'The new policy is the result of a development process that included external as well as internal input, and is based upon a Wiki that gathered the comments and contributions of "over 50 patent and policy experts from the United States, Europe, Japan and China," offered during May and June of this year. That document can be accessed at this page at the IBM site.'
it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today's gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more;
Gas prices seem to be about $2.50 per gallon, so this is charging with the same energy as 24 gallons. Equivalent to 5 gallons of gas per minute.
What if it accidentally discharges at the same rate or faster, releasing the same heat as burning this gas?
What if charging is less than 100% efficient, again producing a lot of heat?
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Sugar, Gum Base, Corn Syrup, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Glycerol, Acesulfame K, Softeners, Mannitol, Red 40 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, BHT (to Preserve Freshness). Would this even be legal in Europe?
DRM Sucks; but so does having to lock your house, lock your car, passing through borders, passwords on accounts, having to sign checks, jails, police, and all the little hassles we have to live with because not everyone is honest.
The difference is: all but one of these are to protect you from "them" - the exception is DRM which is to protect "them" from you.
From the release notes page:
We suggest that you back up your existing data before you install and run the software... [but]... Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses).
[Steam engines prove] that heat engines dont scale down as easily as electronics.
Steam engines of the era you're discussing heated water in a big drum, just hot enough so it turned to steam, then cooled it just enough so it condensed back to hot water. Both stages (especially the second) were critically dependent on conduction. The heat engine in the example works by burning a fuel-air mix at the the melting point of steel apparantly, and doesn't bother condensing the result. I think the issues are different.
If there is a moral it's that hybrid cars are f*ing stupid if you can get much better efficiency from a tiny little gas engine than from a battery.
Q. Where is Zune going to fit in with people's pre-existing media libraries? What is it going to support? What can we expect when we actually get a Zune and want to be able to use it with the media that we currently have?
A Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those.
Q When PlaysForSure was introduced, the premise was, we make it simple so that you don't have to worry about whether your player works with the music you're purchasing...
A. We've also found that there's a category of customers that say, "Give me a brand experience, advertise it to me on television; I want to be part of the digital music revolution, and that solution [PlaysForSure] doesn't work for me." So they're two complementary solutions -- not everyones gonna want Zune and not everyone's gonna want PlaysForSure. They're different paths there, and we're okay with both of them.
If an entire scene were viewed in high resolution, the diameter of the optic nerve would need to be larger than the diameter of the eyeball itself. Subsequent processing of such a high-resolution image would require a brain many times larger than its current size.
You're 100% right about the retina+visual cortex working in concepts, which is why GP is wrong, and which is why you must know the above quote is nonsense. Basically the retina does pre-processing to detect edges etc and effectively compresses the raw data before it reaches the optic nerve, agreed?
By moving the eye so that small parts of a scene can be sensed with greater resolution [by the fovea], body resources can be used more efficiently.
A lot of hunting takes place at twilight. Once it's too dark for effective colour vision, humans are effectively blind when they reflexively look straight at prey or predator, which is hardly efficient. Also note that minature animals like insects, where it's really important that resources are used efficiently, don't use our vision system. Personally I think that saccades are an inevitable consequence of having a pulse, which evolution has handled fairly well, and that the fovea is a crude attempt to provide a zoom capability.
Currently JRuby is licensed under the GPL. Given Sun's past criticism, I think it's fair to ask whether they have committed to using the GPL for future JRuby releases.
Re: He made a cross border payment to a "charity" in Afghanistan. There was a program on the T.V. in the U.K. less than a month ago that showed what some of these "charities" in occupied Palestine did with the money
Unfortunately these places are so far apart that Google Maps errors when asked to plot a route from one to the other.
5,000 seems a lot of people, but the police must have definite evidence to suspect them.
"Exemption 29 under the Data Protection Act can be applied if the police need some information for the prevention and detection of crime or for the apprehension or prosecution of offenders. This exemption cannot be used by the police as a 'fishing exercise'. This means that they can't ask for all your records in the hope of catching offenders but has to be quite specific and a need for this information." - Information Commisioner
...and add this scumbag to the Sex Offenders Register. The reported facts (which may be partial or incorrect) suggest criminal charges of soliciting and indecent exposure.
As a doctoral student, Dr Hall analysed the RF signals of fifteen devices from six manufacturers, and found it was possible to distinguish clearly, even between devices from the same manufacturer.
Using "transceiverprints," Dr Hall got a detection rate of 95 percent, and a false positive rate of zero, according to papers submitted to various conferences, including IEEE events on wireless and security.
The site referenced is so crapped up with "Web 2.0" junk that it doesn't work.
Geez! Read the HTML source like I did.
A more tedious problem is that Slashdot still haven't fixed the damn script error when you scroll IE with debugging enabled.
Message: "A Runtime Error has occurred... Line: 427, Error: Object Required"
Statement: gd.style.display='inline'
Just after: if (xy[1] -14) {gd.style.top='4px'; gd.style.position='fixed'; gd.style.left='1em';}
FTA: "We basically intercept the Web page, inject our logic and transform the page that is eventually rendered on the browser," Wang said. "We're inserting our layer of code at run-time to make the Web page safe for the end user.
"The essence of the sandbox model is that local code is trusted to have full access to vital system resources (such as the file system) while downloaded remote code (an applet) is not trusted and can access only the limited resources provided inside the sandbox" - Java Security Architecture
As it happens, providing misleading data is exactly what Al Queda recommends, so maybe we all need to start behaving like terrorists now?
You'll have to find your own link to Al Queda's guide, because I don't want to risk police action here in the UK, where "a person commits an offence if he possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that his possession is for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism" - Terrorism Act 2000. But here's an extract.
this theme goes back to the very first SF story, Frankenstein (1818)
After leaving the island they were suddenly carried up, ship and all, by a whirlwind into the air, and on the eighth day came in sight of a great round island shining with a bright light, and lying a little above the moon. In a short time they are arrested by a troop of gigantic "horse-vultures" and brought as captives to the "man in the moon", who proves to be Endymion. He is engaged in a war with the inhabitants of the sun, which is ruled by King Phaëthon, the quarrel having arisen from an attempt to colonize the planet Venus True History, by Lucian, 120-180 AD.
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'The new policy is the result of a development process that included external as well as internal input, and is based upon a Wiki that gathered the comments and contributions of "over 50 patent and policy experts from the United States, Europe, Japan and China," offered during May and June of this year. That document can be accessed at this page at the IBM site.'
Via the ConsortiumInfo Standards Blog
Equivalent to 5 gallons of gas per minute.
"A cure for allergies that affects millions including asthma and hayfever will be available within the next few years" so we don't need hyperallogenic cats. Let's make them glow instead.
Apparantly it's a big pack of chewing gum containing 17 sticks.
Sugar, Gum Base, Corn Syrup, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Glycerol, Acesulfame K, Softeners, Mannitol, Red 40 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, BHT (to Preserve Freshness). Would this even be legal in Europe?
... is why it got modded 'redundant'. Thank for for fixing that.
...and moving about, that has to be a good thing.
Daytime cable is full of adverts for stupid exercise products. It's a huge market. And the wii seems well placed to take a share.
...take cuttings to rejuvenate stock and throw the old plant away
If there is a moral it's that hybrid cars are f*ing stupid if you can get much better efficiency from a tiny little gas engine than from a battery.
Q. Where is Zune going to fit in with people's pre-existing media libraries? What is it going to support? What can we expect when we actually get a Zune and want to be able to use it with the media that we currently have?
A Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those.
Q When PlaysForSure was introduced, the premise was, we make it simple so that you don't have to worry about whether your player works with the music you're purchasing...
A. We've also found that there's a category of customers that say, "Give me a brand experience, advertise it to me on television; I want to be part of the digital music revolution, and that solution [PlaysForSure] doesn't work for me." So they're two complementary solutions -- not everyones gonna want Zune and not everyone's gonna want PlaysForSure. They're different paths there, and we're okay with both of them.
Extracts from The Engadget Interview: J Allard, Microsoft Corporate Vice President
A lot of hunting takes place at twilight. Once it's too dark for effective colour vision, humans are effectively blind when they reflexively look straight at prey or predator, which is hardly efficient. Also note that minature animals like insects, where it's really important that resources are used efficiently, don't use our vision system. Personally I think that saccades are an inevitable consequence of having a pulse, which evolution has handled fairly well, and that the fovea is a crude attempt to provide a zoom capability.
Currently JRuby is licensed under the GPL.
Given Sun's past criticism, I think it's fair to ask whether they have committed to using the GPL for future JRuby releases.
What's the position of Americans who buy from legal offshore music sites, such as allofmp3?. Is this safer than downloading "free"?
5,000 seems a lot of people, but the police must have definite evidence to suspect them.
"Exemption 29 under the Data Protection Act can be applied if the police need some information for the prevention and detection of crime or for the apprehension or prosecution of offenders. This exemption cannot be used by the police as a 'fishing exercise'. This means that they can't ask for all your records in the hope of catching offenders but has to be quite specific and a need for this information." - Information Commisioner
...and add this scumbag to the Sex Offenders Register. The reported facts (which may be partial or incorrect) suggest criminal charges of soliciting and indecent exposure.
A more tedious problem is that Slashdot still haven't fixed the damn script error when you scroll IE with debugging enabled.
Message: "A Runtime Error has occurred
Statement: gd.style.display='inline'
Just after: if (xy[1] -14) {gd.style.top='4px'; gd.style.position='fixed'; gd.style.left='1em';}
As it happens, providing misleading data is exactly what Al Queda recommends, so maybe we all need to start behaving like terrorists now?
You'll have to find your own link to Al Queda's guide, because I don't want to risk police action here in the UK, where "a person commits an offence if he possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that his possession is for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism" - Terrorism Act 2000. But here's an extract.
True History, by Lucian, 120-180 AD.