Would they? Given that autism is basically having your mind wired in an unusual way, perhaps there are some discoveries that would only be within the reach of the autistic (and those with similar disorders). You can play the what if game all day, but ultimately whether or not the person lives should be their decision and their decision alone.
No problem! We'll just have an adaptor/receiver that you plug into your old adaptor. This will receive wireless power, convert it back to 120/240V AC, then power your old wired adaptor.
You can't plug something into a wireless power source, it's wireless.
Charging mats will recognize when a device is fully charged and then consume a trickle of energy in standby mode
Okay thats interesting. We all use wireless (inductive) power in other places and while, yeah, the cheap plugpack segment is mostly switchmode now I wonder if there are places where the efficency of transformers could be improved with a digital back channel which says send me this much power.
Isn't that how transformers work - the power consumed is directly proportional to the power provided? It seems to me that a wireless system would be like a transformer, except with an air gap instead of a soft iron core.
The same kind of magnetic field that is also generated by power lines, and would be the cause of any problems associated with them, assuming said problems exist. Static magnetic fields are fine (the earth has one naturally), but changing ones could be dangerous due to the induction, which is the exact reason they're being used here (to induce a current). There's been some research done on power lines, although I couldn't really say whether or not the fields from a wireless charging device. On one hand you have a lower current (and therefore weaker field), but on the other you are much closer to it (field strength is inversely proportional to the square of the radius).
I agree that getting the car to think for you is a bad idea (until we have cars that can drive themselves without any interference at all), but some kind of warning/alarm seems like a good idea. Driving is monotonous, so an alarm to warn drivers when their attention is needed (i.e. an accident is imminent) would probably help (assuming drivers don't panic).
Symbian has that feature, but I don't think maemo has got it yet. Based on what I've read so far, TTS on Android seems to be much more comprehensive. For example, you can do browser form filling through speech-to-text.
Maemo doesn't support speech-to-text yet, but there is a (working) text-to-speech package in the repositories.
The N900 has 256MB actual RAM, plus 768MB swap on an internal MMC card. It has to have more memory because unlike the iPhone and Android, applications must be explicitly closed (by closing the window) before they are unloaded.
The internal storage card is split into three partitions: 2GiB app storage, 768MiB swap, 25GiB user. The reason the app storage is separate is because it is formatted ext3, but the user storage must be formatted FAT for Windows hosts to access it through USB Mass Storage. Some applications (games, mostly) do install large data files there, though.
That probably wouldn't stop you from reformatting the the user storage to ext2 though (although that would be a bit risky). Alternatively, you could probably install programs there by either loop mounting a volume from a file in user or by editing/etc/fstab (one of the benefits of easy root access:).
Are flying cars even feasible? The energy required to push a car forward is nothing compared to the energy needed to keep it in the air. Even if flying cars are developed, their not going to be economical until we get past the energy crisis.
Students are staying away from science and math because of a short term (or maybe a long term) worry about employability. They also realize that law, medicine and MBA-type pursuits are much more lucrative if they're smart.
This, more than anything else. I just finished my secondary education and am about to start uni. I love science/math/programming, consider myself to be a real geek and was in the top 100 for my state (I live in Vic, Australia). I suspect I'd enjoy engineering. But I'll probably go into law because the pay is better. If you want to encourage development in the STEM fields, you need to increase the mean wages in those areas and improve the public perception of those fields.
The law applies to both equally in this case, since you aren't circumventing any DRM. I remember because this was a defence in a bittorent case - it failed because the defendent didn't know the recipient of the copy well enough to be a friend.
With piracy, a company sells a copy and the buyer makes a copy for someone else(and whether that someone else would have bought a copy without piracy is debatable). If I buy a 99-cent song and give you a copy, that is "piracy".
If you're a friend of mine, I believe that's actually fair use in some jurisdictions.
Speaking as a student, the best physics teacher I ever had previously worked as an engineer. He didn't just teach us the basic theory, but actually forced us to think about the actual components and how they interact. i.e. he encouraged the practical side over the theoretical. I have little doubt that his experience in the field helped him to be such a great teacher. My systems development teacher was the same - he had prior experience and had been the one to design the school's IT systems, and his teaching reflected that. tldr: Teaching might not be for everyone, but if you have actual practical experience it puts you in a completely different league to the others.
Bloggers are idiots. Lumping them in with journalists is like saying that a 5 year who draws a stick picture of his family is in the same group as a Renaissance artist
Maybe so, but under copyright law both the 5 year old and the Renaissance artist get the same rights (assuming they're alive at the same time).
You need to accept the EULA to use the software, because it grants you the license to use it. However, the hardware has already been paid for, and you have every right to use it (or sell it, as per first sale doctrine). The only terms that can affect the hardware are the ones stated when you bought it. So in theory you could reject the EULA and keep the hardware. Whether or not you could get a refund on OS X is a separate question, although it probably isn't worthwhile when you consider how cheap the boxed copies are compared to Windows.
The thing to note here also is that Psystar were modifying Apple's base image and redistributing it without a license to make a derivative work and to then distribute the results. The EULA was only 1 part of the case, they were very on the way to be found guilty of copyright infrigement when they decided to settle with Apple. Not to mention the DMCA claims because they circumvented Apple's protection measures (that kext I listed earlier).
That suggests that there is a work around for them, albeit a messy one. If they sold the computer with a disc that installed & modified OS X by reading it from an original disc (that was purchased from Apple), they should be in the clear, since the act of modifying & installing OS X is being performed by the users.
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I think it's more useful to define "unbreakable" to mean "within reason",
You mean sort of like those unlimited* internet connections?
*connection will be shaped to 28 kbps after 1 GB usage
Would they? Given that autism is basically having your mind wired in an unusual way, perhaps there are some discoveries that would only be within the reach of the autistic (and those with similar disorders).
You can play the what if game all day, but ultimately whether or not the person lives should be their decision and their decision alone.
Up next: People die when they're killed.
Too late, someone got in ahead of you.
How about standardizing on a USB charging interface?
I thought we already had
No problem! We'll just have an adaptor/receiver that you plug into your old adaptor. This will receive wireless power, convert it back to 120/240V AC, then power your old wired adaptor.
You can't plug something into a wireless power source, it's wireless.
Charging mats will recognize when a device is fully charged and then consume a trickle of energy in standby mode
Okay thats interesting. We all use wireless (inductive) power in other places and while, yeah, the cheap plugpack segment is mostly switchmode now I wonder if there are places where the efficency of transformers could be improved with a digital back channel which says send me this much power.
Isn't that how transformers work - the power consumed is directly proportional to the power provided? It seems to me that a wireless system would be like a transformer, except with an air gap instead of a soft iron core.
The same kind of magnetic field that is also generated by power lines, and would be the cause of any problems associated with them, assuming said problems exist.
Static magnetic fields are fine (the earth has one naturally), but changing ones could be dangerous due to the induction, which is the exact reason they're being used here (to induce a current).
There's been some research done on power lines, although I couldn't really say whether or not the fields from a wireless charging device. On one hand you have a lower current (and therefore weaker field), but on the other you are much closer to it (field strength is inversely proportional to the square of the radius).
I agree that getting the car to think for you is a bad idea (until we have cars that can drive themselves without any interference at all), but some kind of warning/alarm seems like a good idea. Driving is monotonous, so an alarm to warn drivers when their attention is needed (i.e. an accident is imminent) would probably help (assuming drivers don't panic).
Symbian has that feature, but I don't think maemo has got it yet. Based on what I've read so far, TTS on Android seems to be much more comprehensive. For example, you can do browser form filling through speech-to-text.
Maemo doesn't support speech-to-text yet, but there is a (working) text-to-speech package in the repositories.
The N900 has 256MB actual RAM, plus 768MB swap on an internal MMC card. It has to have more memory because unlike the iPhone and Android, applications must be explicitly closed (by closing the window) before they are unloaded.
The internal storage card is split into three partitions: 2GiB app storage, 768MiB swap, 25GiB user. The reason the app storage is separate is because it is formatted ext3, but the user storage must be formatted FAT for Windows hosts to access it through USB Mass Storage. Some applications (games, mostly) do install large data files there, though.
That probably wouldn't stop you from reformatting the the user storage to ext2 though (although that would be a bit risky). Alternatively, you could probably install programs there by either loop mounting a volume from a file in user or by editing /etc/fstab (one of the benefits of easy root access :).
My theory is that it was *because* of Y2K - lot's of sloppy code got implemented in the rush to patch everything.
I know you're kidding, but a 1080p episode of anime in x264 is around 300-400MB, which is roughly twice the size of live action content in SD.
The energy required to push a car forward is nothing compared to the energy needed to keep it in the air.
And yet gliders work without an engine at all...
But you still have to spend energy putting them up there in the first place, as well as keeping them there (since they'll glide downwards).
Are flying cars even feasible? The energy required to push a car forward is nothing compared to the energy needed to keep it in the air. Even if flying cars are developed, their not going to be economical until we get past the energy crisis.
Students are staying away from science and math because of a short term (or maybe a long term) worry about employability. They also realize that law, medicine and MBA-type pursuits are much more lucrative if they're smart.
This, more than anything else. I just finished my secondary education and am about to start uni. I love science/math/programming, consider myself to be a real geek and was in the top 100 for my state (I live in Vic, Australia). I suspect I'd enjoy engineering. But I'll probably go into law because the pay is better. If you want to encourage development in the STEM fields, you need to increase the mean wages in those areas and improve the public perception of those fields.
The law applies to both equally in this case, since you aren't circumventing any DRM. I remember because this was a defence in a bittorent case - it failed because the defendent didn't know the recipient of the copy well enough to be a friend.
With piracy, a company sells a copy and the buyer makes a copy for someone else(and whether that someone else would have bought a copy without piracy is debatable). If I buy a 99-cent song and give you a copy, that is "piracy".
If you're a friend of mine, I believe that's actually fair use in some jurisdictions.
It is if you're in public - missing a siren or the sound of a car/train can be pretty dangerous.
Speaking as a student, the best physics teacher I ever had previously worked as an engineer. He didn't just teach us the basic theory, but actually forced us to think about the actual components and how they interact. i.e. he encouraged the practical side over the theoretical. I have little doubt that his experience in the field helped him to be such a great teacher.
My systems development teacher was the same - he had prior experience and had been the one to design the school's IT systems, and his teaching reflected that.
tldr: Teaching might not be for everyone, but if you have actual practical experience it puts you in a completely different league to the others.
This is slashdot. Given the absence of an article, the parent probably felt incapable of RTFS.
Bloggers are idiots. Lumping them in with journalists is like saying that a 5 year who draws a stick picture of his family is in the same group as a Renaissance artist
Maybe so, but under copyright law both the 5 year old and the Renaissance artist get the same rights (assuming they're alive at the same time).
Can't believe no one has posted this yet: http://xkcd.com/440/
What you're describing is called triband. Tri- and quan-band phones already exist (e.g. N900) but they seem to be a bit more upmarket.
You need to accept the EULA to use the software, because it grants you the license to use it. However, the hardware has already been paid for, and you have every right to use it (or sell it, as per first sale doctrine). The only terms that can affect the hardware are the ones stated when you bought it.
So in theory you could reject the EULA and keep the hardware. Whether or not you could get a refund on OS X is a separate question, although it probably isn't worthwhile when you consider how cheap the boxed copies are compared to Windows.
The thing to note here also is that Psystar were modifying Apple's base image and redistributing it without a license to make a derivative work and to then distribute the results. The EULA was only 1 part of the case, they were very on the way to be found guilty of copyright infrigement when they decided to settle with Apple. Not to mention the DMCA claims because they circumvented Apple's protection measures (that kext I listed earlier).
That suggests that there is a work around for them, albeit a messy one. If they sold the computer with a disc that installed & modified OS X by reading it from an original disc (that was purchased from Apple), they should be in the clear, since the act of modifying & installing OS X is being performed by the users.