Considering the supposed risk is linked to the frequency, not the power (though power is a factor, of course), the article debunks nothing.
As with mobile phones, the controversy rises from the closeness of the frequency in use to that of microwaves (the range actually appropriate to your kitchen appliance).
Considering the electro-magnetic spectrum is continuous (i.e. saying that they stop being potentially dangerous 1 Hz above or below is ridiculous), it appears to me the concern is legitimate. As far as I know, no serious study has been made on the matter.
You'll note I make no assumption either way, why are you?
but it's quite another to shriek at people just because they refuse to be communist."
I have NO idea what you meant. FWIW, I abhor communism.
Way too fun to let it pass by...
Unless I'm mistaken, the opposite of Communism is Free Market, right?
One of the condition for a truly Free Market to work is making sure there are no monopolies - as a Free Market requires competition which monopolies preclude.
As any form of IP (patent very explicitely included) is a State granted monopoly, I sometime wonder at the reasoning of people who both support patents and very vocaly swear their abhorence of Communism...
I'd argue that this "self-governance is the US model" has died more than a century ago: basically from the moment corporate entities were allowed to be considered legal individuals.
The thing is that Japan is a mostly homogeneous society, and quite a lot of people would like to keep it that way. Having robots is their only chance to do that, as the alternative is to admit a much greater flow of immigrants which, in turn, would mean saying bye bye to homogeneity.
Considering the TV renewal rate you state (which I actually don't think is quite that fast for most people except technophiles), that gives plenty of time for a new standard to appear. I seem to remember hearing/readig about a new one with disks going up to about 1 Tbytes.
Of course that's not taking into account such things as download, flash memory (much more convenient to write on), Tivo type recorder and the like.
I doubt blue-ray will enjoy a success anywhere close to that of the DVD, and I'd have said the same thing about HD-DVD
Over here, a couple of years ago, a producer/director was sued for infringing copyright in his movie. Now this was a very independent production which was seen by a few hundred people at most.
The copyright holder representative wanted thousands of euros.
Of course, this tale isn't complete without knowing what the copyright infringement was: for a couple of second, once, on of the actors whistled the first seven notes of the original work.
The copyright's enforcers have lost all sense of measure.
Yeah, but this is the US of A, where corporation are only there serve their customers to the best of their abilities, and it's Apple whose stated holy goal is to set planet Earth to a higher level of evolution.
Considering the usual behavior, I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to weasel out of it, and leave the cleaning-up to be done by the state.
I'd feel much more comfortable if something was set up with some kind of completely independent entity - one you'd be sure of being around when the time come.
- The new sony reader PRS-505 is available for $300.(same screen, no wireless but more friendly format wise)
- The Bookeen 3rd generation can be bought for around $350(same screen, no wireless, even friendlier format wise).
- You can pick up an old generation sony reader PRS-500 for $200-$230 on ebay (previous generation e-ink screen, no wireless, not as file format friendly as the two previous ones, but stil friendlier than the kindle. Shitload of homemade applications to interface with it/generate content for it).
Except for the people who don't know better, and those who absolutely MUST be able to connect directly to Amazon through wireless, I really don't see who could be interested by the kindle. And as an added bonus, all of these have a better design.
So yes, unfortunately eink ebook readers are still pretty expensive. It's a lot to do with the price of the display (officially unknown but supposed to be around $200). That comes from these displays being made by one (1) manufacturer only. Supposedly, new players are supposed to enter this market within the next couple of years. That ought to drive the prices down.
Calling the confused mess that is HP world an "original mythos" is laughable.
She's drawn pretty much from every source you can think of, from classical folklore, to literature and modern fantasy work (School of magic? Among others, Earth-Sea, anyone ?).
The only (somewhat) original things are the characters, the story and maybe a couple of special effects.
I've taken a look at the website, everything it does is trying to make sense of the mess (it fails). It is based upon the books but (and this is important) they're only used as "supporting evidence".
Now why would people want to devote so much time and thought process to such a pile of manure is beyond me, but that's beside the point. The point is the website IS original work, and as such may be published independently of JKR.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong - I've never used nor even seen anything of msoffice 2007 except for a few pictures here and there. As far as I understand, it's interface groups various commands by relevant task and makes each of these accessible through what is, essentially, tabs.
If I got it right, could someone explain to me how a patent on such a thing could have any hope of standing up in court?
The way it feels is incredible. Sure, the letters aren't as crisp as those you get from 600 dpi (and above) print. That said, you honestly have no strain reading it.
Overall, it feels like you're reading some kind of print out made on a plastic sheet.
I read as much news on line as the next geek (many hours a day). However...
Thinking that instant news is the only valid news is a huge mistake IMHO.
Having news that have taken a while to be gathered and properly studied and presented by the reporter is very important. Sometime you have to take the time to think.
Having said that, this kind of news I'm talking about can perfectly be delivered through a computer's screen or that of a mobile reader of some kind (e-ink or otherwise).
Just don't confuse the stream of data you can get from any website such as Yahoo - the same way you could from Reuters - with real news. I thought it was worth pointing it out.
1- State you're a Linux user... Check
2- State you're pro OSS... Check
3- State you've done your homework and looked around for a distro appropriate for you... Check
4- Despite everything, M$ product still is better, and so on... Check
5-... ??? Check
6- M$ profits (maybe)!
I happen to be running Mandriva. What you stated seemed weird so I fired up my trustee package manager and loockee, both Subversion (1.4.5, client and server) and Tomcat (5.5.23) are available - in Main at that, which means you don't even have to set up extra repositories to get them.
To be completely honest, urpmi does have one drawback, as compared to apt-get: it's slower to update the packages database - and slower to parse it when you boot up rpmdrake.
Or you can go for the smaller sized packages listings, but then you get pretty much no information as to what one package is.
I wish they'd do something about it. It does make me look longingly the debian-based distros way each and every time I want to install something I mostly can't use the CLI for.
Well, right now, provided the return policy doesn't say you have to return a cd unopened (which I assume you don't), it just takes 5-10 minutes to rip it to whatever quality you may wish.
one must also be willing and able to use deadly force in defense
Most important point of your statement.
One last step into understanding to make: ALL modern nations have built their prosperity through pillaging the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, although it isn't the only source wealth now, we still loot the world right now (for instance it's interesting to know that there's way more money coming out of Africa than going in).
WE are the aggressors, so speaking of building your defense to avoid war seems somewhat hypocritical.
Until you realize that people who weight so heavily on the economy (traders of the massive kind) take most of their decision based upon such algorithm.
Since algorithm are maths, with the same initial parameters you get the same results. And since they're all based upon the same mathematical theories and theorems, they're fundamentally the same.
That means this way of taking decisions reinforce even more the 'follow the crowd' tendencies of traders and the like...
Ever since I could get an account with writely, I've been using it to have an easy way to get document translated back at my company HQ (where I go maybe twice a year). I could do it with regular documents and email, but this is way simpler.
Of course, none of the documents I make that way are secrets in any shape or form.
I don't know about Hugo's book, but to consider that Chateaubriand's "Memoire d'Outre-Tombe" is a reliable view of the Revolution is, at best, laughable.
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As with mobile phones, the controversy rises from the closeness of the frequency in use to that of microwaves (the range actually appropriate to your kitchen appliance).
Considering the electro-magnetic spectrum is continuous (i.e. saying that they stop being potentially dangerous 1 Hz above or below is ridiculous), it appears to me the concern is legitimate. As far as I know, no serious study has been made on the matter.
You'll note I make no assumption either way, why are you?
but it's quite another to shriek at people just because they refuse to be communist."
I have NO idea what you meant. FWIW, I abhor communism.
Way too fun to let it pass by...Unless I'm mistaken, the opposite of Communism is Free Market, right?
One of the condition for a truly Free Market to work is making sure there are no monopolies - as a Free Market requires competition which monopolies preclude.
As any form of IP (patent very explicitely included) is a State granted monopoly, I sometime wonder at the reasoning of people who both support patents and very vocaly swear their abhorence of Communism...
I'd argue that this "self-governance is the US model" has died more than a century ago: basically from the moment corporate entities were allowed to be considered legal individuals.
Well, as soon as you can convince the producers they'll make more money selling downloaded version with no DRM for $1-$2.
The thing is that Japan is a mostly homogeneous society, and quite a lot of people would like to keep it that way. Having robots is their only chance to do that, as the alternative is to admit a much greater flow of immigrants which, in turn, would mean saying bye bye to homogeneity.
Considering the TV renewal rate you state (which I actually don't think is quite that fast for most people except technophiles), that gives plenty of time for a new standard to appear. I seem to remember hearing/readig about a new one with disks going up to about 1 Tbytes.
Of course that's not taking into account such things as download, flash memory (much more convenient to write on), Tivo type recorder and the like.
I doubt blue-ray will enjoy a success anywhere close to that of the DVD, and I'd have said the same thing about HD-DVD
The copyright holder representative wanted thousands of euros.
Of course, this tale isn't complete without knowing what the copyright infringement was: for a couple of second, once, on of the actors whistled the first seven notes of the original work.
The copyright's enforcers have lost all sense of measure.
What? Oh,right...
Considering the usual behavior, I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to weasel out of it, and leave the cleaning-up to be done by the state.
I'd feel much more comfortable if something was set up with some kind of completely independent entity - one you'd be sure of being around when the time come.
It does assume that Toshiba will still be around 40 years hence.
What if they're not?
- The new sony reader PRS-505 is available for $300.(same screen, no wireless but more friendly format wise)
- The Bookeen 3rd generation can be bought for around $350(same screen, no wireless, even friendlier format wise).
- You can pick up an old generation sony reader PRS-500 for $200-$230 on ebay (previous generation e-ink screen, no wireless, not as file format friendly as the two previous ones, but stil friendlier than the kindle. Shitload of homemade applications to interface with it/generate content for it).
Except for the people who don't know better, and those who absolutely MUST be able to connect directly to Amazon through wireless, I really don't see who could be interested by the kindle. And as an added bonus, all of these have a better design.
So yes, unfortunately eink ebook readers are still pretty expensive. It's a lot to do with the price of the display (officially unknown but supposed to be around $200). That comes from these displays being made by one (1) manufacturer only. Supposedly, new players are supposed to enter this market within the next couple of years. That ought to drive the prices down.
She's drawn pretty much from every source you can think of, from classical folklore, to literature and modern fantasy work (School of magic? Among others, Earth-Sea, anyone ?).
The only (somewhat) original things are the characters, the story and maybe a couple of special effects.
I've taken a look at the website, everything it does is trying to make sense of the mess (it fails). It is based upon the books but (and this is important) they're only used as "supporting evidence".
Now why would people want to devote so much time and thought process to such a pile of manure is beyond me, but that's beside the point. The point is the website IS original work, and as such may be published independently of JKR.
If I got it right, could someone explain to me how a patent on such a thing could have any hope of standing up in court?
Ah, Lobbying, such a nice word.
You do realize that using this particular word is sugarcoating it. In essence, it IS corruption.
170 dpi, 6 inches.
The way it feels is incredible. Sure, the letters aren't as crisp as those you get from 600 dpi (and above) print. That said, you honestly have no strain reading it.
Overall, it feels like you're reading some kind of print out made on a plastic sheet.
Thinking that instant news is the only valid news is a huge mistake IMHO.
Having news that have taken a while to be gathered and properly studied and presented by the reporter is very important. Sometime you have to take the time to think.
Having said that, this kind of news I'm talking about can perfectly be delivered through a computer's screen or that of a mobile reader of some kind (e-ink or otherwise).
Just don't confuse the stream of data you can get from any website such as Yahoo - the same way you could from Reuters - with real news. I thought it was worth pointing it out.
1- State you're a Linux user... Check ... ??? Check
2- State you're pro OSS... Check
3- State you've done your homework and looked around for a distro appropriate for you... Check
4- Despite everything, M$ product still is better, and so on... Check
5-
6- M$ profits (maybe)!
I happen to be running Mandriva. What you stated seemed weird so I fired up my trustee package manager and loockee, both Subversion (1.4.5, client and server) and Tomcat (5.5.23) are available - in Main at that, which means you don't even have to set up extra repositories to get them.
You, sir, are full of it!
I disagree with you, on principles. She broke the law and, considering what that law is, didn't deserve any kind of punishment.
She did no damage whatsoever: no matter how loudly and how long they'll say it, copyright infrigement isn't thief.
Or you can go for the smaller sized packages listings, but then you get pretty much no information as to what one package is.
I wish they'd do something about it. It does make me look longingly the debian-based distros way each and every time I want to install something I mostly can't use the CLI for.
Well, right now, provided the return policy doesn't say you have to return a cd unopened (which I assume you don't), it just takes 5-10 minutes to rip it to whatever quality you may wish.
Most important point of your statement.
One last step into understanding to make: ALL modern nations have built their prosperity through pillaging the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, although it isn't the only source wealth now, we still loot the world right now (for instance it's interesting to know that there's way more money coming out of Africa than going in).
WE are the aggressors, so speaking of building your defense to avoid war seems somewhat hypocritical.
Well, back to irc to get the comics...
Until you realize that people who weight so heavily on the economy (traders of the massive kind) take most of their decision based upon such algorithm.
Since algorithm are maths, with the same initial parameters you get the same results. And since they're all based upon the same mathematical theories and theorems, they're fundamentally the same.
That means this way of taking decisions reinforce even more the 'follow the crowd' tendencies of traders and the like...
Personally I've stopped laughing a long time ago.
Ever since I could get an account with writely, I've been using it to have an easy way to get document translated back at my company HQ (where I go maybe twice a year). I could do it with regular documents and email, but this is way simpler.
Of course, none of the documents I make that way are secrets in any shape or form.
I don't know about Hugo's book, but to consider that Chateaubriand's "Memoire d'Outre-Tombe" is a reliable view of the Revolution is, at best, laughable.