I wonder what the electric universe (and electric sun) theorists will have to say about this.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they predicted this type of activity years ago. That's what happened with comets after all, and the mainstream was surprised over and over again as we got better and better pictures of rocky comets and performed experiments that matched the EU predictions and not the "dirty ball of ice" theory. See:
-- When the first space probes returned images of the Moon, they revealed a surface heavily pockmarked with craters and riddled with long-sinuous channels (or rilles). Scientists seeking to interpret these features were constrained by the traditional geologic toolkit. The "debate" over the lunar craters only included two possible causative agents: volcanism, or impact. Eventually, a consensus was reached that meteoric impacts were the primary source of lunar craters.
But more than forty years ago, the British journal Spaceflight published the laboratory experiments of Brian J. Ford, an amateur astronomer who raised the possibility that most of the craters on the moon were carved by cosmic electrical discharge. (Spaceflight 7, January, 1965).
In the cited experiments Ford used a spark-machining apparatus to reproduce in miniature some of the most puzzling lunar features, including craters with central peaks, small craters preferentially perched on the high rims of larger craters, and craters strung out in long chains. He also observed that the ratio of large to small craters on the Moon matched the ratio seen in electrical arcing. --
Or dark energy. Or black holes. Or machos. Or wimps. or whatever other mathematical fantasy they dream up to patch the ever widening gap between observations and an outdated theory.
Because we live in an electric universe. Because the electric force is orders of magnitude stronger than gravity.
"The Electric Sky" explains many many things that surprise those still worshiping the standard model as if it were gospel. http://amzn.com/0977285111
He can't possibly win. We know this because the news networks tell us the other candidates are more popular. So those other candidates must have better ideas, technically. Anyone who supports Ron Paul is irrational, and he and they should just quit.
Just like everyone knows that Microsoft Windows is the most popular OS out there, and everyone who uses OSX or especially Linux or BSD are anti-social nutjobs. Oh, and of course windows must be better because it is more popular and that's what I see running on the computers when I go to Best Buy. Anyone who looks beyond the pretty Best Buy screens sure ie weird. Linux, BSD, and MacOS should just go away already.... Just pointing out some slashdot hipocrasy here.
Likewise, last week I wrote an article about a grassroots political website that features a totally unique giant mosaic image, that generated a 3rd party sister site, probably 20 blog postings, plus a $2800 full page newspaper ad ( paid for by volunteers ), plus an AP photo used in the Washington Post blog, plus a mention in a California newspaper (print), plus a TV commercial, a satirical article, and more. They complained it was not notable, and I posted at least 20 references, and put up a big stink about it, but they still deleted it.
Someone has gone power crazy, I'm glad this is being drawn attention to.
People are doing some interesting things this campaign. For example I created an ever expanding Ron Paul Mosaic where supporters can upload photos and message of support. Someone else took the photos and created a mosaic in the image of Ron Paul which has since been turned into newspaper ads, T-Shirts, YouTube vidoes, and even a proposed TV Ad.
Others are doing lots more. Ron Paul Portal is a good starting point. And of course, there is Liv, the ever popular Ron Paul Girl.
+1 to parent. I evaluated using Google checkout to accept advance payments for my Vacation Rental here in Costa Rica, and it is useless unless I want to open a U.S. bank account. thanks, but no thanks.
Thanks for the info Phil. Any chance that some or all of your team's work will be open source'd in the near future? This stuff interests me and I'd like to get into it more, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.....
Does anyone know of any free software projects to create an autonomous car?
It seems to me that something like this needs a lot of people tinkering with it before we really get anywhere. It's sort of like the early days of flying.
Have any of these 20+ teams released their source code? It seems like that would be a good place to start...
PowerDVD was first announced on Linux in 2000. See this article in the Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/18/dvd_play ba ck_on_linux_just/
To my knowledge, they have never released it for end-users to buy/download.
However, in 2001 I purchased a ThinkPad T22 from IBM pre-loaded with Linux and it had PowerDVD installed. The software required some funky thinkpad driver to be installed or it could not playback. I long ago dumped that distribution (caldera) and now Xine/mplayer et al run just fine on the same thinkpad without any special drivers.
1) Run textual ads in a banner at the bottom of the screen during the show. I've long wished TBS etc would do this during movies instead of interrupting with interstitial adverts every 10 minutes. Interstitial should run between movies/shows, not during them.
2) Integrate the advertising into the content. In Latin america at least, lots of the shows have the host(s) / actor(s) / anchor(s) doing blatant promotions.
3) Disguise the ads as regular content. Randomize the times, and keep the volume level the same, etc, so that automatic detection is not possible.
Re:Another flaw in "copying isn't stealing"
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If you have the ingenuity to:
a) break into my site and copy all my stuff
b) counterfeit all the money you want
then I applaud you for it. In the first case, I put effort into creating the site, you put effort into breaking in an copying stuff. looks like we both did some work and got some reward. If you defaced my site or otherwise caused me direct damage, then I might have a beef with you. But if you just want to copy something that I created, that's your business, not mine. If I was concerned about it, I should have invested in better security up front. Lessons learned.
In the second case, I'm not a big fan of our current money system. If you can devalue it (and hence speed its demise) then more power to you. If anything, your efforts will only speed up the adoption of secure digital cash or other alternative currencies (foreign or private, eg www.norfed.org). Go for it! We are all being ripped off by the gov anyway (whichever country you happen to be in). Ever heard of inflation? Introducing private competitive currencies would benefit everyone and would provide alternative when someone such as yourself manages to defeat a particular system.
I don't agree with you, but I least I'm consistent about it.:)
I've come to realize that the RIAA is a product of a historical technological limitation that has now been removed.
Traditionally, the distribution of "rich" media (non-print) required physical devices to be transferred, with the exception of radio which is a) lossy, and b) unpredictable.
The RIAA benefitted from this limitation by creating a mini monopoly for each new work. The government granted these monopolies legitimacy by enforcing copyright laws.
The technical limitation has been removed by the internet and mp3. Because the RIAA has been benefitting from it for so long, they view their mini monopolies as "god-given" rights, when in fact they are just artifacts of the technology they have so long been depending on.
What the RIAA *should* do if they want to survive, is to setup the most comprehensive mp3 database in the world and sell advertising, concert tickets, and other promotional materials.
If not, someone (like me) will beat them to it -- and U.S. laws do not apply everywhere...
Slashdot Mirror
you can lead a horse to water...
I wonder what the electric universe (and electric sun) theorists will have to say about this.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they predicted this type of activity years ago. That's what happened with comets after all, and the mainstream was surprised over and over again as we got better and better pictures of rocky comets and performed experiments that matched the EU predictions and not the "dirty ball of ice" theory. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wtt2EUToo
Yes.
--
When the first space probes returned images of the Moon, they revealed a surface heavily pockmarked with craters and riddled with long-sinuous channels (or rilles). Scientists seeking to interpret these features were constrained by the traditional geologic toolkit. The "debate" over the lunar craters only included two possible causative agents: volcanism, or impact. Eventually, a consensus was reached that meteoric impacts were the primary source of lunar craters.
But more than forty years ago, the British journal Spaceflight published the laboratory experiments of Brian J. Ford, an amateur astronomer who raised the possibility that most of the craters on the moon were carved by cosmic electrical discharge. (Spaceflight 7, January, 1965).
In the cited experiments Ford used a spark-machining apparatus to reproduce in miniature some of the most puzzling lunar features, including craters with central peaks, small craters preferentially perched on the high rims of larger craters, and craters strung out in long chains. He also observed that the ratio of large to small craters on the Moon matched the ratio seen in electrical arcing.
--
http://www.thunderbolts.info/webnews/120707electriccraters.htm
Gravity is not the only or the strongest force in the universe.
Most likely the craters were caused by plasma discharges, ie electrical arcs.
Too much to go into here. Do yourself a favor. Google "electric universe". Read the book "The Electric Sky".
Or dark energy. Or black holes. Or machos. Or wimps. or whatever other mathematical fantasy they dream up to patch the ever widening gap between observations and an outdated theory.
Because we live in an electric universe. Because the electric force is orders of magnitude stronger than gravity.
"The Electric Sky" explains many many things that surprise those still worshiping the standard model as if it were gospel.
http://amzn.com/0977285111
Clever naming / rebranding by the libertarians.
duct tape, not duck tape. That's a bug in 1 out of 3 lines. :P
> Most of the world really is barely held together by bubble gum and duck tape
I guess the sarcasm flew right over your head.
If not Ron Paul, then who? Do you honestly believe the dems are any different than the repubs? Big government A vs Big government B? please.
He can't possibly win. We know this because the news networks tell us the other candidates are more popular. So those other candidates must have better ideas, technically. Anyone who supports Ron Paul is irrational, and he and they should just quit.
... Just pointing out some slashdot hipocrasy here.
Just like everyone knows that Microsoft Windows is the most popular OS out there, and everyone who uses OSX or especially Linux or BSD are anti-social nutjobs. Oh, and of course windows must be better because it is more popular and that's what I see running on the computers when I go to Best Buy. Anyone who looks beyond the pretty Best Buy screens sure ie weird. Linux, BSD, and MacOS should just go away already.
Someone has gone power crazy, I'm glad this is being drawn attention to.
People are doing some interesting things this campaign. For example I created an ever expanding Ron Paul Mosaic where supporters can upload photos and message of support. Someone else took the photos and created a mosaic in the image of Ron Paul which has since been turned into newspaper ads, T-Shirts, YouTube vidoes, and even a proposed TV Ad.
Others are doing lots more. Ron Paul Portal is a good starting point. And of course, there is Liv, the ever popular Ron Paul Girl.
Take the Google4Paul pledge!
I had the idea that we can leverage Google AdSense to help finance Paul's campaign.
We just need bloggers to sign up for AdSense (if you haven't already) and then pledge a certain percentage of the revenues to Paul's campaign.
The idea and reasoning are fully explained at Google4Paul.org. The site has graphics you can display on your blog or website.
Please help spread the word.
+1 to parent. I evaluated using Google checkout to accept advance payments for my Vacation Rental here in Costa Rica, and it is useless unless I want to open a U.S. bank account. thanks, but no thanks.
Thanks for the info Phil. Any chance that some or all of your team's work will be open source'd in the near future? This stuff interests me and I'd like to get into it more, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.....
Does anyone know of any free software projects to create an autonomous car?
It seems to me that something like this needs a lot of people tinkering with it before we really get anywhere. It's sort of like the early days of flying.
Have any of these 20+ teams released their source code? It seems like that would be a good place to start...
PowerDVD was first announced on Linux in 2000. See this article in the Register:
y ba ck_on_linux_just/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/18/dvd_pla
To my knowledge, they have never released it for end-users to buy/download.
However, in 2001 I purchased a ThinkPad T22 from IBM pre-loaded with Linux and it had PowerDVD installed. The software required some funky thinkpad driver to be installed or it could not playback. I long ago dumped that distribution (caldera) and now Xine/mplayer et al run just fine on the same thinkpad without any special drivers.
They can always have ads.
1) Run textual ads in a banner at the bottom of the screen during the show. I've long wished TBS etc would do this during movies instead of interrupting with interstitial adverts every 10 minutes. Interstitial should run between movies/shows, not during them.
2) Integrate the advertising into the content. In Latin america at least, lots of the shows have the host(s) / actor(s) / anchor(s) doing blatant promotions.
3) Disguise the ads as regular content. Randomize the times, and keep the volume level the same, etc, so that automatic detection is not possible.
If you have the ingenuity to:
:)
a) break into my site and copy all my stuff
b) counterfeit all the money you want
then I applaud you for it. In the first case, I put effort into creating the site, you put effort into breaking in an copying stuff. looks like we both did some work and got some reward. If you defaced my site or otherwise caused me direct damage, then I might have a beef with you. But if you just want to copy something that I created, that's your business, not mine. If I was concerned about it, I should have invested in better security up front. Lessons learned.
In the second case, I'm not a big fan of our current money system. If you can devalue it (and hence speed its demise) then more power to you. If anything, your efforts will only speed up the adoption of secure digital cash or other alternative currencies (foreign or private, eg www.norfed.org). Go for it! We are all being ripped off by the gov anyway (whichever country you happen to be in). Ever heard of inflation? Introducing private competitive currencies would benefit everyone and would provide alternative when someone such as yourself manages to defeat a particular system.
I don't agree with you, but I least I'm consistent about it.
I've come to realize that the RIAA is a product of a historical technological limitation that has now been removed.
Traditionally, the distribution of "rich" media (non-print) required physical devices to be transferred, with the exception of radio which is a) lossy, and b) unpredictable.
The RIAA benefitted from this limitation by creating a mini monopoly for each new work. The government granted these monopolies legitimacy by enforcing copyright laws.
The technical limitation has been removed by the internet and mp3. Because the RIAA has been benefitting from it for so long, they view their mini monopolies as "god-given" rights, when in fact they are just artifacts of the technology they have so long been depending on.
What the RIAA *should* do if they want to survive, is to setup the most comprehensive mp3 database in the world and sell advertising, concert tickets, and other promotional materials.
If not, someone (like me) will beat them to it -- and U.S. laws do not apply everywhere...