Modern bullets are designed to disable, but not kill people. The idea is that it takes fewer support troops to get rid of a dead soldier than it takes to transport and treat an injured soldier. As a result, armies want to maim their opponents, not kill them.
rotten resolution, if apple II didn't look good on the old Philco in the living room, why would dark-blue on blue web pages? I don't get this. sounds like somebody wrote down a dream on toilet paper when they got up, and it doesn't translate into reality.
Chinese text requires far more resolution than latin text. While you might get away with a 6x4 character grid for latin characters, very few chinese characters can be rendered at that resolution.
A set-top-box that does video chat over broadband and displays to a TV might work, but it seems unlikely that a useful amount of chinese text could be displayed on an ordinary TV.
The purpose of a patent is to give an inventor a safe period of time in which to economically exploit their invention. In the past, if you wanted to avoid the lawyers, you didn't have to go far. Hollywood was started by people who didn't want to pay the royalties for film produciton equipment, so they just moved across the country. Today it is much harder to steal technology to make new things.
Whether this is a good or a bad thing could be the subject of an entire discussion, but the parent demonstrates more insight than humor in pointing at the USPTO.
There was a 2+ hour Adelphia cable (tv+internet) outage after the earthquake. Friend who are in the bay area say they didn't feel any shaking. Were any undersea cables severed?
1. you need to do physical installation into each seat 2. you need to run wires from each jack to some central location 3. the jacks and wire add up to a fair amount of extra mass, which means the plane needs more fuel and can carry less payload 4. not everyone carries an rj-45 patch cable, so the airline will need to keep some handy (yet more mass) 5. little kids will stuff action figures or food into the sockets, destroying them or even shorting the whole network out
No records were found for the other suit, with the intriguing identifying number 007. It still belongs to NASA, and the agency's plans for the suit are still being determined.
1. how does north korea get any bandwidth? Do they cross connect with china? 2. what good do mad hacking skills do you when you've just been assigned farm duty? 3. How can you hack with out access to doritos and pepsi?
Precious few government agencies need wireless access anyway, and those who do generally know how to handle it.
Could you expand upon that comment please? Why don't government workers need laptops? They seem to make private sector high-tech workers more efficient, why shouldn't the government have access to these efficiencies? After all, government workers were the original Information Technology workers. They didn't just invent digital computers, but also made extensive use of pre-computer information technology.
Err, doesnt the FCC spank down anybody who does Wi-Fi access control (if it's NOT encrypted)?
huh?
Every corporation with any sense of security uses MAC filtering. The FCC doesn't license the 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.x GHz bands (ISM), but they also don't enforce anyone's access. They used to restrict the kind of amplification that was allowed, but now, AFAIK, there is only a wattage limit.
Microsoft has, what, $50 billion in the bank? They need *something* to spend it on. And if the investment goes south, they can probably just write it off on their tax returns. That can quickly turn a $20 M failed investment into a $10 M failed investment. Mere peanuts!
The various shuttles have flown a LOT more than the Saturn V ever has, so I would venture to say there is nothing wrong with a shuttle design. Perhaps one should try focusing on the real problem with NASA, which is the bureaucracy.
By my count, there are at least 14 things wrong with the shuttle program.
How do you propose to do away with the bureaucracy?
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That is, assuming that people want to use hardware handsets for VoIP.
Next question?
Oh... I thought it was bullets or bombs.
Modern bullets are designed to disable, but not kill people. The idea is that it takes fewer support troops to get rid of a dead soldier than it takes to transport and treat an injured soldier. As a result, armies want to maim their opponents, not kill them.
I must admit, the site contained far fewer camwhores than I expected.
Oh wait.. wasn't that Jimmy Hendrix?
The Experience Music Project museum in Seattle has had a robotic guitar playing sculpture since it opened several years ago.
rotten resolution, if apple II didn't look good on the old Philco in the living room, why would dark-blue on blue web pages? I don't get this. sounds like somebody wrote down a dream on toilet paper when they got up, and it doesn't translate into reality.
Chinese text requires far more resolution than latin text. While you might get away with a 6x4 character grid for latin characters, very few chinese characters can be rendered at that resolution.
A set-top-box that does video chat over broadband and displays to a TV might work, but it seems unlikely that a useful amount of chinese text could be displayed on an ordinary TV.
Moderate parent insightful.
The purpose of a patent is to give an inventor a safe period of time in which to economically exploit their invention. In the past, if you wanted to avoid the lawyers, you didn't have to go far. Hollywood was started by people who didn't want to pay the royalties for film produciton equipment, so they just moved across the country. Today it is much harder to steal technology to make new things.
Whether this is a good or a bad thing could be the subject of an entire discussion, but the parent demonstrates more insight than humor in pointing at the USPTO.
>>Of course, they plan to leave the exploding parts out of their next versions.
>Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find that attempt at humor cute. It's in poor taste and I don't believe it was proper for a submission.
Rockets are little more than controlled explosions. Take away the explosion, and you have a shuttle that sits on the pad and never goes anywhere.
The problem is not to get rid of the explosion, but keep it under control.
Exactly right. For the doubters that remain, here is a map of some of the undersea fiber that serves the USA west coast.
There was a 2+ hour Adelphia cable (tv+internet) outage after the earthquake. Friend who are in the bay area say they didn't feel any shaking. Were any undersea cables severed?
Sounds like we've got a blubble.
Steve was trying to say that success comes from taking risks.
1. you need to do physical installation into each seat
2. you need to run wires from each jack to some central location
3. the jacks and wire add up to a fair amount of extra mass, which means the plane needs more fuel and can carry less payload
4. not everyone carries an rj-45 patch cable, so the airline will need to keep some handy (yet more mass)
5. little kids will stuff action figures or food into the sockets, destroying them or even shorting the whole network out
No records were found for the other suit, with the intriguing identifying number 007. It still belongs to NASA, and the agency's plans for the suit are still being determined.
Clearly Universal Exports was involved.
1. how does north korea get any bandwidth? Do they cross connect with china?
2. what good do mad hacking skills do you when you've just been assigned farm duty?
3. How can you hack with out access to doritos and pepsi?
Hey hey hey, let's not be so adversarial... give peas a chance.
Don't stop there. Just add a blender and you've got whirled peas.
Precious few government agencies need wireless access anyway, and those who do generally know how to handle it.
Could you expand upon that comment please? Why don't government workers need laptops? They seem to make private sector high-tech workers more efficient, why shouldn't the government have access to these efficiencies? After all, government workers were the original Information Technology workers. They didn't just invent digital computers, but also made extensive use of pre-computer information technology.
Err, doesnt the FCC spank down anybody who does Wi-Fi access control (if it's NOT encrypted)?
huh?
Every corporation with any sense of security uses MAC filtering. The FCC doesn't license the 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.x GHz bands (ISM), but they also don't enforce anyone's access. They used to restrict the kind of amplification that was allowed, but now, AFAIK, there is only a wattage limit.
It took me hours to figure out how to post ASCII code to slashdot.
I always thought it would be great to build protocols on top of the phone system
You mean, like TCP/IP?
Or are you talking about mobile handsets? If so, go buy yourself a GSM module and hack away.
watch yourself, that "best small-system UNIX" was SCO.
Microsoft has, what, $50 billion in the bank? They need *something* to spend it on. And if the investment goes south, they can probably just write it off on their tax returns. That can quickly turn a $20 M failed investment into a $10 M failed investment. Mere peanuts!
More likely is that it works too well, and the Windows group doesn't want it because it will make them look bad.
The various shuttles have flown a LOT more than the Saturn V ever has, so I would venture to say there is nothing wrong with a shuttle design. Perhaps one should try focusing on the real problem with NASA, which is the bureaucracy.
By my count, there are at least 14 things wrong with the shuttle program.
How do you propose to do away with the bureaucracy?
Kessler is a fun and lively narrator. He strikes me as the kind of guy that would be tons of fun at a party.
For a more serious look at markets, check out Nassim Taleb.
who needs 2.4 ghz when there is GigE?