TFA says the UK version (5 years off) is planned to be able to do this. It would make more sense to have the 2nd machine placing things in human-accessible ducts etc, but being automated means it can get on with it whilst the house is being built up around it, for example wiring the ground floor whilst the 'printer' is building the first (first and 2nd floor respectively for you foreigners).
Get it right and you should be able to complete the construction of a house in 2 weeks allowing time for full interior fittings - I wouldn't yet trust a robot to place fixtures and wallpaper.
Doubtful, but it would be fairly simple (from what I can gather) to have the 'printer' work in tandem with another device which can accurately place pre-manufactured plumbing, wiring etc.
Of course how that device works is another issue, but you could end up with a single mobile 'rig' which can just move along an empty row of plots and build houses all day. Quicker and cheaper than a load of builders.
But your library backs up onto fewer disks than the originals came on. My iTunes library backs up (Using the in-built option) to 5 DVDs, which makes only a slight difference to the 200+ CDs worth which are actually on there.
Is that Windows Mobile 5? I've never been able to tell if it was still a version of WinCE (Just not branded as such) or a whole new base.
Either way, as long as they can make it sync with Vista I don't care. They release Vista to the corporate world without any fully working, reliable way of syncing any Windows Mobile device, since ActiveSync doesn't work in favour of a Windows Mobile Device Centre which integrates with the Sync Centre in Vista. Apparently. If it's ever out of beta. Ugh.
Surely the value of 1 rad in degrees remains constant, since there is a direct link between the radius and the distance needed to rotate to encompass an arc of 1 radius (a rad).
Unless the US uses a different rad to the rest of the world, which wouldn't shock me that much.
This is why you need build versions as well. Chances are people don't suddenly go "The last build was 2862, but it's a new year so we'll call it build 7001.
Varies between significant and none depending on the settings.
I have good ears and cannot tell the difference between pre- and post- re-rip if the quality is good enough. On the other hand, if I take a lossless digital source, downsample it onto CD then re-encode it to MP3 you can easily spot it.
Keep your MP3 settings at 360kbps and you should be great. Alternatively rip using Apple Lossless (Loses portability, strips DRM, keeps quality).
Audio stutters due to processor load. The bits where it ran smoothly (After nuking all my background tasks) I couldn't tell any difference listening on Sennheiser PC150 headphones. Can't speak for higher quality reproduction devices.
Not to mention if they're trying to put a skew on their results then saying 4/5 (8/10, or 80% of total) instead of 60% over would be expected would sound better.
Beware of men bearing stats, as they've usually frigged a distribution somewhere.
The truth is written by the winners. As simple as. If you're on the side which doesn't get heard, what you know to be true suddenly doesn't matter any more.
After all, the War against Terror was a huge victory, after minor injuries and a few deaths before the Mighty and Valiant Coalition fully grasped the lowly depths the Evil Terrorists would sink to. Diplomacy was granted to the people of Iraq following years of oppression by the cruel tyrant Saddam Hussein. This Vicious Monster, responsible for the cowardly murder of possibly millions of innocent people, was hanged following a Fair and Just trial in the name of Freedom led entirely by The Iraqi People. The execution was carried out in full view of the international community and was conducted in full accordance with every international law, despite Saddam's Evil Followers releasing doctored 'film footage' of the execution to turn the people of the Great and Free United States of America against the Noble Life President George W Bush...
Does it have a full-featured calendar and task management suite? Serious question, that's what I use my PDA for and I haven't spotted it in the feature list of the iPhone. How is the battery life? If it wants to replace my current phone it needs to go at least 3 days without a recharge. Finally, music and video. 4GB? 8GB? I like my iPod exactly because I can carry around my entire collection without needing to change playlists and resync. 8GB is nothing like enough for my music collection, let alone if I include my video as well.
Bulk out the PDA functionality, include at least a 30GB hard disk, improve the battery, and put in some 3G functionality. Then wait until it's up to 2nd generation so all the launch bugs and quirks are worked out. Then you've got yourself something worth $499. Not $499 with contract, just $499. If I'm paying over-the-odds monthly for it then I want it cheaper.
I see you've never actually sat an ICT course in the UK then.
I sat one because my school didn't go computing. I was taught how to use Word, Excel, Access, VB and Publisher. Use of more flexible, powerful or simply different applications (For example trying to use a MySQL server to do the database work) was frowned upon.
You haven't seen the UK recently then. There's a big push for HD-Ready TVs at the moment (We have one, sans HDMI interface) but bugger all content. Sky provides a few bits with a specific package (I believe), but you can't get anything over Freeview despite the capacity being there. All they need to do is, say, reduce the number of shopping channels by a factor of 5.
I doubt that a company offering legitimate non-kiddy porn will also offer kiddy porn. Do you have any idea how much paperwork needs filing to run an adult website?
The only way around this would be to have an active crypt device on your card linked to some form of display visible even when the card is in the machine (slim LED on the opposite end to the chip?). That way the LED will only light green (Or ultrabright blue to please the geeks) if the card is satisfied that it has in actual fact been talking to the bank.
However, this doesn't stop you hacking the keypad matrix to extract the keypresses. The only way to get around this would be to have your card perform *all* the authentication using a private/public key system. So the input pad would send your card the pin it received, the certificate issued to the merchant, and the crypt unit on the card itself would encrypt this using the private key and send it to the bank for processing. This would be best combined with biometrics rather than pin, since they're a lot harder to store.
Combine the two and you end up with a card which not only does all the secure stuff, but lets you know via a clever little LED if it has spotted a problem with the transaction.
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On the more realistic side, never let your card out of your sight. For example, restaurants will sometimes try take your card then bring you a reader with it already inserted. I just ask them to bring me the reader and I'll put the card in myself.
I'd be more tempted to say that scientifically life begins in a big grey area sometime between conception and birth (Be it natural, Caesarian, premature, whatever). It is difficult to say "At this point this embryo can survive without support" at any stage until it's actually tried.
A dead animal is still mostly living cells, but it's fairly obvious it is no longer in a state suitable for that which we call 'life'.
Death has always been a fairly clear-cut line with animals (Not so much with plants, which tend to wither). When does life begin? It kinda happens over time.
I believe it was proposed as a possible use for some of the features in WinFS, for example picking up on your location and showing you contacts nearby, files which involve the area etc.
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TFA says the UK version (5 years off) is planned to be able to do this. It would make more sense to have the 2nd machine placing things in human-accessible ducts etc, but being automated means it can get on with it whilst the house is being built up around it, for example wiring the ground floor whilst the 'printer' is building the first (first and 2nd floor respectively for you foreigners).
Get it right and you should be able to complete the construction of a house in 2 weeks allowing time for full interior fittings - I wouldn't yet trust a robot to place fixtures and wallpaper.
What tools menu? No, really. It doesn't have one.
Doubtful, but it would be fairly simple (from what I can gather) to have the 'printer' work in tandem with another device which can accurately place pre-manufactured plumbing, wiring etc.
Of course how that device works is another issue, but you could end up with a single mobile 'rig' which can just move along an empty row of plots and build houses all day. Quicker and cheaper than a load of builders.
"No Sir, it's not a printing error, it's an architectural feature."
Thanks for the clarification.
But your library backs up onto fewer disks than the originals came on. My iTunes library backs up (Using the in-built option) to 5 DVDs, which makes only a slight difference to the 200+ CDs worth which are actually on there.
Yep - subtracting the .mod from the Furtado and taking out the drums on an EQ leaves very little backing. I love DSP.
People are dying (literally) to get to most of Europe. Your point?
Take your over-enthusiastic patriotism for America, Land Of The Free, Justice And Mercy For All, God Bless This Mighty Nation etc etc and shove it.
Is that Windows Mobile 5? I've never been able to tell if it was still a version of WinCE (Just not branded as such) or a whole new base.
Either way, as long as they can make it sync with Vista I don't care. They release Vista to the corporate world without any fully working, reliable way of syncing any Windows Mobile device, since ActiveSync doesn't work in favour of a Windows Mobile Device Centre which integrates with the Sync Centre in Vista. Apparently. If it's ever out of beta. Ugh.
Surely the value of 1 rad in degrees remains constant, since there is a direct link between the radius and the distance needed to rotate to encompass an arc of 1 radius (a rad).
Unless the US uses a different rad to the rest of the world, which wouldn't shock me that much.
This is why you need build versions as well. Chances are people don't suddenly go "The last build was 2862, but it's a new year so we'll call it build 7001.
Varies between significant and none depending on the settings.
I have good ears and cannot tell the difference between pre- and post- re-rip if the quality is good enough. On the other hand, if I take a lossless digital source, downsample it onto CD then re-encode it to MP3 you can easily spot it.
Keep your MP3 settings at 360kbps and you should be great. Alternatively rip using Apple Lossless (Loses portability, strips DRM, keeps quality).
Audio stutters due to processor load. The bits where it ran smoothly (After nuking all my background tasks) I couldn't tell any difference listening on Sennheiser PC150 headphones. Can't speak for higher quality reproduction devices.
The film Minority Report features personalised ads which include your name, suggesting products based on past purchases etc.
This is similar, just lower tech.
Not to mention if they're trying to put a skew on their results then saying 4/5 (8/10, or 80% of total) instead of 60% over would be expected would sound better.
Beware of men bearing stats, as they've usually frigged a distribution somewhere.
The truth is written by the winners. As simple as. If you're on the side which doesn't get heard, what you know to be true suddenly doesn't matter any more.
After all, the War against Terror was a huge victory, after minor injuries and a few deaths before the Mighty and Valiant Coalition fully grasped the lowly depths the Evil Terrorists would sink to. Diplomacy was granted to the people of Iraq following years of oppression by the cruel tyrant Saddam Hussein. This Vicious Monster, responsible for the cowardly murder of possibly millions of innocent people, was hanged following a Fair and Just trial in the name of Freedom led entirely by The Iraqi People. The execution was carried out in full view of the international community and was conducted in full accordance with every international law, despite Saddam's Evil Followers releasing doctored 'film footage' of the execution to turn the people of the Great and Free United States of America against the Noble Life President George W Bush...
I really wish I couldn't see it coming.
Does it have a full-featured calendar and task management suite? Serious question, that's what I use my PDA for and I haven't spotted it in the feature list of the iPhone. How is the battery life? If it wants to replace my current phone it needs to go at least 3 days without a recharge. Finally, music and video. 4GB? 8GB? I like my iPod exactly because I can carry around my entire collection without needing to change playlists and resync. 8GB is nothing like enough for my music collection, let alone if I include my video as well.
Bulk out the PDA functionality, include at least a 30GB hard disk, improve the battery, and put in some 3G functionality. Then wait until it's up to 2nd generation so all the launch bugs and quirks are worked out. Then you've got yourself something worth $499. Not $499 with contract, just $499. If I'm paying over-the-odds monthly for it then I want it cheaper.
I see you've never actually sat an ICT course in the UK then.
I sat one because my school didn't go computing. I was taught how to use Word, Excel, Access, VB and Publisher. Use of more flexible, powerful or simply different applications (For example trying to use a MySQL server to do the database work) was frowned upon.
You haven't seen the UK recently then. There's a big push for HD-Ready TVs at the moment (We have one, sans HDMI interface) but bugger all content. Sky provides a few bits with a specific package (I believe), but you can't get anything over Freeview despite the capacity being there. All they need to do is, say, reduce the number of shopping channels by a factor of 5.
I doubt that a company offering legitimate non-kiddy porn will also offer kiddy porn. Do you have any idea how much paperwork needs filing to run an adult website?
The only way around this would be to have an active crypt device on your card linked to some form of display visible even when the card is in the machine (slim LED on the opposite end to the chip?). That way the LED will only light green (Or ultrabright blue to please the geeks) if the card is satisfied that it has in actual fact been talking to the bank.
However, this doesn't stop you hacking the keypad matrix to extract the keypresses. The only way to get around this would be to have your card perform *all* the authentication using a private/public key system. So the input pad would send your card the pin it received, the certificate issued to the merchant, and the crypt unit on the card itself would encrypt this using the private key and send it to the bank for processing. This would be best combined with biometrics rather than pin, since they're a lot harder to store.
Combine the two and you end up with a card which not only does all the secure stuff, but lets you know via a clever little LED if it has spotted a problem with the transaction.
--
On the more realistic side, never let your card out of your sight. For example, restaurants will sometimes try take your card then bring you a reader with it already inserted. I just ask them to bring me the reader and I'll put the card in myself.
I'd be more tempted to say that scientifically life begins in a big grey area sometime between conception and birth (Be it natural, Caesarian, premature, whatever). It is difficult to say "At this point this embryo can survive without support" at any stage until it's actually tried.
A dead animal is still mostly living cells, but it's fairly obvious it is no longer in a state suitable for that which we call 'life'.
Death has always been a fairly clear-cut line with animals (Not so much with plants, which tend to wither). When does life begin? It kinda happens over time.
Isn't part of the XHTML spec that each object meant to do something different should have a different name?
I know IDs must be unique full stop, but I was always under the impression that if something was new functionality it should have a new name.
I believe it was proposed as a possible use for some of the features in WinFS, for example picking up on your location and showing you contacts nearby, files which involve the area etc.