1. Copyright content is placed online 2. Copyright holder requests it be taken down 3. Google responds with a letter and a check for the ad revenue generated by the content so far, and says, "Oh, there'll be one of these each month, BTW" 4. Copyright holder licenses content to Google for ad revenue.
How is this any different than TV? Other than the fact that the content is actually being chosen by the consumers rather than being shoved down our throats using the shotgun like broadcast method. Oh, and the distributor is volunteering to give the money they make with the content to the copyright holder, rather than wanting exclusive rights to it.
So basically Youtube/Google is recycling used old crap that no one wants anymore and they are making money off of it and giving some of it to the content creator, who otherwise would make NOTHING. Information wants to be free. This just means a. the consumer gets what he wants, b. content producer gets money AGAIN (after broadcast), and c. Google makes money, everyone wins!
Yeah, let's NOT invade N. Korea and say we did. We lost that war, we lost in Vietnam and we're losing in Iraq. We need a few terms of a nice isolationist leader and congress. We are not the world police, let the UN do it's job.
Sounds like they probably use a hydroscopic compound such as calcium chloride and then you some type of ion replacement to recover the water (precipitate calcium metal and some other non-soluable salt, such as Fe(III)Cl.
It will be crackable. Everything is. M$FT just needs enough time to get around a big upgrade cycle for businesses. They want to DELAY piracy, not stop it. Granted, the main point is that it's going to cause annoyance to users who actually paid. But a lot of those organizations use a license manager server so it's not really that big of a deal. Or use the enterprise versions of the product that allow imaging and the other stuff you mentioned. And how hard is it to reactivate the product after you swap hardware (which is rare)? The people who are going to be affected are the smaller businesses who can't afford a full-time IT staff. As an IT manager myself, I'm not too worried about the changes in this product. The benefits of IP6 alone are worth any time fixing piracy false alarms...
And M$ probably keeps track of trends in those cycles, thus releasing Vista at a time when more businesses are buying new boxen. Thus getting a high initial infection rate, allowing the furthest spread possible for the epidemic. You just use a disease model, very common math.
More people vote for American Idol than do in the election anyway. Apparently people don't like to leave their homes, unless they are 70 years old (the majority of people at the poll last time around were old).
Here's my solution. It's low tech but just might work:
You have mechanical counters behind a curtain. At the end of the curtain is a turnstile. When you walk out of the turnstile, it allows one increment of a counter per group (a group is a race or issue). At the other side of the curtain you have a large group of people monitoring the count. The numbers are large enough to read. Through closed circuit television, there is a live feed to the central counting facility as well as to regional TV. Also a feed of both sides of the machine, and of each counter. Thus they can be monitored by everyone. The final tally is on a long sheet which can be viewed by all and added up by all. Anyone will see an discrepacy versus their own records. You use a stick to click each counter and can see immediately your vote being added.
There should be a word to describe the mysterious illness or death that affects CEOs and board members and/or Heads of State right when they are put on the chopping block.
Such as Ken Lay, Slobodon Milosivic, Hitler, the list goes on.
When I said "this government", I meant this "system", and necessarily include those people within it. Ethics, what happened to ethics? But then again, what is ethical anyway?
With each better method of filtering cogent information from background noise comes a new better source of noise.
You can't fight it, the law of entropy. We humans are just like every other body in the universe, destined to be pulled apart into the smallest of particles and redistributed at the most even consistency.
"We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. Life is an island here and now in a dying world. The process by which we living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is known as homeostasis. We can continue to live in the very special environment which we carry forward with us until we begin to decay more quickly than we reconstitute ourselves. Then we die." -- Norbert Wiener, the father of the information age.
Yes. Great. A Politician's Job is to LEAD. But what is the GOAL? What are we here for, and what are we being led to do? What SHOULD we be doing? Thus the question of religion and philosophy.
And within those bounds there is no truth, only who has the better argument. So Google claims they can assess who has the better argument.
The thing is, you need a computer to decide what's best in this world. The problem is the computer will tell us that we should all go to hell and die because the computer has no use for emotional humans.
We humans are good at ignoring reality--the fact of the matter is that we are all just one part in SEVEN BILLION and really fucking meaningless. 6 BILLION of us could die tomorrow and in reality it wouldn't have all that much of an impact. Emotionally, maybe, but not as far as the human race is concerned. We would still thrive as a species. We're ants. Just because we can think abstractly and create Gods in our mind, like: Jesus, Allah, Bhudda, sub-atomic rules, string theory, physics, etc. we think we're somehow destined to something greater. Yet we just slave away day in and day out, living, thinking, working. And there is no point. If we become something greater it will be because we use some computer to concatenate the sensory input and filtering of many (in addition to recorded knowledge) into a singular consciousness. That is the ONLY thing we can become that's greater than what we are now as individuals, citizens of a country, humans of a world.
The truth is reality, the universe, etc. In the human mind, right behind the sensors that are affected by this truth (eyes, nose, ears, etc.), are a series of filters. These whittle down the truth into the lie we call consciousness. If "you" are thinking, then you are basically creating a lie. To see the truth, you have to realize, like in the matrix, that there "is no spoon". As long as you are thinking, it's impossible.
There's no I, there's no ME, only a filter over reality. Unless you can absorb all of the messages being sent to your senses (sounds, light, etc.), you can't know the real truth.
Religion, you say, doesn't rely on an objective reality. I believe further that THOUGHT ITSELF doesn't rely on an objective reality. The problem with religion is the filters they place in people's head are designed for one purpose, usually to further the religion's spread like a virus.
Actually, the EU is in the top spot economically. But the U.S. is a powerhouse, and united under one federal government. The problem is this government is corrupt (there, I said it) and is giving out favors to friends. It's not legal, it's not ethical, and it's causing problems we haven't even begun to see. Luckly, policially we are kindof an unstable country and who knows what the next decade will hold.
The problem with all those things you mentioned is simple: 1, the power grid is aging and needs to be updated, 2, our communications infrastructure is lagging behind (but is not horrible), the highway system is ok but manufacturing is falling behind here, and we import a shitload of oil at inflated prices. Most of our infrastructure was last updated in the 70's when we had a monopoly over the communications system, a cold war to justify deficit spending (and jumping off the gold standard), oh, and massive inflation. To reupdate the systems is going to require a similar sacrifice from today's generation, which policially is going to be difficult to achieve. To do that, we the people need to have a larger fear (like the soviet union posed) to seem like the reason for the economic problems. Someone to blame, if you will.
Someone else said we have 21% of the world GDP. Thus 25 - 21% = 4% economic oil waste. Whatever that 4% of the world oil consumption is is what we waste by not producing stuff (ie: cooling/heating, driving around, leaving lights on, etc.)
No shit. We're civilians. We shouldn't be thinking about targets. We should be thinking about our families, paying the mortgage, maybe where we're going on the picnic to this weekend.
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Yeah, it's going to be like this:
1. Copyright content is placed online
2. Copyright holder requests it be taken down
3. Google responds with a letter and a check for the ad revenue generated by the content so far, and says, "Oh, there'll be one of these each month, BTW"
4. Copyright holder licenses content to Google for ad revenue.
How is this any different than TV? Other than the fact that the content is actually being chosen by the consumers rather than being shoved down our throats using the shotgun like broadcast method. Oh, and the distributor is volunteering to give the money they make with the content to the copyright holder, rather than wanting exclusive rights to it.
So basically Youtube/Google is recycling used old crap that no one wants anymore and they are making money off of it and giving some of it to the content creator, who otherwise would make NOTHING. Information wants to be free. This just means a. the consumer gets what he wants, b. content producer gets money AGAIN (after broadcast), and c. Google makes money, everyone wins!
I hate to be the one to say it here, but weren't we in the middle of an important investigation of a coverup in Congress yesterday?
Yeah, let's NOT invade N. Korea and say we did. We lost that war, we lost in Vietnam and we're losing in Iraq. We need a few terms of a nice isolationist leader and congress. We are not the world police, let the UN do it's job.
Now, finally I can make terror work for ME! It's not just the Bush administration anymore!
I already have a shittube, thanks.
Sounds like they probably use a hydroscopic compound such as calcium chloride and then you some type of ion replacement to recover the water (precipitate calcium metal and some other non-soluable salt, such as Fe(III)Cl.
It will be crackable. Everything is. M$FT just needs enough time to get around a big upgrade cycle for businesses. They want to DELAY piracy, not stop it. Granted, the main point is that it's going to cause annoyance to users who actually paid. But a lot of those organizations use a license manager server so it's not really that big of a deal. Or use the enterprise versions of the product that allow imaging and the other stuff you mentioned. And how hard is it to reactivate the product after you swap hardware (which is rare)? The people who are going to be affected are the smaller businesses who can't afford a full-time IT staff. As an IT manager myself, I'm not too worried about the changes in this product. The benefits of IP6 alone are worth any time fixing piracy false alarms...
No worse than your use of rehtorical questions to create karma trick.
And M$ probably keeps track of trends in those cycles, thus releasing Vista at a time when more businesses are buying new boxen. Thus getting a high initial infection rate, allowing the furthest spread possible for the epidemic. You just use a disease model, very common math.
You kindof have to trust the people doing the counting also. . .
More people vote for American Idol than do in the election anyway. Apparently people don't like to leave their homes, unless they are 70 years old (the majority of people at the poll last time around were old).
Not only is it lazy, it's fucking stupid.
Here's my solution. It's low tech but just might work:
You have mechanical counters behind a curtain. At the end of the curtain is a turnstile. When you walk out of the turnstile, it allows one increment of a counter per group (a group is a race or issue). At the other side of the curtain you have a large group of people monitoring the count. The numbers are large enough to read. Through closed circuit television, there is a live feed to the central counting facility as well as to regional TV. Also a feed of both sides of the machine, and of each counter. Thus they can be monitored by everyone. The final tally is on a long sheet which can be viewed by all and added up by all. Anyone will see an discrepacy versus their own records. You use a stick to click each counter and can see immediately your vote being added.
There should be a word to describe the mysterious illness or death that affects CEOs and board members and/or Heads of State right when they are put on the chopping block.
Such as Ken Lay, Slobodon Milosivic, Hitler, the list goes on.
When I said "this government", I meant this "system", and necessarily include those people within it. Ethics, what happened to ethics? But then again, what is ethical anyway?
If you can get them to accept brain scans all the better.
Unless they really believe what we consider a lie.
With each better method of filtering cogent information from background noise comes a new better source of noise.
You can't fight it, the law of entropy. We humans are just like every other body in the universe, destined to be pulled apart into the smallest of particles and redistributed at the most even consistency.
"We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. Life is an island here and now in a dying world. The process by which we living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is known as homeostasis. We can continue to live in the very special environment which we carry forward with us until we begin to decay more quickly than we reconstitute ourselves. Then we die." -- Norbert Wiener, the father of the information age.
Yes. Great. A Politician's Job is to LEAD. But what is the GOAL? What are we here for, and what are we being led to do? What SHOULD we be doing? Thus the question of religion and philosophy.
And within those bounds there is no truth, only who has the better argument. So Google claims they can assess who has the better argument.
(Smoke pours out of the web browser, followed by BSOD)
You mean "Core dump". This is Google.
Hey, they say they will "Do No Evil"(tm).
Bush swore to uphold and defend the constitution.
The thing is, you need a computer to decide what's best in this world. The problem is the computer will tell us that we should all go to hell and die because the computer has no use for emotional humans.
We humans are good at ignoring reality--the fact of the matter is that we are all just one part in SEVEN BILLION and really fucking meaningless. 6 BILLION of us could die tomorrow and in reality it wouldn't have all that much of an impact. Emotionally, maybe, but not as far as the human race is concerned. We would still thrive as a species. We're ants. Just because we can think abstractly and create Gods in our mind, like: Jesus, Allah, Bhudda, sub-atomic rules, string theory, physics, etc. we think we're somehow destined to something greater. Yet we just slave away day in and day out, living, thinking, working. And there is no point. If we become something greater it will be because we use some computer to concatenate the sensory input and filtering of many (in addition to recorded knowledge) into a singular consciousness. That is the ONLY thing we can become that's greater than what we are now as individuals, citizens of a country, humans of a world.
The truth is reality, the universe, etc. In the human mind, right behind the sensors that are affected by this truth (eyes, nose, ears, etc.), are a series of filters. These whittle down the truth into the lie we call consciousness. If "you" are thinking, then you are basically creating a lie. To see the truth, you have to realize, like in the matrix, that there "is no spoon". As long as you are thinking, it's impossible.
There's no I, there's no ME, only a filter over reality. Unless you can absorb all of the messages being sent to your senses (sounds, light, etc.), you can't know the real truth.
Religion, you say, doesn't rely on an objective reality. I believe further that THOUGHT ITSELF doesn't rely on an objective reality. The problem with religion is the filters they place in people's head are designed for one purpose, usually to further the religion's spread like a virus.
Everybody knows that it's the lack of pirates that causes global warming.
Yep. The majority of the world is "uncool". Thus...
Actually, the EU is in the top spot economically. But the U.S. is a powerhouse, and united under one federal government. The problem is this government is corrupt (there, I said it) and is giving out favors to friends. It's not legal, it's not ethical, and it's causing problems we haven't even begun to see. Luckly, policially we are kindof an unstable country and who knows what the next decade will hold.
The problem with all those things you mentioned is simple: 1, the power grid is aging and needs to be updated, 2, our communications infrastructure is lagging behind (but is not horrible), the highway system is ok but manufacturing is falling behind here, and we import a shitload of oil at inflated prices. Most of our infrastructure was last updated in the 70's when we had a monopoly over the communications system, a cold war to justify deficit spending (and jumping off the gold standard), oh, and massive inflation. To reupdate the systems is going to require a similar sacrifice from today's generation, which policially is going to be difficult to achieve. To do that, we the people need to have a larger fear (like the soviet union posed) to seem like the reason for the economic problems. Someone to blame, if you will.
Someone else said we have 21% of the world GDP. Thus 25 - 21% = 4% economic oil waste. Whatever that 4% of the world oil consumption is is what we waste by not producing stuff (ie: cooling/heating, driving around, leaving lights on, etc.)
No shit. We're civilians. We shouldn't be thinking about targets. We should be thinking about our families, paying the mortgage, maybe where we're going on the picnic to this weekend.
Actually, I think Congressman Foley is the one who likes tubes now.