I quote extensively (or used to, when I was actually updating my blog), rather than just link, because the MSM and.gov sites would alter or delete content. I even blogged specifically about that activity a couple of times. thememoryhole.org is a site devoted to such behavior.
What if you're FedEx'ing a home movie of your child's birth (including states of undress of the mother) to your mother-in-law who couldn't be there? Would the FedEx personnel be gawking at that?
It's analogous to the P2P crackdowns where the assumption is that consumers are incapable of authoring content and only Big Media can.
And, yes, I'm a bit surprised and quite alarmed that the tampering laws that apply to U.S. mail do not apply to FedEx.
Since Toshiba is the manufacturer of the player, has Toshiba manufactured any "HD Ready" televisions that would render HD-DVDs at a lower resolution due to DRM? If so, once the player reaches the U.S., wouldn't Toshiba be open to a class action lawsuit for false advertising? The argument would of course hinge on whether over-the-air satisfies the advertisement, or whether due to the advent of the VCR three decades ago that playback of prerecorded media is a reasonable consumer expectation.
Isn't Vista supposed to be able to run on only circa 2006 computers? Lots of people still run Windows 98 and will continue to do so. A PII/Windows 98 computer makes for a quite usable word processor and non-video web surfing system, as the innumerable "old computers for charity" Slashdot articles attest to.
The price of mainstream DRM-less downloaded music is still infinity.
(The various attorney generals should just stay out of it at this point; they're a few dacades late to the game. There were two monopolies and they're both getting broken. Distribution, of course, was broken about five years ago with the widespread availability of broadband. The second, airplay, is in the process of being broken with the advent of satellite radio. It'll further get broken when/if they finally come out with EVDO Internet radios.)
Don't you just hate it when you get tossed a volleyball soft and high over the net? One gets paralyzed by indecision as to exactly how to spike it.
'Some of the people want to query about democracy, but most of them just want to know about their pop stars.'
Important change germinates from a minority opinion that is well-formed, not through groupthink herd mentality.
"Let them eat cake."
Providing a steam of information on pop stars as a way to distract from real issues -- didn't the U.S. already try this with Radio Sawa in Iraq?
Director of research? He was probably just reporting facts matter-of-factly without understanding the ethical, moral, and political implications. Now that Google is so powerful, Google may want to gag everyone except those in its PR department.
This is the problem with treating media as a corporation rather than the fourth estate. The term "fourth estate" orginally applied to a gallery of reporters. One huge near-monopolistic corporation practicing censorship does not constitute a gallery.
So now opposing militaries will devise chemicals or biologicals to rid the oceans of sharks during wartime. World War III may not just destroy all land life (except ants), it may also destroy all sea life.
This helps put to rest the idea that the U.S. economy can survive (some used to say prosper) by leveraging its established brand names and outsourcing the work.
Since you obviously didn't read TFA, here is the relevant excerpt:
Netflix typically sends about 13 movies per month to Villanueva's home in Warren, Mich. -- down from the 18 to 22 DVDs he once received before the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and began delaying his shipments to protect its profits.
That comes to about 36 to 44 hours per month, which is just 26% to 32% of the 138 hours per month of television that the average adult in the U.S. watches.
It would be easy for Google to start filtering misspellings, since they already have the engine to map misspellings to correct spellings. It will be interesting to see Google's response. Will they plug this hole? If so, they would take on an aura of direct corroboration with communist dictators, as in, "How dare you poke your head up -- ! How dare you read that -- !"
Google so far has been taking the high ground by saying in effect that the Chinese public now has more information than they previously had (an argument I disagree with, BTW, because substitution of content by a major media outlet is thought control, such as Clear Channel's refusal to play John Lennon's Imagine). Now, if Google takes away information it had once granted, it will constitute blatant censorship. The direction of information will be ebbing rather than flowing. And Congress was trying to hold hearings over just the (restricted) flowing part.
Google may now be in a place of having to choose between looking really nasty or losing the business in China.
...citing the fact that we don't glue ourselves together when we nick ourselves [...] By replacing a few of the fibers in the resinous material that make up a spacecraft's skin with hollow fibers containing adhesive
Rather than have the spacecraft glue itself, let's have the spacecraft... uh... glue itself?
Cells reproduce. To bring that technology to spacecraft, the spacecraft would either have to be biologically engineered or constructed solely (the self-healing part, anyway) of a mass of nanomachines ("smart matter") that can reproduce themselves from particles and energy flowing through the smart matter in something analogous to an animal's bloodstream.
I suppose that the type of spacecraft self-repair described in the article is analogous to blood clotting, but a) they didn't say that (they exaggerated by referring to skin repair), and b) blood clotting is a temporary fix not meant for years of sustained use (animal skin starts the repair immediately and finishes to "good as new" state in relatively short order).
Dewdney, A. K.; Computer Recreations - In the game called Core
War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits; Scientific American; Mar 1984.
Dewdney, A. K.; Computer Recreations - A Core War bestiary of
viruses, worms and other threats to computer memories; Scientific
American; Mar 1985.
I've always believed that were it not for these Scientific American articles, it would have taken a lot longer for viruses to become prevalent. These articles piqued the interest of computer users (then synonymous with programmers) everywhere. For example, here's a 1994 comp.sys.apple2 post I just found of someone who was seduced by the articles into writing viruses.
You've heard of peak oil and now peak copper, but there are only 12-25 years of known silver deposits left, and silver is the best conductor of electricity and is also used in a lot of other (yes, non-photographic) industrial uses.
It is already possible to get (I've had one for a month) 1GB of RAM in the mini-SD format, not to be confused with SD, which itself is smaller than CompactFlash. The miniSD is about the size of a fingernail, and that adapter you see at the bottom of the sandisk.com page is a slipcase to bring the miniSD up to the size of SD.
By 2008, the projected release date of the 1" hard drive, I'm sure miniSD's will be up to at least 4GB if not 8GB, without the power drain of spinning platters, without the seek and latency, and in a much smaller form factor.
We can see from IBM's CompactFlash hard drives how limited the market is -- basically photographers who can't afford the time to change their "film". But the trend is to smaller and more personal devices, and the market for tiny hard drives will be even smaller in 2008.
People are all concerned about what kind of watch is on their wrist, spending $10k or more to make a fashion statement. People get all hung up about glasses, and spend way more on contacts or even lasik. People used to even be concerned that the Palm Pilot was too big to be worn on a belt clip -- thus the shrunken Treo and Pocket PCs. But they're willing to accommodate a facial modification -- not unlike glasses and certainly of much more concern than a wrist or belt?
But eMagin executives say they expect people to get used to the appearance, in the same way that Bluetooth headsets are no longer uncommon.
I don't know about you guys, but I think Bluetooth headsets make people look like Elvis, and I won't wear one for that reason. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I think a pre-2000 Secret Service wire looks cooler.
The ATSC system supports a host of different display resolutions and frame rates. The formats below list frame/field rates and lines of resolution (for more informations and links, see also the TV resolution overview at the end of this article):
In the old days (c. 2000), website updates were promulgated through e-mail newsletters. But those e-mails confused spam filters. So RSS came along.
Why isn't RSS subject to spam? Because in RSS, the recipient pulls the information from a known server, whereas in e-mail an arbitrary sender sends the information to a known recipient.
Now in the era of RSS, recipients have to check two places: e-mail and RSS. Thanks to e-mail spam.
In the old days (c. 2000), website updates were promulgated through e-mail newsletters. But those e-mails confused spam filters. So RSS came along.
Why isn't RSS subject to spam? Because in RSS, the recipient pulls the information from a known server, whereas in e-mail an arbitrary sender sends the information to a known recipient.
Now in the era RSS, recipients have to check two places: e-mail and RSS. Thanks to e-mail spam.
Slashdot Mirror
I quote extensively (or used to, when I was actually updating my blog), rather than just link, because the MSM and .gov sites would alter or delete content. I even blogged specifically about that activity a couple of times. thememoryhole.org is a site devoted to such behavior.
What if you're FedEx'ing a home movie of your child's birth (including states of undress of the mother) to your mother-in-law who couldn't be there? Would the FedEx personnel be gawking at that?
It's analogous to the P2P crackdowns where the assumption is that consumers are incapable of authoring content and only Big Media can.
And, yes, I'm a bit surprised and quite alarmed that the tampering laws that apply to U.S. mail do not apply to FedEx.
Since Toshiba is the manufacturer of the player, has Toshiba manufactured any "HD Ready" televisions that would render HD-DVDs at a lower resolution due to DRM? If so, once the player reaches the U.S., wouldn't Toshiba be open to a class action lawsuit for false advertising? The argument would of course hinge on whether over-the-air satisfies the advertisement, or whether due to the advent of the VCR three decades ago that playback of prerecorded media is a reasonable consumer expectation.
Isn't Vista supposed to be able to run on only circa 2006 computers? Lots of people still run Windows 98 and will continue to do so. A PII/Windows 98 computer makes for a quite usable word processor and non-video web surfing system, as the innumerable "old computers for charity" Slashdot articles attest to.
William Shatner on SNL
The price of mainstream DRM-less downloaded music is still infinity.
(The various attorney generals should just stay out of it at this point; they're a few dacades late to the game. There were two monopolies and they're both getting broken. Distribution, of course, was broken about five years ago with the widespread availability of broadband. The second, airplay, is in the process of being broken with the advent of satellite radio. It'll further get broken when/if they finally come out with EVDO Internet radios.)
I thought one of the big features of IPv6 was to enable pay-per-packet.
So now opposing militaries will devise chemicals or biologicals to rid the oceans of sharks during wartime. World War III may not just destroy all land life (except ants), it may also destroy all sea life.
This helps put to rest the idea that the U.S. economy can survive (some used to say prosper) by leveraging its established brand names and outsourcing the work.
With their new focus on enterprise computing, they should change their name to something like Inprise.
Google so far has been taking the high ground by saying in effect that the Chinese public now has more information than they previously had (an argument I disagree with, BTW, because substitution of content by a major media outlet is thought control, such as Clear Channel's refusal to play John Lennon's Imagine). Now, if Google takes away information it had once granted, it will constitute blatant censorship. The direction of information will be ebbing rather than flowing. And Congress was trying to hold hearings over just the (restricted) flowing part.
Google may now be in a place of having to choose between looking really nasty or losing the business in China.
Cells reproduce. To bring that technology to spacecraft, the spacecraft would either have to be biologically engineered or constructed solely (the self-healing part, anyway) of a mass of nanomachines ("smart matter") that can reproduce themselves from particles and energy flowing through the smart matter in something analogous to an animal's bloodstream.
I suppose that the type of spacecraft self-repair described in the article is analogous to blood clotting, but a) they didn't say that (they exaggerated by referring to skin repair), and b) blood clotting is a temporary fix not meant for years of sustained use (animal skin starts the repair immediately and finishes to "good as new" state in relatively short order).
...we could have car tires that repair their own minor punctures!
- Dewdney, A. K.; Computer Recreations - In the game called Core
War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits; Scientific American; Mar 1984.
- Dewdney, A. K.; Computer Recreations - A Core War bestiary of
viruses, worms and other threats to computer memories; Scientific
American; Mar 1985.
I've always believed that were it not for these Scientific American articles, it would have taken a lot longer for viruses to become prevalent. These articles piqued the interest of computer users (then synonymous with programmers) everywhere. For example, here's a 1994 comp.sys.apple2 post I just found of someone who was seduced by the articles into writing viruses.You've heard of peak oil and now peak copper, but there are only 12-25 years of known silver deposits left, and silver is the best conductor of electricity and is also used in a lot of other (yes, non-photographic) industrial uses.
We've been able to do 5+rev-1 for a decade now -- e.g. Pentium IV is really 5+4-1=8, which means i886. How will we ever keep track now?
By 2008, the projected release date of the 1" hard drive, I'm sure miniSD's will be up to at least 4GB if not 8GB, without the power drain of spinning platters, without the seek and latency, and in a much smaller form factor.
We can see from IBM's CompactFlash hard drives how limited the market is -- basically photographers who can't afford the time to change their "film". But the trend is to smaller and more personal devices, and the market for tiny hard drives will be even smaller in 2008.
Has the time come where geek really is cool now?
The frequencies discussed in the article, 1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz, can be found on the right side of the fifth bar.
The ATSC system supports a host of different display resolutions and frame rates. The formats below list frame/field rates and lines of resolution (for more informations and links, see also the TV resolution overview at the end of this article):
480i60 (NTSC), 480p24, 480p30 576i50, 576p25 (PAL, SECAM);
480p60; 576p50
720i50, 720i60, 720p24, 720p25, 720p30, 720p50, 720p60, 1080i50, 1080i60, 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p30
ATSC signals are designed to use the same 6 MHz bandwidth as NTSC television channels.
Why isn't RSS subject to spam? Because in RSS, the recipient pulls the information from a known server, whereas in e-mail an arbitrary sender sends the information to a known recipient.
Now in the era of RSS, recipients have to check two places: e-mail and RSS. Thanks to e-mail spam.
Why isn't RSS subject to spam? Because in RSS, the recipient pulls the information from a known server, whereas in e-mail an arbitrary sender sends the information to a known recipient.
Now in the era RSS, recipients have to check two places: e-mail and RSS. Thanks to e-mail spam.