"Considering that CBS has already said that clips on YouTube are helping their business you wonder why Universal bothers."
It takes away from Universal the ability to control what becomes popular. If they can't control what music becomes trendy, they'll actually have to cave to the demand of peoples taste in music, instead of force-feeding whatever crap group they decide to prop up. Either that or being able to demand money for getting free advertising.
"Microsoft estimates that the clips such as the e-mail alert will be played trillions of times in years to come. That's a lot of opportunity to annoy, offend -- or, if the job is done right -- please or appease computer users the world over."
Even though the the stifling DRM and the draconian activation process is nothing less than heartache, at least they're working hard to make it sound pretty.
"If Hormel was smart, they'd see this as a product opportunity. Use the fact that people are always thinking of your product name. Have a weird ad campaign that associates the two in some funny way."
Spam. Bad for your inbox, good for your lunchbox!
I kinda think that even though they lost the suit, it still might have inadvertantly been a way to promote Spam(TM). I cant remember the last time I've ever seen a commercial about it.
It's odd that one of the company's most famous products never seems to get advertised on tv.
(Obviously it'd be useless to get 180Solutions to help them promote it, although it'd be funny if they tried.)
Uranus is different from the other planets in the fact its axis is tilted almost ninety degrees - for two periods of its 84 year orbit one half of the planet is always pointed away from the sun. From the picture it looks like right now its equator is perpendicular towards sunward. Even though its distance means it would recieve little solar heat, it does have a large surface area. I would think that right now any heat would be more or less evenly distributed because of its rotation. But it would be interesting to see if heat transport would make the atmosphere more violent when one side of the planet is always bathed in sunlight while the other is in the dark, about twenty years from now. Maybe Uranus might have violent/calm/violent phases as it travels around the sun during its "year".
Unless I missed it, neither article outlined how the States would accomplish this. The only thing that comes to mind would be research done with http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/HAARP.
It doesn't seem surprising that they're considering measures like this to protect satellites, considering nutbag states like North Korea and their fondness for testing missiles (Oops! tee hee, we didnt mean to do that to your satellites). Even if there was a massive solar storm that threatened low-orbiting sats instead of an act of malice, it might be preferable to disrupt communication and navigation for a couple weeks than potentially lose hundreds of billions in satellite infrastructure.
If this is something unique among cancers, then maybe it's possible to find the mechanism that these foriegn cells are able to integrate themselves in another genetically different organism. Once that could be discovered, maybe this would lead to other approaches in combatting more typical forms of the disease. (I'm not in any medical field, but I've never heard of cancer cells acting like a parasite like these seem to do.)
After just recently losing someone close to cancer, it'd be nice to see some earth-shattering breakthroughs in the field.
I also have an XP notebook, but after a while of putting up with problems creeping up under XP (I know for certain that it's pwned but no scanning software detects anything - monitor.exe will pipe up and eat 95% of the cpu. svchost acts wierd, too.) I stuck Ubuntu on the other half of the drive and I couldn't be happier. Now XP just sits there, the beast without it's teeth, to be released only in dire necessity.
Needless to say that for whatever reason I boot XP, the network connection is off, and I still have to use Process Explorer to kill things off to have it run nicely. And now with Ubuntu, I can't care enough to re-install XP right now. Maybe someday I'll just get rid of it completely.
I've found Process Explorer and Registry Explorer to be great tools to help find out exactly what's going on in a Windows box, and they're great for tracking down malware. They're a hell of a lot more useful than the ctrl-alt-del dialog box in XP.
I'm sure with Vista coming out soon that Redmond would love to obfuscate or disappear these utilities that would help let people know what Vista is really doing under the hood.
"When does someone stop being human, once we can replace their body with a machine?"
When you die, I suppose. I don't think we're anywheres near the level of technology now that if it was possible to replace a persons entire physical being with a synthetic body that the essence of being a "person" would be able to carry on, but (IMHO) I think it should be possible. I've read some speculative works that suggests that consciousness may be the effect of quantum resonances within a being's nervous system, and perhaps there may be no reason that there couldn't be a possibility of having an equivalent within a synthetic entity. It's all speculative, but googling "consciousness" along with "quantum" yields a lot of stuff that's interesting and worth some serious thought.
You might be able to get by the problem of the too-bright LED by soldering a resistor (I've found one about 330 ohms works well in a lot of cases) in series with the LED. As for the dim blue one, it may be one that may require a higher voltage to work well. The blue ones I have specify 5 volts as nominal, while other types like red, green or amber need somewhere around 3. Depending on the type, they may be under or over driven. The blue one may be only getting 3 and glowing dim, but the white one may be getting too much voltage.
Unplug the fucking toaster before you stick a fork in it.
It really doesn't have anything to do with robots. Just general Darwin Award stupidity in regards to working safely around machinery, with a robotic theme and Asiomov's rules thrown in to make an article ado about nothing.
Although an.xxx domain would help with the blocking of adult content to minors or the easily offended, would the creation of it eventually lead to even slightly provocative content banned to a wasteland awash with garish porn? For example, if one had a website with an image of a woman with a bared breast or fiction with a passage describing an erotic scene, would a complaint from a fundie group lead to the owner of that domain having to remove the content to a.xxx domain or perhaps having the.com one shut down? And depending on where, some places may outright decide to block all.xxx domains completely (for the children, of course).
Although having porn so prevalent on the net can sometimes be annoying, it's trivial to avoid it. And I think it'd be awful to have my or someone elses website to be forced to use a.xxx domain just because it contained some content which may be mature in nature, just because some prude can't be forced to read a disclaimer or use filtering software.
I'll take my internet with its imperfections, instead of something sanitized and scrubbed into nothingness by people who dont mind letting their kids see violence and degredation but scream bloody murder over a glimpse of a breast.
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"Considering that CBS has already said that clips on YouTube are helping their business you wonder why Universal bothers."
It takes away from Universal the ability to control what becomes popular. If they can't control what music becomes trendy, they'll actually have to cave to the demand of peoples taste in music, instead of force-feeding whatever crap group they decide to prop up. Either that or being able to demand money for getting free advertising.
Somebody actually modded this insightful?
killing the paitient to cure the disease.
"Microsoft estimates that the clips such as the e-mail alert will be played trillions of times in years to come. That's a lot of opportunity to annoy, offend -- or, if the job is done right -- please or appease computer users the world over."
Even though the the stifling DRM and the draconian activation process is nothing less than heartache, at least they're working hard to make it sound pretty.
"If Hormel was smart, they'd see this as a product opportunity. Use the fact that people are always thinking of your product name. Have a weird ad campaign that associates the two in some funny way." Spam. Bad for your inbox, good for your lunchbox!
I kinda think that even though they lost the suit, it still might have inadvertantly been a way to promote Spam(TM). I cant remember the last time I've ever seen a commercial about it.
It's odd that one of the company's most famous products never seems to get advertised on tv.
(Obviously it'd be useless to get 180Solutions to help them promote it, although it'd be funny if they tried.)
Hmmm. That kinda makes for a different perspective on the Wal-Mart is Evil* thing.
*I still think they are, but that's beside the point.
Uranus is different from the other planets in the fact its axis is tilted almost ninety degrees - for two periods of its 84 year orbit one half of the planet is always pointed away from the sun. From the picture it looks like right now its equator is perpendicular towards sunward. Even though its distance means it would recieve little solar heat, it does have a large surface area. I would think that right now any heat would be more or less evenly distributed because of its rotation. But it would be interesting to see if heat transport would make the atmosphere more violent when one side of the planet is always bathed in sunlight while the other is in the dark, about twenty years from now. Maybe Uranus might have violent/calm /violent phases as it travels around the sun during its "year".
and they emerged from the building, a listless expression upon their faces...
I'm inclined to fucking agree.
It doesn't seem surprising that they're considering measures like this to protect satellites, considering nutbag states like North Korea and their fondness for testing missiles (Oops! tee hee, we didnt mean to do that to your satellites). Even if there was a massive solar storm that threatened low-orbiting sats instead of an act of malice, it might be preferable to disrupt communication and navigation for a couple weeks than potentially lose hundreds of billions in satellite infrastructure.
he would have gotten a MySpace page.
If this is something unique among cancers, then maybe it's possible to find the mechanism that these foriegn cells are able to integrate themselves in another genetically different organism. Once that could be discovered, maybe this would lead to other approaches in combatting more typical forms of the disease. (I'm not in any medical field, but I've never heard of cancer cells acting like a parasite like these seem to do.)
After just recently losing someone close to cancer, it'd be nice to see some earth-shattering breakthroughs in the field.
We find out whatever happened to Jar Jar Binks.
Please, PLEASE let it be something involving horrible, unrelenting agony.
http://www.xpressentertainment.ca/index.php
It's not supposed to save anything. It's a fan-made film. For fans.
I also have an XP notebook, but after a while of putting up with problems creeping up under XP (I know for certain that it's pwned but no scanning software detects anything - monitor.exe will pipe up and eat 95% of the cpu. svchost acts wierd, too.) I stuck Ubuntu on the other half of the drive and I couldn't be happier. Now XP just sits there, the beast without it's teeth, to be released only in dire necessity.
Needless to say that for whatever reason I boot XP, the network connection is off, and I still have to use Process Explorer to kill things off to have it run nicely. And now with Ubuntu, I can't care enough to re-install XP right now. Maybe someday I'll just get rid of it completely.
I've found Process Explorer and Registry Explorer to be great tools to help find out exactly what's going on in a Windows box, and they're great for tracking down malware. They're a hell of a lot more useful than the ctrl-alt-del dialog box in XP.
I'm sure with Vista coming out soon that Redmond would love to obfuscate or disappear these utilities that would help let people know what Vista is really doing under the hood.
When you die, I suppose. I don't think we're anywheres near the level of technology now that if it was possible to replace a persons entire physical being with a synthetic body that the essence of being a "person" would be able to carry on, but (IMHO) I think it should be possible. I've read some speculative works that suggests that consciousness may be the effect of quantum resonances within a being's nervous system, and perhaps there may be no reason that there couldn't be a possibility of having an equivalent within a synthetic entity. It's all speculative, but googling "consciousness" along with "quantum" yields a lot of stuff that's interesting and worth some serious thought.
You might be able to get by the problem of the too-bright LED by soldering a resistor (I've found one about 330 ohms works well in a lot of cases) in series with the LED. As for the dim blue one, it may be one that may require a higher voltage to work well. The blue ones I have specify 5 volts as nominal, while other types like red, green or amber need somewhere around 3. Depending on the type, they may be under or over driven. The blue one may be only getting 3 and glowing dim, but the white one may be getting too much voltage.
Unplug the fucking toaster before you stick a fork in it.
It really doesn't have anything to do with robots. Just general Darwin Award stupidity in regards to working safely around machinery, with a robotic theme and Asiomov's rules thrown in to make an article ado about nothing.
You wanted to be able to access .xxx domains? Sure, no problem. It's just $19.95 a month on top of your regular service...
I'm sure that someone already had this in mind.
Although an .xxx domain would help with the blocking of adult content to minors or the easily offended, would the creation of it eventually lead to even slightly provocative content banned to a wasteland awash with garish porn? For example, if one had a website with an image of a woman with a bared breast or fiction with a passage describing an erotic scene, would a complaint from a fundie group lead to the owner of that domain having to remove the content to a .xxx domain or perhaps having the .com one shut down? And depending on where, some places may outright decide to block all .xxx domains completely (for the children, of course).
Although having porn so prevalent on the net can sometimes be annoying, it's trivial to avoid it. And I think it'd be awful to have my or someone elses website to be forced to use a .xxx domain just because it contained some content which may be mature in nature, just because some prude can't be forced to read a disclaimer or use filtering software.
I'll take my internet with its imperfections, instead of something sanitized and scrubbed into nothingness by people who dont mind letting their kids see violence and degredation but scream bloody murder over a glimpse of a breast.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/1 5/1928229
The original japan.com link seems dead, and the claims about the motor seems like a bunch of crackpottery.
I may have been mistaken about the NSA patent article. It was a while ago, and I could have confused it with this one...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/12/18 8243