You're either a fool or a liar. If it's the former, I suggest you turn off Fox News and try to find the truth for once. They are lying to you. If you yourself are one of the liars, I suggest you go eat the barrel of a shotgun. Seriously. We're better off with you gone.
"[The government] was not a signatory to the historic accord, which isn’t an actual government policy"
I know it's fun to bitch and moan, but try to at least read the whole summary first. A couple government officials who are involved in copyright were kept in the loop regarding private deals between the media companies and ISPs. We have no idea what their role really was. But Wired has an email in which an administration official says [correcting her horrific AOL-style spelling]:
"Could talk for 15 or so at 10:40, or this afternoon anytime between 3 and 5. BTW, I only check my gmail intermittently now, so it's much quicker to reach me at my OMB email."
She's willing to speak to them!? That's proves she's in the RIAA's pocket! Let's all assume the worst so that we have something to be angry about! The resulting release of chemicals in the brain makes us feel good!
No, he had it right. There are ~6(10^34) = 2^115 marking positions. You mark one of them. That means you can select one value out of 2^115.
If I let you pick one value out of 2^10 = 1024, would you say that you have 10 bits of data or 1024 bits of data?
Or, to make it even easier, if I let you pick one value out of 2^0 = 1 (as in, you have to pick the number one and have no other option), is that zero bits of data or one?
Because it's just a bullshit Republican talking point? The so-called "Czars" are just nicknames for positions with long, tongue-tying titles. We've been using the term since the days of Nixon. It's only when the GOP decided they sooner burn down the country than let someone else lead it that they decided to start a fuss about the nicknames.
Are you insane? How do you propose to look out for yourself against the whims of corporations if not through the government? If some banker decides to just straight up take all of your retirement savings for himself, what are you gonna do? If your insurance company decides that, after years of collecting premiums, they don't feel like paying out benefits when you're in trouble, what are you gonna do?
The Merciful God of the Market is a lie. Market forces won't stop $MEGACORP from screwing you over. You need to band together with your neighbors to defend yourself. And when you do, that is called "government".
Much, much, much, much, much better than the alternative. Far from ideal, yes, but so much better than our only alternative as to not even merit discussion. We can only that some day soon the GOP will be dead and buried, and we can create a new party to the left of the Dems. I've long since abandoned the notion of the American system ever having more than two parties, so the only option is to kill the worse of the two and in doing so create room for one that might actually look out for us.
It is a simple problem to fix. Cheating on taxes is akin to stealing from your neighbors. Give the executives one week in prison for every million dollars not paid. Watch the problem disappear over night.
Of course, the robber barons are above the laws and would never be charged, even if they were lax enough to allow the bill to pass. But that's a problem with the system, not some inherent difficulty in levying taxes.
I think you're thinking of theorists. Experimental scientists run experiments. Those experiments involve developing prototypes and running tests on them. Engineers also develop prototypes and run tests. The difference is the goal: scientists do it to learn, engineers do it to create a product to sell.
I don't know what church has to do with anything. The laws of thermodynamics are abso-fucking-lutely clear that no process can decrease the total entropy in a system. That includes self-replication. The machines will inevitably give off waste heat or break down complex materials. That's grade school level stuff. Perhaps next you'd like to bitch at me for asserting that the world is round?
Are you twelve? If you were older, I'd expect you to remember the days of Starforce, and of having to look up secret phrases in your manual (written in yellow ink on white pages to defeat photocopying). And of course, there's Ubisoft's DRM that requires a constant internet connection, with Blizzard now planning to do the same in Diablo 3.
Steam has some of the least obtrusive DRM on the planet. Only GOG and the Humble Bundles are really better.
Still terrible for any game that uses the scroll wheel, for example to cycle through weapons. A real mousewheel clicks into each position. A touchpad can't do that.
The summary is inaccurate, as always. The actual abstract openly states that there is some subjectivity, and gives a range of 6000-8000 kg, with only one particularly large specimin topping 9 tons.
Please stop this stupid meme. You are the customer. You buy a service and pay with information and by looking at ads. They sell this information and ad space to third parties for money. Those third parties are also customers. The product is the service, since that is what they are producing.
Write on your wall about your cool new Nike Football shoes, and watch targeted advertising appear to you for other football related products.
Why is this bad? I'd rather see ads for things I like and might consider buying than scattershot ads for shit I'd never use.
Check in with FourSquare to become the mayor of burger king to get a 10% discount on your next piece of crap for lunch, and watch your insurance company make a silent note.
Why is this bad? I eat healthy, and am healthier for it. Why should I have to subsidize the lard-asses who eat at BK every day?
You ARE their intellectual property.
Now that's just scary-sounding gibberish.
All you iSheep, Twits and FacePalmers.
You seem to be fond of insulting labels. Here's some for you: paranoid, arrogant, condescending.
And for the record, I don't use Apple products, or Twitter, or Facebook. But that's because I don't want to, not because I'm afraid that they'll find out about my super-secret love of oatmeal.
I think it could be, though the printed figures probably wouldn't be as detailed as the ones you can buy. I've often thought it would be great if artistically gifted people could share/sell 3D designs for figures that could then be printed out by the rest of us. Of course, Games Workshop would go out of business within a year.
Probably with the same safety features that are on the professional versions, minus all the manual overrides. Besides, if your ten year old is that desperate to burn themselves, they'll just use the stovetop.
These new kids are made entirely of plastic! No screaming, no crying, no fighting, no diapers, no vomiting, no bizarre illnesses, no asking "why" fifty times in quick succession, and best of all - no turning into teenagers when you're not looking!
Really, the patent system would be pretty good if only its clerks knew an obvious idea when they heard one. That calendar patent basically sounds like "Method for Storing Data on a Computer". If the bar to get a patent was much, much higher than it is today, no other major changes would be necessary.
Yikes, what's the difference between "will" and "should" under those definitions? Yeah, yeah, "expected" versus "strongly recommended", but unless they have another section defining those terms, all I see is "does not require a waiver". It's like corporate Simon Says... you gotta listen real close for the shalls versus the wills.
I'm with you up to the last sentence. There are three main reasons why scrolling is superior for PCs:
Easy navigation - I can just use the arrow keys or mousewheel to scroll, instead of needing to click a tiny link at the end of each page.
Condensed load times - By loading the entire page in one go, I can start reading while my computer loads the later sections. A paged article doesn't allow this, forcing a delay at the start of each page.
Fewer ads - The reason websites do this right now is to get more ad impressions, causing you to have to spend time loading ads over and over (especially annoying with flyover or pop-up ads). Yes, they can be blocked, but you still have lots of wasted screen real estate.
On a tablet, these reasons are reduced or even reversed. Paging is easier than scrolling, since both are swiping gestures, but scrolling requires a controlled swipe. Condensed load times doesn't apply, since the idea here is to load the webpage all at once, and display it one page at a time using CSS elements. Ads would only be loaded once, and the really obnoxious types haven't yet infiltrated tablets (AFAIK).
Tablets have some fundamental differences from their keyboard-bearing cousins. Just because pages are an abomination on PCs doesn't necessarily mean they'd be bad on tablets. I'm glad at least one company is looking into making the browser fit the platform, instead of just porting their code over.
The data here isn't missing, just obfuscated. A common lab for EEs is to unblur a picture in this way. It's much harder in real life, where you need to find what they're calling the blur kernel, but there's no reason for it to be impossible.
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You're either a fool or a liar. If it's the former, I suggest you turn off Fox News and try to find the truth for once. They are lying to you. If you yourself are one of the liars, I suggest you go eat the barrel of a shotgun. Seriously. We're better off with you gone.
"[The government] was not a signatory to the historic accord, which isn’t an actual government policy"
I know it's fun to bitch and moan, but try to at least read the whole summary first. A couple government officials who are involved in copyright were kept in the loop regarding private deals between the media companies and ISPs. We have no idea what their role really was. But Wired has an email in which an administration official says [correcting her horrific AOL-style spelling]:
"Could talk for 15 or so at 10:40, or this afternoon anytime between 3 and 5. BTW, I only check my gmail intermittently now, so it's much quicker to reach me at my OMB email."
She's willing to speak to them!? That's proves she's in the RIAA's pocket! Let's all assume the worst so that we have something to be angry about! The resulting release of chemicals in the brain makes us feel good!
No, he had it right. There are ~6(10^34) = 2^115 marking positions. You mark one of them. That means you can select one value out of 2^115.
If I let you pick one value out of 2^10 = 1024, would you say that you have 10 bits of data or 1024 bits of data?
Or, to make it even easier, if I let you pick one value out of 2^0 = 1 (as in, you have to pick the number one and have no other option), is that zero bits of data or one?
Because it's just a bullshit Republican talking point? The so-called "Czars" are just nicknames for positions with long, tongue-tying titles. We've been using the term since the days of Nixon. It's only when the GOP decided they sooner burn down the country than let someone else lead it that they decided to start a fuss about the nicknames.
Are you insane? How do you propose to look out for yourself against the whims of corporations if not through the government? If some banker decides to just straight up take all of your retirement savings for himself, what are you gonna do? If your insurance company decides that, after years of collecting premiums, they don't feel like paying out benefits when you're in trouble, what are you gonna do?
The Merciful God of the Market is a lie. Market forces won't stop $MEGACORP from screwing you over. You need to band together with your neighbors to defend yourself. And when you do, that is called "government".
Much, much, much, much, much better than the alternative. Far from ideal, yes, but so much better than our only alternative as to not even merit discussion. We can only that some day soon the GOP will be dead and buried, and we can create a new party to the left of the Dems. I've long since abandoned the notion of the American system ever having more than two parties, so the only option is to kill the worse of the two and in doing so create room for one that might actually look out for us.
Clearly you weren't using it then. Only a slack-jawed moron would delete useful software simply because it's owned by a company that's hip to hate.
Neither you nor the people modding you up have any idea what that phrase means. You might as well post "Quid. Pro. Quo."
The backwards-pedal-to-brake feature is common on children's bicycles in the US, but I've never seen it on an adult's bike.
It is a simple problem to fix. Cheating on taxes is akin to stealing from your neighbors. Give the executives one week in prison for every million dollars not paid. Watch the problem disappear over night.
Of course, the robber barons are above the laws and would never be charged, even if they were lax enough to allow the bill to pass. But that's a problem with the system, not some inherent difficulty in levying taxes.
I think you're thinking of theorists. Experimental scientists run experiments. Those experiments involve developing prototypes and running tests on them. Engineers also develop prototypes and run tests. The difference is the goal: scientists do it to learn, engineers do it to create a product to sell.
I don't know what church has to do with anything. The laws of thermodynamics are abso-fucking-lutely clear that no process can decrease the total entropy in a system. That includes self-replication. The machines will inevitably give off waste heat or break down complex materials. That's grade school level stuff. Perhaps next you'd like to bitch at me for asserting that the world is round?
Everything is entropy. Self-replicating machines included.
Are you twelve? If you were older, I'd expect you to remember the days of Starforce, and of having to look up secret phrases in your manual (written in yellow ink on white pages to defeat photocopying). And of course, there's Ubisoft's DRM that requires a constant internet connection, with Blizzard now planning to do the same in Diablo 3.
Steam has some of the least obtrusive DRM on the planet. Only GOG and the Humble Bundles are really better.
Still terrible for any game that uses the scroll wheel, for example to cycle through weapons. A real mousewheel clicks into each position. A touchpad can't do that.
The summary is inaccurate, as always. The actual abstract openly states that there is some subjectivity, and gives a range of 6000-8000 kg, with only one particularly large specimin topping 9 tons.
Please stop this stupid meme. You are the customer. You buy a service and pay with information and by looking at ads. They sell this information and ad space to third parties for money. Those third parties are also customers. The product is the service, since that is what they are producing.
Write on your wall about your cool new Nike Football shoes, and watch targeted advertising appear to you for other football related products.
Why is this bad? I'd rather see ads for things I like and might consider buying than scattershot ads for shit I'd never use.
Check in with FourSquare to become the mayor of burger king to get a 10% discount on your next piece of crap for lunch, and watch your insurance company make a silent note.
Why is this bad? I eat healthy, and am healthier for it. Why should I have to subsidize the lard-asses who eat at BK every day?
You ARE their intellectual property.
Now that's just scary-sounding gibberish.
All you iSheep, Twits and FacePalmers.
You seem to be fond of insulting labels. Here's some for you: paranoid, arrogant, condescending.
And for the record, I don't use Apple products, or Twitter, or Facebook. But that's because I don't want to, not because I'm afraid that they'll find out about my super-secret love of oatmeal.
I think it could be, though the printed figures probably wouldn't be as detailed as the ones you can buy. I've often thought it would be great if artistically gifted people could share/sell 3D designs for figures that could then be printed out by the rest of us. Of course, Games Workshop would go out of business within a year.
Probably with the same safety features that are on the professional versions, minus all the manual overrides. Besides, if your ten year old is that desperate to burn themselves, they'll just use the stovetop.
These new kids are made entirely of plastic! No screaming, no crying, no fighting, no diapers, no vomiting, no bizarre illnesses, no asking "why" fifty times in quick succession, and best of all - no turning into teenagers when you're not looking!
Really, the patent system would be pretty good if only its clerks knew an obvious idea when they heard one. That calendar patent basically sounds like "Method for Storing Data on a Computer". If the bar to get a patent was much, much higher than it is today, no other major changes would be necessary.
Yikes, what's the difference between "will" and "should" under those definitions? Yeah, yeah, "expected" versus "strongly recommended", but unless they have another section defining those terms, all I see is "does not require a waiver". It's like corporate Simon Says... you gotta listen real close for the shalls versus the wills.
I'm with you up to the last sentence. There are three main reasons why scrolling is superior for PCs:
On a tablet, these reasons are reduced or even reversed. Paging is easier than scrolling, since both are swiping gestures, but scrolling requires a controlled swipe. Condensed load times doesn't apply, since the idea here is to load the webpage all at once, and display it one page at a time using CSS elements. Ads would only be loaded once, and the really obnoxious types haven't yet infiltrated tablets (AFAIK).
Tablets have some fundamental differences from their keyboard-bearing cousins. Just because pages are an abomination on PCs doesn't necessarily mean they'd be bad on tablets. I'm glad at least one company is looking into making the browser fit the platform, instead of just porting their code over.
The data here isn't missing, just obfuscated. A common lab for EEs is to unblur a picture in this way. It's much harder in real life, where you need to find what they're calling the blur kernel, but there's no reason for it to be impossible.