Science fiction and VR have primed me to believe someday we would all be walking around some imaginary digital world (oh wait, WoW anyone?), but this is "virtualization" of the real world. Like Google street view on crack. I am simultaneously in awe of the technological achievement and embarrassed that my life in computers hasn't yet created anything so cool.
I believe the Center for Democracy and Technology comes down closer to the side of NAMBLA and against ISP restrictions on child pron, so I am not surprised to see their name in an article saying we spend too much time prosecuting pron and not enough time going after fraud.
Yes, they frame the argument as a First Ammendment/free speech issue, but I still have a hard time agreeing with anything they say.
Anyway, 40%? That almost half their time. I suppose a very anti-pron group could say, "state officials were spending nearly half their case time investigating online fraudsters..." to frame an argument about the need to more actively protect children from on-line pron.
This is a little off-topic, but the racing isn't about anything if no one can see it because homogenizing the equipment eliminates sponsors who help foot the bill to get it on television. They want to see their equipment under the winning rider. And I would guess that any equipment advantage at the highest level of sport is such a small percentage of the overall package (including rider fitness, length of legs, muscle mass, mental strength, etc.) that it doesn't affect the outcome of the event.
Doping and other performance enhancers have a noticeable effect. Perhaps legalizing them would give birth to the non-enhanced Olympics. And then people with prostheses could then be allowed in the enhanced version.
Right. We try to develop something in a few years that took a hundred million years to evolve and expect that if we manage to duplicate it somehow it will be totally benign?
That statement is ignorant of history. Diplomacy can only work for a short amount of time before something happens which will require the kicking of someone's ass. Given enough time someone will come along who really wants to kill you and/or take what you have, no matter how badly the "let's all hug and get along" crowd want it to not be true. Human nature is, after all, driven by the same basic instinct as the rest of the animal kingdom: the will to survive.
Force cannot replacement diplomacy any more than diplomacy can replace force.
We are afraid to force people to "learn or fail." Somehow the idea that a kid might be dumber than his classmates has become a violation of civil liberties, like somehow I have an inalienable right to be wrong but still get full credit.
I wonder if "learn or fail" would result in school overcrowding instead of prison overcrowding...
I take exception to this whole idea. First, it is the "geeklympics." Nerds are in labs, not IT departments. Second, sitting through meetings isn't geeky or nerdy, it is an administrator-type activity.
Anyway, I'm getting ready for the Pimplympics. I specialize in the pentath-ho-lon.
Wouldn't this patent be covered by the encoding of information on a card, something which has been done for decades? And the sticker, well, that is quite ridiculous. The DMV had me affix a sticker to my license when I changed my address. And weren't there organ donor stickers on licenses at one time? That is a sticker which indicates a preference.
PetCo asks if you would like to round up your bill for a donation. Perhaps they can patent encoding that on their P.A.L.S. cards?
Not that I want get all Star Trekkerry on you, but remember the episode where the they were f**king up some race of beings when the warp drive was used in a certain part of the universe, but the Federation had no idea that such a thing was even possible?
We know we exist, but we don't know what existence means outside of life on our own planet, let alone solar system, let alone galaxy, let alone universe. We don't even know what a universe is. We don't know the nature of multi-dimensional existence, and we have no idea if slamming shit together at the speed of light may in fact be causing headaches for someone the existence of whom we can't even imagine. Like when the college kids party until 4AM in the apartment above you.
It is the shortage of web developers who are actually web developers, and it is also the inability of owners/managers to see web development as a skill. "Web master" may be - statistically speaking - one of the lowest paying "computer" jobs, but it is viable. Too many people get happy with template systems like Joomla! and get the idea that it makes them a web developer.
Additionally, too many people rely on third-party applications to be the web developer, and thus ignore the generated HTML and CSS.
At my job I was not hired as a web developer, but I know far more about web standards and HTML/CSS/Javascript than our application developers. They rely on.Net to handle the icky web stuff, freeing them to claim XHTML sctrict compliance while never coding one bit of HTML (I jumped all over that one). Even with my results (lower page weight, better UI, happier clients) I still can not convince them they have their heads up their asses.
Realistically, clown shoes should be measured in qubits. Thus, any attempt by a clown to actually measure his shoe would necessarily alter the shoe, thus changing it's size, and that would be funny. It would also allow clown shoe entanglement, thus changing every other clown's shoe size when any one clown measures his own. Quantum theory can then explain why so many clowns can fit inside of a very small vehicle.
I left my basement once in 1998 - several months before you were at CompUSA and yet less than ten years ago. I didn't know about this crazy development.
The dictionary compiles all the words we say, and we make up more words, and the dictionary compiles all the new words we say, and we make up more new words...
Maybe the South Park writers were on to something in the "Starvin Marvin In Space" episode. There is a planet where every noun has been changed to "marklar." E.g., "She thinks his marklar should be markler, when, in fact, it is really just a marklar."
Uneducated ghetto people either made up the word bling, or mangled some other well-meaning word from English, and then it was allowed back into English as a derivation? I call shenanigans.
OEMs are mostly tied to software from companies who want to invade your computer with "free" trials, probably because they pay better than Mozilla. And 8 million downloads later I doubt Mozilla would consider paying a computer manufacturer for the privilege of being installed.
There appears to be a fair amount of conjecture here. From the article:
"Hollenberg explained, "The team found that the measurements only made sense if the molecule was considered to be made of two parts. One end comprised the arsenic atom embedded in the silicon, while the 'artificial' end of the molecule forms near the silicon surface of the transistor. A single electron was spread across both ends. What is strange about the 'surface' end of the molecule is that it occurs as an artifact when we apply electrical current across the transistor and hence can be considered 'manmade.' We have no equivalent form existing naturally in the world around us."
Klimeck, and graduate student Rajib Rahman used the analysis to develop a three million-atom model in nano-electronics modeling program NEMO 3-D to analyze the behavior. From this, they determined that the exotic flat atom represented a controllable quantum state atom, via its electron. The quantum state was voltage dependent, the necessary characteristic for an electricity-based quantum computer.
Last David Ebert, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue, and graduate student Insoo Woo, helped transform the model into an image to help visualize the discovery."
So, the supposed molecule exists so that the calculations make sense. The rest is modeled in a computer program. I remain unconvinced. Perhaps a year or two down the road quantum theory will reach a point at which the results of some experiment proven by the same mechanisms leads to a contradiction, thus derailing the very foundation on which discoveries like this are theorized?
"...but it does tend to frown on large deals between companies that operate on the same level if those deals can be interpreted as restrictive of trade."
I don't understand where this alleged harms users. Should I worry that if I search on Yahoo! - something I never do, by the way - I will see the same ads as the identical search would yield on Google? Where does non-competition come into play?
Hell, I never read those ads, let alone click on them. Well, maybe that one time, for those herbal penis enlargement pills, but only because I was curious if they could make me even bigger.
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Science fiction and VR have primed me to believe someday we would all be walking around some imaginary digital world (oh wait, WoW anyone?), but this is "virtualization" of the real world. Like Google street view on crack. I am simultaneously in awe of the technological achievement and embarrassed that my life in computers hasn't yet created anything so cool.
I, for one, welcome our new PhotoSynth overlords.
I believe the Center for Democracy and Technology comes down closer to the side of NAMBLA and against ISP restrictions on child pron, so I am not surprised to see their name in an article saying we spend too much time prosecuting pron and not enough time going after fraud.
Yes, they frame the argument as a First Ammendment/free speech issue, but I still have a hard time agreeing with anything they say.
Anyway, 40%? That almost half their time. I suppose a very anti-pron group could say, "state officials were spending nearly half their case time investigating online fraudsters..." to frame an argument about the need to more actively protect children from on-line pron.
This is a little off-topic, but the racing isn't about anything if no one can see it because homogenizing the equipment eliminates sponsors who help foot the bill to get it on television. They want to see their equipment under the winning rider. And I would guess that any equipment advantage at the highest level of sport is such a small percentage of the overall package (including rider fitness, length of legs, muscle mass, mental strength, etc.) that it doesn't affect the outcome of the event.
Doping and other performance enhancers have a noticeable effect. Perhaps legalizing them would give birth to the non-enhanced Olympics. And then people with prostheses could then be allowed in the enhanced version.
And don't forget Asimov and other sci-fi writers were thinking of these implications half a century ago and more. Is this life imitating art?
Right. We try to develop something in a few years that took a hundred million years to evolve and expect that if we manage to duplicate it somehow it will be totally benign?
That statement is ignorant of history. Diplomacy can only work for a short amount of time before something happens which will require the kicking of someone's ass. Given enough time someone will come along who really wants to kill you and/or take what you have, no matter how badly the "let's all hug and get along" crowd want it to not be true. Human nature is, after all, driven by the same basic instinct as the rest of the animal kingdom: the will to survive.
Force cannot replacement diplomacy any more than diplomacy can replace force.
No, just a migraine.
We are afraid to force people to "learn or fail." Somehow the idea that a kid might be dumber than his classmates has become a violation of civil liberties, like somehow I have an inalienable right to be wrong but still get full credit.
I wonder if "learn or fail" would result in school overcrowding instead of prison overcrowding...
What about PPG Industries Olympic paint? They even use a torch for the "I."
I have found that a combination of poor documentation and poor maintenance eventually lead to a full re-write. Or IE 7.
I take exception to this whole idea. First, it is the "geeklympics." Nerds are in labs, not IT departments. Second, sitting through meetings isn't geeky or nerdy, it is an administrator-type activity.
Anyway, I'm getting ready for the Pimplympics. I specialize in the pentath-ho-lon.
Wouldn't this patent be covered by the encoding of information on a card, something which has been done for decades? And the sticker, well, that is quite ridiculous. The DMV had me affix a sticker to my license when I changed my address. And weren't there organ donor stickers on licenses at one time? That is a sticker which indicates a preference. PetCo asks if you would like to round up your bill for a donation. Perhaps they can patent encoding that on their P.A.L.S. cards?
Not that I want get all Star Trekkerry on you, but remember the episode where the they were f**king up some race of beings when the warp drive was used in a certain part of the universe, but the Federation had no idea that such a thing was even possible?
We know we exist, but we don't know what existence means outside of life on our own planet, let alone solar system, let alone galaxy, let alone universe. We don't even know what a universe is. We don't know the nature of multi-dimensional existence, and we have no idea if slamming shit together at the speed of light may in fact be causing headaches for someone the existence of whom we can't even imagine. Like when the college kids party until 4AM in the apartment above you.
Personally I believe that we are going to be digging up our trash and other waste in the next few hundred years as a fuel source.
wiki Landfill Mining. I had that idea about two weeks ago; turns out someone else had that idea 40 years ago.
More interesting than whether or not the information makes it 10000 years in the future is what whether it will make it that long with the meaning.
There is nuclear waste in that mountain purple monkey dishwasher.
It is the shortage of web developers who are actually web developers, and it is also the inability of owners/managers to see web development as a skill. "Web master" may be - statistically speaking - one of the lowest paying "computer" jobs, but it is viable. Too many people get happy with template systems like Joomla! and get the idea that it makes them a web developer.
Additionally, too many people rely on third-party applications to be the web developer, and thus ignore the generated HTML and CSS.
At my job I was not hired as a web developer, but I know far more about web standards and HTML/CSS/Javascript than our application developers. They rely on .Net to handle the icky web stuff, freeing them to claim XHTML sctrict compliance while never coding one bit of HTML (I jumped all over that one). Even with my results (lower page weight, better UI, happier clients) I still can not convince them they have their heads up their asses.
Realistically, clown shoes should be measured in qubits. Thus, any attempt by a clown to actually measure his shoe would necessarily alter the shoe, thus changing it's size, and that would be funny. It would also allow clown shoe entanglement, thus changing every other clown's shoe size when any one clown measures his own. Quantum theory can then explain why so many clowns can fit inside of a very small vehicle.
I left my basement once in 1998 - several months before you were at CompUSA and yet less than ten years ago. I didn't know about this crazy development.
The dictionary compiles all the words we say, and we make up more words, and the dictionary compiles all the new words we say, and we make up more new words...
Maybe the South Park writers were on to something in the "Starvin Marvin In Space" episode. There is a planet where every noun has been changed to "marklar." E.g., "She thinks his marklar should be markler, when, in fact, it is really just a marklar."
That really gets my marklar in a marklar.
Uneducated ghetto people either made up the word bling, or mangled some other well-meaning word from English, and then it was allowed back into English as a derivation? I call shenanigans.
How about Iran: 7.6 downloads per capita. Easily beat Russia (2.5), China (.6), and India (.43).
OEMs are mostly tied to software from companies who want to invade your computer with "free" trials, probably because they pay better than Mozilla. And 8 million downloads later I doubt Mozilla would consider paying a computer manufacturer for the privilege of being installed.
There appears to be a fair amount of conjecture here. From the article:
"Hollenberg explained, "The team found that the measurements only made sense if the molecule was considered to be made of two parts. One end comprised the arsenic atom embedded in the silicon, while the 'artificial' end of the molecule forms near the silicon surface of the transistor. A single electron was spread across both ends. What is strange about the 'surface' end of the molecule is that it occurs as an artifact when we apply electrical current across the transistor and hence can be considered 'manmade.' We have no equivalent form existing naturally in the world around us."
Klimeck, and graduate student Rajib Rahman used the analysis to develop a three million-atom model in nano-electronics modeling program NEMO 3-D to analyze the behavior. From this, they determined that the exotic flat atom represented a controllable quantum state atom, via its electron. The quantum state was voltage dependent, the necessary characteristic for an electricity-based quantum computer.
Last David Ebert, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue, and graduate student Insoo Woo, helped transform the model into an image to help visualize the discovery."
So, the supposed molecule exists so that the calculations make sense. The rest is modeled in a computer program. I remain unconvinced. Perhaps a year or two down the road quantum theory will reach a point at which the results of some experiment proven by the same mechanisms leads to a contradiction, thus derailing the very foundation on which discoveries like this are theorized?
"...but it does tend to frown on large deals between companies that operate on the same level if those deals can be interpreted as restrictive of trade." I don't understand where this alleged harms users. Should I worry that if I search on Yahoo! - something I never do, by the way - I will see the same ads as the identical search would yield on Google? Where does non-competition come into play? Hell, I never read those ads, let alone click on them. Well, maybe that one time, for those herbal penis enlargement pills, but only because I was curious if they could make me even bigger.