Given that the application of this armor would probably be situations that require a high degree of stealth, range and mobility (reconnosance, espionage), a small-framed, lightweight soldier (such as a female) would be the perfect pilot due to:
minimization of visual signature (body size) for optimal stealth
minimization of power consumption (small surface area, low body mass) for optimal range
maximization of kinetic-impetus/body-mass ratio for optimal mobility.
the article explains why the SSSCA is so bad, in language any American can understand
ummm... the language may be easy to understand, but it hardly serves as an explanation. here are all sentences contained in the article which could be surmised as being descriptive of the SSSCA:
would mandate the inclusion of copy-protection in every digital device and every computer operating system
record companies... want to make it a felony for you to own a computer that is capable of copying music from a CD to your portable player without paying them money
... but doesn't all this prove is that proportionally fewer students are admitting to stealing software? To me this seems independant of wether or not they are actually stealing software. Is it not plausible that pirating software is just as prevalent as before, if not more so; and due to their perception of increasingly draconic IP policies on the part of software producers are now less willing to openly admit to pirating software?
Learning C as your first language, without any prior computer experience may not be the most clever thing to do. Programming C efficiently, correctly and clearly is best achieved by first understanding computer architecture and programming concepts.
And nothing lights a fire under your butt to understand computer architechture and programming concepts like tracking down a good old-fashioned seg fault.
most of the stuff i found taking the smarmy "search google" advice resulted in even more mounds of jargon. and i figured that posting the definitions in the thread would cache the information locally so that everyone not in-the-know wouldn't have to go digging around for it.
Being of Italian desent, I take great offense at this racial slur and stereotypical comment, bout moreso at its being moderated so highly. I would hope that none of the moderators belong to cultures or ethnicities which temselves are disparaged with ethnic slurs. Would you have been upset if the parent post had been anti-, even with the "disclaimer"? I thought so.
who the heck is ECMA and why should anyone bother to abide by their "standards"? I took a look at their website and it looks like some sketchy site whipped together by the SEC.
Quote from the article : However, he notes that not all the assets are converted into real-world cash.
Of course they aren't! If they were, the price for each item would be significantly lower, and the real GNP would be nowhere near what he is quoting. So in reality, if Norrath was a country, the GNP would not be as high as his estimate.
... and in reality, when everyone tries to convert their Enron shares into cash, the price for each item becomes significantly lower.
If you had read the Chicago Tribune article (which I doubt you did) or the JAMA article (which I really doubt you did), you would have noticed that it gave reasons for _why_ scientists were witholding information. About 60% witheld information to preserve the ability of grad students and junior faculty to publish it, and about 50% witheld info so they could publish it later.
Puh-leeease! Like anyone is going to publicly admit "I withold research because I want all the ca$h for myself!".
Went in to UMass at Amherst pre-declared CompSci. Sophmore year I took a 3D Modelling & Animation class within the CS dept (no programming!), and stayed involved with the animation lab for the rest of my undergrad. I eventually went on to TA a character animation class as an undergrad, then co-instruct for a year after graduating.
In the mean time I had finished my degree in computer science with a healthy portion of traditional architecture, algorithms, networks, formal language theory, etc., an extra helping of math (one class short of double major - damn me for not taking field theory seriously!), and a dash of opengl and raytracer programming with Sandy Hill:( while he was still teaching.
So, armed with this multidisciplinary background, and the good word of my professors, I landed a job as a "character builder" (a job somewhere between AI programmer and programmatic animator).
On the job I made the mistake of exhibiting my artistic talent and have ended up doing 3D modelling and 2D artwork for the past 2 years. If thats not a convoluted path to follow for an artist, I don't know what is.:)
For the curious, my website is essentially the same as it was when I was job hunting.
it's amazing that the _protection and preservation one's rightful property_ transformed overnight from an inalienable human right acknowledged by almost every society (though not by every political system) throughout time, into an "obsolete business practice."
since when, from the beginning of time, has information in an abstract form separate from physical media been considered property? sure things like tablets, scrolls, and books could be owned, but information could, at best, be considered secret. if you did not want the information to get out, you had to prevent anyone from hearing or reading it. even with the modern notion of copyright, patent and trademark it is not the idea that is protected.
now, when a movie has been projected into rays of light, a song has been converted into vibrations in the air, or either one has been converted into blips of electricity over an ethernet cable - has it not been separated far enough from its physical storage media to be considered "abstract"?
Not at all - those people who control the vast majority of the capital are in effect an aristocracy. Notice how our president comes from quite the capital-rich background?
The newly unstable work society leads to the erosion of the middle-class and in our collective interest in civics. [snip]... will create a new kind of global citizen, one who is better informed, more communicative and civically-involved than before.
I'd buy the book just to see how he manages this acrobatic leap of logic. I always thought that erosion of participation in civics lead to governmental corruption and that the erosion of the middle class leads to a capitalism-based aristocracy - both of which, IMO, would tend to make joe my-wealth-does-not-grow-exponentially less interested in being a good global citizen, and more interested in kicking the crap out of those that have usurped his freedom.
Unless you have a no-brains-required job, listening to music distracts you from your work and lowers your productivity.
Actually, for some of us otherwise intelligent people with horribly short attention spans, wearing headphones and listening to some nice patter-filled music helps block out alot of office distraction.
[copyrights] protect the creator in profiting from the art , literature or music they create. If there wasn't any copyright protection there wouldn't be any incentive to create anything.
Copyrights protect the owner of the art/literature/music. If the owner and creator happen to be the same person - great. But in today's work-for-hire system, artists have very little ownership over what they create. Why do artists settle for such a system? Because the distribuition channels are controlled with an iron fist by fewer and fewer media companies. Thus it is nearly impossible for an independant artist to make a buck while retaining ownership of their work. So the artists sell out in order to make a living.
Laws protecting copyright are great when they protect everyone from the small time independant to the big label. However, so long as the wide-spread distribution channels are proprietary (store shelf space, air time, a/v codecs, encryption schemes) and under the control of the few, independant artists don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting their stuff out there. The big problem with what the WIPO is pushing is, IMO, that it does more to protect big media's control over the distribution channels than it does to protect copyright holders in general.
Likewise, the current PS2 isn't as easy to develop for, or as powerful as the Xbox and Gamecube. But it is easy enough, and since it can run all the PS1 games and came out first it has a huge market penetration jump start.
Dude, what are you talking about? I can't run any of the the games I uh... got... for my modded PS1.
Great! Now we'll be able to tell Schroedinger once and for all whether his stupid cat is dead or not.
great... in a godellian twist, a quantum device is created that invalidates the principles of quantum physics upon which it is based - to be followed shortly thereafter by the implosion of the universe. i wonder what the great big BSoD in the sky will look like...
... Sci-Fi won't be able to air the rest of the series beyond Children of Dune. CoD is where Dune stops being about knife fights and sandworms and starts being about superhumans and clones running around having kinky sex. God Emperor of Dune and Heretics of Dune will have to be aired on Skinemax. The segue comes when people start gaining superpowers by getting naked with proto-sandworms. That's about this " close to tenticle pr0n, if you ask me.
From the article: Specifically, [NAT] was intended to simplify small business networks, so that the technologically-challenged small business owner could install and run IP address-sharing on a run-of-the-mill local area network...
hmm... interesting how they take a buisness application of a technology and interpret it not just as the justification - but as the intention of that technology's invention. what a spin!
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This of course is unrelated to the desire to have access to the Caspian Sea oil without having to pay Russian pipeline charges.
It is interesting that you should bring up Caspian Sea Oil, as Salon ran an article the other day on just how difficult and economically unrewarding it would be to try to get at Caspian and Central Asian Oil through Afghanistan.
Phantasy Star, admitadly a knock-off on Final Fantasy
That's it! No karma risk is too great when Phantasy Star is on the line! I'll have you know that the original Phantasy Star was hardly a FF knock-off. First off, the smooth-scrolling 3D dungeons were something totally unparalleled at the time - on console or computer. Combat resembled something out of Wizardry or Dragon Warrior more than the silly superdeformed sideways battles of FF. During battle the enemies were actually animated - something FF never achieved until it went 3D on the playstation (two orders of word-size later). GHA! To have the greatest 8-bit videogame console of all time compared to a bit of trash where the end boss flickers threateningly at you!
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bouyancy ... for aquatic missions :P
ummm
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would mandate the inclusion of copy-protection in every digital device and every computer operating system
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record companies
... want to make it a felony for you to own a computer that is capable of copying music from a CD to your portable player without paying them money
looks like slashdot has been trolled by FOX news!... but doesn't all this prove is that proportionally fewer students are admitting to stealing software? To me this seems independant of wether or not they are actually stealing software. Is it not plausible that pirating software is just as prevalent as before, if not more so; and due to their perception of increasingly draconic IP policies on the part of software producers are now less willing to openly admit to pirating software?
Learning C as your first language, without any prior computer experience may not be the most clever thing to do. Programming C efficiently, correctly and clearly is best achieved by first understanding computer architecture and programming concepts.
And nothing lights a fire under your butt to understand computer architechture and programming concepts like tracking down a good old-fashioned seg fault.
thank you for the explanation!
most of the stuff i found taking the smarmy "search google" advice resulted in even more mounds of jargon. and i figured that posting the definitions in the thread would cache the information locally so that everyone not in-the-know wouldn't have to go digging around for it.
what is a CLEC and what is an ILEC?
Being of Italian desent, I take great offense at this racial slur and stereotypical comment, bout moreso at its being moderated so highly. I would hope that none of the moderators belong to cultures or ethnicities which temselves are disparaged with ethnic slurs. Would you have been upset if the parent post had been anti-, even with the "disclaimer"? I thought so.
who the heck is ECMA and why should anyone bother to abide by their "standards"? I took a look at their website and it looks like some sketchy site whipped together by the SEC.
Quote from the article : However, he notes that not all the assets are converted into real-world cash.
Of course they aren't! If they were, the price for each item would be significantly lower, and the real GNP would be nowhere near what he is quoting. So in reality, if Norrath was a country, the GNP would not be as high as his estimate.
... and in reality, when everyone tries to convert their Enron shares into cash, the price for each item becomes significantly lower.
If you had read the Chicago Tribune article (which I doubt you did) or the JAMA article (which I really doubt you did), you would have noticed that it gave reasons for _why_ scientists were witholding information. About 60% witheld information to preserve the ability of grad students and junior faculty to publish it, and about 50% witheld info so they could publish it later.
Puh-leeease! Like anyone is going to publicly admit "I withold research because I want all the ca$h for myself!".
Went in to UMass at Amherst pre-declared CompSci. Sophmore year I took a 3D Modelling & Animation class within the CS dept (no programming!), and stayed involved with the animation lab for the rest of my undergrad. I eventually went on to TA a character animation class as an undergrad, then co-instruct for a year after graduating.
:( while he was still teaching.
:)
In the mean time I had finished my degree in computer science with a healthy portion of traditional architecture, algorithms, networks, formal language theory, etc., an extra helping of math (one class short of double major - damn me for not taking field theory seriously!), and a dash of opengl and raytracer programming with Sandy Hill
So, armed with this multidisciplinary background, and the good word of my professors, I landed a job as a "character builder" (a job somewhere between AI programmer and programmatic animator).
On the job I made the mistake of exhibiting my artistic talent and have ended up doing 3D modelling and 2D artwork for the past 2 years. If thats not a convoluted path to follow for an artist, I don't know what is.
For the curious, my website is essentially the same as it was when I was job hunting.
it's amazing that the _protection and preservation one's rightful property_ transformed overnight from an inalienable human right acknowledged by almost every society (though not by every political system) throughout time, into an "obsolete business practice."
since when, from the beginning of time, has information in an abstract form separate from physical media been considered property? sure things like tablets, scrolls, and books could be owned, but information could, at best, be considered secret. if you did not want the information to get out, you had to prevent anyone from hearing or reading it. even with the modern notion of copyright, patent and trademark it is not the idea that is protected.
now, when a movie has been projected into rays of light, a song has been converted into vibrations in the air, or either one has been converted into blips of electricity over an ethernet cable - has it not been separated far enough from its physical storage media to be considered "abstract"?
Not at all - those people who control the vast majority of the capital are in effect an aristocracy. Notice how our president comes from quite the capital-rich background?
The newly unstable work society leads to the erosion of the middle-class and in our collective interest in civics. [snip]... will create a new kind of global citizen, one who is better informed, more communicative and civically-involved than before.
I'd buy the book just to see how he manages this acrobatic leap of logic. I always thought that erosion of participation in civics lead to governmental corruption and that the erosion of the middle class leads to a capitalism-based aristocracy - both of which, IMO, would tend to make joe my-wealth-does-not-grow-exponentially less interested in being a good global citizen, and more interested in kicking the crap out of those that have usurped his freedom.
here are some discussions where we have covered this material before
Remembering 2001 in 2001 (April 01)
2001: A Space Prophecy (Dec 00)
Unless you have a no-brains-required job, listening to music distracts you from your work and lowers your productivity.
Actually, for some of us otherwise intelligent people with horribly short attention spans, wearing headphones and listening to some nice patter-filled music helps block out alot of office distraction.
[copyrights] protect the creator in profiting from the art , literature or music they create. If there wasn't any copyright protection there wouldn't be any incentive to create anything.
Copyrights protect the owner of the art/literature/music. If the owner and creator happen to be the same person - great. But in today's work-for-hire system, artists have very little ownership over what they create. Why do artists settle for such a system? Because the distribuition channels are controlled with an iron fist by fewer and fewer media companies. Thus it is nearly impossible for an independant artist to make a buck while retaining ownership of their work. So the artists sell out in order to make a living.
Laws protecting copyright are great when they protect everyone from the small time independant to the big label. However, so long as the wide-spread distribution channels are proprietary (store shelf space, air time, a/v codecs, encryption schemes) and under the control of the few, independant artists don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting their stuff out there. The big problem with what the WIPO is pushing is, IMO, that it does more to protect big media's control over the distribution channels than it does to protect copyright holders in general.
Likewise, the current PS2 isn't as easy to develop for, or as powerful as the Xbox and Gamecube. But it is easy enough, and since it can run all the PS1 games and came out first it has a huge market penetration jump start.
... got ... for my modded PS1.
Dude, what are you talking about? I can't run any of the the games I uh
Great! Now we'll be able to tell Schroedinger once and for all whether his stupid cat is dead or not.
... in a godellian twist, a quantum device is created that invalidates the principles of quantum physics upon which it is based - to be followed shortly thereafter by the implosion of the universe. i wonder what the great big BSoD in the sky will look like ...
great
... Sci-Fi won't be able to air the rest of the series beyond Children of Dune. CoD is where Dune stops being about knife fights and sandworms and starts being about superhumans and clones running around having kinky sex. God Emperor of Dune and Heretics of Dune will have to be aired on Skinemax. The segue comes when people start gaining superpowers by getting naked with proto-sandworms. That's about this " close to tenticle pr0n, if you ask me.
From the article: Specifically, [NAT] was intended to simplify small business networks, so that the technologically-challenged small business owner could install and run IP address-sharing on a run-of-the-mill local area network...
... interesting how they take a buisness application of a technology and interpret it not just as the justification - but as the intention of that technology's invention. what a spin!
hmm
This of course is unrelated to the desire to have access to the Caspian Sea oil without having to pay Russian pipeline charges.
It is interesting that you should bring up Caspian Sea Oil, as Salon ran an article the other day on just how difficult and economically unrewarding it would be to try to get at Caspian and Central Asian Oil through Afghanistan.
somebody mod this overrated, poorly-written zeal down
Phantasy Star, admitadly a knock-off on Final Fantasy
That's it! No karma risk is too great when Phantasy Star is on the line! I'll have you know that the original Phantasy Star was hardly a FF knock-off. First off, the smooth-scrolling 3D dungeons were something totally unparalleled at the time - on console or computer. Combat resembled something out of Wizardry or Dragon Warrior more than the silly superdeformed sideways battles of FF. During battle the enemies were actually animated - something FF never achieved until it went 3D on the playstation (two orders of word-size later). GHA! To have the greatest 8-bit videogame console of all time compared to a bit of trash where the end boss flickers threateningly at you!