Once a phone's location is generally accepted as showing where you were at a given time, it's an instant alibi.
Leave the damned thing turned on somewhere else, then go commit your crime. Or turn off the ringer and vibration, box it up and take it to a somewhat nearby kinko's, and then fedex it back to yourself. Now it's on, and will travel around the city, while you do whatever it is you want to do.
If you get nicked, use that phone location and piles of court cases where phone records were admitted as proof of location.
and depending on what I was doing at the time, I would apparently have one or more of the following in my house
a) a concert hall capable of holding an entire orchestra b) a datacenter with a crazy amount of fan noise (phone tends to get left on my desk, right next to the computer) c) a sawmill (I'm told I snore, loudly)
I guess I don't see this being particularly useful.
Depending on what they needed for test equipment and room to work, it might have fit the needs without needing to make a more expensive trip out to the desert somewhere.
Also, I think I want one of those "light gas guns" and a supply of those lexan projectiles. It looks like it would make short work of the occasional wannabe thugmobile that "cruises" the neighborhood to wake people up at 3 am with really crappy bass.
That depends. If it's a "performance", then it can be copyrighted. The telemetry from that driving "performance", however, is just data (facts) and is not.
and everyone has their vulnerability that can be exploited.
In this case, when confronted with the choice of "fight a massively expensive legal battle" or "turn over the schmuck's details", it should be no surprise which choice ANY corporation makes.
I'm going to assume the "world famous" bit was not aimed at me, since I've made no such assertions. I just wanted to know if xaxa had met the queen...
Hell, even after reading the comments on this story I STILL don't know who he is, other than he plays soccer/football/futbol/patty-cake/whatever for a UK team called "Man U". All of which still means nothing to me.
I was under the impression that it related to the way the first "pressed" CDs were mastered -- the master disk was cut (more accurately, etched) and then plated in gold for some reason or other -- perhaps to make them last longer while they were pressing the production run. Don't think it ever had any relation to the sales metric.
1) Everyone else is still using capsules. Don't see how going back to using one ourselves means we're now "behind" the others.
2) The shuttle itself is little more than a glorified, odd-shaped capsule. It still depends on rockets to push it into space; and it has to basically be re-built between flights.
3) You're neglecting the work done by companies in the US. NASA isn't all we've got. Sure, virgin galactic and the others aren't there yet, but they're a hell of a lot closer than this piece of marketing -- and that's ALL this piece is; they haven't made anything yet, much less a working anything.
Yes, you can still take photos of planes at airports in the US. Out here in the "flyover" states*, we're not all running scared of our shadows, and don't see the terrorist boogyman behind every door, regardless of how much congress, the whitehouse, DHS, TSA, or anyone else wants us to.
*May not apply in texas, or specific counties not completely dominated by corrupt "good-old-boy" political parties
To be pedantic, when referring to artillery, and specifically naval artillery, a 5"/54 caliber gun would have a barrel length of 270 inches; as the 54 refers to the number of diameters that the barrel is long, not the chamber length.
The only way a PS3 is a "supercomputer" is if it's one of a few thousand hooked together.
On a halfway serious note -- is her work something that could benefit from the simulations being re-written to take advantage of graphics cards, using NVIDIA's CUDA or whatever the ATI equivalent is? In some ways, it's astonishing how much computing power we devote to drawing triangles and putting pictures on them, so if her simulation can be written to take advantage of that power you might see a pretty good jump in performance, depending on how well the simulation can be parallelized, size of data set, etc.
Getting a passport here takes, at minimum, a week, unless you want to pay the "get it to me faster" fee, which may or may not actually get it to you any faster. (Co-worker and I both had to take trips, sent off all the paperwork on the same day; he paid the extra fee, I didn't. I got my passport in two weeks, his took almost 3).
He'll just avoid the whole question. Instead of, perhaps, explaining why the word used was unfair, and what was being done about the situation.
Guess it's easier to just whine like a little kid about things being unfair, and when that didn't work, to pull out the "national security" trump card.
Not that I was seriously considering a blackberry, but there's no way I'll buy anything from RIM now. I don't like whiners.
I've got one of those down in the basement somewhere, complete with the orange case and manual (which wasn't orange, and is now probably slightly yellowed with age). Taught myself how to use it in high school to annoy a couple of my teachers who insisted that all math had to be done on the school-required TI-82 or the math was wrong, because they did not actually understand what they were trying to teach -- they just knew which buttons to push, and in what order, on the TI-82.
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Fine. It shows it went to kinko's. I had to make some copies.
Once a phone's location is generally accepted as showing where you were at a given time, it's an instant alibi.
Leave the damned thing turned on somewhere else, then go commit your crime.
Or turn off the ringer and vibration, box it up and take it to a somewhat nearby kinko's, and then fedex it back to yourself. Now it's on, and will travel around the city, while you do whatever it is you want to do.
If you get nicked, use that phone location and piles of court cases where phone records were admitted as proof of location.
and depending on what I was doing at the time, I would apparently have one or more of the following in my house
a) a concert hall capable of holding an entire orchestra
b) a datacenter with a crazy amount of fan noise (phone tends to get left on my desk, right next to the computer)
c) a sawmill (I'm told I snore, loudly)
I guess I don't see this being particularly useful.
Depending on what they needed for test equipment and room to work, it might have fit the needs without needing to make a more expensive trip out to the desert somewhere.
Also, I think I want one of those "light gas guns" and a supply of those lexan projectiles. It looks like it would make short work of the occasional wannabe thugmobile that "cruises" the neighborhood to wake people up at 3 am with really crappy bass.
Original source is here: http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/
That depends. If it's a "performance", then it can be copyrighted. The telemetry from that driving "performance", however, is just data (facts) and is not.
and everyone has their vulnerability that can be exploited.
In this case, when confronted with the choice of "fight a massively expensive legal battle" or "turn over the schmuck's details", it should be no surprise which choice ANY corporation makes.
I'm going to assume the "world famous" bit was not aimed at me, since I've made no such assertions. I just wanted to know if xaxa had met the queen...
Hell, even after reading the comments on this story I STILL don't know who he is, other than he plays soccer/football/futbol/patty-cake/whatever for a UK team called "Man U". All of which still means nothing to me.
Since we now know your feelings on sport....
Have you met the queen?
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I was under the impression that it related to the way the first "pressed" CDs were mastered -- the master disk was cut (more accurately, etched) and then plated in gold for some reason or other -- perhaps to make them last longer while they were pressing the production run. Don't think it ever had any relation to the sales metric.
A few points:
1) Everyone else is still using capsules. Don't see how going back to using one ourselves means we're now "behind" the others.
2) The shuttle itself is little more than a glorified, odd-shaped capsule. It still depends on rockets to push it into space; and it has to basically be re-built between flights.
3) You're neglecting the work done by companies in the US. NASA isn't all we've got. Sure, virgin galactic and the others aren't there yet, but they're a hell of a lot closer than this piece of marketing -- and that's ALL this piece is; they haven't made anything yet, much less a working anything.
In this case....I don't feel sorry for anyone doing business with sony. From my point of view, they made their bed, now they get to lay in it.
And obviously that should read "or specific counties completely dominated by"
Apparently, we also don't believe in the preview button.
Yes, you can still take photos of planes at airports in the US. Out here in the "flyover" states*, we're not all running scared of our shadows, and don't see the terrorist boogyman behind every door, regardless of how much congress, the whitehouse, DHS, TSA, or anyone else wants us to.
*May not apply in texas, or specific counties not completely dominated by corrupt "good-old-boy" political parties
To be pedantic, when referring to artillery, and specifically naval artillery, a 5"/54 caliber gun would have a barrel length of 270 inches; as the 54 refers to the number of diameters that the barrel is long, not the chamber length.
My body is not designed to return to the dead zone periodically unless you believe in reincarnation.
You sleep, don't you? That's sort of the same thing.
The only way a PS3 is a "supercomputer" is if it's one of a few thousand hooked together.
On a halfway serious note -- is her work something that could benefit from the simulations being re-written to take advantage of graphics cards, using NVIDIA's CUDA or whatever the ATI equivalent is? In some ways, it's astonishing how much computing power we devote to drawing triangles and putting pictures on them, so if her simulation can be written to take advantage of that power you might see a pretty good jump in performance, depending on how well the simulation can be parallelized, size of data set, etc.
Getting a passport here takes, at minimum, a week, unless you want to pay the "get it to me faster" fee, which may or may not actually get it to you any faster. (Co-worker and I both had to take trips, sent off all the paperwork on the same day; he paid the extra fee, I didn't. I got my passport in two weeks, his took almost 3).
After my filters, those that I consider whiners are mostly at -1 and I don't see them :-D
He'll just avoid the whole question. Instead of, perhaps, explaining why the word used was unfair, and what was being done about the situation.
Guess it's easier to just whine like a little kid about things being unfair, and when that didn't work, to pull out the "national security" trump card.
Not that I was seriously considering a blackberry, but there's no way I'll buy anything from RIM now. I don't like whiners.
It still takes people to orbit. Seems to me that that would make it just as "fast" as the shuttle.
Then I moved up to a to K+E
I've got one of those down in the basement somewhere, complete with the orange case and manual (which wasn't orange, and is now probably slightly yellowed with age). Taught myself how to use it in high school to annoy a couple of my teachers who insisted that all math had to be done on the school-required TI-82 or the math was wrong, because they did not actually understand what they were trying to teach -- they just knew which buttons to push, and in what order, on the TI-82.
Not if you can bill the customer more for the "latest and greatest".
Just because it costs health care providers less, that doesn't mean that you should expect it to cost YOU less.
Shop at farmers' markets. 'round here, they usually don't have music playing.
It fails if one of the items you select is a "shortcut" or "internet shortcut".