Or what happened to kick up this fuss in the first place could happen to you, where a man was detained and interrogated without charge, found innocent yet still has a permanent record as a terrorist security risk. Good luck living a normal life with that stigma. He wants this censorship because he royally fucked up his job as AFP Commissioner and the embarrassment and media exposure has probably cost him his job.
Along those lines, I thought State of the Art was the best Amiga demo I'd come across, while lacking in code sophistication it was an amazing visual and audio experience.
Then educate your kids, or keep it away from them, or disable it (ie. remove the bulb) when not in use. Your house is full of dangerous products - cleaning agents, kitchen knives, power outlets everywhere, yet your kids aren't poisoned, stabbed or electrocuted if you use and teach some common sense.
I can remember recovering source code from a crashed disk using their sector recovery tools back in the day. Saved me at least a week of work. It's sad how far they've fallen.
Take playing guitar and singing at the same time. The musicians brain is dealing with multiple inputs in the form of memorised rhythms and melodies, one each for the lyric and instrument, and multiple outputs in the form of their voice and guitar. As a consequence, it is much more difficult for most than doing each activity separately. This is true multitasking at work, you can't just flick back and forth.
Name one good software patent. I dare you. From Unisys with LZW to MS empty threats against Linux there hasn't been a single good application of these patents.
The only terrible thing there is when the two divergent numberings recombine into something more powerfully hideous than anything that came before. Here's hoping that Windows 7 wipes the slate clean, like OSX did. Coding for Vista is something that I hope I never have to do, but still reluctantly I must as the market demands. I seriously doubt anyone can sanitise the evil MS bloat with a restart but there's hope in the fact that what little competition they have just did that to great success.
That was a noble attempt at finding prior art, sadly it is in vein as they don't give two fucks about prior art, all they care about is what the load of bull patent they shoved through says. This is a prime example of why all software patents are bullshit, there is no way you should be able to patent mathematics, specifically algorithms.
The thin CO2 atmosphere could perhaps sustain plant life. I think that is the most exciting prospect of Mars. Still, the pressure is too low for liquid water on the surface, something like pressurized greenhouses are needed. I can imagine there's several plants out there that could survive the Martian desert though (a cactus? a lichen?) with a little watering now and then. Here's my dream of a green Mars!
Just play space billiards and use slingshot orbits to get your energy. Simply kit out your cue ball asteroid with maneuvering jets and precision navigation systems to get a nice accurate hit.
The tensile strength might be an issue, but as you say it's an engineering problem with a practical compromise. All you would need to do is hollow it out while retaining and reinforcing the structural integrity. The asteroid would provide more than shielding at the end, it would be useful throughout construction. Materials, shelter, and scaffolding as the base is built. For water troubles, there's Ceres. If estimates are accurate, there's more fresh water there than on Earth. Altogether, I agree with the GP in that the asteroid belt is much more exciting than the Moon or Mars, and would provide a great model for interstellar colonization, as we can't be too sure what we'll find, but if we can make a sustainable habitat with just rocks and ice we should be able to survive anywhere.
That's a funny conception of sovereignty you've got there. Simply, these mercenaries that commit crime in Iraqs jurisdiction should face their laws, their courts unless they say otherwise.
Nobody could observe the phases of Venus until Galileo, and people had trouble reproducing his results. A skeptic of the time would not find the results of one mans observations enough to overthrow the status quo.
I disagree that the article is to blame for that, here it is the Pope being denied a voice by scientists (in a Catholic institution no less), a nice twist on what happened to Galileo. Unfortunately few commenters have picked up on it and just stuck to polarizing the issue as you put so well.
Galileo had evidence to support his theory, while the other scientists relied on dogma and tradition as their evidence. True, but still going against geocentrism meant going against Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy and many more. Copernicus' heliocentric system was around, but the old models still worked just fine. There was little empirical evidence over which one was true, as both made valid predictions. It was a result of observations of planets using new technology that others had trouble reproducing that Galileo based his assertions on. If he had been patient and let others verify his claims instead of actively promoting them and then insulting the old ways he could have saved himself a lot of trouble.
I stumbled across his treatment of free speech on his campus here, basically students have a tiny Free Speech zone where they can speak freely between 12 to 1 pm and 5 to 6 pm, as long as they give 48 hours notice and comply with onerous regulations about maintaining order and decorum. I get the feeling he doesn't quite grasp the whole first amendment thing.
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Thanks for that, I came to this thread to get the name of that trading game, and I find a remake! Time for some timewasting.
You post as an Anonymous Coward on slashdot and you can't see how media censorship affects you? Please.
Or what happened to kick up this fuss in the first place could happen to you, where a man was detained and interrogated without charge, found innocent yet still has a permanent record as a terrorist security risk. Good luck living a normal life with that stigma. He wants this censorship because he royally fucked up his job as AFP Commissioner and the embarrassment and media exposure has probably cost him his job.
Along those lines, I thought State of the Art was the best Amiga demo I'd come across, while lacking in code sophistication it was an amazing visual and audio experience.
Then educate your kids, or keep it away from them, or disable it (ie. remove the bulb) when not in use. Your house is full of dangerous products - cleaning agents, kitchen knives, power outlets everywhere, yet your kids aren't poisoned, stabbed or electrocuted if you use and teach some common sense.
Don't worry, these are elegant weapons from a more civilized age.
I can remember recovering source code from a crashed disk using their sector recovery tools back in the day. Saved me at least a week of work. It's sad how far they've fallen.
Take playing guitar and singing at the same time. The musicians brain is dealing with multiple inputs in the form of memorised rhythms and melodies, one each for the lyric and instrument, and multiple outputs in the form of their voice and guitar. As a consequence, it is much more difficult for most than doing each activity separately. This is true multitasking at work, you can't just flick back and forth.
Name one good software patent. I dare you. From Unisys with LZW to MS empty threats against Linux there hasn't been a single good application of these patents.
The only terrible thing there is when the two divergent numberings recombine into something more powerfully hideous than anything that came before. Here's hoping that Windows 7 wipes the slate clean, like OSX did. Coding for Vista is something that I hope I never have to do, but still reluctantly I must as the market demands. I seriously doubt anyone can sanitise the evil MS bloat with a restart but there's hope in the fact that what little competition they have just did that to great success.
That was a noble attempt at finding prior art, sadly it is in vein as they don't give two fucks about prior art, all they care about is what the load of bull patent they shoved through says. This is a prime example of why all software patents are bullshit, there is no way you should be able to patent mathematics, specifically algorithms.
The thin CO2 atmosphere could perhaps sustain plant life. I think that is the most exciting prospect of Mars. Still, the pressure is too low for liquid water on the surface, something like pressurized greenhouses are needed. I can imagine there's several plants out there that could survive the Martian desert though (a cactus? a lichen?) with a little watering now and then. Here's my dream of a green Mars!
Just play space billiards and use slingshot orbits to get your energy. Simply kit out your cue ball asteroid with maneuvering jets and precision navigation systems to get a nice accurate hit.
The tensile strength might be an issue, but as you say it's an engineering problem with a practical compromise. All you would need to do is hollow it out while retaining and reinforcing the structural integrity. The asteroid would provide more than shielding at the end, it would be useful throughout construction. Materials, shelter, and scaffolding as the base is built. For water troubles, there's Ceres. If estimates are accurate, there's more fresh water there than on Earth. Altogether, I agree with the GP in that the asteroid belt is much more exciting than the Moon or Mars, and would provide a great model for interstellar colonization, as we can't be too sure what we'll find, but if we can make a sustainable habitat with just rocks and ice we should be able to survive anywhere.
That's a funny conception of sovereignty you've got there. Simply, these mercenaries that commit crime in Iraqs jurisdiction should face their laws, their courts unless they say otherwise.
Yep. Hackers will be completely foiled by the obscure method of having to dial up a modem. Only RFC 1149 would provide better security.
Nobody could observe the phases of Venus until Galileo, and people had trouble reproducing his results. A skeptic of the time would not find the results of one mans observations enough to overthrow the status quo.
Mitochondria can also pass between adult cells (full text on the right). This seems an insanely dangerous path of research. The were-beasts are nigh!
I disagree that the article is to blame for that, here it is the Pope being denied a voice by scientists (in a Catholic institution no less), a nice twist on what happened to Galileo. Unfortunately few commenters have picked up on it and just stuck to polarizing the issue as you put so well.
I'm voting for Jack Schitt!
There's another OS that uses Unix timestamps.. by some Bill guy, I'll remember soon..
That's just taking Dr. Who cosplay way too far.
Weightlifting is a sport. Bodybuilding is a fetish.
I stumbled across his treatment of free speech on his campus here, basically students have a tiny Free Speech zone where they can speak freely between 12 to 1 pm and 5 to 6 pm, as long as they give 48 hours notice and comply with onerous regulations about maintaining order and decorum. I get the feeling he doesn't quite grasp the whole first amendment thing.