If I sent a message to my 12 year old former self, it wouldn't be advice. The message would be something on the order of "Hey, future self here. Good job, Charles; well done." and I wouldn't worry a damn bit about missed opportunity.
But publishers could use Palladium's controls to unilaterally limit use of their materials, such as by restricting professors to a read-only view of the article, from which they could not "cut and paste" the text.
What magic allows this restriction? An interested and technically inclined user can take a screen dump and run it through an ocr. Articles can be retyped (what professor doesn't have a dozen grad students to (ab)use?). What if I take a split off my monitor cable, page through the article and save the results as a movie? The movie isn't copy protected; that's what happens. Throw a couple frames from the movie into a document and call it good. For crying out loud, there are *telephones* that allow the prof to circumvent this by taking a picture of the screen and sending it to their ten students. This technology that supposedly prevents cut and paste is a lot less scary than the monsters in my friggin closet, and even *they* jump when I say 'boo'. People (you) are going to continue to copy and share any digital information they (you) want to, and there is no easy way to stop them (you). People get bootleg copies of movies by taking camcorders into the theater. Who imagines that Palladium is going to stop them from doing the same damn thing in front of their own monitors, if that's what they need to do to be happy?
Perhaps the answer is something as simple as: unforeseeable environmental catastrophy resulting from discovery of oil/water miscibility in the absence of dissolved gasses. Since it only takes 50,000 years to go from 'stone knives with creativity' to 'godlike abilities like space travel', creativity could be common but spacefarers rare for any number of strange and tragic reasons. Hatred, dishonesty, selfishness and the like are really fairly mild issues, if for no other reason than we understand them so well.
In my experience, almost none of the formal math training that a typical CS undergrad learns is ever going to come in handy for computer programming. 90% of all software effort is bug fixing, where you don't design a system to implement business rules, you don't in fact design anything. In the remaining 10%, the design is usually handed to you. In the 1% case where you have any kind of designing to do, most of the time it's a simple problem in worst case complexity analysis (Big O).
Anything more is a waste of time for most programmers, at the very least since if they can't learn it as needed then they won't be able to remember it from their college years either.
If the UI is completely configurable, eg, wrt mouse button function, how can I possibly document the functionality of my program? I can't say: Ctrl-Left-Click on this picture for foo-functionality, Right-Click for bar, Middle-Click for baz, because someone may have configured the UI so that the middle button closes the window, right simulates a double-left-click and ctrl-left might prompt them to save a copy of the picture in question.
those who run the network are going to catch on and will do something about it
That is exactly the level of monitoring I expect from an admin. Monitoring the content of my traffic is too much, and letting everyone hog all the bandwidth they want leaving not enough for my valid purposes is too little. So more power to you.
DNA has already been used to build DRAMs. We call the process civilization, and it is also useful for making ice cream. Look for it in your local supermarket.
They shouldn't be keeping records about who buys what books in the first place. I know what I buy, and I have the ability to look for new reading material in catalogs, libraries or via social contacts. Why is a bookseller keeping track of my book purchases any better than a government keeping track?
What kind of moron would use encryption to download material from the internet and then store it in plaintext? Obviously, anyone with a shred of care would compress, encrypt and throw on a header that identified it as a benign.jpg containing astronomical data...
Eg, I say to file server: hi, here is my key, use it for encrypting.
file server: thanks for your key! here is my key, use it likewise.
From then on, any monitor of the transaction cannot decrypt what is sent back and forth. In public key encryption, different keys are used to encrypt vs decrypt.
If monitoring and blocking tools were widely introduced, new software programs could easily develop ways to encrypt or scramble the data in transmission in order to make it unrecognizable by Audible Magic's tools or other databases.
Encryption is just the tip of the iceberg. I can easily compress and encrypt any file, then slap on a header that claims it's a benign.jpg of astronomical images, or pass it through a filter that makes it look like bad poetry, or make it a self-inflating-decrypting executable. You simply cannot write a program that will automatically filter all content, without simply denying all communication.
Now multiply the rate (3/100 years) by the fraction of surface area of the Earth England occupies and we get: 7.7 species per year.
Now multiply this by the ratio of unobserved flora to observed flora. How many thousands or millions of gardeners have plants in their backyards, and neglect to publish any new species findings?
Note:
There are potentially large numbers of species being created per year. My estimates range from 7,700 to 7,700,000 per year! Nobody knows what the environmental impact of these new species will be.
It's a law. Law (noun) "6 a : a statement of an order or relation of phenomena that so far as is known is invariable under the given conditions b : a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions"
note: so far as is known... assumed to hold
However, if you're one of those people who thinks there's a difference, it is not a 'Law':
(ibid) "2 a often capitalized : the revelation of the will of God set forth in the Old Testament"
Hopefully this will clear up the confusion surrounding this issue.
What, and restore the heart as the seat of consciousness and emotions? What a backwards notion, since all properly educated forward-thinking citizens agree that wetware CPUs belong inside the bones, replacing all that worthless marrow. Moreover, keeping data in the red blood cells is known to be a security risk. Hope this helps.
Two easy solutions. Use a RAID array for your hard drives, or a hammer for your RAM.
For the first solution, if all you want is 20GB, you can buy the smallest cheapest slowest hard drives in the world, put them in a RAID array. When one goes TU, swap it out for a new one.
For the second solution, it sounds like you'll need to hit the chips really hard. If I had to guess, I'd say you have a lot of vibrations in your environment to make your hard drives die so quickly while your RAM manages to stay alive.
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If I sent a message to my 12 year old former self, it wouldn't be advice. The message would be something on the order of "Hey, future self here. Good job, Charles; well done." and I wouldn't worry a damn bit about missed opportunity.
"One can say the Boomerang acts as a refrigerator,"
I wonder if the side we can't see acts like a freezer.
But publishers could use Palladium's controls to unilaterally limit use of their materials, such as by restricting professors to a read-only view of the article, from which they could not "cut and paste" the text.
What magic allows this restriction? An interested and technically inclined user can take a screen dump and run it through an ocr. Articles can be retyped (what professor doesn't have a dozen grad students to (ab)use?). What if I take a split off my monitor cable, page through the article and save the results as a movie? The movie isn't copy protected; that's what happens. Throw a couple frames from the movie into a document and call it good. For crying out loud, there are *telephones* that allow the prof to circumvent this by taking a picture of the screen and sending it to their ten students. This technology that supposedly prevents cut and paste is a lot less scary than the monsters in my friggin closet, and even *they* jump when I say 'boo'. People (you) are going to continue to copy and share any digital information they (you) want to, and there is no easy way to stop them (you). People get bootleg copies of movies by taking camcorders into the theater. Who imagines that Palladium is going to stop them from doing the same damn thing in front of their own monitors, if that's what they need to do to be happy?
Obviously you can tell the age of a species by examining the diversity of its genome. Hope this helps with any family issues you might be having.
Perhaps the answer is something as simple as: unforeseeable environmental catastrophy resulting from discovery of oil/water miscibility in the absence of dissolved gasses. Since it only takes 50,000 years to go from 'stone knives with creativity' to 'godlike abilities like space travel', creativity could be common but spacefarers rare for any number of strange and tragic reasons. Hatred, dishonesty, selfishness and the like are really fairly mild issues, if for no other reason than we understand them so well.
In my experience, almost none of the formal math training that a typical CS undergrad learns is ever going to come in handy for computer programming. 90% of all software effort is bug fixing, where you don't design a system to implement business rules, you don't in fact design anything. In the remaining 10%, the design is usually handed to you. In the 1% case where you have any kind of designing to do, most of the time it's a simple problem in worst case complexity analysis (Big O).
Anything more is a waste of time for most programmers, at the very least since if they can't learn it as needed then they won't be able to remember it from their college years either.
If the UI is completely configurable, eg, wrt mouse button function, how can I possibly document the functionality of my program? I can't say: Ctrl-Left-Click on this picture for foo-functionality, Right-Click for bar, Middle-Click for baz, because someone may have configured the UI so that the middle button closes the window, right simulates a double-left-click and ctrl-left might prompt them to save a copy of the picture in question.
those who run the network are going to catch on and will do something about it
That is exactly the level of monitoring I expect from an admin. Monitoring the content of my traffic is too much, and letting everyone hog all the bandwidth they want leaving not enough for my valid purposes is too little. So more power to you.
DNA has already been used to build DRAMs. We call the process civilization, and it is also useful for making ice cream. Look for it in your local supermarket.
They shouldn't be keeping records about who buys what books in the first place. I know what I buy, and I have the ability to look for new reading material in catalogs, libraries or via social contacts. Why is a bookseller keeping track of my book purchases any better than a government keeping track?
by which ellipsis I mean
What kind of moron would use encryption to download material from the internet and then store it in plaintext? Obviously, anyone with a shred of care would compress, encrypt and throw on a header that identified it as a benign .jpg containing astronomical data ...
Not to worry you, but corporate spies and dirty communists always have a blowtorch at home. That's sop.
Who's to know if the eminem you downloaded is a song, or whitenoise?
You know which version of a file to download the same way you know which slashdot comments to read without having to go through all the trash.
Not necessarily. Think: "Public key encryption".
Eg, I say to file server: hi, here is my key, use it for encrypting.
file server: thanks for your key! here is my key, use it likewise.
From then on, any monitor of the transaction cannot decrypt what is sent back and forth. In public key encryption, different keys are used to encrypt vs decrypt.
If monitoring and blocking tools were widely introduced, new software programs could easily develop ways to encrypt or scramble the data in transmission in order to make it unrecognizable by Audible Magic's tools or other databases.
.jpg of astronomical images, or pass it through a filter that makes it look like bad poetry, or make it a self-inflating-decrypting executable. You simply cannot write a program that will automatically filter all content, without simply denying all communication.
Encryption is just the tip of the iceberg. I can easily compress and encrypt any file, then slap on a header that claims it's a benign
Now multiply the rate (3/100 years) by the fraction of surface area of the Earth England occupies and we get: 7.7 species per year.
Now multiply this by the ratio of unobserved flora to observed flora. How many thousands or millions of gardeners have plants in their backyards, and neglect to publish any new species findings?
Note:
There are potentially large numbers of species being created per year. My estimates range from 7,700 to 7,700,000 per year! Nobody knows what the environmental impact of these new species will be.
What the environmental impact of water based oils will be.
You bought a compaq.
*SUCKER*
Return it if you possibly can. I've had nothing but poor experiences with compaq computers.
It's a law.
... assumed to hold
Law (noun)
"6 a : a statement of an order or relation of phenomena that so far as is known is invariable under the given conditions b : a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions"
note: so far as is known
However, if you're one of those people who thinks there's a difference, it is not a 'Law':
(ibid)
"2 a often capitalized : the revelation of the will of God set forth in the Old Testament"
Hopefully this will clear up the confusion surrounding this issue.
As I type this, "life saver" mocks me from across the room. I never noticed this plot before, and I suppose there's a hole in that too. *fume*
papyrus is the best thingy for storage
5 /1 7/184237
"The ironic part is whether the digitized versions will last/be usable longer then the clay tablets."
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/0
In 7 years, I'll have a CPU built into my chest
What, and restore the heart as the seat of consciousness and emotions? What a backwards notion, since all properly educated forward-thinking citizens agree that wetware CPUs belong inside the bones, replacing all that worthless marrow. Moreover, keeping data in the red blood cells is known to be a security risk. Hope this helps.
I want my harddrives to be as reliable as my RAM.
Two easy solutions. Use a RAID array for your hard drives, or a hammer for your RAM.
For the first solution, if all you want is 20GB, you can buy the smallest cheapest slowest hard drives in the world, put them in a RAID array. When one goes TU, swap it out for a new one.
For the second solution, it sounds like you'll need to hit the chips really hard. If I had to guess, I'd say you have a lot of vibrations in your environment to make your hard drives die so quickly while your RAM manages to stay alive.
that is too over-confident of his skills
who is too over-confident