I've got no problem with that and hope than one day soon we can watch any content, including new movies, for free with the understanding that we will be required to watch commercials.
I hope that one day we can watch any new content at the click of a button, with the option to view it with commercials for free, OR to pay for a commercial free version. Either way the provider gets paid, so they should offer the option to their viewers. Personally, I don't tolerate commercials with anything except for sports.
I think it's great to see new nuclear power coming online, but it's too bad this is simply the completion of a project begun in the 1970's. There hasn't been enough work done in the US to advance the design of nuclear power stations in the last few decades. I wonder how much more efficiently these stations could be built and run today if we had been focused on the problem all this time.
Apple's customers are not the app developers. Apple's customers are the iPhone users. So long as there are users waiting in line with money to spend, there will be app developers competing for that money, no matter how arduous the review process may be.
This will only change when a competitor such as Android offers better apps or better selection than what the Apple store carries. This could happen, but it will take quite some time due to Apple's head start.
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Well, okay, if "Artists" at a hypothetical gathering say so, I guess I'll stop trying to find beauty in things they don't approve of.
If photographers want to use Wikipedia to advertise their portfolio, they should choose a few relevant, high quality photos, and release them under the required CC license. This license requires that the photographer be credited. Donating a few photos is a small price to pay for such publicity.
I think photographers tend to be touchy about surrendering their rights because their position is tenuous. When the last several years worth of your work can all fit on a DVD-R, and it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish it from the work of amateurs, anyone would feel a little defensive.
The tokens "Godspeed" and "God willing" have become generic to the point that they are often used without any religious intent. They can simply mean "good fortune" and "in all humility."
I enjoyed seeing this quote, as a fan of space travel, and as a borderline athiest. It didn't even occur to me to read it with religious connotations until I saw your reply.
The $50/month is what I'm trying to get around. What I currently have is two phones:
1. Skype, which is about $3/month for unlimited calls. (And which I could probably replace with a free service.) 2. Virgin Mobile, which with light use costs less than $10/month.
I'm hoping that there will eventually be a way to combine these two into a single phone, with a single phone number, at about the same price.
I played a lot with these sorts of projects when I was young. I really enjoyed the little books by Forrest M. Mims III at Radio Shack. This book is probably stocked with good ideas.
Using a wire wrapping tool could be a good way to construct circuits without using solder. You can also use breadboards. The breadboards are easier to work with, and can be reused by several classes. However, with the wire wrapping approach, you may be able to make the project cheap enough for the students to keep what they build.
I once made a "darkness detector" or night light which would light up an LED when a room was dark. It was kind of cool because it all fit inside a little plastic film canister. All it needs is an LED, a photoresistor, a watch battery, an on/off switch, and a transistor. (And perhaps a simple resistor.) It can all be wired up using the wire wrapping tool. It's more of a toy than a useful item, but it's so cheap that it could be something they can take home to keep.
Is there a way to configure the phone to direct all calls through a wireless router, when the router is in range? I would like to make internet-based calls rather than cell-based calls when I am at home.
The reason for this is that I make very few calls away from home. This sort of setup would allow me to pay under $10 per month for all my phone calls, and yet have only a single number.
Currently I use a pay-as-you-go cell phone for when I am out, and Skype for when I am at home, but this is not ideal. I have to juggle two phone numbers, and I have to use my computer to make most calls. This could solve these problems once and for all.
Let's call the Windows based version a winnetvertible, and the Ubuntu version a netvertibuntu. If they add the ability for the Ubuntu version to make calls, it's a netphonevertibuntu. The aquatic version which comes with tools to help you catch fish and move boats will be a fishnetphonevertibuntugboat.
Or, we could stop making up stupid names for shit.
Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos. Greene does an excellent job of describing high level physics in a way that those of us without physics doctorates can understand, and he highlights what is really fascinating and compelling about these discoveries.
Richard Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! This book doesn't cover much scientific detail, but it gets you into the mind of a fascinating scientist. It can show the way to thinking like a scientist - being curious about the world, favoring logic and proof over intellectual authority, etc.
I have to say that I was disappointed by A Short History of Nearly Everything. This review sums up my thoughts pretty well. The book is concerned more than anything with the personal details of the lives of scientists and their squabbles. I'd love to find a book that covers the same scope, but focuses more on the actual discoveries, how they were made, and what they meant.
The user logins could be known because they are guessable based on employee names, because they follow the pattern of the public email address names, or just because they were displayed on a screen somewhere. User logins are not normally treated as secret info.
The most likely case would be someone getting fired, and then going to the login page and locking people out just to be annoying.
There are ways to try and work around this, but why would you want to have to work around it? Why would you make it so easy for the system to lock out a legitimate user? Why would you want to need to explain to a VP why he wasn't able to log in to access his presentation right when he needed it for a big meeting?
It seems much simpler to require moderately strong passwords, and to limit login attempts on a per-IP basis.
So what happens when a botnet decides instead to make 3 wrong guesses for 50,000 different accounts on the site? Or even if one person decides to keep making failed login attempts for another account just to be mean?
You can't make it so easy for anyone to lock out someone else's account.
The summary is missing an important point. The article suggests that weak passwords can be made secure by limiting the number of guesses allowed using a three strikes rule.
However, this solution has some problems. If any old password is allowed, there are 10-20 passwords which are most commonly chosen by all users. These are still likely to be guessed by an automated guessing system.
Also, the three strikes rule can be circumvented by using a botnet based attack. A botnet of 50,000 nodes would be allowed 150,000 guesses.
One other benefit to requiring strong passwords is that it may keep users from reusing the password from their Yahoo account, fantasy football account, etc.
It's really difficult to do medium/long term space projects when there are changes to the budget every year, and new legislators looking to reevaluate after every election. If we're going to take on a project like this, we need the resolve (and financial commitment) to see it through.
How ridiculous is it that we have built the station, but we're not going to send up the already-built Centrifuge Accommodations Module, arguably one of the most important planned science modules?
Keeping the IIS in operation is expensive, but throwing it away would be foolhardy if it still has value for scientific research or for supporting future missions.
Is crime so bad in Lancaster that people are willing to be monitored constantly? Do they really find the expense of operating such a system worthwhile? Is it a better use of funds than giving raises to teachers, improving roads, reducing sales tax, offering a college scholarship program, or any of the countless other good things that could be done with the money?
Who makes sure this system is used responsibly, and not for the mayor to see what his wife does while he's at work, or to see how often his opponent heads to the local bar?
It is unprecedented. People will never pay for a service which also includes ads, unless you count magazines, newspapers, cable TV, movies, and riding the bus.
And yes, 99 cents per month for a service you use for dozens of hours is an outrage. The price jumped from $0.00 to $0.99 just today. If this trend continues, the service will cost over $300/month after just one year. Let's all get really mad!
Really? Do cell phone companies clearly communicate to their customers that they will be keeping a log of everywhere the customer goes? A reasonable person might understand that the company would be able to know which towers the phone was connected to, but why would they think that this information was being recorded and stored?
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I hope that one day we can watch any new content at the click of a button, with the option to view it with commercials for free, OR to pay for a commercial free version. Either way the provider gets paid, so they should offer the option to their viewers. Personally, I don't tolerate commercials with anything except for sports.
I think it's great to see new nuclear power coming online, but it's too bad this is simply the completion of a project begun in the 1970's. There hasn't been enough work done in the US to advance the design of nuclear power stations in the last few decades. I wonder how much more efficiently these stations could be built and run today if we had been focused on the problem all this time.
Apple's customers are not the app developers. Apple's customers are the iPhone users. So long as there are users waiting in line with money to spend, there will be app developers competing for that money, no matter how arduous the review process may be.
This will only change when a competitor such as Android offers better apps or better selection than what the Apple store carries. This could happen, but it will take quite some time due to Apple's head start.
Well, okay, if "Artists" at a hypothetical gathering say so, I guess I'll stop trying to find beauty in things they don't approve of.
So, why not donate some photos from piles 2 and 3 to Wikipedia anonymously? Better that then throwing them away.
If photographers want to use Wikipedia to advertise their portfolio, they should choose a few relevant, high quality photos, and release them under the required CC license. This license requires that the photographer be credited. Donating a few photos is a small price to pay for such publicity.
I think photographers tend to be touchy about surrendering their rights because their position is tenuous. When the last several years worth of your work can all fit on a DVD-R, and it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish it from the work of amateurs, anyone would feel a little defensive.
The tokens "Godspeed" and "God willing" have become generic to the point that they are often used without any religious intent. They can simply mean "good fortune" and "in all humility."
I enjoyed seeing this quote, as a fan of space travel, and as a borderline athiest. It didn't even occur to me to read it with religious connotations until I saw your reply.
"If you liked free music, you're going to LOVE paying for it!"
Is this making sense to anyone? What is the Pirate Bay without the pirates?
The $50/month is what I'm trying to get around. What I currently have is two phones:
1. Skype, which is about $3/month for unlimited calls. (And which I could probably replace with a free service.)
2. Virgin Mobile, which with light use costs less than $10/month.
I'm hoping that there will eventually be a way to combine these two into a single phone, with a single phone number, at about the same price.
I played a lot with these sorts of projects when I was young. I really enjoyed the little books by Forrest M. Mims III at Radio Shack. This book is probably stocked with good ideas.
Using a wire wrapping tool could be a good way to construct circuits without using solder. You can also use breadboards. The breadboards are easier to work with, and can be reused by several classes. However, with the wire wrapping approach, you may be able to make the project cheap enough for the students to keep what they build.
I once made a "darkness detector" or night light which would light up an LED when a room was dark. It was kind of cool because it all fit inside a little plastic film canister. All it needs is an LED, a photoresistor, a watch battery, an on/off switch, and a transistor. (And perhaps a simple resistor.) It can all be wired up using the wire wrapping tool. It's more of a toy than a useful item, but it's so cheap that it could be something they can take home to keep.
Is there a way to configure the phone to direct all calls through a wireless router, when the router is in range? I would like to make internet-based calls rather than cell-based calls when I am at home.
The reason for this is that I make very few calls away from home. This sort of setup would allow me to pay under $10 per month for all my phone calls, and yet have only a single number.
Currently I use a pay-as-you-go cell phone for when I am out, and Skype for when I am at home, but this is not ideal. I have to juggle two phone numbers, and I have to use my computer to make most calls. This could solve these problems once and for all.
Let's call the Windows based version a winnetvertible, and the Ubuntu version a netvertibuntu. If they add the ability for the Ubuntu version to make calls, it's a netphonevertibuntu. The aquatic version which comes with tools to help you catch fish and move boats will be a fishnetphonevertibuntugboat.
Or, we could stop making up stupid names for shit.
I can think of a couple things to add.
Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos. Greene does an excellent job of describing high level physics in a way that those of us without physics doctorates can understand, and he highlights what is really fascinating and compelling about these discoveries.
Richard Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! This book doesn't cover much scientific detail, but it gets you into the mind of a fascinating scientist. It can show the way to thinking like a scientist - being curious about the world, favoring logic and proof over intellectual authority, etc.
I have to say that I was disappointed by A Short History of Nearly Everything. This review sums up my thoughts pretty well. The book is concerned more than anything with the personal details of the lives of scientists and their squabbles. I'd love to find a book that covers the same scope, but focuses more on the actual discoveries, how they were made, and what they meant.
And then you would wonder "Does it matter?" (You couldn't tell the difference, after all.)
The user logins could be known because they are guessable based on employee names, because they follow the pattern of the public email address names, or just because they were displayed on a screen somewhere. User logins are not normally treated as secret info.
The most likely case would be someone getting fired, and then going to the login page and locking people out just to be annoying.
There are ways to try and work around this, but why would you want to have to work around it? Why would you make it so easy for the system to lock out a legitimate user? Why would you want to need to explain to a VP why he wasn't able to log in to access his presentation right when he needed it for a big meeting?
It seems much simpler to require moderately strong passwords, and to limit login attempts on a per-IP basis.
So what happens when a botnet decides instead to make 3 wrong guesses for 50,000 different accounts on the site? Or even if one person decides to keep making failed login attempts for another account just to be mean?
You can't make it so easy for anyone to lock out someone else's account.
The summary is missing an important point. The article suggests that weak passwords can be made secure by limiting the number of guesses allowed using a three strikes rule.
However, this solution has some problems. If any old password is allowed, there are 10-20 passwords which are most commonly chosen by all users. These are still likely to be guessed by an automated guessing system.
Also, the three strikes rule can be circumvented by using a botnet based attack. A botnet of 50,000 nodes would be allowed 150,000 guesses.
One other benefit to requiring strong passwords is that it may keep users from reusing the password from their Yahoo account, fantasy football account, etc.
It's really difficult to do medium/long term space projects when there are changes to the budget every year, and new legislators looking to reevaluate after every election. If we're going to take on a project like this, we need the resolve (and financial commitment) to see it through.
How ridiculous is it that we have built the station, but we're not going to send up the already-built Centrifuge Accommodations Module, arguably one of the most important planned science modules?
Keeping the IIS in operation is expensive, but throwing it away would be foolhardy if it still has value for scientific research or for supporting future missions.
Is crime so bad in Lancaster that people are willing to be monitored constantly? Do they really find the expense of operating such a system worthwhile? Is it a better use of funds than giving raises to teachers, improving roads, reducing sales tax, offering a college scholarship program, or any of the countless other good things that could be done with the money?
Who makes sure this system is used responsibly, and not for the mayor to see what his wife does while he's at work, or to see how often his opponent heads to the local bar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massless_particle
If someone is trying to save 3 inches on the size of a monitor so that it will fit on a desk, the solution is clear: Buy a new desk!
If data is being stored on photons, then wouldn't the mass of a petabyte be zero?
The equipment to read that data would have mass, of course.
It is unprecedented. People will never pay for a service which also includes ads, unless you count magazines, newspapers, cable TV, movies, and riding the bus.
And yes, 99 cents per month for a service you use for dozens of hours is an outrage. The price jumped from $0.00 to $0.99 just today. If this trend continues, the service will cost over $300/month after just one year. Let's all get really mad!
Or perhaps it's just a regular Moon Rabbit.
Really? Do cell phone companies clearly communicate to their customers that they will be keeping a log of everywhere the customer goes? A reasonable person might understand that the company would be able to know which towers the phone was connected to, but why would they think that this information was being recorded and stored?