With an electrochromic floor, you can make it appear opaque and only when the passengers are in the air you can turn it off (on, whatever) to make it transparent. For 1 April you can make a fake crack appear and make it progressively larger. Now that is what I call on board entertainment.
Making a crack appear could help condition passengers such that when a real crack appears in a plane, people don't shout and panick and all. Or it could be used to contain terrorists. Let them try to cross the chasm to the cockpit.
Because it is (considered) holy a worn koran should not be tossed away but burned. So, little wrong with burning them but I guess the intentions (my religion is better than yours. No, it is not! I hate you) will suffice to raise the temper of any grown up five year old believer.
Bert Who believes that everyone should be taught about retroviral evidence that we were not created by yagolah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbh1P6DW5I&feature=player_embedded If the religion is kept in perspective there is less likelihood to impose bad things on others (I hope)
Does look like a business-model to me. Or am I the only one to see the parallel with the shareware business model, now just for open sourced vapour ware? Like shareware may have, it comes with community for thought and discussion.
Well, if gays are not allowed to marry, such as in some backwaters where the freedom of some somehow requires limiting the freedom of others, they don't get the opportunity to get stuck in a relationship.
l love this, but isn't it at odds with modern hardware? I believe one can run across the problem that the hardware refuses to play a movie at (very) high resolution because it lacks DRM. That movie could be your own or in the public domain.
"It's far easier to learn programming, and read physics textbooks, and read Dawkins/Hitchens, and other men bloviating about the evils of religion, when they don't even have any real expertise in theology to begin with (Dawkins is a BIOLOGIST)."
OK, it is a deal if the religious people tear the "how mankind got there" chapter out of their story book. After all, they are not biologists.
Would demanding that the theological experts stop talking about religion until they have a shred of evidence for the existence of (their!) deity be taking it too far? If they're the experts... . I know Dawkins does provide evidence every time he discusses evolution.
Bert Who somehow still thinks that Dawkins knows more about religion than a creationist about biology.
"The only way I see them preventing a simple photograph from circumventing this is using two cameras, scanning at different angles, and making sure the two images are slightly different but still match. In that case you would need a fairly complicated rig to get the cameras to look at two photos at once in order to fool them. Much better, but not exactly secure."
One camera could suffice if you're required to turn your head (like shaking no and/or nodding).
With the proper technology, you could let drive cars in pairs, the second car tailgating the first). It would save an enormous amount of fuel (for both cars, by the way), all it requires is that if the first car brakes, the second car brakes a) at the same time, b) at least as fast. The first car can communicate that to the second car with the speed of light, and as a back-up the second car can monitor the distance to the first car.
With reduced distance there can be more cars on the road (or not in a queue but actually riding).
Well, according to Apple the top three reasons why those 5% of apps were rejected are: 1) they crash (apple doesn't want rotten fruit in its shop) 2) because they don't do what the developer says they do (lemons instead of peaches) 3) third I forgot (perhaps the use of non-public APIs. If Apple changes those, the third party apps relying on them wouldn't work; see #1)
It is not as if the developer isn't in control of any of the above.
"I believe student projects are not claimable as prior art"
Prior art is not something that is claimed.
If you did that as a student project, and your work somehow became public (e.g. as in a paper held where any member of the public could be present; or as a thesis available in the library of the educational institution), then it is prior art, can be provided to the Examiner as a third party message (with proof, which may be pretty hard if it was available only as a paper; you'd have to get members of the audience to testify), and will be held against the grant of a patent application. If the patent has already been granted, I guess it will be included in the file (don't know for certain what the USPTO does with it), as a result of which - in case IBM wants to accuse someone of infringement - the deemed infringer will find the document and will use it to fend off IBM.
The obvious answer is: buy Macs. They guarantee you flexibility. You can install Windows on them if you need it. You can run Windows and Mac OS X as alternative systems (Bootcamp), using a virtual machine such as Parallels, or without Mac OS X at all. Windows licenses are very cheap for educational organizations.
So, any argument you read in favour of Windows in this topic goes for choosing a Macintosh computer.
Choosing Macs only, such as iMacs, makes your hardware support very easy, compared to buying a mix of computers.
Bert Who suffers in daily life from programs written obviously by programmers who have never worked with a computer with a decent set of GUI XUI guidelines. They would have learned some basic things from that.
A phone could start the ringing procedure if it hasn't had contact with a cell tower for an hour (if the user is in a desert, he can turn it off). If there is still a working cell phone tower, it could send out a message to activate the program. (This may be prankster sensitive, so a solution has to be found for that).
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With an electrochromic floor, you can make it appear opaque and only when the passengers are in the air you can turn it off (on, whatever) to make it transparent. For 1 April you can make a fake crack appear and make it progressively larger. Now that is what I call on board entertainment.
Making a crack appear could help condition passengers such that when a real crack appears in a plane, people don't shout and panick and all. Or it could be used to contain terrorists. Let them try to cross the chasm to the cockpit.
Bert
He'd be in real trouble if his name were Sony Philips.
Bert
And it sprouted religions. If I pray for x and I get it, my god did it. Therefor he exists. If I don't get it, it was busy or had other plans.
Bert
Simple, how else will they get laid? They're after the 72 virgins!
Bert
Because it is (considered) holy a worn koran should not be tossed away but burned. So, little wrong with burning them but I guess the intentions (my religion is better than yours. No, it is not! I hate you) will suffice to raise the temper of any grown up five year old believer.
Bert
Who believes that everyone should be taught about retroviral evidence that we were not created by yagolah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbh1P6DW5I&feature=player_embedded
If the religion is kept in perspective there is less likelihood to impose bad things on others (I hope)
Nice idea. Such software may already support the feature that video is only sent when there is movement/change. So, you're not wasting bandwidth.
Perhaps this Mac software suits your needs http://www.bensoftware.com/ss/
Bert
Yes, I recall the device was called a Degeneres.
http://open.salon.com/blog/rogerf1953/2010/05/04/ellen_degeneres_lesbianism_continues_to_destroy_america
Bert
Does look like a business-model to me. Or am I the only one to see the parallel with the shareware business model, now just for open sourced vapour ware? Like shareware may have, it comes with community for thought and discussion.
Bert
Who currently belongs to the church of SJ
Well, if gays are not allowed to marry, such as in some backwaters where the freedom of some somehow requires limiting the freedom of others, they don't get the opportunity to get stuck in a relationship.
Bert
Doesn't that depend on the speed of the battery?
Bert
In case of short replies, Slashdot hates people who can speed-type.
Brute force attacks are powerless if it takes 5 seconds before a new try is allowed. 5 failed attempts, wait 15 mins.
That would amount to 20 attempts per hour, 480 per day. And there could be a bell to wake an IT admin to figure out what is going on.
Bert
Light version? You mean they even stripped black and white?
Bert
(Mac aficionado)
TI could create another model for modding.
Bert
l love this, but isn't it at odds with modern hardware? I believe one can run across the problem that the hardware refuses to play a movie at (very) high resolution because it lacks DRM. That movie could be your own or in the public domain.
Bert
"It's far easier to learn programming, and read physics textbooks, and read Dawkins/Hitchens, and other men bloviating about the evils of religion, when they don't even have any real expertise in theology to begin with (Dawkins is a BIOLOGIST)."
OK, it is a deal if the religious people tear the "how mankind got there" chapter out of their story book. After all, they are not biologists.
Would demanding that the theological experts stop talking about religion until they have a shred of evidence for the existence of (their!) deity be taking it too far? If they're the experts... . I know Dawkins does provide evidence every time he discusses evolution.
Bert
Who somehow still thinks that Dawkins knows more about religion than a creationist about biology.
"The only way I see them preventing a simple photograph from circumventing this is using two cameras, scanning at different angles, and making sure the two images are slightly different but still match. In that case you would need a fairly complicated rig to get the cameras to look at two photos at once in order to fool them. Much better, but not exactly secure."
One camera could suffice if you're required to turn your head (like shaking no and/or nodding).
Bert
With the proper technology, you could let drive cars in pairs, the second car tailgating the first). It would save an enormous amount of fuel (for both cars, by the way), all it requires is that if the first car brakes, the second car brakes a) at the same time, b) at least as fast. The first car can communicate that to the second car with the speed of light, and as a back-up the second car can monitor the distance to the first car.
With reduced distance there can be more cars on the road (or not in a queue but actually riding).
Bert
Because the tax payers pay an even higher price (more loss of jobs etc.) if the price isn't paid.
Bert
I can only imagine the parent saying "QED".
Bert
Well, according to Apple the top three reasons why those 5% of apps were rejected are:
1) they crash (apple doesn't want rotten fruit in its shop)
2) because they don't do what the developer says they do (lemons instead of peaches)
3) third I forgot (perhaps the use of non-public APIs. If Apple changes those, the third party apps relying on them wouldn't work; see #1)
It is not as if the developer isn't in control of any of the above.
Bert
Conversely, now calculate how much money that company has lost by working with inefficient computers for a very long period of time.
Bert
Cool. Now the only thing they've got to add is a rating system and I can outsource going to the movies.
Bert
"I believe student projects are not claimable as prior art"
Prior art is not something that is claimed.
If you did that as a student project, and your work somehow became public (e.g. as in a paper held where any member of the public could be present; or as a thesis available in the library of the educational institution), then it is prior art, can be provided to the Examiner as a third party message (with proof, which may be pretty hard if it was available only as a paper; you'd have to get members of the audience to testify), and will be held against the grant of a patent application. If the patent has already been granted, I guess it will be included in the file (don't know for certain what the USPTO does with it), as a result of which - in case IBM wants to accuse someone of infringement - the deemed infringer will find the document and will use it to fend off IBM.
Bert
The obvious answer is: buy Macs. They guarantee you flexibility. You can install Windows on them if you need it. You can run Windows and Mac OS X as alternative systems (Bootcamp), using a virtual machine such as Parallels, or without Mac OS X at all. Windows licenses are very cheap for educational organizations.
So, any argument you read in favour of Windows in this topic goes for choosing a Macintosh computer.
Choosing Macs only, such as iMacs, makes your hardware support very easy, compared to buying a mix of computers.
Bert
Who suffers in daily life from programs written obviously by programmers who have never worked with a computer with a decent set of GUI XUI guidelines. They would have learned some basic things from that.
A phone could start the ringing procedure if it hasn't had contact with a cell tower for an hour (if the user is in a desert, he can turn it off).
If there is still a working cell phone tower, it could send out a message to activate the program. (This may be prankster sensitive, so a solution has to be found for that).
Bert