So, there should be a fairly strong correlation between reading speed and IQ, assuming that there's no other factors like dyslexia or lack of access to reading material early in life?
Has that been tested?
Of course, practice is a big determinant in reading speed, and it's a feedback loop. I know people who read slower than they can talk, and they find reading for pleasure to be a foreign concept.
Thankfully, this AC is smarter than most petty criminals.
I witnessed one iPhone theft, a snatch and run from a bus. The owner set off after the thief but quickly returned to ask the bus driver (me!) to call the cops as the thief had a machete, and the phone owner very sensibly valued his skin more than the phone.
However, instead of just walking into the night before Security and the cops arrived, the thief went to the nearby train station. The security guards there, having been warned by my radio call, promptly apprehended the idiot and he's now doing time for assault with a deadly weapon. Oh, and for theft of an iPhone...
Think about the value of the stuff you carry around with you. If you're a man, maybe a nice watch, maybe some cash in your wallet (but less and less these days) and... your expensive smartphone. A woman might add some jewellery to that list, but probably not much day to day. So what else is a thief going to steal? Especially because there's less point in breaking and entering these days, since the old standbys of VCRs or DVD players are now worth almost nothing, and big-screen TVs are hernia producers!
Funny how Americans think that since breaking Enigma helped them win the WW2 so much, they are entitled to have the same advantage over the wole world now.
Umm... that movie where US troops secured the vital Enigma machine wasn't actually accurate. It was the Brits who stole the intact Enigma and the brightest of the Brits who cracked the code and, to a large extent, helped them win the war. (OK, having a whole lot of US planes and bombs and ships and tanks and stuff to DO something with the intercepted data was also quite significant, but the intelligence side of things was all down to the Poms.)
well, they'll just have to clone that parameter too.
Unless of course the industrial process used to create the tags makes each one of them a bit different,
hence defeating the identification in the first place.
Yes, the individual nature of the devices is the whole point of the exercise.
No, that doesn't defeat the identification, it allows/enhances it. It means that, unless the copier can decrypt the data and encrypt with a new fingerprint, the fingerprint parameter on the copied device won't match the value generated by the reader using the physical characteristics.
This sort of physical characteristic fingerprinting has been done for years on magnetic stripe cards and EEPROM smartcards, so this is nothing new in theory, just in what physical characteristics are being measured.
In mag stripes, the magnetic remanence of the strip is different from card to card, in EEPROM, differences in the voltage levels and speed of reading of the cells are used.
The general principle is that it's no point having unbreakable crypto if the data can simply be copied to a new medium. Consider a card (of whatever type) that stores monetary value for public transport or photocopying or whatever: Put $100 on it and copy the data, not knowing which bits are what. Copy that data onto a heap of cards bought with $5 of credit on them and sell them in the grey market for $50 each and pocket the profit.
With this sort of technique, though, part of that encrypted data is a fingerprint based on the physical characteristics of the original card. The new cards will generate a fingerprint in the reader that doesn't match the original, making the copies invalid.
Sure, if you can crack the encryption, this method is useless, but that's not the point. Crypto can be pretty good and costs more than a cheap reader/writer to break to duplicate cards/RFIDs.
The publishing business has always been set up in regions.
An author sells rights to publish his/her work to different publishers in different countries, and there's often either legal protection or trade agreements to prevent parallel distribution of editions from other regions.
So, a book might be published by Doubleday in the US but by Pan MacMillan in Australia, and the major book chains in Oz wouldn't carry the Doubleday version (some specialised genre bookshops might.)
This is almost certainly Fictionwise/ereader just catching up with the requirements placed on them by the publishers who provide their ebooks, possibly because the B&N purchase put them above the radar a bit more.
The TX has a reasonable battery life, especially given that your wi-fi access is likely to be in short and sporadic bursts, not 'always-on' like a cellphone.
The screen's the same res and similar size to an iPhone and the built-in browser's adequate, or you can run Opera Mobile for a few more bells and whistles.
Oh, and it apparently can be used for other stuff like movies, MP3s, addresses, tasks, ebooks, etc., etc.!
This is common practice in Australian cities' radio stations.
The police originally complained and lobbied to prevent it, but then a clever top cop in Melbourne started getting his troops to call in reports of radars all over the place.
Not so many as to completely invalidate the system, just enough to make drivers who took the warnings seriously to think that there were ten times as many speed traps on the road as there actually were, and drive accordingly!
One of the things that IceTV can do is to skip ads when recording, or mute them when watching live.
IceTV cannot skip ads. It has never had this ability.
(shrug) It used to. It inherited the function from ZapTV when it acquired them.
The method used was quite ingenious, and didn't involve any sort of social network button-pressing, just a technical innovation and one or two people monitoring it to make sure that it didn't get out of kilter (it'd be really annoying to come home and find that you'd skipped all of the cricket but recorded all of the ads!)
Sorry I can't tell you how it worked, as the inventor, Peter Vogel, asked me not to. Mind you, it's probably Googleable by now; if I figured it out, I'm sure plenty of other people did!
Besides, you would think that a TV station would want people to know what was on. Objecting to this is like objecting to people linking to your site. Personally I think it would be great if we could just collectively ignore idiots like this, since that seems to be what they want.
One of the things that IceTV can do is to skip ads when recording, or mute them when watching live.
The networks are keen to keep them away from their schedules so that people won't buy IceTV for this functionality and then realise that they can also avoid the ads that the networks need to have watched.
IceTV (and their precursors) have always been careful not to play up this ad-skipping too much, trying to stay 'under the radar' of the networks.
Most of the 95% of the cover price is going into research into a new printing technology.
To keep the spirit of wiki alive in this tome, it'll be printed in pencil and be sold with an eraser and a pencil for readers to edit the articles as they wish.
Oh, it's just the patent lawyers smelling a new revenue stream...
1. Find an 'embedded' genome
2. Patent the original (and unimportant) organism's genome
3. Sue the sellers of the commercial crop with that embedded genome
4. You know this bit...
Nobody cares if you patent the genome of some boring bacterium, but if that turns out to be a constituent of, say, rice or racehorses, then you have a goldmine!
I encountered it as an engineering undergrad, on a university Cyber 204 or 205 mainframe, the first computer I'd ever used. I had to hack extra console time via various means to complete it, using a mega flowchart I drew up as I went.
When I finally finished it, the screen cleared and an operator in the computer centre was typing to me and asking me to come over to the centre. I figured I'd been sprung for all the extra time I'd 'arranged', but instead they gave me printout and iducted me into the Order of Wizards!
A nerdy proud moment... (I wish I hadn't lost that printout in the intervening decades and moves.)
The Aussie project, at least, is using heat that's been created by natural radioactivity and trapped by specific geological formations, which only requires a drill-hole of two or three kilometres. This is well (ahem) within the capability of existing oil and exploration drilling rigs.
Without these favourable conditions, you'd be drilling far deeper to get the required temperature differentals, which would require entirely new drilling tools and complicate the whole process.
Has any game company with an AO product tried using an online channel to market?
It seems like a downloadable, DVD/CD burnable version is feasible these days, given the bandwidth available to much of their target audience. Give each downloaded image a unique key to be emailed to the purchaser and entered on the console to run.
(I'm assuming that it's possible to make recordable DVD/CDs that will run on un-modified consoles)
Sure, the keygens will happen pretty soon, but it's not really any more problem than chipped consoles and copied games are now.
A smaller market than Walmart shelves, but surely better than nothing!
The main utility of this to me and, even more so, to my wife is that we're PDA users and occasionally find ourselves trying to tap on a dialog box with a finger on the PC monitor. This would make that activity useful!
(Now I need some utility to make my PC mouse pointer able to appear on my PDA screen when it's in the cradle on my desk, the same way it does with the laptop LCD and the 19" monitor next to it!)
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So, there should be a fairly strong correlation between reading speed and IQ, assuming that there's no other factors like dyslexia or lack of access to reading material early in life?
Has that been tested?
Of course, practice is a big determinant in reading speed, and it's a feedback loop. I know people who read slower than they can talk, and they find reading for pleasure to be a foreign concept.
A parachute attached to the top of the envelope allows for a controlled descent and landing whenever a balloon is ready to be taken out of service.
I witnessed one iPhone theft, a snatch and run from a bus. The owner set off after the thief but quickly returned to ask the bus driver (me!) to call the cops as the thief had a machete, and the phone owner very sensibly valued his skin more than the phone.
However, instead of just walking into the night before Security and the cops arrived, the thief went to the nearby train station. The security guards there, having been warned by my radio call, promptly apprehended the idiot and he's now doing time for assault with a deadly weapon. Oh, and for theft of an iPhone...
Think about the value of the stuff you carry around with you. If you're a man, maybe a nice watch, maybe some cash in your wallet (but less and less these days) and... your expensive smartphone. A woman might add some jewellery to that list, but probably not much day to day. So what else is a thief going to steal? Especially because there's less point in breaking and entering these days, since the old standbys of VCRs or DVD players are now worth almost nothing, and big-screen TVs are hernia producers!
Funny how Americans think that since breaking Enigma helped them win the WW2 so much, they are entitled to have the same advantage over the wole world now.
Umm... that movie where US troops secured the vital Enigma machine wasn't actually accurate. It was the Brits who stole the intact Enigma and the brightest of the Brits who cracked the code and, to a large extent, helped them win the war. (OK, having a whole lot of US planes and bombs and ships and tanks and stuff to DO something with the intercepted data was also quite significant, but the intelligence side of things was all down to the Poms.)
well, they'll just have to clone that parameter too. Unless of course the industrial process used to create the tags makes each one of them a bit different, hence defeating the identification in the first place.
Yes, the individual nature of the devices is the whole point of the exercise.
No, that doesn't defeat the identification, it allows/enhances it. It means that, unless the copier can decrypt the data and encrypt with a new fingerprint, the fingerprint parameter on the copied device won't match the value generated by the reader using the physical characteristics.
In mag stripes, the magnetic remanence of the strip is different from card to card, in EEPROM, differences in the voltage levels and speed of reading of the cells are used.
The general principle is that it's no point having unbreakable crypto if the data can simply be copied to a new medium. Consider a card (of whatever type) that stores monetary value for public transport or photocopying or whatever: Put $100 on it and copy the data, not knowing which bits are what. Copy that data onto a heap of cards bought with $5 of credit on them and sell them in the grey market for $50 each and pocket the profit.
With this sort of technique, though, part of that encrypted data is a fingerprint based on the physical characteristics of the original card. The new cards will generate a fingerprint in the reader that doesn't match the original, making the copies invalid.
Sure, if you can crack the encryption, this method is useless, but that's not the point. Crypto can be pretty good and costs more than a cheap reader/writer to break to duplicate cards/RFIDs.
An author sells rights to publish his/her work to different publishers in different countries, and there's often either legal protection or trade agreements to prevent parallel distribution of editions from other regions.
So, a book might be published by Doubleday in the US but by Pan MacMillan in Australia, and the major book chains in Oz wouldn't carry the Doubleday version (some specialised genre bookshops might.)
This is almost certainly Fictionwise/ereader just catching up with the requirements placed on them by the publishers who provide their ebooks, possibly because the B&N purchase put them above the radar a bit more.
The screen's the same res and similar size to an iPhone and the built-in browser's adequate, or you can run Opera Mobile for a few more bells and whistles.
Oh, and it apparently can be used for other stuff like movies, MP3s, addresses, tasks, ebooks, etc., etc.!
The police originally complained and lobbied to prevent it, but then a clever top cop in Melbourne started getting his troops to call in reports of radars all over the place.
Not so many as to completely invalidate the system, just enough to make drivers who took the warnings seriously to think that there were ten times as many speed traps on the road as there actually were, and drive accordingly!
One of the things that IceTV can do is to skip ads when recording, or mute them when watching live.
IceTV cannot skip ads. It has never had this ability.
(shrug) It used to. It inherited the function from ZapTV when it acquired them.
The method used was quite ingenious, and didn't involve any sort of social network button-pressing, just a technical innovation and one or two people monitoring it to make sure that it didn't get out of kilter (it'd be really annoying to come home and find that you'd skipped all of the cricket but recorded all of the ads!)
Sorry I can't tell you how it worked, as the inventor, Peter Vogel, asked me not to. Mind you, it's probably Googleable by now; if I figured it out, I'm sure plenty of other people did!
Besides, you would think that a TV station would want people to know what was on. Objecting to this is like objecting to people linking to your site. Personally I think it would be great if we could just collectively ignore idiots like this, since that seems to be what they want.
One of the things that IceTV can do is to skip ads when recording, or mute them when watching live.
The networks are keen to keep them away from their schedules so that people won't buy IceTV for this functionality and then realise that they can also avoid the ads that the networks need to have watched.
IceTV (and their precursors) have always been careful not to play up this ad-skipping too much, trying to stay 'under the radar' of the networks.
There's a copy here: http://mackereth.net/images/SotW_Thank_You_Card.jpg
To keep the spirit of wiki alive in this tome, it'll be printed in pencil and be sold with an eraser and a pencil for readers to edit the articles as they wish.
If so, the lawmakers haven't seen any of the demographics estimates, which put the average gamer age at about 30...
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=256221&cid=20006555
Despite my prognosticative prowess, I don't have a crystal ball; I've always walked like this.
Snicker.
1. Find an 'embedded' genome
2. Patent the original (and unimportant) organism's genome
3. Sue the sellers of the commercial crop with that embedded genome
4. You know this bit...
Nobody cares if you patent the genome of some boring bacterium, but if that turns out to be a constituent of, say, rice or racehorses, then you have a goldmine!
When I finally finished it, the screen cleared and an operator in the computer centre was typing to me and asking me to come over to the centre. I figured I'd been sprung for all the extra time I'd 'arranged', but instead they gave me printout and iducted me into the Order of Wizards!
A nerdy proud moment... (I wish I hadn't lost that printout in the intervening decades and moves.)
Without these favourable conditions, you'd be drilling far deeper to get the required temperature differentals, which would require entirely new drilling tools and complicate the whole process.
It seems like a downloadable, DVD/CD burnable version is feasible these days, given the bandwidth available to much of their target audience. Give each downloaded image a unique key to be emailed to the purchaser and entered on the console to run.
(I'm assuming that it's possible to make recordable DVD/CDs that will run on un-modified consoles)
Sure, the keygens will happen pretty soon, but it's not really any more problem than chipped consoles and copied games are now.
A smaller market than Walmart shelves, but surely better than nothing!
There you go, fixed that for you.
(Now I need some utility to make my PC mouse pointer able to appear on my PDA screen when it's in the cradle on my desk, the same way it does with the laptop LCD and the 19" monitor next to it!)
That puts it in the area of useable length for macro-sized application.