The Bush administration's current position is an abrupt reversal of its previous long-held belief that data retention is unnecessary and imposes an unacceptable burden on Internet providers. In 2001, the Bush administration expressed "serious reservations about broad mandatory data retention regimes."
Looks like it's time for Minitru to step in.
"The administration has always seen it as a necessary step at stopping Goldst^H^H^H^H^H^H Bin Laden."
For those who work in the Bay Area, but live in Tracy or [shudder] Holister, it is well known that if you don't leave work before 3:00PM, you might as well work until 6:00PM.
I would go further and say that the "press" shouldn't be free, ALL people should be free to report in the goings-on of their government.
Big media would like us to believe that their journalists all went through some big credentialing process, and that they alone deserve protection and access. This is, in fact, determental to everyone's first amendement rights.
I submit that the shape of the numerals is not very important, while the decimal notation and especially the concept of zero are the major invention here.
The funny part is that Arabic does not use "Arabic" Numerals anymore. They long ago converted to the Indic number system. This is odd because Arabic goes right-to-left, but their numbers go left-to-right.
During a recent local NPR show, a sociologist claimed to have found "proof" linking violent video games to aggressive behavior. As a student in the middle of my PhD research in psychology, I was shocked. He was claiming to have settled the dispute between contagion and catharsis, which dates back to Plato and Aristotle!
Of course, as callers chimed in - including local professors and researchers - it came out that the guy's experiment had only been to give subjects an aggression level text, show them a series of images (either violent or not), then give them the same aggression test.
He found those who had viewed violent images had significantly higher aggression levels than those that viewed non-violent images.
This revealed that he was overgeneralizing his results. Assuming that passively viewing nothing but violent images is what games are, and not administering the test later to see what the long-term effect was, but still claiming that violent video games are "definitely" linked to violent behavior was just way off the deep end.
The problem is that the congresspeople are listening to FUD like this.
While I agree with the other respondant - that simplicity is inversely correlated with featureset - I was turned off by the Xbox 360 demo I saw at the store. It went something like this:
Click the game I wanted to see... Wait... Get the developer logos... Wait... Get the instructions... Wait... Select character... Wait... Watc^H^H^H^H Skip intro movie... Wait...
After 45 seconds of waiting for the game to load, I forgot why I was even playing.
I mean, UT2004 didn't take that long to get me into a game on a 600MHz laptop.
If they decide not to let you keep it, which the agreement apparently doesn't say they will, you have 5 days to get the unit back to Sun at your own expense.
It's not unlike the trial magazine subscription where you get the first six months free, but can cancel just by sending the seventh issue back. They say they never got it, and stick you with a year's bill.
Here you'd have to pay through the nose to get insured, confirmation of delivery shipping back to Sun.
The counterargument is that plenty of people who wound normally go to grad school insead choose to work in industry. This small lifestyle difference for four years in a subject's late twenties should not effect tests given at age 65+.
Unless you're like the so many of us who are past our late twenties and still in grad school.:)
I teach an ed tech class for pre-service teachers, and we base our curriculum on ISTE's NETS-T ( http://cnets.iste.org/Teachers/t_stands.html ), which are now part of NCATE. Standard VI, indicator A states that teachers should "model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use." I separate the "legal" and "ethical" in my lessons.
I teach them the fair use guidelines, some of the case history, and give them sample situations and have them decide which are fair use, and which are not.
Then, I present Lawrence Lessig's part of it. I talk about "common sense revolts", Dmitry Sklyarov, Dr. Ed Felton, DMCA, etc. I show them the evidence and let them decide whether copyright "law" is "ethical" or not.
There used to be reports of higher rates of Autist kids in the region around silicon valley back during the dotcom boom.
But how much of that was attributed to the ground water pollution from fiascos like Fairchild?
For those who weren't there, there were many companies back in the early eighties that were caught dumping chemicals on their site. Fairchild's was on Bernal Road. The plant was shut down, but the building stood vacant until about five years ago when the site was developed into an Albertson's strip mall.
"The Fairchild Semiconductor manufacturing plant in South San Jose had been dumping industrial solvents in a leaky underground tank for about four years before some grounds workers noticed some rust colored dirt. They asked their boss about it, and a little while later Fairchild mentioned the leak to the Great Oaks Water Company, just in case there was a problem.
There was a problem.
The tank had leaked 58,000 gallons of 1,1,1 trichloroethane (TCA), a chemical known for damaging the liver, circulatory system, and nervous system. Just two thousand feet away, a well providing water to the surrounding neighborhood had twenty times the acceptable concentrations of TCA. Lorraine Ross had lived near the Fairchild plant in South San Jose for six years and her youngest child was struggling with multiple congenital heart defects. There was talk that something was wrong - on her block alone there were four children with birth defects, two miscarriages, and one stillbirth."
>Chicken Little bombs (who saw that one coming?) Huh? It did $250M worldwide, and was the 14th in US income for 2005. Source
And The Incredibles, which was a drop from Finding Nemo, made $631M worldwide. Source. So, yeah, I'd call Chicken a flop. You'd have to go back to 1998 to find a Pixar flick that didn't break $400M.
FYI: Finding Nemo: $864,625,978 Monsters Inc.: $525,366,597 Toy Story 2: $485,015,179 A Bug's Life: $363,398,565 Toy Story: $361,958,736
It's probably also why "Cars" was looking to be a piece of crap - since the movie was simply being done to fulfill a contractual obligation, Pixar would phoen it in, and Disney could choke on their contract. I wouldn't be surprised if "Cars" goes into turnaround now that there's a real reason to make it.
Intersting theory. Mine goes like this:
Cars was first scheduled for release last Fall, at the same time as Chicken Little. Disney, which holds all promotion rights, purposefully held off promoting Cars (which, to me, looks no worse than did The Incredibles, but that's just me), to force it into a poor or even showing against their in house CGI film. That way, when Disney lost Pixar they could assure their stock holders that Pixar was washed up anyway.
So, Pixar calls Disney and says, the film won't be ready for another eight months. Chicken Little bombs (who saw that one coming?), and Pixar still has a chance.
As it turns out, driver availability has been the main Achilles' heel. While graphics cards, chipsets, and audio drivers have been readily available, drivers for newer printers, webcams, and other common peripherals have been MIA.
I bought a laptop with a Turion64 processor and secured a copy of XP64 Pro from my work (the surprised tech had to dig in his desk for it). I got it up and running, but....
No drivers. No trackpad driver, no video driver, no sound, nada. Not even on the manufacturer's site.
Yeah, can you believe it. An the cookies weren't even set to expire until 2035, probably (from TFA) because most computers would no longer be in use then!
I guess there's no use explaining Unix time to them?
Jim Taylor in DVD Demystified explained that DVD's were ready to go (technically) 18 months before they were formally launched. The holdup: Studios wanted encryption. Finally, someone sold them CSS, convincing them it was *very* secure.
Noting new here. Same old IP concerns holding up innovation and the progress IP protection was meant to promote.
From my experience (and that of a friend of mine who was in pharm sales) the easiest way to get on *any* military base is to put a Dominos Pizza sign on the top of your car.
Seriously, I was picking up a cousin at Travis AFB, and they put me through ten minutes of questions, even though I had all the passes, paperwork, etc. While they had me standing outside my car, they waived a pizza guys through without even stopping him.
$200 to the public, for a box with Linux is not unlike the Sharp Zaraus. Though mine had its issues, the range of available software was not one of them.
I can't stop thinking of application for a $200 Linux laptop.
Just a few months ago I broke out UT2004, and was searching for some models. I found one of Elastagirl from The Incredibles. It was a nice mod, but, of course, no super powers.
I was playing in first person when my 4-yr-old son walked in the room. I went to exit the game (as I usually do when he comes in) and, as I was distracted, I got fragged. Luckily, it wasn't a headshot with a sniper's rifes or anything, just a stray bullet.
Of course, UT2004 cuts to 3rd person POV when you die, so my son saw Elastagirl flopping on the ground.
"You're playing Incredibles?!?!?" He asked, suddenly very interested. I said, "No, it just looks like it." And turned off the computer.
Another big reason for raised floors is to handle wiring.
or pluming. I'm serious. (An a bit OT)
When I was at IBM's Cottle Rd. facility, now (mostly) part of Hitachi, they had just finished rebuilding their main magnetoresitive head cleanroom (Taurus). They took the idea from the server techs, and dug out eight feet from under the existing cleanroom (without tearing down the building) and put in a false floor.
All of the chemicals were stored in tanks under the floor. Pipes ran veritcally, and most spills (unless it was something noxious) wouldn't shut down much of the line. It was a big risk but, if what I hear is correct, people still say it's the best idea they had in a while.
FYI: Brigham Young University (owned by the mormon church) also teaches evolution in biology class. Oddly enough, one of their professors, Duke Rogers, is Catholic.
Egon: This is big. This is very, very big. There is definately something here. Peter: You know, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Egon: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
~~~
I picked up the DVD for ~$5 a few years back. The director's audio is worth listening to. Most of that movie was ad-lib, and some of the backstories are great.
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The Bush administration's current position is an abrupt reversal of its previous long-held belief that data retention is unnecessary and imposes an unacceptable burden on Internet providers. In 2001, the Bush administration expressed "serious reservations about broad mandatory data retention regimes."
Looks like it's time for Minitru to step in.
"The administration has always seen it as a necessary step at stopping Goldst^H^H^H^H^H^H Bin Laden."
That, and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
For those who work in the Bay Area, but live in Tracy or [shudder] Holister, it is well known that if you don't leave work before 3:00PM, you might as well work until 6:00PM.
You'll get home at about the same time.
The solar system (diameter of Pluto's orbit) is about 80 AU wide, the nearest sun is 272000 AU away.
Actually, I think the nearest sun is about 1 AU away (from Earth, anyway).
I would go further and say that the "press" shouldn't be free, ALL people should be free to report in the goings-on of their government.
Big media would like us to believe that their journalists all went through some big credentialing process, and that they alone deserve protection and access. This is, in fact, determental to everyone's first amendement rights.
I submit that the shape of the numerals is not very important, while the decimal notation and especially the concept of zero are the major invention here.
The funny part is that Arabic does not use "Arabic" Numerals anymore. They long ago converted to the Indic number system. This is odd because Arabic goes right-to-left, but their numbers go left-to-right.
During a recent local NPR show, a sociologist claimed to have found "proof" linking violent video games to aggressive behavior. As a student in the middle of my PhD research in psychology, I was shocked. He was claiming to have settled the dispute between contagion and catharsis, which dates back to Plato and Aristotle!
Of course, as callers chimed in - including local professors and researchers - it came out that the guy's experiment had only been to give subjects an aggression level text, show them a series of images (either violent or not), then give them the same aggression test.
He found those who had viewed violent images had significantly higher aggression levels than those that viewed non-violent images.
This revealed that he was overgeneralizing his results. Assuming that passively viewing nothing but violent images is what games are, and not administering the test later to see what the long-term effect was, but still claiming that violent video games are "definitely" linked to violent behavior was just way off the deep end.
The problem is that the congresspeople are listening to FUD like this.
While I agree with the other respondant - that simplicity is inversely correlated with featureset - I was turned off by the Xbox 360 demo I saw at the store. It went something like this:
Click the game I wanted to see...
Wait...
Get the developer logos...
Wait...
Get the instructions...
Wait...
Select character...
Wait...
Watc^H^H^H^H Skip intro movie...
Wait...
After 45 seconds of waiting for the game to load, I forgot why I was even playing.
I mean, UT2004 didn't take that long to get me into a game on a 600MHz laptop.
Yeah. Read the comments on the post.
If they decide not to let you keep it, which the agreement apparently doesn't say they will, you have 5 days to get the unit back to Sun at your own expense.
It's not unlike the trial magazine subscription where you get the first six months free, but can cancel just by sending the seventh issue back. They say they never got it, and stick you with a year's bill.
Here you'd have to pay through the nose to get insured, confirmation of delivery shipping back to Sun.
The counterargument is that plenty of people who wound normally go to grad school insead choose to work in industry. This small lifestyle difference for four years in a subject's late twenties should not effect tests given at age 65+.
:)
Unless you're like the so many of us who are past our late twenties and still in grad school.
I'm going to agree with you on this.
I teach an ed tech class for pre-service teachers, and we base our curriculum on ISTE's NETS-T ( http://cnets.iste.org/Teachers/t_stands.html ), which are now part of NCATE. Standard VI, indicator A states that teachers should "model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use." I separate the "legal" and "ethical" in my lessons.
I teach them the fair use guidelines, some of the case history, and give them sample situations and have them decide which are fair use, and which are not.
Then, I present Lawrence Lessig's part of it. I talk about "common sense revolts", Dmitry Sklyarov, Dr. Ed Felton, DMCA, etc. I show them the evidence and let them decide whether copyright "law" is "ethical" or not.
There used to be reports of higher rates of Autist kids in the region around silicon valley back during the dotcom boom.
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But how much of that was attributed to the ground water pollution from fiascos like Fairchild?
For those who weren't there, there were many companies back in the early eighties that were caught dumping chemicals on their site. Fairchild's was on Bernal Road. The plant was shut down, but the building stood vacant until about five years ago when the site was developed into an Albertson's strip mall.
Here's an article: http://www.elandar.com/toxics/stories/neighborhoo
"The Fairchild Semiconductor manufacturing plant in South San Jose had been dumping industrial solvents in a leaky underground tank for about four years before some grounds workers noticed some rust colored dirt. They asked their boss about it, and a little while later Fairchild mentioned the leak to the Great Oaks Water Company, just in case there was a problem.
There was a problem.
The tank had leaked 58,000 gallons of 1,1,1 trichloroethane (TCA), a chemical known for damaging the liver, circulatory system, and nervous system. Just two thousand feet away, a well providing water to the surrounding neighborhood had twenty times the acceptable concentrations of TCA.
Lorraine Ross had lived near the Fairchild plant in South San Jose for six years and her youngest child was struggling with multiple congenital heart defects. There was talk that something was wrong - on her block alone there were four children with birth defects, two miscarriages, and one stillbirth."
>Chicken Little bombs (who saw that one coming?)
Huh? It did $250M worldwide, and was the 14th in US income for 2005. Source
And The Incredibles, which was a drop from Finding Nemo, made $631M worldwide. Source. So, yeah, I'd call Chicken a flop. You'd have to go back to 1998 to find a Pixar flick that didn't break $400M.
FYI:
Finding Nemo: $864,625,978
Monsters Inc.: $525,366,597
Toy Story 2: $485,015,179
A Bug's Life: $363,398,565
Toy Story: $361,958,736
It's probably also why "Cars" was looking to be a piece of crap - since the movie was simply being done to fulfill a contractual obligation, Pixar would phoen it in, and Disney could choke on their contract. I wouldn't be surprised if "Cars" goes into turnaround now that there's a real reason to make it.
Intersting theory. Mine goes like this:
Cars was first scheduled for release last Fall, at the same time as Chicken Little. Disney, which holds all promotion rights, purposefully held off promoting Cars (which, to me, looks no worse than did The Incredibles, but that's just me), to force it into a poor or even showing against their in house CGI film. That way, when Disney lost Pixar they could assure their stock holders that Pixar was washed up anyway.
So, Pixar calls Disney and says, the film won't be ready for another eight months. Chicken Little bombs (who saw that one coming?), and Pixar still has a chance.
Anyway, just a thought.
Has anyone else noticed a delay when saving a file in the GIMP after applying the patch?
As it turns out, driver availability has been the main Achilles' heel. While graphics cards, chipsets, and audio drivers have been readily available, drivers for newer printers, webcams, and other common peripherals have been MIA.
I bought a laptop with a Turion64 processor and secured a copy of XP64 Pro from my work (the surprised tech had to dig in his desk for it). I got it up and running, but....
No drivers. No trackpad driver, no video driver, no sound, nada. Not even on the manufacturer's site.
Well, good thing Ubuntu64 works just fine.
Apple Geniuses behind the table had wireless gizmos for scanning credit cards
WOW! Re-vo-lu-tion! You mean like the ones waiters in Europe have been using for *ages*?
It's actually kind of nice because they do not take your credit card back to the register. They swipe it at your table and hand it back to you.
Yeah, can you believe it. An the cookies weren't even set to expire until 2035, probably (from TFA) because most computers would no longer be in use then!
I guess there's no use explaining Unix time to them?
Jim Taylor in DVD Demystified explained that DVD's were ready to go (technically) 18 months before they were formally launched. The holdup: Studios wanted encryption. Finally, someone sold them CSS, convincing them it was *very* secure.
Noting new here. Same old IP concerns holding up innovation and the progress IP protection was meant to promote.
From my experience (and that of a friend of mine who was in pharm sales) the easiest way to get on *any* military base is to put a Dominos Pizza sign on the top of your car.
Seriously, I was picking up a cousin at Travis AFB, and they put me through ten minutes of questions, even though I had all the passes, paperwork, etc. While they had me standing outside my car, they waived a pizza guys through without even stopping him.
$200 to the public, for a box with Linux is not unlike the Sharp Zaraus. Though mine had its issues, the range of available software was not one of them.
I can't stop thinking of application for a $200 Linux laptop.
Simply ROT-13 the lyrics. (I know there are FF extensions that will decode it.)
When the RIAA comes knowcking, file suit against them from circumventing your encryption.
True story.
Just a few months ago I broke out UT2004, and was searching for some models. I found one of Elastagirl from The Incredibles. It was a nice mod, but, of course, no super powers.
I was playing in first person when my 4-yr-old son walked in the room. I went to exit the game (as I usually do when he comes in) and, as I was distracted, I got fragged. Luckily, it wasn't a headshot with a sniper's rifes or anything, just a stray bullet.
Of course, UT2004 cuts to 3rd person POV when you die, so my son saw Elastagirl flopping on the ground.
"You're playing Incredibles?!?!?" He asked, suddenly very interested. I said, "No, it just looks like it." And turned off the computer.
I've only played UT at lan parties since then.
Another big reason for raised floors is to handle wiring.
or pluming. I'm serious. (An a bit OT)
When I was at IBM's Cottle Rd. facility, now (mostly) part of Hitachi, they had just finished rebuilding their main magnetoresitive head cleanroom (Taurus). They took the idea from the server techs, and dug out eight feet from under the existing cleanroom (without tearing down the building) and put in a false floor.
All of the chemicals were stored in tanks under the floor. Pipes ran veritcally, and most spills (unless it was something noxious) wouldn't shut down much of the line. It was a big risk but, if what I hear is correct, people still say it's the best idea they had in a while.
FYI: Brigham Young University (owned by the mormon church) also teaches evolution in biology class. Oddly enough, one of their professors, Duke Rogers, is Catholic.
Egon: This is big. This is very, very big. There is definately something here.
Peter: You know, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head.
Egon: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
~~~
I picked up the DVD for ~$5 a few years back. The director's audio is worth listening to. Most of that movie was ad-lib, and some of the backstories are great.