The number one reason Sony's PS3 is so expensive is because they are not customer based anymore, they are "theory" based.
The DRM Rootkit seemed like a good idea in "theory". A $600 game system seems like a good idea in "theory". In theory I'm not going to buy the PS3, and neither will billions of other humans because of the price.
I almost did a double take on which list I was looking at. How could it make the "worst" list, it's the best watch I've ever owned, and I've owned plenty. I'm wearing it right now, on only it's second or third battery since 1997, and although I haven't sync'ed the data in years, there are still phone [and other] numbers in it that I refer to monthly.
A complicated testing strategy involves contacting the city council of the host site's residence. Ask them to turn off the power to the city for 5 minutes and see what stays up.
Hey it sounds hard to pull off, but it beats simulating an earthquake or hurricane.
The people who say that games and cartoons are making kids hurt each other, are the same ones that say the Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter are going to destroy Christianity. They are looking for a defense of their insecurities about being a parent, and find them in things that make people think or act differently from how they were raised.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of fake websites set up to impersonate the writings of another. Google might say that's the person's history, but it could be entirely written by trolls.
It would take knowing the kid to be sure, but I think it's a case of an undereducated kid with heightened emotions of rejection from authority figures, venting online. Heaven forbid.
People compare others to Nazis, but that doesn't mean they are going to try to shoot them [as was customary for people who opposed Nazis].
I'm looking forward to 1GHz+ laptops that don't need a fan you can hear unless you press your ear up to the vent. To me something isn't "solid state" unless there are no moving parts inside on which the electronics are dependant. No fan = no cool = no work != solid state.
Windows 98 on a 433MHz Celeron is what I used up until 2002. It would still be able to do everything I do today except for running Firefox as quickly, and using MSN voice chats.
"It's you that focuses your eyes on them, not them that need to focus on you." In Soviet Russia, LCDs focus on you?
Seriously though: Would there be no application to use LC Lenses in conjunction with a current LCD monitors to create a screen with depth through the use of lense trickery? I don't know oodles about optics or 3D technology, so maybe I misunderstand how it would work, but it seems to me that these changable lenses might be capable of providing a 3D monitor that doesn't require polarized glasses or some other filter.
"The only snag with the new device is its long focusing time of about three minutes. This is because the lens is relatively large (9 mm), which means that molecular diffusion across it is slow. However, this should not be problem in micro-sized lenses in which the estimated response time is around 1 second at room temperature."
I take it that means that LCD monitors will not be using this technology any time soon?
Actually nanoseconds does have to do with metric. I admitted that I didn't notice he was joking, because it's common to encounter people who don't understand unit cancel, or metric concepts.
Imagine if music started playing on a cell phone, and the screen read "you are beaten". I'm sure people wouldn't blame the cell phone for being the souce of the infection, they'd blame the security.
IM gets a bad rap because it's so easy to transport executable code. That's why I like MSN for file transmissions, even though it doesn't have resume. It's so easy, just drag the file onto the conversation window, and presto.
If you're looking for other Slashdot advertized "free" music, check out Harvey Danger who had an article about them here last year. Their album is distributed via Bit Torrent.
"Oh, but it's not hubristic to assume homeopathic medicine had everything figured out 200 years ago? You don't need to know about bacteria and viruses, you don't need to know the molecular structure of proteins at all, you don't need to examine the evidence, you don't need to do any tests. Just stating that "like cures like" is enough... Talk about hubris!"
His comment didn't appear to be saying to go back to ignorance. It's saying that just because something unscientific works, doesn't mean it isn't medically advanced. After all, Europeans scoffed at Indians offering a tea to cure scurvy, but now we know that tea contained the vitamin those people were lacking. Alternative forms of medicine can be dark-age treatments, but not all of them are unsound, and if it happens to work better than conventional drugs, we should be investigating why.
You need an atomic UPS, or electron battery backup to avoid that. Otherwise get some atoms that don't lose power for several minutes to get past short power losses.
"Of course it was a joke--it's the same fucking prefix."
Not everyone is smart enough to realize that identical prefixes cancel each other out, let alone know the meaning of "condescending" or "fuckwad" well enough to avoid appearing to be exactly that by picking a fight anonymously on the Interweb.
Just sign up for a free account and you can post starting at +1. When you've made a dozen or so +5 comments you'll be able to post starting at +2 so more people see you to start with.
I like your idea, but I wonder how easy it would be for someone to take a photo that matches the characteristics of the other photos from the array, given that they have different equipment.
The complexity of the data processing makes me wonder how much of a supercomputer they need along with how they are going to store this data in a way that the computer(s) can retrieve it to process it.
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The number one reason Sony's PS3 is so expensive is because they are not customer based anymore, they are "theory" based.
The DRM Rootkit seemed like a good idea in "theory".
A $600 game system seems like a good idea in "theory".
In theory I'm not going to buy the PS3, and neither will billions of other humans because of the price.
Better still, what would the implications of Microsoft owning PayPal
and
Skype be?
Would they kill Skype to let MSN Messenger take over the IM world, or would they harness the Skype technology and incorporate it into their own IM?
Would they make Skype anti-Linux too?
I almost did a double take on which list I was looking at. How could it make the "worst" list, it's the best watch I've ever owned, and I've owned plenty. I'm wearing it right now, on only it's second or third battery since 1997, and although I haven't sync'ed the data in years, there are still phone [and other] numbers in it that I refer to monthly.
A complicated testing strategy involves contacting the city council of the host site's residence. Ask them to turn off the power to the city for 5 minutes and see what stays up.
Hey it sounds hard to pull off, but it beats simulating an earthquake or hurricane.
I get that sense from godaddy.com though, and it's been pretty popular...
The people who say that games and cartoons are making kids hurt each other, are the same ones that say the Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter are going to destroy Christianity. They are looking for a defense of their insecurities about being a parent, and find them in things that make people think or act differently from how they were raised.
What would Google show, eh?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of fake websites set up to impersonate the writings of another. Google might say that's the person's history, but it could be entirely written by trolls.
It would take knowing the kid to be sure, but I think it's a case of an undereducated kid with heightened emotions of rejection from authority figures, venting online. Heaven forbid.
People compare others to Nazis, but that doesn't mean they are going to try to shoot them [as was customary for people who opposed Nazis].
I'm looking forward to 1GHz+ laptops that don't need a fan you can hear unless you press your ear up to the vent. To me something isn't "solid state" unless there are no moving parts inside on which the electronics are dependant.
No fan = no cool = no work != solid state.
Don't be so bitter. Slashdot finally scooped Digg.com on this story.
Windows 98 on a 433MHz Celeron is what I used up until 2002. It would still be able to do everything I do today except for running Firefox as quickly, and using MSN voice chats.
Might it also be used in windows, so that unwanted light could be blocked at times, then the lens would be adjusted to let more light through?
"It's you that focuses your eyes on them, not them that need to focus on you."
In Soviet Russia, LCDs focus on you?
Seriously though:
Would there be no application to use LC Lenses in conjunction with a current LCD monitors to create a screen with depth through the use of lense trickery? I don't know oodles about optics or 3D technology, so maybe I misunderstand how it would work, but it seems to me that these changable lenses might be capable of providing a 3D monitor that doesn't require polarized glasses or some other filter.
"The only snag with the new device is its long focusing time of about three minutes. This is because the lens is relatively large (9 mm), which means that molecular diffusion across it is slow. However, this should not be problem in micro-sized lenses in which the estimated response time is around 1 second at room temperature."
I take it that means that LCD monitors will not be using this technology any time soon?
Actually nanoseconds does have to do with metric. I admitted that I didn't notice he was joking, because it's common to encounter people who don't understand unit cancel, or metric concepts.
Imagine if music started playing on a cell phone, and the screen read "you are beaten". I'm sure people wouldn't blame the cell phone for being the souce of the infection, they'd blame the security.
IM gets a bad rap because it's so easy to transport executable code. That's why I like MSN for file transmissions, even though it doesn't have resume. It's so easy, just drag the file onto the conversation window, and presto.
A warp core. No wait, a transporter. These things are in working condition right?
If you're looking for other Slashdot advertized "free" music, check out Harvey Danger who had an article about them here last year. Their album is distributed via Bit Torrent.
"Oh, but it's not hubristic to assume homeopathic medicine had everything figured out 200 years ago? You don't need to know about bacteria and viruses, you don't need to know the molecular structure of proteins at all, you don't need to examine the evidence, you don't need to do any tests. Just stating that "like cures like" is enough... Talk about hubris!"
His comment didn't appear to be saying to go back to ignorance. It's saying that just because something unscientific works, doesn't mean it isn't medically advanced. After all, Europeans scoffed at Indians offering a tea to cure scurvy, but now we know that tea contained the vitamin those people were lacking. Alternative forms of medicine can be dark-age treatments, but not all of them are unsound, and if it happens to work better than conventional drugs, we should be investigating why.
You need an atomic UPS, or electron battery backup to avoid that. Otherwise get some atoms that don't lose power for several minutes to get past short power losses.
"Of course it was a joke--it's the same fucking prefix."
Not everyone is smart enough to realize that identical prefixes cancel each other out, let alone know the meaning of "condescending" or "fuckwad" well enough to avoid appearing to be exactly that by picking a fight anonymously on the Interweb.
You're right, he fooled me, I didn't see he was joking. I just assumed he was American, or worked at NASA so he didn't know metric.
1,000,000,000/1,000,000,000 of course = 1/1 but not everyknow would know that a nanosecond is a billionth of a second.
Turn in your geek card at the door AC.
Google can be used as a calculator, and even tells you thinkgs like:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=nanometer+in+meters
A nanometer is 1,000,000,000 times smaller than a meter.
10^-9 seconds would be a nanosecond.
"In their experiments, they were able to literally watch atoms switching positions in ferroelectric materials."
I'd have just unplugged all the atoms, and when plugged in again, they'd all start counting from 12:00
Just sign up for a free account and you can post starting at +1. When you've made a dozen or so +5 comments you'll be able to post starting at +2 so more people see you to start with.
I like your idea, but I wonder how easy it would be for someone to take a photo that matches the characteristics of the other photos from the array, given that they have different equipment.
The complexity of the data processing makes me wonder how much of a supercomputer they need along with how they are going to store this data in a way that the computer(s) can retrieve it to process it.