This is nonsense. Perfect Black Holes can't exist,
and the event horizon cannot be passed, since for all outside observers, everything that happens near the event horizon happens like infinitely slow, so nothing ever hits the black hole.
As I understand it, Napster is refusing to install any kind of mechanism (as req. by RIAA) for report ( and, possibly, detecting ) of [copyright] infringements and the subsequent removal/blocking of such material.
To me, this essentially means Napster understands itself as a vehicle to distribute copyrighted without paying.
The unsettling thing is that Napster can make case law this way, and later judges may not be alert enough to pick out the difference in operation of another internet music mall operating by The Law.
Summary: Napster spoils it for you.
There a lots of possible global disasters that may not be deadly, but could drive the population far below what is needed to do space exploration and settling. These come to my mind, and a new one is found every month (usually talking in terms of Dinosaur extinction, but that could apply to Man too):
Volcanoes cause sharp temperature drop.
For example, YellowStone park was featured recently as one big volcano.
Deadly virus affecting man.
Deadly virus affecting food chain.
Deadly funghi or other bacteria become predominant life form.
Deadly Methane stored in ocean floors is released in a big blurp.
Global temperature rises, causing unfriendly desert climate all over world.
Meteorite hits Earth.
The sun goes super-nova earlier than expected, or changes it's class.
evil swarming aliens(tm) conquer Earth
the internet uses all energy on Earth, leaving none for other activity.
capitalists who earn their money as body builders become the predominant life form.
I subscribe to the theory that we are the product of an interferring race that came down and genetically engineered us from apes way back when.
Well I think they the aliens actually might have been the martians. Unfortunately, we are repeating martian history and blowing off parts of our atmosphere with global warming;-)
You don't need an infinite number of universes to make the Weak Anthropic Principle work.
It just states that it is pointless to ask "Does intelligent life exist in the Universe ?" since we already know the answer to that question for Earth and Earth is part of the Universe.
(I always find it funny when I see that sentence as a title line. )
The question should be: Are we alone ? Is Earth unique ?
Well there is some quote by marx that goes like:
The miner produces coal, the thief produces policemen,
[to continue it: ]
the music pirate produces internet legislation
You guys are as much cause of the problem as the music industry. You don't play fair either.
[Apart from that]
Any ISP blocking Napster or ftp should be barred from calling itself an ISP and be sued by other companies(offering full direct IP) for unfair competition, since he is only offering a subset of the services he is advertising, no real internet access. (Its like my fucking netsurf.de provider who has been offering only www access and email, but no direct IP)... like the wave running up the beach..
Simply asked, if NVIDIA is cramming so much in their GPU, which is about to be challenged by Intel P4, would they be able to react by bringing out a central processing unit ?
That is a nice module.
But THE programming language to use will be prolog, because it already works by the paradigm
that would be used to program quantum computer:
describe the rules behind the problem,
fix those variables you know, and the solution finds itself.
Anyone who has tried to get 3 programs for Windows 2000 get to work together after upgrading one of the programs can just have a laugh at this article. Getting to work anything more complicated than a single program on Windows is just as obscure and complicated as editing source in linux.
Even a single windows program feature can be impossible to reproduce when u forgot just where that ****ing checkbox for it was.
It really depends how much you value platform independence versus features.
Html is standard ( at least if you test it with more than type of browser ). You can try to use Html for everything, but that will make your search facility more like the index of a book.
If you want dynamic content, you might want to ship the CD with a webserver, like apache( as binaries for the most popular platforms, maybe source too). Perl as a language is available for all platform but you will have to provide binaries for popular platforms on the CD. ( Of course other languages (python, java, apache+php) could do the job as well. ).
Alternatively, you could use java or python without a browser to write platform independent applications. Might look better, but is more work, and not on all platforms a java virtual machine is often installed.
For the data, you can use either tabular for more (columns separated by tabulators, and a header row naming the columns in front ), or an sql database dump. Database dumps sometimes contain extra information or idioms that are hard to read into other databases, but you can avoid that with a little caution. Tabular format can be imported into a lot of databases too, with moderate work effort, or none.
Napster will loose the legal battle if they argue dissemination of work copyrighted by others is legal because you are allowed to make copies for private use at home. If looked at the websites for napster and gnutella and it seems they prominently advertise the use of their technology for pirating music. While gnutella can get away with this, because in their case each user is responsible for what gnutella does, this is not an option for napster. Napster is profiting from the mp3 stored illegaly on their server. Don't come with the argument you only want to hear legal music. Even on this forum users expressed their interest to hear works of labelled artists.
If at all, stuff like napster should receive protection similar to that granted under Safe Harbour Statues, and have similar duties, like a way to file which files should be killed. Another way might be to store the music in encrypted format, making it the responsibility of the key distributor that reading the file is legal.
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This is nonsense. Perfect Black Holes can't exist, and the event horizon cannot be passed, since for all outside observers, everything that happens near the event horizon happens like infinitely slow, so nothing ever hits the black hole.
Maybe he means two black holes that just happen to be in the same spot in the sky but at vastly different distances ?
-nt
As I understand it, Napster is refusing to install any kind of mechanism (as req. by RIAA) for report ( and, possibly, detecting ) of [copyright] infringements and the subsequent removal/blocking of such material. To me, this essentially means Napster understands itself as a vehicle to distribute copyrighted without paying. The unsettling thing is that Napster can make case law this way, and later judges may not be alert enough to pick out the difference in operation of another internet music mall operating by The Law. Summary: Napster spoils it for you.
I subscribe to the theory that we are the product of an interferring race that came down and genetically engineered us from apes way back when. Well I think they the aliens actually might have been the martians. Unfortunately, we are repeating martian history and blowing off parts of our atmosphere with global warming ;-)
You don't need an infinite number of universes to make the Weak Anthropic Principle work. It just states that it is pointless to ask "Does intelligent life exist in the Universe ?" since we already know the answer to that question for Earth and Earth is part of the Universe. (I always find it funny when I see that sentence as a title line. ) The question should be: Are we alone ? Is Earth unique ?
Well there is some quote by marx that goes like: The miner produces coal, the thief produces policemen, [to continue it: ] the music pirate produces internet legislation You guys are as much cause of the problem as the music industry. You don't play fair either. [Apart from that] Any ISP blocking Napster or ftp should be barred from calling itself an ISP and be sued by other companies(offering full direct IP) for unfair competition, since he is only offering a subset of the services he is advertising, no real internet access. (Its like my fucking netsurf.de provider who has been offering only www access and email, but no direct IP). .. like the wave running up the beach ..
Simply asked, if NVIDIA is cramming so much in their GPU, which is about to be challenged by Intel P4, would they be able to react by bringing out a central processing unit ?
-nt
So, would the garden change gender depending on whether it refers to a man's, um, garden, or a woman's ?
That is a nice module. But THE programming language to use will be prolog, because it already works by the paradigm that would be used to program quantum computer: describe the rules behind the problem, fix those variables you know, and the solution finds itself.
Anyone who has tried to get 3 programs for Windows 2000 get to work together after upgrading one of the programs can just have a laugh at this article. Getting to work anything more complicated than a single program on Windows is just as obscure and complicated as editing source in linux.
Even a single windows program feature can be impossible to reproduce when u forgot just where that ****ing checkbox for it was.
Html is standard ( at least if you test it with more than type of browser ). You can try to use Html for everything, but that will make your search facility more like the index of a book.
If you want dynamic content, you might want to ship the CD with a webserver, like apache( as binaries for the most popular platforms, maybe source too).
Perl as a language is available for all platform but you will have to provide binaries for popular platforms on the CD. ( Of course other languages (python, java, apache+php) could do the job as well. ).
Alternatively, you could use java or python without a browser to write platform independent applications. Might look better, but is more work, and not on all platforms a java virtual machine is often installed.
For the data, you can use either tabular for more (columns separated by tabulators, and a header row naming the columns in front ), or an sql database dump. Database dumps sometimes contain extra information or idioms that are hard to read into other databases, but you can avoid that with a little caution. Tabular format can be imported into a lot of databases too, with moderate work effort, or none.
If looked at the websites for napster and gnutella and it seems they prominently advertise the use of their technology for pirating music.
While gnutella can get away with this, because in their case each user is responsible for what gnutella does, this is not an option for napster. Napster is profiting from the mp3 stored illegaly on their server.
Don't come with the argument you only want to hear legal music. Even on this forum users expressed their interest to hear works of labelled artists.
If at all, stuff like napster should receive protection similar to that granted under Safe Harbour Statues, and have similar duties, like a way to file which files should be killed.
Another way might be to store the music in encrypted format, making it the responsibility of the key distributor that reading the file is legal.