Great. Whatever happened to the party of the free market?
When Democrats spend tax dollars propping up "unsuccessful" citizens its called welfare-state communism. When Republicans spend tax dollars propping up "unsuccessful" corporations its called...what exactly?
The patent system may be knackered but the answer isn't this absurd gesture of government largesse.
Actually, its typically the hippies of the 60s that became conservatives. And the Neocons that people complain the most about? Former Trotskyites and other assorted akrolefties. Which actually tells you something pretty fundamental - that having rigid, inflexible views on the world which must invariably foisted onto everyone "for their own good" (whether they want it or not) is not the exclusive preserve of either the left or right but a rather scarier group (with left and right branches) which I prefer to call...ASSH0LES.
In a pre-emptive reply to the inevitable comments claiming this is evidence of imperial hubris, or corporate-fascistic tendencies, I say poppycock. The US is and always will be a REPUBLIC. The only difference is the recent addition of the adjective BANANA.
Foghorn Leghorn: "Pipe-Full-O-Fun kit number 7?" Dog: "Pipe-Full-O-Fun kit number 7" Foghorn Leghorn: "We have been flim-flammed!" Dog: "Yeah! Hoodwinked!"
Not "degenerating" as much as "returning to ground state".
For most of recorded history, the vast majority of the worlds' population have been little more than serfs. A thousand years from now, this (approximately) 200 year old experiment with universal human rights and democratic ideals will be a paragraph or two in the history books. The extremely small minority to whom this history will be available will shake their heads in wry amusement as the vast numbers of serfs supporting their survival go unheeded.
> Why don't they just skip all this craziness and just ad-enable monitors.
I believe it has actually been tried - at the OS or video-driver level if I remember correctly.
My memory is vague and my googling poor but I seem to recall that it involved "reserving" X number of lines at the bottom or top of the screen which are "untouchable" and on which only ads would be served up. I seem to recall that it was in the mid to late nineties? Perhaps some other fossil around here remembers.
As someone who works for an electricity distribution company (albeit in an IT capacity), the theory is that by flattening out consumption from peak periods (when everyone runs their AC/heaters/plasms/industrual motors/etc) to off-peak (when most of us and our industries are asleep), you are not just helping to flatten the demand curve on the generators but the load on the distribution infrastructure as well.
Wow. I really, really hope that you are in education.
I have Bachelor degree in Physics (over 20 years ago) and I had no idea what the hell was being talked about. Your explanation is BRILLIANT. It does not assume readers are morons, does not portray science as magic, explains the subject in a way that even a layman finishes reading it with a better understanding than they started, and even manages to infuse some feeling for what the scientific discovery process is like. Amazing.
As someone who originally got into science because of Carl Sagan's Cosmos I can honestly say that if I had lecturers like you I would still be doing science. (not surprisingly, the subjects that I did best in had lecturers cut from the same cloth).
Please mod this guy up! With virtualisation tech going the way it is, taking this approach should be a no-brainer. There may be a performance hit but the potential for sandboxing that this approach offers may actually make running legacy apps in this way SAFER than using the original OS or building the same old cruft into the core of the new OS.
Yeah, so instead of risking being charged with "terrorism" for telling the cops about the security flaw, he actually goes and COMMITS REAL TERRORISM (and if you don't think this was terrifying for the family on the receiving end of the raid you're an idiot).
Before, he at least had some plausible defense had he been charged. Now, if he gets caught he'll have his balls handed to him on a plate!
Yet another variation of "we had to destroy the village in order to save the village". Talk about insane!
I find it ironic that the most vehement posts against Islam's scientific backwardness come from a country where a significant proportion of the population literally believe that the earth is 6000 years old.
Personally, I can't wait until all these overrated fairy tales are accorded the same level of respect, and have the same level of influence on social and political life, as Ashtarte, Zeus and Ra.
Apple start work on "revolutionary" mobile phone/device/whatever. AT&T (among others) are approached to partner. AT&T examine platform, decide extensibility is bad for them, and signs on with the contractual proviso that Apple lock the platform down. Apple agree, AT&T throw in a huge wad of cash and the iPhone is born. Hackers hack the iPhone. Apple bricks the hacked iPhones. Class action suit is brought against Apple. Judgement goes against Apple "forcing it" to open the platform and (unhappily) letting Apple off the hook wrt to their contractual obligations to AT&T. iPhone sells like crazy, Apple continues to make shitloads of money. AT&T are stuffed.
OK, +1 Funny, I understand. But, +1 Insightful ? Are you people really that scared of an autonomously intelligent being you have no control over? Look around you they're everywhere! (OK, we could plausibly argue over whether the beings around you currently qualify as intelligent, nevertheless I think you get my point)
"Whats next, Santa Claus is real? How about the Easter Bunny?"
How about "Saddam was behind 9/11" (chuckle, chuckle) Oh, sorry, I got that wrong didn't I? That's right, it was "Ahmedinejad behind 9/11". That's much better.
"There are relatively few days when we really notice the changes affecting us personally."
In most of the world's undemocratic regimes, life goes on as normal for most people. They get up, do their thing, come home, go to bed, and start all over again the next day. Most of these regimes are considered undemocratic and are on UN and State Department lists as human rights abusers.
Yes, life goes on as normal for most people, just like it did in Germany in the late 30's and the Soviet bloc countries before the 90's. Normal... that is, until malice or circumstance force you to the edge of the normal curve and for some reason or other you come to the attention of those whose attention is most unwelcome. Then you get to notice the changes up close.
But hey - for your neighbours this will just be one of those "relatively few days when we really notice the changes affecting us personally".
If you've got 5 minutes lookup Martin Niemöller.
Lack of empathy among the governed is the greatest boon to those with dictatorial ambitions.
Where my dad comes from in Greece (Lesbos - yes, my Dad is a Lesbian), they have a saying. phonetically: "Homa sto kolo tou, zoi se logo mas" which roughly translates as "Dirt up his arse, life to us"
It is typically said when learning of the death of someone you prefer in their new state.
Having just read http://www.timecube.com/ for a laugh and then reading the PhysOrg news item, all the references to "ultra-hyperbolic spaces" and rotations read a little too much like Gene Ray's rants to be comfortable. The only thing missing was the obligatory:
Your 4 dimensional space makes you EVIL! SIX dimensional ultra-hyperbole is absolute but ignored by stupid/evil educators.
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Great. Whatever happened to the party of the free market?
When Democrats spend tax dollars propping up "unsuccessful" citizens its called welfare-state communism.
When Republicans spend tax dollars propping up "unsuccessful" corporations its called...what exactly?
The patent system may be knackered but the answer isn't this absurd gesture of government largesse.
Actually, its typically the hippies of the 60s that became conservatives. And the Neocons that people complain the most about? Former Trotskyites and other assorted akrolefties. Which actually tells you something pretty fundamental - that having rigid, inflexible views on the world which must invariably foisted onto everyone "for their own good" (whether they want it or not) is not the exclusive preserve of either the left or right but a rather scarier group (with left and right branches) which I prefer to call...ASSH0LES.
In a pre-emptive reply to the inevitable comments claiming this is evidence of imperial hubris, or corporate-fascistic tendencies, I say poppycock. The US is and always will be a REPUBLIC. The only difference is the recent addition of the adjective BANANA.
Foghorn Leghorn: "Pipe-Full-O-Fun kit number 7?"
Dog: "Pipe-Full-O-Fun kit number 7"
Foghorn Leghorn: "We have been flim-flammed!"
Dog: "Yeah! Hoodwinked!"
> alabaster underpants
I think you mean asbestos - possibly less conductive of heat and more conducive of comfort (relatively speaking).
Not "degenerating" as much as "returning to ground state".
For most of recorded history, the vast majority of the worlds' population have been little more than serfs. A thousand years from now, this (approximately) 200 year old experiment with universal human rights and democratic ideals will be a paragraph or two in the history books. The extremely small minority to whom this history will be available will shake their heads in wry amusement as the vast numbers of serfs supporting their survival go unheeded.
Same as it ever was.
(sorry - feeling particularly pessimistic today)
PJ, release the hounds!
> Why don't they just skip all this craziness and just ad-enable monitors.
I believe it has actually been tried - at the OS or video-driver level if I remember correctly.
My memory is vague and my googling poor but I seem to recall that it involved "reserving" X number of lines at the bottom or top of the screen which are "untouchable" and on which only ads would be served up. I seem to recall that it was in the mid to late nineties? Perhaps some other fossil around here remembers.
As someone who works for an electricity distribution company (albeit in an IT capacity), the theory is that by flattening out consumption from peak periods (when everyone runs their AC/heaters/plasms/industrual motors/etc) to off-peak (when most of us and our industries are asleep), you are not just helping to flatten the demand curve on the generators but the load on the distribution infrastructure as well.
Wow. I really, really hope that you are in education.
I have Bachelor degree in Physics (over 20 years ago) and I had no idea what the hell was being talked about. Your explanation is BRILLIANT. It does not assume readers are morons, does not portray science as magic, explains the subject in a way that even a layman finishes reading it with a better understanding than they started, and even manages to infuse some feeling for what the scientific discovery process is like. Amazing.
As someone who originally got into science because of Carl Sagan's Cosmos I can honestly say that if I had lecturers like you I would still be doing science. (not surprisingly, the subjects that I did best in had lecturers cut from the same cloth).
Thank you.
Damn, and I wasted my last mod points a couple of hours ago!
Thanks for the +1 Insightful post.
Please mod this guy up!
With virtualisation tech going the way it is, taking this approach should be a no-brainer. There may be a performance hit but the potential for sandboxing that this approach offers may actually make running legacy apps in this way SAFER than using the original OS or building the same old cruft into the core of the new OS.
I seem to recall that Microsoft Research was working on an OS based on similar sandboxing concepts - Singularity http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/
Yeah, so instead of risking being charged with "terrorism" for telling the cops about the security flaw, he actually goes and COMMITS REAL TERRORISM (and if you don't think this was terrifying for the family on the receiving end of the raid you're an idiot).
Before, he at least had some plausible defense had he been charged. Now, if he gets caught he'll have his balls handed to him on a plate!
Yet another variation of "we had to destroy the village in order to save the village". Talk about insane!
Hahahahaha!
Thank's dude. That was nasal-coffee-squirtin' funny.
I find it ironic that the most vehement posts against Islam's scientific backwardness come from a country where a significant proportion of the population literally believe that the earth is 6000 years old.
Personally, I can't wait until all these overrated fairy tales are accorded the same level of respect, and have the same level of influence on social and political life, as Ashtarte, Zeus and Ra.
Some idle speculation...
Apple start work on "revolutionary" mobile phone/device/whatever.
AT&T (among others) are approached to partner.
AT&T examine platform, decide extensibility is bad for them, and signs on with the contractual proviso that Apple lock the platform down.
Apple agree, AT&T throw in a huge wad of cash and the iPhone is born.
Hackers hack the iPhone.
Apple bricks the hacked iPhones.
Class action suit is brought against Apple.
Judgement goes against Apple "forcing it" to open the platform and (unhappily) letting Apple off the hook wrt to their contractual obligations to AT&T.
iPhone sells like crazy, Apple continues to make shitloads of money.
AT&T are stuffed.
OK, +1 Funny, I understand.
But, +1 Insightful ? Are you people really that scared of an autonomously intelligent being you have no control over? Look around you they're everywhere! (OK, we could plausibly argue over whether the beings around you currently qualify as intelligent, nevertheless I think you get my point)
"Whats next, Santa Claus is real? How about the Easter Bunny?"
How about "Saddam was behind 9/11" (chuckle, chuckle)
Oh, sorry, I got that wrong didn't I? That's right, it was "Ahmedinejad behind 9/11".
That's much better.
"There are relatively few days when we really notice the changes affecting us personally."
... that is, until malice or circumstance force you to the edge of the normal curve and for some reason or other you come to the attention of those whose attention is most unwelcome. Then you get to notice the changes up close.
In most of the world's undemocratic regimes, life goes on as normal for most people. They get up, do their thing, come home, go to bed, and start all over again the next day. Most of these regimes are considered undemocratic and are on UN and State Department lists as human rights abusers.
Yes, life goes on as normal for most people, just like it did in Germany in the late 30's and the Soviet bloc countries before the 90's. Normal
But hey - for your neighbours this will just be one of those "relatively few days when we really notice the changes affecting us personally".
If you've got 5 minutes lookup Martin Niemöller.
Lack of empathy among the governed is the greatest boon to those with dictatorial ambitions.
Take your pick:
- Sell fresh exploits on the open market.
- Resign and start their own bulk-email service companies.
To whoever modded the parent as "flamebait" - you sir, are a jackass.
Where my dad comes from in Greece (Lesbos - yes, my Dad is a Lesbian), they have a saying.
phonetically: "Homa sto kolo tou, zoi se logo mas"
which roughly translates as "Dirt up his arse, life to us"
It is typically said when learning of the death of someone you prefer in their new state.
Having just read http://www.timecube.com/ for a laugh and then reading the PhysOrg news item, all the references to "ultra-hyperbolic spaces" and rotations read a little too much like Gene Ray's rants to be comfortable. The only thing missing was the obligatory:
Your 4 dimensional space makes you EVIL! SIX dimensional ultra-hyperbole is absolute but ignored by stupid/evil educators.
+1 Wishful thinking