Ok this sounds a bit like B.S. Besides, being more of a trans-humanist I look forward to a future where we can modify our bodies to posses any of the biochemical advantages that are today delivered by genetics. Look at something like Viagra. Before it came along people thought that not being able to get a stiffy was all in one's mind. Now anyone of any age can get one without having to read a ton of self-help books and years of Freudian psychoanalysis B.S. It will be hard for people to accept but the same thing will probably soon happen with athletic ability and intelligence. Soon the dream of everyone becoming what they dreamed of being but never had the natural ability to do will be realized. It will still take hard work, but at least it will be possible and those with genetic gifts will move up to an as yet undreamed of level of human potential.
The most disturbing way I see this law being abused is that all someone needs to do to put someone in prison is to put a file on someone else's computer that is encrypted random data and then tip off the police. The computer is seized and the owner of the computer doesn't know how to decrypt it. They go to jail for not being able to decrypt this file whose contents aren't even illegal!
There is research that suggests that nicotine completely rewires the pleasure centers of the brain (to make them dependent on nicotine):
Oh gawd! Can we stop using war on drugs baby talk? If you knew what an acetylcholine receptor was and the different types of acetylcholine receptors, their agonists and the mechanisms by which they up-regulate and down-regulate then you would know why phrases like "rewires the pleasure centers" makes you sound like that guy on late night tv who wants to teach you how to "operate the computer".
I read Homage to Catalonia, which is Orwell's account of fighting with the POUM forces. The POUM were anarchist communists. They were actively underminded by the Stalin backed communists and less favored by the Stalinists than even Franco's forces. I think 1984 was Orwell's attempt to describe what would happen if Stalinism, as he had come into contact with it in Spain and other places, took over the world.
[2:19] The Duke of Ai asked: "How can I make the people follow me?" Confucius replied: "Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, and the people will follow you. Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, and the people will not follow you."
Here's a company that's had wireless power tech since 2007:
http://www.powercastco.com/
They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html
They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html
So this type of wireless power tech has been available in consumer products since 2007 and it appears that there has not been a lot of interest. I am really mystified as why nobody cares. Is it because they mistake this technology for some other kind of well known technology? I can't figure out the psychology here.
In conclusion, results of the study obviate that the apparent protective action of C(60)HyFn in vivo is determined by its considerable ability to decrease X-ray-generated reactive oxygen species. Based on the results and that neat C(60) is nontoxic, actually in the hydrated form, without side effects and with sufficient radioprotective effects in low doses, C(60)HyFn may be considered as a novel antioxidant agent, which substantially diminishes the harmful effects of ionizing radiation.
C(60) isn't that a fulerene/buckyball? So this guy wants you to eat buckyballs?
Without an unsandboxed version of the win32 api, which is what ActiveX is, they would be unable to deny the ability to use the internet to those without a recent version of windows and office.
Three Cheers for Zimbra! It kept us out of the Exchange/Outlook/Windows lock-in tar pit and everybody at my company is happy with it. Yes we did pay for it. Yes it was worth paying for.
Yeah after I read that enormous whopper of a lie, followed by the other lie that no other languages were developed by sun for the JVM, I pretty much figured this guy is just a Microsoft shill and has no interest in actually providing any useful information.. Best way to spot a sock puppet or shill by the way is when they receive a counter argument they either ignore it or repeat their initial argument over again. Since they are getting paid and you are not they will repeat this behavior until you get bored and leave the conversation paving the way for them to preach to the naive without any counter-argument.
I think the main problem that the web 2.0 dynamic language crowd has with RDBMs is that:
1. Relational data is strongly typed. You cannot easily add new fields to a table or store arbitrary types in a column and expect acceptable performance.
2. Migrating large amounts of relational data to a new structure takes a very very long time. Constant refactoring of data models is to be avoided. You have to get it right the first time or at least very early in the development cycle to avoid major headaches...
3. Databases are hard to mock in a testing context. Automated tests can be significantly slowed down with even a test database..
4. Error in database architecture are very difficult to correct due to 1 and 2, especially when used with a dynamically typed language..
5. It's difficult to maintain the data integrity that RDBMSs take for granted in highly scalable distributed systems and have acceptable performance.
The only real show stopper and a real reason to replace RDBMSs is #5. All the others can be worked around by just deeper study of data modeling techniques. Data modelling is not something most developers can figure out intuitively. There is a lot of theory to be learned to do it right and it can very easily be done badly leading to severe performance problems and an unmaintainable application.
With regards to # 5: I went to a presentation at Javaone where some Ebay engineers explained that they do not use transactions in any of their database operations. They just leave junk rows around in the db if a transaction half completes and as long as they aren't reachable they don't consider it a big deal. They have to very carefully organize the order in which they manipulate data to avoid data corruption,but that lets them get around # 5,
1. Who came up with this idea? 2. Who wrote the first article to say. Yep let's do this! 3. Who were the first people to sign on and support it?
I notice that all of a sudden dumb ideas like this show up and become "inevitable". It's like it just fell out of the sky as the divine pre-ordained inevitable plan of "the government" but it had to have started somewhere.
I used to follow some small stocks on Yahoo for a while. The message boards became almost useless because there were a few trolls who would post endlessly the same things over and over again on totally obscure stock message boards. They would usually get replied to but would never argue. They would just post the same thing over and over again. This is probably the best indicator of a sock puppet or troll. They never argue or reply to criticism. They just keep posting the same crap over and over again and just wait for non-sock puppets to get bored of them and stop posting which lets them dominate the forum.
Most of these robotic stock bashers were probably paid by hedge funds that were shorting stocks. Microsoft has an enormous marketing budget. It would be easy for them to run a campaign like this.
These guys developed the same technology too. They have released commercial products, demoed and won awards at many trade expos and you can even order a developer kit:
Powercast recognizes there are several alternatives available for powering devices without the use of wires, each with different addressable markets. The alternative methods may seem similar on the surface, however, they offer limited solutions. Powercast is the only company with the technology and component-level products to deliver continuous charging, and provide its capability at a scalable distance.
U.S Constituion Article 1 Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
If you look in your wallet at the dollar bills in there you will see plainly printed at the top of each of them "Federal Reserve Note". This is because they are a debt of the federal reserve, redeemable for $1. They are not "money" as defined in the constitution. It's not very well known, but control of the issuance of money was one of the most controversial issues of the 19th century in American politics. The coins this guys was using were circulated as "money" in the 19th century by the federal government at the face value of the coins. It's just that the money has been so debased over the years that the government says they are no longer money but collectibles, even though there isn't really any law stating that.
Well the idea with Nazism was that since you can't change genetics except through breeding you have to kill the inferior races and breed the good races. That of course is horrible and leads to psychopathic behavior that Nazis were so famous for.
This on the other hand looks like a voluntary personal act of modifying one's own genetics which I think is not particularly immoral at all.
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Ok this sounds a bit like B.S. Besides, being more of a trans-humanist I look forward to a future where we can modify our bodies to posses any of the biochemical advantages that are today delivered by genetics. Look at something like Viagra. Before it came along people thought that not being able to get a stiffy was all in one's mind. Now anyone of any age can get one without having to read a ton of self-help books and years of Freudian psychoanalysis B.S. It will be hard for people to accept but the same thing will probably soon happen with athletic ability and intelligence. Soon the dream of everyone becoming what they dreamed of being but never had the natural ability to do will be realized. It will still take hard work, but at least it will be possible and those with genetic gifts will move up to an as yet undreamed of level of human potential.
The most disturbing way I see this law being abused is that all someone needs to do to put someone in prison is to put a file on someone else's computer that is encrypted random data and then tip off the police. The computer is seized and the owner of the computer doesn't know how to decrypt it. They go to jail for not being able to decrypt this file whose contents aren't even illegal!
Edit Above Message: 52mg/kg.
For comparison purposes, Sodium Fluoride, which we put in drinking water, has an Rat LD50 of 35mg/kg. That's more than twice as deadly as cocaine.
Oh gawd! Can we stop using war on drugs baby talk? If you knew what an acetylcholine receptor was and the different types of acetylcholine receptors, their agonists and the mechanisms by which they up-regulate and down-regulate then you would know why phrases like "rewires the pleasure centers" makes you sound like that guy on late night tv who wants to teach you how to "operate the computer".
I read Homage to Catalonia, which is Orwell's account of fighting with the POUM forces. The POUM were anarchist communists. They were actively underminded by the Stalin backed communists and less favored by the Stalinists than even Franco's forces. I think 1984 was Orwell's attempt to describe what would happen if Stalinism, as he had come into contact with it in Spain and other places, took over the world.
Pretty soon they will have half the population watching the other half sit around and do nothing. What a way to run a country!
You can always truecrypt your hard drive. Probably a good idea anyway.
They bought a mac for the same reason they do Yoga, and bought a Prius and an expensive baby stroller. They read about it on Stuff White People Like
For Powercast's technology, here's the spreadsheet that can be used to calculate transmission efficiency given distance, frequency, etc.
http://powercastco.com/wireless-power-calculator.xls
Here's a company that's had wireless power tech since 2007:
http://www.powercastco.com/
They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html
They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html
So this type of wireless power tech has been available in consumer products since 2007 and it appears that there has not been a lot of interest. I am really mystified as why nobody cares. Is it because they mistake this technology for some other kind of well known technology? I can't figure out the psychology here.
C(60) isn't that a fulerene/buckyball? So this guy wants you to eat buckyballs?
Without an unsandboxed version of the win32 api, which is what ActiveX is, they would be unable to deny the ability to use the internet to those without a recent version of windows and office.
Three Cheers for Zimbra! It kept us out of the Exchange/Outlook/Windows lock-in tar pit and everybody at my company is happy with it. Yes we did pay for it. Yes it was worth paying for.
Yeah after I read that enormous whopper of a lie, followed by the other lie that no other languages were developed by sun for the JVM, I pretty much figured this guy is just a Microsoft shill and has no interest in actually providing any useful information.. Best way to spot a sock puppet or shill by the way is when they receive a counter argument they either ignore it or repeat their initial argument over again. Since they are getting paid and you are not they will repeat this behavior until you get bored and leave the conversation paving the way for them to preach to the naive without any counter-argument.
The only real show stopper and a real reason to replace RDBMSs is #5. All the others can be worked around by just deeper study of data modeling techniques. Data modelling is not something most developers can figure out intuitively. There is a lot of theory to be learned to do it right and it can very easily be done badly leading to severe performance problems and an unmaintainable application. ,but that lets them get around # 5,
With regards to # 5: I went to a presentation at Javaone where some Ebay engineers explained that they do not use transactions in any of their database operations. They just leave junk rows around in the db if a transaction half completes and as long as they aren't reachable they don't consider it a big deal. They have to very carefully organize the order in which they manipulate data to avoid data corruption
Really I'd like to know:
1. Who came up with this idea?
2. Who wrote the first article to say. Yep let's do this!
3. Who were the first people to sign on and support it?
I notice that all of a sudden dumb ideas like this show up and become "inevitable". It's like it just fell out of the sky as the divine pre-ordained inevitable plan of "the government" but it had to have started somewhere.
I used to follow some small stocks on Yahoo for a while. The message boards became almost useless because there were a few trolls who would post endlessly the same things over and over again on totally obscure stock message boards. They would usually get replied to but would never argue. They would just post the same thing over and over again. This is probably the best indicator of a sock puppet or troll. They never argue or reply to criticism. They just keep posting the same crap over and over again and just wait for non-sock puppets to get bored of them and stop posting which lets them dominate the forum.
Most of these robotic stock bashers were probably paid by hedge funds that were shorting stocks. Microsoft has an enormous marketing budget. It would be easy for them to run a campaign like this.
These guys developed the same technology too. They have released commercial products, demoed and won awards at many trade expos and you can even order a developer kit:
http://www.powercastco.com/
It's amazing the amount of unfounded disbelief and misunderstanding of this technology on this thread.
http://www.powercastco.com/
They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html
They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html
Stuff like this comes up all the time but disappears down the memory hole very shortly thereafter.
http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm
If you look in your wallet at the dollar bills in there you will see plainly printed at the top of each of them "Federal Reserve Note". This is because they are a debt of the federal reserve, redeemable for $1. They are not "money" as defined in the constitution. It's not very well known, but control of the issuance of money was one of the most controversial issues of the 19th century in American politics. The coins this guys was using were circulated as "money" in the 19th century by the federal government at the face value of the coins. It's just that the money has been so debased over the years that the government says they are no longer money but collectibles, even though there isn't really any law stating that.
Well the idea with Nazism was that since you can't change genetics except through breeding you have to kill the inferior races and breed the good races. That of course is horrible and leads to psychopathic behavior that Nazis were so famous for.
This on the other hand looks like a voluntary personal act of modifying one's own genetics which I think is not particularly immoral at all.
1. Praise Linux.
2. Have Microsoft run to you with deals, discounts, and dump trucks full of money.
3. Praise Microsoft, Bash Linux.
4. Profit!
This also works for government organizations and prominent businesses in the process of choosing software.
I've quit video games before by cheating. I can confirm it does work.