No, I'd buy one if it was cheaper. Much, much cheaper. The $199 price with extra controllers and nunchucks and a few games might be nice. And motion-plus built-in to each new controller.
I second that. The wii never delivered up to expectations - I've been waiting for an accurate light saber game ever since I saw a tech demo that used a web cam. I'm still unclear why the original Wii controller couldn't do this, but it was a disappointment.
Nintendo needs bundle a lot more with the Wii for it to be a value. It is meant for multiplayer non-online gaming. A wii + 2 additional controllers + 2 nunchunks + motion plus + a balance board is a good gaming system. But a very expensive one.
The other problem is that the Wii really just never worked right. Wii + motion plus is closer to what Nintendo originally promised. I love physically interactive games (DDR, Police 911, etc.) but the Wii is really a pretty weak platform for them. Wii Tennis just detected if you swung the controller randomly. Punch Out can't tell uppercuts from high punches from low punches without relying on buttons. The balance board can't really tell if you dodge - people have figured out things like standing on one foot that makes it think you dodged, but that takes the fun away (and doesn't work on the later levels).
I am more excited about the next generation of interactive gaming than what the Wii does now.
A while ago someone at our office installed an ActiveX plug-in for Firefox so that they could use some internal web app. Talk about security hole! Adding IE into anything is a disaster.
The price of books or music or movies doesn't depend on the format. If it did, all MP3s and DVDs would cost the same, and books would be priced based on their print quality, number of pages and binding.
All movies at my local theater cost the same, regardless of popularity or cost of the movie. That is because the theater's main costs are rent and labor, and they pay for everything via food sales not ticket sales. The nicer theaters cost more than the cheaper theaters, so the theater is obviously more of a factor than the movie.
All MP3s are 99 cents. Sometimes more if it is unprotected -vs- DRM'd. Again: format.
Books are mostly the same - manga is one price, paperbacks are another price (almost the same: $4.99 to 8.99 or so), and hardback books are at least twice the price of paperback books. Oversized full color prints are the most expensive. This all tells me that although content does matter somewhat, format outweighs it. DVDs are tiered in price by age. They all start at like $20 or so, then work their way down to $10.
As I think about this, it is kinda horrifying. But it is nice in that people have the ability to buy whatever they like.
The basis of the quote is the assumption that the good people overwhelm the bad people 1000 to 1, but that the good people do nothing. So if your scenario is the truth, then the quote does not apply.
That generally refers to the population of said country. Not people living on the other side of the globe with no stake in it. That quote should be directed to the good people of Iran.
What this tells us is that we didn't need a standard web-language. We needed a standard web virtual machine. I guess, the JRE and Flash really are those things. Javascript really isn't.
...founded Nanocomp in 2004. They developed a patent-pending system, controlled by a computer, that could produce large quantities of one-millimeter nanotubes. This was long enough to start making yarn and sheets.
So they are still making 1mm long fibers and sewing them together to make strands and sheets. I wonder how much stronger a continuous strand would be? It seems like there is a lot of potential to make these things even stronger.
They did write about real science, and yet they still got sued. From the article:
Their book is an accessible and rigorous investigation of the scientific evidence for or against the claims made about various forms of âoealternative medicine,â from acupuncture to herbal remedies.
Then...
...heâ(TM)s being sued for libel...for an article he published in The Guardian newspaper last year. In the article, Singh argued that there is no evidence for some of the claims that the BCA makes about the health benefits of visiting a chiropractor.
So he wrote an article that summarized an entire book's worth of research. I'm not sure how this could be libel: The only evidence that needs to be submitted to the court is his book. If the book is indeed "rigorous investigation of scientific evidence" then there is no way his statements could be libelous.
You can't challenge something in court without first having standing. Standing means that you actually have to be affected by something. That's why you can't sue AT&T over the warrantless wiretapping: You must first show that you have standing, which means that you must be one of the people who was wiretapped. I suspect that to challenge this copyright, he would need to violate it first.
he takes the passive-aggressive route
It isn't passive aggressive when you issue a challenge to try and sue him. Passive aggressive would be secretly and anonymously giving copies away to people who need them.
It would be easy to make an aftermarket tamper-proof odometer. It could use an accelerometer in a completely sealed and tamper-proof shell. Think of it as an airplane's black box. The digital circuit could be designed to only allow the numbers to go UP, and it could be cheap enough to be discardable.
In theory, your advice is sound. In reality, your advice is too expensive for the average citizen.
You have a beef with a ticket? Being arrested? Have your day in court.
People have had careers destroyed because they were "charged" but not convicted.
If he is wrong, it will be found out in a court of law.
And often times, a police officer is wrong, but it is not handled by the court.
Any time a suspect does not comply with the officers direction, it is a life or death situation.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that statement was made in frustration or anger. Certainly, every case where an officer does not get his wait (rightfully, or not) is not a life or death situation.
Officer: "You cannot take pictures here."
Citizen: "Why not?" That is definitely NOT a life or death situation.
The difficulty here is that officers have a fine line to walk, and they often are not the best trained people to be walking that line.
It looks like GCD is very similar to OpenMP. I am always biased toward using an open standard, when possible. Since many compiler vendors support OpenMP, why didn't apple just implement that for Objective-C, instead of creating their own threading solution? Judging from the examples, GCD looks much cleaner and simpler. But that often comes with a price.
So what if I record someone's lips? Or someone using sign language? Or told them I was deaf and made them write it down? Why the heck would audio be treated differently from video?
Another reason the patent system needs to be updated is because patents are written for lawyers, not for practitioners. Ex: If the patent is about software, a software engineer should be able to read and understand the patent. If it is a patent on a food recipe, then a chef should be able to understand it.
But the patent above requires a lawyer and a linguistics expert to read it, then explain it to the software engineer. The engineer won't understand the patent, and the lawyer won't understand the software. So it is like there is an intentional "gap of unintelligibility" there to protect the patent holder from anyone actually being able to challenge it.
Not all patents are written this way. But patents filed by trolls, and companies with more lawyers than engineers wind-up this way. I worked for a company that did this: The software guys gave design documentation and code to a lawyer. The lawyer turned 10 pages of diagrams into *hundreds* of pages of text. The software people then reviewed it, and had no idea what it was about. The inventors didn't even understand their own design.
Doesn't Microsoft put out about 100x as many products as Apple? Seems like Microsoft will have to fit 10 times as much content on their site. I bet MSDN alone is bigger than everything Apple has put out combined.
It is a challenge to try and fit a lot of information - especially detailed complex information - into a single easy-to-use web site.
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I thought this was a troll, but it isn't.
Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions
No, I'd buy one if it was cheaper. Much, much cheaper. The $199 price with extra controllers and nunchucks and a few games might be nice. And motion-plus built-in to each new controller.
I second that. The wii never delivered up to expectations - I've been waiting for an accurate light saber game ever since I saw a tech demo that used a web cam. I'm still unclear why the original Wii controller couldn't do this, but it was a disappointment.
Nintendo needs bundle a lot more with the Wii for it to be a value. It is meant for multiplayer non-online gaming. A wii + 2 additional controllers + 2 nunchunks + motion plus + a balance board is a good gaming system. But a very expensive one.
The other problem is that the Wii really just never worked right. Wii + motion plus is closer to what Nintendo originally promised. I love physically interactive games (DDR, Police 911, etc.) but the Wii is really a pretty weak platform for them. Wii Tennis just detected if you swung the controller randomly. Punch Out can't tell uppercuts from high punches from low punches without relying on buttons. The balance board can't really tell if you dodge - people have figured out things like standing on one foot that makes it think you dodged, but that takes the fun away (and doesn't work on the later levels).
I am more excited about the next generation of interactive gaming than what the Wii does now.
A while ago someone at our office installed an ActiveX plug-in for Firefox so that they could use some internal web app. Talk about security hole! Adding IE into anything is a disaster.
The price of books or music or movies doesn't depend on the format. If it did, all MP3s and DVDs would cost the same, and books would be priced based on their print quality, number of pages and binding.
All movies at my local theater cost the same, regardless of popularity or cost of the movie. That is because the theater's main costs are rent and labor, and they pay for everything via food sales not ticket sales. The nicer theaters cost more than the cheaper theaters, so the theater is obviously more of a factor than the movie.
All MP3s are 99 cents. Sometimes more if it is unprotected -vs- DRM'd. Again: format.
Books are mostly the same - manga is one price, paperbacks are another price (almost the same: $4.99 to 8.99 or so), and hardback books are at least twice the price of paperback books. Oversized full color prints are the most expensive. This all tells me that although content does matter somewhat, format outweighs it. DVDs are tiered in price by age. They all start at like $20 or so, then work their way down to $10.
As I think about this, it is kinda horrifying. But it is nice in that people have the ability to buy whatever they like.
The basis of the quote is the assumption that the good people overwhelm the bad people 1000 to 1, but that the good people do nothing. So if your scenario is the truth, then the quote does not apply.
That generally refers to the population of said country. Not people living on the other side of the globe with no stake in it. That quote should be directed to the good people of Iran.
I call BS on the 60-100W figure. A quick Google search:
Modern televisions use only a small fraction of the power in standby mode (typically less than 10W). A modern HD LCD television may use only 1W or less when in standby mode (compared to 80W-125W during standard operation).
Various charts showing a range from 0W-16W
Energy Star requires power consumption of less than 1 watt in standby to qualify.
What this tells us is that we didn't need a standard web-language. We needed a standard web virtual machine. I guess, the JRE and Flash really are those things. Javascript really isn't.
...founded Nanocomp in 2004. They developed a patent-pending system, controlled by a computer, that could produce large quantities of one-millimeter nanotubes. This was long enough to start making yarn and sheets.
So they are still making 1mm long fibers and sewing them together to make strands and sheets. I wonder how much stronger a continuous strand would be? It seems like there is a lot of potential to make these things even stronger.
Simple solution: Run two network loops, and give the doctor his research computer on a different network. There are lots of places that do this.
Although in reality, the most practical solution is to make the users non-admins so this can't happen.
Enough to physically see the damage and know it was tampered with. Plus, it would record and measure the hammer hits.
They did write about real science, and yet they still got sued. From the article:
Their book is an accessible and rigorous investigation of the scientific evidence for or against the claims made about various forms of âoealternative medicine,â from acupuncture to herbal remedies.
Then...
...heâ(TM)s being sued for libel ...for an article he published in The Guardian newspaper last year. In the article, Singh argued that there is no evidence for some of the claims that the BCA makes about the health benefits of visiting a chiropractor.
So he wrote an article that summarized an entire book's worth of research. I'm not sure how this could be libel: The only evidence that needs to be submitted to the court is his book. If the book is indeed "rigorous investigation of scientific evidence" then there is no way his statements could be libelous.
You can't challenge something in court without first having standing. Standing means that you actually have to be affected by something. That's why you can't sue AT&T over the warrantless wiretapping: You must first show that you have standing, which means that you must be one of the people who was wiretapped. I suspect that to challenge this copyright, he would need to violate it first.
he takes the passive-aggressive route
It isn't passive aggressive when you issue a challenge to try and sue him. Passive aggressive would be secretly and anonymously giving copies away to people who need them.
It would be easy to make an aftermarket tamper-proof odometer. It could use an accelerometer in a completely sealed and tamper-proof shell. Think of it as an airplane's black box. The digital circuit could be designed to only allow the numbers to go UP, and it could be cheap enough to be discardable.
This is not Microsoft's fault. Talk to whoever created a web site that only works in specific versions of a specific browser.
In theory, your advice is sound. In reality, your advice is too expensive for the average citizen.
You have a beef with a ticket? Being arrested? Have your day in court.
People have had careers destroyed because they were "charged" but not convicted.
If he is wrong, it will be found out in a court of law.
And often times, a police officer is wrong, but it is not handled by the court.
Any time a suspect does not comply with the officers direction, it is a life or death situation.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that statement was made in frustration or anger. Certainly, every case where an officer does not get his wait (rightfully, or not) is not a life or death situation.
Officer: "You cannot take pictures here."
Citizen: "Why not?"
That is definitely NOT a life or death situation.
The difficulty here is that officers have a fine line to walk, and they often are not the best trained people to be walking that line.
It looks like GCD is very similar to OpenMP. I am always biased toward using an open standard, when possible. Since many compiler vendors support OpenMP, why didn't apple just implement that for Objective-C, instead of creating their own threading solution? Judging from the examples, GCD looks much cleaner and simpler. But that often comes with a price.
I used to do that but it became a nuisance. Now I use NTFS, since there are stable read/write tools for OS X, Linux, and Windows.
So what if I record someone's lips? Or someone using sign language? Or told them I was deaf and made them write it down? Why the heck would audio be treated differently from video?
But we should trust Slashdot posts?
Another reason the patent system needs to be updated is because patents are written for lawyers, not for practitioners. Ex: If the patent is about software, a software engineer should be able to read and understand the patent. If it is a patent on a food recipe, then a chef should be able to understand it.
But the patent above requires a lawyer and a linguistics expert to read it, then explain it to the software engineer. The engineer won't understand the patent, and the lawyer won't understand the software. So it is like there is an intentional "gap of unintelligibility" there to protect the patent holder from anyone actually being able to challenge it.
Not all patents are written this way. But patents filed by trolls, and companies with more lawyers than engineers wind-up this way. I worked for a company that did this: The software guys gave design documentation and code to a lawyer. The lawyer turned 10 pages of diagrams into *hundreds* of pages of text. The software people then reviewed it, and had no idea what it was about. The inventors didn't even understand their own design.
Doesn't Microsoft put out about 100x as many products as Apple? Seems like Microsoft will have to fit 10 times as much content on their site. I bet MSDN alone is bigger than everything Apple has put out combined.
It is a challenge to try and fit a lot of information - especially detailed complex information - into a single easy-to-use web site.
I suspect that would violate the RAND terms Microsoft signed when obtaining ECMA standardization of .NET.