they get cheaper because of technologies like MLC and lately TLC, MLC = 10x worse than SLC, TLC = 100x worse. MLC lets you extensively use SSD/pendrive for about 2 years before it starts failing, TLC will make those drives fail after a year of extensive use.
I still have 10 year old harddrives that are perfectly fine. Basically if it doesnt fail in 1-2 years it will work 10 and more.
HDD = infinite write to a sector, TLC = 1000 writes in best case scenario.
FCC certification does not mean the devices should be able to cope. The line 'the device must accept any and all interference' means 'it is not the FCC's problem if this device operating in unlicensed spectrum is interfered with'.
well, from the top of my head I know of a Fluke multimeter that would die if you put a cellphone next to it - something FCC cert should pick up but didnt. FCC is useless.
Its a software patent, Implementations dont matter, you CANT implement around it. Its basically "if you do X while Y _on a mobile device_" you infringe. Same goes for prior art. It doesnt matter as long as you can afford lawyers, just look up Amazons one click.
Gotta love Americans missing the point of regulation that protects the consumer. On the other hand in US frozen Pizza is a vegetable now, you know, to protect frozen pizza corporations from healthy food regulations. http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=pizza+vegetable
Prepaid cellphone and GSM provider location service. Any cellphone will do, so free Receiving calls on prepaid in Europe lasts 1 year from purchase date. GSM providers let you locate your own cellphone with an sms. All you need is to activate it (one time fee) and after that its as easy as sending sms from a number you activated. Location data is triangulated celltower info, not GPS. but still very accurate and useful.
as an alternative you can use more modern phone with symbian/android. In Europe you can remotely top up Prepaid card at any time during that year. So you just stick prepaid in the phone, mount it on the bike and forget about it for a year. In case it is stolen you transfer $10 to the card to activate it and you are good to go.
behold how social democracy (Called socialism in u.s.), govt. funded education, social security etc leaves a nation behind in development and that is despite compared to u.s.
Petman doesnt need strong AI. They can make remote controlled land drone out of it with some 18 year old child serving in Military driving it like Predator. Imagine the possibilities. It can run around killing innocent people with M16, and as soon as someone shoots back its an act of aggression against United States!
If you see humanity as a collection of separate automata then this is not going to work. But is this true? Are we really all a bunch of self-optimizing machines?
My teacher Adi Da points to what he calls "prior unity", and indicates that some global internet based approach to decision making could arise virtually overnight if we got our shit together
There is such a thing already, Its called digg.com. Its time for you to change your teacher.
The problem with that position is that you are always the smart one to you, but to everyone else you're one of the idiots. Since it all balances out, we pretty much have your system in place already.
Keep telling that to yourself, then go to digg.com and witness how smart average people are. There is a reason you are reading slashdot and not digg right now. Same reason most stupid people will watch wrestling or fox news while smart ones read a book.
In fact, left to their own devices, most citizens (not merely Greeks) will make short-sighted short-term-pain-minimizing decisions that will eventually wreck their culture's pattern. Democracy exists as a check on tyranny, NOT as a source of omniscience.
Yes, like Iceland did. Just look how bad it turned out for them... oh wait, it DIDNT.
~$9B in the red and starting to make a $100Mil per quarter is NOT a big money maker.
I bet if you factor in 13 million Xbox Live Gold subscribers paying an additional $70 every year they own the console (that's almost a billion $ every year right there), plus the cut they get off every game sold, they're making a helluva lot more than shows up in raw console sales figures.
except those are not raw console sales, those are WHOLE entertainment unit profits, 100mil per quarter
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As SSDs get cheaper and cheaper
they get cheaper because of technologies like MLC and lately TLC, MLC = 10x worse than SLC, TLC = 100x worse.
MLC lets you extensively use SSD/pendrive for about 2 years before it starts failing, TLC will make those drives fail after a year of extensive use.
I still have 10 year old harddrives that are perfectly fine. Basically if it doesnt fail in 1-2 years it will work 10 and more.
HDD = infinite write to a sector, TLC = 1000 writes in best case scenario.
Didn't Kinect come from a company MS bought the rights from? or did they buy the company? Is this the same brain trust or the MS brain trust?
PrimeSense developed the hardware, MS developed the software.
except it didnt, unless by developed you mean MS ported PrimeSenses code (openni) to xbox360
Can you see the hostages....?
No I'm afraid our high tech surveillance system has been thwarted by a fly-spray.
http://futuretom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/cockroach-fifth-element.jpg
FCC certification does not mean the devices should be able to cope. The line 'the device must accept any and all interference' means 'it is not the FCC's problem if this device operating in unlicensed spectrum is interfered with'.
so in other words FCC is useless?
well, from the top of my head I know of a Fluke multimeter that would die if you put a cellphone next to it - something FCC cert should pick up but didnt. FCC is useless.
I meant the things that die from interference. FCC cert should mean they are able to cope, yet people report stuff dying.
sooo, how did those things pass FCC testing?
Bethesda has treated PC gamers very well with the Fall Out and Elder Scrolls games
yes, tying vertical mouse sensitivity (horizontal doesnt change) to FPS timer is an excellent example of that!
Its a software patent, Implementations dont matter, you CANT implement around it. Its basically "if you do X while Y _on a mobile device_" you infringe.
Same goes for prior art. It doesnt matter as long as you can afford lawyers, just look up Amazons one click.
Gotta love Americans missing the point of regulation that protects the consumer.
On the other hand in US frozen Pizza is a vegetable now, you know, to protect frozen pizza corporations from healthy food regulations.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=pizza+vegetable
Prepaid cellphone and GSM provider location service.
Any cellphone will do, so free
Receiving calls on prepaid in Europe lasts 1 year from purchase date.
GSM providers let you locate your own cellphone with an sms. All you need is to activate it (one time fee) and after that its as easy as sending sms from a number you activated. Location data is triangulated celltower info, not GPS. but still very accurate and useful.
as an alternative you can use more modern phone with symbian/android. In Europe you can remotely top up Prepaid card at any time during that year. So you just stick prepaid in the phone, mount it on the bike and forget about it for a year. In case it is stolen you transfer $10 to the card to activate it and you are good to go.
Again scandinavians with an innovation.
look, a RETARDED person posting on slashdot
http://armdevices.net/2011/05/06/25-arm-powered-desktop-presented-by-raspberry-pi-foundation/
behold how social democracy (Called socialism in u.s.), govt. funded education, social security etc leaves a nation behind in development and that is despite compared to u.s.
and that retard is from US, what a surprise
download caps are the main problem, why bother upgrading speed if its still capped?
Petman doesnt need strong AI. They can make remote controlled land drone out of it with some 18 year old child serving in Military driving it like Predator.
Imagine the possibilities. It can run around killing innocent people with M16, and as soon as someone shoots back its an act of aggression against United States!
Alpha dog is old news, and so is asimo.
PETMAN is where its at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mclbVTIYG8E
If you see humanity as a collection of separate automata then this is not going to work.
But is this true? Are we really all a bunch of self-optimizing machines?
My teacher Adi Da points to what he calls "prior unity", and indicates that some global
internet based approach to decision making could arise virtually overnight if
we got our shit together
There is such a thing already, Its called digg.com. Its time for you to change your teacher.
How do you determine who is smart? IQ? DNA?
IQ sounds fine.
The problem with that position is that you are always the smart one to you, but to everyone else you're one of the idiots. Since it all balances out, we pretty much have your system in place already.
Keep telling that to yourself, then go to digg.com and witness how smart average people are. There is a reason you are reading slashdot and not digg right now. Same reason most stupid people will watch wrestling or fox news while smart ones read a book.
How is the issue of mob rule addressed?
Mandatory IQ tests, only >120 gets a voter card.
Why 120? So i could pass :P
Maybe he tested above 120, did you?
The main reason being that people in general are stupid.
Generally people are stupid, and well meaning. I'll take my chances with stupid and well meaning over devious and self-serving any day.
The first kind burned "witches", the second kind will just steal from you.
Here are pictures of the car: http://www.streetscooter.eu/news-und-info/bildarchiv.html
RENDERS not pictures. Thery didnt make anything but some renders.
In fact, left to their own devices, most citizens (not merely Greeks) will make short-sighted short-term-pain-minimizing decisions that will eventually wreck their culture's pattern. Democracy exists as a check on tyranny, NOT as a source of omniscience.
Yes, like Iceland did. Just look how bad it turned out for them ... oh wait, it DIDNT.
~$9B in the red and starting to make a $100Mil per quarter is NOT a big money maker.
I bet if you factor in 13 million Xbox Live Gold subscribers paying an additional $70 every year they own the console (that's almost a billion $ every year right there), plus the cut they get off every game sold, they're making a helluva lot more than shows up in raw console sales figures.
except those are not raw console sales, those are WHOLE entertainment unit profits, 100mil per quarter
Nice, cant link to wiki because Slashdot doesnt like Polish characters in URLs
http://www.mikofoto.net/album/index.php?folder=/zarnowiec1/