Yeah, I don't understand Levy's either. The government shouldn't be responsible for ensuring a dying industry that employs very few people (compared to industries like Auto or Steel) remains profitable.
Jeff Gerstmann, if he can't find another Journalist job, will most likely end up working PR for a video game company; the very same position that likely got him fired. Exhibit A: Luke Smith from 1up.
There other issue with radiation studies are extremely incomplete. It is often assumed that there exists a linear risk between small levels of radiation and high levels of radiations; we only have good data for these two cases: Nuclear Plant workers vs Hiroshima and Chernobyl survivors. We need more studies at all levels of radiation, but of course it is hard to get people to volunteer to receive 10 REM per year for the next 30 years. It is equally as hard to get people to volunteer for a 1 time dose of 20 REM, and have the study follow up on them over the course of there life.
The entire problem with the Storage issue is that people assume that it needs to be stored for 30,000 years. I have heard 100,000 years also. At our current non-linear rate of scientific progress, why don't we just store it for 200 years and let the scientists and engineers 200 years from now worry about it?
If you were getting DC into your house your computer would have a DC to DC converter. If you wanted to do that efficiently it would be more expensive than an AC to DC rectifier.
As a Catholic who occasionally glances at the local weekly Catholic newspaper's movie reviews, they review movies based on moral content not on the setting of the story. For example, they loved Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Narnia (obviously) but a movie like American Gangster they would shout out strong warnings.
Please do not confuse Catholics with evangelicals. There is a fairly big difference.
I have no doubt that Lubos knows more physics than me, but he obviously has no idea how internet culture works. As anyone who uses the internet knows, it is best to ignore trolls regardless of there opinion. To Lubus: if you don't like the theory, publish a paper, but don't cry about it in a blog. You are basically doing everything wrong that you accuse Lisi of doing.
As a former Army National Guarder, I knew alot of ex-Navy guys who would join the National Guard after leaving the Navy to get there 20 for retirement. There stories were always the same: Repeated 6 month sea tours, wife screwed around on them and left them and took all there $, got tired of it and quit. Always the same. It takes a very patriotic or stupid person to volunteer for duty in a claustrophobic tin can that pretty much guarantees you will not be able to have a family or a life outside of the job.
I predict that this will have about as much success as the Segway, as in, no success. This car would ONLY be useful for short commutes in a big city, where you don't have to haul anything like lots of groceries, golf clubs, etc. In my city, virtually no one actually LIVES in the city, everyone commutes via freeways. No one is going to take one of these on a 55 mpg freeway with large trucks flying by.
You better have 2 8800s in SLI if you plan on running Crysis with a reasonable frame-rates with graphics turned up enough to look better than Episode 2. Don't believe me? Try the demo.
Meh, WoW is still alot better. I was in Beta, tried it for an hour or so, it did nothing for me. I play a rogue and druid in WoW, and to me this game seems slower than WoW, even though this game is an "FPS" (I use FPS loosely since everything is stats based and there is no l33t pwning skillz in this game). And to top it off, this game has no meaningful PvP. An "FPS" with no meaningful pvp? Not for me thank you. Wait for Warhammer and maybe Conan. They are the only 2 games coming out in 2008 that in any way can be compared to WoW.
This is a Wii and PS2 game, not a PC Game. Nintendo and Sony approve the games that are released on there consoles, download or not. I highly doubt either would allow this to be downloaded (can you even download a game this big on Wii?) if it was banned by various governments that it wants to stay on the good side of.
Cut him some slack. Undergraduate Engineering students do not normally publish many papers. I'm sure the official published journal version will be cleaned up. Very impressive for a 20 year old!
This is very sad. There is a significant amount of very good music that has been completely lost to time. I had a very old piano teacher with sheet music that literally only she may have had. Music that you could not buy if you wanted to. Sites like these are very important so that music is properly archived and available for future generations. Music is just as worthwhile to save as Art, but because you cannot enjoy sheet music by simply looking at it, there are not legions of museums dedicated to preserving it. I have listened to CDs and heard music that I simply could not find at all, neither free or for purchase.
Also, what motive is there for this website to be shut down? These music publishers probably make a good deal of money on BEGINNER type music books, but how many people actually advance to a level where they could play original scores? I am just guessing, but there are probably less then a few thousand people on this earth that can play Rachmaninoff #3. And the ones that master it probably have hand-written notes all over there copy that they made while learning it. For myself, after looking at a score online to asses the difficulty, I typically find a for-pay copy that has good recommended fingering and notes on how to play it, things that original scores don't often have.
For full orchestra scores, there are not that many people other than music students and professional musicians who would ever have a need to look at one. So why bother taking a website like this down?
With BILLIONS of dollars on the line, you would think that they could hire more people. I think alot of very large companies would be willing to pay alot of money to make sure the patent system was correct. Enough to hire a few hundred more employees at least.
Slashdot Mirror
TFA is one of the best commentaries I have seen in a while.
you would not be fined $222,000 if you stole a few CDs from Walmart.
Yeah, I don't understand Levy's either. The government shouldn't be responsible for ensuring a dying industry that employs very few people (compared to industries like Auto or Steel) remains profitable.
Jeff Gerstmann, if he can't find another Journalist job, will most likely end up working PR for a video game company; the very same position that likely got him fired. Exhibit A: Luke Smith from 1up.
There other issue with radiation studies are extremely incomplete. It is often assumed that there exists a linear risk between small levels of radiation and high levels of radiations; we only have good data for these two cases: Nuclear Plant workers vs Hiroshima and Chernobyl survivors. We need more studies at all levels of radiation, but of course it is hard to get people to volunteer to receive 10 REM per year for the next 30 years. It is equally as hard to get people to volunteer for a 1 time dose of 20 REM, and have the study follow up on them over the course of there life.
The entire problem with the Storage issue is that people assume that it needs to be stored for 30,000 years. I have heard 100,000 years also. At our current non-linear rate of scientific progress, why don't we just store it for 200 years and let the scientists and engineers 200 years from now worry about it?
If you were getting DC into your house your computer would have a DC to DC converter. If you wanted to do that efficiently it would be more expensive than an AC to DC rectifier.
As a Catholic who occasionally glances at the local weekly Catholic newspaper's movie reviews, they review movies based on moral content not on the setting of the story. For example, they loved Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Narnia (obviously) but a movie like American Gangster they would shout out strong warnings. Please do not confuse Catholics with evangelicals. There is a fairly big difference.
In addition to using AdBlock Plus it is also nice to use NoScript. The two of those combined speed up web surfing a tremendous amount.
I have no doubt that Lubos knows more physics than me, but he obviously has no idea how internet culture works. As anyone who uses the internet knows, it is best to ignore trolls regardless of there opinion. To Lubus: if you don't like the theory, publish a paper, but don't cry about it in a blog. You are basically doing everything wrong that you accuse Lisi of doing.
As a former Army National Guarder, I knew alot of ex-Navy guys who would join the National Guard after leaving the Navy to get there 20 for retirement. There stories were always the same: Repeated 6 month sea tours, wife screwed around on them and left them and took all there $, got tired of it and quit. Always the same. It takes a very patriotic or stupid person to volunteer for duty in a claustrophobic tin can that pretty much guarantees you will not be able to have a family or a life outside of the job.
That is why it would not surprise me if EA decided to jump into the console hardware space.
Yeah, I hide my PC in the closet when I get the internet installed. I just leave my Macbook sitting out and they never want to touch it.
If they refuse theory, call in the Exorcist.
Screw drugs when you can just use Nano Bots.
I predict that this will have about as much success as the Segway, as in, no success. This car would ONLY be useful for short commutes in a big city, where you don't have to haul anything like lots of groceries, golf clubs, etc. In my city, virtually no one actually LIVES in the city, everyone commutes via freeways. No one is going to take one of these on a 55 mpg freeway with large trucks flying by.
You better have 2 8800s in SLI if you plan on running Crysis with a reasonable frame-rates with graphics turned up enough to look better than Episode 2. Don't believe me? Try the demo.
I would imagine video game music would be fairly easy for a musician who is used to playing Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Strauss.
Meh, WoW is still alot better. I was in Beta, tried it for an hour or so, it did nothing for me. I play a rogue and druid in WoW, and to me this game seems slower than WoW, even though this game is an "FPS" (I use FPS loosely since everything is stats based and there is no l33t pwning skillz in this game). And to top it off, this game has no meaningful PvP. An "FPS" with no meaningful pvp? Not for me thank you. Wait for Warhammer and maybe Conan. They are the only 2 games coming out in 2008 that in any way can be compared to WoW.
If Kotor2 had a better/complete ending, it would have far exceeded Kotor1.
This is a Wii and PS2 game, not a PC Game. Nintendo and Sony approve the games that are released on there consoles, download or not. I highly doubt either would allow this to be downloaded (can you even download a game this big on Wii?) if it was banned by various governments that it wants to stay on the good side of.
Cut him some slack. Undergraduate Engineering students do not normally publish many papers. I'm sure the official published journal version will be cleaned up. Very impressive for a 20 year old!
This is very sad. There is a significant amount of very good music that has been completely lost to time. I had a very old piano teacher with sheet music that literally only she may have had. Music that you could not buy if you wanted to. Sites like these are very important so that music is properly archived and available for future generations. Music is just as worthwhile to save as Art, but because you cannot enjoy sheet music by simply looking at it, there are not legions of museums dedicated to preserving it. I have listened to CDs and heard music that I simply could not find at all, neither free or for purchase.
Also, what motive is there for this website to be shut down? These music publishers probably make a good deal of money on BEGINNER type music books, but how many people actually advance to a level where they could play original scores? I am just guessing, but there are probably less then a few thousand people on this earth that can play Rachmaninoff #3. And the ones that master it probably have hand-written notes all over there copy that they made while learning it. For myself, after looking at a score online to asses the difficulty, I typically find a for-pay copy that has good recommended fingering and notes on how to play it, things that original scores don't often have.
For full orchestra scores, there are not that many people other than music students and professional musicians who would ever have a need to look at one. So why bother taking a website like this down?
...if a hurricane hits Town B instead of Town A because of human intervention.
With BILLIONS of dollars on the line, you would think that they could hire more people. I think alot of very large companies would be willing to pay alot of money to make sure the patent system was correct. Enough to hire a few hundred more employees at least.