you are comparing two completely different things here. the industry standard for houses isn't a mansion, and neither are the two cars you mention. people no longer have the option of getting any movie they want in HDDVD or Blu-ray format, that was my point with who chose to push the inferior format (not the consumer).
I had no idea it was there, but while watching a movie (HDDVD) with my brother he showed me the cool menu features it had where you can access the menu and select scenes, and browse other stuff, all while still watching the movie. That was what amazed me since Blu-ray apparently has some bulky java based menu that you can't access while still watching anything. I just thought that by itself was cool, not worth $300 to me, but it would eventually have been affordable to the masses. Why on earth would anyone choose a format that is inferior?
I read the summary, too quickly, and too early I might add. It still would be nice for a board to require anything said by an "expert," or are they still claiming they aren't, to be entered under oath of some sort. It is however reassuring that the courts may have remained sane, with respect to the branches of government, at this point in time.
What?! Only in a country where a democratically controlled congress passes a bill giving a free pass, sorry for using pass so much, to the telecoms for violating the law would the courts allow a company that illegally collects data to testify in a case without being under oath. Now how about the defendants, they get this free pass too, right?
Seems more reasonable now that I read the actual request. It mentions preventing aircraft from being taken off of the ground, but it doesn't go into much detail about when in flight and preventing aircraft from flying into no-fly zones, at least not from what I perceived, other than
Effects should be focused on the aircraft, not the pilot or other personnel on board
. But a little skepticism of the govt is always a healthy thing to have. I would still be wary of having some sort of device on board a plane I'm inside of, and that is one big malfunction that could occur.
equals the plane itself and all passengers aboard. Wouldn't a better idea be to devise a way to disable manual control and either keep it that way or reinstate auto-pilot to somehow navigate the plane to pre-set locations where an emergency landing is feasible? A "kill switch" as of now means an F-18A intercepting it and shooting it down.
Where else would people turn to find reliable research on specific topics? It is true that some journals are ridiculous circles of elitism that promote only ideas the editors agree with, but there are a lot more that simply aggregate useful research. That research isn't free either. Someone spent time on it, and even submitting it to free access journals costs money. Let me repeat that: submitting research to free access journals costs money. That came straight from my adviser, who has paid for some of his papers on bivalves to be accessed freely.
Take note, I'm unpublished so I'm not pushing for one side because of that. There is value in allowing researchers within a field critique research instead of letting anything through. That doesn't mean that everything will be caught, but it's a hell of a lot more reliable that no review at all. I would like to see more free-access material but that does not mean that pay-for-access academic journals are obsolete.
When reading this was, so people's clothing and bags will be covered with this fluorene polymer for who knows how long. And if used liberally in an airport, we'll be breathing aerosolized fluorene. It's not classified as a carcinogen, but I don't believe humans have ever been chronically exposed to it, but I guess we'll find out if the TSA starts using it in a few years.
And better than satellite since it shouldn't degrade when the weather isn't perfect. That was the main complaint of people I know who live in the boonies and have to go with satellite (note that those people don't require low latency).
I can handle surfing the Internet at work for maybe a week. After that, the boredom is excruciating.
I've been doing that since I started working where I do, why do you think I'm always on/.? Today is my last day, thank god, because it's the work that really bores me. I just spent the last 30 minutes playing Alladin on my genesis emulator. Granted I don't have any work to do, but when I do it's excruciating. I once spent about an hour throwing a rubber band ball into my hat and calculating my shot percentage. Really, it could be a lot worse for you. Re-read my post if you don't believe me.
criminalize the non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the internet seems like a very broad description of what should be criminalized here. So if I start a website with just text that describes how one can obtain copyrighted information on the internet, that makes me a criminal who deserves to rot in prison?
My question to you would be what is your goal of getting a Master's degree? I'll be entering a Ph.D. program in biology under an NSF fellowship for the atol program this fall and my goal is research and doing a post-doc for some university where I can eventually complete my own research goals. My impression of graduate study was to prepare you to complete independent/collaborative research, but that may be different for people outside of biology/chemistry etc., such as fields like cs, ce. Coming from more of a biology standpoint, I'd say look into biological monitoring, genetics, phylogenetics, as these are areas that use lots and lots of math, especially the last two. Aside from that, I wouldn't know what to tell you since I'm not too familiar with computational biology. Lab jobs are always available too, if you are willing of course.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I think all kotaku "articles" are never over a paragraph, at least all the ones I've seen. I would have to say you are out of touch about the DS thing, but take that with a grain of salt since I own one, but I think the big deal is that it's Enix's rpg second to Final Fantasy, and yeah it's not front page worthy.
Wow, you took the words right out of my mouth. Well, the Thank god part. I really think directors need to stick to using "real" effects instead of cgi simulations. We can still tell the difference, so all it does is interrupt the movie and make me aware that I'm really watching a movie. The goal should be to immerse the viewer, no matter how outlandish the plot may be, and not to make him say 'wow, that looked so fake.' And while I'm at it, I'd rather see some sort of puppet/animatron than a cgi character to be completely honest, however, LOTR did a good job with Gollum.
All biologists/geneticists don't work on one project you know. There are people out there who do that "real science for humanity." But you may want to start asking why politicians and corporations don't try to fund research that investigates those topics, and not that laughable bill that was passed in the US not long ago which basically just subsidized more corn farmers. Not trolling here, just wish this ethanol kick would end because it isn't feasible. Just look at the numbers.
Now back to the topic at hand. Helping revive an indigenous species which was wiped out by humans is beneficial to their problems with invasive species such as foxes. I'm not saying they will eat rabbits and rats, but it will add some more stabilization to the food web, and hopefully won't target the dingoes.
Yeah, I don't see the merit of this with the exception of letting joe six pack make sure he can play whatever he buys. But as everyone knows, all PC titles list required and recommended specs on the box. What's so hard here? I'd rather not have standards (read as limitations) for developers who would like to push the envelope like crysis did. The far cry engine would never ever play on console equipment at the current configuration. So all our game titles will be forced to conform to what the standard is.
And wouldn't these standards have to be constantly changing to adapt to the hardware market? I can see it's value, but the negatives outweigh the positives IMHO. The article does make a good point that if it is implemented it should be done by a third party, and not someone tied to the hardware and software.
For having an outrageous law like the one this man was arrested for. Google owned or ran the site in question so they had to comply with the local law. I'm not saying I like it, but the blame should be shifted to India for having a law on the books that allows them to toss anyone in jail for posting in "vulgar language" about some politician. Democracy my ass.
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That's my whole point. The technically inferior format has a financial backer b/c of its supposed fool-proof drm, which was cracked in what, a week?
you are comparing two completely different things here. the industry standard for houses isn't a mansion, and neither are the two cars you mention. people no longer have the option of getting any movie they want in HDDVD or Blu-ray format, that was my point with who chose to push the inferior format (not the consumer).
can hoaxes be memes too?
I had no idea it was there, but while watching a movie (HDDVD) with my brother he showed me the cool menu features it had where you can access the menu and select scenes, and browse other stuff, all while still watching the movie. That was what amazed me since Blu-ray apparently has some bulky java based menu that you can't access while still watching anything. I just thought that by itself was cool, not worth $300 to me, but it would eventually have been affordable to the masses.
Why on earth would anyone choose a format that is inferior?
I read the summary, too quickly, and too early I might add. It still would be nice for a board to require anything said by an "expert," or are they still claiming they aren't, to be entered under oath of some sort.
It is however reassuring that the courts may have remained sane, with respect to the branches of government, at this point in time.
What?! Only in a country where a democratically controlled congress passes a bill giving a free pass, sorry for using pass so much, to the telecoms for violating the law would the courts allow a company that illegally collects data to testify in a case without being under oath. Now how about the defendants, they get this free pass too, right?
equals the plane itself and all passengers aboard. Wouldn't a better idea be to devise a way to disable manual control and either keep it that way or reinstate auto-pilot to somehow navigate the plane to pre-set locations where an emergency landing is feasible?
A "kill switch" as of now means an F-18A intercepting it and shooting it down.
either Truecrypt or Tor since they can easily be labeled to the public as terrorist tools. Thinkofthegovt! Panic!!
Where else would people turn to find reliable research on specific topics? It is true that some journals are ridiculous circles of elitism that promote only ideas the editors agree with, but there are a lot more that simply aggregate useful research. That research isn't free either. Someone spent time on it, and even submitting it to free access journals costs money. Let me repeat that: submitting research to free access journals costs money. That came straight from my adviser, who has paid for some of his papers on bivalves to be accessed freely.
Take note, I'm unpublished so I'm not pushing for one side because of that. There is value in allowing researchers within a field critique research instead of letting anything through. That doesn't mean that everything will be caught, but it's a hell of a lot more reliable that no review at all. I would like to see more free-access material but that does not mean that pay-for-access academic journals are obsolete.
When reading this was, so people's clothing and bags will be covered with this fluorene polymer for who knows how long. And if used liberally in an airport, we'll be breathing aerosolized fluorene. It's not classified as a carcinogen, but I don't believe humans have ever been chronically exposed to it, but I guess we'll find out if the TSA starts using it in a few years.
yes, yes. shallow and pedantic.
And better than satellite since it shouldn't degrade when the weather isn't perfect. That was the main complaint of people I know who live in the boonies and have to go with satellite (note that those people don't require low latency).
with /., Fark, Kongregate (if your firewall will let you), and slavehack. Those are my best suggestions if you can't work.
Bill Gates bites the heads off chickens in a carnival.
There, that's what I meant by geek.
My question to you would be what is your goal of getting a Master's degree? I'll be entering a Ph.D. program in biology under an NSF fellowship for the atol program this fall and my goal is research and doing a post-doc for some university where I can eventually complete my own research goals.
My impression of graduate study was to prepare you to complete independent/collaborative research, but that may be different for people outside of biology/chemistry etc., such as fields like cs, ce.
Coming from more of a biology standpoint, I'd say look into biological monitoring, genetics, phylogenetics, as these are areas that use lots and lots of math, especially the last two. Aside from that, I wouldn't know what to tell you since I'm not too familiar with computational biology. Lab jobs are always available too, if you are willing of course.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I think all kotaku "articles" are never over a paragraph, at least all the ones I've seen. I would have to say you are out of touch about the DS thing, but take that with a grain of salt since I own one, but I think the big deal is that it's Enix's rpg second to Final Fantasy, and yeah it's not front page worthy.
Wow, you took the words right out of my mouth. Well, the Thank god part.
I really think directors need to stick to using "real" effects instead of cgi simulations. We can still tell the difference, so all it does is interrupt the movie and make me aware that I'm really watching a movie. The goal should be to immerse the viewer, no matter how outlandish the plot may be, and not to make him say 'wow, that looked so fake.' And while I'm at it, I'd rather see some sort of puppet/animatron than a cgi character to be completely honest, however, LOTR did a good job with Gollum.
Wiis are all white.
All biologists/geneticists don't work on one project you know. There are people out there who do that "real science for humanity." But you may want to start asking why politicians and corporations don't try to fund research that investigates those topics, and not that laughable bill that was passed in the US not long ago which basically just subsidized more corn farmers.
Not trolling here, just wish this ethanol kick would end because it isn't feasible. Just look at the numbers.
Now back to the topic at hand. Helping revive an indigenous species which was wiped out by humans is beneficial to their problems with invasive species such as foxes. I'm not saying they will eat rabbits and rats, but it will add some more stabilization to the food web, and hopefully won't target the dingoes.
Yeah, I don't see the merit of this with the exception of letting joe six pack make sure he can play whatever he buys. But as everyone knows, all PC titles list required and recommended specs on the box. What's so hard here? I'd rather not have standards (read as limitations) for developers who would like to push the envelope like crysis did. The far cry engine would never ever play on console equipment at the current configuration. So all our game titles will be forced to conform to what the standard is.
And wouldn't these standards have to be constantly changing to adapt to the hardware market? I can see it's value, but the negatives outweigh the positives IMHO. The article does make a good point that if it is implemented it should be done by a third party, and not someone tied to the hardware and software.
You're right. Shared with is better. I'd be interested to know just what would happen if they had refused to turn over what was requested.
For having an outrageous law like the one this man was arrested for. Google owned or ran the site in question so they had to comply with the local law. I'm not saying I like it, but the blame should be shifted to India for having a law on the books that allows them to toss anyone in jail for posting in "vulgar language" about some politician. Democracy my ass.