Like what? Web traffic? sports sponsors? There's a link on his website that allows you to buy a logo on his boat / bike for $250.. but is he on TV? Talkshows? Newspaper articles? Is he writing a book, or is there a cash prize for being the worlds most pedal powered human?!?
The rule for media is: If it's good, you don't have to protect it to make some massive profit.
Same goes with computer games. If your game is popular enough to start getting viral through torrents, then you probably should be working on the sequel. Look how good Batman Begins, and now The Dark Knight, are. Even if they invent a new DRM to go on the DVD for that one, they're going to sell millions.
What's the problem? Only a moron would use idiotic social networking sites like Facebook as a replacement for email. What the hell is wrong with today's young people anyway, that they're so happy to sign up to be serfs for corporate interests, and give up any privacy they ever had? Instant messaging, social networking sites are all corporate-controlled. Anything you do on there is subject to their rules, no matter how silly they may be. Anything you say can be seen by them. There is no expectation of privacy. If you want the freedom to say what you want, you have to use email. Except that today's stupid young people think that email is "old fashioned" and only for talking to "old" (over 30) people.
You've got to be kidding. Facebook et all are just the next iteration of posting in forums, and does a pretty good job of fitting a person & their interests & what they're up to onto a web page. It's a different beast than email, for a different purpose - to share current ideas and events w/ a multitude. The closest thing to that is a blog.
This is a problem because the corporation behind this forum is tightening its grip on millions of users. We're not going to go back to paper letters, and USENET is gone now too. Facebook has to either be very clear about what their content rules are (here, profanity), because of the precedent set by those older services.
Were you a victim of Linux Genuine Advantage scheme to make millions? Linux Genuine Advantage Crack will restore free as in speech rights to what should have been in the first place. Down with the man!
rumored to be about 8$ per gallon.... This is just proof that we're in the last few years of VC funding for "amazing, innovative, and revolutionary computer design" instead of something that works.
The Red Hat operating system is able to use many common commands that are normally found on more standard Linux PCs. FTP can be used, as well as editors such as vi
"In the meantime, the real crisis that is coming has started to produce a number of symptoms, some alarming and some merely curious. One of these is what I like to call The Paradox of Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates. The paradox is this: as a lingering result of the golden age, we still have the finest scientists in the world in the United States. But we also have the worst science education in the industrialized world.
There seems to be little doubt that both of these seemingly contradictory observations are true. American scientists, trained in American graduate schools produce more Nobel Prizes, more scientific citations, more of just about anything you care to measure than any other country in the world; maybe more than the rest of the world combined. Yet, students in American schools consistently rank at the bottom of all those from advanced nations in tests of scientific knowledge, and furthermore, roughly 95% of the American public is consistently found to be scientifically illiterate by any rational standard.
How can we possibly have arrived at such a result? How can our miserable system of education have produced such a brilliant community of scientists? That is what I mean by The Paradox of the Scientific Elites and the Scientific Illiterates.
...
I would like to propose a different and more illuminating metaphor for American science education. It is [currently] more like a mining and sorting operation, designed to cast aside most of the mass of common human debris, but at the same time to discover and rescue diamonds in the rough, that are capable of being cleaned and cut and polished into glittering gems, just like us, the existing scientists.
It takes only a little reflection to see how much more this model accounts for than the pipeline does. It accounts for exponential growth, since it takes scientists to identify prospective scientists. It accounts for the very real problem that women and minorities are woefully underrepresented among the scientists, because it is hard for us, white, male scientists to perceive that once they are cleaned and cut and polished, they will look like us. It accounts for the fact that science education is for the most part a dreary business, a burden to student and teacher alike at all levels of American education, until the magic moment when a teacher recognizes a potential peer, at which point it becomes exhilarating and successful.
Above all, it resolves the paradox of Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates. It explains why we have the best scientists and the most poorly educated students in the world. It is because our entire system of education is designed to produce precisely that result.
...
Let me finish by summarizing what I've been trying to tell you. We stand at an historic juncture in the history of science. The long era of exponential expansion ended decades ago, but we have not yet reconciled ourselves to that fact. The present social structure of science, by which I mean institutions, education, funding, publications and so on all evolved during the period of exponential expansion, before The Big Crunch. They are not suited to the unknown future we face.
Today's scientific leaders, in the universities, government, industry and the scientific societies are mostly people who came of age during the golden era, 1950 - 1970. I am myself part of that generation. We think those were normal times and expect them to return. But we are wrong.
Nothing like it will ever happen again.
It is by no means certain that science will even survive, much less flourish, in the difficult times we face. Before it can survive, those of us who have gained so much from the era of scientific elites and scientific illiterates must learn to face reality, and admit that those days are gone forever. I think we have our work cut out for us."
Slashdot Mirror
Someone please tag this zordon...
From "privacy" to "piracy"
Neither does it forbid it
Why would you think Daily Mash is inaccurate?
yeah baby!
The holodeck always confused me.. walking couldn't be very smooth, unless you're only allowed to venture (x) feet from your starting point..
I think a giant hamster-ball is a much more suitable form factor.
Like what? Web traffic? sports sponsors? There's a link on his website that allows you to buy a logo on his boat / bike for $250.. but is he on TV? Talkshows? Newspaper articles? Is he writing a book, or is there a cash prize for being the worlds most pedal powered human?!?
Where do people get the money to spend all their time training / building pedal-powered boats?
The rule for media is: If it's good, you don't have to protect it to make some massive profit.
Same goes with computer games. If your game is popular enough to start getting viral through torrents, then you probably should be working on the sequel. Look how good Batman Begins, and now The Dark Knight, are. Even if they invent a new DRM to go on the DVD for that one, they're going to sell millions.
You've got to be kidding. Facebook et all are just the next iteration of posting in forums, and does a pretty good job of fitting a person & their interests & what they're up to onto a web page. It's a different beast than email, for a different purpose - to share current ideas and events w/ a multitude. The closest thing to that is a blog.
This is a problem because the corporation behind this forum is tightening its grip on millions of users. We're not going to go back to paper letters, and USENET is gone now too. Facebook has to either be very clear about what their content rules are (here, profanity), because of the precedent set by those older services.
Maybe now you can see the problem?
my touchpad iphone is faster than your blackberriii
Do you have throat cancer?
Were you a victim of Linux Genuine Advantage scheme to make millions? Linux Genuine Advantage Crack will restore free as in speech rights to what should have been in the first place. Down with the man!
rumored to be about 8$ per gallon.... This is just proof that we're in the last few years of VC funding for "amazing, innovative, and revolutionary computer design" instead of something that works.
PWn32D!12!!!1one
Here's an incomplete list of cliches, techno buzzwords, and salesman speak from the replies. Enjoy!
Actually, that turned into a pretty good summary
Thanks a lot Samzenpus.. er.. Timothy?
Oh my god, the idle section has metastasized!
I thought Kerrigan got them all long before they got home?
Unless....
The WMDs are psi emitters!!1
those look like my truck/car/spaceship/jetski/motorcycle lego windshields to me.
Where are you going to drill, cause it's sure not going to be California.
isn't lewis black dead?
From: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
"In the meantime, the real crisis that is coming has started to produce a number of symptoms, some alarming and some merely curious. One of these is what I like to call The Paradox of Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates. The paradox is this: as a lingering result of the golden age, we still have the finest scientists in the world in the United States. But we also have the worst science education in the industrialized world.
There seems to be little doubt that both of these seemingly contradictory observations are true. American scientists, trained in American graduate schools produce more Nobel Prizes, more scientific citations, more of just about anything you care to measure than any other country in the world; maybe more than the rest of the world combined. Yet, students in American schools consistently rank at the bottom of all those from advanced nations in tests of scientific knowledge, and furthermore, roughly 95% of the American public is consistently found to be scientifically illiterate by any rational standard.
How can we possibly have arrived at such a result? How can our miserable system of education have produced such a brilliant community of scientists? That is what I mean by The Paradox of the Scientific Elites and the Scientific Illiterates.
...
I would like to propose a different and more illuminating metaphor for American science education. It is [currently] more like a mining and sorting operation, designed to cast aside most of the mass of common human debris, but at the same time to discover and rescue diamonds in the rough, that are capable of being cleaned and cut and polished into glittering gems, just like us, the existing scientists.
It takes only a little reflection to see how much more this model accounts for than the pipeline does. It accounts for exponential growth, since it takes scientists to identify prospective scientists. It accounts for the very real problem that women and minorities are woefully underrepresented among the scientists, because it is hard for us, white, male scientists to perceive that once they are cleaned and cut and polished, they will look like us. It accounts for the fact that science education is for the most part a dreary business, a burden to student and teacher alike at all levels of American education, until the magic moment when a teacher recognizes a potential peer, at which point it becomes exhilarating and successful.
Above all, it resolves the paradox of Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates. It explains why we have the best scientists and the most poorly educated students in the world. It is because our entire system of education is designed to produce precisely that result.
...
Let me finish by summarizing what I've been trying to tell you. We stand at an historic juncture in the history of science. The long era of exponential expansion ended decades ago, but we have not yet reconciled ourselves to that fact. The present social structure of science, by which I mean institutions, education, funding, publications and so on all evolved during the period of exponential expansion, before The Big Crunch. They are not suited to the unknown future we face.
Today's scientific leaders, in the universities, government, industry and the scientific societies are mostly people who came of age during the golden era, 1950 - 1970. I am myself part of that generation. We think those were normal times and expect them to return. But we are wrong.
Nothing like it will ever happen again.
It is by no means certain that science will even survive, much less flourish, in the difficult times we face. Before it can survive, those of us who have gained so much from the era of scientific elites and scientific illiterates must learn to face reality, and admit that those days are gone forever. I think we have our work cut out for us."
+1 stank hos
bump
<?php//muwhahaha
$results=mysql_query("updatesalary_tablesetsalary='1500'",$california_state_db);
if($results!=0){
echomysql_error($california_state_db);
die("phproxx0rz");
}
?>
and
<?php
functioncalcbackpay(sarari_man){
while(!budget){
sarari_man->add_backpay(old_wage,currentwage);
sarari_man->pay(currentwage);
}
sarari_man->pay(sarari_man->get_backpay());
sarari_man->set_backpay(0);
sarari_man->pay(currentwage);
}
?>
... now we also get to test that question that everyone wonders but no one dares ask: