I also wonder what condition the reels will be in.
Someone on another thread discussing old Doctor Who episodes pointed out that early tape stock was an absolute nightmare to keep in decent condition, and the expense was sufficient enough that the BBC decided it was too expensive.
It wasn't that they just carelessly throwed their archives away.
Uh, no. The BBC was too cheap to buy more tapes, and reused the Doctor Who (and other aired show) tapes to record new shows. Losing tapes has NOTHING to do with tape quality. As a matter of fact, a few episodes were digitally reconstructed from tapes in worse shape than anything sitting in the BBC archives.
Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?
- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn - dodging taxes by claiming residence in ireland - suing everyone and their moms with bullshit claims and patents - false advertising (it should be named the Idiot Bar, not the Genius Bar) - overpricing all their stuff - suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy - putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
- Foxconn is not owned by Apple. - Common corporate tactics. Quite unethical! - Suing anyone who copies their pretty processes. Spiteful, but unethical? - Biased opinion. - In a free market? Get serious. - Not sure what cases you are talking about. They generally license 3rd party hardware, but you have to pay a fee. - They are a hardware company. Why should they support other hardware? Idiotic.
Except for the taxes, this is just more biased gibberish.
You are making a pretty big assumption there that what you are plugging in is actually a storage device. It could easily be a device which shows up as an HID device and plays back a macro. "Alt-F2, 'xterm', Enter, 'rm -rf/', Enter" would be pretty devastating on your secure Linux box which doesn't run anything from removable media.
Just because it looks like a thumb drive, doesn't mean it is one!
You don't an xterm to enter commands in unix/linux. You actually don't even need a shell, but it makes things a little easier.
Does anyone actually read the idiocy found on any and all open forums? It's always the same crazies pushing their agendas. I can't think of any case where I'd like to have a forum set up to discuss my web content. If people want to talk about it, go to a site dedicated to discussion, like, oh, this one.
1. Don't say anything you wouldn't say to your boss and your mother. 2. Don't post anything you wouldn't want your boss, and mother to read. 3. Don't take, or allow to be taken pictures you wouldn't show to your boss and mother. 4. Nothing is ever anonymous! I live by them, and so should you.
You don't understand the power that men can have over women. In our society, women are taught to be passive, and do what the man wants. If the power were reversed, there'd be woman doing this to men, but it is what it is. Until woman CAN tell their men to go fuck off, then there needs to be some form of protection. I wish it weren't the case, but that's the reality of the situation, not your rational idealized case.
I can't imagine how they will prove intent or source in most cases. Hint: they won't. This will make the situation worse, with the legal system being used for false-flag blackmail of exes in revenge.
Yep, that's the excuse used by most woman hating idiots. Look, the problem is men posting pictures of women. Why not just stop doing that, and this issue will go away.
Seriously, FUCK everyone who gave that piece of shit a good review. The writing was horrible, chock-full of plot holes and contrived coincidences.
Like all of Star Trek, from the beginning? Look, they both (Wars and Trek) were fun at the beginning, but got got progressively less intelligent and more uninteresting over time. Writers come in with a bunch of great ideas, and they get used up pretty quickly. Then the long story arcs take over, since they are easier to write to fill up episodes/sequels. Every once in a while you get a Neal Gaiman to breath some fresh air into a tired premise (wait, that's Doctor Who), but that's the exception. It's SciFi, not Shakespeare.
It sounds like George Lucas was never able to fully delegate responsibility for the worlds he created, so he had to be involved with everything.
It was obvious, even as a kid, watching the original movies as they were released, that Lucas had no integrity to tell his story by the third movie. Any vision that he had was thrown out the window to accommodate his greed to make tons of money off of merchandising. Everything since then has been either protection or promotion of his IP from those first two movies.
LucasArts was a company paralyzed by greed, overconfidence, and incompetence from executives at the highest levels. The fans consistently told them what they wanted, and they were consistently ignored.
Fans need to get this into their heads. They are NOT the market. Any movie or game will USE the fans to get a jumpstart on the marketing through name recognition, but the market is the millions of people who will go to see or buy on impulse, especially around christmas. There are not enough fans to fund a major motion picture or video game with the production values that they expect, nay demand.
From what I can tell, they are simply creating a system of quantum-mechanically entangled photons, not a "molecule" of photons...
You can stop reading the summary after "A group of scientists led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of Physics Vladan Vuletic..." Everything after that is complete fabrication.
Physicists - please cover your ears, I'm trying to simplify.
Sorry, but I can't let that go, especially since it's been modded up. Just no. Light does not have mass. There is no such thing as "moving mass."
General relativity: How does a large mass bend light? Because a large mass bends space around it. Light ends up bending around the object, kind of like a banked roadway. A black hole bends space so tightly that if light gets too close (the event horizon), it gets sucked in. That's why we refer to it as a hole.
No, this is arbitrage. Taking advantage of price differences within or between markets.
Correct. This is not the few high profile crocks in the system we've been reading about, this is a constant and persistent skimming of billions of pennies from every market, and depositing them directly into the hands of the traders with no benefit to anyone but themselves. I worked for traders years ago who did this via telephone. A trader in Milan, Chicago, Frankfurt, or London would see a slight difference in price on some treasury bond between their market and one of the others. They would then buy a ton of bonds on one exchange, and sell on the other. It was actually a little more complicated, because they did this with futures, but the result is the same. Pure unadulterated theft. And now they can do it even faster, without that telephone call.
I'm starting to wonder if they're just trolling us. Facebook's policies and very reason for existence runs contrary to what I was taught as a child, which was anti-narcissism (ie, any sort of notoriety based on achievement, not simple vanity), speaking when one only has something to say and keeping one's personal life personal (as opposed to, "look at me with this drink in my hand! Look at me with this puppy! Look at me with these whores!"), and now, keeping one's finances close to one's chest.
Somewhere we went from modesty as a virtual and pride as a vice to the exact opposite. Or maybe that was always an ideal, and not a reality.
I would rather have thousands of junkies getting clean safe prescription drugs to feed their habit than have even one person condemned to a life of agony because the DEA makes doctors scared to prescribe pain meds.
The DEA needs to stop practicing medicine without a license.
Ding ding ding. Let me comment again about the two hours I had to wait in the emergency room for pain meds for IBS because standard practice is to make the patient wait to weed out the morphine addicts. That's right, all across the country people are waiting in emergency rooms in crippling pain because morphine addicts can't get their fix.
Please explain where you get that puritans are ok with violence because the above just makes you sound like a radical loon with a penchant for hating anything even remotely religious.
Tell that to every church goer in Texas with a concealed carry license. There are an awful lot of them.
That's because exposure to shrapnel is pretty unlikely. Exposure to women will happen. Women are not fantasy and we interact with them every day and it would be nice if they weren't treated like objects of desire 24/7 rather than the between 9pm-3am that it is supposed to be.
One could argue that demystifying nudity and sex would alleviate much of the deviance built around it.
Robots can do all the work we need to do and do it for many many years, like the space probes we've sent and are still working after so long. We do the exploration by proxy then, what's wrong with that? Eventually humanity may even be followed by a cybernetic civilization, if we can manage the tech before we go extinct.
Why not go out into space? We have the resources, if we can stop wasting it. We have the technology, if we can get some projects together to actually do it. Hell, we haven't progressed in space in 40 years, since Skylab. That's pathetic. Right now small companies are doing what it took NASA and the military orders of magnitudes more time and resources to do, send stuff into space. Screw Apollo. That was not the way that the scientists wanted to do, with a couple of guys in a tin can for a couple of days, but we had to get it done before the "end of the decade." This Manhattan Project. The best and brightest given all possible resources working on a common goal. The only thing stopping us from being permanently on the moon is the apathy of the population and the corruption of the elite.
We need to stop looking inward toward made-up worlds, and just look up into the sky where the real adventure is. That's our universe, and we're still stuck on this tiny little rock. This has nothing to do with science. This has everything to do with being scared to take those first steps.
So, it's the NASDAQ website. Who goes the NASDAQ website? You can't trade stocks there. Financial information was not leaked, so BFD. This is fairly common on any website. Sounds to me like a single security research got butthurt because they didn't acknowledge his finding quickly enough.
Agreed. So they emailed NASDAQ. Who at NASDAQ? Who picks up and reads that email? Was it just the web site tech support number? That might get read only once a week if you are lucky. Unless they actually spoke to a manager/director at NASDAQ who is responsible for security, then they were not really talking to "NASDAQ."
Only the arrogant idiot who thinks that he is smarter than the instructors believe that lectures are worthless. Or maybe I just went to a school where people actually took classes because they were challenging, not because they were easy A's. University is probably the only opportunity that most of us will have to try to glean some of the brilliance of the top researchers in their fields. Why would you want to throw away any minute of lecture?
In keeping with Boulder's progressive nature I have filed a request for referendum at city hall that would make it illegal to direct, divert, absorb, or otherwise disrupt the natural flow of flood water through the city. Unfortunately this will mean homes and businesses will be flooded beyond repair but someone must represent Mother Nature's interests.
Yeah, it's called building where the river DOESN'T flood. Common sense is often bad for business, especially all those contractors ready for public dollars to build dams and sewers where they would not be needed except that some business decided that it's cheaper to build there.
Why is this news... is this our version of People magazine, where instead of hearing about all the details of the Kardashians' lives, we hear about every email or event that happens to Linus?
It shows that the best or at least most respected in the business can still be stupid when it comes to simple things like backups. Seriously, there is no reason in this day or age to lose more than a couple of transactions if you are careful. Someone kick Linus in the ass for being so sloppy and lazy.
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It's a workshop. We don't have to keep inventing new words when there are perfectly good ones available.
I also wonder what condition the reels will be in.
Someone on another thread discussing old Doctor Who episodes pointed out that early tape stock was an absolute nightmare to keep in decent condition, and the expense was sufficient enough that the BBC decided it was too expensive.
It wasn't that they just carelessly throwed their archives away.
Uh, no. The BBC was too cheap to buy more tapes, and reused the Doctor Who (and other aired show) tapes to record new shows. Losing tapes has NOTHING to do with tape quality. As a matter of fact, a few episodes were digitally reconstructed from tapes in worse shape than anything sitting in the BBC archives.
Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?
- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn
- dodging taxes by claiming residence in ireland
- suing everyone and their moms with bullshit claims and patents
- false advertising (it should be named the Idiot Bar, not the Genius Bar)
- overpricing all their stuff
- suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy
- putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
- Foxconn is not owned by Apple.
- Common corporate tactics. Quite unethical!
- Suing anyone who copies their pretty processes. Spiteful, but unethical?
- Biased opinion.
- In a free market? Get serious.
- Not sure what cases you are talking about. They generally license 3rd party hardware, but you have to pay a fee.
- They are a hardware company. Why should they support other hardware? Idiotic.
Except for the taxes, this is just more biased gibberish.
Hackerspace? It's a shop. We don't have to keep making up new words where there are perfectly good ones available.
You are making a pretty big assumption there that what you are plugging in is actually a storage device. It could easily be a device which shows up as an HID device and plays back a macro. "Alt-F2, 'xterm', Enter, 'rm -rf /', Enter" would be pretty devastating on your secure Linux box which doesn't run anything from removable media.
Just because it looks like a thumb drive, doesn't mean it is one!
You don't an xterm to enter commands in unix/linux. You actually don't even need a shell, but it makes things a little easier.
Does anyone actually read the idiocy found on any and all open forums? It's always the same crazies pushing their agendas. I can't think of any case where I'd like to have a forum set up to discuss my web content. If people want to talk about it, go to a site dedicated to discussion, like, oh, this one.
1. Don't say anything you wouldn't say to your boss and your mother.
2. Don't post anything you wouldn't want your boss, and mother to read.
3. Don't take, or allow to be taken pictures you wouldn't show to your boss and mother.
4. Nothing is ever anonymous!
I live by them, and so should you.
You don't understand the power that men can have over women. In our society, women are taught to be passive, and do what the man wants. If the power were reversed, there'd be woman doing this to men, but it is what it is. Until woman CAN tell their men to go fuck off, then there needs to be some form of protection. I wish it weren't the case, but that's the reality of the situation, not your rational idealized case.
I can't imagine how they will prove intent or source in most cases. Hint: they won't. This will make the situation worse, with the legal system being used for false-flag blackmail of exes in revenge.
Yep, that's the excuse used by most woman hating idiots. Look, the problem is men posting pictures of women. Why not just stop doing that, and this issue will go away.
Don't let someone take FUCKING NAKED pictures of you!!!
Yes, because the victim is always to blame, especially when it's a woman. Please get off my internet, and the same to anyone who modded this crap up.
Seriously, FUCK everyone who gave that piece of shit a good review. The writing was horrible, chock-full of plot holes and contrived coincidences.
Like all of Star Trek, from the beginning? Look, they both (Wars and Trek) were fun at the beginning, but got got progressively less intelligent and more uninteresting over time. Writers come in with a bunch of great ideas, and they get used up pretty quickly. Then the long story arcs take over, since they are easier to write to fill up episodes/sequels. Every once in a while you get a Neal Gaiman to breath some fresh air into a tired premise (wait, that's Doctor Who), but that's the exception. It's SciFi, not Shakespeare.
Amazing they would kill completed games.
It sounds like George Lucas was never able to fully delegate responsibility for the worlds he created, so he had to be involved with everything.
It was obvious, even as a kid, watching the original movies as they were released, that Lucas had no integrity to tell his story by the third movie. Any vision that he had was thrown out the window to accommodate his greed to make tons of money off of merchandising. Everything since then has been either protection or promotion of his IP from those first two movies.
LucasArts was a company paralyzed by greed, overconfidence, and incompetence from executives at the highest levels. The fans consistently told them what they wanted, and they were consistently ignored.
Fans need to get this into their heads. They are NOT the market. Any movie or game will USE the fans to get a jumpstart on the marketing through name recognition, but the market is the millions of people who will go to see or buy on impulse, especially around christmas. There are not enough fans to fund a major motion picture or video game with the production values that they expect, nay demand.
From what I can tell, they are simply creating a system of quantum-mechanically entangled photons, not a "molecule" of photons...
You can stop reading the summary after "A group of scientists led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of Physics Vladan Vuletic..." Everything after that is complete fabrication.
Physicists - please cover your ears, I'm trying to simplify.
Sorry, but I can't let that go, especially since it's been modded up. Just no. Light does not have mass. There is no such thing as "moving mass."
General relativity: How does a large mass bend light? Because a large mass bends space around it. Light ends up bending around the object, kind of like a banked roadway. A black hole bends space so tightly that if light gets too close (the event horizon), it gets sucked in. That's why we refer to it as a hole.
No, this is arbitrage. Taking advantage of price differences within or between markets.
Correct. This is not the few high profile crocks in the system we've been reading about, this is a constant and persistent skimming of billions of pennies from every market, and depositing them directly into the hands of the traders with no benefit to anyone but themselves. I worked for traders years ago who did this via telephone. A trader in Milan, Chicago, Frankfurt, or London would see a slight difference in price on some treasury bond between their market and one of the others. They would then buy a ton of bonds on one exchange, and sell on the other. It was actually a little more complicated, because they did this with futures, but the result is the same. Pure unadulterated theft. And now they can do it even faster, without that telephone call.
I'm starting to wonder if they're just trolling us. Facebook's policies and very reason for existence runs contrary to what I was taught as a child, which was anti-narcissism (ie, any sort of notoriety based on achievement, not simple vanity), speaking when one only has something to say and keeping one's personal life personal (as opposed to, "look at me with this drink in my hand! Look at me with this puppy! Look at me with these whores!"), and now, keeping one's finances close to one's chest.
Somewhere we went from modesty as a virtual and pride as a vice to the exact opposite. Or maybe that was always an ideal, and not a reality.
I would rather have thousands of junkies getting clean safe prescription drugs to feed their habit than have even one person condemned to a life of agony because the DEA makes doctors scared to prescribe pain meds.
The DEA needs to stop practicing medicine without a license.
Ding ding ding. Let me comment again about the two hours I had to wait in the emergency room for pain meds for IBS because standard practice is to make the patient wait to weed out the morphine addicts. That's right, all across the country people are waiting in emergency rooms in crippling pain because morphine addicts can't get their fix.
Please explain where you get that puritans are ok with violence because the above just makes you sound like a radical loon with a penchant for hating anything even remotely religious.
Tell that to every church goer in Texas with a concealed carry license. There are an awful lot of them.
That's because exposure to shrapnel is pretty unlikely. Exposure to women will happen. Women are not fantasy and we interact with them every day and it would be nice if they weren't treated like objects of desire 24/7 rather than the between 9pm-3am that it is supposed to be.
One could argue that demystifying nudity and sex would alleviate much of the deviance built around it.
If M$ does not shed the Ballmer curse soon, Apple will BUY them.
Not going to happen. The weather in Seattle sucks.
Robots can do all the work we need to do and do it for many many years, like the space probes we've sent and are still working after so long. We do the exploration by proxy then, what's wrong with that? Eventually humanity may even be followed by a cybernetic civilization, if we can manage the tech before we go extinct.
Why not go out into space? We have the resources, if we can stop wasting it. We have the technology, if we can get some projects together to actually do it. Hell, we haven't progressed in space in 40 years, since Skylab. That's pathetic. Right now small companies are doing what it took NASA and the military orders of magnitudes more time and resources to do, send stuff into space. Screw Apollo. That was not the way that the scientists wanted to do, with a couple of guys in a tin can for a couple of days, but we had to get it done before the "end of the decade." This Manhattan Project. The best and brightest given all possible resources working on a common goal. The only thing stopping us from being permanently on the moon is the apathy of the population and the corruption of the elite.
We need to stop looking inward toward made-up worlds, and just look up into the sky where the real adventure is. That's our universe, and we're still stuck on this tiny little rock. This has nothing to do with science. This has everything to do with being scared to take those first steps.
So, it's the NASDAQ website. Who goes the NASDAQ website? You can't trade stocks there. Financial information was not leaked, so BFD. This is fairly common on any website. Sounds to me like a single security research got butthurt because they didn't acknowledge his finding quickly enough.
Agreed. So they emailed NASDAQ. Who at NASDAQ? Who picks up and reads that email? Was it just the web site tech support number? That might get read only once a week if you are lucky. Unless they actually spoke to a manager/director at NASDAQ who is responsible for security, then they were not really talking to "NASDAQ."
Only the arrogant idiot who thinks that he is smarter than the instructors believe that lectures are worthless. Or maybe I just went to a school where people actually took classes because they were challenging, not because they were easy A's. University is probably the only opportunity that most of us will have to try to glean some of the brilliance of the top researchers in their fields. Why would you want to throw away any minute of lecture?
In keeping with Boulder's progressive nature I have filed a request for referendum at city hall that would make it illegal to direct, divert, absorb, or otherwise disrupt the natural flow of flood water through the city. Unfortunately this will mean homes and businesses will be flooded beyond repair but someone must represent Mother Nature's interests.
Yeah, it's called building where the river DOESN'T flood. Common sense is often bad for business, especially all those contractors ready for public dollars to build dams and sewers where they would not be needed except that some business decided that it's cheaper to build there.
Why is this news... is this our version of People magazine, where instead of hearing about all the details of the Kardashians' lives, we hear about every email or event that happens to Linus?
It shows that the best or at least most respected in the business can still be stupid when it comes to simple things like backups. Seriously, there is no reason in this day or age to lose more than a couple of transactions if you are careful. Someone kick Linus in the ass for being so sloppy and lazy.