This is not a new technology but it is helpful to have refined, although the first use when the technology matures will be short range devices (1-2ft) not long range devices (10-20ft).
A4tech made a series of wireless battery free mice that use the same technology (I've been using those for about 4 years)....they were cheap pricewise too. A4tech appears to have lost their sql server/domain (at a4tech.com), so I'm linking one from a shopping site: http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=39484911
These types of things are actually really nice, it makes the mouse extremely lightweight as well.
However, I seem to recall people saying the wireless transmission aspects will enable to create a "charging pad" whereupon you can place any device and simply charge it without having to connect it, and thus would be the basic use - put an ipod, a phone, whatever on said pad and charge ahoy.
Really, why does Ashcroft or Bush get any credit for 2nd amendment? I seem to recall a thing called the court system that had to overturn washington specific problems created by people before and supported through (the bush administration). I would give absolutely 0 credit to either of them for that. Once again the Judicial branch had to come to the rescue.
To blame anyone, blame Judge Scalia for being retarded on the issue.
I wonder how all the apple fanboys feel when they say their products "just work", as this update is clearly showing./sarcasm
Meanwhile, it'd be nice to see the iphone actually work, although I'm impressed by the continual problems sprouting up. How did something look so sleek end up so crappy? It's like putting a prius engine in a ferrari or something.
I would absolutely be willing to use my own taxpayer dollars to see the Diebold ("Premier") building covered in voting machines. It'd be a hell of an artwork!
see spire's response to you. I agree with him. It wasn't poor business management dude, it was just a shitty game. Technical quality was horrible (DX10 issues much?) It was like 30FPS difference from DX9 at release, IIRC.
Really you can have the most wonderful business management in the world but a 10 pound bag of shit is still a 10 pound bag of shit.
First, the game was complete crap. Repetitive, moderately interesting, and horribly coded with crappy multiplayer policies. You were paying to multiplay for a free single player game. WTF? The game itself was creative looking, had a nice storyline and skill plan, but jesus there were some serious things wrong.
They made a crappy beyond all measure product that additionally ran like crap without DX10. Thank Nvidia for that fiasco.
What's the sad thing? If they opened up the source code and let people modify the hell out of it, enough people have downloaded it/have interest that it would probably live on in a modified and popular form.
Every time technology progresses further in terms of realism we get this exact same scenario.
What happens every time is: people use games as excuses for things, blaming the games for being "too close to real life" for totally unattributed things (see: GTA lately?)
Additionally we get people scared/confused by the additional realism that occurs as well and spread FUD.
I really wonder what will help when tv is higher resolution than real life, aka futurama?
The Atom being used for this is a horrible thing. It's designed as a low-power processor but so much so that under real use it uses considerably more power with less capability than an athlon 64. The slowest up to date intel or amd mobile processor will run considerably faster and with less power draw than the atom if running ubuntu.
Guess as usual, you get lower quality generic parts with dell, not that it's the first time for that.
Too bad that the new authenticators from blizzard are OTP's and people are convinced that it is 100% foolproof, as this article tends to prove otherwise.
The problem here as I see it, is unfortunately this:
in the life of being an engineer, anytime you automate something, people lose the ability to do their current job because you can automate it. Mean you're stuck in one hell of a conundrum if people can figure out that you engineered something that caused them to be outdated/lose their job.
Of course the upside is that in a good corporation those same people will be able to do something else beneficial within the company. However for companies such as walmart and others that dont' value emplyoees at all I'm sure they will just let the unneeded people go in lieu of new training.
Umm no, silverlight is MS (disguised as novel), flash is adobe. Silverlight is a proprietary lock on open source, flash is proprietary (but not locked)
Well then, Mr. "this is ignorant", do you have any technical information based off what is being done here?
If you look at the wording, direct current (DC) would indeed mean electrocution. Any form of electricity whether temporary or constant that is applied to someone, is electrocution. Remember, even a 3 volt Direct Current can be fatal. If this isn't potentially fatal, tell that to the people who make tasers. Clearly they don't make things fatal either, eh? Is reading comprehension difficult for you?
Mod yourself down. Your post is pointless, at best.
"called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie"
Why yes, if I'm being electrocuted, I 'm pretty sure it will delay the ability to think coherently, let alone lie.
Sheesh, why don't they just call it electrocution and call it a day here? I'm sure it was just accidental that they only tested the lie part.
There is no policy to change. The policy was never right in the first place, because it was probably nonexistent. What does any change have to do with this? 0.
Meanwhile, if you want to wait a year to accomplish nothing as is indicative of the guard with the policy, sure, go ahead and write him. Make yourself feel good.
Inserting morality and politeness into an equation that doesn't have one is at best, illogical and at worst, not even remotely likely. Go right up the chain, not to the ammo, but definitely not just writing a letter to the owner. Nothing will come from that.
Most people in Israel carry firearms, security personnel or not. Oh I don't know, maybe because it's mandatory for 2 years for women and 3 years for me to serve in the military?
Anyway, in Israel, people do have first amendment equivalent rights (even Israeli citizens). They cannot and will not shoot at you unless it is absolutely necessary. If you want to see the country explode into a big political situation then wait for the first time you hear of a security guard shooting people for taking pictures. Guess how often that will happen? I can give you the number of times right now, and with certainty: zero. It will never happen.
I have taken pictures inside military bases that I have been to in Israel, and not only that but with the commanding officers smiling and in the pictures. I could have taken pictures of instrument panels inside APCs and missile defense vehicles (I forgot the accurate term/name) and it would likely have gotten the officers jailed themselves for allowing it, but it would not have affected me in any way. In fact, I didn't do it as a matter of politeness to them but there was nothing stopping me as I had been allowed to enter the base in the first place.
Just because people have guns, doesn't mean they're stupid. That's just a common redneck/southerner thing in the United States alone.
Actually, they were correct and your statement is not. People don't like it, but even now taking pictures in a military installation is not illegal. I have done so, in the presence of military officers.
They themselves don't like if you take pictures of instrument panels/things that can give people an intelligence advantage, but they can't stop you from taking pictures (even of that variety).
I'm just waiting for a device that is perhaps GSM/edge enabled that sends your pictures through the airwaves to another location as you take them, thus disabling people from ever being able to get rid of "Your copy". This would be the ultimate in accountability for protests, etc and would put a stop to a lot of shit.
At no point is your 1st amendment freedom of the press rights ever waved, unless you yourself choose to do so, just like every other amendment.
Yes, because I'm sure people listen to a strongly worded letter. How's that idealism working out for you? How's it been working with politics the last 8 years?
Meanwhile, you'd be giving up your rights, short term or long term, merely for trying to be "compliant". Remind yourself of that the next time you earn a "speeding ticket" by smiling to the officer and giving him all the information he needs to book you for something that's not even illegal.
For folks who don't realize how much so Quantum is dead on:
If you watch the improv everywhere group when they did the best buy stunt (linked), they explicitly ask the officers this when they try to threaten people. They say "are you asking me to leave" and "do you have the authority to ask me to leave?" after every time they are threatened with "this is illegal/not allowed".
From the link (the important part when people threaten about legality):
Agent Shafer confidently informed the cops that it was not, in fact, "illegal" to film in Best Buy and that they couldnâ(TM)t accuse him of trespassing until he had been asked to leave the store. He pointed out that he was perfectly willing to leave. A manger told Agent Shafer, "I don't come to your house and film you," to which he replied, "Who lives here?" The cops argued for a bit, but finally realized there was nothing they could do. They let the cameramen go and informed the manager, "The worst you can do is ask them to leave."
Also, the second rule of anything legal but people bullshit that it's not:never do something alone and never respond to any question an officer asks you at all. All things are "I don't know/I don't have an answer". Providing any answers = incriminating yourself and waiving your 5th amendment rights.
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This is not a new technology but it is helpful to have refined, although the first use when the technology matures will be short range devices (1-2ft) not long range devices (10-20ft).
A4tech made a series of wireless battery free mice that use the same technology (I've been using those for about 4 years)....they were cheap pricewise too. A4tech appears to have lost their sql server/domain (at a4tech.com), so I'm linking one from a shopping site:
http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=39484911
These types of things are actually really nice, it makes the mouse extremely lightweight as well.
However, I seem to recall people saying the wireless transmission aspects will enable to create a "charging pad" whereupon you can place any device and simply charge it without having to connect it, and thus would be the basic use - put an ipod, a phone, whatever on said pad and charge ahoy.
you know what, good point! If he succeeds with the ESA like he has with the RIAA, we'll have to thank him for his efforts at this rate.
You haven't heard about the olympic committee going ballistic on anyone who uses the phrases or shows the rings?
It has the same problems as the DMCA: it's easier to stifle someone's freedom/speech than it is to fight back such situations.
Trademarks are not okay when they are basic vocabulary words. That becomes quite stifling of freedom of speech.
Hows that mention of the phrase the olympics been ....$$#####&AT
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Really, why does Ashcroft or Bush get any credit for 2nd amendment? I seem to recall a thing called the court system that had to overturn washington specific problems created by people before and supported through (the bush administration). I would give absolutely 0 credit to either of them for that. Once again the Judicial branch had to come to the rescue.
To blame anyone, blame Judge Scalia for being retarded on the issue.
I wonder how all the apple fanboys feel when they say their products "just work", as this update is clearly showing. /sarcasm
Meanwhile, it'd be nice to see the iphone actually work, although I'm impressed by the continual problems sprouting up. How did something look so sleek end up so crappy? It's like putting a prius engine in a ferrari or something.
I would absolutely be willing to use my own taxpayer dollars to see the Diebold ("Premier") building covered in voting machines. It'd be a hell of an artwork!
see spire's response to you. I agree with him. It wasn't poor business management dude, it was just a shitty game. Technical quality was horrible (DX10 issues much?) It was like 30FPS difference from DX9 at release, IIRC.
Really you can have the most wonderful business management in the world but a 10 pound bag of shit is still a 10 pound bag of shit.
beyond seconded. Mod up please.
First, the game was complete crap. Repetitive, moderately interesting, and horribly coded with crappy multiplayer policies. You were paying to multiplay for a free single player game. WTF? The game itself was creative looking, had a nice storyline and skill plan, but jesus there were some serious things wrong.
They made a crappy beyond all measure product that additionally ran like crap without DX10. Thank Nvidia for that fiasco.
What's the sad thing? If they opened up the source code and let people modify the hell out of it, enough people have downloaded it/have interest that it would probably live on in a modified and popular form.
Every time technology progresses further in terms of realism we get this exact same scenario.
What happens every time is:
people use games as excuses for things, blaming the games for being "too close to real life" for totally unattributed things (see: GTA lately?)
Additionally we get people scared/confused by the additional realism that occurs as well and spread FUD.
I really wonder what will help when tv is higher resolution than real life, aka futurama?
The Atom being used for this is a horrible thing. It's designed as a low-power processor but so much so that under real use it uses considerably more power with less capability than an athlon 64. The slowest up to date intel or amd mobile processor will run considerably faster and with less power draw than the atom if running ubuntu.
Guess as usual, you get lower quality generic parts with dell, not that it's the first time for that.
Atom vs athlon benchmark linked here.
Or get the GTR. The R is for racing, it goes faster.
Yep.
I trashed the authenticators on wowinsider and got flamed to hell by people going "this thing is foolproof zomg how dare you doubt blizzard"
Too bad that the new authenticators from blizzard are OTP's and people are convinced that it is 100% foolproof, as this article tends to prove otherwise.
The problem here as I see it, is unfortunately this:
in the life of being an engineer, anytime you automate something, people lose the ability to do their current job because you can automate it. Mean you're stuck in one hell of a conundrum if people can figure out that you engineered something that caused them to be outdated/lose their job.
Of course the upside is that in a good corporation those same people will be able to do something else beneficial within the company. However for companies such as walmart and others that dont' value emplyoees at all I'm sure they will just let the unneeded people go in lieu of new training.
Umm no, silverlight is MS (disguised as novel), flash is adobe. Silverlight is a proprietary lock on open source, flash is proprietary (but not locked)
I may or may not be using the proper terminology, as it has been a while. From reading up here, yeah, I am.
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html might be a good reference though. Basically as it says and I had meant to say, its the low powered shocks that are potentially more dangerous than the higher powered.
Well then, Mr. "this is ignorant", do you have any technical information based off what is being done here?
If you look at the wording, direct current (DC) would indeed mean electrocution. Any form of electricity whether temporary or constant that is applied to someone, is electrocution. Remember, even a 3 volt Direct Current can be fatal. If this isn't potentially fatal, tell that to the people who make tasers. Clearly they don't make things fatal either, eh?
Is reading comprehension difficult for you?
Mod yourself down. Your post is pointless, at best.
"called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie"
Why yes, if I'm being electrocuted, I 'm pretty sure it will delay the ability to think coherently, let alone lie.
Sheesh, why don't they just call it electrocution and call it a day here? I'm sure it was just accidental that they only tested the lie part.
Oddly, it sounds it. My experiences taking pictures on Military bases in Israel and in the midwest were hardly like that. No idea why the difference.
There is no policy to change. The policy was never right in the first place, because it was probably nonexistent. What does any change have to do with this? 0.
Meanwhile, if you want to wait a year to accomplish nothing as is indicative of the guard with the policy, sure, go ahead and write him. Make yourself feel good.
Inserting morality and politeness into an equation that doesn't have one is at best, illogical and at worst, not even remotely likely. Go right up the chain, not to the ammo, but definitely not just writing a letter to the owner. Nothing will come from that.
Man, people really know nothing about Israel.
Most people in Israel carry firearms, security personnel or not. Oh I don't know, maybe because it's mandatory for 2 years for women and 3 years for me to serve in the military?
Anyway, in Israel, people do have first amendment equivalent rights (even Israeli citizens). They cannot and will not shoot at you unless it is absolutely necessary. If you want to see the country explode into a big political situation then wait for the first time you hear of a security guard shooting people for taking pictures. Guess how often that will happen? I can give you the number of times right now, and with certainty: zero. It will never happen.
I have taken pictures inside military bases that I have been to in Israel, and not only that but with the commanding officers smiling and in the pictures. I could have taken pictures of instrument panels inside APCs and missile defense vehicles (I forgot the accurate term/name) and it would likely have gotten the officers jailed themselves for allowing it, but it would not have affected me in any way. In fact, I didn't do it as a matter of politeness to them but there was nothing stopping me as I had been allowed to enter the base in the first place.
Just because people have guns, doesn't mean they're stupid. That's just a common redneck/southerner thing in the United States alone.
Actually, they were correct and your statement is not. People don't like it, but even now taking pictures in a military installation is not illegal. I have done so, in the presence of military officers.
They themselves don't like if you take pictures of instrument panels/things that can give people an intelligence advantage, but they can't stop you from taking pictures (even of that variety).
I'm just waiting for a device that is perhaps GSM/edge enabled that sends your pictures through the airwaves to another location as you take them, thus disabling people from ever being able to get rid of "Your copy". This would be the ultimate in accountability for protests, etc and would put a stop to a lot of shit.
At no point is your 1st amendment freedom of the press rights ever waved, unless you yourself choose to do so, just like every other amendment.
Yes, because I'm sure people listen to a strongly worded letter. How's that idealism working out for you? How's it been working with politics the last 8 years?
Meanwhile, you'd be giving up your rights, short term or long term, merely for trying to be "compliant". Remind yourself of that the next time you earn a "speeding ticket" by smiling to the officer and giving him all the information he needs to book you for something that's not even illegal.
If I could mod you to +1000, I'd do so.
For folks who don't realize how much so Quantum is dead on:
If you watch the improv everywhere group when they did the best buy stunt (linked), they explicitly ask the officers this when they try to threaten people. They say "are you asking me to leave" and "do you have the authority to ask me to leave?" after every time they are threatened with "this is illegal/not allowed".
From the link (the important part when people threaten about legality):
Agent Shafer confidently informed the cops that it was not, in fact, "illegal" to film in Best Buy and that they couldnâ(TM)t accuse him of trespassing until he had been asked to leave the store. He pointed out that he was perfectly willing to leave. A manger told Agent Shafer, "I don't come to your house and film you," to which he replied, "Who lives here?" The cops argued for a bit, but finally realized there was nothing they could do. They let the cameramen go and informed the manager, "The worst you can do is ask them to leave."
Also, the second rule of anything legal but people bullshit that it's not:never do something alone and never respond to any question an officer asks you at all. All things are "I don't know/I don't have an answer". Providing any answers = incriminating yourself and waiving your 5th amendment rights.