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I would have to get killed by myself without any interaction of interference of the past to which I visit. If I were to be killed by anyone in the past, that would create a timepoint which did not previously exist. Any change in the past could potentially alter the probabilities of everything else in the future after that point. By definition of this new theory, that is not allowed. So, as long as I don't do something stupid and kill myself in my time-machine cocoon, I would be very safe in the past, observing and learning history. Even if I did do something to myself and died, it would happen in a dimension apart from the 4 dimensions which define the past because nothing new can happen in the past.
From the summary of the film, I gather that this is the film adaptation of Vintage Season by Lawrence O'Donnell... an excellent story. I read it in Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A ed. Ben Bova.
The point is that even though these time travellers could possibly change the events that they are witnessing, they are forbidden by the rules in the future where they come from because changing anything could potentially wipe out the future. Seeing how one of the characters (a woman who is not fond of following rules) interacts with the main character (a man), any such dependence on the lawfulness of the time travellers would hardly work and end up destroying the future.
I like time-travelling people becoming ghost-like when they go to the past much better.
This means that you cannot be killed when you go back in time, nor can you kill or destroy anything! That's just perfect!!
Go back in time and be able to observe, only... no ability to interact with anyone either... it should be kinda like ghosts... we go back in time and observe and be like ghosts in the sense that we cannot interact and change anything that has already happened but only observe!
Imagine the possibilities of history classes of the future... maybe there are already a lot of ghosts watching us right now... the future students studying history!!
As an average consumer, I wouldn't care about the anti-competitive effects of Microsoft bundling WMP, IE, etc. with the OS. As far as I can see, I get stuff for free which seems to work just fine for my purposes. This kind of reaction is similar to what I see when "people" protest Walmart's effect on Mom-Pop businesses. What should I care about Mom-Pop businesses as long as I get low prices? I go to a shop to buy stuff, not to socialize with the owners.
Similarly, what do I care about two-bit developers who can't hold their own against WMP, IE, etc being bundled with the OS? If their products are superior to WMP, IE etc, and if I feel compelled to buy them, I would. Don't force me to download what I would otherwise get bundled with my OS.
More efficient would be to release each chapter as and when it becomes beta-ready. If the publisher is greedy, then the chapters can come with some sort of expiry date so that the whole book cannot be assembled by the chapter collectors.
I'm just thinking like a publisher here... personally, I would want no kind of DRM or expiry date or any such crap on these things.
When people don't understand the science behind something as advanced as in today's world (molecular biology, nanotechnology), this type of knee-jerk reaction always happens. The sad thing is that it is very difficult to make such knowledge available to the layman because it is very hard to dumb down advanced scientific thought. Sure, some concepts can be explained by using metaphors, etc. but only up to a limit. Then, fear of the unknown takes over and such cycles repeat. Sigh.
Every publicly owned company has an *obligation* to its shareholders to maximize profits. Not hurting financially or making what is usually considered "enough" money doesn't cut it. In fact, it is illegal for a public company to not maximize profit.
This is my understanding of why good companies go bad when they go public. I could be wrong.
Apparently, in Europe, there is something called TMC which is a standard for all of Europe. The GPS software there can make use of this to give you additional information on traffic. Below is an excerpt of a review on OnCourse Navigator from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com:
TMC
Traffic Message Channel is a pretty successful system in some European countries that transmits current traffic conditions via the RDS (radio data system) components of standard FM radio station broadcasting. Provided with a special GPS receiver (which basically includes a FM radio) users in Europe can let Navigon adjust it's routing decisions based on the incoming TMC messages. In the US the picture is very different. Every metropole has its own traffic messaging system, they are all incompatible, and most of them are not free services anyhow. As a result the OnCourse Navigator program has left out the TMC functionality. If you come over from Europe and use your MN|4 with the maps of OnCourse Navigator then keep in mind that TMC is of no use here.
While this could be new profit source for the cash-strapped airlines
How could this be a new profit source? By "this", do you mean the internet connections (I can see how this could get them some profit), or do you mean allowing cell phone calls (which, frankly, I can't figure out how it would be)?
It was so wonderful to see Kerry dominate Bush in today's debate!! Bush came across as being totally incompetent. Wow. There *is* hope for USA.
I wish Kerry had mentioned this fact in today's debate... that Allawi's speech was influenced by the Bush election (not *re-election, mind you) campaign.
One specifically for "trial" downloads, and one for "paid" downloads? Why even let the "trial" download have the capability of getting converted to the full version simply by typing in a serial number? I would say the developers should stop being lazy and create separate programs, one for trial and one for paid.
Why do these fringe parties even try? And people with extreme ideas like the libertarians... you don't stand a chance of winning in a trillion years... why do you waste your time, money and the nations resources?
... about what the whole issue is about would help greatly.
I've noticed that the tech story summaries are always devoid of any explanatory sentences... just a bunch of tech-talk. Granted that a huge majority of/. readers are techies, but learning to put things in simpler non-tech terms would help commoners understand these news stories.
... at all the whining and deriding of the posters here!! This is not about just a phone getting extra features. This is about the trend which is leading to merging of many gadgets into one.
One day, we will all carry just one small device, which will be: pda, cell phone, radio, gps, computer, alarm clock, timer, mouse, laser pointer, projector, video player, recorder... everything!
And I, for one, think that is really wonderful. I fully support and appreciate that effort is being put into making this future possible.
Heating tissue causes the induction and expression of Heat Response proteins, and to a lot of other signal transduction cascades in cells. So, heating is not really that benign. Burn victims are a different story. Prolonged exposure to low-level heating is a whole different ballgame.
The ionosphere bends signals best at night because the Sun is no longer ionizing the atmosphere then. That's why you pick up distant AM signals at night. An AM signal can hop all the way around the world at night, bending down from the ionosphere and reflecting back up from Earth: hopping in that fashion and ultimately going vast distances.
and that tinfoil stops RF waves.
To summarize,
Higher density of RF waves at night
Tinfoil blocks RF waves
Putting these two together, we can conclude that wrapping your body in tinfoil when you sleep at night will reduce your risk of developing RF related complications by >50%:
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Does this new form of matter have a name to it, yet? By the way, what are the 'old' types of matter? Solid, liquid, gas, plasma??
I would have to get killed by myself without any interaction of interference of the past to which I visit. If I were to be killed by anyone in the past, that would create a timepoint which did not previously exist. Any change in the past could potentially alter the probabilities of everything else in the future after that point. By definition of this new theory, that is not allowed. So, as long as I don't do something stupid and kill myself in my time-machine cocoon, I would be very safe in the past, observing and learning history. Even if I did do something to myself and died, it would happen in a dimension apart from the 4 dimensions which define the past because nothing new can happen in the past.
From the summary of the film, I gather that this is the film adaptation of Vintage Season by Lawrence O'Donnell... an excellent story. I read it in Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A ed. Ben Bova. The point is that even though these time travellers could possibly change the events that they are witnessing, they are forbidden by the rules in the future where they come from because changing anything could potentially wipe out the future. Seeing how one of the characters (a woman who is not fond of following rules) interacts with the main character (a man), any such dependence on the lawfulness of the time travellers would hardly work and end up destroying the future. I like time-travelling people becoming ghost-like when they go to the past much better.
This means that you cannot be killed when you go back in time, nor can you kill or destroy anything! That's just perfect!!
Go back in time and be able to observe, only... no ability to interact with anyone either... it should be kinda like ghosts... we go back in time and observe and be like ghosts in the sense that we cannot interact and change anything that has already happened but only observe!
Imagine the possibilities of history classes of the future... maybe there are already a lot of ghosts watching us right now... the future students studying history!!
As an average consumer, I wouldn't care about the anti-competitive effects of Microsoft bundling WMP, IE, etc. with the OS. As far as I can see, I get stuff for free which seems to work just fine for my purposes. This kind of reaction is similar to what I see when "people" protest Walmart's effect on Mom-Pop businesses. What should I care about Mom-Pop businesses as long as I get low prices? I go to a shop to buy stuff, not to socialize with the owners.
Similarly, what do I care about two-bit developers who can't hold their own against WMP, IE, etc being bundled with the OS? If their products are superior to WMP, IE etc, and if I feel compelled to buy them, I would. Don't force me to download what I would otherwise get bundled with my OS.
More efficient would be to release each chapter as and when it becomes beta-ready. If the publisher is greedy, then the chapters can come with some sort of expiry date so that the whole book cannot be assembled by the chapter collectors.
I'm just thinking like a publisher here... personally, I would want no kind of DRM or expiry date or any such crap on these things.
When people don't understand the science behind something as advanced as in today's world (molecular biology, nanotechnology), this type of knee-jerk reaction always happens. The sad thing is that it is very difficult to make such knowledge available to the layman because it is very hard to dumb down advanced scientific thought. Sure, some concepts can be explained by using metaphors, etc. but only up to a limit. Then, fear of the unknown takes over and such cycles repeat. Sigh.
This is my understanding of why good companies go bad when they go public. I could be wrong.
Now, that is COOL!
Neither Yahoo nor Hotmail have this feature!
Are they going to verify with the hotel to see if you are going to be there for the duration of your stay?
Or what if you gave an address which exists but where you will not be staying?
The question is, when they are going to be as intrusive as this, how truthful do you have to be?
TMC
Traffic Message Channel is a pretty successful system in some European countries that transmits current traffic conditions via the RDS (radio data system) components of standard FM radio station broadcasting. Provided with a special GPS receiver (which basically includes a FM radio) users in Europe can let Navigon adjust it's routing decisions based on the incoming TMC messages. In the US the picture is very different. Every metropole has its own traffic messaging system, they are all incompatible, and most of them are not free services anyhow. As a result the OnCourse Navigator program has left out the TMC functionality. If you come over from Europe and use your MN|4 with the maps of OnCourse Navigator then keep in mind that TMC is of no use here.
How could this be a new profit source? By "this", do you mean the internet connections (I can see how this could get them some profit), or do you mean allowing cell phone calls (which, frankly, I can't figure out how it would be)?
I wish Kerry had mentioned this fact in today's debate... that Allawi's speech was influenced by the Bush election (not *re-election, mind you) campaign.
One specifically for "trial" downloads, and one for "paid" downloads? Why even let the "trial" download have the capability of getting converted to the full version simply by typing in a serial number? I would say the developers should stop being lazy and create separate programs, one for trial and one for paid.
Why do these fringe parties even try? And people with extreme ideas like the libertarians... you don't stand a chance of winning in a trillion years... why do you waste your time, money and the nations resources?
I've noticed that the tech story summaries are always devoid of any explanatory sentences... just a bunch of tech-talk. Granted that a huge majority of /. readers are techies, but learning to put things in simpler non-tech terms would help commoners understand these news stories.
Dude, get a hands-free headset. It solves your problem, and it keeps the harmful RF radiation from cooking your brain.
One day, we will all carry just one small device, which will be: pda, cell phone, radio, gps, computer, alarm clock, timer, mouse, laser pointer, projector, video player, recorder... everything!
And I, for one, think that is really wonderful. I fully support and appreciate that effort is being put into making this future possible.
Heating tissue causes the induction and expression of Heat Response proteins, and to a lot of other signal transduction cascades in cells. So, heating is not really that benign. Burn victims are a different story. Prolonged exposure to low-level heating is a whole different ballgame.
I don't know... is the density of 1 watt right next to your brain less powerful than a 50,000 watt power transmitter somewhere not so close?
and that tinfoil stops RF waves.
To summarize,
Higher density of RF waves at night
Tinfoil blocks RF waves
Putting these two together, we can conclude that wrapping your body in tinfoil when you sleep at night will reduce your risk of developing RF related complications by >50%:
ROFL
... how much of the money companies make trickles down to the volunteer coders of OSS?
Are you sure these are students?? From my experience, students sleep 18 hours... expecting them to be active and awake for 18 hours...
I'm very suspicious of these "students" now...