do you mean the group that is backed by national and international law, has legal precedence and is largely backed (albeit reluctantly) by the makers of the music being traded?
a better analogy would be school teacher who is about to punish the kid that nicked a mars bar from the tuck shop without paying.
we may not like the **AA here on/. but to pass them up as a evil "bully" oppressing the poor users is insane. I prefer to call them a monopolistic, parasitic group screwing the creators of the music on one side and the listeners on the other, whilst using a powerful lobby to change the law in their favor to further their ambitions.
roll on the day when the radiohead model is accepted as a way to get rid of them once and for all.
I like the way that they set them up for the competitors - shove them in a clothes dryer for 3 minutes and let them tangle naturally. That explains my girlfriends socks and stuff after each wash around my house.
"After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the Internet and a few seconds in the Command Prompt I was able to fool Windows into thinking that it was genuine."
would be..
"After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the operating system and a few seconds in the Aero interface I was able to decide that Vista was the vile spawn of the devil and was to be ditched pronto and my new laptop would be graced by Ubuntu."
And really, it's run with nary a profanity or complaint ever since.
from TFA "However, this author actually dug a bit deeper and found a trail that leads from the owners of most of these internet cables all the way back to some very, very large companies in the U.S. and in the U.K. Which companies you ask? Who is behind this?"
what. the. fuck?
the author clearly has his tinfoil underpants and armadillo hat on. I mean come on, whilst I realize that almost everything can be turned into a conspiracy theory this is too much. Accidents happen all the time and I remember reading that some of this outage is due to routing maintenance. Occams Razor, to me the facts as reported seem simpler then some ulterior motive and cable cutting gear.
hmm. there was an instance recently of a legal firm getting a court to agree that publication of their letters was an offense. whats the legal ground here? I presume the document had legal statements included in the front of it - but I assume they are only applicable if they are signed or does journalistic laws cover this as free speech?
I'm kinda hoping somebody with more knowledge on this subject can help me out so when the scoop of a lifetime lands in my inbox I can do something about it! Presumably the times journalist is smart enough not to publish if he runs the risk of being sued.
arrr! batten down the hatches me hearties, and prepare to receive boarders! arrr!
of course this suddenly renews a lot of interest in technological counter measures. its interesting that this is the second time the same ISP has been hit in a similar fashion after the AllOfMP3 debacle. I wonder how specific the ruling is? for example if they allowed a domain named "ElPirateBay" on another IP address that was not mentioned in the ruling would they be in the clear? This is, after all, a touch more specific then a blanket ban on all torrents which would of been impossible to get through the courts and hence probably much easier to circumvent.
time to work on my tiger cannon as the perfect means to an end to deal with a prize jerk who gets off on taunting caged animals!
the question of blame is interesting, yes there is blame to the zoo for the inadequate protection, but there is also blame to victim no. 1 for being a prize asshat.
by selling a set with a plan to building the shape/figure on the front surely they are removing the element of innovation.
we used to get it by the box and be forced to think from day one about what we could build with it.
my civil engineering degree started with a room full of teenage would be engineers faced with huge amounts of Lego and a semi-serious challenge. whoever could build the lightest bridge out of the least bricks that would allow a 2kg train roll over it won the box of chocolates for their team. it broke the ice and got everybody talking to each other, lots of bridges collapsed in the testing zone that day.
and it got to engineers used to a career of sitting at a desk thinking about consuming chocolate.
except that this is/. and I don't see many MS defenders around here much. Personally MS are not very relevant to me, I only use Linux at home, even my gf only uses Linux. And my firm seems in now pressing hurry to upgrade to Office07 or Vista.
In a year it has been out I have used Vista only once, and it was a very annoying experience indeed - more to the point I do not know anybody who actually uses Vista. Maybe this is the beginning of MS's slide into irrelevance.
Of course, if Linux is the new boy around town we can expect virus writers to turn their attention to it big time and it to suffer the some of the same problems. I don't know what I prefer - insufferable bloat issues or raging dependency woes really.
must be me, but my first thought was "wow! what a splendid Bond villain hideout that would make!"
ice on, lava below, inaccessible - threat of global destruction by melting the ice caps. now I just need several hundred minions wearing identical surplus overalls and large corridors I can drive my C5s, Mini Mokes and of course the G-Whiz down. Better order a brace of those new TATA mini cars to get with modern times and all the ladies have to wear mini skirts. Damn, better get back to work.:-)
Thats like a carpenter asking for a nail gun because the hammer is too complicated to use. As with all trades get to grips with the basics first, if you really cannot make a dent on your code mountain then are you sure you should be doing the job? No disrespect intended.
I find, when in similar situations, start in main() and stroll down the call tree. I also make a beeline for interrupt handlers and pointers - but then I specialize in embedded software so bear in mind that my advice might be as useful as rice paper underpants. I suspect that the same idea holds true for most SW. For OO work I try to get a mental image of all the classes before I picture how they stand together.
Of course, as my profession is full of considerate, professional engineers all the code is clearly labeled and structured. riight.
"yes boss, I'll get on with the progress report for this afternoon just as soon as Jenna Jameson finishes what she's doing in RetinaScope(T). And no, don't expect me to be standing up anytime soon."
as with all things technical/IT - this will be subverted for porn, spam and profit before you can sneeze.
heh. well i had nothing better to do today then to listen to a fat lady singing.
now all we need is the right tune, "ride of the Valkyrie" or "madam butterfly" don't seem appropriate, and my other suggestions are just undignified and unsuitable for the high class audience provided by/.
I'm sure Tom Lehrer could of penned a suitable tune or two.
they don't half hard on about the education market for this new projector on some of the other sites mentioning it.
I was taught in an old fashioned British school with blackboards, chalk, uniforms and traditional methods. Is it just me who thinks that emphasis on gadgets like this will simply cost schools money and distract from the subject matter of the lesson.
By all means get the whizzy gadgetry, but remember that its no substitute for competent teachers and a well planned curriculum.
Of course this is/. and this comment is slightly off topic, so feel free to mode me to oblivion...
if it could monitor the rise in heartbeat, perspiration and body temperature every time the attractive blonde contractor walks part it could no doubt head of harassment claims as well.
on a more serious note, I wonder if it could automatically monitor responses after an email is opened and detect office conflict or romance in the offing.
Its certainly a triumph of commercial interests and bureaucracy over design and common sense. I suspect we all know the eventual outcome from this farce.
if i read the article and the similar one on the BBC correctly then there was a shell of a heart they laced with stem cells that regrew into a heart functionality- but after 8 days operating at 2% so longer growth term is needed to by functional. this would go part way to solving rejection issue obviously, but if i am correct there is one slight problem you cannot take the patients heart, decellularize it and regrow it with stem cells because (1) bad as he heart is he needs it and (2) you still need to manufacture stem cells in sufficient quantity.
so there are a few options I see...
1. one use a dead donor heart as a shell and recellularize (that cannot be the correct term) with the patients stem cells assuming you can get them while he survives on what is left of his old heart and then transplant and hope there is no rejection
2. transplant the patient with an artificial heart until his old one can be repaired in the lab
3. find some way to create a fake heart "shell"? maybe extract some tissue from his current heart but not enough to kill him and create a template that the stem cells can be used to grow him a new heart over a few months.
of course they still need to manufacture a sufficient source of patient stem cells. does this sound reasonable?
of course in the UK, we have just got a new source of donors...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7186007.stm
our prime minister has just decided to add the entire country onto the donor list unless we explicitly opt out. Gill the Arm would be amused...
it might be a better tree from a botanical point of view sure,
but are any users from these games going to look at them and notice? hell, I bet they don't even look at the trees in the first place. my ten cents tells me that this software is only going to be valuable if you can store a complete tree in those few hundred botanical variables and then recreate it on demand in SW, this compressing the amount of data needed for the game storage.
bottom line: its not an improvement if nobody except a botanist can tell the difference - there have been less perfect trees readily available for quite some time now.
I confess this is not my area of expertise so I have my alabaster underpants in readiness for a good flaming.
But does this mean they can cool the chip without the heat sink/fan combo, or will they still need some method a pumping the heat around the chip to the areas that can process it. I mean comparatively the chip is quite big and we are only looking at one top layer of it surely?
I can hear my computer whirring as I type, anything that offers hope to get rid of that noisy thing gets my vote.
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Where is the bully?
/. but to pass them up as a evil "bully" oppressing the poor users is insane. I prefer to call them a monopolistic, parasitic group screwing the creators of the music on one side and the listeners on the other, whilst using a powerful lobby to change the law in their favor to further their ambitions.
do you mean the group that is backed by national and international law, has legal precedence and is largely backed (albeit reluctantly) by the makers of the music being traded?
a better analogy would be school teacher who is about to punish the kid that nicked a mars bar from the tuck shop without paying.
we may not like the **AA here on
roll on the day when the radiohead model is accepted as a way to get rid of them once and for all.
I like the way that they set them up for the competitors - shove them in a clothes dryer for 3 minutes and let them tangle naturally. That explains my girlfriends socks and stuff after each wash around my house.
not what I would of typed...
"After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the Internet and a few seconds in the Command Prompt I was able to fool Windows into thinking that it was genuine."
would be..
"After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the operating system and a few seconds in the Aero interface I was able to decide that Vista was the vile spawn of the devil and was to be ditched pronto and my new laptop would be graced by Ubuntu."
And really, it's run with nary a profanity or complaint ever since.
gaaah. armadillo underpants!??!
(reaches for the mental bleach) thanks so very much for putting *that* idea into my brain.
from TFA "However, this author actually dug a bit deeper and found a trail that leads from the owners of most of these internet cables all the way back to some very, very large companies in the U.S. and in the U.K. Which companies you ask? Who is behind this?"
what. the. fuck?
the author clearly has his tinfoil underpants and armadillo hat on. I mean come on, whilst I realize that almost everything can be turned into a conspiracy theory this is too much. Accidents happen all the time and I remember reading that some of this outage is due to routing maintenance. Occams Razor, to me the facts as reported seem simpler then some ulterior motive and cable cutting gear.
hmm. there was an instance recently of a legal firm getting a court to agree that publication of their letters was an offense. whats the legal ground here? I presume the document had legal statements included in the front of it - but I assume they are only applicable if they are signed or does journalistic laws cover this as free speech?
I'm kinda hoping somebody with more knowledge on this subject can help me out so when the scoop of a lifetime lands in my inbox I can do something about it! Presumably the times journalist is smart enough not to publish if he runs the risk of being sued.
arrr! batten down the hatches me hearties, and prepare to receive boarders! arrr!
of course this suddenly renews a lot of interest in technological counter measures. its interesting that this is the second time the same ISP has been hit in a similar fashion after the AllOfMP3 debacle. I wonder how specific the ruling is? for example if they allowed a domain named "ElPirateBay" on another IP address that was not mentioned in the ruling would they be in the clear? This is, after all, a touch more specific then a blanket ban on all torrents which would of been impossible to get through the courts and hence probably much easier to circumvent.
time to work on my tiger cannon as the perfect means to an end to deal with a prize jerk who gets off on taunting caged animals!
the question of blame is interesting, yes there is blame to the zoo for the inadequate protection, but there is also blame to victim no. 1 for being a prize asshat.
by selling a set with a plan to building the shape/figure on the front surely they are removing the element of innovation.
we used to get it by the box and be forced to think from day one about what we could build with it.
my civil engineering degree started with a room full of teenage would be engineers faced with huge amounts of Lego and a semi-serious challenge. whoever could build the lightest bridge out of the least bricks that would allow a 2kg train roll over it won the box of chocolates for their team. it broke the ice and got everybody talking to each other, lots of bridges collapsed in the testing zone that day.
and it got to engineers used to a career of sitting at a desk thinking about consuming chocolate.
and WOOOSH! let the flame fest begin...
/. and I don't see many MS defenders around here much. Personally MS are not very relevant to me, I only use Linux at home, even my gf only uses Linux. And my firm seems in now pressing hurry to upgrade to Office07 or Vista.
except that this is
In a year it has been out I have used Vista only once, and it was a very annoying experience indeed - more to the point I do not know anybody who actually uses Vista. Maybe this is the beginning of MS's slide into irrelevance.
Of course, if Linux is the new boy around town we can expect virus writers to turn their attention to it big time and it to suffer the some of the same problems. I don't know what I prefer - insufferable bloat issues or raging dependency woes really.
heh. I misread that as "Robot plans to track weather and climate", and I thought - blimey! AI has really come along in recent years.
must be me, but my first thought was "wow! what a splendid Bond villain hideout that would make!"
:-)
ice on, lava below, inaccessible - threat of global destruction by melting the ice caps. now I just need several hundred minions wearing identical surplus overalls and large corridors I can drive my C5s, Mini Mokes and of course the G-Whiz down. Better order a brace of those new TATA mini cars to get with modern times and all the ladies have to wear mini skirts. Damn, better get back to work.
Thats like a carpenter asking for a nail gun because the hammer is too complicated to use. As with all trades get to grips with the basics first, if you really cannot make a dent on your code mountain then are you sure you should be doing the job? No disrespect intended.
I find, when in similar situations, start in main() and stroll down the call tree. I also make a beeline for interrupt handlers and pointers - but then I specialize in embedded software so bear in mind that my advice might be as useful as rice paper underpants. I suspect that the same idea holds true for most SW. For OO work I try to get a mental image of all the classes before I picture how they stand together.
Of course, as my profession is full of considerate, professional engineers all the code is clearly labeled and structured. riight.
I'm kinda intrigued, could he not of just had dampers fitted that would increase the effort needed to match his less well equipped rivals?
of course, the whole thing reminds of when recumbent cycles were banned because they were too much of an advantage.
"yes boss, I'll get on with the progress report for this afternoon just as soon as Jenna Jameson finishes what she's doing in RetinaScope(T). And no, don't expect me to be standing up anytime soon."
as with all things technical/IT - this will be subverted for porn, spam and profit before you can sneeze.
thats the carrot then. so where's the stick?
heh. well i had nothing better to do today then to listen to a fat lady singing.
/.
now all we need is the right tune, "ride of the Valkyrie" or "madam butterfly" don't seem appropriate, and my other suggestions are just undignified and unsuitable for the high class audience provided by
I'm sure Tom Lehrer could of penned a suitable tune or two.
they don't half hard on about the education market for this new projector on some of the other sites mentioning it.
/. and this comment is slightly off topic, so feel free to mode me to oblivion...
I was taught in an old fashioned British school with blackboards, chalk, uniforms and traditional methods. Is it just me who thinks that emphasis on gadgets like this will simply cost schools money and distract from the subject matter of the lesson.
By all means get the whizzy gadgetry, but remember that its no substitute for competent teachers and a well planned curriculum.
Of course this is
if it could monitor the rise in heartbeat, perspiration and body temperature every time the attractive blonde contractor walks part it could no doubt head of harassment claims as well.
on a more serious note, I wonder if it could automatically monitor responses after an email is opened and detect office conflict or romance in the offing.
Its certainly a triumph of commercial interests and bureaucracy over design and common sense. I suspect we all know the eventual outcome from this farce.
damn. there goes my billionaire sky yacht. damn those pesky kids and their party tricks.... damn them.
if i read the article and the similar one on the BBC correctly then there was a shell of a heart they laced with stem cells that regrew into a heart functionality- but after 8 days operating at 2% so longer growth term is needed to by functional. this would go part way to solving rejection issue obviously, but if i am correct there is one slight problem you cannot take the patients heart, decellularize it and regrow it with stem cells because (1) bad as he heart is he needs it and (2) you still need to manufacture stem cells in sufficient quantity.
so there are a few options I see...
1. one use a dead donor heart as a shell and recellularize (that cannot be the correct term) with the patients stem cells assuming you can get them while he survives on what is left of his old heart and then transplant and hope there is no rejection
2. transplant the patient with an artificial heart until his old one can be repaired in the lab
3. find some way to create a fake heart "shell"? maybe extract some tissue from his current heart but not enough to kill him and create a template that the stem cells can be used to grow him a new heart over a few months.
of course they still need to manufacture a sufficient source of patient stem cells. does this sound reasonable?
of course in the UK, we have just got a new source of donors... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7186007.stm our prime minister has just decided to add the entire country onto the donor list unless we explicitly opt out. Gill the Arm would be amused...
I imagine Linux will be using it more effectively until MS see sales leverage in it.
24 hours on a normal PC, 3 hours on a CELL? those stats kind of say it all
finally some hardware that might make 3rd generation 3D desktops a reality
should really, really appeal to the gaming market
but what about the power consumption? the PS3 is quite greedy and there is a standard CPU as well. is this going to impact it?
that is one serious number cruncher in a laptop, almost certainly good for simulations like CFD work
I'll still holding out for my multi CELL, cluster desktop super computer for CFD work and personal rendering farm.
last, I want one!
it might be a better tree from a botanical point of view sure,
but are any users from these games going to look at them and notice? hell, I bet they don't even look at the trees in the first place. my ten cents tells me that this software is only going to be valuable if you can store a complete tree in those few hundred botanical variables and then recreate it on demand in SW, this compressing the amount of data needed for the game storage.
bottom line: its not an improvement if nobody except a botanist can tell the difference - there have been less perfect trees readily available for quite some time now.
I confess this is not my area of expertise so I have my alabaster underpants in readiness for a good flaming.
But does this mean they can cool the chip without the heat sink/fan combo, or will they still need some method a pumping the heat around the chip to the areas that can process it. I mean comparatively the chip is quite big and we are only looking at one top layer of it surely?
I can hear my computer whirring as I type, anything that offers hope to get rid of that noisy thing gets my vote.