It's probably a fair bet that the majority of positive effects experienced by people using "herbal remedies" fall into this category.
Not like there's anything wrong with that- the power of talismans on the human psyche is very strong indeed and can't be discounted. It's when these things become more than talismans that they're dangerous.
Interesting. I imagine that the Canadian RIAA is targeting users with massive song collections, whom they consider the "kingpins" of the network. This is probably the right approach- as many analyses of the subject have shown, a disproportionately small group of users serves up most of the filespace available on any such network.
I'm more interested in small-worlds sort of stuff- it's less actionable (while there is likely to be a relative "kingpin" in each small sphere as well, he represents less influence) and probably better targeted (no one I know likes Britney or will ever have her stuff offered- so it is less obvious in general.)
In fact, I've watched MMOG makers make the same political comparisons and make the same dictatorial policy decisions over and over for years...
THe bottom line is that the dictatorial solution is always what wins out because it's easy. In a MMOG no one has any share in the game except the owners of the company that produced it. People keep saying "listen to the players", and the result of this is that the winner is the one who fakes the hardest while trying to put across an impression of being "democratic".
Hmm, there's a lot about politics that is this way. And people eat it up, too- look at Bush... and John Kerry.
A truly democratic system would be a weird, weird game. No one's tried it yet, though.
MMOG developers are more aptly cast in the position of deity than that of president.
If it's a voice jail, I try to find the "if you know your party's extension..." part, and then hit 1234 or something. If that doesn't work I try another number. Once I get through to a random, real person, I then act as if I've got the wrong number and "would you please transfer me to the right department". Old social engineering tricks always work. Often times I end up with the supervisor of the support department I want to deal with, which is usually quite illuminating.
If it's one of those idiotic "language detection" menus (where they waste an hour telling you "If you want technical support, say "technical support") I scratch on the receiver microphone for about 20 seconds until the thing gives up and hands me to a real person. Then I try the above technique.
Most voice jails try very hard to keep you away from a real person (that's why we call 'em jails after all.) But with a little ingenuity you can bust through the bars every time.
You'd think they'd figure that out. I've been introduced to entire new genres of music that have resulted in many concert ticket and CD purchases via streaming radio.
Well, if we're being idiots and just sucking up mass quantities straight out of the wild, I could see it being a problem. But these lifeforms do live in weird places, so I can't imagine that it's cheap to do that.
Better to figure out what makes them tick and go and have much friendlier sorts of bacteria make the things we need in places you don't need an icebreaker or a submarine to get to.
You're sucky because you couch it in verbiage that hides your point in art-fag language.
All you had to say was "The reason there's no objective definition of "good" art is because nothing is so good that someone, somewhere, won't hate it. Isn't it nice that the most social of things gets a free pass on criteria it can't help to meet overall?"
And when given the choice:
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When given the choice between:
having a general purpose system that does 50% of what I need to do
having a general purpose system that does 100% of what I need to do
I am always going to pick the second. Linux does not have:
Illustrator (lack of this is HUGE, and don't tell me to use Sodipodi 'cause it ain't cuttin' it.) Photoshop (don't tell me to use the GIMP, I've been having this argument with people for 6 years and it is not holding any more water.)
You also can't play Ultima Online on it (at least if you want to use UOAssist.)
Now, that isn't to say that Linux doesn't kick ass for certain specialized applications. 3d comes to mind- there are many many high quality 3d apps you can get for it, and most of them are things I would not mind using, (assuming someone else paid for them, ha ha.)
But it's not a platform for graphic or industrial designers- yet. And I've been saying that yet for years and years so who knows.
I will however agree that Linux would work for all of my non gamer non graphics professional friends who have Win98 PCs infested with porn spyware and trojans.
I now have yet another site to show to people so they can see how not to integrate Flash with a site.
Hover-scrolling arrows for text? Navigation elements mysterious and small? Strange layouts that are hard to read, regardless of how big or small your browser window is?
As much as I thought DR was cool in high school, they have not changed one whit since 1997. They are just too cool for you.
er... If you don't know Autechre or Aphex Twin, you just don't know electronic music. Period.
I was introduced to Autechre via an IRC acquaintance of mine. They're a band that's been experimenting with weird stuff in electronic music for about 12 years.
Go and check some of their stuff out. Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" is a true classic of the genre and a great personal favorite. Autechre's "Chiastic Slide" is another good one.
I'm surprised that the Uniform Code Council doesn't seem to be involved with this (perhaps they are, or since the members section is down, maybe the partners of the EBC are the same as those of the UCC, who knows.) One would think they have experience in these matters.
The UCC is the organization that hands out UPC barcodes.
What if I have BT running, and the traffic *never leaves* my subnet, because my neighbor is getting the data from me?
That was effectively a *free* transfer, because it didn't go anywhere. It's the bandwidth that leaves your ISP that is expensive, not the bandwidth inside of it.
An example that might make more sense:
If the only link I have to the Internet is a shared 56k modem that I share with three other people, and I need a file, should I look to see if the users of the other machines have the file, or should I download the entire thing off the Internet?
If another user on my home network has a file, I'd be crazy to download it elsewhere. The same applies with ISPs. BitTorrent can take advantage of this, and ISPs should seriously look into helping this sort of thing out.
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It's probably a fair bet that the majority of positive effects experienced by people using "herbal remedies" fall into this category.
Not like there's anything wrong with that- the power of talismans on the human psyche is very strong indeed and can't be discounted. It's when these things become more than talismans that they're dangerous.
Interesting. I imagine that the Canadian RIAA is targeting users with massive song collections, whom they consider the "kingpins" of the network. This is probably the right approach- as many analyses of the subject have shown, a disproportionately small group of users serves up most of the filespace available on any such network.
I'm more interested in small-worlds sort of stuff- it's less actionable (while there is likely to be a relative "kingpin" in each small sphere as well, he represents less influence) and probably better targeted (no one I know likes Britney or will ever have her stuff offered- so it is less obvious in general.)
In fact, I've watched MMOG makers make the same political comparisons and make the same dictatorial policy decisions over and over for years...
THe bottom line is that the dictatorial solution is always what wins out because it's easy. In a MMOG no one has any share in the game except the owners of the company that produced it. People keep saying "listen to the players", and the result of this is that the winner is the one who fakes the hardest while trying to put across an impression of being "democratic".
Hmm, there's a lot about politics that is this way. And people eat it up, too- look at Bush... and John Kerry.
A truly democratic system would be a weird, weird game. No one's tried it yet, though.
MMOG developers are more aptly cast in the position of deity than that of president.
Thanks for mentioning that. It was the first thing I thought of when they mentioned Watson.
My procedure:
If it's a voice jail, I try to find the "if you know your party's extension..." part, and then hit 1234 or something. If that doesn't work I try another number. Once I get through to a random, real person, I then act as if I've got the wrong number and "would you please transfer me to the right department". Old social engineering tricks always work. Often times I end up with the supervisor of the support department I want to deal with, which is usually quite illuminating.
If it's one of those idiotic "language detection" menus (where they waste an hour telling you "If you want technical support, say "technical support") I scratch on the receiver microphone for about 20 seconds until the thing gives up and hands me to a real person. Then I try the above technique.
Most voice jails try very hard to keep you away from a real person (that's why we call 'em jails after all.) But with a little ingenuity you can bust through the bars every time.
You'd think they'd figure that out. I've been introduced to entire new genres of music that have resulted in many concert ticket and CD purchases via streaming radio.
Oh well.
I know that I clicked on nearly all of them. I loved the quaternion fractals- now I have an idea of something to play with in 3d...
WE Are coming for Iraq!!!
Mr. Saddam of Hussein is having the mass weapons of destroy. For us to stop the threat of the WORLD CENTURY we must ready for the WAR!
Is ok if he is taking away the weapon, but NO Lyeing!! we mean it^^
I'm a Palatino Linotype man myself.
The differences are small, but they mean a lot.
Now even slashdot is falling into line with this stuff.
The Slashdot *I* know would have a headline of "So-Called Hacker at Fermilab is Just a Student Warez Pirate".
Hmmmph.
Well, if we're being idiots and just sucking up mass quantities straight out of the wild, I could see it being a problem. But these lifeforms do live in weird places, so I can't imagine that it's cheap to do that.
Better to figure out what makes them tick and go and have much friendlier sorts of bacteria make the things we need in places you don't need an icebreaker or a submarine to get to.
The real effect on MS is going to be determined by whether this ends the cycle of lawsuits, or whether it's just another ramping-up of the same.
If it signals an end to them, MS's stock price will likely benefit.
You've got it in one. MS would most certainly not get this treatment if it was a European company.
Of course, the event in question didn't have a damn thing to do with business owners in the first place. The shooting happened in front of the cafe.
Yes, and they especially need to disavow all responsibility for the world around them. After all, no one else but you is really real!
There oughtta be a law!
To stop bad laws.
An antilaw if you will.
They will come in card form.
Hey, free movement of labor is required for fairness of free movement of capital.
Depending on what sort of world you want, I guess.
You know, you're cool and sucky at the same time.
You're cool because you say the right thing.
You're sucky because you couch it in verbiage that hides your point in art-fag language.
All you had to say was "The reason there's no objective definition of "good" art is because nothing is so good that someone, somewhere, won't hate it. Isn't it nice that the most social of things gets a free pass on criteria it can't help to meet overall?"
When given the choice between:
having a general purpose system that does 50% of what I need to do
having a general purpose system that does 100% of what I need to do
I am always going to pick the second. Linux does not have:
Illustrator (lack of this is HUGE, and don't tell me to use Sodipodi 'cause it ain't cuttin' it.)
Photoshop (don't tell me to use the GIMP, I've been having this argument with people for 6 years and it is not holding any more water.)
You also can't play Ultima Online on it (at least if you want to use UOAssist.)
Now, that isn't to say that Linux doesn't kick ass for certain specialized applications. 3d comes to mind- there are many many high quality 3d apps you can get for it, and most of them are things I would not mind using, (assuming someone else paid for them, ha ha.)
But it's not a platform for graphic or industrial designers- yet. And I've been saying that yet for years and years so who knows.
I will however agree that Linux would work for all of my non gamer non graphics professional friends who have Win98 PCs infested with porn spyware and trojans.
I now have yet another site to show to people so they can see how not to integrate Flash with a site.
Hover-scrolling arrows for text? Navigation elements mysterious and small? Strange layouts that are hard to read, regardless of how big or small your browser window is?
As much as I thought DR was cool in high school, they have not changed one whit since 1997. They are just too cool for you.
er... If you don't know Autechre or Aphex Twin, you just don't know electronic music. Period.
I was introduced to Autechre via an IRC acquaintance of mine. They're a band that's been experimenting with weird stuff in electronic music for about 12 years.
Go and check some of their stuff out. Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" is a true classic of the genre and a great personal favorite. Autechre's "Chiastic Slide" is another good one.
I'm surprised that the Uniform Code Council doesn't seem to be involved with this (perhaps they are, or since the members section is down, maybe the partners of the EBC are the same as those of the UCC, who knows.) One would think they have experience in these matters.
The UCC is the organization that hands out UPC barcodes.
What if I have BT running, and the traffic *never leaves* my subnet, because my neighbor is getting the data from me?
That was effectively a *free* transfer, because it didn't go anywhere. It's the bandwidth that leaves your ISP that is expensive, not the bandwidth inside of it.
An example that might make more sense:
If the only link I have to the Internet is a shared 56k modem that I share with three other people, and I need a file, should I look to see if the users of the other machines have the file, or should I download the entire thing off the Internet?
If another user on my home network has a file, I'd be crazy to download it elsewhere. The same applies with ISPs. BitTorrent can take advantage of this, and ISPs should seriously look into helping this sort of thing out.
You're not a little behind. Far from it- you're a big ass.
Ha ha ha!
I recall a story about my grandfather once almost knifing the cat because he was dreaming about World War II and thought it was a Japanese soldier.