Yes, feedback has been around a long time. The difference here is that Adam gets its feedback from the messy real world, and furthermore, it can deal intelligently with whatever feedback it gets! (Within its parameters, of course.)
I live in the Mountain Time Zone, so everything broadcast on the east coast is tape-delayed one hour. So if Tivo could live-stream east-coast TV, this could actually be possible for me. It would work even better on the west coast.
Indeed, laptops on campus often seem to end up used for that more than anything else
And the problem with that is?
The problem is when it's entertainment in place of studying. For instance, I've seen students use laptops for entertainment during lectures, and that was four years ago at least!
Sure, plenty of people can do just fine with OpenOffice, GIMP, and Linux. But should your child's professor be expected to know how to handle files that pass through those?
If the school wants to save money by not having computer labs, yes, they should make the professors know and use open-source software, and the professors in turn should make that software the required software for the class.
And if there is no open-source software for a particular task, the school should either buy every student a copy or have a lab.
At this rate may as well just ban brakes since they are such a well-known source of inefficiency.
You jest, but most of the efficiency gained by (current) hybrid cars comes from braking using the motors, and saving the energy in the batteries, rather than heating up the brake pads.
Most free-as-in-beer software that is not open-source has a license that is not compatible with being free for commercial use.
Furthermore, the legal department would probably have to go through every license for every free-as-in-beer program. This is true of OSS as well, but many OSS programs have common licenses, like GPL, that legal would only have to read once.
...I use SRWare Iron, which is a derivative that includes an adblocker...
I've been all over what is apparently its page, and while it talks alot about privacy (good), I see nothing about an adblocker. Does it require some 3rd-party proxy or something?
Even so, I imagine it would still be missing the functionality of NoScript and CookieSafe.
It's a hydraulic hybrid, so despite the name Lightning, there is no electric motor. If it's a serial hybrid, it probably uses a hydraulic motor, powered by hydraulic fluid moved either by the diesel engine or by gas compressed in a piston (the pressure vessel).
Actually, once upon a time, there was a distributed Java applet, alot like BOINC but in a browser. This particular project was about calculating the emission of gamma rays from nuclear waste.
It didn't last long, probably about a year or two, but it did get quite a few results.
You obviously haven't heard of concentrated solar thermal/electric power. All it takes is some concrete and steel, glass (SiO2), maybe aluminum for mirrors, and optionally molten salt for storage.
The salt can store power for hours, so some people are even calling it solar baseload.
To ensure the stability and endurance of the Internet Archive, its collection is mirrored at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, so far the only library in the world with a mirror.
Analog TV has to shut off because they no longer own the spectrum. It's too late to change that.
Nonsense!!!
The FCC only sold off a few analog channels, above channel 69 I believe. (Those also happen to be the least used, because higher frequencies require more power to transmit.) Digital broadcasts on roughly the same channels as analog; but it's supposed to be better about interference and it allows subchannels, which is why the FCC was able to sell off some channels.
So a few channels might have to go off the air; but most wouldn't.
Slashdot Mirror
Where if you typed something in a cell near the far right, you got a driving game. With guns in your car to shoot other cars.
Yes, feedback has been around a long time. The difference here is that Adam gets its feedback from the messy real world, and furthermore, it can deal intelligently with whatever feedback it gets! (Within its parameters, of course.)
I live in the Mountain Time Zone, so everything broadcast on the east coast is tape-delayed one hour. So if Tivo could live-stream east-coast TV, this could actually be possible for me. It would work even better on the west coast.
But I'm guessing they won't actually do that. :(
And the problem with that is?
The problem is when it's entertainment in place of studying. For instance, I've seen students use laptops for entertainment during lectures, and that was four years ago at least!
Sure, plenty of people can do just fine with OpenOffice, GIMP, and Linux. But should your child's professor be expected to know how to handle files that pass through those?
If the school wants to save money by not having computer labs, yes, they should make the professors know and use open-source software, and the professors in turn should make that software the required software for the class.
And if there is no open-source software for a particular task, the school should either buy every student a copy or have a lab.
At this rate may as well just ban brakes since they are such a well-known source of inefficiency.
You jest, but most of the efficiency gained by (current) hybrid cars comes from braking using the motors, and saving the energy in the batteries, rather than heating up the brake pads.
Seriously, if they'd just pushed a little harder they could have supported 1337 MHz RAM. I don't know what geek wouldn't have jumped at that.
Well, that's what separates the 1337 0v3rc10ck3rz from the rest.
Most free-as-in-beer software that is not open-source has a license that is not compatible with being free for commercial use.
Furthermore, the legal department would probably have to go through every license for every free-as-in-beer program. This is true of OSS as well, but many OSS programs have common licenses, like GPL, that legal would only have to read once.
Naturally, that's an OOXML file that OpenOffice doesn't quite display properly. Outline view seems to be the best.
...I use SRWare Iron, which is a derivative that includes an adblocker...
I've been all over what is apparently its page, and while it talks alot about privacy (good), I see nothing about an adblocker. Does it require some 3rd-party proxy or something?
Even so, I imagine it would still be missing the functionality of NoScript and CookieSafe.
http://ieaddons.com/
Actually, IE has many, many plugins....
It doesn't have the important ones:
http://ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=adblock
http://ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=noscript
Although this one looks interesting.
It's a hydraulic hybrid, so despite the name Lightning, there is no electric motor. If it's a serial hybrid, it probably uses a hydraulic motor, powered by hydraulic fluid moved either by the diesel engine or by gas compressed in a piston (the pressure vessel).
For the curious, click this link instead. (SFW)
It's usually better to look up common things on Wikipedia instead of Google.
Actually, once upon a time, there was a distributed Java applet, alot like BOINC but in a browser. This particular project was about calculating the emission of gamma rays from nuclear waste.
It didn't last long, probably about a year or two, but it did get quite a few results.
Apparently, there is a version of Puppy for the Eee, naturally called Pupeee!
So now I can make a BASH hash, sweet!
You should try some of the alpha versions. I'm sure you could get a BASH hash crash!
"Ohhh but pirate bay can provide legal software as well." Yes. It can... but does it? I've never gone there to aquire somethign legally.
The primary tracker for the Wikipedia V0.5 Test Release CD happens to be The Pirate Bay.
You obviously haven't heard of concentrated solar thermal/electric power. All it takes is some concrete and steel, glass (SiO2), maybe aluminum for mirrors, and optionally molten salt for storage.
The salt can store power for hours, so some people are even calling it solar baseload.
For those wondering what different unit to look at, try:
I personally like the RCA, except for that scanning issue; I have a really big outdoor antenna.
Wikipedia says:
To ensure the stability and endurance of the Internet Archive, its collection is mirrored at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, so far the only library in the world with a mirror.
The site says that ramdisk is limited to 32MB! How'd you get a 3GB disk?
There's also mention that it may not work with, or may cause problems with the System Restore feature in XP and Vista.
Schrodinger's cat isn't dead. However, it may be when you open the box.
Actually, considering the size of bits on a drive these days, I wonder if there really is a quantum issue here?
Which leads to the philosophical question...
If a gravity wave passes through a forest, and no detector can ever be sensitive enough to measure it, does it really exist?
Or we're all just holodeck characters, and not allowed access to such things.
That cost per kWh works out to $446/1,635kWh = $0.27/kWh. That's insanely expensive!
The average cost for electricity in the US is about $.10/kWh. Where I live, it's about $.09.
Analog TV has to shut off because they no longer own the spectrum. It's too late to change that.
Nonsense!!!
The FCC only sold off a few analog channels, above channel 69 I believe. (Those also happen to be the least used, because higher frequencies require more power to transmit.) Digital broadcasts on roughly the same channels as analog; but it's supposed to be better about interference and it allows subchannels, which is why the FCC was able to sell off some channels.
So a few channels might have to go off the air; but most wouldn't.