There's obviously something wrong with the music industry. How can so many musicians get so rich?
Hopefully the end result of the mp3 movement will be that musicians start earning a realistic salary.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Hmmm... You've got to admit that the US do tend to protect their own interests rather too avidly.
IRAQ invades KUWAIT. Oh no! We can't let that happen! It's immoral for one country to invade another!
US invades PANAMA (Operation Just Cause) and GRENADA (Operation Urgent Fury). That's alright though. They were just protecting themselves from threats so it's fine to kill people.
Protect your country from threats - mod this down.
http://www.execpc.com/~forpolcy/PANAMWEB.HTML
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/history/justcaus. pdf
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/history/urgfury.p df
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Re:Linux Replaces Tom Cruise!
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Unh? When did they make a Linux powered vibrator? ... .. .
*shoots himself*
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
To be honest I thought the last sentance was your sig and didn't read it. Can't take my comment back though which sucks cause re-read your comment and laughed (at your comment and my fsck-up) Oh well. Sorry about that.:-(
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
[Scathing Sarcasm] Oh yeah! Great counter argument! You have proved conclusively that a world with coporate research is a bad thing(tm). [End Scathing Sarcasm]
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
So you manage to prove that data retrieval using light is viable but how viable is the storage medium? It won't be any good having a brilliant information retrieval tool if you loose the data every time you have to reboot or if the storage medium requires 1 square cm per bit.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
To search the database, Walmsley directs a beam of light toward the modulator. The light is first split into two, with one part traveling through a prism so that a rainbow of different frequencies of light shines on the modulator. Each frequency shines through a different compressed or expanded part of the tellurium dioxide, which bends that frequency of light the way a straw appears bent when sticking out of a glass of water. The rainbow of frequencies is then recombined into a single beam. By mixing the new beam with the original beam that entered the device, a single frequency will emerge as having been altered by its trip through the database.
Doesn't the beam of light have to contain the data that the user is looking for so that the match can be made? How is the data encoded into the light and how much data can be encoded? Guess I need more info. It kinda strikes me that all that guy is doing is using the 2d method of storage and the availability of air as a transmission medium for light to establish a connection to EACH section of the data storage medium. What's that got to do with quantum computing.
Urgh. I'm feeling rather confused today.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
To overcome this unknown force NASA should put a web server on board the spacecraft and then link to it from/. The hits received from the/. effect would greatly overcome any unknown force.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
"As I stated in another post, I believe the 13 year old who killed himself did so in large part because he was sheltered and raised within a context that was at odds with the world he lived in. I've known quite a few people whose parents came here from other countries and all of them were raised as if they were still living in those countries. I think this is what was happening with that poor kid. His world collapsed when he disappointed his parents because he was taught from a young age to always honor and obey his parents, etc. etc. Chances are he really did believe he was going to jail since he wasn't street smart enough to know better."
Do you realise that every single sentance up to here is a supposition and/or personal belief? With all these great suppositions and possibilities how can you draw the following conclusion?... "He wasn't street smart because his parents sheltered him from anything that might teach him to be."
Well following the format of your argument... here's an alternative version. (Disclaimer - I absolutely DO NOT believe the following scenario is factual or possible.)
"I believe the 13 year old who killed himself did so in large part because he was mentally abused by the American Shool system. I've known quite a few children who have suffered the same kind of abuse from shools. I know many situations where the punishment was far to severe for the offense. I think this is what happened with that poor kid. This poor kid lived in a calm environment and was suddenly verbally and mentally abused by the teachers. Chances are he really did believe he was going to jail since he wasn't a regular offender. As a first time offender his punishment should have been lighter.To conclude: the american education system killed him."
Oh and by the way - what is this shit? --
The truth is that we are not a product of our genes, nor are we a product of our environment. Rather we are a product of how we choose to deal with our genes and our environment.
That is not the truth. That is your belief. The truth is that you have provided no evidence whatsoever for your belief. In fact if you think about it enough, you might realise that our choices are defined and limited by our genes and environment which means that our genes and environment do partially define who we are.
I thought you comment about copyright very interesting but this is just plain shoddy crap.
Yours regretfully,
P14cid0
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Being from the UK I wasn't too sure where the North Slope was... well I knew it was in the North (duh!) but I didn't know how big it was or what... so for other non-US citizens...
Oh yes my anonymous friend. A spade is a spade. You're going to use your spade to dig your grave and I'm going to use my spade to pound your trollish head into a pulp. Both of us will get life sentances but you get let off on time served.
P.S. Amazing Troll - I'm actually a bit furious!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
What does your comment have to do with the story? According to the article the kid was good at karate and breast stroke. He played the violin (nobody said wether he was good or not) and he liked computers (nobody said wether he was good or not). Granted we can assume a modicum of intelligence but nowhere does it state wether this kid was in the top or bottom 2%.
You know I see this everywhere. An article is written with the basic facts and the average Joe assumes pratically everything under the sun, goes with the political and social bias of the day (i.e. Society vs. Geeks - Society is at fault, geeks always right), and start throwing blame before the facts are known.
There are so many possibilities in this story that it is useless pointing blame. The Father drove the Kid home. He could have been very hard on the Kid accusing him of failure and threatening him with jail. The parents could have been pushing the kid too hard towards excellence (Karate, violin and swimming??), the school could have threatened him severely (doesn't seem that likely compared with the possibility of over demanding parents) or he could have just had a screw loose which is kinda likely seeing as the kid was brave enough to commit suicide (ever tried it? - really scary) yet too scared to face punishment.
*takes a step back* Damn! *shakes head* Took his own life at thirteen. Poor kid.
Anyway - Basically there's nothing to say about this article except that IF the kid wasn't unhinged then someone came down on him too hard.
Even that statement is just speculation.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
That was a really well written article. *pleasently suprised* I'm not actually too hot on Hardware but I understood most of that article. The last few pages detailing Athlon's roadmap was quite interesting.
I've also been thinking, You know you've hit the big time when any and every performance test for hardware uses your software.
Some interesting numbers to quote from AMD include a 6% advantage under Quake III Arena...
Anyway just thought I'd pass this useless thought on to the/. community.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Michison and Jozsa describe a scheme for probing all the possible states of a quantum computer, including that in which all the 'switches' are 'off' -- that is, in which the computer is not turned on.
The bold bit is where my poor linear, state based brain fails. What's doing the probing? Won't that object have to be turned on? I don't understand.:-(
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
There's a gap between the wing and the flaps because it reduces turbulence. If there wasn't any gap there would be a huge amount of wind resistance and turbulence creating severe problems for the flight of the aircraft. The gap also allows the air from the bottom of the wing to flow over the top of the flaps creating extra lift.
Types of Flaps
Flaps come in several varieties:
Plain flaps are mounted on simple hinges. The trailing edge of the wing simply pivots downward. Plain flaps are common on small aircraft because they're simple and inexpensive.
Split flaps hang down from the trailing edge of the wing, but the top surface of the wing doesn't move.
Slotted flaps work much like plain flaps. But they leave a gap between the flap and the wing, allowing air to flow from the bottom of the wing over the top surface of the flap. This airflow dramatically increases lift at low airspeed.
Fowler flaps are the most complicated and efficient arrangement. They move backward and downward as they're deployed, increasing both the wing's area and its curvature. Large jet aircraft usually have Fowler flaps.
There's also leading edge flaps which are cool.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
I'm not going to attempt to answer all of your points listed above. Just the first one.
Aren't you supposed to design an application before implemnting it in any way including putting data in a DB?
Yes you are. The data for the application should be analysed and the database designed around the data. Unfortunately in the real world dumb ass managers and accountants are <%do while foresight < average%>very, very, very <loop> reluctant to spend alot of money on the proper design and development of systems. Not only does this prevent the use of expensive-to-implement and expensive-to-support products but it also means that system designers do not have the time/budget to forsee all the changes that the data will go through. This means that almost every single database is not configured correctly and goes through many schema changes in it's lifetime. As with everything in life it is a balance between financial limitations and desired result.
Talking about financial limitations and desired end result, I desired a porsche but financial limitations prevented this... all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
First off we are NOT tying our software into treaties and contracts. How can any one person sell open-source. Open-source is bigger that individuals. Think of it as a big organism and we are the individual cells that make up that organism. Can you or me decide where that organism goes? No. Open-source is a community and will respond only to communal wants and needs.
Now listen to this very carefully... the open-source community has no money. In the next couple of decades things are going to get very very hot in the courts and specific individuals in our community are going to need protection. If a company stole my software, patented it and then threatened me for patent infringment, would YOU give me the money I need to protect myself? In fact would any of you reading this give me the money?
So far our strength lies in numbers (and average IQ) but there will come a time when we need the clout that comes from a community joined. The best way to accomplish this at this moment in time is to tentatively ally with select companies. We've got nothing too lose. How is a company going to take anything from us? We give it away freely anyway.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
I dunno. I was thinking of a year. It would actually be quite hilarious to see what would happen if a short-term patent was introduced for software. I can just imagine the frenzy of development and patent applications by large coporations! And they would have to patent because we can duplicate any software innovation in the time it takes to say, "copy *.*" (whoa - my roots in DOS have just reared their ugly heads)
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
What we all want is an environment friendly high-performance car. So I went looking on the web for environment friendly power sources. And guess what I found! A completely clean powersource which can give me 22g of acceleration!! YES FOLKS, IT'S THE SCRAMJET POWERED CAR!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
This is important. Please note that open source software does not require that you give your software away for free. You are quite free to develop it for a significant price, making all your profit from this development. Microsoft seems to ignore this.
Awesome! I spotted that same point but in a different way.
Quoting from the article: "In this sense, open source software based on the GPL mirrors the.com business models that proved the least successful during the past year."
But that is only true if the software is being developed for commercial reasons. The whole argument actually spins on that sentance. Cheeky buggers!;-)
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Slashdot Mirror
There's obviously something wrong with the music industry. How can so many musicians get so rich? Hopefully the end result of the mp3 movement will be that musicians start earning a realistic salary.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Hmmm... You've got to admit that the US do tend to protect their own interests rather too avidly.
. pdfp df
IRAQ invades KUWAIT. Oh no! We can't let that happen! It's immoral for one country to invade another!
US invades PANAMA (Operation Just Cause) and GRENADA (Operation Urgent Fury). That's alright though. They were just protecting themselves from threats so it's fine to kill people.
Protect your country from threats - mod this down. http://www.execpc.com/~forpolcy/PANAMWEB.HTML
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/history/justcaus
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/history/urgfury.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Unh? When did they make a Linux powered vibrator?
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..
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*shoots himself*
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
To be honest I thought the last sentance was your sig and didn't read it. Can't take my comment back though which sucks cause re-read your comment and laughed (at your comment and my fsck-up) Oh well. Sorry about that. :-(
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
[Scathing Sarcasm]
Oh yeah! Great counter argument! You have proved conclusively that a world with coporate research is a bad thing(tm).
[End Scathing Sarcasm]
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
So you manage to prove that data retrieval using light is viable but how viable is the storage medium? It won't be any good having a brilliant information retrieval tool if you loose the data every time you have to reboot or if the storage medium requires 1 square cm per bit.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
To search the database, Walmsley directs a beam of light toward the modulator. The light is first split into two, with one part traveling through a prism so that a rainbow of different frequencies of light shines on the modulator. Each frequency shines through a different compressed or expanded part of the tellurium dioxide, which bends that frequency of light the way a straw appears bent when sticking out of a glass of water. The rainbow of frequencies is then recombined into a single beam. By mixing the new beam with the original beam that entered the device, a single frequency will emerge as having been altered by its trip through the database.
Doesn't the beam of light have to contain the data that the user is looking for so that the match can be made? How is the data encoded into the light and how much data can be encoded? Guess I need more info. It kinda strikes me that all that guy is doing is using the 2d method of storage and the availability of air as a transmission medium for light to establish a connection to EACH section of the data storage medium. What's that got to do with quantum computing.
Urgh. I'm feeling rather confused today.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
To overcome this unknown force NASA should put a web server on board the spacecraft and then link to it from /. The hits received from the /. effect would greatly overcome any unknown force.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
That is complete and utter bollocks.
... "He wasn't street smart because his parents sheltered him from anything that might teach him to be."
"As I stated in another post, I believe the 13 year old who killed himself did so in large part because he was sheltered and raised within a context that was at odds with the world he lived in. I've known quite a few people whose parents came here from other countries and all of them were raised as if they were still living in those countries. I think this is what was happening with that poor kid. His world collapsed when he disappointed his parents because he was taught from a young age to always honor and obey his parents, etc. etc. Chances are he really did believe he was going to jail since he wasn't street smart enough to know better."
Do you realise that every single sentance up to here is a supposition and/or personal belief? With all these great suppositions and possibilities how can you draw the following conclusion?
Well following the format of your argument... here's an alternative version. (Disclaimer - I absolutely DO NOT believe the following scenario is factual or possible.)
"I believe the 13 year old who killed himself did so in large part because he was mentally abused by the American Shool system. I've known quite a few children who have suffered the same kind of abuse from shools. I know many situations where the punishment was far to severe for the offense. I think this is what happened with that poor kid. This poor kid lived in a calm environment and was suddenly verbally and mentally abused by the teachers. Chances are he really did believe he was going to jail since he wasn't a regular offender. As a first time offender his punishment should have been lighter.To conclude: the american education system killed him."
Oh and by the way - what is this shit? --
The truth is that we are not a product of our genes, nor are we a product of our environment. Rather we are a product of how we choose to deal with our genes and our environment.
That is not the truth. That is your belief. The truth is that you have provided no evidence whatsoever for your belief. In fact if you think about it enough, you might realise that our choices are defined and limited by our genes and environment which means that our genes and environment do partially define who we are.
I thought you comment about copyright very interesting but this is just plain shoddy crap.
Yours regretfully, P14cid0
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Didn't know that. Thanks!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Being from the UK I wasn't too sure where the North Slope was... well I knew it was in the North (duh!) but I didn't know how big it was or what... so for other non-US citizens...
I solemnly give you...
The North Coast
It's pretty damn big! Where exactly in that wilderness are they thinking of putting this server farm?
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
More likely pressure from parents to be perfect above all.
I agree. Karate, Swimming and Violin? *looks doubtful* Anyway, it's impossible to say much about this article without more facts.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Oh yes my anonymous friend. A spade is a spade. You're going to use your spade to dig your grave and I'm going to use my spade to pound your trollish head into a pulp. Both of us will get life sentances but you get let off on time served.
P.S. Amazing Troll - I'm actually a bit furious!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
What does your comment have to do with the story? According to the article the kid was good at karate and breast stroke. He played the violin (nobody said wether he was good or not) and he liked computers (nobody said wether he was good or not). Granted we can assume a modicum of intelligence but nowhere does it state wether this kid was in the top or bottom 2%.
You know I see this everywhere. An article is written with the basic facts and the average Joe assumes pratically everything under the sun, goes with the political and social bias of the day (i.e. Society vs. Geeks - Society is at fault, geeks always right), and start throwing blame before the facts are known.
There are so many possibilities in this story that it is useless pointing blame. The Father drove the Kid home. He could have been very hard on the Kid accusing him of failure and threatening him with jail. The parents could have been pushing the kid too hard towards excellence (Karate, violin and swimming??), the school could have threatened him severely (doesn't seem that likely compared with the possibility of over demanding parents) or he could have just had a screw loose which is kinda likely seeing as the kid was brave enough to commit suicide (ever tried it? - really scary) yet too scared to face punishment.
*takes a step back* Damn! *shakes head* Took his own life at thirteen. Poor kid.
Anyway - Basically there's nothing to say about this article except that IF the kid wasn't unhinged then someone came down on him too hard.
Even that statement is just speculation.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
That was a really well written article. *pleasently suprised* I'm not actually too hot on Hardware but I understood most of that article. The last few pages detailing Athlon's roadmap was quite interesting.
/. community.
I've also been thinking, You know you've hit the big time when any and every performance test for hardware uses your software.
Some interesting numbers to quote from AMD include a 6% advantage under Quake III Arena...
Anyway just thought I'd pass this useless thought on to the
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
RTFB actually
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Michison and Jozsa describe a scheme for probing all the possible states of a quantum computer, including that in which all the 'switches' are 'off' -- that is, in which the computer is not turned on.
:-(
The bold bit is where my poor linear, state based brain fails. What's doing the probing? Won't that object have to be turned on? I don't understand.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Types of Flaps
Flaps come in several varieties:
There's also leading edge flaps which are cool.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
I'm not going to attempt to answer all of your points listed above. Just the first one.
Aren't you supposed to design an application before implemnting it in any way including putting data in a DB?
Yes you are. The data for the application should be analysed and the database designed around the data. Unfortunately in the real world dumb ass managers and accountants are <%do while foresight < average%>very, very, very <loop> reluctant to spend alot of money on the proper design and development of systems. Not only does this prevent the use of expensive-to-implement and expensive-to-support products but it also means that system designers do not have the time/budget to forsee all the changes that the data will go through. This means that almost every single database is not configured correctly and goes through many schema changes in it's lifetime. As with everything in life it is a balance between financial limitations and desired result.
Talking about financial limitations and desired end result, I desired a porsche but financial limitations prevented this... all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Moderators mod parent down! That link is WORSE than goatse!
Sacrificing Karma to preserve innocence
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
omfg! rotflmao! Ohhh my sides hurt!
I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less.
That has got to go in a hall of fame somewhere!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
First off we are NOT tying our software into treaties and contracts. How can any one person sell open-source. Open-source is bigger that individuals. Think of it as a big organism and we are the individual cells that make up that organism. Can you or me decide where that organism goes? No. Open-source is a community and will respond only to communal wants and needs.
Now listen to this very carefully... the open-source community has no money. In the next couple of decades things are going to get very very hot in the courts and specific individuals in our community are going to need protection. If a company stole my software, patented it and then threatened me for patent infringment, would YOU give me the money I need to protect myself? In fact would any of you reading this give me the money?
So far our strength lies in numbers (and average IQ) but there will come a time when we need the clout that comes from a community joined. The best way to accomplish this at this moment in time is to tentatively ally with select companies. We've got nothing too lose. How is a company going to take anything from us? We give it away freely anyway.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
With a short-term patent, say 3 years at most
I dunno. I was thinking of a year. It would actually be quite hilarious to see what would happen if a short-term patent was introduced for software. I can just imagine the frenzy of development and patent applications by large coporations! And they would have to patent because we can duplicate any software innovation in the time it takes to say, "copy *.*" (whoa - my roots in DOS have just reared their ugly heads)
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
What we all want is an environment friendly high-performance car. So I went looking on the web for environment friendly power sources. And guess what I found! A completely clean powersource which can give me 22g of acceleration!! YES FOLKS, IT'S THE SCRAMJET POWERED CAR!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
This is important. Please note that open source software does not require that you give your software away for free. You are quite free to develop it for a significant price, making all your profit from this development. Microsoft seems to ignore this.
.com business models that proved the least successful during the past year."
;-)
Awesome! I spotted that same point but in a different way.
Quoting from the article: "In this sense, open source software based on the GPL mirrors the
But that is only true if the software is being developed for commercial reasons. The whole argument actually spins on that sentance. Cheeky buggers!
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"