How about we do a different sort of contest to settle Mir's fate. Lets stick the head of NASA and the head of the Russian space program in an arena and give them long poles with sharp metal ends, like on Star Trek. If the NASA guy wins, the MIR goes down NOW, if the Russian wins, NASA has to repair MIR and keep it up indefinitely. They can even fit until first blood if they don't want to kill each other.
Except they are already in the environment, just like tons of other bacteria, which are all mutating w/o any help from us. And I have noticed that none of them have yet to completely wipe the earth clean of life (in the last few billion years at least).
This is a great idea, one that I see as incredibly useful (not that I ant to give up on paper, I love tracking down old sci-fi books), but the publishing industry will fuck it all up with access restrictions and the like, just like the MPAA and the RIAA. So in the end, in 20 years we'll all be bitching about it on whatever Slashdot exists as.
The amount of information you can glean about someone purely from his musical tastes is quite remarkable, and is bound to lead to more focused, relevant advertising for us all, which will be more bearable for us all. The person who listens to Chopin is clearly more intelligent and cultured that the person who listens to Nirvana. The advertising should reflect this. In some cases it may even be useful.
Haha, thats really funny. I'd be willing to bet my IQ was higher than that of the average Chopin fan.:)
I bet if you were willing to fund your own biased study you'd find alcohol and/or smoking were also stepping stones. After all, what percentage of heroin users are also smokers? By that reasoning you can spin it however you want. The real test to see if it is a stepping stone is to find out how many marijuana smokers (or tobacco smokers) end up as heroin users.
This is true, but what if you just made sure all the people in your "group" (whatever it is) were all infected. Then they couldnt breed with anyone who was uninfected. The really interesting (and scary if used improperly) thing is that you can possibly use this to keep members of the same species from interbreeding.
I haven't seen anyone get it as wrong as this Leadbeater character. Hmm.."[Web Pages] deliver none of the excitement of a good television advertisement." You mean all those ads I FWD over when I watch my tape of the Simpsons? Yeah right, 99% of TV commercials suck, there are about 5 cool/funny ones a year.
And this gem: "According to Leadbeater the 'first Internet' failed because the technologists and geeks, in the end, triumphed over the CEOs and their managers ". Gee, I thought it was all the idiot CEOs on a spending spree trying to cash in on IPO money that fucked all the first wave of companies.
I'd quote more but I got so annoyed I had to stop reading halfway. This guys opinion doesn't count for a whole lot and its a shame people listen to him.
I think the difference between your situation and the one of the kid in the story making the threats was that your peers/teachers/school administrators reached out to help you through your problems. Whereas the administrators of this kid's school just threw him to the wolves (i.e. the police).
Actually, I think a few times a year they just collect a sampling of what is played and pay according to that. Wonderful way to undercount obscure, small label bands but still make sure Britney Spears' record company gets a pile of cash.
Hold on a minute, you're bitching because your OS lacks a critical feature (the easy ability to view and edit Hebrew language files). A feature which another OS (Windows) supports very well. Then you make it out to be the fault of Microsoft beacuse your favorite little OS can't handle your native language. Look, if your OS can't handle Hebrew and you need one that can but are unwilling to switch, then yes, life will be very hard for you, and this little anti-Micrsoft whine on Slashdot will not help your predicament. You complain about losing your freedom by switching to Windows, even though it sounds like you have less freedom with your current OS, namely the freedom to do the job your employer is paying you to do.
I've seen a lot of posts in the past on Slashdot that say use the right tool for the right job. Well, it looks like at the moment, judging from your post, that a Microsoft OS is the right tool for this aspect of your job. Especially since your talking about your work computer and not your home computer. You are curectly being paid by someone else to work in an office with others (I assume), therefore you and your software need to be able to interract with the people and the data files they create. You just need to suck it up and deal with something bad to fulfill your job duties or get another job.
I can't believe this got on the front page. The question of i18n on other OS's is a good one, but wrapping it up in this anti-Microsoft flaimbait really takes away from the point, unless getting a bunch of sympathy from the Microsoft haters on Slashdot was the point here.
Hold on a minute, you're bitching because your OS lacks a critical feature (the easy ability to view and edit Hebrew language files). A feature which another OS (Windows) supports very well. Then you make it out to be the fault of Microsoft beacuse your favorite little OS can't handle your native language. Look, if your OS can't handle Hebrew and you need one that can but are unwilling to switch, then yes, life will be very hard for you, and this little anti-Micrsoft whine on Slashdot will not help your predicament. You complain about losing your freedom by switching to Windows, even though it sounds like you have less freedom with your current OS, namely the freedom to do the job your employer is paying you to do.
I've seen a lot of posts in the past on Slashdot that say use the right tool for the right job. Well, it looks like at the moment, judging from your post, that a Microsoft OS is the right tool for this aspect of your job. Especially since your talking about your work computer and not your home computer. You are curectly being paid by someone else to work in an office with others (I assume), therefore you and your software need to be able to interract with the people and the data files they create. You just need to suck it up and deal with something bad to fulfill your job duties or get another job.
I can't believe this got on the front page. The question of i18n on other OS's is a good one, but wrapping it up in this anti-Microsoft flaimbait really takes away from the point, unless getting a bunch of sympathy from the Microsoft haters on Slashdot was the point here.
As far as I know,.NET is a *server* technology. Java can be a server technology as well, and thats what has been discussed here. This isn't about applets and downloading java code to your browser. Everything will run on the server and just send down HTML/XML etc.. So it will benefit slower computers as well.
The example they used at the beginning of the article was fixed, they just typed "chavez" into a search engine, not "linda chavez". Of course they got tons of irrelevant links. You'd think the reporter could have picked up on what a bad example this was. I'm not saying that the search engines don't have flaws, but they could have picked something that demonstrated their point much better.
Your right it is absurd, but an English-to-executable compiler would really throw a wrench in the works. And by making it English (or any other easily readable language) it can be made obvious to a judge that it is protected speech and not just computer codes. It would be readable to anybody, not just programmers. However, I hope that we won't need a compiler like this (though its a cool project) and that the authors of the brief stated this idea so clearly it will have an effect on the appeal.
In the brief there is a discussion of the differences (or lack thereof) between source code and natural language. What if someone were to make a compiler that would compile simple computer instructions written in English into C source code or an executable? Then you could write whatever software you want and since it is English it would be easier to defend as free speech. Just make the rules for the English that the compiler would accept very rigid so there is no ambiguity.
Violent movies are made all the time, does this give anyone the impression that shooting random people, kidnapping or any of that is 'ok'? Not unless they are seriously distrubed. There are plenty of movies and TV shows depicting highly illegal behaviour, sometimes in a positive light. And it has been ruled again and again that it is legal.
And I just don't buy this 'whetting their appetie (sp)' arguement. I won't until I see some hard data in support of it.
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You mean UranIum? Such as U-235 and the like?
How about we do a different sort of contest to settle Mir's fate. Lets stick the head of NASA and the head of the Russian space program in an arena and give them long poles with sharp metal ends, like on Star Trek. If the NASA guy wins, the MIR goes down NOW, if the Russian wins, NASA has to repair MIR and keep it up indefinitely. They can even fit until first blood if they don't want to kill each other.
Except they are already in the environment, just like tons of other bacteria, which are all mutating w/o any help from us. And I have noticed that none of them have yet to completely wipe the earth clean of life (in the last few billion years at least).
But are the DVDs recorded at film speed (24fps) or TV speed (60 interlaced fps/30 NI fps)?
This is a great idea, one that I see as incredibly useful (not that I ant to give up on paper, I love tracking down old sci-fi books), but the publishing industry will fuck it all up with access restrictions and the like, just like the MPAA and the RIAA. So in the end, in 20 years we'll all be bitching about it on whatever Slashdot exists as.
I thought 1 in a million chances only work 9 times out of ten :)
But if there are say 100 non-profit health insurance co's there is still competition among them, so hopefulyl less beurocracy (sp, I know).
The amount of information you can glean about someone purely from his musical tastes is quite remarkable, and is bound to lead to more focused, relevant advertising for us all, which will be more bearable for us all. The person who listens to Chopin is clearly more intelligent and cultured that the person who listens to Nirvana. The advertising should reflect this. In some cases it may even be useful.
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Haha, thats really funny. I'd be willing to bet my IQ was higher than that of the average Chopin fan.
I bet if you were willing to fund your own biased study you'd find alcohol and/or smoking were also stepping stones. After all, what percentage of heroin users are also smokers? By that reasoning you can spin it however you want. The real test to see if it is a stepping stone is to find out how many marijuana smokers (or tobacco smokers) end up as heroin users.
I'm suprised there isn't a recommendation that user agents should not have to reconnect to the server when te user resizes the window.
Actually, word pretty much gets around among non-techies about which browser tends to render pages worse.
Maybe in a few years we will get "Star Trek V: The Version That Doesn't Suck".
This is true, but what if you just made sure all the people in your "group" (whatever it is) were all infected. Then they couldnt breed with anyone who was uninfected. The really interesting (and scary if used improperly) thing is that you can possibly use this to keep members of the same species from interbreeding.
I haven't seen anyone get it as wrong as this Leadbeater character. Hmm.."[Web Pages] deliver none of the excitement of a good television advertisement." You mean all those ads I FWD over when I watch my tape of the Simpsons? Yeah right, 99% of TV commercials suck, there are about 5 cool/funny ones a year.
And this gem: "According to Leadbeater the 'first Internet' failed because the technologists and geeks, in the end, triumphed over the CEOs and their managers ". Gee, I thought it was all the idiot CEOs on a spending spree trying to cash in on IPO money that fucked all the first wave of companies.
I'd quote more but I got so annoyed I had to stop reading halfway. This guys opinion doesn't count for a whole lot and its a shame people listen to him.
I think the difference between your situation and the one of the kid in the story making the threats was that your peers/teachers/school administrators reached out to help you through your problems. Whereas the administrators of this kid's school just threw him to the wolves (i.e. the police).
Actually, I think a few times a year they just collect a sampling of what is played and pay according to that. Wonderful way to undercount obscure, small label bands but still make sure Britney Spears' record company gets a pile of cash.
Hold on a minute, you're bitching because your OS lacks a critical feature (the easy ability to view and edit Hebrew language files). A feature which another OS (Windows) supports very well. Then you make it out to be the fault of Microsoft beacuse your favorite little OS can't handle your native language. Look, if your OS can't handle Hebrew and you need one that can but are unwilling to switch, then yes, life will be very hard for you, and this little anti-Micrsoft whine on Slashdot will not help your predicament. You complain about losing your freedom by switching to Windows, even though it sounds like you have less freedom with your current OS, namely the freedom to do the job your employer is paying you to do.
I've seen a lot of posts in the past on Slashdot that say use the right tool for the right job. Well, it looks like at the moment, judging from your post, that a Microsoft OS is the right tool for this aspect of your job. Especially since your talking about your work computer and not your home computer. You are curectly being paid by someone else to work in an office with others (I assume), therefore you and your software need to be able to interract with the people and the data files they create. You just need to suck it up and deal with something bad to fulfill your job duties or get another job.
I can't believe this got on the front page. The question of i18n on other OS's is a good one, but wrapping it up in this anti-Microsoft flaimbait really takes away from the point, unless getting a bunch of sympathy from the Microsoft haters on Slashdot was the point here.
Hold on a minute, you're bitching because your OS lacks a critical feature (the easy ability to view and edit Hebrew language files). A feature which another OS (Windows) supports very well. Then you make it out to be the fault of Microsoft beacuse your favorite little OS can't handle your native language. Look, if your OS can't handle Hebrew and you need one that can but are unwilling to switch, then yes, life will be very hard for you, and this little anti-Micrsoft whine on Slashdot will not help your predicament. You complain about losing your freedom by switching to Windows, even though it sounds like you have less freedom with your current OS, namely the freedom to do the job your employer is paying you to do.
I've seen a lot of posts in the past on Slashdot that say use the right tool for the right job. Well, it looks like at the moment, judging from your post, that a Microsoft OS is the right tool for this aspect of your job. Especially since your talking about your work computer and not your home computer. You are curectly being paid by someone else to work in an office with others (I assume), therefore you and your software need to be able to interract with the people and the data files they create. You just need to suck it up and deal with something bad to fulfill your job duties or get another job.
I can't believe this got on the front page. The question of i18n on other OS's is a good one, but wrapping it up in this anti-Microsoft flaimbait really takes away from the point, unless getting a bunch of sympathy from the Microsoft haters on Slashdot was the point here.
Poe did write a story about taking a balloon to the moon, I forget the name of it, I found it in a very old collection of his stories when I was 10.
As far as I know, .NET is a *server* technology. Java can be a server technology as well, and thats what has been discussed here. This isn't about applets and downloading java code to your browser. Everything will run on the server and just send down HTML/XML etc.. So it will benefit slower computers as well.
The example they used at the beginning of the article was fixed, they just typed "chavez" into a search engine, not "linda chavez". Of course they got tons of irrelevant links. You'd think the reporter could have picked up on what a bad example this was. I'm not saying that the search engines don't have flaws, but they could have picked something that demonstrated their point much better.
Your right it is absurd, but an English-to-executable compiler would really throw a wrench in the works. And by making it English (or any other easily readable language) it can be made obvious to a judge that it is protected speech and not just computer codes. It would be readable to anybody, not just programmers. However, I hope that we won't need a compiler like this (though its a cool project) and that the authors of the brief stated this idea so clearly it will have an effect on the appeal.
In the brief there is a discussion of the differences (or lack thereof) between source code and natural language. What if someone were to make a compiler that would compile simple computer instructions written in English into C source code or an executable? Then you could write whatever software you want and since it is English it would be easier to defend as free speech. Just make the rules for the English that the compiler would accept very rigid so there is no ambiguity.
Am I the only one who liked this movie? I thought it captured some of the style of Asimov's writing.
Violent movies are made all the time, does this give anyone the impression that shooting random people, kidnapping or any of that is 'ok'? Not unless they are seriously distrubed. There are plenty of movies and TV shows depicting highly illegal behaviour, sometimes in a positive light. And it has been ruled again and again that it is legal.
And I just don't buy this 'whetting their appetie (sp)' arguement. I won't until I see some hard data in support of it.