If we route emergency power through the deflector dish, we should be able to create a warp bubble that would temporaril lower the gravitaional constant around the asteroid. That way we could use the ships tractor beam to slightly alter the asteroids trajectory. It won't be much, but I think it will be enough.
Answers a lot of questions people are posting here, especially about the difference between the stable Neooffice/J and the older, experimental NeoOffice/C (Btw-- the C stands for "Cocoa" not the programming language C).
, if our changes are expensive (which they are, and "expensive" automatically translates into human lives)
Uh, excuse me-- how does expensive "automatically" translate into human lives (which if I'm not misunderstanding, you mean lives ENDED)?
Besides, short-term expenses in this area would translate into long-term savings. Investing now in environmentally-conscious technologies, whether alternate fuel sources, more efficient engine and factories, recycling, or whatever-- all this creates new high-end jobs (cutting-edge research, manufacturing, etc.), it increases effeciency and reduces waste overall, SAVES money overall, and it makes you a leader in this technology (meaning you can license your inventions to others). AND it's friendlier to the environment.
It's a win-win....unless you are an entrenched energy company, in which case you short-sightedly see new energy technologies as a potential threat to YOUR revenue stream.
Mozilla uses whitelisting to mark servers you're allowed to install from. If you try installing from another server, it throws up an error. A user would have to manually add a server to the allowed list before an exploit could be installed.
I just watched an FCC hearing on CSPAN on this very topic. (yeah, yeah, I know. Too much time on my hands).
You'll never guess who was opposed to this--
The smaller cable channels. There were quite a few passionate pleas to the FCC to NOT use this model, including one very emotional one by the founder of Nickelodeon TV (and the creator of Oxygen). The reasoning is that it's very hard if not impossible to start a new smaller-market cable channel (like some of your favorites-- History channel, TLC, Discovery, etc.)
An on-demand model would mean that new channels no one has ever heard of, or niche channels or even potentially massively popular channels that need to build momentum would never have a chance.
These channels can't afford giant media blitzes-- they rely on word of mouth and the channel-surfer to discover them. Otherwise a new channel would have to devote huge resources to publicizing themselves, which would mean either the network would never get off the ground or there would be less original programming.
I didn't watch the whole thing, bu tthere was also testimony at this hearing by research firms (don't ask me who they worked for) whose modeling suggested that the cost per customer may actually go up, especially after the smaller channels start to die off.
In effect, if you moved to an a la carte system (as is apparently done in some provinces in Canada and Europe where many stations are state-supported), you'd likely be killing off the smaller stations you want to watch.
So it's not a case of you paying for stations you DON'T want-- but rather, because of your eclectic tastes, other people are helping to support those niche stations YOU enjoy.
With a little digging, you can find the FCC hearing on cspan.org and watch it for yourself.
A3: In order to promote Sender ID, Microsoft is pleased to offer its necessary Sender ID patent rights on a royalty-free basis but only to those who are also willing to make their Sender ID patents available on a reciprocal royalty-free basis.
Mac OSX has a firewall supplied which does exactly the same - inbound connections only with an option to open ports for file sharing, remote desktop etc... except NOT enabled by default. Again, if you're using it for serious stuff you'd add a hardware FW at the network perimeter.
I totally agree, but will point out that admin privileges are required to turn the firewall off. Any administrator concerned about a trojan running as administrator disabling the firewall can lock the preferences so that a password is required.
Pete Seeger, at the time, was referring to Woody Guthrie's habit of using the tunes of spirituals as the framework for his own writing, as well as the "folk process" of borrowing and modifying melodies or words as songs got passed from one person to another. (There are certain traditional songs which exist in literally dozens of distinct variations. Pete Seeger himself is notorious for making slight changes to the words of other songwriters; you can often tell when someone has learned a song from a Pete Seeger recording instead of the original songwriter....)
I also read an interview a few days ago with Pete Seeger in some weekly magazine, and in the article there was an interesting description of how "This Land Is Your Land" was written. Apparently it was written over a few years, and the line "this land was made for you and me" was changed from something else, although I can't remember what the original line was (something less universal). Anyone involved in this lawsuit might want to consult Seeger.
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This is a side-bit, but I recommend y'all check out this 1955 transcript of an interview/interrogation between Pete Seeger and the House Unamerican Activities Committee.
Much has been said about Guthrie's standard copyright notice to do whatever you want with his music, but I haven't read anything yet about the "folk process" to which Guthrie and his contemporaries such as Pete Seeger (who was in the folk group "The Weavers" and is still alive) depended on.
In short, it was the age-old practice Guthrie and others used of taking old music and writing new words. Just like a folk-tale is a story that has been told and changed as time goes on.
When the Weavers took [Guthrie's] 'So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)' into the pop charts '51, the song had been written originally to cheer up migrant workers, adapted as a patriotic war song and as a jingle for selling pipe tobacco; far from being outraged, Woody was there in the studio, helping the Weavers adapt it yet again: 'For better or worse,' wrote Colin Irwin in Mojo '97, 'this was the folk process at work.'
"My father was more sensible. He said to think of the folk process as something that has gone on through the ages. The folk process occurs in cooking, with cooks rearranging recipes. And lawyers rearrange old laws to fit new citizens. If you look at it this way, then the true importance of folk music is to let ordinary folks change things."
I don't care. I'm going to admit it. I didn't check my pockets. I washed my cell in the laundry.
I mean- don't get me wrong- it was a lot cleaner. Just a lot less useful.
I can't be alone on this...right?
W
PS-- I've read stories from people in similar situations (not involving multiple spin cycles, more like dropped their cell in the sink/toilet) where it actually worked upon drying. But in my case, the fine wires were practically fused together and though the phone turned on, it couldn't find the SIM card. Still was accepted on a trade-in though.
It's an interesting thought experiment I'll agree. Not quite sure whether it's the same situation. For example, would your views change if it's the victim of a crime you're helping, or a child, or - in the opposite direction - if it's a violent criminal?
I think the point is that various people might have unique ways of handling the situation-- some might be willing to help, some might not. But very few would insist that there is a moral obligation to ALWAYS help regardless of who's been hooked up to you.
The point is that some people believe it to be the same crime as killing a live human being. Would you permit the murder of a child if he had been forced upon the mother in a violent act?
There's an old thought experiment by Judith Jarvis Johnson that goes like this...
"But now let me ask you to imagine this. You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you, "Look, we're sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you-we would never have permitted it if we had known. But still, they did it, and the violinist now is plugged into you. To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it's only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you." Is it morally incumbent on you to accede to this situation? No doubt it would be very nice of you if you did, a great kindness. But do you have to accede to it? What if it were not nine months, but nine years? Or longer still? What if the director of the hospital says, "Tough luck, I agree, but you've now got to stay in bed, with the violinist plugged into you, for the rest of your life. Because remember this. All persons have a right to life, and violinists are persons. Granted you have a right to decide what happens in and to your body, but a person's right to life outweighs your right to decide what happens in and to your body. So you cannot ever be unplugged from him." I imagine you would regard this as outrageous..."
Sorry, I came to this discussion late. Is this the same Alexis de Tocqueville Institution that came out with that controversial "report" called Opening the Open Source Debate a few years back? Here's a quote from the press release...
In a paper to be released next week, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution outlines how open source might facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, air traffic control or even sensitive surveillance systems.
And who funded that Alexis de Tocqueville Institution report?
Stuff that is released under the GPL is still copyrighted. If it weren't, authors wouldn't be able to license it under the GPL or any other license. The whole point of the GPL is to say "you can license this copyrighted code, but under these conditions..." (where "these conditions" include an agreement to license any distributed contributions to the code under the GPL too)
That said, other non-GPL'd stuff regarding Gentoo might also be copyrighted. Like original documentation or scripts, configuration program, help files, etc..
it's great if you're a programmer and want to tinker, or you just want to see what Open Office for OSX will look like in a year or two, fine, but if you actually have to use Office to, I don't know, prepare documents or something, you're better off sticking with the X11 version.
I know they have that disclaimer, but I've used Neooffice/J (the Java version) for work-related purposes for about three months now. The newest version is really stable and has a lot of Mac-specific bells and whistles including Mac fonts, traditional apple-key commands and shortcuts, the OS X mac print dialog, and much, much faster reaction time than the x11 version (in my experience).
I'd recommend giving it a try. For actual use. Really.
After Sept. 11, to the amusement/horror of music critics and radio industry professionals, Clear Channel issued a list of 150 songs to its member stations that it deemed too sensitive to play in the wake of the terrorist attacks. The list included an odd mix of songs: the more understandable choices featured flight references ("Bennie and the Jets," "Ticket to Ride"); others were associated with New York ("On Broadway"); and, most surprisingly, many were related to peace ("Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Imagine"). The list also included all songs by the political rock group Rage Against the Machine.
They have given $42,200 to Bush, vs. $1,750 to likely Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 race. What's more, the executives and Clear Channel's political action committee gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans. That's a bigger share than any other entertainment company, says the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. In contrast, Viacom (VIA) executives and its political action committee gave just 30% of their $545,650 to Republican candidates. Viacom syndicates Stern's show.
So let's review-- cushy previous relationship with the Bushes, biased pro-Bush stand on foreign policy, conservative values pushed on their listeners, massive donations to Republican causes, refusal to run anti-Republican advertising...
No, I don't see anything political there. Just good business sense. (Yeah, right.)
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If we route emergency power through the deflector dish, we should be able to create a warp bubble that would temporaril lower the gravitaional constant around the asteroid. That way we could use the ships tractor beam to slightly alter the asteroids trajectory. It won't be much, but I think it will be enough.
Make it so.
W
With more information here.
Answers a lot of questions people are posting here, especially about the difference between the stable Neooffice/J and the older, experimental NeoOffice/C (Btw-- the C stands for "Cocoa" not the programming language C).
W
Actually I seem to remember reading that the number one cause of accidents is people gawking at other accidents.
Clearly then the number one priority in automotive design should be to make new cars crash as uninterestingly as possible.
W
Office is really expensive on Mac and stealing it is easier but still forbidden
Umm, have you tried NeoOffice/J? It's awesome. Be sure to d/l the latest patch as well.
W
, if our changes are expensive (which they are, and "expensive" automatically translates into human lives)
...unless you are an entrenched energy company, in which case you short-sightedly see new energy technologies as a potential threat to YOUR revenue stream.
Uh, excuse me-- how does expensive "automatically" translate into human lives (which if I'm not misunderstanding, you mean lives ENDED)?
Besides, short-term expenses in this area would translate into long-term savings. Investing now in environmentally-conscious technologies, whether alternate fuel sources, more efficient engine and factories, recycling, or whatever-- all this creates new high-end jobs (cutting-edge research, manufacturing, etc.), it increases effeciency and reduces waste overall, SAVES money overall, and it makes you a leader in this technology (meaning you can license your inventions to others). AND it's friendlier to the environment.
It's a win-win.
W
And the subsequent controversies...
is here.
(This paper won a prestigious 2003 Ig Nobel award for engineering.
W
Yeah, but in that case the existing install base wouldn't be affected, just new downloads.
W
Mozilla uses whitelisting to mark servers you're allowed to install from. If you try installing from another server, it throws up an error. A user would have to manually add a server to the allowed list before an exploit could be installed.
Unless of course mozilla.org gets hacked...
W
I just watched an FCC hearing on CSPAN on this very topic. (yeah, yeah, I know. Too much time on my hands).
You'll never guess who was opposed to this--
The smaller cable channels. There were quite a few passionate pleas to the FCC to NOT use this model, including one very emotional one by the founder of Nickelodeon TV (and the creator of Oxygen). The reasoning is that it's very hard if not impossible to start a new smaller-market cable channel (like some of your favorites-- History channel, TLC, Discovery, etc.)
An on-demand model would mean that new channels no one has ever heard of, or niche channels or even potentially massively popular channels that need to build momentum would never have a chance.
These channels can't afford giant media blitzes-- they rely on word of mouth and the channel-surfer to discover them. Otherwise a new channel would have to devote huge resources to publicizing themselves, which would mean either the network would never get off the ground or there would be less original programming.
I didn't watch the whole thing, bu tthere was also testimony at this hearing by research firms (don't ask me who they worked for) whose modeling suggested that the cost per customer may actually go up, especially after the smaller channels start to die off.
In effect, if you moved to an a la carte system (as is apparently done in some provinces in Canada and Europe where many stations are state-supported), you'd likely be killing off the smaller stations you want to watch.
So it's not a case of you paying for stations you DON'T want-- but rather, because of your eclectic tastes, other people are helping to support those niche stations YOU enjoy.
With a little digging, you can find the FCC hearing on cspan.org and watch it for yourself.
W
A3: In order to promote Sender ID, Microsoft is pleased to offer its necessary Sender ID patent
rights on a royalty-free basis but only to those who are also willing to make their Sender ID
patents available on a reciprocal royalty-free basis.
Gee, sounds almost viral to me.
W
Mac OSX has a firewall supplied which does exactly the same - inbound connections only with an option to open ports for file sharing, remote desktop etc... except NOT enabled by default.
Again, if you're using it for serious stuff you'd add a hardware FW at the network perimeter.
I totally agree, but will point out that admin privileges are required to turn the firewall off. Any administrator concerned about a trojan running as administrator disabling the firewall can lock the preferences so that a password is required.
W
Wow, thanks!
W
Pete Seeger of "The Weavers" (friend to Woodie Guthrie and fellow folk musician) talks about the Folk Process here.
There's another discussion here:
Pete Seeger, at the time, was referring to Woody Guthrie's habit of using the tunes of spirituals as the framework for his own writing, as well as the "folk process" of borrowing and modifying melodies or words as songs got passed from one person to another. (There are certain traditional songs which exist in literally dozens of distinct variations. Pete Seeger himself is notorious for making slight changes to the words of other songwriters; you can often tell when someone has learned a song from a Pete Seeger recording instead of the original songwriter....)
More here.
I also read an interview a few days ago with Pete Seeger in some weekly magazine, and in the article there was an interesting description of how "This Land Is Your Land" was written. Apparently it was written over a few years, and the line "this land was made for you and me" was changed from something else, although I can't remember what the original line was (something less universal). Anyone involved in this lawsuit might want to consult Seeger.
W
This is a side-bit, but I recommend y'all check out this 1955 transcript of an interview/interrogation between Pete Seeger and the House Unamerican Activities Committee.
Much has been said about Guthrie's standard copyright notice to do whatever you want with his music, but I haven't read anything yet about the "folk process" to which Guthrie and his contemporaries such as Pete Seeger (who was in the folk group "The Weavers" and is still alive) depended on.
What was the folk process?
In short, it was the age-old practice Guthrie and others used of taking old music and writing new words. Just like a folk-tale is a story that has been told and changed as time goes on.
When the Weavers took [Guthrie's] 'So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)' into the pop charts '51, the song had been written originally to cheer up migrant workers, adapted as a patriotic war song and as a jingle for selling pipe tobacco; far from being outraged, Woody was there in the studio, helping the Weavers adapt it yet again: 'For better or worse,' wrote Colin Irwin in Mojo '97, 'this was the folk process at work.'
As Seeger says,
"My father was more sensible. He said to think of the folk process as something that has gone on through the ages. The folk process occurs in cooking, with cooks rearranging recipes. And lawyers rearrange old laws to fit new citizens. If you look at it this way, then the true importance of folk music is to let ordinary folks change things."
W
I don't care. I'm going to admit it. I didn't check my pockets. I washed my cell in the laundry.
I mean- don't get me wrong- it was a lot cleaner. Just a lot less useful.
I can't be alone on this...right?
W
PS-- I've read stories from people in similar situations (not involving multiple spin cycles, more like dropped their cell in the sink/toilet) where it actually worked upon drying. But in my case, the fine wires were practically fused together and though the phone turned on, it couldn't find the SIM card. Still was accepted on a trade-in though.
It's an interesting thought experiment I'll agree. Not quite sure whether it's the same situation. For example, would your views change if it's the victim of a crime you're helping, or a child, or - in the opposite direction - if it's a violent criminal?
I think the point is that various people might have unique ways of handling the situation-- some might be willing to help, some might not. But very few would insist that there is a moral obligation to ALWAYS help regardless of who's been hooked up to you.
W
Sorry, I think I typed that wrong. It's MIT's Judith Jarvis Thompson, not Johnson.
W
The point is that some people believe it to be the same crime as killing a live human being. Would you permit the murder of a child if he had been forced upon the mother in a violent act?
There's an old thought experiment by Judith Jarvis Johnson that goes like this...
"But now let me ask you to imagine this. You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you, "Look, we're sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you-we would never have permitted it if we had known. But still, they did it, and the violinist now is plugged into you. To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it's only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you." Is it morally incumbent on you to accede to this situation? No doubt it would be very nice of you if you did, a great kindness. But do you have to accede to it? What if it were not nine months, but nine years? Or longer still? What if the director of the hospital says, "Tough luck, I agree, but you've now got to stay in bed, with the violinist plugged into you, for the rest of your life. Because remember this. All persons have a right to life, and violinists are persons. Granted you have a right to decide what happens in and to your body, but a person's right to life outweighs your right to decide what happens in and to your body. So you cannot ever be unplugged from him." I imagine you would regard this as outrageous..."
W
The Induce Act stands for "Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation"
I heard the "Act" part stands for "...And Creates Terrorism".
Sigh.
W
And who funded that Alexis de Tocqueville Institution report?
Take a guess.
W
Stuff that is released under the GPL is still copyrighted. If it weren't, authors wouldn't be able to license it under the GPL or any other license. The whole point of the GPL is to say "you can license this copyrighted code, but under these conditions..." (where "these conditions" include an agreement to license any distributed contributions to the code under the GPL too)
That said, other non-GPL'd stuff regarding Gentoo might also be copyrighted. Like original documentation or scripts, configuration program, help files, etc..
W
it's great if you're a programmer and want to tinker, or you just want to see what Open Office for OSX will look like in a year or two, fine, but if you actually have to use Office to, I don't know, prepare documents or something, you're better off sticking with the X11 version.
I know they have that disclaimer, but I've used Neooffice/J (the Java version) for work-related purposes for about three months now. The newest version is really stable and has a lot of Mac-specific bells and whistles including Mac fonts, traditional apple-key commands and shortcuts, the OS X mac print dialog, and much, much faster reaction time than the x11 version (in my experience).
I'd recommend giving it a try. For actual use. Really.
W
This is just a rumor, but I heard that in the newest version, Han Solo gives Greedo a hug.
W
Oh really?! And you know this how?
Open Secrets tells us that CC gave $209,000 to republicans in 2000-2001.
They have pulled ads criticizing Republicans.
You may remember this:
According to this USA Today story:
Then there's CC executive Tom Hick's previous history of business relationships with George Bush going back to the late 80s.
So let's review-- cushy previous relationship with the Bushes, biased pro-Bush stand on foreign policy, conservative values pushed on their listeners, massive donations to Republican causes, refusal to run anti-Republican advertising...
No, I don't see anything political there. Just good business sense. (Yeah, right.)
W
Does the article mention anything about expansion modules? I'd read it myself, but I can't remember what we're talking about here...
What was I saying again?
W