So you've never heard Andrea Dworkin and her Canadian colleague (whose name I can't remember) say that all pornography equals rape? Note that they don't stop at "suggests rape to men" or what have you, but the act of creating and viewing porn, in their minds, is the same as rape.
I actually went to a lecture that she gave. She said that playboy was "gateway pornography" that led to more violent pornography and eventually to stuff like very extreme S&M where people actually die.
She was very passionate about what she believed in but I thought she was wrong in several areas. Also she was very rude to several people who didn't agree or even showed doubts about her information. I believe her colleague Catherine MacKinnon has shown a more reasoned approach to this subject. I do agree with them about pornography objectifying women or men. However, I disagree on how much objectification happens.
I'm really horrified by the importance that people place in external influences. I'm sure that if you ask the parents on whether they believe that people have free wills, the parents will agree. However, they're willing to argue in this case that external had enough power over that boy's mind that these agents can be held partly responsible for the boy's actions. This seems like contradiction in their beliefs.
It seems that in general people are equating correlation to causation in these types of cases. Having these games and then commiting the murders does not mean that the games caused the murders to occur.
Mine does. SB Live!'s processor does ~100 MIPS. Talking to the system @ 8MHz would hurt.
The processor speed doesn't necessarily determine the bandwidth needed by the device. For example, you could have a coprocessor that could accept equations, crunch on them for a bit, and then return solutions. In this case the amount of info passed between the coprocessor and the system wouldn't be very much but the coprocessor would require a lot of computational power to work.
That being said I think that the SBLive! and similar positional audio devices may require the bandwidth. It really depends on how A3D and Direct3D sound works. If the protocols something as simple as sending the sample and a position relative to the player then a ISA bus may be able to handle it.
I thought that the movie was pretty heaavy-handed with its messages especially with Foster's character giving that little scene at the end. The dialog was a little trite in general. A lot of the friends I saw it with also agreed. And although it doesn't really mean much most of them are astrophysics research of some type. Plus they got some details wrong.
Actually there are multiple different *kinds* of infinities - an infinite number of them, in fact - some which are vaster than others. For example, there are an infinite number of powers of 2, but the number 3 is nowhere to be found in that infinite set.
Actually I don't think it has been mathematically shown that there are an inifinite number of different types of infinity. However I'm not a set theoretician so I'm not sure on this point. I only know of two different types that commonly appear in mathematics, the countable inifinities and uncountable infinities. The example you give of the set of powers of 2 is equivalent to the set of rational numbers or integers even though it does not contain 3 or powers of 3.
Maybe the scanners (you know, radars work by rebounding waves off of an object) can detect those vibrations caused by sound, and thus keeping quiet will reduce the vibrations and make the ship look more like an inert object than something bustling with voices...
The vibrations due to the voices would be really small. Besides if the scanners/radars/etc were bouncing off the hull, they would have bigger problems since I'm pretty sure that the scanners could tell the difference between a metal object and the stone in the asteroid.
Unfortunately, the Oxford English Dictionary isn't available for online perusal, because they could lay claim to representing the parent dialect.
Actually OED is available for online searches, however I believe that you need to be part of an organization that paid for access to it. I looked it up online and here is the result:
OED Entry Search
Next Search (return to the search form)
Term: hacker
Found: 2 matches
1. hacker
hacker , sb. f. hack v.1 + -er1.
1. One who hacks; one who hoes with a hack.
1620 Markham Farew. Husb. ii. ii. (1668) 4 One good hacker, being a lusty labourer, will at good ease hack or cut more than half an acre of ground in a day.
1784 New Spectator IV. 5/1 Hackers and hewers of reputation.
b. A `cutter', cut-throat, bully; = hackster.
1581 Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 135 b, Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells.
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet B b, There is an olde hacker that shall take order for to print them.
1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiii. (1651) 118 A common hacker or notorious thief.
1649 Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) Ded., How comes City and Country to be filled with Drones and Rogues, our highwaies with hackers, and all places with sloth and wickedness?
c. fig. One who mangles words or sense. Obs.
A. 1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 606 To make the Author of the Epistle such a hacker and mangler as they themselues be.
2. That which hacks; an implement for hacking, chopping wood, or breaking up earth; a chopper, cleaver; a hoe, mattock.
1481-90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 137 Item, for hakkeres ij.d.
1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 292/2 The Dutch Cleever, or Chopping Knife, is termed an Hacker, or Hack-mes.
A. 1722 Lisle Husb. (1752) 214 My labourers came from mowing vetches..not having their hackers with them.
1854 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. i. 100 Hoeing with a heavy hacker or hoe between the rows.
1879 Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Hacker, a short, strong, slightly curved implement of a peculiar kind, for chopping off the branches of fallen trees, etc.
1890 Gloucestersh. Gloss., Hacker, a sort of axe for cutting faggots.
b. U.S. A tool for making an oblique incision in a tree, as a channel for the passage of sap, gum, or resin.
1875 Knight Dict. Mech.
3.
a. A person with an enthusiasm for programming or using computers as an end in itself. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1976 J. Weizenbaum Computer Power Human Reason iv. 118 The compulsive programmer, or hacker as he calls himself, is usually a superb technician.
1977 Time 5 Sept. 39/1 Some 500 retail outlets have opened in the past couple of years to sell and service microcomputers-and serve as hangouts for the growing legions of home-computer nuts, or `hackers' as they call themselves.
1982 Sci. Amer. Oct. 110/1 In the jargon of computer science a hacker is someone who spends much of his time writing computer programs.
1983 Byte May 298/1 `Hacker' seems to have originated at MIT. The original German/Yiddish expression referred to someone so inept as to make furniture with an axe, but somehow the meaning has been twisted so that it now generally connotes someone obsessed with programming and computers but possessing a fair degree of skill and competence.
1984 Which Micro? Dec. 17/3 A hacker might spend more time playing his own version of PacMan than on useful program development.
1986 A B Computing Nov. 16/3 The on-screen help is for the casual user but there's plenty for the hacker who wants to tinker with the software and tailor it for special purposes.
b. A person who uses his skill with computers to try to gain unauthorized access to computer files or networks. colloq.
1983 Daily Tel. 3 Oct. 3/1 A hacker-computer jargon for an electronic eavesdropper who by-passes computer security systems-yesterday penetrated a confidential British Telecom message system being demonstrated live on BBC-TV.
1985 U.S.A. Today 18 Oct. a1/4 A gang of 23 teen-age computer hackers has done `significant damage' to Chase Manhattan Bank's records.
1986 TeleLink Sept.-Oct. 25/2 Just for fun, the hackers decided to drop a few APBs (All Points Bulletins) into the local police computer, with the result that, when out driving in his car, he was repeatedly stopped.
2. hacker
hacker, v. dial. freq. of hack v.1
1. trans. `To hash in cutting, to hack small' (Jam.).
1807 Hogg Mountain Bard 18 (Jam.) His throat was a' hackered, an' ghastly was he.
2. intr. To hesitate in utterance; to stammer; to `hum and ha'.
1787 Grose Provinc. Gloss., Hacker, to stutter. S[outh].
1818 Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 473 Compared with this, how can one think with patience of the hackering, and stammering [etc.]?
1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 115 To stammer and hacker, to bow and curtsey.
3. To haggle.
1833 Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 688 Shall national parsimony..hacker about the remuneration?
Biologists have been learning about how growth works by transplanting parts of chicken embryos for a long time.
I was referring to the selective activation of genes using a viral vector. I realize that you can probably get similar effects by carefully grafting groups of cells onto a growing embyros but I believe that the genetic activation and deactivation of genes didn't come into widespread use until the early 80s. I believe genes like kruppel, hedgehog, sonic hedgehog, etc. were not identified until after studies of the zygotic lethals in drosophila embyros in the early and mid 80s.
One thing that has always bothered me is why there needs to be a damn cockpit with an external view all the time. Glass can only be so strong or plexiglass or whatever won't be as strong as the armor on the rest of the ship and any damage on the glass probably means the cockpit depressurizes and the pilot dies. It makes more sense to bury the pilot in the ship and have a screen or whatever linked to external cameras or sensors. That way you need to rip apart the ship to kill the pilot instead of just hitting the cockpit.
The article says that this is about seeing which genes affect development and how limbs get their identities during development. It has nothing to do with getting a better chicken for food. If you look at the picture, its a zygote that's in the picture not a hatched chick. The mutation probably is a zygotic lethal anyway and not a viable embyro. This type of research has been going on for a while(10+ years) so its nothing really new.
If you're playing mp3s it doesn't take a very fast rate to play. With a typical 128kb/s rate, it will take about 1/8th the speed of a normal cd player to get a good playback. Make the spin rate 1/6 of a normal cd player to be safe. So the power comsumption can be 1/6th that of a normal cd player. A pair of batteries will last about 6 times as much assuming the additional electronics don't take much more power.
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Actually there is antimatter around us naturally. Except it is very rare.
I would say that it would be extremely rare. Just one electron/positron collision would liberate enough energy to be noticed any detector around it.
I actually went to a lecture that she gave. She said that playboy was "gateway pornography" that led to more violent pornography and eventually to stuff like very extreme S&M where people actually die.
She was very passionate about what she believed in but I thought she was wrong in several areas. Also she was very rude to several people who didn't agree or even showed doubts about her information. I believe her colleague Catherine MacKinnon has shown a more reasoned approach to this subject. I do agree with them about pornography objectifying women or men. However, I disagree on how much objectification happens.
I'm really horrified by the importance that people place in external influences. I'm sure that if you ask the parents on whether they believe that people have free wills, the parents will agree. However, they're willing to argue in this case that external had enough power over that boy's mind that these agents can be held partly responsible for the boy's actions. This seems like contradiction in their beliefs.
It seems that in general people are equating correlation to causation in these types of cases. Having these games and then commiting the murders does not mean that the games caused the murders to occur.
The processor speed doesn't necessarily determine the bandwidth needed by the device. For example, you could have a coprocessor that could accept equations, crunch on them for a bit, and then return solutions. In this case the amount of info passed between the coprocessor and the system wouldn't be very much but the coprocessor would require a lot of computational power to work.
That being said I think that the SBLive! and similar positional audio devices may require the bandwidth. It really depends on how A3D and Direct3D sound works. If the protocols something as simple as sending the sample and a position relative to the player then a ISA bus may be able to handle it.
I thought that the movie was pretty heaavy-handed with its messages especially with Foster's character giving that little scene at the end. The dialog was a little trite in general. A lot of the friends I saw it with also agreed. And although it doesn't really mean much most of them are astrophysics research of some type. Plus they got some details wrong.
Actually there are multiple different *kinds* of infinities - an infinite number of them, in fact - some which are vaster than others. For example, there are an infinite number of powers of 2, but the number 3 is nowhere to be found in that infinite set.
Actually I don't think it has been mathematically shown that there are an inifinite number of different types of infinity. However I'm not a set theoretician so I'm not sure on this point. I only know of two different types that commonly appear in mathematics, the countable inifinities and uncountable infinities. The example you give of the set of powers of 2 is equivalent to the set of rational numbers or integers even though it does not contain 3 or powers of 3.
Maybe the scanners (you know, radars work by rebounding waves off of an object) can detect those vibrations caused by sound, and thus keeping quiet will reduce the vibrations and make the ship look more like an inert object than something bustling with voices...
The vibrations due to the voices would be really small. Besides if the scanners/radars/etc were bouncing off the hull, they would have bigger problems since I'm pretty sure that the scanners could tell the difference between a metal object and the stone in the asteroid.
Unfortunately, the Oxford English Dictionary isn't available for online perusal, because they could lay claim to representing the parent dialect.
Actually OED is available for online searches,
however I believe that you need to be part of
an organization that paid for access to it.
I looked it up online and here is the result:
OED Entry Search
Next Search (return to the search form)
Term: hacker
Found: 2 matches
1. hacker
hacker , sb. f. hack v.1 + -er1.
1. One who hacks; one who hoes with a hack.
1620 Markham Farew. Husb. ii. ii. (1668) 4 One good hacker, being a lusty labourer, will at good ease hack or cut more than
half an acre of ground in a day.
1784 New Spectator IV. 5/1 Hackers and hewers of reputation.
b. A `cutter', cut-throat, bully; = hackster.
1581 Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 135 b, Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke
quarrells.
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet B b, There is an olde hacker that shall take order for to print them.
1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiii. (1651) 118 A common hacker or notorious thief.
1649 Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) Ded., How comes City and Country to be filled with Drones and Rogues, our highwaies
with hackers, and all places with sloth and wickedness?
c. fig. One who mangles words or sense. Obs.
A. 1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 606 To make the Author of the Epistle such a hacker and mangler as they
themselues be.
2. That which hacks; an implement for hacking, chopping wood, or breaking up earth; a chopper, cleaver; a hoe, mattock.
1481-90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 137 Item, for hakkeres ij.d.
1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 292/2 The Dutch Cleever, or Chopping Knife, is termed an Hacker, or Hack-mes.
A. 1722 Lisle Husb. (1752) 214 My labourers came from mowing vetches..not having their hackers with them.
1854 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. i. 100 Hoeing with a heavy hacker or hoe between the rows.
1879 Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Hacker, a short, strong, slightly curved implement of a peculiar kind, for chopping off
the branches of fallen trees, etc.
1890 Gloucestersh. Gloss., Hacker, a sort of axe for cutting faggots.
b. U.S. A tool for making an oblique incision in a tree, as a channel for the passage of sap, gum, or resin.
1875 Knight Dict. Mech.
3.
a. A person with an enthusiasm for programming or using computers as an end in itself. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1976 J. Weizenbaum Computer Power Human Reason iv. 118 The compulsive programmer, or hacker as he calls himself, is
usually a superb technician.
1977 Time 5 Sept. 39/1 Some 500 retail outlets have opened in the past couple of years to sell and service
microcomputers-and serve as hangouts for the growing legions of home-computer nuts, or `hackers' as they call
themselves.
1982 Sci. Amer. Oct. 110/1 In the jargon of computer science a hacker is someone who spends much of his time writing
computer programs.
1983 Byte May 298/1 `Hacker' seems to have originated at MIT. The original German/Yiddish expression referred to
someone so inept as to make furniture with an axe, but somehow the meaning has been twisted so that it now generally
connotes someone obsessed with programming and computers but possessing a fair degree of skill and competence.
1984 Which Micro? Dec. 17/3 A hacker might spend more time playing his own version of PacMan than on useful program
development.
1986 A B Computing Nov. 16/3 The on-screen help is for the casual user but there's plenty for the hacker who wants to
tinker with the software and tailor it for special purposes.
b. A person who uses his skill with computers to try to gain unauthorized access to computer files or networks. colloq.
1983 Daily Tel. 3 Oct. 3/1 A hacker-computer jargon for an electronic eavesdropper who by-passes computer security
systems-yesterday penetrated a confidential British Telecom message system being demonstrated live on BBC-TV.
1985 U.S.A. Today 18 Oct. a1/4 A gang of 23 teen-age computer hackers has done `significant damage' to Chase Manhattan
Bank's records.
1986 TeleLink Sept.-Oct. 25/2 Just for fun, the hackers decided to drop a few APBs (All Points Bulletins) into the local police
computer, with the result that, when out driving in his car, he was repeatedly stopped.
2. hacker
hacker, v. dial. freq. of hack v.1
1. trans. `To hash in cutting, to hack small' (Jam.).
1807 Hogg Mountain Bard 18 (Jam.) His throat was a' hackered, an' ghastly was he.
2. intr. To hesitate in utterance; to stammer; to `hum and ha'.
1787 Grose Provinc. Gloss., Hacker, to stutter. S[outh].
1818 Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 473 Compared with this, how can one think with patience of the hackering, and stammering
[etc.]?
1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 115 To stammer and hacker, to bow and curtsey.
3. To haggle.
1833 Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 688 Shall national parsimony..hacker about the remuneration?
Biologists have been learning about how growth works by transplanting parts of chicken embryos for a long time.
I was referring to the selective activation of
genes using a viral vector. I realize that you
can probably get similar effects by carefully
grafting groups of cells onto a growing embyros
but I believe that the genetic activation and deactivation of genes didn't come into widespread use until the early 80s. I believe genes like
kruppel, hedgehog, sonic hedgehog, etc. were not
identified until after studies of the zygotic lethals in drosophila embyros in the early and mid 80s.
One thing that has always bothered me is
why there needs to be a damn cockpit with an
external view all the time. Glass can only be so
strong or plexiglass or whatever won't be as
strong as the armor on the rest of the ship and
any damage on the glass probably means the cockpit
depressurizes and the pilot dies. It makes more
sense to bury the pilot in the ship and have
a screen or whatever linked to external cameras
or sensors. That way you need to rip apart the
ship to kill the pilot instead of just hitting the
cockpit.
The article says that this is about seeing which
genes affect development and how limbs get their
identities during development. It has nothing
to do with getting a better chicken for food.
If you look at the picture, its a zygote that's
in the picture not a hatched chick. The mutation
probably is a zygotic lethal anyway and not a viable embyro. This type of research has been
going on for a while(10+ years) so its nothing
really new.
Also, spinning a CD sucks tons of power.
If you're playing mp3s it doesn't take a very fast rate to play. With a typical 128kb/s rate, it will take about 1/8th the speed of a normal cd player to get a good playback. Make the spin rate 1/6 of a normal cd player to be safe. So the power comsumption can be 1/6th that of a normal cd player. A pair of batteries will last about 6 times as much assuming the additional electronics don't take much more power.