No, you are correct "Positive Rights News" *is* ambiguous. To determine whether Rights is being used as an adjective or a noun one would use hyphenation.
Positive Rights-News = positive news about rights Positive-Rights News = news about positive rights
So, what's sufficient distance? For example, say 100 feet? A 2 ton SUV is more than enough force moving at 30 mph to get a car it hits to roll 100 feet, especially since it's hard to keep your foot on the break when being jostled from that force hitting your car. So, with a hill, I'd say you need to stop before the crest to avoid hitting the car in front of you, oh maybe 1/4 mile from the crest to be safe.
You're probably right that text messaging takes fewer resources but the little devil on my shoulder just hinted to me that that statement could have been motivated by their desire to increase their profit.
"Greenpeace puts peoples lives at stake, and lies to bully large corporation (sic)." Okay, support of thesis. Though it's unsupported as a statement itself, let's take it as it is.
"Green Peace (sic) lost any vestige of what it was around 1980". I read this as "today, Greenpeace is horrible (see previous statement); it was around 1980 that they lost their way and descended into horridness." This is where I am confused, as that was around the time when Doctorow was a member, yet you state it's bad in your opinion that he was.
So, were they horrid even before 1980? Then I don't understand your statement about losing themselves. Did they become horrid in 1980 but where fine before then? Then I don't understand your statement about Doctorow campaigning for them being a negative.
Decompilation of a binary, even bytecode binary, is a different beast from reading something published. The information in raw form published at a URL that is publicly accessible *is* what is published. Just because it *can* be rendered doesn't mean it has to be.
The question you raise *is* interesting, but for different reasons than reading HTML *source*, which is actually what's published, not the render, which is device and interpreter specific. A java class file is published in non-source form, for example.
That's exactly what I did. In fact, with their registration process you don't have to polute their data collection on number of people who chose to pay zero.
I actually prefer the sound of vinyl myself. Digital media doesn't sound as good to my ear as analog media. Granted, you get the odd imperfection not intended for repruduction but on the other hand it doesn't sound quite a "sterile". Not sure how else to describe it.
Don't get me wrong, I do listen to digital media, quite often too. When I sit down to actually devote all my attention to listening to music, I drop a record on the turntable though.
While I am not completely aware of what's available in published form, I did take a look at what you get for your $38.00 to download the Stranger in a Strange Land files. I was impressed. You get scans of the original manuscript, drafts, edits, letters he wrote and recieved about that work, and other interested tidbits. Hence, the archive seems pretty well poised for the academic and research crowd, where getting a behind-the-scenes look is actually now afordable. No more flying down, staying in a hotel, searching through boxes of papers, taking notes and making copies. As a replacement for a $6 mass-market paperback, not as good a deal.
I think it improbable that attention deficit disorders became more prevalent in our gene pool over a period of a hundred years. I do not have hard numbers on this though, so I'd like to see yours.
I think it more likely that medical diagnosis has changed over the last hundred years. No, whether these disorders have existed all along and have become diagnosable and treatable, or have been misrepresented by an overzelous medical establishment funded primary by private monies from big pharma, I have no idea.
I would be very surprised though if it can be shown that these disorders have appeared in our gene pool in the last hundred years, as you assert.
The point of the gripe was that the industry, and espcially the ESRB, makes it difficult for one to push the envelope. For an art form to advance, new things must be tried. When there is a system in place to contain ideas to those that conform to some formula--however elaborate that formula might be--the art form will not thrive.
Actually, I respect everything in your post except the title. The command form "stop pushing the envelope" is a bit harsh. You might not like what kind of art someone wants to create, but stop commanding them not to, please.
Most likely because the list comes from a published list of files available on his node for transfer, which is how P2P applications work if I am not mistaken.
Asking retailers to follow a rating system is just fine, and intrudes on no adult freedoms. I think the problem with this particular bill are two fold:
1) It's makes it a felony, which is a bit harsh for what it's trying to do. As far as I know, selling cigarettes to minors is not a felony, for example.
2) It doesn't proscribe any metric by which permitted and verbotten games are determined. To return to the cigarette analogy, every retailer that sells cigarettes knows what a tobacco product looks like. Not every video game store clerk knows what a "voilent" video game box looks like.
Sure he can use the ESRB rating to make a judgement, but then he's usuing a different metric than the law, and possibly facing a felony charge while the girl accross the mall selling the pack of smokes knows exactly what she's doing and facing a lesser charge.
At least, that's my truck with it. (I didn't do my fact checking on the cigarette sales laws, so I could be wrong and they could be felony charges too, but I find that unlikely)
I'm with you on this one. I have 1.5 down and 768 up. It's DSL, so the latency is really good for what I do (browse the web, read email, play online games). Comcast calls me once a month to get their 6Mbps cable connection. The conversation goes like this:
Me: So, how much does it cost? Them: $40 a month. Me: And then? Them: Um, well, $60 a month. Me: Right, well, you see, I'm paying $20 for my DSL, so unless you can match that, I'm not interested. Them: Yeah, but this is faster than your DSL! Me: Right, well, I don't really need anything faster, I find 1.5Mbps to be fast enough for my needs. I download files bigger than 1GB maybe two or three times a month, and I don't mind waiting 20-60 minutes for those, they're not critical. Them: Right, but then you can get them faster! Me: I'm not going to give you another $40 a month to save maybe 2 hours of downloading non-critical files. Not to mention the higher latency and shared bandwidth. I bet that if I was utilizing my bandwidth to the extreme, all the time, you'd give me a call to knock it off anyhow, with who I am with now, I can use all the bandwidth that I pay for, and they don't care. Them: Well, okay, we'll try again next month.
Um, you posted an opinion, not fact, and in an inflammatory way. If the article was "Linus annouces X" and you wrote "All I needed to read was that it was Linus announcing, I'm tired of his Y and Z," that would be flaming too. You see, it contributes nothing to the conversation.
First off, why start over? Incremental builds solve that problem. As for the email, what email clients do not safe unsent messages when asked to close? As for unprompted reboots, they get prompted. When Vista installs a patch, it tells you, then you can tell it when to reboot, otherwise it does it at some odd hour, when you don't use your machine (or I don't anyhow). If I respond to the updates have been installed popup, I can tell it when to reboot, otherwise it does it at 4am when I am at home. If you are going to run a 16 hour build, you should be aware of your machine and manage it's updates manually. Or use a build server, and only do local incremental builds when writing code. There are plently of people out there that know how to apply patches when they are convenient, and keep their critical machines running when critical, all it takes is a little bit of savvy. And for those that are not, they are not doing 16 hour builds, and their email client saves their messages for them.
They do this in Switzerland. My account has a one-time additional pin, which once used rotates to the next on the list. If you bank online a lot, you get a fob, if you do it every so often, you get a business card with tear-off one-time pins to use from a teller. Both solutions provide a what-you-have addition to the authentication.
If you are espousing a school system where a teacher tells a class to write stream-of-consiousness and then expells a student based on the content of the consciousness, then what's the purpose of school? To filter out youth that do not conform to a very specific set of thoughts into the margins? If you are going to ruin someones life based on what they wrote when they were asked to write what they were *thinking* you are getting far too close to the thought-police or Ministry of Peace for my tastes. I for one, am glad I got out before the School Overlords took over.
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No, you are correct "Positive Rights News" *is* ambiguous. To determine whether Rights is being used as an adjective or a noun one would use hyphenation.
Positive Rights-News = positive news about rights
Positive-Rights News = news about positive rights
Or it could be written positive rights-news to differentiate it from positive-rights news. As it reads it can be interpreted either way.
So, what's sufficient distance? For example, say 100 feet? A 2 ton SUV is more than enough force moving at 30 mph to get a car it hits to roll 100 feet, especially since it's hard to keep your foot on the break when being jostled from that force hitting your car. So, with a hill, I'd say you need to stop before the crest to avoid hitting the car in front of you, oh maybe 1/4 mile from the crest to be safe.
Good lord, that's just stupid!
You're probably right that text messaging takes fewer resources but the little devil on my shoulder just hinted to me that that statement could have been motivated by their desire to increase their profit.
"mine are... I like to get my moneys worth" (sic on the moneys) is not 160 characters!
I'm confused.
"That's not a plus." Okay, statement of thesis.
"Greenpeace puts peoples lives at stake, and lies to bully large corporation (sic)." Okay, support of thesis. Though it's unsupported as a statement itself, let's take it as it is.
"Green Peace (sic) lost any vestige of what it was around 1980". I read this as "today, Greenpeace is horrible (see previous statement); it was around 1980 that they lost their way and descended into horridness." This is where I am confused, as that was around the time when Doctorow was a member, yet you state it's bad in your opinion that he was.
So, were they horrid even before 1980? Then I don't understand your statement about losing themselves. Did they become horrid in 1980 but where fine before then? Then I don't understand your statement about Doctorow campaigning for them being a negative.
Decompilation of a binary, even bytecode binary, is a different beast from reading something published. The information in raw form published at a URL that is publicly accessible *is* what is published. Just because it *can* be rendered doesn't mean it has to be.
The question you raise *is* interesting, but for different reasons than reading HTML *source*, which is actually what's published, not the render, which is device and interpreter specific. A java class file is published in non-source form, for example.
That's exactly what I did. In fact, with their registration process you don't have to polute their data collection on number of people who chose to pay zero.
I actually prefer the sound of vinyl myself. Digital media doesn't sound as good to my ear as analog media. Granted, you get the odd imperfection not intended for repruduction but on the other hand it doesn't sound quite a "sterile". Not sure how else to describe it.
Don't get me wrong, I do listen to digital media, quite often too. When I sit down to actually devote all my attention to listening to music, I drop a record on the turntable though.
You mean the Terra Bite Lounge? That's in Kirkland, not Seattle.
I don't think we are talking about spam here, but rather an opt-in news update to members of a group.
While I am not completely aware of what's available in published form, I did take a look at what you get for your $38.00 to download the Stranger in a Strange Land files. I was impressed. You get scans of the original manuscript, drafts, edits, letters he wrote and recieved about that work, and other interested tidbits. Hence, the archive seems pretty well poised for the academic and research crowd, where getting a behind-the-scenes look is actually now afordable. No more flying down, staying in a hotel, searching through boxes of papers, taking notes and making copies. As a replacement for a $6 mass-market paperback, not as good a deal.
You didn't read TFA, did you? There he answers the question you just asked.
I think it improbable that attention deficit disorders became more prevalent in our gene pool over a period of a hundred years. I do not have hard numbers on this though, so I'd like to see yours.
I think it more likely that medical diagnosis has changed over the last hundred years. No, whether these disorders have existed all along and have become diagnosable and treatable, or have been misrepresented by an overzelous medical establishment funded primary by private monies from big pharma, I have no idea.
I would be very surprised though if it can be shown that these disorders have appeared in our gene pool in the last hundred years, as you assert.
Do they make cars without immobilisers anymore? You can copy the key all you want, won't drive off anyhow.
You sir, are why I still read Slashdot. I'm glad that we haven't all completely lost our minds.
I understand and respect your opinion.
The point of the gripe was that the industry, and espcially the ESRB, makes it difficult for one to push the envelope. For an art form to advance, new things must be tried. When there is a system in place to contain ideas to those that conform to some formula--however elaborate that formula might be--the art form will not thrive.
Actually, I respect everything in your post except the title. The command form "stop pushing the envelope" is a bit harsh. You might not like what kind of art someone wants to create, but stop commanding them not to, please.
Most likely because the list comes from a published list of files available on his node for transfer, which is how P2P applications work if I am not mistaken.
Asking retailers to follow a rating system is just fine, and intrudes on no adult freedoms. I think the problem with this particular bill are two fold:
1) It's makes it a felony, which is a bit harsh for what it's trying to do. As far as I know, selling cigarettes to minors is not a felony, for example.
2) It doesn't proscribe any metric by which permitted and verbotten games are determined. To return to the cigarette analogy, every retailer that sells cigarettes knows what a tobacco product looks like. Not every video game store clerk knows what a "voilent" video game box looks like.
Sure he can use the ESRB rating to make a judgement, but then he's usuing a different metric than the law, and possibly facing a felony charge while the girl accross the mall selling the pack of smokes knows exactly what she's doing and facing a lesser charge.
At least, that's my truck with it. (I didn't do my fact checking on the cigarette sales laws, so I could be wrong and they could be felony charges too, but I find that unlikely)
I'm with you on this one. I have 1.5 down and 768 up. It's DSL, so the latency is really good for what I do (browse the web, read email, play online games). Comcast calls me once a month to get their 6Mbps cable connection. The conversation goes like this:
Me: So, how much does it cost?
Them: $40 a month.
Me: And then?
Them: Um, well, $60 a month.
Me: Right, well, you see, I'm paying $20 for my DSL, so unless you can match that, I'm not interested.
Them: Yeah, but this is faster than your DSL!
Me: Right, well, I don't really need anything faster, I find 1.5Mbps to be fast enough for my needs. I download files bigger than 1GB maybe two or three times a month, and I don't mind waiting 20-60 minutes for those, they're not critical.
Them: Right, but then you can get them faster!
Me: I'm not going to give you another $40 a month to save maybe 2 hours of downloading non-critical files. Not to mention the higher latency and shared bandwidth. I bet that if I was utilizing my bandwidth to the extreme, all the time, you'd give me a call to knock it off anyhow, with who I am with now, I can use all the bandwidth that I pay for, and they don't care.
Them: Well, okay, we'll try again next month.
Most bundle deals I've heard of are actually VoIP lines not POTS. They also suffer from compression and outages when the power grid fails.
Um, you posted an opinion, not fact, and in an inflammatory way. If the article was "Linus annouces X" and you wrote "All I needed to read was that it was Linus announcing, I'm tired of his Y and Z," that would be flaming too. You see, it contributes nothing to the conversation.
First off, why start over? Incremental builds solve that problem. As for the email, what email clients do not safe unsent messages when asked to close? As for unprompted reboots, they get prompted. When Vista installs a patch, it tells you, then you can tell it when to reboot, otherwise it does it at some odd hour, when you don't use your machine (or I don't anyhow). If I respond to the updates have been installed popup, I can tell it when to reboot, otherwise it does it at 4am when I am at home. If you are going to run a 16 hour build, you should be aware of your machine and manage it's updates manually. Or use a build server, and only do local incremental builds when writing code. There are plently of people out there that know how to apply patches when they are convenient, and keep their critical machines running when critical, all it takes is a little bit of savvy. And for those that are not, they are not doing 16 hour builds, and their email client saves their messages for them.
They do this in Switzerland. My account has a one-time additional pin, which once used rotates to the next on the list. If you bank online a lot, you get a fob, if you do it every so often, you get a business card with tear-off one-time pins to use from a teller. Both solutions provide a what-you-have addition to the authentication.
Why? He did what was asked of him: http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-04/ 29376499.jpg
If you are espousing a school system where a teacher tells a class to write stream-of-consiousness and then expells a student based on the content of the consciousness, then what's the purpose of school? To filter out youth that do not conform to a very specific set of thoughts into the margins? If you are going to ruin someones life based on what they wrote when they were asked to write what they were *thinking* you are getting far too close to the thought-police or Ministry of Peace for my tastes. I for one, am glad I got out before the School Overlords took over.