We just dropped 250 billion dollars invading, occupying, and rebuilding Iraq, and you guys are bitching about JPL scientists buying watches with their own salaries. If you ask me, if the only gov't pork was custom watches, well, then, let's let everyone have them!
Conceptually, the execution bounds for looking for these "hidden" messages seems not too different from trying to find factors of prime numbers. Take an image, and distill it into two parts, one of which is a hidden message you know nothing about, and the other is the final image with the hidden message removed.
Linux is BETTER organized than closed source shops.
The whole notion that Linux is somehow disorganized is a subtle knock that says: "oh, it has to be centralized to be organized", in other words, only big companies are capable of organization. Yet, big companies are often just as disorganized as the internet blob that is Linux.
We often note how corporate will can accomplish great things, but, we also live in a world where we disregard all of the dishonesty and infighting that plagues many IT departments and companies. Even MS is not immune to this - with the rumored infighting between the Office team and the.NET team becoming legend, just as the infighting between the Win9x team and the WinNT team - the latter saying their stuff is better, the former saying they are paying all the bills.
By contrast, Linux projects are out in the open. You can check the status of any via the web, you can see the differing philosophies of the different camps of different systems easily, you can choose to decide which technology to invest in by a transparent and open decision making process. Of course, you could always look at the source yourself, and you may, but for the most part, the process of fundraising in the open source environment is a lot more transparent and accountable than the same process in a closed source company.
I think it would be good for the Europeans to build a 100 meter telescope in Europe. Then, we can come back to the USA and tell the Republicans that the French are building a bigger telescope than we have, and with that technology they might be able to monopolize marketing opportunities in space. With that one sentence, America will commit to building its own 150 meter ground based 5 billion dollar telescope, plus a 10 meter orbiting telescope for good measure, and science will improve dramatically on both continents!
What you are saying is simply not true. The margin that people differ by is actually not that significant. Does the world's fastest sprinter run a mile 10 times faster than the average person? No. Does the world's strongest man lift ten times the weight of an average man? No. So, we don't make laws assuming the existence of supermen because there aren't any.
It can be readily shown that multitasking even effectively disadvantages you as a driver. Let's assume you can multitask at the level of flipping between driving and dialing a cell phone at one tick per second.
During the second you have driven the car, assuming you are going 60mph, your car has travelled 88 feet. A good sedan can stop in 120 feet, but, you've nearly doubled your necessary stopping distance to 208 feet! To maintain safe vehicle distance, you need to have the 3 second rule, not the 2 second rule, and, what if you get emotionally distracted during the conversation. Does that slow your reflects down by another second?
But let's assume you have PERFECT reflexes and can react to something in 1/10th of a second. That's not just vision, that's seeing, processing, and reacting. Even if you spend 1/10th of a second paying attention to a cell phone, the car has driven 8.8 feet somewhere where you ain't looking.
8.8 feet doesn't sound like much, but, if the guy in front of you suddenly stops, or a tire blows off of a truck, or anything happens, 8.8 feet is sufficiently long of a distance to crumple the front end of your car, drop your engine onto your lap, and probably see you wind up dead.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
In America, the royals are the sons and daughters of the greatest of all the robber barons.
In Britain, the royals are the sons and daughters of the greatest of all the feudal barons [which is the same as robber].
In America, you are allowed to become a noble or start a new line of nobility by getting filthy rich and then buying yourself a Senator. You can then pass your wealth to your children so they can be nobles for having done nothing.
In Britain, the Queen hands you a medal, and then you can possibly get a seat for yourself and your descendants in the House of Lords. You can then pass your wealth to your children so they can be nobles for having done nothing.
At least in the UK, the monarchy has a lot of interesting history behind it, and some way cool outfits. Swords and capes! Now that is cool. Plus, the titles are awesome - for the king when the next one is: "His Most Britannic Majesty".
Office and Windows rely on being ubiquitious to drive sales. Every free copy of Word that goes out there, every stolen copy of Windows, serves to cement Microsoft's monopoly in place. When people now have to think in terms of Windows and Word as a paying proposition, the relatively high prices for Windows and Office suddenly become a factor. Free is pretty good, but Sun seems to be making money off of "reasonably priced."
You talk about David Byrne like he is a genius for doing stuff with PowerPoint, Andy Warhol, a REAL artist, was doing stuff with Deborah Harry and Deluxe Paint with the Amiga way back in the 1980s.
I remember the whole David Byrne is a god movement of the 1980s and I thought it was mostly hype. "Stop Making Sense", the whole cover of Time magazine touting Byrne as a new Renaissance man, all of it, seemed way overblown to me.
IMHO, the greatest artist of the 1980s was Chris Crawford and Silas Warner, but that's only because I'm partial to PC gaming. FYI. Eastern Front defined the war gaming genre to this day. And, Castle Wolfenstein (the original Apple II version), was way ahead of its time in terms of graphics, game play, and its use of suspense is rarely matched to this day.
In terms of musical accomplishment and genius, U2 has a far, far richer body of work and have lasted longer. Joshua Tree is still a damned good album.
Even Bob Dylan's 1980s work has more to it than the Talking Heads does - the Travelling Wilburys, Infidels, parts of Empire Burlesque, etc. And HE had been doing it for 20 years before then.
And if you want to go off the "beaten path" of music, then clearly the Cure's work has more originality and staying power than anything by the Talking Heads. "Kiss Kiss Kiss", now THAT was an album. And what about all the excellent film work by director Sam Raimes?
David Byrne has a couple of good songs out there and I'm sure he's got a few interesting ideas, but to put David Byrne into that category of "genius", just doesn't stack up. Other artists did more in the 1980s, had longer and more successful and more influential careers, and by comparison, the Talking Heads was more a footnote than anything else.
It has everything to do with brakes. Most of today's sports sedans can now brake from 60 to 0 in around 100-120 feet in good conditions.
Good brakes deliver better cooling so they grip longer, mitigating the effects of heating. Good tires grip the road better, enabling more friction and thus quicker stopping.
They are good for merging. A car with that much power can accelerate from 0 to 60 very quickly, and also have performance brakes to go from 60 to 0 just as quickly.
speed always matters. 100 years ago the penultimate car made about 5 horsepower and people thought it was amazing that a machine could outpower a horse by 5 to 1. Nowadays, you have 4 door sedans that have 400 horsepower and can outperform racing cars from 20 years ago. And, people are looking forward to 500 and 600 horsepower cars and people want the 1000 horsepower car.
You have free speech rights on -public- land. But, you don't have free speech rights on -my- land. If I don't like what you say, on -my- land, then, I can kick you off.
So, if an owner of a mall, that is, private property, establishes a free speech zone, they are doing you a favor.
If you want to have a free speech zone on your land, you are more than welcome to. But don't expect to have the right to insult someone's house when you are inside it.
All this talk about everything being cheap outside of the United States says to me that we should let the US Dollar fall even more. Let it go down to $10 a Euro or $1 a rupee and the next thing you know, it won't be so cheap to buy overseas labor.
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We just dropped 250 billion dollars invading, occupying, and rebuilding Iraq, and you guys are bitching about JPL scientists buying watches with their own salaries. If you ask me, if the only gov't pork was custom watches, well, then, let's let everyone have them!
Jeez, at some point, do you think that M$ dirty tactics will hurt it in that realm of enterprise business where handshakes still matter?
That thing is a weapon of mass produced destruction!
Conceptually, the execution bounds for looking for these "hidden" messages seems not too different from trying to find factors of prime numbers. Take an image, and distill it into two parts, one of which is a hidden message you know nothing about, and the other is the final image with the hidden message removed.
Linux is BETTER organized than closed source shops.
The whole notion that Linux is somehow disorganized is a subtle knock that says: "oh, it has to be centralized to be organized", in other words, only big companies are capable of organization. Yet, big companies are often just as disorganized as the internet blob that is Linux.
We often note how corporate will can accomplish great things, but, we also live in a world where we disregard all of the dishonesty and infighting that plagues many IT departments and companies. Even MS is not immune to this - with the rumored infighting between the Office team and the
By contrast, Linux projects are out in the open. You can check the status of any via the web, you can see the differing philosophies of the different camps of different systems easily, you can choose to decide which technology to invest in by a transparent and open decision making process. Of course, you could always look at the source yourself, and you may, but for the most part, the process of fundraising in the open source environment is a lot more transparent and accountable than the same process in a closed source company.
I think it would be good for the Europeans to build a 100 meter telescope in Europe. Then, we can come back to the USA and tell the Republicans that the French are building a bigger telescope than we have, and with that technology they might be able to monopolize marketing opportunities in space. With that one sentence, America will commit to building its own 150 meter ground based 5 billion dollar telescope, plus a 10 meter orbiting telescope for good measure, and science will improve dramatically on both continents!
What you are saying is simply not true. The margin that people differ by is actually not that significant. Does the world's fastest sprinter run a mile 10 times faster than the average person? No. Does the world's strongest man lift ten times the weight of an average man? No. So, we don't make laws assuming the existence of supermen because there aren't any.
It can be readily shown that multitasking even effectively disadvantages you as a driver. Let's assume you can multitask at the level of flipping between driving and dialing a cell phone at one tick per second.
During the second you have driven the car, assuming you are going 60mph, your car has travelled 88 feet. A good sedan can stop in 120 feet, but, you've nearly doubled your necessary stopping distance to 208 feet! To maintain safe vehicle distance, you need to have the 3 second rule, not the 2 second rule, and, what if you get emotionally distracted during the conversation. Does that slow your reflects down by another second?
But let's assume you have PERFECT reflexes and can react to something in 1/10th of a second. That's not just vision, that's seeing, processing, and reacting. Even if you spend 1/10th of a second paying attention to a cell phone, the car has driven 8.8 feet somewhere where you ain't looking.
8.8 feet doesn't sound like much, but, if the guy in front of you suddenly stops, or a tire blows off of a truck, or anything happens, 8.8 feet is sufficiently long of a distance to crumple the front end of your car, drop your engine onto your lap, and probably see you wind up dead.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Champolion did not actually crack the entire Rosetta stone. He only got a handful of words, but it was enough to start the ball rolling.
In America, the royals are the sons and daughters of the greatest of all the robber barons.
In Britain, the royals are the sons and daughters of the greatest of all the feudal barons [which is the same as robber].
In America, you are allowed to become a noble or start a new line of nobility by getting filthy rich and then buying yourself a Senator. You can then pass your wealth to your children so they can be nobles for having done nothing.
In Britain, the Queen hands you a medal, and then you can possibly get a seat for yourself and your descendants in the House of Lords. You can then pass your wealth to your children so they can be nobles for having done nothing.
At least in the UK, the monarchy has a lot of interesting history behind it, and some way cool outfits. Swords and capes! Now that is cool. Plus, the titles are awesome - for the king when the next one is: "His Most Britannic Majesty".
In America, well, we just say, "Mr.Gates".
Didn't some American publish lunar tables in 1805 as an accurate way to obtain longitude without having to know the time?
Office and Windows rely on being ubiquitious to drive sales. Every free copy of Word that goes out there, every stolen copy of Windows, serves to cement Microsoft's monopoly in place. When people now have to think in terms of Windows and Word as a paying proposition, the relatively high prices for Windows and Office suddenly become a factor. Free is pretty good, but Sun seems to be making money off of "reasonably priced."
You talk about David Byrne like he is a genius for doing stuff with PowerPoint, Andy Warhol, a REAL artist, was doing stuff with Deborah Harry and Deluxe Paint with the Amiga way back in the 1980s.
I remember the whole David Byrne is a god movement of the 1980s and I thought it was mostly hype. "Stop Making Sense", the whole cover of Time magazine touting Byrne as a new Renaissance man, all of it, seemed way overblown to me.
IMHO, the greatest artist of the 1980s was Chris Crawford and Silas Warner, but that's only because I'm partial to PC gaming. FYI. Eastern Front defined the war gaming genre to this day. And, Castle Wolfenstein (the original Apple II version), was way ahead of its time in terms of graphics, game play, and its use of suspense is rarely matched to this day.
In terms of musical accomplishment and genius, U2 has a far, far richer body of work and have lasted longer. Joshua Tree is still a damned good album.
Even Bob Dylan's 1980s work has more to it than the Talking Heads does - the Travelling Wilburys, Infidels, parts of Empire Burlesque, etc. And HE had been doing it for 20 years before then.
And if you want to go off the "beaten path" of music, then clearly the Cure's work has more originality and staying power than anything by the Talking Heads. "Kiss Kiss Kiss", now THAT was an album. And what about all the excellent film work by director Sam Raimes?
David Byrne has a couple of good songs out there and I'm sure he's got a few interesting ideas, but to put David Byrne into that category of "genius", just doesn't stack up. Other artists did more in the 1980s, had longer and more successful and more influential careers, and by comparison, the Talking Heads was more a footnote than anything else.
It has everything to do with brakes. Most of today's sports sedans can now brake from 60 to 0 in around 100-120 feet in good conditions.
Good brakes deliver better cooling so they grip longer, mitigating the effects of heating. Good tires grip the road better, enabling more friction and thus quicker stopping.
They are good for merging. A car with that much power can accelerate from 0 to 60 very quickly, and also have performance brakes to go from 60 to 0 just as quickly.
"David Byrne subverts"...
Gosh, more like, old guy desperately searching for relevance using powerpoint.
Talking Heads had 2 good songs.
speed always matters. 100 years ago the penultimate car made about 5 horsepower and people thought it was amazing that a machine could outpower a horse by 5 to 1. Nowadays, you have 4 door sedans that have 400 horsepower and can outperform racing cars from 20 years ago. And, people are looking forward to 500 and 600 horsepower cars and people want the 1000 horsepower car.
There is always a market for more power.
Isn't this ground well covered by the original Wild Wild West..?
But if you refuse to leave, then the government can arrest you for refusing to leave, which is what they do.
You have free speech rights on -public- land. But, you don't have free speech rights on -my- land. If I don't like what you say, on -my- land, then, I can kick you off.
So, if an owner of a mall, that is, private property, establishes a free speech zone, they are doing you a favor.
If you want to have a free speech zone on your land, you are more than welcome to. But don't expect to have the right to insult someone's house when you are inside it.
It's not storing as text that kills big databases, its the lack of indexing.
So...really, it was ulam teller?
All this religious stuff, and here Chris Kringle is getting oppressed! I want my USB RUDOLPH
All this talk about everything being cheap outside of the United States says to me that we should let the US Dollar fall even more. Let it go down to $10 a Euro or $1 a rupee and the next thing you know, it won't be so cheap to buy overseas labor.
that at some point we will wind up being paid to take all of the goods there are to produce.