NEWSFLASH: Large webcaster supports bill that helps large webcasters, calls on small webcasters to cut their whining.
I mean, really, the difference between $250 and $500 is "negligible"? WTF? These people are hobbyists, they run these stations for friends and a sparse few random listeners. If paying an extra $250 is no big deal, then perhaps Mr. Hodge could send a check for that negligible amount my way; I'm a poor college student and could use the cash.
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Slashdot does have such a policy -- it's called "moderation."
The bn.com link given by slashdot tracks the referrer as well. Better send an angry email to Taco.
ASTRONOMERS said there was an "odds-on" chance of intelligent life in space after new observations produced the best evidence yet of planets circling stars outside our solar system. ...
However, he said there was little chance of finding life on the planet because it was under constant bombardment from a surrounding belt of comets.
So in other words, don't believe the hype?
Let me get this straight -- now that we've found conclusive (?) evidence of another planet that most likely wouldn't support life, this increases the chance of finding intelligent life in outer space. Makes sense.
You're right, I don't have any hard data on the additional health-care costs of smoking. I'd definitely like to see the sources for your figures.
I am strongly against legislating morality, however I am also against the way the socialized healhcare system is run, so it seems to me if people are doing themselves harm now that everyone will have to pay for later, they might as well kick in a little while they still can (at least that's how it should work ideally).
I don't think it meaningful to plot number of smokers vs cost of health care. It's the people who started smoking 30 or more years ago who would now be starting to run up the medical bills. I'd want to look at incidences of smoking-related illnesses vs the percentage of their health care costs to the total spent by the public on health care.
Also, anti-smoking is by no means recent nor the only current public health crusade. Bush's new "Verb: Get up off your fat asses" campaign comes to mind.
It wasn't meant to sound belittling. I meant what I said: if you find it rewarding then that's great.
What came out as a belittling tone probably slipped through because I know that colleges around the country are churning out graduates with BSes in Information Technology or similar majors, all of whom are going to be going after YOUR JOB. Now it sounds like you've got a good mind and a good head start in the IT world so I wouldn't be too worried, but just know that your field isn't going to be getting any less competitive.
How did you write the search function? Did you come up with an alorgithm on your own? Did you use a prewritten, off-the-shelf search routine?
Note that I'm not making judgements here, I'm just underscoring the point that there are some jobs that require certain knowledge, and others that don't.
And FYI (so you can impress your coworkers and/or significant other <g>): The sine of an angle refers to the y-coordinate of the point at which a line drawn from a starting point at that angle would intersect with a circle of radius=1 drawn around the starting point.
Well yeah, man, if you want to be grinding out php and html or doing admin work for the rest of your life, sure, there's no reason to get a higher education, and if you're happy with what you're doing then that's great.
But to get a job writing computer graphics software, or audio processing, or designing any sort of embedded hardware, knowledge of advanced math is required. The people who want to do this kind of work pursue higher educations, and if they enjoy what they're doing then that's great, too.
Heh, I remember downloading txtfiles of 1-800 numbers listed by exchange and each one marked whether it was voice, modem, or something else like a fax machine or a modem with odd settings.
Most of that price increase is in taxes as greedy politicians attach 'sin taxes' to cigarettes.
It's not mere greed. The problem is that the elderly people dying of lung cancer are probably going to end up relying on the public dole for their medical bills, so they might as well start paying for them now (or funding new sports arenas, but I digress...)
The US laws do not apply where it could inconvenience any US company.
I don't know, I think the fact that the tobacco companies were being sued in the first place pretty much disproves that. Also note that some of the most powerful politicians in the US come from tobacco-growing states, but they didn't stop the suit.
As for limiting foriegn lawsuits, I don't know how to feel about it, except that if the US is doing it, everyone else should follow suit. If Australia is being coerced into letting US citizens sue its companies out of existence, I'd like to hear about it. But the "US has nukes so they get their way" fallacy is pretty tired. No one is going to get nuked over trade disputes; perhaps you've watched Episode 1 a few too many times. (The other poster had it right, it's the rest of the military you should fear;-) )
You missed the point. The shirt was just a dumb example, the point is any decent lawyer could come up with something that sounds valid as an excuse to sue you for pretty much any reason, forcing you to either pay for your own legal fees and take the time to fight the suit, or settle out of court.
I believe you underestimate the difficulty in image recognition, because you have that backwards.
Getting computers to perform even the most basic image recognition accurately is still an elusive problem in computer science/AI research. I highly doubt an algorithm could be developed today that would take an image of the board from some inclination above the horizon pick out each of the pieces in their various distances and stages of rotation and determine which was a queen and which was a bishop. One advantage, though, would be in looking at the relative heights of the various pieces.
OTOH, it's fairly easy to develop a mechanical arm capable of moving precise distances, grasping an object of known size and shape, and depositing it at another location. It doesn't require much more sophicstication than those games at arcades where you try to grab prizes out of the plexiglass bin. (It would have a fair bit of trouble righting a piece that slipped or got knocked over on its side, though. That would be an interesting problem.)
I agree wholeheartedly about over/underrated, and having a "wrong/incorrect" mod. I think insighful should mean you gave an interesting opinion, and informative should mean you gave an interesting fact. If there are any other broad reasons why something would be intersting enough to read, add them too, but "interesting" by itself is fairly pointless. I also agree that it would be nice to encourage good syntax, but would you really want to see something just on the basis that it was well-written? I see your point, but it just doesn't seem like that should be the sole reason for modding something up (what if it was a really well-written troll or something? You get the picture.)
Cheers! p.s. This is my first time posting from Lynx, so if things get messed up, that's probably why.
Too me, "Learning UNIX for Mac OS X" implies a book for newbies to UNIX. Definitely not a reference volume, they would save that for an "... In a Nutshell" book. (For example, "Learning Perl
: 300 pages. "Perl in a Nutshell": 800 pages.)
Also, O'Reilly already used a platypus for "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL", so no dice there.
However, I just got an idea to somehow play off of the BSD Daemon/Apple connection by using a picture of the story of the devil offering Eve fruit from the tree of knowledge. Also sort of a connection to Darwin via the evolution/creationism debate.
OK, so it's a pretty big stretch;-)
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Tsch, tsch. Forget to spellcheck the article, did we?
Or is that some sort of German reworking of the Berkely c shell...? "tenex schnell"?
The All-in-Wonder line has never been aimed at the professional user. That DV500 card probably set you back close to $500, and it didn't even come with the fastest 3D acceleration on the market.
You can call it a toy, I call it fun to play around with in my spare time. And I don't know anyone who's called the AIW cards a failure.
Editors (hemos), couldn't you have done a little editing and taken out his quaint but wordy disclaimers? He addressed those sentences specifically to you anyway, leaving them in for everyone to read just looks amateurish and is annoying to read through while looking for the actual story.
Hey, I'm just as cynical as the next guy, but I think you're being overly pessimistic about the state of our democracy.
You're right that there is a large number of people who think, "i'm a democrat, i've got to go vote for all the democrats so the bad guys won't get in office" (and vice versa), but this clearly isn't the entirety of voters.
Why would presidential candidates court the "swing states"? Why would candidates campaign on "hot-button" issues? Why would candidates campaign at all?
Clearly there are voters who do listen to candidates' appeals and can be swayed one way or the other, and it clearly is a working strategy (don't make me bring up the 2000 presidential election...)
You also might want to do a little research on other countries that have introduced mandatory voting... I'll give you a hint: it hasn't created the political utopias some people imagine it would.
Look, buddy -- I use P2P clients because I'm too damn cheap to buy a $15 dollar CD. What makes you think I'm going to spend hundreds on virtual pc or vmware?
;-)
But seriously, It IS an interesting idea, I just can't justify the initial investment.
Yes, but George W. Officeholder still wants Joe Public to vote (for him), and he will do his best to get Joe out of his recliner and to the polls.
You see, Joe Public has a habit of getting excited at pretty much any old issue that is pitched to him in the correct manner (the usual combination of the right logical fallacies -- appeals to emotion, everyone knows the DMCA is bad.)
Granted, copyright law is probably pretty far down on old Joe's list of things to care about, but the group of Jim's and Jane's using the internet is large and constantly increasing, so I don't believe it's out of the relm of possibility to raise widespread public awareness of the subject.
The point of this "research" is not to actually come up with ways to make users more productive (I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't abandoned that pretense long ago.)
The point is to create a need for new office hardware and software, since the current paradigm of office suite, email, and browser have leveled off in terms of demanding that software and hardware upgrades be purchased by businesses in order for them to say with the curve.
The slashdotters are right; no one actually needs wraparound monitors, wireless mice, surroundsound speakers, or video email. But Microsoft has a few billion dollars that say they can make you (or your company's IT management) believe that you do need them all. In fact, the need for them to keep their current rate of growth steady (and their stock price (and the executives' net worth) up) demands that they do.
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I mean, really, the difference between $250 and $500 is "negligible"? WTF? These people are hobbyists, they run these stations for friends and a sparse few random listeners. If paying an extra $250 is no big deal, then perhaps Mr. Hodge could send a check for that negligible amount my way; I'm a poor college student and could use the cash.
The bn.com link given by slashdot tracks the referrer as well. Better send an angry email to Taco.
What do you have against RedWolves2, anyway?
I really wish the moderator would have read the story before s/he went around dispensing moderations.
Yeah, all five of them...
The rest of us preferred clinging to the illusion that once we buy a copy of a movie we get to do with it as we please.
However, we can thank Divx for some memorable Penny-Arcade comics ("I'm about to go from zero to drunk in twenty dollars.")
So in other words, don't believe the hype?
Let me get this straight -- now that we've found conclusive (?) evidence of another planet that most likely wouldn't support life, this increases the chance of finding intelligent life in outer space. Makes sense.
I am strongly against legislating morality, however I am also against the way the socialized healhcare system is run, so it seems to me if people are doing themselves harm now that everyone will have to pay for later, they might as well kick in a little while they still can (at least that's how it should work ideally).
I don't think it meaningful to plot number of smokers vs cost of health care. It's the people who started smoking 30 or more years ago who would now be starting to run up the medical bills. I'd want to look at incidences of smoking-related illnesses vs the percentage of their health care costs to the total spent by the public on health care.
Also, anti-smoking is by no means recent nor the only current public health crusade. Bush's new "Verb: Get up off your fat asses" campaign comes to mind.
What came out as a belittling tone probably slipped through because I know that colleges around the country are churning out graduates with BSes in Information Technology or similar majors, all of whom are going to be going after YOUR JOB. Now it sounds like you've got a good mind and a good head start in the IT world so I wouldn't be too worried, but just know that your field isn't going to be getting any less competitive.
Cheers!
How did you write the search function? Did you come up with an alorgithm on your own? Did you use a prewritten, off-the-shelf search routine?
Note that I'm not making judgements here, I'm just underscoring the point that there are some jobs that require certain knowledge, and others that don't.
And FYI (so you can impress your coworkers and/or significant other <g>): The sine of an angle refers to the y-coordinate of the point at which a line drawn from a starting point at that angle would intersect with a circle of radius=1 drawn around the starting point.
But to get a job writing computer graphics software, or audio processing, or designing any sort of embedded hardware, knowledge of advanced math is required. The people who want to do this kind of work pursue higher educations, and if they enjoy what they're doing then that's great, too.
Heh, I remember downloading txtfiles of 1-800 numbers listed by exchange and each one marked whether it was voice, modem, or something else like a fax machine or a modem with odd settings.
It's not mere greed. The problem is that the elderly people dying of lung cancer are probably going to end up relying on the public dole for their medical bills, so they might as well start paying for them now (or funding new sports arenas, but I digress...)
I don't know, I think the fact that the tobacco companies were being sued in the first place pretty much disproves that. Also note that some of the most powerful politicians in the US come from tobacco-growing states, but they didn't stop the suit.
As for limiting foriegn lawsuits, I don't know how to feel about it, except that if the US is doing it, everyone else should follow suit. If Australia is being coerced into letting US citizens sue its companies out of existence, I'd like to hear about it. But the "US has nukes so they get their way" fallacy is pretty tired. No one is going to get nuked over trade disputes; perhaps you've watched Episode 1 a few too many times. (The other poster had it right, it's the rest of the military you should fear ;-) )
You missed the point. The shirt was just a dumb example, the point is any decent lawyer could come up with something that sounds valid as an excuse to sue you for pretty much any reason, forcing you to either pay for your own legal fees and take the time to fight the suit, or settle out of court.
Getting computers to perform even the most basic image recognition accurately is still an elusive problem in computer science/AI research. I highly doubt an algorithm could be developed today that would take an image of the board from some inclination above the horizon pick out each of the pieces in their various distances and stages of rotation and determine which was a queen and which was a bishop. One advantage, though, would be in looking at the relative heights of the various pieces.
OTOH, it's fairly easy to develop a mechanical arm capable of moving precise distances, grasping an object of known size and shape, and depositing it at another location. It doesn't require much more sophicstication than those games at arcades where you try to grab prizes out of the plexiglass bin. (It would have a fair bit of trouble righting a piece that slipped or got knocked over on its side, though. That would be an interesting problem.)
There are quite a few PDAs that run Linux. None of them have been superior (usability-wise) to devices running PalmOS or even WinCE.
Care to back that generalization up with some actual thought?
I agree wholeheartedly about over/underrated, and having a "wrong/incorrect" mod.
I think insighful should mean you gave an interesting opinion, and informative should mean you gave an interesting fact. If there are any other broad reasons why something would be intersting enough to read, add them too, but "interesting" by itself is fairly pointless.
I also agree that it would be nice to encourage good syntax, but would you really want to see something just on the basis that it was well-written?
I see your point, but it just doesn't seem like that should be the sole reason for modding something up (what if it was a really well-written troll or something? You get the picture.)
Cheers!
p.s. This is my first time posting from Lynx, so if things get messed up, that's probably why.
Also, O'Reilly already used a platypus for "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL", so no dice there.
However, I just got an idea to somehow play off of the BSD Daemon/Apple connection by using a picture of the story of the devil offering Eve fruit from the tree of knowledge. Also sort of a connection to Darwin via the evolution/creationism debate.
OK, so it's a pretty big stretch ;-)
Or is that some sort of German reworking of the Berkely c shell...? "tenex schnell"?
You can call it a toy, I call it fun to play around with in my spare time. And I don't know anyone who's called the AIW cards a failure.
Thanks.
You're right that there is a large number of people who think, "i'm a democrat, i've got to go vote for all the democrats so the bad guys won't get in office" (and vice versa), but this clearly isn't the entirety of voters.
Why would presidential candidates court the "swing states"? Why would candidates campaign on "hot-button" issues? Why would candidates campaign at all?
Clearly there are voters who do listen to candidates' appeals and can be swayed one way or the other, and it clearly is a working strategy (don't make me bring up the 2000 presidential election...)
You also might want to do a little research on other countries that have introduced mandatory voting... I'll give you a hint: it hasn't created the political utopias some people imagine it would.
But seriously, It IS an interesting idea, I just can't justify the initial investment.
You see, Joe Public has a habit of getting excited at pretty much any old issue that is pitched to him in the correct manner (the usual combination of the right logical fallacies -- appeals to emotion, everyone knows the DMCA is bad.)
Granted, copyright law is probably pretty far down on old Joe's list of things to care about, but the group of Jim's and Jane's using the internet is large and constantly increasing, so I don't believe it's out of the relm of possibility to raise widespread public awareness of the subject.
The point is to create a need for new office hardware and software, since the current paradigm of office suite, email, and browser have leveled off in terms of demanding that software and hardware upgrades be purchased by businesses in order for them to say with the curve.
The slashdotters are right; no one actually needs wraparound monitors, wireless mice, surroundsound speakers, or video email. But Microsoft has a few billion dollars that say they can make you (or your company's IT management) believe that you do need them all. In fact, the need for them to keep their current rate of growth steady (and their stock price (and the executives' net worth) up) demands that they do.