No, what the world needs is for storage and bandwidth to become prevalent enough that video and audio compression are no longer necessary, so that I can send a full length 2048x1200 40fps 2 hour video clip around the world in less than 5 minutes, and that I can store dozens of those files on my hard drive at one time.
On a completely different note, I'm trying to figure out what niche a free codec will fill. The major media houses won't use it, the major hardware manufacturers won't use it, and re-compressing my home DV footage to something else and back will just screw up the quality. You certainly can't go back and retrofit all the set-top cable and satellite boxes in the world with the new codec, and HDTV's compression standard is already set. The only fit I see for a free codec is video that is generated locally by computer and not meant to leave the production house. Ex: 3D test rendering, or analog video imported to a system. But even then, unless you are going to use the video in presentations, you'll need to transcode to something else most likely and would prefer to compress to that format initially.
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And before MP3 you would have said that anything encoded at less that 220Kbit sounded shitty. Before CDs you might have said that anything encoded digitally at all sounded shitty.
Technology advances. Computing power advances. In the future there may be codecs that are capable of maintaining all the fidelity of an analog master tape at 30kbit. You can dismiss that out of hand if you like, but who knows.
Hopefully in the near future storage and bandwidth capacities will grow to allow us to store and move uncompressed video and audio freely. I see all this compression stuff as a temporary hiccup in the multimedia road.
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What is "triple blind?"
A blind test is where the test subjects don't know what specifically they are sampling. The researcher prepares the samples and knows what is going on.
Double-blind is where neither the researcher nor the test subjects know specifically what is being tested. The samples are prepared by a dis-interested third party and given to the researcher and test subjects without any identification. This eliminates researcher induced errors/data fudging.
There are no other parties to such tests, so I really am confused. Are you just making stuff up to lend credence to your arguments?
Then stop writing your name in cursive for your signature. You don't need to. Your legal signature is simply a symbol or mark by which you can be known. Any symbol will do as long as it is relatively unique and you use it consistently.
Look at your average doctor or lawyer... they've got signatures that are nothing more than a squigly line. But when you compare it, the squigles are the same from instance to instance. Mine is the same way, my name is entirely too long to write cursively, so I make a few loops and a few sqiggles, takes about 1/2 second to make my signature for a name with 20 characters (not spelling out my middle name).
Whatever you choose to use as your signature, be sure to get your government issued IDs re-issued with your new signature in case anyone questions you about your it.
Most Americans have been taught that a signature is your name written in cursive, but then again, most Americans are taught that the government is a Democracy and that the seasons are caused by our distance from The Sun. Educators are not perfect, and some of what they teach is for convienence instead of accuracy.
I like RedHat for their installer, it's not as full l featured as I'd like to see, but it's well on the way. They distribute a nice range of utils,apps and daeoms with the setup. But the one major drawback to RedHat is that you are pretty much locked in to RedHat forever with their RPM updates. The other selling point is the auto-update feature that will poll RedHat every few hours to check for necessary updates to the software.
But, RedHat has a very nasty habit of moving everything from where the original developer would want it, to where RedHat thinks it should be. They also seem to obfusticate some of the configurations, in some cases removing or overriding the standard config files with a custom configurator. This means you can't, for example, simply download the newest Apache from apache.org, compile it and run it. You have to twiddle with config files to get the new Apache to locate all the existing files, or you have to move/link the existing files to where Apache group thinks they should be. Moving between the RPM versions and the self compiled versions of software is a non-trivial isssue.
My preferred method is to use free downloaded RH to "bootstap" a system, performing a minimal install of kernel, libraries, basic utilities, development stuff, etc. I then DL and manually install the other services I need like WWW,SMTP,POP,FTP,DNS. Most sites won't be running too much more than this services-wise, so it's not such a major headache to check for updates every few days or weeks and re-install what needs to be updated.
The RH update systems seems to be headed the way of Microsoft... hands-off, auto-updates that lock you in to their proprietary way of thinking. I don't like it. I'll do the extra work to keep that extra level of control over my systems.
I didn't read the article, I tire of creating fake infor to register for the NYT, and I don't bother to remember the login info I make up each time.
Anyway... A lot more that 43 million Americans use P2P software. People seem to forget (or never realize) that HTTP is the ultimate P2P protocol on the Internet. The most popular content downloaded is HTML web pages.
Web servers are nothing more than fancy file servers, that take a request from a client and send out the appropriate content/page. The network is distributed, such that the content is not maintained or controlled by any one entity or server, and all connections are made peer to peer, no intervening servers are required.
While there are no "live" searches, that would be an interesting addition to a web server. If you could send a web search query "live" across the Internet, each participating node in the network passing on your request, and returning results back to you. This would allow you to build and "all internet" search engine without having to create any massive data-store. So... who wants to overlay the napster/morpheus/grokster type live searches over HTTP and HTML?
Forgive me, but that seems like a bone-headed argument.
Is there some reason that Quark will not run under Classic mode? There should be no reason you can't purchase new machine and run Quark faster with OS X and classic mode.
If you so desperately want to upgrade to a newer/faster machine and use native OS X software, then why not move to another application? It isn't like Quark is the only, or even the all around best page design app out there.
I can almost guarantee you that if other companies like FedEx, UPS, etc. were allowed to carry general postage instead of being limited to overnight letters, and large pachages, that postage rates would drop. The Post Office has no competition for letter carriage. Monopolies are breeding grounds for waste, beurocracy, and high costs to consumers.
But thanks to Home Depot and Walmart running all the local businesses out, now you can't get anything without driving 20+ minutes".
Look, I hate WalMart as much as you do, but do not blame them, Home Depot, Lowes, Target, K-Mart etc. for running the local retailers out of town. Your neighbors ran the mom and pops out of town, not the mega stores.
When these mega stores open, there's no security force that patrols the mom and pop stores threatening the customers. There are no roadblocks in front of the parking lot entrances.
Consumers make a simple choice: low cost, vast selection, low service; or hight cost, small selection and high service. Most people will choose the former over the latter. This is not the mega store's fault, it is the fault of those who stop patronising the smaller stores, and their fault alone.
Also blame the small shop owners who failed to ever expand their business so that it could survive competition. Most of the mom and pop stores have been in the same one location for years, never expanding, never opening more locations, and that's their own damed fault.
Walmart, Home Depot (and the others) all started out as small mom and pop stores. The difference is the owners had the drive and vision to see that expansion meant surviving, and more profits. Kill or be killed: survival of the fittest.
This process is called Capitalism. It's the foundation of our country. The United States is a Capitalist Republic (well mostly, there are some serious overtones of Socialism, and the representation portion of the Republican system has been diluted severely, and most people think we are a Democracy).
As for the union busting... good. Unions have have a stranglehold on this country and its about time someone stood up to them. I wish WalMart made cars. If the big 3 didn't have to pay assembly line workers madatory overtime for hours they don't even work, automobiles in this country would be a lot more affordable. If my Post Office didn't have to pay someone $20/hr, plus full benefits and a month of vacation, to sort mail the postage rates would be a lot lower; you could get a high school kid to do this for minimum wage.
Yes, OpenTV powers many of the set top boxes for cable TV systems and satellite DBS. My DishNetwork receiver has OpenTV on it, and I can't find a use for any of the services they offer, epecially at the additional charges associated with some of the stuff.
1. Instant weather: Uh... I have The Weather Channel, plus the internet 2. Games. The games you can play on a set-top box with an infrared remote made for a TV set are LAME. They charge like $5/month for the games service. A ripoff. 3. Customer support. You can choose from like 20 "FAQs" and have the answer displayed on-screen for you. In the time it takes to get through the menus, load the support application, and download the information from the satellite, I could have gotten the answer from the web site. 4. Other things so insignificant I can't even recall them.
Each of these "features" is of course accompanied by advertising. For instance, the weather service used to take up about 100% of the screen to display the information requested. Now that same information is squished in to less than 25% of the screen. The remaining parts are divinded up in to two banner ads for upcoming movies on pay-per-view and other products.
It MAY be that the channel/program guide is coded as part of OpenTV, but it doens't seem so. The parts marked as being OpentV applications are quite distinct from the rest of the interface.
Personally I wish Dish Network would stop wasting the time and resourses developing these pointless applications and give me something useful like a SEARCH feature for the program guide.
Breathable air sort of goes without saying. If you're someplace or in a situation where you actually need to consider breathable air as something that you need to aquire, then you'll probably be dead in a minute or two anyway. You should have done some more planning before you got in to such a situation.
Just one minor point. Food is the SECOND most important necessity of life. Fresh water is number one. Water, food, shelter in that order. You'll die in as few as 5 days without water, you can live up to a month without food (much more for MANY Americans)
The day we allow robots to fight our battles is the day there will be no end to war. IF you wany peace, then you have to make those responsible for the induction of it responsible for it's enactment. How? All the heads of the government and their immediate familes must serve in the war on "front-line" combat situations. None of this rear suppoert unit, or carrier duty. Every Senator, Representative, President and the Cabinet, along with their spouses and children must take up arms and fight for the cause.
This centuries old system of old men sending young men to thier deaths, for the benefit of the old men has just got to stop.
The human brain is the most complex and powerful computer system in existence today. Granted it's not terrific at raw number crunching, but for pattern matching, association, memory storage, creativity, interaction. etc it's tops. The machine's computers don't need to run simulations, they just need enough computing power to induce certain perceptions within each brain and to coordinate the functioning of all the brains that are near one another in the simulation. The knowledge to do this it taught/programmed in from birth. Your brain is completely capable of inventing people, having two way conversations with those invented people, and designing and re-designing physical locations on the fly. All without you conciously thinking about it.
Let me describe this more elaborately: Assume you and I are living in a simulated world while having this conversation. The machines don't need to simulate my typing on the keyboard, or the text on my screen, or the air I'm breathing. My brain knows how to do that (it was tought to by the machines). You brain knows all those things also. There is no need for the main computers to simulate that for the both of us. The main computers simply assure that we can interact from within the same context of this computer system. There has so be some way for the messages to pass between us.
Of course, there's no reason to believe that's even the case. Perhaps you are simply a figment of my imagination, a simulation within my brain, and so is this computer system. Suppose that each and every brain plugged in to the system runs it's own complete simulation, just making things up as it goes along. There is no way to proove that another person actually exists, as anyone else you ask may also not exist, but instead be part of your simulation. As such they would be under your control and say whatever needed to be said. Think about the complexity of your dreams that you recall. The role of the machines in this case is simply to regulate the simulations we run within our own brains, making sure that they don't become too extreem in the negative or positive sense. There is no need for the plugged in brains to ever communicate with each other.
Then again (and this is a guess), Neo never actually woke up from the Matrix, and the whole "real world" thing is simply another "simulation" introduced by the machines to get this anomoly out of the code. Perhaps Neo was dreaming the entire thing.
Saddam had U.S. dollars because that's how the U.S. gave him the loans! The U.S. Government gave and loaned Iraq millions upon millions of dollars. They did this even AFTER Saddam invaded Kuwait! Remember, up until the U.S. decided it needed to test out the newest weapons and chose Saddam as the test subject over a decade ago, he and his country were some of our best friends in the region.
When they fingerprint the bill and find only your's and the clerk's prints on the bill, it will be rather clear that you printed the bill. If the bill had other prints on it such that it obviously had circulated through other parties, then you likely could not be convited (the whole reasonable doubt thing)
You hit the nail on the head. The U.S. Treasury has never ended the lifespan of any of the bill styles it's printed. If the U.S. Treasury authorized a note's printing, then it is legal tender no matter how old it is or what its denomination. If you wanted, you could counterfeit $2 bills. They rarely get back to the banks. people tend to horde them. But they are legal tender even though they where retired from new printing runs years ago.
Unless and until the Treasury recalls and eliminates all the "old" bills, the new bill formats will do nothing to stop counterfeiters. Copiers will simply choose to copy the older and less secure bills.
...or one of the dozens of bodily orifices available.
Exactly what species are you? Thinking generously I can only account for 9 orifices. Of those, only 6 are capable of accepting or retaining jelly beans without injury to the orifice. Of those, only 5 are useable at once as you need one to remain available for the passage of air to and from the lungs.
Or are you somehow planning to enlarge your pores so you can stick a jelly bean in each one?
But to further your argument... if your of the mindset that theft is tolerable as long as you don't get caught, then why don'y you simply eliminate the candy store clerk? Sneak up and whack the clerk over the head with a blunt onject. Then you can simply fill all the bags you want with candy and leave fully stocked. No-one saw you bludgeon the clerk, so what's the harm?
Kirk: What's your take on this Spock? Spock: Captain, I find it intriguing that this is M5, what happened to M1 through M4? Kirk: Doctor... why is this called M5? Where there predecessors? Doctor: Yes, there where. They exibited some "anomolous behavior" and had to be deactivated.
Or something along those lines as I recall. In any case, M5 went berserk also.
But there are numerous flaws in that definition. Scientists are regularly finding out that many species they thought couldn't breed, are simply self discriminating againt other species. This method has been proven to be an innacurate method of sorting. Via artificial insemination, many non-breeding species can be brought to have highbred offspring.
And yes, I do think the different breeds of dog should be considered different species. While they CAN cross breed, for the most part they self segregate and breed only with their own species (breed).
Face it, the current system of classification was developed quite a long time ago. Many advances in genetics and the general study of nature have taken place in the ensuing decades. I for one think it's high time we re-evaluated the calssification system to better fit today's understanding of these fields rather than continuing to shoehorn things in to the current filing system.
But I will not purchase "frist generation" Apple products anymore.
I'd like to know what planet you live on, or what companies you purchase your products from. ALL first generation products have bugs, flaws, and poor design choices evident in them. This is unfortunately the reality in today's cuth-throat "get it to market now" society. I can't think of any first generation product that I've purchased and been 100% happy with, from something as inane as my toaster, through my iPod(5GB), camcorder, and current vehicle. With each and every one I can point out at least 10 things that should have been done differently or added to the device. Usually these items are addressed in the next model or via software/firmware updates.
If you expect any different in today's world, you will be sorely dissapointed throughout life.
I suggest you need to learn three things: 1. To wait for the next generation (and make suggestions to the manufacturer) 2. To cope with the issues because you live on the cutting edge 3. How to sell effectively on eBay. You get all the new hardware, and sell it off when the 2nd gen comes out, effectively leasing the product without any contractual obligations.
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No, what the world needs is for storage and bandwidth to become prevalent enough that video and audio compression are no longer necessary, so that I can send a full length 2048x1200 40fps 2 hour video clip around the world in less than 5 minutes, and that I can store dozens of those files on my hard drive at one time.
On a completely different note, I'm trying to figure out what niche a free codec will fill. The major media houses won't use it, the major hardware manufacturers won't use it, and re-compressing my home DV footage to something else and back will just screw up the quality.
You certainly can't go back and retrofit all the set-top cable and satellite boxes in the world with the new codec, and HDTV's compression standard is already set.
The only fit I see for a free codec is video that is generated locally by computer and not meant to leave the production house. Ex: 3D test rendering, or analog video imported to a system. But even then, unless you are going to use the video in presentations, you'll need to transcode to something else most likely and would prefer to compress to that format initially.
And before MP3 you would have said that anything encoded at less that 220Kbit sounded shitty. Before CDs you might have said that anything encoded digitally at all sounded shitty.
Technology advances. Computing power advances. In the future there may be codecs that are capable of maintaining all the fidelity of an analog master tape at 30kbit. You can dismiss that out of hand if you like, but who knows.
Hopefully in the near future storage and bandwidth capacities will grow to allow us to store and move uncompressed video and audio freely. I see all this compression stuff as a temporary hiccup in the multimedia road.
What is "triple blind?"
A blind test is where the test subjects don't know what specifically they are sampling. The researcher prepares the samples and knows what is going on.
Double-blind is where neither the researcher nor the test subjects know specifically what is being tested. The samples are prepared by a dis-interested third party and given to the researcher and test subjects without any identification. This eliminates researcher induced errors/data fudging.
There are no other parties to such tests, so I really am confused. Are you just making stuff up to lend credence to your arguments?
Or for you Mac heads, AAC->AIFF->MP3
There are two problems with that:
1. It's non obvious
2. RedHat seems to continuallt/randomly change the locations of some or all of the files
Then stop writing your name in cursive for your signature. You don't need to.
Your legal signature is simply a symbol or mark by which you can be known. Any symbol will do as long as it is relatively unique and you use it consistently.
Look at your average doctor or lawyer... they've got signatures that are nothing more than a squigly line. But when you compare it, the squigles are the same from instance to instance. Mine is the same way, my name is entirely too long to write cursively, so I make a few loops and a few sqiggles, takes about 1/2 second to make my signature for a name with 20 characters (not spelling out my middle name).
Whatever you choose to use as your signature, be sure to get your government issued IDs re-issued with your new signature in case anyone questions you about your it.
Most Americans have been taught that a signature is your name written in cursive, but then again, most Americans are taught that the government is a Democracy and that the seasons are caused by our distance from The Sun. Educators are not perfect, and some of what they teach is for convienence instead of accuracy.
I like RedHat for their installer, it's not as full l featured as I'd like to see, but it's well on the way. They distribute a nice range of utils,apps and daeoms with the setup. But the one major drawback to RedHat is that you are pretty much locked in to RedHat forever with their RPM updates.
The other selling point is the auto-update feature that will poll RedHat every few hours to check for necessary updates to the software.
But, RedHat has a very nasty habit of moving everything from where the original developer would want it, to where RedHat thinks it should be. They also seem to obfusticate some of the configurations, in some cases removing or overriding the standard config files with a custom configurator. This means you can't, for example, simply download the newest Apache from apache.org, compile it and run it. You have to twiddle with config files to get the new Apache to locate all the existing files, or you have to move/link the existing files to where Apache group thinks they should be.
Moving between the RPM versions and the self compiled versions of software is a non-trivial isssue.
My preferred method is to use free downloaded RH to "bootstap" a system, performing a minimal install of kernel, libraries, basic utilities, development stuff, etc. I then DL and manually install the other services I need like WWW,SMTP,POP,FTP,DNS.
Most sites won't be running too much more than this services-wise, so it's not such a major headache to check for updates every few days or weeks and re-install what needs to be updated.
The RH update systems seems to be headed the way of Microsoft... hands-off, auto-updates that lock you in to their proprietary way of thinking. I don't like it. I'll do the extra work to keep that extra level of control over my systems.
I didn't read the article, I tire of creating fake infor to register for the NYT, and I don't bother to remember the login info I make up each time.
Anyway... A lot more that 43 million Americans use P2P software. People seem to forget (or never realize) that HTTP is the ultimate P2P protocol on the Internet. The most popular content downloaded is HTML web pages.
Web servers are nothing more than fancy file servers, that take a request from a client and send out the appropriate content/page. The network is distributed, such that the content is not maintained or controlled by any one entity or server, and all connections are made peer to peer, no intervening servers are required.
While there are no "live" searches, that would be an interesting addition to a web server. If you could send a web search query "live" across the Internet, each participating node in the network passing on your request, and returning results back to you. This would allow you to build and "all internet" search engine without having to create any massive data-store.
So... who wants to overlay the napster/morpheus/grokster type live searches over HTTP and HTML?
Forgive me, but that seems like a bone-headed argument.
Is there some reason that Quark will not run under Classic mode? There should be no reason you can't purchase new machine and run Quark faster with OS X and classic mode.
If you so desperately want to upgrade to a newer/faster machine and use native OS X software, then why not move to another application? It isn't like Quark is the only, or even the all around best page design app out there.
I can almost guarantee you that if other companies like FedEx, UPS, etc. were allowed to carry general postage instead of being limited to overnight letters, and large pachages, that postage rates would drop.
The Post Office has no competition for letter carriage. Monopolies are breeding grounds for waste, beurocracy, and high costs to consumers.
Look, I hate WalMart as much as you do, but do not blame them, Home Depot, Lowes, Target, K-Mart etc. for running the local retailers out of town. Your neighbors ran the mom and pops out of town, not the mega stores.
When these mega stores open, there's no security force that patrols the mom and pop stores threatening the customers. There are no roadblocks in front of the parking lot entrances.
Consumers make a simple choice: low cost, vast selection, low service; or hight cost, small selection and high service. Most people will choose the former over the latter. This is not the mega store's fault, it is the fault of those who stop patronising the smaller stores, and their fault alone.
Also blame the small shop owners who failed to ever expand their business so that it could survive competition. Most of the mom and pop stores have been in the same one location for years, never expanding, never opening more locations, and that's their own damed fault.
Walmart, Home Depot (and the others) all started out as small mom and pop stores. The difference is the owners had the drive and vision to see that expansion meant surviving, and more profits. Kill or be killed: survival of the fittest.
This process is called Capitalism. It's the foundation of our country. The United States is a Capitalist Republic (well mostly, there are some serious overtones of Socialism, and the representation portion of the Republican system has been diluted severely, and most people think we are a Democracy).
As for the union busting... good. Unions have have a stranglehold on this country and its about time someone stood up to them. I wish WalMart made cars. If the big 3 didn't have to pay assembly line workers madatory overtime for hours they don't even work, automobiles in this country would be a lot more affordable. If my Post Office didn't have to pay someone $20/hr, plus full benefits and a month of vacation, to sort mail the postage rates would be a lot lower; you could get a high school kid to do this for minimum wage.
Yes, OpenTV powers many of the set top boxes for cable TV systems and satellite DBS.
My DishNetwork receiver has OpenTV on it, and I can't find a use for any of the services they offer, epecially at the additional charges associated with some of the stuff.
1. Instant weather: Uh... I have The Weather Channel, plus the internet
2. Games. The games you can play on a set-top box with an infrared remote made for a TV set are LAME. They charge like $5/month for the games service. A ripoff.
3. Customer support. You can choose from like 20 "FAQs" and have the answer displayed on-screen for you. In the time it takes to get through the menus, load the support application, and download the information from the satellite, I could have gotten the answer from the web site.
4. Other things so insignificant I can't even recall them.
Each of these "features" is of course accompanied by advertising. For instance, the weather service used to take up about 100% of the screen to display the information requested. Now that same information is squished in to less than 25% of the screen. The remaining parts are divinded up in to two banner ads for upcoming movies on pay-per-view and other products.
It MAY be that the channel/program guide is coded as part of OpenTV, but it doens't seem so. The parts marked as being OpentV applications are quite distinct from the rest of the interface.
Personally I wish Dish Network would stop wasting the time and resourses developing these pointless applications and give me something useful like a SEARCH feature for the program guide.
Breathable air sort of goes without saying.
If you're someplace or in a situation where you actually need to consider breathable air as something that you need to aquire, then you'll probably be dead in a minute or two anyway. You should have done some more planning before you got in to such a situation.
Just one minor point. Food is the SECOND most important necessity of life. Fresh water is number one. Water, food, shelter in that order.
You'll die in as few as 5 days without water, you can live up to a month without food (much more for MANY Americans)
I was thinking more along the lines of Jelo-O, but yea.
The day we allow robots to fight our battles is the day there will be no end to war.
IF you wany peace, then you have to make those responsible for the induction of it responsible for it's enactment. How? All the heads of the government and their immediate familes must serve in the war on "front-line" combat situations. None of this rear suppoert unit, or carrier duty. Every Senator, Representative, President and the Cabinet, along with their spouses and children must take up arms and fight for the cause.
This centuries old system of old men sending young men to thier deaths, for the benefit of the old men has just got to stop.
No. You are missing the big picture...
The human brain is the most complex and powerful computer system in existence today. Granted it's not terrific at raw number crunching, but for pattern matching, association, memory storage, creativity, interaction. etc it's tops.
The machine's computers don't need to run simulations, they just need enough computing power to induce certain perceptions within each brain and to coordinate the functioning of all the brains that are near one another in the simulation. The knowledge to do this it taught/programmed in from birth. Your brain is completely capable of inventing people, having two way conversations with those invented people, and designing and re-designing physical locations on the fly. All without you conciously thinking about it.
Let me describe this more elaborately:
Assume you and I are living in a simulated world while having this conversation. The machines don't need to simulate my typing on the keyboard, or the text on my screen, or the air I'm breathing. My brain knows how to do that (it was tought to by the machines). You brain knows all those things also. There is no need for the main computers to simulate that for the both of us. The main computers simply assure that we can interact from within the same context of this computer system. There has so be some way for the messages to pass between us.
Of course, there's no reason to believe that's even the case. Perhaps you are simply a figment of my imagination, a simulation within my brain, and so is this computer system. Suppose that each and every brain plugged in to the system runs it's own complete simulation, just making things up as it goes along. There is no way to proove that another person actually exists, as anyone else you ask may also not exist, but instead be part of your simulation. As such they would be under your control and say whatever needed to be said. Think about the complexity of your dreams that you recall.
The role of the machines in this case is simply to regulate the simulations we run within our own brains, making sure that they don't become too extreem in the negative or positive sense. There is no need for the plugged in brains to ever communicate with each other.
Then again (and this is a guess), Neo never actually woke up from the Matrix, and the whole "real world" thing is simply another "simulation" introduced by the machines to get this anomoly out of the code. Perhaps Neo was dreaming the entire thing.
Saddam had U.S. dollars because that's how the U.S. gave him the loans!
The U.S. Government gave and loaned Iraq millions upon millions of dollars. They did this even AFTER Saddam invaded Kuwait!
Remember, up until the U.S. decided it needed to test out the newest weapons and chose Saddam as the test subject over a decade ago, he and his country were some of our best friends in the region.
When they fingerprint the bill and find only your's and the clerk's prints on the bill, it will be rather clear that you printed the bill.
If the bill had other prints on it such that it obviously had circulated through other parties, then you likely could not be convited (the whole reasonable doubt thing)
You hit the nail on the head.
The U.S. Treasury has never ended the lifespan of any of the bill styles it's printed. If the U.S. Treasury authorized a note's printing, then it is legal tender no matter how old it is or what its denomination.
If you wanted, you could counterfeit $2 bills. They rarely get back to the banks. people tend to horde them. But they are legal tender even though they where retired from new printing runs years ago.
Unless and until the Treasury recalls and eliminates all the "old" bills, the new bill formats will do nothing to stop counterfeiters. Copiers will simply choose to copy the older and less secure bills.
Exactly what species are you? Thinking generously I can only account for 9 orifices. Of those, only 6 are capable of accepting or retaining jelly beans without injury to the orifice. Of those, only 5 are useable at once as you need one to remain available for the passage of air to and from the lungs.
Or are you somehow planning to enlarge your pores so you can stick a jelly bean in each one?
But to further your argument... if your of the mindset that theft is tolerable as long as you don't get caught, then why don'y you simply eliminate the candy store clerk? Sneak up and whack the clerk over the head with a blunt onject. Then you can simply fill all the bags you want with candy and leave fully stocked. No-one saw you bludgeon the clerk, so what's the harm?
Kirk: What's your take on this Spock?
Spock: Captain, I find it intriguing that this is M5, what happened to M1 through M4?
Kirk: Doctor... why is this called M5? Where there predecessors?
Doctor: Yes, there where. They exibited some "anomolous behavior" and had to be deactivated.
Or something along those lines as I recall. In any case, M5 went berserk also.
But there are numerous flaws in that definition. Scientists are regularly finding out that many species they thought couldn't breed, are simply self discriminating againt other species. This method has been proven to be an innacurate method of sorting. Via artificial insemination, many non-breeding species can be brought to have highbred offspring.
And yes, I do think the different breeds of dog should be considered different species. While they CAN cross breed, for the most part they self segregate and breed only with their own species (breed).
Face it, the current system of classification was developed quite a long time ago. Many advances in genetics and the general study of nature have taken place in the ensuing decades. I for one think it's high time we re-evaluated the calssification system to better fit today's understanding of these fields rather than continuing to shoehorn things in to the current filing system.
The problem is that Homosapien should not be a species, but a genus.
The individual "races" of humans should be different species.
I'd like to know what planet you live on, or what companies you purchase your products from. ALL first generation products have bugs, flaws, and poor design choices evident in them. This is unfortunately the reality in today's cuth-throat "get it to market now" society. I can't think of any first generation product that I've purchased and been 100% happy with, from something as inane as my toaster, through my iPod(5GB), camcorder, and current vehicle. With each and every one I can point out at least 10 things that should have been done differently or added to the device. Usually these items are addressed in the next model or via software/firmware updates.
If you expect any different in today's world, you will be sorely dissapointed throughout life.
I suggest you need to learn three things:
1. To wait for the next generation (and make suggestions to the manufacturer)
2. To cope with the issues because you live on the cutting edge
3. How to sell effectively on eBay. You get all the new hardware, and sell it off when the 2nd gen comes out, effectively leasing the product without any contractual obligations.