That is right, hot air can power steam turbines. Using 1% of the comments here could provide enough power to power the world. This one in particular would generated a LOT of power.
(Reminds me of the "Scream Floor" on Monsters Inc.)
I had no problem with the changes in the timeline, it certainly gives a fresh vision to it and gives a lot of opportunity. However, if JJA only does a few movies, then the opportunity to have a reboot will be lost. Yes, it will be entertaining, but not enough to carry the franchise forward long term. It will kind of look like an Enterprise redux - Enterprise was good at the start, but then the temporal war thing got to be too much. The key, as Rodenberry knew, was the characters and their interaction. Sure, the effects are cool and it is great to see a positive vision of the future, but the characters make or break a series.
The only real solution is a movie or two followed by a Next Gen length TV series with movies interspersed. That is really the best way to bring to bring the mythology up to date and solidify it and to bold go forward where the original Trek didn't go.
My fear is 2 or 3 movies, followed by nothing, in which case it will have been an admirable effort and no doubt entertaining, but long term will only damage the franchise.
I believe this will only increase the value of the.com TLD.
Confusion only helps the established "brand" and in this case ".com" is the established brand. I had thought that perhaps (this was when.info/.biz etc were approved) that one or both of them might be a positive TLD, but for the large majority that has not been the case and having spam type sites in the TLD only hurts the other sites in it. Increasing the number of TLDs available to an arbitrary number will only hurt the less established TLDs.
Who is going to remember something like: ham.food or something like that?
--- SpuriousLogic writes "There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on -- now it's September 2008, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2007, but then pushed the date back to June 2008, before the latest delay."
technologytimesummarywrongsummary
At least with Comcast here in Florida, you can install it on the TiVo's yourself so you don't have to wait. I did it with two TiVo HD XLs. I went and picked up two mstream cards from Comcast (one was free, the second $1.99/month) and got home and stuck it in. You do have to then call them up and give them some information from the card like its serial number and a network ID. It took about 20 minutes on the phone with them to do both cards. Then the lady sent the information off to someone to "activate" it. About an hour later it was working and they called back to let me know and have me check 2 or 3 channels on each TV.
Ideally you should plug it in and it would work. The process would be too complicated for many people, my aunts, grandparents etc. Making it plug and play is an important step for adoption.
The other problem is that it does not support "OnDemand" which I know a lot of people enjoy.
One more thing, there was a reason that the CS department was (is?) in the APM (Applied Math and Physics) building at UCSD. A lot of CS theory is just math.
That is spot on. It is the difference between an electrical engineer and an electrician. They don't do the same things and getting an EE to wire your house is as stupid as getting an electrician to design a CPU. Or you don't go to the engineer at GM who designed the engine of the car to change your oil (although given the state of Detroit that might change).
There is a difference between a CS degree and an IT or Software Engineering some other more hands-on degree. Yes, a CS or Comp Eng degree should have coding, that is a must because you need to implement a stack or queue or linked list to really understand it. Ditto for LISP or Prolog in AI or knowing a bit of C if you are into OS design (e.g. for Unix/Linux, so you can understand it). But the focus is on theory so that you can code efficiently (or tell the IT people, look, your coding is good, but the design is O(n^2) and you could code it so that it is O(n) or whatever). Or to tell them P NP or whatever.
I was just starting grad school at UCSD in CS when he wrote that paper and there are two separate fields here just like a builder vs an architect or plenty of other examples. One is not better than the other, just different with a different focus and just depends on what the person is interested in and wants to be skilled at. It is not widely understood though. When people find out I was a CS person, I get, "Oh, can you fix Windows for me?"
It was supposed to be out then, but they thought they'd make more money with a summer release (per EW iirc) and they also wanted time to have Abrams and others out there talking about why it is a mainstream movie and not just more of the same (per EW iirc too - was reading it at the dr's office this morning). In other words they wanted more time to have them out and about talking about its optimistic vision of the future vs things like Batman etc in order to attract a wide audience that includes more than just the regular Trek fan base.
As you are no doubt aware, "where is that myspace thing" and php/python/C/Pascal/Ada/C++/BASIC/LISP etc are not in the same ballpark. The scope of the class seems unclearly defined - an "Intro to computers" vs programming.
Let's face it 99% of the people in the developed world (and higher in the rest of the world right now) will never need to program or want to program. They just want their computers to work and do what they want.
Look under "Settings" --> "General" then at the very bottom it says "Always use https". (It doesn't mention SSL so searching the page for SSL turns up nothing).
The real question though is, what "object" NASA is announcing it has found after more than a 50 year search? I don't think it is related, to UFOs, but imagine if it was!
MEDIA ADVISORY : M08-089
NASA to Announce Success of Long Galactic Hunt WASHINGTON -- NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.
To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact the Chandra Press Office at 617-496-7998 or e-mail mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu. Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed online at:http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
If you are concerned about pancreatic cancer there are a number of genetic tests already available. Ditto pancreatitis. You should discuss with your Dr.
(and if you know someone with pancreatic cancer, PanCan (http://www.pancan.org/ is a helpful organization).
>The beauty of this is, is all of the FCC decency standards may be struck down as a consequence. Not only because of the channel
That is a HUGE "MAY".
The whole argument of government censorship (and involvement) was terrible to begin with, this only makes it worse and hoping that USSup "may" strike it down is wishful thinking at best. (I certainly hope it does and if one could be guaranteed that it would be struck down that would be a different story).
There are few politicians of principle in this debate. e.g. Democrats (the Gores for example with the PMRC etc) and some Republicans (e.g. McCain with the McCain-Feingold election censorship bill) are more than willing to impose their views on the rest of us.
My quick testing of a few sites that look like they allow clients to log in via non-https forms: Wachovia.com Chase.com citicards.com CitiBank.com usbank.com WaMu.com hsbc.com
Banks/Entities that redirect to HTTPS: Bank of America Schwab E-Trade WellsFargo CapitalOne USTrust NetBank ebank BBT INGDirect SunTrust UBS Key.com
It appears also that the bloggers web site is shut down as of Wed (March 7th, 2007) (see Jacksonville Times-Union: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/0310 07/neS_8452819.shtml). And this was due to the fact that the *subject* of the web site (Ben Rich) filed his papers for the 2008 commission race.
Once he registered sites could no longer *anonymously* attack him. There are several out-rages here: 1. Once he files, he can't be attacked anonymously? Wow. This is very similar to the whole McCain-Feingold free speech restrictions. ("First, if two or more individuals sponsor a Web site or other ad, they would be required to register with Halyburton because it would be considered an electioneer's communication. Secondly, if an individual funds the ad, that would be considered an individual expenditure and that person would have to register with Halyburton, just as a candidate would, to identify their expenditures.")
2. The candidate can file at ANY time and therefore shut down disent. It doesn't have to be near the election.
The U.S. Supreme Court has already tacitly agreed with these type of rules as not being a restriction on free speech, but the Justices who said that are in need of a dose of reality.
Slashdot Mirror
"were" not "we're" -- too early.
Hi, I'm a Mac, and uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...we're a PC.
That is right, hot air can power steam turbines. Using 1% of the comments here could provide enough power to power the world. This one in particular would generated a LOT of power.
(Reminds me of the "Scream Floor" on Monsters Inc.)
The real question here is what is next?
I had no problem with the changes in the timeline, it certainly gives a fresh vision to it and gives a lot of opportunity. However, if JJA only does a few movies, then the opportunity to have a reboot will be lost. Yes, it will be entertaining, but not enough to carry the franchise forward long term. It will kind of look like an Enterprise redux - Enterprise was good at the start, but then the temporal war thing got to be too much. The key, as Rodenberry knew, was the characters and their interaction. Sure, the effects are cool and it is great to see a positive vision of the future, but the characters make or break a series.
The only real solution is a movie or two followed by a Next Gen length TV series with movies interspersed. That is really the best way to bring to bring the mythology up to date and solidify it and to bold go forward where the original Trek didn't go.
My fear is 2 or 3 movies, followed by nothing, in which case it will have been an admirable effort and no doubt entertaining, but long term will only damage the franchise.
Santa emails me all the time to do stuff on his website. Of course he is real. ;-)
I believe this will only increase the value of the .com TLD.
Confusion only helps the established "brand" and in this case ".com" is the established brand. I had thought that perhaps (this was when .info/.biz etc were approved) that one or both of them might be a positive TLD, but for the large majority that has not been the case and having spam type sites in the TLD only hurts the other sites in it. Increasing the number of TLDs available to an arbitrary number will only hurt the less established TLDs.
Who is going to remember something like: ham.food or something like that?
(One good .biz site is http://www.nightbeforechristmas.biz/ -- not affiliated with it, but it gets hurt by junk sites in the .biz TLD).
Just fyi. And last year was 2008, not 2007.
---
SpuriousLogic writes
"There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on -- now it's September 2008, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2007, but then pushed the date back to June 2008, before the latest delay."
technologytimesummarywrongsummary
You can see some more here - gotta love seeing gmail and AdSense all having sites with malware:
http://www.rights.com/2009/01/31/every-google-search-result-indicates-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/
At least with Comcast here in Florida, you can install it on the TiVo's yourself so you don't have to wait. I did it with two TiVo HD XLs. I went and picked up two mstream cards from Comcast (one was free, the second $1.99/month) and got home and stuck it in. You do have to then call them up and give them some information from the card like its serial number and a network ID. It took about 20 minutes on the phone with them to do both cards. Then the lady sent the information off to someone to "activate" it. About an hour later it was working and they called back to let me know and have me check 2 or 3 channels on each TV.
Ideally you should plug it in and it would work. The process would be too complicated for many people, my aunts, grandparents etc. Making it plug and play is an important step for adoption.
The other problem is that it does not support "OnDemand" which I know a lot of people enjoy.
It ate my greater than/less than above. Oh well.
One more thing, there was a reason that the CS department was (is?) in the APM (Applied Math and Physics) building at UCSD. A lot of CS theory is just math.
That is spot on. It is the difference between an electrical engineer and an electrician. They don't do the same things and getting an EE to wire your house is as stupid as getting an electrician to design a CPU. Or you don't go to the engineer at GM who designed the engine of the car to change your oil (although given the state of Detroit that might change).
There is a difference between a CS degree and an IT or Software Engineering some other more hands-on degree. Yes, a CS or Comp Eng degree should have coding, that is a must because you need to implement a stack or queue or linked list to really understand it. Ditto for LISP or Prolog in AI or knowing a bit of C if you are into OS design (e.g. for Unix/Linux, so you can understand it). But the focus is on theory so that you can code efficiently (or tell the IT people, look, your coding is good, but the design is O(n^2) and you could code it so that it is O(n) or whatever). Or to tell them P NP or whatever.
I was just starting grad school at UCSD in CS when he wrote that paper and there are two separate fields here just like a builder vs an architect or plenty of other examples. One is not better than the other, just different with a different focus and just depends on what the person is interested in and wants to be skilled at. It is not widely understood though. When people find out I was a CS person, I get, "Oh, can you fix Windows for me?"
It was supposed to be out then, but they thought they'd make more money with a summer release (per EW iirc) and they also wanted time to have Abrams and others out there talking about why it is a mainstream movie and not just more of the same (per EW iirc too - was reading it at the dr's office this morning). In other words they wanted more time to have them out and about talking about its optimistic vision of the future vs things like Batman etc in order to attract a wide audience that includes more than just the regular Trek fan base.
Just what we need botnets of voters. :-)
As you are no doubt aware, "where is that myspace thing" and php/python/C/Pascal/Ada/C++/BASIC/LISP etc are not in the same ballpark. The scope of the class seems unclearly defined - an "Intro to computers" vs programming.
Let's face it 99% of the people in the developed world (and higher in the rest of the world right now) will never need to program or want to program. They just want their computers to work and do what they want.
Look under "Settings" --> "General" then at the very bottom it says "Always use https". (It doesn't mention SSL so searching the page for SSL turns up nothing).
Remanent of most recent super-nova in our galaxy :-) From what they've said so far.
The real question though is, what "object" NASA is announcing it has found after more than a 50 year search? I don't think it is related, to UFOs, but imagine if it was!
MEDIA ADVISORY : M08-089
NASA to Announce Success of Long Galactic Hunt
WASHINGTON -- NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.
To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact the Chandra Press Office at 617-496-7998 or e-mail mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu. Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed online at:http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/may/HQ_M08089_Chandra_Advisory.html
If you are concerned about pancreatic cancer there are a number of genetic tests already available. Ditto pancreatitis. You should discuss with your Dr.
(and if you know someone with pancreatic cancer, PanCan (http://www.pancan.org/ is a helpful organization).
>The beauty of this is, is all of the FCC decency standards may be struck down as a consequence. Not only because of the channel
That is a HUGE "MAY".
The whole argument of government censorship (and involvement) was terrible to begin with, this only makes it worse and hoping that USSup "may" strike it down is wishful thinking at best. (I certainly hope it does and if one could be guaranteed that it would be struck down that would be a different story).
There are few politicians of principle in this debate. e.g. Democrats (the Gores for example with the PMRC etc) and some Republicans (e.g. McCain with the McCain-Feingold election censorship bill) are more than willing to impose their views on the rest of us.
My quick testing of a few sites that look like they allow clients to log in via non-https forms:
Wachovia.com
Chase.com
citicards.com
CitiBank.com
usbank.com
WaMu.com
hsbc.com
Banks/Entities that redirect to HTTPS:
Bank of America
Schwab
E-Trade
WellsFargo
CapitalOne
USTrust
NetBank
ebank
BBT
INGDirect
SunTrust
UBS
Key.com
Have any more to add?
Just ask Tom Paine (various publications), James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay (Federalist papers)....and more.
Anonymity is an important part of the ability to speech unpopular thoughts freely.
Of course there is no guarantee of anonymity, just the right to attempt to be anonymous.
It appears also that the bloggers web site is shut down as of Wed (March 7th, 2007) (see Jacksonville Times-Union: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/0310 07/neS_8452819.shtml). And this was due to the fact that the *subject* of the web site (Ben Rich) filed his papers for the 2008 commission race.
Once he registered sites could no longer *anonymously* attack him. There are several out-rages here:
1. Once he files, he can't be attacked anonymously? Wow. This is very similar to the whole McCain-Feingold free speech restrictions. ("First, if two or more individuals sponsor a Web site or other ad, they would be required to register with Halyburton because it would be considered an electioneer's communication. Secondly, if an individual funds the ad, that would be considered an individual expenditure and that person would have to register with Halyburton, just as a candidate would, to identify their expenditures.")
2. The candidate can file at ANY time and therefore shut down disent. It doesn't have to be near the election.
The U.S. Supreme Court has already tacitly agreed with these type of rules as not being a restriction on free speech, but the Justices who said that are in need of a dose of reality.
Or is it some techincal term?
"BusienssWeek has an article..."
Ah yes, the Eidtors are hard at work...
Hi,
Take a look at this book and it will give you a great insight into why protecting the law (in particular the Constitution) is critical:
Constitional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws by Andrew Napolitano.
(He is often on Fox News, is a judge etc). It isn't *particularly* about the Patriot Act but does include commentary about some of it.