is that for the download of a free email client, Mozilla, none of these fake losses would be incurred.
The articles about losses from email worms consistenlty fail to adress the problem of crap email clients (or more correctly, THE crap email client) that causes this problem. They also give the same two pieces of advice, "use anti-virus software and dont open attachments", conspicuosly leaving out the most important advice: change your email client.
Is it because they are embarrassed that they use this same client, and havent got the brains to switch to Mozilla? How can they give advice to people to change email clients when they cant do it themselvs?
Hmmmm, this man is so offensive and serially wrong that you stopped buying the paper on the day he writes!
Printing a few articles because they are funny is one thing, but the evidence is that the editors do not understand that this man is a joke which is evidenced by the sort of article that we are talking about right now.
Keeping him on while he perpetually writes nonsense simply doesnt cut it; the other, clue purchased, writer you mentioned writes only occasionally, then there is Naughton who is probably not read as widely because his work appears in the vestigial Observer; either way, he is obviously not on the "consult before print" list.
The way you "do it" is get columnists who know what they are writing about to contribute regularly, and make sure that they are consulted so they can correct and doublecheck everything written by staffers related to their expertise before it appears in the paper.
For the record, I dont care that the Schofield article is about Linux. Its the fact that its factually upside down that is so...surprising.
The UK is in the middle of deciding if it will accept biometric passports and ID cards or not. The public, for better or worse, relies on papers like The Guardian to give them the information they need to make informed decisions. If Jack Schofield is the one who is deli^H^H^H filtering and munging this information, that is a BAD THING, and the editors at The Guardian clearly dont have anyone else (or anyone at all) that they call on to set their internet/computer stories straight - if they did, they could not have printed this BBC Google story in that form.
That is what the problem is the editors, true to form, are not paying attention. Just ask the guy who used to run Demon Internet, who was accuesd of porn crimes because his company ran USENET servers. His company and his life were almost destroyed because of newspaper people who CANT (or willfully refuse to) READ. That is wrong, and theres no two ways about it.
You shouldnt be surprised by this at all. Read this piece of trash that recently appeared in The Guardian. These people are internet and computer illiterates; nothing wrong with that, until of course you portray yourself as a source of correct information about this very important subject and the way it can influnce the flow of news.
What is amazing is that there is not one person on The Guardian's staff that can get the facts right when they write about anything related to the internet or computers, even on a most important and politically sensitive subject like this.
We need to remember that at the end of the day, The Guardian is just another newspaper. Whilst we may have applauded it for its recent coverage of the Iraq debacle, its still run by the same sort of people who run The Telegraph and The Times; Fleet Street Journalists - for whome "truth" and "accuracy" are just pawns on a chessboard.
Fujitsu have come out with a similar looking flexible display product.
It looks like we are going to get very light, very energy efficient displays, rsn. These might not be used in a flat form, but would be very useful in making hard cased laptops even lighter...or clipboard devices...its just amazing.
Re:Here are the IPs in question NO WAY!!!
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If there is a problem with plagarism it should be solved in a different way, and not with a system that presumes you are guilty, like this absurd, orwellian essay checker.
The scores that students get should be not only the result of a written paper, but of a viver, so that the teacher can be satisfied that the pupil is doing the work herself.
It has to be said tha a plague of plagarism might also be down to a lack of inspiration coming from the teaching staff. It should be abundantly clear to any student why they are in university, what the purpose of a course is and from that and inspirational guidance, the correct behaviour should emerge naturally.
The problem is not with cheating by immature students, but the messages they get from their environment and the people who know better. Putting in a system that says "we dont trust you" makes it worse.
So these scans were maybe too low res. Normally when counterfieters pass off false currency its in a bar or someplace where people arent paying attention, so it looks like these restrictions wont stop anything at all, since both those files could produce a note that was indistinguishable in poor lighting conditions. These new "features" were probably put in at the behest of "the feds".
All the old versions of Photoshop, especially 7, will now never ever go away.
Old style film repro gets to live a few more decades.
Counterfeit cash is here to stay. After all it only works if someone accepts it in return for goods and services. If that recieving person is dumb / untrained, thats all it takes to transform it into real money at the time of that one transaction. After that, the counterfieter doesnt care what happens to it.
Whos is to say that these sentient beings would want to do that at all? This seems to me to be anthropomorphism at its finest. Its the same "logic" used to discount the existance of other cultures in space.
The argument goes like this:
"An old culture would inevitably produce a machine that when launched into space would use whatever resources it could find to produce copies of itself that had the same capability. Since the galaxy is not filled with these machines, we can rule out the existance of such cultures"
Its nonsense of course, just as the supposition that an AI would want to reproduce is nonsense. It may be the case that an AI would want to make another copy of itself, but this is only a probability, not an inevitable event.
I would add that giving mankind rights, including the right to reproduce ad infinitum is a big problem. The human population is 1000 times bigger than it should be given the limitations of our environment. If anything, less rights are the order of the day, not more, if we are to live in a sustainable world. Either that, or education on a scale previously unimagined.
The quailty of black and white polaroid 4x5 is superb, and the negatives you could make from the product that produced a negative could be used to make high quality prints. This is why he used these products; they were and are of the highest quality; the coating to preserve the prints doesnt have an effect, if it is applied correctly.
Adams was also a careful archivist. He would have been, at the very least, concerned about preserving his work (the negatives or thier equivalent) for the future which as we all know, is a problem of digitally stored works.
He would have cautiously experimented with it, I think.
Edward Weston on the other hand, burned his negatives when he wanted to "clean out"; he would have gone digital for sure.
I dont like the way that threads appear to be addressed in this client; nested trees that drop down are intuitive, contextually and chronologically this looks counterintuitive at first glance, with messages in a thread appearing above AND below the root of the thread.
Once again, Mozilla does it better.
They spent ten years studying email; they would have done much better releasing this client and moulding it in line with the feedback that they get from tens of thousands of users. I think this is partly why Mozilla is such a pleasure to use; its built on the experience of many people folded into the development cycle over lots of iterations. When you have an insular group looking at a problem from only their own viewpoint, you get suboptimal results, and you end up with cumbersome features like the thread handling in this preview.
Ideally, they should be building this out of Mozilla in any case, for all the advantages this will bring to IBM and everyone everywhere.
Starium which has Whitfield Diffie as a director, worked on a phone to phone public key system for mobile phones, embedded in a chip, which, if the world worked right, would habve been installed by default in all cellular phones.
They now have a new product, the "The Starium 100" which looks like the land line solution we have all been waiting for.
The problem is the charging model
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The discussions have been going on for years in the comms newsgroups, and the consensus from below is that its insanity to try and charge by the amount of data you use. Still, 3G has been rolled out with precisely this charging model.
Everyone is already acclimated to flat rate charging for internet; the idea of having to watch how much you are using makes 3G unnatractive; you have to keep "looking over your shoulder", and you dread the size of your bill at the end of the month.
Combine this with no killer app in site, and you have a pretty unnatractive package. Texting hoever continues to grow and grow...but you know this.
If you s/simulation/illusion/ then the meat of your post is correct.
All of the effects you mention can be attributed to limited perception, and they are not a result of being in a simulation.
What needs to be done so solve this problem and draw a line under it is to find something, some natural effect that cannot be explained in any other terms other that that it is a part of a large, fine grained simulation....like the far away galaxies apearing razor sharp in telescopes; a backdrop for us to look at, put there by the architect!
Kazaa has broken some records for number of files downloaded. 229,150,955 is the "official" number.
Lets say that each of these users has an average of 200 MP3s on their machine.
That means that there are:
229,150,955 * 200 = 45,830,191,000
Fourty five billion, eight hundred and thirty million, one hundred and ninety one thousand MP3 files in the wild.
Apple is selling 125,000 files per day. It will take them 366,641.528 days or 1004 years to sell that many files with iTunes.
Apple has achieved these numbers because there is no viable p2p competition. On windoze there are alternatives to crippled files and paying.
These pay for music systems are doomed to failure as long as free files are available. And I mean free as in free to use as you like, as well as no money.
They make a commercial chain reaction of users switching to crippled DRM systems impossible.
No one with one even one brain cell will buy crippled files when they can get the real thing in two clicks; this is what has artificially propped up the iTunes service.
But you know this.
The only thing that would make this service cool would be to make the files non DRM, and high quality, just like buying the CD. But how likely is that? Not, is the answer.
The most intersting thing about these images now is the fact that they are not blurred:
This Nature article describes how....hmmm I had better quote:
"As a beam of starlight hops towards us through countless Planck times, its speed varies. This would smear the beam out so that different parts arrive at different times and distort our picture of where it came from. The longer the journey, the bigger the smear."
So that means that these deep Hubble photographs should all get more blurry the deeper you look and not razor sharp like we have come to love.
And on topic, we will never again see a legal release like "Paul's Boutique" because it costs too much to clear the samples. But there only needs to be one.
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is that for the download of a free email client, Mozilla, none of these fake losses would be incurred.
The articles about losses from email worms consistenlty fail to adress the problem of crap email clients (or more correctly, THE crap email client) that causes this problem. They also give the same two pieces of advice, "use anti-virus software and dont open attachments", conspicuosly leaving out the most important advice: change your email client.
Is it because they are embarrassed that they use this same client, and havent got the brains to switch to Mozilla? How can they give advice to people to change email clients when they cant do it themselvs?
Hmmmm, this man is so offensive and serially wrong that you stopped buying the paper on the day he writes!
Printing a few articles because they are funny is one thing, but the evidence is that the editors do not understand that this man is a joke which is evidenced by the sort of article that we are talking about right now.
Keeping him on while he perpetually writes nonsense simply doesnt cut it; the other, clue purchased, writer you mentioned writes only occasionally, then there is Naughton who is probably not read as widely because his work appears in the vestigial Observer; either way, he is obviously not on the "consult before print" list.
The way you "do it" is get columnists who know what they are writing about to contribute regularly, and make sure that they are consulted so they can correct and doublecheck everything written by staffers related to their expertise before it appears in the paper.
For the record, I dont care that the Schofield article is about Linux. Its the fact that its factually upside down that is so...surprising.
The UK is in the middle of deciding if it will accept biometric passports and ID cards or not. The public, for better or worse, relies on papers like The Guardian to give them the information they need to make informed decisions. If Jack Schofield is the one who is deli^H^H^H filtering and munging this information, that is a BAD THING, and the editors at The Guardian clearly dont have anyone else (or anyone at all) that they call on to set their internet/computer stories straight - if they did, they could not have printed this BBC Google story in that form.
That is what the problem is the editors, true to form, are not paying attention. Just ask the guy who used to run Demon Internet, who was accuesd of porn crimes because his company ran USENET servers. His company and his life were almost destroyed because of newspaper people who CANT (or willfully refuse to) READ. That is wrong, and theres no two ways about it.
You shouldnt be surprised by this at all. Read this piece of trash that recently appeared in The Guardian. These people are internet and computer illiterates; nothing wrong with that, until of course you portray yourself as a source of correct information about this very important subject and the way it can influnce the flow of news.
What is amazing is that there is not one person on The Guardian's staff that can get the facts right when they write about anything related to the internet or computers, even on a most important and politically sensitive subject like this.
We need to remember that at the end of the day, The Guardian is just another newspaper. Whilst we may have applauded it for its recent coverage of the Iraq debacle, its still run by the same sort of people who run The Telegraph and The Times; Fleet Street Journalists - for whome "truth" and "accuracy" are just pawns on a chessboard.
Fujitsu have come out with a similar looking flexible display product.
It looks like we are going to get very light, very energy efficient displays, rsn. These might not be used in a flat form, but would be very useful in making hard cased laptops even lighter...or clipboard devices...its just amazing.
I almost fell off of my chair:
http://128.111.80.86/
Points to....wait for it.....
"Asset Protection at UCSB"
Too good to be true!!
If there is a problem with plagarism it should be solved in a different way, and not with a system that presumes you are guilty, like this absurd, orwellian essay checker.
The scores that students get should be not only the result of a written paper, but of a viver, so that the teacher can be satisfied that the pupil is doing the work herself.
It has to be said tha a plague of plagarism might also be down to a lack of inspiration coming from the teaching staff. It should be abundantly clear to any student why they are in university, what the purpose of a course is and from that and inspirational guidance, the correct behaviour should emerge naturally.
The problem is not with cheating by immature students, but the messages they get from their environment and the people who know better. Putting in a system that says "we dont trust you" makes it worse.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
Hmmmm I tried opening this file with CS and it worked.
I tried it with this file and it also worked.
So these scans were maybe too low res. Normally when counterfieters pass off false currency its in a bar or someplace where people arent paying attention, so it looks like these restrictions wont stop anything at all, since both those files could produce a note that was indistinguishable in poor lighting conditions. These new "features" were probably put in at the behest of "the feds".
This means a coupla things:
Mo more high res Parodies
All the old versions of Photoshop, especially 7, will now never ever go away.
Old style film repro gets to live a few more decades.
Counterfeit cash is here to stay. After all it only works if someone accepts it in return for goods and services. If that recieving person is dumb / untrained, thats all it takes to transform it into real money at the time of that one transaction. After that, the counterfieter doesnt care what happens to it.
Whos is to say that these sentient beings would want to do that at all? This seems to me to be anthropomorphism at its finest. Its the same "logic" used to discount the existance of other cultures in space.
The argument goes like this:
"An old culture would inevitably produce a machine that when launched into space would use whatever resources it could find to produce copies of itself that had the same capability. Since the galaxy is not filled with these machines, we can rule out the existance of such cultures"
Its nonsense of course, just as the supposition that an AI would want to reproduce is nonsense. It may be the case that an AI would want to make another copy of itself, but this is only a probability, not an inevitable event.
I would add that giving mankind rights, including the right to reproduce ad infinitum is a big problem. The human population is 1000 times bigger than it should be given the limitations of our environment. If anything, less rights are the order of the day, not more, if we are to live in a sustainable world. Either that, or education on a scale previously unimagined.
I would prefer the latter.
Sorry Sony, but the USA beat you to it again!
The RIAA writes the copyright laws.
The Direct Marketing Association writes the SPAM laws.
The Rapists write the sex laws.
The Breweries write the alocohol laws.
Way to go legislators, leading the people into a safer future!
The quailty of black and white polaroid 4x5 is superb, and the negatives you could make from the product that produced a negative could be used to make high quality prints. This is why he used these products; they were and are of the highest quality; the coating to preserve the prints doesnt have an effect, if it is applied correctly.
Adams was also a careful archivist. He would have been, at the very least, concerned about preserving his work (the negatives or thier equivalent) for the future which as we all know, is a problem of digitally stored works.
He would have cautiously experimented with it, I think.
Edward Weston on the other hand, burned his negatives when he wanted to "clean out"; he would have gone digital for sure.
which came from here
and its of course the famous painting from the Sistine Chapel.
Uncut conceit. Period.
The banner image on the http://crforum.org/ site says everything about what the companies involved think about themselvs.
They are living in a dream world. And that is a good thing.
I dont like the way that threads appear to be addressed in this client; nested trees that drop down are intuitive, contextually and chronologically this looks counterintuitive at first glance, with messages in a thread appearing above AND below the root of the thread.
Once again, Mozilla does it better.
They spent ten years studying email; they would have done much better releasing this client and moulding it in line with the feedback that they get from tens of thousands of users. I think this is partly why Mozilla is such a pleasure to use; its built on the experience of many people folded into the development cycle over lots of iterations. When you have an insular group looking at a problem from only their own viewpoint, you get suboptimal results, and you end up with cumbersome features like the thread handling in this preview.
Ideally, they should be building this out of Mozilla in any case, for all the advantages this will bring to IBM and everyone everywhere.
The trademark office doenst care if the chicken or the egg came first, which is the point.
It, like IANAL is an Acronym.
"Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture" = FEDORA.
Decapped, it becomes "Fedora".
And there you have it, "Fedora" is trademarkable.
Trademarkable is not an English language word.
get product reviews
Forget product reviews, comparing prices are the application.
[shopkeeper]
So, I am going to let you into my store with your mobile, so that you can check to see if my prices are lower two doors away...
Riiiiiiight.
[/shopkeeper]
Starium which has Whitfield Diffie as a director, worked on a phone to phone public key system for mobile phones, embedded in a chip, which, if the world worked right, would habve been installed by default in all cellular phones.
They now have a new product, the "The Starium 100" which looks like the land line solution we have all been waiting for.
The discussions have been going on for years in the comms newsgroups, and the consensus from below is that its insanity to try and charge by the amount of data you use. Still, 3G has been rolled out with precisely this charging model.
Everyone is already acclimated to flat rate charging for internet; the idea of having to watch how much you are using makes 3G unnatractive; you have to keep "looking over your shoulder", and you dread the size of your bill at the end of the month.
Combine this with no killer app in site, and you have a pretty unnatractive package. Texting hoever continues to grow and grow...but you know this.
some examples:
If you s/simulation/illusion/ then the meat of your post is correct.
All of the effects you mention can be attributed to limited perception, and they are not a result of being in a simulation.
What needs to be done so solve this problem and draw a line under it is to find something, some natural effect that cannot be explained in any other terms other that that it is a part of a large, fine grained simulation....like the far away galaxies apearing razor sharp in telescopes; a backdrop for us to look at, put there by the architect!
750 Million dollars in settlement (that they had to pay anyway); 21 million AOLers potentially stopped from switching to a mozilla based AOL.
Hmmmm some bad math coming:
$750m / 21mAOLers = $35.71 for each AOL user to be locked into IE, spread over 5 years = $7 each.
Thats a bargain. Let off the hook from the lawsuit, and M$ pays 5 bux per head to possibly kill off mass adoption of mozilla.
Genius. Pure Genius!
Kazaa has broken some records for number of files downloaded. 229,150,955 is the "official" number.
:
Lets say that each of these users has an average of 200 MP3s on their machine.
That means that there are
229,150,955 * 200 = 45,830,191,000
Fourty five billion, eight hundred and thirty million, one hundred and ninety one thousand MP3 files in the wild.
Apple is selling 125,000 files per day. It will take them 366,641.528 days or 1004 years to sell that many files with iTunes.
Apple has achieved these numbers because there is no viable p2p competition. On windoze there are alternatives to crippled files and paying.
These pay for music systems are doomed to failure as long as free files are available. And I mean free as in free to use as you like, as well as no money.
They make a commercial chain reaction of users switching to crippled DRM systems impossible.
No one with one even one brain cell will buy crippled files when they can get the real thing in two clicks; this is what has artificially propped up the iTunes service.
But you know this.
The only thing that would make this service cool would be to make the files non DRM, and high quality, just like buying the CD. But how likely is that? Not, is the answer.
The most intersting thing about these images now is the fact that they are not blurred:
This Nature article describes how....hmmm I had better quote:
"As a beam of starlight hops towards us through countless Planck times, its speed varies. This would smear the beam out so that different parts arrive at different times and distort our picture of where it came from. The longer the journey, the bigger the smear."
So that means that these deep Hubble photographs should all get more blurry the deeper you look and not razor sharp like we have come to love.
Its a fascinating problem!
Hip-hop was
Past tense; so what is Hip-Hop now?
And on topic, we will never again see a legal release like "Paul's Boutique" because it costs too much to clear the samples. But there only needs to be one.