Don't underestimate the power of Skype in connecting to family around the world. Ipad does video. Really nice for the grandkids to chat and wave to grandma. Or make contact with long unseen relatives.
My mom has problems with the touch sensitivity. Her hand shakes and often when holding the edges fingers will slip to the touch part causing unwanted actions. Added Iballz and a case and still somewhat problematic.
What do you have to store that is that big? Why do you want to compress ?
Most user data is games or songs and vids. Songs and videos are already compressed, attempting to recompress them with a filesystem filter is a waste of everyones time. Most games also have some form of compression on their data. So no gains expected on most of your data.
If you are talking enterprise data then access speed is an issue so you are not looking at compressing anyways.
10 years is nothing in terms of global climate change.
Yes there is a flattening in global ground surface temperature over the last 10 years. The study did not look at water temperatures.
What has happened over the last 10 years is that the bottom of the ocean has started turning over. This brings cold bottom of ocean water to the surface. This has a cooling affect on the land, but a warm affect on the sea. We are now seriosly affecting the majoritu of the globe - oceans and not just the land.
Consider how much energy it takes to warm air. What we have been measuring so far. And what it takes to warm water.
In Canada the degree does not matter. No one, no matter what qualifations can call themseleves and engineer unless they are a professional engineer.
To be a professional engineer they must be a member of their provincial professional engineering association. This is roughly equivalent toa US lawyer being a member of the bar for a particular US state. The idea is that "Engineers" are professionals and to call yourself one you must be a member of the professional assiation.
What is a professional engineer (Ontario Professional Engineers Organization)-> http://www.peo.on.ca/registration/LR.html
Most civil and a high percentage of those who graduate from mechanical engineering do become professional engineers. It gets you the official STAMP which is used to mark building and machine documents. Most electrical engineering college graduates do not. Those who work in power engineering do. In Canada the main reason to become a professional engineer is to get your stamp. If your job requires you to stamp designs then you will get your professional engineering membership.
Very few software projects get engineering stamps. The link above also discusses the seal.
If there is a ban on film making everyone with a cellphone or camera is going to have to leave them behind. Pretty much everyone walking around these days is capable of making a movie. Just take out your cell phone and....
The law as written needs revising for current technology. His monkey suit video is really no different than everyones "I am here" holiday video that gets posted onto facebook.
See this is Microsofts way of protecting the world from SPAM.
--- And just wow, enterprises, limited to 1500 emails a day. I say Microsoft should try that for a couple of years before imposing that on everyone else.
Say you are an enterprise with 16,000 employees, less than 10% of those will be able to send a single email each nay.
Name one thing that we have dumped tons of into the local environment that has been good for us long term?
Just one.
Biowaste? Even the romans had sewers. Fertilzer? Not good for the water systems Sulpher in fuel? Acid rain. Flurocarbons ? Ozone Hole DDT ? Industrial Waste ?
Think CO2 is that one magic thing that will not have consequences ?
SciFi... So does this explain why, when two spaceships meet in deep space they always seem to share the same vertical orientation ? No matter what species and innate architetural design sense.
Why not treat them like and end user and shut off internet access for the "user".
I would like to see "Rogers Communications", the runner of the site lose access to the internet.
Some how I don't think the court would do that to one of the top ISP's in Canada. Yet we are likely to see the courts cut off internet access for small end users. Why are the laws not equal? Corporation got people status, but it seems corporations are way above people status when it comes to some laws. That is not fair. And if it would be unfair to cut off access for a corporation then it should be unfair to cut off access for a person.
Warcraft is not a good example. User created stuff does not exist in Warcraft. It is little more than a dress up show you pop in and out of.
Worlds like Second Life or Minecraft where you can create structures and influence the world and others can experience it are more like true cycber space.
We are already doing several forms of environmental engineering
1) sulpher release - who knew it caused acid rain 2) CFC release - Ozone, whats that, and who needs it anyways 3) flooded land for resoivoirs leads to mercury release from rocks that contaminates fish - nah couldn't happen. 4) urban heat islands 5) plane contrails - planes make clouds, again who could make that connection 6) CO2 release from long term geological storage - well it's good for the plants.....
From a systems perspective the system is designed to requrie a lawyer. And the lawyers are in control of that requirement. Until negative feedback can be applied somehow this system is just going to keep on requireing more lawyers.
"remove the need for gas deliveries to army bases", so where does the laser power sent to the drones come from ?
Or are we going to aim big orbital lasers at the army bases? That sounds like a good idea.
Also a dispersive light beam as described is not going to be efficient. R^2 losses on defocusing and all that. So more power needed at the base to send up to the drones.
Quite probably. In most really cold places, it is usally to cold to snow as cold air can carry less moisture than warm air. Back where I grew up we had lots of -20C clear cold days. It was the "warm" days near 0C when it snowed.
Global warming is expected to create much more evaporation from the oceans and lead to more rain. (cf the flooded central US).
So there appears to be no reason to sign with the RIAA now that small artists are able to quickly make a profit by being independent.
The accounting should become as public as possible so that anyone who retains a lawyer to sign the RIAA contract should be advised by their lawyer not to sign the contract. If despite the public information the lawyer stills says sign then you get "paid" out of the lawyers insurance as the lawyer was not acting in your interests.
Lets put the check on route #1. Ok now start the application that reports check points on routes #2, #3, #4. Suddenly you have lots of people that are directed into the actual check point. Especially people that were actually looking to avoid the check point and are the actual ones you want to check.
I read it. They patented communication. That a particular action is interpreted as a sign of a particular intent. Consider the hand signs used by the deaf, or the action in the title I used. An action is a symbol recognition for any intent is communication.
Patents can apply to a way to recognize an action. Or a way to apply a signaled intent. But a symbol, and that is all a gesture of any sort is, is way beyond what should be covered.
The patent office is stupid. There is no way activity by a person, even equiped with any sort of tool, should be patentable. Sure the tool can be, but not human activity.
Long ago Microsoft pwnd the planets desktop ecosystem space. After that, until we make contact with ET growth is going to naturally be limited. Microsoft should have transitioned from growth mode to stable mode and started paying out dividends to stock holders. The attempts to levarage into other markets are going to a) cost a lot and b) come under anti-trust scrutiny. There comes a point when a corporate giant should just be happy with what they have got and give up the raiding, and make their space the best it can be.
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Don't underestimate the power of Skype in connecting to family around the world. Ipad does video. Really nice for the grandkids to chat and wave to grandma. Or make contact with long unseen relatives.
My mom has problems with the touch sensitivity. Her hand shakes and often when holding the edges fingers will slip to the touch part causing unwanted actions. Added Iballz and a case and still somewhat problematic.
What do you have to store that is that big? Why do you want to compress ?
Most user data is games or songs and vids.
Songs and videos are already compressed, attempting to recompress them with a filesystem filter is a waste of everyones time.
Most games also have some form of compression on their data. So no gains expected on most of your data.
If you are talking enterprise data then access speed is an issue so you are not looking at compressing anyways.
10 years is nothing in terms of global climate change.
Yes there is a flattening in global ground surface temperature over the last 10 years.
The study did not look at water temperatures.
What has happened over the last 10 years is that the bottom of the ocean has started turning over. This brings cold bottom of ocean water to the surface. This has a cooling affect on the land, but a warm affect on the sea. We are now seriosly affecting the majoritu of the globe - oceans and not just the land.
Consider how much energy it takes to warm air. What we have been measuring so far. And what it takes to warm water.
In Canada the degree does not matter. No one, no matter what qualifations can call themseleves and engineer unless they are a professional engineer.
To be a professional engineer they must be a member of their provincial professional engineering association. This is roughly equivalent toa US lawyer being a member of the bar for a particular US state. The idea is that "Engineers" are professionals and to call yourself one you must be a member of the professional assiation.
What is a professional engineer (Ontario Professional Engineers Organization)-> http://www.peo.on.ca/registration/LR.html
Most civil and a high percentage of those who graduate from mechanical engineering do become professional engineers. It gets you the official STAMP which is used to mark building and machine documents. Most electrical engineering college graduates do not. Those who work in power engineering do. In Canada the main reason to become a professional engineer is to get your stamp. If your job requires you to stamp designs then you will get your professional engineering membership.
Very few software projects get engineering stamps. The link above also discusses the seal.
http://www.ccpe.ca/e/index.cfm
If there is a ban on film making everyone with a cellphone or camera is going to have to leave them behind. ....
Pretty much everyone walking around these days is capable of making a movie. Just take out your cell phone and
The law as written needs revising for current technology. His monkey suit video is really no different than everyones "I am here" holiday video that gets posted onto facebook.
See this is Microsofts way of protecting the world from SPAM.
---
And just wow, enterprises, limited to 1500 emails a day. I say Microsoft should try that for a couple of years before imposing that on everyone else.
Say you are an enterprise with 16,000 employees, less than 10% of those will be able to send a single email each nay.
Name one thing that we have dumped tons of into the local environment that has been good for us long term?
Just one.
Biowaste? Even the romans had sewers.
Fertilzer? Not good for the water systems
Sulpher in fuel? Acid rain.
Flurocarbons ? Ozone Hole
DDT ?
Industrial Waste ?
Think CO2 is that one magic thing that will not have consequences ?
SciFi ...
So does this explain why, when two spaceships meet in deep space they always seem to share the same vertical orientation ?
No matter what species and innate architetural design sense.
"run a batch file" and simply modifying a URL likely means something like a simple script around wget or something equally trivial
for (i=0;i500;i++)
wget -O dump${i} http:///url/long/user=${i}
end
Why not treat them like and end user and shut off internet access for the "user".
I would like to see "Rogers Communications", the runner of the site lose access to the internet.
Some how I don't think the court would do that to one of the top ISP's in Canada.
Yet we are likely to see the courts cut off internet access for small end users. Why are the laws not equal? Corporation got people status, but it seems corporations are way above people status when it comes to some laws. That is not fair. And if it would be unfair to cut off access for a corporation then it should be unfair to cut off access for a person.
IBM gets bonus points if they patent these then sit on them, thus disallowing anyone from actually implementing them.
Of course they could turn "Evil"
How many other evil things can we thing of to patent to prevent people from actually doing them?
Warcraft is not a good example.
User created stuff does not exist in Warcraft. It is little more than a dress up show you pop in and out of.
Worlds like Second Life or Minecraft where you can create structures and influence the world and others can experience it are more like true cycber space.
Yeah they deserve to be slashdotted for the design madness that multiplies readers by x38 or more.
So this is the last generation that will know how to tie even basic knots.
*sigh*
We are already doing several forms of environmental engineering
1) sulpher release - who knew it caused acid rain .....
2) CFC release - Ozone, whats that, and who needs it anyways
3) flooded land for resoivoirs leads to mercury release from rocks that contaminates fish - nah couldn't happen.
4) urban heat islands
5) plane contrails - planes make clouds, again who could make that connection
6) CO2 release from long term geological storage - well it's good for the plants
whats a few more.
From a systems perspective the system is designed to requrie a lawyer. And the lawyers are in control of that requirement.
Until negative feedback can be applied somehow this system is just going to keep on requireing more lawyers.
"remove the need for gas deliveries to army bases", so where does the laser power sent to the drones come from ?
Or are we going to aim big orbital lasers at the army bases? That sounds like a good idea.
Also a dispersive light beam as described is not going to be efficient. R^2 losses on defocusing and all that. So more power needed at the base to send up to the drones.
How do we track them all? What happens when they die on mission?
What happens when a human occupied vehicle crosses paths with one of these dead objects at 10,000km/h differentail speeds?
We really should not be cluttering up planetary and solar orbits with "gravel", time has done a nice job of cleaning out all the intra-orbit space.
> It's global warming's fault!
Quite probably. In most really cold places, it is usally to cold to snow as cold air can carry less moisture than warm air.
Back where I grew up we had lots of -20C clear cold days. It was the "warm" days near 0C when it snowed.
Global warming is expected to create much more evaporation from the oceans and lead to more rain. (cf the flooded central US).
So there appears to be no reason to sign with the RIAA now that small artists are able to quickly make a profit by being independent.
The accounting should become as public as possible so that anyone who retains a lawyer to sign the RIAA contract should be advised by their lawyer not to sign the contract. If despite the public information the lawyer stills says sign then you get "paid" out of the lawyers insurance as the lawyer was not acting in your interests.
The police definitly need more hackers.
Lets put the check on route #1. Ok now start the application that reports check points on routes #2, #3, #4. Suddenly you have lots of people that are directed into the actual check point. Especially people that were actually looking to avoid the check point and are the actual ones you want to check.
I read it. They patented communication. That a particular action is interpreted as a sign of a particular intent.
Consider the hand signs used by the deaf, or the action in the title I used. An action is a symbol recognition for any intent is communication.
Patents can apply to a way to recognize an action. Or a way to apply a signaled intent.
But a symbol, and that is all a gesture of any sort is, is way beyond what should be covered.
The is inconceivable.
The patent office is stupid. There is no way activity by a person, even equiped with any sort of tool, should be patentable. Sure the tool can be, but not human activity.
It's comics. They do reboots all the time.
Also nobody ever really dies.
Long ago Microsoft pwnd the planets desktop ecosystem space. After that, until we make contact with ET growth is going to naturally be limited. Microsoft should have transitioned from growth mode to stable mode and started paying out dividends to stock holders. The attempts to levarage into other markets are going to a) cost a lot and b) come under anti-trust scrutiny.
There comes a point when a corporate giant should just be happy with what they have got and give up the raiding, and make their space the best it can be.