Yeah, and you can do on-line scheduling with TiVo as well. Just need a browser that can login to the TiVo website. No, it isn't an extra feature.
But the Tivo has to call in to get the new schedule, right? So anything you schedule before the next time Tivo phones home will be lost. MythWeb doesn't have that problem - it directly controls the system.
The point is that email was not designed for file transfer and probably will never be the best tool for that purpose. Unfortuantely it cannot always be avoided but it should be whereever possible. If email was seen as a good way to transfer files then FTP wouldn't have been invented--people would've extended email to do it from the start. Since FTP is still around today and is now extended to secure FTP with SSL encryption and authentication THAT is the tool that professionals should use to send such files (that is what I do anyways).
What do you think the point of attachments is? Email is designed for small file transfer. And it's the most convienient way to do peer to peer file transfer we have. FTP requires a server so it is fine as a central repository, but it is not good adhoc transfers between people.
Frankly, this smacks of someone trying to cash in on Dan Brown's success, but even so, it's going to be interesting trying to watch a judge try and place a line in the sand about how much of an idea can be borrowed without infringing on copyright should the case actually make it to trial.
What it looks like is that Dan Brown has essentially written a story set in a world someone else invented. I pretty sure that's a no-no.
I actually think that is fairly likely because it would be idiotic to settle on this given that HBHG was supposed to be a factual theory, admittedly based on some very sketchy "evidence", and not outright fiction. Never mind that the extremely broad claims of the infringement would open up just about any publisher of a work of fiction published in the UK to be sued on the same grounds; truly original fiction is an *extremely* rare thing.
Yeah, that's the expected Dan Brown defense: "if we're found guilty the literary world will collapse because nothing is truly original". I don't buy it. Unless he's arguing that I can write a sequel to The Da Vinci Code and get away with it. That's not to say Brown should be found guilty, I just think should he defend himself from the actual charge - i.e. prove that he didn't lift too much material directly from HBHG. I think they've chosen this defense ("the end of the world" defense) because he's already essentially admitted that he did use a lot of their material without permission.
SWT is over a MB in size, compressed. Bundling it with most Java applications dramatically increases the download size.
Are you seriously trying to claim that an extra megabyte or two is a dramtic increase in the size of a software package? Have you looked at the size of software downloads lately? Acrobat Reader is 20MB. iTunes/QuickTime is 33MB. The.Net runtime is 20MB. If people are downloading those then an extra 1-2MB isn't even going to be noticed.
Laugh all you want to, but the Poles made it possible to win World War II.
You're making a lot of unwarranted assumptions. You're assuming that Britian or the US wouldn't have broken Enigma by themselves, which seems likely given how many other difficult ciphers they broke (e.g. Lorenz, Purple). You are also assuming that without breaking Enigma the Allies would have lost the war. That's extremely contentious.
Funny how all the top-secret technological advances by the Americans, Germans, Russians, Japanese, and Lichtensteinians all saw the light of day eventually, but somehow British technology was so secret that all traces of it have disappeared. Maybe it's because the British were so much smarter than the rest of us that that's why they were able to keep it secret. Or maybe it's just a silly myth designed to stroke the ego of a declining empire.
The British advances have become public knowledge over time. For example, the fact that they invented public key cryptography before anyone else was exposed in 1997.
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing shouldn't be olympic sports; save that shit for the x-games.
I agree that "artistic" sports seem to be a bit of an oxymoron. But how can you single out those two and not mention ice dancing? That'd be first to go if I were choosing. Besides, the snowboard cross has (IMO) been one of the most interesting sports at the Games.
If it wasn't for the Enigma machine it is unlikely computers would be as advanced as they are today since cracking the enigma code was THE reason computer development really got started with the Mark I in WWII.
This is just not true. Enigma was broken using "bombes" which were not computers by any reasonable definition of the term. A bombe was simply an electromechanical device that tested each possible rotor setting. Colossus, OTOH, considered by some to be the first programmable digital computer, was developed at Bletchley to break the Lorenz ciphers. So if you want to credit Nazi ciphers with advancing the state of computing, that's the one to choose. However Colossus was destroyed at the end of the war and no information about it was made public until the late 1970's. So it's hard to claim it had much impact on the development of the computer (this is why ENIAC was considered to be the first computer for so long).
The fact is that the ground work for the modern digital computer was laid before the war by Turing and others. The work that was done at places like Bletchey during WWII was essentially lost due to the secrecy surrounding such places (which extended decades after the war ended). That work was recreated independently in any case.
The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty found The Skeptical Environmentalist to constitute scientific dishonesty. They found fabrication of data, discarding of unwanted results, misleading use of statistical methods, distorted interpretation of conclusions, plagiarism, and deliberate misinterpretation of others' results. However, it is not clear that the DCSD's findings are entirely accurate. As I said there are big questions over the validity Lomborg's work. How is that an ad hominem argument?
Btw, there is plenty of scientific and economic support for Lomborg as well.
There is plenty of support from economic and social science fields. There doesn't seem to be so much support from the scientific community.
Yes, he touched off a firestorm by daring to touch a sacred taboo. God bless him for that.
Whatever. If you want to support the man just because he did something controversial that's your prerogative.
Three nobel prize winners contributed to GCGS. I bet they are all crocks.
Actually four now. But all the experts involved are economists. So there are valid questions about their analysis of the situation from a scientific point of view. There has also been concerns raised by some of the panelists themselves about how the climate change portion of the project was handled, including claims that it was set up to fail.
Aside from that, I'd still like a second opinion. So again, got anything else?
Start with the Copenhagen Consensus and Bjorn Lomborg's "Global Crises, Global Solutions"
Got anything other than Lomborg? There are big questions over the scientific validity (and even honesty) of his analysis of global warming.
Now why on earth would global warming reduce GDP by 20%?
I'm not saying it will. What I am saying is that to say 'global warming activists will make claims like "we can mitigate global warming by X percent with only 2% of the world's projected GDP", to which a wise person would respond that with 2% of the world's GDP, we could [do a lot of other good]' makes assumptions about the severity of the economic impact of global warming that are not supported. It begs the question.
It is not at all clear that any potential global warming mitigation is beneficial. In almost all cases, either the cost-benefits come up negative, or just slightly positive.
Care to cite? I haven't seen a lot of convincing research on the economics of global warming at all. To be honest I don't think we know enough to make a sound decision.
Sometimes, global warming activists will make claims like "we can mitigate global warming by X percent with only 2% of the world's projected GDP", to which a wise person would respond that with 2% of the world's GDP, we could provide food and clean water to everyone who does not currently have it, along with providing basic health care and making massive inroads against HIV and malaria. Which is more important?
A wise person would respond with "what is the cost of unmitigated global warming?". If global warming reduces the worlds GDP by 20% over the next 50 years then paying 2% to mitigate that reduction by 20% is indeed a worthwhile proposition and probably more important than those other things you mentioned.
I could be mistaken, but I thought European aristocrats would paint their lesions black to make them look acceptable, people would paint similar black blobs on themselves to look like the powerful.
You might be getting confused with smallpox scars. From the 17th century small black patches made of velvet or other materials were stuck over smallpox scars (and scars caused by other diseases, including syphillis, but to a lesser extent).
Pretty much all of his books are like that, even the baroque cycle. The joy in a Stephenson book isn't getting to the end, it's the journey.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Stephenson's books always give the impression of being part of something larger - you always get the impression that there was more to tell before the current story and more to tell after the current story. So the endings aren't "good" endings because life goes on for those characters- it doesn't just end at the end of the book.
It would not surprise me if playing video games was a good mental exercise for gamers. But surely there is selection going on as well. Gamers have a talent that makes them good at the "tricky mental tests".
You're right, they haven't proven causation. However they have a plausible mechanism (exercising the mind improves it). The alternative hypothesis (that people play games because they have certain mental strengths) seems less likely. Either way it'd be easy to establish causation in this case.
A week or so ago, there was an article in the (Canadian) Globe and Mail about some study that indicated that shorter people live longer than taller people by (as I recall) 1.5 years per inch. I assume that this is at least partly genetic characteristices that, in some people, go together. But some guy was suggesting that you should feed your kids less so they don't grow as tall and therefore will presumable live longer. This idea seems.... potentially slanderous to comment upon.
Classic confusion of correlation and causation, compounded by a lack of common sense.
Personally I think it could have been defused then and there if the newspaper or the prime minister had had the decency and backbone to simply apologize
The editor of the newspaper has apologized, correct? And why do think the prime minister should have apologized? Neither the Danish government or the Danish people as a whole have done anything they should apologize for, right?
Also, correct me if i'm wrong, but they are angry cause they cartoons are depicting Muhammad as a terrorist among one of the cartoons correct?
The cartoons (the ones that were published, anyway). There is a cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, but I don't take that to imply he was a terrorist. I believe the cartoonist is saying that he this that Islam is explosive. A couple of the others make reference to violence, but they don't portray Muhammad as a terrorist either.
Good point although I think you can infer the one from the other. I actually am fairly good at SEO and a lot of that is due simply to understanding how the Internet and search engines work. I've always had a thing for studying ways of indexing and searching data as well as things like AI so it's not as mysterious a field for me as it is for a lot of people.
SEO can give you an insight into how particular search engines order the results they return. But it doesn't give you any idea how those search engines produce the list in the first place, and that is what I think the submitter was interested in. Stuff like how to structure your database, how to distribute it across a cluster, how to index it, how to query it for keywords or substrings or whatever. There doesn't seem to be much of that sort of technical detail in any of the SEO stuff I've seen (I admit I'm no sort of expert in SEO, not even a client, but I have read a bit).
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That slide show is the most annoying UI I've come across in a long while. Idiots.
What does any of this have to do with 5.1 v 7.1?
The fact is that the ground work for the modern digital computer was laid before the war by Turing and others. The work that was done at places like Bletchey during WWII was essentially lost due to the secrecy surrounding such places (which extended decades after the war ended). That work was recreated independently in any case.
HTPC. That's the target market, that's where people will pay for silent, that's where this will work.
Aside from that, I'd still like a second opinion. So again, got anything else?