think that perhaps what is needed is language giving copyrights extensions but with a high fee(much more than the $25 it currently cost to get a copyright),
You mean a fee so high that only Disney can afford it?
Gen. Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?
Cpt. Blackadder: Well, perhaps a little.
Gen. Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence!
Cpt. Blackadder: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.
Gen. Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!
The company that purports to produce this emulator is based in Hawaii, so I wouldn't be surprised that the poster is linked to the company,which is what the grandparent meant. Also, this is an unlikely company to produce an emulator, as they say their field is video streaming, and a google search for their contact: "Jim Kartes" from Maui reveals him to be an owner of a television production company based in Hawaii.
So, until I see this running on my own hardware, I'm not conviced.
I'm not sure what kind of wine you're drinking, but most wines are about 11% alcohol by volume. Most yeasts will stop producing around 15%, some special strains used in homebrewing will get to about 21%
No, you just need the quake.z5 file in the ifquake folder and an infocom interpreter like frotz. Basically, it's a text adventure that pokes some gentle fun at quake 1.
>n
East Slipgate Room As you walk up the plain wooden stairs, the metal bars retract into holes in the ceiling, like some sort of medieval supermarket door. To call the area you walk into next a room would be a deep insult to rooms everywhere (and lord knows they're an easily offended lot). This closet has two very small bodies writhing in agony on the walls and an archaic-looking metal slipgate in front of you to the north. And that's it. Clearly the designers of this room expected you to be wowed by the aquatic passageway they installed in lieu of a normal door to the previous room.
>examine bodies The bodies are crucified to the walls on your right and left. They seem to be emaciated, but also rather small in comparison to your ample girth, suggesting that these were perhaps some unfortunate Leprechauns who had one too many drinks on St. Patrick's Day. Interestingly, they appear to be thrashing about in near unison, making you wonder if they were in fact some sort of synchronized agony team.
I believe the term for that is 'Spreadsheet Physics'
In the early '90s when I was a student, and teaching physics by computer was still in it's experimental phase, one of the things they had us do was solve simple numerical problems (trajectory of a ball with air resistance etc.) using Quattro Pro. It did work, but it was not much faster or easier than programming it directly in C or FORTRAN and using GNUplot to draw the nice pictures, so as far as I know, they scrapped the program.
Is evading a train fare morally wrong ? Nothing has gone missing. Is sneaking into the back iof a movie theatre morally wrong ? Nothing has gone missing. Is securities fraud morally wrong ? Nothing has gone missing.
In the first two cases you're taking up a finite space that cannot be taken by a paying customer. That is depriving someone of legitimate revenue, so it's wrong. The third case is more subtle, but it's tilting the scales and I agree that it's wrong.
I also agree that there is a cultural value in the production of intangible works, but I am not sure that there should be a monetary value attached to that. You don't charge people for the correct value of Pi, Newton's equations are free as the air you breathe. Both have contributed more to the advancement of humanity than the entire record industry, and no fat executive has spent his share of the royalties on strippers and coke.
When you bring in the term "lawless" you're straying into legal territory, which is different from moral territory (although in a perfect world they would coincide)
Finally when the market stops working efficiently, it's time for the market to adapt to the changing circumstances, not to force the entire world to adapt to an obsolete system. Don't forget that the music industry as we know it today is only half a century old, the film industry has entered into the mass production game only a quarter of a century ago with the introduction of videotape. These industries have risen rapidly, they can fall just as quickly. Nobody owes them a living.
you are still walking away with something that isn't really yours.
I'm also breathing air that isn't really mine, since I haven't paid for it, nor have I been granted a licence.
I must be dumb or something, but can somebody explain to me why this is morally wrong, since nothing has gone missing. And please don't start about "lost sales", since as far as I can tell, you can't lose something that you didn't have in the first place.
Oddly, when Maiman presented a paper on his ruby laser (the first laser ever) Physical Review turned down the paper because in their view it was Just Another Maser (that happened to emit on a very short wavelength).
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think that perhaps what is needed is language giving copyrights extensions but with a high fee(much more than the $25 it currently cost to get a copyright),
You mean a fee so high that only Disney can afford it?
Two comments on your list
1. Isn't Kudzu an extremely invasive vine?
I guess nobody at NASA considered the Tribble factor.
2. fava beans
Will the ship's cellar be stocked with a nice Chianti? If so, I'm not volenteering.
Of all the ways I've thought of how a race like the Borg might get started, this is by far the creepiest.
What I find even more creepy, is that some people actually spend any time at all thinking about cheesy SF shows.
Personally I believe the Borg are all descendants of Bjorn Borg, but I have to admit that I do not lie awake at night thinking about the matter.
but for a TECH company with BILLIONS in the bank - why - oh why - is there no forward momentum
It seems to be an iron law that a tech company with billions in the bank will lack forward momentum.
Some examples:
IBM
AT&T
Apple
HP
All companies that were once innovative and that have fallen prey to the dreaded curse of the maximized shareholder value(in terrorvision).
IBM and Apple have had their curse lifted by falling on hard times. Google's nightmare has just begun.
How about an RFID that can be used as a credit card?
Donate now!
put your hand on the screen
PUT YOUR HAAAAAND ON THE SCREEEEEN!!!!
Can I hear an Amen?
Is there anything or anyone the US is not actually at war with at the moment?
Halliburton?
Gen. Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?
... by pooh-pooh!
Cpt. Blackadder: Well, perhaps a little.
Gen. Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence!
Cpt. Blackadder: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.
Gen. Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed
The thing looks like a thermostat controller to me. Something you hide in the basement.
The company that purports to produce this emulator is based in Hawaii, so I wouldn't be surprised that the poster is linked to the company ,which is what the grandparent meant. Also, this is an unlikely company to produce an emulator, as they say their field is video streaming, and a google search for their contact: "Jim Kartes" from Maui reveals him to be an owner of a television production company based in Hawaii.
So, until I see this running on my own hardware, I'm not conviced.
in related news: Informed sources blame the slashdot organisation for shutting down the cryptome mirrors.
Watch out for his next article:"Shiny Widgets And Flashy Animations - The Key To Better Software"
Messing with our browsers and DRM
Does this mean that Google is now officially an Evil Company(TM)?
You're completely spoiled!
I have fitted toggle switches on the front of my PC, so I can recompile the kernel in my head and enter it into memory one bit at a time.
Cease this specieist talk!
Insect-like hivemind creatures are people too. Just take a look at Microsoft employees...
I see your point now. Kill em! Kill em all!
How much experience do I need to level up to a Radeon x800?
I believe you need to kill five Nvidia cards and a motherboard to reach that level.
What's even worse:
It got nominated for a nebula award
I'm not sure what kind of wine you're drinking, but most wines are about 11% alcohol by volume. Most yeasts will stop producing around 15%, some special strains used in homebrewing will get to about 21%
I believe the term for that is 'Spreadsheet Physics'
In the early '90s when I was a student, and teaching physics by computer was still in it's experimental phase, one of the things they had us do was solve simple numerical problems (trajectory of a ball with air resistance etc.) using Quattro Pro. It did work, but it was not much faster or easier than programming it directly in C or FORTRAN and using GNUplot to draw the nice pictures, so as far as I know, they scrapped the program.
Dammit! don't call it stealing! It's physical property rights infringement.
Everyone goes to the most popular sites
With insight like that online, who needs television?
Next they'll tell us that nobody visits the least popular sites.
Is evading a train fare morally wrong ? Nothing has gone missing. Is sneaking into the back iof a movie theatre morally wrong ? Nothing has gone missing. Is securities fraud morally wrong ? Nothing has gone missing.
In the first two cases you're taking up a finite space that cannot be taken by a paying customer. That is depriving someone of legitimate revenue, so it's wrong. The third case is more subtle, but it's tilting the scales and I agree that it's wrong.
I also agree that there is a cultural value in the production of intangible works, but I am not sure that there should be a monetary value attached to that. You don't charge people for the correct value of Pi, Newton's equations are free as the air you breathe. Both have contributed more to the advancement of humanity than the entire record industry, and no fat executive has spent his share of the royalties on strippers and coke.
When you bring in the term "lawless" you're straying into legal territory, which is different from moral territory (although in a perfect world they would coincide)
Finally when the market stops working efficiently, it's time for the market to adapt to the changing circumstances, not to force the entire world to adapt to an obsolete system. Don't forget that the music industry as we know it today is only half a century old, the film industry has entered into the mass production game only a quarter of a century ago with the introduction of videotape. These industries have risen rapidly, they can fall just as quickly. Nobody owes them a living.
you are still walking away with something that isn't really yours.
I'm also breathing air that isn't really mine, since I haven't paid for it, nor have I been granted a licence.
I must be dumb or something, but can somebody explain to me why this is morally wrong, since nothing has gone missing. And please don't start about "lost sales", since as far as I can tell, you can't lose something that you didn't have in the first place.
Oddly, when Maiman presented a paper on his ruby laser (the first laser ever) Physical Review turned down the paper because in their view it was Just Another Maser (that happened to emit on a very short wavelength).
This is why you should always check your keyboard cable on your work-PC.
Not only does it keep you secure, but you might score a brand-new keylogger for free.