survived relatively undamaged, and unflooded ? The old quarter. Maybe the reason they didn't build down in the lower parts of the land was because it was a soggy piece of shit, that was prone to getting flooded in storms. Greedy people thought they could make money using that land just by building earth banks around it and letting it dry out. I see the same thing here in the UK. There is currently a large amount of building on an area called the Somerset Levels. This area is criss-crossed with drainage ditches and canals, just to drain it enough for agriculture. And still it floods every year. Now they are building housing estates and commercial parks on it. Who will get the blame when it floods ? The government. Blame global warming, whinge at the local council, but if you buy a property on a flood plain, you get what you asked for.
One of those images shows how perpendicular this ribbon is to the galactic field lines. Suppose the bottom left end of the ribbon is "north" on the solar magnetic field, and the top left of the picture is "north" on the galactic field. Then assume that without the galactic magnetic field, that "north" pole of the solar field would naturally be pointing bottom right (parallel to the galactic field, but reversed in polarity).
Couldn't the galactic field be pulling the solar field towards the galactic fields polarity ? And the fact it isn't totally successful, could explain part of the protective effect of the solar field - the heliosphere ?
This could be why we might be seeing an aurora type field line effect on solar scale.
Alternatively, if we assume that the solar field is polarised to the galactic field, could the ribbon just be the area directly between the north and south poles where magnetism cancels out - ENF = the neutral zone ?
I think the Japanese military have prior art on that.
I've been a customer of eReader.com since 2004. Back then I had a Palm device and eReader sold .pdb ebooks.
.pdb format and Manybooks.net offers an RSS feed of the newest editions, available in 24 different formats. Why hack a file just to share it when a made to measure copy exists on the net for free ?
I am still using those books, they are still accessible, I have copies of books on my server, my phone and my (xp)desktop. They don't have the capability of deleting my copies, or removing them remotely. The only encryption used is my own credit card number, which I am unlikely to share on TPB, and while I know of no cracks, I really wouldn't be interested anyway. So what if I can't copy the text directly into another document. I couldn't do that with a real book (apart from OCR) so what's the big deal. It's my copy of a book. The same copy that ran on my Palm runs perfectly the same on my HTC running WM5, or XP.
OK, their prices could use a dressing down, but otherwise they are a lot like windows mobile. Berated, laughed at and overlooked but still plugging away in the background, "just working". You could do a lot worse. The only niggle is no linux version, but on the plus side, their pdb creator software runs in wine, and the old version is java, with command line batching. Another plus is most Gutenburg texts are available in
As for the device, I don't want a paperback book sized object, or I would carry a book. My HTC is good enough for mobile use, and the files are available on my desktop anyway. Nor do I want *another* device in addition to my phone. It's taken me years to get things reduced down to one object, I'm not throwing all that away. If they start selling flexible epaper, which, when fitted to the side of your phone can be pulled out, and read and manipulated like a touch screen, get back to me. Sort of like a roller blind or projector screen, but it locks in the extended position - maybe have touch controls on the ends of the "bar" that the loose end terminates in. I picture a cylinder of about 20mm diameter and about 90mm long, black with a mike and speaker at either end. A smaller cylinder roughly 5mm in diameter mostly recessed in the main cylinder when at rest, would hold the end of the epaper rollout mechanism, and hold the hardware controls. If it acted as a colour monitor, there is nothing you couldn't do with it. The trick of course is getting all that radio, video, cpu, memory and battery inside a 20 mm diameter tube. We MUST be close by now.
fuck off. Kids fight. Ever watched kittens or puppies ? they fight all the time. It's part of growing up. Except nobody goes through it these days, they call the police in instead, and consequently never GROW UP ! I really cannot get my head round kids complaining because somebody called them names. You may have noticed that this phenomenon is increasing not decreasing since corporal punishment was outlawed. Sometimes you need the fear of Dog put in you to teach you a lesson. Kids these days aren't getting that lesson. What kind of adults are they going to be ? Whiny self-important over litigious assholes, that's who.
Society was a lot better off when simple ego conflicts were settled privately. Now we all have to abide by stupid laws thanks to weeners who can't or won't stand up for themselves. And when they're forced to act by circumstance, they have no sense of proportion and resort to guns and knives. It never used to be like that, so what's changed ? Human nature or interfering lawmakers doing it "for the children". I know several teens who really need a good slap to wipe the smile off their smirking idle, ignorant faces, but I can't give it to them, and nobody in authority will. So I just hope something really nasty happens to them instead. And I know it will because I'm one of the nice guys. I choose to control myself, others aren't so restrained.
What's wrong with a keyboard shortcut key or assigning a function key ? It's a laptop, you probably don't just walk away frequently and leave it unattended. Not anywhere I know anyway.
Well I've had my HTC since 2006 and that has Wifi. It also has HSDPA and GPS. I also get to choose who I connect through and nobody tries to brick it with updates. It's rare I use the wifi though as having HSDPA makes it plenty quick enough, and uses less power. So all those reports could be true. Conspicuous usage is a condition I associate with apple users.
According to the AGPL quote somewhere above, you HAVE to distribute your source if people interact directly with the program you have altered. How is that different from regular GPLd software like oscommerce where the source is shared and people do share their changes. And the end users can get it too if they want. Or are you just paranoid nobody will use it ? How would you even know that somebody had improved the source without stalking every downloader of your version ? Trust. Learn it.