You are making the assumption that the person wanting copyrights is the only one who will ever come up with the idea. Who's to say that someone who doesn't care about copyrights will not come up with the same idea, or a better one, and share it?
Thomas Jefferson was one of the primary founders of our country, which is why we regard him so highly. This quote is a sort of celebrity endorsement, which is very relevant to any argument about "intellectual property".
They're not going to be making these PCs forever, or even participating in this project forever. That means there is a finite amount of PCs. For every one of those PCs that is in the hands of a rich person, a poor person goes without internet access.
Of course there is going to be a finite amount produced. However, your assertion that rich people purchasing them will deprive poor people of them is flawed. There will be a limited number of these made, but it will not be a small number. They will continue being made until they are no longer profitable. At this point, all of those who wanted (or needed) them will have gotten one (or even two). A company will not just cut off a product that is still in high demand.
I definitely agree with this. What's also extremely annoying to me, is when people use "wut" or even "wot" as a replacement for "what". I just want to slap those people right in the face.
When I type, I have a memory for the locations of the letters of words. I just imagine a word, and my fingers type the word. I could never do that "home row" thing. When typing a word that I do not use, I will actually have to look at the keyboard, because there isn't a strong motion associated with that word. For me, typing "ur" or "wut" or "rofl" or any other aimspeak word actually takes longer.
I believe that if people developed memory for REAL words, rather than aimspeak, we would not see such irritating misuse of language.
I think that most ads are nice to have, simply because they lend color or something more to look at in a webpage, and, of course, because they benefit the site I am patronizing. Sometimes, they even make you laugh. I've stopped using AdBlock because a lot of pages just look boring after its treatment. I can use Nuke Anything to remove anything I don't want to see in a page, and Flashblock to prevent those annoying flash ads from rendering, so I can nuke them as well.
Like many Slashdotters, I'm sure, I resent the feeling of being limited. With these extensions, I am given the choice to get everything, then pick out what I don't want.
Would it not be cheaper/better to drop a lump of high explosive on it rather than a heavy lump of copper?
A chemical explosion such as this is nothing more than a rapid oxidation reaction. So, in order to have such an explosion in space, there would have to be a large presence of oxygen.
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She noticed that the way the tollbooths (both entering and leaving the highway) responded differently when she had the pass in the bag than when there was no pass in the car.
It could be that the metallic plastic bag will filter up to a specific frequency, and the toll booth will test a higher frequency, for the presence of the pass.
A Faraday cage, depending on its density, will only filter up to a certain frequency. This is how the Faraday cage in your microwave can shield you from the microwaves, but will still allow you to see your food cooking. I believe tinfoil will filter all frequencies that we presently use for radio communication (mostly because I can't see through it). It certainly can't filter gamma waves.
you're also stereotyping and generalizing by lumping all "Asians" together
It is not I who is doing the stereotyping.
This is the exact same annoying thing as people thinking asians say "lice" instead of "rice"!
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Ahhhh!!!!!111oneone This is the exact same annoying thing as people thinking asians say "lice" instead of "rice"!
Now that I've calmed myself, I must inform as many as possible that it is the exact opposite. The Russian language does NOT have a true W sound, and they would NOT pronounce it "wadka". "Vodka" is exactly how it is truly pronounced.
I have no problem with people making fun of different countries' customs, but please, at least do it correctly.
Before anyone starts up a big ruckus about privacy, FTA:
James Whitty, who heads the Oregon pilot project for the state's transportation department, maintains the GPS would detect only whether the car is inside or outside of Oregon and how many miles it has traveled in state - not its every movement.
"There are people who hear 'GPS,' and they think it's some exotic military device," said Whitty, who said the state will not have the ability, or desire, to monitor drivers' traveling habits. The Oregon device would be a "glorified compass," he said.
Joan Borucki, chief deputy director at the California Transportation Commission and a member of the California Performance Review team that made the recommendation here, insists the device could not track residents' whereabouts.
"The bottom line is, they couldn't tell where these people have been. That's just not going to be there," she said.
Hey! There's a guy floating in the middle of the intersection, near the upper-middle.
More interestingly, notice how they organize their angled parking spaces, on the right side. I don't know how it is in other parts of the US, but I am certainly not used to seeing parking spots printed this way; it seems very logical. Where I'm from, parking spaces are printed as a big, long line, with some smaller lines branching from it, between which you park your car. This is a much less effective use of space, and there is always that big empty spot off of one side of your car.
Most LEDs operate at a relatively low current (~20mA) and voltage (~3V). This amounts to maybe.06 Watts (60mW) per LED. It looks like he has 5 panels of 4 LEDs and a 6-LED reading lamp, from the pictures; this makes 26 LEDs, consuming around 1.5 Watts in total. This is 1/40th of the power consumption of a single 60-Watt light bulb. If we say that electricity costs $.06/kWh ("US Federal Average"), then it would cost approximately $.09 to run these lights for 1000 hours.
The kinds of LEDs will probably have different operating characteristics than those I have in my head (like those UV LEDs, which are higher frequency -and energy- than I'm used to).
Whatever it is, it will not exceed the power output of the wall wart he's using.
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Thomas Jefferson was one of the primary founders of our country, which is why we regard him so highly. This quote is a sort of celebrity endorsement, which is very relevant to any argument about "intellectual property".
How about this one?
I definitely agree with this. What's also extremely annoying to me, is when people use "wut" or even "wot" as a replacement for "what". I just want to slap those people right in the face.
When I type, I have a memory for the locations of the letters of words. I just imagine a word, and my fingers type the word. I could never do that "home row" thing. When typing a word that I do not use, I will actually have to look at the keyboard, because there isn't a strong motion associated with that word. For me, typing "ur" or "wut" or "rofl" or any other aimspeak word actually takes longer.
I believe that if people developed memory for REAL words, rather than aimspeak, we would not see such irritating misuse of language.
I use Nuke Anything and Flashblock to deal with annoying ads.
I think that most ads are nice to have, simply because they lend color or something more to look at in a webpage, and, of course, because they benefit the site I am patronizing. Sometimes, they even make you laugh. I've stopped using AdBlock because a lot of pages just look boring after its treatment. I can use Nuke Anything to remove anything I don't want to see in a page, and Flashblock to prevent those annoying flash ads from rendering, so I can nuke them as well.
Like many Slashdotters, I'm sure, I resent the feeling of being limited. With these extensions, I am given the choice to get everything, then pick out what I don't want.
A subject containing the words "blog", "torrent", "TiVo", and "Internet"?!
This has to be good!
Can't... look..... must... just... read... comments... instead...
That's not part of the User Agent.
A Faraday cage, depending on its density, will only filter up to a certain frequency. This is how the Faraday cage in your microwave can shield you from the microwaves, but will still allow you to see your food cooking. I believe tinfoil will filter all frequencies that we presently use for radio communication (mostly because I can't see through it). It certainly can't filter gamma waves.
Ahhhh!!!!!111oneone This is the exact same annoying thing as people thinking asians say "lice" instead of "rice"!
Now that I've calmed myself, I must inform as many as possible that it is the exact opposite. The Russian language does NOT have a true W sound, and they would NOT pronounce it "wadka". "Vodka" is exactly how it is truly pronounced.
I have no problem with people making fun of different countries' customs, but please, at least do it correctly.
Hey! There's a guy floating in the middle of the intersection, near the upper-middle.
More interestingly, notice how they organize their angled parking spaces, on the right side. I don't know how it is in other parts of the US, but I am certainly not used to seeing parking spots printed this way; it seems very logical. Where I'm from, parking spaces are printed as a big, long line, with some smaller lines branching from it, between which you park your car. This is a much less effective use of space, and there is always that big empty spot off of one side of your car.
These Dutch sure are smart.... and foxy.
Most LEDs operate at a relatively low current (~20mA) and voltage (~3V). This amounts to maybe .06 Watts (60mW) per LED. It looks like he has 5 panels of 4 LEDs and a 6-LED reading lamp, from the pictures; this makes 26 LEDs, consuming around 1.5 Watts in total. This is 1/40th of the power consumption of a single 60-Watt light bulb. If we say that electricity costs $.06/kWh ("US Federal Average"), then it would cost approximately $.09 to run these lights for 1000 hours.
The kinds of LEDs will probably have different operating characteristics than those I have in my head (like those UV LEDs, which are higher frequency -and energy- than I'm used to).
Whatever it is, it will not exceed the power output of the wall wart he's using.
Microsoft has been doing that for 19 years.