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you're as close to people as you feel.

Nonsense. There's perception, and there's misperception. Ever had a great friend in a MMORPG? Quit playing and see how well they keep in touch. That's just an example, and there are certainly counterexamples of people who find out they didn't know their spouse, but your basically asserting that "if you think you're close to someone, then you are," which is something most people learn isn't true in their youth.

Relocation and suburbism, as well as rampant inflation and a minimum wage that hasn't kept up with it in twenty years, THESE are the things that keep us separated. We spend less time together because we have less time to spend.

Actually we have more free time than in the past. Minimum wage doesn't matter as long as the average wage of an industry keeps pace, and wages have definately kept up with inflation because -- here's the kicker -- wages drive inflation. Inflation is the devaluation of money, and money only devalues when there's more of it in circulation. You could argue that there's an increasing economic divide, and increasing minimum wage might help to close that, but it will almost definately increase inflation as well. If you think the middle class is unhappy now, just wait until minimum wage goes up, especially if it goes up significantly.

This is the same magazine that awarded YouTube "Time's Invention of the Year for 2006" (source)

Forget any medical inventions that actually save lives, Time would rather lavish praise on Asian boy-band lip-syncers and blows-to-the-crotch videos. So, should we really take it serious when Time calls Torvalds a "hero?" Again, has Torvalds really saved any lives or made the planet any better by giving out a free OS? Yeah, I know, down with Bill Gates and all of that, blah, blah, blah. But Torvalds a "hero?" Come on. Let's get our priorities straight.

I don't think MS really dug Apple out of their hole (Zune anyone?), and likely they're not going to tread lightly on Novell either.

Now, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I'm back at school, studying chemistry, and I'm spending this summer in a lab doing organic synthesis work. ....

A disclaimer, I'm working entirely off of news reported by people who don't know the difference between soft drinks and nail polish remover, but the information I've seen has the taste of being real. As near as I can tell, it is claimed that the terrorists planned to make organic peroxides in situ on board an airplane and use them to destroy the plane.

It's true. The Bush administration stole the crown of "biggest weasels" from slick Willie Clinton years ago. They are the grand masters of implying bold statements while actually phrasing things as to be unaccountable. Sheer brilliance.

William Rehnquist's daughter was nominated for Inspector General with Health and Human Services. Antonin Scalia's son was made Solicitor of Labor. Clarence Thomas's wife was nominated for a top position in the Office of Management and Budget. And Strom Thurmond's son, only three years out of law school, was handpicked by Strom himself to be South Carolina's US Attorney.

Oh, that's right, you liberals don't think twice about dictating how other people spend the fruits of their labor.

Your right to spend the "fruits of your labor" ends where it affects others. If you want to run your SUV on biodiesel, I won't complain, but if you're driving a standard Hummer you're externalizing a hell of a lot of the cost onto the rest of us, and it is appropriate to use state power to make you stop.

As I understand it, China doesn't take the hardest line on North Korea because 1) China gets a good deal of trade from NK and more importantly 2) China is concerned about thousands or millions of refugees pouring over their border. Check out a recent Time article at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 549298,00.html

According to this Figaro article, french living abroad have increased in number by 40.5% over the last decade, reching over 2 million. The proportion of engineers leaving the country to find a job has doubled. There are already over 300,000 french living in London, making it one of the largest french cities by comparison.

There is also this Time article dating from 2000 but which simply calls this emigration "the french exodus".

If you can read fench, then this french Senate report on emigration has a lot of numbers although it's from 1999. Its conclusions leave little doubt:
- french emigration has accelerated a lot
- this emigration concerns people with a high level of education, the number of french studying abroad has doubled in a decade
- the number of french fleeing the ISF (taxation of high net worth) has increased dramatically though it only concerns a small fraction of this emigration
- the number of french people staying abroad instead of coming back has tripled over the 16 years the study spans

Reading your reply, I realize things are much more screwed up than I thought. How can you justify such vile remarks? All I can think of is ignorance.
Try your best to remain civil and keep arguments constructive. If two (supposedly educated) people can't have a discussion free of "a priori", how can we expect the radical nutheads who represent both sides on the international scene to compromise.
Get out of the US once in while to get a sense of how many people share my point of view. http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.htm l

"A new memoir by David Kuo, former second-in-command of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has the White House on the defensive with its account of an Administration that mocked Evangelicals in private while using them at election time to bolster its support." Why a Christian in the White House Felt Betrayed

Why does every nerd with poor social skills now claim Aspergers? Seriously, accept that you're nerds and get over it! Very few people actually have Aspergers and it takes a lot more than self-diagnosis for validity. God I'm getting sick of this.

"The Saudi passports the hijackers carried were genuine, and so were the visas to the U.S. But investigators believe the hijackers obtained fresh passports after telling Saudi authorities they had "lost" their old ones, presumably to cover up trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Then, knowing that spanking-new passports would raise questions, the hijackers artificially aged them and forged entry and exit stamps -- probably with old-fashioned rubber stamps and ink pads -- to innocuous countries in the Middle East." 9/11 Hijackers: The Passport Scam: A new look at how the terrorists forged documents

No wonder they are doing this in my country. The politicians have now set their eyes on one of the country's most lucrative sector and government officials have basically become puppets in their hands. A few months ago they wanted to put reservations (based on the caste) in IIT admissions and now this.
when I read the articles such as these http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 205374,00.html/ , I just laught to myself. IT is only fueling the economic growth of few fortunate people (people who could afford computer education and are in the right age group of 20-35)along with corruption which is so rampant throughout the country IT is just making the economic gap between haves and have-nots much wider

But mostly I'm interested in seeing long interesting universes being built over many episodes, I hate it how great books/series that if rendered directly to film would require days on end of projection, tend to get mashed down into a couple hours. Maybe he can fund lots of creative people to make cool stuff and get them started on their own careers. Anything besides redoing Star Wars over and over again for new generations and media formats! Only good can come of it. Recently I looked into digital distribution.. I heard there are about 20 theaters in Japan and 60 in korea (I may have forgotten the numbers exactly) with high def, you deliver prints by inserting a hard disk and turning a key. More theaters like that will be cool. Um, that and waiting for led displays on the other walls and ceiling, pretty please George? :)

From last November. Lucas explains how theater divisions haven't made money for several years, it is a loss leader for DVD. And DVD will be replaced by an iTunes like app. Article

Lucas notes it costs 1/6 to make a digital print.. and for big movies a non-digital print is $20-30m. Article

I'm curious if slashdotters would pay for a streaming or downloadable movie as opposed to a DVD and what would be reasonable to them in terms of payment method and price. I'm considering releasing some video and movies in U.S. and elsewhere and am curious about whether there is a market.

Give me a break. How many men suddenly die of prostate cancer in their 30s? Very few. It's something you tend to get as you get older, and it takes a long time to kill you. Breast cancer attacks younger women (and, don't forget, a fair number of men), and can kill them in just a few years. The loss of lifespan for prostate cancer is nothing like that for breast cancer.

Here's something else wrong with your logic: you seem to assume that somebody sits down and says, "This diseases deserves a big campaign, that one doesn't matter." Wrong. Breast cancer gets the attention it gets because a lot of people who give a shit went out and did a lot of work. If your favorite disease doesn't get the attention you think it deserves, you're free to do the same.

What, you think do-gooders are lame? A lot you know. When I was born, people were still afraid of polio. My mother tells me that she couldn't see an ordinary fly without being afraid for her kids. As well she might be: thousands of Americans were killed or crippled by that disease in the early 50s. So a bunch of people got together, raised some money (mostly by going door to door!), got a vaccine developed, and eradicated the sucker, at least in industrial countries.

So please, either stop whining and show you give fuck — or just stop whining.

Here's a related article http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 538652-2,00.html

People don't pay for their news in traditional newspapers: they pay for the paper, which typically costs the company more than it charges for the finished product. So in theory, giving away the news without the paper looks like a good deal for newspapers, if they can keep the advertising.

Maybe they haven't really cracked the code, they're just putting out false information to try to get the Israelis to switch to a different code. This would cause some confusion, thereby giving Hezbollah an edge.

If that's not the case, then someone in Hezbollah should feel really, really dumb now.

If you have access to your enemy's communications, the absolute last thing you would ever want to do is tell your enemy that you know what they're saying.

Of course, now the Israelis have to figure out whether the statement is an unwise boast, or an elaborate deception designed to look like an unwise boast. Such a deception would be even more wily if the folks leaking the news actually think it's true.

Thank goodness our country would never fall for such a scheme. Oh, never mind.

http://www.time.com/time/cartoons/20060917/3.html

Naps at work: excellent idea - and already implemented at some places in order to improve productivity by as much as 40%.

http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/printout/0,8816 ,1209960,00.html

Napping has had the hardest time gaining traction, despite the scientific evidence in its favor. A study by NASA found, for example, that a 26-minute nap increased pilots' performance 34%. "What other management strategy will improve people's performance 34% in 26 minutes?" asks Mark Rosekind, president of Alertness Solutions, a fatigue-management consultancy, and the former NASA scientist who conducted the research. Yet most businesses still reject public napping. According to a survey by William Anthony, a Boston University professor of rehabilitation counseling who created National Napping Day, 70% of respondents who sleep at work do so secretly, often curled up in the backseat of their car at lunch.

You can read more here http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309101115/html/R1.htm l. The cost of sleep deprivation to todays' economy is in the hundreds of billions - that's several thousand dollars per year per worker in lost productivity, mistakes, etc.

Yeah, the Republicans are all to blame. The Democrats have never stooped to polarizing politics http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,388 903,00.html/.

As a lifelong liberal Democrat, I was also hopeful that if the Dems didn't take back the White House, McCain would be the guy; at least you can reason with him, and he's pretty moderate on social issues.

Unfortunately, he's gone dark side. He's flip-flopped on tax cuts for the rich, and supports the war in Iraq.

I'm not so crazy about Hillary either. I think she's bad for the party as a nominee, because as far as we might have come as a country, we will not elect a woman to the Presidency in 2008. A Clinton Democratic nomination for President hands the GOP another four years. (My liberal nature is tempered by a wide streak of pragmatism.)

The first female POTUS will either be a reactionary conservative or reach the office through the death of the sitting President that she was VP for (think Commander in Chief.)

Depending on how much it costs for a hobbyist and history buff like me I'd use it. I already use the archive at theTime Magazine site since I am a print subscriber. It's loads of geeky fun going back and reading articles from 1923 to the present. It's fascinating to read articles about Hitler, Ghandi or the first IBM PC in context as they happened. I for one am hoping it is reasonably priced as I would definitely take advantage of it.

This video was posted 3 weeks ago and only had a 100 odd ratings, even after appearing on slashdot. Meanwhile a regular skanky youtube teen could get thousands within a hours. Even you guys will probably move on to the next story in a few minutes. I think the government is safe.

You're comparing apples and oranges. Just because they're both on YouTube doesn't mean that they are in competition or are being viewed by the same audience. The story has already hit Time and The Washington Post.

There are other reasons to believe that De Kort won't get Lockheed or the Coast Guard to change anything, but the number of times his video has been viewed on YouTube isn't one of them. The cat is out of the bag, and they'll have to respond to the charges now, one way or another.

You grossly oversimplify; actually, the situation was a lot more complex than that. Saddam was selling oil way too cheap, in euros, to the French. So we didn't like him.

Right.... and the reason that Enron's executives are liable for repaying $183 million, and probably jail time, is that their stock "under-performed" the market.

Saddam used the wholly corrupt "Oil for Food" program to bribe all manner of foreign officials, buy influence in the Security Council, undermine UN sanctions, buy weapons, and fund terrorists, all the while skimming billions of dollars off the top. Even UN Secretary General Koffi Annan's son took bribes, and the Deputy Secretary General was eye deep as well. So, it was that, his refusal to fully and voluntarily comply with the weapons inspections, his record of genocide, aggression against pretty much every country around him, the abysmal human rights record, his military regularly fired on US aircraft (act of war), his support for international terrorists, well.... you get the picture, .... that is why we "didn't like him".

Personally, I think you want to let President Saddam "I grind my opponents alive, and my sons are worse" Hussein off the hook a little too easily.

Also, the original poster didn't indicate if the original media had to be in its original form... what about this? ;-)

1) Black ants can jump.

Yes, but white ants have sound fundamentals, and they are deceptively fast. It has been reported that with advancements in genetic engineering, Chinese ants will soon be just as good.

How about f***ing Time Magazine ?

If that isn't hype, what is?

Time had an article titled "The End of Management?" a while back, in which they discussed companies which had successfully used internal prediction markets (among their employees) to make company-wide decisions. HP and BP were cited as examples.

As it turned out, they were finding empirically-better sucecss using these markets than they were with using their layers upon layers of bureaucratic, 20th-century-style management.

Frankly, I don't think management will ever go away *completely*; who else is going to create the items in the market upon which employees will bid? So on that note, I do think Time's title is a little over-zealous.

But at the same time, I do think such markets can be a force for flattening organizational hierarchy and reducing management headcount. And as more companies become enlightened to the idea of prediction markets -- rather than just mere internal polls, which, unlike a market, have no serious, direct incentive to make a correct decision -- they will turn to such markets instead of middle-managers, who tend to have been promoted into management because they are technically-incompetent and/or are better than other people at dressing well and kissing ass.

The "people's revolution", if there is ever to be one, will (in usual paradoxical economic form) probably not come at the hands of a communist dictator or a starry-eyed Euro-socialist, but rather, in the back rooms of corporate America.

George Bush and the US government violated the terrorist's privacy by listening in on their communications. Time magazine says so.

Where's the ACLU on this?

So, if you don't apply the patches, then what?

Well, I'm not sure what happens if you don't apply the patches, but we do have an idea of what happens if you ask questions like that on a blog.

(that's mostly a joke... at least for now)

I would be interested to know when this filming occurred.

probably as just many members of the techno-gizmo brain-washed generation, I can't follow the historical part of the article. However I can read the Times, and Michael Elliot and the others still create pieces worth mentioning. It's maybe a part of the "old media" that couldn't be yet digested by the junior?

Anyway, the raised points are valid and makes you wonder: what is it worth writing about? Seth Godin (video)gives no clues, but makes you think about it.

Extracting knowledge from embryos that would otherwise be wasted is one thing, but scientists admit that moving forward would require a much larger supply of fresh, healthy embryos than fertility clinics could ever provide. And once you start asking people about creating embryos for the purpose of experimenting on them, the support starts to slow down.

Not considering the sunk costs they have in their current designs (based around the over 100 year-old combustion engine) and manufacturing facilities... And their persistant incompetence at building smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles to compete with those from Japan. You'd think American car companies would have learned from the Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s, and in many ways, they have: American cars now start on the first key-twist, they don't explode into a giant fireball when rear-ended, they're cheap, and reasonably fuel-efficient.

But Japanese makers still beat the Americans on small, efficient cars, because they've been doing it longer and have focused on the longer-run issues of depleting oil supplies more than American car copmanies have, so fond of their SUVs to the exclusion of fuel-efficient vehicles they were until just 2-3 years ago...

Frankly, if one of the "Big Three" ends up being swallowed by another car company, or going bankrupt altogether -- preferably without a government bailout this time (thank you Jimmy Carter) -- not only will I not be disappointed, I might even be mildly-happy...

(Of course, there is the massive dislocation of the employees of whichever of those companies goes under, and that is a problem that frankly requires 2 efforts: one on the part of those people to save for their own "rainy days", and the other on the part of government, charity, and businesses to provide re-training, job-finding assistance, etc.. And, of course, many of those workers would no doubt be re-employed under new corporate management anyway, to help remaining companies pick up the market slack left behind by the recently-deceased auto corporation...)

Any time someone brings up the greenhouse effect as an arguement for alternative energy, the debate over anthropic global warming re-erupts and the issues are forgotten about amidst the flames and political bullshit. Better to simply avoid that debate, leave it for the environmentalists and the neocons to fight it out, and focus on the other issues so that people understand why we need to quit fossil fuels.

Many (if not most) neocons are actually very strongly in favor of alternative energy. They even drive Priuses.

Now, they generally become boosters of alternative energy for geopolitical reasons rather than environmental ones (they don't want to subsidize Middle Eastern kleptocracies), but most of them are happy that there are other, pro-environment reasons to do so as well.

The original neocons were generally are ex-Trotskyites (I'm thinking of Irving Kristol here). The second wave were also ex-liberals or leftists (William Bennett, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, James Q. Wilson - members of the anti-communist left that turned rightward). The primary failings of the neocons are the primary failing of the left in general - they think that the world is perfectable, given enough (love/power/use of force/crystal energy).

That leads them to do things you may not like (topple bad regimes in a [misguided?] attempt to liberalize them), and others that you may like (push for alternative energy, campaign to eliminate third-world debt). But they're very different from the corporate Republicanism that has historically been most resistant to new energy.

Now, of course, that they're starting to figure out the angles to make money off alternative energy, you can bet that the corporate Republicans will rapidly become "green". That may not be ideologically "pure", but it sure beats the alternative...

The article there also includes excerpts from some of the letters.

"Fastow created hundreds of "special-purpose entities" designed to transfer Enron's debt to an outside company and get it off the books--without giving up control of the assets that stood behind the debt.">(http://www.time.com/time/business/article/ 0,8599,201871,00.html)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/stemcells.htm l

http://www.time.com/time/2001/stemcells/

http://www.law4u.com.au/lil/ls_stem.html

I watched the nova from the first link shortly after it first aired, below is the gist (IIRC)..

Basically, Bush decreed that scientists would recieve no federal funds for embrionic stem cell research based on new cell lines. He allowed the use of about 65 previously established lines. Unfortunately about half of those are ill-suited to study or contaminated.

It's the destruction of the fetus that he claims to object to. He's actually created a false dichotomy here: the new lines would be derived from aborted fetuses, which will be destroyed anyway.

There has been quite a bit of headscratching about this, and there seem to be several factors involved:

Don't forget that bizarre turn-on -- dry sex. Painful for women, but apparently strangely enjoyable for men, it also significantly increases the chance of infection for both. I'm not talking about women who have sex when they aren't in the mood. It is a lot more extreme then that -- some women use chemicals like bleach to remove natural lubricants and irritate the tissue to make it swell up, others actually insert little bags of vaginal potpourri to absorb the fluids and dry themselves out - I bet Martha Stewart is already making plans to break into that market.

Anyone who thinks I'm kidding, here are 3 articles, out of thousands, on the practice

Salon 1999
Time 2001
The Lancet 1998

They could use a marketing campaign over there - "Lube - it does a body good!"

Baldrson said:

the point is that this principle was known and advocated by R. T. Jones starting in the early 1950s, but it took this long for the dim-wits to realize that, well, maybe building the optimum craft is a good idea even if it looks funny

RTFA. It didn't take them this long to realize that. You might as well have pointed out that Leonardo da Vinci drew an airplane in the 15th century and asked why the dimwits aren't getting around to building one until now. My answer would be the same - they have built them before now; this is a refinement.

I'm not sure when the first oblique-wing aircraft was made, but another poster pointed out that NASA built the AD-1 swivelling, all-wing aircraft in 1982. Presumably its the same plane that the article describes here:

This is not the first attempt at an oblique-wing aircraft. SpaceShipOne creator Burt Rutan designed a switch-wing plane with NASA in 1979. But the slanted wings made the craft hard to fly -- when the pilot pulled the nose up, the plane would roll to one side.

It turns out that you can't just prove that the shape is efficient at supersonic speeds; you have to actually innovate to address problems like this. Northrop Grumman says that they can not only do that, they can step it up a notch by building a long-flying, swivelling, all-wing, unmanned stealth bomber capable of flying at Mach 2. That was not proposed in the early 1950s, much actually less flown in combat. Yeah, it's an incremental improvement. So's the newest 64-bit AMD chip you're drooling over, or whatever sort of shiny thing it is that you actually like.

Baldrson:

Even so they can't get around to it until 15 years in the future. The situation would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.

RTFA. They're planning to have a design in a year and a half. They're planning to actually fly the thing in 2010. They're planning to have mass produced it and flown it in combat in 2020. That's a little different than "they can't get around to it until 15 years in the future".

Hmmm - NASA had one of those flying back in 1982!

http://www.time.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657, 949473,00.html

Not sure how the subscription model for time.com works, but I have been able to access all stories in the Cover article without a subscription:

Bombay's boom
Hooray for Bollywood
India Awakens
My lost world

Worth a read.

Not sure how the subscription model for time.com works, but I have been able to access all stories in the Cover article without a subscription:

Bombay's boom
Hooray for Bollywood
India Awakens
My lost world

Worth a read.

Not sure how the subscription model for time.com works, but I have been able to access all stories in the Cover article without a subscription:

Bombay's boom
Hooray for Bollywood
India Awakens
My lost world

Worth a read.

Not sure how the subscription model for time.com works, but I have been able to access all stories in the Cover article without a subscription:

Bombay's boom
Hooray for Bollywood
India Awakens
My lost world

Worth a read.

Despite the other replies, Italy is one of the few that has Italian players...
http://football.guardian.co.uk/theknowledge/story/ 0,,1785937,00.html
Playing with foreign players can cause some distrust when they do not perform at away games...
http://worldcup.reuters.com/spain/news/usnL2772974 4.html
An interesting blogg about the last World Cup's national mix...
http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006/05/world-cup-20 02-roster-breakdowns.html
A Time article about the French team for the 2002 World Cup noted that they only had one French player...
http://www.time.com/time/worldcup2002/020128/index .html

I could go on but I think you should get my point by now.

Funny -- according to TIME magazine, White House staff hung the banner.

And I'm sure it was just a huge coincidence that President Bush, dressed in flight-suit splendor, made a big speech in front of it that stated that "in the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed". Yep, we've been prevailing for a good long time, now!

But keep swallowing the manure the administration feeds you, please. I never grow tired of laughing at conservative rubes.

If you want to protest, the usual method is by "voting with your feet."

You sir, have no idea what protest means.

Note that I am not likening this flash protest with Rosa Parks - just pointing out the absurdity of your statement.

If you don't like iTunes DRM, then don't use it.

DRM is coming, better to fight it early, raise the profile of what DRM means & attack its current most visible form.

I know, right? This totally is news and needs to be reported on. Not like that blah blah blah boring about some Al Zachary guy getting bombded. I see that shite and I'm all like "...uh and that affects me how?" Sheesh!