Ow c'mon.. What is the last time you tried a modern distro?
e.g. Ubuntu, FC3, Suse 9.*...
Scrollwheels work out of the box nowadays. Changing resolution is just a few clicks, as is installing a printer. Fonts are rendered as nice, if even not more nice than in Windows and changing the menu in Gnome/KDE isn't more of a problem than in any other OS.
Of course they don't. I'd surprise me if the average Joe Cop knows that this isn't permitted.
However, you certainly can't use those pictures in your own publications, there have been lawsuits over this.
You can't take a picture of a statue for example, because that would be an illegal reproduction of the statue. Same goed for buildings etc.
You can take a picture of someone in front of a statue, if it is clear that the person in front is the subject of the picture, instead of the statue.
Because with a car you're 95% free to do with it whatever you want. You can put other wheels on it, a different engine, 30" subwoofer in the back etc. You can look under the hood and see how it works, tweak it, fix it or break it. And you don't violate any patent/copyright law.
With closed software however, you can't look under the hood (although it's legal under EU patent system to reverse-engineer) or modify as much as you want, simply because it isn't quite possible.
This is how patents work, at least here in Europe. You get 3 years for free and after that you have to pay a tax which increases with each year you wan't to keep the patent.
Of course I don't know how to make such a nanomachine; IANANE: I am not a nano engineer..
However:
powering them shouldn't be such a problem, I didn't say the whole thing has to be portable, so you can assume external power. OTOH, you can assume you can get power out of the glucose in blood, just like an ordinary human cell
Dealing with the heat could happen in the same fashion, use blood to cool them, the blood gets cooled by sweating etc.
If something can be stored in a cell, why wouldn't it be possible to store the same in a machine? After all, a cell and a machine are made of the very same atoms, so the "logic" as you call it is nothing more than atoms reacting in a certain way which can be reproduced.
I can see why some people have problems with the fact that a human beeing is more than just atoms and molecules reacting, but all science so far points in that direction, so who am I to say it isn't so?
1. Could you download it without destroying it? In the act of downloading would you destroy it before it the download is complete.
Why not?
Suppose you create a sort of nano-machine, which can act exactly the same as a braincell (which should be possible in the future). You put it in your brain on a random first cell. The nanomachine probes that cell to see how it reacts and then replaces it. You would know, because the machine act the same way like that cell. Then you move on to the second cell, the third and so on. On a given moment, all your braincells have been replaced by nanomachines and then it wouldnt be that difficult to download the whole thing.
2. Does uncertainty rule out downloading. Since you can not know both the position and velocity of a particle could your really copy a mind.
Information in the brain is not stored in quantum-effected particles, so uncertainty doesn't apply here.
Yes, you can tell them apart, since all data is stored on the disk drives and if you would examine those on a atomic level, you'd see the difference.
You made a false assumption, because the atoms of the two computers aren't the same
I'm sure your little boy is going to make lot's of friends by wearing a suit which is electrically charged, has a antenna stick out of his shoulder and looks even more like a "nerd" than when he was just wearing glasses.
I think you didn't do your son a favor by doing this.
Of course, if this would be true, which I sincerely doubt.
He has a point.
1 megabyte uses to be 2^20 bytes, everybody used to do so, but when some harddisk manufacturers started to change things in their favor, it became very handy for them to suddenly call 2^20 bytes a mibibyte. And so it became official.
These eID cards aren't all that bad.
Here in Belgium we are obligated to carry normal ID cards with us, so if those become one with a chip in them, it doesn't make that much a difference.
If you don't want to use it for identifying with msn, so don't.
On the other hand, they are fully supported on all sorts of unixes, so they might be handy to login your own system or whatsoever.
It's not like they're equiped with some sort of rfid so govmnt can track wherever you are.
In the movie they just get away with it, stealing the Red October and the russians are dumb enough to believe it,
but in the book they go through a lot more of trouble to make sure the russians wouldn't know they've got her.
I think it gives the story a lot more credibility.
Belgian banknote used to have braille on them, some sort of.. Then came the euro, they have some things ont them for blind people, but not braille actually.
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Ow c'mon.. What is the last time you tried a modern distro? ...
e.g. Ubuntu, FC3, Suse 9.*
Scrollwheels work out of the box nowadays. Changing resolution is just a few clicks, as is installing a printer. Fonts are rendered as nice, if even not more nice than in Windows and changing the menu in Gnome/KDE isn't more of a problem than in any other OS.
Of course they don't. I'd surprise me if the average Joe Cop knows that this isn't permitted.
However, you certainly can't use those pictures in your own publications, there have been lawsuits over this.
Actually, you can't. (at least here in Europe)
You can't take a picture of a statue for example, because that would be an illegal reproduction of the statue. Same goed for buildings etc.
You can take a picture of someone in front of a statue, if it is clear that the person in front is the subject of the picture, instead of the statue.
Rotterdam?
There's squat to see in Rotterdam.
If you'd make a model from a city in Holland, I'd go for Amsterdam at least.
Because with a car you're 95% free to do with it whatever you want. You can put other wheels on it, a different engine, 30" subwoofer in the back etc. You can look under the hood and see how it works, tweak it, fix it or break it. And you don't violate any patent/copyright law.
With closed software however, you can't look under the hood (although it's legal under EU patent system to reverse-engineer) or modify as much as you want, simply because it isn't quite possible.
This is how patents work, at least here in Europe.
You get 3 years for free and after that you have to pay a tax which increases with each year you wan't to keep the patent.
"Live and let die" isn't a Beatles song, you nitwit!
It's McCartney&Wings.
Hmm.. Somehow all the dots, slashes etc disappeared.
Thanks for fixing anyway...
Not ment as porn, but Belgian artist Wim Delvoye has made such images. (link to the more "decent" kind)
Of course I don't know how to make such a nanomachine; IANANE: I am not a nano engineer..
However:
powering them shouldn't be such a problem, I didn't say the whole thing has to be portable, so you can assume external power. OTOH, you can assume you can get power out of the glucose in blood, just like an ordinary human cell
Dealing with the heat could happen in the same fashion, use blood to cool them, the blood gets cooled by sweating etc.
If something can be stored in a cell, why wouldn't it be possible to store the same in a machine? After all, a cell and a machine are made of the very same atoms, so the "logic" as you call it is nothing more than atoms reacting in a certain way which can be reproduced.
I can see why some people have problems with the fact that a human beeing is more than just atoms and molecules reacting, but all science so far points in that direction, so who am I to say it isn't so?
1. Could you download it without destroying it? In the act of downloading would you destroy it before it the download is complete. Why not? Suppose you create a sort of nano-machine, which can act exactly the same as a braincell (which should be possible in the future). You put it in your brain on a random first cell. The nanomachine probes that cell to see how it reacts and then replaces it. You would know, because the machine act the same way like that cell. Then you move on to the second cell, the third and so on. On a given moment, all your braincells have been replaced by nanomachines and then it wouldnt be that difficult to download the whole thing. 2. Does uncertainty rule out downloading. Since you can not know both the position and velocity of a particle could your really copy a mind. Information in the brain is not stored in quantum-effected particles, so uncertainty doesn't apply here.
Yes, you can tell them apart, since all data is stored on the disk drives and if you would examine those on a atomic level, you'd see the difference. You made a false assumption, because the atoms of the two computers aren't the same
OMG!
I'm sure your little boy is going to make lot's of friends by wearing a suit which is electrically charged, has a antenna stick out of his shoulder and looks even more like a "nerd" than when he was just wearing glasses.
I think you didn't do your son a favor by doing this.
Of course, if this would be true, which I sincerely doubt.
He has a point. 1 megabyte uses to be 2^20 bytes, everybody used to do so, but when some harddisk manufacturers started to change things in their favor, it became very handy for them to suddenly call 2^20 bytes a mibibyte. And so it became official.
You americans are a crazy bunch.. 87 octane?
Here in europe (belgium) the lowest you can get is 96 octane..
The little pocket on the right side was (is) ment to hold your pocketwatch.
As I said in other posts
and as it was discussed on be.comp.os.linux
the things are fully linux supported.
They are supported by all sorts of unixes, check this site, you can find drivers for the reader in java, for windows, linux, solaris, macOSx etc...
These eID cards aren't all that bad.
Here in Belgium we are obligated to carry normal ID cards with us, so if those become one with a chip in them, it doesn't make that much a difference.
If you don't want to use it for identifying with msn, so don't.
On the other hand, they are fully supported on all sorts of unixes, so they might be handy to login your own system or whatsoever.
It's not like they're equiped with some sort of rfid so govmnt can track wherever you are.
Similar thing here in Belgium; it seems that it only looks at pages in/related to belgium, even when I told it the same things as you did.
Searching for linux gives as the first site "linux on you mac"...
I strongly disagree.
In the movie they just get away with it, stealing the Red October and the russians are dumb enough to believe it,
but in the book they go through a lot more of trouble to make sure the russians wouldn't know they've got her.
I think it gives the story a lot more credibility.
Anyway, just my 0.02 euro.
Several years of research have resulted in blabla..
Yet their company was founded in Januari 2004
Belgian banknote used to have braille on them, some sort of..
Then came the euro, they have some things ont them for blind people, but not braille actually.
His blog looks like the site of some obscure censusbureau of some obscure western-hemisphere country to me.
Beside the fact that you CAN install a program like OOo without a package or without compiling,like, by using a installer!