The article mentions an olympus camera, but I don't see any reason in principle why other camera makers couldn't also be used. If they could put this function into CHDK, it'd be pretty awesome.
What, you don't think George W. Bush is a reptilian?
As for Erich von Daniken, his theories are far more sound than the things that the majority of humanity believes. After all, he believes that alien astronauts came in ancient times and influenced human development, and that this explains religious writings, such as the Wheel of Ezekiel.
Compare this to a majority of Earth's population, who believe that various religious writings are actually real, and the work of an omnipotent, omniscient "god" (or gods), and that these gods have actually visited humans and still talk to them.
Which one is the "kook"? It seems pretty obvious to me that Erich's ideas, while fairly silly-sounding, are less fantastical than the things that most living humans believe.
If you don't buy Erich's ideas, what's your explanation for the Wheel of Ezekiel? The way I see it, there's three or four possibilities: 1) (which just about all Christians believe, comprising at least 1 billion people) that Ezekiel really was visited by God. 2) that Ezekiel was visited by an alien spacecraft. 3) that Ezekiel was piss-drunk, or on some drug and hallucinating 4) that Ezekiel was a shyster of some kind and was lying
Obviously, #3 and #4 are the most plausible, and would fit Occam's Razor the best. However, if you have to choose between #1 and #2, which one is more plausible? #2, easily. Spacecraft are unlikely, but not impossible, and much more likely and allowable by the laws of physics than #1. However, at least a billion people (including most of the USA) believe #1. So if you think von Daniken is a nutcase, what does that say about most Americans, just about all Latin Americans, many Europeans, most Jews, etc.?
5) The writers of the book of Ezekiel were using symbols and metaphors. 6) They were perhaps inspired by a celestial or meteological event. 7) It was all a dream.
If the math equation isn't intimately connected to you already, why would you go ahead and get it tattooed on your body on the advice of a crowd of/.ers? You should be able to explain what the equation is, its history, what it's used for, and why it is meaningful to you, and for bonus points demonstrate a proof. Not be all like, "Yeah, a bunch of geeks on this web site said it was cool, so I got it."
Yeah, and it is, but it's still considered "low level" these days because it's awfully darn close to the metal. As compared to stuff like.NET or Java that runs on virtual machines or Common Language Runtimes.
Basically, what this is leading to, is that the only way to own a computer is to own not just the hardware and the software, but also the network and the services that run on it. If you don't, you're pwned by the owners who do own these things. It's not enough for hardware and software to be free; the network and services also need to be free and open. Anything other than total and complete freedom opens a backdoor through which all your freedom will eventually leak out, given enough time.
So, good luck with that. You'll never own everything. It's damn hard just to own the software, let alone the hardware that you purhcased. Forget about ever owning the network or the services; these are things that are inherently communal. Only, there's large corporate superorganisms out there who will dominate any individual or group of consumers.
And even if you could own it all, that only means that it's possible for, at most, one person to be free. Everyone else is either enslaved, at risk of enslavement, or a non-participant.
Might as well give up and let them implant slave chips in the back of our heads.
English isn't compiled, though, it's interpreted. And the interpreters are generally very fault tolerant, making "best guess" attempts at parsing the author's intent.
If only there were some way of counting major releases, such that one could tell how many there were, and by extension, know how many versions had been released prior...
Nintendo brought itself back from having only 60 yen in stocks. I don't think Sackboy and a few Helghast are going to be much of a problem.
That may be, but the people who did that are long since retired or dead, and accomplished this feat in a very different world. Having a track record does not make you invincible. Nintendo will probably be in no danger of failing as long as they keep that in mind. Thinking you're a great company because of what you did in the past is a good way to fail quickly.
I am going to coat my entire house in aluminum foil when I get home from work today. I wish I didn't have vinyl siding, I'd just have to cover the roof if that were the case. Sigh.
Julian was/is suppose to be keynoting The Next HOPE conference in NYC... I wonder if this means that he will need to bow out. Maybe he can videoconference in? Can tor handle video streaming?
I fail to see what's so striking about rectangular boxes. These aren't really any different from what we've been seeing for the last 10+ years or so. Some of them are a bit stylish, but I don't see any new innovations in the photos posted in TFA. What's so striking about these, exactly?
If we find that the Feds need to do more, amend the Constitution!
Now why would you go through that silly process when you can claim that it's a "living document" instead?
That's what I understand "living document" to mean: not that you can re-interpret it as-written to mean whatever you want it to at the moment, but that it can be amended as needed.
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Indeed. Since, the predictable response to this is that the MAFIAA takes over the United States Congress and uses its power to declare war on Sweden.
Give all the scientists breast implants. The public will have no choice but to love them.
I don't believe it.
Not everyone wants to whore themselves out for money.
Ghyslain does, he's a lawyer now.
The article mentions an olympus camera, but I don't see any reason in principle why other camera makers couldn't also be used. If they could put this function into CHDK, it'd be pretty awesome.
What, you don't think George W. Bush is a reptilian?
As for Erich von Daniken, his theories are far more sound than the things that the majority of humanity believes. After all, he believes that alien astronauts came in ancient times and influenced human development, and that this explains religious writings, such as the Wheel of Ezekiel.
Compare this to a majority of Earth's population, who believe that various religious writings are actually real, and the work of an omnipotent, omniscient "god" (or gods), and that these gods have actually visited humans and still talk to them.
Which one is the "kook"? It seems pretty obvious to me that Erich's ideas, while fairly silly-sounding, are less fantastical than the things that most living humans believe.
If you don't buy Erich's ideas, what's your explanation for the Wheel of Ezekiel? The way I see it, there's three or four possibilities:
1) (which just about all Christians believe, comprising at least 1 billion people) that Ezekiel really was visited by God.
2) that Ezekiel was visited by an alien spacecraft.
3) that Ezekiel was piss-drunk, or on some drug and hallucinating
4) that Ezekiel was a shyster of some kind and was lying
Obviously, #3 and #4 are the most plausible, and would fit Occam's Razor the best. However, if you have to choose between #1 and #2, which one is more plausible? #2, easily. Spacecraft are unlikely, but not impossible, and much more likely and allowable by the laws of physics than #1. However, at least a billion people (including most of the USA) believe #1. So if you think von Daniken is a nutcase, what does that say about most Americans, just about all Latin Americans, many Europeans, most Jews, etc.?
5) The writers of the book of Ezekiel were using symbols and metaphors.
6) They were perhaps inspired by a celestial or meteological event.
7) It was all a dream.
Fastmail has a pretty good web interface.
Windows Live (hotmail) has actually been getting pretty good as far as UI goes, too.
If the math equation isn't intimately connected to you already, why would you go ahead and get it tattooed on your body on the advice of a crowd of /.ers? You should be able to explain what the equation is, its history, what it's used for, and why it is meaningful to you, and for bonus points demonstrate a proof. Not be all like, "Yeah, a bunch of geeks on this web site said it was cool, so I got it."
Yeah, and it is, but it's still considered "low level" these days because it's awfully darn close to the metal. As compared to stuff like .NET or Java that runs on virtual machines or Common Language Runtimes.
See, this is what you can do with low level languages... IF you know your shit.
Basically, what this is leading to, is that the only way to own a computer is to own not just the hardware and the software, but also the network and the services that run on it. If you don't, you're pwned by the owners who do own these things. It's not enough for hardware and software to be free; the network and services also need to be free and open. Anything other than total and complete freedom opens a backdoor through which all your freedom will eventually leak out, given enough time.
So, good luck with that. You'll never own everything. It's damn hard just to own the software, let alone the hardware that you purhcased. Forget about ever owning the network or the services; these are things that are inherently communal. Only, there's large corporate superorganisms out there who will dominate any individual or group of consumers.
And even if you could own it all, that only means that it's possible for, at most, one person to be free. Everyone else is either enslaved, at risk of enslavement, or a non-participant.
Might as well give up and let them implant slave chips in the back of our heads.
Does the U.S. really want to be like China or Iran
"Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too," Lieberman
How times have changed. I remember when the idea of the internet was to have a communications grid that would stay up in the event of a war.
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Please, this talk of walled gardens and apples is only going to fuel Jobs's God complex. Let's come up with some other metaphors.
Geez, it seems like I was just upgraded to 5 last week.
English isn't compiled, though, it's interpreted. And the interpreters are generally very fault tolerant, making "best guess" attempts at parsing the author's intent.
If only there were some way of counting major releases, such that one could tell how many there were, and by extension, know how many versions had been released prior...
Nintendo brought itself back from having only 60 yen in stocks. I don't think Sackboy and a few Helghast are going to be much of a problem.
That may be, but the people who did that are long since retired or dead, and accomplished this feat in a very different world. Having a track record does not make you invincible. Nintendo will probably be in no danger of failing as long as they keep that in mind. Thinking you're a great company because of what you did in the past is a good way to fail quickly.
I am going to coat my entire house in aluminum foil when I get home from work today. I wish I didn't have vinyl siding, I'd just have to cover the roof if that were the case. Sigh.
Julian was/is suppose to be keynoting The Next HOPE conference in NYC... I wonder if this means that he will need to bow out. Maybe he can videoconference in? Can tor handle video streaming?
Ultimately, everything you see (barring hallucinations) is projected onto your retina.
I fail to see what's so striking about rectangular boxes. These aren't really any different from what we've been seeing for the last 10+ years or so. Some of them are a bit stylish, but I don't see any new innovations in the photos posted in TFA. What's so striking about these, exactly?
If we find that the Feds need to do more, amend the Constitution!
Now why would you go through that silly process when you can claim that it's a "living document" instead?
That's what I understand "living document" to mean: not that you can re-interpret it as-written to mean whatever you want it to at the moment, but that it can be amended as needed.
What's broken then?
The Laws?
Or the Enforcement?
Both.
Also, the Judicial System, and the penalties.
But due to a shitload of oil in that water, we can't reliably say that if there's water, there's life. Lots of dead things, though.
And some oil-eating microbes. Hey look, we found life!