I think the Linux and Open Source concepts are very idealized,
Heh. Try submitting your own patch to some of those "ideal" open source projects. Just because they abide by free principles doesn't mean they are saints.
You're confusing incompetence with malice. Climate models are one of the most complex things mathematically and otherwise, and is also a relatively new field with many players. Science changes quickly in new fields because people don't really have a grasp of what's behind it all. That doesn't mean what they did was wrong -- it just means their pride got in the way of them doing the best job possible, because they didn't want to publish results that said "climate change is a joke" when a large body of evidence suggests it is not.
I think this demonstrates that the idealized version of the scientific method isn't always followed.
Nothing that's been idealized has been proven to be of practical value in the real world. Human beings need areas of grey to function -- we aren't computers or robots with discrete logic processors. We are, in the end, quite a bit more fuzzy, which makes attaining an "idealized" anything impossible. That isn't to say our attempts to do so aren't laudable, but demanding it instead of seeking it are two very different propositions.
Hey, I've got a response for you: Fuck the blogosphere.
There is sufficient transparency in the scientific community, but you know what? People have opinions in the community as well. They don't claim its science, they argue, they piss each other off behind closed doors, and they deserve to have their personal e-mails kept private. They aren't politicians -- they aren't accountable to the public, though they often do perform public services. But then they set it all aside, they publish their work to peer reviewed journals, and move towards some kind of consensus using common criterion. Demanding greater transparency (ie reduced privacy) because a small number of people from a much, much larger community made a poor judgement call (at best) is uncalled for.
And the blogosphere is not exactly what I would call a bastion of unbiased requests! For shame...
Creating Halo 2 for Mac would require a certain fixed cost (development and marketing, mostly) that they did not expect to recover due to piracy. Simple, straightforward business.
In other words, the rates of piracy could be identical, but because of the smaller market share, macs weren't a sound investment. Blaming piracy is intellectually dishonest unless the piracy rates were significantly higher for mac than PC.
Actually, it was piracy in Defoe's original use of it wrt copying. What it wasn't was copyright infringement (in the US) (at the time).
Umm, dude, I don't know if you've been told, but the word copyright means "The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work." In short -- the right to copy. Piracy is popularily defined as "the unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material." Piracy = copyright infringement.
So no, it wasn't piracy and it wasn't copyright infringement, unless they stole it at gunpoint on the high seas.
No, therefor this is more like actual piracy and none of this namby-pamby "copyright violation" stuff. Oh, to be tried for "conspiracy to plunder a vessel on the high seas":-/
Piracy on the high seas didn't involve bulky projectors and pianos. It involved fire, incendiary materials, cutlasses, and violence. Secretly copying something is hardly a violent gesture worthy of committing large naval forces to its eradication, at least not by early 20th century standards. By today's standards, the use of tactical nukes and carpet bombing of entire neighborhoods is apparently considered acceptable losses... O_o
none of the other halo titles were released on Mac and one of the reasons cited...
...was that Mac is rarely the primary platform for game developers? Most mac games are ported from the PC or co-developed. Piracy has been blamed for everything from the terrorism to low birth rate. Also, while on the topic of 'citing' -- citation needed. When discussing piracy, the level of hysteria surrounding the issue thanks to corporate interests makes it imperative that you list your sources and facts, not just a vague conclusion.
Gone must be the days when a creative work was loved for its contribution to the arts... Plato, Socrates -- failures, all of them, because their works are no longer copyrighted and thus can no longer make a contribution to society./sarcasm
The article doesn't mention that this is the MZ-3. It is currently assigned to Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based out of NAS Patuxent River, MD. It was being tested in Yuma, AZ until its recent assignment to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup efforts. Its crew are contractors from Integrated Systems Solutions, Inc. -- they have a website, but it's too crappy to bother linking here. The crew includes Commanding Officer Cmdr. Chris Janke, Burt Race, a retired Navy pilot, Chief Pilot Peter Buckley, second pilot Russell Mills, and up to five other positions available.
For those of you wondering if reporters are going to be on this blimp -- probably not. It is not a civilian vessel, and space for personnel is at a premium. As well, as a fully vetted and operating Navy aircraft, it also contains military communications equipment. Very little in the way of surveillance equipment has been fitted on the airframe; Weight is a major concern for such a craft.
Wouldn't it be a better idea for people to walk those short distances, given how fat people are these days?
Say that to yourself when it's a hundred degrees out and your boobs, ass, and crotch are drenched in sweat. In shape or not, it'd be convenient. That said, it'll never be implemented because of lawsuits. Someone's precious snowflake will figure out a way to have the machine try and eat them, and they'll be shut down.
"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence." -- Dennis Prager
Have the plants taken care of by one person and judged/reviewed by another who only sees them when they are moved to the review area. Since this is just seedlings using large plant pots should be fine.
Now probably isn't the best time to tell them the Sun is a giant radio, amongst other things.
You know, it sounds like most of these problems would have been figured out if people had tested them in the field for a few weeks before sending them to the factory. But Apple's causing people to commit suicide for losing a prototype, aggressive legal action, etc., suggests that they depend on heavy marketing and legal scare tactics rather than good engineering practices to sell a product.
Soon it will be "Wait until they release the first service pack before you use it," or "Wait until they revise the hardware at least twice before buying it."... Sigh.
This is why we have a government that forces companies to go through safety recalls...
You believe the government has a duty to protect you? Heh. You're funny. Find me a law that says they must render aid to you in an emergency. That you have a right to police protection, or any other form of protection. You don't have shit, unless you demand it, fight for it, and quite possibly still lose anyway to an entrenched bureaucracy.
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I think the Linux and Open Source concepts are very idealized,
Heh. Try submitting your own patch to some of those "ideal" open source projects. Just because they abide by free principles doesn't mean they are saints.
You're confusing incompetence with malice. Climate models are one of the most complex things mathematically and otherwise, and is also a relatively new field with many players. Science changes quickly in new fields because people don't really have a grasp of what's behind it all. That doesn't mean what they did was wrong -- it just means their pride got in the way of them doing the best job possible, because they didn't want to publish results that said "climate change is a joke" when a large body of evidence suggests it is not.
I think this demonstrates that the idealized version of the scientific method isn't always followed.
Nothing that's been idealized has been proven to be of practical value in the real world. Human beings need areas of grey to function -- we aren't computers or robots with discrete logic processors. We are, in the end, quite a bit more fuzzy, which makes attaining an "idealized" anything impossible. That isn't to say our attempts to do so aren't laudable, but demanding it instead of seeking it are two very different propositions.
Hey, I've got a response for you: Fuck the blogosphere.
There is sufficient transparency in the scientific community, but you know what? People have opinions in the community as well. They don't claim its science, they argue, they piss each other off behind closed doors, and they deserve to have their personal e-mails kept private. They aren't politicians -- they aren't accountable to the public, though they often do perform public services. But then they set it all aside, they publish their work to peer reviewed journals, and move towards some kind of consensus using common criterion. Demanding greater transparency (ie reduced privacy) because a small number of people from a much, much larger community made a poor judgement call (at best) is uncalled for.
And the blogosphere is not exactly what I would call a bastion of unbiased requests! For shame...
This is the great thing about standards: There's so many to choose from!
Bias alert: The author used to work for Bungie Software (the creators of the Halo series).
Creating Halo 2 for Mac would require a certain fixed cost (development and marketing, mostly) that they did not expect to recover due to piracy. Simple, straightforward business.
In other words, the rates of piracy could be identical, but because of the smaller market share, macs weren't a sound investment. Blaming piracy is intellectually dishonest unless the piracy rates were significantly higher for mac than PC.
Actually, it was piracy in Defoe's original use of it wrt copying. What it wasn't was copyright infringement (in the US) (at the time).
Umm, dude, I don't know if you've been told, but the word copyright means "The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work." In short -- the right to copy. Piracy is popularily defined as "the unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material." Piracy = copyright infringement.
So no, it wasn't piracy and it wasn't copyright infringement, unless they stole it at gunpoint on the high seas.
No, therefor this is more like actual piracy and none of this namby-pamby "copyright violation" stuff. Oh, to be tried for "conspiracy to plunder a vessel on the high seas" :-/
Piracy on the high seas didn't involve bulky projectors and pianos. It involved fire, incendiary materials, cutlasses, and violence. Secretly copying something is hardly a violent gesture worthy of committing large naval forces to its eradication, at least not by early 20th century standards. By today's standards, the use of tactical nukes and carpet bombing of entire neighborhoods is apparently considered acceptable losses... O_o
none of the other halo titles were released on Mac and one of the reasons cited...
...was that Mac is rarely the primary platform for game developers? Most mac games are ported from the PC or co-developed. Piracy has been blamed for everything from the terrorism to low birth rate. Also, while on the topic of 'citing' -- citation needed. When discussing piracy, the level of hysteria surrounding the issue thanks to corporate interests makes it imperative that you list your sources and facts, not just a vague conclusion.
A film producer had his film stolen, and the thief got a lot of money for the screenings.
It wasn't a crime at the time of publication: Copyright only protected works produced by U.S. citizens within the U.S. Therefore, it was not piracy.
No.
Gone must be the days when a creative work was loved for its contribution to the arts... Plato, Socrates -- failures, all of them, because their works are no longer copyrighted and thus can no longer make a contribution to society. /sarcasm
Hmmm... permutations of random interactions and voice prompting plugged into a genetic algorithm. Best series of responses wins.
Epic.
What's new here compared to the previous work?
The date.
They're ugly, look crippled, and found in only one place in the world -- an oil spill.
Gentlemen, to your conspiracies!
the e-mail also went out to people who didn't register and didn't attend the event.
That's even more embarassing than a security breach -- it's a routing error. From Cisco.
The article doesn't mention that this is the MZ-3. It is currently assigned to Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based out of NAS Patuxent River, MD. It was being tested in Yuma, AZ until its recent assignment to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup efforts. Its crew are contractors from Integrated Systems Solutions, Inc. -- they have a website, but it's too crappy to bother linking here. The crew includes Commanding Officer Cmdr. Chris Janke, Burt Race, a retired Navy pilot, Chief Pilot Peter Buckley, second pilot Russell Mills, and up to five other positions available.
For those of you wondering if reporters are going to be on this blimp -- probably not. It is not a civilian vessel, and space for personnel is at a premium. As well, as a fully vetted and operating Navy aircraft, it also contains military communications equipment. Very little in the way of surveillance equipment has been fitted on the airframe; Weight is a major concern for such a craft.
Wouldn't it be a better idea for people to walk those short distances, given how fat people are these days?
Say that to yourself when it's a hundred degrees out and your boobs, ass, and crotch are drenched in sweat. In shape or not, it'd be convenient. That said, it'll never be implemented because of lawsuits. Someone's precious snowflake will figure out a way to have the machine try and eat them, and they'll be shut down.
Ozcan plans on starting case studies in Africa to see how the microscope can help revolutionize global medicine.
I think it already has, dude.
"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence."
-- Dennis Prager
Confirmation bias is real.
No it isn't, and nothing you say can change that!
Have the plants taken care of by one person and judged/reviewed by another who only sees them when they are moved to the review area. Since this is just seedlings using large plant pots should be fine.
Now probably isn't the best time to tell them the Sun is a giant radio, amongst other things.
You know, it sounds like most of these problems would have been figured out if people had tested them in the field for a few weeks before sending them to the factory. But Apple's causing people to commit suicide for losing a prototype, aggressive legal action, etc., suggests that they depend on heavy marketing and legal scare tactics rather than good engineering practices to sell a product.
Soon it will be "Wait until they release the first service pack before you use it," or "Wait until they revise the hardware at least twice before buying it." ... Sigh.
This is why we have a government that forces companies to go through safety recalls...
You believe the government has a duty to protect you? Heh. You're funny. Find me a law that says they must render aid to you in an emergency. That you have a right to police protection, or any other form of protection. You don't have shit, unless you demand it, fight for it, and quite possibly still lose anyway to an entrenched bureaucracy.