I've seen the White House on Google Maps and Google Earth and there seems to be some kind of thick cloud obscuring the area. Will they generate any electricity with these things or is it just another feel-good liberal gesture with no real world effect?
This is a pretty cool idea, but it will probably not take the place of x-rays. X-ray is cheap, easy, accurate, and relatively harmless (in small doses).
This sounds expensive, requires a large amount of processing capability, isn't very portable, and relies on light actually passing through the object. For some applications this may be useful, but for the vast majority of imaging tasks that require visualizing the internals of an object, x-rays will be the better solution.
Now, an x-ray scanner that didn't require film plates. That would be good!
I don't play video games now, but that mouse looks like a great everyday mouse. The ability to change various distances and sizes would be very helpful in alleviating hand strain. It's a shame it has a cord, but I imagine they are giving us something else to look forward to.
The only question is build quality and reliability, and of course price.
I would hope for other colors and better (less robot-y) industrial design, but for a first step, this thing looks good.
If you really want to have an "open" device, you should have supported the various open hardware platforms that eventually failed because of your lack of support.
You can't really complain that you don't have choices when you made no effort to support the good choices that you had.
This is what has happened in America. If you don't pay, if you can't pay, you will not get services. We have turned into the Randian utopia of rugged individualists who have given up on treating each other as human beings.
We treat each other like consumers.
It's sad, and it's one of the things I had hoped the Obama era would overcome. Unfortunately, it seems like the problem has only been exacerbated.
Less waste. Even if you were to print out receipts and keep a running log, it would still be much less wasted paper (and all the resources necessary to produce it) using electronic voting machines.
Immediate results. Even assuming the necessity of an audit, the paper log can be scanned many times faster than hand-fed ballots.
Accurate results. This is strangely a problem for electronic machines, but theoretically they should be able to give you an exact count without error. No lost ballots. No forgotten ballot boxes. No hanging chads.
Ease of use. Granted, this is always going to be a problem for most people. However, with an electronic voting machine, you can include such things as candidate-submitted photos to use on the touch screen as well as larger buttons and text for the sight-impaired. A short description or full text of referendums and initiatives could also be displayed.
Reusability. The machines could be reprogrammed each election with the updated candidates and initiative information.
Online voting seems to be so problem-prone as to be useless. Something as simple as a smurf attack could potentially block every voter from casting their ballot in time.
Your assertion is false. Given that you cannot be sure your opponent will not make a first strike except for fear of retaliation, your force must be able to overcome any first strike and respond with enough force to destroy his. Therefore your strategy must be to protect against incoming attacks as well as overcoming enemy defenses. Since you cannot know exactly how your enemy is also progressing, it is absolutely imperative to 1) continue improving first strike capabilities to force the enemy to hold back on its first strike and 2) continue improving second strike capability in case the enemy decides to strike first.
What is false in your assertion is that there is such a thing as true assuredness. The program that decides such a thing exists and stops development and production of new weapons is buggy.
It's just you. Programmable machinery has been around a long time.
Babbage's step to develop a generic, programmable machine was innovative, but not out of the blue.
It's complex and pretty amazing (and loud), and we shouldn't take anything away from the achievement of the Analytical Machine, but it was still an evolution atop existing designs.
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Links386, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Battlecruiser 3000, Day of the Tentacle, etc.
These are the games that had the biggest impact on me.
I've seen the White House on Google Maps and Google Earth and there seems to be some kind of thick cloud obscuring the area. Will they generate any electricity with these things or is it just another feel-good liberal gesture with no real world effect?
This is a pretty cool idea, but it will probably not take the place of x-rays. X-ray is cheap, easy, accurate, and relatively harmless (in small doses).
This sounds expensive, requires a large amount of processing capability, isn't very portable, and relies on light actually passing through the object. For some applications this may be useful, but for the vast majority of imaging tasks that require visualizing the internals of an object, x-rays will be the better solution.
Now, an x-ray scanner that didn't require film plates. That would be good!
I don't play video games now, but that mouse looks like a great everyday mouse. The ability to change various distances and sizes would be very helpful in alleviating hand strain. It's a shame it has a cord, but I imagine they are giving us something else to look forward to.
The only question is build quality and reliability, and of course price.
I would hope for other colors and better (less robot-y) industrial design, but for a first step, this thing looks good.
You get what you pay for.
If you really want to have an "open" device, you should have supported the various open hardware platforms that eventually failed because of your lack of support.
You can't really complain that you don't have choices when you made no effort to support the good choices that you had.
What's an A4 page?
Maybe you meant 8.5"x11".
That's a loophole they can't close. It's a tradeoff point between locking the device down and letting users install what they want.
This is what has happened in America. If you don't pay, if you can't pay, you will not get services. We have turned into the Randian utopia of rugged individualists who have given up on treating each other as human beings.
We treat each other like consumers.
It's sad, and it's one of the things I had hoped the Obama era would overcome. Unfortunately, it seems like the problem has only been exacerbated.
Apple doesn't want an application install vector that they don't control.
Apple keeps an iron grip over apps. It's weird that they would approve something like Bittorrent at all!
The Irish?
It's okay. The audience was able to help themselves to a lungful upon the end of the closing ceremonies.
They were tweeting in real time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCQypnVeXA
Video of the event
That's why we're #1, BABY!
It's a big balloon.
For those of us who live in America, these things are pretty run of the mill.
Less waste. Even if you were to print out receipts and keep a running log, it would still be much less wasted paper (and all the resources necessary to produce it) using electronic voting machines.
Immediate results. Even assuming the necessity of an audit, the paper log can be scanned many times faster than hand-fed ballots.
Accurate results. This is strangely a problem for electronic machines, but theoretically they should be able to give you an exact count without error. No lost ballots. No forgotten ballot boxes. No hanging chads.
Ease of use. Granted, this is always going to be a problem for most people. However, with an electronic voting machine, you can include such things as candidate-submitted photos to use on the touch screen as well as larger buttons and text for the sight-impaired. A short description or full text of referendums and initiatives could also be displayed.
Reusability. The machines could be reprogrammed each election with the updated candidates and initiative information.
Hail to the Redskins...
Hail vic-to-ryyyyy...
Just hearing that makes me want to headbutt a wall!
Go Skins!
Voting machines should definitely be electronic.
Online voting seems to be so problem-prone as to be useless. Something as simple as a smurf attack could potentially block every voter from casting their ballot in time.
Then you must agree that there is a God since people have not yet discarded that belief after thousands of years.
Or are you trying to justify your position with an illogical argument?
Just porn? Or child porn?
I wonder what he is hiding.
Your assertion is false. Given that you cannot be sure your opponent will not make a first strike except for fear of retaliation, your force must be able to overcome any first strike and respond with enough force to destroy his. Therefore your strategy must be to protect against incoming attacks as well as overcoming enemy defenses. Since you cannot know exactly how your enemy is also progressing, it is absolutely imperative to 1) continue improving first strike capabilities to force the enemy to hold back on its first strike and 2) continue improving second strike capability in case the enemy decides to strike first.
What is false in your assertion is that there is such a thing as true assuredness. The program that decides such a thing exists and stops development and production of new weapons is buggy.
All programmable machinery designs. Pascal had a mechanical tabulator, for example.
It's just you. Programmable machinery has been around a long time.
Babbage's step to develop a generic, programmable machine was innovative, but not out of the blue.
It's complex and pretty amazing (and loud), and we shouldn't take anything away from the achievement of the Analytical Machine, but it was still an evolution atop existing designs.
MAD is necessarily a livelock. Therefore it would choose to build up both offensive and defensive systems to react and overcome the matched threat.
A system that decided to stop developing in a MAD situation would be buggy and irrational.