Of course, being lightweight enough to be moved sideways by wind, the amazing 35 miles per gallon doesn't seem quite as amazing. And since the light weight would be what caused the steering wheel to lose contact with the road, and since the light weight would be caused by using light and unsafe materials (canvas), you would lose the car's one most impressive advantage just by fixing the flaws that makes it too dangerous to use.
Design is, in most cases, about tradeoffs. It looks to me as if Fuller ditched safety for qualities more suitable for a Sci-Fi film.
No, that's not an implication of this. I have, in fact, not uttered one word against the value of experimental science, but thanks for playing, you dishonest prick.
And now I expect you to show how strawman attacks are "hard science". I've never claimed nothing can be proven logically; I do, however, take issue with the Slashbots who for some unfathomable reason seem to think a study such as this has any pretence of revealing a causal relationship.
Unaware of the terms "hard science" and "soft science"; give me a break. I'm not 12. Also, the lack of a single universally agreed definition doesn't make anything a priori anything: you simply have to follow the ad-hoc definition I use, which in this case was clearly based on empirical fact. If it's unclear, you can always ask me to define my term, but the lack of a single universally agreed definition doesn't concern my statements at all. When throwing about logical terms, you should at least try to use them in a way that doesn't betray the fact that you don't know anything about logic.
And no, he's not "perfectly valid" in any way, as he's totally unaware of how the actual scientific process works, and delimits "science" as something that wouldn't even include the work of Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein (or at least, they would be deemed highly "irresponsible"). His definition of science doesn't encompass half of the so-called "hard" sciences, and very little of importance.
And "true facts"? Experimental methods and controlled experiments guarantee nothing in and of themselves. In fact, any controlled experiment begs a whole host of questions, beginning with: do you measure what you think you're measuring.
Bullshit. You obviously have all your "science" education from high school or some engineering college. Only certain fields in physics and chemistry rely on controlled experiments or even have the possibility to do them.
These researchers found a correlation, and made a further testable (falsifiable) hypothesis based on it. That's science. Only idiots who tag stories like this with correlationisnotcausation think science is causation studies. It's not.
Why? Denon do make some good products (CD players, amps, phono cartridges, etc.), even if their cables are a bit on the fraudulent side. Audiophiles will waste their money on that kind of crap anyway, just to be on the safe side, so why not take it? They have a business to run, and pure cable companies have far wider margins than they, as a mostly electronics manufacturer. If they can cut into the massively undeserved profits of the Monsters, the Cardases, the Pears and the NBSes (most examples taken from a Google search of 'audio cables') of the world, then more power to them.
Of course, one might hope for a world where people weren't that stupid, but that will never happen, or where selling that kind of snake oil would be restricted by law (as it's fraud and false advertising), but that would interfere with the sacred free market.
Bullshit.
The court scheduled an evidence suppression hearing, at which Lindh would have been able to testify about the details of the torture to which he claimed he was subjected. The government faced the problem that a key piece of evidence â" Lindh's confession â" might be excluded from evidence as having been forced under duress. To forestall this possibility, Michael Chertoff, then-head of the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice, directed the prosecutors to offer Lindh a plea bargain, to wit, Lindh would plead guilty to two charges: â" serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. He would also have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002. In return, all other charges would be dropped. Lindh accepted this offer.
The constitution isn't "granted" to non-citizens, it limits what the government can do to people. Which is a good thing, since then the government can't push the constitution aside by inventing new ways to revoke citizenships.
I don't think it has to be that black and white. Politics is about choosing who your friends are as much as it is about working to change the world. All it takes for the vast majority of the Democrats to be silent, is that the majority is allied with a group that wants no action to be taken. It's a question of which allies are most profitable. If, say, Dennis Kucinich is frozen out from the main in-group, he might want to damage og fragment it, making his actions tactical as well.
I'm not saying breaking and making alliances is all there is to this specific case, but the case, and its outcome, can't possibly be completely isolated from it.
I don't think a Democratic president and a Democratic congress will look too closely on Bush's errors. That would mean they can't repeat the same mistakes themselves, and that they would have to look into former presidents as well. Wasn't outsourcing of torture Bill Clinton's invention?
Sure, and many (most?) journals do their peer review "online" -- through email, mostly, with Word.docs as attachments. I'm sure it can be even more online with Google's word processor, but that's hardly going to revolutionise anything.
Yes, but on Slashdot, thought isn't free. It's merely open source: you can look at it, modify it, but if you start treating it as your own, then the thought owns you, Soviet style.
Yes, why develop critical reading skills when you can rather lay your trust in known authority. If a source is good, the information will be good, if a source is bad, the information will be wrong. I know this because everything I read confirms my worldview.
It wasn't intended as a troll, only as an explanation for how a game can expand the market for a piece of music. Naturally, I also wanted to present the perspective of a potential consumer of such music as well: one who doesn't like the music per se, but love it within the context of the game. It lends character to the persona you act out. Just like I'd never steal a car, I'd never listen to A Flock of Seagulls. But within the game, I do love doing both.
That said, having six "+1, interesting" mods and still ending up with a negative result is pretty successful.
Motley Crue are a fairly old-fashioned band. While not being something you'd listen to, it's very suitable for a game. Consider GTA: Vice City's soundtrack, filled with extremely gay 80s tracks. Very few people with any self respect will listen to that kind of crap, but within the context of the game, it fits perfectly. A Flock of Seagulls, a fast car, 4 stars of cops coming after you... perfect. Actually listeing to it? Not so.
I'm not sure Windows 98 will run on all modern hardware, and you may have gone the route of perpetual upgrades.
Anyway, it wasn't my intention to praise Steam's DRM, just to put it into perspective: it's good value for money, when you consider the actual options (DVDs). As for perpetual copyrtight, I played through almost all of Episode 2 before I decided to give Valve my money and buy the Orange Box through Steam. I may still have my pirated version somewhere. Steam isn't the first "protection" scheme that will force you to rely on piracy when you want to play old games. My old 5 1/4" floppies are worthless to me today, and probably would be if I still had a floppy drive.
While I agree it's a likely scenario, it's not really any different from how many other games stop working after a few OS revisions. As an example, System Shock 2 was released on 11 August, 1999, and has never worked reliably on Windows 2000 and XP (it also refuses to install unless you feed the installer a command line option). So if you bought a new Windows XP based computer little more than two years after SS2 was released, you would likely be unable to play it. And that's for a true classic, one of the best games ever, etc.
Copy protection sucks. Steam makes the shortcomings more obvious, but not bigger. It's cheaper than less reliable physical media, and it is reliable. Now. Perhaps not in the future, but seriously, those old games are rarely as much fun as you remember them to be.
It could be viral marketing. Just wait a few weeks, and the meme on the Ubuntu (or Gentoo or whatever) messageboards will be: "Well, if you think Ubuntu is too easy, then why don't you just fuck off to Exherbo instead???!!" And all the wannabe 1337ists will use Exerbo, which will be ad-supported, used to finance SCO, and crap.
It goes something like this: Say you have a product that costs a dollar to produce, but whose by-products cost five dollars to clean up. Is the real cost of the product one dollar or six? (Hint: it's six.) Now, if the consumer of said product is considered personally responsible, would he pay two dollars (production costs + profits) or seven? I think all you libertarians will agree that he should only pay two dollars.
After all, "personal responsibility" only means responsibility to yourself. Which is just one of many examples as for why your whole ideology is total fucking bullshit.
Oh, come on, an "intelligence analyst with a top secret and above clearance" with a >1000000/. uid? Not very likely.
On the other hand, that's exactly what they'd think, and they'd know that we knew, so you may just as well be a government spy. Well, I'm not saying anything.
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Of course, being lightweight enough to be moved sideways by wind, the amazing 35 miles per gallon doesn't seem quite as amazing. And since the light weight would be what caused the steering wheel to lose contact with the road, and since the light weight would be caused by using light and unsafe materials (canvas), you would lose the car's one most impressive advantage just by fixing the flaws that makes it too dangerous to use.
Design is, in most cases, about tradeoffs. It looks to me as if Fuller ditched safety for qualities more suitable for a Sci-Fi film.
No, that's not an implication of this. I have, in fact, not uttered one word against the value of experimental science, but thanks for playing, you dishonest prick.
And now I expect you to show how strawman attacks are "hard science". I've never claimed nothing can be proven logically; I do, however, take issue with the Slashbots who for some unfathomable reason seem to think a study such as this has any pretence of revealing a causal relationship.
It's cliche, and it's godawfully stupid.
Unaware of the terms "hard science" and "soft science"; give me a break. I'm not 12. Also, the lack of a single universally agreed definition doesn't make anything a priori anything: you simply have to follow the ad-hoc definition I use, which in this case was clearly based on empirical fact. If it's unclear, you can always ask me to define my term, but the lack of a single universally agreed definition doesn't concern my statements at all. When throwing about logical terms, you should at least try to use them in a way that doesn't betray the fact that you don't know anything about logic.
And no, he's not "perfectly valid" in any way, as he's totally unaware of how the actual scientific process works, and delimits "science" as something that wouldn't even include the work of Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein (or at least, they would be deemed highly "irresponsible"). His definition of science doesn't encompass half of the so-called "hard" sciences, and very little of importance.
And "true facts"? Experimental methods and controlled experiments guarantee nothing in and of themselves. In fact, any controlled experiment begs a whole host of questions, beginning with: do you measure what you think you're measuring.
Bullshit. You obviously have all your "science" education from high school or some engineering college. Only certain fields in physics and chemistry rely on controlled experiments or even have the possibility to do them.
These researchers found a correlation, and made a further testable (falsifiable) hypothesis based on it. That's science. Only idiots who tag stories like this with correlationisnotcausation think science is causation studies. It's not.
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How much is it?
He's selling it at $599 per year, but I'm selling the 99.999999999% silver version for only twice the price.Why? Denon do make some good products (CD players, amps, phono cartridges, etc.), even if their cables are a bit on the fraudulent side. Audiophiles will waste their money on that kind of crap anyway, just to be on the safe side, so why not take it? They have a business to run, and pure cable companies have far wider margins than they, as a mostly electronics manufacturer. If they can cut into the massively undeserved profits of the Monsters, the Cardases, the Pears and the NBSes (most examples taken from a Google search of 'audio cables') of the world, then more power to them.
Of course, one might hope for a world where people weren't that stupid, but that will never happen, or where selling that kind of snake oil would be restricted by law (as it's fraud and false advertising), but that would interfere with the sacred free market.
To forestall this possibility, Michael Chertoff, then-head of the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice, directed the prosecutors to offer Lindh a plea bargain, to wit, Lindh would plead guilty to two charges: â" serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. He would also have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002. In return, all other charges would be dropped.
Lindh accepted this offer.
The constitution isn't "granted" to non-citizens, it limits what the government can do to people. Which is a good thing, since then the government can't push the constitution aside by inventing new ways to revoke citizenships.
I don't think it has to be that black and white. Politics is about choosing who your friends are as much as it is about working to change the world. All it takes for the vast majority of the Democrats to be silent, is that the majority is allied with a group that wants no action to be taken. It's a question of which allies are most profitable. If, say, Dennis Kucinich is frozen out from the main in-group, he might want to damage og fragment it, making his actions tactical as well.
I'm not saying breaking and making alliances is all there is to this specific case, but the case, and its outcome, can't possibly be completely isolated from it.
I don't think a Democratic president and a Democratic congress will look too closely on Bush's errors. That would mean they can't repeat the same mistakes themselves, and that they would have to look into former presidents as well. Wasn't outsourcing of torture Bill Clinton's invention?
Sure, and many (most?) journals do their peer review "online" -- through email, mostly, with Word .docs as attachments. I'm sure it can be even more online with Google's word processor, but that's hardly going to revolutionise anything.
The developer's name is Dong Tiger.
On the other hand, new software created for 10.6 might not work for older computers, just like software developed for 10.4 often didn't work for 10.3.
Yes, but on Slashdot, thought isn't free. It's merely open source: you can look at it, modify it, but if you start treating it as your own, then the thought owns you, Soviet style.
No, you'll bo modded a troll because you promote moonbat insanity.
Yes, why develop critical reading skills when you can rather lay your trust in known authority. If a source is good, the information will be good, if a source is bad, the information will be wrong. I know this because everything I read confirms my worldview.
It wasn't intended as a troll, only as an explanation for how a game can expand the market for a piece of music. Naturally, I also wanted to present the perspective of a potential consumer of such music as well: one who doesn't like the music per se, but love it within the context of the game. It lends character to the persona you act out. Just like I'd never steal a car, I'd never listen to A Flock of Seagulls. But within the game, I do love doing both.
That said, having six "+1, interesting" mods and still ending up with a negative result is pretty successful.
Motley Crue are a fairly old-fashioned band. While not being something you'd listen to, it's very suitable for a game. Consider GTA: Vice City's soundtrack, filled with extremely gay 80s tracks. Very few people with any self respect will listen to that kind of crap, but within the context of the game, it fits perfectly. A Flock of Seagulls, a fast car, 4 stars of cops coming after you ... perfect. Actually listeing to it? Not so.
I'm not sure Windows 98 will run on all modern hardware, and you may have gone the route of perpetual upgrades.
Anyway, it wasn't my intention to praise Steam's DRM, just to put it into perspective: it's good value for money, when you consider the actual options (DVDs). As for perpetual copyrtight, I played through almost all of Episode 2 before I decided to give Valve my money and buy the Orange Box through Steam. I may still have my pirated version somewhere. Steam isn't the first "protection" scheme that will force you to rely on piracy when you want to play old games. My old 5 1/4" floppies are worthless to me today, and probably would be if I still had a floppy drive.
While I agree it's a likely scenario, it's not really any different from how many other games stop working after a few OS revisions. As an example, System Shock 2 was released on 11 August, 1999, and has never worked reliably on Windows 2000 and XP (it also refuses to install unless you feed the installer a command line option). So if you bought a new Windows XP based computer little more than two years after SS2 was released, you would likely be unable to play it. And that's for a true classic, one of the best games ever, etc.
Copy protection sucks. Steam makes the shortcomings more obvious, but not bigger. It's cheaper than less reliable physical media, and it is reliable. Now. Perhaps not in the future, but seriously, those old games are rarely as much fun as you remember them to be.
Compared to theatre acting, it is.
It could be viral marketing. Just wait a few weeks, and the meme on the Ubuntu (or Gentoo or whatever) messageboards will be: "Well, if you think Ubuntu is too easy, then why don't you just fuck off to Exherbo instead???!!" And all the wannabe 1337ists will use Exerbo, which will be ad-supported, used to finance SCO, and crap.
Or perhaps not.
It goes something like this: Say you have a product that costs a dollar to produce, but whose by-products cost five dollars to clean up. Is the real cost of the product one dollar or six? (Hint: it's six.) Now, if the consumer of said product is considered personally responsible, would he pay two dollars (production costs + profits) or seven? I think all you libertarians will agree that he should only pay two dollars.
After all, "personal responsibility" only means responsibility to yourself. Which is just one of many examples as for why your whole ideology is total fucking bullshit.
Oh, come on, an "intelligence analyst with a top secret and above clearance" with a >1000000 /. uid? Not very likely.
On the other hand, that's exactly what they'd think, and they'd know that we knew, so you may just as well be a government spy. Well, I'm not saying anything.