the laws that prevent you from copying, printing and distributing those songs may or may not even exist. Thus the record companies made this a part of the agreement. Only countries that have a US-record-company-approved DCMA or equivalent are likely to be able to use this service.
i have some friends who argue that its worse than that; it is, in fact, economics masquerading as politics and has been for a long time. they also hold that the USA is just as corrupt as any country in the world, including those that make transparency's list, its just that they're more professional about it. recent events such as the halliburton & bechtel contracts, and the army's microsoft contract, the one that passed through a reseller, highlight this accusation.
perhaps its about time that those of you who live there actually do something about it. convince your friends, parents, neighbors, etc. to only vote for candidates who refuse soft money for a start, then extend it to all contributions. have them run only on public money, as in england.
if you're not buying influence when you contribute to a candidate, then what exactly are you doing?
hmmmm. i don't have windows. but i do have jboss, and catalina, and servlets and struts. and you could too, even on windows. and if we're just going to turn everything into a web service anyway, i think thats more than enough. oh, i forgot, i have eclipse, too. and you know what, thats right, you can too, even on windows. i guess it really doesn't matter what platform you're on, especially if all you're doing is developing web services.
no, i know no such person. my father worked for pratt & whitney for most of his life and told me this story ages ago. i googled for the story and just couldn't find it.
my bad. i guess i should go work for the NY Times, huh?
IANAPhysicist, but its recently been suggested here that quantum mechanics might allow us to extract energy in situations involving a single heat bath.
'assorted frozen birds?' assorted?. not that i've ever heard. chickens and turkeys probably. frozen, no, not at all.
there is a famous story involving the safety program for very high-speed trains in an unnamed european country. they speak to the americans about how they test turbines for use in commercial aircraft, and decide that they will use the same basic testing setup. they put the bird right through the windshield of the train _and_ through the driver's seat and embed it in a rack of equipment. they call to the US and inquire as to whether that outcome should be expected. they're told 'no.' they send a detailed description of the test program; the reply, 'defrost the bird.'
(heard from the head of testing for a large commercial jet enging program)
Once the child reached the point of handling a full programming language (probably 10 or 11 for a bright one), I'd introduce the JDK and emacs/jedit (in order to have the simplest possible environment).
the first thing i thought of was a piece in wired about microsatellites to track terrestrial phenomenon. the real world, that outside of the military, has plenty of uses for new technology as soon as its readily available and not too expensive. there was another article in wired about using satellite technology to track trucks.
both of these applications use space technology, and neither of them can be replaced simply with gps, but they illustrate the types of applications that such technology enables.
anything that requires precise geographical measurements over time is now possible, as long as you can get a grant for the equipment.
because greece is in kokalistan, foo! seriously, when your ministry of telecoms is 0wn3d by a tycoon, and his companies have surpluses of ISDN modems, when do you think you're going to see broadband; when the ISDN modems run out. incidentally Deutche Telekom statistics show 30 million ISDN subscribers for 3 million DSL subscribers.
additionally, service rates for dedicated _anything_ are astronomic in greece. Ote.net, the national telephony provider, quoted a rate of approximately 750 for 64kB. that would buy you a T1 in the usa. similar service elsewhere in europe costs half that much (400 in the UK).
so here's the answer. get together with a bunch of friends who live in your neighborhood and set up wifi, or wait a long, long time.
a better example would be the stasi, east germany's secret service. they had files one nearly everyone in the country. talk about fine-grained, in a documentary i saw they discussed the case of a man who was informing on his family; brand of toilet paper was one of the items in the file!
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biology, or rather evolution, has come up with some fairly novel ways for cells to create energy, ie. metabolize stuff via reduction, etc. cockroaches don't seem to have any problem, do they?
reproduction, on the other hand, probably isn't desired of nanobots. certainly not uncontrolled reproduction (ask Bill Joy;). biological organisms spend huge amounts of energy on reproduction. lift that requirement and the bot may be able to scavenge enough to survive.
when it comes to building jet engines, or any other large or complicated thing, the interesting thing is more likely cell lineage, like in biology. see the nematode for a good example; its entire cell lineage is known. how would these nanobots know how to assemble into something useful?
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Most of what I've read about nanotechnology has come from Scientific American. From a layman's point of view their nanotech section is probably the best reference there is.
in europe, many stores, kisoks, etc. have purchased small uv light detectors, especially after a flood of fake 50 bills. the interesting thing is that washed bills of any denomination usually fail this test. at one point i had carried a 50 that i had been told was fake by my bank for six months. i went to another bank and asked them about it, they told me that it was real, and then took me downstairs to while they checked it with the 100,000 machine they have. they also explained that there are very simple tests for checking a bill; they have little ridges stamped into the bill that can't be washed off and are very difficult to fake.
is a collection of short stories that deal with this theme (review, manifesto ). individuals in these stories purchase body modifications along the lines of rhino horns on their head, etc.
i've often thought about how societal acceptance of the levels of modification could take place. what seems a likely initial vector would be quality of life issues. from there it could/would snowball. why not rewire some of your bodies reactions, capabilities, etc. or even sprout wings
other works in science fiction have touched upon future worlds/societies where those with unmodified genes were considered inferior and or puritans. some kind of singularity would probably occur. isn't this one of the things post-humanity is all about?
there's a piece in the latest phrack about doing just that; building loop checks into the compiler.
i personally don't want to have to learn another language. its not that i'm against it, but that doing so is actually a performance hit, ex. if (x + y + z) is not valid in java, is has to be converted ((x+y+z)> 0) to boolean, not just cast. being forced to learn all the little rules that are required to compile in some new language takes time, and its not always clear that there are advantages.
certainly its possible to educate programmers about proper, secure methodologies, but then it becomes a question of habit; if you don't force yourself to do it everytime, you're going to forget in that one critical instance.
why not code that knowledge into the tool that builds the program?
why don't you search/. for articles about SE Linux? say this string 'Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux' in particular. i'm sure you won't have any problem figuring out what i'm talking about.
Doesn't anyone find it the slightest bit ironic that this piece was put on the front page of one of the most highly respected newspapers in the United States just two days after the announcement of Judge Kollar-Kotelly's decision?
almost ten years ago i gave up my mac in favor of NT3.5 for most of those features you mention. it took apple that long to make real computers. in the meantime taligent, copeland and be came and went, and i finally turned to linux.
i was looking at the apple store today. for the same price as a dual G4/1G i can build a dual Athlon with 266FSB, more and registered memory, in an aluminum case with a 430watt power supply, stuff it with reasonably priced SCSI, and for the coup de grace give it a NVidia Quadro4 750.
i spent about two and a half hours trying to get somewhere in boston from overseas. from my point of view traffic stopped at an alter.net atm router in new york. somewhere around 18:30 GMT packets started getting through again and everything seemed fine, but until then i was showing the same 1.2 sec times to anything alter.net in the US.
the idea that the future of the man-machine interface might be gestural has been around for a while. bruce sterling mentions it in "Holy Fire."
with the current state of voice recognition i'm relatively certain that i could sign to my computer better than i can speak to it. and i wouldn't need fancy headphone/microphone setups.
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the laws that prevent you from copying, printing and distributing those songs may or may not even exist. Thus the record companies made this a part of the agreement. Only countries that have a US-record-company-approved DCMA or equivalent are likely to be able to use this service.
i have some friends who argue that its worse than that; it is, in fact, economics masquerading as politics and has been for a long time. they also hold that the USA is just as corrupt as any country in the world, including those that make transparency's list, its just that they're more professional about it. recent events such as the halliburton & bechtel contracts, and the army's microsoft contract, the one that passed through a reseller, highlight this accusation.
perhaps its about time that those of you who live there actually do something about it. convince your friends, parents, neighbors, etc. to only vote for candidates who refuse soft money for a start, then extend it to all contributions. have them run only on public money, as in england.
if you're not buying influence when you contribute to a candidate, then what exactly are you doing?
do you have any special metrics or do you just use the claims presented by plaintiffs? if you have metrics of your own, how were they calculated?
hmmmm. i don't have windows. but i do have jboss, and catalina, and servlets and struts. and you could too, even on windows. and if we're just going to turn everything into a web service anyway, i think thats more than enough. oh, i forgot, i have eclipse, too. and you know what, thats right, you can too, even on windows. i guess it really doesn't matter what platform you're on, especially if all you're doing is developing web services.
no, i know no such person. my father worked for pratt & whitney for most of his life and told me this story ages ago. i googled for the story and just couldn't find it.
my bad. i guess i should go work for the NY Times, huh?
IANAPhysicist, but its recently been suggested here that quantum mechanics might allow us to extract energy in situations involving a single heat bath.
'assorted frozen birds?'
assorted?. not that i've ever heard. chickens and turkeys probably. frozen, no, not at all.
there is a famous story involving the safety program for very high-speed trains in an unnamed european country. they speak to the americans about how they test turbines for use in commercial aircraft, and decide that they will use the same basic testing setup. they put the bird right through the windshield of the train _and_ through the driver's seat and embed it in a rack of equipment. they call to the US and inquire as to whether that outcome should be expected. they're told 'no.' they send a detailed description of the test program; the reply, 'defrost the bird.'
(heard from the head of testing for a large commercial jet enging program)
then let them play with robocode!
the first thing i thought of was a piece in wired about microsatellites to track terrestrial phenomenon. the real world, that outside of the military, has plenty of uses for new technology as soon as its readily available and not too expensive. there was another article in wired about using satellite technology to track trucks. both of these applications use space technology, and neither of them can be replaced simply with gps, but they illustrate the types of applications that such technology enables. anything that requires precise geographical measurements over time is now possible, as long as you can get a grant for the equipment.
because greece is in kokalistan, foo! seriously, when your ministry of telecoms is 0wn3d by a tycoon, and his companies have surpluses of ISDN modems, when do you think you're going to see broadband; when the ISDN modems run out. incidentally Deutche Telekom statistics show 30 million ISDN subscribers for 3 million DSL subscribers.
additionally, service rates for dedicated _anything_ are astronomic in greece. Ote.net, the national telephony provider, quoted a rate of approximately 750 for 64kB. that would buy you a T1 in the usa. similar service elsewhere in europe costs half that much (400 in the UK).
so here's the answer. get together with a bunch of friends who live in your neighborhood and set up wifi, or wait a long, long time.
a better example would be the stasi, east germany's secret service. they had files one nearly everyone in the country. talk about fine-grained, in a documentary i saw they discussed the case of a man who was informing on his family; brand of toilet paper was one of the items in the file!
biology, or rather evolution, has come up with some fairly novel ways for cells to create energy, ie. metabolize stuff via reduction, etc. cockroaches don't seem to have any problem, do they?
;). biological organisms spend huge amounts of energy on reproduction. lift that requirement and the bot may be able to scavenge enough to survive.
reproduction, on the other hand, probably isn't desired of nanobots. certainly not uncontrolled reproduction (ask Bill Joy
when it comes to building jet engines, or any other large or complicated thing, the interesting thing is more likely cell lineage, like in biology. see the nematode for a good example; its entire cell lineage is known. how would these nanobots know how to assemble into something useful?
Most of what I've read about nanotechnology has come from Scientific American. From a layman's point of view their nanotech section is probably the best reference there is.
finding where grandma wandered off to!
in europe, many stores, kisoks, etc. have purchased small uv light detectors, especially after a flood of fake 50 bills. the interesting thing is that washed bills of any denomination usually fail this test. at one point i had carried a 50 that i had been told was fake by my bank for six months. i went to another bank and asked them about it, they told me that it was real, and then took me downstairs to while they checked it with the 100,000 machine they have. they also explained that there are very simple tests for checking a bill; they have little ridges stamped into the bill that can't be washed off and are very difficult to fake.
sudden downturn in the popularity of reality-tv shows!
i've often thought about how societal acceptance of the levels of modification could take place. what seems a likely initial vector would be quality of life issues. from there it could/would snowball. why not rewire some of your bodies reactions, capabilities, etc. or even sprout wings
other works in science fiction have touched upon future worlds/societies where those with unmodified genes were considered inferior and or puritans. some kind of singularity would probably occur. isn't this one of the things post-humanity is all about?
i personally don't want to have to learn another language. its not that i'm against it, but that doing so is actually a performance hit, ex. if (x + y + z) is not valid in java, is has to be converted ((x+y+z)> 0) to boolean, not just cast. being forced to learn all the little rules that are required to compile in some new language takes time, and its not always clear that there are advantages.
certainly its possible to educate programmers about proper, secure methodologies, but then it becomes a question of habit; if you don't force yourself to do it everytime, you're going to forget in that one critical instance.
why not code that knowledge into the tool that builds the program?
when are we going to see something featuring currently manufactured product?
hey AC,
/. for articles about SE Linux? say this string 'Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux' in particular. i'm sure you won't have any problem figuring out what i'm talking about.
why don't you search
actually, this would be funnier it M$ hadn't tried so hard to remove all evidence of its existence.
i was looking at the apple store today. for the same price as a dual G4/1G i can build a dual Athlon with 266FSB, more and registered memory, in an aluminum case with a 430watt power supply, stuff it with reasonably priced SCSI, and for the coup de grace give it a NVidia Quadro4 750.
now why would i want a mac again?
i spent about two and a half hours trying to get somewhere in boston from overseas. from my point of view traffic stopped at an alter.net atm router in new york. somewhere around 18:30 GMT packets started getting through again and everything seemed fine, but until then i was showing the same 1.2 sec times to anything alter.net in the US.
the idea that the future of the man-machine interface might be gestural has been around for a while. bruce sterling mentions it in "Holy Fire."
with the current state of voice recognition i'm relatively certain that i could sign to my computer better than i can speak to it. and i wouldn't need fancy headphone/microphone setups.