Examples of Science Fiction that cannot withstand the implications of the science presented include Star Trek (particularly the later series) and the Star Wars franchise.
I'm a Star Wars fan, but this is dead on. There's this hyperdrive, which allows people to get from A to B quickly. We need it so that characters can get to solar system to solar system to do something interesting on those planets.
But much of the plot depends on not doing that.
The Death Star traverses the galaxy but takes 20 minutes to get around a planet.
The Falcon breaks, so the heros have to go to Bespin (at sublight speeds???) for repairs.
In Episode I, the silver ship's hyperdrive breaks, so the heros have to go Tatooine.
It would be nice to either have better excuses for staying places or explore the changes that really fast travel would imply. In my naive days I found the plot device employed in Empire believable, but I found it a bit painful when it was repeated in Episode I.
Think security software - say, your intranet system. You don't want your customers to have the source to that, because 1.) they probably wouldn't know what to do with it, 2.) it might fall into the wrong hands, or . ..
You realize you're suggesting security through obscurity? Security software should not depend on a secret algorithm. Someone will find out eventually.
I mean, do they expect to get more AOL subscribers? Who is going to get AOL just for TW content? Anyone?
It might be a deterrent to leaving. Especially if the customer isn't sure which content is free and which isn't. He just knows some of his content goes away if he changes ISPs.
However, I'm concerned with issues regarding security. We have all heard the old saw regarding closed source vs. open source: 'Security through obscurity doesn't do the job', however this begs the following question: when does handing the enemy a blueprint of the fortress make guarding the castle easier?
"Begging the question" is a logical falacy meaning the argument assumes the conclusion. I think you mean raise the question.
But ATSC had no motivation to use the improved European-developed COFDM DTV system [dtg.org.uk] now the world-wide DTV standard. Unlike ATSC, it works. You can get it free over the air [freeview.co.uk] or in a bus.
8VSB does work. I use a pair of rabbit ears and a DTC-100 to pick up local high-definition stations in Indianapolis: WFYI, WISH, and WRTV. Fox also has a digital channel, but it is typically standard definition.
In the UK, all you need is a $99 box with rabbit ears [comet.co.uk]. US broadcasters are stuck. They may eventually be forced into PPV and soft porn since only rooftop antennas can pick up ATSC. The FCC let this happen. It's criminal negligence."
Look, I work for a company with an interest (and note that I don't represent Thomson in my statements) but you're buying into another company's propoganda. One can pick up ATSC with an indoor antenna. I'm doing it in my house right now.
COFDM is a good scheme. The U.S. has a standard, though, and COFDM isn't it.
Microsoft shall not retaliate against or threaten retaliation against an OEM... because it is known to Microsoft that the OEM is or is contemplating... shipping a Personal Computer that (a) includes both a Windows Operating System Product and a non-Microsoft Operating System, or (b) will boot with more than one Operating System
Good news for anyone who wants another chance at ordering a Linux-loaded Dell.
That would have been illegal before the ruling, would it not? Now it's double-secret illegal?
I know you dont directly claim this in your post, but how is taking a derivative or being able to write hello world going to allow you to make decisions on/become informed about issues like digital rights management and the DMCA?
I can imagine a lot of socially relevent conversations where understanding the distinction between source and object code would be a prerequisite. People who have written hello world likely understand it and otherwise would likely be lost. Not that one couldn't explain this distinction verbally, but who's going to remember this abstraction without a minimum of experience?
When people buy EQ "Stuff", what they're REALLY buying is the TIME of the people who generated that stuff (or more accurately, they're buying the time they now don't have to spend getting the stuff themselves.)
I'm sure this is true. But doesn't it strike you as odd? Someone pays to play a game and later pays to to avoid playing the game.
It looked like the Justices were finding flaws in Lessig arguments, but then they seemed to be chewing up Olson.
The frankness of these comments was great.
JUSTICE BREYER: Why -- I mean, I think you have a point on this equity principle. I wonder, is there any review there? That is, suppose you have a statute, as this one arguably is, where 99.9 percent, many billions of dollars of benefits, are going to the existing holders of copyright on grounds of equity, and the effect of the statute in eliciting new works is near zero. I mean, that would seem -- where this equity idea is the camel and the production idea is the gnat, [*45] and is there any -- can we say something like that, or does Congress have total leeway in respect to --
GENERAL OLSON: Well, it --
JUSTICE BREYER: -- who they want to give the money to, basically?
In the film, it is Saruman who conjures the storm that defeats their efforts. In the book, it is the mountain itself that defeats them.
The heros speculate on this point in the book.
'I wonder if this is a contrivance of the Enemy,' said Boromir. 'They say in my land that he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow that stand upon the borders of Mordor. He has strange powers and many allies.'
'His arm has grown long indeed,' said Gimli, 'if he can draw snow down from the North to trouble us here three hundred leagues away.'
The cash settlement will be paid to the 43 states. The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations in all 50 states.
This doesn't make much of fine, when you can consider the real incremental cost of the media.
However, as long as the masses believe there is some magic inherent in end-to-end un-NAT'ed networks, IPv4 will remain God, and IPv6, among other things, will never arrive. (It's not magic, it's bad design which requires end-to-end transport without allowing for the possibility of transport conversion.)
I don't follow this part. Aren't the alternatives IPv4 using NAT versus IPv6?
Touch math is usually used with children who can't perform arithmatic symbollicly in their heads due to retardation or a specific learning disorder.
They're teaching this method to all the children in my step-son's second-grade class. It strikes me as very odd, but I'm trying to keep an open mind to it.
We have declining fan interest in the lastest dead horse trotted out by U2, Britney Spears, String, and the N'Backstreet Boys.
As a U2 fan, it really pains me to see them in that sentence.
And furthermore, I think the implication that the new releases are more of the same is factually inaccurate. Compare The Joshua Tree and Pop. Rather than beating a dead horse, they're going to great pains not to sound at all like their early selves. I love the old stuff, and I hate Pop, so at least from my perspective they're different.
Sure many of us here probably build our own machines, but if you do plan on buying one of these, do it on the phone. Ask the salesperson if they can ship it with Linux (or your favorite OSOS).
If they say no, then tell them you want to place a customer request that they offer that because that is what you are going to install anyway and then order it.
If they get enough requests for it, then maybe they will warm back up to the OSS desktop market.
I suspect that if we go ahead and buy the bare system, they're not going to be motivated. There's only a business model for this if people are willing to pay for it, not just if want it.
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Adobe must think they can tell, or there wouldn't have been a point to all the downloads. (Just a thought.)
The other way of looking at this is that society sacrificed the the other possible outputs of those people.
I'm a Star Wars fan, but this is dead on.
There's this hyperdrive, which allows people to get from A to B quickly. We need it so that characters can get to solar system to solar system to do something interesting on those planets.
But much of the plot depends on not doing that.
It would be nice to either have better excuses for staying places or explore the changes that really fast travel would imply. In my naive days I found the plot device employed in Empire believable, but I found it a bit painful when it was repeated in Episode I.
You realize you're suggesting security through obscurity? Security software should not depend on a secret algorithm. Someone will find out eventually.
It might be a deterrent to leaving. Especially if the customer isn't sure which content is free and which isn't. He just knows some of his content goes away if he changes ISPs.
No. An acronym is an abbreviation you pronounce.
No doubt this new meaning (the first letter of some words) will creap into acceptance by sheer repetition, but not yet.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
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I disgaree.
"NASA" is an acronym. EFF is not.
Pronounced like this:
"NASA", not "the N.A.S.A"
"the EFF", not "Efffff"
"Begging the question" is a logical falacy meaning the argument assumes the conclusion. I think you mean raise the question.
Irregardless is not a word.
All of slashdot wants to know -- Are there girls at these parties?
8VSB does work. I use a pair of rabbit ears and a DTC-100 to pick up local high-definition stations in Indianapolis: WFYI, WISH, and WRTV. Fox also has a digital channel, but it is typically standard definition.
Look, I work for a company with an interest (and note that I don't represent Thomson in my statements) but you're buying into another company's propoganda. One can pick up ATSC with an indoor antenna. I'm doing it in my house right now.
COFDM is a good scheme. The U.S. has a standard, though, and COFDM isn't it.
I agree.
It doesn't even make sense. Don't all directories exist to contain files? Why not c:\windows files\desktop files ?
It's like calling a glove a hand glove.
That would have been illegal before the ruling, would it not? Now it's double-secret illegal?
I can imagine a lot of socially relevent conversations where understanding the distinction between source and object code would be a prerequisite. People who have written hello world likely understand it and otherwise would likely be lost. Not that one couldn't explain this distinction verbally, but who's going to remember this abstraction without a minimum of experience?
I don't know, can Linux replace the dipthong?
I'm sure this is true. But doesn't it strike you as odd? Someone pays to play a game and later pays to to avoid playing the game.
The frankness of these comments was great.
I think they mean Mordor.
The heros speculate on this point in the book.
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This should be moderated -5, wrong. Mod up the guy who knows 384 kbps and 448 kbps.
This doesn't make much of fine, when you can consider the real incremental cost of the media.
I don't follow this part. Aren't the alternatives IPv4 using NAT versus IPv6?
Were you planning on buying Lindows otherwise? Are you sure you're boycotting, or just not buying it?
They're teaching this method to all the children in my step-son's second-grade class. It strikes me as very odd, but I'm trying to keep an open mind to it.
As a U2 fan, it really pains me to see them in that sentence.
And furthermore, I think the implication that the new releases are more of the same is factually inaccurate. Compare The Joshua Tree and Pop. Rather than beating a dead horse, they're going to great pains not to sound at all like their early selves. I love the old stuff, and I hate Pop, so at least from my perspective they're different.
I suspect that if we go ahead and buy the bare system, they're not going to be motivated. There's only a business model for this if people are willing to pay for it, not just if want it.