Let's say I, as a supreme being, throw a rock, connected to my hand by a piece of magic string into the void. And lets say life evolves on this rock to the point where it is has figured out that it came from "the big throw." The big question for everyone on the rock is: Is the magic string
a) taut? (static Universe) b) forever stretchy? (infinite Universe) c) rubberbandy? (big crunch Universe)
You seem to like c) which I agree sounds very nice, because then life can be seen as an infinite bounce of "big throw, expand, crunch, repeat."
But just because someone comes up with a good theory for b) doesn't mean I didn't throw the rock in the first place!
Maybe this is the first rock I've ever thrown? I guess I'll never throw another one. I hope nobody has a problem with that.
Or, maybe I'll just throw another rock with one of my infinite hands (ah, the multiverse concept)?
Point is: yes, there can be a big bang AND a forever expanding universe.
P.S. What you want to believe about "before" the big bang is a metaphysicial question, because time and space began at the big bang. You might as well be asking "what is north of the north pole?"
i think the fact that you'll pay about twice as much for a mac as for a comparable pc offsets the the fact that you have to spend an extra minute setting the PC up (assuming that the Mac doesn't crash and you need to find a paperclip somewhere to reset it).
Paperclip? That's the most out-of-date trolling I've seen in a while, LOL. Here let me finish for you:
...and after you reset that dumb Mac, you'll find you're stuck with that built-in 9 inch B&W POS monitor FOREVER, mac lusers!...
Charles Krauthammer's editorial in the Washington Post is an excellent read. He proposes that we leave close orbit science to the robots (why endanger lives for data collection?) and get astronauts involved in actual space exploration again (Moon, Mars, etc.).
I couldn't agree more, which is surprising since I usually don't agree with anything he says. But I really believe that changing NASA's focus might be the ideal solution to the public's (read: media's) boredom with our space program.
Yakov Smirnoff has had only ONE (1, that's o-n-e) joke in this form, which is "In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you." This joke became famous in a beer commercial. As you might be able to tell, it's not just backwards, it's cleverly reversed -- the Communist party finds you -- wink, wink.
I mean, seriously, do you all believe a comedian could make a living saying crap like "the newspaper reads you!"? That doesn't even make sense! Wait -- don't answer that -- I forgot about Carrot Top.
Apple took a bunch of BSD code and other Open Source utilities and added a few layers on top and called it a genuine Apple product. They are now making millions of dollars a year.
Um, that's exactly what the BSD license allows you to do.
Hey Apple, do you only embrace Open Source when it involves your developers stealing code from other projects?
Utilizing BSD licensed code in commercial apps is not stealing. Not even close.
Ten bucks says Apple releases their own P2P audio sharing utility in like 2 weeks using this guy's old code.
??? = submit a trademark application for your product/service, make the product/service available commercially, and then keep the trademark alive for all those years
Actually, I would've assumed the same thing as you did autopr0n, but no, the AC wasn't me. We've been around long enough to know that plenty of people hate our music, plenty like it, and some actually love it. Our feelings aren't easily hurt after seven years of doing this.
As for your comments, yep those three songs you mentioned are off our first album ($5K to record) and I'd have to agree that the quality suffered from a number of issues. Not sure what you mean about "Asian decent" but I assume you're referring to our bassist. Hell of a guy.
Now obviously, if you don't like emo/powerpop/indie vibe then you are likely to cringe at anything we write -- nothing wrong with that. However, our second album is what got us signed in the first place (and what I was referring to in my first post), and even though you'd likely hate it, we've received good press on it so I figure I'd advertise it: Three tracks from that album are at MP3.com in case want to be tortured some more.;-)
My band released our second CD (right before getting signed alas) independently and the seven songs on it (about 30 minutes worth) cost us about $15K of studio time. Note that this was a no-name studio, with a no-name engineer, and self-produced. We've known small bands that have been signed to semi-majors, and even a somewhat-known producer, engineers and studio time can easily cost $250K. I imagine top quality studios, engineers and producers cost much more.
And, if the label thinks you might actually move some units, they'll be paying expenses, per diems, touring costs and marketing. Believe me, that can cost a lot of $. Fact is, it costs a lot of money to put together a "best-seller."
FYI, signed bands actually pay for the recording costs (the money is "fronted" by your label) so the studio only pays if the album doesn't break even (most albums actually) -- and if the band never generates sales to cover it, the label will eventually eat the cost, but even in those cases it's a write-off
You would be surprised how many bands you know that have never made a dime from royalties because they owe their label for the recording costs. Hopefully most signed bands are smart enough to know that the only money they'll likely see is from sales of schwag.
Seriously though, this will likely cause much consternation to Palm power users who can enter graffiti at hyperspeeds. I gather this might hurt the upgrade market in the near-term until those users get over it.
So before you chime in on this one...take a second to question your views.
Now why should I (or anyone) read his post and think, "Wow--your friend, who was skeptical about owning a gun, was able to protect his family because he bought a gun. Hmm...maybe I should rethink my position on gun control?" Please. If you want to relate a positive story about owning a gun, that's fine, but to ask people to think twice about their views because of your story? My point is this: we could fill up/. with positive and negative stories of gun ownership. Why should any of these stories sway anyone's opinion?
On Friday night, a good friend, colleague, and fellow slashdotter defended his household and family from intruders with a 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun. He stopped the robbery and scared the suspects off. The police caught them a short while later. No one was hurt. In reflecting upon this event, he and I look at the issue of gun control, and indeed the entire issue of gun culture, with a degree of clarity previously unachieved.
Hypothetically, if your friend had been forced to shoot, and accidentially killed someone in his family in doing so, would you be writing the exact same thing here? Or would you be rethinking your position? In other words, how much have your views been skewed (if at all) by this thankfully fortunate outcome?
Although I see what you're saying, you're missing the point. Microsoft has been found to have a monopoly, Sun hasn't. Forcing Sun to carry.NET doesn't do anything to level the competitive marketplace (whereas forcing Microsoft to carry Java does) because Sun doesn't exert any real control over the marketplace.
You're confusing a dictionary term with a legal term. Legally, Microsoft has been found to have a monopoly -- this is not in dispute. So, yes, Microsoft is a monopoly, even though Linux, OS X, etc. are available to consumers. That may irk you, but it is indeed a fact.
Furthermore, having a monopoly in and of itself is not illegal. But leveraging that monopoly to adversely affect your competitors -- as Microsoft did with using its OEM licenses -- is illegal.
Remember that the findings of fact in the antitrust case survived on appeal. The question is no longer whether Microsoft is a monopoly, or whether it was anticompetitive. The question is what should be done about it.
a frightening realization that not much of interest has come out of the last 10 years
This should come as no surprise, as the value of most of these inventions wasn't realized until well after their creation. If this list and been compiled in 1972, I doubt "modem" would be listed at all.
Go in with zero expectations, go out happy.
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Funny, but when the review chatter is hinting at an "awesome" flick, I often experience a slight pang of postviewing letdown due to the artificialy heightened expectations (which can never match all the "you have to see this movie!" hype). The same also holds true in the reverse, as in this case where Nemesis has been (unfairly IMHO) slammed. Tonight, I was happily surprised to see a pretty damn good and cool Trek flick...thanks Ebert, et al!
Worse than Generations or Insurrection or (jeez) Final Frontier (????); no F-in way!
And he added, "and besides its obvious application in the.dogfood space, we also think our DirectHorse technology will become the de facto standard for code glue."
The "programmer" in question is none other than Steve Jobs. This is his quote from the Cringely PBS "nerds" docu in 1996, a year before his return to Apple via an invite from then-CEO Gil Amelio after the acquisition of NeXT. The exact (and tasty) quote is: "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste...I don't mean that in a small way--I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their product...So I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success--I have no problem with their success; they've earned their success for the most part--I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."
If you want to leverage that Powerplant knowledge, Greg Dow is working on the next major revision, which is a rewrite that embraces Carbon to its fullest (Quartz, Carbon events, etc.).
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That's a priceless comment. Do tell how one can have cause and effect without the notion of time.
Uh, no.
Let's say I, as a supreme being, throw a rock, connected to my hand by a piece of magic string into the void. And lets say life evolves on this rock to the point where it is has figured out that it came from "the big throw." The big question for everyone on the rock is: Is the magic string
a) taut? (static Universe)
b) forever stretchy? (infinite Universe)
c) rubberbandy? (big crunch Universe)
You seem to like c) which I agree sounds very nice, because then life can be seen as an infinite bounce of "big throw, expand, crunch, repeat."
But just because someone comes up with a good theory for b) doesn't mean I didn't throw the rock in the first place!
Maybe this is the first rock I've ever thrown? I guess I'll never throw another one. I hope nobody has a problem with that.
Or, maybe I'll just throw another rock with one of my infinite hands (ah, the multiverse concept)?
Point is: yes, there can be a big bang AND a forever expanding universe.
P.S. What you want to believe about "before" the big bang is a metaphysicial question, because time and space began at the big bang. You might as well be asking "what is north of the north pole?"
Paperclip? That's the most out-of-date trolling I've seen in a while, LOL. Here let me finish for you:
I couldn't agree more, which is surprising since I usually don't agree with anything he says. But I really believe that changing NASA's focus might be the ideal solution to the public's (read: media's) boredom with our space program.
Darn, this misinformation keeps going around!
Yakov Smirnoff has had only ONE (1, that's o-n-e) joke in this form, which is "In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you." This joke became famous in a beer commercial. As you might be able to tell, it's not just backwards, it's cleverly reversed -- the Communist party finds you -- wink, wink.
I mean, seriously, do you all believe a comedian could make a living saying crap like "the newspaper reads you!"? That doesn't even make sense! Wait -- don't answer that -- I forgot about Carrot Top.
Apple took a bunch of BSD code and other Open Source utilities and added a few layers on top and called it a genuine Apple product. They are now making millions of dollars a year.
Um, that's exactly what the BSD license allows you to do.
Hey Apple, do you only embrace Open Source when it involves your developers stealing code from other projects?
Utilizing BSD licensed code in commercial apps is not stealing. Not even close.
Ten bucks says Apple releases their own P2P audio sharing utility in like 2 weeks using this guy's old code.
Now this I agree with.
can be found here
??? = submit a trademark application for your product/service, make the product/service available commercially, and then keep the trademark alive for all those years
Actually, I would've assumed the same thing as you did autopr0n, but no, the AC wasn't me. We've been around long enough to know that plenty of people hate our music, plenty like it, and some actually love it. Our feelings aren't easily hurt after seven years of doing this.
;-)
As for your comments, yep those three songs you mentioned are off our first album ($5K to record) and I'd have to agree that the quality suffered from a number of issues. Not sure what you mean about "Asian decent" but I assume you're referring to our bassist. Hell of a guy.
Now obviously, if you don't like emo/powerpop/indie vibe then you are likely to cringe at anything we write -- nothing wrong with that. However, our second album is what got us signed in the first place (and what I was referring to in my first post), and even though you'd likely hate it, we've received good press on it so I figure I'd advertise it: Three tracks from that album are at MP3.com in case want to be tortured some more.
Cheers.
My band released our second CD (right before getting signed alas) independently and the seven songs on it (about 30 minutes worth) cost us about $15K of studio time. Note that this was a no-name studio, with a no-name engineer, and self-produced. We've known small bands that have been signed to semi-majors, and even a somewhat-known producer, engineers and studio time can easily cost $250K. I imagine top quality studios, engineers and producers cost much more.
And, if the label thinks you might actually move some units, they'll be paying expenses, per diems, touring costs and marketing. Believe me, that can cost a lot of $. Fact is, it costs a lot of money to put together a "best-seller."
FYI, signed bands actually pay for the recording costs (the money is "fronted" by your label) so the studio only pays if the album doesn't break even (most albums actually) -- and if the band never generates sales to cover it, the label will eventually eat the cost, but even in those cases it's a write-off
You would be surprised how many bands you know that have never made a dime from royalties because they owe their label for the recording costs. Hopefully most signed bands are smart enough to know that the only money they'll likely see is from sales of schwag.
After the initial hit, you need to rotate the target 90 degrees and hit it again.
Bill Joy warned about. BASF makes a lot of the killer nanotech Bill Joy warned about better.
This should explain it (if it isn't /.'d first).
...the writing was on the wall.
(Chortle, chortle, chortle...)
Seriously though, this will likely cause much consternation to Palm power users who can enter graffiti at hyperspeeds. I gather this might hurt the upgrade market in the near-term until those users get over it.
The original poster said:
So before you chime in on this one...take a second to question your views.
Now why should I (or anyone) read his post and think, "Wow--your friend, who was skeptical about owning a gun, was able to protect his family because he bought a gun. Hmm...maybe I should rethink my position on gun control?" Please. If you want to relate a positive story about owning a gun, that's fine, but to ask people to think twice about their views because of your story? My point is this: we could fill up /. with positive and negative stories of gun ownership. Why should any of these stories sway anyone's opinion?
Hypothetically, if your friend had been forced to shoot, and accidentially killed someone in his family in doing so, would you be writing the exact same thing here? Or would you be rethinking your position? In other words, how much have your views been skewed (if at all) by this thankfully fortunate outcome?
Although Gun Crime Waning, Gun Crime Among Identical Twins At Record Highs
Although I see what you're saying, you're missing the point. Microsoft has been found to have a monopoly, Sun hasn't. Forcing Sun to carry .NET doesn't do anything to level the competitive marketplace (whereas forcing Microsoft to carry Java does) because Sun doesn't exert any real control over the marketplace.
Furthermore, having a monopoly in and of itself is not illegal. But leveraging that monopoly to adversely affect your competitors -- as Microsoft did with using its OEM licenses -- is illegal.
Remember that the findings of fact in the antitrust case survived on appeal. The question is no longer whether Microsoft is a monopoly, or whether it was anticompetitive. The question is what should be done about it.
We don't need another Columbine.
You were actually asking some pretty interesting questions up to this garb^H^H^H^Hpoint.
Please list the percentage of Doom/RotD/etc gamers who are also murderers. Feel free to round to zero. Great correlation there.
This should come as no surprise, as the value of most of these inventions wasn't realized until well after their creation. If this list and been compiled in 1972, I doubt "modem" would be listed at all.
Worse than Generations or Insurrection or (jeez) Final Frontier (????); no F-in way!
And he added, "and besides its obvious application in the .dogfood space, we also think our DirectHorse technology will become the de facto standard for code glue."
The "programmer" in question is none other than Steve Jobs. This is his quote from the Cringely PBS "nerds" docu in 1996, a year before his return to Apple via an invite from then-CEO Gil Amelio after the acquisition of NeXT. The exact (and tasty) quote is:
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste...I don't mean that in a small way--I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their product...So I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success--I have no problem with their success; they've earned their success for the most part--I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."
If you want to leverage that Powerplant knowledge, Greg Dow is working on the next major revision, which is a rewrite that embraces Carbon to its fullest (Quartz, Carbon events, etc.).