Do they use solar panels for power? Seems to me that they'd want to keep as low a profile as possible, which would eliminate the large profile created by solar panels.
Which leaves radioisotope thermoelectric generation as the power source - which would mean there's plutonium (or another highly radioactive material) in these things.
Good thing I carry a Blackberry that exempts me from these laws...
On a serious note, though - every Blackberry can be password-protected. Enter an incorrect password a user-definable number of times, and the device's memory is wiped.
Stopping AT&T from turning over your call records without a warrant is still beyond the average user's power, unfortunately.
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Which is all fine and good, but the iPhone is NOT A SMARTPHONE. At ALL.
It has NONE of the hallmarks of a traditional smartphone.
"Most devices considered smartphones today use an identifiable operating system, often with the ability to add applications (e.g. for enhanced data processing, connectivity or entertainment) - in contrast to regular phones which only support sandboxed applications[citation needed]. These smartphone applications may be developed by the manufacturer of the device, by the network operator or by any other third-party software developer[citation needed]."
Yes, I left the 'citation needed' remarks, in respect of Wikipedia's information model.
The iPhone is a really fancy phone, perhaps a decent pocket-sized multimedia device, but smartphone/PDA it ain't - without hacking it, of course, until Apple decides to 'update' it for you.
Therefore it's futile to compare it to Blackberry/Windows Mobile/Palm devices.
Those of you who feel that the free market has no recourse against the large corporation and cartel, take note - this is the voting power of your dollar at work. Or, the lack of the dollar thereof, specifically.
It didn't take dismantling of the RIAA, court-ordered cessation of their ridiculous lawsuits, or legislative intervention to protect the consumer - it took your disillusionment with the industry and unwillingness to part with hard-earned cash to pay for crippled formats and less freedom with the content you purchased.
The next step will be the determining factor in the future of media sales. Will you buy MP3s, unrestricted, for a reasonable price? Or will you continue to download it for free via Limewire?
Option A will reinforce a reasonable business model that will benefit the industry, the artist, and you.
Option B will reverse the progress that has been made.
Purchasing a cell phone that has been subsidized by a service plan is NOT like buying a loss leader like discounted milk. Do a little research before you start slinging insults.
There's a little thing called a 'contract' that you sign when you subscribe to that service.
I sincerely hope this is a case of a reporter misunderstanding a scientist's statement.
Waveform collapse applies to quantum probabilities, not passive long-distance observations. They occur because an observer influences an observation; interfering with that which is observed is the only way one can observe it on the scales in which quantum phenomena occur. When observing the light of stars, no information is being sent back to the source; and the idea that consciousness somehow magically induces waveform collapse has all but died, favoring instead theories of quantum decoherence and the indroduction of new 'thermal' states during the observation process as the trigger for waveform collapse.
My only hope is that they've cooked up this idea simply to show how silly the idea of consciousness-triggered waveform collapse is; much like Schrodinger created the cat thought experiment to demonstrate what he saw as a flaw of the Copenhagen interpretation of superposition.
Problem here is that Apple doesn't need or deserve that info. It'd be like finding out that Motorola phones were, well, 'phoning' home to Motorola headquarters and not the service provider you have a service agreement with.
Note to submitters and Slashdot editors: Don't link to blogs. They get Slashdotted.
It's especially shiatty when a blogger doesn't even provide a link to the article he's pulling his text and images from.
Interesting how the blogger switched the referenced Schwarzenegger character of choice from The Terminator to the Predator in his 'article' to make it appear as original content.
Elevators use counterweights and pulleys. It's not actually exerting the energy required to lift a car off the ground against gravity. Therefore it's a lot less wasteful than the car it's carrying.
The Coast Starlight is fantastic! Travelled between L.A. and San Francisco via the Coast Starlight four times. I pretty much abandon my seat and hang out in the observation car. I'd like to do it again and this time take it all the way to Seattle.
Agreed. I never would've gotten into Battlestar Galactica if it weren't for tv-links. Now I intend to watch the new season on the sci-fi channel, commercials and all.
Battlestar Galactica has proven that it's possible to create cinema-quality special effects and atmosphere on a TV show budget these days.
Unfortunately for Lucasarts, anything they're likely to produce probably won't turn out half as good as Battlestar - which is kind of ironic considering that the original Battlestar Galactica really began as a Star Wars ripoff (or at least was discounted as such by critics at the time).
Really, though, BSG really beat the Star Wars prequel at their own game - the vintage tech and mannerisms give the Battlestar Galactica universe the old-school, 'epic' feel that the original SW trilogy had and the prequels lacked.
The kid in me really wants to see some Star Wars in the flavor of the original trilogy, though. Perhaps being constrained to a TV budget will actually help it meet that end - real props instead of 100% CGI backgrounds and 50% CGI characters; plot-and-character-driven instead of flashy lightsaber battles, etc.
complaints about the fact it was Windows-only the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts only being watchable on, say, a Sony television.
Yeah, if 99% of televisions were Sony.
Not denigrating the move, but it's a lousy metaphor.
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...which illustrates the problem.
Sigh. It's in TFA.
No joke. I had no idea they were that massive.
Do they use solar panels for power? Seems to me that they'd want to keep as low a profile as possible, which would eliminate the large profile created by solar panels.
Which leaves radioisotope thermoelectric generation as the power source - which would mean there's plutonium (or another highly radioactive material) in these things.
Yikes...
Good thing I carry a Blackberry that exempts me from these laws...
On a serious note, though - every Blackberry can be password-protected. Enter an incorrect password a user-definable number of times, and the device's memory is wiped.
Stopping AT&T from turning over your call records without a warrant is still beyond the average user's power, unfortunately.
Which is all fine and good, but the iPhone is NOT A SMARTPHONE. At ALL.
It has NONE of the hallmarks of a traditional smartphone.
"Most devices considered smartphones today use an identifiable operating system, often with the ability to add applications (e.g. for enhanced data processing, connectivity or entertainment) - in contrast to regular phones which only support sandboxed applications[citation needed]. These smartphone applications may be developed by the manufacturer of the device, by the network operator or by any other third-party software developer[citation needed]."
Yes, I left the 'citation needed' remarks, in respect of Wikipedia's information model.
The iPhone is a really fancy phone, perhaps a decent pocket-sized multimedia device, but smartphone/PDA it ain't - without hacking it, of course, until Apple decides to 'update' it for you.
Therefore it's futile to compare it to Blackberry/Windows Mobile/Palm devices.
May the Lord God see fit to bless me with mod points the next time I read something so funny. Amen.
Those of you who feel that the free market has no recourse against the large corporation and cartel, take note - this is the voting power of your dollar at work. Or, the lack of the dollar thereof, specifically.
It didn't take dismantling of the RIAA, court-ordered cessation of their ridiculous lawsuits, or legislative intervention to protect the consumer - it took your disillusionment with the industry and unwillingness to part with hard-earned cash to pay for crippled formats and less freedom with the content you purchased.
The next step will be the determining factor in the future of media sales. Will you buy MP3s, unrestricted, for a reasonable price? Or will you continue to download it for free via Limewire?
Option A will reinforce a reasonable business model that will benefit the industry, the artist, and you.
Option B will reverse the progress that has been made.
Choose wisely, Indiana Jones...
Wrong.
Purchasing a cell phone that has been subsidized by a service plan is NOT like buying a loss leader like discounted milk. Do a little research before you start slinging insults.
There's a little thing called a 'contract' that you sign when you subscribe to that service.
BitTorrent.
Maglev trains do not fall under the same category as space exploration or genetics research.
I sincerely hope this is a case of a reporter misunderstanding a scientist's statement.
Waveform collapse applies to quantum probabilities, not passive long-distance observations. They occur because an observer influences an observation; interfering with that which is observed is the only way one can observe it on the scales in which quantum phenomena occur. When observing the light of stars, no information is being sent back to the source; and the idea that consciousness somehow magically induces waveform collapse has all but died, favoring instead theories of quantum decoherence and the indroduction of new 'thermal' states during the observation process as the trigger for waveform collapse.
My only hope is that they've cooked up this idea simply to show how silly the idea of consciousness-triggered waveform collapse is; much like Schrodinger created the cat thought experiment to demonstrate what he saw as a flaw of the Copenhagen interpretation of superposition.
Problem here is that Apple doesn't need or deserve that info. It'd be like finding out that Motorola phones were, well, 'phoning' home to Motorola headquarters and not the service provider you have a service agreement with.
You know the episodes are cheaper than the full game, right?
Link to the original Daily Mail article: The Terminator-style helmets that allow fighter pilots to see through their planes
Note to submitters and Slashdot editors: Don't link to blogs. They get Slashdotted.
It's especially shiatty when a blogger doesn't even provide a link to the article he's pulling his text and images from.
Interesting how the blogger switched the referenced Schwarzenegger character of choice from The Terminator to the Predator in his 'article' to make it appear as original content.
Elevators use counterweights and pulleys. It's not actually exerting the energy required to lift a car off the ground against gravity. Therefore it's a lot less wasteful than the car it's carrying.
Where do elevators go?
...it's a pun.
Up... High...
It's a pun, dude. 'High' tech. Elevator. Height. Up.
The Coast Starlight is fantastic! Travelled between L.A. and San Francisco via the Coast Starlight four times. I pretty much abandon my seat and hang out in the observation car. I'd like to do it again and this time take it all the way to Seattle.
Agreed. I never would've gotten into Battlestar Galactica if it weren't for tv-links. Now I intend to watch the new season on the sci-fi channel, commercials and all.
Battlestar Galactica has proven that it's possible to create cinema-quality special effects and atmosphere on a TV show budget these days.
Unfortunately for Lucasarts, anything they're likely to produce probably won't turn out half as good as Battlestar - which is kind of ironic considering that the original Battlestar Galactica really began as a Star Wars ripoff (or at least was discounted as such by critics at the time).
Really, though, BSG really beat the Star Wars prequel at their own game - the vintage tech and mannerisms give the Battlestar Galactica universe the old-school, 'epic' feel that the original SW trilogy had and the prequels lacked.
The kid in me really wants to see some Star Wars in the flavor of the original trilogy, though. Perhaps being constrained to a TV budget will actually help it meet that end - real props instead of 100% CGI backgrounds and 50% CGI characters; plot-and-character-driven instead of flashy lightsaber battles, etc.
Because nobody will buy DVDs of old news programs and they know it.
complaints about the fact it was Windows-only the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts only being watchable on, say, a Sony television. Yeah, if 99% of televisions were Sony. Not denigrating the move, but it's a lousy metaphor.
If you like the idea of your tax dollars going to smaller companies
I'd rather the government not give my money to any company.
If you have too much to spend, government, and I know you do, give it back, please.
I hadn't thought of that. That's the best argument I've heard so far.
To use a pedestrian Joe Sixpack example, people will be able to DVR everything they watch.