Which is why we need strong whistleblower protections to encourage a decent culture where law is still important. You would think they would be right up there in the ladder of government protection with soldiers, police, firefighters, and paramedics.
I haven't seen a "dumb" phone that didn't have a Java J2ME VM in a long while.
Audiovox 8610, Virgin Mobile. This page says it won't run J2ME, and the only games that come on it are Blackjack and a Columns clone.
Well, sure, although I'm checking the Virgin Mobile site and they don't currently sell that phone. I guess I should have specified that I don't know anyone with a dumb phone that's still using a model old enough to not have J2ME. Blast from the past, though, my first cell was via Virgin Mobile, also an Audiovox, CDM-8500. Thanks for the neat site, I was psyched to see it!
Even J2ME phones on some carriers will often refuse to give the privileges that an application reasonably needs; several such privileges are set to "deny always" instead of "ask first". I can dig up references for that if you want.
Sadly true, but not insurmountable. In advance of the criticism, however, I agree that just because those kinds of things can be hacked away doesn't mean it's necessarily easy or that anyone would even bother. I don't miss the hundreds of slightly different little data cables as opposed to USB.
The cheapest cellphones don't even support apps. On Virgin Mobile USA, for example, you have to go up to a $35/mo cellphone to get Android app support; Virgin won't activate Android phones on, say, a $7/mo voice-only plan designed for occasional use. A lot of parents aren't willing to part with that much money for each member of the household.
Apps != Android. I haven't seen a "dumb" phone that didn't have a Java J2ME VM in a long while. Plenty of fun games for the platform, too. I even had a good browser, too, with Opera Mini.
On behalf of the rest of the world I say to them - if you want to make more money just raise game prices. Don't require internet connections. Don't continue to try to destroy the secondard market. We aren't going to buy all the games new that we are currently buying used, we'll just play less games. If $60 isn't enough then try $75. If your product is good, the market will bear it.
Here's the thing, though, games are expensive to make, and getting more and more so every day. But are we getting better games for that bigger investment? Prettier games? Sure. Better sound? Yup. Good voice acting and mo-cap? Indeed. But are the GAMES getting better?
There really isn't anything that console makers are doing to help make better games beyond providing decent APIs, although there are lots they are doing to make them more of an audio/video spectacle. After all, you could provide a great API that only a small percentage gets used due to cross-platform concerns, or that doesn't matter because they're using exclusively using middleware, that end customers aren't going to care about. But awesome video for a prime time commercial? That's demonstrable.
Current console makers don't want the tide to turn because they like the $60 game, and would also like the $75 game, and a $90 even more. They're running a percentages game after all, so licensing fees are kept intentionally high to prevent smaller developers from getting a foothold. Smaller developers spend a much greater percentage of their development costs in tuning the game and not just herding content farms overseas to generate a bunch of graphics, animation, and audio assets.
I don't know if there's an answer to all this that doesn't wind up in an eventual video game market implosion.
Well, if no one buys SimCity 2013 because of this, the EA suits won't put two and two together. They'll just conclude that people don't like SimCity anymore.
And then it'll just be a components of the cease-and-desists weapon to anyone who actually has a clue and dares resurrect the city planning simulation game.
There's no conflict there. Facebook just doesn't want people: * to stop using them, since even a passive usage is a product they can monetize in ads and data-mining * to create duplicate "clean" versions of themselves that they give away, as it will pollute the data-mining efforts
Pretending to care about people's privacy is just a happy side effect.
Prior to this bill you could only invest VC money beyond a million dollars you have saved. It presumed you could afford to lose money over a million dollars.
As a non-millionaire, I find it really odd that loaning money to start a business is not legal. No wonder class mobility has ground to a halt, when only the wealthy can invest in ways to make more money beyond the mere catching up with inflation the middle and lower classes engage in.
It's really just that, when it comes down to brass tacks, they're afraid. Afraid of splitting the Republican vote and afraid of getting a Democrat in whatever office they're voting on.
The whole one-vote first-past-the-post system is flawed in an environment with dominant political parties, because a vote for the non-winning side is essentially ignored. Preferential voting (and similar systems) fix that, where people can put their preferred choice first and a back-up choice second let's people really vote for who they want without fear of getting who they don't want.
Just one of the reasons why even George Washington was able to visualize abuse by major political parties and advised against their formation.
Republican president + Republican congress = bad things Democratic president + Democratic congress = bad things Republican president + Democratic congress = bad things Democratic president + Republican congress = bad things
But, Yes - in Britain if you lose a case -- you pay the winning party's legal fees.
Not always, unfortunately. If the other side is legally aided they can claim if they win, if they loose you cannot claim costs from them. If an employer is taken to court by an employee the employer pays the employee's legal bill if he wins or he looses. The only ones who win are parasitic solicitors.
When things are fair and equitable, there are going to be freeloaders and abusers. This is far better than the alternative.
Non-sexualized to you and me could be very sexual to an overreaching government enforcement goon when it lets them ruin some guys life forever. The idea that drawings are criminal at all is ridiculous.
In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.
The technological cat is out of the bag: one can make explosives and devices that contain the explosive force to propel objects with deadly kinetic energy. If all manufacturers were put out of business and all guns and ammo were winked out of existence, rest assured that someone, probably without any benevolent motives, will make one and use it to control others.
Since the days humans could make tools, we've been using them against each other. You can't deny that nature, and all the laws and prohibitions in the world won't change it.
There's more to it than just population density. Compared to the US, Holland has a much better social net to prevent the proliferation of crime that poverty brings.
When you're hungry, it's easier to break laws to eat. A liberalized drug policy also doesn't force people to become criminals and basically lock them out of the career workforce by making recreational users felons and career criminals. I'll admit I don't know, but I'm pretty sure there isn't that disaffected youth "gang culture" that glorifies basically rejecting honest work, education, and trying to better oneself that seems to be pervasive with the poor within the US's densely populated cities.
But cash has serial numbers! Production dates! Traceability through the Fed and member banks down to the ATM you withdrew from, and the account you used to withdraw, and who has been paying money into that account.
I post this kidding around, but I have to wonder if there has even been a truly dedicated group of people who have set to track a person that they could audit cash. I guess I'll know if I see a cashier scanning the bills I pay with.
Pro tip: evaporating water does not make it disappear.
The complaint is that a closed-cycle plant pulls water from the river and never returns it. Well, if they already lose 5% per pass due to evaporation and, when dirty enough, pipe the water to evaporation basins, doesn't that return the water to the environment?
That's the end game. Make sure everyone that pays in never winds up being more than some percentage of what they paid. 100% - their percentage = revenue. Then make insurance compulsory (auto insurance is in most places I've heard of) and now we have yet another industry that can legislate profitability. This kind of granular risk assessment, enabled by technology and data mining, is changing insurance from a risk and actuary game to "assurance" of profitability.
Also worth noting: a lot of folks are afraid of mass monitoring by government, but, really, our mass monitoring will be done by corporations who will freely open the data mines to government.
Those in the Revolutionary War. Granted the Bill of Rights was intended to counter the arguments that the Constitution paved the way for an oppressive government, as it was to replace the comparatively weaker Articles of Confederation (for which there was all actual fighting in the war), but the point is that it never would have happened if there was no independence, and the Kingdom of Great Britain was not (neither The Crown nor the Parliament) was about to give up her colonies on her own accord.
They already sent a DMCA takedown request to Thingiverse to remove two models. Pictures here.
That said, there's more to resolution than layer height. That just affects the vertical resolution. For horizontal resolution, you also need a smaller nozzle. And while you could get them in 0.15mm, you also have to consider swelling (ABS swells more than PLA), clogging (smaller nozzles are less tolerant of dust and impurities), print speed (less plastic per second = increased print times & electricity). Then there's things like overhangs and then you soon realize there's significant work between pressing the print button and painting it.
Once you get it all dialed in, though, you have the potential to print an army out pretty efficiently. You can even print multiple copies (or just plain multiple objects) at once if you want: you're only limited by the build area.
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With a mean width of 69 km, I'd be pretty impressed by anyone who can actually swim across it.
Which is why we need strong whistleblower protections to encourage a decent culture where law is still important. You would think they would be right up there in the ladder of government protection with soldiers, police, firefighters, and paramedics.
There's a huge difference in contributing time to Open Source development and contributing physical things acquired at non-trivial cost.
I haven't seen a "dumb" phone that didn't have a Java J2ME VM in a long while.
Audiovox 8610, Virgin Mobile. This page says it won't run J2ME, and the only games that come on it are Blackjack and a Columns clone.
Well, sure, although I'm checking the Virgin Mobile site and they don't currently sell that phone. I guess I should have specified that I don't know anyone with a dumb phone that's still using a model old enough to not have J2ME. Blast from the past, though, my first cell was via Virgin Mobile, also an Audiovox, CDM-8500. Thanks for the neat site, I was psyched to see it!
Even J2ME phones on some carriers will often refuse to give the privileges that an application reasonably needs; several such privileges are set to "deny always" instead of "ask first". I can dig up references for that if you want.
Sadly true, but not insurmountable. In advance of the criticism, however, I agree that just because those kinds of things can be hacked away doesn't mean it's necessarily easy or that anyone would even bother. I don't miss the hundreds of slightly different little data cables as opposed to USB.
The cheapest cellphones don't even support apps. On Virgin Mobile USA, for example, you have to go up to a $35/mo cellphone to get Android app support; Virgin won't activate Android phones on, say, a $7/mo voice-only plan designed for occasional use. A lot of parents aren't willing to part with that much money for each member of the household.
Apps != Android. I haven't seen a "dumb" phone that didn't have a Java J2ME VM in a long while. Plenty of fun games for the platform, too. I even had a good browser, too, with Opera Mini.
On behalf of the rest of the world I say to them - if you want to make more money just raise game prices. Don't require internet connections. Don't continue to try to destroy the secondard market. We aren't going to buy all the games new that we are currently buying used, we'll just play less games. If $60 isn't enough then try $75. If your product is good, the market will bear it.
Here's the thing, though, games are expensive to make, and getting more and more so every day. But are we getting better games for that bigger investment? Prettier games? Sure. Better sound? Yup. Good voice acting and mo-cap? Indeed. But are the GAMES getting better?
There really isn't anything that console makers are doing to help make better games beyond providing decent APIs, although there are lots they are doing to make them more of an audio/video spectacle. After all, you could provide a great API that only a small percentage gets used due to cross-platform concerns, or that doesn't matter because they're using exclusively using middleware, that end customers aren't going to care about. But awesome video for a prime time commercial? That's demonstrable.
Current console makers don't want the tide to turn because they like the $60 game, and would also like the $75 game, and a $90 even more. They're running a percentages game after all, so licensing fees are kept intentionally high to prevent smaller developers from getting a foothold. Smaller developers spend a much greater percentage of their development costs in tuning the game and not just herding content farms overseas to generate a bunch of graphics, animation, and audio assets.
I don't know if there's an answer to all this that doesn't wind up in an eventual video game market implosion.
Thanks to the incomprehensible network of laws, chances are the victims of a false positive are already guilty of something else, so they deserve it.
And I guess America deserves it for continuing to vote Republocrat.
Well, if no one buys SimCity 2013 because of this, the EA suits won't put two and two together. They'll just conclude that people don't like SimCity anymore.
And then it'll just be a components of the cease-and-desists weapon to anyone who actually has a clue and dares resurrect the city planning simulation game.
Heh, check out the Leadership Theater regarding Security Theater
There's no conflict there. Facebook just doesn't want people:
* to stop using them, since even a passive usage is a product they can monetize in ads and data-mining
* to create duplicate "clean" versions of themselves that they give away, as it will pollute the data-mining efforts
Pretending to care about people's privacy is just a happy side effect.
Prior to this bill you could only invest VC money beyond a million dollars you have saved. It presumed you could afford to lose money over a million dollars.
As a non-millionaire, I find it really odd that loaning money to start a business is not legal. No wonder class mobility has ground to a halt, when only the wealthy can invest in ways to make more money beyond the mere catching up with inflation the middle and lower classes engage in.
It's really just that, when it comes down to brass tacks, they're afraid. Afraid of splitting the Republican vote and afraid of getting a Democrat in whatever office they're voting on.
The whole one-vote first-past-the-post system is flawed in an environment with dominant political parties, because a vote for the non-winning side is essentially ignored. Preferential voting (and similar systems) fix that, where people can put their preferred choice first and a back-up choice second let's people really vote for who they want without fear of getting who they don't want.
Just one of the reasons why even George Washington was able to visualize abuse by major political parties and advised against their formation.
Republican president + Republican congress = bad things
Democratic president + Democratic congress = bad things
Republican president + Democratic congress = bad things
Democratic president + Republican congress = bad things
Now what have we learned?
But, Yes - in Britain if you lose a case -- you pay the winning party's legal fees.
Not always, unfortunately. If the other side is legally aided they can claim if they win, if they loose you cannot claim costs from them. If an employer is taken to court by an employee the employer pays the employee's legal bill if he wins or he looses. The only ones who win are parasitic solicitors.
When things are fair and equitable, there are going to be freeloaders and abusers. This is far better than the alternative.
Non-sexualized to you and me could be very sexual to an overreaching government enforcement goon when it lets them ruin some guys life forever. The idea that drawings are criminal at all is ridiculous.
In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.
The technological cat is out of the bag: one can make explosives and devices that contain the explosive force to propel objects with deadly kinetic energy. If all manufacturers were put out of business and all guns and ammo were winked out of existence, rest assured that someone, probably without any benevolent motives, will make one and use it to control others.
Since the days humans could make tools, we've been using them against each other. You can't deny that nature, and all the laws and prohibitions in the world won't change it.
There's more to it than just population density. Compared to the US, Holland has a much better social net to prevent the proliferation of crime that poverty brings.
When you're hungry, it's easier to break laws to eat. A liberalized drug policy also doesn't force people to become criminals and basically lock them out of the career workforce by making recreational users felons and career criminals. I'll admit I don't know, but I'm pretty sure there isn't that disaffected youth "gang culture" that glorifies basically rejecting honest work, education, and trying to better oneself that seems to be pervasive with the poor within the US's densely populated cities.
A nice cup of non-caffeinated coffee with non-nutritive sweetener and non-dairy creamer.
It's like a little tempestuous cup of paradoxes.
But cash has serial numbers! Production dates! Traceability through the Fed and member banks down to the ATM you withdrew from, and the account you used to withdraw, and who has been paying money into that account.
I post this kidding around, but I have to wonder if there has even been a truly dedicated group of people who have set to track a person that they could audit cash. I guess I'll know if I see a cashier scanning the bills I pay with.
I just read TFA, and that puppy grinder sounds great. Anyone got schematics for it?
I think Microsoft still has patents on puppy grinding.
Pro tip: evaporating water does not make it disappear.
The complaint is that a closed-cycle plant pulls water from the river and never returns it. Well, if they already lose 5% per pass due to evaporation and, when dirty enough, pipe the water to evaporation basins, doesn't that return the water to the environment?
That's the end game. Make sure everyone that pays in never winds up being more than some percentage of what they paid. 100% - their percentage = revenue. Then make insurance compulsory (auto insurance is in most places I've heard of) and now we have yet another industry that can legislate profitability. This kind of granular risk assessment, enabled by technology and data mining, is changing insurance from a risk and actuary game to "assurance" of profitability.
Also worth noting: a lot of folks are afraid of mass monitoring by government, but, really, our mass monitoring will be done by corporations who will freely open the data mines to government.
Those in the Revolutionary War. Granted the Bill of Rights was intended to counter the arguments that the Constitution paved the way for an oppressive government, as it was to replace the comparatively weaker Articles of Confederation (for which there was all actual fighting in the war), but the point is that it never would have happened if there was no independence, and the Kingdom of Great Britain was not (neither The Crown nor the Parliament) was about to give up her colonies on her own accord.
Why can't we get a "bill of rights [on the computer]"?
Because no one is willing to literally die or kill for it. Compare to the actual Bill of Rights.
They already sent a DMCA takedown request to Thingiverse to remove two models. Pictures here.
That said, there's more to resolution than layer height. That just affects the vertical resolution. For horizontal resolution, you also need a smaller nozzle. And while you could get them in 0.15mm, you also have to consider swelling (ABS swells more than PLA), clogging (smaller nozzles are less tolerant of dust and impurities), print speed (less plastic per second = increased print times & electricity). Then there's things like overhangs and then you soon realize there's significant work between pressing the print button and painting it.
Once you get it all dialed in, though, you have the potential to print an army out pretty efficiently. You can even print multiple copies (or just plain multiple objects) at once if you want: you're only limited by the build area.