It just seems to me that there could be black holes that we simply are unable to detect. In the end, it doesn't matter, because the end result is "we don't know."
I just get picky when scientists say "we know this," because current science is just our best theory at the moment. Good theories? Absolutely. But I think saying things like "we know" discourage full exploration of a mystery because you're already eliminating one possibility without considering that your initial assumption about that fact may be wrong.
Isn't it also possible that there are more Black Holes than we are currently aware of? It seems just as likely as something completely different that we also don't know about.
Exactly. Google earned their spot through superior product when Yahoo, Microsoft and others bloated their pages with ads and crap no one cares about.
Now they get to reap the benefits. If they are found for anti-trust, all that does it set the precedent of "sure, you can do well in business. But if you do too well and upset the powers that be, we'll smack you around, so don't get any ideas."
No mention for this paperweight? I'll admit that I don't have the figures in front of me as to how many units sold, but the short of it was that it was underpowered, had no DVD-ROM, firewire, etc. It was awful and cost nealry $2000, despite having only slightly more capability beyond a good netbook.
Exactly. If you get thrown out of college for it, it's probably not legit.
Sampling acknowledges the original author. In music, it can be using a riff in the background of your song with a nod in the credits of your album. In literature, it's called "citing your source." If you don't cite, it's plaigarism. Furthermore, this is fiction, not a research paper where citing would be needed. We already have a catagory for writers who "sample" fiction from other sources, it's called "fan fiction," and no one gets paid for it because if they did, it would be copyright infringement.
This makes me really angry because it's just the kind of disrepect that my generation seems to be inidated with towards anyone but their own interests. You do NOT steal people's work and pass it off as your own. What a lazy bitch.
Eh...no, you don't own it, but anyone with a decent screen capture/screen snipping (which is built right into windows 7) program can very quickly turn it into "yours" without much trouble and without any possibility of being traced. Even a screen video capture as you flip through the pages (pause on each page, resume when "turning" page, rinse, repeat) pretty easily circumvents any protection on the files you download.
Certainly the library isn't going to take a printout of such images, but as far as sharing with friends? Couldn't be easier/cheaper for someone with a little technical knowledg.
This is about supplimental learning from what I understand. Not lecture material, but educational videos that relate to the topic made by someone other than the prof and for which there is not time in class to view.
Couldnt this be solved by simply allowing some sort of remote, vpn-type thing so that only students can access the videos (but the videos/vieo files still physically remain on campus)?
Files don't have to be "online" to be remotely accessible and it seems to be the internet part that the copyright people object to.
Really? You're going to pick on his desire to have his patent's enforced because people in a different industry abused the system to the neglect of human lives. I guess the Wright Brothers and Einstein should have an * next to their name too since their work lead to so much death as well.
Archos has had these little multi-media things going for a couple years now. That one isn't quite as big as the iPad and it's probably short a few features here and there on things like Multi-touch...but it has wifi, hd video, hd sound..and it costs 350 instead of (what I'm hearing) 800 for this thing.
It wouldn't be an Apple product if it didn't cost way more than comprable hardware though.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Things that use L I batteries have exploded before in the past, it's just become common that everyone owns either an iPod or an iPhone, so when 13 or more stories arise of exploding Apple devices people take notice.
I'm not sure this is a correct assumption. Surely laptops and netbooks and hundreds of other models of phones all run on the same kind of Li+ battery, but only these ones are the ones that are exploding (or at least the ones that are reported). You can say what you want about which ones do and don't get reported, but exploding phones/computers I would think would get covered regardless of brand, leading me to believe that THIS particular Li+ battery (the iPhone) is at least somewhat more suspectible to explosion.
This is all lies and slander. Don't you guys watch Mac adds? They don't HAVE any issues. They work all the time and never glitch up, much less explode! Psh to all this microsoft propaganda.
I think I'm one of few people who will agree with you on this. It's the same way I feel about Nintendo redoing Zelda and Mario over and over again.
I understand that Warcraft, Starcraft, Zelda, Mario and Diablo were all good games and some of their sequels (where applicable) were pretty good too, but when your studio is not releasing a single NEW title for over a decade (correct me if I'm wrong here)...I lose interest.
Its the same in movies and it's part of why I enjoy movies like District 9 so much. Something that's not a sequel/adaptation is such a refreshing change of pace from the play-it-safe mentality of video games and hollywood in the last decade.
And even ignoring all the above complaints, I still probably won't bother with SC2 just because I'm bitter that they took 10 years to get it done while they milked WoW dry time and again.
Blizz is gonna be fine and my purchases don't mean shit to them obviously, but I do feel that a company that prides themselves on quality gaming shouldn't have spent the better part of the last decade working on ONE game and ONE user base. I feel betrayed as a SC player. Like Blizz was my father, but no matter what I did for attention, he always liked my younger brother WoW better and gave him all the best birthday presents.
It's facebook, who gives a shit? I understand that some people are arguing this based on the principle of the thing (the whole 1st amendment thing), but there is definitley precedent for removing/restricting certain liberities from those deemed harmful to society by a jury of their peers (as people have already pointed out with the gun laws for felons).
I guess I just have a really hard time sympathizing with Mr. I-have-sex-with-15 year olds or Mr. I-love-kiddie-porn. I don't feel sorry for them to begin with and I certainly don't feel sorry that they can't use facebook or myspace. Facebook and myspace are luxuries, leisure activities at best. They are not necessary, certainly not inherent liberties and I'm not going to shed any tears because sex offenders can't tag pictures of all their "friends" online.
Never said that. But oil companies do constantly buy our alternative fuel tech in order to keep it off the market and the current fossile fuel market going. They then manipulate supply to raise prices and all while not giving a shit about the global effects. So, oil companies do not "control" the auto industry, but they do make it quite difficult to introduce cars using other fuel methods.
As far as the other comments correcting me on the functionality of the car's engine, I stand corrected, but still insist that 50mpg is very good, especially since the first 40miles before that were almost free.
I totally agree however, that the advertising is misleading. It doesn't bother me a whole lot cause I understand what's going on, but to the consumer who isn't paying enough attention to realize what's going on, it could be a problem I suppose.
I'm not sure why people are hating on this car so much other than the fact that it's GM and everyone is mad at them for the whole bailout thing right now.
The only real difference between this car and previous hybrids is that this one will go 40 (maybe, I'm guessing closer to 30) miles before it kicks into hyrbid mode.
This car is a great concept and for the vast majority of people I know, will provide essentially gas-less lifestyles (except on road trips, but if you're taking THIS little thing on a road trip, you did something else wrong). And if you need to go 70 miles instead of 40 in one day, you spend what?.75 gallons? You're going to complain about that?
This is the kind of technology that can break the oil companies hold on the auto industry. yet people continue to bitch about how it's not good enough for them. I say fuck you all and I hope other companies follow in this car's footsteps. All technology has to start somewhere and this is the first version of a gas-free car to hit the market. Give it a few years and we'll be seeing cars that go 60 miles on one charge, then 100, then maybe even more. Give it time, stop bitching and appreciate how far we have come, not how much you still want to happen.
Until someone buys an iPod that fell off a truck on the way to the store, takes it home, realizes it's broken either right away or has it break somewhere down the road, tries to return it and is told "sorry, the sensor says you dropped it."
Another scenario:
-Person puts iPod in backpack with clothes and other soft objects.
-Person drops backpack from shoulder/car/whatever and iPod senses it's been dropped because it's based on G-force, not impact
-iPod breaks because of hardware failure later on within it's warranty lifetime.
-Rep tells person "sorry, the sensor says it was dropped."
The water detector and heat detector I understand because those can't really have any platonic causes I can think of....but the "drop sensor" has trouble written all over it. In my opinion at least.
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It just seems to me that there could be black holes that we simply are unable to detect. In the end, it doesn't matter, because the end result is "we don't know." I just get picky when scientists say "we know this," because current science is just our best theory at the moment. Good theories? Absolutely. But I think saying things like "we know" discourage full exploration of a mystery because you're already eliminating one possibility without considering that your initial assumption about that fact may be wrong.
Isn't it also possible that there are more Black Holes than we are currently aware of? It seems just as likely as something completely different that we also don't know about.
Exactly. Google earned their spot through superior product when Yahoo, Microsoft and others bloated their pages with ads and crap no one cares about.
Now they get to reap the benefits. If they are found for anti-trust, all that does it set the precedent of "sure, you can do well in business. But if you do too well and upset the powers that be, we'll smack you around, so don't get any ideas."
No mention for this paperweight? I'll admit that I don't have the figures in front of me as to how many units sold, but the short of it was that it was underpowered, had no DVD-ROM, firewire, etc. It was awful and cost nealry $2000, despite having only slightly more capability beyond a good netbook.
Exactly. If you get thrown out of college for it, it's probably not legit.
Sampling acknowledges the original author. In music, it can be using a riff in the background of your song with a nod in the credits of your album. In literature, it's called "citing your source." If you don't cite, it's plaigarism. Furthermore, this is fiction, not a research paper where citing would be needed. We already have a catagory for writers who "sample" fiction from other sources, it's called "fan fiction," and no one gets paid for it because if they did, it would be copyright infringement.
This makes me really angry because it's just the kind of disrepect that my generation seems to be inidated with towards anyone but their own interests. You do NOT steal people's work and pass it off as your own. What a lazy bitch.
This will be dealt with.
Eh...no, you don't own it, but anyone with a decent screen capture/screen snipping (which is built right into windows 7) program can very quickly turn it into "yours" without much trouble and without any possibility of being traced. Even a screen video capture as you flip through the pages (pause on each page, resume when "turning" page, rinse, repeat) pretty easily circumvents any protection on the files you download.
Certainly the library isn't going to take a printout of such images, but as far as sharing with friends? Couldn't be easier/cheaper for someone with a little technical knowledg.
Not that I would do that...
This is about supplimental learning from what I understand. Not lecture material, but educational videos that relate to the topic made by someone other than the prof and for which there is not time in class to view.
Couldnt this be solved by simply allowing some sort of remote, vpn-type thing so that only students can access the videos (but the videos/vieo files still physically remain on campus)? Files don't have to be "online" to be remotely accessible and it seems to be the internet part that the copyright people object to.
Really? You're going to pick on his desire to have his patent's enforced because people in a different industry abused the system to the neglect of human lives. I guess the Wright Brothers and Einstein should have an * next to their name too since their work lead to so much death as well.
Not only is just a big iPod touch...it's been done before by someone else.
http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_7/index.html?country=mz&lang=en
Archos has had these little multi-media things going for a couple years now. That one isn't quite as big as the iPad and it's probably short a few features here and there on things like Multi-touch...but it has wifi, hd video, hd sound..and it costs 350 instead of (what I'm hearing) 800 for this thing.
It wouldn't be an Apple product if it didn't cost way more than comprable hardware though.
They apparently hadn't heard of Stephen Colbert when they wanted to name the recent ISS module.
Find Dr Manhattan and that cool floating ice scupture thing of his.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Things that use L I batteries have exploded before in the past, it's just become common that everyone owns either an iPod or an iPhone, so when 13 or more stories arise of exploding Apple devices people take notice.
I'm not sure this is a correct assumption. Surely laptops and netbooks and hundreds of other models of phones all run on the same kind of Li+ battery, but only these ones are the ones that are exploding (or at least the ones that are reported). You can say what you want about which ones do and don't get reported, but exploding phones/computers I would think would get covered regardless of brand, leading me to believe that THIS particular Li+ battery (the iPhone) is at least somewhat more suspectible to explosion.
This is all lies and slander. Don't you guys watch Mac adds? They don't HAVE any issues. They work all the time and never glitch up, much less explode! Psh to all this microsoft propaganda.
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I think I'm one of few people who will agree with you on this. It's the same way I feel about Nintendo redoing Zelda and Mario over and over again.
I understand that Warcraft, Starcraft, Zelda, Mario and Diablo were all good games and some of their sequels (where applicable) were pretty good too, but when your studio is not releasing a single NEW title for over a decade (correct me if I'm wrong here)...I lose interest.
Its the same in movies and it's part of why I enjoy movies like District 9 so much. Something that's not a sequel/adaptation is such a refreshing change of pace from the play-it-safe mentality of video games and hollywood in the last decade.
And even ignoring all the above complaints, I still probably won't bother with SC2 just because I'm bitter that they took 10 years to get it done while they milked WoW dry time and again.
Blizz is gonna be fine and my purchases don't mean shit to them obviously, but I do feel that a company that prides themselves on quality gaming shouldn't have spent the better part of the last decade working on ONE game and ONE user base. I feel betrayed as a SC player. Like Blizz was my father, but no matter what I did for attention, he always liked my younger brother WoW better and gave him all the best birthday presents.
It's facebook, who gives a shit? I understand that some people are arguing this based on the principle of the thing (the whole 1st amendment thing), but there is definitley precedent for removing/restricting certain liberities from those deemed harmful to society by a jury of their peers (as people have already pointed out with the gun laws for felons). I guess I just have a really hard time sympathizing with Mr. I-have-sex-with-15 year olds or Mr. I-love-kiddie-porn. I don't feel sorry for them to begin with and I certainly don't feel sorry that they can't use facebook or myspace. Facebook and myspace are luxuries, leisure activities at best. They are not necessary, certainly not inherent liberties and I'm not going to shed any tears because sex offenders can't tag pictures of all their "friends" online.
Never said that. But oil companies do constantly buy our alternative fuel tech in order to keep it off the market and the current fossile fuel market going. They then manipulate supply to raise prices and all while not giving a shit about the global effects. So, oil companies do not "control" the auto industry, but they do make it quite difficult to introduce cars using other fuel methods.
As far as the other comments correcting me on the functionality of the car's engine, I stand corrected, but still insist that 50mpg is very good, especially since the first 40miles before that were almost free.
I totally agree however, that the advertising is misleading. It doesn't bother me a whole lot cause I understand what's going on, but to the consumer who isn't paying enough attention to realize what's going on, it could be a problem I suppose.
I'm not sure why people are hating on this car so much other than the fact that it's GM and everyone is mad at them for the whole bailout thing right now.
.75 gallons? You're going to complain about that?
The only real difference between this car and previous hybrids is that this one will go 40 (maybe, I'm guessing closer to 30) miles before it kicks into hyrbid mode.
This car is a great concept and for the vast majority of people I know, will provide essentially gas-less lifestyles (except on road trips, but if you're taking THIS little thing on a road trip, you did something else wrong). And if you need to go 70 miles instead of 40 in one day, you spend what?
This is the kind of technology that can break the oil companies hold on the auto industry. yet people continue to bitch about how it's not good enough for them. I say fuck you all and I hope other companies follow in this car's footsteps. All technology has to start somewhere and this is the first version of a gas-free car to hit the market. Give it a few years and we'll be seeing cars that go 60 miles on one charge, then 100, then maybe even more. Give it time, stop bitching and appreciate how far we have come, not how much you still want to happen.
Until someone buys an iPod that fell off a truck on the way to the store, takes it home, realizes it's broken either right away or has it break somewhere down the road, tries to return it and is told "sorry, the sensor says you dropped it."
Another scenario:
-Person puts iPod in backpack with clothes and other soft objects.
-Person drops backpack from shoulder/car/whatever and iPod senses it's been dropped because it's based on G-force, not impact
-iPod breaks because of hardware failure later on within it's warranty lifetime.
-Rep tells person "sorry, the sensor says it was dropped."
The water detector and heat detector I understand because those can't really have any platonic causes I can think of....but the "drop sensor" has trouble written all over it. In my opinion at least.