I wouldn't get too down. This is the USA after all, and the race is rarely won by the "first", and usually won by the "cost efficient" (or, if you're a cynic, it's won by the "heavily marketed").
After all, today's commercial airline industry isn't flying planes built by Burgess, Curtiss, or Loening... It was Boeing who got the contracts for training planes during World War I, and commercial transport planes afterwards...
To be pedantic, during the middle ages the common thought was that the ancient cultures had learned everything there was to know, then the knowledge was lost with the fall of their cultures. The word "discover" is "dis-" (not) "cover" (as in hide) was coined to indicate that scientists were merely again finding what the golden age cultures had already found.
In this case, you have a liquid (beer) lightly saturated with gasses. Like crystals, the gasses collect on the impurities on the glass (notice when you drink soda, the bubbles always seem to form at the same spots), until you've reached a "critical mass" where the bubble can break its tension with the glass. The bubbles rise up the middle of the glass, inducing a current (similar to convection) which has a counter current going down the edges of the glass. The force of the current (down) is sometimes greater than the buoyancy (up) of the smaller bubbles, and they are drawn downwards towards the bottom of the glass. Now where's my money??
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Ah, but every now and then I get a "User has requested to add you to their contact list..." in my ICQ and they just put the spam in the notification reason box. I see the same thing with automated request system; they'll use the request process to pass the advertisements in to you.
Call me a cynic, but I think we're dealing with an inherantly unsecure system. As long as you have one mail server out there forging message headers, you can't trust the path back to the sender. Like abstinance, Whitelisting may be the only way to block 100% of what you don't want. But then you might be blocking an email from your third cousin someday who decides to email you out of the blue. The happy medium is the automated filter, like Yahoo's... but I'm noticing that this past week spammers have figured how to slip message through that one too...
Well, given that "I, Robot" was first published in 1950, I'm willing to concede that some of the content might be a bit dated by now...
The guy was still a visionary for his age, yet most of his work was not trying to project the future of technology, but instead project mankind's actions when enabled by advanced technology. That's pretty much the whole point of the Foundation series, given sufficiently advancements, will humans still behave like barbarians towards one another?
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The Nanotubes, cap'n.. they cannae hold!
And have her busting out of her clothing? You say that like it's a bad thing.
Yet, it is Man using vaccines and antibiotics incorrectly that is causing us the greater problems today. We have incorrectly weakened vaccinations causing infections in children, including polio. We have drug resistant strains of bacteria, because humans can't be trusted to follow orders, and either undermedicate or overmedicate with the wrong phage, leading to even more powerful versions of bacteria like strep.
I don't have anything against stem-cell research, but I do have a strong objection to fetal stem-cell research that involves the destruction of embryos. Even more so when there is evidence that we can take cells from adults, and culture stem cells out of those, with no loss of life, and no donor rejection problems. It is the ethically sound choice given the current options available to us.
I would argue to you that research done in spite of ethics does not legitimize it as the preferred course of actions. Religions were developed as guidelines for societies by early cultures for how to behave among each other; I could kill you, and there's nothing you could do to stop me, but if I believe "something" is out there powerful enough to take vengence on me, I wont do it. Yet its not the religion that's important, it's the not killing part... what I'm trying to say is, we need to separate "religion" from "ethics" and recognize that there are things out there that are just wrong to do (no, I do not support moral relativism). I see fetal stem cell research as one of those things, violating the rights of the fetus to survive, and that wonton destruction in the name of science, with no regards for ethics, only legitimizes other more horrible "studies" in the name of science.
I'm surprised noone's made any comments how this resembles the background of David Brin's "Uplift" saga... that humankind cracks the secret of intelligence through genetics, and passes the gift on to his fellow species.
What gets me is, once we realize that we *can* make our fellow creatures intelligent (or should I say, self-aware), then what? It is ethically immoral (to me) to then kill them, yet it is unfair to the self-aware critter to say "we were only doing this to see if we could, you're the last, sorry".
If Automobiles with all their fancy EULAs always worked "right out of the box", there wouldn't be such a thing as Lemon Laws to protect the consumer from faulty merchandise.
The argument is that a (software, etc) product that faults on its own in the hands of the consumer should be liable for any damage caused by the fault. Only in the software industry have we become so accustomed to badly coded "commercial-level" programs that we grin and ignore it. We say "its just electrons, no harm done", but then we curse when Excel crashes and loses 4 hours of work, or Outlook's.ost file corrupts and there goes months of emails....
If your electric razor malfunctioned every 1 in 50 uses and required you to shut it off and back on again to make it run, wouldn't you be taking that product right back to the store? Or what if something worse happened? And what do we do, we switch brands. Once bitten, twice shy. And now we finally have options to switch away from the Microsoft brand...
10,000 hours at 24 hours a day is 416 days, or 1.14 years.
Unless you've found a way to get more than 24 hours out of a day (and believe me, my manager has tried) even the baseline lifespan should last. Besides, I thought planned obsolescence was good for the economy... And in the ~ two years it takes for the OLEDs to fade, they'll have something better by then.
Sid Meyer = a Good Sim. "Two Guys from Andromeda" = a Good Comedy in Space. John Carmack = a Great First Person Shooter. Richard Garriot = a Great RPG.
We used to do it to our games, then somewhere around the mid '90s computer companies stopped caring about the development cycle, and started caring more about the quantity of titles published... From that point, it de-personalized the industry, and you no longer could count on a particular company to consistently put out good products. Then companies were eaten up by others (Bards Tale by Broderbund, then Interplay; Origin; Sierra), programmers leave, marketers milk name recognition until the gamers flee...
And again, like the stock market, we are now finding out that it's time to get back to basics. There never was a New Economy, just the old one all along... get your company to put out Good Products, and the user base will appear, and is dying to be loyal; just look at Blizzard software, with a consistently high quality line of products, and they're rolling in money. We've been kicked around by buggy software, poor support, shoddy sequels for far too long....
Uhh, yeah, we will still all be human beings with one more protein that made it easier for the immune system to trap that particular strain of virus. There's some supposition that that's what most of the DNA in our genome is... If you were expecting to evolve a pair of wings out of the deal, or a gripping hand, I hate to disappoint...
John Kerry served in Vietnam, and afterwards appeared in several protests against the war, most famously throwing (fake) war medals back over the fence of the White House. At roughly the same time, Jane Fonda was protesting by propagandizing for the North Vietnamese, using her celebrity status to help draw support the communist government there. Many of my father's generation who served in the military see her as committing traitorous acts, so this doctored photo invokes a very strong reaction by linking Fonda and Kerry.
I find it interesting that while the two never personally met, they both engaged in protesting with roughly the same intensity against the government. After learning that the photo was doctored, many uneducated voters may discount Kerry's years of protests, and might actually think he supports the military.... Should be interesting in the fall.
I think you meant to say, nothing is certain in these days of $534 billion Medicare Drug Benefit Plan... The $134 billion bloat in 1 year is more than the entire cost of the 2nd gulf war plus 50%.
Given the flurry of fan activity over Joss Weldon's last show, Firefly, and the subsequent snubbing by the other networks when they wanted someone to pick up the show... the cynic in me wouldn't be surprised if this show also fades into oblivion.
There is no irony if you believe that people should be held responsible for their actions. A willful murderer who is found inequivocably guilty should be killed (or in a more P.C. vein, permanently removed from society). Their actions are such that they cannot be trusted to act in a safe and responsible mannor around others and they have shown evidence that they have broken the trust. We shouldn't dick around for years on the government's money giving people like that free meals and housing, so they can meditate on the "evil of their ways" till they die 50 years later... the punishment does not fit the severity of the crime.
Personally, a woman who finds herself pregnant after a rape should be allowed to terminate the pregnancy. She was never given the power to make the decision to conceive, the act was forced upon her. However, I also think the punishment for rapist should be a good and thorough neutering, but society won't do it because they believe rapists can be "rehabilitated", despite the recidivism rate evidence to the contrary.
Women who become pregnant, let it gestate a bit, and then don't want to be pregnant any more are simply unwilling to bear the responsibility of their actions, and end up sacrificing the fetus in the processes. The parents simply made a decision, through the act of sex, to begin that process. We can argue all day at what point the fetus becomes an "unborn baby", the border between tissue and life, but it is a process that without interaction creates a baby... Hell, the whole issue is *When* does the tissue have a right to exist! Because of that, the parent must take responsibility for imposing on the rights of the fetus.
They happen to be a run-of-the-mill cable company with a lock on the WashingtonDC-Philadelphia-Newark-NewYorkCity cooridor, the 4th largest TV viewing market in the USA, and 5th largest radio market. They are their own sports broadcast provider (Comcast Sports) with near-exclusive baseball, basketball & hockey coverage for the region (Normally you will only get a game on broadcast TV if the stadium is sold-out, Comcast gets them all the time).
As mentioned before, Comcast is approximately 1.5x the size of Disney, and are essentially a pure content distribution company. Disney under their umbrella would give them additional content to distribute... And think of all the movies that Disney has rights to, suddenly it would make the HBOs and Cinemaxes of the world a lot less powerful if Comcast could bring you Disney/Miramax/BuenaVista movies first. And look at what AOL did with TimeWarner, suddenly you had the Merry Melodies (Bugs Bunny et al) characters as part of their advertising campaigns == instant public mascot recognition. You better believe that Comcast would milk the Disney characters for commercials...
The biggest complaint last year is that ESPN sports content (who have a firm grip on broadcasting college sports nation-wide) was expensive... ESPN is a piece of Disney, so Comcast would own another valuable piece to the sports pie. The college NCAA tournaments in March are a month long advertising spree, and I'm sure Comcast would love to be a middle-man in that system.
Personally, I hate what Eisner has done to the Disney legacy, so anything to remove him from CEO would be a good thing in my opinion. Unfortunatly, a buy-out like this would only contain a Platinum Parachute (this guy already paid himself enough gold) that would make Eisner richer... something he hasn't deserved for a decade.
At least Yahoo news service has the foresight to convert websites and companies contained in their stories to URLs... but I suppose that NYTimes risks losing customers if they were to suggest alternative news sites to their readers.
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I wouldn't get too down. This is the USA after all, and the race is rarely won by the "first", and usually won by the "cost efficient" (or, if you're a cynic, it's won by the "heavily marketed").
After all, today's commercial airline industry isn't flying planes built by Burgess, Curtiss, or Loening... It was Boeing who got the contracts for training planes during World War I, and commercial transport planes afterwards...
You know, I could have sworn I saw that somewhere too... like on Slashdot about 8 comments up from this one.
To be pedantic, during the middle ages the common thought was that the ancient cultures had learned everything there was to know, then the knowledge was lost with the fall of their cultures. The word "discover" is "dis-" (not) "cover" (as in hide) was coined to indicate that scientists were merely again finding what the golden age cultures had already found.
In this case, you have a liquid (beer) lightly saturated with gasses. Like crystals, the gasses collect on the impurities on the glass (notice when you drink soda, the bubbles always seem to form at the same spots), until you've reached a "critical mass" where the bubble can break its tension with the glass. The bubbles rise up the middle of the glass, inducing a current (similar to convection) which has a counter current going down the edges of the glass. The force of the current (down) is sometimes greater than the buoyancy (up) of the smaller bubbles, and they are drawn downwards towards the bottom of the glass. Now where's my money??
Ah, but every now and then I get a "User has requested to add you to their contact list..." in my ICQ and they just put the spam in the notification reason box. I see the same thing with automated request system; they'll use the request process to pass the advertisements in to you.
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Call me a cynic, but I think we're dealing with an inherantly unsecure system. As long as you have one mail server out there forging message headers, you can't trust the path back to the sender. Like abstinance, Whitelisting may be the only way to block 100% of what you don't want. But then you might be blocking an email from your third cousin someday who decides to email you out of the blue. The happy medium is the automated filter, like Yahoo's... but I'm noticing that this past week spammers have figured how to slip message through that one too
Well, given that "I, Robot" was first published in 1950 , I'm willing to concede that some of the content might be a bit dated by now...
The guy was still a visionary for his age, yet most of his work was not trying to project the future of technology, but instead project mankind's actions when enabled by advanced technology. That's pretty much the whole point of the Foundation series, given sufficiently advancements, will humans still behave like barbarians towards one another?
The Nanotubes, cap'n.. they cannae hold!
And have her busting out of her clothing? You say that like it's a bad thing.
Wrong Link: stem cells out of those
Yet, it is Man using vaccines and antibiotics incorrectly that is causing us the greater problems today. We have incorrectly weakened vaccinations causing infections in children, including polio. We have drug resistant strains of bacteria, because humans can't be trusted to follow orders, and either undermedicate or overmedicate with the wrong phage, leading to even more powerful versions of bacteria like strep.
I don't have anything against stem-cell research, but I do have a strong objection to fetal stem-cell research that involves the destruction of embryos. Even more so when there is evidence that we can take cells from adults, and culture stem cells out of those, with no loss of life, and no donor rejection problems. It is the ethically sound choice given the current options available to us.
I would argue to you that research done in spite of ethics does not legitimize it as the preferred course of actions. Religions were developed as guidelines for societies by early cultures for how to behave among each other; I could kill you, and there's nothing you could do to stop me, but if I believe "something" is out there powerful enough to take vengence on me, I wont do it. Yet its not the religion that's important, it's the not killing part... what I'm trying to say is, we need to separate "religion" from "ethics" and recognize that there are things out there that are just wrong to do (no, I do not support moral relativism). I see fetal stem cell research as one of those things, violating the rights of the fetus to survive, and that wonton destruction in the name of science, with no regards for ethics, only legitimizes other more horrible "studies" in the name of science.
I'm surprised noone's made any comments how this resembles the background of David Brin's "Uplift" saga... that humankind cracks the secret of intelligence through genetics, and passes the gift on to his fellow species.
What gets me is, once we realize that we *can* make our fellow creatures intelligent (or should I say, self-aware), then what? It is ethically immoral (to me) to then kill them, yet it is unfair to the self-aware critter to say "we were only doing this to see if we could, you're the last, sorry".
Oh well, I gotta get back to work.
If Automobiles with all their fancy EULAs always worked "right out of the box", there wouldn't be such a thing as Lemon Laws to protect the consumer from faulty merchandise.
.ost file corrupts and there goes months of emails....
The argument is that a (software, etc) product that faults on its own in the hands of the consumer should be liable for any damage caused by the fault. Only in the software industry have we become so accustomed to badly coded "commercial-level" programs that we grin and ignore it. We say "its just electrons, no harm done", but then we curse when Excel crashes and loses 4 hours of work, or Outlook's
If your electric razor malfunctioned every 1 in 50 uses and required you to shut it off and back on again to make it run, wouldn't you be taking that product right back to the store? Or what if something worse happened? And what do we do, we switch brands. Once bitten, twice shy. And now we finally have options to switch away from the Microsoft brand...
*raise*
10,000 hours at 24 hours a day is 416 days, or 1.14 years.
Unless you've found a way to get more than 24 hours out of a day (and believe me, my manager has tried) even the baseline lifespan should last. Besides, I thought planned obsolescence was good for the economy... And in the ~ two years it takes for the OLEDs to fade, they'll have something better by then.
Sid Meyer = a Good Sim.
"Two Guys from Andromeda" = a Good Comedy in Space.
John Carmack = a Great First Person Shooter.
Richard Garriot = a Great RPG.
We used to do it to our games, then somewhere around the mid '90s computer companies stopped caring about the development cycle, and started caring more about the quantity of titles published... From that point, it de-personalized the industry, and you no longer could count on a particular company to consistently put out good products. Then companies were eaten up by others (Bards Tale by Broderbund, then Interplay; Origin; Sierra), programmers leave, marketers milk name recognition until the gamers flee...
And again, like the stock market, we are now finding out that it's time to get back to basics. There never was a New Economy, just the old one all along... get your company to put out Good Products, and the user base will appear, and is dying to be loyal; just look at Blizzard software, with a consistently high quality line of products, and they're rolling in money. We've been kicked around by buggy software, poor support, shoddy sequels for far too long....
Good Vs Evil had a great "campy" feel to it that I liked. If you liked that, I recommend "Keen Eddy" that is now appearing on Bravo...
I don't lament the death of Brimstone... But I wish they'd take Tremors and bury that one in the backyard.
As opposed to what, Data Structures that don't work? Yeah, we need more books on those...
Uhh, yeah, we will still all be human beings with one more protein that made it easier for the immune system to trap that particular strain of virus. There's some supposition that that's what most of the DNA in our genome is... If you were expecting to evolve a pair of wings out of the deal, or a gripping hand, I hate to disappoint...
What, like a Beowulf Cluster?
John Kerry served in Vietnam, and afterwards appeared in several protests against the war, most famously throwing (fake) war medals back over the fence of the White House. At roughly the same time, Jane Fonda was protesting by propagandizing for the North Vietnamese, using her celebrity status to help draw support the communist government there. Many of my father's generation who served in the military see her as committing traitorous acts, so this doctored photo invokes a very strong reaction by linking Fonda and Kerry.
I find it interesting that while the two never personally met, they both engaged in protesting with roughly the same intensity against the government. After learning that the photo was doctored, many uneducated voters may discount Kerry's years of protests, and might actually think he supports the military.... Should be interesting in the fall.
Hell, white noise is more pleasing to listen to than Corey Feldman's Band...
I think you meant to say, nothing is certain in these days of $534 billion Medicare Drug Benefit Plan... The $134 billion bloat in 1 year is more than the entire cost of the 2nd gulf war plus 50%.
doh, don't know what came over me.
Given the flurry of fan activity over Joss Weldon's last show, Firefly, and the subsequent snubbing by the other networks when they wanted someone to pick up the show... the cynic in me wouldn't be surprised if this show also fades into oblivion.
Yea, you go over to support.microsoft.com and fill out an HTML form telling them that you downloa... wait a minute...
There is no irony if you believe that people should be held responsible for their actions. A willful murderer who is found inequivocably guilty should be killed (or in a more P.C. vein, permanently removed from society). Their actions are such that they cannot be trusted to act in a safe and responsible mannor around others and they have shown evidence that they have broken the trust. We shouldn't dick around for years on the government's money giving people like that free meals and housing, so they can meditate on the "evil of their ways" till they die 50 years later... the punishment does not fit the severity of the crime.
Personally, a woman who finds herself pregnant after a rape should be allowed to terminate the pregnancy. She was never given the power to make the decision to conceive, the act was forced upon her. However, I also think the punishment for rapist should be a good and thorough neutering, but society won't do it because they believe rapists can be "rehabilitated", despite the recidivism rate evidence to the contrary.
Women who become pregnant, let it gestate a bit, and then don't want to be pregnant any more are simply unwilling to bear the responsibility of their actions, and end up sacrificing the fetus in the processes. The parents simply made a decision, through the act of sex, to begin that process. We can argue all day at what point the fetus becomes an "unborn baby", the border between tissue and life, but it is a process that without interaction creates a baby... Hell, the whole issue is *When* does the tissue have a right to exist! Because of that, the parent must take responsibility for imposing on the rights of the fetus.
They happen to be a run-of-the-mill cable company with a lock on the WashingtonDC-Philadelphia-Newark-NewYorkCity cooridor, the 4th largest TV viewing market in the USA, and 5th largest radio market. They are their own sports broadcast provider (Comcast Sports) with near-exclusive baseball, basketball & hockey coverage for the region (Normally you will only get a game on broadcast TV if the stadium is sold-out, Comcast gets them all the time).
As mentioned before, Comcast is approximately 1.5x the size of Disney, and are essentially a pure content distribution company. Disney under their umbrella would give them additional content to distribute... And think of all the movies that Disney has rights to, suddenly it would make the HBOs and Cinemaxes of the world a lot less powerful if Comcast could bring you Disney/Miramax/BuenaVista movies first. And look at what AOL did with TimeWarner, suddenly you had the Merry Melodies (Bugs Bunny et al) characters as part of their advertising campaigns == instant public mascot recognition. You better believe that Comcast would milk the Disney characters for commercials...
The biggest complaint last year is that ESPN sports content (who have a firm grip on broadcasting college sports nation-wide) was expensive... ESPN is a piece of Disney, so Comcast would own another valuable piece to the sports pie. The college NCAA tournaments in March are a month long advertising spree, and I'm sure Comcast would love to be a middle-man in that system.
Personally, I hate what Eisner has done to the Disney legacy, so anything to remove him from CEO would be a good thing in my opinion. Unfortunatly, a buy-out like this would only contain a Platinum Parachute (this guy already paid himself enough gold) that would make Eisner richer... something he hasn't deserved for a decade.
At least Yahoo news service has the foresight to convert websites and companies contained in their stories to URLs... but I suppose that NYTimes risks losing customers if they were to suggest alternative news sites to their readers.