You've never seen Who framed Roger Rabbit? One ton of bricks accelerates at roughly 9.8 m/s^2, which can get quite fast when the ton of bricks happens to be released from about 30 feet above your head. Just ask Roger Rabbit.
Yes Kafka_dood, but you are forgetting that it is a country band. Anybody who actually listens to country music can't afford a CD player.
Although you are correct in stating that only a small number of slashdotters will attempt to crack it, that number will still be larger than the number of country music listeners who can both afford a CD player and have front teeth.
I read another article about this, and they said that current burn proof technology uses special sectors on the CD that a CDROM drive can't read. This effectively eliminates listening to the music in any CDROM drive. The RIAA phat-cats have mixed opinions about whether to release CDs that can't be played on a CDROM or not.
I don't know about you, but my only CD player that I own is the one on my computer. Although I rip all of the CDs that I own, sometimes it is easier to download the album from Napster.
Rant on capitalism: As a capitalistic society, we the consumers have the right to purchase the most value per money that we can. As a matter of fact, we are obligated to so, and it is in our nature to do so. If the RIAA comes out with CD protection that sucks and removes value from music, then we won't buy it. Thus the RIAA will have to trick people into believing that the percieved value of the new CDs is better.
If you really want to put it to the RIAA, then go about informing people about this CD protection and convince people that the RIAA is actually removing value from the CD. In the long run this will hurt the RIAA more than anything else. Inform them with webpages, tell a friend, mention it at a community meeting or school, hang a poster on your locker or wall. You'll find that people do make informed intelligent decisions when given adequate information about things. Large companies don't like this idea so they try to brainwash people through the media.
I made a lot of generalizations in this post, so please comment and tell me what you think! Don't bother correcting my grammar because we both know that it is impeccable.
Give it some time, waspleg. Advances in materials science that lead to things such as thinner and cheaper LCDs take time. Now that we have thinner LCDs, it will take some time for materials science to make it cheaper and then it won't be vaporware. The/. LCD stories are still very interesting.
You should respect the materials scientists and materials engineers. They don't make things; They make things better.
By the way, the grammar in you post is terrible. Please us capitalization and punctuation in all of your future posts.
...instead, it's a windy and involves getting the politicians to understand that there are people (citizens) who have opinions in technical matters. It's not just the corporations running the tech industry.
This is good in another way too. Mandelbrot is known throughout the dynamical systems community as being a pompous and arrogant jerk. I don't know him personally, but I've heard this from others and James Gleick eludes to it in "Chaos".
Mandelbrot considers himself the 'father' of fractals.
1. Iopener. The screen isn't extremely pretty, but it was cheap and good enough. I use mine as a thin client.
I have a friend who is selling his. All he did to it was flash the bios. He never hooked up a hard drive or modified the inside.
Of course, if you are looking for a nice flat panel monitor, then don't go with an Iopener.
BookPC - Cheap $300, uses intel 810 (supported by Linux) mother board and has good audio, SVGA and SVideo outputs, Celeron, and a DVD player all in a box the size of a math textbook. This might be ideal for a thin client. Unlike the Iopener, you can use your own monitor.
This guy just wants a nice job, Pogue; He doesn't want to prove a point. He said in his question that he needed a job to pay off past debts/school loans/whatever.
I was in a similar boat about 4 months ago. I was applying for Web development jobs and some company found my resume online based solely on my MATLAB experience. I had left most of my mathematical/science things off of my resume. After 2 phone interviews, I was hired to work on some very cool stuff involving image recognition and Neural Networks. I hadn't even planned on a job of this nature, but after a couple weeks of work, I knew that I had made the best choice.
I guess I learned that when applying for a job, leave youself open to all possibilities. Don't put blinders on for one particular field or technical area.
Well, I have to leave for work now. I'm looking forward to it.
I agree with dutky. Glass is a viable solution. Others would be oxides, carbides, or nitrides. These would, basically, last forever (5000+ years). Something like Alumina may even be economically feasable to make a tombstone out of.
Somebody above mentioned plastics, but I don't think that the current state of polymers can handle hundreds of years. This is because many plastics (e.g. Nylon) degrade in water and nearly all plastic photodegrade (sunlight).
You are incorrect eightball. Our friend, bellings, stated, "I can't possibly imagine..." Since he said 'possibly', the opposite is necessary so. Hence, "I can neccessarily imagine...the opposite" is the proper sentence. Adding the necessarily makes the sentence a little more difficult to say, but it added because in Modal Logic you would add it.
Modal Logic is formal logic with the addition of "necessarily" and "possibly" in front of "true" and "false" (WARNING: simplistic definition).
I hate to be a grammar nazi... ugh. Actually, I enjoy being a grammar nazi so much that I must point out that: You shouldn't try not to use double negatives in no sentences!
We both know, bellings, that double negatives are awkward, so try and be a little more careful in your future posts.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Church of Scientology paid the Internal Revenue Service $12.5 million as part of a settlement of a long-standing dispute with the tax agency, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
Details of the 1993 settlement, which helped secure the tax-exempt status of the main Scientology church, previously had not been released.
The details included the church's agreement to drop thousands of lawsuits against the IRS and to stop assisting others in other lawsuits against the agency based on claims before the Oct. 1, 1993, settlement date, the Journal said.
The IRS canceled payroll taxes and penalties it had assessed against certain church entities and seven officials, and dropped audits of 13 Scientology organizations.
The 1993 agreement ended a struggle that began in 1967, when the IRS argued that the main Scientology church should lose its tax-exempt status because it was a for-profit business that enriched church officials.
"It's" means "it is"; "its" means "belonging to it". There is no such word as "its'" (note the final apostrophe).
"Their" means "belonging to them"; "there" means "in that place"; "they're" means "they are".
The apostrophe ("'") does not mean, "Warning! S approaching!" It is used to denote possession in the case of a proper noun (e.g. "Eric's" but not "their's") or to indicate missing letters (e.g. "can't" for "can not"). In the case of a plural proper noun (and, some people say, any proper noun ending with "s"; I disagree), the apostrophe goes after the "s" (e.g. "The two Marys' last names were the same, so you never knew whose article you were reading."); otherwise, an apostrophe should not appear at the very end of a word.
Capitals should not be used randomly to emphasise a point. While there are various exceptions (e.g. "the Company" in a legal contract, because it's just a short form of a proper noun; but "the company formed in 1891" when referring to an already-mentioned company), the best general rule is that initial words of sentences, the first person singular pronoun "I", initials, and proper nouns (i.e. somebody's name) get a capital. Nothing else does. If a word does not fit one of those categories, don't capitalise: it's better to omit them than to Add Capitals for no Apparent Reason. You see what I mean.
I'll use the term "proposition" loosely, here: each sentence expresses one proposition. There are ways around that rule; this sentence has two propositions. (The second proposition came after the semicolon.) In general, though, there is no harm in writing with short sentences. Each can be separated by a period. Avoid, at all costs, the comma-splice: don't stick together two otherwise-independent sentences by using a comma.
These kids learned more than a lesson in Perl. The article says that they put the website up on the internet, but didn't intend for it to be a public website. Ooops. If the page is out there (on the web), it's public. It doesn't matter how many IP addresses that you ban, it's still in the public for anyone to see. Even password protection wouldn't have protected the site from being viewed when people started giving the password out.
jibe: To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine.
jive:
1. Music. Jazz or swing music. The jargon of jazz musicians and enthusiasts.
2. Slang. Deceptive, nonsensical, or glib talk: "the sexist, locker-room jive of men boasting and bonding" (Trip Gabriel).
I'll let you decide which version that our friend timothy meant.
Now that the prices are finally coming down, I would suggest smartmedia flash memory. It is the most compact form of any of the solid state memory storage chips. If size isn't what you mean by portability, I also recommend it because it works on many different cameras and MP3 players. I can use the same smart media card in my camera as I can in my MP3 player (after formating).
Finally, smart media is cooler, because the company that licenses Compact Flash does animal testing on Penguins... er.. so I heard.
heh. Yeah, I was on-track for a PhD. Unfortunately, I quit when I was in 7th grade and I am now a 16 year old kid. That's just kidding, what I said in my first post is is true.
...and DON'T FORGET TO CAPITALIZE YOUR I, MISTER!!!!...and it's '16-year', not '16 year'.
I just love it when Scientists fling mud and proclaim that the 'real-world' isn't science.
In mathematics, we have the very 'real' Taguchi quality control that revolutionized manufacturing processes, but according to my Math professors, "It's not real mathematics, just some linear algebra application."
On the topic of manufacturing, Metal can now be formed and machined into virtually any shape, Ceramics and metals can be mixed and then burned to form Aluminum tools (molds) for injection molding parts. "That's just an trick to sintering the ceramic" my ceramics professor told me.
My point is that industry types, whether they are applying nueral networks to read handwriting or creating thinner flat panel displays, solve the same complicated types of problems that the more 'scientific' community solves. The scientific community discredits their work because "Theoretically it can be done, so why bother doing it." It's as though the companies that want to enhance their products by funding research shouldn't fund the research that is most likely to enhance their products!
I'm sorry to sound harsh because this strikes close to home for me. I was on track for PhD, but quit and now I'm having a lot more fun developing optimized neural networks to do hand writing recognition.
Yeah. Now I can browse my files with ease... nah. I'll stick to the command line, but Nautilus looks nice and maybe my parents would use it.
Can anyone tell me why you can't actually manage files with a file manager? For example, at work I need to compare two large directory structures to see which files are different between the two. Or which directories have recently updated files. Short of a bash script or a diff on two different ls commands (all commandline things) I can't do it. In other words, I can't manage files with a file manager!
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You've never seen Who framed Roger Rabbit? One ton of bricks accelerates at roughly 9.8 m/s^2, which can get quite fast when the ton of bricks happens to be released from about 30 feet above your head. Just ask Roger Rabbit.
Although you are correct in stating that only a small number of slashdotters will attempt to crack it, that number will still be larger than the number of country music listeners who can both afford a CD player and have front teeth.
I don't know about you, but my only CD player that I own is the one on my computer. Although I rip all of the CDs that I own, sometimes it is easier to download the album from Napster.
Rant on capitalism:
As a capitalistic society, we the consumers have the right to purchase the most value per money that we can. As a matter of fact, we are obligated to so, and it is in our nature to do so. If the RIAA comes out with CD protection that sucks and removes value from music, then we won't buy it. Thus the RIAA will have to trick people into believing that the percieved value of the new CDs is better.
If you really want to put it to the RIAA, then go about informing people about this CD protection and convince people that the RIAA is actually removing value from the CD. In the long run this will hurt the RIAA more than anything else. Inform them with webpages, tell a friend, mention it at a community meeting or school, hang a poster on your locker or wall. You'll find that people do make informed intelligent decisions when given adequate information about things. Large companies don't like this idea so they try to brainwash people through the media.
I made a lot of generalizations in this post, so please comment and tell me what you think! Don't bother correcting my grammar because we both know that it is impeccable.
You should respect the materials scientists and materials engineers. They don't make things; They make things better.
By the way, the grammar in you post is terrible. Please us capitalization and punctuation in all of your future posts.
Thank you.
I would rather have fiber running into my computer (switch, router), not into my basement!
Kind of like a Dorm room in college?
...instead, it's a windy and involves getting the politicians to understand that there are people (citizens) who have opinions in technical matters. It's not just the corporations running the tech industry.
Findlaw has the decision, and there's some really good lines in there...
Now, last time I checked, some... lines was plural, thus it should be preceded by 'there are' instead of there's.
Please heed my words Michael. Together, you and I can improve the grammar on Slashdot.
Mandelbrot considers himself the 'father' of fractals.
This may be just the ego 'punch' that he needs.
I have a friend who is selling his. All he did to it was flash the bios. He never hooked up a hard drive or modified the inside.
Of course, if you are looking for a nice flat panel monitor, then don't go with an Iopener.
BookPC - Cheap $300, uses intel 810 (supported by Linux) mother board and has good audio, SVGA and SVideo outputs, Celeron, and a DVD player all in a box the size of a math textbook. This might be ideal for a thin client. Unlike the Iopener, you can use your own monitor.
I was in a similar boat about 4 months ago. I was applying for Web development jobs and some company found my resume online based solely on my MATLAB experience. I had left most of my mathematical/science things off of my resume. After 2 phone interviews, I was hired to work on some very cool stuff involving image recognition and Neural Networks. I hadn't even planned on a job of this nature, but after a couple weeks of work, I knew that I had made the best choice.
I guess I learned that when applying for a job, leave youself open to all possibilities. Don't put blinders on for one particular field or technical area.
Well, I have to leave for work now. I'm looking forward to it.
Somebody above mentioned plastics, but I don't think that the current state of polymers can handle hundreds of years. This is because many plastics (e.g. Nylon) degrade in water and nearly all plastic photodegrade (sunlight).
Modal Logic is formal logic with the addition of "necessarily" and "possibly" in front of "true" and "false" (WARNING: simplistic definition).
You shouldn't try not to use double negatives in no sentences!
We both know, bellings, that double negatives are awkward, so try and be a little more careful in your future posts.
Glad that I could help.
Hmmm. Salty. Uggghhh!!
Assembler CGI scripts IMO are the fastest most efficient web scripts that you can write.
You can write them because I wouldn't want to write Assembler CGI scripts, but they would be efficient.
I'm glad I could be of service to the /. community.
These kids learned more than a lesson in Perl. The article says that they put the website up on the internet, but didn't intend for it to be a public website. Ooops. If the page is out there (on the web), it's public. It doesn't matter how many IP addresses that you ban, it's still in the public for anyone to see. Even password protection wouldn't have protected the site from being viewed when people started giving the password out.
jibe: To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine.
jive:
1. Music. Jazz or swing music. The jargon of jazz musicians and enthusiasts.
2. Slang. Deceptive, nonsensical, or glib talk: "the sexist, locker-room jive of men boasting and bonding" (Trip Gabriel).
I'll let you decide which version that our friend timothy meant.
From our friends at dictionary.com.
Finally, smart media is cooler, because the company that licenses Compact Flash does animal testing on Penguins... er.. so I heard.
...and DON'T FORGET TO CAPITALIZE YOUR I, MISTER!!!! ...and it's '16-year', not '16 year'.
I just love it when Scientists fling mud and proclaim that the 'real-world' isn't science.
In mathematics, we have the very 'real' Taguchi quality control that revolutionized manufacturing processes, but according to my Math professors, "It's not real mathematics, just some linear algebra application."
On the topic of manufacturing, Metal can now be formed and machined into virtually any shape, Ceramics and metals can be mixed and then burned to form Aluminum tools (molds) for injection molding parts. "That's just an trick to sintering the ceramic" my ceramics professor told me.
My point is that industry types, whether they are applying nueral networks to read handwriting or creating thinner flat panel displays, solve the same complicated types of problems that the more 'scientific' community solves. The scientific community discredits their work because "Theoretically it can be done, so why bother doing it." It's as though the companies that want to enhance their products by funding research shouldn't fund the research that is most likely to enhance their products!
I'm sorry to sound harsh because this strikes close to home for me. I was on track for PhD, but quit and now I'm having a lot more fun developing optimized neural networks to do hand writing recognition.
Can anyone tell me why you can't actually manage files with a file manager? For example, at work I need to compare two large directory structures to see which files are different between the two. Or which directories have recently updated files. Short of a bash script or a diff on two different ls commands (all commandline things) I can't do it. In other words, I can't manage files with a file manager!