primes, other then 15, person making this must've messed up.
That 15 is in there just to f*** with their heads. We can't have the aliens thinking we're too smart, or being totally sure that the sequence with 15 in it isn't somehow important.
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I Trust Lessig and the WP About as far as I can throw them. Larry writing for the WP? That's like putting a red star on a red flag, if you catch my drift.
I live in NoVA. The reasons we don't have broadband are simple. We got analog cable before internet. Cox is struggling to upgrade all the analog stuff. Then of course DSL just sucks, but it sucks everywhere.
Wanna lay fiber in DC? The city slapped a moratorium on digging because they couldn't coordinate digs properly. Before, company A would lay fiber, then a week later company B would tear up the same street that was just patched. Residents and businesses said "enough is enough" and justifiable so. Now they have to coordinate through the city, but that takes time. DC has some infrastructure that dates back to the Civil War, and a government that is just beginning to recover from being run by a mayor who smoked crack. Literally.
If you want to look for reasons why broadband isn't making it in the US I'm sure there are plenty of them, but this business of suggesting that "content providers" are totally to blame, or even partially to blame seems like a stretch. This just smacks of political posturing and disinformation from the radical Leftist AIP movement, of which Lessig is a leader.
Not surprisingly, small code is one of the virtues of Perl. No need to compress it--it's already compressed!
That said, the claim made by this company is obvious bollox (sp?). Anything much better than 1:1 on truly random data is not possible. Does anybody have a link to a mathematical proof, or better yet a layman's argument from a respected mathematician?
Or maybe they're like me on this issue. I think True Type hinting by itself looks much better than anti-aliasing when the characters are small. When they are big, it doesn't matter much one way or the other. AA fonts seem to be an obsession with Slashdot. I've not seen any other forum or newsgroup where the issue is even mentioned.
Yep. People arguing about whether or not Windows has gotten better... it's like Europeans arguing that they have better quality of life than Americans. Meanwhile, in the third world, things are so bad that nobody has any time to argue about the quality of life at all. Come to think of it, there seems to be a general principle here, which I dub... oh, ummm... Bleem's 1st Principle of Quality:
If you are arguing about the quality of something, it is probably already pretty good.
And The first corollary
If you are arguing about the quality of this versus that, they are both probably pretty good.
Then again, I was quite happy with my C-64. Not only could you control the color of the screen outside the pixelated area, you could also reboot it by shorting out pins on the back, and furthermore, the RAM image of your machine code program would still be there to help you figure out what you had done to cause the lock-up, and furthermore you could actually make sense out of the machine code, and finally I was much younger.
Great. Now we can type stuff into the TV, get 500,000 irrelevant results, get distracted by an I Love Lucy rerun, and wake up 4 hours later trying to remember what we were looking for. Thanks again technology.
Don't lie. What comes around goes around, if not in this life, in the life to come. If not in the physical world, in the spiritual world. Lie, and you may wake up one day wondering why your bank account is fat and your life is thin.
Amen brother. Requiring proprietary software developers to pay Federal taxes, and then refusing to allow them to benefit from Federal products is inherently prejudicial.
And the patent system worked as it should in this case. Polaroid thought they could rest on their patent forever. They failed to innovate and paid the price.
A few days ago I saw an ad for some product they were releasing in vain hope of rescuing the company--yet another instant film camera. So sad. Two years before the introduction of Sony's Mavica, I was discussing the idea of a floppy-based digitial camera with my friends. Polaroid just kept cranking out those stupid film cameras and never saw the light. I have a Polaroid that's been sitting in my closet for 6 years now...
I don't hate Americans. In fact, I hate the Canadian Government's own policies for constantly screwing their own citizens while letting themselves be screwed by America
Hmmm... This reminds me... I don't hate the Chinese. I hate the American's own policies for constantly screwing our own citizens by letting us get screwed by China. Example: steel dumping. China (and others) have been dumping steel here for years while our mills go bankrupt.
The point is, I don't go blaming China for acting in their own best interest. I blame America for failing to act in its own best interest. So, I don't expect Canadians to come whining to us. Complain to your own government. I voted against Bush Sr. because of the China issue, and helped him lose (see footnote). Maybe there are some government officials that you can help lose next election. Canada has voting rights last time I checked.
You accuse the US of being a bully, but we here in the US are always being bullied by China because "you can't ignore 1/4 of the worlds population". Oh yes we can, but nobody with any kind of power "gets it". Whatever wrongs the US might have done Canada pale in comparison to what China has planned for Taiwan, Central Asia, and the world as soon as it feels like the moment is right.
So, the bottom line is that it isn't country X's job to look out for country Y. It doesn't take a genius to realize that it's better for countries to get along than it is to fight, but leaders don't seem to be able to accomplish that. This is, sadly, nothing that hasn't been true for the entire history of man.
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footnote: I was a student and had to seal my absentee ballot before Perot went on his "dirty tricks" tirade. Otherwise I would have voted for GB #41. I am proud to say I never voted Clinton.
The US shouldn't even have the right to impose such actions on other countries
Whoah, contries shouldn't have the right to levy tarrifs for any reason? So, you are saying the entire world should be one giant free trade zone?
Your statements are inherently self-contradictory. The US action is an example of self-government, not a counter-example.
So many people seem to be drawing confused parallels between the US and Great Britain at the time of the US Revolution. The Ukraine is not a colony of the US. The Ukraine is not legally obligated to trade with the US, and can thus avoid the tarrif quite easily. The Ukraine is not governed by US officials. The Ukraine is a sovereign nation, and can enact counter-tarrifs against us if it desires. The US would have to build a tremendous international consensus to isolate the Ukraine, and that is not likely to happen.
I think one of two things will happen: 1. The Ukraine will decide to comply. 2. The tarrif will become irrelevant (like the Cuban embargo).
What I want to know, is what Americans do when their government does something that obviously by the replies to this post, the people don't agree with.
Ummm... move to Canada.
Now that should put the whole IP debate in perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it isn't nearly as important as being sent off to die in a poorly run, ill-conceived overseas war.
Do you guys just sit by and bitch about it like us Canadians?
Continuing with the Vietnam example, we organize, protest, and occasionally riot. It's just that whether or not we can get Disney videos for the cost of the tape isn't that important.
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I couldn't agree more. Ordinarily I roll my eyes when I see articles about "corporate evil" on Slashdot, but Monsanto is an exception. Unequivocably, without doubt, Monsanto's corporate charter should be revoked, the CEOs should be stripped of all but their posessions but $500 and a suit, their assets should be auctioned and checks cut to any shareholders who are not involved with day-to-day decision making.
They are just pure evil. I already knew about the terminator seeds, and as shocking as the PCB article was when I read it this morning, it didn't surprise me.
You ask somebody if they are going to hijack the plane. If their face lights up on the monitor, you give them a full search. If their face doesn't light up on the monitor, you base your decision on other factors. Would you prefer that we racially profile everyone? I know I would, since all the perps are young Middle Eastern males, but that will never happen because there are too many PC wackos in this country who think that searching people who fit the profile is the moral equivalent of lynching people on a hot Summer night in Mississippi.
Honestly, officer, that's just extra fuel for my laptop. It's a shame, but I think this technology is not going to make it for security reasons. Essentially, you are carrying a little Molotov cocktail on board.
Better yet, if you did this in a cave you could argue as to whether you had made a hologram of a stalctite, a holograph of a stalgmite, a hologram of a stalagmite, or a holograph of a stalactite. If you bring a piece of space rock with you, it could get even more complicated, but I think some of these permutations are only possible in outer space and/or impossible.
All of this is fine with me. In the PC world, people that want a fancy case make it themselves and/or buy mod-kits for their cases.
As far as I'm concerned, the beige rectangular box is just fine. I could care less about having a nice looking case, or for that matter, a nice desktop background. It's what's inside the other little windows that I care about.
My case is a beige full tower. One side is flush up against the desk. The other side is 2 feet away from a book shelf. The top is usually covered with books and stuff. The back is, well... it's in back. That leaves the front, which is roughly 8 inches by 2 feet of beige space with drive doors and stuff on it. Why would I want to waste time decorating that little space, when there are many square meters of white walls in the room (which I do decorate with pictures, I'm not a sensory deprevation freak).
These are just my preference. For people that care about eye candy on a computer, the supply is plentiful. They just have to pay for it themselves, which is fine with me because if they didn't it would add to the cost of my PC.
There are still.EDUs. Most ISPs give out 10 free megs or more. If you have broadband and you don't upstream too much, you can run a server. If your project is software, you can host it on places like SourceForge. If your project is the least bit interesting, you can probably find someone who will host it for nothing.
There is still plenty of room for the Internet as it used to be: Obscure, intellectual and hostile.
Just because there is a WalMart in the suburbs doesn't mean there isn't a coffeehouse in the city. Just because everybody else drinks Starbucks mocha, doesn't mean you can't drink home-brewed kombucha from a thermos.
The old culture is still there. Those who want it will always seek it out. Yes, it is no longer the brightest star in the sky. Maybe the other stars are as bright as the Sun, drowning things out; but there will always be people who surf above the atmosphere, in the blackness of space.
Two words: Russian mafia. I understand their counterfeit currency is good enough to fool all but the experts.
The bottom line is that if they can manufacture it, so can they.
Also, money talks. How much does the guy who runs the ID machine make? Multiply it by 2, throw in a Summer home and death threats to anyone who squeals. Don't believe me? When they finally caught some of these guys who sold us out to the Soviets, it was usually for less than $1 million over the course of 10 years. That's a lot to you and me, but it's nothing to a government who wants to screw us over.
The only way to really prevent terrorism is good old fashion leg work, diplomacy, and military force. There is a time and place for each of these tactics.
So, Larry Elison and The Beast, go peddle your snake oil someplace else.
Continue to use "megabyte" for 10^6. Use "binary megabyte" for 2^20. If people see "mebibyte" they will think it's a typo.
Advertisers can continue to use "megabyte" in large type without fear since it has a clear-cut definition, even though it does lead to values that are somewhat inflated. The masses probably don't care about this. Geeks can either look for the binary megabyte number in the fine print, or guesstimate it themselves.
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the probleme related to 15 has been fixed.
Why does that not inspire confidence?
I can see it now:
PHB: We have to use Java for our next project.
Dilbert: Why?
PHB: According to this ZDNet poll, 99% of IT Professionals say it's the best choice.
Dilbert: Ummm... 1,234,243,324,234 votes for Java vs. 98,234,242,123 for .Net. Doesn't that tell you something?
PHB: Don't bother me with the technical details, just get to work. We have a client in London with a trillion customers who need it by next Tuesday.
primes, other then 15, person making this must've messed up.
That 15 is in there just to f*** with their heads. We can't have the aliens thinking we're too smart, or being totally sure that the sequence with 15 in it isn't somehow important.
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I Trust Lessig and the WP About as far as I can throw them. Larry writing for the WP? That's like putting a red star on a red flag, if you catch my drift.
I live in NoVA. The reasons we don't have broadband are simple. We got analog cable before internet. Cox is struggling to upgrade all the analog stuff. Then of course DSL just sucks, but it sucks everywhere.
Wanna lay fiber in DC? The city slapped a moratorium on digging because they couldn't coordinate digs properly. Before, company A would lay fiber, then a week later company B would tear up the same street that was just patched. Residents and businesses said "enough is enough" and justifiable so. Now they have to coordinate through the city, but that takes time. DC has some infrastructure that dates back to the Civil War, and a government that is just beginning to recover from being run by a mayor who smoked crack. Literally.
If you want to look for reasons why broadband isn't making it in the US I'm sure there are plenty of them, but this business of suggesting that "content providers" are totally to blame, or even partially to blame seems like a stretch. This just smacks of political posturing and disinformation from the radical Leftist AIP movement, of which Lessig is a leader.
Everyone who has that nagging pain in your wrists should probably read this decision.
Too... sore... to... move... mouse.
Not surprisingly, small code is one of the virtues of Perl. No need to compress it--it's already compressed!
That said, the claim made by this company is obvious bollox (sp?). Anything much better than 1:1 on truly random data is not possible. Does anybody have a link to a mathematical proof, or better yet a layman's argument from a respected mathematician?
Or maybe they're like me on this issue. I think True Type hinting by itself looks much better than anti-aliasing when the characters are small. When they are big, it doesn't matter much one way or the other. AA fonts seem to be an obsession with Slashdot. I've not seen any other forum or newsgroup where the issue is even mentioned.
Yep. People arguing about whether or not Windows has gotten better... it's like Europeans arguing that they have better quality of life than Americans. Meanwhile, in the third world, things are so bad that nobody has any time to argue about the quality of life at all. Come to think of it, there seems to be a general principle here, which I dub... oh, ummm... Bleem's 1st Principle of Quality:
If you are arguing about the quality of something, it is probably already pretty good.
And The first corollary
If you are arguing about the quality of this versus that, they are both probably pretty good.
Then again, I was quite happy with my C-64. Not only could you control the color of the screen outside the pixelated area, you could also reboot it by shorting out pins on the back, and furthermore, the RAM image of your machine code program would still be there to help you figure out what you had done to cause the lock-up, and furthermore you could actually make sense out of the machine code, and finally I was much younger.
Great. Now we can type stuff into the TV, get 500,000 irrelevant results, get distracted by an I Love Lucy rerun, and wake up 4 hours later trying to remember what we were looking for. Thanks again technology.
Don't lie. What comes around goes around, if not in this life, in the life to come. If not in the physical world, in the spiritual world. Lie, and you may wake up one day wondering why your bank account is fat and your life is thin.
Amen brother. Requiring proprietary software developers to pay Federal taxes, and then refusing to allow them to benefit from Federal products is inherently prejudicial.
And the patent system worked as it should in this case. Polaroid thought they could rest on their patent forever. They failed to innovate and paid the price.
A few days ago I saw an ad for some product they were releasing in vain hope of rescuing the company--yet another instant film camera. So sad. Two years before the introduction of Sony's Mavica, I was discussing the idea of a floppy-based digitial camera with my friends. Polaroid just kept cranking out those stupid film cameras and never saw the light. I have a Polaroid that's been sitting in my closet for 6 years now...
I don't hate Americans. In fact, I hate the Canadian Government's own policies for constantly screwing their own citizens while letting themselves be screwed by America
Hmmm... This reminds me... I don't hate the Chinese. I hate the American's own policies for constantly screwing our own citizens by letting us get screwed by China. Example: steel dumping. China (and others) have been dumping steel here for years while our mills go bankrupt.
The point is, I don't go blaming China for acting in their own best interest. I blame America for failing to act in its own best interest. So, I don't expect Canadians to come whining to us. Complain to your own government. I voted against Bush Sr. because of the China issue, and helped him lose (see footnote). Maybe there are some government officials that you can help lose next election. Canada has voting rights last time I checked.
You accuse the US of being a bully, but we here in the US are always being bullied by China because "you can't ignore 1/4 of the worlds population". Oh yes we can, but nobody with any kind of power "gets it". Whatever wrongs the US might have done Canada pale in comparison to what China has planned for Taiwan, Central Asia, and the world as soon as it feels like the moment is right.
So, the bottom line is that it isn't country X's job to look out for country Y. It doesn't take a genius to realize that it's better for countries to get along than it is to fight, but leaders don't seem to be able to accomplish that. This is, sadly, nothing that hasn't been true for the entire history of man.
========
footnote: I was a student and had to seal my absentee ballot before Perot went on his "dirty tricks" tirade. Otherwise I would have voted for GB #41. I am proud to say I never voted Clinton.
The US shouldn't even have the right to impose such actions on other countries
Whoah, contries shouldn't have the right to levy tarrifs for any reason? So, you are saying the entire world should be one giant free trade zone?
Your statements are inherently self-contradictory. The US action is an example of self-government, not a counter-example.
So many people seem to be drawing confused parallels between the US and Great Britain at the time of the US Revolution. The Ukraine is not a colony of the US. The Ukraine is not legally obligated to trade with the US, and can thus avoid the tarrif quite easily. The Ukraine is not governed by US officials. The Ukraine is a sovereign nation, and can enact counter-tarrifs against us if it desires. The US would have to build a tremendous international consensus to isolate the Ukraine, and that is not likely to happen.
I think one of two things will happen: 1. The Ukraine will decide to comply. 2. The tarrif will become irrelevant (like the Cuban embargo).
What I want to know, is what Americans do when their government does something that obviously by the replies to this post, the people don't agree with.
Ummm... move to Canada.
Now that should put the whole IP debate in perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it isn't nearly as important as being sent off to die in a poorly run, ill-conceived overseas war.
Do you guys just sit by and bitch about it like us Canadians?
Continuing with the Vietnam example, we organize, protest, and occasionally riot. It's just that whether or not we can get Disney videos for the cost of the tape isn't that important.
I couldn't agree more. Ordinarily I roll my eyes when I see articles about "corporate evil" on Slashdot, but Monsanto is an exception. Unequivocably, without doubt, Monsanto's corporate charter should be revoked, the CEOs should be stripped of all but their posessions but $500 and a suit, their assets should be auctioned and checks cut to any shareholders who are not involved with day-to-day decision making.
They are just pure evil. I already knew about the terminator seeds, and as shocking as the PCB article was when I read it this morning, it didn't surprise me.
You ask somebody if they are going to hijack the plane. If their face lights up on the monitor, you give them a full search. If their face doesn't light up on the monitor, you base your decision on other factors. Would you prefer that we racially profile everyone? I know I would, since all the perps are young Middle Eastern males, but that will never happen because there are too many PC wackos in this country who think that searching people who fit the profile is the moral equivalent of lynching people on a hot Summer night in Mississippi.
Honestly, officer, that's just extra fuel for my laptop. It's a shame, but I think this technology is not going to make it for security reasons. Essentially, you are carrying a little Molotov cocktail on board.
Better yet, if you did this in a cave you could argue as to whether you had made a hologram of a stalctite, a holograph of a stalgmite, a hologram of a stalagmite, or a holograph of a stalactite. If you bring a piece of space rock with you, it could get even more complicated, but I think some of these permutations are only possible in outer space and/or impossible.
All of this is fine with me. In the PC world, people that want a fancy case make it themselves and/or buy mod-kits for their cases.
As far as I'm concerned, the beige rectangular box is just fine. I could care less about having a nice looking case, or for that matter, a nice desktop background. It's what's inside the other little windows that I care about.
My case is a beige full tower. One side is flush up against the desk. The other side is 2 feet away from a book shelf. The top is usually covered with books and stuff. The back is, well... it's in back. That leaves the front, which is roughly 8 inches by 2 feet of beige space with drive doors and stuff on it. Why would I want to waste time decorating that little space, when there are many square meters of white walls in the room (which I do decorate with pictures, I'm not a sensory deprevation freak).
These are just my preference. For people that care about eye candy on a computer, the supply is plentiful. They just have to pay for it themselves, which is fine with me because if they didn't it would add to the cost of my PC.
Isn't The Rest Of The Web Still There?
There are still .EDUs. Most ISPs give out 10 free megs or more. If you have broadband and you don't upstream too much, you can run a server. If your project is software, you can host it on places like SourceForge. If your project is the least bit interesting, you can probably find someone who will host it for nothing.
There is still plenty of room for the Internet as it used to be: Obscure, intellectual and hostile.
Just because there is a WalMart in the suburbs doesn't mean there isn't a coffeehouse in the city. Just because everybody else drinks Starbucks mocha, doesn't mean you can't drink home-brewed kombucha from a thermos.
The old culture is still there. Those who want it will always seek it out. Yes, it is no longer the brightest star in the sky. Maybe the other stars are as bright as the Sun, drowning things out; but there will always be people who surf above the atmosphere, in the blackness of space.
Two words: Russian mafia. I understand their counterfeit currency is good enough to fool all but the experts.
The bottom line is that if they can manufacture it, so can they.
Also, money talks. How much does the guy who runs the ID machine make? Multiply it by 2, throw in a Summer home and death threats to anyone who squeals. Don't believe me? When they finally caught some of these guys who sold us out to the Soviets, it was usually for less than $1 million over the course of 10 years. That's a lot to you and me, but it's nothing to a government who wants to screw us over.
The only way to really prevent terrorism is good old fashion leg work, diplomacy, and military force. There is a time and place for each of these tactics.
So, Larry Elison and The Beast, go peddle your snake oil someplace else.
Continue to use "megabyte" for 10^6. Use "binary megabyte" for 2^20. If people see "mebibyte" they will think it's a typo.
Advertisers can continue to use "megabyte" in large type without fear since it has a clear-cut definition, even though it does lead to values that are somewhat inflated. The masses probably don't care about this. Geeks can either look for the binary megabyte number in the fine print, or guesstimate it themselves.
Only two more releases before they... umm... add another digit of precision to the version number. :)