I totally agree with you, and most of the replies to you just do not get it.
To those people: how would you feel if a law enforcement officer placed a bug on your body to catch all of your conversations? After all, this is just information they could get by following you around in person and using microphones or lip-reading.
The point is that they are placing something on your property without permission, or any reasonable expectation of it being done.
And regarding the "no expectation of privacy in public", does this device automatically turn off when the car goes onto private property?
I agree. The Advantage was my favorite controller for the NES. The adjustable turbo was great, but the slo-mo feature was pretty useless. It basically strobed the start button to pause/unpause rapidly.
If yahoo did not own your email, then they could potentially be liable for losing it in, lets say, a server crash.
It does not make sense for a free email provider to take on this level of liability.
Instead of comparing email to snail mail, compare it to a answering service that takes messages for you. The point being that there is no physical property being transfered, only a service being provided (recording certain information intended for you).
I own my own domain name and have a hosting provider that serves my email. I do not expect to be able to access my mail in any other way than is provided for in the service agreement. If I went to them 2 years after my contract lapsed, I would not expect them to have saved any of my content.
So instead specify your time like this: 8:00 GMT-5. This gives enough information for anyone to figure out your timezone and do the calculation. Daylight savings time would not screw up this scheme.
Your meeting partner in Australia would be something like GMT+13, so he would know to add 18 hours to your times to convert to his local time. 8+18 = 26, 26 % 24 = 2:00 in the morning.
It is easier to get a few people (your meeting partners) used to this than to change the whole state / country / world, and you still get to keep your local time for most things.
Google provides a real service to searchers and web providers alike. Sure there are risks. Competitors could flood the market or try to lock out Google by convincing all hosting providers to block google's spiders. Either of these would require real work from competitors.
However, the risks with buying a virtual island seem immense. The game company has a huge incentive to produce many such islands to sell. Doing this may negatively impact this guy's investment. It is hard to justify that kind of investment if someone can multiply the supply infinitely with a few keypresses, and has motivation to do so.
If I am traveling with a backpack, the extra space of a comfortable controller wouldn't matter much, though you probably would have to have a way to slip the DS into the controller so that you could hold the screens in the right way.
I don't think that using the sytlus would work well when playing games. You need to use those fingers to hold the DS.
My main complaint about the screen I guess is the resolution. It should be at least 320x240 now. I retract my comment about it not being ready for 3d. The poly count is probably better than a PS1. However, the resolution is sorely lacking.
I am excited about the wireless and the possible hackability of it though.
I tried one out in the store. I have fairly large hands, and I found the controls very uncomfortable. I started to get a hand cramp after a few minutes because the d-pad and the buttons were too close to the edge of the unit.
They should have wireless controllers that you can use with this thing. That way if you need the pocket-sized portability you can leave the comfortable controller home.
The touchscreen is okay, but I dislike touching any screen with my fingers (mostly because I don't like cleaning screens).
The screen resolution and graphics quality are okay, but could be much better. There are lots of jaggies. I don't think portables are really ready for 3d yet.
Yes. The main component of ZeroConf is a multicast DNS server. However the server is nothing without something to advertise, so their must be a standard way to register services with the server.
This is currently lacking. Just a FYI, there is an opensource implementation of ZeroConf called Howl. Last time I checked into it, several months ago, it was using some apple code, and therefore was not GPL compatible. Apple code was supposed to be replaced at some point.
Mickey Mouse is trademarked, not copyrighted. The stories are copyrighted, but that's not what keeps you from writing a new story about Mickey Mouse.
Actually, you are wrong. Mickey Mouse is copyrighted and trademarked. However, any unautorhized derivative work, which includes using the same characters, is copyright infringement. This is what makes fanfic technically illegal.
Regarding cold weather and snow, I doubt this truck would work well. First, they generate hydrogen from water, which could easily freeze. Second, it is solar powered, and sunlight is much reduced in the winter.
If it is too dangerous to bike, it is probably too dangerous to drive also. Bikes can be fitted with studded tires that dig into the ice.
Also, if it is only a few miles a day, walking is an adequate substitute, in any temperature.
The best practical use I can see for this is hauling large amounts of goods short distances.
It amazes me that folks who work with computers every day are so willing to trust their lives to them. It's like ther is no learning.
We already accept a huge amount of road deaths as the everyday routine. If it was really that important, we would all be using mass transit, which is much, much safer. (Having professional drivers and fewer vehicles).
I don't think that computers are up to the task yet, but they may be in a few (20?) years. Of course, they must have emergency switches and the like.
Just because they aren't ready now doesn't mean that we can't experiment with things yet. Maybe have a few lanes (seperated by concrete) that are only used for automated package delivery?
Smart cars and roads can easily track movements, but what I want is to do away with most private vehicles in favor of many, many automated buses and taxis. Have a request button at city hubs and intersections. Have some sort of anonymous payment system.
Every time I am on the highway, it seems like an awful waste for all the cars going one direction. If the passengers piled into fewer cars or buses, it would do a lot to help reduce emmissions and road costs. Having the cars automated lowers the operating cost.
In fact, we could already emulate this model to a certain extent if hitch-hiking was socially acceptable. Need to go to a city a few hundred miles away? Head toward the highway and hitch. Give the driver a few dollars to cover gas and the inconvenience.
If hitching was socially acceptable, it wouldn't take any time at all to find a ride, we would save the environment, and maybe make new friends.
Too scared to hitch or pick someone else up? Are you too scared to ride next to someone on a bus, train, or plane? The only difference is there is a person with the responsiblity of piloting the vehicle. Smart cars could remove this responsibility.
Get a bike with a kid trailer. Add some panniers for extra storage.
It's true that you might not be able to haul as many groceries as in a SUV, but if you make the trip more often, you will be getting exercise, so you can be doing double duty on your trips (transportation and exercise). For pretty much all trips up to 5 miles / 8km (10-mile / 16km round trip), a bike is the way to go.
I can fit about six plastic bags full of groceries in my medium sized panniers.
If your LRT has accomodations for bikes, this might be a good option as well, especially when your child is old enough to ride a bike of their own. 2km on bike practically nothing.
Let's not leave it to Lucas to release the edition we want. Let's make it ourselves.
From what I understand, most of the changes are minor, and the DVDs will be remastered and cleaned up. This should provide better quality than VHS or Laserdisc.
So what are the specific complaints? Greedo shoots first? No problem. That is only a couple of frames that need to be edited. Don't like the goofy Jaba scene in episode 1, edit it out.
We can rip the MPEG2 and make the changes we see fit.
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"We try and cover as wide a spectrum as our Matrix Online community covers - mostly, we play a mix of rock and techno."
While this isn't too surprising due to the nature of the game, it sounds like a slight against the players.
I don't expect privacy when I'm on the road. I expect police to not covertly put something in my car without a warrant.
Just because it accomplishes the same thing as something else that is legal doesn't make it right.
no it is not. They placed something covertly on his car, his property. That is not right.
If they had robots that were set up to follow him (only on public property) and do the stakeout, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Does the GPS turn off when his car goes onto private property?
I totally agree with you, and most of the replies to you just do not get it.
To those people: how would you feel if a law enforcement officer placed a bug on your body to catch all of your conversations? After all, this is just information they could get by following you around in person and using microphones or lip-reading.
The point is that they are placing something on your property without permission, or any reasonable expectation of it being done.
And regarding the "no expectation of privacy in public", does this device automatically turn off when the car goes onto private property?
I agree. The Advantage was my favorite controller for the NES. The adjustable turbo was great, but the slo-mo feature was pretty useless. It basically strobed the start button to pause/unpause rapidly.
If yahoo did not own your email, then they could potentially be liable for losing it in, lets say, a server crash.
It does not make sense for a free email provider to take on this level of liability.
Instead of comparing email to snail mail, compare it to a answering service that takes messages for you. The point being that there is no physical property being transfered, only a service being provided (recording certain information intended for you).
I own my own domain name and have a hosting provider that serves my email. I do not expect to be able to access my mail in any other way than is provided for in the service agreement. If I went to them 2 years after my contract lapsed, I would not expect them to have saved any of my content.
Why not just number the days 1-365? Seems a lot simpler, and no weirdness.
So instead specify your time like this: 8:00 GMT-5. This gives enough information for anyone to figure out your timezone and do the calculation. Daylight savings time would not screw up this scheme.
Your meeting partner in Australia would be something like GMT+13, so he would know to add 18 hours to your times to convert to his local time. 8+18 = 26, 26 % 24 = 2:00 in the morning.
It is easier to get a few people (your meeting partners) used to this than to change the whole state / country / world, and you still get to keep your local time for most things.
A 1Ghz C3 is probably equivalent to a PII-450, which is starting to get a bit old.
That being said, I wouldn't mind one, as long as the ram is upgradable.
Sounds like you want an XServer with integrated toolkits.
With proper disk and cpu scheduling, background tasks would not slow you down as much.
When I ordered my Neuros, it came defective, right out of the box. I never was able to use the thing.
I could exchange it for a new one, but the company refused to pay the shipping both ways.
Instead I just sent it back for a refund.
Google provides a real service to searchers and web providers alike. Sure there are risks. Competitors could flood the market or try to lock out Google by convincing all hosting providers to block google's spiders. Either of these would require real work from competitors.
However, the risks with buying a virtual island seem immense. The game company has a huge incentive to produce many such islands to sell. Doing this may negatively impact this guy's investment. It is hard to justify that kind of investment if someone can multiply the supply infinitely with a few keypresses, and has motivation to do so.
If I am traveling with a backpack, the extra space of a comfortable controller wouldn't matter much, though you probably would have to have a way to slip the DS into the controller so that you could hold the screens in the right way.
I don't think that using the sytlus would work well when playing games. You need to use those fingers to hold the DS.
My main complaint about the screen I guess is the resolution. It should be at least 320x240 now. I retract my comment about it not being ready for 3d. The poly count is probably better than a PS1. However, the resolution is sorely lacking.
I am excited about the wireless and the possible hackability of it though.
I tried one out in the store. I have fairly large hands, and I found the controls very uncomfortable. I started to get a hand cramp after a few minutes because the d-pad and the buttons were too close to the edge of the unit.
They should have wireless controllers that you can use with this thing. That way if you need the pocket-sized portability you can leave the comfortable controller home.
The touchscreen is okay, but I dislike touching any screen with my fingers (mostly because I don't like cleaning screens).
The screen resolution and graphics quality are okay, but could be much better. There are lots of jaggies. I don't think portables are really ready for 3d yet.
Yes. The main component of ZeroConf is a multicast DNS server. However the server is nothing without something to advertise, so their must be a standard way to register services with the server.
This is currently lacking. Just a FYI, there is an opensource implementation of ZeroConf called Howl. Last time I checked into it, several months ago, it was using some apple code, and therefore was not GPL compatible. Apple code was supposed to be replaced at some point.
Mickey Mouse is trademarked, not copyrighted. The stories are copyrighted, but that's not what keeps you from writing a new story about Mickey Mouse.
Actually, you are wrong. Mickey Mouse is copyrighted and trademarked. However, any unautorhized derivative work, which includes using the same characters, is copyright infringement. This is what makes fanfic technically illegal.
Free? I paid $15 for the shareware in 1997.
Still I feel it was a good deal.
Actually, hydrogen is so small that it leaks out of pretty much any container.
Regarding cold weather and snow, I doubt this truck would work well. First, they generate hydrogen from water, which could easily freeze. Second, it is solar powered, and sunlight is much reduced in the winter.
If it is too dangerous to bike, it is probably too dangerous to drive also. Bikes can be fitted with studded tires that dig into the ice.
Also, if it is only a few miles a day, walking is an adequate substitute, in any temperature.
The best practical use I can see for this is hauling large amounts of goods short distances.
It amazes me that folks who work with computers every day are so willing to trust their lives to them. It's like ther is no learning.
We already accept a huge amount of road deaths as the everyday routine. If it was really that important, we would all be using mass transit, which is much, much safer. (Having professional drivers and fewer vehicles).
I don't think that computers are up to the task yet, but they may be in a few (20?) years. Of course, they must have emergency switches and the like.
Just because they aren't ready now doesn't mean that we can't experiment with things yet. Maybe have a few lanes (seperated by concrete) that are only used for automated package delivery?
Smart cars and roads can easily track movements, but what I want is to do away with most private vehicles in favor of many, many automated buses and taxis. Have a request button at city hubs and intersections. Have some sort of anonymous payment system.
Every time I am on the highway, it seems like an awful waste for all the cars going one direction. If the passengers piled into fewer cars or buses, it would do a lot to help reduce emmissions and road costs. Having the cars automated lowers the operating cost.
In fact, we could already emulate this model to a certain extent if hitch-hiking was socially acceptable. Need to go to a city a few hundred miles away? Head toward the highway and hitch. Give the driver a few dollars to cover gas and the inconvenience.
If hitching was socially acceptable, it wouldn't take any time at all to find a ride, we would save the environment, and maybe make new friends.
Too scared to hitch or pick someone else up? Are you too scared to ride next to someone on a bus, train, or plane? The only difference is there is a person with the responsiblity of piloting the vehicle. Smart cars could remove this responsibility.
Even if they could develop a 110% accurate Speech Recognition I wouldn't use it to replace typing because of the slowness of speech.
This is just wrong. The average rate of speech is way above even the fastest typists.
Get a bike with a kid trailer. Add some panniers for extra storage.
It's true that you might not be able to haul as many groceries as in a SUV, but if you make the trip more often, you will be getting exercise, so you can be doing double duty on your trips (transportation and exercise). For pretty much all trips up to 5 miles / 8km (10-mile / 16km round trip), a bike is the way to go.
I can fit about six plastic bags full of groceries in my medium sized panniers.
If your LRT has accomodations for bikes, this might be a good option as well, especially when your child is old enough to ride a bike of their own. 2km on bike practically nothing.
Let's not leave it to Lucas to release the edition we want. Let's make it ourselves.
From what I understand, most of the changes are minor, and the DVDs will be remastered and cleaned up. This should provide better quality than VHS or Laserdisc.
So what are the specific complaints? Greedo shoots first? No problem. That is only a couple of frames that need to be edited. Don't like the goofy Jaba scene in episode 1, edit it out.
We can rip the MPEG2 and make the changes we see fit.
What changes would you like to see?