According to TFA the slotted lens would be much lighter but also MUCH MUCH larger than traditional setups. Also, the distance between the lens and the camera is so large that a second spacecraft is needed.
Trying to maintain the alignment of two spacecraft would be difficult at best. Now consider that they would need to fire thrusters and move one of them every time they need to focus on a different object. How much fuel would be used up just looking at 10 different objects? I would expect a lot. Add to this what micro-meteors and the random castaway screw driver would do to the foil over time and you can see some real limitations to this.
Not saying it's impossible, just that they need to work out some ways around the obvious problems.
If we had more than one major encyclopedia online that was supported by advertisements or Federal funding to source information from it would be a boon for everyone. I mean, if they'll spend thousands for hardly used encyclopedias for public libraries, there must be a way to make that information more available in the age of the internet.
This may already exist, but if it does, I haven't seen it. Perhaps other publicly available sources of information need to be more vocal about their existence?
The difference is between you asking an unwanted question and a spammer sending millions of emails is quite simple:
You're not sending 10's of millions of solicitations that you profit from and asking others to pay your postage. Then going to court and trying to say that your act of stealing bandwidth and hijacking people's computers (if he used a bot net) is an act of free speech protected by The Constitution.
You made an apples to oranges comparison. Try again...
When you're sending millions of messages a day to people who don't want them and other people (usually the ones footing the bandwidth bill) are paying for the connection, you are guilty of stealing at the very least... And in the case of mass spammers you're stealing a whole lot of bandwidth you're not paying for.
Lithium polymer batteries are also very dangerous if not handled properly and/or are not charged and discharged with the proper protection circuitry in place.
http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/t90077p1/
Is there a greater example than this that the balance of rights between creators and consumers is out of whack? Law enforcement and legislation seems to tilt further towards creators every day.
Yes, but arguably, using an iPod is not as dangerous to your computer as using something that processes ActiveX scripts.
Don't forget: IE is something that's viewed in a similar light as a microwave oven to the general public. It's something that's there that you use frequently, and occasionaly gives you problems.
The iPod is viewed in the same light as a Rolex to the general public. Cool, hip, useful and a sign you can buy somewhat expensive things. As a bonus, it works well and is easy to understand and utilize.
They say in their FAQthat they are looking to move away from the DirectX game engine at some point. Possibly before they finish a future fully 3D version.
I'd like to know exactly how that comment was a troll...
However, slashdot moderators have proven time and again that their moderation has no basis in fairness at all. Simply put, their behavior is like a group of kids in high-school that are often referred to as the "in-crowd". If your opinion does not agree with theirs you will be moderated down, whether or not that moderation makes sense.
Mr. Moderator, you're nothing more that a/. agenda pansy who's every scoring action is nothing less than jigoism. I guess the political views of you and your fellow moderators are so weak that they cannot withstand arguement. I feel sorry for your freinds, if you actually have any that can stand your one-sided viewpoints for very long.
I don't think anyone can realistically focus this on GWB. Politicians in general like "contribtions", they all sell out in one way or another... Even "civil rights groups" have agenda's that are not alltruistic.
Depends on how much of a stink the media makes about this in Washington.
The flash grenades go off so fast that they usually blind the thrower as well... Not to mention the fact that they are just annoying. ie They don't challenge, they frustrate.
Bots are of the usual foxbot type: 100% accurate with weapons that don't have a delayed ordnance. Even grenades on a short fuse are thrown perfectly... (Unfortunatly the UT guys are the only ones I have seen to date that make an acceptably "human" AI.)
You can camp INSIDE the enemy respawn safely.
Sentry guns don't "pin movement" with their minigun; so the rockets are useless. Even a HW guy could outrun the rocket.
The graphics are overestimated. I ran high quality with as much detail on as possible on a laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB and received an outrageous frame rate.
It's not bad, kudos to the guys who are making it. But it's got some time to go before I could spend allot of time in it.
iTunes DRM Music is for iPods only. Apple makes this clear. Other manufacturers are free to make plugins that let their non-DRM MP3 players work with iTunes, but not use Apple's DRM.
This is like me sueing Sony because my Playstation won't play XBox games. Its a matter of perspective.
Okay, what I mean is it's becoming more socially acceptable for them to ditch ethics... Look at all the people that didn't collect on the M$ settlement in Cali.
...That Corporate America becomes increasingly more unethical every day and no one seems to notice or care.
The way they bribe congress, lie to the consumer, lie to regulators, and pull double-standards right out in the open like Bell did in this article.
I mean, really... Has no one noticed that "binding arbitration" appears in just about everything you are required to sign now? Do you people not know that this usurps your right to a trial by jury? That the real function behind it, wether or not you win the arbitrator's decision, is so that the company can't be found "guilty" of a criminal actions that would surface in a trial?
Oh wait, not that being found guilty in a court would matter... Look what happened to Microsoft...
Hosting Half Life? Nah, sorry... I can't support this. I have nothing against bittorrent, I use it to download OSS all the time. But they are supporting pirates, and MAYBE profiting from it through advertisements.
Weren't we just discussing a guy earlier today that had a hard time getting a site off the net that was linking to illegal downloads of his software? The MPAA is not being a bad guy just because they are taking similar stepps to his to protect their content.
So what it really comes down to is: Do they have a right to link to illegal downloads, even though they aren't hosting themselves? Technically no... But how many things do we know of that aren't technically illegal, but are still unjust?
This is one of those grey areas of the law that does need to be clearly defined. If the purpose of said link is clearly to facilitate piracy; then yes, it should not be legal.
I would rather they make such things that have a clear and visible intent of piracy illegal than to make things like file sharing and bittorrent illegal all together. Bittorrent has legitimate purposes, linking to a spiderman 2 download has only 1 purpose.
If they were hosting a DeCSS gallary I'd support them.
I don't like Real's position in this because they are trying to double-screw the consumer. Real's DRM always looks much more restrictive than FairPlay.
Real want's to sell music that capitalizes on Apple's success but still severely limit the consumer.
"Let's crack a popular device so we call sell our music and it can have access to it; but, at the same time, sill prevent the consumer from using what they paid for in any way they wish."
They want the iPod to access their locked down files while you still don't have access to them; when they could just unlock them completely and none of this would be required. Aren't iPod transfer's "technically" one-way, so why is real's DRM needed anyway? Why not just dump a normal MP3 on the iPod?
Locked music is a useless endeavor anyway; I can find anything from any music store on limewire if I searched.
I do buy my music though. I don't believe in complaining about fair use rights while being a pirate at the same time. I even buy itunes exclusives, as some are really good. If the DRM becomes an issue I'll find a can (i)opener.
Bands don't make money off of albums anymore so they are not concerned with making money through the sale of records. What does concern them is that their work is distributed, a job traditionally done by record labels. File sharing speeds up their rise to fame by out performing the record labels in distribution. Fame is what they are after because it makes them money. Appearances, product promotions and concert tours are where they make all the money now; the more famous they are the higher price they can demand from these things.
The labels stopped paying artists for their work years ago, so as far as most musicians are concerned the RIAA can rot in hell. Note that it is "Recording Industry Association of America" and not "Musicians Industry Association of America". I remember seeing something on VH1 about one of the late 90's pop singers going 11x platinum and each member of the band only making $50,000 in real money that year.
If you're really interested in supporting your favorite artist copy the CD and give it to five friends; then order a T-Shirt from them and go to their concert next time they are in town.
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According to TFA the slotted lens would be much lighter but also MUCH MUCH larger than traditional setups. Also, the distance between the lens and the camera is so large that a second spacecraft is needed. Trying to maintain the alignment of two spacecraft would be difficult at best. Now consider that they would need to fire thrusters and move one of them every time they need to focus on a different object. How much fuel would be used up just looking at 10 different objects? I would expect a lot. Add to this what micro-meteors and the random castaway screw driver would do to the foil over time and you can see some real limitations to this. Not saying it's impossible, just that they need to work out some ways around the obvious problems.
If we had more than one major encyclopedia online that was supported by advertisements or Federal funding to source information from it would be a boon for everyone. I mean, if they'll spend thousands for hardly used encyclopedias for public libraries, there must be a way to make that information more available in the age of the internet. This may already exist, but if it does, I haven't seen it. Perhaps other publicly available sources of information need to be more vocal about their existence?
The difference is between you asking an unwanted question and a spammer sending millions of emails is quite simple: You're not sending 10's of millions of solicitations that you profit from and asking others to pay your postage. Then going to court and trying to say that your act of stealing bandwidth and hijacking people's computers (if he used a bot net) is an act of free speech protected by The Constitution. You made an apples to oranges comparison. Try again...
When you're sending millions of messages a day to people who don't want them and other people (usually the ones footing the bandwidth bill) are paying for the connection, you are guilty of stealing at the very least... And in the case of mass spammers you're stealing a whole lot of bandwidth you're not paying for.
My first eye scan of the title had me confused because I thought it said "Bogus Chinese DISCO Gear." Which created some very confusing mental imagery.
Lithium polymer batteries are also very dangerous if not handled properly and/or are not charged and discharged with the proper protection circuitry in place. http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/t90077p1/
Is there a greater example than this that the balance of rights between creators and consumers is out of whack? Law enforcement and legislation seems to tilt further towards creators every day.
Yes, but arguably, using an iPod is not as dangerous to your computer as using something that processes ActiveX scripts. Don't forget: IE is something that's viewed in a similar light as a microwave oven to the general public. It's something that's there that you use frequently, and occasionaly gives you problems. The iPod is viewed in the same light as a Rolex to the general public. Cool, hip, useful and a sign you can buy somewhat expensive things. As a bonus, it works well and is easy to understand and utilize.
Because classic gaming is übergeek, of course!
I don't know. I submitted it under classic gaming.
They say in their FAQthat they are looking to move away from the DirectX game engine at some point. Possibly before they finish a future fully 3D version.
I'd like to know exactly how that comment was a troll...
/. agenda pansy who's every scoring action is nothing less than jigoism. I guess the political views of you and your fellow moderators are so weak that they cannot withstand arguement. I feel sorry for your freinds, if you actually have any that can stand your one-sided viewpoints for very long.
However, slashdot moderators have proven time and again that their moderation has no basis in fairness at all. Simply put, their behavior is like a group of kids in high-school that are often referred to as the "in-crowd". If your opinion does not agree with theirs you will be moderated down, whether or not that moderation makes sense.
Mr. Moderator, you're nothing more that a
I don't think anyone can realistically focus this on GWB. Politicians in general like "contribtions", they all sell out in one way or another... Even "civil rights groups" have agenda's that are not alltruistic.
Depends on how much of a stink the media makes about this in Washington.
Is /. desperate for submissions today or something? I've seen more interesting things in people's signatures.
The flash grenades go off so fast that they usually blind the thrower as well... Not to mention the fact that they are just annoying. ie They don't challenge, they frustrate.
Bots are of the usual foxbot type: 100% accurate with weapons that don't have a delayed ordnance. Even grenades on a short fuse are thrown perfectly... (Unfortunatly the UT guys are the only ones I have seen to date that make an acceptably "human" AI.)
You can camp INSIDE the enemy respawn safely.
Sentry guns don't "pin movement" with their minigun; so the rockets are useless. Even a HW guy could outrun the rocket.
The graphics are overestimated. I ran high quality with as much detail on as possible on a laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB and received an outrageous frame rate.
It's not bad, kudos to the guys who are making it. But it's got some time to go before I could spend allot of time in it.
iTunes DRM Music is for iPods only. Apple makes this clear. Other manufacturers are free to make plugins that let their non-DRM MP3 players work with iTunes, but not use Apple's DRM.
This is like me sueing Sony because my Playstation won't play XBox games. Its a matter of perspective.
Okay, what I mean is it's becoming more socially acceptable for them to ditch ethics... Look at all the people that didn't collect on the M$ settlement in Cali.
Last time I checked I could post whatever I wanted here, you fasicst propaganda spouting pig.
...That Corporate America becomes increasingly more unethical every day and no one seems to notice or care.
The way they bribe congress, lie to the consumer, lie to regulators, and pull double-standards right out in the open like Bell did in this article.
I mean, really... Has no one noticed that "binding arbitration" appears in just about everything you are required to sign now? Do you people not know that this usurps your right to a trial by jury? That the real function behind it, wether or not you win the arbitrator's decision, is so that the company can't be found "guilty" of a criminal actions that would surface in a trial?
Oh wait, not that being found guilty in a court would matter... Look what happened to Microsoft...
Hosting Half Life? Nah, sorry... I can't support this. I have nothing against bittorrent, I use it to download OSS all the time. But they are supporting pirates, and MAYBE profiting from it through advertisements.
Weren't we just discussing a guy earlier today that had a hard time getting a site off the net that was linking to illegal downloads of his software? The MPAA is not being a bad guy just because they are taking similar stepps to his to protect their content.
So what it really comes down to is: Do they have a right to link to illegal downloads, even though they aren't hosting themselves? Technically no... But how many things do we know of that aren't technically illegal, but are still unjust?
This is one of those grey areas of the law that does need to be clearly defined. If the purpose of said link is clearly to facilitate piracy; then yes, it should not be legal.
I would rather they make such things that have a clear and visible intent of piracy illegal than to make things like file sharing and bittorrent illegal all together. Bittorrent has legitimate purposes, linking to a spiderman 2 download has only 1 purpose.
If they were hosting a DeCSS gallary I'd support them.
I'll begin writing the XM Radio descrambler tonight. J/K
Not one of them were nearly as interesting as what can be built with a Capsela set.
I don't like Real's position in this because they are trying to double-screw the consumer. Real's DRM always looks much more restrictive than FairPlay.
Real want's to sell music that capitalizes on Apple's success but still severely limit the consumer.
"Let's crack a popular device so we call sell our music and it can have access to it; but, at the same time, sill prevent the consumer from using what they paid for in any way they wish."
They want the iPod to access their locked down files while you still don't have access to them; when they could just unlock them completely and none of this would be required. Aren't iPod transfer's "technically" one-way, so why is real's DRM needed anyway? Why not just dump a normal MP3 on the iPod?
Locked music is a useless endeavor anyway; I can find anything from any music store on limewire if I searched.
I do buy my music though. I don't believe in complaining about fair use rights while being a pirate at the same time. I even buy itunes exclusives, as some are really good. If the DRM becomes an issue I'll find a can (i)opener.
Bands don't make money off of albums anymore so they are not concerned with making money through the sale of records. What does concern them is that their work is distributed, a job traditionally done by record labels. File sharing speeds up their rise to fame by out performing the record labels in distribution. Fame is what they are after because it makes them money. Appearances, product promotions and concert tours are where they make all the money now; the more famous they are the higher price they can demand from these things.
The labels stopped paying artists for their work years ago, so as far as most musicians are concerned the RIAA can rot in hell. Note that it is "Recording Industry Association of America" and not "Musicians Industry Association of America". I remember seeing something on VH1 about one of the late 90's pop singers going 11x platinum and each member of the band only making $50,000 in real money that year.
If you're really interested in supporting your favorite artist copy the CD and give it to five friends; then order a T-Shirt from them and go to their concert next time they are in town.
Yea, I'm 100% offtopic, and 100% on your wife. A used box isn't bad once you get past the used part.