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Flicker up to 10,000Hz sometimes detectable (link)
You ideally need PWM >10000 Hz.
- http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1538&context=tpr (500 Hz detected)
- http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/solidstate/assist/flicker.asp (300 Hz detected)
- http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/solidstate/assist/pdf/AR-Flicker.pdf (10,000 Hz detected)The last one has a rather interesting diagram where PWM, in certain cases, up to 10,000Hz, is detected via a stroboscopic / phantom array effect (not too different from wagon wheel effect).
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Re:We already have driverless cars
I don't know but more and more studies are proving that's the case. Here's one of them. http://perspect.siu.edu/06_sp/car_talk.html
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Challenge to Excellence
Great camp. Such a horrible t-shirts.
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Re:it's not unnecessary
Even CNN verifies this.
1. Link? CNN does have a website.
2. Don't believe everything you see on the TV news
3. Have these governments admitted this? Do you have a link to a .gov site that the US acknowledges this?
4. Is it legal for shopping centers to do this? According to Southern Illinois University it's a class IV felony to record a telephone conversation without the consent of both parties in the state of Illinois. The 4th amendment to the US Constitution says it's illegal for a government agency to do this without a warrant. Of course, it's illegal to search someone's garage without a warrant too, but the cops don't care about the law and apparently a lot of US citizens don't car that the cops don't care. -
Re:Other reviewsYes. To both. They are equally bad drivers.
I hate all people who drive while using a cell phone.
Your brain just can't handle it.
Sorry if you think you're somehow better than everyone else, but the fact remains: you can't drive properly while using a phone, handsfree or not.
Here's a study for you to learn something from.The study presents the first evidence to dispel what Rose calls the "myth" that talking on a cell phone or hands-free device is no different from speaking to a passenger.
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Re:Other reviewsHere's an actual study: The study presents the first evidence to dispel what Rose calls the "myth" that talking on a cell phone or hands-free device is no different from speaking to a passenger.
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Re:What's the difference?
the difference between a driver talking on a hands-free cell phone and the same driver having a conversation with a passenger.
The difference is mainly involved in visualization of the person you are talking to. You aren't just listening to words, you are imagining the person, their expressions, their gestures, etc. Found an interesting study here: http://spotlight.siu.edu/03082006/Hands-freeconver sations.html -
Re:that has to be bullshitYou are failing to understand something, in part because I wrote it poorly.
It is not the fact that you are not thinking about the road, so much that you are concentrating on something else, in particular with someone that is not in the car so can not themselves stop talking when it becomes 'dangerous'. Your conversation partner keeps talking even though you begin to brake, etc.
When using the hand held phone, few if any people actually take their eyes off the road during any significant time. You dial while at a stop light, or use a press to talk button. Or your wife dials the phone, talks to your mother, then hands you the phone cause "Mom wants to say 'hi'." The eyes off the road is not at all relevant, it does not endager you. When day dreaming, you are not concentrating on something else, but when talking, you often are. In fact, some people get angry at the person they are talking to.
The basic fact is that the hands free headphones do NOT reduce accidents. You can reject it because you don't think it makes any sense, but it is honest truth. If I have not explained it well enough, you should learn more about it before just denying it.
Read here for one article about one stufy or here for another article about an entirely seperate stufy or here for an article about a third study.
As far as a I know, not a single study comparing hands free cell phones has shown them to be reasonably safe. They all show them as being about as dangerous as driving while on a hand needed phone.
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Re:People plain just don't like cell phone users
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You must be new to Astroturfing.What is the point of hacking a livejournal account? I guess you could put up some ads...
The point of hacking people's journals is Astroturfing and Google page rank modification. If you did it right, you could create a false sense of community trust or like of your product and the blog owner would never know. Companies that forge letters from dead people on their behalf, invent "apple switchers" and pay students to talk to strangers about product and pressure their professors are all over that kind of thing. Companies like Microsoft have long focused on pleasing "decision makers" as a means of selling more of their junk. Haven't you noticed the crapflood of M$ apologists here on Slashdot?
Deceptive techniques like this invariably backfire. A crap flood here on Slashdot filled with praise of XP was the last time I took any praise of anything Microsoft seriously. I read comment after comment of +5 informative drivel that mirrored M$ marketing I would hear elsewhere later, "It's based on the NT kernel so it's solid
..." and other better tempered bullshit. Five years later, we see that it was no more stable than any other M$ junk, has a 12 minute half life on any network, and that it did little more than force people to buy new hardware to get the same old things done. There are countless other examples of bogus praise M$ has bought here in one way or another. The net result of this kind of bullshit is for me to not trust anything positive I hear about anything M$. -
Re:Links I didn't read
Not all fungi grow at the same temeratures, that is an assumption, no where here for example does it mention climate change:
http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/blight.htm
It was caused by the fungus being imported from the Americas, probably the United States but climate change has nothing to do with it unless you provide a credible link that states this besides some handwaving argument. -
Re:Why not adopt a universal ttime?Well then I ask what's the point? All you've succeeded in doing is shoving the math of calculating the relative time from the timezone system to the people. You're not gaining anything. In fact you've made the system more complicated. Compare:
People go to sleep at 12am. It's 10pm here, and they are 3 timezones east, so it's 1am there. Therefore, they are asleep.
to:I go to sleep at 12 am. It is 10pm here, and they are 45 degrees east of me, which means they get up 3 hours before I do*. If I got up at at 7am, then they got up at 4 am. If people stay up 16 hours, then they go to sleep 16 hours after 4am, which is 8pm. Therefore, they are asleep.
[*] This convolution is required because you want people to still go about their daylight day as normal, but don't want to call relative time a "timezone".
The timezone system maps roughtly to the daylight hours, and makes it easy to coordinate across vast distances. The elimination of the timezone system would undo 140 years of progress, for nothing. I think there's problems with the timezone system as implimented (i.e. 30 minute timezones), but it does work, and works well. -
You can make methanol from CO2
I hate stupid environmental claims.
http://www.siu.edu/~techtransfer/techavail/dave2.h tml
Pretty much all energy systems (except nuclear) are two-way streets. -
John Locke didn't smoke pot
I don't know if John Locke or any others smoked pot but Thomas Jefferson along with other Founding Fathers grew hemp on thier farms:
Jefferson is credited with several inventions, including the swivel chair, a pedometer, a machine to make fiber from hemp, a letter-copying machine, and the lazy susan.
Cannabis was brought to America during the early colonial period. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both hemp farmers. During the early period of settlement of the New World, everyone owned or used something made of its fibers. Hemp fibers were known as the toughest durable fibers around. Hemp was even used as currency in some cases (Abel, 1982). But, Cannabis is mainly used as an illegal drug in the United States today.
The Monticello Textile Factory
Jefferson's annual goal was 1,200 yards of cloth woven from purchased cotton and wool and hemp produced on his farms. He never sought to make fine cloth; coarse cloth for the summer and winter allotments for the 130 slaves on the Monticello plantation was his only ambition.Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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In almost every article of defence we abound. Hemp flourishes even to rankness, so that we need not want cordage...Ralph Waldo Emerson would be object to be categorized along with Ayn Rand.
Just as there are democrats who disagree with with each other and there are republican who do also not all libertarians agree on everything include Ayn Rand. I don't know much about Rand but some I agree with and others I disagree with. No it's my sister in my family that knows about her and she was very much a Randian. That is until she learned about Objectivism, as a Christian this turned her off. Fact is is that you don't have to be a Randian to be a libertarian.
Ooh here's something I found of John Locke's that mentions hemp:
To the Right Honorable Sir John Sommers
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And a Swede will no more sell you his Hemp and Pitch, or a Spaniard his Oyl, for less Silver;And with his sayings, John Locke wouldn't of liked laws outlawing hemp seeing as how he was very much a man of liberty and such a law abridges liberty.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
-- John Locke (1632-1704)Falcon
Ooh and btw do you know where canvas for painters come from? It got it's name from cannabis. Here's a page listing some of the uses of hemp aka cannabis, Cannabis sativa L.
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Re:'cheat' is realative
Neat logic, but the red queen in question is a chess piece
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Re:Damn Microsoft!
There is little evidence that pot has any negative effects...
Uh, wrong. There is good and mounting evidence.
Mental Illness
Cannabis link to mental illness strenghtened
The link between regular cannabis use and later depression and schizophrenia has been significantly strengthened by three new studies.
Marijuana Use Increases Risk of psychiatric illness Cannabis link to depression
This study suggests that girls who use cannabis as teenagers are more likely to develop anxiety or depressive disorders.
Psychotic symptoms more likely with cannabis
Marijuana in adolescence and early adulthood increases the likelihood of psychotic symptoms in later life.
Study suggests marijuana abuse increses risk of depression
Subjects diagnosed with cannabis abuse at the start of the study were four times more likely to experience depressive symptoms.
Marijuana makes blood rush to the head
Smoking marijuana can affect blood flow in the brain so much that it takes over a month to return to normal. And for heavy smokers, the effects could last much longer, a new study suggests.
Child Development
Marijuana use in pregnancy damages kids learning
Children born to mothers who use marijuana during pregnancy may suffer a host of lasting mental defects.
Dope-smoking dads double risk of cot death (SIDS)
Dope-smoking dads double the risk of cot death, a survey in California has revealed.
Maternal marijuana use during lactation and infant development at
...THC concentrates in the mother's milk and is absorbed and metabolized by the nursing infant.
Reproductive effects
The Effects of Marijuana on the Endocrine System
Marijuana directly effects the endocrine system causing:
reduced sperm counts, sperm deformations, shrunken testes size, degenerates the seminiferous tubules, halves testosterone levels, decreases libido, causes the accumulation of breast tissue in men, causes anovulation, causes an acute reduction in prolactin, reduces adrenocortical reserve causing reduced ability to respond to stress, inhibits growth hormone, and depresses thyroid activity.
Cannabis, cannabinoids and reproduction
Marijuana inhibits implantation and increases miscarriage rates. Marijuana use during or after birth may impair reproductive behavior of children when they reach adulthood.
Study finds marijuana use in rats stops reporduction Research Survey: Common Ancestors
Marijuana suppresses the production of luteinizing hormone in rats by stimulating the production of stress hormones. "It turns out that marijuana is a stressor, which might explain a lot of its effects on the brain and on people"
Marijuana firmly linked to infertility
Scientific American Tue, 12 Dec 2000
General Heal
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Re:Abolish DST
I used to live in a non-DST state
Someone's from Indiana, the most backassed timezone system in the country. Either that or Arizona.
Heck, I'm not a believer in time zones, either. Let's adopt one time standard and adjust schedules accordingly.
China does that. Everyone is on Beijing time.
Timezones are a natural phenomena. If you use the traditional definition of noon as when the sun is at the highest point in the sky, then noon does occur at differnent points in the planets rotation every place on the planet. Every 15 degrees, is off by approximately 60 minutes.
I'm no fan of the current timezone and daylight savings time systems. The TZs should be redrawn according to the planet. Daylight savings, while I personally like the daylight, isn't the how the planet's rotation works. Yet, I know we're stuck with this dumb system.
I don't need to be tricked into waking up in the morning.
Well you will be when you have to wake up at 3am, since it's no longer "morning". You don't have be "tricked" now, because your circadian rhythm says "wake up shortly after sunrise." -
FileServer + Server Software + PlayersYou're basically describing my wife's Christmas present..... I went to a little bit of trouble researching this...., so hopefully you will find something in the following useful:
FileServer: I have all of my tunes on a central server. This box's main function is to hold the files. This machine is running gentoo linux, and exports the files via samba and NFS. Anything else it does (see below) is ancillary, meaning it could be done with another entity (software or hardware). I know of others using a Linksys NSLU-2 with the "enhanced" firmware for the same purpose.
Server Software: I'm using mt-daapd. This is an implementation of the daap protocol used by iTunes to stream the music, and the revdevous (sp?) to publish the server location. It Just Works (tm). This currently runs on the Fileserver, but may not forever.
Players:
- I selected Roku Soundbridges. I like the interface, and the display. They can access the network using either 10/100 wired ethernet, or 802.11b wireless and provide analog and digital outputs to feed either powered speakers or your stereo. I have two hanging off the same server setup described above, and they work great.
- I can also "mount" the music shared in the manner described above with iTunes. I've only tested this w/ the winderz version, as there are no Macs in the house modern enuf to run iTunes.
What's curently missing here is the syncronized play. I also considered the Squeezebox from slim devices and decided I liked the Roku better. The Squeezebox uses Slimserver software to serve the music, and supports syncronized play. While the Roku can emulate a squeezebox and use the slimserver backend, I was not happy with the result and decided that synchronized play wasn't that important to me.
Some other random notes:
- The slimserver software, and a software version of their client are available free from their web page. Try before you buy, or buy one squeezebox and use the software version on laptops elsewhere.
- Roku _might_ implement synchronized play in the future. I see no reason why they could not.
- Roku supports "tuning" internet radio stations. I plan to set up a stream, fed by another piece of software looking at the same set of files so that I have my own internet radio station in the house. I've used jwz's gronk, which is a web-based jukebox package for this purpose before with success, but will also consider grind this time around. I do not know if I will achieve synchronization this way or not, but I'm hoping.
- Gronk and Grind do not use ID3 tags, so when I originally ripped a lot of my music for Gronk, I didn't care about the ID3s. All of the rest of this software DOES care, so I have a bit of a mess on my hands.
- Gronk is written in Perl, so it's hackable. This comes in handy tweaking things like sort order, whether to include "the' in the band name, etc. JWZ also provides a demo version to play with on the site below.
- Another way to get the synchronized music, and to serve over wireless, although not the way you originally asked, is to set up an FM transmitter. I have not yet done this for this project, but my prior Gronk installation supported one of those micropowered fm transmitters intended for use with mp3 players in cars just fine.
Links:
- I selected Roku Soundbridges. I like the interface, and the display. They can access the network using either 10/100 wired ethernet, or 802.11b wireless and provide analog and digital outputs to feed either powered speakers or your stereo. I have two hanging off the same server setup described above, and they work great.
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Grind
I've already done this. Grind is a web based jukebox that supports playback of a wide range of media formats (mp3, ogg, wav, and flac to name a few). It has a small install footprint (no database overkill, just Apache, Perl, and some mediaplayers). It supports playback of internet streams as well.
It is beta software because more metainformation in media files needs to be supported, along with perfecting its automatic installation proceedure. That said, I use it almost daily with no problems at all.
The main feature that sets Grind apart from other jukebox software is that it supports intellegent autoqueuing. Grind monitors what songs, artists, and albums you frequently listen to, and which songs you frequently skip. The user can then set Grind basically in autopilot (autodj?) mode and it will automatically play songs from your favorite and similar artists. There may be another open source project that does that, but I've yet to find one. -
From the Burroughs Naked Lunch Obscenity Trial
http://www.lib.siu.edu/cni/b411.html
The Naked Lunch trial is a famous case of something that many people felt was filthy, disgusting, and without value being defended by both the artistic community and the courts. It was the last time (that I'm aware of) that a novel was prosecuted as obscene in the United States.
A more detailed discussion of literary obscenity can be found here. Site MAY not be safe for work. It's an adult theme website and the article has pictures of naked naughty bits, albeit artist ones. Click at your own risk. -
Pimpin' Myself
If all you're looking for is a player that is filename agnostic and supports autoqueuing, check out Grind. It's web based, easy to install, supports any codec you've got a player for, and most importantly supports intellegent autoqueuing based on observing your preferences.
I use it all the time. In fact I'm using it right now. -
Re:just great
3 years from starting plants to taking leaves. That may explain the lack of domestic cultivation; cokeheads are not noted for being patient people.
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Re:This vs. Electoral-Vote.com
I've been following along the election with www.electoral-vote.com
The problem with electoral-vote.com is that the methodology used is somewhat naive. States are predicted based on the most poll with the most recent middle date. This sounds good, until you realize that not every poll is as reliable/accurate. For instance, Strategic Vision is a Republican pollster, and constantly shows Bush having stronger numbers. Currently they are the only pollster that still thinks Michigan is a tossup (47%-61% Kerry), while the other pollsters put the state solidly in Kerry's column (Zogby 53%-44%, Rasmussen 51%-46%), ...). This is a consistent trend for Strategic Vision. So what happens is that every time Strategic Vision releases a poll, electoral-vote.com flips states or moves states to toss-up or toss-up to "strong Bush" or whatever.
This drove me crazy, so I created my own electoral vote prediction script, http://www.cs.siu.edu/~jkoren/electoral_vote.html.
What I do is take the polls from 9 national pollsters in the last 7 days and then average them for each state, weighted for what I call "trustworthiness". It's not perfect, but it's less erratic. (New Mexico's 10 point swing today withstanding. I honestly don't know what happened there, but it should sort itself out as soon as more polls come in.) -
Re:Subduction zones?
Proposals and some nice illustrations like what you describe can be found here:
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Re:Engineering a new planet?You get 50 bushels or 60*50=3000lbs of wheat per acre/year. I don't eat that much. If we could turn 1/4 of the earth into productive farm land, we would have more than enough to eat, and plenty of space to live left.
This is mostly an engineering (and social) problem. This is ignoring the oceans too. (I think! I did not do the 4 acres/person bit!) Although, granted, it is a big engineering problem. Hmm . . 2050 . . We may need a little bit more time. . .
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Re:Who would have thought?
The jukebox Grind incorporates intellegent shuffling based on past user history. The more you queue a song up, the more likely it will be randomly picked. The more you say "no I don't like that random song", the less likely it will be picked. Furthermore, it identifies your preferences not only by individual song, but also by album and artist.
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Re:Who would have thought?
The jukebox Grind incorporates intellegent shuffling based on past user history. The more you queue a song up, the more likely it will be randomly picked. The more you say "no I don't like that random song", the less likely it will be picked. Furthermore, it identifies your preferences not only by individual song, but also by album and artist.
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Re:Who would have thought?
The jukebox Grind incorporates intellegent shuffling based on past user history. The more you queue a song up, the more likely it will be randomly picked. The more you say "no I don't like that random song", the less likely it will be picked. Furthermore, it identifies your preferences not only by individual song, but also by album and artist.
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Re:Who would have thought?
Basically what you're describing is intelligent shuffle. The jukebox Grind incorporates intellegent shuffling based on past user history. The more you queue a song up, the more likely it will be randomly picked. The more you say "no I don't like that random song", the less likely it will be picked. Furthermore, it identifies your preferences not only by individual song, but also by album and artist. (It would do genere too, but there's no clear way to identify generes outside of examining a large number of user's collection clustering (cddb and id3 tags have too much variation)
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Re:come on guys, lets not be that stupid!
"Also consider this, once the naturally genetic code is gone... there is no getting it back."
The "organic" canola plants used to produce food products are the result of serious human genetic intervention. The first rapeseed plants capable of producing edible oils (previously, it had just been an industrial lubricant) were introduced in Canada in 1968 , and dubbed canola, a contraction of "Canada Oil." -
Re:obligitory pun
Oddly enough he's exaclty where the term comes from.
One history of the term is here.
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Re:My one worry is gone: Licensing
My biggest worry about this fork was that the developers were going to announce a "practical" approach to drivers, one that would include non-free drivers etc.
I would much rather have a $400 video card that is stuck in VESA mode with software rendering, than having one that is fully supported, because having source code that fully support the card, is far more important than such triviality as having something that works!
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Re:Attendees were students -- MSDNAA is their lice
Check out this
Amendment to Master End-User License Agreement (For the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance Program)
This amendment (the "Amendment") to the Master End-User License Agreement for the Microsoft Developer Network Subscription (the "EULA") is a legal agreement between Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") and a Qualified Educational User approved by Microsoft for participation in the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance Program ("MSDN Academic Alliance Program"). This Amendment allows for the not-for-profit instructional and non-commercial research use by a Qualified Educational User (as hereinafter defined) of the Product provided under the EULA. This Amendment further allows the Qualified Educational User to utilize the Product for the not-for-profit design, development and testing of software applications or hardware created by Qualified Educational User. Product includes subscription UPDATES provided by Microsoft (as defined in the EULA). -
Re:The PTO has no incentive *not* to grant patents
Ask Joe Biden? You've got to be kidding. He's still a senator from Delaware!. Yeah, he lost the Democratic nomination for President in 1988. So did Gary Hart.
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Re:No Big SurpriseWow. Thanks for regurgitating the SciAm article about the Skeptical environmentalist.
Please reconfirm your "facts" on desalination. There is not a lot of info online, but I managed to scrape up a few costs.
- In the Sept 14, 1999 Trinidad Express, they refer to two bids at US$0.536 and US$0.736 per m3 of industrial water (water for drinking is a tiny proportion of what we actually use)
- In Cyprus in 2000, desalination unit costs were 0.997 USD (0.54 Cyprus pound, which is divided into cents, not pence)
FYI, Peter Gleick is the President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, which "strives to improve policy through science-based research and dialogue with action-oriented groups from the international to local level"They claim to be non-partisan, but he appears to have a radical green bias. Let's look at what else Gleick says about desalination:
But desalination cannot yet be considered a reasonable solution to domestic water shortages in most regions, even wealthy ones. Whether it will eventually become sufficiently cheap for large-scale use remains uncertain.( Gleick, 2000)
Hmmm, not quite as gloomy - just uncertain. Given that most domestic water gets flushed, high quality desalination is not even required for your toilet or shower - leaving some residual salt makes desalinated water cheaper to produce. But for drinking water, it is still inexpensive enough - you'll spend more money on distribution than on production.kuro5hin had a better article on Lomborg a while ago. The Economist just had another one as well. And of course, you should read Lomborgs response to SciAm , which is posted in it's entirety on Patrick Moore's website. SciAm threatened legal action if Lomborg included their article in his line-by-line response, although they felt free to include Lomborg's response on their website with more SciAm comments - hypocrisy worthy of RIAA or MPAA. So, Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace posted Lomborgs response to SciAm, with the following comment:
"Scientific American did not give Lomborg any opportunity to respond to his critics, even though they gave him a copy of the editorial before it went to press. They said they would give Lomborg one page in a future edition to reply to 11 pages of full-on attack. Lomborg's response was to publish the text of the Scientific American article on his own website and to intersperse it with a detailed response to every point raised by his critics. Scientific American then threatened to sue Lomborg over copyright. In response to my complaint Scientific American wrote "This is an infringement of our copyright and interferes with our business of selling the article." Does Scientific American really think that they will lose readership because Lomborg has posted a response to a publication that is already off the newsstands? I believe they acted out of political motivation and are purposefully stifling Lomborg's efforts to defend himself. And I don't blame Lomborg for giving in to such a huge organization when threatened with legal action. (If you go to Lomborg's website www.lomborg.com and look under Critiques you will find he has removed the offending text, thus gutting the effectiveness of his response.)
" I think we should defy Scientific American's blatant attempt to muzzle Lomborg. Anyone who reads his response to the Scientific American attack will have to agree that it is thoughtful and thorough. Here is a link to the entire response complete with Lomborg's comments."
People like you will eventually make me buy Lomborg's book, just so I can bitchslap you properly.
dschl
If you think hunting is barbaric, you should visit a chicken farm someday
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Huh? Anti Matter Physics?
Most interesting assertion, but, adding energy to a system increases its entropy, not its order.
Huh? Is that -2lot? The 2lot that works in an anti-matter universe? Here, in this universe, releasing energy from a system increases entropy & decreases order (a bush burned to ash), while adding energy to a system tends to decrease entropy and increase order (the growing bush before it burned).
Of course if one system releases so much energy that it overwhelms the ability of another system to absorb that energy, both systems can release their energy and decrease their order (the invisible flame thrower with which might Thor ignited the bush), but in both cases the release of energy accompanies the decrease in entropy and order as the systems burn to a lower energy state (ashes to ashes).
But if you are from an anti-matter universe, I can see how this whole debate would be very confusing to you...
By what cause did "natural selection" arise?
Different issue entirely, but I glad you are starting to see that it has nothing to do with 2lot in the normal matter universe, since yes we are getting a "free lunch" from the god formerly known as Ra. Organic molecules tend to organize themselves in the presence of a steady input of energy, so once we have the free lunch courtesy of the Sun, increasing order is entirely expected.
Of course, non of this speculation is a valid criticism of the theory of evolution, since evolution specifically deals with what happens after the first life has formed...
Once you have the first 2 life forms, small differences between the two lead one to do better in a slightly higher place and the other to do better in a slightly lower place, and so natural selection begins. -
Re:Sic the FSF on 'em
Lemme guess, you write the VB 'gimmie 30 bux' shareware crap that permeates tucows (get it? tucows == two cows, what a hoot!).
Try again.
If you don't wish to give up your s/w, don't use any open licence. Simple.
Okay. Listen up smart guy, because you apparently have problems with reading for comprehension, because at no point did I attack the concept of open source, I attacked the idea of copyright reassignment.
My problem with the FSF is the new speak coming from them. Restrictions are Freedom! Dismantel intellectual property through copyright! If they truly believed what they preach, they'd release everything into the public domain.
Oh and one other thing. You're apparently confused by the actual legal mechanism at work in open licenses. The author doesn't give up anything, except secrets. If you gave up your software you wouldn't be able to defend any license, because you're not a party to the contract, because you don't own the software. That's the whole reason why you issue a license, it allows you to dictate terms.
The copyright assignment of GNU licensed s/w diminishes noone
It diminishes me, the author. My credit is removed. I am no longer the owner of my creation. That is deeply insulting.
and allows the FSF to act to protect that copyright, regardless of what duristiction it occurs in.
Again. This is a crock. Under what circumstances do you believe they'd simply stand by and not help? It makes no sense, and given the fact that very few pieces of software (when compared to the total number of pieces of GPLed software) are actually assigned to FSF, most people believe that as well.
So, on the blinding chance that you write something good, and a corp decides to illegally take it from you, best of luck pursuing them on your own.
Well given the fact that I very good friend who is an intellectual property lawyer, I don't think that would be such a problem. And even if I didn't "have an in", I can still find a lawyer.
Of course you won't believe me, and I really don't give a damn. I've wasted too much time with you as it is.
Come back when you can make an internally consistent argument, let alone a logically coherent one.
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Re:I'm sticking with MS
Actually the M$ switch campaign is going full steam in colleges. See this add on a school ACM joint. Imagine that, they have inflitrated ACM joints too
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Re:Name a star after your favorite geek!
While extremeophiles can be quite hardy, I doubt any of them can live on a star. Now perhaps, on a planet near a star...
(sorry, feeling pedantic today :)
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Atari Lynx
Now the LYNX, on the other hand, was very much The Right Thing from a programming standpoint. A fast little processor (for its niche), a good color bitmapped display, and a general purpose blitter.
I played with one of these back in the day. If I remember correctly the Sega GameGear and the Nintendo GameBoy were already established. (The GameGear may have already been in decline.) This kid at "Geek Camp" had one. What I remember about it was not only that it was quick, but that it's color screenm unlike the GameGear was crisp. (Playing Sonic on the GameGears was very much like playing with your eyes closed. The pixels simply didn't refresh fast enough, so all you got was a blur.)
Price and form factor weighed too heavily against it.
I don't remember it being that big. Maybe a bit bigger than the GameGear, but nothing absurd. It was quite expensive wasn't it.
I'll have to see if I can track down one of these things to purchase some time. It's by far my favorite piece of failed hardware.
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Re:arg! -- Whoops!There is a decent mirror at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/. From there I've fetched the complete list of mirrors, which follows.
List of Jargon Resources Mirror Sites USA:
- http://www.akrotech.com/~darkstar/jargon
- http://memes.org/jargon
- http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/jargon/
- http://www.mindspring.com/~li mbert/hacking/jargon.htm
- http://www.iscvt.org/jargon/jargon.html
- http://www.babcom.com/jargon/index.html
- http://www.hackboy.com/jargon
- http://www.pulhas.org/
- http://www2.netdoor.com/~lhand
- http://avatar.deva.net/
- http://www.blee.net/jargon
- http://www.fortuneci ty.com/skyscraper/jolt/15/jargonindex.html
- http://www.jargon.8hz.com/
- http://culture.0wnz-u.org/
- http://www.houseofhack.com/jargon
- http://jollyrogers.com/jargon/
- http://handel.math.psu.edu/jargon
- http://celestrion.totalaccess.net/do cs/jargon/
- http://www.pir.net/pir/jargon/
- http://www.technozen.com/tetsuo/jargon/
- http://ude.org/jargon
- http://web.chad.org/usr/doc/jargon-file/
- http://karnak.nmc.siu.edu/jargon/
Australia:
Austria: http://www.snafu.priv.at/jargon/Czechoslovakia: ttp://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/
Finland: http://zone.pspt.fi/jargon/
Germany:
- http://www.ude.org/jargon
- http://www.ghks.de/computer/jargon/
- http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~rene/jargo n/
- http://hex.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jargon/
- http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de
/~bergt/jargon
Gret Britain: http://jargon.strugglers.net
Greece: http://www.hack.gr/jargon
Italy: http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/mirrors/jargon
Japan: http://www.vacia.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jargon/
Norway: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/misc/jargon/ Poland: http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/jargon/
Spain: http://www.undersec.com/jargon
Sweden: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/
U.K.:
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Comment about quoteI still disagree on your review of "Insurrection."
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