Actually, you can survive without a job. just develop max creativity and paint. You can get about 150 simoleans a painting at the later levels, and you can do about three paintings a day. Of course, being "self employed" you can paint whenever you want, and slack off whenever you want.
"He says mirror neurons and the way they facilitate imitative learning help to explain why we only developed things like tool use, art and mathematics about 40,000 years ago, despite the fact that our brains had reached their full size some 150,000 years earlier. These cultural inventions, he contends, probably popped up accidentally, but they were disseminated quickly because of our amazing, imitative, learning brains--made possible by a more sophisticated version of the monkey mirror neuron system."
Is this why so few people can come up with anything more original than "frist psot" or "hot grits"?
Well, there goes my college education...
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There's no way I can get addicted to a MOO sequel and stay and school at the same time.
And I *certainly* know which one will get higher priority.
A company announces a product line, gets thousands if not millions of people to shell out the cash for it, then abandons the product. It happens all the time. The question is, did Sega imply by selling the DC that they were going to produce an extensive line of games for it? When you bought the DC, were you buying a cool piece of equipment *or* were you buying a player for cool games?
that they have the very Robotech-ish jet fighter Transfomer. Those things were awesome, but they fell apart if you looked at them funny
I collected gi-joes myself. Hung them from the ceiling by little shoestring nooses. My little brother thought I was a god, my mom thought I needed therapy. Now my brother thinks I'm a dweeb, and my mom still thinks I need therapy.
On a related note, the most recent issue of Home Power has detailed stats regarding how much power various manufacturers' solar cells produce in their lifetime vs. the power consumed to produce them. I can't find a nuclear link tho.
Microsoft has a long history of employing people just to keep the brain cells off the market. I've read articles by people who were *trying* to get fired from MS but couldn't (until, of course, they finally managed to do something bad enough).
to freely distribute information? So many of us balk at the shutdown of Napster; what if Napster had been distributing bomb-making instructions?
Would it have been okay to shut them down then? No? What if it were used to distribute the names and locations of people in the Witness Protection Program (That's in America, I don't know if other countries have something similar)?
or, while we're at it, what if Napster was being used to distribute your credit card number?
Napster wasn't shut down because it did anything illegal, it was shut down because in fervantly protection free speech, it failed to provide a reasonable system through which someone could request the removal of material that was harmful to them. True, the only people that were "harmed" were big and rich and greedy, but that doesn't mean that only BRG people *can* be hurt. If you had awakened one morning to find your name, address, phone number, cc #, and photos of you and your wife in bed being distributed through Napster, how would you have gotten them removed? Who would you have contacted? You would have had no options to solve the problem.
Systems like Napster are great, and the freedom they provide is an unarguably nessecary component, but there has to be some system to address the objections raised on a case by case basis.
"You may find that there are gaps in industry enforcement where government must step in to ensure compliance," said Jill Lesser, a vice president at America Online Inc. in Dulles, Va. "Nevertheless, it is clear that companies are responding to the increasing marketplace demand for online privacy," she said at the commerce committee hearing.
AOL is arguing that online privacy is increasing? AOL that steals people's URLs? AOL that has the *worst* track record for spam in the entire $#!@#% industry?! That AOL?
If an aol atom touched an online privacy atom, they would probably annihalate each other in a puff of pure energy.
To be fair though, the "waterproof mouse" looks less like a mouse and more like a joystick/thumbpad. I didn';t *think* you could easily waterproof a mouse.
I just didn't bother asking for a mouse because I tend to use the keyboard anyway. A mouse would never stay in place in a bath/shower, I doubt it would be worth the trouble.
Is a monitor that can do the same thing. With those two, I think the rest of the wiring could be kept outside of the tub (actually, this seems like it would work better in the shower).
Maybe some sort of flatscreen lcd wrapped in hard plastic. Anybody got a link to something like this?
Several music groups already publish mp3s on their cds - Cherry Poppin Daddies leap to mind. So, while you're swearing up and down how you'll never support metallica again, why not skip on down to the store and buy a little CPD?
In "Last Chance to see", you described the plight of the Kakapo, a dodo-like bird that had evolved on a set of islands with no natural predators.
The bird had developped an insanely complicated reproductive cycle in order to keep it population from outgrowing the island. Further, the bird wasn't incredibly bright, and it couldn't fly. In short, evolution on a small island with no competition had done a number on this bird.
Since I read this, I haven't been able to shake the feeling that Earth is just a bigger island, and that Humans are entering a "kakapo" stage. We recognize that our population is growing exponentially, we recognize that this growth is causing a whole slew of problems, and we have begun to react to this using such things as contraceptives, abortions, and population laws.
If these measures succeed, human population growth will be slowed or ultimately even stopped - There are many people campaigning for ZPG-Zero Population Growth. Might such a trend, if it succeeds, have negative effects on humanity in the long run? Do you think abortion and forced population control have caused a lowering of the value of human life?
perhaps you are an open source programmer, and you write programs not for money, but rather for the experience of writing them, the prestige, and the proceeds earned by supporting said programs.
However, the musicians in question published these songs with the explicit intent to make money by selling those songs to people. Maybe that does not line up with the open source philosophy, but then the music is not open source! Open source is a good idea, but that does not mean that some gangsta rappa who's never touched a computer in his life must suddenly change over to your point of view.
Further, perhaps it is unfortunate that the businesspeople involved did not take the "opportunity" to switch over to a different method of distribution. Maybe it was even financially unwise of them to make the choices they made (I doubt it). But that also does not matter, because they own the businesses in question. If they want to deliver their music to the public through a method involving trained squirrels with cute little backpacks, that is their perogative. You have no right to demand that they run their businesses in a particular way, even if that way is more sensible.
Lastly, I must say that this article is not news. It contains news, but the article itself is an argument. A heavily biased rant against a perfectly sound court decision. The law said that unliscensed MP3's are illegal, and then it said it again, and then it said it again. The law is not unclear on the matter. If you are unhappy with the law, vote. I agree that Stupid laws must be changed, but they also must be obeyed until they are changed, lest those who are working for a change be branded as criminals.
At the end of Ender's Shadow.....
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Bean was determined to lead an earth army, and determined to learn more about Peter Wiggin. Achilles had been seized by the russians, presumably put at the head of an army bent on raining fire and destruction down upon the earth. Valentine and Wiggin are in interstellar travel, meaning that they can have little effect on the story line (except that over the next 50 years, Val will publish several histories of the bugger wars).
We know that Peter is the Hegemon when Ender and Val arrive at the planet 50 years later.
We know that the first thing Bean will do when he gets back is study Peter to find out if he betrayed Ender. Since Bean never wastes anything, he'll probably then try to assert himself as Peter's general. If Bean is seven, he's got maybe 13 years before his genetically altered body dies of old age. And we assume that three's some gigantic battle to occur between Bean and Achilles.
At least, for my money there had darn well BETTER be.
It seems that an observing employee has already responded to the string, stating he'd get management on it. And one of the original coders has already threatened to sue.:)
Actually, I've downloaded plenty of country mp3's (I own the originals as well).
"Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate, and for them I cannot disagree but I've never learned nothin' from playin' it safe I say fate should not tempt me." - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Point well taken. Conventional energy sources aren't "conventional" by accident. People use them because they work, and they work darn well.
But in all fairness, please note that I did *not* advocate the use of AE, but rather the research of AE. You say that AE is unusable in it's current form, and I heartily agree: you're right! Any company that tries to sell solar competitively on the market today is going to fall flat on its rear.
At the same time, we can see that there are changes that need to be made within the market. We can also see that solar energy provides the sort of properties that we would want, only on a dismally small scale. That doesn't mean that solar energy can't be used, only that it can't be used today.
Furthermore, while you get more energy out of petroleum, you only get that energy *if* you have a dependable source of petroleum. Now, on one hand, we are not going to run out of oil any time soon. I'll even go so far as to say that we will "never" run out of oil - that is, our oil resources are plentiful enough that the thought of us still using oil by the time we would run out is silly.
On the other hand, that does not mean that we have a dependable source of petroleum. A large part of the world's oil reserves lie in the mideast, an area that has been a religio-political hotbed for thousands of years. If a country is dependant on that oil, then sooner or later that country will become politically involved in the area. And that means that some day, the price of that oil will include the blood of your sons. This is not sad, it's simply unacceptable.
Why not take the opportunity now to research technologies that will remove that dependancy? No violent changes needed, we don't have to tear down the power companies... just try to learn how to do things a little differently. The research that helps us build better solar panels will also help us make faster pentiums. The innovations that create more effective wind generators will also let us sell cheaper hair driers.
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Actually, you can survive without a job. just develop max creativity and paint. You can get about 150 simoleans a painting at the later levels, and you can do about three paintings a day. Of course, being "self employed" you can paint whenever you want, and slack off whenever you want.
"He says mirror neurons and the way they facilitate imitative learning help to explain why we only developed things like tool use, art and mathematics about 40,000 years ago, despite the fact that our brains had reached their full size some 150,000 years earlier. These cultural inventions, he contends, probably popped up accidentally, but they were disseminated quickly because of our amazing, imitative, learning brains--made possible by a more sophisticated version of the monkey mirror neuron system."
Is this why so few people can come up with anything more original than "frist psot" or "hot grits"?
There's no way I can get addicted to a MOO sequel and stay and school at the same time.
And I *certainly* know which one will get higher priority.
A company announces a product line, gets thousands if not millions of people to shell out the cash for it, then abandons the product. It happens all the time. The question is, did Sega imply by selling the DC that they were going to produce an extensive line of games for it? When you bought the DC, were you buying a cool piece of equipment *or* were you buying a player for cool games?
that they have the very Robotech-ish jet fighter Transfomer. Those things were awesome, but they fell apart if you looked at them funny
I collected gi-joes myself. Hung them from the ceiling by little shoestring nooses. My little brother thought I was a god, my mom thought I needed therapy. Now my brother thinks I'm a dweeb, and my mom still thinks I need therapy.
sigh
On a related note, the most recent issue of Home Power has detailed stats regarding how much power various manufacturers' solar cells produce in their lifetime vs. the power consumed to produce them. I can't find a nuclear link tho.
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"The users don't see what they are typing, so the keyboard has two fixed side-mirrors."
Side mirrors? on a keyboard?!
Microsoft has a long history of employing people just to keep the brain cells off the market. I've read articles by people who were *trying* to get fired from MS but couldn't (until, of course, they finally managed to do something bad enough).
to freely distribute information? So many of us balk at the shutdown of Napster; what if Napster had been distributing bomb-making instructions?
Would it have been okay to shut them down then? No? What if it were used to distribute the names and locations of people in the Witness Protection Program (That's in America, I don't know if other countries have something similar)?
or, while we're at it, what if Napster was being used to distribute your credit card number?
Napster wasn't shut down because it did anything illegal, it was shut down because in fervantly protection free speech, it failed to provide a reasonable system through which someone could request the removal of material that was harmful to them. True, the only people that were "harmed" were big and rich and greedy, but that doesn't mean that only BRG people *can* be hurt. If you had awakened one morning to find your name, address, phone number, cc #, and photos of you and your wife in bed being distributed through Napster, how would you have gotten them removed? Who would you have contacted? You would have had no options to solve the problem.
Systems like Napster are great, and the freedom they provide is an unarguably nessecary component, but there has to be some system to address the objections raised on a case by case basis.
"You may find that there are gaps in industry enforcement where government must step in to ensure compliance," said Jill Lesser, a vice president at America Online Inc. in Dulles, Va. "Nevertheless, it is clear that companies are responding to the increasing marketplace demand for online privacy," she said at the commerce committee hearing.
AOL is arguing that online privacy is increasing? AOL that steals people's URLs? AOL that has the *worst* track record for spam in the entire $#!@#% industry?! That AOL?
If an aol atom touched an online privacy atom, they would probably annihalate each other in a puff of pure energy.
True, but you'd still need a surface to rub it against.....
I would continue, but the images inspired by the above statement have horrified me so thoroughly that I must excuse myself.
sweet!
To be fair though, the "waterproof mouse" looks less like a mouse and more like a joystick/thumbpad. I didn';t *think* you could easily waterproof a mouse.
I just didn't bother asking for a mouse because I tend to use the keyboard anyway. A mouse would never stay in place in a bath/shower, I doubt it would be worth the trouble.
Is a monitor that can do the same thing. With those two, I think the rest of the wiring could be kept outside of the tub (actually, this seems like it would work better in the shower).
Maybe some sort of flatscreen lcd wrapped in hard plastic. Anybody got a link to something like this?
And playing it until my vision clouded from lack of moisture on my eyes.
then sitting there with my eyes closed for ten minutes, and doing it all over again. (sigh). Those were the days :)
Several music groups already publish mp3s on their cds - Cherry Poppin Daddies leap to mind. So, while you're swearing up and down how you'll never support metallica again, why not skip on down to the store and buy a little CPD?
In "Last Chance to see", you described the plight of the Kakapo, a dodo-like bird that had evolved on a set of islands with no natural predators.
The bird had developped an insanely complicated reproductive cycle in order to keep it population from outgrowing the island. Further, the bird wasn't incredibly bright, and it couldn't fly. In short, evolution on a small island with no competition had done a number on this bird.
Since I read this, I haven't been able to shake the feeling that Earth is just a bigger island, and that Humans are entering a "kakapo" stage. We recognize that our population is growing exponentially, we recognize that this growth is causing a whole slew of problems, and we have begun to react to this using such things as contraceptives, abortions, and population laws.
If these measures succeed, human population growth will be slowed or ultimately even stopped - There are many people campaigning for ZPG-Zero Population Growth. Might such a trend, if it succeeds, have negative effects on humanity in the long run? Do you think abortion and forced population control have caused a lowering of the value of human life?
When I first read about h2g2, I did a little happy dance. Finally the Guide would become reality! Then I actually went to the site.
It seems to me that H2G2 is less a place for information and commentary, and more a very complicated chat site. What happened?
What direction do you see The Guide taking online?
perhaps you are an open source programmer, and you write programs not for money, but rather for the experience of writing them, the prestige, and the proceeds earned by supporting said programs.
However, the musicians in question published these songs with the explicit intent to make money by selling those songs to people. Maybe that does not line up with the open source philosophy, but then the music is not open source! Open source is a good idea, but that does not mean that some gangsta rappa who's never touched a computer in his life must suddenly change over to your point of view.
Further, perhaps it is unfortunate that the businesspeople involved did not take the "opportunity" to switch over to a different method of distribution. Maybe it was even financially unwise of them to make the choices they made (I doubt it). But that also does not matter, because they own the businesses in question. If they want to deliver their music to the public through a method involving trained squirrels with cute little backpacks, that is their perogative. You have no right to demand that they run their businesses in a particular way, even if that way is more sensible.
Lastly, I must say that this article is not news. It contains news, but the article itself is an argument. A heavily biased rant against a perfectly sound court decision. The law said that unliscensed MP3's are illegal, and then it said it again, and then it said it again. The law is not unclear on the matter. If you are unhappy with the law, vote. I agree that Stupid laws must be changed, but they also must be obeyed until they are changed, lest those who are working for a change be branded as criminals.
We know that Peter is the Hegemon when Ender and Val arrive at the planet 50 years later.
We know that the first thing Bean will do when he gets back is study Peter to find out if he betrayed Ender. Since Bean never wastes anything, he'll probably then try to assert himself as Peter's general. If Bean is seven, he's got maybe 13 years before his genetically altered body dies of old age. And we assume that three's some gigantic battle to occur between Bean and Achilles.
At least, for my money there had darn well BETTER be.
Why doesn't everybody just speak the language The Sims use? We could all walk around talking about soccer balls, sailboats, and rain clouds.
Laugh if you want, I'll just sit here with a thought cloud above my head containing a picture of the cute babe in my circuitry class.
It seems that an observing employee has already responded to the string, stating he'd get management on it. And one of the original coders has already threatened to sue. :)
Well, categorizing her as anything is iffy. She makes her own style, that's why I like her.
On the other hand, i's a little circular to say that country is bad, because all the good stuff isn't really country, because country is bad.
When I say country, I do include Mary Chapin, and james taylor, and Kathea Mattea, and all the other great poet-singers.
Actually, I've downloaded plenty of country mp3's (I own the originals as well).
"Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate,
and for them I cannot disagree
but I've never learned nothin' from playin' it safe
I say fate should not tempt me."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
find one of the 300lb, pie-faced girls and marry her. I've seen you in your skivvies, you could do worse.
If there are any 300 lb pie faced girls out there looking for a date, please feel free to drop me a note.
Point well taken. Conventional energy sources aren't "conventional" by accident. People use them because they work, and they work darn well.
But in all fairness, please note that I did *not* advocate the use of AE, but rather the research of AE. You say that AE is unusable in it's current form, and I heartily agree: you're right! Any company that tries to sell solar competitively on the market today is going to fall flat on its rear.
At the same time, we can see that there are changes that need to be made within the market. We can also see that solar energy provides the sort of properties that we would want, only on a dismally small scale. That doesn't mean that solar energy can't be used, only that it can't be used today.
Furthermore, while you get more energy out of petroleum, you only get that energy *if* you have a dependable source of petroleum. Now, on one hand, we are not going to run out of oil any time soon. I'll even go so far as to say that we will "never" run out of oil - that is, our oil resources are plentiful enough that the thought of us still using oil by the time we would run out is silly.
On the other hand, that does not mean that we have a dependable source of petroleum. A large part of the world's oil reserves lie in the mideast, an area that has been a religio-political hotbed for thousands of years. If a country is dependant on that oil, then sooner or later that country will become politically involved in the area. And that means that some day, the price of that oil will include the blood of your sons. This is not sad, it's simply unacceptable.
Why not take the opportunity now to research technologies that will remove that dependancy? No violent changes needed, we don't have to tear down the power companies... just try to learn how to do things a little differently. The research that helps us build better solar panels will also help us make faster pentiums. The innovations that create more effective wind generators will also let us sell cheaper hair driers.
Everyone wins.