If you're going for facial recognition of farmers and people hiking in the woods, yeah. But for average urban life, just covering banks, post offices, and residential areas (emphasis on the last) monitors a large section of the population on a regular basis.
The clip one, for instance, seems quite useful. Clip it onto your backpack strap, no accessories required. Even the Pez player isn't so strange: the form factor is perfect, it's a great useful novelty, and the "where'd you get that?" effect would be awesome.
You can't copyright a particular method of playing guitar. You can't copyright a process in writing a song. You can copyright the song itself, though. That is the end product of a creative process and should be considered unique to the artist.
As that relates to code, the code itself should not be copyrighted. In programming there are only so many ways to arrive at the same solution (sometimes), and copyrights could potentially remove ALL of those apporaches as options. The finished work should be copyrighted and protected in ways similar to music copyrights.
With music, if another artist clearly uses elements of the song in their own work without permission, it can be considered infringement. Software should be treated the same way. A user interface, a particular structure, and novel ideas should be copyrightable. It's the end result that is the work, the source is part of the creative process.
On my forums, I have a rule: no posting while high. It started when people started making threads on a daily basis about how they were "just sitting around with some friends talking" and realized something utterly profound, yet remarkably stupid.
Obviously I can't enforce it, but it sure does cut down on the pot posting.
If it took two minutes to heat the water to boiling (which is very fast, my stove takes three or four) and five minutes to boil, plus maybe a half minute to empty and refill the tea kettle...
You'd get about 100 tea kettles a day (if it ran for 12 hours, which it couldn't).
I suspect it's got a lot more to do with your brain's tendency to "unload" at night, especially as you are going to sleep. Ever been laying in bed and had some really brilliant idea?
I've read that your brain unwinds and spends all night processing the previous day's experiences in relation to the rest of your memories. When you wake up in the morning, your brain is at its best, AND your mind has had time to sort out what it's learned recently and make better sense of it.
The conscious mind tends to miss details. We spend so much time on the big issues that we don't notice little things. The problem is that we control our thoughts a little too well...if we don't see immediate relevance in something, we drop it. Our subconscious can take everything into account.
I'm quite fond of telling people that they think too much, or are overthinking a problem. They spend so much time fretting about how difficult the problem is that they don't actually devote any time to solving it.
Reminds me of when a popular forum meme got hotlinked off the creator's server a while back. The myspace kiddies posted it and posted it and posted it, and he let it go for a week...then replaced it with a random image grab from a directory full of goatse-esque images.
Suddenly myspace was flooded with them, mass bannings occurred, and we all had a great laugh.
Myspace needs to get their own image hosting that automatically parses hotlinks and caches them on the server...it would save their idi...umm...novice users a lot of grief.
Problem is those teens don't have a clue what they're risking. Kids, girls especially, think attention equals respect, and "OMG U R SO BEUTIFULLLLLLLL" is good enough for them. So they do whatever gets them attention, and on the internet the best way for a girl to get attention is to be a cyberslut.
Kids think it'll never happen to them. Kidnapping, rape, murder...no matter how many times it happens to people who do the exact same things they do, kids tell themselves that it can't happen to them because they're smarter than that. They're in control. They don't understand that they are completely out of control, and they don't grasp the concept of consequences.
Meh. Like I said, it was a quick and dirty Google search. Gateway makes some that I've heard are good, but the content filter doesn't like Gateway's site so I couldn't check it from work. Someone asked if they existed, I answered that question. Whether the two I found were up to your standards is irrelevant.
I found one that actually quite impressed me with its style, but it was a French website and I couldn't find pricing information...it appeared to be a press release or something.
$2,276 -308 There were four tuner cards. You'll only have one. -125 Open source sounds good to me, no OS to buy. - 60 Apparently *you* can get a remote, keyboard, and mouse
for under $50. They had $130. - 99 You obviously don't want the DTS-610 - 16 No memory card reader? - 78 Only one optical drive for you. That old laptop have a DVD-ROM? - 30 Because you don't need the DVD decoder software either
$1,560 to build a new PC that would still substantially outfeature your "oldish" laptop.
Oh, and 400 GB HDD? Nope. 160 GB notebook drive from Newegg adds $50.
Now, for those of us who don't have a laptop that would still fetch roughly half the price of this HTPC if it were new, this is a fairly viable solution. And for those who are looking for a high-quality, professional-grade solution, $2,000 isn't THAT bad.
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If you're going for facial recognition of farmers and people hiking in the woods, yeah. But for average urban life, just covering banks, post offices, and residential areas (emphasis on the last) monitors a large section of the population on a regular basis.
The cure: RTFA.
Well, there's not really a lot left after you cover "airports, customs entrances, banks, post offices, residential areas."
The clip one, for instance, seems quite useful. Clip it onto your backpack strap, no accessories required. Even the Pez player isn't so strange: the form factor is perfect, it's a great useful novelty, and the "where'd you get that?" effect would be awesome.
Donate it to MIT. They'll find out if it will run Linux.
You know you want to know.
Yes. Intel will release the new Singularity chip some time around 2016.
AMD fanboys will promptly inform everyone that it sucks.
You can't copyright a particular method of playing guitar. You can't copyright a process in writing a song. You can copyright the song itself, though. That is the end product of a creative process and should be considered unique to the artist.
As that relates to code, the code itself should not be copyrighted. In programming there are only so many ways to arrive at the same solution (sometimes), and copyrights could potentially remove ALL of those apporaches as options. The finished work should be copyrighted and protected in ways similar to music copyrights.
With music, if another artist clearly uses elements of the song in their own work without permission, it can be considered infringement. Software should be treated the same way. A user interface, a particular structure, and novel ideas should be copyrightable. It's the end result that is the work, the source is part of the creative process.
On my forums, I have a rule: no posting while high. It started when people started making threads on a daily basis about how they were "just sitting around with some friends talking" and realized something utterly profound, yet remarkably stupid.
Obviously I can't enforce it, but it sure does cut down on the pot posting.
It's the new "slackjawed".
If it took two minutes to heat the water to boiling (which is very fast, my stove takes three or four) and five minutes to boil, plus maybe a half minute to empty and refill the tea kettle...
You'd get about 100 tea kettles a day (if it ran for 12 hours, which it couldn't).
So buy some of those bath crayons like my toddler has and write down all your good ideas on the wall.
I'd wager than 80% of them will look silly the next time you take a shower. Fortunately, it washes off easily.
I suspect it's got a lot more to do with your brain's tendency to "unload" at night, especially as you are going to sleep. Ever been laying in bed and had some really brilliant idea?
I've read that your brain unwinds and spends all night processing the previous day's experiences in relation to the rest of your memories. When you wake up in the morning, your brain is at its best, AND your mind has had time to sort out what it's learned recently and make better sense of it.
hippocrates?
I thought he was dead.
Or is he just taking a really long nap?
The conscious mind tends to miss details. We spend so much time on the big issues that we don't notice little things. The problem is that we control our thoughts a little too well...if we don't see immediate relevance in something, we drop it. Our subconscious can take everything into account.
I'm quite fond of telling people that they think too much, or are overthinking a problem. They spend so much time fretting about how difficult the problem is that they don't actually devote any time to solving it.
Do you think we'll have to put up with some sort of American Idol game release?
MMO reality shows?
Just shoot me now.
Reminds me of when a popular forum meme got hotlinked off the creator's server a while back. The myspace kiddies posted it and posted it and posted it, and he let it go for a week...then replaced it with a random image grab from a directory full of goatse-esque images.
Suddenly myspace was flooded with them, mass bannings occurred, and we all had a great laugh.
Myspace needs to get their own image hosting that automatically parses hotlinks and caches them on the server...it would save their idi...umm...novice users a lot of grief.
Nah. Trolling, boasting, and shenanigans get boys attention just as well.
You failed a spelling test, too :p
Kids think it'll never happen to them. Kidnapping, rape, murder...no matter how many times it happens to people who do the exact same things they do, kids tell themselves that it can't happen to them because they're smarter than that. They're in control. They don't understand that they are completely out of control, and they don't grasp the concept of consequences.
Websites that let children meet random people on the internet are being used by pedophiles.
Oh, wait...this was talked about almost ten years ago.
Umm...
*shyly raises hand*
Meh. Like I said, it was a quick and dirty Google search. Gateway makes some that I've heard are good, but the content filter doesn't like Gateway's site so I couldn't check it from work. Someone asked if they existed, I answered that question. Whether the two I found were up to your standards is irrelevant.
I found one that actually quite impressed me with its style, but it was a French website and I couldn't find pricing information...it appeared to be a press release or something.
I dropped out of community college.
$2,276
-308 There were four tuner cards. You'll only have one.
-125 Open source sounds good to me, no OS to buy.
- 60 Apparently *you* can get a remote, keyboard, and mouse
for under $50. They had $130.
- 99 You obviously don't want the DTS-610
- 16 No memory card reader?
- 78 Only one optical drive for you. That old laptop have a DVD-ROM?
- 30 Because you don't need the DVD decoder software either
$1,560 to build a new PC that would still substantially outfeature your "oldish" laptop.
Oh, and 400 GB HDD? Nope. 160 GB notebook drive from Newegg adds $50.
Now, for those of us who don't have a laptop that would still fetch roughly half the price of this HTPC if it were new, this is a fairly viable solution. And for those who are looking for a high-quality, professional-grade solution, $2,000 isn't THAT bad.
Then the resaler violated their terms as a MS reseller.
Or they're gray market, which could mean your copy of Windows isn't legit. I've seen that plenty of times.