"What if canada suddenly made oranges illegal. We dont grow any oranges up here, so only the importers would be affected. But believe me, some orange producer down in the states would be hopping mad."
You mean like how the US made Canadian beef illegal? Or like how the US illegaly made Canadian softwood lumber illegal? Or pork? Sugar?
It's the US that's abusing the situation. So take your orange analogy and shove it.
How can you call it exploitation? When your average legitimate CD costs a significant fraction of a Chinese person's monthly wage, even though the media costs two cents, it's the copyright system that's flawed. If there's any exploitation happening, it's the other way around.
And I don't think they're harming the creation process at all. As long as there is demand, stuff will be created. Period.
Well, here it's a peer to peer XP network in a small office. How would I veto those kind of files on the network layer, so they don't get transmitted? It's a temporary fix, but it would help in this office.
Since my colleague with his powerbook does move around a lot, and connects to various networks big and small, is there any awy he can put a filter on his outgoing network traffic to block these files? He really doesn't want the hassle of having to delete them after the fact on someone else's network, since his mac can't see the files in the first place. And he also doesn't want to explain to some clueless office manager why his mac peppers their computers with._ files, and why he should have access to another machine to delete them across the various machines on the network. As a travelling consultant with a mac, the only thing that makes good business or pr sense is to prevent these files from going out in the first place, or have some way his mac can auto-delete them after.
Do you know of any simple solution on the mac that he can implement?
I can turn off the creation of thumbs.db files if I'm visiting someone's non-pc SMB network with my laptop. My friend can't stop his mac from creating a fork file for every file he copies across the network. He would like to avoid the hassle of explaining them and how to get rid of them every time he connects to someone else's network. Especially if the peer to peer network is run by some clueless people. He would rather just disable his mac from creating these files on network shares, because he never needs the files anyways, and its a hassle for him to delete.
He has no use for them, and they don't seem to do anything special. The only things he does on our peer to peer network is move around some word files, zip files, pictures, and dwg files. He would really like to play nice on our network and not leave these files, but he has no idea how. He can't even delete them himself, because his powerbook refuses to show him these files.
I can run a scheduled delete script on the network's PC's, but is there anything he can do, short of buy a PC? It really is obnoxious of macs to do this by default on PC networks.
I have a mac geek on our PC network, and every time he saves a file onto a network share, it also saves a useless file next to it with the same file name, but a dot-underscore before it. Is there any way to get him to stop doing this short of beating him with his own powerbook?
Why do you think they didn't coalesce into rocky planets? There could certainly be some, but I doubt they would be habitable.
I think there are some explanations for this. Either the asteroid field is more recent than ours, therefore denser. Either that, or that the configuration of planets in that system are keeping the asteroid field in place.
Either that, or we are looking at a normal asteroid field for a star of that age and size. Our field could be unusually small, and how would we know it?
That raises an interesting point... If an artist who doesn't own his work (due to a standard recording contract) e-mails a friend to ask for an opinion on a work in progress, can that artist concievably do time?
Thanks for the insight and correction. I should have used the word "Hypothesis" as well. However, considering we're discussing astrophysics, there happens to be more "theories" kicking around than many of the other sciences. There also seems to be a much higher turnover. But still, for every theory there's a sea of hypotheses.
I guess you didn't read what I said. Failed theories aren't total garbage. It's the attempt and process of progress. It's the midpoint of the discussion, before they reach the end conclusion. It can be just as important to learn why a theory doesn't work, as finding the "right" theory the first time around.
There is no "Garbage" as you claim. Often more is learned from disproving theories than in thinking up the theory in the first place. There are many ways of approaching truth, and getting the "correct" theory is only one of them.
The mistake people make is taking every cutting-edge theory like it was gospel about the "NEW WAY THE UNIVERSE WORKS". Most if it is just interesting but unproved theory, nothing more. What is there to be jaded about? I really don't think you understand the process...
It's nothing nearly as fantastic as what they claim. It's not even like a dual-layer dvd. There are no layers or thickness to the information, it's still stored on the plane of the hard drive.
When they say 3D, the mean the angular direction of the magnetic field. In current drives, the only thing that is measured is the presence or absence of magnetism. With their drives, the direction of the magnetic field also matters. The limiting factor would be how accurately they can record and read the direction of the magnetic fields.
Layperson doesn't understand the cutting edge of physics and math. So they must be bozos.
I can forgive you that you might not be up on the latest theories flying around the theoretical physics community. Really, I can.
But what kind of idiot are you that you don't understand the basic process of science??? Were you raised in the bible belt, and homeschooled on creationism??? Did you sleep through grade school science class???
Scientists put forward theories. Lots of them. Many are wrong. Those get disproven. The correct ones win, and then can get replaced by theories that are even closer to the truth. On the cutting edge of knowlege, it's a normal and necessary part of the process to see many theories bouncing about at the same time. The point is that even the wrong ideas help us get closer to the right one.
Please blame this on Monday. Cause if you can't, you might have to face the fact that you're not just a layperson, but a really dumb one.
I guess you believe that there is nothing too deep or subtle in science or mathematics that can't be explained by a quick napkin sketch or a sound byte? That the average layperson can understand with no background knowlege?
I think you've watched way too much Star Trek. Science is not just over-simplified analogies and big words. Much of advanced physics and math is just far too deep to be understood by anyone who doesn't spend years studying it.
I took many university level physics and math courses, and I still have no idea of how to visualize fractional spin, for example. And believe me I've tried. These disciplines are truly humbling even to the most gifted individuals.
"Or do you expect everyone will care to install Wine to play starcraft of use MSN?:D"
Actually, I expect there will come a generation of good native Linux games, all done in Portugese. Lets hope English will be an option we can check off.
The campus provided internet is a computing SERVICE. It's not just to enable students to browse the university web page from their dorm room.
Downloading and installing operating systems such as Mandrake or Knoppix is EXACTLY what students should be using their campus internet service for. If students don't have well functioning computers, how can they learn on them?
So yea, downloading "X" (windows) is a very legitimate use.
Don't ask them what exactly you're doing that is illegal.
Ask them what law exists prohibiting the download and use of of BitTorrent for any purpose.
Hell if I were you, I'd just write back saying you aren't breaking any laws, and refer them to several on-campus law professors if they're still clueless. If I were in your shoes, I would tell them I won't stop using BitTorrent, and they can call the cops if they want to.
This Canadian radio show has been running weekly since at least 1988, and covers a broad range of science news. I find they rarely dumb down their news, and often they will cover obscure and very interesting areas of research that you just won't hear about anywhere else in the news.
The website supports podcasting, realaudio, and you can download every weekly episode since 1988 right from their website. Pretty cool when you think about it.
This is definately superior news for the science nerd.
At what point will the black hole absorb more from the particle stream than it loses to hawking radiation? Can this be achieved in a particle accelerator?
Considering these are quantum issues, what are the odds?
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"What if canada suddenly made oranges illegal. We dont grow any oranges up here, so only the importers would be affected. But believe me, some orange producer down in the states would be hopping mad."
You mean like how the US made Canadian beef illegal? Or like how the US illegaly made Canadian softwood lumber illegal? Or pork? Sugar?
It's the US that's abusing the situation. So take your orange analogy and shove it.
How can you call it exploitation? When your average legitimate CD costs a significant fraction of a Chinese person's monthly wage, even though the media costs two cents, it's the copyright system that's flawed. If there's any exploitation happening, it's the other way around.
And I don't think they're harming the creation process at all. As long as there is demand, stuff will be created. Period.
Well, here it's a peer to peer XP network in a small office. How would I veto those kind of files on the network layer, so they don't get transmitted? It's a temporary fix, but it would help in this office.
._ files, and why he should have access to another machine to delete them across the various machines on the network. As a travelling consultant with a mac, the only thing that makes good business or pr sense is to prevent these files from going out in the first place, or have some way his mac can auto-delete them after.
Since my colleague with his powerbook does move around a lot, and connects to various networks big and small, is there any awy he can put a filter on his outgoing network traffic to block these files? He really doesn't want the hassle of having to delete them after the fact on someone else's network, since his mac can't see the files in the first place. And he also doesn't want to explain to some clueless office manager why his mac peppers their computers with
Do you know of any simple solution on the mac that he can implement?
Thanks.
"What's so obnoxious?
Ewww! A Thumbs.db file on my drive!!"
I can turn off the creation of thumbs.db files if I'm visiting someone's non-pc SMB network with my laptop. My friend can't stop his mac from creating a fork file for every file he copies across the network. He would like to avoid the hassle of explaining them and how to get rid of them every time he connects to someone else's network. Especially if the peer to peer network is run by some clueless people. He would rather just disable his mac from creating these files on network shares, because he never needs the files anyways, and its a hassle for him to delete.
Do you understand?
He has no use for them, and they don't seem to do anything special. The only things he does on our peer to peer network is move around some word files, zip files, pictures, and dwg files. He would really like to play nice on our network and not leave these files, but he has no idea how. He can't even delete them himself, because his powerbook refuses to show him these files.
I can run a scheduled delete script on the network's PC's, but is there anything he can do, short of buy a PC? It really is obnoxious of macs to do this by default on PC networks.
Bork!
I have a mac geek on our PC network, and every time he saves a file onto a network share, it also saves a useless file next to it with the same file name, but a dot-underscore before it. Is there any way to get him to stop doing this short of beating him with his own powerbook?
Bork!
Why do you think they didn't coalesce into rocky planets? There could certainly be some, but I doubt they would be habitable.
I think there are some explanations for this. Either the asteroid field is more recent than ours, therefore denser. Either that, or that the configuration of planets in that system are keeping the asteroid field in place.
Either that, or we are looking at a normal asteroid field for a star of that age and size. Our field could be unusually small, and how would we know it?
"Oh well, I guess I will always be soft for a cute girl."
Speak for yourself. There are cures for that now.
Bork!
That raises an interesting point... If an artist who doesn't own his work (due to a standard recording contract) e-mails a friend to ask for an opinion on a work in progress, can that artist concievably do time?
Bork!
" Its people are better educated, they live longer, and they have a smaller homeless population. "
I personally think that our low homeless population is due to our harsh winters. They provide a very strong incentive for people to live indoors.
And the hobos we have that do live outside in the winter are usually DAMN tough customers.
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Thanks for the insight and correction. I should have used the word "Hypothesis" as well. However, considering we're discussing astrophysics, there happens to be more "theories" kicking around than many of the other sciences. There also seems to be a much higher turnover. But still, for every theory there's a sea of hypotheses.
:)
Thanks.
"You might as well be sitting on a bomb!"
For safety, you should stick to your gasoline powered car.
Bork!
"Like it or not, people expect science to be exact and correct even though it often isn't."
;)
You are right. That is what religion is for.
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I guess you didn't read what I said. Failed theories aren't total garbage. It's the attempt and process of progress. It's the midpoint of the discussion, before they reach the end conclusion. It can be just as important to learn why a theory doesn't work, as finding the "right" theory the first time around.
There is no "Garbage" as you claim. Often more is learned from disproving theories than in thinking up the theory in the first place. There are many ways of approaching truth, and getting the "correct" theory is only one of them.
The mistake people make is taking every cutting-edge theory like it was gospel about the "NEW WAY THE UNIVERSE WORKS". Most if it is just interesting but unproved theory, nothing more. What is there to be jaded about? I really don't think you understand the process...
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It's nothing nearly as fantastic as what they claim. It's not even like a dual-layer dvd. There are no layers or thickness to the information, it's still stored on the plane of the hard drive.
When they say 3D, the mean the angular direction of the magnetic field. In current drives, the only thing that is measured is the presence or absence of magnetism. With their drives, the direction of the magnetic field also matters.
The limiting factor would be how accurately they can record and read the direction of the magnetic fields.
Layperson doesn't understand the cutting edge of physics and math. So they must be bozos.
I can forgive you that you might not be up on the latest theories flying around the theoretical physics community. Really, I can.
But what kind of idiot are you that you don't understand the basic process of science??? Were you raised in the bible belt, and homeschooled on creationism??? Did you sleep through grade school science class???
Scientists put forward theories. Lots of them. Many are wrong. Those get disproven. The correct ones win, and then can get replaced by theories that are even closer to the truth.
On the cutting edge of knowlege, it's a normal and necessary part of the process to see many theories bouncing about at the same time. The point is that even the wrong ideas help us get closer to the right one.
Please blame this on Monday. Cause if you can't, you might have to face the fact that you're not just a layperson, but a really dumb one.
I guess you believe that there is nothing too deep or subtle in science or mathematics that can't be explained by a quick napkin sketch or a sound byte? That the average layperson can understand with no background knowlege?
I think you've watched way too much Star Trek. Science is not just over-simplified analogies and big words. Much of advanced physics and math is just far too deep to be understood by anyone who doesn't spend years studying it.
I took many university level physics and math courses, and I still have no idea of how to visualize fractional spin, for example. And believe me I've tried. These disciplines are truly humbling even to the most gifted individuals.
"Or do you expect everyone will care to install Wine to play starcraft of use MSN? :D"
Actually, I expect there will come a generation of good native Linux games, all done in Portugese. Lets hope English will be an option we can check off.
The campus provided internet is a computing SERVICE. It's not just to enable students to browse the university web page from their dorm room.
Downloading and installing operating systems such as Mandrake or Knoppix is EXACTLY what students should be using their campus internet service for. If students don't have well functioning computers, how can they learn on them?
So yea, downloading "X" (windows) is a very legitimate use.
Bork!
Don't ask them what exactly you're doing that is illegal.
Ask them what law exists prohibiting the download and use of of BitTorrent for any purpose.
Hell if I were you, I'd just write back saying you aren't breaking any laws, and refer them to several on-campus law professors if they're still clueless. If I were in your shoes, I would tell them I won't stop using BitTorrent, and they can call the cops if they want to.
But thats me.
I wish you luck.
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/
This Canadian radio show has been running weekly since at least 1988, and covers a broad range of science news. I find they rarely dumb down their news, and often they will cover obscure and very interesting areas of research that you just won't hear about anywhere else in the news.
The website supports podcasting, realaudio, and you can download every weekly episode since 1988 right from their website. Pretty cool when you think about it.
This is definately superior news for the science nerd.
The answer to your question is yes. In general, the presidents who were fighting the cold war had the moral high ground.
Some fell, some stumbled, but in general, the West had the moral high ground.
You can't say that now.
At what point will the black hole absorb more from the particle stream than it loses to hawking radiation? Can this be achieved in a particle accelerator?
Considering these are quantum issues, what are the odds?
Hydrogen is a crappy battery, even the hydride systems don't hold a candle to hydrocarbon sources of fuel.
Also, Hydrogen *LEAKS* even in a perfect container. Hydrogen has such a small atomic mass that the atoms percolate through steel vessels.
"Or do you have a secret source of power more efficiently stored than coal or petroleum?"
Yea I do, and it's spelled "nook-U-lar"
Bork!