"I'd finally given up on the idea of science fiction comedy, simply because no-one was interested. But then Simon Brett suggested the idea to me. 'I'd like to do an SF comedy, and I think you might be the guy to do it.' And I sort of fell out of my chair."
The Red Sea had parted, and Douglas had the opportunity he had been waiting for. Delicious
The problem has often been self appointed experts with an agenda.
Republican experts on Democrat misbehaviors, Democrat experts on Republican Misbehavior. You could wind up with a conservative encyclopedia for all this is worth. For an example of this, check out Conservapedia. If this was taken as an encyclopedia of the viewpoints of conservatives as written by conservatives, this would be fine. To take it as an objective viewpoint of the world is not practical. Somebody should stop the madness before we're bombarded with Liberalpedia, Commupedia, Liberteripedia, Anarchipedia and Socialpedia.
Sadly some articles are written only by these self appointed experts. You can see this in the constant use of the phrase "critics say" or something similar. If you are reporting the viewpoint, even if controversial, you can present the viewpoint accurately without sniping. But with hordes of self appointed experts, this usually doesn't happen
Although Guzman said his business is doing well with the new commercial space boom, there are still challenges, especially since 9/11.Tougher export rules prevent him from selling much of his stock overseas. It's no longer easy to obtain old rocket parts, either. "This stuff is tough to get nowadays," he said.
Even before the attacks on the twin towers in New York, Guzman said he had to be wary. He recalled getting a visit from the FBI after one of Norton's customers put a Peacekeeper missile motor up for sale on EBay.
Where, the agents asked, did you get that particular piece of equipment?
"We bought it from the government," came the reply.
30 Minute source manipulated according to the following scenarios
, two minutes of which is included in snippets in another 30 minute project
extensively remixed and/or altered for Comedic effect. Includes filking, etc
Extensively remixed and or altered so as to be a cover version of the item (even if in a different genre)
Extensively remixed and or altered so as to obviously be a new work, although with much owed to the original (Theme and variations, etc) (NB Luciano Berio's Sinfonia which has extensive quotes from Mahler)
Artistic quoting and allusions, although not always satiric, and which might presuppose strong familiarity with a genre (NB Warner Brothers Cartoons)
Montages, musical and otherwise. Includes various cut and paste (NB Stravinsky, etc)
Original work is used as a model or template for the new work (E. Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, modeled extensively on the similar concerto by Robert Shumann)(Note also, Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and the Clint Eastwood Speghetti westerns, based on Japanese samauri movies (often matching scene by scene))
Each of these scenarios falls on one side of the line or the other. Could the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns even be made under current laws, without extensive re-licensing?
Survival via culture via cultural artifacts via ART
Survival via cultivation leading to Ecological concerns, meaning don't turn your house into a toilet
Survival via Meta-concerns with takes us into vague spiritual spheres
Survival via creative activity - such as building a company or a nation. The major example of this is the debate that led to the adoption of the US Constitution.
Survival of a system of things, such as the Ancient World, The Greek System of Fraternities, Napoleonic France, etc
So you can take survival into exotic, esoteric, and even religious spheres, if you wish.
Look what the drug companies are doing with these depression fixing drugs. Is it not actually fixing your morality? Yes it is.
Doubtful, depending on your own definition of morality and ethics.
For example, it is possible to generate a coherent system of ethics and morality based on the axiom of "survival". However, to keep it from degenerating to the level of Daffy Duck (It's MINE I tell you! MINE! All Mine!!), you have to make it multidimensional, including such things as art, money, culture, sex, family, tribes, ecology, etc. as separate dimensions. Such sophistication is probably not hard wired into the biology.
Of course, you are free to delineate your own list of dimensions and definitions thereof. For example, I would definitely include Geek as a tribe, seen well in the rival clans of Torvalds vs Gates. Such an exercise is useful, and possibly educational.
as we all know, some idiot predicted that the Earth would be hit hard in the nearish future, almost wiped out entirely, due to a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) aimed directly at the planet.
Not very likely, although a lot of satellites, etc. will probably suddenly become due for major upgrades.
Not this late at night. They still have a chance to crank up the refrigeration for the server room. Moscow is just waking up, and the US won't come online for another 8- 10 hours. So they have something of a prayer.
The beeper of the webmaster should be going off in Australia just about now, and we can all imagine the panicked cursing as he realizes that he won't be able to make it to the beach because he's going to be busy arranging co-location services for the rest of the afternoon.
If you were the webmaster, what would your solution be?
If you look at the link to mapofscience.com, the menu widgets at the right let you highlight individual areas, including Engineering. Similar functionality is seem in the other topic areas
I can just imagine a UFO abductee seeing a similar chart of knowledge or biology or something on the wall of the starship, and think it was a map of the home nebula/star cluster.
Could be useful as some sort of directory if the interface were appropriately interactive.
Even with a reformat, if it is the same file system, as long as you didn't start overwriting the data, then data recovery is usually not an issue with the correct software. Overwriting by formatting with a different file system usually requires the more expensive file recovery option. Even then, spending a few thousand dollars to recover 38 BILLION dollars worth of data is probably justifiable
If you then made the disk a linux swap partition, you might be hosed. They don't say what the file system was. Even so it is hard to imagine that they couldn't do a data recovery on it. On the other hand, making people rescan the data is possibly a good exercise on why we do backups.
It is fairly obvious from the quote, that either Ballmer is spot on in his criticism, or else Google is one to something really great, and Ballmer has a blind spot the size of an exploding Death Star hiding on the far side of the moon.
As seen here, Google does actually have a master plan, and it includes far more than what they are doing now. Note, if you will, that it seems that things really don't take off until they goes inter-stellar.
where everyone wound up fighting over the last tree, or something like that, because their belief structure demanded something that as short sighted and ultimately destructive.
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
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· Score: 2, Informative
If this is an example of how the deals are made and how things are managed, it points to another classic example of 'the microsoft touch' screwing things up. It quickly reads as a tremendous gift of technology squandered by poor management, the same management which had delivered on providing poor schools in the first place. Of course, Bill protected his development.
(Pardon me for being cynical)
I recall another story along this line from someplace (done in the human interest vein), but I can't place it just yet.
I will elaborate. Here is something off the top of my head:
Humor: a family of plugin type element for Human Interface Protocol (H.I.P.)which provides sometimes essential modifiers for communications taking place via the H.I.P.
A variety of plugins exist, such as Satire, Sarcasm, etc.
Dependencies exist for these protocols.
For the Humor class of plugins to operate effectively, the must exist certain data structures and or elements for the plugin to operate with and modify.
One such essential element is an affinity for some element in the Viewpoint object being accessed. Conditions where certain statements are asserted as true, when they come into conflict with other data sets where these conditions are asserted as false, and when these assertions can not be over written, will cause a crash of the humor plugin on the local system. Extreme quantities of such contradictions can cause error recovery routines to be invoked.
Correct implementation of the humor plugin can overwrite some previously accepted assertions. The primary mechanism to to revalue an assertion via a logical or emotional contradiction, complete with a recognition that contradiction so that the intended contradiction, together with some increase in data connections, such as affine relationship or understanding.
The 25 digit key is in base 36 (0-9 plus A-Z), providing 8.08281277e+38 possible keys, without accounting for various error checking and validation schemes
... is not only a breakdown by age, but by other parameters, such as size, model, series, etc. I am sure that the IBM DeathStars would have greatly biased the statistics, for example, and it would be useful to have breakouts not only for such well known disasters, but also for the sample excluding the Deathstars, etc.
It is also interesting to note the magnificent jump in failure rates once the drives get outside the three year warrenty period. No coincidence there.
I can just imagine the equivalent of Wikipedia in the days of Galileo or Copernicus. There would not be any objective analysis of the proposition, rather, their entries would be filled with flames, and large swaths of writing starting off with weasal words like "Critics of Copernicus cite the heretical contradictions with blessed truths as put forth by Plato and Archimedes, etc." Instead of citing the axioms of point of view A, then Point of view B, etc. with any analysis of each. It is usually a collection of accusations of heresy in one form or another. Republican vs Democrats. Global Warming. Emacs vs VI. In some cases the only accepted entry is one where one side is constantly sniping at another. feh.
As soon as we get enough people and technology up there, you can bet that we will have someone with an obnoxious independent streak who will hijack something and strike off on their own. So, sooner or later, we'll have pirates, or something like that.
This has all of the makings of several classic sci-fi movies
Just because you monitor them does not give you the capability to fix things if things go bad on Mars.
Of course, you can send groups of people on long journeys. Just take a look at the classic journeys of exploration, where people were at sea, out of site of land, often for many months at a time.
But they had a solution to certain problems that you can't have in a space ship. You can't put discontents on an island in the fashion of Robinson Cruscoe, or set them adrift in a boat like Captain Bligh was.
You need to have a practical body of techniques as a solution to resolving human issues that does not require much in terms of medications. You can run out of medications. You need to be able to debug the mind.
Slashdot Mirror
"I'd finally given up on the idea of science fiction comedy, simply because no-one was interested. But then Simon Brett suggested the idea to me. 'I'd like to do an SF comedy, and I think you might be the guy to do it.' And I sort of fell out of my chair."
The Red Sea had parted, and Douglas had the opportunity he had been waiting for. Delicious
The problem has often been self appointed experts with an agenda.
Republican experts on Democrat misbehaviors, Democrat experts on Republican Misbehavior. You could wind up with a conservative encyclopedia for all this is worth. For an example of this, check out Conservapedia. If this was taken as an encyclopedia of the viewpoints of conservatives as written by conservatives, this would be fine. To take it as an objective viewpoint of the world is not practical. Somebody should stop the madness before we're bombarded with Liberalpedia, Commupedia, Liberteripedia, Anarchipedia and Socialpedia.
Sadly some articles are written only by these self appointed experts. You can see this in the constant use of the phrase "critics say" or something similar. If you are reporting the viewpoint, even if controversial, you can present the viewpoint accurately without sniping. But with hordes of self appointed experts, this usually doesn't happen
- 30 Minute source manipulated according to the following scenarios
- , two minutes of which is included in snippets in another 30 minute project
- extensively remixed and/or altered for Comedic effect. Includes filking, etc
- Extensively remixed and or altered so as to be a cover version of the item (even if in a different genre)
- Extensively remixed and or altered so as to obviously be a new work, although with much owed to the original (Theme and variations, etc) (NB Luciano Berio's Sinfonia which has extensive quotes from Mahler)
- Artistic quoting and allusions, although not always satiric, and which might presuppose strong familiarity with a genre (NB Warner Brothers Cartoons)
- Montages, musical and otherwise. Includes various cut and paste (NB Stravinsky, etc)
- Original work is used as a model or template for the new work (E. Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, modeled extensively on the similar concerto by Robert Shumann)(Note also, Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and the Clint Eastwood Speghetti westerns, based on Japanese samauri movies (often matching scene by scene))
Each of these scenarios falls on one side of the line or the other. Could the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns even be made under current laws, without extensive re-licensing?- Survival via culture via cultural artifacts via ART
- Survival via cultivation leading to Ecological concerns, meaning don't turn your house into a toilet
- Survival via Meta-concerns with takes us into vague spiritual spheres
- Survival via creative activity - such as building a company or a nation. The major example of this is the debate that led to the adoption of the US Constitution.
- Survival of a system of things, such as the Ancient World, The Greek System of Fraternities, Napoleonic France, etc
So you can take survival into exotic, esoteric, and even religious spheres, if you wish.Look what the drug companies are doing with these depression fixing drugs. Is it not actually fixing your morality? Yes it is.
Doubtful, depending on your own definition of morality and ethics.
For example, it is possible to generate a coherent system of ethics and morality based on the axiom of "survival". However, to keep it from degenerating to the level of Daffy Duck (It's MINE I tell you! MINE! All Mine!!), you have to make it multidimensional, including such things as art, money, culture, sex, family, tribes, ecology, etc. as separate dimensions. Such sophistication is probably not hard wired into the biology.
Of course, you are free to delineate your own list of dimensions and definitions thereof. For example, I would definitely include Geek as a tribe, seen well in the rival clans of Torvalds vs Gates. Such an exercise is useful, and possibly educational.
as we all know, some idiot predicted that the Earth would be hit hard in the nearish future, almost wiped out entirely, due to a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) aimed directly at the planet.
Not very likely, although a lot of satellites, etc. will probably suddenly become due for major upgrades.
3000+ degree of molten webserver ?
Not this late at night. They still have a chance to crank up the refrigeration for the server room. Moscow is just waking up, and the US won't come online for another 8- 10 hours. So they have something of a prayer.
The beeper of the webmaster should be going off in Australia just about now, and we can all imagine the panicked cursing as he realizes that he won't be able to make it to the beach because he's going to be busy arranging co-location services for the rest of the afternoon.
If you were the webmaster, what would your solution be?
If you look at the link to mapofscience.com, the menu widgets at the right let you highlight individual areas, including Engineering. Similar functionality is seem in the other topic areas
and it could probably be colorized that way....
I can just imagine a UFO abductee seeing a similar chart of knowledge or biology or something on the wall of the starship, and think it was a map of the home nebula/star cluster.
Could be useful as some sort of directory if the interface were appropriately interactive.
Social Science is next door neighbor to Computer Science?? Give me a break! Somebody jumped the April Fool's gun.
That's the link via the Artificial Intelligence papers. Otherwise the loop is pretty much broken.
Even with a reformat, if it is the same file system, as long as you didn't start overwriting the data, then data recovery is usually not an issue with the correct software. Overwriting by formatting with a different file system usually requires the more expensive file recovery option. Even then, spending a few thousand dollars to recover 38 BILLION dollars worth of data is probably justifiable
If you then made the disk a linux swap partition, you might be hosed. They don't say what the file system was. Even so it is hard to imagine that they couldn't do a data recovery on it. On the other hand, making people rescan the data is possibly a good exercise on why we do backups.
It is fairly obvious from the quote, that either Ballmer is spot on in his criticism, or else Google is one to something really great, and Ballmer has a blind spot the size of an exploding Death Star hiding on the far side of the moon.
As seen here, Google does actually have a master plan, and it includes far more than what they are doing now. Note, if you will, that it seems that things really don't take off until they goes inter-stellar.
The original comment I responded to had the following
Developed at the University of Florida, the model shows that everyone looses if the IPs get their way -- even, eventually, the IPs."
Everyone looses when the screws that hold the tubes together become lose
Thus my thought was a comment citing an ancient example of short sighted behavior, on the consequences of short sighted behavior.
where everyone wound up fighting over the last tree, or something like that, because their belief structure demanded something that as short sighted and ultimately destructive.
The LA Time recently ran a story about the possibly troubling investment strategies of the Gates Foundation. You can see more of their coverage here.
There was also, more to the point, this story via the Register: Gates demands better schools as Gates-backed school closes and this much more detailed story.
If this is an example of how the deals are made and how things are managed, it points to another classic example of 'the microsoft touch' screwing things up. It quickly reads as a tremendous gift of technology squandered by poor management, the same management which had delivered on providing poor schools in the first place. Of course, Bill protected his development.
(Pardon me for being cynical)
I recall another story along this line from someplace (done in the human interest vein), but I can't place it just yet.
and the creationist crowd says:
Not only do they say we descended from apes, but we also got their crabs.
I can see them freaking out on this
I will elaborate. Here is something off the top of my head:
Humor: a family of plugin type element for Human Interface Protocol (H.I.P.)which provides sometimes essential modifiers for communications taking place via the H.I.P.
A variety of plugins exist, such as Satire, Sarcasm, etc.
Dependencies exist for these protocols.
For the Humor class of plugins to operate effectively, the must exist certain data structures and or elements for the plugin to operate with and modify.
One such essential element is an affinity for some element in the Viewpoint object being accessed. Conditions where certain statements are asserted as true, when they come into conflict with other data sets where these conditions are asserted as false, and when these assertions can not be over written, will cause a crash of the humor plugin on the local system. Extreme quantities of such contradictions can cause error recovery routines to be invoked.
Correct implementation of the humor plugin can overwrite some previously accepted assertions. The primary mechanism to to revalue an assertion via a logical or emotional contradiction, complete with a recognition that contradiction so that the intended contradiction, together with some increase in data connections, such as affine relationship or understanding.
We have these PC vs Mac Spoof videos
all have some humor, and some have a point.
nicely done.
The 25 digit key is in base 36 (0-9 plus A-Z), providing 8.08281277e+38 possible keys, without accounting for various error checking and validation schemes
... is not only a breakdown by age, but by other parameters, such as size, model, series, etc. I am sure that the IBM DeathStars would have greatly biased the statistics, for example, and it would be useful to have breakouts not only for such well known disasters, but also for the sample excluding the Deathstars, etc.
It is also interesting to note the magnificent jump in failure rates once the drives get outside the three year warrenty period. No coincidence there.
- Quickly Updated
- Widely Available
- Includes a large variety of obscure subjects
Cons- Lack of Reliability on Controversial Subjects
- Devisive issues without any true obbjective views
I can just imagine the equivalent of Wikipedia in the days of Galileo or Copernicus. There would not be any objective analysis of the proposition, rather, their entries would be filled with flames, and large swaths of writing starting off with weasal words like "Critics of Copernicus cite the heretical contradictions with blessed truths as put forth by Plato and Archimedes, etc."Instead of citing the axioms of point of view A, then Point of view B, etc. with any analysis of each. It is usually a collection of accusations of heresy in one form or another. Republican vs Democrats. Global Warming. Emacs vs VI. In some cases the only accepted entry is one where one side is constantly sniping at another. feh.
So you're saying we need space pirates?
As soon as we get enough people and technology up there, you can bet that we will have someone with an obnoxious independent streak who will hijack something and strike off on their own. So, sooner or later, we'll have pirates, or something like that.
This has all of the makings of several classic sci-fi movies
Just because you monitor them does not give you the capability to fix things if things go bad on Mars.
Of course, you can send groups of people on long journeys. Just take a look at the classic journeys of exploration, where people were at sea, out of site of land, often for many months at a time.
But they had a solution to certain problems that you can't have in a space ship. You can't put discontents on an island in the fashion of Robinson Cruscoe, or set them adrift in a boat like Captain Bligh was.
You need to have a practical body of techniques as a solution to resolving human issues that does not require much in terms of medications. You can run out of medications. You need to be able to debug the mind.
Just another case where nobody can figure out a way to get a big monopoly on the product, and so it suffers through neglect.