I wanna say that recent experiments have found the curvature of the universe to be nearly flat... I could be horribly wrong. Its just some vague feeling I have in the back of my head that sometime in the not too distant past I went, "huh crazy no curve to space, time to throw out of a few theories"
You sir, need to be modded up. There is nothing wrong when capitalistic gains coincide with the greater good. It is really sad that most businesses do not take this approach. Sure, if you wanted Google to make them selves out to be fscktards and say "We are going to expand our market by increasing broadband penetration in 3rd world countries, so that we may better exploit the advertising dollar."(I never can figure out if you need an extra period, or if you should just omit the period inside the quotes). But you still have to contend with the fact that they are bringing communication and development to a good deal of people who don't have the wealth to merit such expenditures.
Really though, why would Nike pay to advertise to people who can not buy their product? Truth is you can not. Well okay maybe you can but I do not think they can get away with it for long. 6 billion more eyeballs maybe a great thing but when they can barely afford a $200 laptop designer jeans buying they are not.
You know when I first heard about NYS trying to play with the definition of physical presence my first thought was, "well just drop all affiliates in NYS, problem solved". that way no real money flows to NYS AND they don't get any taxes. It doesn't hurt the online retailer any, just NYS. They actually, overall, loose money from the state when enacting this law, if all the online retailers do as Overstock.com has done.
why does not one single politician sit down and think, "if this goes through are there any really easy ways around it? if so do these simple work arounds hurt us more than help?". If but one person thought this and said something to all the others, I can't help but think that this law would have never passed
the book thing, i don't think can easily be faked by flash, nor the gigapixel resolution image nor the really neat zooming and zooming and zooming into stuff.
really what photosynth, and by extension seadragon which is what photosynth is built on, promises us is a way to semantically link all those photo's on the web together, to build up those real places into virtual places with little or nor human intervention.
this should enrich the web in a way we are only just beginning to see.
move fast! attack and defend with each stone! grabs base and eyes first!
at best i only got to 10kyu myself before i left my real life friends behind. its really hard to stay interested in the game when there is no real personal rivalry to push you.
it is amazing what having someone you know personally talk smack to you can do for your ability to play.
You should try it, its quite fascinating and challenging. You will find though that the game, while simple in rule structure, is very complex and is a unique blend of local tactics and global strategy that can be best described as sublime.
i agree that this is a very complex and subtle, as you put it, issue.
my personal beliefs are such that relationships should be open, that we have this jealousy thing cranked up too high a notch. we, americans at least, get entirely too upset at this sort of thing. should divorce be the first line of thought in situations like this, i don't believe so, but apparently this woman did.
if this guy, who's marriage was ruined, were in an open relationship then divorce shouldn't have been in anyone's mind. his (ex)wife, apparently, believes that what he did was wrong and feels that she shouldn't be in a relationship with this man anymore. maybe if he had told her, "hey honey, i need a bit of nookie, you know, the kind that you really arn't into. so i'm going to be checking out a few ads for a prospective playmate" she just might have been okay with it.
going behind your life partner's back to get some rompage does display a lack of trust and sincerity in the relationship.
if the relationship allows for extra-marital activities then i say go for it, if it does not then well you have issues to work out with each other.
i am not sure the point you're trying to make to me, really i was just pointing out that there are places where it is legal to seek a divorce on the basis of the lack of sex. the law would seem to indicate that sex is a required part of a healthy marriage. refusal of such can constitute cruel and in humane treatment.
turning a blind eye to the infidelity is superior to divorce imo. however in this specific instance the wife did not think that was prudent.
openness is preferable to destroying an otherwise happy marriage though.
The value in this is that with these entangled photon's we can transmit data across any distance instantaneously. From here to anywhere in the universe. The only latency in the system would be in encoding and decoding the information. So you here on earth could talk to your grand children with no time delay even if they happen to be on Mars or some where around Beetleguise 4.
Maybe with just one b, ^_^. The whole Trademark issue is a subjective one. Its there to make sure the customer doesn't get easily mistaken thinking that they are buying a Craftsman Hammer with all the warranties that go with it and a Craftmans Hammer that was made in Bob's basement with Alice supervising.
you only need to look at the Apple Computers vs Apple the Record Label to see how Trademarks work.
This is a Trademark issue, not a copying issue. GE profits on a name that is ancient, so does AT&T. Scrabulous is just too close to Scrabble as far as a brand name goes.
yeah his games have been over hyped a lot, B&W was supposed to be this amazingly long and awesome with this real life ai monkey hanging out with you, which was kinda true, it wasn't long at all but you got a monkey that learned and did most of what you asked it.
then B&W2 which was supposed to be everything that B&W1 was supposed to be and more, but i think they forgot about the more part and just did what B&W1 was supposed to be
and fable was supposed to be this hugely open world where you could do anything and everything with a huge open story line and we got a game where you have to run along in small paths.
sure peter did a lot he said he would but he left out just as much stuff as he put in.
he's got great vision but can't seem to stuff it all into one package.
the movies did everything i thought it should, that didn't disappoint.
I was wondering who he is that his blog on this subject is so important. With out knowing this guys expertise the summary reads like some know-it-all wanting to espouse his pet theory about how the whole of society will collapse and lead us back to the dark ages. unless this guy is some emanate professor of economics my first thoughts were "Why should i care what your blog says?"
I read the article but found no mention of them writing more than all of the roman empire. care to cite your source? also i recall reading that many books were attributed to plato even though they were written hundreds of years after his death. i'll dig around the net for a few sources.
err are you forgetting that several hundred years was well over a thousand years ago? that we as a species have systematically destroyed all ancient knowledge we could find in the name of the popular hypocrisies of the time? how many times has the library at alexradria been burned to the ground? how many clay tablets smashed and accidental fires raged through towns destroying everything? how many books were just thrown into some attic and forgotten until they were too far to be rescued? and then there is the necessity of recopying each book by hand, and by the time that people were preserving those histories and novels it was just some monks who thought that novels were frivolous offal not fit to be preserved, but those histories, they were important, well more important than a slice of life tale of a man who falls for his slave.
just because we don't have in our hands a vast mountain of entertainment reading from 1500 years ago doesn't mean that literacy was used only for boring papers on flowers and the gaullic wars.
I was looking for one sane person to bring this up. we only have so much of everything down here, but there is so much more up there. maybe, someday, when my great grandchildren are grown up they will start plopping these suckers down into the Australian outback and start mining!
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this.
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I am somehow reminded of Bones doing surgery on a torpedo ...
I wanna say that recent experiments have found the curvature of the universe to be nearly flat ... I could be horribly wrong. Its just some vague feeling I have in the back of my head that sometime in the not too distant past I went, "huh crazy no curve to space, time to throw out of a few theories"
anyone have references?
IIRC DMCA notices are issued under penalty of perjury. So yes there could be some consequences of filing a wrongful DMCA ~Z
here are some links to what the gp is talking about, well i think he's talking about, just me googling and such http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_05/006282.php http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/03/opinion/oe-kinsley3 and i think there are links inside those to take you onto more references
You sir, need to be modded up. There is nothing wrong when capitalistic gains coincide with the greater good. It is really sad that most businesses do not take this approach. Sure, if you wanted Google to make them selves out to be fscktards and say "We are going to expand our market by increasing broadband penetration in 3rd world countries, so that we may better exploit the advertising dollar."(I never can figure out if you need an extra period, or if you should just omit the period inside the quotes). But you still have to contend with the fact that they are bringing communication and development to a good deal of people who don't have the wealth to merit such expenditures.
Really though, why would Nike pay to advertise to people who can not buy their product? Truth is you can not. Well okay maybe you can but I do not think they can get away with it for long. 6 billion more eyeballs maybe a great thing but when they can barely afford a $200 laptop designer jeans buying they are not.
You know when I first heard about NYS trying to play with the definition of physical presence my first thought was, "well just drop all affiliates in NYS, problem solved". that way no real money flows to NYS AND they don't get any taxes. It doesn't hurt the online retailer any, just NYS. They actually, overall, loose money from the state when enacting this law, if all the online retailers do as Overstock.com has done.
why does not one single politician sit down and think, "if this goes through are there any really easy ways around it? if so do these simple work arounds hurt us more than help?". If but one person thought this and said something to all the others, I can't help but think that this law would have never passed
Blaise Aguera y Arcas on Photosynth
the book thing, i don't think can easily be faked by flash, nor the gigapixel resolution image nor the really neat zooming and zooming and zooming into stuff.
really what photosynth, and by extension seadragon which is what photosynth is built on, promises us is a way to semantically link all those photo's on the web together, to build up those real places into virtual places with little or nor human intervention.
this should enrich the web in a way we are only just beginning to see.
move fast! attack and defend with each stone! grabs base and eyes first!
at best i only got to 10kyu myself before i left my real life friends behind. its really hard to stay interested in the game when there is no real personal rivalry to push you.
it is amazing what having someone you know personally talk smack to you can do for your ability to play.
You should try it, its quite fascinating and challenging. You will find though that the game, while simple in rule structure, is very complex and is a unique blend of local tactics and global strategy that can be best described as sublime.
i agree that this is a very complex and subtle, as you put it, issue.
my personal beliefs are such that relationships should be open, that we have this jealousy thing cranked up too high a notch. we, americans at least, get entirely too upset at this sort of thing. should divorce be the first line of thought in situations like this, i don't believe so, but apparently this woman did.
if this guy, who's marriage was ruined, were in an open relationship then divorce shouldn't have been in anyone's mind. his (ex)wife, apparently, believes that what he did was wrong and feels that she shouldn't be in a relationship with this man anymore. maybe if he had told her, "hey honey, i need a bit of nookie, you know, the kind that you really arn't into. so i'm going to be checking out a few ads for a prospective playmate" she just might have been okay with it.
going behind your life partner's back to get some rompage does display a lack of trust and sincerity in the relationship.
if the relationship allows for extra-marital activities then i say go for it, if it does not then well you have issues to work out with each other.
i am not sure the point you're trying to make to me, really i was just pointing out that there are places where it is legal to seek a divorce on the basis of the lack of sex. the law would seem to indicate that sex is a required part of a healthy marriage. refusal of such can constitute cruel and in humane treatment.
turning a blind eye to the infidelity is superior to divorce imo. however in this specific instance the wife did not think that was prudent.
openness is preferable to destroying an otherwise happy marriage though.
IIRC there are laws in some states that say that refusal of sex is grounds for divorce.
Abandonment in ny for a year (this includes refusal of sex)
It should, but what else do you do with two particle that spin in opposite directions from each other no matter the distance inbetween?
The value in this is that with these entangled photon's we can transmit data across any distance instantaneously. From here to anywhere in the universe. The only latency in the system would be in encoding and decoding the information. So you here on earth could talk to your grand children with no time delay even if they happen to be on Mars or some where around Beetleguise 4.
Maybe with just one b, ^_^. The whole Trademark issue is a subjective one. Its there to make sure the customer doesn't get easily mistaken thinking that they are buying a Craftsman Hammer with all the warranties that go with it and a Craftmans Hammer that was made in Bob's basement with Alice supervising.
you only need to look at the Apple Computers vs Apple the Record Label to see how Trademarks work.
This is a Trademark issue, not a copying issue. GE profits on a name that is ancient, so does AT&T. Scrabulous is just too close to Scrabble as far as a brand name goes.
Is it Time for Tea?
~Z
maybe, i hope so. maybe i'll get to play it before i die.
yeah his games have been over hyped a lot, B&W was supposed to be this amazingly long and awesome with this real life ai monkey hanging out with you, which was kinda true, it wasn't long at all but you got a monkey that learned and did most of what you asked it.
then B&W2 which was supposed to be everything that B&W1 was supposed to be and more, but i think they forgot about the more part and just did what B&W1 was supposed to be
and fable was supposed to be this hugely open world where you could do anything and everything with a huge open story line and we got a game where you have to run along in small paths.
sure peter did a lot he said he would but he left out just as much stuff as he put in.
he's got great vision but can't seem to stuff it all into one package.
the movies did everything i thought it should, that didn't disappoint.
err i'm rambling on here.
I was wondering who he is that his blog on this subject is so important. With out knowing this guys expertise the summary reads like some know-it-all wanting to espouse his pet theory about how the whole of society will collapse and lead us back to the dark ages.
unless this guy is some emanate professor of economics my first thoughts were "Why should i care what your blog says?"
I read the article but found no mention of them writing more than all of the roman empire. care to cite your source? also i recall reading that many books were attributed to plato even though they were written hundreds of years after his death. i'll dig around the net for a few sources.
err are you forgetting that several hundred years was well over a thousand years ago? that we as a species have systematically destroyed all ancient knowledge we could find in the name of the popular hypocrisies of the time? how many times has the library at alexradria been burned to the ground? how many clay tablets smashed and accidental fires raged through towns destroying everything? how many books were just thrown into some attic and forgotten until they were too far to be rescued? and then there is the necessity of recopying each book by hand, and by the time that people were preserving those histories and novels it was just some monks who thought that novels were frivolous offal not fit to be preserved, but those histories, they were important, well more important than a slice of life tale of a man who falls for his slave.
just because we don't have in our hands a vast mountain of entertainment reading from 1500 years ago doesn't mean that literacy was used only for boring papers on flowers and the gaullic wars.
"GET DOWN AGAIN!"
here here for zenburn! it has to be my favorite color scheme
I was looking for one sane person to bring this up. we only have so much of everything down here, but there is so much more up there. maybe, someday, when my great grandchildren are grown up they will start plopping these suckers down into the Australian outback and start mining!
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this.