I guess I'm showing my age here, but to me, the IIc was not the "early Apple" (although it was a pretty little machine).
Do you suppose it's typical of the company that their web site made me wait for Flash? That might explain the magic invisble keyboard / voice control stuff -- style over function. Cool looking stuff, though.
Well, I suppose I should. For that matter, I'll read Cerf tonight (his paper w/ Kahn is on his site, but in facsimile form, which makes for tough reading!)
I confess I thought perhaps you were recalling Ethernet's influence from AlohaNet and the collision detection / avoidance needed in a broadcast network.
Remember, the point of the political conventions is not to be democratic, it is to confirm and celebrate a decision already made.
Was it always this way? I seem to recall my mother telling me that she used to watch the political conventions to see who the nominee would be, not to just watch some bland cheerleading ceremony for a done-deal. This might be why the Academy Awards are more attention-getting: the answer isn't known yet.
No, it hasn't always been this way. Ironically, however, the loss came about through a desire for a more democratic process -- the primaries pretty much wrap things up ahead of time. The old way used to be described as "smoke-filled rooms", whereas primaries "let in the sun" and all like that.
Mind you, I think delegates are still bound only to a first ballot vote, so that shifts and changes can occur if things take more than a single ballot.
Of course, I have personal issues with tax money being used to fund primary balloting, which I view as an internal issues to a private organization, but that's a separate discussion.
Well, cetainly there are constraints on the range of such a signal. I just think that the Earth's curvature would be among the least.
Does anybody have figures on how much a well-focused laser will spread? I seem to recall that when you bounce it off the Moon, the area covered is measured in square miles, but I haven't looked it up.
I'm guesing that atmospheric conditions (and other buildings) represent the biggest obstacle.
Sure, and that's why nobody need bother writing The Missles of October or Fire in the Lake -- recent history doesn't need historians. Give me a break.
You lived some part of the revolution, but you didn't live all of it. Arguably it's been more than one revolution. Grace Hopper changed the world in a very different way than Bill Gates (although if you do go back as far as Hopper, write those memoirs now, before it's too late)
re: Item 4 -- what height are you assuming? Mountains, to take an extreme case, are visible for quite a bit more than 7 miles!
I found an horizon calculator here, and at a height of just 50 feet (which is what, a 5-story building?) the horizon is ~9.5 miles.
This might be an issue in a suburban office park, but even here in little Baltimore we've got plenty of buildings higher than that. In particular, the World Trade Center in the harbor (which would never be confused with ones in New York) is 423 feet tall, giving an horizon of some 27 miles.
"The so-called "developing countries" will at some point jump the bandwagon too. Do you think they'll start digging fiber to the ground? I think not: it's cheaper, easier and faster to put up link stations and build your network with them."
Which is why there are a number of countries which lack land phones or even reliable power but have cell phones in abundance.
There's another factor at work as well -- any such figures must need be based on killings that have been solved, and for obvious reasons killings by strangers are less-often solved than killings by friends and family, producing skewed stats.
"...despite the first and only use of a nuclear weapon in a war WAS in an offesive capasity"
Maybe you missed it, but Japan declared war on the US, not the reverse. That the weapon was used on Japanese soil does not make it offensive, unless your idea of defense is to hit yourself in the head.
I do. I talk to her. She knows what naked women look like (she has one of those and two of those herself, after all). She also knows that I take a stroll through the history now and then, and if I find anything too weird we may talk about it.
That said, those are my policies with regard to my daughter in my home on my PC using my account. Your local laundromat is welcome to place a more restrictive policy on its computers and shouldn't have to answer to anybody for filtering.
In fact, there's an ad in there somewhere, something about a "Web as clean as your clothes will be"...well, maybe not.:)
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If you mean that until the 20th century most authors didn't make a profit -- most still don't. If you mean that before that they wrote simply for love, than don't tell Walter Scott or Charles Dickens or Samuel Clemens or William Shakespeare, all of whom wrote for a living.
You're right, of course, that recorded music is recent. Up until then, those composers worked for wealthy patrons. They didn't work for free.
Mind you, it might be nice for the rest of us if artists could somehow live like air ferns, at no cost to us, but denigrating them for their desire to feed themselves and maybe even raise families seems a bit much.
I wonder how often a musician has looked at a car mechanic and said that a really good mechanic would fix the transmission for love, not money, and that his work is weightless, not a thing that could be stolen.
"is just like opening every letter you receive: a federal violation in 99% of the countries on Earth"
Like most things, it would generally be illegal for a citizen to open somebody else's mail (and in some countries, it might be illegal for a citizen to open his own mail, depending on the contents -- "Why would they have sent you this subversive literature if you are not a subversive?"), but I would bet that in 99.9% (Sealand might be an exception) of countries it is legal for the government to do so, provided that they give themselves permission first (I can't help thinking that judges aren't exactly in the private sector)
Anybody remember the case in England a bit ago (they made a movie) with the two robbers confronted by a cop? The cop asked for the pistol that one of them was holding, and the other criminal said, "Let him have it!"
It was left to a jury to decide whether he meant "Shoot him!" or "Hand him the pistol". I sure don't know, and I doubt I'd be certain if I'd been there.
People don't reliably understand each other -- why should machines "get it" (pun intended).
I was responding to the post above, which included, "This just proves the point that pornography is bad for everyone, exactly what all good Christians have been saying all along." and closed with, "Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom and the Bill of Rights but not when it's destroying our society. Thank you and God bless."
That was posted as AC, so I don't know if it was your post or not, but I think it was fair to infer a Christian POV.
I suspect, however, that it wan't your post, and that perhaps you thought I was replying to a different comment. OTOH, I don't see any other "goodcitizen" posts in this thread, so I don't really know what's up with you.
I fail to see any connection, no. It's long been obvious (well, obvious to most of us) that if I dupe a CD I'll need to answer to the copyright holder, but that hasn't given the RIAA the exclusive right to manufacture or distribute CD's
The only issue at question here was whether anybody else had the right to manufacture and distribute RIAA members' music, and the court said "No", which was in fact about the only rational thing they could say.
Quite frankly, I will agree that Napster itself was taking fire that, in a sense, they don't deserve. The real thieves, abviously, were their users. Napster functioned more like bazaar for petty criminals.
You don't like the RIAA? Don't buy their music. Don't sign with their members. Sell your own music only at concerts, or door-to-door, or through a web site. Don't record music at all -- play only live shows. Sew your lips and ears shut, if you like. Stick it to the man, power to the people, whatever.
The RIAA has no authority over any music you create, and never has. Their members have authority over the music they create. Is this really so hard to grok?
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FWIW, as I recall stated French government policy is that the economy is a matter of national security and that therefore their intelligence agencies should be used for commercial purposes. Considering the size of, for instance, an AirBus purchase, maybe they have a point.
As for the second item, hell, the Moon's big and predictable. They bounced radar off of it when -- the fifties? Maybe Campbell has a lower threshold of spectacular then I do...
"ask most people who is bill gates and they will tell you that he's the guy that invented windows (yeah right)"
Nope, they'll say, "He's the richest man in the world and he does stuff with computers -- you know, he invented Apple or something"
It's the money that fascinates people, not the software. (and yes, I know he may no longer be the richest man in the world. I don't think he ever was, in any meaningful sense, but that doesn't alter public perceptions).
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Who was it who said, "There are no absolutes"?
Actually, we will, just spread out in the atmosphere and in whatever ocean or desert they hit.
Do you suppose it's typical of the company that their web site made me wait for Flash? That might explain the magic invisble keyboard / voice control stuff -- style over function. Cool looking stuff, though.
Does anybody know what the SciTex thing is?
Nothing's going to help you with that!
I confess I thought perhaps you were recalling Ethernet's influence from AlohaNet and the collision detection / avoidance needed in a broadcast network.
Was it always this way? I seem to recall my mother telling me that she used to watch the political conventions to see who the nominee would be, not to just watch some bland cheerleading ceremony for a done-deal. This might be why the Academy Awards are more attention-getting: the answer isn't known yet.
No, it hasn't always been this way. Ironically, however, the loss came about through a desire for a more democratic process -- the primaries pretty much wrap things up ahead of time. The old way used to be described as "smoke-filled rooms", whereas primaries "let in the sun" and all like that.
Mind you, I think delegates are still bound only to a first ballot vote, so that shifts and changes can occur if things take more than a single ballot.
Of course, I have personal issues with tax money being used to fund primary balloting, which I view as an internal issues to a private organization, but that's a separate discussion.
Does anybody have figures on how much a well-focused laser will spread? I seem to recall that when you bounce it off the Moon, the area covered is measured in square miles, but I haven't looked it up.
I'm guesing that atmospheric conditions (and other buildings) represent the biggest obstacle.
You lived some part of the revolution, but you didn't live all of it. Arguably it's been more than one revolution. Grace Hopper changed the world in a very different way than Bill Gates (although if you do go back as far as Hopper, write those memoirs now, before it's too late)
I found an horizon calculator here, and at a height of just 50 feet (which is what, a 5-story building?) the horizon is ~9.5 miles.
This might be an issue in a suburban office park, but even here in little Baltimore we've got plenty of buildings higher than that. In particular, the World Trade Center in the harbor (which would never be confused with ones in New York) is 423 feet tall, giving an horizon of some 27 miles.
Are you sure (because I'm not) that you're not confusing the origins of TCP with the origins of Ethernet?
Which is why there are a number of countries which lack land phones or even reliable power but have cell phones in abundance.
Passenger pigeons are extinct. Carrier pigeon is a job, not a species.
There's another factor at work as well -- any such figures must need be based on killings that have been solved, and for obvious reasons killings by strangers are less-often solved than killings by friends and family, producing skewed stats.
Maybe you missed it, but Japan declared war on the US, not the reverse. That the weapon was used on Japanese soil does not make it offensive, unless your idea of defense is to hit yourself in the head.
I do. I talk to her. She knows what naked women look like (she has one of those and two of those herself, after all). She also knows that I take a stroll through the history now and then, and if I find anything too weird we may talk about it.
That said, those are my policies with regard to my daughter in my home on my PC using my account. Your local laundromat is welcome to place a more restrictive policy on its computers and shouldn't have to answer to anybody for filtering.
In fact, there's an ad in there somewhere, something about a "Web as clean as your clothes will be"...well, maybe not. :)
You're right, of course, that recorded music is recent. Up until then, those composers worked for wealthy patrons. They didn't work for free.
Mind you, it might be nice for the rest of us if artists could somehow live like air ferns, at no cost to us, but denigrating them for their desire to feed themselves and maybe even raise families seems a bit much.
I wonder how often a musician has looked at a car mechanic and said that a really good mechanic would fix the transmission for love, not money, and that his work is weightless, not a thing that could be stolen.
Like most things, it would generally be illegal for a citizen to open somebody else's mail (and in some countries, it might be illegal for a citizen to open his own mail, depending on the contents -- "Why would they have sent you this subversive literature if you are not a subversive?"), but I would bet that in 99.9% (Sealand might be an exception) of countries it is legal for the government to do so, provided that they give themselves permission first (I can't help thinking that judges aren't exactly in the private sector)
It was left to a jury to decide whether he meant "Shoot him!" or "Hand him the pistol". I sure don't know, and I doubt I'd be certain if I'd been there.
People don't reliably understand each other -- why should machines "get it" (pun intended).
That was posted as AC, so I don't know if it was your post or not, but I think it was fair to infer a Christian POV.
I suspect, however, that it wan't your post, and that perhaps you thought I was replying to a different comment. OTOH, I don't see any other "goodcitizen" posts in this thread, so I don't really know what's up with you.
The only issue at question here was whether anybody else had the right to manufacture and distribute RIAA members' music, and the court said "No", which was in fact about the only rational thing they could say.
Quite frankly, I will agree that Napster itself was taking fire that, in a sense, they don't deserve. The real thieves, abviously, were their users. Napster functioned more like bazaar for petty criminals.
You don't like the RIAA? Don't buy their music. Don't sign with their members. Sell your own music only at concerts, or door-to-door, or through a web site. Don't record music at all -- play only live shows. Sew your lips and ears shut, if you like. Stick it to the man, power to the people, whatever.
The RIAA has no authority over any music you create, and never has. Their members have authority over the music they create. Is this really so hard to grok?
Of course, I don't think they were responsible for the things you could buy in the bathrooms...unless they took their percentage in kind :)
Good point. I'll do that.
As for the second item, hell, the Moon's big and predictable. They bounced radar off of it when -- the fifties? Maybe Campbell has a lower threshold of spectacular then I do...
Nope, they'll say, "He's the richest man in the world and he does stuff with computers -- you know, he invented Apple or something"
It's the money that fascinates people, not the software. (and yes, I know he may no longer be the richest man in the world. I don't think he ever was, in any meaningful sense, but that doesn't alter public perceptions).
Fift or sixty years before payoff!?. Is there a government on this planet that plans that far ahead?
Here in the US, where Congresscritters need to be re-elected every two years, the event horizon tends to be - surprize! - two years or less.