I must for one state that I am as indebted to my country education system as to good will of american educators. Even though Europe is considered more socialist than the USA most of the thesis's and papers I read are from USA. Examples in my field are the publications of programs and theory documents from Professor Mark Drela.
Europe does good research also, but when it can have practical and commercial applications it is rarely published or highly redacted. America may have lots of problems but I have found their openness in education a true beacon for the whole world. It is a pity this measures are enforced because they don't actually defeat an adversary government but do hinder the young minds that try to follow knowledge and civilization against barbarity.
It is true that knowledge does not preclude some kinds of backward thinking but it sure as hell influences positively. For one, I am terribly influenced by the American society yet in Europe culture is quite different. How was that? Not through isolation surely.
Just search the most innocuous thing with safe search off and you will always get porn. I think it is censorship, American prude way, but even so i can try to understand some pragmatism.
But then i realized that there has been a massive cleanup in the results not just in google.com but.uk and others also even with safe search off. I really don't get the prudishness.
Google is more and more becoming my enemy.
The requirement to get employable will dramatically rise as there will be individuals with literally decades of experience occupying the job vacancies for a certain field for a longer time. Consolidated empires will also last more. The technological field will be hit harder in the employability part
I actually saw a conference with the authors of the paper this week and they had into account the fact that it was metal and even modeled it from the clone in the Smithsonian. And yes they treated it like an antenna so the radiative energy balance is taken care of.
The Phong idea came from a student which i think is great, and the public acknowledgment from the professor was very nice.
They even had a live webcast of the whole conference.I will ask if they will publish the recordings for download.
http://www.aerospace.ubi.pt/workshop2011/preliminary_program.html.
Lots more interesting stuff was discussed like ion beam space debris collectors, satellites and orbit planning which was way over my head
In Portugal, the place i am from, it is similar. The lobbying doesn't go on to become law because courts have more important things to do than just trial minor damages, and even politicians know better. Also the public backlash would be significant if normal people started to go bankrupt, like already happened in the States. I don't think it should be criminalized but people should be educated that it's good to support what you like, as part of good citizenship. The carrying of publicity is not ilegal but on the other hand making profit from it should, at least in my opinion.
IANAL but i think the summary, like lately on/. stories, says things that are not enterely true. I quote from Ars what really happens
"Spanish prosecutors have also suggested that, while P2P remains illegal, it is essentially decriminalized"
Ars article
PS: I don't agree with the analisys made in Ars article.
I totally agree with you. In slashdot there is this stigma about trading a physical good for a digital one. Don't get me wrong i love buying music CD's but when i do it i get a personal satisfaction feeling and nostalgia that is not really connected to the end product which is music. The music is equal to the flac or high quality mp3 counterpart. But i also find that steam is a good platform for a games library that is both versatile and convenient.
Some users replied that they can't sell their games or that they have to log in to play the downloaded content, but not with steam and steam is basically DRM. With steam you can play in offline mode and can play as you mentioned in any computer you own just by logging in and downloading. It's true you can't resell but steam constantly has such good deals that not even in your dream store you will get so much discounted titles. In my opinion they may even be cheaper than second hand games bought of ebay or any online store.
There is just one thing i am afraid regarding the fact that in some jurisdictions the digitally transactioned goods may not be regulated by the same solid physical goods laws.
PS: Steam's recent promotions are completely brilliant
For now it sucks, but we know if google wants it throws out the better in the market. Just wondering if this gets so good as to make mass captcha cracking cheap.
In fact instead of crying "i'm a nerd and as such i'm ultra socially inept"(Hollywood) the nerds i know are not disabled in a communicational sense, instead they just don't play along so much with the superficial talk that often happens in IM. I for one find it rather difficult to maintain a conversation in IM for as long as 5 minutes, but in real life i can hang out all day.
I think it's the context...there's no context that is shared at the same time by the two persons involved in the communicational process while we're at different places. Furthermore the facial cues are much more harder to get
Not only you(Americans) started it( i had to get a new passport so i could suit your requirements ), but as i read in this article http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15272 you are going to tighten rules even more.
I loved my trip to U.S.A. and would like to return there in the near future, but it really spoils the experience when i'm treated like a criminal who has to answer a form with such ridiculous question as "Are you making your trip with any intent of committing a crime in the United States?" or "Do you carry any illegal substances?" kind of questions.WTF??
Don't get me wrong though, it's not just TSA guys that like to annoy people our customs guys are annoying too, but we don't make such a fuss about it, perhaps wrongfully.
PS: If you were in charge what would you choose? Security or convenience?
Well in Portugal(not Spain) all carriers have a free service of free sms messages inside their own network. i.e I'm vodafone and send a message to a friend of mine that is also vodafone. The message i just sent was free.There is only a cap to how many messages you can send in a month and that's roughly 2000. Personally i've never reached that cap, and i had never had to worry about the amount of messages sent.
I do not have mod points but the parent's question is legitimate. Actually articles that got phrases like "b,c,etc words" should not get to the front page. Besides there being hundreds of words that start with b, it's just bad journalism to write in such a childish way. If you don't want to say the word because it's rude or inappropriate there are most likely synonyms in the English language. I'm not an english native speaker and i can find a lot of meanings for "b word".
Even though your information may be true ( i didn't check some facts ) i disagree with you about the "badness" of gnome. You say Gnome is bad in all ways but you also mention that you really dont understand why its still pushed on Ubunutu. I give you a hint. It works. And the fact is that the major part of linux newbie migrants start in Ubuntu and stay. Guess again whats the default desktop environment?Gnome.
Now i have worked most of the times with kde in other distros(Gentoo, Debian etc) and i know that kde is ahead in terms of features, customization and code quality, but eventually they get in the way, at least in my oppinion.
Linus Trovalds says gnome sucks cause it hides options from the users...well i agree with the hiding part but not the suck part. If i really am going to do some extreme config theres no way im going to navigate in a nice GUI, i'll just go to the *.conf file and do my bussiness. This suits both the newbies, which aren't plagued by crazy technical terms and advanced users as it doesnt create wrapping config files that confuse the overall hierarchy of standard linux to the advanced users.
Microsoft is a lot of things but calling a company racist just because it uses the same operation names as to do the same thing to the japanese not trough war but through free market is plain stupid. I'd mod you down flamebait if i had points.
i dont think they charge you for that "extra", its just included be cause there may be people that: a) are foreign(non-US) and buy ntsc region dvd's b) there are movies that are not in english c) its easier to make a single software for all the world, not just the U.S (that sounds very selfish and bad excuse in my opinion)
Geeks never got the chance of enjoying a good school bus trip without beeing mocked or running after the bus(look at peter parker).
Now they want to get that part of teenagehood they were denied. Google is also putting hot chicks that actually want to sit with a geek, and thats why it aint cheap!
Hail google the shuttle overlord.
Am i the only one that can see a potential weapon rather than an rfc?
A fantasy writer called Philip Reeve already imagined such creatures in uses such as scouts or units of attack( imagine an army of pidgeon coming towards you )
Surveilance, and bioweapon delivery could also be a use for this enslaved beings
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I must for one state that I am as indebted to my country education system as to good will of american educators.
Even though Europe is considered more socialist than the USA most of the thesis's and papers I read are from USA. Examples in my field are the publications of programs and theory documents from Professor Mark Drela.
Europe does good research also, but when it can have practical and commercial applications it is rarely published or highly redacted. America may have lots of problems but I have found their openness in education a true beacon for the whole world. It is a pity this measures are enforced because they don't actually defeat an adversary government but do hinder the young minds that try to follow knowledge and civilization against barbarity.
It is true that knowledge does not preclude some kinds of backward thinking but it sure as hell influences positively. For one, I am terribly influenced by the American society yet in Europe culture is quite different. How was that? Not through isolation surely.
But then i realized that there has been a massive cleanup in the results not just in google.com but .uk and others also even with safe search off. I really don't get the prudishness.
Google is more and more becoming my enemy.
The requirement to get employable will dramatically rise as there will be individuals with literally decades of experience occupying the job vacancies for a certain field for a longer time. Consolidated empires will also last more. The technological field will be hit harder in the employability part
I actually saw a conference with the authors of the paper this week and they had into account the fact that it was metal and even modeled it from the clone in the Smithsonian. And yes they treated it like an antenna so the radiative energy balance is taken care of. The Phong idea came from a student which i think is great, and the public acknowledgment from the professor was very nice. They even had a live webcast of the whole conference.I will ask if they will publish the recordings for download. http://www.aerospace.ubi.pt/workshop2011/preliminary_program.html.
Lots more interesting stuff was discussed like ion beam space debris collectors, satellites and orbit planning which was way over my head
Say again?
In Portugal, the place i am from, it is similar. The lobbying doesn't go on to become law because courts have more important things to do than just trial minor damages, and even politicians know better. Also the public backlash would be significant if normal people started to go bankrupt, like already happened in the States. I don't think it should be criminalized but people should be educated that it's good to support what you like, as part of good citizenship. The carrying of publicity is not ilegal but on the other hand making profit from it should, at least in my opinion.
IANAL but i think the summary, like lately on /. stories, says things that are not enterely true. I quote from Ars what really happens
"Spanish prosecutors have also suggested that, while P2P remains illegal, it is essentially decriminalized"
Ars article
PS: I don't agree with the analisys made in Ars article.
I totally agree with you. In slashdot there is this stigma about trading a physical good for a digital one. Don't get me wrong i love buying music CD's but when i do it i get a personal satisfaction feeling and nostalgia that is not really connected to the end product which is music. The music is equal to the flac or high quality mp3 counterpart.
But i also find that steam is a good platform for a games library that is both versatile and convenient.
Some users replied that they can't sell their games or that they have to log in to play the downloaded content, but not with steam and steam is basically DRM. With steam you can play in offline mode and can play as you mentioned in any computer you own just by logging in and downloading. It's true you can't resell but steam constantly has such good deals that not even in your dream store you will get so much discounted titles. In my opinion they may even be cheaper than second hand games bought of ebay or any online store.
There is just one thing i am afraid regarding the fact that in some jurisdictions the digitally transactioned goods may not be regulated by the same solid physical goods laws.
PS: Steam's recent promotions are completely brilliant
http://pneves.net/
For now it sucks, but we know if google wants it throws out the better in the market.
Just wondering if this gets so good as to make mass captcha cracking cheap.
I modded you down because of an error. You are not a flaimbait.
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In fact instead of crying "i'm a nerd and as such i'm ultra socially inept"(Hollywood) the nerds i know are not disabled in a communicational sense, instead they just don't play along so much with the superficial talk that often happens in IM. I for one find it rather difficult to maintain a conversation in IM for as long as 5 minutes, but in real life i can hang out all day. I think it's the context...there's no context that is shared at the same time by the two persons involved in the communicational process while we're at different places. Furthermore the facial cues are much more harder to get
You need help
Not only you(Americans) started it( i had to get a new passport so i could suit your requirements ), but as i read in this article http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15272 you are going to tighten rules even more.
I loved my trip to U.S.A. and would like to return there in the near future, but it really spoils the experience when i'm treated like a criminal who has to answer a form with such ridiculous question as "Are you making your trip with any intent of committing a crime in the United States?" or "Do you carry any illegal substances?" kind of questions.WTF??
Don't get me wrong though, it's not just TSA guys that like to annoy people our customs guys are annoying too, but we don't make such a fuss about it, perhaps wrongfully.
PS: If you were in charge what would you choose? Security or convenience?
Well in Portugal(not Spain) all carriers have a free service of free sms messages inside their own network.
i.e I'm vodafone and send a message to a friend of mine that is also vodafone.
The message i just sent was free.There is only a cap to how many messages you can send in a month and that's roughly 2000.
Personally i've never reached that cap, and i had never had to worry about the amount of messages sent.
Quote:but what is the "B" word? Blackmail?
I do not have mod points but the parent's question is legitimate.
Actually articles that got phrases like "b,c,etc words" should not get to the front page. Besides there being hundreds of words that start with b, it's just bad journalism to write in such a childish way. If you don't want to say the word because it's rude or inappropriate there are most likely synonyms in the English language.
I'm not an english native speaker and i can find a lot of meanings for "b word".
Mod parent underrated
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Even though your information may be true ( i didn't check some facts ) i disagree with you about the "badness" of gnome. You say Gnome is bad in all ways but you also mention that you really dont understand why its still pushed on Ubunutu. I give you a hint. It works. And the fact is that the major part of linux newbie migrants start in Ubuntu and stay. Guess again whats the default desktop environment?Gnome.
:D
Now i have worked most of the times with kde in other distros(Gentoo, Debian etc) and i know that kde is ahead in terms of features, customization and code quality, but eventually they get in the way, at least in my oppinion.
Linus Trovalds says gnome sucks cause it hides options from the users...well i agree with the hiding part but not the suck part. If i really am going to do some extreme config theres no way im going to navigate in a nice GUI, i'll just go to the *.conf file and do my bussiness.
This suits both the newbies, which aren't plagued by crazy technical terms and advanced users as it doesnt create wrapping config files that confuse the overall hierarchy of standard linux to the advanced users.
You are welcome to disagree with me
Microsoft is a lot of things but calling a company racist just because it uses the same operation names as to do the same thing to the japanese not trough war but through free market is plain stupid. I'd mod you down flamebait if i had points.
i dont think they charge you for that "extra", its just included be cause there may be people that:
a) are foreign(non-US) and buy ntsc region dvd's
b) there are movies that are not in english
c) its easier to make a single software for all the world, not just the U.S (that sounds very selfish and bad excuse in my opinion)
Now with OLED's i can order electronic food, display the picture in my OLED display and eat it.
Simple.
Geeks never got the chance of enjoying a good school bus trip without beeing mocked or running after the bus(look at peter parker). Now they want to get that part of teenagehood they were denied. Google is also putting hot chicks that actually want to sit with a geek, and thats why it aint cheap! Hail google the shuttle overlord.
when your car crashes to a wall it can display "fatal error" when your car displays "fatal error" it your car into a wall working as intended
Am i the only one that can see a potential weapon rather than an rfc? A fantasy writer called Philip Reeve already imagined such creatures in uses such as scouts or units of attack( imagine an army of pidgeon coming towards you ) Surveilance, and bioweapon delivery could also be a use for this enslaved beings