We might have a case, but I think our lawyers would prefer to stay away from litigation as much as possible. My checks come from the Southeastern Universities Research Association, but they get their alot of their money from DOE. There is a definite case for any disabled person to plee if they wanted to.
Not to mention how unlucky I am in the pahllic area...yet I refuse to use one of those money traps.
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I think what you are referring to is that anyone of public office may not influence the beliefs of anyone underneath them (staff and students included). If you have a problem with that, take it up with your God, because I would find it offensive (and have...often) to be told that my beliefs are wrong merely on the premise that they are different (I'm kinda atheist, kinda not...but not a wishy-washy agnostic). I have had teachers find out of how I feel on religion and tried to convert me, I've had administrators turn a blind eye when I needed (and deserved) aid, and I've had "christian" students torture me in various ways until I claimed that I wanted Jesus in my heart. People, such as yourself, who have trouble seeing that religious persecution is still very much an issue in our society need to realize that these laws were placed to be enforced for the good of man. I know, it must be hard to see that there are good people who feel that the Bible has some decent morals, but is mostly a tool for governmental control (King James being the most obvious reference). It is your job as a (Insert Country Name) realize that we have rights too. Personally, I would like a little more legislation protecting my rights and would gladly explain more to anyone interested cusce@home.com.
While I'm not in support of patents at all, I must say that what you said is a bit non sequitur. There is a difference between a Genome and a particular DNA sequence.
Simple, it's a non-profit organization w/no buisiness entities running it. The membership merely allows one to attend the meetings which could give someone who is part of a business control over certain aspects of the standards, but due to the fact that there must be consortium approval for the specs, no business (in theory) has power over the group.
This situation is in clear violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is a group of all the top businesses making individual business decisions based on a membership-only basis. The fact it is so cheap has nothing to do with it. Businesses like Oracle, MS, IBM, Cisco, et. al. will have some serious inside information, not just in terms of stocks, but also compatibility, design. and security specifications. This kind of info would do nothing but to help these businesses aquire info in their trade w/o learning it the same way the rest of us do. Think of what that would do to the industry? This security "cartel" is exactly what the Sherman Antitrust Act was setup to prevent. This is a horrible, horrible, horrible alliance.
BTW--I'm not planning on putting up the dough to join and do you know why? Whatever I think about the changes this alliance would have no impact on the overall courses of action these businesses would take.
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Jefferson Labs with support from the DoE and Southeastern Universities Research Association have created a the most powerful tunable laser that uses a particle accelerator's electron beam as its source of light. It's called the Free Electron Laser (FEL) and has been able to produce such items as this with a greater quality and at less cost (cost=power consumption). This laser has many potential uses, including usage in military targeting systems for offensive and defensive (like disarming a nuke from miles away) systems. It could also be used to produce man-made fabrics that have been altered at a microscopic level to be as soft as wool (of course, creating such nano-fibers as this article claims to be so unique). Interesting, huh?
Oh, I recognise this statement from the FSF homepage. One of many "truths" invented by them. My favourite next to the service and support bull:-) It is a false statement, the CD sales are VERY important to artists and composers!
I need you to support this. I have a friend right next to me who is in the industry and, although this is purely anecdotal, insists this is not the case. This, on the other hand, is not anecdotal. In it, it says that artists who have a minimum contract (which almost all do) only get 7.55 cents per full-length album. This doesn't add up to much, even when you go quad-platinum. Make that up, Whore! 9-)
So you mean Madonna or Michael Jackson has stolen you salary lately?
What kinda loose comment is this?!? MJ does not produce himself, therfore, he is not part of the industry that I am concerned about. Madonna is, and from what I understand, she is a nice suit, so I my mind, she doesn;t count. Although that comment was harsh, it is how I feel whenever I see that those shmucks are producing people who don't even write their own songs. UGBALL!!
And as for Napster, I'll leave you with a quote by Courtney Love -- "Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single they're not going to buy the album."
I have always wondered, if the radio didn't overdose on replays of these tunes, would they last longer and sell more albums
I that is exactly what I'm saying. If Britney didn't make that damn video, do you think girls would have wanted to buy her music? People were doing fine with grunge, rap, and R&B and almost seemed glad that this BubbleGum, Teenie-bopper crap was gone. That didn't satisfy the music execs, so they found a girl who can sing, wasn't bright nor strong-willed and had sex appeal to make a video. After that video became a top ten hit (mostly among guys and the girls who wish they could grab guys), they made an album that was targeted more twoard teen girls. They marketed Britney in a box, made sure her song never left anyone's head and, in turn, convinced people that they like her. It was absolute brainwashing (for lack of a better word). I know too many people who told me that they hated her songs but then would up buying the album because they couldn't get the song out of their head. I think this is not a coincidental effect, but rather an intentioal cause of the Pop-Gum craze that is going apeshit these days.
BTW, you are right, my statment was a bit convoluted
Generally, I don't create flamebait, but this is the most retrded thing I have ever heard. The only reason that the people feel any sort of impact from drinking and driving is because they were directly impacted. Not fiscally, but socially. It endangers everything that one holds dear. Ripping, on the other hand, will not impact the public negativly. Music won't die because of this, managers and corp-execs will. Musicians make almost all of their money from appearences and concert. It's the music INDUSTRY that makes money by leeching off of the the musician's albums. It takes the music out of the limelight and makes money the real motivation. Look at what kind of crap that has come out these days. A strong majority of people in the WORLD recognize some of this stuff as the crap it is, but the music industry (the their infinite wisdom) decided that it targets an irresponcible group of individuals who tend to break CD's and buy them again and have a seemingly unending source of income. This group, teen girls and adreno-rushed guys. This hurts the rest of us who like music with some "fluff".
Napster is really taking the hinges off of the doorway into fame and I applaud the change. It may seem cold-hearted, but I really don't give a flying fuck about those jerks in the industry, just as they never cared about me. This is a crock, they are well-established businessmen who, as of right now, are still making more money per second than I will in my lifetime. Not only that, but there is good evidence to support that they are making more money off of Napster than they are loosing. I'm not sure how, myeslf, but I've heard it come out of the artists mouths enough to think that there must be something to it.
Look, the internet is a natural progression of man, and being as such, there is going to be resistance. I understand why thos corp-execs don't want to look for a new job, but they just cannot stop it. What I suggest is that we all just go with the flow and enjoy the fact that we are going to get quite a few free rides due to the internet revolution. I welcome thee, Napster clones, and wish thyselves to prosper and whatnot. BTW, the same applies to all media. I'm just using the Music Ind as an example of sorts.
You'll have to wait a few hours to get an answer to your post. In my experience, there is a family tree of the relationship between the time one gets up and what OS they choose to use. In general, Mac-users get up first, then NT, then Win98, then Linux (why do you think Think Geek sells this stuff. Seeing as it is 10am EST, you might have some time before work starts on the eastside and you can get a decent answer (except from the Euro's, they are just now arriving).
As for me, I have no idea. Personally, I don't see why forcing additionaly training on people who consist of volunteers and some full-timers is a good thing in the long run. Considering that M$ has such a large control over the market, why would one want to put a company through the process of training monkeys to use harpoons to get bannans? Dunno, and considering that there is plenty of write-offs for the (under)taxed M$ to have and that FM is a really really really really big group, why not just go ahead and use M$? Don't get me wrong, the heads of M$ are money-grubbing bastards, but I would prefer them to make money off of giving away their OS, a stacked software compilation, training, and other periferial items than I would for them to charge for it.
Thath's becuase to to their GPL, they don't have the right to take any credit for their appearences.
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Alright, Bill. We all know you read/. now. Please stop posting your ridiculous claims. Although humorous as they might be, it could influence the children in an inappropriate manner.
I know this is a bit offtopic, but how is creating a standard such as this not a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act? If psychologists can't create recommended standards of business practice through a non-profit congregation without strong government representation (actually, a gov't committee that tells them what their standards are w/o their consent), how can some of the most influential businesses in the world create recommended standards of hardware implementation? They probably have a loophole, but I just don't see it from my point of view? In other words, how legal is this?
I'm not going to bother with mod points and explain it again. It is my belief, though, that the Gov benefits most from stoopidity. I have also recently realized that the Gov benefits more from people who are confident that they aren't stoopid. This is a prime example of how such ignorance of one's own stoopidity is a huge gain for "The Man".
Actually, Nader has made many a speech on the matter of the American's right to protect their privacy in any way possible. On two occasions I heard, he spoke specifically of the right to encrypt data as much as possible. I think he has more than an adequate handle on this.
To Gore's defense, I think he knows a lot more about the Inet than most would like to believe. Lets just say he has done more than his fair share of reading in preparation for the instantion of the.gov and proliferation of.org . Let us not forget the.com's who he so ademantly opposed legislation to inhibit their freedom to comerce. I would not be the least bit surprised if he knows about encyption.
Ahhh...the guild was a D1 guild first, and that is when we were our happiest. Getting bored had nothing to do with my socalizing with my friends before the game even came out. I liked the idea of good graphics, but I dont think a single person from the gaming cummunity would place that as their main motivation for buying a game(unless they are easily entertained by such objects as Lava Lamps). No, most buy a game becuase they htink that the game would be a good play. D2 just did not live up to D1. Its rather frustrating. U just hope the full-3d release of D3 will not suck as badly as the bloated D2. I kinda like PKing, btw. It gave out guild some reason to exist. W/o protection from such things as hacking, moding, and PK/PKKing, there was no reason for us to play together beyond the fact that I know some of these ppl better than I know my co-workers. I condone cheating while at the same time loathe it. "Without Hell, Why Heaven?"
Dude, I have been in a guild in D2 (don't laugh) for a year and a half. We dropped the game after two months after it was finally released. It really does not live up to anyone's standards (I hope). I think that you have the words "addictive" and "determined" mixed up. D2, although not addictive, will cause one to force themselves to get to Hell Dificulty and kill the D-man out of sheer determination and fear of failure. I don't see how anyone could be addicted, but then again, people are aparently addicted to curry.
Despite the fact I might sound like a conspiracy theorist, I have no doubts this is another attempt by the foul,underhanded,self-serving,bastages in the highest offices of government to prevent a citizen's right to free speech. The Congress (mostly Repubdickans) has always thought with their responsibility to prevent criticism of their shady pasts by preventing the people of our "free" nation from living their lives in true liberty under the guise of "National Security". The gov has had a long history of this kind of B.S. (and I'm not talking bachelors in science). How many of those Congress"men" would have much to loose if the little guy deepens his voice and rises to the soapbox. This isn't just about the fact that the NAB is going to loose some of its wealth and that this would impact 90% of the sleazy Congress"men" who just happen to ensure that the right laws to protect Big Brother Media have their vote. This is also about the fact that the gov doesn't want people to talk out against it. What would have happened if JFK had had a term under people who were not only more educated than ever before, but were also able to tell others who were not as in the know. I'll tell you what would happen...Impeachment. Since the absolute media shiatstorm caused by the number of individuals who not only understood the American Agenda but were also active speakers in one of the greatest American injustices of all time, the Clinton Impeachment, the Congress has been aware of what the FBI has known all along.
Knowledge is power. The last thing that the government wants to have is a smart public. They may tell us they care, but by nominating a man with the worst educational record in the country for president (I'm width stoopid)they say something totally different. This licensing crap is just another slap in the face for the American people. To be honest, I doubt severely that if the internet wasn't already established anyone would even know a damn thing about this bit of legislation. It came from an Independent Media website, for crying out loud. If a new TV censorship law gets passed, that's the first thing on the AOL ticker! Neither the media nor Congress wants you guys to know about this. They like stoopidity. Makes them richer. Look at The Enquirer's fan base. Little brains, big bucks. And I have no qualms with stating that I personally believe that the Congressional opinion was greased by the universal lubricant (not a sexual reference, I mean money).
It blows me away that we take this crap. I cannot stand that the gov repeatedly slaps us around, trying to make us brain-dead little soldiers, in order to get less flack for giving themselves a raise in their personal spending budget and net income! This is a travesty that will not be reconciled for years, possibly decades, to come. I hope I'm not alone in thinking that there is more to this story than meets the eye.
BTW, I hope that my Repubdicakns reference did not offend anyone. It was not meant in a partisan way. Hipocr..I mean..Democrats are just as vile.(The only true party for the people is the Nader's Green Party, IMHAHO). I have no doubts that they both had something to gain from this battery of the public will. I have no doubts that the reason that Clitown is ready to sign it is his own animosity toward the "evils"(his word) of free speech.
I was under the impression that you could create several streams of photons in several directions at once from a multi-facited crystal, thereby increasing efficientcy. Another problem in nanotechnology is how to make the machines as small as possible. Currently, we are restricted to the width of the atom that is being used to transfer data. With lasers, we can use one crystal to "beam" the data to another in a string of photons. While the width would still be resricted by atoms, the ability to "layer" the information would be exponentially better. A network of crystals could send a info in a wafer pattern that could not be done in smaller electronic devices w/o having an insulator between wires (silicon). Add the speed of light to that, and you get a great increase in efficentcy with a milionth of the space.
All this talk is great, but not going to happen within any reasonable length of time. For example, recently there was a law past that says that not only sites that are owned but also sites that are partly FUNDED by ANY government institution MUST comply in every way to the disabled. This decision was passed overnight, and effected hundreds of businesses and government sites. Over here at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility www.jlab.org, due to the fact we are funded by the DOE, we were suddenly attacked by the lawyers for the lab for not being able to comply with the vision-impaired web browsers with our current workload and resources.
See, for a long time, the only resources available to gov't sites was Pico and a UNIX server. This means no SSI, no C progs, no database, and limited Perl use. Only recently were we allowed to start develop web apps (using ColdFusion and IIS, ironically) and start placing our site into database. Now, every other site in the world can adapt to change very quickly; changing one or two files to alter the design of the site. Govn't facilities cannot do this because of moronic regulations that are ineffective and hampering to the web staff.
Another problem, which I am led to believe is a reoccurring theme across gov't sites, is that our web teams are understaffed, under-appreciated, and undersupplied. If it weren't for the fact that 95% of the development here at JLab came from student interns who are working for peanuts, there would never be any progress. And the support of the local community just isn't behind us. They use us to post information and do the dirty work but are slow to act when we need more help.
With this kind of crud going on, there is no way in the world that a pre-existing gov't site could possibly conform to the standards set by Congress. The governments goal is not to make a decent web site, it is to serve the people through archaic paper-shuffling and 1on1 "assistance". It is yet to realize the full potential the web has to offer, although Gore and his team did an excellent job this past four years to get.GOV going strong. There is much work to be done on government sites, but alas, there is no real push to get the work completed.
HOPEFULLY, they will turn a "blind eye" to the Americans with Disabilities Act clause that effects gov't sites. If not, I'd rather look for a new internship than edit 8000+ HTML pages to add ALT tags.
That doesn't make him wrong. Pooping is a necessary and essential aspect of life, but it doesn't mean it's clean. IOW, shaddup. You are a mathematician, use some logic for Christ sake. Oi, vai.
I probably should elaborate. LaTeX serves one function and only one function well. This is the generation of Greek, Hebrew, et al. letters and it creates them within math equations. Now, as a tool for the other 99.9999999999999999% of people, it blows worse than MicroSoft (there's irony in that name if you consider what Billy Boy is over-compensating for) Word!!! It is over-complicated (not say it isn't easy, just in comparison to other markup langs), overly verbose, and overly time-consuming. NOT TO MENTION THE COMPILING!! I just do not see it even approaching the level of excellence you physicists place it as. Gimme MathML and PhysicsML (not yet scheduled for release) any day, if even just to save me the step of re-writing LaTeX files into a web-sourced format (a flawed process at best).
I have serious issues with UIML that I do not wish to get into at 1:51 in the AM. Lets just say that UIML is overkill for tasks that could easily be standardized through ECMA, thereby bypassing any virtual machine.
I think, and I could be wrong, that NURBS are meant for static systems of structure in a 3D environment. IOW, they are made, and that's it. The difference in what Dean is saying and what Maya does is that you can create dynamic points in space being the restriction of the object (contradiction alert). Picture fire. It is the dynamic interaction of molecules using a stream of input (oxygen and fuel) and a stream of output (smoke and carbon/ash/whatever). If one were to create fire using NURBS, there would be linkage with little force. It would be static fire, almost plastic in that it can react to force, but the bonds will not break. The only way one could get around it is to create millions of free-floating NURBS and allow them to interact with each other through the medium (heat). This creates some really shiaty fire, IMO, and would not make much sense in the real world.
The particle system of interaction is different in that it defines a relation between points in space in terms of Physical Forces as opposed to synthetic links. An example of this would be magnetism. NURBs are pure mathematics and do not transfer as well to Physics, so they have no way of describing magnetism. Particle systems, by not relying on connections in space, but forces between points, can simulate the effects of magnetism.
What Dean is saying in his article is that by using relationships between points in space as opposed to the elasticity of lines between points in space, you can create dynamic fabric interactions. If your hand brushes a NURB (and this is a stretch) the NURB would react as one. If it touches a Particle, that particle would react independent of it's peers, but it's peers would react in relation to it's movement. This is why particles are perfect for fluidic interactions while they are not nearly as practical as NURBS are for solid/quasi-solid models.
I'm probably wrong about alot in this responce, so be nice if you are an expert.
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We might have a case, but I think our lawyers would prefer to stay away from litigation as much as possible. My checks come from the Southeastern Universities Research Association, but they get their alot of their money from DOE. There is a definite case for any disabled person to plee if they wanted to.
Not to mention how unlucky I am in the pahllic area...yet I refuse to use one of those money traps.
I think what you are referring to is that anyone of public office may not influence the beliefs of anyone underneath them (staff and students included). If you have a problem with that, take it up with your God, because I would find it offensive (and have...often) to be told that my beliefs are wrong merely on the premise that they are different (I'm kinda atheist, kinda not...but not a wishy-washy agnostic). I have had teachers find out of how I feel on religion and tried to convert me, I've had administrators turn a blind eye when I needed (and deserved) aid, and I've had "christian" students torture me in various ways until I claimed that I wanted Jesus in my heart. People, such as yourself, who have trouble seeing that religious persecution is still very much an issue in our society need to realize that these laws were placed to be enforced for the good of man. I know, it must be hard to see that there are good people who feel that the Bible has some decent morals, but is mostly a tool for governmental control (King James being the most obvious reference). It is your job as a (Insert Country Name) realize that we have rights too. Personally, I would like a little more legislation protecting my rights and would gladly explain more to anyone interested cusce@home.com.
While I'm not in support of patents at all, I must say that what you said is a bit non sequitur. There is a difference between a Genome and a particular DNA sequence.
This situation is in clear violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is a group of all the top businesses making individual business decisions based on a membership-only basis. The fact it is so cheap has nothing to do with it. Businesses like Oracle, MS, IBM, Cisco, et. al. will have some serious inside information, not just in terms of stocks, but also compatibility, design. and security specifications. This kind of info would do nothing but to help these businesses aquire info in their trade w/o learning it the same way the rest of us do. Think of what that would do to the industry? This security "cartel" is exactly what the Sherman Antitrust Act was setup to prevent. This is a horrible, horrible, horrible alliance.
BTW--I'm not planning on putting up the dough to join and do you know why? Whatever I think about the changes this alliance would have no impact on the overall courses of action these businesses would take.
Jefferson Labs with support from the DoE and Southeastern Universities Research Association have created a the most powerful tunable laser that uses a particle accelerator's electron beam as its source of light. It's called the Free Electron Laser (FEL) and has been able to produce such items as this with a greater quality and at less cost (cost=power consumption). This laser has many potential uses, including usage in military targeting systems for offensive and defensive (like disarming a nuke from miles away) systems. It could also be used to produce man-made fabrics that have been altered at a microscopic level to be as soft as wool (of course, creating such nano-fibers as this article claims to be so unique). Interesting, huh?
I need you to support this. I have a friend right next to me who is in the industry and, although this is purely anecdotal, insists this is not the case. This, on the other hand, is not anecdotal. In it, it says that artists who have a minimum contract (which almost all do) only get 7.55 cents per full-length album. This doesn't add up to much, even when you go quad-platinum. Make that up, Whore! 9-)
So you mean Madonna or Michael Jackson has stolen you salary lately?
What kinda loose comment is this?!? MJ does not produce himself, therfore, he is not part of the industry that I am concerned about. Madonna is, and from what I understand, she is a nice suit, so I my mind, she doesn;t count. Although that comment was harsh, it is how I feel whenever I see that those shmucks are producing people who don't even write their own songs. UGBALL!!
And as for Napster, I'll leave you with a quote by Courtney Love -- "Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single they're not going to buy the album."
I that is exactly what I'm saying. If Britney didn't make that damn video, do you think girls would have wanted to buy her music? People were doing fine with grunge, rap, and R&B and almost seemed glad that this BubbleGum, Teenie-bopper crap was gone. That didn't satisfy the music execs, so they found a girl who can sing, wasn't bright nor strong-willed and had sex appeal to make a video. After that video became a top ten hit (mostly among guys and the girls who wish they could grab guys), they made an album that was targeted more twoard teen girls. They marketed Britney in a box, made sure her song never left anyone's head and, in turn, convinced people that they like her. It was absolute brainwashing (for lack of a better word). I know too many people who told me that they hated her songs but then would up buying the album because they couldn't get the song out of their head. I think this is not a coincidental effect, but rather an intentioal cause of the Pop-Gum craze that is going apeshit these days.
BTW, you are right, my statment was a bit convoluted
Napster is really taking the hinges off of the doorway into fame and I applaud the change. It may seem cold-hearted, but I really don't give a flying fuck about those jerks in the industry, just as they never cared about me. This is a crock, they are well-established businessmen who, as of right now, are still making more money per second than I will in my lifetime. Not only that, but there is good evidence to support that they are making more money off of Napster than they are loosing. I'm not sure how, myeslf, but I've heard it come out of the artists mouths enough to think that there must be something to it.
Look, the internet is a natural progression of man, and being as such, there is going to be resistance. I understand why thos corp-execs don't want to look for a new job, but they just cannot stop it. What I suggest is that we all just go with the flow and enjoy the fact that we are going to get quite a few free rides due to the internet revolution. I welcome thee, Napster clones, and wish thyselves to prosper and whatnot. BTW, the same applies to all media. I'm just using the Music Ind as an example of sorts.
As for me, I have no idea. Personally, I don't see why forcing additionaly training on people who consist of volunteers and some full-timers is a good thing in the long run. Considering that M$ has such a large control over the market, why would one want to put a company through the process of training monkeys to use harpoons to get bannans? Dunno, and considering that there is plenty of write-offs for the (under)taxed M$ to have and that FM is a really really really really big group, why not just go ahead and use M$? Don't get me wrong, the heads of M$ are money-grubbing bastards, but I would prefer them to make money off of giving away their OS, a stacked software compilation, training, and other periferial items than I would for them to charge for it.
Thath's becuase to to their GPL, they don't have the right to take any credit for their appearences.
Alright, Bill. We all know you read /. now. Please stop posting your ridiculous claims. Although humorous as they might be, it could influence the children in an inappropriate manner.
I know this is a bit offtopic, but how is creating a standard such as this not a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act? If psychologists can't create recommended standards of business practice through a non-profit congregation without strong government representation (actually, a gov't committee that tells them what their standards are w/o their consent), how can some of the most influential businesses in the world create recommended standards of hardware implementation? They probably have a loophole, but I just don't see it from my point of view? In other words, how legal is this?
I'm not going to bother with mod points and explain it again. It is my belief, though, that the Gov benefits most from stoopidity. I have also recently realized that the Gov benefits more from people who are confident that they aren't stoopid. This is a prime example of how such ignorance of one's own stoopidity is a huge gain for "The Man".
To Gore's defense, I think he knows a lot more about the Inet than most would like to believe. Lets just say he has done more than his fair share of reading in preparation for the instantion of the .gov and proliferation of .org . Let us not forget the .com's who he so ademantly opposed legislation to inhibit their freedom to comerce. I would not be the least bit surprised if he knows about encyption.
I did, but when I ran it through spell check and pasted it back, I forgot to re-add the tags.
Ahhh...the guild was a D1 guild first, and that is when we were our happiest. Getting bored had nothing to do with my socalizing with my friends before the game even came out. I liked the idea of good graphics, but I dont think a single person from the gaming cummunity would place that as their main motivation for buying a game(unless they are easily entertained by such objects as Lava Lamps). No, most buy a game becuase they htink that the game would be a good play. D2 just did not live up to D1. Its rather frustrating. U just hope the full-3d release of D3 will not suck as badly as the bloated D2. I kinda like PKing, btw. It gave out guild some reason to exist. W/o protection from such things as hacking, moding, and PK/PKKing, there was no reason for us to play together beyond the fact that I know some of these ppl better than I know my co-workers. I condone cheating while at the same time loathe it. "Without Hell, Why Heaven?"
Dude, I have been in a guild in D2 (don't laugh) for a year and a half. We dropped the game after two months after it was finally released. It really does not live up to anyone's standards (I hope). I think that you have the words "addictive" and "determined" mixed up. D2, although not addictive, will cause one to force themselves to get to Hell Dificulty and kill the D-man out of sheer determination and fear of failure. I don't see how anyone could be addicted, but then again, people are aparently addicted to curry.
Despite the fact I might sound like a conspiracy theorist, I have no doubts this is another attempt by the foul,underhanded,self-serving,bastages in the highest offices of government to prevent a citizen's right to free speech. The Congress (mostly Repubdickans) has always thought with their responsibility to prevent criticism of their shady pasts by preventing the people of our "free" nation from living their lives in true liberty under the guise of "National Security". The gov has had a long history of this kind of B.S. (and I'm not talking bachelors in science). How many of those Congress"men" would have much to loose if the little guy deepens his voice and rises to the soapbox. This isn't just about the fact that the NAB is going to loose some of its wealth and that this would impact 90% of the sleazy Congress"men" who just happen to ensure that the right laws to protect Big Brother Media have their vote. This is also about the fact that the gov doesn't want people to talk out against it. What would have happened if JFK had had a term under people who were not only more educated than ever before, but were also able to tell others who were not as in the know. I'll tell you what would happen...Impeachment. Since the absolute media shiatstorm caused by the number of individuals who not only understood the American Agenda but were also active speakers in one of the greatest American injustices of all time, the Clinton Impeachment, the Congress has been aware of what the FBI has known all along. Knowledge is power. The last thing that the government wants to have is a smart public. They may tell us they care, but by nominating a man with the worst educational record in the country for president (I'm width stoopid)they say something totally different. This licensing crap is just another slap in the face for the American people. To be honest, I doubt severely that if the internet wasn't already established anyone would even know a damn thing about this bit of legislation. It came from an Independent Media website, for crying out loud. If a new TV censorship law gets passed, that's the first thing on the AOL ticker! Neither the media nor Congress wants you guys to know about this. They like stoopidity. Makes them richer. Look at The Enquirer's fan base. Little brains, big bucks. And I have no qualms with stating that I personally believe that the Congressional opinion was greased by the universal lubricant (not a sexual reference, I mean money). It blows me away that we take this crap. I cannot stand that the gov repeatedly slaps us around, trying to make us brain-dead little soldiers, in order to get less flack for giving themselves a raise in their personal spending budget and net income! This is a travesty that will not be reconciled for years, possibly decades, to come. I hope I'm not alone in thinking that there is more to this story than meets the eye. BTW, I hope that my Repubdicakns reference did not offend anyone. It was not meant in a partisan way. Hipocr..I mean..Democrats are just as vile.(The only true party for the people is the Nader's Green Party, IMHAHO). I have no doubts that they both had something to gain from this battery of the public will. I have no doubts that the reason that Clitown is ready to sign it is his own animosity toward the "evils"(his word) of free speech.
I was under the impression that you could create several streams of photons in several directions at once from a multi-facited crystal, thereby increasing efficientcy. Another problem in nanotechnology is how to make the machines as small as possible. Currently, we are restricted to the width of the atom that is being used to transfer data. With lasers, we can use one crystal to "beam" the data to another in a string of photons. While the width would still be resricted by atoms, the ability to "layer" the information would be exponentially better. A network of crystals could send a info in a wafer pattern that could not be done in smaller electronic devices w/o having an insulator between wires (silicon). Add the speed of light to that, and you get a great increase in efficentcy with a milionth of the space.
All this talk is great, but not going to happen within any reasonable length of time. For example, recently there was a law past that says that not only sites that are owned but also sites that are partly FUNDED by ANY government institution MUST comply in every way to the disabled. This decision was passed overnight, and effected hundreds of businesses and government sites. Over here at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility www.jlab.org, due to the fact we are funded by the DOE, we were suddenly attacked by the lawyers for the lab for not being able to comply with the vision-impaired web browsers with our current workload and resources. See, for a long time, the only resources available to gov't sites was Pico and a UNIX server. This means no SSI, no C progs, no database, and limited Perl use. Only recently were we allowed to start develop web apps (using ColdFusion and IIS, ironically) and start placing our site into database. Now, every other site in the world can adapt to change very quickly; changing one or two files to alter the design of the site. Govn't facilities cannot do this because of moronic regulations that are ineffective and hampering to the web staff. Another problem, which I am led to believe is a reoccurring theme across gov't sites, is that our web teams are understaffed, under-appreciated, and undersupplied. If it weren't for the fact that 95% of the development here at JLab came from student interns who are working for peanuts, there would never be any progress. And the support of the local community just isn't behind us. They use us to post information and do the dirty work but are slow to act when we need more help. With this kind of crud going on, there is no way in the world that a pre-existing gov't site could possibly conform to the standards set by Congress. The governments goal is not to make a decent web site, it is to serve the people through archaic paper-shuffling and 1on1 "assistance". It is yet to realize the full potential the web has to offer, although Gore and his team did an excellent job this past four years to get .GOV going strong. There is much work to be done on government sites, but alas, there is no real push to get the work completed.
HOPEFULLY, they will turn a "blind eye" to the Americans with Disabilities Act clause that effects gov't sites. If not, I'd rather look for a new internship than edit 8000+ HTML pages to add ALT tags.
Oi, vai.
I probably should elaborate. LaTeX serves one function and only one function well. This is the generation of Greek, Hebrew, et al. letters and it creates them within math equations. Now, as a tool for the other 99.9999999999999999% of people, it blows worse than MicroSoft (there's irony in that name if you consider what Billy Boy is over-compensating for) Word!!! It is over-complicated (not say it isn't easy, just in comparison to other markup langs), overly verbose, and overly time-consuming. NOT TO MENTION THE COMPILING!! I just do not see it even approaching the level of excellence you physicists place it as. Gimme MathML and PhysicsML (not yet scheduled for release) any day, if even just to save me the step of re-writing LaTeX files into a web-sourced format (a flawed process at best).
errr... I mispoke above. You get a cookie if you can see where.
I have serious issues with UIML that I do not wish to get into at 1:51 in the AM. Lets just say that UIML is overkill for tasks that could easily be standardized through ECMA, thereby bypassing any virtual machine.
I think, and I could be wrong, that NURBS are meant for static systems of structure in a 3D environment. IOW, they are made, and that's it. The difference in what Dean is saying and what Maya does is that you can create dynamic points in space being the restriction of the object (contradiction alert). Picture fire. It is the dynamic interaction of molecules using a stream of input (oxygen and fuel) and a stream of output (smoke and carbon/ash/whatever). If one were to create fire using NURBS, there would be linkage with little force. It would be static fire, almost plastic in that it can react to force, but the bonds will not break. The only way one could get around it is to create millions of free-floating NURBS and allow them to interact with each other through the medium (heat). This creates some really shiaty fire, IMO, and would not make much sense in the real world.
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The particle system of interaction is different in that it defines a relation between points in space in terms of Physical Forces as opposed to synthetic links. An example of this would be magnetism. NURBs are pure mathematics and do not transfer as well to Physics, so they have no way of describing magnetism. Particle systems, by not relying on connections in space, but forces between points, can simulate the effects of magnetism.
What Dean is saying in his article is that by using relationships between points in space as opposed to the elasticity of lines between points in space, you can create dynamic fabric interactions. If your hand brushes a NURB (and this is a stretch) the NURB would react as one. If it touches a Particle, that particle would react independent of it's peers, but it's peers would react in relation to it's movement. This is why particles are perfect for fluidic interactions while they are not nearly as practical as NURBS are for solid/quasi-solid models.
I'm probably wrong about alot in this responce, so be nice if you are an expert.
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